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It was mid-April. Financial markets were only just recovering from the carnage unleashed by two quick Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes. Bond yields had been driven up a full percentage point. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 306 points. And White House economic coordinator Robert E. Rubin was worried. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, however, was adamant. Brace yourself, Greenspan warned Rubin, more tough monetary medicine is on its way.
Greenspan was as good as his word. In an Apr. 18 conference call, Fed policymakers agreed to implement the next phase of a plan that had been hatched 10 weeks earlier. To move monetary policy from stimulative to "neutral," the Fed would nudge short rates up a quarter point a month until reaching some unspecified target. For Greenspan & Co., keeping the economy from overheating was more important than calming traders' nerves.
Rather than inspiring confidence, though, the Fed's latest maneuver jolted financial markets even more. Congressional Democrats grumbled. And business executives have begun to wonder if an overzealous central bank is comfortable only with an anemic economic pace. The Fed "should leave well enough alone," fumes Ralph A. Beattie, chief financial officer of Haggar Corp., the Dallas clothesmaker. "They're trying to fix a problem that most people don't see as very serious."
MIXED SIGNALS. The jitters are justifiable. Greenspan's public signals have been confusing, in part reflecting an ever more complicated global economy. Steering monetary policy has become more perilous than ever. The natural question: Just what's going on inside the Fed?
Plenty. Greenspan and his colleagues face unprecedented challenges to their ability to manage the economy. The explosive growth of exotic financial instruments has weakened the central bank's ability to control the growth of money supply. Traditional early-warning signals may no longer work to detect the onset of inflation. Even though capacity utilization is rising and U.S. labor markets are tightening, for example, the ability of American companies to shift production offshore may mean that inflation is less of an imminent threat than statistics suggest.
Volatile global markets, meanwhile, mean that a small Fed action can be magnified into a nasty worldwide jolt. "The markets don't have a clue what the Fed's doing, and the uncertainty has driven up long rates," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of Lehman Brothers Global Economics.
The jitters have been heightened by the prospect of personnel shifts within the Fed: Two empty chairs have given President Clinton the opportunity to impose his imprint on the nation's central bank. He will name Council of Economic Advisers Member Alan S. Blinder to the bank's vacant vice-chairmanship. And, BUSINESS WEEK has learned, Berkeley labor economist Janet L. Yellen, another pro-growth voice, is in line to be nominated as a governor.
BOOM SIGNS. At its heart, the Fed's thinking is simple: Move now or risk an acceleration of inflation next year. Fed officials first became seriously concerned last December, when the economy showed unmistakable signs of a boom as the expansion neared the end of its second year. They also agreed that the 3% federal funds rate--the charge on overnight interbank loans--was too low. But officials didn't act immediately.
When the Federal Open Market Committee met on Feb. 3-4, there was quick agreement on the need to raise rates. Insiders say the only debate centered on how high to go and how quickly to proceed. Greenspan refuses to say what target he has in mind, but other Fed officials have hinted it could be in the range of 4% to 41/2%. The idea is to hold short rates at 75 to 150 basis points above the current inflation rate. "We have a range," says one Fed official. "If we didn't, we'd be flying blind. But we're not."
At the February meeting, some Fed officials, including Governor Lawrence B. Lindsey, argued for moving to the target range in one jump. But Greenspan, ever the gradualist, argued that after five years without a rate increase, such a drastic step would be too much for the markets. Ultimately, the FOMC agreed on a strategy to raise rates in quarter-point steps: on Feb. 4, at the next FOMC meeting Mar. 22, and again halfway toward the next meeting scheduled for May 17. Fed officials hint that another hike is coming in May, taking federal funds up to 4%.
The approach isn't selling well on Main Street. Even before the latest Fed action, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Chairman Stanley C. Gault cautioned: "We've got be to be very careful we don't spook the birds off the roof." Now, he adds, "the three increases in rates have been premature." Indeed, economic growth already has slowed from 7% in last year's fourth quarter to an estimated 3% or 4% in the first quarter of 1994. And the interest rate hikes since Feb. 4 are certain to slow such interest-sensitive sectors as autos and housing later this year. Indeed, the Clinton Administration won't suffer in silence through more than another quarter point or two. "The President's not thrilled," says a senior Clinton economic adviser. "But he understands that this may be necessary for the long-term good of the economy."
Meanwhile, Greenspan has left a trail of confusion with his quick public embrace, and equally swift abandonment, of a series of monetary guideposts. For the past year, the Fed has looked at everything from gold and other commodity prices to inflationary expectations to the level of financial speculation as guides to preemptive action.
Ironically, the Fed could be adding to the confusion with a new effort to make its proceedings more public. In response to demands from congressional Democrats, the FOMC took the unprecedented step of announcing its February rate increase immediately. This ended a long tradition of delaying disclosure for six weeks and letting the markets guess what had been done. The markets responded with a massive sell-off; the Dow dropped 96 points in one day.
The Fed also set a trap for itself by announcing that the February vote was unanimous. When it refused to disclose the vote at the March meeting, it immediately set off speculation that there had been dissents from the decision. The Fed still hasn't decided what to do if the FOMC decides to take no action at a meeting. And it's still unsure whether to speed release of FOMC minutes and expand summaries that gloss over sharp divisions within the panel.
While Fed governors argue about how much sunshine to let into their deliberations, they remain united behind the correctness of their early-strike strategy. "Inflation comes from an overheated economy," says Governor Edward W. Kelley Jr. "The economy is growing at a rate that's fot sustainable over the long term. Monetary policy works with time lags. You can't wait until you see evidence of inflation. By then it's embedded in the economy and becomes much harder to wring out."
Though many outside economists support this view, some think the Fed is too quick on the trigger. They concede that the economy is at a stage of expansion where, historically, inflation has begun to be a problem. But for now, global competition and rapid productivity growth in the U.S. have depressed price hikes. Tighter labor markets and supply bottlenecks in the U.S. may no longer be harbingers of inflation when there's so much slack worldwide. "There's no reason to believe you're running into capacity constraints or inflation problems," says University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith. "The Fed is creating a demon that doesn't exist."
The Fed's moves, though, aren't causing immediate alarm in executive suites. Many companies have made themselves less vulnerable to rate increases by reducing indebtedness and refinancing long-term borrowings at low rates. Case in point: Union Carbide Corp. reduced the rates on 90% of its debt from 9% to 7% through refinancing.
Other corporations reacted to recent rate hikes by improving their balance sheets. Many followed the approach of Specialty Foods Corp., a $2.2 billion maker of dairy and bakery products in Deerfield, Ill. In April, Chief Financial Officer Paul J. Liska rushed to convert part of the company's $400 million in variable-rate debt to a fixed-rate. "I went as long as I could on everything I had," he says. "I'm looking like a genius today."
A few more rate hikes, though, and prospects could change. C.J. Vitner & Co.--whose potato chips are a staple in Chicago bowling alleys and taverns--pushed its distribution network to the limit after landing a contract to sell its chips in Jewel Food's 175 stores. But President William A. Vitner says the threat of further hikes could prevent the chipmaker from going ahead with a $5 million to $6 million warehouse expansion. "We would shelve that for the moment," he says. "We're tied to the prime rate, so every move means we're paying more." Indeed, major banks, which trimmed the prime very slowly while the Fed was cutting rates in 1990-92, have been quick to raise it from 6% to 63/4%.
Overseas, meanwhile, higher rates have dealt a rude surprise to many economies counting on cheap money to fuel badly needed recoveries. From Asia to Latin America, a flood of corporate financings has slowed to a trickle as stock and bond markets have dried up. In Japan, long-term interest rates have climbed more than a half-point, to 4%. That may help stall a meager recovery that some economists think will bring no better than 1% GDP growth in 1994. And yields on 10-year German government bonds have shot up nearly three-quarters of a percentage point, to 6.5%, even though the country is struggling to emerge from its worst recession in decades.
Back at the Fed's marble headquarters, the complaints of Main Street aren't going unheard. But the central bank believes that a slight slowdown in growth is a small price to pay for a sustained noninflationary expansion. The Fed's goal is to keep the economy growing at 2.5% to 3%, while keeping inflation below 3%.
Historically, the Fed's attempts to make such fine calibrations in the economy have been a painful failure. So no matter how measured it appears in its execution, Greenspan's gradualism carries a large risk for the U.S. economy. Head off inflation, or choke growth: Which will it be?
In the atrium of the Fed headquarters hang two chandeliers decorated with the 12 signs of the zodiac. Fitting symbolism, veteran Fed watchers would say. Once you go behind the technical explanations for what the Fed is doing, what it ultimately comes down to is fate. With Fed policy at a turning point, Alan Greenspan's best hope, along with good gut instinct, may be that success is written in the stars.
Here's why it's so tough for the Fed to create monetary policy today:
Anticipating inflation has become trickier. Because of the investor shift from savings instruments to mutual funds, traditional measures of money are no longer as accurate. As a result, the Fed has variously said it tracks "inflationary expectations," commodity and gold prices, and the "neutrality" of interest rates.
The globalization of the economy has made some indicators less meaningful. The shift to overseas manufacturing has distorted capacity utilization measures, and productivity gains have challenged theorems about the trade-off be-tween unemployment and inflation.
The growth of foreign-exchange markets and speculative instruments has led to a global web that can suddenly unravel. The sharp bond market reaction to the Mar. 22 tightening surprised Fed officials, who hadn't realized how vulnerable highly leveraged global credit markets had become.
Restive Democratic lawmakers are forcing the traditionally secretive Fed to operate more openly. But the Fed's tentative efforts to disclose decisions have backfired by roiling the stock and bond markets.
Skittish bond markets roiled by an upbeat Philadelphia Fed analysis of regional economies.
In a victory for the Administration, Congress approves North American Free Trade Agreement.
Oil prices plummet by $1 a barrel on OPEC's decision not to lower production;
consumer confidence up sharply in November.
Clinton seeks a special prosecutor to investigate his investment in the Whitewater development.
Fed announces quarter-point hike in its short-term rate, to 3.25%; stocks fall 96 points.
U.S. suspends trade talks with Japan on the eve of Clinton's summit with Hosokawa.
Fourth-quarter GDP growth revised to 7.5% from earlier 5.9% estimate, atop strong corporate profits; long-bond yield climbs to 6.77%.
Fed votes to raise short-term rates again; bond yields soar in the days following.
Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio assassinated as preelection tension spills over.
Greenspan announces another quarter-point increase in the Fed funds rate. Stocks take another hit.
Bush appointee David Mullins resigns as Fed vice-chairman; bonds fall on the news.
Greenspan warns Congress that he'll raise rates "at some point." Dow Jones industrial average hits high of 3978.


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The car is much better than I expected. I've basically got more than what i paid for.Since I wanted to pay about 15k-16k (otd) for a new ride,I only had a few choices by the time I was in market. I could have bought Yaris, KIA, Accent for that kind of price range, but they aren't even in the same segment of the line with Focus..so i opted them all out..
The ride is very good when I compare it with a honda or Toyota. It is pretty quite and well insulated. Good suspension, but could be better. The ride is a bit sloppy.. Gas mileage is incredible. I averaged 47 MPG with cruise control at 60 MPH. (Not the mention fact that I had to stop 6 times at traffic lights). However, the overall average is about 36 with 50/50 city-highway.
Not that I care but the speakers are scratchy, but I'm satisfied with overall sound system quality. Very comfortable front seats but rear seats are tight.Interior quality is high. The sync system rocks, works flawlessly!!
The plastic parts in the car rattles occasionally, don't know why though. I still can't decide whether i'm ok with the transmission or not. It behaves well, but there is a slight metal grinding noise (with hesitation when take off) at low speeds when windows are rolled up and radio is off. In fact, I'm taking it to a ford service tomorrow to get it checked out. I have no doubt they will say "normal"...
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I understand that the many fine (and perhaps not so fine) attributes of Keri Russell were discussed not too long ago by my co-worker, Mr. Pink, but I thought that we could have a more generalized discussion about the actress, rather than ripping her into pieces for data analysis. See these two fingers, Mr. Pink? *wink*
Keri Russell
It's funny to me that the very first listing on her acting resume is in HONEY I BLEW UP THE KID. I think I saw that movie around the time that it was released but have completely forgotten it and don't plan on wasting the time to look it up again. (Although the SHRUNK version is still one of my faves, so go figure...) So I kept looking at what else she's been in.
Turns out, the majority of Russell's career ended up on television, including cheesy Lifetime Channel movies like "The Babysitter's Seduction" which I do remember watching because it was right after "7th Heaven" co-star Stephen Collins railed Jessica Biel for posing nude when she was 17 and yet the man had built his career on being the douchebag in roles up until he got all straight laced and religious for his meal ticket. I won't even get into "Felicity." Never watched it, don't feel like it, but hear it was good. End of story.
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The effect of penicillin on Chlamydia trachomatis DNA replication
Lambden, Paul R., Pickett, Mark A. and Clarke, Ian N. (2006) The effect of penicillin on Chlamydia trachomatis DNA replication Microbiology, 152, (9), pp. 2573-2578. (doi:10.1099/mic.0.29032-0).
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Chlamydia trachomatis L2 was used to infect BGMK cells at an m.o.i. of 1.0, and the developmental cycle was followed by transmission electron microscopy and quantitative PCR (QPCR) for both chromosomal and plasmid DNA. Samples were taken at sequential 6 h time points. Subsequent analysis by QPCR showed that there was an initial slow replication period (0-18 h), followed by a rapid phase (18-36 h) coinciding with exponential division when the DNA doubling time was 4.6 h. Chromosomal DNA was amplified 100-200-fold corresponding to 7-8 generations for the complete developmental cycle. Penicillin (10 and 100 units ml(-1)) was added to cultures at 20 h post-infection (p.i.). This blocked binary fission and also prevented reticulate body (RB) to elementary body transition. However, exposure to penicillin did not prevent chromosomal or plasmid DNA replication. After a short lag period, following the addition of penicillin, chlamydial chromosomal DNA replication resumed at the same rate as in control C. trachomatis-infected cells. C. trachomatis-infected host cells exposed to penicillin did not lyse, but instead harboured large, aberrant RBs in massive inclusions that completely filled the cell cytoplasm. In these RBs, the DNA continued to replicate well beyond the end of the normal developmental cycle. At 60 h p.i. each aberrant RB contained a minimum of 16 chromosomal copies.
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On February 22, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), an institution that supervises and regulates India's financial sector, announced guidelines allowing corporations to enter the banking sector. Private companies, public-sector groups, and nonbanking financial firms will all be eligible to apply for a banking license. We expect RBI to start issuing new bank licenses by early 2014.
RBI guidelines state that companies receiving a banking license must open at least 25% of their branches in rural areas. Despite this guideline, I believe that new entrants will primarily target the same urban and semi-urban customers that existing banks target. The reason is simple: These are the most profitable customers. This helps explain why 85% of rural bank branches in India belong to public banks; it's simply not an attractive market for private banks.
What it means for current Indian banking CIOs: Leverage big data to grow your business or prepare to be left behind.
As competition increases, businesses will expect new IT capabilities to understand and respond to customer needs better, faster, and cheaper. Banking CIOs who embrace this change will adopt big data technologies and become true business partners. The ones who don't will be bypassed by new entrants (when they come to play) using big data approaches and internal data from whatever market they're currently in to analyze the banking market. These new entrants will likely influence customer preferences, question existing assumptions, and look for ways to disrupt the market. I recommend that current Indian banking CIOs:


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The Spanish, under the guidance of Inaki Saez, began their road to Portugal with a comfortable 2-0 win in Greece, before they made light work of Northern Ireland thanks to a Ruben Baraja brace.
But then came problems. They were holding a 2-1 lead against Ukraine until the final seconds when Olexandr Horshkov equalised with a well-taken volley.
Spain managed to brush aside Armenia at home. But their crunch match was against closest challengers Greece.
In front of the Saragossa crowd, the home side were largely in control of the game before Stylianos Giannakopoulos' strike from outside the area beat goalkeeper Iker Casillas just before half-time.
It was imperative for Spain to get back on the winning trail, and with minnows Northern Ireland lined up in the next match it seemed as if the Mediterranean giants would do just that.
But Saez's men wre held to a surprise goalless draw by their Norhern Irish visitors.
Spain were now relying on Greece to slip up, and that never materialised.
Despite winning their last two matches, home to Ukraine and an emphatic win away to Armenia, it was all to no avail as Greece grabbed the win they needed against Northern Ireland.
So to the play-offs. The Spanish were drawn against Norway, and played the first leg in front of a packed Valencia crowd.
Real Madrid's Raul put the hosts ahead before Steffen Iversen equalised.
An own goal by Henning Berg gave Spain the advantage going into the away leg.
The decider seemed destined to be a thriller. Not many would have expected the one-way traffic that saw Spain score three goals, including one from Raul which made him Group Six's leading scorer.


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A chartered aircraft with 127 people on board aborted take-off when one of its wheels caught fire Tuesday at South Africa's main O.R. Tambo international airport, an airport official said.
"Global Aviation which was en route to Lilongwe, Malawi aborted take-off because one of its tyres apparently got alight," airport spokeswoman Unathi Batyashe-Fillis told AFP.
The fire was extinguished and no injuries were reported among the 120 passengers and seven crew.
The flight was scheduled to take off at 7:30am (0530 GMT) from the airport's cargo section.
The accident involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 caused slight delays in flight take-offs and landings at one of Africa's busiest airports.
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It's been five years since McCracken County - and Lone Oak before its formation - has lost a game to a Region 1 opponent.
Beating the Lady Mustangs was already a daunting task for the fellow schools in the area, but it may be even tougher this year with McCracken bringing back nearly its whole team.
Not only did McCracken sweep the region last year, but it also didn't drop a single set in doing so. All but one starter returns to that team, once again giving the Lady Mustangs the upper hand in Region 1.
McCracken will be led by Louisville commit Jasmine Bennett and setter Hannah Parker - both seniors. Bennett has over 1,300 kills in her illustrious career and could potentially reach 1,800 this year.
"She played a big role (at Lone Oak) as a sophomore, but she played a major role (at McCracken) last year," Lady Mustangs head coach Tim Whitis said. "This year, the team will look to her and Hannah to kind of lead the team. Jasmine is a big block in front and is hard for the other girls to block."
At 6-foot-2 with an athletic build, Bennett has proved to be the best player in the region and potentially one of the best in the state.
As Whitis' teams normally do, the Lady Mustangs will play only six matches against regional opponents this season, instead playing in a bevy of tournaments in not only Kentucky, but Ohio and Illinois as well.
Whitis said it's going to be key for his team to show up at these tournaments with the mentality to win, rather than just play.
"Sometimes you can go to these tournaments and just play, feeling like they don't mean anything," he said. "We have to start thinking that they matter so that when we get to the regional and, hopefully, state tournament we have that winning mentality."
This year's All "A" Classic could tell a lot about who the top competitor to McCracken will be. Last year it was Community Christian, sweeping all six matches of the region All "A" to advance to state.
At state, the Lady Warriors went 3-2, and with them having only graduated three players, they will likely be one of the favorites to get back to state at the All "A."
Ballard Memorial, Fulton City and Murray all won at least 20 matches a year ago, giving the region a lot of depth at the top.
Over in the Second Region, Caldwell County and Henderson County will be the favorites as they seem to be year by year, but another local team could pose a threat.
Livingston Central will have nine seniors on a team that went 22-11 a year ago. Kenzie Dean and Tiffany Padon are both three-year starters who will look to lead Livingston into the elite level of Region 2.
"I think we have a real good shot at winning region or being right up there," head coach Melissa Dean said. "Being together such a long time, we are used to one another. We've been together for five or six years now."
Caldwell has had Livingston's number in the past, and it will have four seniors and three starters return from last year's team that went 25-14.
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Gearshift in neutral or foward
finally got my first decent sail in yesterday. for the first time i noticed when sailing, the prop is spinning and the shaft is turning. should i keep the boat in neutral when sailing or in foward gear. my first assumption is it shouldn't matter but before we left i have about an inch of water in the bilge. when the sail it was over i opened the bilge to clean it out and the water was black. i think it might be oil. could it be from the shaft spinning all that time without the motor running? the engine is an atomic a4. 1978.
Personally, I throw it in reverse to stop the spinning.
The black water in your bilge is a problem. Perhaps an unrelated oil leak? Others will have more...
Engine oil should not get to the transmission, and past the stuffing box (not on a working engine.
Remove the waste water and oil from the bilge.
Go sailing again (that's the fun part), leave the motor in gear - depending on your religious affliation, time of month, gender and day of the week (except tuesdays) either in forward or reverse.
Check the bilge, if empty congrats you have fixed it. If not and it's black again you have stuck oil (with a name like Chevon what did you expect) or you sail in the Chesapeake and it's normal water.
In either case you should not be getting that much water in around the gland (a bilge full on a day trip).
Did you forego repacking the stuffing box this past off-season?
It should say on the instructions/maintenance guide for the transmission. Mine says to leave it in neutral for minimum drag and because the spinning keeps it lubricated.
Yanmar recommends reverse. The transmission is cooled by water circulated when the engine is on. If the transmission is left in neutral when under sail, the spining prop/shaft will cause some transmission parts spin without benefit of this coolant. Not a good thing. And, as you may be experiencing, the spinning prop shaft will allow some water to come in through the packing gland, but this should be minimal.
sorry for the miscommunication. the water in the bilge is from another issue i'm still trying to track down. i think it's coming down the mast during a hard rain. i'm more concerned with the black being added to the bilge water. i didn't know if the spinning prop, with no engine running, could cause oil/transmission leakage around the shaft where it enters the motor or maybe i have an oil leak and it's just a coincidence that this happened at the same time.
Yes, puit the 'box astern and it should stop spinning. Don't let it spin.
Please, do a search on this and several others website for guearshift R-N-F. You'll find several interesting comments and tips. Although completely counterintuitive, spinning generates more drag.
If your gearbox can handle the spinning or not, and your oil leakage, this is another thing ...
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Without knowing which tranny you have it's tough to say forward or reverse.
Many marine transmissions are to be left in reverse to stop the prop including Yanmar and Hurth/ZF as used by manufacturers such as Universal/Westerbeke. On some transmissions leaving it in forward can actually damage the unit not help it.. When in doubt leave it in neutral..
I know that on my Yanmar I asked the distributor (Mack Boring) and a factory rep and they said I should keep it in reverse. But if your manual says neutral, I would sure be inclined to go with that. One thing to check is that the choice is as much a function of the transmission as the engine, so make sure the manual you are looking at is for the right engine/transmission pair.
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Power company works behind-the-scenes to prepare for snow
With winter weather in the wings, many folks are breaking out the heavy parkas or stocking up on firewood.
Just as you winterize your home, power companies are working behind-the-scenes to make sure eastern Idaho can keep the lights on this winter.
"You expect a lot of heavy snow, wind, ice, cars sliding off the road," said Glen Pond, Community and Customer manager for Rocky Mountain Power.
Above all, said Pond, it's about keeping a close eye on power lines that will soon be covered in ice and snow.
"Rocky Mountain Power kind of prepares all year," said Pond.
Pond said while winter may be only crossing the minds of eastern Idahoans, it's been on his for awhile.
"Our tree-trimming is critical for us during the winter," he said.
Some of the most important preventative mantainance happens throughout the year. Pond said keeping tree branches clear of the company's power-lines solves a lot of winter's problems before they're even problems.
"We'll patrol each circuit every 3 years and whatever growth is in the lines, we'll trim on a three-year cycle," he said. "Hopefully we keep on top of that and eliminate a lot of outages with that tree-trimming program."
There is always the possibility of snow and ice build-up on the lines. Every once in awhile an out-of-control car takes out a power pole. Pond said in case of an outage, power customers should be just as prepared as his linemen.
"We encourage them to have an emergency kit," he said.
Pond said every winter preparedness kit should include:
Ready-to-eat foods
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Bottled water
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In case an outage does occur, Pond said his crews are ready.
"We have crews in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. so we can call on any of those crews at any time to come in and help in any storm situation," he said.
Rocky Mountain Power encourages customers to call and report outages.
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During this week's Los Angeles Dodgers at St. Louis Cardinals series at Busch Stadium, FOX Sports Midwest will bring Phantom Cam to its viewers for the first time. The super slow-motion replay camera records shots at an amazing 3,000 frames per second.
Phantom Cam was first used by the FOX Network during the 2012 National League Championship Series and World Series, when it captured images like individual rain drops falling on Sergio Romo and a ball striking Hunter Pence's bat three times on a broken-bat hit.
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FOX Sports Midwest will be using Phantom Cam for its Monday through Thursday telecasts this week. Fortunately, with FSM's producer Mike Helling and director Tom Mee at the controls, Yasiel Puig shots should be kept under reasonable control.
Phantom Cam has been on an introductory road tour to FOX Sports' regional networks for various home series since June. The Cards rightsholder will also have access to Phantom Cam during the key final-month series in Cincinnati from September 2-5.
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A Sydney police officer has broken one of his legs while trying to break-up a drunken fight in Bondi.
Police say officers had been on patrol at about 11pm (AEST) on Saturday night when they came across two men fighting in a park.
One of the men fell onto the senior constable's leg, fracturing it in two places, while the officer was attempting to stop the fight.
A 30-year-old man's expected to be charged with affray, offensive behaviour and resist arrest, while a 35-year-old has been released without charge at this stage.
Police say both men were heavily-affected by alcohol.


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Even David Byrne's most devoted followers would struggle to suggest that he has eclipsed his work with Talking Heads in the 25 years since their final album. Yet form is temporary and class is permanent: Love This Giant, his collaboration with Annie "St Vincent" Clark, is his best since he disbanded his band.
Intriguingly, as a solo artist, Byrne has embraced his own awkwardness to become a mighty live performer. Last night's show, which also featured Clark, a drummer, keyboardist and brass octet (including the ever-welcome sousaphone), owed a debt to Bruce Springsteen's concerts with his Seeger Sessions Band, but two heady hours overflowed with all the magic that pop music can muster. Playing most of Love This Giant and dipping into Byrne and Clark's catalogues, the delight was in the detail. Wearing tall heels and taking tiny, tiny steps, Clark moved like a Nutcracker Suite mouse. In contrast, Byrne began
in a blazer and slacks like an avant Alan Partridge, moved like a Chinese Politburo member attempting to boogie and proclaimed "now for my favourite part of the show: the part where we tell you what's on sale outside". Perhaps inevitably, the perfectly different but perfectly matched duo mimed a kung-fu fight during the theremin solo in Northern Lights.
The brass section were wonderfully choreographed, whether playing sprawled on the floor like drunks on Cheerleader, solo slow-motion waltzing during The Party or best of all, circling the microphone during Wild Wild Life taking a vocal line in turn. They could play a bit, too. An aural treat, a visual feast and joy to spare. Nobody could have left unsatisfied.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
High Tower Software Shuts Down
Aliso Viejo-based High Tower Software, a venture-backed developer of security, compliance, and log management software, has shut down. A spokesperson at the firm told socalTECH that the shutdown occurred yesterday, and that the firm is now in the process of looking for buyers of its technology. High Tower was backed by Falcon Fund, Hallador Venture Fund, INROADS Capital Partners, J.F. Shea, Kinship Partners, Liberty Partners, Merrill Lynch Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. The firm had raised at least $24M in funding, and was founded in 1999. The firm declined to comment on the number of employees affected by the shutdown.


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|The implementation of a visco-hyperelastic numerical material model for simulating the behaviour of polymer foam materials
|Conor Briody, Barry Duignan, Steve Jerrams, John Tiernan, 2012
|Polyurethane foam has been in use for some time in wheelchair seating systems as it offers good pressure relieving capabilities in most cases. However, little characterisation work has gone into seating foam materials by comparison with conventional elastomeric materials. Accurate material models could allow better prediction of foam in-service behaviour, which could potentially improve seating design practises. The objective of this work was to develop an approach for the validation of hyperelastic and viscoelastic material model parameters used to simulate polyurethane foam behaviour. Material parameters were identified from relevant test procedures and implemented in a Finite Element simulation of an ISO foam indentation procedure. Physical test results were compared to results predicted using the identified material parameters. Simulations suggest a good overall agreement between test and model results.
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|Numerical Simulation of Flexible Polyurethane Seating Foam
|Computational Materials Science 64, pp 47-51, November 2012
|Polyurethane foam; Indentation; Hyperelastic; Viscoelastic; Modelling; Finite Element


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Cadillac CTS First Generation Forum - 2003 - 2007 Discussion, transmission question on 03 cts in Cadillac CTS Coupe, Sport Sedan and Sport Wagon Forums; Hi, for the past few weeks ive been experiencing some problems with my tranny, when I'm on the highway doing ...
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transmission question on 03 cts
Hi, for the past few weeks ive been experiencing some problems with my tranny, when I'm on the highway doing about 65-70 suddenly the car will downshift roughly on me and the rpms will go from about 2250 to around 3200. i try to get it to shift back from 4 to drive but when i floor it, i dont get a downshift, just a gradual acceleration. ive tried manually downshifting to 4th and bringing it back up to D but no shift. I've even dropped her to 3rd and am able to bring her to 4th but not D.
if i pull over and shut her off and set the alarm and then unlock her and start her up again she seems to be fine but it is happening with alot more regularity now.
im getting a 0700 code and not sure what to do, swap a TCM? TPS? do a tranny fluid drain and refill?
any help would be greatly appreciated
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I had that problem my codes were 7062 or something like that i did a tranny flush and that helped for about 8k miles... The codes was " c stuck on" which a selenoid... U can replace the selenoid for about 800 buks at a transmission shop or swap the tranny... I did the swap


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Nice to see the Viognier back again! My first wine.woot way back when was the FP Viognier 3-pack. Guess I'll have to go again (once I check the prices against the state stores).
Aussie Shiraz (from one of those other sites) and California Viognier, both in my favorite styles today. It's gonna be a New World Rhône kinda summer!
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'Highly Confidential' iPad and iPhone Prototypes Revealed in Samsung vs. Apple Trial (Photos)
Court documents have revealed "highly confidential" photographs of early iPad and iPhone prototypes, and even hint of next-generation characteristics.
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Developers are now required to provide Retina-ready 1024-by-1024 icons when submitting an app to Apple's Mac App Store.
Airline Replaces In-flight Entertainment Units With iPads
Apple's iOS devices are proving to be extremely popular with Australian airline Qantas, which has now announced that it will be replacing its in-flight entertainment units with iPads.
Photos of the Earliest Known IPad Prototype Emerge
In 2010, Steve Jobs revealed that the iPhone was inspired by tablet prototypes. Photographs of those prototypes have now been discovered.
Steve Jobs Gave Up on Social Because Zuckerberg 'Did It So Well'
Walter Isaacson, the author of the best selling Steve Jobs biography, has revealed that Apple's late co-founder didn't venture further into social because Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg did it so well.
Australian airline is lightening its load by scrapping paper documents and giving its pilots iPads for use during flights.
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Not-so-simple pies, cooked at 700 degrees on white oak
Ian Anderson 11 a.m., May 22
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Boston street punks Unseen slam Soma tonight. The 15-year-strong hardcore band hit Warped last year behind Internal Salvation, their eighth collection of metal-edged screamo. Post-fest, the quintet continues to carry the crunk 'round continental U.S. and Canada. Check 2000 collection Totally Unseen for a glimpse. Bedford, Mass, buds Wilhelm Scream trekking with 'em.... Hang Love sez Philly power trio Burning Brides. The hard-rockers' '07 release pulls Nor'west sludge into their East Coast garage grind. Alice in heavy metal Chains? The Brides' Space site lists San Clemente cats Fu Manchu on the bill, but Casbah's posting our own far-out freaks Earthless and Get Your Death On.... The "Inglewood Skater's Dream" came true for rapper Pigeon John, who flies the L.A. coop for 'Canes tonight. Hang on. No, he doesn't. That one's cancelled.... Uptowners (and soccer fans?), Beauty Bar's booked a Brit-pop hatrick: May Fire (SF), Frantic Romantic, and the Fascination. Dandys fans, check May Fire fare — it's "bohemian like you."
Friday 4
Sirhan Sirhan thrashes through a couple CD release giggies this weekend. The local power trio is set to drop Anodyne debut Blood Friday night at Zombie Lounge with Prize Country and Get Your Death On and Saturday night at Pink Elephant with Prize Country.... Citizen Video posts a bill at the Whistle Stop with nu-wavers the Atoms and indie folks Vision of a Dying World — "A swirling night of cinema, bands, jumpin' dance floor, and ripped boxers".... Jumping beans! Latin lounge lizard Mario Escovedo (the Dragons) brings the MEX experience to Bar Pink Elephant. Doo-wop ditties with hot sauce.... The thes have it at Casbah's "'The' Fest." Put 'em in yerself: Sess, Muslims, Prayers, Vision of a Dying World, Red Feathers, and Fantastic Magic, though I've never seen FantMag billed with a "the".... Classic-rawk rooms: Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin) reanimates at Anthology.... NorCal metal men Y&T lay 'em at Brick by Brick.... And Guess Who's at Sycuan. You thinking...?
Saturday 5
Angelino indie kids the Little Ones crawl into Casbah for a play date with Syracuse, New Yawk rockestra Ra Ra Riot and Berkeley piano-poppers the Morning Benders. They're all shilling demo e.p.s for the collection plate.... Pine Mountain Logs burn longer at Belly Up. The Venice Beach covers crazies will keep you guessing what's next as they jam live mash-ups into your ear holes. Blondie-Police-TV themes... The Logs are popular So-Cal vo-cal act Venice rollin' their influences out and you will dig it.... Guitar guy Big Head Todd and his Monsters slide their ridiculous name into House of Blues' marquee. The Boulder band'll give you All the Love You Need, their label-less latest collection of old-school frat rock.... Round the corner, 4th&B props R&B acts Loose Ends and Angela Winbush.... Get what you pay for, dammit! The Ché's got five bands for five bucks. Here ya go: Watercolor Paintings, Paddle Boat, Clitorectomy (?!), the Mutilators, and Doctor Bird.
Sunday 6
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day, but especially Sunday, when '70s prog soprano Jon Andersen joins Paul Green's School of Rock Allstars' set at Anthology. Hear tell the School of Rock kids nail the Yes catalogue. Question is, can Mr. Andersen...? Royal nepatizzz. The King Brothers knight Pink Elephant. Shell Shag as well.... Minmae and Roxy Jones Chase Frank to Tower Bar.... Writer scripts a Zombie set, shares the stage with...some other music groups.
Monday 7
"C-U-La-Tour." Industrial dance demons Ministry ("Jesus Built My Hotrod," "Lieslieslies") preach to '80s wavers at House of Blues. Main man Al Jourgensen has fronted the synth-rock krew for going on 30 years and is teasing retirement as the Chicagoland band tours behind '07's The Last Sucker... Down the street, Hard Rock Hotel props a pulpit for San Diego Christian rockers P.O.D. The Grammy nu-metal nominees are out to tout new one When Angels & Serpents Dance, which is due to drop Tuesday. The title track is available for free download via iTunes if ya like.... Happy birthday, jazz master Freddie Hubbard. The trumpeter turns 70 tonight. Hubbard and his all-star combo hit Anthology.... Hollywood heavies White Wizzard cast a spell on Zombie Lounge. La Jolla thrash trio Unlimited Pineapple Club opens.... And Casbah's Anti-Monday meet stages the Fascination and Frantic Romantic if you missed 'em at Beauty Bar last week.
Tuesday 8
Philly's ghettotech mix master Ramble John Krohn, aka RJD2, debuts XL disc The Third Hand at Casbah. RJ shares the bill with Jersey trip-hoppin' tourmates (and Dr. Who fans) dälek, who last month premiered Ipecac collection Abandoned Language at SXSW. One-man indie band Happy Chichester opens the Tuesday triple-header. He wants you to know that Lovers Come Back is now available at Target.
Wednesday 9
Belly Up's cornered the market on X — John Doe, Exene, Billy Zoom, D.J. Bonebreak. The L.A. punkabilly pioneers Make the Music Go Bang! But you knew that. Aussie garage-rockers the Skybombers drop an opening set.... Raleigh, NC's Birds of Avalon fly in to Bar Punk Elephant. The quintet delivers new Volcom e.p. Outer Upper Inner.... Mike Peters of '80s pop-rock politicos the Alarm rocks the Casbah.... Mexi 'lectronicats Moenia appear downtown at House of Blues.... Wednesdays at Tower belong to local dance-rock dudes Thin Man. This week they'll share the stage with the poppier Prayers. DJ Mario O. spins round sets.
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MovieScope 'Eat, Pray, Love' – Searching For Herself
Is it necessary to scour the world to find yourself? Writer Elizabeth Gilbert seems to think so. And many women do too, as evidenced by the popularity of her globe-trotting memoir, "Eat Pray Love."
Now, taking up the cause is actress Julia Roberts in her film version of Gilbert's work of a woman in search of her soul and herself. The trick is to complete the identity quest without merging with a mate, as in "man." As Liz Gilbert, Roberts almost does it in 2 hours and 13 minutes of screen time, traveling to Italy, India and Indonesia.
Then, in the end comes Javier Bardem as Felipe, a Brazilian divorcé, who sweeps her off her feet in Bali. She resists initially because he's throwing off the "balance" she acquired in India through yoga and meditation. But, this is a Hollywood movie, so it's off into the sunset for the soul searcher and her soul-mate, making moot the message of the memoir.
To arrive at the Hollywood ending, Liz first must dump loving husband Stephen and too-young-lover-on-therebound David (James Franco), gorge on spaghetti in Rome and pizza in Naples, learn the inner-self thing in India and reconnect with former shaman friend Ketut Liyer (Hadi Subiyanto) in Bali. However, Ketut's the one pushing her to poor Felipe, who should think twice before hooking up with a flip-flopper like Liz.
In the middle of the uneven movie, solid actor Richard Jenkins gives a riveting performance as Richard, an expatriate Texan, promoting the virtues of Hinduism to the wayward American woman. "Make your mind a vacuum, so all the love can pour in," he says. Then, he proceeds to break down, revealing unbearable guilt from his part in a DWI incident involving his 8-yearold boy. The powerful moment makes him go back to Texas to face reality. He leaves Liz struggling to empty her mind alone.
It should be noted that the Italian sequences feature a lot of food, none of which seems particularly appetizing. The scenes culminate in a strugglingto button-jeans montage, so familiar in weight-conscious TV commercials. Such eating should make it easy to find oneself. With Liz's self-centered voiceover narration, "Eat Pray Love" at times appears to copy "Sex and the City," whittled down to one woman and without the fun.
Reportedly, star Roberts really did experience a spiritual awakening while filming in India. Maybe, she'll stay with her shaman and out of Sarah Jessica Parker territory.


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Tennessee appeared on the verge of winning a tight game this time, taking a 75-74 lead on an acrobatic three-point play by Tyler Smith with 24 seconds left. OSU's Byron Eaton answered with an equally acrobatic three-point play to put OSU up with 7.2 seconds left, however, then Smith missed a 3-pointer just before the buzzer, sealing the Vols' fate.
Ninth-seeded Tennessee finishes 21-13. Eighth-seeded Oklahoma State improves to 23-11 and will face top-seeded Pittsburgh Sunday in second-round play.
Although this was by far the youngest and least experienced Vol squad of Bruce Pearl's four-year tenure, that didn't soften the sting of another tough loss.
"I would say I did not get this team playing as well as it was capable of playing with enough consistency," Pearl said. "It achieved at a high level but we probably will walk away from this campaign and say we left a little bit on the table."
The Vols limited OSU's leading scorer, James Anderson, to just 10 points – 8.6 below his average. They couldn't contain Eaton, however, as the Cowboy point guard finished 7 of 10 from the floor en route to 20 points.
"Byron Eaton off the bounce was very, very effective," Pearl said. "Both from a strategy standpoint by the coaches, as well as an execution standpoint by the players, we did a lousy job on ball-screen defense."
Marshall Moses, OSU's tallest player at 6-6, made 8 of 10 field-goal tries and added 16 points. Terrel Harris chipped in 15 points for the Cowboys, who have won nine of their last 11 games.
Smith scored 21 points to pace Tennessee, including a 10-for-10 performance from the foul line. Cameron Tatum came off the bench to chip in 12 points. Wayne Chism, UT's 6-9 center, added 11 points but sank only 4 of 14 shots – 3 of 9 beyond the arc and just 1 of 5 inside it.
Simply put, Tennessee couldn't exploit its advantages and couldn't stop OSU from exploiting its advantages.
Despite a significant edge in size, Tennessee lost the backboard battle 31-28 and was outscored 28-24 on points in the paint. Conversely, the Cowboys took full advantage of their superior quickness, repeatedly beating UT off the dribble en route to shooting 56.6 percent (30 of 53) from the field. Tennessee shot just 42.9 percent (24 of 56).
As happened often this season, the Vols' lack of patience cost them dearly. Rather than work the ball inside to exploit their superior height, they fired 3-pointers – launching 10 more shots from beyond the arc than inside it. UT finished at 33.3 percent (11 of 33) on the former and 56.5 percent (13 of 23) on the latter.
Oklahoma State also shot 33.3 percent from 3, going 7 of 21, but killed Tennessee with dribble-drives, going 23 of 32 (71.8 percent) inside the arc.
Junior guard Josh Tabb sat out the first half due to a disciplinary matter. Pearl declined comment on the situation other than to say the action was due to "a violation of team rules."
The 13 losses is Tennessee's most under Pearl, whose previous squads went 22-8, 24-11 and 31-5. Asked if this was a hard year for him, the coach paused thoughtfully before answering.
"Had we not come back and beaten Mississippi State, Florida and South Carolina on the road (in late February, early March) this would've been a very hard year for me," Pearl said. "But we did win those three games and we did win the (SEC) East for the third time in four years.
"And we did get to the conference tournament championship. It was disappointing to not win that game because I thought we had a chance at that point to prove we may have been the best team in the SEC.
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Secrets of Success - Dr. Lisa Masterson
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - You know her as the Emmy-nominated co-host of the award-winning talk show "The Doctors," but before seeing the bright lights of TV there were some very dark days for Dr. Lisa Masterson. We share her story and her secret to success.
Doctor, philanthropist, TV star, author, and mom - Dr. Lisa Masterson is a woman who seems to have it all.
"I do things that are always first and foremost inspired by what I love," Lisa Masterson, MD, tells Ivanhoe.
But success didn't come easy growing up in a black and white world smack dab in the middle of the Civil Rights war in Louisiana without a father.
"We moved around a lot, a lot!" says Dr. Masterson. "She was very innovative at trying to make money go very far."
Sometimes it meant quietly leaving an apartment just before rent was due. While there were times of uncertainty about where they'd sleep or eat, one thing was certain: Masterson's mom would ensure her daughter would get a great education.
Dr. Masterson explains, "My mother believed in education from her mother and I went to some of the best private schools with no money."
While she knew she wasn't rich with money, she says she was always rich with support.
"I was with a wonderful woman who gave me lots of love. She showed me how important I was in the world," says Dr. Masterson. "She just made me believe and feel that I was; I was important to her and that I had something to contribute."
Today her mother's legacy lives on in the life lessons Masterson shares with young women about health and their own self-esteem.
Dr. Masterson tells Ivanhoe, "The girls who have a good image of themselves, who have a great self-esteem; they are the ones less likely to have unintended pregnancies or acquire STDs."
While her path to success wasn't an easy one, with perseverance Masterson has become the person she says she was meant to be. She hopes advice from her mother will empower other women to do the same.
"Nothing beats a winner but a try," says Dr. Masterson. "It's ok not to do things perfectly or to get things on the first try. What's important is that you try."
Lisa is still trying to improve, opening her own health and wellness spa, releasing a yoga DVD, she even learned to surf and twirl the baton, saying you have to keep learning to keep living a meaningful life.
Dr. Masterson's latest book, Paper Dollhouse, can be found in stores and online. It's named after the day her teacher asked all the little girls to bring their dollhouses to school. She was so poor she made hers out of paper. Her mother made her believe it was the best dollhouse in the class.
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anywho- i went threw my phone and found summore pics to help. also- as far as cleaning or prepwork- just be simple and get dust/dirt off. either rubbing alcohol and let dry for a while, or a moist paper towel.
it is IMPERATIVE that you do LIGHT SUBTLE COATS of this stuff. let it MIST over the object and DO NOT OVERSPRAY. TAKE YOUR TIME. each part will take about 4-5 layers, 15 mins in between. if you overspray or think u can do it in 2-3 passes- YOU ARE WRONG. IT WILL LOOK TERRIBLE.
the point here is to make it look OEM, and perfect. OEM wouldnt include drip dots, overspray points, or anything that wouldnt look natural. theres a lot of small pieces, and u NEED to take ur time.
if you do not clean the area as good as u think, the "paint" will bubble up/droplet. so as a second precaution, do SMALL/THIN layers of any spray u use. i cannot say how important this is. you lower the chance of fail'ness if u take ur time and do super thin coats.
even with insanely thin layers, while painting- the first layer looks almost see-through. the 2nd will be a tint, the 3rd will start to give hang, the 4th will be pretty close, and the 5th will be exact. IT WILL ALWAYS LOOK WET DURING THE LATER PHASES, EVENTUALLY GIVING IT ITS MATTE FINISH.
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Rachel Harrison, Installation view, "The Help," Greene Naftali, 2012
Rachel Harrsion, The Death of Ironing (detail)
Rachel Harrison, Installation view, "The Help," Greene Naftali, 2012
Rachel Harrsion, Syntha-6
Rachel Harrison, Installation view, "The Help," Greene Naftali, 2012
Rachel Harrsion, Hoarders (detail)
Rachel Harrsion, Valid Like Salad
Rachel Harrison, Installation view, "The Help," Greene Naftali, 2012
Rachel Harrsion, Untitled
Rachel Harrison, Newt, left
Rachel Harrsion, Lazy Hardware
Rachel Harrsion, The Help
Rachel Harrsion, All in The Family
Rachel Harrsion, HOJOTOHO
The first week in May was a big one for the art world, starting with Sotheby's record sale of Edvard Munch's The Scream, and ending with Frieze New York, a veritable Charlie's chocolate factory of eye candy snaking around Randalls Island in a huge, sinuous tent. In between, there were murmurs of dismay over Sotheby's continuing lockout of art handlers attempting to organize, and Frieze's calculating decision to set up where it did in order to avoid the unions at the West Side Piers. Talk that Frieze would prompt an Occupy moment for the art world briefly flared, before everyone concluded that enjoyment was the better part of valor. Some 45,000 visitors came to the fair, and sales were "excellent," according to organizers.
Impressive as it is, the cash sloshing around galleries, art fairs and auction houses represents little more than tip money to the plutocracy who have made art history an asset class. In this respect, the title of Rachel Harrison's latest show, "The Help," seems like an apt description for what the art world is now: a place in which stroking the vanity of the super-rich trumps originality, and occupy means taking up the downstairs of a global Downton Abbey.
Harrison appears to understand this, though her work certainly sells well. She combines a consummate formalism with a knack for imbuing seemingly abstract elements with multiple meanings, including political ones. Some may mistake Harrison's views for feminism, but it's fairer to say that she's an artist who happens to be a woman with eyes in her head.
Her efforts include painting, drawing, video and photography. But above all she is a sculptor who fiercely questions monumentality and the masculine prerogative that goes with it. Still, Harrison acknowledges the allure of her targets, and the truth that, historically, women have helped to sustain them. She kicks ass in all directions, including, sometimes, her own.
The gallery is filled with a marvelous array of totems, mostly tall and narrow, lathered in color and sprouting curious found objects that are often related to housekeeping. The walls are hung with a suite of colored pencil drawings that picture the late singer Amy Winehouse, alongside shots at some of art's biggest swinging dicks, including Picasso and Picasso manqué Martin Kippenberger. Winehouse is Harrison's surrogate, her bad cop for interrogating the aforementioned, as well as Marcel Duchamp, whose Étant Donnés serves as the absent touchstone for the show. A photo focused on a door lock offers a clue: It's the entrance to the maintenance room at the Philadelphia Museum, next to Duchamp's late masterwork.
Harrison creates the bulk of her sculptures by stacking and arranging blocks or slabs of Styrofoam, before covering them in a combination of cement and painterly flourishes. This gives the pieces a strange geologic aspect; some of the examples recall David Smiths transformed into spooky wind-shaped hoodoos, the kind that dot the Western desert. The cherry on top in each is the found objects that activate the larger forms, and vice versa.
For instance, in Hoarders, a boulder that seems to have broken free from the orbit of an old Star Trek set crash-lands in the gallery as an allegory of the 1 percent crushing the 99, thanks to the addition of a garbage can and a video playing on a small flatscreen. In the latter, shot from the backseat of a taxi, the driver speaks to a passenger, both unseen, about the corporate dictatorship sure to come if Obama loses the election. It's the usual powerless rant, and as the dustbin suggests, easily disposable. But the totality of Harrison's treatment gives the cabbie's words the heft of truth, however inconvenient.
Similarly, the monolithic Valid Like Salad features a framed charcoal rendering of Al Pacino as Scarface slapped onto its side, one of those celebrity portraits sketch artists display to show their skills. The drawing nicely complements Valid's drab color scheme; more pointedly, the sculpture's harlequin pattern of muted grays, a nod to the recurring circus clowns in Picasso's paintings, yokes one sacred monster to another. Valid evokes the testosterone that is the elixir of criminality and creativity, and the mythologizing of both as outlaw behavior. The final touch is a bright-red canine collar, dangling unfastened beneath Pacino's image. Who let the dogs out, indeed.
Underscoring these object lessons, though, is Harrison's beef with art history, especially Duchamp's readymade—which remains, a century after its creation, contemporary art's sine qua non: the fountainhead for most of the major developments of the past 50 years, and the prism through which some continue to judge other work. Insofar as the readymade privileges idea over the messiness of making stuff, it has been misconstrued as representing the endgame for creating art as a subjective act. This is both nonsense and not. Artists, of course, still employ traditional mediums; Harrison's own work is a dialectical dance between the made and readymade. And as she basically notes, Duchamp compromised his own radicality by creating Étant Donnés mostly by hand. But it is still the case that thanks largely to Duchamp, artistic agency has become an ever more mediated affair.
As for the collectors who move the market, the readymade paradigm retains its appeal precisely because it represents something pristine, inviolate and leveragable. Contemporary art has become one big recycling project (of which, for example, Kippenberger was a mordant pioneer), and this is arguably true of the larger culture as well: Winehouse's self-immolation was a kind of readymade, a tragic pop star conforming to the tragic-pop-star template.
Ultimately I think Harrison's own recycling points to this deeper reality. The years following the Duchampian revival begun in the 1960s correspond to the period in which the elites have divorced themselves from the economic compact of political modernism. It shouldn't be a surprise, then, that the chickens have come home to roost. The art world used to be the place where people came to be themselves, become themselves, work for themselves. Now they're just the help.—Howard Halle
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