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A Mystical Vision of the Trinity
Last spring I wrote a column about Hildegard of Bingen, the "medieval mystic superstar" who, a mere 833 years after her death, was finally officially inscribed in the Catholic Church's record of saints this past May. On October 7 of this year, Hildegard—along with a relatively unknown 16th-century Spanish mystic called John of Avila—will be designated a "Doctor of the Church," meaning that her writings are officially endorsed by the Catholic Church as having made a particularly important contribution to theology and Christian doctrine.
I cannot presume to explain why Pope Benedict or his advisors want to elevate Hildegard at this time. Perhaps he is merely taking care of "one of his own"; the pope, after all, hails from Bavaria, less than 300 miles from the Rhine valley where Hildegard lived. In some ways Hildegard's writings affirm a truly conservative understanding of church hierarchy and theology, which no doubt would appeal to the current pontiff. But in other ways, Hildegard is truly a visionary, not only by the literal fact of her mystical experiences, but in how her understanding of the place of art in the life of faith, the role of women in the church, and the importance of spiritual experience, all point to a figure whose contribution to Christianity has the potential of creating real transformation—even after almost a millennium.
Perhaps one way to ponder the singular nature of Hildegard's vision is to consider one of her visions. When Hildegard began recounting her visionary experiences in what eventually became her first book, Scivias ("Know the Ways"), her writings were accompanied by vivid, colorful illustrations which some scholars believe she was involved on some level in producing—perhaps providing instruction to the artist(s). But even if these illuminations were not created under Hildegard's direct influence, they nevertheless are based on the detailed descriptions of her visions found in her own words. So, like William Blake over 600 years later, Hildegard's legacy includes not only writings about mystical experiences but colorful illustrations that make her visions truly come alive.
One of those visions (the second one recorded in Scivias) depicts Christ as a sapphire blue figure, standing in the midst of two circles: one golden-colored, its diameter just about the same length as Christ's height; the other, larger one a lighter color, surrounding and enfolding the smaller figure. These circles, in turn, are surrounded by a blue background and a framework of floral designs. This striking image, according to Hildegard, is not just of Christ, but indeed is a vision of the Holy Trinity.
"This is the perception of God's mysteries . . . that bright light bathes the whole of the glowing fire, and the glowing fire bathes the bright light; and the bright light and the glowing fire pour over the whole human figure, so that the three are one light in one power of potential." So writes Hildegard of her vision. In short, the largest circle represents light—the light of God. The inner circle signifies the fire of the Holy Spirit. And of course, the figure, washed in a rich, watery blue, is Christ; not a lonely, bereft Christ but rather, Christ embedded in the fire of the Spirit and the light of the Creator.
It's a circular, cyclical, mandala-esque Holy Trinity. Forget those silly diagrams of Triangles your Sunday School teacher used to try to make this mysterious doctrine comprehensible. Instead of the sharp, angular (and hyper-masculine) triangular Trinity, Hildegard offers a fluid, energetic, embedded, holistic Trinity that eschews anthropomorphism for the Father and the Spirit but celebrates both the distinctiveness of the three persons and their inherent unity.
Carl McColman is a Lay Cistercian, a blogger (www.anamchara.com) and the author of The Big Book of Christian Mysticism.

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Since the beginning of 2014 I've been logging my disparate online essays and reviews in one place, so they're easier to track. You can find the Miscellany tumblr here.Read More.....
Since the beginning of 2014 I've been logging my disparate online essays and reviews in one place, so they're easier to track. You can find the Miscellany tumblr here.Read More.....
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Theatre Notes will remain here as an archive. The blog is fully searchable using the search box to the right, and there are browsable lists of all reviews since 2004 and of notable interviews and essays.
Update, February 2013: After receiving an offer I couldn't refuse, I am now Performance Critic At Large (they said it) for ABC Arts Online. I'll be writing monthly reviews/essays throughout the year, which is pretty much perfect and is also, frankly, mega-cool.
You can find my ABC Arts critical pieces here. And my poetry reviews and columns for Overland Journal are archived here.
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Dear Readers
As some of you will already know, I've decided to close down Theatre Notes. It's a decision that's been staring me in the face for a while now, and it's fair to say that I've been in furious denial for months. Having to finish up here makes me more sad than I can say. Making TN has been more rewarding than I ever imagined when I idly thought, back in 2004, that it might be an interesting idea to begin a theatre review blog. It's been my privilege and joy to chronicle the theatre I've seen over the past eight years, and to bear witness to what I am quite sure will be seen as one of the richest periods of Australia's theatre history.
The reason is simple: I can't sustain the work of serious theatre criticism and also be a writer, without regularly slamming into the walls of exhaustion that have bedevilled me this year (and not only this year). It's a lamentable fact that writing doesn't get easier: it gets harder, as each new work demands that you reach further. I suspect the same is true of reviewing. I have always hated repeating myself, and aside from the works I'm already writing, the various projects I have in mind demand and deserve my proper attention. Despite all my flailing attempts to avoid it, I find that I have to make a choice: and it has to be for my own work.
This hit me with particular force a month or so ago, when, wondering why I was (again) so deeply tired, I tallied up my wordcount for this year. In 2012 I have written, at a conservative estimate, around 180,000 words. Of those, about 120,000, or two-thirds, are words of criticism, the vast majority of it for TN. The rest are accounted for by a short novel I finished in June, another novel which I have now half completed, and two libretti. Numbers are crude and, in matters of creative output, often misleading: but staring at those figures (and also at the notebook in which I record my progress with my novels), I couldn't any more deny to myself that this blog interferes with my work.
I've attempted to battle TN down to something sane, but I can't: TN is the kind of blog it is because of the hours it takes to make it. To turn it into a TN-lite would defeat its purpose more thoroughly than actually ceasing to do it. In the past few weeks I have gone over this decision again and again, and I always reach the same conclusion. It's painful but it's also right. Some people have suggested that perhaps I could find a way for TN to make money. But it's never been about the money: I've been able to afford to do it because of the income I made from my books. The resources that are most scarce are time and creative energy.
A disbelieving colleague whom I told a couple of weeks ago said, Nah, you'll miss it too much. And I will. I really will. I'll miss the shows, I'll miss the challenge of thinking and writing about performance, I'll miss the whole damn thing. I've long thought the Melbourne theatre community, in its generosity and robust vitality, its argumentativeness and its curiosity, is something special. It's a huge and precious part of my life, and will no doubt continue to be so. However, if I'm part of it, I will be mostly be on the other side of the fence. I can't imagine that I'll cease criticism altogether, as that part of me continues restless; but it will be an art I pursue as a secondary practice. And, yes, I've learned through experience never to say never. But this is it for TN. Eight years is a nice, sacred number. If you turn it sideways, it means infinity: and it's true to say that this period of my life has been infinitely rich.
I want to thank the theatre companies, here and interstate, who have supported TN over the years, and here I especially want to thank Michael Kantor and Stephen Armstrong at the Malthouse Theatre, who in the early days of blogging were miles ahead of the rest of the world, in actively encouraging the debate that happened here and in other theatre blogs around Melbourne. Thanks too to the many institutions who supported TN over the years, especially the Perth and Melbourne Festivals. My heart broke when I had to refuse a visit to the next Perth Festival in February, and yes, that was when I understood that I was serious. I must thank my family for routinely standing me up at the theatre doors and for patiently and sweetly supporting their obsessive mother and wife; my colleagues, both bloggers and print critics, and the countless TN commenters for the many stimulating and fascinating arguments; and most of all, the hundreds of artists who have given me so much delight and inspiration over so many years. And lastly, I want to thank you, the reader. There have been a lot of you: the total for unique visits to TN now stands at 1,250,050. That works out as an average of about 17,000 visits (or 23,000 page loads) a month over the past two years. Not bad for a determinedly local, specialist blog. Your interest made it all possible.
Over the next few weeks I'll do some housekeeping, to make TN more useful as an archive and resource. Several people have suggested that I should put together a book of reviews and essays, and when I have caught my breath, I will think about doing so. (Publishers are welcome to flood me with offers.) In the meantime, dear friends, again thank you. I'll see you on the other side.
With my love
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From medium to medium, the real is volatilized, becoming an allegory of death. But it is also, in a sense, reinforced through its own destruction. It becomes reality for its own sake, the fetishism of the lost object: no longer the object of representation, but the ecstasy of denial and of its own ritual extermination: the hyperreal....
Symbolic Exchange and Death, Jean Baudrillard
America is burning. In Declan Greene's new play, Pompeii, LA, there is no reality except death. Everything that exists is simulation: LA is the imaginary city whose representation has become so much more real than the city itself that it has devoured its original referent. The City of Los Angeles evaporates in the toxic dream-machinery of Hollywood: all that remains are the volatilised hallucinations of corporate capital, in love with its own terrors, which it stages again and again on the dreaming screens of the American Empire. Earthquake, volcanic eruption, environmental desertification, murder, accident, psychic breakdown, economic disaster, the annihilation of meaning. What are you so afraid of?
|David Harrison, in Pompeii, LA. Photo: Pia Johnson
Pompeii, LA is Greene's most ambitious work yet. Here are obsessions familiar from his earlier work - the apocalypse of the individual in Moth, the B-grade Hollywood camp of Little Mercy, the self-consuming fetishes of 21st century trash culture of A Black Joy. Green's discontinuous text is rendered through the spectacle of Matthew Lutton's direction to create a work of theatre that compellingly expresses, through a glass darkly, the present cultural moment.
In the opening sequences, reality shifts from scene to scene, even from sentence to sentence, generating an increasing sense of vertigo as it becomes clear that there is no original "reality" from which these scenes depend, no ground on which this narrative can stand. The scenes are all "back stage", at first posing as the banal realities behind the fantasies of Hollywood: Judy Garland (Belinda McClory) in her dressing room with her make-up artist (Anna Samson); a cast rehearsing a scene from a disaster movie, in which one of the stars (Luke Ryan) storms out.
Yet these scenes quickly lose their moorings: the make-up artist tells us a story about returning home to her murdered boyfriend (is it real or a story from television?); an older actor who has "paid his dues" (Greg Stone) enacts an uneasily hilarious monologue about love with a horrific subtext of paedophilia, which ends with him grotesquely kissing a television. Actors change costumes in front of us to become other characters, reality retreats into an infinitely receding hall of mirrors. Each moment is serially revealed as fantasy, leaving the audience nowhere to rest. The only thread linking these scenes is a constant iteration of dread: What are you so afraid of?
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Last week I saw two adventures in theatrical poetry. Malthouse Theatre literally brought poetry into the theatre with Jane Montgomery Griffiths's and Marion Potts' theatricalisation of Dorothy Porter's poem-novel, Wild Surmise. Meanwhile, in the Collingwood Underground Carpark, young independent director Sapidah Kian gave us the Australian premiere of I Am The Wind, a recent work by one of the most poetic theatre writers alive, Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse.
|Jane Montgomery Griffith in Wild Surmise. Photo: Pia Johnson
As a result, I've been brooding about theatrical poetic for days. I've been wondering about writing and form and poetry and plays and everything. So first, a stumbling attempt to describe what I mean when I talk about poetic in the theatre.
Theatre is an inherently poetic medium. An actor on a stage is not only herself, she is also like herself: she is herself and not herself, a breathing physical presence who is also translated into a metaphor. This doubleness, a simultaneous alienation and immediacy that operates in both the audience and the performer, is the tension that drives theatrical poetic. Shakespeare exploits this double knowledge when he has Edgar lead the blind Gloucester to the edge of an imaginary cliff in Lear, knowing his audience will be as moved by the exposed pretence - there is no cliff, only a bare stage - as much as by Gloucester's inward transformation.
In this famous scene, Shakespeare exposes the mechanics of theatrical imagination as brutally as any writer of the post-modern stage: he foregrounds the consciousness of a reality created entirely by language, designed to be enacted; and at the same time, through exposing the tricks of the stage itself, he questions the very provenance of that language. Likewise, Beckett, surely among the most stringent poets of the stage, never lost sight of theatre's metaphorical engine, the stark image of humanity that is an actor on a stage in front of an audience. Every line of Beckett's works as simultaneous critique and exposure of these theatrical and ontological realities. These realities are represented, the process through which art alienates a thing from itself so it becomes like itself, and at the same time are enacted in the present moment as an immediate reality. (HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!)
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Despite Melbourne's uncertain spring, Ms TN had a most excellent adventure at the 2012 Melbourne Festival, Brett Sheehy's last before he takes up the reins as AD of the Melbourne Theatre Company. Sheehy opted to go out with a bang: general agreement dubbed this his best festival so far. An important part of this success was the Festival Hub by Princes Bridge, which provided the social heart an event like this needs: a multicoloured purpose-built three-storey structure with a cheap bar, food and entertainment, it was packed out every time I went.
If you check out the archives for October, you'll see why I enjoyed myself. Part of the festival experience is missing the show that everyone else declares The Thing, and there was a bit of that. But even so, I saw work that, that like The Rabble's Orlando, inspired passionate response, or addressed profound contemporary anxiety, like Schaubühne Berlin's An Enemy of the People, or prompted intense debate, such as with Chunky Move's An Act of Now. The program was various and exciting, reaching into Melbourne's independent performance scene: Dancehouse's fascinating minimalist season, Dance Territories and Arena Theatre's gorgeous fantasy house for children jostled against international works like Williams Forsythe's far from minimalist I Don't Believe in Outer Space, to create a sense of depth as well as breadth.
I wasn't so enamoured of the contemporary opera, The Minotaur Trilogy and After Life; but, as always, not everyone agreed with me. It's been a while since I've had such interesting and demanding discussions about performance, which is a tribute to the program: it generated an energy and engagement that I associate with the most successful festivals. Thanks to all of those who came along for the ride on TN, or who buttonholed me offline for arguments over a bevvie or three. It's been a blast.
For me, October was a holiday, albeit a rather exhausting one: I let everything else drop and was just a Crrritic for three weeks. I'm still a bit beat, truth be told (but in a good way). Now I'm back at my desk, in novel mode: the current novel is perhaps half written, and I would dearly love to finish it by the end of the year. That means at least another 40,000 words. So it's back to my (so far spectacularly unsuccessful) balancing act. Even so, I'll be aiming to post a review a week here, if the mind/body/spirit complex co-operates. Onward!
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Melbourne Festival Diary #10
After three weeks of full-on performance, Dance Teritories was a refreshing return to the basics: a stage, a performer, an audience. Dance Territories presented four works over two double bills, curated from both local and international artists. Program 1 was Perrine Valli's Ma Cabane au Canada & Série and Sandra Parker's Transit. For my last night out for the festival, I saw Program 2, which consisted of Swiss artist Cindy Van Acker's Fractie and Australian dancer Matthew Day's Thousands. Rigorous, austere, riveting, these are performances which mercilessly expose the human body.
|Cindy Van Acker's Fractie: Dance Territories
Introducing this program, Dancehouse artistic director Angela Conquet invokes the precept "less
is more", quoting the modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. For all its modernist roots, it's clear that
this is work that has a contemporary urgency, turning its back on the
spectacle and consumerist excess that circumscribes so much of
contemporary experience. This has a pragmatic aspect that reaches into
the political: Matthew Day speaks of minimalism as a sustainable
practice, as a reminder of how little one needs to make a performance.
"Simplicity is not only an aesthetic value," says Conquet. "It is a
moral perception."
Minimalist aesthetic creates work that, while it can't escape representation, is nevertheless a direct challenge to its assumptions. What happens when everything is stripped back? Sometimes, as with the work of Jérôme Bel or Samuel Beckett, an inexplicable joyousness. Sometimes, as with Lucinda Childs' and Philip Glass's Dance, an irresistible, even violent, possession by the present moment. In the performances of Van Acker and Day, we're invited into a direct, unmediated contemplation of the human body, here exposed to physical stresses that at times seem unbearable, but which, through their intensity and focus, become utterly compelling.
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Melbourne Festival Diary #9
We're heading towards the end of the festival, which closes on Saturday, and Ms TN is feeling, truth be told, rather ragged. On the one hand, devoting myself to a single activity rather than the several which usually occupy me is something of a holiday (although the copyedit for the US edition of Black Spring is sitting on my desk, looking reproachful and reminding me of other duties). On the other, this has been a consuming festival which has generated a lot of intense conversation, both offline over post-show drinks and kitchen tables, and online, as you will see if you look at the comments beneath An Enemy of the People and An Act of Now. This passionate engagement is the quality I most associate with a successful festival, and the 2012 Melbourne Festival has had it in spades.
|Before Your Very Eyes: Gob Squad/CAMPO
My Regrets of This Week are missing Young Jean Lee's We're Gonna Die and Merlyn Quaife performing Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, of which I hear good things: but let's face it, you can't be everywhere. Or anywhere, sometimes. This week I dipped my toe into another strong strand of this year's festival: the presence of children. With Gob Squad and CAMPO's Before Your Very Eyes, seven young people created theatre for adults. In Arena Theatre's The House of Dreaming (as well as Polyglot's How High The Sky, which I didn't see) theatre was made by adults for children. That taking theatre for children seriously is crucial to the artform ought to go without saying; but it's been a point often lost in our mainstream programming, which has lagged seriously behind Europe in its focus on young people. This, as Age critic Cameron Woodhead observes, is now changing.
Back in 2008, when CAMPO were called Victoria, they brought a beautiful show to Melbourne, That Night Follows Day. Directed by Forced Entertainment's Tim Etchells, this was the second part of a trilogy in which Victoria/CAMPO collaborated with different artists to create shows in which children performed for adults. Before Your Very Eyes is the third part, a collaboration this time with the German/English collective Gob Squad. Developed over three years, Before Your Very Eyes takes advantage of how rapidly children change as they get older: there's a radical developmental difference, for example, between seven and 10, or 14 and 17. The long development permitted the company to enact encounters between older and younger selves, which betrays the meticulous level of planning that underlies this show.
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Melbourne Festival Diary #8
I woke the morning after seeing the Schaubühne Berlin's production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People seething with a burning, undirected anger. I don't know what I had been dreaming: but I think this play named something accurately enough to blow those embers - of disillusion, impotence, political alienation, whatever - into a white heat. Some flame in me leapt up: yes, I thought, that's how it is. It's just like that.
|Stefan Stern as Dr Stockmann in An Enemy of the People, Schaubühne Berlin
Is An Enemy of the People a revolutionary production? No: but it's about a certain kind of revolution that has always emerged from the intellectual bourgeoisie. Does it draw any conclusions, offer any program for the redress of the ills that the play analyses? No. Will it make its audiences rush to the barricades? I doubt it: it's only a play, after all, not a manifesto. But it is political in a very interesting way that profoundly implicates and exhilarates its audience. If political theatre is, as Brecht believed, about illuminating a situation so that it is possible to reflect fruitfully upon our place in it, then this is certainly political theatre.
The only Thomas Ostermeier production I've seen is his 2005 version of Hedda Gabler, which was performed at last year's Melbourne Festival. I found it disappointing, for several reasons: perhaps the major disappointment was its deliberate affectlessness, which amounted almost to cynicism. As I said at the time, "Ibsen's play becomes a scathing miniature, a portrait of an emotionally numbed, intellectually trivial bourgeoisie... Hedda and the gang are symbols merely, flattened-out representations of the conscious heartlessness of the middle classes, absorbed in their trivial pursuits as they turn their faces from the blood on the walls." What bothered me was that there was nothing at stake.
Here again Ostermeier is concerned with the middle classes - as Jana Perkovic observes, in her must-read response to the Berlin production, he is quintessentially a director of and for the middle classes. But this production cuts much deeper than easy caricacture. It revitalises naturalism, pulling on its original power to implicate its audience in self-recognition. In Hedda Gabler, this for me came close to avant garde David Williamson: in An Enemy of the People, the implication of the audience in the reality on stage was a whole lot more complex and direct. Ostermeier has a cast of exceptional actors, whose detailed performances generate a complex texture of argument: no character, not even the smooth, swift-talking politician, is simply reducible to symbolic moral significance. There is much to say about the production, which is beautifully realised in many ways: but here I want to concentrate on the ideas that animate it.
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Festival Diary #7
Chamber Made Opera's innovative series of Living Room Operas - small-scale opera performances commissioned as site-specific works and performed in private houses - has produced some of the more interesting work I've seen over the past few years. Works such as Daniel Schlusser's Ophelia Doesn't Live Here Any More and Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey's beautifully judged Dwelling Structure opened out and questioned domestic space in fascinating and sometimes disturbing ways; Another Lament, a collaboration with Rawcus, successfully made the difficult transition from domestic space to theatre when it transferred to the Malthouse earlier this year.
|The Minotaur Trilogy: Chamber Made Opera
But relocating a site-specific performance is a tricky and delicate business which materially changes the nature of the work. The Minotaur Trilogy, which premiered as a tripartite work as part of the Melbourne Festival, demonstrates how problematic this can be. I saw the first part of David Young and Margaret Cameron's trilogy, Island, back in 2011, in the living room of a St Kilda Road apartment. Parts two and three, The Labyrinth and The Boats, are extensions of the original idea, here shown together for the first time.
The Minotaur Trilogy is in three parts of 49 minutes each, punctuated by 20 minute intervals, to make a work that lasts for three hours altogether. This makes it, among other things, a durational work: the audience is asked to spend time with the six performers, and further, to be aware of that time. Durational theatre can be deeply rewarding, but in this case for me it simply became an exercise in impatience. Repetition that plays off variations on minimal themes can pay off in two ways: it can deepen and enrich - perhaps the classic example of this is Bach's Goldberg Variations - or it can deaden and impoverish. Here, sadly, I just felt deadened.
The Melbourne Recital Centre's Salon, an intimate, wood-panelled performance space with near-perfect acoustics, is a very different proposition to a living room. It's a much larger space, for a start, and it mercilessly exposes everything: music, performance, design, choreography. In a living room, with the performers less than three feet away, the domestic context gave Part 1, Island, a playful, improvised quality that infused the performances with a certain humility: the found nature of the props and costumes - hats made from pencil cases and handbags, worn bits of driftwood - was foregrounded, and the sense of discovering ritual and myth within the ordinary and everyday was palpable. Performed in the round, with a new distance not only between the performers but between the performers and the audience, these qualities melted away, leaving in their wake an uncomfortable sense of archness.
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SCLG2604 - Social Inequality in Australia
Summer Main, 2012 | Credit Points: 6
Coordinator: Alec Pemberton
This unit examines sociological approaches to social inequality. Questions about social inequality are integral to contemporary notions of equality, citizenship, human rights, social justice and emancipation. A central theme of the unit (and a central preoccupation of sociologists) is ways in which social relations of inequality are shaped, represented, experienced, negotiated and challenged in everyday life. Some important questions for this unit are: How do sociologists understand and explain patterns of inequality? What are the enabling and constraining factors shaping people's 'life chances'? How are social relations of inequality, experienced, challenged and disrupted? Is social inequality an inevitable condition of human existence?
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By Lauren Beale Los Angeles Times
In the market for a hot-water-dispensing refrigerator? That was just one of the innovative and unusual products on display this month at the International Builders' Show in Las Vegas.
The annual event, put on by the National Association of Home Builders, serves as a massive showcase for new ideas and technology for the home.
Here's a roundup of some that are vying for "how did we ever live without it" distinction:
Hot and cold: In one of the notable kitchen offerings, General Electric Co. brings hot water to the refrigerator door. The new line of Cafe French-door models can heat 10 ounces in less than two minutes. Those hoping to save steps to the microwave, though, will have to wait until the doors debut in May.
Shower power: For a high-tech twist on singing in the shower, Kohler Co.'s Moxie shower head and wireless speaker system plays up to seven hours and has a wireless range of 32 feet. Magnets secure the speaker to the shower head, making it easy to pop out when it's time to recharge the lithium ion battery.
Kohler color: Retro sinks' colors got a redo from Kohler. No more avocado or harvest yellow; the new hues, developed by designer Jonathan Adler, include Annapolis Navy, Piccadilly Yellow, Greenwich Green and Palermo Blue.
Skylight's the limit: A skylight that opens using solar power and closes automatically if it senses rain seems like a bright idea. The no-leak, solar-powered Fresh Air skylight by Velux is eligible for a 30 percent federal tax credit.
Lights fantastic: Ever wished for a little more light on the subject? Undercabinet task lighting can be moved around with Halo's track system and magnetic LED pucks from Cooper Lighting.
Tread traction: Glass stairs took another step toward practicality with the recent addition of decorative treads by Innovative Building Products. The treads, called ceramic frits, add traction.
Store more: Responding to consumer demand for better-organized homes and storage, ClosetMaid moved out of the bedroom closet. On display were systems for specialized craft rooms, the laundry room and the garage.
Get out: Building pest control into the walls of new homes is an interesting idea. Taexx's Tubes in the Wall built-in pest control system includes scheduled service that can take place while the homeowner is away. This may not have been the sexiest display on the showroom floor, but it did feature a man dressed up as a giant pest.


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Does watching TV do any good to my 3-month-old baby?
Here's something that my husband and I cannot agree about again: Letting our 3-month old baby watch TV.
I don't know but am I the only one who disagrees with this? Well, the baby does seem to actually enjoy watching because his eyes seem fixed on the TV set, especially with animations. My husband is simply fascinated with how the baby just seems to watch without batting an eyelash!
Oh.. but I am afraid that this isn't a good idea. There was one time when the baby has started mewling, which I took as his early indication of hunger. But my husband just thought that it was because the baby was distracted from watching TV when he changed positions in cradling him. In a couple of minutes, my baby burst into tears.
Is there any benefit for the baby to be exposed to TV at such a young age? Or, doesn't it do more harm than good?
My sister said that there's some kind of DVD just showing colors and shapes intended for infants to watch. Would you recommend this?
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Studies are proving high contrast objects can be good for infants to look at, but that doesn't have to be TV. You can purchase a high contrast mobile (black and white images) or you can make one.
Your sister is right in that there are DVDs that show colors and shapes intended to stimulate an infant's brain. But I'll also say that we did not have a TV when my first child was born. She never watched TV during her first year of life... and she has just completed her 2nd year of college with straight A's, she is emotionally stable and is a teacher for infants and toddlers at a child care center.
My personal opinion is the less TV you allow children to watch, the better. If they don't have TV, they will be more inclined to use their imaginations and to engage in social activities with others in the family (having discussions, telling stories, doing things together). When children interact with others they learn important skills like how to work together and how to share.
I believe that children who are introduced to TV early are being taught how to have an appetite for entertainment, and this means that as they grow, they will have a steadily increasing desire to be entertained with bright, shiny, moving objects.
One of the best and most healthy forms of entertainment is books. Teach your children how to read and it will open up the whole world to them.
At 3 months of age, a child can also become overstimulated easily (TV can do this). So I'd encourage you to not sit baby up in front of the TV for now, as it could be overstimulating to them.
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I absolutely agree that it'd be better to just let babies be stimulated in ways other than the TV. I think it's the best time for them to play. Thank you for that added information regarding high-contrast visuals. I love the link you sent me! Thank you for sending this DIY high-contrast mobiles. It's no wonder then that my baby tends to gaze intently at my clothes with stripes or black and white spirals such as the ones in the link.
It's a relief to read your response. I'm going to try your suggestions.
23rd July 2012 08:54 PM #4
I agree with you ladies. Whilst babies and toddlers will get fixated on TV programmes it is better for their emotional and social development if they are being stimulated by: chatting, playing with family and other children, reading (there are a huge number of studies to support the positive lifelong influence of enjoying books e.g. the social benefits of reading to kids), drawing etc depending on the age of the child.
What a wonderful start you are giving your baby!
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HI Everyone,
Congratulations Madysen for having such an intelligent kid. Kids, even infants and toddlers, seem to become such fast learners these days. A 3-month old watching intently on TV is amazing. On the other hand, I do agree with Kate and LJ. I even remember my granny tell my sibs and I about TV: "It is not healthy for kids to watch TV all the time".
Television is one of the many visual stimulants but does not really have a good and productive effect on children. It does make them intelligent or stimulated but the more that they become fixated on it the more they become addicted to it as well.
I tried it on my 3-year old son - making television my baby sitter - so I can do some chores. However, when he started having tantrums and whining because of the want to watch TV, I tole myself that it was not doing both of us good.
There are other ways to make a child become a better and smarter kid aside from TV - socializing with other kids, interacting with parents and siblings, reading books or bedtime stories to kids (as mentioned by LJ), listening to stimulating baby songs are just a few of the many ways to make your kid your little super baby.
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25th July 2012 09:29 PM #6
Thanks for your interesting comments on this MumO'Three.
I have also found that the days when my son has watched programmes on the computer (we don't have a TV as we found we were wasting too much time sitting in front of it) he will often have temper tantrums and become uninterested with the toys he usually likes. Like you, MumO'Three, I see this as a sign that it is far better for him to be stimulated with his building, climbing and colouring.
Best wishes,
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It makes me excited to read your posts.
And it's interesting to know that even reading does contribute to building social skills; TV can't give the same. So, I got a set of picture books for my son. He's not holding his attention that long as he would while watching TV, but it's a start.
Thanks a lot ladies!
26th July 2012 09:49 PM #8
Sounds like you are doing a wonderful job Madysen! Your little boy has a great mum!
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I knew a 1 year old who would spin lids to keep himself entertained. He just got into the cupboard one day and pulled out all the metal lids to his mum's pots, and started spinning them. It was amazing, and as he got older, he would get them all spinning at one time.
I love the way children can entertain themselves with things around the house. I once had a friend walk into my house and she asked where all the toys were. I simply didn't have many toys when my children were younger so people never saw them.


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Winters with low snowfall suck. Winters that start late and end early suck. Six years ago, after seeing these and other affects of climate change firsthand, Jeremy Jones started Protect Our Winters to do something about it. A few of their projects so far: POW has helped educate high school students about climate issues, opposed coal projects, and brought together pro riders to join in the fight. For his work on raising awareness about climate change Jeremy earned himself an invite to the White House on April 11 to receive the Champions Of Change award. When the ceremony was over he presented a letter signed by 75 Olympic medalists and other pros including Terje, Jake Blauvelt, and Mikkel Bang reminding President Obama that winter is getting its ass kicked and action on climate change needs to happen now. The dude never stops. Days before Jeremy was in the Sierra's near his Lake Tahoe home "just riding for myself, staying fit, and exploring." By April 17 he was in Valdez, Alaska doing day treks to nearby peaks and preparing to film for Higher, the final chapter to his Deeper and Further movies, which have inspired a new generation of splitboarders. I caught up with him on the edge of the Valdez harbor that evening where we talked about his experience at the White House and his hopes for the future.
What was it like coming out of the Sierra's and stepping into the world of Washington and the White House?
It was a very bizarre transition going from the mountains to Washington. It's surreal. I definitely found myself in Washington, and I never do this, going "Wow, I'm really surprised that I'm here right now and how did my path lead me to this spot?"
Was it something you ever expected?
I definitely never expected to be in that situation. Since we started Protect Our Winters we've just been getting more and more educated on how best to fight climate change. About four years ago we realized that for real significant change to happen we had to go to Washington. So the reality is we've had to try to influence our elected officials to take climate change seriously.
Were you nervous up there getting the award?
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What's been your biggest success with POW?
This is our third time to Washington and I think that this trip was our biggest success. We got to deal with the executive branch of the government and say to them, "Hey climate change is really serious. We appreciate everything you've been doing and we want to get serious about this situation."
Obviously it takes a fair amount of fossil fuels to travel around the world and film. How do you continue to do that and reduce your impact on the environment?
For starters I really try to lessen my impact on the environment in all aspects of my life including my snowboarding. I've for sure been on that trend. But I also think we need to be realistic. We've come up in this society that's hooked on fossil fuels and we can't just expect everyone to cut themselves off and live in a tree. Ideally people learn to live a smarter, cleaner life, but continue living their life. If you look at it in say five year chunks, we're making advancements on cleaner living but we have a lot more we need to do and that's what our focus is with POW. But I'd say the answer isn't "Hey stop, live in a tree and eat nuts and don't ever drive your car." That's an unrealistic ask.
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Seth: Hey sorry to interrupt, my name's Seth, Valdez local, and I grew up watching your videos. I've just been trying to get up and ride higher and gnarlier stuff and you're responsible for a lot of it.
Jeremy: Cool dude, well you live in the right place for it.
S: Yeah man I saw snowboarding for the first time at Cordova. After that I came right back here, became a snowboard bum at 21, went to Mt. Hood and bounced around, but the last five years I've been getting after it right here.
J: That was my buddy who rode Cordova, Tom Burt.
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J: I agree.
S: Well Tom Burt probably influenced you and then you and Xavier influenced us and all the other guys down the line.
J: No one has done more impressive things in this range than Tom Burt.
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J: Totally.
S: I just wanted to you know man, you've inspired me for a long time.
J: Good to meet you bro.
[Seth goes back to making some wicked Smoked Salmon Vodka Caesers.]
You've got some fans up here.
[laughs] This is my country for sure.
But yeah, I was going to say that hopefully there are solutions that will let us continue to do what we want to do, maybe a little differently from the past, but without having to live in a tree.
For sure. What's exciting is that solar, wind, clean energy, and sustainable products are happening right now. The solutions are out there. We're really just scratching the surface. I think we should all take a close look at our energy consumption but I don't think we should stop living and seeing the world. At times it seems really slow, but when I look back on where we were five years ago and where we're at today, we've made huge progress. It's just the start. With POW the one area that's the most uplifting for us is when we go into schools and talk about this change. I have a lot hope for this future generation coming up.
So what's next for you?
What's next for me is really immersing myself into the mountains. I'm starting on this next film Higher. When I get into serious snowboarding I really unplug and my world becomes the mountains so that's where all my energy and attention goes. I'm looking forward to losing myself in the mountains for a while.


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What is known regarding the "Pulsating Orbs of Light" UFO's showing up worldwide!
The UK Ministry of Defense has revealed regarding these "Pulsating Orbs of Lights" UFO's showing up worldwide right now.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in the UK Air Defence Region
The Ministry of Defence has released this report in response to a Freedom of Information request and we are pleased to now make it available to a wider audience via the MOD Freedom of Information Publication Scheme. Where indicated information is withheld in accordance with Section 26 (Defence), Section 27 (International Relations) and Section 40 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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That Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP or UFO) Exist is indisputable. Credited with the ability to hover, land, take off, accelerate to astonishing velocities and vanish. They can reportedly alter their direction of flight suddenly and clearly can exhibit aerodynamics characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft or missile - either manned or unmanned.
The Conditions for the initial formation and sustaining of what are apparently buoyant charged masses (of Plasma), which can form, separate, merge, hover, climb, dive, and accelerate are not completely understood.
Dependent on a color's temperature and aerosol density, it may be seen visually, either by it self generated plasma color, by reflected light, or silhouette by light blockage and background contrast.
Occasionally and perhaps exceptionally, it seems a field with, undetermined characteristics can exist between certain charged buoyant objects in loose formation, the intervening space between them forms an area, viewed as a shape, often Triangular, from which the reflection of light does not occur. This is a key finding in the attribution of what have frequently been called black "Craft", often triangular and up to hundreds of feet in length.
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Check out this document recently declassified by the UK Ministry Of Defense on Unidentified ]Aerial Phenomenon or UAP's, or as they are called in the US....UFO's
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"The relevance of Plasma and magnetic fields to UAP(UFO) were an unexpected feature of the study"
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- It should be stressed that, despite the recent increase in UAP/UFO events, the probobility of encountering a UAP/UFO remainns very low
- No attempt should be made to out-manoeuvre a UAP/UFO during interception
- At higher altitudes, although the UAP/UFO appear to be benign to civil air-traffic, pilots should be advised to not manoeuvre, other than put the object astern if possible - The UK Ministry of Defence
Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, a leader in Aerospace research has revealed about these "Pulsating Orbs of Light/plasma UFO's"
A pulsating spherical ball of light. The light appears bluish to a yellow green glow. The light it casts is not extremely bright but will cast light on objects immediately surrounding the orb. Typically there is more than 1 orbs gathered. They have the ability to hover and make no noise. There appears to be no physical shape supporting these orbs. A characteristic feature is that they will pulsate their light intensity for a matter of seconds growing extremely bright, and then fading away to nothing as if the object simply vanished. Apparently these have been witnessed during the day but are more visible at night. Have been seen transforming into other animal shapes and is suspected of having the ability to transmorph into the shape of local living animals. Can affect other electrical objects and knocked out the power to the ranch house. Shift between a visible and invisible state as they pulsate on and off.
These are intelligent and purposeful like in nature. I suspect they are some sort of transportation vehicles for another intelligence or the drones for this intelligence. They have a role of observing. They are unique in that they appear almost curious about any humans they come across. They seem to easily detect your presence, and may be influenced by meditative thoughts/requests. I believe their function is to observe, report, and to transport either consciousness, or actual entities within them, as if some form of vessel. This is the most interactive of all the anomalies on the ranch and will pursue and entertain its viewers.
The flash drones (A pulsating spherical ball of light) tend to take on a more interactive role if the observer is alone. The sensation of being hit by one is described as being hit by a high velocity warm water balloon. The after effects of which immediately evaporate away.
Although speculative, the light may only travel in a light-off configuration. When the light is visible, the object appears stationary, however it disappears, only to reappear in a different location. This postulates that the light may possibly be "phasing" in and out from one location to the next.
Artificial or biological like intelligence. Potentially an animal like intelligence. The light radiated is seen in a 180 degree manner and does not cast light behind.
Duration for sightings 1 to 45 minute
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According to Eugene Erlikh, at approximately 6:45pm EST, on Thursday night (April 8, 2010) a private telephone call came into his residence. Eugene answered and the man on the other end assumed to know it was Eugene and called him by name. The man identified himself as a member of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. He did give his name and email that is, in fact, linked to the BAASS.ORG domain name. He asked Eugene a number of questions pertaining to the sightings over Lake Erie. The man then demanded Eugene give up the exact coordinates of the location the lights are appearing. When Eugene questioned the man, he stated he knew the lights were not terrestrial or from this planet and there's big money involved in obtaining that technology.
The host of the Radio show then E-mailed this BAASS Investigator and asked, "Hey, why are you guys calling Egene when Mufon already Stated that these are just Airplanes "Case Closed"?"
This is his actual response.
"In Regards to the Lights over Lake Erie I am not absolutely convinced that they are coming from conventional aircraft. As an investigator I must be completly objective with any UFO's reported which has multiple witnesses. BAASS employees are paid professionals, all the investigators are former law enforcement detectives who have a higher level set of skills and experience. MUFON Takes anyone who pays the money and passes the test and works for free. That does not make them a credible source for information for me to except they're conclusions."
- Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies Investigator
The following is the conclusions from over 25 years of research and after Italian SETI scientists got involved with much more highly sophisticated equipment.
The Portal - The Hessdalen Lights Phenomenon
*The phenomenon is identified as a bright flying object with special characteristics making it unique to science."
*The phenomenon is more complex and diverse than expected, indicating more than 1 single kind of phenomenon."
*The phenomenon is sometimes made up of separate units that may depart and fly away.
*The speed varies from still to 8km per second."
*The phenomenon changes course in speeds indicating no mass by physical means.
*The phenomenon seems to be able to take on pieces of plasma or energy from the ground whilst passing by.
*The phenomenon seems to radiate energy due to the light and frequency change of colour.
*Many interesting spectra in the optical and radio frequency range have been detected but more data is needed to draw proper conclusions.
"These scientific data are quite sensational! We are dealing with a real existing phenomenon which can be observed even though this is difficult." - Terje Toftenes, 2009
UFO researcher/advocate Jim Dilettoso perform "spectral analysis" of video imagery of these exact same Orbs of Light UFO's showing up Worldwide right now.
Jim Dilettoso proved these Ball Of Light/Plasma could not have been produced by a man-made source.
Dilettoso determined the amount of red, green and blue in the various video images and constructed histograms of the data, which were then compared to a database of known light sources such as flares, Lanterns, Planets, FAA lights, Etc.
The Balls of light UFO's do not match up to any known "spectral analysis" histograms of any known light sources, that was the conclusion.
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I find this information released by the UK ministry Of Defense and Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies that these Orbs of Light can basically take on any physical form they desire, biological or otherwise very interesting!
"They have been seen transforming into other animal shapes and is suspected of having the ability to transmorph into the shape of local living animals." - Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies
"Occasionally and perhaps exceptionally, it seems a field with, undetermined characteristics can exist between certain charged buoyant objects in loose formation, the intervening space between them forms an area, viewed as a shape, often Triangular, from which the reflection of light does not occur. This is a key finding in the attribution of what have frequently been called black "Craft", often triangular and up to hundreds of feet in length." - The UK Ministry of Defence
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Brevard College Women's Soccer Opens 2013 Slate Against KingSeptember 4, 2013
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Following a tough 1-15-2 season, Brevard College will kick off the 2013 slate Thursday against King in a mid-week nonconference match in Brevard, N.C. The action will begin at 5 p.m.
• The two teams have only squared off one other time since 2008 when King bested BC, 2-0, exactly a year ago in Bristol, Tenn. The Lady Tornado finished the season with four consecutive shutout losses.
• Last week, Brevard was tabbed to finish 12th in the 2013 preseason coaches' poll in the South Atlantic Conference while defending champion Lenoir Rhyne earned the top spot.
• The Tornados will be led by fifth-year coach Shigeyoshi Shinohara. Shinohara's squad returns 16 players from last season.
• Senior Brittany Webster seeks to continue her outstanding career after claiming the saves leader title in the SAC during the 2012 season. Webster stonewalled 133 shots in 1609:52 minutes while posting consecutive shutouts to start the 2012 campaign. The Stafford, Va. native, recorded double-digit saves on five separate occasions, including a school-record 19 in a 2-0 loss to Young Harris Sept. 11.
• Offensively, sophomore Clair Deese finished second on the team in goals last season with two while pacing the Tornados in shots (14). Junior Lizzie Graham, sophomore Currin Sessions and junior Megan Jenkins each chipped in with a goal. Senior Jamie Bundy tied for the team lead in assists with one while appearing in 15 games with 12 starts. Bundy attempted 11 shots with four landing on target.
• The Tornados welcome 11 new faces to the team including transfers Yuki Soga, Kasi Benskin and Sarah Fonger. Senior Benskin netted a goal with four assists for Erskine College in 2012.
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South Carolina, a state known for its fierce love of history, will be home to a center at the University of South Carolina that will make prominent speakers and scholars available to students and the public.
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In the last decade, history centers have opened at many universities around the country, including two in the South: University of Texas (2007) and Vanderbilt University (2009). The focus of each center varies, from bringing speakers to campus and offering public programs to fostering interaction between scholars and students. Most centers feature annual themes to galvanize interest.
The History Center in USC's College of Arts and Sciences, to be directed by history professor Dr. Lawrence Glickman, will offer a variety of programming for the public and academic activities for scholars and students.
"The History Center will ratchet up the offerings for history-minded scholars at the university and in the community," Glickman said. "Exciting speakers and activities will raise the historical literacy of the history department, the university as a whole and the community."
The History Center will begin the year with two public talks featuring two directors who will discuss the establishment of history centers at their respective universities. A session for questions and discussion will follow both talks.
Dr. Julie Hardwick of the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas will speak at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26, in Gambrell Hall, Room 152. Dr. Gary Gerstle, director of the Vanderbilt History Seminar, will speak at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 13, in Gambrell Hall Room 152.
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On November 4, 2013, about 5:00 p.m., a crash was reported involving two commercial trucks and a passenger vehicle that was lodged underneath a truck tractor in the right hand southbound lane. The three southbound lanes were blocked for four hours as traffic used the inside shoulder to pass the crash scene. The southbound off ramp to Donald/Aurora area was also closed.
Preliminary investigation indicates as traffic was slowing, a 1991 Acura Integra driven by Dustin Campbell, age 26, from Lyons, was southbound in the far right hand lane when it was struck from behind by a commercial truck pulling a semi-trailer driven by Gurpinder Singh, age 27, from Red Bluff, California. The commercial truck rode over the top of the Acura and then rearended a semi-trailer that was traveling in front of the Acura.
Because the Acura was crushed and pinned underneath the commercial truck driven by SINGH, confirmation that the car's occupants was deceased took some time until fire and medical responders were able to get enough access to check the car's passenger compartment. Campbell was pronounced deceased at the scene.
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Good lord is that a football team or what?
They absolutely handled Florida last night.
Are they on a collision course with Ohio State? Another epic SEC v. Big Ten matchup?
I'm hoping neither team stumbles because that could be a hell of a game.
Good lord is that a football team or what?
They absolutely handled Florida last night.
Are they on a collision course with Ohio State? Another epic SEC v. Big Ten matchup?
I'm hoping neither team stumbles because that could be a hell of a game.
Can't stand Saban or the "Tide".
Darn Razorbacks. Could have held on.
Now that we're at it. Darn Volunteers! 13 on the field? Geesh. (Don't like Miles or LSU, either).
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
Oregon has been very impressive.
I think it will be Oregon and Bama.
I think those two plus tOSU could all be underwater. Someone will get their feelings hurt...
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Alabama is pretty dang good. They have a habit of not doing much after they jump out to a lead though. They let off the gas in the second half against Florida, if they would have kept going full throttle it would have been even more of a massacre than it was.
You can say what you want about Saban, but they guy knows how to build winners, and his defenses are usually among the best, if not the best, you are going to find in the college game.
Lot easier to build winners when you bring in 140 scholarship players over a five year period.
That aren't that good, as a Florida fan I get to say that
Oregon's habit of letting teams get a lead before waking up will bite them in the rear at some point.
Go Gators!
I'm still thinking the winner of the Big 12 (Oklahoma or Nebraska) has a shot of taking down Alabama -- or atleast has the best shot. But more than anything, I'm really hoping Ohio State loses. I don't think I could take another crappy OSU National Championship beating.
That hit was plenty fair. Atleast by a quarter of an inch.
-Steve Stone
Until the SEC changes their standards they need to be setup in their own league.
When you can sign 30 guys a year and discard the bad players you have a HUGE advantage. Ohio State and most other schools can't just miss on a player and get rid of him. The margin of error for the southern pro schools is just laughable.
That's not even mentioning the laughable academic standards at most of those schools.
This is the time. The real Reds organization is back.
I think Alabama is a real good football team. However, it's not because of beating Florida or because of the inbreeding that will happen at the expense of slightly overrated SEC teams this year.
That Florida team looked awful the first few weeks of the season. And I'm not convinced they won't lose several more games after this.
But I do think Alabama is a good team, the most complete team in the country right now. They're good defensively, don't make mistakes offensively and control the game. While their secondary is still going to be tested with any team that can pass worth a darn, they're very tough up front (on both sides of the ball).
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October 24, 2013
Iliff on the Road: Idealist Graduate School Fair, Charlotte, NC
Description: Iliff admissions representatives will be hosting a table at the Idealist Graduate School Fair at the Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, NC. Learn about admissions requirements and application deadlines for graduate programs in social change, social work, public policy, nonprofit management, international affairs, public interest law, social entrepreneurship, and many more. Speak with admissions representatives from local, national, and international universities
Come by our table and see all the Iliff has to offer. The fair is free and open to anyone considering graduate school. To see what the Idealist Grad Fair is all about, check out this brief video taken at last year's New York City fair.
Date: Oct. 24, 5-8 p.m.
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SAN FRANCISCO—At its public meeting on July 29, the Judicial Council will consider amending the rules of court to retire use of the name Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) for its staff. Chairs of the council's five internal committees developed the recommendations at the direction of the Chief Justice, to clarify the relation between the council and the staff that supports it by carrying out its policies and directives in service to the council, its advisory bodies, the courts, and the public. The recommendations also include direction to the Administrative Director of the Courts to implement the name change.
The council also will consider several budget-related recommendations for fiscal year 2014–2015 from its Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee, including:
Also on the agenda are two facilities-related items:
The council will hold its public business meeting from 10:30 a.m. to 2:55 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, in the Judicial Council Conference Center, Hiram Johnson State Office Building, Third Floor, Ronald M. George State Office Complex, 455 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco. A live audiocast of the meeting will be on the California Courts website, and the agenda and council reports are posted online.