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It's time for a rodeo: 22nd annual Panaewa Stampede is Feb. 15-16
It's February and that means it's rodeo time in East Hawaii.
And who better to oversee all the events, skilled and scary, than nationally renowned rodeo clown JJ Harrison and announcer Buster Barton.
The fun starts Saturday, Feb. 15, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 16.
"I've traveled literally from the East to the West coasts doing rodeos all over the mainland … and nothing compares to the uniqueness that is the Panaewa Stampede Rodeo," Harrison said. "From its family atmosphere to its dangerous bull events … the fans love it! I have become a huge fan myself of the great Hawaiian cowboys. You don't want to be sitting at home 'cause we don't want to do it without you … but we will." "This year's special spectator event with the bulls will be 'Beach Ball Hula Bulls,' where those brave or crazy enough to 'play' with a bull may win $500," said Nancy Cabral, rodeo secretary. "This hilarious, and often dangerous, escapade entails volunteer spectators (older than 18 years of age and willing to sign a waiver) each standing inside a Hula Hoop in the arena. Holding a rubber beach ball for added protection as the bull is released into the arena, the last person still standing inside their Hula Hoop wins $500."
"Of course, the rodeo will also have traditional events, including bull riding, bronco riding, team roping, barrel racing and a grand opening ceremony with the rodeo queen and her court," Cabral added. "In addition, there will be events only done in Hawaii, such as Po'o Wai U and double mugging."
"Cowboys, cowgirls and keiki from throughout Hawaii, with some contestants from the mainland, will compete for saddles, buckles and money prizes," said Patti Day, 2014 rodeo contact coordinator.
The rodeo takes place at the Panaewa Equestrian Center, off of Highway 11, next to the zoo. Events start at noon Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday.
Presale Tickets are $6 and available from rodeo queen contestants and at Coldwell Banker Day-Lum Properties at 2 Kamehameha Ave. in Hilo. Entrance at the gate is $8. Children 12 years old and younger are free.
Find more information about the rodeo, visit www.hawaiirodeostampede.com.
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McCarthy Building Companies promoted Mike Corso to project director for the company's growing Renewable Energy team within the Southwest division. He has two decades of construction experience.
In this new position, Corso will oversee a diverse portfolio of solar and energy related projects in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. He has been highly successful with forging true collaboration among the owner, design team and subcontractors on a variety of projects, and brings this experience to his new role.
As project director, he will also serve as a liaison between the office and field teams; champion job-site safety efforts and proactively manage project budgets and schedules. He previously served as project manager for the Renewable Energy team on solar projects in Chino Valley, Gila Bend and Hyder.
Corso joined McCarthy in 2003 as an MEP manager where he used the skills he gained working for an electrical subcontractor to ensureMcCarthy projects met the highest standards. In 2006, he was promoted and named the Southwest region's first quality director. He also has the distinction of completing two of the newest project types for the McCarthy team, the Yuma Regional Medical Center Data Center and the APS Cotton Center Solar Station.
"Mike's talents were instrumental in the success of many projects including 4th Avenue Jail, Lake Pleasant Water Treatment Plant and the Mesa South Water Reclamation Plant," said Bo Calbert, president of McCarthy Southwest. "His commitment, integrity and passion for a wide array of McCarthy projects have been integral to our region's success and have earned him this well-deserved promotion."
Corso has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University. He is also a LEED Accredited Professional and a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.

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Recently, Southern Miss alumna, Dr. Sharon Varnado, donated a valuable and treasured guitar to The University of Southern Mississippi School of Music to honor her parents, Mack Sr. and Carolyn Gibbons.
Audrey Kelly began making ties for her family and friends as a sophomore in high school and was ecstatic when her grandfather asked her to sew a bow tie for Dr. Aubrey K. Lucas, sixth president of The University of Southern Mississippi.
With 14 consecutive years of annual giving to the USM Foundation, Kevin Prince proves that the impact you can make on Southern Miss students begins the day you make your first gift—even if it is only $40.23.
A profound appreciation for community service inspired former University of Southern Mississippi Professor Richard Conville and his wife, Mozella, to make a $100,000 gift to the USM Foundation for discretionary support of programs associated with the University's Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE).
University of Southern Mississippi Vice President Emeritus for Student Affairs Joe Paul will return to Southern Miss to assist in raising funds and strengthen support of the University, effective Monday, Oct. 5.
The legacy of Herbert Johnston's lifetime of service to his country will live on through an endowed scholarship established with The University of Southern Mississippi Foundation by his widow Anna Mae McNeece Johnston of Benton, Miss. and family.
A commitment to help elevate The University of Southern Mississippi will remain a guiding force for Stace Mercier as she transitions from interim Executive Director of the USM Foundation to a permanent role as the Foundation's chief officer.
With a gift commitment totaling more than $15,000 to The University of Southern Mississippi Foundation, friends and associates of Doug McQueen have established the Doug McQueen Emerging Leader Scholarship Endowment in his honor. The scholarship will be awarded annually to a rising sophomore or junior who has shown great potential as an emerging campus leader.
Thanks to the support of its generous donors, The University of Southern Mississippi Foundation raised $10,272,475 during the recently concluded fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. The total amount raised includes the face value of planned gifts totaling $3,050,000 and gifts from 1,262 first-time donors.
John Theobald knows how one person can impact another in a positive way. The influence of his own mentors at Southern Miss was the catalyst for John and his wife, Jean, to create a scholarship in the hopes of impacting future students who aspire to become educators. With their gift of $100,000, the Theobalds, who reside in east Tennessee, established the Dr. John and Jean Theobald Scholarship Endowment.
As an illustration of its continued support, HMP Nursing Services, Inc., of Hattiesburg recently made generous gift commitments totaling $125,000 to be used toward the University's Nursing Building Campaign and to endow an academic scholarship.
The University of Southern Mississippi Foundation hosted its annual Black Tie Gala on March 28, 2014, at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Miss.
After counting down the top ten reasons to give to the Southern Miss Gold Rush, The USM Foundation presented the University with a birthday gift of $200,391.90.
Memorial gifts such as Parker's have been an integral part of the USM Foundation's framework since its inception. These gifts – often designated in the form of academic scholarships – provide an enduring way to honor the memory of a loved one.
The students, who attend Alice G. Mulcahy Middle School in Tulare, Calif., were inspired by the story of Hattiesburg, Miss., washerwoman Oseola McCarty, who left the vast majority of her life savings to the USM Foundation for the establishment of a perpetual scholarship.
The University of Southern Mississippi is home to one of the country's top military history programs in the History department's Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. The USM Foundation launched a fundraising campaign In an effort to help the Center reach even loftier heights.
The School of Mass Communication and Journalism was officially welcomed into its new home during a ribbon-cutting ceremony held at the newly-renovated College Hall on the Hattiesburg campus.
A gift commitment of $250,000 will push the USM Foundation's College of Nursing Building Campaign closer to its $8 million goal and honor Dr. Gerry Cadenhead Fletcher, former dean of the College and dedicated supporter of Southern Miss athletics.
Despite a year of transition in both The University of Southern Mississippi's administration and the staff structure of the USM Foundation, the Foundation further enhanced its operations while showing some impressive numbers.


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Vegetarian Black-Bean Chili
Talk about quick comfort -- this half-hour chili satisfies like the best of them, especially when topped with your favorite fixings.
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 2 zucchini (about 1 pound total), halved lengthwise and thinly sliced crosswise
- 2 carrots, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 2 cans (19 ounces each) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen corn kernels, thawed
In a 5-quart Dutch oven or heavy pot, heat oil over medium-high. Add onion and garlic; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until beginning to soften, about 4 minutes.
Add zucchini, carrots, chili powder, and cumin. Cook, stirring occasionally, until carrots are crisp-tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Add beans, tomatoes, corn, and 1 cup water. Simmer until slightly thickened and carrots are soft, 8 to 10 minutes more.
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dorothy_stiles17 JUN, 2017Great recipes, however it would be helpful to have the nutrition information for those on restricted diets. Is this available somewhere on the site?Reply
sharonlgrayg14 JAN, 2017This recipe is quick, easy and delicious. I've made it many times. We're not vegetarian, but my family and I love it! It makes for a terrific savory hearty meal.Reply
MsKris112826 FEB, 2016This is absolutely delicious! I added an extra can of black beans, instead of water - I used vegetable broth (2 cups more if needed) and some cayenne to taste. This is a good dish for vegans and meat eaters :-) Very satisfying .Reply
ChristinaP7 AUG, 2015Love this recipe so much!!! It tastes amazing - the perfect blend of flavors and textures. I like to top it with sharp cheddar and green onions. An easy, simple, no-fail recipe that is fun to make.Reply
MirToni15 OCT, 2014Delicious! Made exactly as directed with one exception - used 1 cup of vegetable stock instead of 1 cup of water. Served with cornbread and cheese for topping. Perfect comfort food for a chilly fall day!Reply
Karen C12 JAN, 2014I thought this recipe was WAY to tomato-y. I had to add another cup of water just to dilute a little. It also needed a lot more cumin and chili powder. I suppose it's edible, but definitely not my favorite veggie chili recipe. Kind of disappointed.Reply
Brittney Rachael24 FEB, 2013Made this last night and it was delicious! I didn't have any zucchini on hand and i subbed veggie broth for water and added some rice. perfect!Reply
britnym22 JAN, 2013This recipe is so good! Even the carnivorous members of my family love it! I have made this many times and I am going to attempt it in the crockpot today.Reply
claudmonica12 DEC, 2012I will be making this once a week! Delicious. A few small changes. Didn't have cumin, carrots or corn in the house. Used a cup of beef broth instead of water. This was one of the yummiest "vegetarian" chilis I have ever made or eaten. Oh and I used 2 cans of seasoned black beans.Reply
chapnurse1 OCT, 2012Delicious ! is there a breakdown of its values ? calorie, carb fat, etc ? I always want to read that before preparing.... thanks so much !Reply


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The number of people who had to turn to Sutton's Foodbank has shot up as Government welfare reforms take effect.
Sutton's Foodbank hands emergency supplies to people who find themselves in urgent need and is supported by the charity the Trussell Trust and churches in the borough.
Latest figures show the number of people who used the foodbank between April 2013 and the end of March this year rose to 2039 from 1257 the previous year and 797 the year before.
Mark Tomlinson said the surge could have been caused by a number of factors and has happened at the same time as Government welfare reforms including to so-called bedroom tax have been implemented.
He said: "Every year we get more people but last year there was a huge rise, particularly during the first few months as welfare reforms came in - we saw a big spike and then it levelled out."
A delay in receiving benefits was cited as the reason for 31 per cent of referrals to Sutton Foodbank last year and benefit changes counted for 16 per cent. Low income accounted for 14 per cent of referrals and debt accounted for 11 per cent.
Mr Tomlinson said a certain amount of the growth will be down to greater awareness of the scheme and work by partner agencies to promote it.
He also said a recent report in the Daily Mail that suggested people who did not need to go to Foodbanks were able to manipulate the system was unhelpful.
He added: "Most people are discerning enough to know not to take what they read in the Daily Mail too seriously.
"By their nature, people who work in Foodbanks are compassionate and they want to help people so there will be people who want to manipulate the system.
"But 60 per cent of the people who come to Sutton Foodbank only come once - that suggests it is being used for crises."
For more information on Sutton Foodbank, visit www.suttonfoodbank.org.uk
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A number of codes that affect neurosurgeons have been added, deleted or changed in CPT 2000. For example, codes for neurostimulator procedures in particular have become more descriptive, which should help to clarify proper billing for vagal nerve stimulators (VNS). Another major change concerns 61795. Previously, this code described an intracranial procedure. Its new expanded definition now encompasses intracranial, extracranial and spinal.
New Wording From CPT 2000
Several code definitions have been altered in CPT 2000 that should interest neurosurgeons.
CPT 2000 defines 22630 as arthrodesis, posterior interbody technique, including laminectomy and/or diskectomy to prepare interspace (other than for decompression), single interspace; lumbar. This is a significant clarification. Until 2000, the CPT definition for 22630 did not include the laminectomy and/or the diskectomy. Consequently, neurosurgeons billed separately for these procedures and faced denials. In the CCI Correct Coding Initiative, however, these procedures were bundled into 22630. The CPT and CCI now agree.
Code 61751 now is defined as stereotactic biopsy, aspiration, or excision, including burr holes(s), for intracranial lesion; with computerized axial tomography and/or magnetic resonance guidance. This code is used for stereotactic brain biopsies and other surgeries performed with neuronavigational equipment. Only CT scans were recognized previously. The addition of magnetic resonance imaging reflects the use of current technology.
CPT 2000 defines 61795 as stereotactic computer assisted volumetric (navigational) procedure, intracranial, extracranial, or spinal (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure). This code has been used strictly for cranial procedures in the past. Now this procedure can be used for observation and location in the extracranial and spinal areas.
Code 61885 is defined as incision and subcutaneous placement of cranial neurostimulator pulse generator or receiver, direct or inductive coupling; with connection to a single electrode array. With the placement of certain neurostimulator pulse generators or receivers there may be a single electrode array or a multiple array required. This code has been defined more strictly in CPT 2000 to indicate use for a single array only, while 61886 has been added for connection to two or more electrode arrays.
Code 62273 is defined in CPT 2000 as injection, epidural, of blood or clot patch. This injection generally is required in the wake of a spinal tap if there is a cerebral spinal fluid leak and headaches result. This code now may be used for any part of the spine, whereas it previously could be used only if the injection occurred in the lumbar region of the spine.
CPT 2000 designates 62280 for injection/infusion of neurolytic substance (e.g., alcohol, phenol, iced saline solutions), with or without other therapeutic substance; subarachnoid. This injection generally is given when the [...]
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The communist government of mainland China wants to suppress it, but we hope people around the world will honor the memory of the students killed in the pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square.
That historic protest 25 years ago on June 4 continues to make the Chinese government nervous. The Guardian newspaper reported that a well-known human rights lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, who was a graduate student participating in the Tiananmen events, has been detained. Arrest without trial is a common tactic of the Chinese government.
The more attention paid to these abuses abroad, the better. Americans in particular continue to value the democratic instincts of the Chinese young people who perished in the military crackdown in Beijing.


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 27/9/2013 (1423 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Clearing up history
I appreciate Don Marks' perspective on the Mount Rushmore monument. That said, his story of the 38 executed Dakota is misleading. The egg "incident" was the starting point for a Dakota uprising in 1862 against the U.S. government because of treaty violations. It was called the U.S.-Dakota War or the Minnesota Massacre, depending on which side you were on.
Over several weeks, hundreds of settlers were killed. Federal troops were diverted from the Civil War to put down the uprising. More than 300 Dakota were tried, but Abraham Lincoln commuted the death sentences of those who had fought against the army. Thirty-eight Dakota implicated in the killing or rape of civilians were executed.
The end result was unfair, because many Dakota who had not participated or who had protected settlers were expelled from Minnesota along with the ones who had taken part. But for Marks to present the whole affair as a squabble over a cow or some eggs is a bit disingenuous.
Don Marks's Sept. 25 column The two faces of Mount Rushmore provides a good short overview of Dakota history. But his account of the events leading up to the 1862 mass hanging of the 38 Dakota, which resulted in our presence in what is now Canada, is incorrect.
Our oral history and much archeological evidence indicates that we were here long before what is now Canada and the United States. The border separated what was once the vast territory of Dakota people.
The history told in books and through Canada's eyes is one-sided and needs to be updated and based on the truth.
Sioux Valley Dakota Nation
Remarkable ignorance
Councillor Mike Pagtakhan demonstrates remarkable ignorance with his statement concerning the poor census response rate: "Statistics Canada has to step up their efforts" (Census picture far from perfect, Sept. 23)
If he was truly concerned with Statistics Canada staff being able to do their work (which they are the best in the world at), he would be asking the Harper government to reinstate the mandatory long-form census. The voluntary national household survey, the replacement to the mandatory long form census, is not an effective tool for them to do so.
This is the same government that recently tried to pass legislation that would give the police warrantless access to your Internet and telephone communications. You provide the government with far more detailed personal information when you fill our your taxes every year, anyway.
Their justification for cancelling the long-form census is pure hypocrisy.
The census results where low-income areas did not register to count reveal the true motive behind the government's cancellation of the mandatory long-form questionnaire, and it had nothing to do with privacy.
A few months before the next federal election, the Harper government will announce that during their tenure, Canadians' standard of living increased, with higher wages and more home ownership, based on the latest statistics. They will attempt to take credit for the increase, even though it will be deceptive, due to the flawed data of low-income areas not being included.
Policy is inevitable
It is understandable that Mary Agnes Welch would write in her Sept. 26 article, Steering clear of assisted suicide, that "most politicians are reluctant to reopen debate" and are "staying clear of assisted suicide."
Assisted suicide is a potential wedge issue for any party. But there is no doubt Canada will eventually have a national policy on assisted suicide.
Over the years, Canadians have faced many once-contentious issues. Among them are woman suffrage, conscription, the abolition of the death penalty, abortion and gay marriage. Hopefully, we are at the brink of decriminalizing the use of marijuana.
Those darn homophones
A homophone jumped out at me from your Sept. 20 story Corny, but it's getting a lot of respect, in which states, "The stocks stretch up to three metres tall."
The word "stock" jumped out at me because, in context of the article, I was expected to read something about grain corn being traded. I had to go back and reread the sentence. It was, however, an interesting article.
Ulterior motives perhaps
Re: Photo-radar tipster nabbed (Sept. 27). What? I thought he was promoting safer driving by encouraging people to slow down. It worked. I slowed down.
Questioning Pat Martin
Re: Give back the money, ethics expert tells MP (Sept. 26). How can a so-called defender of the little guy accept the hard-earned money of union members -- who, in most cases, make a fraction of what an MP does -- to pay off his debt? Is it fair that union members that do not support Martin, his comments, or his party are forced to pay his bills?
Finally, is Martin demonstrating accountability when he accepts money from unions but to date, by his own admission, has not put a dime of his own resources toward paying off his debt?
Perhaps, it is time for Martin -- if he's truly concerned about the little guy, fairness, and accountability -- to do as Duff Conacher advises and return all the money his fund has taken in.


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ECC Leasing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Embraer, has leased four used ERJ135s to South African Airlink to replace some of the airline's oldest Jetstream 41 turboprops in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. Configured in a 37-seat layout and scheduled for placement at South African Airlink's base in Johannesburg by the end of last month, the airplanes–formerly flown by Indianapolis-based Republic Airways–will serve regional routes expected to see marked traffic increases as the games get under way in June.
As of last month SA Airlink flew to more than 25 destinations in Southern Africa with its 13 J41s, five ERJ135s, four BAe 146s and three Avro RJ85s.


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After years of political instability Africa appears to be in the middle of a renaissance, buoyed by China's insatiable demand for resources.
The world's poorest continent already producers about 6 per cent of the globe's copper, a number being tipped to rise.
Soaring copper prices, which are up 30 per cent in four months, are prompting many of them to pour money into the likes of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The two are responsible for roughly 85 per cent of the continent's production.
"Although considered highly prospective for a range of minerals, the African mining industry has historically suffered due to under investment, lack of infrastructure, political instability and weak mining laws," UBS analyst Glyn Lawcock said. "More recent advances in commodity prices and improved political and sovereign risk in several countries has resulted in exploration and mining companies looking further afield for new discoveries and opportunities.
"Africa is now known to host significant deposits of copper, cobalt, iron ore, mineral sands, uranium, gold and diamonds."
Equinox Minerals
With a market capitalisation of $3.8 billion Equinox Minerals is a serious player in the African copper industry. In the past four months Equinox has put on 37 per cent, bolstered by record production figures.
The miner produced 43,835 tonnes of copper from its Lumwana copper mine in Zambia in the second quarter of 2010, its best result to date. Meanwhile, Equinox said it was on track to produce 135,000 tonnes of copper by the end of the year.
An upbeat June quarterly result, when the company recorded a $US73.4 million profit, has also maintained interest in the miner.
Anvil has been producing copper in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2002. So far this month shares in the miner have climbed 12 per cent.
Anvil is now completing a $400 million solvent extraction and electro-winning plant at its Kinsevere project. The plant is forecast to produce 60,000 tonnes of London Metal Exchange grade cathode copper a year. For the June half the miner recorded a net income of $11.6 million.
Discovery Metals
Queensland-based copper and nickel explorer Discovery Metals has two projects in Africa, both in Botswana. In three months the miner has climbed 80 per cent and last week its shares advanced 12.9 per cent.
The miner's Boseto copper project is located close to the well-known and more highly developed Zambian copper belt. Its Dikoloti nickel project is in north-east Botswana.
Discovery Metals reported positive cash flow of $4.82 million for the June quarter and has $39.1 million cash in hand.
Tiger Resources
Listed on both the Australian and Toronto Securities Exchanges Tiger Resources is an emerging copper play. The miner has a series of properties located on the renowned Katanga copper belt in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has secured funding to commence production at its Kipoi Project by early 2011.
The miner expects the project to produce 35,000 tonnes of copper a year. Tiger Resources reported positive cash flow of $7.9 million for the June quarter and has $10.2 million cash in hand.
The Australian Financial Review


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Chris Brown's Baby Mama Was Married When He Knocked Her Up
In probably the least surprising news to come out of this story, Chris Brown's baby mama Nia Gonzalez was married when she let him fire a lottery ticket into her uterus. Which should've been the kid's name, but Royalty works, too. Same message. Radar reports:
"It ain't going to take a rocket science to figure that out. I got a divorce because Nia got pregnant by someone else," Terry Amey told Radar.
Divorce documents obtained by Radar reveal that the Ameys married in January 2003, and "ceased to live together as husband and wife on or about January 2014."
The divorce documents claimed that Nia was "pregnant at the time of filing" but Terry denied paternity and requested a DNA test. She gave birth to her child by Brown that summer.
In the meantime, TMZ reports that Chris Brown had been trying to get Karrueche Tran pregnant for years, but she wasn't having it unless he put a ring on it because clearly she has a death wish. Karrueche Tran wants to die. There's no other way to read this:
Sources close to the couple tell TMZ … Chris and Karrueche had the baby talk frequently for at least the last 2 years — and she was down to have a tiny CB … IF he would make her an honest woman.
We're told KT feels strongly about marriage before kids, and stood her ground with Chris. Although he stepped up with a couple of diamonds last Christmas — he couldn't close the deal … since they weren't engagement rings.
So what was Chris Brown's plan by knocking up this other chick? Just showing up at home one day with a baby going, "Look what I found! Can I keep it?" because, I'm not going to lie, that would probably be the smartest thing he's ever done in his whole life. I'd literally stand up and clap.
Why couldn't I just show the buttcrack on the homepage? We're a nation founded by Puritans. What do you want from me?
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source: FCC
Motorola i9 – finally a pretty iDEN phone!
source: FCC
10 Comments
1. (unregistered)
This is pretty impressive for an iDEN handset!
3. (unregistered)
I second that!
2. (unregistered)
extreamly impressive!! Moto may not be dead after all.
4. n/a (unregistered)
cant wait till it comes out so i can sell da hell out of this phone to the nextel users!!!!!!!!$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
5. (unregistered)
pretty impresive they wedged a iDEN transmitter in that thin thing...
6. Jyakotu (unregistered)
I thought the reason why iDEN headsteads weren't "pretty" was because they're built for toughness. But that is an impressive looking phone if I do say so myself.
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Please make a GSM version... I really don't care for iDEN at all.
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No one really does. Except maybe businesses that use the 2-way extensively... and girls that insists on arguing with there boyfriends over 2-way whether or not you want to hear. heh.
9. SRojas (unregistered)
i wonder when it comes out so i can get rid of this big i580
10. i580guy (unregistered)
Yea, me too. love my i580 just wish it was smaller (thinner)


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For those who are familiar with my writings, you'll know that in May, I liquidated my position in Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI) as I saw lower share prices approaching for a multitude of reasons, which you can read about here. As someone who fully expected that Sirius XM shares would be at multi-year highs at this point, I was taken a bit off guard when the share price began to fall after Liberty Media (LMCA) petitioned the FCC for "de facto" control of Sirius XM.
I've received many questions regarding my price target, as for months I was claiming my personal fair value for Sirius XM shares to be at $2.75. My answer? My current price target is still the same $2.75 it has always been. This is often followed by the question, "then why did you sell?" At which point I link the article above.
You see, I don't think Sirius XM is a bad company. I don't think Pandora (NYSE:P), Spotify, iHeart Radio, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), or the boogeyman are going to suddenly jump out of the shadows and drop an axe into Sirius XM's back and kick it into the grave. I see potential in the company that I feel has had a virtual clamp held around it by the big daddy Liberty Media, which holds veto power and for all intents and purposes, all meaningful control of Sirius XM. I see a flexible platform, Sirius XM 2.0, ready to take on the transition from satellite to IP delivery, in a smooth and uninterrupted fashion. I see a future in the hands of Liberty Media, which I feel will be bright once Liberty's clamp is removed and Sirius XM is under its full control. I'm long Sirius XM in spirit, but just not long Sirius XM with my wallet, for the short term.
Monday's close gave additional confirmation to that. Not much has happened in the last month since I sold. Sirius XM has gone up, and it has gone down, and then it has gone right back up (and down) again, trading in a range from $1.84 up to $2.04 down to Monday's close of $1.815. The problem with the company? Nothing new from a fundamental standpoint. Sirius XM is growing and on track to meet or beat current guidance for the year. A billion in cash by the end of the year, debt being paid down, subscribers, revenue, profit, earnings, all rising. Regardless of these things, Sirius XM is in a technical downtrend and several things are not helping. Again, to understand where I am coming from it will help to read my previous article linked above, as well as my article last week here.
There's something important about Monday's close that should be quite apparent. While lower prices have been seen this year, to find a lower closing price you would have to go back to December of 2011. The close of $1.815 brings about some key technical issues, never mind the psychological impact of the lowest closing price of the year. Consider the following charts.
The first is a point and figure chart, showing basic supply and demand, without the noise of time and volume thrown into the mix.
Take note, there was fairly strong support at $1.83, which has now been broken. Following point and figure analysis, the next price objective is $1.71. To read up on point and figure charting, information is provided at this link here, or you may look up literature by Thomas Dorsey. To view a real time updated chart like the one above feel free to use this link.
The second is a chart that many will be more familiar with. If you'll notice as I wrote last week, there was a "death cross" in the exponential moving averages on June 21st, and this typically precedes a large drop in a stock's share price. This is due partially to the fact that in order for a cross like this to happen, the stock must already be in a bearish downtrend, but also because technical traders use such signals to time their trades, and can cause what is already a problem, to get worse. What appeared to be a brief 3 day rally last week, fizzled out and turned bearish, continuing the current downtrend of lower lows, and lower highs.
Will the current trend continue? My money is on "yes" and that is why I am remaining in cash, waiting for a better re-entry point. Though I am bullish on Sirius XM's longer term prospects, for now I still do not feel that this is the best time to buy back in. I think for now, without some sort of breaking news to halt the decline, or actual moves (not simply intentions to move) by Liberty which take them to full control, I feel the share price will be under pressure. I still feel more comfortable remaining in cash at the moment, but I am watching the share price and the news, as well as the overall markets, very closely.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, but may initiate a long position in SIRI, LMCA over the next 72 hours.


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juli carson Artforum-ism, or the Mythical Andy Warhol *
"Interdisciplinarity," that line of inquiry involving two or more academic, scientific, or artistic disciplines, has recently come to be confused with what we call "cultural studies." The conflation of the two has produced a problematic notion of interdisciplinarity: that which lacks, of all things, a discipline. While the conservative right1 seeks to impose a mandate in academia against any critical cultural analysis (represented by the projects of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, or Theodor Adorno, and more recently by the projects of Slavov Zizek and Judith Butler), there are those scholars and advocates who pendulously swing towards the opposite mandate which seeks to collapse all disciplines into the spendthrift pastiche known as "popular" and/or "cultural studies." Indeed, the investigation of popular culture within "high" art has had a rich history in post-war American culture, most notably in the work initiated by Andy Warhol. However, those advocates of a generalized cultural theory fail to continue this investigation; rather, like the American university of late, they merely capitalize on it. I will argue in this paper that Artforum, the leading American magazine on contemporary art, is indicative of this trend. My critique of this magazine is intended to illuminate how particular themes, artists, and critical practices are promoted or elided in contemporary discourse based upon fluctuating editorial policies which are chiasmatically related to the promotion or elision of contemporary discourse within the academic realm.
Mickey Mouse, Andy Warhol, and Artforum
The art critic Barbara Rose made an extraordinary comment about Artforum's editorial policy in 1984 that perfectly sets the stage for a discussion of the magazine's current dilemma:
At Artforum in the sixties and seventies...[w]e felt that we had to make a distinction between Mickey Mouse and Henry James. There's a generation now that feels you don't have to make that distinction. Mickey Mouse, Henry James, Marcel Duchamp, Talking Heads, Mozart, "Amadeus" - it's all going on at the same time....For that, you have Andy Warhol to thank.2
It is true. It could be said that Artforum, as that Warholian subject, "never falls apart" because it "does not fall together." Certainly, there are many connections to be made between the leading artist of Pop and today's Artforum: the magazine's recent preference for the interview format; the over-valuation of-- if not total obsession with-- fashion; the apparent disregard for disciplinary boundaries, not to mention the naughty flaunting of the "low" within "high" culture. While the Artforum of the eighties wrote on the notion of fashion, it now blithely embraces the supermodel. And if these connections were to be dismissed as too general, one need only look to Jeffery Slonim's column in the December 1994 issue of Artforum, nearly a decade after Rose made her accusations in the pages of New Yorker magazine. Flipping through the issue, one is confronted with a two page photo-spread of over one hundred Mickey Mouse dolls of varying shapes and sizes all placed on a shelf, smiling and staring out at the reader in a menacing fashion. And the topic? "Consummate Consumption," a column featuring short statements by contemporary artists who compulsively collect material from popular culture in the manner of Andy Warhol. Hence, apropos of Rose's statement, Mickey Mouse and Andy Warhol are indeed to be found together in the pages of Artforum , only a few articles away from an interview by John Rajchman on the architect Rem Koolhaus.
However, what is most striking about Rose's commentary is not that it tarnishes the integrity of Artforum's editorial policy. More important, it hypostatizes a particular interpretation of Warhol. That is to say, Rose's statement significantly locates what I will call the "myth" of Warhol as that ideological nodal point around which Artforum's conception of interdisciplinarity coalesces. In the "myth" of Warhol, present today in magazines like Artforum, the artist stands as a unitary figure that mirrors the presumed progeny of his legacy: the field of cultural studies where too often the disciplines of photography, film, painting, sculpture, design, fashion, and literature are emptied of their historical currency, thrown onto an allegorical pile, and made into pure linguistic form. They are, as Roland Barthes says, "...however different at the start...reduced to a pure signifying function as soon as they are caught by myth. Myth sees in them only the same raw material; their unity is that they all come down to the status of a mere language."3 This mythological language asserts that the signifiers of Mickey Mouse, Duchamp, Henry James, and the American supermodel can be lumped together in the name of "Warhol," for it is a system that privileges the final term of the semiological chain which retroactively re-defines the first term. Such a leveling gesture transforms meaning into form and we are left with myth - the function of which is to tenaciously hold firm against the sliding of the signifying chain. For if the signifier were allowed to slide, the myth would expose itself: Warhol would be left behind and Artforum's "belle du jour" would be left standing alone, incongruently, next to Rem Koolhaus.
So let us look closer at this "first term," as it is precisely what Artforum does not look at in their use of Warhol as an imaginary cultural icon,4 and it is here that they are led astray. What Rose, as well as Artforum, can't see amidst the blinding glare of Pop art's camp is that Warhol was deeply interested in what Barthes called "that old thing called art"5 though it ("high" art) was not always as interested in him. Hence the "who" (Warhol) that was interested in art takes precedence over the "what" (Warhol's art) that was produced, and that becomes the meaning of the work. Consequently, a silkscreen of Marilyn Monroe, is just that: a picture of a movie star. Warhol eventually became metonymically connected to the star icon outside of any disciplinary concerns. Subsequently, the question for Rose and other conservatives became: "What does that have to do with 'high' art?" The Artforum of the nineties, colluding with the same myth of Warhol, answers: "Nothing, that's the point!" What Rose, as that fetishist of "high" art, and Artforum , as that fetishist of "low" culture, therefore have in common is their insistence on maintaining the positions of high/low under the banner of an artist who problematized their very economy in the market place. Hence, we get the contrast between Rose who offers statements like:
[Artforum] in the sixties had a coherence, which the culture had at that point, too. There was then such a thing as a core curriculum, there was such a thing as liberal arts, humanistic education, there was such a thing as a thorough art-history eduction....We were literary people - academic literary people. We didn't watch television... And we didn't like junk. There wasn't this horrible leveling, where everything is as important as everything else. There was a sense of the hierarchy of values.6
and Rhonda Lieberman, the fashion columnist for Artforum, who facetiously explains her core curriculum in 1994:
Some of my students were puzzled why we were taking this field trip to [the talk show] Jenny Jones. One had the cheek to inquire of me, the authority figure, "What does this have to do with art? "Cultural context, honey," I patiently responded, "It's about how people represent themselves," making a mental note to flunk her. Any student who made an intervention on camera, on the other hand, was guaranteed extra credit.7
It was across these polar economies that Warhol's art waged it's intervention (as did the Artforum of earlier decades), staging the quintessential paradox of modern art in the fifties and early sixties: that the American avant-garde was created and sustained vis-a-vis its popularization within mass culture, the latter of which would subsequently lead to the demise of the avant-garde's very premises. It was in this crux of modernism, between the department store and the art museum, that the everyday camp icons of Pop should be placed.8 While Warhol's art had an expository relation towards the sexual and cultural economies of modernism, Artforum's position towards the same today is based upon myth. I am speaking here of that mythological interpretation of Warhol's legacy which legitimates itself through the myth of postmodern pastiche, the "anything goes" approach to visual culture.
Artforum's Myth: A Brief Genealogy
The myth of postmodern pastiche, often invoked in the name of Warhol, had its roots in the American art market of the eighties. It was in 1980 that Artforum, under the direction of Ingrid Sischy, changed its editorial policy, rejecting (amidst severe budgetary concerns) the focus that the magazine had previously given to postminimalism and conceptualism during the seventies. Instead Sischy made the deliberate decision to embrace the European neoexpressionist painting of such artists as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, and Julian Schnabel.9 Yet at the same moment as this editorial decision, Richard Serra was engaged in his Tilted Arc controversy, Hans Haacke was mounting his retrospective exhibition Business As Usual , and the New Museum's Difference: On Representation and Sexuality and Damaged Goods exhibitions were furthering conceptualist and postminimalist concerns into the domain of the "other" postmodernism: that of institutional critique and deconstructionist reevaluations of the subject. While the poet Rene Ricard was lyrically promoting expressionist paintings at Artforum, Andrea Fraser was performing her docent tours of museum collections, augmenting the seventies institutional critique to incorporate psychoanalytical concerns developed by recent feminist theory. None of these artists, however, were included in Sischy's project. Critical debate in Artforum was limited primarily to the likes of Thomas McEvilley, best known for his critique of William Rubin's and Kirk Varnedoe's primitivism show at the Museum of Modern Art, published in November, 1984. The overall editorial attitude of the magazine was to temper its critique of the lucrative gallery system, such that even the contentious McEvilley would be tamed into complacent collusion with a New York art market whose "junk bond" approach to reactionary expressionist painting would result in the great art crash at the decade's closure. McEvilley recalls his conversion towards Sischy's way of thought:
[Sischy] has gone far beyond what I see as the naive hostility of the old regime to the art market - a hostility that I myself used to share, I should add...Ingrid has pointed out to me very intelligently that in the past fifteen years, as the major New York museums have withdrawn from what is happening in art, serious dealers have become terribly important. They are the people who nurture contemporary art and bring it to us.10
In contrast to the magazine's prior editorial policy of aggressively criticizing the gallery system (under John Coplan's leadership in the seventies), the Artforum of the eighties sought the dealer's approval as patron saint. And these patrons had no problem with the "commercialization" of painting, pop, or anything else. Commercialization was, in fact, the point.
In retrospect we can see that the seeds for today's Artforum, which coalesce around a commercialized myth of an anti-intellectual pop art, were planted under Sischy's editorship. Her showcasing of "outsider" writings by the marginal ex-Warhol undergrounder Rene Ricard was such a paradigmatic intervention that the critic Carter Ratcliff would later reflect on Sischy's encouragement to be "more direct and more responsible" to what he felt about a given subject and "less responsible to some standard of rationality." Ratcliff's more thoroughly researched essays on Frank Stella, for example, were published in Art in America, while his essay on Warhol, in which he "felt freer to simply make assertions, or argue from an attitude...as opposed to substantiating everything in a responsible manner," was published in Artforum.11 This brings us to 1997 and the magazine we have on our hands today. There is, however, a significant change. Next to the new fashion, design, rock, film and cyberspace columns, all of which are presented in an easily digestible format for the theory-intolerant, are articles by those "neo avant-gardist" editors and critics of the seventies absent under Sischy's reign, most notably Rosalind Krauss herself who had claimed in 1986 that the magazine was completely unreadable.12 And with Krauss others return, whose writings we have come to know from Krauss' own journal October, the very publication that she had left her post at Artforum to found in the mid seventies. Far from being merely corrective of the exclusions made under Sischy, there is something troublesome about this development. While these new articles don't suffer the malnutrition that Ratcliff had alluded to earlier, they nevertheless take on a simulacral affect in the pages of a magazine which brackets them between even more chatty interviews on Warhol's body of work (emphasis here on body ) and the intolerably superficial meandering of columnists such as Leiberman whose main topics are supermodels and talk show hosts. On a flattened playing field, whereupon the manufacturing of culture is left egregiously uninvestigated, the articles of Krauss et. al. involuntarily play "high" to Leiberman's "low." Artforum blithely has something for everybody, it seems to announce, and if we were worried in the eighties about the commodification of theory, it tells us to worry no more. It's over and done with. We've survived the crash and we're in business again.
The Hipness of Theory
In the nineties, then, the "hipster" art critic enters the scene, contrasting dramatically with the critical discourse of the sixties and seventies (and with what Sischy overlooked in the eighties, for that matter). Rosalind Krauss's "Sense and Sensibility: Reflections on Post '60s Sculpture," published by Artforum in 1973, exemplified a mode of interdisciplinarity missing from the brand of cultural studies that the magazine showcases today. Krauss in her own words was "attempting to show how a problem that has a long history within philosophic argument begins to intersect with a certain kind of esthetic thought."13 Krauss was referring to phenomenology's relation to minimalism in a challenge to the historical models of authorship which had dominated art making and intellectual discourse since the New York School's inception. Twenty years later (February 1994) Artforum publishes an article by Glenn O'Brien on the American artist collaborative Art Club 2000, whose work at the time primarily consisted of the group posing together in mock Gap advertisements. Interdisciplinarity here served to combine various elements from popular culture, (popular music, television, fashion, and advertising) without any intersection between, as Krauss put it, esthetic and philosophic arguments. And if the work of Hans Haacke, along with other conceptualists of the seventies such as Dan Grahm, had extended the project of minimalism towards an analysis of a given institutional framework, Art Club 2000 sought to continue the critique waged by Hans Haacke et. al. with a "hipper" edge. O'Brien put it this way:
Art Club 2000's freewheeling corporate investigation combines the elegant muckraking of Hans Haacke with a groovy Pop art sensibility. It makes fun. And if artists aren't going to make fun of artily positioned institutions, who's going to do it?14
As to their lack of any theoretical rigor or political commentary, O'Brien concludes that such ambiguity towards institutions is indeed their strongest point:
Perhaps the most successful aspect of their Gap investigation was their rigorous exploitation of ambiguity. It would have been easy for the group to fall into the gap of faux-Marxist pouting often practiced by Comme des Garcons-wearing semioticians. Instead they presented the problem of the Gap with an honest ambivalence that would well serve anyone involved in creative criticism.15 [my emphasis]
Art Club 2000, whose brief fifteen minutes of fame has since faded,16 was perfectly suited for the pages of a nineties Artforum which views interdisciplinarity as the mere erasure of boundaries between distinct fields of intellectual discourse rather than the investigation of their intersection through a given concept or history. Hence, Artforum as well as Art Club 2000, lives by the tautology of fashion as art as fashion. The magazine not only writes on fashion. The artist to be in fashion thus makes work on fashion. And seeing as this is the fashion, fashion itself becomes the mixed metaphor for the work's referent: Art Club 2000, colliding with the fashion institution they "deconstruct," wears Gap clothing with a sly, "progressive," wink. Faux-Marxists, on the other hand, wear Comme des Garcon with a passé pout. Consequently, the paradigm is created for a "what's in and what's out" of fashion intellectually. In Artforum speak, Silvia Kolbowski is "out," while Matthew Barney is "in."
With the recent return of Krauss and the other "neo avant-gardists" to the magazine, there is indeed a continuity of authorship between the Artforum of the sixties and the nineties, though there is neither a continuation nor a re-thinking of Krauss's notion of interdisciplinarity. Today, rather than return to this project in order to address that which remains unquestioned, it is the fashion to drop such investigations altogether in favor of further positing a given subject's coherence (the deconstruction of which was initiated by the avant-garde) in an endless litany of popular contexts. Hence we get Rhonda Leiberman posing on the fashion runway, Art Group 2000 posing at the Gap, or Matthew Barney posing as a satyr in the back seat of a limo. And while Artforum concerns itself with such posing, important work is being done elsewhere that radically questions the very terms of the "pose," be it within popular culture or within sexual, racial, or ethnic definitions of community. The latter project enriches its discipline, be it art or literature, with such critical investigations; Artforum merely capitalizes on interdisciplinarity as fashion.
Articles such as O'Brien's beg the question of the importance of Artforum's editorial policy and whether the magazine merits such attention given its content. I would argue that we must consider Artforum's editorial policy, particularly the manner in which it interacts with what has come to be known in American intellectual discourse as "cultural studies." While contemporary art production, and the critical "new art history" that accompanies it, can not be thought of outside the development of cultural studies, there nevertheless have been important critiques of this new "discipline's" institutionalization within academia. One need not advocate the purification of disciplines in order to warn against the possible leveling affect of cultural studies whereby disciplines are emptied of their currency and investigated as equally exchangeable signifiers. With such an approach, any number of artifacts (e.g., a film, a painting, a video screen, or a building) are lumped together under the term "culture" without investigating their specific, though overlapping, genealogies. That is to say, their specific economic histories, theoretical and aesthetic constructions, and formal strategies - the intersection of which is, ironically, the interest of interdisciplinary studies - are overlooked. Furthermore, such an approach to the artifact not only facilitates the down-scaling of academic departments within the American university but also contributes to the de-skilling of its scholars.17 Between the pendulous swing away from the "core curriculum" of Rose and towards what Rajchman has criticized as "the lightness of theory,"18 the real baby of cultural studies is dropped. With such a drop, the disciplinary rigor of such gay interventionist projects as Vito Russo's The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies subsequently go unnoticed.19 Russo knew that there were archives in which thousands of reels of film sat on shelves awaiting the scholar's attention such that his work would not only have a lateral currency within cultural discourse, but it would also wage a genealogical and deconstructive critique of the medium of film itself. There was, in other words, both a move between sites of culture and a linguistic move within the given discipline of study. For cultural studies to have any critical agency, both these moves are necessary. Two moves, however, take more time and money than one.
In many ways Artforum's editorial policy can be seen as mirroring the myopic position American universities threaten to take regarding cultural theory. One might even argue that there is a chiasmatic relation between Artforum and the academy, as its editorial approach is both a symptom of recent failures within cultural studies and an active agent of its continued failure. This brings us back to Warhol who, if nothing else, understood the chiasmatic relationship between mass and "high" culture. Regardless of how many times Warhol's face or name is appropriated in its pages, however, Artforum doesn't continue his investigation of culture. The continuation of Warhol's project, as distinct from the commodification of its terms, would have to take into account the medium in which commodification itself takes place. Which is to say, any continuation of Warhol's project would have to address the market value of cultural theory within the given economy that it is being sold. For Artforum, this directs us to the magazine itself with its physical and discursive layout.
Like many other contemporary magazines such as Mondo 2000 and Wired, Artforum mimics the hyper-text format of the internet whereby one clicks various icons,"surfing" the net, until they find what they want to read or see. The Artforum of the nineties seems to desire the interactiveness of the net, the "reader friendliness" of its approach, and most importantly its vast appeal to the widest most diverse audience. However, there is something flawed here. Unlike the net, there is no "scroll" command, no possibility of infinite regress on a given subject, no depth, no ostensible behind. Rather there is only the high-gloss sheen of the page upon which cultural icons exchange parting glances prior to their consumption. As in the American university, the move favored by Artforum is exclusively a lateral one between disciplines as opposed to a temporal move within them. We could argue that this unitary site parallels Marx's space of transitory commodification. In doing so, we realize that any notion of an interventionist cultural studies, therefore, has to take into account the site of its own commodification. It must cut across the axis that this solitary "between space" denies. Today, this denial can be located not only in the halls of the American university, but in the very pages of cultural theory's own darling, Artforum. Should Artforum take a more critical look at the project of its own imaginary mentor, Andy Warhol, this denial would be harder to sustain.
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Made in support of the second single off his latest album 'Looking 4 Myself', the clip mixes footage of Big Tyme performing on a stage and a girl floating on water.
Hot on heels of "Looking 4 Myself" June 8 release, Usher debuted a music video for a new single off his latest studio installment. In the visuals, the R&B singer is featured singing and busting his moves on a stage. In between the performance footage, a girl is seen floating on water before the "U Got It Bad" hitmaker dances with another woman.
The Max Martin and Shellback-produced song was premiered on April 26. It debuted at No. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 32 on the Billboard Pop chart due to strong radio play. As for the supporting clip, it was filmed under the direction of BBGun during one of Big Tyme's gigs in the off-Broadway show "Fuerza Bruta" last April.
The 33-year-old musician/actor recently shared that he hoped "Scream" would be the song of the summer. "It's intended to be that, but I don't think that was the only thing," he told MTV. "We thought about live performance, we thought about mixing and matching and also giving people an energy that only [producer Max Martin] would be able to create."
He additionally wanted the single to do more than getting people on the dance floor. "If I'm gonna move you, I want to move you. I hope that it could be something that could be life-changing," he gushed. "You may be going through something real crazy, who knows, and just need to get out and just enjoy yourself. So I always think about the club, I always think about that song that will be able to let you out of that slump, if you're in it."
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|Monkey D. Luffy
|Deviant Art
|Monkey D. Luffy
I am totally awesmistic. I like to draw, I'm still learning though so don't bash me. I love most animes, or at least the ones I've seen.
My favourites are One Peice and Naruto
I'd rather draw than read, and I like playing Children's cardgames with my sister.
My Big sister- KaibaBromantic
Make the pain go away
Cuz I can't wait for tomorrow
Make the pain go away
And take away all my sorrows
It's something I don't understand, something I just can't explain.
A super-power keeps me folding like a crain.
And right before my everything is shoveled down the drain.
You shelter me again and I remain without a stain.
Insane, I've been that way for way too long.
Cuz the pressure for success can drive a man to do wrong.
A brand new being, I sing a brand new song.
I feel like King Kong, Ki Ki Ki King Kong.
Cuz I'm in love with something that I know I'll never have.
I walk the loneliest of paths, sunny, you don't know the half.
You only see me when I laugh, but I have an achilles.
And it kills me to know that you will never know the real me.
It lulls me to sleep and I don't ever wanna wake up.
Not another day where I'm cakin' on this make-up.
I just wanna be be blessed. I just wanna bleed less.
Don't wanna live my life with all these regrets, she says.
Make the pain go away
Cuz I can't wait for tomorrow
Make the pain go away
And take away all my sorrows
Cuz underneath of every single smile that I crack.
There's an emptiness I have and it's always breakin' my back.
The heaviness of nothingness, I don't see the fun in this.
I've never smelled the roses cuz I only know what running is.
I wanna know who's running this, it's time to shut the show down.
Balls against the wall is the only way I know how.
See how, they leave me here to die until I bleed out.
Til I muster up the mother fu**ing energy to scream out.
Stop now. Please don't. Please help. Dear self.
This is me talkin' to me, as I near hell.
The fire burns, sure as heck. 1 2 Life check.
Livin' like this always makes me like life less.
Tip top of the ? with a rifle, it's stiflin hot.
With my finger on the trigger that I might pull.
Might not, who knows? Blow open a new hole.
unpredictable and crazy that's my tag-team duo.
Make the pain go away
Cuz I can't wait for tomorrow
Make the pain go away
And take away all my sorrows
Cuz one day I'll explode and retire from this long life.
Not another nightmare. Not another long night.
Not another night of walkin' streets until the sky's bright.
Not another day where I'm chasin' after the lime light.
Not another day where I'm afraid I'm gonna blow up.
Go nuts, walk into the bank this is a hold up.
Shoot until a cop fires five into my left side.
And the sherrif has to come and tell my mother, mam your son died.
No I can't let it happen like that.
When life throws a left hook I gotta stick it right back.
I gotta learn to fight back before I read my own memorial.
God already showed me and that isn't how the story goes.
God already told me that I'd be a king one day.
And that's the only reason I try and avoid the gun-play.
The only reason I don't drive the wrong way down a one-way.
Someday my life is gonna change, some day.
Make the pain go away
Cuz I can't wait for tomorrow
Make the pain go away
And take away all my sorrows
Current Residence: The Hiddin Leaf Village
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Favourite genre of music: Rock
Favourite photographer: Cliff Milstead
Favourite style of art: Anime
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Favourite cartoon character: Kakashi Hatake
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John Scherer/Outrage!
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
- Dear Sir or Madam:
- I am General Counsel for Video Professor, Inc. ("Video Professor"), the major producer and direct marketer of computer learning CDs and online computer learning tutorials. Video Professor has been the market leader in the field of computer learning for more than 20 years. It has come to our attention that the content on http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/John_Scherer, a site for which Ethr.Net LLC is the ISP, portrays both Video Professor and its CEO and Founder, John W. Scherer in a false and defamatory light. In addition, we believe several pieces of content on the site infringe on Video Professor's intellectual property rights and are being used in violation of the law.
- The statements made on the website regarding Mr. Scherer are not only false and humiliating, but serve to diminish his reputation and the reputation of Video Professor, Inc. To continue to allow these statements to remain on the site or to continue to be published amounts to reckless conduct on the part of Wikia.
- Video Professor is the owner of the registered trademark, "TRY MY PRODUCT", which it uses extensively to promote its products and services through a variety of channels, including television, print advertising, and the Internet. As a trademark owner, Video Professor, Inc. has an affirmative legal obligation to protect and enforce its trademarks. In order to preserve their value, we must ensure that our trademarks are used only a manner of our choosing. The "TRY MY PRODUCT" trademark is used in a most unwholesome and unsavory context on the site. To protect it from this unwarranted tarnishment, we must demand that it be removed and not be used further in connection with http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/John_Scherer.
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- Nothing in this letter should be construed as a waiver, relinquishment or election of rights or remedies by John W. Scherer or of Video Professor, Inc. Both Video Professor, Inc. and Mr. Scherer expressly reserve all rights and remedies under all applicable laws.
- Sincerely,
- *Jean Robertson*
- General Counsel
- Video Professor, Inc.


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Boulder's Performing Arts Collective Kan'Nal
Boulder, CO – An international phenomenon and hometown favorite, Kan'Nal performs the Boulder Theater Friday, April 20 celebrating the release of Live at the Boulder Theater, its first ever Live DVD. In addition to the DVD, the band is also set to release its new studio album entitled A Myth Magik early this June.
A boundless canvas for its musicians, performers and artists, Live at the Boulder Theater is the first release from Kan'Nal to fully capture the entirety of its vigorous and hypnotic multi-sensual performance. The DVD is culled from live footage from last year's extensive global touring giving an understanding as to how Kan'Nal has been winning over audiences all across the western hemisphere.
Reaching out from a core of tribal psychedelia, Kan'Nal mixes the unconventional elements of Spanish gypsy, Bedouin rhythms and indigenous trance creating an enveloping sound. Beyond the music, the band's live performance features spouting fire and tribal dancing enhanced through a dynamic multimedia presentation that has been winning over critics and fans all over the North American continent.
"Tribal-rock blasts plunge a hand into your chest and grab onto the part of your being that swung from trees a few million years ago. Find another band that does that."
"A spicy, groove-oriented acoustic fusion of Latin and Middle Eastern rhythms that combines elements of spoken word, electronica, new-age and soft metallic drone"
– Westword
Formed through a natural evolution over the course of six years and thousands of miles traveled, the core members of Kan'Nal's tribe came together quite coincidentally through their individual backpacking trips through Central America. Originating in a small Guatemalan town in 2001, group songwriter Tzol met fellow wandering guitarist Tierro. Cut off from the outside world, Lake Atitlan in Guatemala was the perfect spot to work on what would become Kan'Nal's musical foundation.
Tzol and Tierro returned to the same small Guatemalan town almost a year later to the day and met another pair of musicians, bass player Rodolofo and singer Teresita. Developing the communal sound even further the quartet headed back to the states for a small tour where they rounded off the core of the tribe by adding Rodolfo's friend Gilly from San Antonio on drums and Arron from the Yucatan Peninsula as a didgeridoo player/percussionist.
To this day Kan'Nal has sold over 10,000 CDs and performed over 500 concerts including high profile music festivals across the US including Wakarusa, High Sierra, Earthdance, Burning Man and more. International performance highlights include playing the ancient Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, riverside at the jungle palace of Palenque in Mexico and numerous other gigs throughout the core of Central America.
Perform Live DVD Release Party at Boulder Theater Friday, April 20
2032 14th Street | 303-449-9830 | Ages 21+ | 8 PM | $15 | Special Guests TBA
* Every advance ticket purchased through KanNal.org receives one free copy of Live at the Boulder Theater and a free download of A Journey to the Underworld Recorded 10/20/06 In Boulder, CO *
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High-frequency metal detector
October 1, 2008
Capable of detecting miniscule slivers of stainless steel, Lock's MET30+ Waferthin high-frequency metal detector has a compact design to fit tight parameters. It features Lock's ADC software system that provides an onscreen diagnostic tool with graphic technology that helps identify and resolve problem areas and simplify data analysis of metal contamination and product signals.
Lock Inspection Systems, Inc.; 978-829-0228
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Goth Spring + Moody Western = April Anxiety
If you're anything like me (Celeste), April Showers bring on a serious case of the baseless angries. When the only good reason I have for being in a mood is that sometimes I just need to be in a mood for no good reason, I dig into some good alt-country anti-love songs and sulk around in anything black, edgy, and knit. I have to spend a couple weeks in a goth cloud… but I'm just not young enough to be uncomfortable, and too grown up to stay in my PJs.
Woah-man! Sometimes Cel and I are so on the same page it's scary. Kyja here and when Celeste told me the theme of this weeks "Listening to Fashion" blog entry, I was/am totally feeling it! Sure temps are heating up and the world seems full of color, but I have a restless discontent that can only be satiated by beautiful black dresses and some loud sullen folk country. After a decade in this boutique retail game, I can tell you, no one can deal with anxiety properly in any other color than black!! (well, maybe grey :) )
Eve Gravel :: Guyane Dress
Mara Hajjar :: Pendulum Necklace
Listening to : Phosphorescent "Song for Zula"
Annie50 :: Calamity Jane Dress
Emerald Medusa :: Vajra Bracelet
Harlow :: Champagne Crystal 4 strand Necklace
Listening to: Jason Isbell "Different Days"
Raw Earth Wild Sky :: Wisdom Sheath Dress
Sahlia Michelle :: Gunmetal Whisper Necklace
Greaybeard Leather :: 9 Nickel Cuff
Listening To : Gillian Welch "Miss Ohio"
Gina's Mama said:
The blues is what gets you the joy! Your "work" is all in the "doing"….and what a sweet thang you continue doing. Had the other RAD Gal Gina with us last week..she and her dad & brother rocked the Raven…playin' and singin'….tune together: Love Me Like a Man. Black is a wardrobe must Always…i often wish all i had in the closet was Black..white and a touch of red. We may see you NYE. Take care..good work!
Sera said:
Snap on the Goth Mood Celeste and Kyja! Find myself wearing a total black silhouette daily at the moment, here in NZ heading into Autumn.. Its somewhat calming..! :)


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Research industry calls for more transparency on privacy pro
Friday 16 November 2012
Research industry calls for more transparency on privacy protection
Major survey of consumer attitudes on personal data
to be revealed at Conference
Every day, Australians freely give personal information to retailers, banks, health funds, government agencies and countless other organisations, often via the internet but are they aware of what happens to their information?
A major survey of attitudes towards personal data collection and knowledge of how, when and where it might be used shows a majority of people don't understand what becomes of their information or how organisations use it.
Commissioned by the Association of Market and Social Research Organisation (AMSRO) as part of its privacy code review process the exclusive nationwide poll was conducted by Newspoll and surveyed consumer attitudes towards privacy to examine what Australians know and how much they care about data privacy.
The results show that just under ten percent of those questioned claimed they know a lot about how companies and organisations protect their personal information while a quarter claimed they knew nothing about it. Between these extremes, close to two thirds of the population said they knew "a little" about how these organisations protect personal information.
"As researchers, AMSRO members are aware that we hold the privileged position of being allowed into people's lives. We work hard to protect that honour by ensuring that as we collect information, we also protect the confidentiality of participants. As an industry we recognise that the long-term success of research depends on the cooperation of the public.'
"This poll demonstrates that while people might be willing to share their information, there is a need for people to be kept informed about how that data is used. Market and social research works hard to protect personal data. To ensure quality research is not lost to business and government, it's important that government and industry continue to work together to ensure the public understands the protective measures market and social research have in place and the difference between research and other marketing practices" said Hugh Amoyal, President AMSRO.
In addition to gauging how much is known about protection of privacy, the poll also tested community response to questions about providing personal information over the internet.
The findings will be released at the 'Data Privacy, Marketing, Research and the Consumer Conference'. The guest speaker will be the Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim. Other guests will include the N.S.W Privacy Commissioner, Dr Elizabeth Coombs.
Event Details
Date Friday 16th November 2012
Time 3.00 PM – 6.30 PM
Venue Forum Restaurant
The Darlington Centre
City Road, The University of Sydney


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Museum of Architecture
Toyo Ito & Associates
Imabari, Japan
The museum is located on a hilly site overlooking the
Seto Inland Sea in the southwest of Omishima, a small island
blessed with abundant nature with its orange groves and beautiful
The project consists of two buildings named "Steel Hut" for the exhibition of Ito's works and "Silver Hut", a reenactment of his own house for workshop activities and events. "Steel Hut" is situated on the ridge part of a hilly site, "Silver Hut" on the valley part of the land.
Steel Hut
During the early stages of "Steel Hut" the architects generated forms of architecture that were related to the undulating ground. After various studies, the proposal developed into a geometric structure which is independent from its surrounding landscape. Four types of 3m-sided polyhedron modules, which can be freely assembled and closely packed, were used to create this building.
Each unit has two kinds of wall slant angles. Consequently, there are no clear definite planes for ceilings, walls or floors. The space has a centripetal quality that creates an experience similar to being within a sphere.
When visitors move from one room to another, the inclined walls unfold panoramically. This unique quality of the space enables unusual ways of exhibition completely different from the orthodox exhibition space based on a standard grid.
SIlver Hut
"Silver Hut" was constructed on the valley part of the land structurally employing the has the same methodology as the original private house. The arch-like roof made from rhombic frames is bridged over beams placed on concrete pillars set at 3.6m intervals.
In this building, there are three main spaces - an archive space for visitors to review architectural drawings of approximately 90 works of Toyo Ito, an outdoor workshop space and a space with furniture designed by Teruaki Ohashi and used in the original "Silver Hut". The outdoor workshop space with roof is a comfortable place with adequate wind flows, and it can be used not only for workshops with local people but also as a relaxation spot for visitors to freely enjoy and look at the sea.
On the exterior of the museum, there are three pieces of steel architectural models on display as well as a warehouse named "Timber Hut." Visitors can stroll and appreciate them in the garden.
The opening exhibition "A see-worthy vessel", at the "Steel Hut," will be on view through 2011.
Facts about Museum of Architecture
Site Area:
6,295.36 m2
Steel Hut
Building Area: 194.92 m2
Total Floor Area: 168.99 m2
Silver Hut
Building Area: 168.32 m2
Total Floor Area: 188.32 m2
Toyo Ito & Associates
Structural Engineers (Steel Hut):
SSC/ Sasaki Structural Consultants
Structural Engineers (Silver Hut):
Mechanical Engineers:
ES Associates Co., Ltd.,
Ohtaki E&M Consulting Office Co., Ltd.
General contractors:
Taisei Corporation
Photographed by Iwan Baan
Imabari City
Last updated: December 19, 2013
See also
Blog: "Shopping" in Tokyo - Omotesando area
Blog: "Shopping" in Tokyo - part two
Below Ground Level
Digital Hadid - Landscapes in Motion
Eating Architecture