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Retail Therapy Avatar Style Award Winners Are Sillyphat and Loyaljz!
Retail Therapy Avatar Style Award Winners Are Sillyphat and Loyaljz!
We're featuring two superstylish avatar winners this week — sillyphat and loyaljz! Sillyphat, on the left, wore a black tee and cropped blazer with a fun, swingy feathered mini. Her peep-toe wedges and oversize crocodile tote make the look a certified winner.
Here's what she has on:
Skirt: Tory Burch
Blazer: Juicy Couture
Top: Gap
Shoes: Gap
Bag: Chloé
Loyaljz, pictured on the right, looks pretty and polished in a pair of wide-legged dark denim, a petal-pink tank, and a ladylike white coat. She accessorized with a structured handbag and silver aviators — it's a perfect look for work or play.
Here's who makes her pieces:
Pants: 7 For All Mankind
Coat: Juicy Couture
Top: 7 For All Mankind
Ring: Topshop
Bag: Topshop
Congrats sillyphat and loyaljz!
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That's one way to survive a bear attack.
That's one way to survive a bear attack.
That is hilarious.
That's terrible. I had to read it a few times to figure out the story. Anyway, I hope his girlfriend was a liberal Democrat. One less vote for Obama, who will most certainly take your pistol away if he wins a second term. On a more serious note, several years ago, I read that .22LR kills more people than any other bullet. I bought my wife 3 handguns, all .380 ACP: Walther PK380, S&W Bodyguard and a SIG SAUER P238. I loaded her magazines so that every other round is a Hornady Critical Defense. Myself, I prefer larger caliber weapons: Colt Gold Cup M1911A1 .45 Auto, S&W Governor .45LC/.410GA/.45ACP or Ruger Security Six / S&W 19 in .357MAG. I am confident that these weapons can kill anything that endangers me or my family and friends.
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#1: An Over-Hyped Book
Situation: You are in a bookstore when the zombies attack. Over the loudspeakers you hear the military announce that over-hyped books are the zombies' only weakness. What over-hyped book will you chuck at the zombies?
I'm not sure if this book is over-hyped, exactly (the phrase makes me think more of a million-dollar book franchise that's become a household name and spawned a series of badly acted but high budget movies) but it's definitely well-known in the classic novel arena. It's well loved by many, which I find difficult to understand, and held up by some as the perfect stormy romance with the epitome of the tortured hero, which I find even harder to grasp. (In the novel's defense, I don't think that's the meaning of the book at all). I tried to appreciate it and the story it had to tell because sometimes books use unlikable characters and bad situations in a way that works, but I hated nearly every moment of this reading experience. Steam was perpetually coming out of my ears and fists were occasionally clenched. If there was a way to reach through the pages and commit literary murder, I would have strangled Heathcliff before we'd gotten 1/4 of the way through.The only thing that made this book bearable was that it was told from a story-within-a-story format, so I imagined that I was being told a horror story on a cold and dreary night, with wind howling in the distance.
*SPOILER* And also I cheered when Heathcliff died *END OF SPOILER*
#2: A Sequel
Situation: You are caught in a torrential downpour and you're probably the type who melts when you get wet. What sequel are you willing to use as an umbrella to protect yourself?
Yes, I understand there are people who think Laurie and Jo should have ended up together. I do not count among the number. I could write an essay on why the two of them are completely wrong for each other, why Jo made the right decision, and why Professor Bhaer is actually awesome, but I'll save it for another time. I assumed from the beginning that Emily would come to realize that Lousia May Alcott knew what she was doing when she ended the book the way she did. BUT NO. After her experience wrecking havoc throughout 1860s Concord, Emily comes back to our world and writes her paper and explains why she thinks the two of them should end up together and gets a bad grade because, SURPRISE Jo and Laurie *do* end up together because she "fixed" the book while she was in it or something. ??? I'm sorry, the book wasn't broken in the first place. UGH I GET ENRAGED JUST THINKING ABOUT IT.
Situation: You're in English class and your professor won't stop going on about a classic that "revolutionized literature". Personally you think the classic is garbage and you decide to express your opinion by hurling the book at his head. What classic is that?
I slugged through this one either in late middle school or early high school, and I don't remember much of it because I may have been half asleep from boredom. I've heard a lot of Christians don't like Jack London because of his worldview. Is this true? I don't know. I was more turned off due to the fact it was about a dog.
#4: A Least Favorite Book
Situation: You're hanging out at a bookstore (where else would you be?) when global warming somehow manages to to turn the whole world into a frozen wasteland. Naturally, your only hope of survival is to burn a book. Which book would you not regret tossing into the fire?
I am especially bitter about this one because the first couple of chapters are actually well-written and they tricked me into thinking the book was going to be good.
It wasn't.
Supposedly Pride and Prejudice told from the servants point of view, this had the potential of being a really great book. Unfortunately, the original novel's characters were shown in a constantly negative light, it's littered with crude references and a postmodern view of history, and WHY DO YOU HATE ON MY FAV CHARACTERS, JO BAKER? WHY? I was so disgusted with this one that I didn't even finish it.
#5: A Series
Situation: There's a flooded stream you have to cross on your quest and you can't get your feet wet. Which series (oh yeah, btw, you brought your whole bookshelf and also probably the local library with you) will you use as stepping stones?
I didn't know how to answer this question, because generally if a book is bad, why would I read the rest of the series? There are definitely duds in the many series that I've read, but not enough to chuck out the whole lot of them. And I've read plenty of mediocre series that were insipid but not maddening enough to really fit on here.
And then I remembered.
The Austen Project is a series of Austen re-writes by different authors, setting Jane Austen's novels in the present day. A little iffy in concept, I admit, but I was willing to give it a chance. So I read Sense and Sensibility. Nope-ety nope nope nope. From its strange adherence to plot points that didn't work in the modern day and disregard of the moral core of the original, to its unlikable characters and in-your-face inclusion of technology, it was a disaster. I haven' read the other subsequent books in the series, but just from their blurbs and the reviews I've read, I don't think they are any better. The Pride and Prejudice rewrite, Eligible, looks particularly appalling. In our world, apparently modern = steeped in sin. If you believe in ghosts, don't. Because if they truly existed, then Jane Austen would have risen from her grave by now and hit all of these authors with her reticule. Or maybe stabbed them with her pen.
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The player was a rookie, and already the official had enough of him.
"How about you play more than one year in the league before you tell me to f*** off," the official said to the youngster whose whining had worn thin.
And people wonder whether NHL referees treat all players the same?
You can't help but believe there is a hint of truth to the claims by Vancouver's Alex Burrows this week that referee Stephane Auger would keep an eye on him in Monday's game -- or more.
It's impossible to prove whether Auger did or didn't tell Burrows he would get him back for embellishing he was injured in a game last month to draw a major penalty, just like it's impossible to prove Auger did exact revenge with the calls against Burrows this week. But it brings up two valid points.
For starters, officials have to do the impossible, keep their personal feelings out of their whistles the best they can.
Sure, it would be extremely difficult to not let the actions of players -- whether they're known for diving or for being mouthy and disrespectful -- get on their nerves. Just like it would be impossible to not treat skaters differently.
Those who are respectful will get the benefit of the doubt over a player like Burrows. Burrows has to accept it because that will be the case his whole career. It may be even worse now, considering officials are like any other group: Go after one, and you're going after them all.
But you can't have referees exacting revenge with bogus calls, and one of the penalties Auger assessed on Burrows was questionable, at best.
Secondly, players have to cut out the junk. All kinds of people around the hockey world believe the calls going against Burrows are a case of the Canucks agitator reaping what he's sown over the years.
When a referee makes a call and then sees on the replay it was no penalty but a case of diving, they feel embarrassed and angry about it.
Players who are known for constantly yapping or flopping all over the ice make a mockery of the game and need to stop because the antics are getting out of control and difficult to stomach.
One last thing before anybody takes either side in the Burrows/Auger dispute.
Auger was the referee who charged Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan of making a slur against French-Canadians a couple of years ago -- charges which were never founded.
Can't help but wonder how Auger, if he's innocent, feels about having his name dragged through the mud.
Flaming C-notes
One step forward and one step back for Olli Jokinen. The Flames centre did a great job checking Sidney Crosby in Wednesday night's 3-1 loss to the Penguins but also took a penalty which led to the game-winning goal ... Now that Mark Giordano has been stepping up into the play and wisely creating offence, the club could use Jay Bouwmeester doing the same more often ... How can you tell the Flames have lost a couple of games? A steady stream of "trade so-and-so" e-mails and phone calls to the call-in shows ... That said, this club has to be looking for a winger who can add more offence. Wonder if Teemu Selanne would waive his no-trade status? If GM Darryl Sutter believes his squad is loaded with defencemen and defence prospects, he has to consider moving one for a player who can put the puck in the net.
Hockey talky
What's a bigger surprise: Flames defenceman Robyn Regehr has gone 139 games without scoring a goal or Detroit's Nicklas Lidstrom went into last night's clash against Carolina on a 42-game drought? ... Can't help but wonder where Ilya Kovalchuk ends up. The team which could use him and his drawing power is the L.A. Kings. With the talent assembled there already, the soon-to-be-former Atlanta Thrasher would make that squad very much like the Chicago Blackhawks ... Even if he was being flippant, it wasn't in the best interest of Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault to refer to the person -- or people -- involved in using a laser pointer at Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff as "great fans". Had it happened the other way -- and worse yet Roberto Luongo been drilled in the throat by a puck because he was distracted -- Vigneault would have led the lynch mob. Lucky for him, Burrows opened his mouth and made that issue disappear ... The Colorado Avalanche, who sit atop the Northwest Division, have 22 of their final 35 regular-season games at home.
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"We knew this was going to come -- that teams were going to catch up to us. Right now, we're the team looking up and trying to catch those guys. We're in a little different situation, but I think the team has really responded."
-- Detroit's Nicklas Lidstrom on the rivalry between his team and the Chicago Blackhawks.


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By Chris Furguson
Eddie, a grandfather in his 60's from Brawley, waited until midnight at the Brawley Wal-Mart to buy a special toy for his grandson. His son, Junior, would wait until 5 a.m. for a chance at a discount television.
James, a father in his mid-40s from El Centro, spent most of his Thanksgiving night in the cold outside the Best Buy waiting for computer equipment for his home office and gifts for his family. He was one of hundreds that circled the building before the 5 a.m. opening.
Juanita, a 17-year old student in El Centro, spent hours at the Imperial Valley Mall waiting outside the Gap for specials while her parents waited outside the Disney Store.
Stories like these and many others are part of the shopping spree known as "Black Friday" or the day after Thanksgiving. Black Friday is so named because it is usually the day when a store finally turns a profit and, historically, could start using black ink in their ledgers instead of red.
This year, over 212 million customers spent $45 billion during this, the largest Black Friday weekend since 2007 and the first significant increase in shopping since the recent economic collapse.
Many stores had midnight openings, including Wal-Mart, while others opened their doors at 5 a.m. The Imperial Valley Mall had a midnight opening with some stores, including long lines outside Aeropostale and The Disney Store.
Some of the earliest shoppers waited hours, camping out in the cold and wind looking for holiday gifts.
"It's a tradition," said James. "We spend our Thanksgiving warm with our families and our Friday in the cold with the other shoppers."
While the vast majority of customers were simply trying to shop, there were a few incidents involving shoppers across the country:
In Buffalo, New York, a video of a near stampede at a Target that showed several customers almost getting trampled went viral in the early hours of Black Friday. The video would show that, after the fallen customers were helped to their feet in spite of the overeager shoppers, some were grimacing in pain before rushing to find bargains.
A Middletown, New Jersey man was arrested for allegedly assaulting a peace officer when he attempted to cut in line at a Target. Christopher Melchionna, age 28, is alleged to have attempted to cut in line twice, the second time charging into an officer, and refusing to follow instructions which led to his arrest. According to an official statement of the incident, Melchionna was intoxicated at the time.
In Madison, Wisconsin, a 21-year old black woman named Lanissa Lattimore was trying to cut in line at a Toys R Us when confronted by those already in line. When confronted and told to get to the end of the line, Lattimore allegedly threatened to get her gun and start shooting. She was later arrested for disorderly conduct when police arrived and could not find any firearms.
Customers at a Saginaw, Michigan mall saw a small brawl that wound up with seven arrested. All arrested were between the ages of 14 and 21.
In Sacramento, California, pushing and shoving among customers and store security personnel at a Wal-Mart caused local police and store managers to evacuate the store, directing all customers to leave their carts and wait outside until order could be restored.
There were no reported Black Friday deaths this season. Other incidents of Black Friday shopping rage were reported around the country, but most were minor.
In the Imperial Valley, some enthusiasm for early holiday bargains was tempered by a more than two hour wait at the Mexicali-Calexico border. Many critics suggested that the wait could have curtailed an additional 30% increase in sales for local businesses.
Many of the local big retailers were still packed with early morning shoppers, but reports from downtown El Centro paint a mixed picture there. Other downtown areas reported similar results on Friday.
For some, holiday shopping didn't begin until Cyber Monday, when many workers used their office's online connection to do some of their holiday shopping. This year, online bank PayPal said that there was a 25% increase in online traffic through their service compared to 2009.
Websites like Amazon.com, Walmart.com eBay and others posted larger than ever web visits compared to previous years.
It was estimated that almost 107 million sales would be generated on Cyber Monday, as compared to 96 million last year. While the majority of those sales would come from a computer, a growing percentage would come from cell phones, showing the increasing power of the portable devices.
Cyber Monday is expected to generate nearly $22 billion in retail sales.
While Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the holiday season, many retail experts say that excellent deals will be available until December 24th and beyond.
Black Friday Shopping Brings Positive And Negative Aspects
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. – E. Howard & Company has been producing high-grade watches, regulators and marine clocks since its inception in 1842, and today E. Howard & Company clocks have evolved into the Holy Grail of manufacturers among the rapidly burgeoning genre of vintage clock and watch collecting. The firm still exists today, but most of what collectors covet is from the 19th century.
Fontaine's Auction Gallery of Pittsfield, Mass. has become a leader in offering E. Howard & Company clocks at its vintage clocks, and held a three-session cataloged auction on Nov. 20-21 where two new world auction records were set in one transaction when a Howard & Davis astronomical regulator brought $161,000.
It was a new world record price for a Howard & Davis clock at auction, and a new world record price for a drum-top clock at auction. Also in the sale, an E. Howard & Co. #60 astronomical hanging regulator fetched $109,250; an E. Howard & Co. Figure 8 #8 wall clock reached $18,400; a Howard & Davis #1 banjo clock realized $6,613; and an E. Howard & Co. #70 regulator wall clock made $1,955.
Considered on of the most desired of all E. Howard & Co. clocks, though, is the #61 astronomical floor standing regulator. While none were sold at the Nov. 20-21 sale, three examples have been offered by Fontaine's since last year. One garnered $195,500 at a June 2008 event; another brought $189,750 at an auction held in November 2008; and the third commanded $161,000 at a sale held in May of this year.
"It's obvious why the E. Howard & Company clocks and watches fetch such high dollars at auction," said John Fontaine of Fontaine's Auction Gallery. "It's because the company took pride in making only the best timepieces of its era. We have been fortunate to attract several wonderful examples of the E. Howard & Company #61 astronomical floor standing regulators and other models in our sales."
Other clocks that did well at the Nov. 20-21 auction included a French industrial automated locomotive clock ($31,625); an Ansonia #11 pinwheel jeweler's regulator ($22,425); an early French industrial loom timepiece ($18,400); a French conical marble and bronze clock ($18,400); an Aaron Willard Massachusetts shelf clock ($16,100); and a Walter Durfee 9-tube grandfather clock ($15,525).
A Grand Sonnerie Biedermeier lantern clock sold for $13,800; a French figural three-piece clock set of a couple swinging also sold for $13,800); while a carved mahogany grandfather clock with eight bells and eight gongs brought $11,500. Tops among the watches were a Tiffany minute repeater pocket watch ($11,500), a skeletonized Verge Fusee ($9,775) and a Tiffany "Erotic" 18kt hunting cased pocket watch ($4,025).
Vintage clock and watch collectors are a notoriously finicky and discerning bunch. "They come to a sale knowing exactly what they want and how much they want to spend," Fontaine said. "A lot of them know each other, too. It's almost a cliquish society of highly educated, discriminating folks. And what they come for, more times than not, are E. Howard & Company watches and clocks."
The E. Howard Clock Company (its original name) was founded in 1842 by Edward Howard (1813-1904), who had served as an apprentice under the renowned clockmaker Aaron Willard, Jr. In 1842, Mr. Howard teamed up with David P. Davis to manufacture high-grade wall clocks under the name Howard & Davis. The company also made sewing machines, fire engines and precision balances.
The following year, 1843, a third partner, Luther Stephenson, came aboard and the company began making tower clocks. Davis left the firm in 1857 and the company was renamed E. Howard & Company. Howard launched a spinoff watch-making company that same year, and in 1861 the clock and watch businesses were merged into a single entity, The Howard Clock & Watch Company.
That firm lasted only two years. Subsequently, Howard formed a new company, The Howard Watch & Clock Company (transposing clock and watch), in 1863. The firm operated smoothly and successfully for years after that. In 1881, Howard sold his stake in the company and retired, leaving the firm to new management, which continued its founder's tradition of quality and excellence.
It was during this time that E. Howard & Company became renowned for making the very best weight-driven wall clocks and regulators. Many models were stock items, while others were manufactured by special order only. Until 1930, all clocks were produced in Roxbury, Mass., a section of Boston. Later on, the operation was moved to Waltham, Mass.
In 1934, yet another new company—Howard Clock Products—was formed to succeed the earlier firm. By then, clock production was declining, but precision gear-cutting kept the company profitable, especially from government contracts. Production of smaller clocks was phased out altogether by 1958, and the last tower clock was made in 1964. The company barely hung on for the next dozen or so years.
Then, in the mid-1970s, Dana J. Blackwell took over as vice president and enthusiastically revived clock production, reintroducing several of the more popular models to the market. The movements in these clocks maintained the same high standards that had made the predecessors great. Cases were made to strict specifications. As a result, these reproductions were popular among collectors.
In fact, the reproduction E. Howard & Company clocks from the 1970s gained in value over time, since the truly valuable originals from the 19th century were "locked tight" in major collections, especially in the United States. But in 1977, the company was sold and new ownership came in with its own brand and style of management. Many knowledgeable employees were let go and the firm declined.
By 1980, with the firm teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, a company officer was caught in a plot to blow up the factory building. He was tried and convicted, but never served jail time. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and a new manager succeeded in reviving the business.
Returning to the Fontaine's Auction Gallery Nov. 20-21 auction, the vast majority of lots were neither clocks nor watches. Some star lots included a pair of Tiffany Studios dragonfly table lamps ($80,500 and $40,250); a Pairpoint puffy reversed painted apple tree table lamp ($25,875); a carved walnut figural mantle with timepiece ($24,150); and a Tiffany apple blossom table lamp ($23,000).
Other top achievers included an Egyptian Revival marble-top credenza, signed "Allen Bros., Philadelphia" ($24,150); an early Gustav Stickley No. 6 chalet plant stand ($28,750); and a Symphonion No. 192 mahogany music box with bells ($22,425). In all, more than 500 lots changed hands in a sale that grossed just over $2 million. Online bidding was brisk, through Artfact.com, as were phone and absentee bidding.
For more information about this auction or Fontaine's Auction Gallery, call (413) 448-8922, e-mail to email@example.com or visit the Fontaine's Web site.
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The dominant themes in my research and teaching can be found at the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, religion and the state, often in relation to international discourses concerning human rights and violence in a "globalised" world. My current research is looking at the development of an international LGBT human rights agenda, and in particular at the issues of political asylum, gay marriage and lesbian rights, activism and cultural spaces. I also maintain an ongoing interest in women, religion and politics, and women in international relations.
I have been working at the University of Sydney for over two decades, where, apart from my contributions to the European Studies Program, I also teach in the core program of the Bachelor of International and Global Studies and the International and Comparative Literary Studies program.
I have published work on France, including within the EU context, North Africa, Australia, the Philippines, Argentina, Afghanistan and Turkey. My published work includes Hijab and the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarf Debate, and my next book, due out in 2016 (see below), is a follow-up monograph to my co-edited anthology September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives. I am on the international editorial board of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (2016). Among other publications in train, I am co-editing, with Dr Lucia Sorbera of the Department of Arabic Studies, a special issue of the journal Global Discourse on the concept of "legitimacy", to be published in mid-2016, and am contributing two chapters to the reference work Worldwide Perspectives on Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals: Culture, History and Law (ed. Paula Gerber), also to be published in 2016.
Research interests
- Gender, sexual orientation and human rights
- Gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion and the state
- Twentieth century political theories and social movements, esp. antiracist, feminist, LGBT
- The state, nationalism and internationalism, in relation to women, war, globalisation, and ethnicity/cross-cultural issues in a "post-9/11" world
- Feminist theory esp. radical, materialist, transnational feminism
- Women and political participation
Teaching and supervision
- European Studies: European institutions, migration and asylum in the EU, Europe's 'others', student internship program
- International and Global Studies: international institutions, area studies, transnational social movements and the politics of transculturation
- Women, feminism, politics and international relations
- Gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, the state
- Gender, sexual orientation, human rights and political asylum
- Post world-war-II social movements
- Colonisation/decolonisation/postcolonialism
- The politics and theory of race and gender in France
- Francophone Studies: The Maghreb, West Africa, The Caribbean
- 17th Century France
- The ideology of the French Revolution and of the First and Third Republics
- Comparative literature esp. history and theories of the discipline; orientalism in literature and dance; lesbian and gay literature; and literature, culture and politics.
Current projects
- A co-edited international anthology on state approaches to gay marriage
- Three book chapters: on gay rights and the construction of nationalism in the West; on the historical background to current French debates on 'Muslims'; and on the exhibition Au Bazar du Genre, one of the inaugural temporary exhibitions at the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), in Marseilles.
- Lesbian and gay political asylum in the EU: comparative case studies
- Lesbian spaces and cultures and their relationship to lesbian activism
Other Professional Contributions
Research Organisation
- Co-convenor (with Dr Catherine Moir) of the research initiative 'Landmarks in European history'
- Member of organising committee: Competing Visions in the Muslim World: Rebuilding States and Reinvigorating Civil Societies, University of Sydney, 2013
- Co-convenor, Transcultural Mappings: Emerging Issues in Comparative, Transnational and Area Studies?, University of Sydney, April 2010
- Member of organising committee, 17th George Rudé seminar on French history and civilization, University of Sydney, July 2010
- Co-convenor, History, Modernity and the Muslim World between Europe and Asia, Symposium, University of Sydney, September 2008
- Member of organising committee, 2008 conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Sydney, December 2008
- Co-convenor, Homosexual Histories, University of Sydney 2004
- Membre du comité scientifique international. 3ème colloque international de la recherche féministe francophone: "Ruptures, Résistances et Utopies" Toulouse, 17-22 septembre 2002
- Member of organising committee of "Workers Out!", the Second International Conference on Trade Unionism and Homosexuality: University of Sydney Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2002
Invited lectures and seminars
- French materialist feminism, Princeton University, 2014
- LGBT human rights, Toronto University 2014
- 9/11 and women: medium-term impacts, NorthEastern University, USA and York University, Toronto, 2014
- Women, race and politics under the Sarkozy and Hollande presidencies, Alliance Française members evening, Sydney 2012
- Lesbian and gay asylum: Centre d'histoire sociale, Université de Paris I/CNRS, 2011
- Keynote speaker, Brisbane International Feminist Conference, September 2008
- Simone de Beauvoir. Public lecture, University of Sydney Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Key Thinkers lecture series, September 2005
- Howard Falls memorial lecture in French Studies, University of Maryland, 2005
- Panel member, Where were you in 1984? keynote panel, Brisbane Women's Legal Service Conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act, Brisbane, October 2004
- Plenary speaker on violence against women, Pacific regional NGO preparatory conference for the UN ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, co-organised by HREOC, the University of NSW and the Australian National Council for Refugee Women, UNSW, June 2004
- Keynote Speaker, international conference Poverty, Violence and Women's Rights: Setting a Global Agenda, James Cook University,Townsville 3-7 July 2002
- Plenary speaker, international conference "Cinquantenaire du Deuxième sexe de Simone de Beauvoir", Paris, 1999
Awards and honours
2015: Named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques on the French annual honours list
2013: Recipient of a 2013 national Office for Learning and Teaching citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, for 'developing interdisciplinary curricula that extends students intellectually, fosters their creativity and supports student collaborations in cross-cultural programs in humanities and social sciences'
International grants
- Brève histoire contemporaine de l'exil et de l'asile des homosexuels et lesbiennes dans la région parisienne : questions socioculturelles, politiques, juridiquesVille de Paris 'Research in Paris' scheme
PhD and master's project opportunities
Selected grants
- Understanding Europe: 3 x 2cp units (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Winter B, Moir C, Morgan P, Karalis V, Sorbera L, Stott C, Walsh A, Alba A, Rubino A; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.
- Law and Society; Beem B, Crofts T, Hendrischke H, Howard-Wagner D, Humphrey M, Lambourne W, Lee M, Macdonald G, Martin G, O'Brien K, O'Malley P, Park S, Piper N, Scott Bray R, Van Krieken R, Winter B; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.
- Religion, State and Society in the Muslim World; Humphrey M, Phillips S, Rahim L, Sobrera L, Winter B; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.
- Islam & the West; Winter B; RIHSS (Inter-disciplinary research networks and clusters)/RIHSS Internal Research Grant Allocations.
- Womens NGOs, the United Nationa and expanding civil society: a feminist critique, with reference to four UN member countries; Winter B; DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
- Women s NGOs, the United Nations and expanding civil society: a feminist critique, with reference to four UN member countries.; Winter B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- Women, culture and human rights: a study of harmful western and nonwestern cultural practices in France, the UK and Australia; Winter B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grants (LRG).
- Women and the politics of religion and culture in France: A feminist analysis, with reference to three monotheistic cultures; Winter B; DVC Research/Research and Development Scheme: Research and Development (R&D).
Selected publications & creative works
Hijab & the republic: uncovering the French headscarf debate (Syracuse University Press, 2008)
After shock: September 11, 2001: Global feminist perspective (Raincoast Books, 2003)
September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives (Spinifex Press, 2002)


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Migration to Cloud as Real Option: Investment Decision Under Uncertainty
If cloud is so good then why aren't companies using it more? In this paper, the authors look at how companies should make a decision to move some IT services or their IT infrastructure into the cloud. The move may initially look attractive in that it offers cost benefits but there is also considerable uncertainty; not least around security and information stewardship. Within the paper they propose the use of a real option model to help think about when to switch to cloud based on the expected benefits, uncertainties and the value a company puts on money.
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A roadside bomb exploded Thursday as an Israeli army patrol was passing in the Shabaa Farms, a disputed area on the Lebanese-Syrian borders occupied by Israel, Lebanese security sources said.
No group has yet claimed the bombing "which probably inflicted a number of casualties," they told AFP.
Lebanese police said smoke billowed into the sky behind the Israeli army position in Sammaqa in the mountainous Shebaa Farms.
Residents in the nearby village of Kfar Shouba told AFP that they heard machine-gun fire shortly after the explosion and that they saw an Israeli helicopter hovering over the region at low altitude.
The Lebanese Shiite fundamentalist Hizbollah kidnapped three Israeli soldiers in the Shabaa Farms in a guerrilla commando operation on October 7.
Hizbollah spearheaded the guerrilla war until Israel's troop pullout from southern Lebanon in May after 22 years of occupation -- MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (AFP)
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered an unwavering defense Wednesday of the Obama administration's response to the 2012 assaults on U.S. government posts in Benghazi, Libya.
Mrs. Clinton again took responsibility for any security lapses in Benghazi but praised the response from her department and other government agencies.
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As she began her testimony, Mrs. Clinton became visibly emotional as she recalled meeting relatives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans who were killed in the Sept. 11 assault.
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Her appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had valedictory overtones, as she plans to step down once Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) has been confirmed as the new top diplomat.
"It has been one of the greatest honors of my life to lead the men and women of the State Department and USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)," she said.
Read also: What really happened in Benghazi?
After listing a battery of government reactions to the Sept. 11 assault in Libya, she praised the work force of her agency.
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Mrs. Clinton also is scheduled to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the Benghazi attacks.
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Department officials accepted the board's findings and have agreed to enact all 29 recommendations in the report. The department dispatched teams of diplomatic and military officials to assess 19 high-threat posts and recommend security arrangements for each one.
A second investigation, by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, formed the first bipartisan congressional report on the Obama administration's response to the Benghazi attacks.
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A Park Police recruit was killed when the car he was driving struck a tree early Sunday in Upper Marlboro, Md.
Police said Jerrell Lamont Wedge, 24, of Upper Marlboro was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident occurred at Old Marlboro Pike and Maple Shade Lane about 3:30 a.m.
A preliminary investigation indicated speed was a factor in the crash.
Wedge was attending the Prince George's County Police Department's Training Academy as a recruit for the Maryland-National Capital Park Police, Prince George's County Division.
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Choir director Ken Foley made the announcement a week before holiday break that the choir is heading to Spain for the 2014 Spring Break trip.
"[I've considered going] to South America, Brazil or Argentina, or something like that," Foley said. "British Isles was one of the things we thought about. France maybe. Spain we thought would be a good location just because a lot of our students take Spanish and we thought it'd be a neat place to visit."
The choir students will be raising money for their trip through car washes and raffles. Foley enjoys the raffle auction, which sells off a trip to England, because the money the students get from the sale of the raffle tickets go directly into their fund for the trip.
Foley and the Choir Boosters are still finalizing their itinerary. Spain isn't well known for their music so Foley is carefully choosing the song they'll be singing for next year. Plans are being made to tour museums and artists' homes, watch a soccer club train and even take a Flamenco dance class.
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"I had all these vegetables and meat hanging around after Christmas and was trying to come up with a delicious way to use them up and not make it seem like we were eating leftovers. I think I came up with a very delicious way of doing it! Technically I guess you can't really call this a shepherd's pie as there hasn't been a shepherd of a sheep within fifty yards of it, but my oh my, it's sure some good!"
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- 6 small Italian sausages, wrapped in bacon wrapped (chipolatas, leftover cooked)
- 1 small onion, minced
- 1 cup leftover mashed swede
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Subject: Re: [LDR] Handy / Lucile Horsley
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 10:08:16 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Rick,
Lucy Horsely was the librarian at the Wicomico
County public library for years and years. Several
years ago, she donated research material to the Nabb
Research Center at Salisbury State University. We
looked but did not find anything that resembled a
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> I am a descendant of Samuel Handy and Mary Sewall.
> I recently purchased the
> book "Annals and Memorials of the ahandys and their
> Kindred" by Rev. Isaac W.
> K. Handy. In the footnotes of the book, it states:
> "Lucile Horsley's research is included in the first
> chapter of a book
> manuscript on the Handys associated with Salisbury
> and 'Pemberton Hall.' It
> is a superb piece of scholarship which we hope will
> be published at some
> point in the future."
> The Handy book was published in 1992. Does anyone
> know if Lucile Horsley's
> works were ever published?
> Rick Monroe
> Long Beach, CA
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A recent study by researchers from the Cleveland Clinic found that the overall mortality rate in the U.S. for all pediatric patients with rheumatic diseases was not worse than the age and sex-adjusted population. Furthermore, mortality rates were significantly lower than reported in previous studies of rheumatic diseases and conditions that are associated with increased mortality. Details of the study appear in the February issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology.
The Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) estimates that 300,000 children in the U.S. suffer from some form of arthritis or rheumatic disease. According to CARRA, childhood arthritis is the #1 cause of acquired disability in children and is the 6th most common chronic childhood disease.
While rheumatic diseases present well-known risks to health, function, and quality of life, several conditions--juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, childhood systemic lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, various vasculitides, and systemic sclerosis are associated in various studies with a small but significant increase in mortality.
The Cleveland Clinic study team, however, maintains that previous mortality studies were relatively small, reported mortality outcomes only on specific diseases, had a follow up time of less than 10 years, and were mostly conducted prior to the 1990s, when new and improved drug treatments emerged. The team suggests that larger studies may also be flawed because most were based on physician surveys, without strategies to verify response.
To determine the mortality rates, risks, and causes of death associated with pediatric rheumatic diseases in the U.S., the researchers examined the world's largest rheumatology registry, the Pediatric Rheumatology Disease Registry (PRDR), which includes 49,023 patients from 62 centers who were newly diagnosed between 1992 and 2001. Identifiers were matched with the Social Security Death Index censored for March 2005. Death certificates, referring physicians, and medical records confirmed deaths. Causes of death were derived by chart review or from the death certificate.
After excluding patients with malignancy, 110 deaths were identified among 48,885 patients in the PRDR registry. This number was significantly lower than the expected mortality from the age- and sex-adjusted U.S. population especially among 18,111 patients who were followed up for at least 9 years. The standardized mortality ratio was notably greater for systemic lupus erythematosus and dermatomyositis but not for systemic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and was markedly less for pain syndromes. Most of the deceased with inflammatory disease died of their disease or disease complications, while many of the deceased with pain syndromes died of non-natural causes.
"One possible cause of the increased survival in the present study compared with previous studies may be the improved treatment that was introduced in the 1990s, said the lead author of the study Philip Hashkes, M.D., M.Sc. "Since the information in the PRDR was limited, we could not explore in depth for risk factors or early predictors of mortality. This and continued follow-up of this cohort for mortality trends should be investigated in future studies."
This study was funded by the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation.
Article: "Mortality Outcomes in Pediatric Rheumatology in the US." Philip J. Hashkes, Bridget M. Wright, Michael S. Lauer, Sarah E. Worley, Anne S. Tang, Philip A. Roettcher, and Suzanne L. Bowyer. Arthritis & Rheumatism; Published Online: January 28, 2010 (DOI: 10.1002/art.27218); Print Issue Date: February 2010.
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I guess when your film is as epic as Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" trilogy, you're justified in putting out not one, but two scrolling banners. Here's the latest one, which helpfully names all the dwarfs from the upcoming movie based on the J.R.R. Tolkien book. Them's lots of dwarfs! Judging by the sound of their names, though, I get the feeling ol Tolkien didn't really take that long to come up with them. (And oh, Bilbo and Gandalf are there, too, but you already know who they are, right?)
"The Hobbit" follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever… Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities… A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.
Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Rob Kazinsky, Aidan Turner, Peter Hambleton, John Callen, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Adam Brown, Cate Blanchett, Andy Serkis, Elijah Wood, Jeffrey Thomas, Mike Mizrahi, Evangeline Lilly, and directed by Peter Jackson.
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"The point I was trying to draw there is she has her nose in the air and she acts like she's better than everyone else. She went on the show saying she's being Team Real Mean against Team Fake Nice. If you're so real why didn't she tell me to my face that I didn't deserve to breathe the same air as Shayna Baszler, instead of saying it on camera behind my back? It's her arrogance, it's the way she holds herself is the point I was trying to make. It's the way she acts."
After a historic season featuring female fighters alongside male counterparts, two new Ultimate Fighters have been crowned thanks to last night's TUF 18 Finale. The talent on display was solid to an extent, though only spectacular in regards to the performances of eventual champions Julianna Pena and Chris Holdsworth. Both bantamweights spoke about their scraps on FOX Sports' post-event coverage, as did TUF 18 coaches Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate… (Photos by USA Today Sports Images)
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Speaker From Federal Reserve Bank to Lecture at Business SchoolFeb. 4, 2005
By Meghan Bailey
On Monday, February 7, there is a speaker lecturing on "The Impact of Federal Home Loan Bank Advances on the Bank-Insurance Fund." The lecture will be held in Hankamer School of Business in the Graduate Center Executive Conference Room at 3:30 p.m.
The speaker, Mark Vaughan, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond will be speaking to any students wishing to attend.
Vaughan's lecture is titled "Should the FDIC Worry about the FHLB?" The FHLB is the Federal Home Loan Bank. His lecture is based upon his research findings to this question.
Vaughan's research contributes to both academic studies of deposit-insurance premiums and policy debates over deposit-insurance reform. His attempt to answer these questions results in his own model of the impact of the FHLBank advances. He will be sharing all of his findings in his research.
The lecture should be of interest to most business students and graduate students. Any students are welcome to attend the lecture.
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Kansas Man Killed in Nebraska Crash, Sheriff's Office Says
staff - December 26, 2015 5:59 am
Authorities say a Kansas man has been killed in a south-central Nebraska highway crash.
The accident was reported around 5 p.m. Wednesday on Nebraska Highway 78, east of Red Cloud in Webster County.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the Webster County Sheriff's Office identified the victim as 75-year-old George Pfrimmer of Mankato, Kansas.


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Well I finally finished the Christmas Tablerunner for my DS, DDIL and my 3 grandsons. This was a special request from my DDIL for their table for this coming Christmas.
I had the boys in mind and they were the inspiration for the tablerunner. They are little for such a short time and I wanted to make something fun. I know I displayed this before but I had finished the top and not the quilting, So here it is, there are over 250 snowflakes of varying sizes done in red thread. Finished the binding while I was there.
I made my yearly trip to NY to see the family and gave it to them when I got there. Everyone loved it so that made me happy. I told them to take a picture when the decorate for Christmas.
Santa and two baby reindeers
Silly Reindeer holding Santa doll
Close-up of Santa doll


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Most Americans under 35, if they know the name "Peter Bogdanovich" and are not hardcore students of the cinema of the 1970s, think of him as the guy with the big glasses who played Dr. Melfi's therapist on The Sopranos.
To older cineastes, Bogdanovich is better known as the director of such seminal classics as "The Last Picture Show," "What's Up Doc" and "Paper Moon," as the guy who dated Cybil Shepherd, had a long and ugly career meltdown, and was caught up in the horrors that became the movie "Star 80." In later years he re-emerged as an author of respected books about film, as an Orson Welles biographer and as an occasional actor, most notably on The Sopranos.
The now-73-year-old Bogdanovich actually made a very good theatrical film in 2001 called "The Cat's Meow," but that was his last feature release; most strangely, he directed an ESPN biopic of Pete Rose, starring Tom Sizemore, in 2004. But a Bogdanovich comeback is finally in the offing.
Bogdanovich has signed on to direct "She's Funny That Way," which will star Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, previously co-stars in "Marley and Me." According to Vulture, Aniston plays a therapist whose mother is in rehab with Wilson, who plays a Broadway director. The supporting cast includes Jason Schwartzman, Eugene Levy, Kathryn Hahn and… Cybill Shepherd, reuniting with her onetime director/lover, more than 40 years after "The Last Picture Show."


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Grateful Dead
Blair's Golden Road Blog - Best Dead Tours?
By Blair Jackson
Finding a consensus on almost anything in the Grateful Dead world is a daunting proposition. There are as many opinions about the "best" shows or tours as there are Dead Heads. Each of us has his or her own prejudices about songs, tours and eras based on a million different factors, from personal experiences at shows to associations we have with specific songs and myriad other circumstances that affect what we like and dislike.
What got me thinking about this was writing essays over the past year about a couple of tours that nearly everyone seems to hold in high regard: Europe '72 and the spring '77 East, Midwest and South jaunt. The June '74 Wall of Sound tour has many true believers, as does the short Midwest tour in February '73. (I'm with ya on both!) Once you get beyond the '70s, however, there are a certain number of Heads who will automatically tune out any discussion of best tours—they believe that nothing post-Keith and Donna was up to the level of what came before. And jeez, better not even bring up the post-Brent era!
Personally, I loved every band lineup on some level, and I can find shows and tours I like in every year. OK, it gets a little tougher by '93, and in '94 and '95 we're talking about the best of a not-that-great lot. By that I mean, I can say that I believe the fall '94 East Coast tour was the best of the year, but mostly in comparison to the wretchedness of so many shows earlier in the year. (In '94 I turned down an offer to write a book called 30 Years Dead because I was so depressed after seeing two Madison Square Garden shows on that tour I was just lauding!) But I was never one of those guys worrying that the "Scarlet-Fire" I was seeing in 1991 wasn't as good as ones I had on tape from '77. Or the '92 version of "Here Comes Sunshine" was inherently lame because it wasn't jammed out the way it had been in '73. I rarely met a "Scarlet-Fire" that didn't thrill me to the core, and as for "Here Comes Sunshine"—I was happy any time I could hear that, in any form. (I can say the same thing about both in this post-Dead era.) During my time putting out The Golden Road magazine (1984-1993), I was attacked by some for liking too much and by others for occasionally being too critical. What can I say? I loved this band every step of my own journey with them ('69-'95) and, experientially speaking, never particularly favored one era over another.
So, getting back to the alleged subject at hand—best Dead tours—I will happily rattle off a few of my favorites from different eras. I will start in 1971, when Dead tours really start looking like organized excursions of a region more than they had previously, and we also have a solid body of tape evidence to evaluate.
Though my first serious burst of going to clusters of shows was in the winter-spring of '71 — two Capitol Theatre (Port Chester), two Fillmore East, two Manhattan Center — it's the fall '71 tour — Keith's first outing—that makes this list. (I saw the two Chicago shows.) You can truly hear the excitement and enthusiasm as the group absorbs this new instrumental voice, and the many songs that were introduced earlier in the year (and on the fall tour itself) begin to take on an unexpected richness that will become even more obvious on the Europe '72 tour.
I'll skip over '73-'77 (pick a tour, almost any tour, and it's got something to recommend it—yes, even '76, which some Heads just don't like), and mention the April '78 tour of the South and Midwest. The playing is a little more ragged than the best of '77, and you can feel Keith starting to drift away at times, but there are still many high points in most shows.
this poster for the
underrated Europe 1981
In 1980, all the attention goes to the three-set September-October shows at the Warfield in San Francisco, Saenger Performing Arts Center in New Orleans and Radio City in New York, but for my money some of the best shows of that year are the August-early September '80 Midwest and East Coast shows. The Uptown (Chicago) run is my favorite and the Lewiston, Maine, concert is chock full o' good stuff. A lot of the Warfield/Radio City material sounds pretty tame and tentative by comparison.
The September-October '81 Europe tour doesn't get the props it should in part because the tapes aren't that great—the Rainbow (London) series sounds dry and oddly balanced and Bob's guitar barely registers on many of the other shows (c'mon, Healy!). But the playing is frequently quite electrifying, and of course there are the three Melk Weg oddities from Amsterdam in the middle.
Maybe because I traveled to the late August, early September '83 shows in Eugene, Boise and Santa Fe, I've always been partial to that Western tour, Portland through Manor Downs (Austin).
Summer '85, beginning with the Berkeley Greek 20th anniversary concerts in mid-June through Pittsburgh in early July, boasts several outstanding shows, as does the late August to mid-September tour that hit Red Rocks, Kaiser in Oakland and Chula Vista. All in all, '85 is one of my favorite years.
So is 1988, and there I have to go with the mid-June to early July shows, incorporating fine outings at Alpine Valley, Saratoga and ending at Oxford Plains Speedway in Maine. (Surely 7/2 is release-worthy, no?)
Moving up a couple of years, the March/early April 1990 tour—particularly the stretch including Copps Coliseum in Ontario, Knickerbocker Arena in Albany (some of which became Dozin' at the Knick) and Nassau Coliseum (Branford!)—is mostly killer (and was all multitracked. I'd buy a Nassau box!). And though the Europe '90 tour was not universally great, there's lots of good stuff in there.
I could see a box set featuring the best of the September 1991 Madison Square Garden and Boston Garden shows (that's right, a compilation!), but the real gold in '91 — with the Bruce Hornsby-Jerry dynamic in full bloom—is the June '91 tour, which includes several favorites, including both Deer Creek concerts, the two Giants Stadium shows, Soldier Field (tops on my list) and Sandstone in Kansas. I luv me my '91 Dead!
So, those are a few of my choices. What tours do you want to turn us onto?
A vote for Fall '72. Exciting, almost torrid playing. Band on fire type playing. There's an s-load from mid to late '70 I'd almost give my right pinky to hear in sbd form (I said almost).
"Summer '87"
I'm surprised more people aren't raving about this particular tour. There are many significant reasons why it's so under rated including the Deads unexpected jump in commercial popularity mid-tour with the release of "In The Dark", Jerry's first post-coma Summer tour and many other points that make this tour unique. Starting from Alpine Valley (boy I sure wish I had soundboard recording of these three dates), Ontario, the Dylan and the Dead stadium run and ending with the County Fairgrounds shows with Carlos Santana sitting in.
6/26-28 Alpine Valley
6/30 Ontario
7/2 Silver Stadium
7/4 Foxboro w/ Dylan
7/6 Pittsburg w/ members of The Neville Brothers
7/7-8 Roanoke
7/10 JFK w/ Dylan
7/12 Giants w/Dylan
7/19 Autzen w/ Dylan
7/24 Oakland w/ Dylan
7/26 Anaheim w/ Dylan
8/11-13 Red Rocks (last time)
8/15-16 Telluride
8/18 Compton Terrace
8/20 Park West Utah
8/22-23 Angel's Camp w/ Santana sitting in
A uniformly strong tour all the way through.
Apr. '71 would make one schweet box!
And Blair's mention of the beginning of Keith's tenure being really exciting ...
10/19 thru December (lots of shows) would be another I'd throw money at in the same way I did for Europe '72.
One day we'll be treated to more post-Europe '72 - what an enormous wealth of material from which to choose - since the time I acquired it from our Vinemaster, Sunshine Daydream, my Summers and Falls have become absolute Dead Solid Perfect bliss while driving about with a smile on my face. This project, of course, would dwarf the Europe '72 trunk - ay! bring it!!!
Spring 71, stalking 16 year old girls in the Scranton Catholic Youth Center with Pig wailing "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
4/4.5,6/ Manhattan Center
4/7,8/ Boston Music Hall
4/10 Franklin & Marshall
4/12 Pitt Civic Arena
4/13 Catholic Youth Center
4/14 Bucknell
4/15 Aleghaney
4/17 Princeton
4/18 SUCNY Cortland
4/21 RI Auditorium (Best of the tour)
4/22 Bangor Auditorium
4/24 Duke
4/126.96.36.199.29. Closing of thge Fillmore East (Ladies & Gentleman)
Charlie Miller, can you make me a box for a price?
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I never did the tour thing and after the '70's only I saw them occasionally in the '80's , the Earthquake benefit in Oakland '89 being the last, which is why I really appreciate this blog. You've listed a bunch of years and dates that are apparently worthy of attention. Beyond the aforementioned "consensus" years, I've never explored the 80's or '90's with much interest. Thanks.
With the combination of "new" tunes, SOTM and Take You Home, Etc. New songs and old favorites make for a great recipe. The return of Dark Star, Death Don't and Attics.
I also think; Jerry and Bob, had really started to get a handle on the MIDI system. So the communication between band members seemed really fresh with the chance to engage each other with new toys.
The shows from Shoreline through Oakland's New Years should not to be overlooked.
i know we're talking about tours but my fave stand-alone, one-off show still has to be englishtown, nj 9/3/77!!!!!
Dear Blair,
Your blog post is making me miss the Road Trips series. Highlights from each of the tours you mentioned would make splendid releases. And to silence the 'knuckleheads', Rhino could get the Band to recant the policy of taking shows of archive.org when one song from the show is released commercially. Just sayin'.
That being said, the next full tour box should be Fall '73. Otherwise, let's get to work on the 'Grateful Dead Movie Super Deluxe Edition' and release the full run from Oct '74 in Blu-Ray/5.1 with all the video.
Maybe it was because I was on these tours, but I thought there were many fine moments - Berlin, Paris, Halloween London then onto Cap Center, Greensboro (longest Eyes ever!), and Orlando. Even the 90 New Years run in between seemed pretty sweet at the time. I guess that's the thing - it was all pretty awesome while it was happening. And even though you knew it might not compare to what had been played in the 60's or 70's, hearing it again now, it actually WAS pretty hot!!!
the November Kaiser run was outstanding.
Jack Straw
C.C. Rider
Stagger Lee
My Brother Esau
High Time
Beat it on Down the Line
Promised Land
Don't Ease Me In
Iko Iko
Lost Sailor
Saint of Circumstance
Terrapin Station
Don't Need Love
Stella Blue
Sugar Magnolia
U.S. Blues
Big Boy Pete
Dire Wolf
Little Red Rooster
Brown Eyed Women
Me and My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
Ramble on Rose
Looks Like Rain
Might As Well
Shakedown Street
Crazy Fingers
Playin' in the Band
She Belongs to Me
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Playin' in the Band
Gimme Some Lovin'
Midnight Hour
Walkin' the Dog
Hell in a Bucket
New Minglewood Blues
Dupree's Diamond Blues
Let it Grow
Touch of Grey
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
Morning Dew
Throwin' Stones
Turn on Your Love Light
Brokedown Palace
the September were not to shabby either
Jack Straw
Little Red Rooster
Stagger Lee
Me and My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
Ramble on Rose
Don't Ease Me In
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
Good Time Blues
China Doll
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Around and Around
Sugar Magnolia
Day Job
Mississippi Half-Step
New Minglewood Blues
Friend of the Devil
Beat it on Down the Line
Promised Land
Tennessee Jed
Let it Grow
Touch of Grey
Hell in a Bucket
Terrapin Station
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
Gimme Some Lovin'
Stella Blue
Good Lovin'
U.S. Blues
Greatest Story Ever Told
It's All Over Now
Row Jimmy
My Brother Esau
Big Railroad Blues
Looks Like Rain
Might As Well
Help on the Way
Franklin's Tower
Playin' in the Band
The Other One
Black Peter
Throwin' Stones
Not Fade Away
Not Fade Away
Brokedown Palace
then there was also Feb
Iko Iko
C.C. Rider
Dire Wolf
Ramble on Rose
Me and My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Samson and Delilah
He's Gone
Eyes of the World
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
China Doll
Baby What You Want Me to Do
Sugar Magnolia
Day Job
Jack Straw
Dupree's Diamond Blues
New Minglewood Blues
Brown Eyed Women
My Brother Esau
Bird Song
Hell in a Bucket
Might As Well
Terrapin Station
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
Throwin' Stones
Touch of Grey
Johnny B. Goode
Cold Rain and Snow
Day Tripper
West L.A. Fadeaway
Mama Tried
Big River
Tennessee Jed
Looks Like Rain
Don't Ease Me In
Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Playin' in the Band
The Wheel
Black Peter
Turn on Your Love Light
U.S. Blues
Now that's a box


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A Robotic Platform to Study the Foreflipper of the California Sea Lion
1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University
1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University
1Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
1Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, 2Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware
1Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego, 2Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 3Integrative Oceanography Division, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 4Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1Sector for Marine Waters, Institute for water of the Republic of Slovenia, 2Laboratory for Polymer Chemistry and Technology, National Institute for Chemistry Slovenia
1Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
1School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, 2School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, 3Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, 4South China Sea Bio-Resource Exploitation and Utilization Collaborative Innovation Center, 5Institut für Geologie, Universität Hamburg, 6Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 7Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey
1Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University
1Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Michigan State University, 2Hammond Bay Biological Station, Great Lakes Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
1WildTrack and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 2N∕a′an ku sê Research Programme, 3Division of Biology and Conservation Ecology, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, 4N∕a′an ku sê Foundation
1Department of Marine Ecology, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), 2Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), 3The School of Marine Science, Ruppin Academic Center
1Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Developmental Genetics, Stony Brook University
1Department of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, 2Unit of Chemotherapy and Toxicology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
1Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London
1Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 2Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
1Centre for Neuroregeneration, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 2Shriners Hospitals Pediatric Research Center (Center for Neural Repair and Rehabilitation), Temple University School of Medicine, 3Department of Neurology, Temple University School of Medicine
Source: Laboratory of Jeff Salacup - University of Massachusetts Amherst
Throughout this series of videos, natural samples were extracted and purified in search of organic compounds, called biomarkers, that can relate information on climates and environments of the past. One of the samples analyzed was sediment. Sediments accumulate over geologic time in basins, depressions in the Earth into which sediment flows through the action of fluid (water or air), movement, and gravity. Two main types of basins exist, marine (oceans and seas) and lacustrine (lakes). As one might guess, very different types of life live in these settings, driven in large part by the difference in salinity between them. Over the last few decades, organic geochemists discovered a toolbox of biomarker proxies, or compounds that can be used to describe climate or environment, some of which work in marine environments and some of which work in lacustrine. We turn our attention here to the marine realm and alkenone paleothermometry using the Uk'37 sea surface temperature proxy. The most well-established and widely applied open-ocean biomarker sea surface temperature (SST) proxy is Uk'37. Uk'37 = (C37:2) / (C37:2 + C37:…
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol
1Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science, 2Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University
1Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
1Sustainable Transport Unit, Institute for Energy, Transport and Climate, Joint Research Centre
1CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, IRCELYON, F-69626, 2CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut des Sciences Analytiques, UMR 5280
1Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, 2Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 3Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich
1Département de Biologie du Développement et Cellules Souches, Institut Pasteur, 2Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-Mer (UMR7009 CNRS/UPMC Univ Paris 06), Sorbonne Universités, 3Equipe Epigenetic Control of Normal and Pathological Hematopoiesis, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, 4Unité de Dynamique des Interactions Membranaires Normales et Pathologiques, CNRS UMR5235/DAA/cc107/Université Montpellier II, 5Plateforme BioEmergences IBiSA FBI, CNRS-NED, Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard
1Bioprocesses Department, Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Biotecnología, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 2Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
1Centre of Excellence for Alzheimer's Disease Research and Care, School of Medical sciences, Edith Cowan University, 2Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, Graylands Hospital, University of Western Australia, 3McCusker Alzheimer's Research foundation, 4School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, 5Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Adelaide, 6School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, 7School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia
1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
1Department of Biology and Marine Biology and Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington
1Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 2Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, 3Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, 4Okinawa Churashima Research Center, 5Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo
1Pole of Cell Biology, Université catholique de Louvain & de Duve Institute
1College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, 2Marine Science and Chemistry, Eckerd College
1NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 2NASA Astrobiology Institute, Icy Worlds, 3Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, 4Citrus College
1Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Science, University of Torino, 2Laboratory of Endothelial Molecular Biology, Vesalius Research Center, VIB
1School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University
1Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, UMR 7325, CINaM, 2State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science of Jiangnan University
1Laboratory for Environmental Research, University of Nova Gorica, 2Sector for Marine Waters, Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia
1Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, 2Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, 2Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, 3Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, College of General Studies, Boston University, 4Rhode Island Nursing Institute, Middle College
Source: Laboratory of Jeff Salacup - University of Massachusetts Amherst
The product of an organic solvent extraction, a total lipid extract (TLE), is often a complex mixture of hundreds, if not thousands, of different compounds. The researcher is often only interested in a handful of compounds. The compounds of interest may belong to one of several classes of compounds, such as alkanes, ketones, alcohols, or acids (Figure 1), and it may be useful to remove the compound classes to which it does not belong in order to get a clearer view of the compounds you are interested in. For example, a TLE may contain 1,000 compounds, but the Uk'37 sea surface temperature proxy is based on only two compounds (alkenones) and the TEX86 sea surface temperature proxy is based on only four (glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers). It would behoove the researcher to remove as many of the compounds they are not interested in. This makes the instrumental analysis of the compounds of interest (alkenones or GDGTs) less likely to be complicated by other extraneous compounds. In other cases, an upstream purification technique may have produced compounds you wish to now remove from the sample, such as the production of carboxylic acids during saponification in our …
1Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
1Department of Biology, Concordia University
1Department of Chemistry, Western Washington University, 2Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 3Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1Laboratory of Water and Food Viral Pollution, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona
1Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
1Ophthalmology Department, Center for Vision Research, SUNY Eye Institute, Upstate Medical University
1European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 2Metal Trace Element Laboratory, IATA-CSIC
Source: Laboratory of Jeff Salacup - University of Massachusetts Amherst
The distribution of a group of organic biomarkers called glycerol-dialkyl glycerol-tetraethers (GDGTs), produced by a suite of archaea and bacteria, were found in modern sediments to change in a predictable manner in response to air or water temperature1,2. Therefore, the distribution of these biomarkers in a sequence of sediments of known age can be used to reconstruct the evolution of air and/or water temperature on decadal to millennial timescales (Figure 1). The production of long high-resolution records of past climates, called paleoclimatology, depends on the rapid analysis of hundreds, possibly thousands of samples. Older extraction techniques, such as sonication or Soxhlet, are too slow. However, the newer Accelerated Solvent Extraction technique was designed with efficiency in mind. Figure 1. An example of a paleoclimate record showing changes in sea surface temperature (SST) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea during the past ~27,000 years3. This record comprises ~115 samples and is based on the isoprenoidal GDGT-based TEX86 SS…


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From: "Kevin Boers" <>
Subject: [WATHURST-L] Thurstoneer certificates
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:42:45 -0800
Does anyone know what kind of proof is needed for the Certificate? My GGGrandfather RR Thornton (Richard R. Thornton) moved to Thurston County from Polk County, Oregon in 1869 with his wife Eliza Holcomb who later married Alexander Reynolds about 1873 and had 2 daughters by him. My Great Grandfather, Millard Thornton, married Phoebe Robbins in Olympia in 1885 in a double ceremony with her sister Amy Effiah Robbins (Effie) and James L. Longmire, Jr. at his house. The siblings and nephews & nieces of Phoebe Robbins married into the Sylvester, Longmire, Shincke, Dodge, Turner & Bickle families (all Pioneer families) before the turn of the century. I don't have much proof other then a newspaper article on Millard Thornton & his marriage certificate and some obituaries.
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