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what do u think my first performance mod i should do to my AV
01/19/12 07:50 pm »
hey i just dont know what do first to my AV. so much i wanna do. i just wish i could do it all but i dont have the money...
but im just looking to see what yall think i should do first.
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01/19/12 09:49 pm »
First I would ask you what is your definition of "performance mod". Since it can mean many things to different people.
Are you looking for off the line acceleration or top speed improvements?
Or are you concerned with cornering and even braking?
If I wanted to improve the off the line acceleration and mid range torque of this 6,000 lb. truck I would get a cat back exhaust. I did on my 2004 and my 2008 and haven't regretted it at all.
Some members swear by a programmer but I have never needed one yet. Others love a CAI and I didn't have one on my 2004 but I have one on my 2008. From everything I have read and experienced they are really for the "cool" factor and noise.
Just my .02 but the AV is not a performance vehicle. That doesn't mean with some money the performance of the AV can't be improved it just is a bad base to build a performance vehicle especially if money is tight.
I am the type of person who would study what works and save money until I could buy the right stuff, not get something just because I couldn't wait.
Good luck with your mods.
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welcome to the club
a CAI is for cool factor and noise but it also gives you gains. although slight they are noticed. in my opinion its best to do a CAI with a cat back to get the beast breathing the way it should. u cant just breath in and not let it all out as fast as it went in now can u?
do those and add a nelson tune and u will have a ear to ear grin everytime u get behind the wheel.
debadge - this was first for me makes her go faster
paint the bow tie, smoothes the front end. again making her go faster
paint brake lights - luv this on my 04, see above
dura stop brakes with gmt 900 fronts (upto 06) - this is a must on our trucks
ambers - this was my second
Cat back - my third
CAI - my forth
Programmer or tune - this i just did (nelson tune). my only regret was not doing it years ago
there are tons of cheap little things u can do
simple things like
adding kick lights, change out all the lights to led (interior), add a light in the glove box
this list can be huge. start small and work ur way up. this way u get to know the truck inside and out. also please keep in mind, if u want to go fast u need to be able to stop her just as fast. upgrading the brakes is more important that going fast in my opinion on a 6000lb truck
gl and keep us posted
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I would recommend a Diablo Sport Tuner, it allows you to adjust all the transmission functions, tire size, different octane tunes and you can get a custom tune for other mods down the road.
I have also been looking at getting the MBRP cat back exhaust for my Av.
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I'm starting with a leveling kit and bigger wheels and tires.
Debadging is also high on my list.
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in first assure you if your avalanche is in good state. better to spent money in necessary parts before mods but i don't know your truck
is my 0.20 cent( first time i writte this, hope is correct
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|01 Dec 2010
BSOD after exiting games
Hello, most of the times I exit a game (usually by Alt-F4) I get a bsod. It doesn't specify any files. Does anyone have any insight on this?
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|01 Dec 2010
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Dump blames CDD.DLL, part of the Canonical Display Driver in windows, Run system file checker
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
BugCheck 1000008E, {c0000005, 82ec6f21, a3508a94, 0} Probably caused by : cdd.dll ( cdd!CGuardMutex::Enter+d )
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|01 Dec 2010
Hi, welcome to the forums
Firstly using ALT+F4 is exiting the game while it is still in a 'full-active' state. ALT+F4 is designed mostly for closing down Explorer windows or any other Windows environment applications (e.g. Paint, Office, Media Player). Using the game's 'Exit' facility (in-game menu) will cause the game to systematically stop internal processes then shut the game down. This 'active game state' could possibly be what's causing your BSOD.
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|01 Dec 2010
Hey, SFC didn't find any problems. The BSOD problem was fixed though. Acer has a really bad habit of having ALL the possible components of a laptop written in the product overview and I don't really know what exactly I have in my laptop. The processor, vid card, hdd etc are obvious, but things like motherboard, sound card, network card I had no idea. So I may have chosen the wrong drivers. After checking for more info and found out what I actually had, I installed the right drivers and all worked out fine. Thanks for your suggestions guys. Also, I'll stop using ALT + F4 in games
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|01 Dec 2010
That's good news, glad it was a simple fix
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|03 Dec 2010
Oh my. It wasn't a simple fix after all The issue is back, and seems here to stay. The worst problem is that the BSOD also occurs when a game crashes, so even if I did stop using ALT-F4 it's still happening. Games that crash a lot (I'm looking at you, Fallout 3) got put aside for the moment, but I'm guessing that it will happen to other games. Eventually.
I added new dump and perfmon report files.
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|04 Dec 2010
This is getting a bump because, unfortunately, not only that this BSOD problem persists, I have ANOTHER BSOD (this one came out of the blue, no game was opened. It pointed out to win32k.sys).
Attaching NEW BSOD dumb, see last post for the one I get after exiting a game (or, for example, closing the process on a game that's not responding).
LE: Please note that the 2 dumps have the same name Sorry about that, forgot.
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|12 Dec 2010
It's fixed. The problem was Acer Launch Manager, which apparently isn't compatible with Windows 7. Deleting it fixed all my BSODs.
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I received my PET scan results and Dr Downs said it shows intermediate activity in my lymph nodes in my neck. Here is what the scan says: Bilateral supraclavicular and left paratracheal or AP window foci intermediate activity are noted. A focus of intermediate activity along the peripheral lateral aspect of the liver is also noted. Impression: Suspicious for nodal activity. Note the word is not IS but Suspicious and also not high activity but intermediate. So that is good, Praise The Lord! It does mean with my CA125 markers rising more the chemo will start.
I am meeting with the Dr on Thursday and we will set the next course of action. He said at this time he is thinking an oral chemo would be best. He thinks it is not a good idea to start the traditional chemo due to the severe side affects I had last time. Dr Downs did say there is a new oral drug being given in a study group but didn't know if there was any more openings.
Tomorrow is my last full day at work. I will be taking FMLA effective Wednesday and plan to take the full 12 weeks. It has been an emotional decision but really feel I need to do this for me. I usually am not so selfish but I do not want it to say on my tombstone "She Worked Until the End." :-}
The following verse I really need right now as I feel like I'm on a roller coaster as far as my emotions go.
Philipians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
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Bless your heart Bonnie I am so sorry to hear that.That is always my fear,how do you keep that fear away Prayer I know. I am so glad to hear you are takig the time off, that is not selfish, it is something you need and that is what it is there for. You are in my prayers, keep us updated.God Bless You, Jan
Jun 30, 2004 - 11:22 am
I am really glad to hear you're taking leave. I thank my lucky stars that I was laid off before I was diagnosed, and didn't work through my chemo, although I did go on interviews (and sold on eBay a bit) through the treatments. My friend worked through all of it, and is still working two jobs, God love her!
So, take some time, get well, and THEN go back to work. It's the best thing to do for yourself and your workplace!
Best of luck with your treatment, whatever it is. Please come in and let us know how things go.
Jun 30, 2004 - 6:16 pm
Bonnie: God Bless you for your strength and faith! But I'm sorry you have to deal with this again. Please keep us informed.
That is a wonderful scripture. One of my other favorites in Isiah: You will mount up as wings on eagles - you shall walk and not be weary, you shall run and not faint. I have so many other favorites that I have clung to all these years.
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Bonnie, I am so sorry to hear of your possible recurrence, you sound like such a fighter. Continue to be strong, and do not feel guilty for taking the leave due you from work. I was very lucky in that my employer offers in-house disability, and I took the full leave, 7 months' worth, working only when I felt I had the energy.
I couldn't find a previous posting from you about your recurrence (this one was headed "update"), but I was wondering what made your dr. prescribe a PET scan rather than a CT. Of course, the PET is desirable, I just want to know how he made that decision.
Thanks for sharing the scripture, it sure is a calming one. You are in my prayers,


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We Can Not. and Will Not Speak for any Non Member. We can not afford to. The PNW4WDA has worked too hard for two many years to gain the trust and respect of the Members of the Forest service and DNR to Start trying to represent parts of the four wheeling community that we have no control or influence over.
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He's received many awards including Reserve Grand Champion in Kansas City in 2009 amid 162 of the best teams in the nation at the Great American BBQ and 80+ first place finishes in various categories and countless 2nd, and 3rd place finishes. Clearly, Slap Yo Daddy BBQ are masters at the grill, so you'll just have to check Harry out for yourself.
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Celina, TX
Innovative culinary vision and a passion for locally sourced products are what set Al Havens apart in his role as Corporate Chef for A Bar N Ranch. Over the past 15 years, Al has honed his craft by working in some of the best kitchens in Dallas.
After graduating from culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu in Austin with degrees in Culinary Arts and Food Service Management, Al started his career at Salum Restaurant in Dallas. After six productive years of working under Abraham Salum, Al moved on to head up the kitchens at Remedy, HG Supply Co., and Neighborhood Services. In these roles, Al became honed his skills and grew his knowledge of local sourcing and beef cuts. In March of 2017, Al joined the team at A Bar N Ranch as Corporate Chef. In his short time with the company, Al has helped extend the reach of A Bar N through his experience in the Dallas restaurant circuit, and longstanding relationships in the industry. After years of supporting local purveyors in his restaurants, Al is excited to join the team of a superior Texas wagyu cattle operation.
Angel Fire Vodka
Vodka Distillery
Angel Fire, NM
Angel Fire Vodka is the result of a serendipitous meeting between Carl Schenken, an Angel Fire, NM resident; and Walter Gallegos, a wine and spirits expert from Santa Fe. Inspired by Angel Fire's dramatic sunsets, which transform the sky and mountains into a fiery canvas, the two men set out to craft a vodka worthy of the town's magic.
Having done just that through a proprietary blend of premium grains producing a perfectly smooth tasting vodka, Carl and Walter are now ready to share their craft with you.Angel Fire Vodka is currently available in restaurants, bars, and liquor stores in New Mexico, Colorado, and California, with distribution expanding across the Southwest and beyond.
Chicago, IL
Meathead Goldwyn is the founder, barbecue whisperer, and hedonism evangelist behind AmazingRibs.com, the world's most popular outdoor cooking website, and author of the New Your Times Best Seller "Meathead,The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling". His ruminations on food and drink have appeared in numerous publications and he was previously a syndicated wine critic for the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. He has taught at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and LeCordon Bleu in Chicago and he has judged food, wine, beer, and spirits all around the world.
Angel Fire, NM
Although Chef Tom Bowles calls the Rocky Mountain region home, he's travelled the world searching out the best flavors and cooking methods.
After graduating with honors from Johnson and Wales University's Culinary Arts program he set forth on a global adventure that took him everywhere from Antarctica to Thailand.
Upon returning to the United States, Chef Tom joined the team at The Roasted Clove in Angel Fire, New Mexico and soon bought the restaurant establishing it as a local and regional favorite for a decade, earning awards and accolades from local publications and national honors including Best Chefs America 2013.
Tom was well-known and celebrated for his foraging of wild mushrooms from the pristine forest surrounding the area, specifically porcini (king boletus), chanterelle, agaricus, and shaggy mane mushrooms which often were featured in the nightly specials at The Roasted Clove.
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Palace Restaurant & Saloon
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Evan Doughty followed up years of on-the-job training with formal education and a degree from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. After graduation, Evan returend to the west coast to continue sharpening his skills in fine kitchens throughout Santa Barbara and the Napa Valley of California before he and his business partner and wife, Jen Doughty, opened Feast in Florence, Oregon. Today, Evan and Jen call Santa Fe, New Mexico home, and the best place to expand their culinary philosophy ― seasonally appropriate food and locally produced ingredients ― as Co-Executive Chefs at Palace Restaurant and Saloon.
Dutch Oven Cooking Masters
Angel Fire, NM
Kent Smith and Mike Gilcrease, co-authors of Dutch Oven Cooking, have been demonstrating how to cook in Dutch ovens in New Mexico for years. Mike's adoration for the Dutch oven came hand-in-hand with his love of the outdoors and experience outfitting, horse wrangling and cooking in the wilderness. Kent, as an avid hunter who loves to cook wild game, is likewise bonded to the king of campfire cooking.
The collaboration of these two fireside raconteurs makes for a Dutch Oven presentation that is both entertaining and informative. Join Kent and Mike for a how-to and refresher on how to cook, clean and take care of your beloved Dutch oven, and of course, taste some of their incredible wild game recipes and receive a complimentary copy of their cookbook full of Southwest recipes.
Chuckwagon Cooking Masters
Hereford, TX
Roland and Sandra live in Hereford, Texas where she taught school and he served as Criminal District Attorney and is currently a State District Judge.
They have enjoyed entering numerous chuck wagon cookoffs and cooking for other special events with their Studebaker Chuck Wagon and the Star Bar Outfit.
They enjoy the Old West and hope to help others understand how our ancestors did things by demonstrating the wagon.
Fort Collins, CO
Gin, Whiskey, Vodka & Brandy Distillery
Santa Fe, NM
Colin Keegan had a problem. He had four acres of apples and he could only make so many pies and so much cider. Colin did what any sensible man with hundreds of gallons of cider would do – he distilled it into an apple brandy that his friends and neighbors loved. Wordspread and a business was born.
In 2010, Santa Fe Spirits began operation. The brandy went into barrels to age and Silver Coyote white whiskey hit the shelves to much fanfare, winning a gold medal from the Beverage Testing Institute in 2012. Wheeler's Western Dry Gin, with ingredients sourced within 30 miles of the distillery, soon followed and started Keegan's devotion to local and regional ingredients.
Keegan also started working on the first mesquite-smoked single malt whiskey ever made. After two years in barrels, Colkegan was released in 2014 and immediately started winning awards, including Whiskey Magazine's Editor'sChoice and an ADI Gold Medal in 2015.
Brewery + Whiskey, Rum & Vodka Distillery
Albuquerque, NM
Broken Trail: A path or trail that has been cut, through snow or deep brush or other obstructions. To break trail is to venture where no one has before. It is to find your own path, hike your own hike, and to Find Your Spirit.
Our little distillery & brewery began on a bike ride across the foothills of the Sandia Mountains - Trail #365. The trail, like our Spirits, represent a connection to the environment around us. The land, the air, the water, the ingredients are all a part of our city, our state, and our spirit.
The craftsmen behind our place set out to create authentic craft spirits using locally sourced ingredients. Our Holy Ghost Vodka uses locally sourced grain. Our Tres Pistolas Whiskey, locally sourced corn. When you sip from a bottle of Distillery 365 spirits, you know that it was made in our distillery located right here in Albuquerque.It is our hope that with our fine products, you are able to Find Your Spirit.
Velarde, NM
At Black Mesa Winery we are proud to use only New Mexico grown grapes for our wines. We work with a greatest diversity of grape sources of any winery in the state - partnering with more than a dozen vineyards statewide, from the most Northerly commercial vineyard in Abiquiu, New Mexico, to the "boot heel" outside El Paso in Las Cruces. We contract with New Mexico's finest vineyards for their most coveted fruit and bottle them direct in Velarde, NM.
These vineyards are often times the sole source of a chosen varietal and we retain first right of refusal of their exclusive produce. Black Mesa's wines meet the highest standards for wine, not only for New Mexico, but also on the international stage. Our wines have garnered multiple "Best of Show", "Best in Class" awards, and "Double Gold" and Gold Medals, in international competition.
While we can't afford to enter every wine, every year, in each competition, we often choose to enter wines that have not been entered recently; just to be sure that what we make represents the highest quality. We are proud to be the only New Mexico winery to win the prestigious Jefferson Cup (an invitational competition featuring only the top US wineries from over 30 states), a feat we have done not once, but twice!


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Live footage of the velveteen tones of the master of smooth croon recorded in a TV studio setting. Tony Bennett, recorded in his prime, delivers some of his best loved hits including 'I Left My Heart In San Francisco' and 'From Rags To Riches'.
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DIY: Vintage cruiser makeover Part 2
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Last week, I introduced my epic bike project, Old Rusty, and this week I give you the big reveal! If I could stress one thing you'll need for this project above all else, it's patience.
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How to:
1. As we pick up on Part 2, you've already removed the paint and sprayed it with Tremclad Rust Reformer to stop rust in its tracks and prepare the surface for paint.
2. Outside, prime the pieces of your disassembled bike and let it dry as per the primer's instructions. If it says it's fully dry in 24 hours, actually wait 24 hours before you paint over it.
3. Finding the colour you want in spray paint is not easy, as every year there are only certain colours available in each line. I hunted all over Vancouver before I found this one at Micheals. Krylon also has a cool banana-like yellow and blue in this colour palette. Spray paint using Krylon metal spray paint in Pistachio and let dry. My paint is actually a primer plus paint, so primer can be optional, but I used it on the frame for added durability.
4. Lightly sand any imperfections using a fine grade sandpaper (180-100). Touch up with Pistachio if necessary. Note: Let your paint cure for the full 48 hours before you apply the clear coat. Wait even longer if you can.
5. Seal with Tremblad clear coat gloss.
6. Remove rust from nuts and bolts by letting it sit in vinegar overnight (see pop bottle). You pour just enough vinegar to cover the nuts and bolts in the bottle, shaking from time to time and then leave it overnight for best results. This even takes off old paint.
7. Reassemble your bike with care! Tip: Detailed before photos showing the bike put together are crucial and will save you paying someone else to put it back together. I put my bike back together, but because of its car accident I got it checked over by a bike shop just in case.
8. Accessorize with pretty wicker basket and you're ready to cruise in style!
*Note: The front fender in this photo is on backwards. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out, where were you two days ago?! Learn from my mistakes people!


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The lights go on behind a flimsy plywood flat that's been plunked down in the middle of Mary Jane's. A rectangle has been cut in the flat, and inside it, a sort of a grown-up doll with tiny stitched blue jeans, a blue halter top and red yarn pigtails bobs up and down. Her wide, pink, papier-máche face is rouged and lipsticked. Her mouth doesn't move, but she is shrieking hick obscenities, and her arms -- little springs with hands attached -- bob in agitation. The Friday evening is gearing up toward a buzz, but the crowd at the Washington Avenue nightclub stays quiet, intent on the scene unfolding in front of them, occasionally letting loose a happy jeer. As the lights go down momentarily, miked voices that sound like an amateur Stevens and Pruett give instructions: On cue, half of the audience will yell "Pup!"; the other half will chime in with "It!"
It's only a moment before the chant collapses into self-conscious giggling, as everyone simultaneously realizes they've been duped into audience participation. "I've seen a lot of people," quips one of the miked voices, quoting Bon Jovi. "And I've rocked them all." At that, the lights in the rectangle go on again, and the crowd hunches forward.
On a white paper screen behind the "stage," a black-and-white drawing of a bedroom pops up, and another production of the Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre begins. In the rectangle, a hand puppet that looks like Joel Orr, the founder of Bobbindoctrin, approaches a hand puppet that closely resembles Toby Blunt, the brusque and bearded musician who owns Mary Jane's.
But Bobbindoctrin has, as usual, given reality a twist. In the puppet show, a naive and excited Joel tells Toby about his stupendous idea -- he wants to start a band, and he wants the band to play at Mary Jane's. Only trouble is, Toby-the-puppet only books, well ... puppet shows. The two puppets have vivid, painted heads; their bodies are simple cloth drapes that make them look like wise men or hospital patients.
The puppet Joel eagerly explains the concept of a band ("We wanna decompose sound to its most basic and ridiculous components"), and assures Toby that the songs won't, as the manager first assumes, be ditties aimed at small children. Then he asks if, perhaps, the band might start out by opening for a puppet show?
That gets a laugh, because the irony is clear. Tonight, Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre is opening for two musical acts.
A puppet show isn't what you'd expect to find at a nightclub, but this isn't your standard puppet show. It's created expressly for the 18-and-up, curiosity-seeking, see-if-you-can-offend-me crowd. And tonight, the crowd is clearly into the Bobbindoctrin thing, this thing that is clearly related to other cool things -- comic books and animation and the Church of the Subgenius. But it is just as clearly something entirely new.
It's not theater, it's not performance art, it's not another thrash band. Bobbindoctrin has levers and sparks and rods and pipes; cardboard box puppets with inner-tube mouths, intended to be worn on the puppeteer's head; Lewis Carrollish bird creatures feathered with tomatillo husks; and robot puppets built of vacuum cleaner nozzles, toy amplifiers and something slimy and bright called Gak. Bobbindoctrin has bellowing voices and trippy backdrops and whistly little sound effects and alcoholic characters. Best of all, it does not require a span of attention longer than 12 minutes -- which is about the length of time a novice puppeteer can keep his arms in the air before he needs a break.
The second irony of the evening comes once the show is over, after a man calmly tears through the backdrop and starts playing a Scottish march on the bagpipes, a stage light hitting him from behind. Musical acts waiting in the wings or no, when Bobbindoctrin is done, most of the audience files out of Mary Jane's, as if in homage to Joel Orr's fantasy, where puppets are the norm -- and bands are just a fringe thing you can afford to miss.
Bobbindoctrin was born two years ago at Zocalo Theatre, at something called the Self-Indulgent Crap Fest. It was born in the midst of artists showing their home movies, getting naked and spanking each other. It was born in the guise of Punchface, a whiny boy-puppet so named because his balloon-like face had been permanently dented by his angry father. Bobbindoctrin wasn't even born in a barn (which Zocalo Theatre used to be), it was born out in the yard in an old ticket-taking booth, and it is therefore understandably quite rude.
In most Bobbindoctrin shows, the nice guy -- if there is one -- finishes last and is worse off at the end than when he began. Take for example Don't Beat Your Children Before They're Born, an adapted Iranian tale in which a poor slob's suspicion that his children will turn out to be no good ruins his plan to have them in the first place. Then there's No Vocab Man, in which the title character finally learns to communicate, only to find that no one will listen. The morality tale doesn't end with anything so mundane as a moral. It ends, as so many American fables do, with a .44 magnum (and some stage magic -- a switch ignites a tiny explosion in one puppet's head to simulate its being hit by gunfire).
Bobbindoctrin is gleefully violent, desperately sad and tinged with a mocking humor that lets you feel sort of smart -- at the Mary Jane's show, the Joel-puppet, trying to describe the "sound" his band is after, says, "Well, I like postmodernism, but deconstructionism is so complicated that it requires the use of constructivism in itself to put it all back together again and, like, do something with it." Sure, the characters are pitiable. Sure, Punchface grows a talking tumor and meets his mother in hell. But at least he does it in a Bobbindoctrin world, a world where phones can float and drinking straws can talk and sea monkeys rule the waters.
On the face of things, not much about Joel Orr would suggest that Bobbindoctrin's dark and bizarre stories originate with him. A bantamweight redhead described by one acquaintance as having a "nice little aura," by day Orr answers calls for technical support at a computer network company named Interliant. By night, at the house he shares with roommates in the Sixth Ward, Orr rehearses his troupe and writes new scripts. The 27-year-old is quiet, but not exactly mild-mannered. Bobbindoctrin provides him with a social and creative environment that suits him remarkably well -- his slight stature makes him seem scaled down, as if to fit a puppet-sized world.
Nice little aura notwithstanding, Orr leans toward the absurdly violent, and his latest script, The Black Box, has his cohorts cracking jokes about his going off the deep end. In its early scenes, a father -- for whom Bobbindoctrin's puppet maker, Larry Olivares, has created half-closed eyes and a perpetually pinched "duh" of a mouth -- dies in a plane crash, and an inspector delivers the plane's black box into the widow's hands. When she plays its recorded contents back, it reels off the screams of her husband's last moments. Her son starts pretending that the black box is his father, and he plays the tape over and over again until he drives his mother into a murderous rage. Throughout the puppet show, the audience will hear the screams of the dying father. Just thinking about it makes Orr give a happy little "heh heh."
To write about a particular subject (preferably abuse of some kind), Orr says, "I have to feel so strongly about it that I can't represent it except with puppets. I write about things that have niggled at me, and after a really long time they've niggled into my soul." But, he cautions, humor is an essential ingredient. "It's never just dark. It's dark and funny."
Bobbindoctrin may be the latest thing in Houston nightlife, but Orr's been thinking about puppets for a long time -- since 1989, actually, when he was living at the Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, to which the aspiring playwright had moved after finishing high school in Friendswood. At first, Orr saw puppetry as a steppingstone, an exercise that would teach him the nuts and bolts of putting together a theatrical production. He and fellow Commerce Street resident Dennis Clay -- who now designs lights, sound, sets and miscellaneous mechanisms for Bobbindoctrin -- mounted a show entitled Free Advice, in which, against his will, a captive puppet becomes an oracle of wisdom. His advice is as misguided as its seekers are foolish, and it leads to the spontaneous combustion of one puppet in the production's finale. At that point, a man was supposed to show up with a fire extinguisher, but the first time Free Advice was presented before a crowd, he missed his cue. Instead, excited audience members rushed up to stamp out the flames. Free Advice was a big success.
Afterward, Orr followed up with a couple of more puppet shows. And in 1990, the script for Free Advice got him into Edward Albee's University of Houston dramatic writing workshop. But theater with actors -- or "meat theater," as puppeteers sometimes call it -- wasn't to Orr's liking. He produced a couple of his own scripts at DiverseWorks Artspace, but "nobody remembers that," he says. "People always remember the puppets."
In retrospect, the scripts Orr staged with actors sound more like puppet shows. For example, one featured a character named Bob who develops a hole in his hand. As he tries to figure out the cause of the hole, it grows bigger, until eventually his hand disappears. The title of that play, Bobbindoctrin, later became the name of the puppet troupe.
After a long hiatus, during which Orr finished up an English degree and worked as a manager at the Greenway Theatre, somebody at Zocalo Theatre remembered the puppets, and when they asked Orr to perform at 1995's Self-Indulgent Crap Fest, he couldn't resist. For help, he turned to his old collaborator Dennis Clay. The resulting production, Punchface, reminded Orr how much fun puppetry could be, and also how much he missed "that side of my life" -- the artistic side. "I knew if I worked on it, I could do something much better than what we had done," Orr says now.
Punchface was developed into a trilogy, and then Orr started on a series of warped fairy tales narrated by a rock-and-roll Gothic kidnapper puppet named Struwwelpeter (or, for those who don't speak German, "Shock-Haired Peter") who likes to torture the children he bags by telling them horrible stories. Bobbindoctrin shows have become increasingly elaborate, and Clay has even constructed a tall, booth-like stage built to look like an outhouse akimbo, complete with a little half-moon and a propane-fueled smokestack.
As Bobbindoctrin's shows have evolved, so have Orr's ideas about puppetry. Puppets, he points out, are both didactic and violent, with Sesame Street's Muppets at one extreme and the antics of Punch and Judy at the other. The best Bobbindoctrin shows combine both elements. In No Vocab Man, for example, the letter "L" makes a guest appearance to bully No Vocab Man about his inability to write.
The best thing about puppet shows, Orr says, is the fact that the audience has no idea what to expect. They're automatically off guard, and they're also less respectful, an attitude the Doctrineers encourage. By performing in nightclubs such as Mary Jane's and Instant Karma and neighborhood cafes such as Brasil (and, once, at a $500-a-plate gala the troupe now refers to as "the rich people show"), Bobbindoctrin assiduously courts the element of surprise -- not that there's any place they could perform where they wouldn't seem a little odd. "I like the idea of an audience going into something not ready to take it seriously at all," says Orr. "They're not prepared for the visceral experience I've laid out for them."
Though Bobbindoctrin is Houston's only -- and, puppetry buffs say, probably Houston's first -- adult puppet theater, it's part of a national trend that is slowly coming of age. The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, founded in 1978, is increasing its number of adult shows yearly, and recently completed a popular series, The Illuminating Adventures of Rex Rocket in Outer Space, that drew a rock and roll audience similar to Bobbindoctrin's. There are at least as many kinds of puppets as there are types of animation, and contemporary puppet shows such as Bobbindoctrin's often mix methods, using marionettes, rod puppets and shadow puppets in the same play. (Bobbindoctrin used marionettes once, as captives -- they dangled them off the edge of the stage for the entire performance.) Puppet performances vary from virtuosic ventriloquy, where puppeteer and puppet talk to each other, to abstract, primarily visual productions.
Until a July trip to the Puppeteers of America National Festival in Toledo, Ohio, Orr says, he had never seen a live puppet show (other than Bobbindoctrin's, of course). Though he was aware of the country's oldest adult puppet brigade, the Bread and Puppet Theatre in Vermont, it wasn't until a friend of his saw a version of Frankenstein at the puppetry center in Atlanta that Orr realized there were others mining the same vein that he was. "There was definitely some sort of validation [in finding out]," he says. "At the same time, it really puzzled me because there are lots of people who have been working for a long time, and who do great stuff, and I didn't find out about any of it until I became a puppeteer. They just haven't, for some reason, broken the envelope."
According to Center for Puppetry Arts associate producer Bobby Box, that's "an American thing. In Europe, puppetry for adults is very common. In Latin America, they use puppets in political marches. In the U.S., we have this mentality that puppets are for kids, because we grew up with the Muppets." Even the founder of Bread and Puppet Theatre, with its tenacious leftist sensibility (the life-sized puppets were taken on Vietnam protest parades, and the puppeteers serve home-baked bread to the audience that camps out to see their annual show), came to the U.S. from Germany.
If anything, Orr's exposure to other puppeteers has emboldened him. He is busy building Bobbindoctrin's repertoire in anticipation of a West Coast tour (during which, of course, Bobbindoctrin will move in on the music venue audiences). He'd also like to see Bobbindoctrin included in a regional puppetry festival or two. "I learned an awful lot, but believe me," he told the rest of his troupe when he returned from Toledo, "there's nobody out there who's as sick and twisted as us." With a certainty devoid of bravado, he continued, "We definitely have an edge."
Box admits that the Bobbindoctrin script he's seen, The Black Box, is "very dark," and he plans to recommend it for the Center's experimental puppetry series. But, like Orr, he points out that violence has been a part of puppetry since cavemen used shadows and drawings to tell about their hunts. "When you put a puppet in a kid's hand, one of the first things they want to do is start kicking and biting with it," Box says. "People will do things with puppets that they won't do themselves."
It's Sunday night, and Frog Gilmore is making brains. In the attic of Orr's Sixth Ward house, an attic that's half bedroom and half puppet workshop, she patiently papier-máches softball-sized lumps of gray matter for Got Brains?, a puppet infomercial in which a smooth salesman tries to peddle his ten easy steps for growing additional brains. A University of Houston radio/television/film student who works at an animal clinic, Frog sports green streaks in her long black hair. Tattoos of green amphibians leap across her legs. Like most of her fellow Doctrineers -- students, waiters, Greenway Theatre employees, a high school dropout -- Frog knew several of the group's members, came to their shows and was drafted at the last minute to help run a puppet performance, in her case at the Landmark Theatre Christmas party. Frog decided to stick with it. "I don't really do anything else," she says, matter-of-factly.
Contemporary puppeteers tend to be auteurs who write, direct and build their own shows. In contrast, Orr spreads the work out among the Doctrineers, who manage to intuit the right look, sound and feel for Bobbindoctrin. Though they're a talented bunch, it seems the younger Doctrineers are along for the joy ride -- Orr is the one with the Big Picture and the keys to the car. In a way, Bobbindoctrin functions like an afterschool program for big people. It Keeps Them Occupied, gives them the Satisfaction of a Job Well Done and provides a Creative Outlet, especially for juvenile talents such as making weird noises (and no, they don't get paid). The group's resident puppet maker, 21-year-old Larry Olivares, has already parlayed his puppet making into a side job making prototypes of toys for an inventor. He's Making Something of Himself.
Bobbindoctrin also provides an opportunity to belong without conforming. It's a group activity, yes, but one that allows Doctrineers to participate enthusiastically, capturing their attention in much the same way that at performances it lures the normally blase into brief interludes of audience participation -- by being anything but normal. Doug Spearman, a waiter and graphic arts student who wears a Wu-Tang T-shirt and a Nike cap pulled down tight, says he is "not a quote unquote artist." He is quite serious when he adds, "Everybody's in a band. Everybody's an artist ... It's fun to be involved in something that I don't hold in contempt."
Spearman is one of Bobbindoctrin's puppet voices. He and his pal Joel Parker were recruited as vocal actors when Orr noticed that they were always cracking each other up with goofy banter. Parker, who works at the Greenway, is a mail-order Reverend, a collector of neckties and Betamax tapes and a member of a band named Inbred Whiteboy. Parker also wears his neckties, and genially shakes hands with everyone in a room every time he comes and goes. He likes Bobbindoctrin because it keeps him from "turning bitter and spiraling into my black hole of depravity. If I didn't make fun of myself," he says, "I'd probably go completely crazy, and I don't want to do that yet. Unless it'll get me women."
While Frog and Larry cobble away upstairs, and Dennis rigs up some unbelievably deluxe lever mechanism for the brain puppets out in a shed where the outhouse is stored, Doug, Joel and Beth Crelia practice their puppet voices. During the actual performance, they will sit off to one side of the stage, watching the action and speaking into mikes, berating the audience in between acts, forcing them to chant "pup" and "it." "It's a cross between puppet theater and radio music theater," Dennis explains. "All the tech is right there in front of the audience."
"This is your last chance!" intones Beth as Jo-Jo, the infomercial brain-merchant. (Olivares has put magnets in Jo-Jo's palms so that at rest, his hands clasp together in a ministerial gesture.) Beth is an architectural design assistant and a backstage dresser and a mountain biker and also, quite obviously, a Leo. "All you need is a touch-tone phone, $39.99 and a little piece of brain," she booms in a voice that has never known a timid moment. "Call 1-800-GET SOME and the first booklet of my ten-step program will arrive in one week! Then during the third week you'll have a great big HEALTHY BRAIN sitting next to you helping you figure out what to do with the millions of brains that are on the way!! Call 1-800-GET SOME right nnnnoooowwwwww! Tell 'em you're with Jo-Jo."
As Beth reads, Orr's two dogs (Soma and Cosa, meaning "body" and "thing") chase each other, and somewhere between three and 13 cats prowl around the living room. An unlit applause sign sits on the table, waiting to be rigged up with a light. Dave Handel, who has recently begun contributing scripts to Bobbindoctrin, looks on. Got Brains? and No Vocab Man are his scripts. He's 19, about to head off to the University of Texas in Austin after a summer working at the Greenway. "I've always had ideas and I've always wanted to write," he says. "But this gave me a little deadline." A little deadline, apparently, was all Handel needed, because he's since turned in more scripts than Bobbindoctrin can produce in a year, and Orr thinks they keep getting better -- especially the Got Brains? sequel, a brain cuisine show titled Hungry for Knowledge.
"I really lucked out with Dave," Orr says. "Somehow, he's right on my wavelength." Handel, on the other hand, thinks he's the one who lucked out. "It just makes my scripts look a lot better. I was surprised, but a lot of people had a lot of compassion for No Vocab Man, even though he's such a sad, pathetic little character."
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After rehearsal, Orr goes over the Bobbindoctrin schedule with the crew. First up are three performances of No Vocab Man, Got Brains? and The Black Box set for Labor Day weekend, when Bobbindoctrin will perform as part of the Electric Love Light Orchestra and Feel Good Machine, a sort of retro-rave saluting the 30th anniversary of the Summer of Love, at DiverseWorks. Up till now, the puppet performances have been one-night-only affairs, but Orr plans to run these three at various venues throughout September. On Halloween, Bobbindoctrin has another gig at Mary Jane's, opening for Little Jack Melody.
But that's just for starters. Orr devotes a lot of time to daydreaming, in the course of which he has, in his mind at least, booked the company for the next five or ten years with local shows, regional festivals, a West Coast tour. Orr, along with Dennis Clay, has one main project on his agenda: to get a permanent home and start a puppetry center, where Bobbindoctrin can diversify its productions, work on full-length shows and children's shows and bring touring puppet shows to Houston. Dennis, who works in the film industry as a key grip, envisions the center as a dream retirement setting, where he could spend all day tinkering in a puppetry workshop. Meanwhile, they're working on their application for nonprofit status.
If, in the meantime, the novelty of Bobbindoctrin wears off, so much the better. Audiences will come to expect more just as Bobbindoctrin learns to deliver more. "It's really just an inexhaustible medium," Orr says. "It's definitely a lifetime learning process." The very fact that the word Bobbindoctrin is ambiguous, he says, reflects the fact that puppetry is something he doesn't fully understand. "I would get bored if it weren't a constant exploration."
Out in the shed, Orr points out his "dream puppet," one a Doctrineer built for him after he described the concept. It's a large one, hulking and chalky white, designed to be used without a stage. It sits on its puppeteer's shoulders and points a puppet gun at his head. A puppet hijacker -- Orr loves this idea. Clearly, this man won't be satisfied when puppets are the headlining act. In his daily reveries, this is what Orr really thinks about: puppet terrorists demanding puppet freedom. A puppet revolution.


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SAN JOSE — San Jose State coach Ron Caragher isn't downplaying the significance of Saturday night's battle with defending Rose Bowl champion Stanford.
"Coach Caragher said this could possibly be the biggest win in San Jose State history," linebacker Keith Smith said. "When you hear something like that, you're just chomping at the bit. You want to get after it."
It's pretty clear Caragher is fired up about this game, which will be his first time coaching against Stanford. He smiled widely when asked if he would use Stanford's perceived advantages and greater exposure as a motivating tool.
"Behind closed doors I'll be glad to fully go into that with my football team," Caragher said. "Publicly, I have all the respect for what David (Shaw) and that group have done."
Putting aside the emotional aspects of the game, the key for SJSU to have any shot against Stanford is to keep star quarterback David Fales upright against the Cardinal's physical front seven.
"They create push up front," Caragher said. "We just need to be firm, need to be strong to give our quarterback time so our offense can do what we do best."
Stanford's defensive line and linebackers are generally considered among the best group in the nation. Linebackers Shayne Skov and Trent Murphy are All-Americans, and defensive end Ben Gardner keys the line.
"They play with their hands extremely well in their front seven, and they're just relentless in their ability to get to the quarterback," SJSU offensive coordinator Jimmie Dougherty said. "It's not even necessarily the sacks, it's the number of hits that they really do a good job with that over time takes a toll on the quarterback."
SJSU handled Stanford's defense, which was without the suspended Skov, relatively well in last year's 20-17 loss. The Spartans allowed three sacks against the team that led the nation with 57 and didn't allow any quarterback hurries.
"The key is to win the 1-on-1 matchups," said SJSU center Nicholas Kaspar, who started at right guard in last year's game. "It's always easy to block someone if there's two people. If you win the 1-on-1 matchups, the majority of time you'll be fine."
Last season's performance gave the Spartans confidence and they've won 12 of 13 games since. Both teams enter the night with an eight-game winning streak, tied for third-best in the nation.
"Even though we didn't win, I feel we proved physically and mentally we're capable of competing with a team like that," Smith said. "I'm sure somewhere on the team there were little doubts here and there, but I'm positive this year everybody knows that we have the chance to really do something special."
Nobody will stoop to calling last year's game a moral victory though. While it may have confirmed to SJSU that it was a good team, Fales still looks at it as an opportunity lost.
"I think, especially for the veterans and seniors who know how to finish games, it was tough to lose a game by that close," Fales said. "It was right there for us at the end."
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CARMEL VALLEY ---- Invisible in the first half, Preston Butlerand Dayton Boddie were models of consistency in the second half asEl Camino High rallied from an eight-point deficit to upsettop-seeded and No. 1-ranked Torrey Pines 49-46 Tuesday night in thesemifinals of the CIF San Diego Section Division I boys basketballplayoffs.
The win sent defending Division I champion El Camino (21-10) to Saturday's championship game against Rancho Bernardo (20-11), which beat No. 2-seeded Eastlake in Tuesday's other semifinal.
Torrey Pines finished the season 26-4.
"I'm the senior leader, and I wasn't going to go out like that," said Butler, who scored all 12 of his points in the second half. "This was it. This was win or go home.
"We've been fighting all season to get back to the championship game.
"People doubted us. People said we were immature.
"But no one outworked us."
Trailing 35-27 with 2:37 to play in the third quarter, El Camino went on a 13-3 run ---- with Butler scoring four of those points ---- to take a 40-38 lead with 5:27 to play.
The fourth quarter turned into a free-throw shooting contest, and El Camino hit all eight of its attempts. Butler had two and Boddie had six in the fourth quarter as the Wildcats were 16-of-16 from the line in the game.
The game, however, came down to the final possession.
Leading 49-46 with 47 seconds to play, El Camino ran the clock down to 11 seconds before turning the ball over on a shot-clock violation.
Torrey Pines tried to hurry the ball into the front court under heavy pressure, but the best shot the Falcons could get was a wild 30 footer from the top of the key at the buzzer by Nick Kerr.
"This is a heartbreaker," said Torrey Pines coach John Olive, whose team lost to El Camino in last year's section championship game.
"But El Camino deserved it. They're fierce competitors. They play at a very high level.
"They pressured us, and their offensive rebounding was tenacious."
El Camino's Chris Gorman hit four 3-pointers and led all scorers with 16 points. Boddie added eight points and five rebounds. Butler also contributed five rebounds.
"Preston Butler is the heart and soul of this team," El Camino coach Jeff Jarrard said. "And he came up big. He didn't want to lose this game.
"This team grew as the season went on. Our core group is great.
"Gorman doesn't get enough credit. Mookie Beard is tough inside. And Boddie hit some really clutch free throws.
"It was a physical game, and we tried to match Torrey Pines physically."
Kerr led Torrey Pines with 14 points and eight rebounds. But El Camino threw a variety of defenses at him, limiting his touches.
Amir Begovic added 13 points and seven rebounds. Matt Spelich had nine rebounds for the Falcons.
"We planned for their junk defenses ---- triangles and diamonds," Olive said. "They did what we thought. They just did a real good job."
Contact staff writer John Maffei at 760-740-3547.


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The title of Lee Upton's new book, Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity & Secrecy (Tupelo Press), tells you everything you need to know about what is to come without giving anything away. If the title feels irresistible, that's at least in part because it is in itself a micropoem that gets swiftly and surely to the heart of who a writer is. In this book, at once fast-moving and deep-dwelling, Upton constantly circles and vivisects each of the abstractions in her title. More than anything, she explores the notion of ambition, trying to understand its negative implications and to celebrate what she sees as an ultimately creative, engendering force. She describes her own early forays into language, which she conceives as intimately wedded to ambition, and describes with particular poignancy her memories of communicating with her father, who lost his hearing over the course of her childhood. Although the story is tinged with pain, she remembers, "To be heard by him meant that all of us in our family had to weigh our words." This is both an origin story and an ars poetica, describing one fundamental problem art addresses and one it creates: the desire to be understood and the best way to achieve it through the media available. She credits ambition with seeing not only her through these difficulties, but also Dickinson, Kafka, and everyone else who takes up the pen. Ultimately she argues that ambition unites artists in a kind of brotherhood.
The book is not all apologetics: alongside Ambition lives Purity. This seeming virtue brings up a string of contradictions and complications that Upton delights in unpacking. "The rhetoric of purity can be connected to horrific violence," and "We don't often use the phrase 'a clean mind,'" are two examples of how an idea important to every writer is astonishingly beset with connotations at variance with one another. All this despite the world's seeming indifference to the notion itself. She describes a strong impulse she felt after the birth of her daughter "to purify [her] writing." She gives the example, "I neglected to respect the vitality of the vernacular. I pared away draft after draft. Only gradually did I re-learn how to allow more life into my writing—that is, more of language, graced with its inevitable impurities." She links this strongly to new motherhood, mentioning the obsession of making a dangerous, unpredictable world safe for a baby, and also to womanhood itself, discussing Plath and Anne Carson's explorations of women in their own art and in classic culture. I found this fascinating even beyond those links as a description of the paths we take as writers. We repeatedly confront challenges that seem to change every moment, and which almost always originate within us. The challenge of removing impurities without removing the quicksilver of life itself is one of the great ongoing challenges of craft, and Upton gives compelling, illuminating testimony of that.
Upton reckons with the idea of "Swallowing the Sea" early in the book, writing, "Even before writing any notes, I had wanted to call this book Swallowing the Sea to suggest and honor the wildly outsized but exhilarating ambition that the act of writing can generate, and as an image of the love of impossibility, the love of something astonishing achieved through the imagination." The book itself is such an attempt at containing the limitless, and in many ways does touch the impossible. Surely to make sense of the experience of being a human being, much less a writer, is a task one can never complete. Yet, through its simultaneously scholarly, kinetic and musical journeys through Upton's imaginative universe, the book is again and again satisfyingly accurate in its portrayal of an artist's inner life, and defends and celebrates that life in a meaningful and enlivening way. We are treated to not only her relationship to these words and concepts, but also to her great love of writing, which ranges from Milton to detective fiction. The writing is at every moment charmingly irreverent and dead-sincere, a book, first and foremost, for writers.
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CHICAGO On Wednesday, ad agency Leo Burnett turned 74 years old. To celebrate, each of its worldwide offices hosted a celebration, and in Chicago approximately 1,000 employees began the day with a Hearty Boys-catered spread of Thai custard buns, sesame balls with bean paste, and coconut-sprinkled pumpkin pastries. "This year, our U.K. office took the lead on developing a theme, and they came up with 'Try Something New," said Michelle Mahoney, director of work life for the company's U.S. operation. After brainstorming ways to play out the the theme, which left "endless possibilities," Mahoney said, she and her team came up with the idea of "swapping offices for the day with the Leo Burnett Thailand headquarters."
In addition to the thematic breakfast, the event involved activities on each of Leo Burnett's 20 floors, where employees participated in such things as Thai language and dance classes. "We also got some artwork from our Thailand employees, and we sent them some of ours." Mahoney said. "We're a company of creative artists, so we have an [in-house] art gallery that displays employees' photographs, videos, and glasswork."
In a slight break from the Thailand theme, other floors hosted activities such as a disco-themed shuffleboard tournament, which employed a sand-covered conference table, lights, and an Afro-wearing announcer. "Apart from the lobby, the main hub of the event was on the 21st floor," Mahoney said. There, employees collected $74 in cash, as part of a Leo Burnett anniversary-party tradition that annually gives employees $1 each year that it's been in business.
Once given their cash, guests could opt to donate it to one of four charities that "are near and dear to Leo Burnett's heart," Mahoney said. Each of the possible beneficiaries had on-site representation. Staffers from the Anti-Cruelty Society brought puppies and kittens; the Ronald McDonald House sent its eponymous clown; six kids from the Off the Street Club, a charity that provides inner-city youth with after-school activities, attended the event; and there were also representatives from the city's Greater Food Depository. "We raised $13,000 in two hours," Mahoney noted.
Throughout the day, attendees received raffle tickets for each dollar that they donated and for each activity they participated in, and entered for prizes such as a month of free parking, a one-night stay at the Wit Hotel, and, for the grand prize, a trip for two to Thailand. At around noon, employees headed to the building lobby, where Leo Burnett president Rich Stoddart pulled winning entries and spoke about the day and the company's heritage.
Mahoney said that this year's planning process was relatively obstacle-free. "We've had challenges in the past," she said. "We used to have as many as 15 people planning the event, and it was sort of too many people doing too many things. This year, only four of us spearheaded the planning, and it helped focus things."


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When Henry H. Neff published the second book of his Tapestry series, Kirkus Reviews proclaimed that "young readers will clamor for more." With The Fiend and the Forge, Neff unveils his most riveting adventure yet. Astaroth has claimed the Book of Origins, and the world is thick with goblins and trolls. The land needs a hero, so Max McDaniels sets out from the relatively safe confines of Rowan into the nightmare landscape beyond—but whether he fulfills his destiny or falls to the blight plaguing mankind is far from certain.
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this was book 3 of my favorite all-time series The tapestry I really enjoyed this one it was very well done and a great story
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Awesome book! Definitely didn't see some of the surprises coming! Can't wait for the next one!
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Just buy it. Seriously. If you've read the second, you know that this series is amazingly original (despite it's Potter beginnings). This book just continues to be fascinating and unexpected and completely enjoyable, all while maintaining robust integrity. Even when the really unexpected happens plot-wise, it seems natural the characters would behave as they do. Nothing feels contrived or forced. I've said it before, and I'll end with it now: Why isn't this WAY more famous? It should be. A lot of people would love it. (I mean, advertise(!!), publisher people...)
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Catholic Schools Contribute $19.8 Billion Annually to Nation
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"Catholic schools are a gift to the church - and to the nation," said Ristau. "The enormity of this gift is more striking during these challenging economic times."
In addition to the monetary rewards, the nation gains in other ways. Catholic school students excel academically on standardized tests, 99.1% graduate and 94% attend college. Studies show that graduates of Catholic schools are reliable workers, good citizens and more likely to attend church.
"Our graduates have a strong commitment to community service because that is a foundation of our schools," added Ristau. "Just this past year Catholic school students performed 2.2 million hours of public service in honor of Pope Benedict's visit. That kind of involvement is a gift to the country that cannot be measured in dollars alone."
Research on school effectiveness in the last 10 years has focused on academic outcomes, including standardized test scores, graduation rates, post-secondary aspirations and college attendance. Catholic schools, while they aspire to academic success, include among their primary objectives an understanding of the Catholic faith, a commitment to the practice of religion and a strong set of values. These goals, along with academic achievement, are the key components of the Catholic school's effectiveness.
Catholic schools provide faith formation and values. Teachers view the formation of Christian character as a non-negotiable, which is Gospel centered, environmental, cross-curricular and essential in a society where values are often ignored.
The NCEA, founded in 1904, is a professional membership organization that provides leadership, direction and service to fulfill the evangelizing, catechizing and teaching mission of the church. NCEA members include elementary schools, high schools, parish religious education programs and seminaries.
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In order to maximize space in their homes, hoarders of large numbers of CDs like to discard their plastic jewel cases and replace them with flexible gatefold sleeves. Do this with a Thirsty Ear Blue Series disc, however, and you dispense with its most unique feature.
All jewel cases have a narrow, rectangular strip on the left side, either black and vertically textured or clear and smooth, that connects the inner tray to the back and front covers. On a Thirsty Ear Blue Series item, this strip is a beautiful, translucent shade of blue. Stack the Blue Series cases in a staggered pile, and what you get is a sleek structure with Art Deco overtones—not something one would toss into the recycling bin.
Each Blue Series album is self-contained, but together these discs form a narrative of sorts, a charged commentary on the shape of jazz to come. One wouldn't necessarily expect such things from Thirsty Ear, long a bastion of post-punk, industrial, and other hard-to-define genres of the underground rock world. But thanks to avant-garde pianist Matthew Shipp, the curator and artistic director of the Blue Series, Thirsty Ear has become one of the most innovative jazz labels of our day. And thanks to the cutting-edge design work of Cynthia Fetty, the series has a consistent visual profile, an ideal complement to the provocative sounds on offer. Thirsty Ear label head Peter Gordon describes the look as "an overlay, a blanket over the audio."
Shipp, 43, came on board at Gordon's invitation in 1999, even though he had only recently announced his retirement. He had felt "wasted as a recording artist," as he wrote in the liner notes to his 2003 Blue Series album, Equilibrium. Gordon's offer gave Shipp the impetus to begin again, with a fresh perspective. "Curating a series is bigger than just putting out an album," he says. "I accepted, because I would get to develop a new role for myself."
Shipp's "old" role was that of a self-described "classical avant-garde player." By "classical" we can take Shipp to mean rooted in the tradition, for lack of a better word, of '60s and '70s free jazz. Shipp's free playing is a world of dense atonal clusters and severe, expressionist landscapes, far outside the boundaries of tempo, form, and standard harmony. When playing live with longtime colleagues like altoist Rob Brown and violinist Mat Maneri, Shipp may go on for nearly an hour without so much as a break for applause. These summits, with their knotted, spiraling streams of invention, are the antithesis of a polite club set. Listeners are free to follow the players' every move, or lose themselves in a flow of moods, delighting in the absence of pre-meditation. (Shipp's "classical" concept is particularly well documented on the hatOLOGY label.)
While the Blue Series hasn't posited a break from the "classical" avant-garde, it has facilitated projects that are far more crafted and deliberate than the typical free-jazz "blowing session." As Peter Gordon explains, "We didn't want a two-track documentation of 'the moment.' The free scene was already well represented that way. We wanted something broader—a concept, a point of view." Together, Gordon and Shipp envisioned an "interdisciplinary" approach for the Blue Series. "We wanted to mediate and bring different types of people together," says Gordon.
The first few entries, however, were a forum for Shipp and his inner circle, many closely associated with the Vision Festival, an avant-jazz convergence held every spring on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Shipp's own Pastoral Composure was first, followed by the more expansive New Orbit. Bassist William Parker, a veteran of Cecil Taylor's bands and a colleague of Shipp's from the David S. Ware Quartet, debuted on the Blue Series with Painter's Spring. Mat Maneri's Blue Decco and trumpeter Roy Campbell's It's Krunch Time carried the series forward, in an adventurous but still largely acoustic vein.
Then the circle began to expand. Pianist Craig Taborn, who had appeared on Blue Decco, offered the captivating trio album Light Made Lighter. He also appeared on The Shell Game, an electronically infused trio epic in four parts by Tim Berne, the well-established composer and alto saxophonist.
DJ culture and sampling soon began to broaden the Blue Series aesthetic. The British duo Spring Heel Jack (John Coxon and Ashley Wales), already on Thirsty Ear's main roster, joined the Blue Series with Masses, filtering the music of Shipp, William Parker, and other live improvisers through a skein of experimental electronica. An even larger number of players, including J Spaceman of Spiritualized, appeared on Spring Heel Jack's next release, Amassed. Shipp's experience with Spring Heel Jack prompted a turn toward beats and electronica on his own Nu Bop and Equilibrium albums, and laid the groundwork for an ambitious collaboration with the hip-hop group Antipop Consortium. Along the way, Guillermo E. Brown, David S. Ware's drummer, issued a powerful electronica statement of his own, Soul at the Hands of the Machine.
The Blue Series took another bold turn when DJ Spooky, pioneer of the "illbient" school of electronica, recruited Brown, Shipp, Parker, and free-jazz icon Joe McPhee for Optometry, which was soon followed by the remix album Dubtometry. But the acoustic (or at least non-beat-related) branch of the Blue Series continued to grow as well, with albums like Parker's Raining on the Moon and Maneri's Sustain.
This was new territory for jazz, for music as a whole, and especially for Thirsty Ear Recordings, Inc. The label had a solid reputation as a purveyor of "out rock," recording and/or distributing acts like Adrian Belew, Brian Eno, Exene Cervenka, Bush Tetras, Jah Wobble, Teenage Fan Club, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Pere Ubu. Jazz had a fan in Peter Gordon, but for a number of compelling reasons, Thirsty Ear was reluctant to go down that road. "We didn't have any real depth of knowledge or understanding," Gordon asserts. "Until we had a handle on how to approach the music, there was no reason to clutter the market with more jazz releases."
The man who unwittingly gave Thirsty Ear that handle was anything but a jazz musician. He was Henry Rollins, formerly of Black Flag, one of punk rock's foundational bands. Rollins has pursued parallel paths over the years: fronting the Rollins Band, running his own labels, and making spoken-word appearances. In the early '90s, after reading in a magazine that Rollins was an avant-garde jazz fan, Shipp sent the hulking, tattooed, square-jawed singer a demo. Rollins liked what he heard, and he reissued Shipp's first album, Circular Temple, on Infinite Zero, a label he ran with noted alt-rock and hip-hop producer Rick Rubin. When Rollins launched his 2.13.61 label (named for his own birth date), he released several new albums by Shipp, including Critical Mass and Flow of X.
It just so happened that Thirsty Ear was handling distribution for 2.13.61. "We were introduced to the power of jazz through a punk rocker's eyes," marvels Gordon. As time went by and Rollins's label became inactive, Gordon invited Shipp to record for Thirsty Ear proper. The result was DNA, a muscular duo outing with William Parker. It was to have been Shipp's last album, but the Blue Series changed all that.
Gordon had long been aware of a connection between alt-rock and free jazz. As he explains it, "The avant-garde scene had a certain energy and intensity, a take-no-prisoners approach that early punk had as well. The languages were very different, but the attitude was similar." Indeed, it isn't rare to run across a free-jazz devotee with a hidden passion for the harshest rock-n-roll. This aesthetic link made a substantial difference in bringing music like Shipp's to a wider public. As Phil Freeman writes in New York Is Now!: The New Wave of Free Jazz (Telegraph, 2001), "The fact that it's no longer in any way shocking to see a free jazz album reviewed in CMJ, Alternative Press, or Magnet is a tribute to the change in public perception created by Shipp's and Rollins' efforts."
Shipp places the punk/jazz nexus in the context of the '90s. "Now the whole thing has moved into the beat world, the abstract hip-hop world," he notes. "It's really in the air, it's not just us. And I don't see it as just a trend, because the connection between the musics is real." That said, Shipp makes no secret of his early skepticism toward the Spring Heel Jack and Antipop Consortium projects. He had met "Beans," of Antipop, while the rapper was employed at Other Music, an alternative record store in Manhattan's East Village. Beans was keen on collaborating, but as Shipp candidly recalls, "I thought he was completely full of shit." Shipp came around, however, and music took a bold evolutionary step forward. Hip-hop's emphasis on production as an art seemed right in line with the Blue Series mandate. And an album like Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp, with its enticing matrix of beats, rhymes, and improvisation, perfectly embodied Shipp's desire to work with new forms and reach new listeners, not simply sell more records.
More and more, the Blue Series is guided by a simple yet profound insight: that today's listener does not proclaim allegiance to any one genre of music. It's fitting, then, that the Blue Series is not only bringing more listeners to jazz, but also bringing jazz listeners to hip-hop and its allied sub-genres. This year alone will see a new William Parker trio record, a Spring Heel Jack live record, a Shipp collaboration with the rapper El-P, a live Vision Festival document, and a David S. Ware plus strings disc. In addition, The GoodandEvil Sessions will launch the Blue Series Continuum, a beyond-jazz offshoot focusing on collaborative, leaderless projects. A brainchild of the famed production team GoodandEvil, this album is similar in premise to the Spring Heel Jack projects, but a good deal more accessible.
"We put the gun to our head each time we release an album," Peter Gordon remarks. "We try to make sure we're not repeating ourselves, that we're saying something new."
From Declaration of Independents: A HyperHistory of Independent Jazz Labels
by David R. Adler
© 2003 NewMusicBox


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