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When It Comes To Tree Removal Services in Hueytown Alabama, We Are The One You Need!
Tree Removal Services in Hueytown Alabama, we deliver incredible services when it comes to tree removal
Tree Removal Services in Hueytown Alabama
When there is a need, we know just how to satisfy it. With the right insured tree service specialist devoted to providing professional, prompt, and high-standard tree removal services in Hueytown, Al, you can never go wrong. This is why we offer the best professional tree trimming, tree removal, and stump removal services for your residential and commercial property at a highly affordable price. With our experience and willingness to satisfy our clients, we have risen to be at the forefront of the tree maintenance business. So, need experienced and certified arborists or a locally owned tree company for your tree care projects? Contact us today!
Professional Tree Trimming, Tree Removal, and Stump Removal
We are aware that the cause of most fallen trees after the hurricane is due to inappropriate pruning and trimming and this is why we offer professional tree trimming services in Hueytown to keep your property looking nice and clean.
We do this with the right equipment needed and an ever-ready team who would be more than willing to embark on trimming trees prior to the emergence of the storm (hurricane season). We do not have a reputation of leaving your property or tree worse than we met it but conspicuously better than we did.
This is one reason why we leave no stone unturned as we prune trees with great dexterity until we are 100% sure that your property is safe and that you are satisfied.
As much as we love nature and seeing those beautiful palm trees or oak trees standing on your property, we also care about your safety and choices.
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This is why, if for safety or aesthetic reasons, you decide to get rid of a tree stump or a tree itself, we won't in any way stop you especially when it is for the right reasons.
Our residential and commercial tree removal services are one of a kind and let you remove downed trees and other damaged trees. Tree removal gives you the chance of implementing innovative landscape plans in your residential and commercial properties.
And since we can predict what direction a tree would fall and have climbers to help when needed, we leave you with the only choice of opting for your safety. So, when you want a wood rot or decaying tree removed, just call on us. Our prices are affordable!
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Most of our customers are worried about choosing between stump grinding and stump removal. We can help you make the best choice by offering suggestions and hints at the advantages of one over the other and which best suits your needs.
For stump grinding, you do not get rid of the roots of the tree which total stump removal allows you to do. When the roots are removed, the chances of pests and fungi which cause wood rot are eliminated. Plus, with the right equipment and machines, we can carry out both tasks excellently.
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We are Professionals
We don't only do an amazing job but also care deeply about our customers and ensure they have a great customer service experience that would lead them back to us year after year. We do this by ensuring that our consulting services are packed with value and our customers are better enlightened on what to do regarding the removal of trees that compromise the structure of their properties including the best ways to prepare for the hurricane season. We also work with different utility businesses to provide utility line clearance strategies to help our customers who are concerned about their trees growing close to the utility line.
While we offer emergency services and consulting services together with our commercial services, we make each tree service from us remarkable by doing yet an exceptional job to Alabama homeowners in Hueytown and its surrounding area.
We are reliable
With a wide range of tree services including debris removal, tree pruning, dead tree removal, root pruning, root grinding, stump grinding, canopy reduction, hedge trimming, and regular tree maintenance, our residential customers have just every tree care problem solved. Add lawn maintenance and ornamental plant maintenance to the list of services we offer and you are guaranteed 360⁰ coverage. We can help maintain ornamental plants by leaving your property colorful and rosy while your lawn is looking nice and clean.
Doing an excellent job with the right equipment leaves us with a long history of faithfulness to our customers while guaranteeing that the best and most healthy action is taken with full consideration of their property and its safety. This is why we always offer the very best advice or suggestions to our residential customers and give them all the satisfaction they need at a fair price. It would surprise you how prompt we are and how glad we are to deliver our services excellently but you would never know if you never try. So, reach out to us for your tree care services in Hueytown.
We enjoy our work
As much as we love to be on yards, we also enjoy helping people. This is a 'must-have' for all of our employees as our work requires helping people. We find joy in our work and we are happy while making others happy!
Safety is our Watchword
Paramount attention is put to our workers and clients' safety as we ensure to make use of modern and working equipment in good shape together with the latest technology and techniques for our work. Our equipment is always tested before any team moves out in order to avoid malfunction. Our clients can rest assured of safety of themselves and their yards while we are there.
Our employees are certified
Both the employees in the lawn section and our arborists are certified. We give no room for unprofessionalism in our company. Every employee you come across is certified in their field and you can trust any response you get from them. Plus they are amazing at what they do.
Satisfied Customers
So far, we have several positive reviews from our customers. From the satisfactory look of their yards to the lovely compliments of our companies and employees and the constant referrals. We are glad we are able to put a smile on their faces and we will keep doing this with the continuous improvement of our company.
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We love trees and the shade they provide to your commercial properties but when the shade is no longer comfortable because it endangers your property or could fall on your building in times of storm, we step in to get it removed. Many Alabama homeowners who take the task into their hands have landed themselves in more danger than the tree would have landed them in. This is why we are aware of the right risk analysis and are capable of removing your tree safely without endangering anything and anyone. Be among the many people in Hueytown that have remained satisfied after trusting us with their tree maintenance.
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Frequently Asked Questions about our tree removal service in Hueytown
- Do you need a permit to cut down a tree in Hueytown?
Of course, all cities are guided by certain rules and regulations, and Hueytown is not exempted. Hueytown, which happens to be in the Hueytown-Dade County, has some laws governing the cutting down or removal of trees and the species of trees that are to be cut down. First, a permit is required if you are thinking of getting a tree removed or cut down from both residential and commercial properties. You can apply for the permit at the Building and Zone Department.
The permit would only be issued when the tree, if not removed, would cause any potential damage to you or your property. This is why a certified arborist would have to examine the tree and its surrounding area to note down any inimical tendencies attached to the tree's presence in that area. Once they compile arborist reports and confirm that the tree, if not removed poses great danger, your tree can be safely removed by certified arborists. However, if there are no risks involved, you would have to opt for mitigation. You can check out the Hueytown-Dade county laws on trees.
- How much does it cost to remove a tree in Hueytown?
The cost of tree removal in Hueytown is not fixed; it varies. So many factors determine the cost like the location of the property where the tree is to be removed, the size and diameter of the tree to be removed, and the tree company to be employed. On average, some arborists would charge anything from $350 to $1400 but this is only an estimate. When estimating the cost of tree removal, it is advisable to always examine the type of tree care project you are embarking on. If you want several trees removed from your commercial or residential property, you would have to put that into consideration.
Also, if your trees are tall and difficult to access (in terms of location or utility line clearance tree pruning), and if you require emergency service, the price you would have to pay would definitely be higher. When the tree is also in a good or healthy state, it becomes more difficult to remove than dead trees. This is why most tree companies prefer to physically assess the tree and its surrounding area before estimates are given. So, estimating or calculating the cost of tree removal services in Hueytown without taking note of these would be inaccurate.
- How do I get rid of a tree in Hueytown?
Every day, most residential and commercial property owners are walking the path of getting rid of one tree or the other. While this is done daily, there are a host of things to be considered which include finding out if your city or county requires a permit to get trees removed and if yes, what trees are exempt from the code. In Hueytown, a permit is needed to remove any tree in the Hueytown-Dade County. Other things to consider include the cost of getting a certified and experienced tree company to help with your tree removal or tree maintenance projects, and consulting with them if there are other ways to ensure your safety like pruning or trimming trees before the hurricane seasons instead of getting rid of the tree completely.
- How long does it take to cut down a tree?
With professional and certified arborists, you can be assured that the cutting or removal of a tree wouldn't take so long since they have enough experience to do an exceptional job. However, regardless of the knowledge and expertise, it could take a tree company about three hours or even a day to cut down a tree. This is because when cutting down trees, so many factors have to be considered, and these factors inform the total time or duration it would take.
A tree that is pretty large and tall would take a longer time to remove than a shorter one. In the same vein, trees that are situated in areas that are free or devoid of utility line clearance, houses, gates, tanks, and other things within their surrounding area would be a lot easier to cut down and would take a shorter time to remove than those located in populated areas. Then there is the nature or health of the tree to be equally considered. Wood rot trees and dead tree removal take lesser time than healthy ones. With all of these factors considered and the number of trees to be removed coupled with the initial preparation and finishing methods to be employed (root grinding, stump grinding, or root pruning), the number of hours it would take to cut a tree cannot be considered without looking into the above factors.
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Tree Removal Service Hueytown Alabama ensures you are able to enjoy, admire, and be satisfied with every aspect of your home and allows you to proudly show your yards to others. Make your trees look attractive and disease-free with us as you also make your home and surroundings pest-free.
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A lot of the difficulty in talking about race has been a lack of agreement on what "race" means. In the past, the idea of pure races also included an ordering of certain races as inherently superior to others. We reject this idea absolutely. However, that doesn't mean that there are no genetic differences between populations of different ancestral origin. A few of our features use the genome-wide data of reference populations from around the world to trace the origin of pieces of an individual's genome. Some customers have complex patterns depending on where their ancestors originated. These reference populations aren't "races"; they're representative samples of peoples who have lived in a single place for a very long time and have thus accumulated different sets of genetic variants over time.
That's a tricky piece of wordcraft -- they're not 'races'; "they're representative samples of peoples who have lived in a single place for a very long time and have thus accumulated different sets of genetic variants over time."
Uhh....I'm thinking that's pretty much the definition of race in a lot of textbooks...
The points she starts with -- both true -- are that human populations aren't isolated ("pure races"), and you shouldn't rank them ("inherently superior"). But those ideas conflict with the process, since the software commonly used in human genetics (like STRUCTURE and other programs) assumes a model in which originally isolated groups (otherwise known as pure races) mix together.
It is true that STRUCTURE (and similar tools) use a model in which each individual is assumed to have a share of genes from each of K different populations, that differ from each other in the frequency (and in some case co-occurrence, due to linkage) of different gene variants.
These K populations, are not, however, assumed to be "pure races", but rather simply populations that differ from each other in their genetic characteristics. The program itself does not make any assumptions as to why they differ from each other: it could be due to different types or intensity of gene flow, or to reproductive isolation. Distinctive gene frequencies may arise both due to "race purity" or in the presence of gene flow, provided that it occurs at a low enough level so that changes that occur in one population are not reflected immediately in the other, and their distinctiveness is maintained.
But, more importantly, the "pure races" model is an approximation whose validity can be checked. If gene flow is substantial, then our simplifying STRUCTURE view of the world will not result in distinct clusters, in which the great majority of individuals from a particular population have the greatest share of their ancestry from the same racial clusters.
In other words, the fact that we assume distinct "pure" clusters is no guarantee that we will get distinct races via an application of STRUCTURE. Try STRUCTURE with K=2 in a homogeneous population, and you won't get 2 distinct clusters, even though you made that assumption: you will get a bunch of individuals that belong -in various proportions- to the 2 clusters, but no 2 solid blocks of individuals, one of which belongs predominantly to the first, and the other to the second cluster.
What STRUCTURE and similar programs have repeatedly shown, is that humans do, in fact, have genomes that resemble each other in the way we would expect if there were pure races which have occasionally mixed in their peripheries.
Our understanding of genetic processes helps us understand, that this is not the result of separate creation of human races, but of long-term gene flow limitations due to geography and culture, that have allowed originally related human populations to evolve apart.

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In 2006, Adblock Plus 0.6 was released as a browser extension that promised to keep users' Web experience uncluttered and advertising-free. As the Internet became overrun with auto-play videos, overflowing page margins, and impossible-to-close pop-ups, Adblock Plus was viewed as a godsend by millions – more than 200 million of them at last count. But, a little over two years ago, the company behind the software did something that seemed to make no sense: they began showing ads.
Adblock Plus' open source, community-driven policies earned it a loyal and vocal user base. When it launched its Acceptable Ads initiative in December of 2011, users were outraged that Adblock Plus would begin selectively pushing ads through its own filters, and eyebrows were raised when it was learned that the new feature would be "opt out," requiring people to dig into their settings to disable it and return to the ad-free environment they downloaded Adblocker Plus for in the first place.
Company president Wladimir Palant claimed that the initiative was in line with Adblocker Plus' core function: to improve the overall Web experience. What that meant was they were pivoting from a company that provided tools to block annoying ads and toward a company that would become an arbiter of what was – and was not – acceptable advertising.
"They're basically charging us for our own content."
"Their pitch is that you'll increase your revenue with little to no monetary investment," our source says. "They're basically charging us for our own content."
To illustrate how aggressive Adblock Plus is being in its pursuit of this revenue stream, the source claims that the company initially demanded a flat fee, paid in advance quarterly, in exchange for the media company's ads being displayed.
Adblock Plus maintains that the Acceptable Ads initiative is well intentioned. There are more than a few websites that would lose their ability to operate if ads were blocked entirely, and Adblock Plus' position as the most-used ad blocking application out there puts it in the position of gatekeeper. The company also believes it can help improve Web advertising overall.
"So far only a few websites have been included [as part of Acceptable Ads] and we have not yet worked out all details and criteria," co-founder Till Faida tells us, while also mentioning the program is still in a beta phase. "We are trying to incorporate feedback from our users, but also websites, ad agencies, and advertisers to create rules for a compromise that works for everyone. As you can imagine, this is a very ambitious goal and a work in progress."
Adblock Plus refers to companies participating in Acceptable Ads as "whitelisted," and Faida says that publishers can apply for the whitelist or be submitted by the community, and that it's intended to help smaller websites, not large ones. If larger sites apply or are submitted, Adblock Plus will figure out away to allow them to "contribute."
"We will work out on a case-by-base basis how [larger outlets] can contribute to our project," he says. "There is not a fixed pricing system." He stressed that no one can just pay to be whitelisted.
Adblocker Plus has some high profile advocates, including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
"If you think about it, everything about the Internet has been evolving – except for ads," Ohanian says. "We deserve better. I like that [Adblocker Plus] exists because it puts an onus on publishers to be a little bit more tasteful with the ads that they run, but also to think about alternative business models … especially at a time when publishers are having a hard time keeping the lights on."
When told of our source's accusations of Adblocker Plus' pricing tactics, Ohanian said he hadn't heard of any such behavior but that, "It would make me a sad panda," if it were true. Ohanian expressed some reservation about the Acceptable Ads initiative, admitting that it sounds a bit like filtering the Internet – a topic he recently spent a keynote addressing during Social Media Week in New York.
As fate would have it, Reddit was recently added to the Adblock Plus "whitelist" – a significant move for the ad blocker, given the fact that Reddit's audience is largely tech-aware users who appear to buy into what the Acceptable Ads initiative is all about.
"Our users can now opt to support websites that rely on advertising, but that choose to do it in a non-obtrusive way," Faida said about the Reddit whitelisting. "This not only rewards responsible advertisers, but encourages them. This is exactly the choice that users have made with Reddit's site and we're very excited that Reddit has shown a deep commitment to making its site safe with responsible ads."
"[Adblock Plus] is stealing from the rich and giving to the poor – and it's a very one-sided conversation with them."
"Whitelisting is free for small websites, blogs, and editorial content providers," Faida says. "However, the initiative was not intended to maximize revenues for large companies, that's why those [large companies] are contributing to the costs it takes to run Acceptable Ads (it requires significant resources and it is in their strategic interest to make the initiative sustainable)."
Of course, according to our source, it was Adblock Plus that sought their business, not the other way around. As our source put it, "[Adblock Plus] is stealing from the rich and giving to the poor – and it's a very one-sided conversation with them. Basically, they set the terms and it's a take it or leave it offer."
Faida insists that his company's policies are transparent. "While some companies are contributing to the Acceptable Ads effort, nobody can just pay to get ads whitelisted," he says. "Before a website gets unblocked, it has to go through a community approval process which ensures a maximum transparency."
You can see here that community approval process in action. Clearly, members of the Adblock Plus forums (the site says there are "over 100 frequent forum members") are looking at the proposals for whitelisting sites. The views on each are rather high, although all discussion seems to be divisive. In the thread dedicated to debating whitelisting Reddit, for example, many members voice their complaints about how Adblock Plus is setting itself up to play Internet ad judge.
The criticisms of the project – and the accusation that Adblock Plus' pricing is neither negotiated nor consensual – speak to the great risks of this system. While the service's aim is to hold Internet ads to a certain standard, the questions about where this authority comes from and how it's being used have to be asked.
… the loudest cries are starting to come from the media companies forced to reckon with yet another gatekeeper …
That may well be the case, but Adblock Plus' users aren't the ones leveling claims of a unfair pricing and aggressive tactics (although, to be fair, you just have to browse the Adbock Plus forums to see the signs of users' intense frustration with the Acceptable Ads program). But the loudest cries are starting to come from the media companies forced to reckon with yet another gatekeeper in the digital media marketplace – companies that don't have the same leverage Adblock Plus' users do.
As discouraging as the accusation that Adblock Plus could be extorting the position its millions of users put it in, the situation isn't hopeless, and it may be evolving. "They've had to tread through this market, lay a lot of foundation, do a lot of ground work," Ohanian remarks. "The next iteration of tools coming forward like this can learn from their experiences."


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In his second UFC main event, Vladimir Matyushenko hopes to erase the memory of his UFC 33 loss to Tito Ortiz by halting the rise of Jon Jones Sunday.
been a long time since Vladimir Matyushenko's last UFC headlining gig back in September
of 2001 - nearly nine years, 16 fights, and a short layoff ago.
more telling is that in the time since his UFC 33 light heavyweight title bout
against Tito Ortiz and this Sunday's VERSUS main event in San Diego against Jon
Jones, Matyushenko has watched a fledgling sport go mainstream, complete with
all the perks and craziness that goes along with it.
inside my mind, yes, I believed it was going to get big, but it was kind of
hard to believe when MMA was banned from this and that, and that was one of the
reasons why I was thinking about quitting for a while," said Matyushenko, a
veteran of nearly 13 years in the fight game. "But right now, it's blowing my
mind away. I don't think anybody knew it, I don't think (UFC President) Dana
White even knew it was gonna get this big."
night in Las Vegas against Ortiz, Matyushenko – a late replacement for the
injured Vitor Belfort – went five rounds with the champion in the UFC's return
to Pay-Per-View cable TV, and while the fight and the result (a unanimous
decision loss) wasn't to his liking, 'The Janitor' was far from done with life
on the big stage, even though it's taken him a while to get back here.
late than never, right?
he smiled. "It's a good time to stick around."
Matyushenko hasn't just been making up the numbers over the last nine years.
Winner of 14 of his last 16 bouts, with the only defeats coming at the hands of
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (in a rematch – Matyushenko won their first meeting)
and Andrei Arlovski, the native of Retchisa, Belarus
has quietly remained within striking distance of the top light heavies, and
after returning to the UFC in 2009 after a six year hiatus and winning bouts
over Igor Pokrajac and Eliot Marshall, he's in a perfect position heading into
Sunday's bout with Jones.
definitely gonna bring me much closer to a title fight," said Matyushenko of
his future should he beat Jones. "There are also a few fights I could do
before, Nogueira, maybe Tito. The division is really tough to get through and
you have to be a true champion right now. Whereas before, it was kinda easier and
it was not as much fun with the media and the public's perception, but right
now, it's fun to fight, but God, it's pretty tough."
39-year old Matyushenko chuckles, perhaps wondering how a single father of a
19-year old son who just joined the Air Force still gets out of bed every
morning to battle it out with 20-somethings in the gym, and then enters an
eight-sided cage to fight some of the best athletes in the world every few
are other things - my family, my fans, and everything else - going on, but deep
in my mind, I'm always preparing for the fight," he said. "Yeah, there are
easier ways to make money, but when you make a commitment you have to stick
with it, no matter what you do. If you go halfway here and halfway there, you're
never gonna be successful."
despite being five months away from the big 4-0, Matyushenko may be one of
those rare fighters who is getting better with time. Sure, his bread and butter
is still his wrestling attack, but especially in the Pokrajac fight,
Matyushenko's striking has gotten more precise and punishing, with some of his
flush blows audible at Octagonside in their bout last September.
definitely been working on the striking, but I had been working on it before
too," he said. "Now I've had the chance to show it. I understand that it's a
fine line between just winning the fight and also making it exciting and I
don't want to lose the fight by taking unnecessary risks, but I also want to
please my fans and make it exciting."
will have ample opportunity to get into a fan-friendly scrap Sunday as he takes
on the dynamic Jones, a young, athletic and talented fighter who is seen by
many as the future of the light heavyweight division. Ask Matyushenko for his
scouting report on Jonny Bones, and he smiles.
what you said - he's a young, athletic, talented kid," he said, "but I have to
fight somebody, so why not him? I know it's a tough fight, but fights are
supposed to be tough. It's a tough business."
Matyushenko is the perfect example of a tough guy in a tough business. You
don't take on a cast of characters like Ortiz, Nogueira, Arlovski, Pedro Rizzo,
Jason Lambert, Tim Boetsch, Yuki Kondo, and Vernon White without a steel will
and a desire to walk through fire for a victory. So if you expect him to get
rattled by a laundry list of interviews or the idea of fighting a flashy kid
with youth on his side, he won't. He's been there, done that, and all that
matters to him is being prepared for the fight. After that, it's just him and
Jones in the Octagon for 15 minutes or less.
prepared to be the best, and obviously my goal is to control the fight and
control him and I will try the best I can," he said. "I have good sparring
partners who are similar to Jon Jones in many aspects. I have good guys on the
ground, I have good guys in kickboxing, and everything's gone pretty well."
what about all the interviews?
"I think I'm getting better since my last one with Tito," he laughs, but that
statement can apply to his fighting career as well, and that's been a bit of a
surprise – both to fight fans and to Matyushenko himself.
I look back ten years ago, I thought I'd be retired right now," he said, "but
I'm still doing it and I've kinda surprised myself that I'm still doing pretty
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Anne Hathaway's speeches always start out good. Remember the Globes? And her tribute to Sally Field? That was good. Last night too. Last night she started out strong. She talked about her SAG membership, she expressed her love for her community. And if she had stopped there, we'd be cool. The problem is that she doesn't stop. Not only does she not stop, she goes on to "my cast" her way onto your Hate List.
"My Cast"
As you know, as I've noted too many times already, I hate "my cast". How hard can it be to say "my castmates"? It's one more syllable! It can't be that taxing! And it's so much less ME.
Why not "my cast"? Or, in her case, "my casts"?
Because it's just so... proprietary. It suggests that the cast that's being appreciated exists only to support the person who is thanking it. It does not evoke a sense of "team". Rather it gives the impression that the "cast" is one faceless collective with a secondary purpose. Think of it this way...
They never say "my crew".
When they thank the crew, it's always, "the crew". It's never "my crew". Because "my crew" implies that the entire crew is subordinate to the actor. Why then doesn't the same apply to "cast"?
I wouldn't expect this understanding from the lower ranks, the Ashley Greenes and Kellan Lutzes. I would however expect it from Anne Hathaway because I want to believe that she knows the subtleties and nuances of language and expression. And this is a compliment. Annie is not stupid. At least I don't want to think of her as stupid. Which means that I hold her to a higher standard -- that she would be able to differentiate between "my cast" and "my castmates" or "the cast", or even the slightly less offensive "our cast".
As for the dress, to Anne's credit, it could have been so much worse. Imagine it on, like, Julianne Hough? You would have clubbed off a finger. Much prefer her dress from the night before at the Producers Guild -- Erdem with a built-in cape. Gorgeous. Except for the shoes which are vegan and, again, are we supposed to give that a pass?


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James Turrell's latest site-specific work, opening this spring in Sweden, creates interplay between the body, environment and light.
Light is, by its very physical properties, impossible to capture and define: it is possible to confine the reaction of light with chemicals, but the experience of existing within and fully understanding the colour spectrum is inexplicable. The artist James Turrell (b. 1943), stated in a 1987 article, Mapping Spaces: "It's not about light or a record of it, but it is light. Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation." Light and colour have inspired and intrigued artists, philosophers, and theologians for centuries. Colours have become symbolic of emotions and thoughts, taking on animate qualities and connotations that surpass their scientific properties just as light itself has come to symbolise "inner light", elucidation, and when featured in religious iconography, the light of God.
Turrell's work positions itself as the starting point from which to explore these theoretical and philosophical queries in an exhibition entitled See! Colour!, which opens this May at Kulturhuset in Järna, Sweden. Curated by Rembert Biemond, the exhibition will use Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (b. 1749) writings and experiments in colour as the theoretical backbone to explore Turrell's work, along with that of Rudolf Steiner (b. 1861) and Hilma af Klint (b. 1862). Each of these artists explores in some way the relationship between the physical environment, light, and colour, and how the essential physical properties of each can be altered through their interaction.
James Turrell, by appearance, looks like a stereotypical mid-Western rancher; but, as the saying goes, "appearances can be deceiving" for his appearance belies the artistic genius that rests below the surface. Holding a BA in perceptual technology and MA in art, he is interested and educated in both the sciences and art, a duality of knowledge that has led him to the cutting edge in terms of light technology as applicable in his artistic practice. He is perhaps best known for his immense, awe-inspiring skyspace at Roden Crater, Arizona. Begun in 1974, the work is situated within an old extinct volcano that he has physically altered through the addition of tunnels and observation chambers, to allow the audience new ways of viewing, and ultimately experiencing, the sky, geology, and space. Though some might categorise him as a land artist, thereby placing him within a lineage of artists such as Richard Long and Richard Hamilton, Turrell's work is a step beyond that limiting term. His preoccupation with light, space and colour places him in a category of his own. Although his work is aligned with the environment and space, it also probes the essence of what we deem light and colour to do and mean.
Land art is often categorised as antithetical to the base idea of conceptual art, argued to be, in the words of the art critic Anthony Godfrey, "uncritical, sentimental, or nostalgic philosophy." See! Colour!, to some extent, embraces this definition as the works to be exhibited delve into the sentiments and ideas associated with the individual's development and interaction with the environment, and explore ways in which the individual can transcend those necessary physical limits. Turrell's work reduces the viewer by emphasising space and its apparent physical boundaries, and then extends the boundaries through his use of light. Specifically for the exhibition, he will construct a ganzfeld, a room in which the audience will be surrounded by constantly changing colours of light, a light which will saturate the room so that the audience's bodily presence and occupation of space will be negated or reduced to such an extent as to create a sense of infinity. The use of changing colours will act as a emotional directive for the audience as colours, like sounds, are associative (e.g. the colour white alluding to purity or innocence). Biemond argues: "Natural phenomena, like the blue sky and the red sunset, are in my understanding, imperative to the basis of understanding colour" – a statement that Turrell would perhaps agree with, as his skyspaces and ganzfeld utilise the physical environment and the way in which light interplays upon forms and objects, to create new interpretations of colour.
The American artist, Robert Irwin (b. 1928) was highly influential upon Turrell, as he emphasised a similar course of interest in his work, specifically that aesthetic perception was not necessarily tied to an object as such. Irwin created installation works; one series from the 1970s, which is of primary interest with regards to Turrell's work, is that which comprises a room with a window with sharply measured corners, providing a frame through which outside light courses to create a specific environment within the interior space. He quite literally demolished the "art object" as such, for how does one go about owning the frame (the window), without owning the room itself? The way that the outside light filtered into the room, depending on the time of day, meant that the work was constantly changing both in terms of meaning and physical reality. Turrell's skyspaces exist in the same way; they are irreproducible, as it is virtually impossible to re-create Roden Crater let alone the direct perceptual experience that results from the audience's participation. The skyspace, as such, is site-determined; the four classifications of outdoor sculpture being, according to Irwin, site-dominant, site-adjusted, site-specific and site-determined (as cited in a 1986 discussion).
In addition to a permanent, site-determined skyspace in Järna, Turrell has also created a darkspace; a room opposite that of the ganzfeld, which accentuates the changing colours of light, as it is instead an almost completely dark room. The viewer is subsumed into the space and invited to exist within it. The literal, terrifying experience of being without reference points from which to orientate oneself is perhaps the initial reaction, but Turrell aspires for the audience to remain within the room, and as they become accustomed to being immersed in darkness, allow the experience to create immaterial reference points. He lacks concern for the transient internal reaction induced by the installation, because it is only ephemeral in theory, and the audience will remember and retain their response.
There is an element of the transcendental in both af Klint and Turrell's work, an almost religious overtone, connected with nature. Turrell specifically emphasises the importance of recognising the environment that we are in; Biedmond argues that "with Turrell's skyspaces it is very obvious, 'look up!', is what the skyspaces tell you. The sky – the heavens if you want, are right here – or, to phrase it another way – open up – more light! Those again were Goethe's last words." Goethe, who published Zür Farbenlehre, his treatise on colour theory, 200 years ago, is brought into the exhibition to provide a historical context of sorts from which to view the three different artists' work. Goethe was interested in the way in which colour was perceived by the individual, rather than the scientific optical phenomena of colour. He believed colour to be contained within light and it was his experiments with prisms that led him to publish Zür Farbenlehre. Rudolf Steiner has perhaps the most obvious connection with Goethe from an academic standpoint, as Steiner researched, referenced, and lectured about Goethe during his career, ultimately writing two books about him and his philosophies. Steiner is perhaps most famous for founding the Waldorf school system, but he also, amongst other things, founded anthroposophy (a philosophy that grew out of his interest in mysticism, science, and the spiritual needs of human beings). It is the blackboard drawings that Steiner created during a lecture term of the years 1920-1924 that will be exhibited as part of See! Colour!, specifically those to do with colour and how it can be perceived and determined. Steiner was a prolific lecturer and 24 drawings from the Steiner estate have been included to demonstrate the intellectual and artistic range of his thought process. The pedagogical drawings, which were executed on a black background save for one, demonstrate his skill as a lecturer, philosopher, and artist, utilising both text and image, and were incredibly influential upon af Klint.
Hilma af Klint, a Swedish-born abstract painter, has only recently been internationally recognised for her work, though she had a long career, passing away at the age of 81 in 1944. She was interested, like Steiner, in the accessibility of the spiritual world through inner development, and eventually became a follower of Steiner's Anthroposophic movement. Though she painted primarily abstract paintings, her work precludes Suprematism, with a visual vocabulary reminiscent of the work of Kasimir Malevich and Mark Rothko. Her large, monochrome colour fields seem to emanate emotional qualities, just as her structured, geometric paintings exist as a precursor to Bridget Riley and Op-Art.
Her work is diverse in terms of styles and influences; af Klint famously explored the possibilities of automatic drawing, years before the Surrealists began their experiments into automatism. Her interest in the occult and the paranormal led her to become a member of "the Five", a group of five female artists who shared the same philosophical and intellectual ideas and spiritual beliefs. Though af Klint is often criticised for being slightly too eccentric (e.g. she believed she was the conduit for "Higher Masters" in another dimension), which could perhaps explain the delay in her coming to prominence in the art historical world, her work has an aesthetic, modern feel that preceded her contemporaries at the time. The interplay between figurative elements and geometric shapes are highly structured and finely executed on the canvas, in a way that undermines the initial feeling of spontaneity that her works convey. Visually her work is quite different from that of Turrell's, but they are similar in their investigations into colour, light, and the way the environment impacts upon the individual. Turrell said, when describing his skyspaces: "The gathered starlight will inhabit that space, and you will be able to feel the physical presence of that light", and it is this interaction between the body, the physical environment and space, which See! Colour! will impart to the viewer.
Robert Smithson once remarked in a 1969 discussion on Land Art that: "Photographs steal away the spirit of the work." It is an interesting point, and one that Walter Benjamin first touched upon in his seminal text, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936). Numerous texts have since been written and many discussions held, to elaborate and pontificate on the essence of the art work and whether it is still valid as it exists in its reproduction document or photograph. This is an argument that necessarily arises with Turrell's work as it is typically specific to the site and the viewer's experience within the installation. These secondary works by their very core cannot capture the actual experience of being witness to the artwork or installation, but Biemond would argue that he is "programmatic and positive about so-called secondary works." He believes they are not devalued in any way via reproduction, just as the Chinese Terracotta Warriors are not devalued when exhibited at the British Museum. They can still be appreciated for their artistic base value outside of their original site, just perhaps not on the same level. This exhibition allows the audience to view Turrell, af Klint, and Steiner's work next to a new primary installation (Turrell's new skyspace) as well as secondary works, thereby allowing them to view the way in which Turrell has appropriated new technology into his work in comparison to earlier work. Each of these artists utilise the physical environment and the individual's aesthetic perception of it, to create a new way of understanding colour and light, and as such, See! Colour! is aptly named.
See! Colour! ran from 15 May – 2 October 2011 at Kulturhuset in Järna, Sweden.
Niamh Coghlan


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Brad Keselowski strolled through the Daytona 500 Club with his cellphone in one hand and a half-empty bottle in the other.
Nope, not beer. Not this time.
Keselowski was drinking orange juice Thursday at Daytona 500 Media Day, which officially kicked off Speedweeks. Still, the reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion was his usual, laid-back, outspoken self, offering up some of the best one-liners during a daylong event filled with playful jokes, repetitive questions, canned answers and optimistic outlooks for the upcoming season.
For Keselowski, it wasn't all that different from his last moment in the spotlight. He just didn't have a little buzz going.
"If you drink enough orange juice, you can drink a lot of beer," said Keselowski, who memorably chugged away in Victory Lane after clinching his first Cup championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November.
Three months later, he was fielding questions about defending his title, tweeting from his race car — which he famously did during last year's Daytona 500 — the budding relationship between competitors Danica Patrick and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and his plan to purchase a tank.
"There is just something very rootsy about it," Keselowski said. "A man should own a tank."
Where would he put it?
"Right in my driveway," he said.
The tank talk was just one of the many topics addressed by the 50-plus drivers who took part in the eight-hour event at Daytona International Speedway. No surprise, the Patrick and Stenhouse saga — they announced they were dating last month — took center stage.
"It some respects, it's just a relationship," five-time champion Jimmie Johnson said. "Clearly, there's more to it. It doesn't hurt anything. It will keep people looking and watching and curious as to what that dynamic is on the track, I'm sure. ... We'll all be watching with great curiosity."
Patrick and Stenhouse were open about their relationship, clearly ready for all the ribbing. They shared Valentine's Day plans with reporters. He called her "hot." She joked about what would happen if he wrecked her on the track.
"He better have a really good, 'I'm sorry,'" Patrick said with a wink.
Four-time series champion Jeff Gordon was fielding questions of his own after filming a "Harlem Shake" video at his race shop — even climbing atop a race car to dance — and the evidence is now online.
"One of the best times I've ever had," Gordon said. "Certainly the best time I ever had in my race shop with my guys in there. Luckily it was quick so it didn't take them away from their jobs too long because there's a lot going on at the shop. I'm a little embarrassed at my dancing, but it was still worth it. It was a great time."
Not everyone had a blast at media day.
Juan Pablo Montoya stared down a reporter who insinuated that the driver might hit another jet dryer this season. Montoya slammed into a dryer during last year's Daytona 500, setting off a fiery explosion that halted the race.
"People are dumb enough to think I hit the thing on purpose, like I really want to try and kill myself," Montoya said later. "It is kind of crazy. That was a freak accident, and in a way, I was very, very lucky to walk away from that one. Not only myself, but the guy driving the jet dryer. To walk away with nothing out of that it was a miracle. I was glad it was over."
Joey Logano, Matt Kenseth and Kurt Busch talked about being with new teams. Kyle Larson, Dylan Kwasniewski, Ben Kennedy and Ryan Blaney looked and sounded every bit like eager youngsters. Austin Dillon wore a black cowboy hat to the event. Dave Blaney donned a pink firesuit.
Two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip, meanwhile, unveiled a green-and-white car to honor and raise funds for Sandy Hook Elementary School. Waltrip was set to drive the No. 30 Toyota in a one-race deal. Instead, he will be behind the wheel of No. 26 to honor the victims of the Dec. 14 massacre in Newtown, Conn., where 20 first-graders and six adults were gunned down.
Waltrip met with families from the area recently.
"I left there three hours later, but part of me is still there," he said. "There's no doubt about that. I didn't have that same feeling before I got there. I was sad, I was hurt, I was sorry, but it wasn't personal. That day, it became personal."
Dale Earnhardt Jr. praised NASCAR for taking steps to mandate baseline concussion testing for drivers in 2014. Earnhardt missed two races following a concussion last season, knocking him out of contention for the championship.
"When you get into an accident, you may have, may not have had a concussion, you can take this test again and find out exactly what is happening to your brain, if things don't feel right, you feel like you're having some trouble," Earnhardt said. "It helped me a lot. There was a lot of good information I learned throughout that whole process. That impact test was a good standard for measuring. There's no way to diagnose concussion, but this is a good standard for being able to measure one."
Keselowski has no way of calculating his chances of repeating as champion. He switched from Dodge to Ford during the offseason, has a new teammate (Logano) and has more than 40 others gunning for him.
Nonetheless, he seemed unfazed by the precarious position and whatever pressure that might come with defending the title. He even bragged about his choice of shoes at media day.
"There is nothing wrong with a little style is there?" Keselowski said. "Everyone likes a little style. I feel like I have a little style. I am wearing white shoes. Who else wears white shoes?"


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First Observe, Then Serve
With practice, each of us can become more like the Savior as we serve God's children.
One of the greatest evidences we have that our beloved prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, is the Lord's chosen servant is that he has learned to follow the Savior's example—serving individually, one by one. Those of us who have entered the waters of baptism have covenanted to do the same. We have covenanted to "always remember [the Savior] and keep his commandments,"1 and He has said, "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you."2
Notice how the following words from President Monson include the same invitation: "We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness. … We are the Lord's hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us."3
Did you hear it—the invitation to love one another? For some, serving or ministering one by one, following the Savior's example, doesn't come easily. But with practice, each of us can become more like the Savior as we serve God's children. To help us better love one another, I would like to suggest four words to remember: "First observe, then serve."
Almost 40 years ago my husband and I went to the temple for our Friday night date. We had been married only a short time, and I was nervous because this was only my second time as a newlywed. A sister sitting next to me must have noticed. She leaned over and whispered reverently, "Don't worry. I'll help you." My fears were calmed, and I was able to enjoy the rest of the temple session. She first observed, then served.
We are all invited to follow Jesus's teachings and to minister to others. This invitation is not limited to angelic sisters. As I share a few everyday examples of members who have learned to first observe and then serve, listen for the teachings of Jesus they illustrate.
A six-year-old Primary child said: "When I was chosen to be a class helper, I could choose a friend to work with me. I picked [a boy in my class who bullied me] because he never gets chosen by others. I wanted to make him feel good."4
What did this child observe? He noticed that the class bully never got chosen. What did he do to serve? He simply chose him to be his friend as a class helper. Jesus taught, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you."5
In one ward, Aaronic Priesthood holders first observed and now serve in a meaningful way. Every week the young men arrive early and stand outside the meetinghouse in rain, snow, or blistering heat, awaiting the arrival of the many elderly members in their ward. They lift wheelchairs and walkers out of cars, provide sturdy arms to grasp, and patiently escort the silver-haired seniors into the building. They are truly doing their duty to God. As they observe and then serve, they are living examples of the Savior's teaching: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."6 As the new youth curriculum is implemented, the eyes of these young men will undoubtedly be opened to even more opportunities to serve in a Christlike way.
Observing and serving sometimes requires great effort. An inspired young woman named Alexandria noticed that her cousin Madison was unable to complete her own Personal Progress requirements because she suffered from severe autism. Alexandria rallied the young women in her ward, counseled with her leaders, and determined to do something for Maddy that she could not do herself. Each of the young women completed a portion of the Personal Progress activities and projects vicariously to enable Maddy to receive her own medallion.7
These young women will progress well into roles of motherhood and Relief Society sisterhood because they are learning to first observe, then serve in charitable ways.
President Monson has reminded us that charity, "the pure love of Christ"8—or in other words, observing and serving—"is evident when an elderly widow is remembered and taken to ward functions" and "when the sister sitting alone in Relief Society receives the invitation, 'Come—sit by us.'"9 The golden rule is applicable here: "Whatsoever ye would that men [or women] should do to you, do ye even so to them."10
An observant husband served in two important ways. He relates:
"I was assisting my wife one Sunday with her Primary class full of energetic seven-year-olds. As Primary sharing time started, I noticed one of the class members huddled on her chair and obviously not feeling well. The Spirit whispered to me that she needed comfort, so I sat by her and quietly asked what was wrong. She didn't answer … , so I began to sing softly to her.
"The Primary was learning a new song, and when we sang, 'If I listen with my heart I hear the Savior's voice,' I began to feel the most incredible light and warmth fill my soul. … I received a personal testimony of our Savior's love for her … and for me. … I learned that we are [the Savior's] hands when we serve the one."11
Not only did this Christlike brother notice the need to help his wife with a class full of energetic seven-year-olds; he also gave individual service to a child in need. He followed the Savior, who taught, "The works which ye have seen me do that shall ye also do."12
Recently a flood opened many opportunities for disciples of Jesus Christ to first observe and then serve. Men, women, teenagers, and children saw businesses and homes destroyed and dropped everything to help clean and repair damaged structures. Some observed the need to help with the overwhelming task of doing laundry. Others painstakingly wiped down photographs, legal documents, letters, and other important papers and then carefully hung them out to dry to preserve whatever they could. Observing and then serving is not always convenient and doesn't always fit our own timetable.
What better place to first observe and then serve than in the home? An example from the life of Elder Richard G. Scott illustrates:
"One night our little son Richard, who had a heart problem, awoke crying. … Normally my wife always got up to take care of a crying baby, but this time I said, 'I'll take care of him.'
"Because of his problem, when he began to cry, his little heart would pound very rapidly. He would throw up and soil the bed clothing. That night I held him very close to try to calm his racing heart and stop his crying as I changed his clothes and put on new bedsheets. I held him until he went to sleep. I didn't know then that just a few months later he would pass away. I will always remember holding him in my arms in the middle of that night."13
Jesus said, "Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister."14
Sometimes we are tempted to serve in a way that we want to serve and not necessarily in the way that is needed at the moment. When Elder Robert D. Hales taught the principle of provident living, he shared the example of buying a gift for his wife. She asked, "Are you buying this for me or for you?"15 If we adapt that question to ourselves as we serve and ask, "Am I doing this for the Savior, or am I doing this for me?" our service will more likely resemble the ministry of the Savior. The Savior asked, and so should we, "What will ye that I shall do unto you?"16
A few weeks ago, I was hurried and frazzled, with too many to-dos on my list. I had hoped to go to the temple that day but felt I was just too busy. As soon as that thought of being too busy for temple service crossed my mind, it awakened me to what I most needed to do. I left my office to walk over to the Salt Lake Temple, wondering when I was going to recapture the time I was losing. Thankfully, the Lord is patient and merciful and taught me a beautiful lesson that day.
As I sat down in the session room, a young sister leaned over and reverently whispered, "I'm really nervous. This is only my second time in the temple. Could you please help me?" How could she ever have known that those words were exactly what I needed to hear? She didn't know, but Heavenly Father knew. He had observed my greatest need. I needed to serve. He prompted this humble young sister to serve me by inviting me to serve her. I assure you that I was the one who benefited most.
I acknowledge with deep gratitude the many Christlike people who have served our family throughout the years. I express heartfelt appreciation to my beloved husband and family, who serve selflessly and with great love.
May we all seek to first observe, then serve. As we do so, we are keeping covenants, and our service, like President Monson's, will be evidence of our discipleship. I know the Savior lives. His Atonement enables us to live His teachings. I know President Monson is our prophet today. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


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CHICAGO (AP) — Young teens aren't exactly embracing the government's Let's Move mantra, the latest fitness data suggest.
Only 1 in 4 U.S. kids aged 12 to 15 meet the recommendations — an hour or more of moderate to vigorous activity every day.
The results are based on about 800 kids who self-reported their activity levels and had physical exams as part of the 2012 National Youth Fitness Survey.
Government researchers won't call the results disappointing, but lead author Tala Fakhouri of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, "There's always room for improvement."
The CDC released partial results Wednesday from the fitness survey, which involved kids aged 3 to 15. Other results from the same survey are pending and include fitness data based on more objective measures including treadmill tests.
Fakhouri said the nationally representative results provide useful information for initiatives that aim to increase kids' fitness, including the Let's Move anti-obesity campaign launched by first lady Michelle Obama in 2010.
Kids in the survey reported on which physical activities they did most frequently outside of school gym class — basketball for boys and running for girls.
While few met guidelines established in 2008 for activity that raises the heart rate and makes you breathe harder, most said they did at least an hour of exercise at that level during the previous week. Overall, about 25 percent said they got an hour of that kind of exercise every day
Obese kids were less active than normal-weight girls and boys. Overweight girls were slightly less active than normal-weight girls, but levels were similar among overweight and normal-weight boys.
"It's definitely very concerning to see that our kids are engaging in such a limited amount of physical activity each day when we are still battling" an obesity epidemic, said Dr. Stephen Pont, an Austin, Texas, pediatrician and chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics' section on obesity.
Data suggest obesity may have decreased slightly among some kids but the overall rate for children aged 2 to 19 is 17 percent, or about 12.5 million obese kids.
Pont said schools can do more to help by not cutting recess and giving kids more time for physical activity. He said research suggests kids who get physical education at school may do better academically.
Recent national data on kids' fitness levels is limited. A 2009-10 CDC survey involving kids ages 6 to 11 found about 70 percent met the physical activity guidelines, although levels dropped off among older kids in that age group. The results came from parents, who may be inclined to over-report how active their kids are because of "social desirability," the researchers said.
CDC: https://www.cdc.gov
AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner can be reached at https://www.twitter.com/LindseyTanner


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Within the next few days, several more Secret Service agents will lose their jobs because of their roles in the so-called summit scandal during which they allegedly cavorted with prostitutes in Colombia earlier this month, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security said this morning.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., also said on NBC's The Today Show that he is "very, very confident" that the Secret Service's investigation into the alleged misconduct is moving ahead appropriately.
As The Associated Press recounts, "so far, the scandal involves 12 Secret Service employees and 11 members of the military. Six of the Secret Service members have lost their jobs. One has been partially cleared and five remain on administrative leave." The AP also adds that:
"Congressional committees are widening their investigations into an alleged U.S. Secret Service scandal involving prostitutes in Colombia ahead of a recent trip there by President Barack Obama.
"The Senate Homeland Security Committee wants to determine whether what transpired 'was an exception' or 'a pattern of misconduct that has gone on elsewhere by Secret Service agents,' said committee Chairman Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn."
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And I'm David Greene. Good morning.
The lawyer for the soldier suspected of killing unarmed Afghan civilians last week says his client may have suffered from diminished capacity - or, in other words, a mental breakdown. That possibility has focused attention on the Army's ability to detect and treat psychological problems among soldiers. NPR's Martin Kaste reports on how the Army's system works in theory and in practice.
MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: The Army has been under a lot of pressure to do more for soldiers with conditions like post traumatic stress disorder. In 2010, Congress mandated more intensive screening. And the Army is following orders.
COL. REBECCA PORTER: The screening begins while they're still in theater.
KASTE: Col. Rebecca Porter is chief of behavioral health in the U.S. Army Surgeon General's office. She says soldiers in combat zones get a preliminary assessment from their superiors.
PORTER: It's a form - almost like a spreadsheet - that they complete on their soldier. And it comes back, then, through medical channels to us.
KASTE: That's supposed to warn the Army about returning soldiers who showed troubling behavior while overseas. But there aren't always outward signs, so the Army also has the returning soldiers answer questionnaires.
PORTER: Asking about difficulty sleeping, for example. Or are you having financial difficulties?
KASTE: The problem is, those questions are pretty transparent.
SCOTT SWAIM: Doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize what they're asking you.
KASTE: Scott Swaim is a licensed mental health counselor who works with veterans, most of whom come out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, the home installation of Sgt. Robert Bales, the suspect in the Afghanistan massacre. Swaim says it's tempting for soldiers to, as he puts it, pencil-whip their way through the mental health questionnaires.
SWAIM: A person that just says no, no, no, no, no - and then you move on. Because you know if you say yes, then you're either not moving on - and you're going to get held up in the line, which pulls you out of your team, which - nobody wants to be, really, pulled out of their unit.
KASTE: He says you answer yes only if you really want the Army to know you need psychological help. Swaim is a counselor for a program that's run by the state of Washington. And even though the program is meant for vets, it also attracts some active-duty soldiers. They come in looking for the kind of confidential therapy that they don't think they can get on base.
SWAIM: Whatever you say goes through the chain of command and becomes that whole, unfortunate joke about being part of your permanent record. And indeed, it is.
KASTE: Col. Porter says that's not quite true. She says Army counseling is confidential, with certain caveats.
PORTER: Unless there's some indication that their duty performance is going to be impacted or they're dangerous to themselves or others, those of us in the behavioral health field cannot report to the commander that the soldier's in treatment.
KASTE: That's not very reassuring to Greg Miller. He was just discharged from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. And while he was deployed to Iraq, he says he couldn't sleep and wondered if he was losing his mind. When he got home and asked for help, he says the mental health system on base was like an assembly line.
GREG MILLER: Kind of like they're tech support. They're reading off a list: Well, is it turned on? Is it plugged in? Well, how about this? How about that? Well, try this, you know.
KASTE: And as to confidentiality, Miller says his Army-provided counselor wouldn't give him a straight answer.
MILLER: There was a fine line, and she couldn't quite say where it was. But she was going to decide when I crossed it, and they will notify your chain of command if they think you're a threat to yourself or someone else. So it's out there, but they can't tell you exactly where. But I don't know what that means.
KASTE: Real mental health confidentiality may not be possible in the armed forces, says counselor Scott Swaim. He used to be in the Air Force. And he says the reality is, the mission comes first.
SWAIM: If I'm flying an aircraft with five individuals and one of them can't do it, for some reason, I'd probably want to know why.
KASTE: He believes the lack of confidentiality might just be an unfortunate sacrifice that's inherent to serving in the military.
Martin Kaste, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Authorities say the son of professional wrestler Ric Flair has been found dead in a North Carolina hotel room.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police says officers were called to a hotel on the city's south side around 10:30 a.m. Friday. When they arrived, they found the body of Reid Fliehr, 25, who also was a wrestler.
A statement from police says there are no signs of foul play, and that the cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner's office.
Flair's agent released a statement Friday describing Reid as "an incredible son, brother, friend, and professional wrestler."
Ric Flair's real name is Richard Morgan Flair. The peroxide-blond wrestled for some 40 years and also was known as The Nature Boy.
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February 10, 2014
BAGHDAD (AP) — An instructor teaching his militant recruits how to make car bombs accidentally set off explosives in his demonstration Monday, killing 21 of them in a huge blast that alerted authorities to the existence of the rural training camp in an orchard north of Baghdad. Nearly two dozen people were arrested, including wounded insurgents trying to hobble away from the scene.
The fatal goof by the al-Qaida breakaway group that dominates the Sunni insurgency in Iraq happened on the same day that the speaker of the Iraqi parliament, a prominent Sunni whom the militants consider a traitor, escaped unhurt from a roadside bomb attack on his motorcade in the northern city of Mosul.
Nevertheless, the events underscored the determination of the insurgents to rebuild and regain the strength they enjoyed in Iraq at the height of the war until U.S.-backed Sunni tribesmen turned against them. The militants are currently battling for control of mainly Sunni areas of western Iraq in a key test of the Shiite-led government's ability to maintain security more than two years after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
While the Iraqi army has been attacking insurgent training camps in the vast desert of western Anbar province near the Syrian border, it is unusual to find such a camp in the center of the country, just 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital.
The discovery shows that "the terrorist groups have made a strong comeback in Iraq and that the security problems are far from over, and things are heading from bad to worse," said Hamid al-Mutlaq, a member of the parliament's security and defense committee.
The militants belonged to a network now known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an extremist group that recently broke with al-Qaida. The ISIL, emboldened by fellow fighters' gains in the Syrian civil war, has tried to position itself as the champion of Iraqi Sunnis angry at the government over what they see as efforts to marginalize them.
Car bombs are one of the deadliest weapons used by this group, with coordinated waves of explosions regularly leaving scores dead in Baghdad and elsewhere across the country. The bombs are sometimes assembled in farm compounds where militants can gather without being spotted, or in car workshops in industrial areas.
The explosion Monday took place at a camp tucked away in an orchard in the village of al-Jalam, a farming area that has been a stronghold of al-Qaida close to the Sunni city of Samarra. According to a police officer, an army official and a hospital official, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, the events unfolded as follows.
The militants were attending a lesson on making car bombs and explosive belts when a glitch set off one of the devices during the car bomb part of the demonstration. Security forces rushed to the area after hearing the thunderous blast and arrested 12 wounded militants along with another 10 trying to flee.
Authorities searched two houses and a garage in the orchard, finding seven car bombs as well as several explosive belts and roadside bombs. The cars did not have license plates. Bomb experts then started the work of defusing the devices.
Later Monday, a bomb exploded near a cafe in western Baghdad shortly after nightfall, killing three people and wounding 11 others, according to police and medical officials who all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media.
The U.S. strongly condemned the assassination attempt on parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, a roadside bombing that wounded one of his bodyguards.
"Speaker Nujaifi has been a strong partner of the United States' efforts in Iraq and we are grateful that he was unharmed in the attack," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said in a statement. "Today's attack exemplifies the danger terrorist groups pose to all Iraqis, and the importance of Iraqi leaders from all communities working together to isolate militant groups from the broader population."
Violence has spiked in Iraq since last April, when security forces cracked down on a Sunni protest camp north of Baghdad in clashes that left 45 dead.
The situation deteriorated significantly in late December, when security forces dismantled a protest camp near the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi. To defuse the tension, the security forces withdrew from Ramadi and the nearby city of Fallujah. ISIL militants promptly took over parts of Ramadi and the center of Fallujah.
The Iraqi government and allied tribes launched an offensive on Jan. 26 to wrest control of the cities back from the militants. Sporadic clashes are still continuing around Fallujah and in some parts of Ramadi, with only limited success by security forces.


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UPDATE: Kvitova is already into the semis with a 5-7 6-3 6-3 win over Stosur. Who said the ladies' season ender had to be a bust? (AP)
Stat of the day: A lot was made of the H2H records involving Sam Stosur entering the tournament — 0-9 against Maria Sharapova, 0-4 against Victoria Azarenka, yet 5-0 against against Li Na. Playing the Chinese player in Istanbul, Stosur improved that to 6-0, with a demoralizing 6-1 6-0 win handing Li her heaviest professional loss in five-and-a-half years. Stosur has only ever dropped one set against Li in her career, and thanks to the victory, now takes her place in the semifinals in Istanbul.
Typical WTA moment: Women's tennis is never short of drama, with cat-fights, tears, and the grunting issue among its many facets. Controversial figures have also been a mainstay — how many times have we seen crowds in the past turn on Venus and Serena, Sharapova, Henin and Hingis? Today it was Vika's turn. The Belorussian has never made a habit of trying to please people — her shrieking being a prime example — and today was no different. Already having qualified for the semifinals, she appeared to tank in the final set of her last round-robin match against alternate Marion Bartoli, gave the Frenchwoman a poor handshake, and was booed off the court at the Sinan Erdem Arena.
Startling admission: All Agnieszka Radwanska had to do was win a set in her match against Petra Kvitova to qualify for the semifinals, and leading 5-1 in the opening set, it appeared she was on track. But Kvitova improved her level, took the set in a tiebreak, and ran out a 7-6(4) 6-3 winner. "Even when I was 5-1 up in the first set, to be honest, I didn't feel I was close to win[ning] the set," Aga said following the match. That's (a lack of) confidence right there. The result allowed Vera Zvonareva to progress to the semis, and despite Vera owning a mediocre 1-2 win-loss record this week, her overall game-winning percentage proved better than the Pole's.
Thought for today/tomorrow: Can anybody stop the Kvitova juggernaut? The Czech is the only player to go undefeated in Istanbul — she hasn't dropped a set — and enters her semifinal against Stosur with a 2-0 winning record over the Australian. A final against Azarenka seems to be looming.
Flashback: We know some of you have been nostalgic for classic women's tennis this week, so why not a little taste of it from the Chase Championships in 1996. Steffi Graf beat Martina Hingis in one of the few five-set encounters in women's tennis history, 6-3 4-6 6-0 4-6 6-0. Cheers, ladies!
Matt Trollope began covering tennis in 2008, a natural extension of his childhood obsession for the game that included hitting for countless hours against his bedroom wall and self-producing and editing a fictitious tennis magazine. Based in Melbourne, he has covered four Australian Opens and one Wimbledon championship, and his tennis writing has featured in Australian Tennis Magazine, the Australian Open Official Program, and Alpha Magazine.


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Yep, that's right. It's amazing I'm not bald with all the hair I lose in the shower. So, here I am, a grown woman, freaking out because I have a few strands of hair on my arm. Sounds reasonable and well-adjusted to me.
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