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In training camp yesterday, the Tennessee Titans had a couple of injuries. Last years starting center Eugene Amano suffered a hit to his arm that had him shaken up and taken off the field. He'll likely be getting an MRI on it.
Kevin Matthews was also taken out of practice after suffering from concussion symptoms. There wasn't any one major hit but coach Munchak said it could be a result of multiple minor hits.
That all left Fernando Velasco as the lone center. If necessary, Leroy Harris has also spent time at center, though I don't think it'll come to that.
Velasco was already in the running for the starting center position so extra reps with the first team just gives him that much more opportunity to prove himself. After Amano's performance last year, I'm rooting for Velasco. He's done well in his limited action and Amano just doesn't seem to be cutting it at the center position. Move that guy back to guard.
Wright had his first practice but was limited due to the new CBA. He isn't allowed to put on pads for another couple of days. The Titans had him running routes and wearing a red jersey. Everyone is anxious to see him out there and get him more involved with the offense.
I know I for one am very interested to see how he comes along in this offense. Yesterday Paul Kuharsky mentioned on his AFC South blog that expectations are too high for both Wright and Blackmon.
We'll see.
He's an agile, burner receiver who as of now, has all the potential in the world and he's a guy I like. While I don't think he'll crack 1,000 yards as a rookie, I don't think 700 yards is too large of an estimate for him. Especially with Britt's fragile state and trouble.
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April 17th, 2012
Nike Kit Launch: Designed For Your Pleasure
George Lucas didn't spend billions of dollars on laser beam technology for Star Wars on a whim, y'know. The man knew that exciting zappy type things are appealing to most boys (and the occasional Kickette staffer), and when Nike released their new NT kits last month, they proved that 35 years has not dented the laser's appeal in the slightest.
But how to reach the new demographic of football – the visually stimulated, slightly pervy demographic that make up the majority of our readership? It isn't as though we don't tell everyone on an hourly basis, but we're still supremely gratified to see that with their latest tranche of NT kits, they've taken our comments on board and focused on the crotch.
These base layers from the French NT collection are designed to "reduce irritation caused by chafing". It seems to work too – we're 70% less irritable than we were before we saw this. Image via Facebook.
We're not entirely sure whether the snugness around the groin area demonstrated by Wesley Sneijder on 0.07 of the video is indicative of what we can expect in EURO 2012 (we hope so with all our hearts), but for the time being we're super happy with developments. Even the base layers.
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New Orleans CityBusiness reports (http://bit.ly/13qKlP1 ) the iconic New York-based jewelry retailer is planning to open its first location in Louisiana this fall inside the three-story shopping center at the foot of Canal Street.
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Sonics Tribute Album Reissued
By Tom Breihan on January 5, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. EST
The New Original Sonic Sound: The Witch
UPDATE: The New Original Sonic Sound album actually came out in 2004. This edition is a reissue. (Another update: It was originally released in 2000, then again in 2004.)
Unhinged early-60s Tacoma, Washington garage-punk noisemakers the Sonics have served as an inspiration for decades of rock bands, from the Pacific Northwest and otherwise. Now, a group of the band's stylistic descendants is paying the Sonics their just due by releasing an entire album of Sonics covers.
News in Brief: Cass McCombs, The Minus 5/Young Fresh Fellows, Broken Records, Mile High Festival
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-- Eclectic singer-songwriter Cass McCombs readies album number four, Catacombs, for release on Domino July 7. Fun fact: Both "McCombs" and "Catacombs" feature the word "combs." Think about it.
-- When undervalued pop-rock vet Scott McCaughey isn't contributing to R.E.M. albums and tours, he's making records with his own various bands and projects. Two of those groups, the Minus 5 and Young Fresh Fellows, have albums coming out July 7 on Yep Roc. The Minus 5 record, Killingsworth, features contributions from usual McCaughey partner Peter Buck along with all of the members of the Decemberists. Meanwhile, the Young Fresh Fellows' I Think This Is was produced by buddy Robyn Hitchcock.
-- New 4AD septet Broken Records are from Scotland and their debut album is called Until the Earth Begins to Part and it's out July 7 in the U.S. (June 1 in the UK) and its first single is called "If Eilert Loevborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like This", which sounds like something Pete Wentz would come up with if he really loved Ibsen.
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Jodi Arias spent 18 days on the stand sharing intimate, emotional and oftentimes X-rated details of her life before a rapt television and online audience. She had hoped it all might convince a jury that she killed her one-time boyfriend in self-defense.
But the eight men and four women on the panel didn't buy it, convicting Arias of first-degree murder after only about 15 hours of deliberations. Jurors will return to court Thursday to begin the next phase of the trial that could set the stage for Arias receiving a death sentence.
It's a punishment that Arias herself says she wants, telling a TV station minutes after her conviction that she would "prefer to die sooner than later."
"Longevity runs in my family, and I don't want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place," a tearful Arias told Fox affiliate KSAZ. "I believe death is the ultimate freedom and I'd rather have my freedom as soon as I can get it."
The case elevated the unknown waitress and aspiring photographer to a household name, with a real-life story of love, betrayal and murder far more alluring than any made-for-TV movie. The crime itself was enough to grab headlines: Arias, a 32-year-old high school dropout, shot Travis Alexander in the forehead, stabbed him nearly 30 times and slit his throat from ear to ear, leaving the motivational speaker and businessman nearly decapitated.
She claimed he attacked her and she fought for her life. Prosecutors said she killed out of jealous rage after Alexander wanted to end their affair and planned to take a trip to Mexico with another woman.
Arias' four-month trial quickly became a media sensation -- ratings gold for cable networks that could broadcast from inside the courtroom and feed an insatiable public appetite for true-crime drama delivered live and up-close. It was, for many, the horrible train wreck they just couldn't turn away from, even though they know they should.
Arias fought back tears as the verdict was announced Wednesday in the hushed, packed courtroom, while Alexander's family members wept and hugged each other. They wore blue ribbons and wristbands with the words "Justice For Travis." The family thanked prosecutor Juan Martinez and a key witness and said it appreciated the outpouring of support from the public.
Outside, a huge crowd that had gathered on the courthouse steps screamed, whistled and cheered the news in a case that has attracted fans from across the country who traveled to Phoenix to be close to the proceedings.
Alexander's friend Chris Hughes said he was happy with the verdict, pointing out a bold proclamation that Arias made in one of her jailhouse interviews that she wouldn't be found guilty.
"She said, 'No jury would convict me. Mark my words.' This jury convicted her," Hughes said. "Luckily we had 12 smart jurors. They nailed it."
When asked about Alexander's family, Arias told the station (http://bit.ly/15qG7aP), "I just hope that now that a verdict has been rendered, that they'll be able to find peace."
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said no more media interviews with Arias would be granted. She has been placed on suicide watch.
Testimony in Arias' trial began in early January. The trial quickly snowballed into a made-for-the-tabloids drama, garnering daily coverage from cable news networks and spawning a virtual cottage industry for talk shows, legal experts and even Arias, who used her notoriety to sell artwork she made in jail.
The trial now moves into the so-called aggravation phase during which prosecutors will argue the killing was committed in an especially cruel, heinous and depraved manner that should allow jurors to consider the death penalty. Both sides may call witnesses and show evidence. If the panel finds the aggravating factors exist, the trial then moves into the final penalty phase during which jurors will recommend either life in prison or death.
Despite her comments about wanting to die, it's up to the jury to decide whether to recommend death.
Authorities said Alexander fought for his life as Arias attacked him in a blitz, but he soon grew too weak to defend himself.
"Mr. Alexander did not die calmly," Martinez told jurors in opening statements.
Arias said she recalled Alexander attacking her in a fury after a day of sex. She said Alexander came at her "like a linebacker," body-slamming her to the tile floor. She managed to wriggle free and ran into his closet to retrieve a gun he kept on a shelf. She said she fired in self-defense but had no memory of stabbing him.


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This is one great "sleeper" pickup.
I call this pickup a "sleeper" because it preserves the look of the Strat but cranks up the output and tone of the bridge pickup into nice crunch and, with a little help, distortion. The DP420 Virtual Solo is an excellent alternative for anyone who doesn't want to change the look of their Strat but wants more output and a little more "rounded" tone with the highs not as piercing as a standard Strat bridge pickup. They'll never see you coming--no one will know your Strat is modded until you plug in. With a B/M/T EQ curve of of 6.5/7.5/5.5 it more closely resembles a humbucker but still preserves that "Strat" tone. The output of the Virtual Solo is 205 mV which is almost exactly halfway between a standard Strat pickup and a PAF. This gives the pickup a nice crunch and grind quality while keeping the cleans smooth, crisp, and glassy. Like the Dimarzio web site says, if you pick softly, the Virtual Solo cleans up nicely--hit the strings harder and output increases notably. In reality, when I dig into the strings I think the Virtual Solo almost takes on a Telecaster-esque "twang" and compression. Take a listen and see if you can hear it. All in all, I think the Virtual Solo is the best way to get increased output in the bridge of your Strat without changing the look of the guitar.
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cedTagsA real free tag system for Joomla 2.5!
For Joomla 3.1 and up i recommend you to use the internal(built in) Tag extension
Unique features
* Tags autocompletion using ajax in both front end and backend: search, add and delete of tags!
* Support 501 Google web fonts! (see screenshots)
* All in one install: 1 components, 5 modules and 4 plugins!
* Stop Words support: some tags do not appear as Terms because they are either insignificant (i.e., articles, prepositions) or common. Filtering can now be now be switched off. 600 Words in English and 950 in German are part of the extension. More than 600 stop words in English and 950 word in German that are filtered out from being tags out of the box. You can also edit these list and add your own set of words
///////// Front end features /////////
* Show tags at the top/bottom/both of each article in frontpage or when viewing articles
* Tag list view + advertisement support
* Tag blog view + advertisement support
* Module (CSS3 modules enable+Display hits & Number of items tagged )
- Module Most popular tags.
- Module Most hits tags.
- Module Latest tags.
- Module Most read tags.
* Auto extractable tag when saving article in frontend
* SEF support, compatible with sh404SEF,ARTIO JoomSEF,AceSEF
* XMap Plugin
* Language file support
* Add/Edit tags when logged in frontend
* Compatible with JoomlFish
* Search plugin.
///////// Back end features /////////
* Statistics page (see screenshots)
- How mane terms are published/unpublished in percentage
- How many terms are having descriptions
- How many articles are still not being tagged
* Tag manager identical as the article manager of Joomla: filter by categories, authors, status, access, language, levels, search and let you add tags by batch
* Import Tags
- from Joomla content Meta keywords
- from 3rd party system
* Export Tags
- to Joomla content Meta Keys
- To CSV files
* Term editable / description /weight.
* Batch term add,
* Batch tag management,
* Language file support,
* Online editing of CSS,
* Online editing of english/german/other stopwords,
* Tags filter by section and category.
* One click installation.
* Frequency to Size algorithm can be selected
- Pareto distribution
- Dynamical number of buckets
User of Joomla Tags, just install this all in one package and select Import – Souce – Joomla Tags and click import to copy your data in the new table.
cedTag a new Tag system for Joomla 2.5 (based on Joomla tags)
There is 4 ways to insert a tag after inputting some text: comma, enter, selecting an auto-complete option, or de-focusing the widget. You can
Enter tags with space,
Cut and paste list of tags separated by comma and hit enter.
The only thing that seems to be consistent when this occurs is being logged in as the super administrator in the front end. To get the tags back, I must clear the cache. I hope to find a solution to this problem, as this is the most attractive, and most functional tags system for Joomla! 2.5 that I have tested, even despite this issue.
I will look at the issue and release a 2.6.4 soon.
I used Tags on a number of sites and found its tagging method to be very effective at attracting Google.
I tried a couple of the newer tagging engines on 2.5, and it just wasn't generating the same type of results.
I'm finding a few little quirky things, but I'm sure you're on it. Keep up the good work!
Learn how to uninstall :
Go to the Extension Manager under the tab Manage, enter in filter "tags", select all and click Actions - Uninstall
and if you have no access to your site anymore after having uninstall cedTag:
If you can not access your site, after having partially remove one or more but not all component of cedTag, just download http://www.waltercedric.com/download/cedTagOff.zip and unpack this file cedTagOff.php
to the root directory of your joomla installation and access it in a browser
this will switch off all left behind extension that were not properly removed and give you access to your site frontend and backend
I have no problem with installation, but it still lacks some functions, such as:
+Entering tags in frontend (I logged in, but can not see where to enter tags as your document)
+Binding tags with articles' meta tags
+Hits of tags when viewing (should have a config)
Overall: keep your good job.
But I can absolutely attest to what the other person said about the installation. The installer package definitely is messed up. I tried to install and it only did the component, no plugins or mods. So I unpacked it then repacked it, then it installed.
As it is, it will not install properly. Thanks to developer for a taking over a good system and making it better, but please do fix the installer so nobody else gets this problem.
Did just deploy the 2.5.5 5 minutes ago, so far tested on multiple instance linux, windows with or without any previous install, and no problems found so far
It installs the component, and that's all.
Now that's not my only experience with cedTags: Prior to the update, everything installed, but gave blank pages where the tags were active. Also, when I tried to edit an article in the backend, it would blank out, meaning I just get a white blank page in Joom. I had to uninstall manually, and from the database as well, to get Joomla working again.
There are great features, and it will be awesome once it's ready. But for now... as much as I hate to, I have to rate it poorly based on what's available at the moment.
Also, I contacted support a few times with these issues. They responded once, with an updated version, which didn't work. I informed him of that issue, yet more than a month later, never heard anything back.
Like I said, I hate to rate, because Walter does great work. But this is what's available to us now, and it's not ready nby a long shot. Sorry Walter.
Let me respond point by point
>.. it actually worked. First off, the download package is messed up.
> There's only the component, no plugins or modules.
Looking at the documentation (http://wiki.waltercedric.com/index.php?title=Taxonomies_and_Tags_support_for_Joomla) you will see that it install 5 modules + 4 plugins + 1 component
The installation process do not create default modules for you, you have to go to the module manager, and click new to create the 5 different modules available
* Module Latest Tags
* Module Popular Tags
* Module Random Tags
* Module Custom Tags
* Module Most Read Tags
>There's no button to add tags in articles.
It has been replaced by jquery ajax in the frontend: There are normally 5 ways to insert a tag after inputting some text: space, comma, enter, selecting an autocomplete option, or defocusing the widget.
>There's no modules for most popular, latest, random, etc.
>It installs the component, and that's all.
No can not be, see above
>Now that's not my only experience with cedTags: Prior to the update, everything >installed, but gave blank pages where the tags were active. Also, when I tried to edit >an article in the backend, it would blank out, meaning I just get a white blank page in >Joom. I had to uninstall manually, and from the database as well, to get Joomla working >again.
I use it on my server and always keep it up to date. I have no issues so far with more than 5000 tags and 3000 articles
>There are great features, and it will be awesome once it's ready. But for now... as much >as I hate to, I have to rate it poorly based on what's available at the moment.
>Also, I contacted support a few times with these issues. They responded once, with an >updated version, which didn't work. I informed him of that issue, yet more than a month >later, never heard anything back.
I am alone and get hammered by email, forums entries, features requests, skype call. You have to retry. I may stop some communications channel to be more focused
>Like I said, I hate to rate, because Walter does great work. But this is what's >available to us now, and it's not ready nby a long shot. Sorry Walter.
You're welcomed, any review is a review. I am sorry to hear it is not working for you.
Hope you will be better served with a commercial extension.


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4-H Youth can apply for the following 2014 trips and major awards offered by Milwaukee County 4-H Youth Development Programs. Youth who apply will need to be available for an interview in-person or via phone in March. The date for interview will be determined by the committee. To attend a trip, youth must be selected to serve as a trip delegate and represent Milwaukee County 4-H Youth Development Programs. Youth must currently be enrolled in a 4-H program/chapter and have a youth enrollment form on file the Milwaukee County UW-Extension Office to apply.
Note: Only use this application to apply for trips and major awards.
2013 Awards and 2014 Trip Scholarships Application–PDF
The Application and 2013 Major Awards and 2014 Trip are due on November 15th, 2013. Send the applications to Michelle Gonzalez, 9501 West Watertown Plank Road, Building A, Wauwatosa WI 53226, email@example.com, or 414-256-4646 (fax). Interviews will be scheduled in November.
Click on each trip below to see a full description (cost, travel dates/times, eligibility requirements, etc.) of each travel opportunity.
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- Citizenship Washington Focus-Washington D.C., 8 days in May, June, or July, 2015.
- CO-OP Y.E.S.(Youth Educational Summit- Northern Wisconsin, March 2015
- Milwaukee 4-H Council Scholarship policy for Summer Camp
- National 4-H Dairy Conference- UW-Madison Campus, September -October 2014
- National 4‑H Congress- Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. Dec. 2014
- National 4‑H Conference- Washington D.C., April 2015
- Wisconsin State 4-H Conference (June 2015)
- Space Camp- Huntsville, Alabama, April 2015
Milwaukee County 4-H Leaders Council offers scholarships for trips/camp, trainings, and merit awards.
Partial Scholarships are available to attend trips through the Milwaukee County 4-H Leaders Council for youth and adult chaperones. Please read through the scholarship details on the next page for more information on eligibility requirements. Scholarships recipients are selected separately from the trip delegates. More details on the application process for scholarships is forth coming. See the application above for more details.


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Melisse Gelula Pledges To Put an End to the "Crazy Stockpile": New Year's Beauty Resolutions
Here comes the New Year! The end of 2011 means we can start thinking about all the exciting things we want to add to our lives (new shoes!) and all the resolutions we have for the next 12 months (get more sleep!). With that in mind, we asked some of our favorite people in the industry to tell us what their beauty/health/wellness resolutions are for 2012. They gave us a peek into how they're planning on sprucing up their routines. For today's post, we chatted with Melisse Gelula, one of the co-founders of Well+Good, which is our favorite resource for all things health, fitness, and well-being related.
My resolutions aren't exactly civilian beauty issues because I cover natural and organic products on Well+Good. Therefore, I have a crazy stockpile of beauty products in a closet, so my resolution might be to try more of them and move it along!
Another resolution is to make another beauty company mad at me. When I suggested that oft-recommended Cetaphil cleanser might not be doing your skin any favors, it generated a ton of great discussion about what counts as a healthy product. There are lots of other companies out there that I want to lift the veil on.
Other goals for 2012: Find a natural tinted moisturizer that I love. Make nice with cream blush. Get my freaking hair trimmed regularly. Ditto for root touch ups. Make sure to get a facial once a month (because it shows when I don't). Eat less dairy and sugar, which have now been proven to cause acne and inflammation.
And, finally, next year I plan to learn how to braid or use a blow-dryer or do something other than a faux knot. Thank goodness for the messy bun, the side pony, and the fit-and-active-lifestyle excuse. If I got a hair report card, it would say: "If only she studied more."
—Melisse Gelula, Well+Good NYC
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By Matt Krafy
What do you get when you combine elaborate costumes, gaming and the largest indoor waterpark in America? The answer is ColossalCon 8. The 8th annual anime, gaming and Japanese culture convention will be held at the Kalahari Convention Center in Sandusky from June 4-7. Though pre-event registration is closed, a pass for the entire four days can be purchased at the door for $40, as can lower-priced one day passes.
The event is teeming with things to see and experience, including artwork galleries, video screenings, special celebrity guests and a wide variety of panels discussing topics including costume design, Japanese warfare and voice acting. There are also a number of events tailored to fans of individual shows like Dragon Ball Z, Gundam Wing and Naruto. A full schedule of all guest speakers and workshops, video showings, and panels is posted on the convention's official website, Colossalcon.com.
The planners promise on the website that the event will have "two cosplays, two dances, an awesome game room, unique and entertaining panels, and video rooms that cater to everyone."
Cosplay (short for costume play) in particular is the central thread that holds this anime festival together. For those who don't know, it involves fans dressing up as a character from their favorite anime, in a costume often designed and created by the wearer. In addition to simply walking around in costume and mingling, there are multiple cosplay events, in which costumed fans can perform skits based on their particular characters, and contests during which they'll be judged on whose costume is the best.
Matt Morgan, owner of comic, gaming and anime store The Hero Zone (located at 137 E. Market Street, Sandusky) has a passion for anime and believes that a convention like ColossalCon is a great way for fans of the genre — or a particular anime or character — to come out and interact with other people who share their passion.
Fans of Japanese animation are very devoted to the art form. According to Morgan, the reason is simply that "when you are presented with a really good story, people attach themselves to the characters; cosplay is a great outlet for that. Also, it's nice to be among other people who share your enthusiasm."
While dressing in costume may not be everyone's idea of a good time, for many convention goers it is the highlight, though often for different reasons. Morgan cites competition and self-expression as the two main reasons fans cosplay. "People like to dress up and pretend to be characters who they relate to themselves, " he said.
He pointed out that some participants simply relish the opportunity to "get out of their own skin" and show their appreciation for a particular story or character, while others are in it to be recognized, craving "the challenge of designing and creating a difficult costume from scratch and competing to be the best."
Whether you have been working on a costume for months in preparation for the event or are just finding out about it now, ColossalCon is sure to have something to interest everyone. Cosplay contests, game shows, karaoke, dances, guest speakers and a goldmine of classic anime shown in two different video rooms should ensure that no fan is left bored.
As for convention etiquette, if you see someone in an outlandish costume that piques your curiosity, don't hesitate to ask questions, as Morgan explained that most cosplayers will be happy to tell you about their costume.
"Generally, asking questions is in a sense a compliment," Morgan said. "Asking someone about their costume and showing interest is a good way to learn, as most are more than willing to tell you about their specific character."
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I could not say, but I would not be at all surprised. APC had a
similar hole in earlier (pre mid last year) versions of their
powerchute nlm for netware. When they released their Powerchute-VS
line the included software was able to manage (without
authentication) servers that were running the full version of
powerchute. It basically allowed anyone to with the powerchute VS
software to manage the APC on the Powerchute server, and _yes_ you
could powerdown the server. They do have newer version which should
fix this. One of the versions is for Netware 4.x and supposedly
solves the problem via always authenticating to NDS. I believe that
the version for Netware 3.x servers simply uses a new SAP type
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type) then the newer NLM for netware 3.x would have the same
liabilities. Gotta love it!
On 13 Apr 98 at 5:53, Chris Liljenstolpe - Network wrote:
I hope that this UDP port (I haven't looked at PowerChute) is just used
by the UPS's to report problems, and that PowerChute doesn't use that to
make critical decisions (like shutdown). I know PowerChute CAN be used to
shutdown the system, I just don't know if that feature can be triggered by a
network reported event. That makes for an even better exploit....
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Harvey Milk, Gus Van Sant and Kenneth Anger
Having made fun of Peter Travers recently for gushing over Gus Van Sant's film "Milk," I finally saw the thing and am inclined to similarly gush. Which doesn't make me into a Travers-style serial gusher, but at least the guy likes good stuff.
"Milk" means Harvey Milk, who moved to San Francisco in 1972, helped transform that city's Castro dictrict into a gay mecca, was elected a city supervisor and was shot to death (along with the mayor, George Moscone) in 1978. The assailant was another, painfully unstable supervisor, Dan White. White was only charged with manslaughter, spent a mere five years in jail and committed suicide two years after he got out.
Aside from a string of brilliant performances, starting with Sean Penn as Milk, and despite a slightly over-artsy obsession with "Tosca," in a performance starring fat singers on a tacky set, which I don't quite understand, the film is superb in its evocation of San Francisco in the 70's and its nuanced view of Milk himself.
Brilliant and charismatic, he was also self-obsessed and, by the end, morphing into a calculating politician, willing to go back on his word and just a little power-mad. But his charm and his passion for gay rights never flagged, and Van Sant's film captures all that and much more. "A TOTAL TRIUMPH!" I might be inclined to say, but Travers already said that. So I'll just settle for Tony Scott in the NY Times, who called it "a marvel."
Kenneth Anger is a sort of marvel, too, in his own wildly eccentric, flamboyantly gay way. Reminds me of David Del Tredici; the two ought to collaborate. Born in Santa Monica and now living back in Los Angeles, Anger was a child actor and dancer and then a filmmaker from an early age, active in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris and other European hotspots. His films were and are defiantly, wonderfully avant-garde, and reflect his lifelong interest in the occult.
A couple of weeks ago he was at the RedCat Theater in the bowels of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, regaling a full house of latter-day hipsters with some of his recent shorts (he's resumed making films after a 20-year hiatus) and a restored print of one of his classics, "Scorpio Rising," from 1963.
"Milk" portrays a gay culture; "Scorpio Rising" epitomizes it, albeit from 15 years before Milk's heyday, when gay life was still closeted. Its dream-like images of motorcycle club members fetishistically polishing their gleaming machines and then cavorting obscenely at a masked party, interspersed with brooding photos of (male) 50's biker heartthrobs and, with delirious incongruity, footage from an old Hollywood film about Jesus and his desciples, make for an astonishing 29 minutes.
At 80, Anger was still there, buoyant and ebullient. But it was sobering to be reminded that Milk was assassinated just as the AIDS tsunami broke, putting an effective end to the defensive, triumphalist bravado of the gay culture of the late 70's in San Francisco, New York and world wide. One of the members of Milk's entourage, Clive Jones (in a lovely performance by Emile Hirsch, the star of the film Penn directed, "Into the Wild"), went on to conceive and oversee the deeply moving AIDS quilt.
Jones survived, along with Anger, but the heady vision that gay values would sweep to acceptance, or even prevail, did not. Would Milk have long outlived White's murderous bullets? Have Californians, and Americans, learned anything, with the passage of Proposition 8?
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I have just bought the video and have been watching it time and time again. I also bought Brokeback Mountain a couple of years ago, and have watched it only once. It's the difference between gay as victim and gay as hero, and the real heroes are all those gays demonstrating, even rioting for their rights in the street. But it made me sad too, since all that effervescence and community spirit has gone. Gays have become complacent. I remember the 60s and 70s vividly. I was part of it. Now I feel alienated by the commercial culture that has been created for gay people and cultivate other interests. There are other things I like about Van Sant's films, including his obvious empathy with the underclass and underdog in our society. I also love his camera work and the visual quirkiness of his films - especially films like "Gerry", which, what with Arvo Part's music, is absolutely trascendent. This is a more commercial, mainstream film, but within those constraints, it is a very moving and evocative film. And Emile Hirsch's performance has made me fall completely in love with him.
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Differing views of "Girl Culture"
The Minnesota Center for Photography is running two exhibits that take viewers inside the world of women and girls. Lauren Greenfield's "Girl Culture" shows a spectrum of femininity from little girls to showgirls. Some Minneapolis girls didn't think their lives were well-represented in those images, so they took some photos of their own.
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"Visions from America" on display in Rochester
When you say the word America it can conjure an image. It's something photographers know all too well. This weekend, the Rochester Art Center begins showing images of America -- a survey of American photography drawn from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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Remembering artist Charles Biederman
Artist Charles Biederman, who died Sunday at his Red Wing home, leaves behind a legacy unknown to many people in Minnesota. Biederman is best known for his three-dimensional painted aluminum sculptures, which attempted to capture the "structural processes" of nature.
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December 13, 2004
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John Jarpe works hard as a painter, and he works his paintings hard. He usually labors for several months on each piece in his St Paul studio.
December 10, 2004
Dali lives on in Wayzata
Spanish painter Salvador Dali has become synonymous with the style known as surrealism. This year is the 100th anniversary of Dali's birth. But there are modern surrealists still carrying on the Dali tradition, including one in Wayzata, Minnesota.
December 3, 2004
Minnesota's abstract art tradition
Say abstract art to most people and they think New York, California, or Europe. But Minnesota has a well established if not well known tradition of abstract art running all the way back to the 1930s. Now the first show ever tracing the evolution of abstract painting in Minnesota is opening at the Rochester Art Center.
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In 2005, CDI expanded by creating the Straus Military Reform Project [3] for the purpose of promoting military reform in the Pentagon and Congress. Winslow T. Wheeler, a former Capitol Hill staffer and General Accounting Office assistant director, directs the Straus Military Reform Project at CDI. The Project was launched by a matching grant from Philip A. Straus, Jr. Straus and his family have long supported activities at CDI and continue to be major supporters of the Project's endeavors.[4]
After the 2008 U.S. elections, CDI released America's Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress, a collection of briefing papers by a dozen defense intellectuals and retired military officers. In 2010, CDI released a second anthology, The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You through It.[5] Since the mid-2000s, CDI has focused on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II as the embodiment of the Pentagon's acquisition problems—being both unaffordable and a huge disappointment in performance.
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