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DETROIT - Vance Worley's impressive stretch since the All-Star break came to an abrupt end.
Worley allowed a pair of home runs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates lost to the Detroit Tigers 8-4 on Wednesday night, wasting a 4-1 lead in the process. The Pirates remain 1 1/2 games behind first-place Milwaukee in the NL Central.
Worley allowed five runs - three earned - and nine hits in 5 1-3 innings.
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AP Photo/Pittsburgh starting pitcher Vance Worley reacts after giving up a solo home run to Detroit's Nick Castellanos during the sixth inning Wednesday in Detroit.
"He went out there and battled tonight. Wasn't a sharp night for him," manager Clint Hurdle said. "Still, I think of the three runs they scored in the fifth, they wouldn't have scored them if we would have handled the ball better."
Victor Martinez had three hits, and Nick Castellanos homered and tripled to lead the Tigers, who snapped a four-game losing streak. Detroit is suddenly facing adversity amid mounting injuries. The Tigers had to send Buck Farmer to the mound to make his major league debut, and he allowed four runs in five innings.
Blaine Hardy (2-1) followed with two scoreless innings of relief, lowering his ERA to 2.05. He's been a rare bright spot in a bullpen that's been unreliable.
"He's done an excellent job, really," manager Brad Ausmus said. "He's not strictly a lefty-lefty guy. He's got the ability to get right-handed hitters out, which gives me a lot of flexibility in the middle innings."
Castellanos put Detroit ahead 5-4 with a solo homer off Worley (5-2) in the sixth. Martinez added a two-run single in the seventh.
The game was tied at 1 in the fourth when Pittsburgh's Jordy Mercer hit an RBI triple and Travis Snider followed with a two-run homer. The Tigers tied it with three runs in the fifth.
Alex Avila led off with a homer to make it 4-2, and after a single by Eugenio Suarez, Ezequiel Carrera hit a grounder to second.
Jayson Nix tried to make a tough throw to second to get the lead runner, but his throw was poor, and the error helped Detroit to a big inning. Miguel Cabrera eventually hit a sacrifice fly, and Martinez tied it with a two-out RBI single.
Castellanos hit his ninth homer of the year with one out in the sixth.
"I think the pitches that hurt were the home runs," Worley said. "Couple of guys who I got behind - had to throw good pitches."
Worley had been 3-0 with a 0.96 ERA since the All-Star break.
OUTFIELD PROBLEMS: Pittsburgh center fielder Starling Marte made a diving attempt on Castellanos' hit in the second, and the ball got past him for a triple. Right fielder Gregory Polanco couldn't handle Torii Hunter's double in the fourth, and Polanco's long run to right-center in the seventh was for naught when he was unable to make the catch on Carrera's drive, which went for a triple.
FOR THE BIRDS: Worley and Cabrera both seemed distracted by two birds that settled in between the mound and the plate while Cabrera was batting in the first.
Cabrera stepped out and waved his bat at them, then Worley rolled a ball to the plate, trying to shoo them away.
TRAINER'S ROOM: Pittsburgh was once again without 2B Neil Walker, who has been limited to only three games this month. Walker has been bothered by a bad back.
Cubs 4, Brewers 2
CHICAGO (AP) - Javier Baez and Anthony Rizzo hit back-to-back home runs as the Chicago Cubs roughed up Kyle Lohse and the Milwaukee Brewers.
Starlin Castro, Rizzo and Baez, the nucleus of Theo Epstein's rebuilding effort, drove in all four runs against the NL-leading Brewers. Castro and Chris Coghlan contributed three hits each.
Cubs starter Tsuyoshi Wada (2-1) was coasting until he was chased in the seventh, when he allowed consecutive home runs to Rickie Weeks and Martin Maldonado. Wada allowed two runs on five hits in 6 2-3 innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Braves 3, Dodgers 2
ATLANTA (AP) - Ervin Santana won his sixth straight start at Turner Field, Justin Upton drove in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning and the Atlanta Braves snapped a two-game skid with a victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Andrelton Simmons returned to the lineup after missing six games with a sprained left ankle and had two RBIs for the Braves, who had lost 11 of 13.
Hyun-Jin Ryu (13-6) left the game with an apparent right leg injury after allowing six hits and three runs with two walks and seven strikeouts in 5 2-3 innings.
Santana (12-6) improved to 5-0 with a 2.70 ERA in his last six starts, giving up eight hits, two runs and two walks with nine strikeouts in six innings.
Cardinals 5, Marlins 2
MIAMI (AP) - Justin Masterson pitched seven scoreless innings in his best outing since joining the St. Louis Cardinals, and they averted a series sweep by beating the Miami Marlins.
Masterson, acquired in a trade with Cleveland on July 30, allowed three hits - all singles - and no walks and threw only 91 pitches before departing for a pinch hitter.
After recording only six outs in his previous start, he lowered his ERA to 6.00 in three outings with the Cardinals, and 5.14 overall this year.
The 6-foot-6 right-hander improved to 2-1 with St. Louis and 5-6 overall.


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Last weekend Aspen Snowmass hosted what's now being touted as the biggest party to hit the slopes. Well, it's only being touted by me, but if you ask the athletes of Winter X Games 12, it's evident there were plenty of good times to be had.
The biggest news from the etnies camp? Our girl Spencer O'Brien placed 3rd in Women's Slopestyle! Featured Rider Marie-France-Roy wasn't far behind in 5th after a big fat 900 attempt. And finally, Leanne Pelosi finished 10th, and while she didn't have the highest scoring runs, she did have what was quite possibly the best 'stache.
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These days, the number of indies premiering on a weekly basis can be both thrilling and intimidating. To help sift through the number of new releases (independent or otherwise), we've created a weekend film guide. Below you'll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for today's fresh offerings.
Happy viewing!
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. today, Friday, March 28th. Synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Director: Seth Fisher
Cast: Seth Fisher, Laila Robins, Mark Blum, Fred Melamed, Brian Cox, Mei Melancon, Nicole Ansari-Cox
Synopsis: "Celebrated playwright, Harold Blumenthal, has passed away after succumbing to cardiac arrest while laughing at his own joke. Now, Harold's estranged and jealous brother, Saul, must confront his personal hang-ups in order to deliver himself from an epic bout of constipation. Meanwhile, Saul's wife and son must each grapple with their own personal obstacles through a set of circumstances so improbably ironic they might as well have been lifted from one of Harold's plays."
Theatrical Release Cities: New York
Get to Know the Filmmaker: You can read a conversation between Fisher and The Playlist's Katie Walsh from last year's Santa Barbara International Film Festival here.
Boys of Abu Ghraib
Director: Luke Moran
Cast: Sara Paxton, Sean Astin, Michael Welch, John Heard, Elijah Kelley, John Robinson, Kristen Rakes, Omid Abtahi, Jermaine Williams, Rick Vargas
Synopsis: "An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee."
Theatrical Release Cities: Los Angeles
Breathe In
Director: Drake Doremus
Cast: Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Amy Ryan, Mackenzie Davis, Kyle MacLachlan, Alexandra Wentworth, Lucy Davenport, Hugo Becker, Ben Shenkman, Brendan Dooling, Nicole Patrick, Elise Eberle
Synopsis: "As summer turns to fall, music teacher Keith Reynolds privately reminisces about his days as a starving artist in the city. While his wife, Megan, and daughter, Lauren, look forward to Lauren's final year of high school, Keith clings to those evenings he's asked to sub as a cellist with a prestigious Manhattan symphony. When Megan decides the family should host foreign exchange student Sophie, the British high school senior soon rekindles an impetuous aspect of Keith's personality. [Sundance Film Festival]"
Criticwire Grade Average: B (19 reviews)
When It Premiered: A Sundance 2013 selection, Felicity Jones cracked the top 15 in the Best Lead Performance category of our festival critics poll.
Take ToH's Word For It: "It's fairly telegraphed from the film's opening minutes that Sophie's presence will disrupt life around the sleepy New York suburb where she's transplanted. And the film boasts a solid visual style and strong performances to at first ignore the inevitable -- and boring -- other plot contrivances clearly at work." - Beth Hanna
Theatrical Release Cities: New York, Chicago, Detroit, East Hanover, Monclair, Kew Gardens, Malverne, Roslyn, Stony Brook, Dallas, Plano (opens in Los Angeles April 4)
Cesar Chavez
Director: Diego Luna
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Gabriel Mann, America Ferrera, Michael Peña, Jacob Vargas, Lisa Brenner, Yancey Arias, Wes Bentley, John Ortiz, John Malkovich
Synopsis: "Cesar Chavez chronicles the birth of a modern American movement led by the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer. Torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to bringing dignity and justice to others, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle for the rights of farm workers. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual's ability to change the system."
Criticwire Grade Average: B- (9 reviews)
Take The Playlist's Word For It: "An intermittently compelling overview of a movement, but only a cursory portrait of a man, 'Cesar Chavez'...is a well-intentioned, respectable and respectful biopic. But the conservative format of the film never goes beyond the kind of paint-by-numbers approach that stultifies so many entries in this genre." - Jessica Kiang
Theatrical Release Cities: Wide.
Finding Vivian Maier
Director: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
Synopsis: "John Maloof loves forced sales where he can acquire items from an individual's private estate. One day he makes the astonishing discovery of a box of undeveloped films and negatives that were found in an attic. The material reveals moving moments of ordinary life in America which are reminiscent of the street photography of major artists such as Helen Levitt or Robert Frank. There are a particularly large number of photographs of children, absorbed in play, or staring confidently into the lens. But who was behind the camera? And why were the photographs of Vivian Maier, who died alone at the age of 83, never discovered?" [Berlin International Film Festival]
Criticwire Grade Average: A- (8 reviews)
Theatrical Release Cities: New York and Los Angeles (coming to Chicago on April 4th)


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A man who killed a teenager four years ago entered a guilty plea Tuesday.
Antwan Nelson pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated robbery in the death of 16-year-old Mark Hooten.
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Posted on Friday, July 26, 2013 by Jim Norrena
MFA Program in Writing visiting scholar Ishmael Reed was recently featured on Speakeasy, the Wall Street Journal arts and entertainment blog.
Reed, author of The Free-Lance Pallbearers and Reckless Eyeballing, uses the recent media storm surrounding the controversial "not guilty" verdict of George Zimmerman (on trial for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida) to accentuate his own experience participating as part of a neighborhood watch team in the Bay Area.
In February, Reed's article "Neo-Classical Republicanism" was published in the New York Times Opinion Pages.
About Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed is an internationally renowned, award-winning novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist with more than 25 published books and six plays to his credit. In 1998 he became the 23rd UC Berkeley faculty member to be awarded with the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award.
Reed also is a publisher, editor of numerous anthologies and magazines, television producer, radio and television commentator, teacher, and lecturer.
In addition to his 26 years spent as a lecturer at UC Berkeley, Reed also taught at Harvard, Dartmouth, and Yale.


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NC State University Student Government
Wolfpack Nation,
It is an honor to serve as your Student Body President and Vice President. Students have entrusted us with a great responsibility and we will do everything in our power to achieve what we outlined during the campaign.
Even though it's summer break, we're all still working hard to make sure we serve the students well. The Executive Branch has been constructed and department heads are already in the midst of planning events for the upcoming year. The Legislative Branch is constantly thinking of new ways to address issues facing students. All members across the board are laying the ground-work for what is sure to be an amazing year.
If at any point over the summer you find yourself in need of answers or assistance, please navigate the website to find the appropriate parties. We are all servant leaders and are here for no other reason but to serve the great members of the Wolfpack.
We look forward to yet another amazing year at NC State, and as always, Go Pack!
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I rated 5 stars because there is a lot of action. There also was some suspense making you want you to continue reading. There was some surprises but not many.
Harry has come back to Hogwarts for his second year. He arrives with his friend Ron in a flying car because they missed the Hogwarts Express. They miss the sorting but on there way to the dormitory harry hears a voice that no one else hears. Later someone or something writes a message in blood on the wall. The next day a cat is found paralyzed. Over the next few days many people are found paralyzed and then someone dies. Harry finds That he can open the Chamber of Secrets. The chamber is home to the Basalick the Basalick. The Basalick was the cause of the trouble in Hogwarts. Harry kills the Basalick and saves Hogwarts.
Currently re-reading the entire Harry Potter series with my HS senior daughter (her idea) and HS freshman son. This shared experience is a lot of fun. The first time around, we read them individually at different times.
When I'm done, I'll come back and state which one in the series is my favorite. Otherwise there's not really much to add to the several thousand reviews of each book in this series. We all know the Harry Potter series is an epic story :-) .
Book 2 in the series. Again, I absolutely loved this book just like the first one and could not put it down! This time around at Hogwarts, the Chamber of Secrets has been opened and is causing a mess at the school and poor Harry keeps getting hurt or in trouble.
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The atmosphere Rowling creates is unique; the story whizzes along; Harry is an unassuming and completely sympathetic hero. But, truth to tell, you may feel as if you've read it all before. Rowling clearly hit on a winning formula with the first Harry Potter book; the second book — though still great fun — feels a tad, well, formulaic.
Tras derrotar una vez más a lord Voldemort, su siniestro enemigo en Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal, Harry espera impaciente en casa de sus insoportables tíos el inicio del segundo curso del Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y Hechicería. Sin embargo, la espera dura poco, pues un elfo aparece en su habitación y le advierte que una amenaza mortal se cierne sobre la escuela. Así pues, Harry no se lo piensa dos veces y, acompañado de Ron, su mejor amigo, se dirige a Hogwarts en un coche volador. Pero ¿puede un aprendiz de mago defender la escuela de los malvados que pretenden destruirla? Sin saber que alguien ha abierto la Cámara de los Secretos, dejando escapar una serie de monstruos peligrosos, Harry y sus amigos Ron y Hermione tendrán que enfrentarse con arañas gigantes, serpientes encantadas, fantasmas enfurecidos y, sobre todo, con la mismísima reencarnación de su más temible adversario.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0439064864, Hardcover)It's hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, he is in terrible danger indeed. As if it's not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year. But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car, it is just his luck to crash into a valuable (but clearly vexed) Whomping Willow. Still, all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts.
Chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him. Soon it's not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen at Hogwarts. The mysteriously gleaming, foot-high words on the wall proclaim, "The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware." But what exactly does it mean? Harry, Hermione, and Ron do everything that is wizardly possible--including risking their own lives--to solve this 50-year-old, seemingly deadly mystery. This deliciously suspenseful novel is every bit as gripping, imaginative, and creepy as the first; familiar student concerns--fierce rivalry, blush-inducing crushes, pedantic professors--seamlessly intertwine with the bizarre, horrific, fantastical, or just plain funny. Once again, Rowling writes with a combination of wit, whimsy, and a touch of the macabre that will leave readers young and old desperate for the next installment. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson
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When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
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Among the big high-profile comic book sequels of the year ("Captain America," "The Amazing Spider-Man" et al.), there's one that's been a little more under the radar: "Sin City: A Dame To Kill For," Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's sequel to their 2005 green-screen noir. But the marketing campaign is starting to gear up in a big way, with the film's release only a couple of months away, and hot on the heels of that 'controversial' poster (emphasis on the quotation marks, Mr. Weinstein), a new trailer has just landed for the movie.
It displays the same black-and-white stunning visuals, along with another all-star cast, where returning actors like Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Powers Boothe and Rosario Dawson are joined by new faces like Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Juno Temple, Ray Liotta, Lady Gaga, Jeremy Piven, Dennis Haysbert and, as the lady of the title, Eva Green. It also looks like there's a more unified plot this time around, with the various protagonists teaming up to take down Boothe's Senator Roarke.
Fans of the original will undoubtedly be delighted by what's on display, but those of us who were cooler on it, and on the work of Rodriguez and Miller in general, might need a little more to be convinced. Still, it'll look unlike anything else this summer when it lands on August 22nd. Watch the new trailer below.


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Briefly about me:
44 yrs old, have'nt dsone much cycling since I've been in Europe (now alsmost 20 yrs) but now in Hamburg I hope to do more.
I tend to prefer old bikes made of steel: I have 2 Reynolds 531 framesets, one more or less a racer with an old ultegra groupset from the time when 14 gears were enough, the other an even older Peugeot which has been ruggedized so I can carry my 3 yr old on through the woods, also a hacked Czech Favorit which is now a fixie.
As I'm out of touch I'll have a few questions now and then.


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Poems from Lisa Gidlöf / selfportraits from Sylvaine Soldano.
"kroppsspråk " is a solo dance piece inspired by Lisa Gidlöf poetry- choreography and interpretation by Liebe M. dance company ::: Sylvaine Soldano - with a video installation realized by Bernard Martinez.
The book gives a more intimate perspective to the project.
You can read the book before or after the performance,or whenever you want,just for the pleasure.
Only 100 books will be produced in this edition.
Sylvaine is a dancer,choreographer,performer based in Paris and Stockholm. Since a few years ,she's living permanently in Africa for personal reasons. Working on her self-portraits through different media such as photography ,video ,drawing and painting. Producing works for international festivals or intimate audience. Inviting worldwide artists to share innovative vernissage and performances at home and in urban landscape with her pictorial work. Over the years,she has danced for several dance companies all around the world.However,since 2009,she has developped as a solo artist her own dance pieces,exploring new patterns and media,breaking habits in mouvements,looking for endless possibilities in opening new channels with mind and body,facing the world.
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I installed a new bike chain. It seems to fit find. But I do not know if my chain is too long. Without having to break a link, can you tell me how to check whether it is in a optimal length?
When the chain is on the largest FD and smallest RD, the rear wheelies (what do you call them?) are above one another rather than parallel. Anyhow, any guidance would be appreciated. What happens if it is too long? It is my commuter bike. Any danger?


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Manchester indie foursome
Jonny: Vocals Laurie: Guitar Rowan: Bass / Backing Vocals Adam: Drums "Fuck looking like a fashionista: this is indie music as it's meant to be... they mean every word." The Fly Comprising Jonny on vocals plus Laurie Hulme (guitar) Rowan Smith (bass) and Adam Featherstone (drums), Beat The Radar hail from "the scummy edges of the Lake District." Formed while studying in Lancaster, the foursome relocated to Manchester in 2008 to be part of the city that launched the bands that shaped them, from New Order to The Fall, The Smiths and The Stone Roses (plus a little unrelated REM, Mission of Burma, Pavement, Sebadoh and Sonic Youth). By virtue of their outsider status, their sound is far from that of your average Manchester band, more a Cribs-like rabble in which big tunes and heart means more than posturing and polish. This is not your over-styled, too-cool-for-school indie band. "We actually spend time focusing on writing some proper tunes rather than our haircuts," says Jonny. MySpace
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07/09/2010, New Bern
A wonderful July 4th weekend in New Bern & Oriental. It was New Bern's 300th anniversary of being the original NC Capitol & second oldest city in the State. Oriental held their annual Croaker Festival.
The weather was fantastic. Thursday July 1 was spent working on the boat other than a quick swim in the pool. Friday we toured the old town of New Bern. Saturday was the Oriental Croaker Festival, then back to New Bern for the Beach Music Festival. Ate at Morgan's Tavern for dinner. Sunday was a pool day, then to Bridgetown (across the Neuse River from New Bern) to watch the Air Show & Fireworks over the river. Fantastic weather & a great weekend.
06/30/2010, Cape Lookout, NC
June 17-20: A great long weekend at Cape Lookout. Penne & I left New Bern a little after noon Thursday June 17, & anchored at Cedar Creek (top of Adams Creek on the ICW) for Thursday night. Friday morning, had a good and fast (with the tide) run to Beaufort, & out the inlet. A good sail to the cape, close-hauled, in a reasonably calm sea. Anchored among about 15 other boats, but closest neighbor still 100 yards or more away.
Weather on the warm side, but a good (18 Knot) East wind Saturday. Took the dink around to the ocean side, & down to the old rock jetty, where we beached, & then walked to the ocean shoals.
A couple of large Loggerhead Turtles spent the weekend feeding around the boat, & provided constant company.
We motor-sailed into a SW wind Sunday morning as far as the Moorehead turning basin, then motored up Adams creek. Ran between rain storms on the Neuse river, but into the wind, so no sailing on the Neuse.
05/27/2010, Northwest Creek Marina
Thursday May 27:
After the depression cleared & the wind died down late yesterday afternoon, we had a beautiful evening anchored on Adams Creek - frogs on one side, whip-o-wills on the other, and dolphins in the creek. And a fantastic sunset. We had a "last dinner on the water" together - Spanish Mackerel for the 3 of us, leftover steak for Spot. It was wonderful all the way around celebrating our last night on the water, & our two-month anniversary of the start of the trip in Clearwater, Florida.
This morning was a fantastic sunrise, very calm, just the dolphins breathing occasionally, and a cockerel somewhere in the distance. After hoisting the dingy on deck, we raised a very muddy anchor at 8:00am, & headed out into the Neuse. Tried desperately to sail, but the wind was too light, & from the northwest (where we were headed - isn't it always that way!) So motoring was the name of the game again.
After a pretty run up the Neuse (we all remembered the closing scene in 'Red October' which was filmed on the Neuse), we threaded our way up Northwest Creek to the marina, & backed into an unprepared slip - so it took us a while to tie her in (did not look too professional, but we got it done). Then a major scrub down on the outside, & a tidy-up on the inside. It was very hot & still today, so long showers were in order for us, then dinner at the local restaurant (Hurricanes).
Tomorrow an interior cleanup, & then to Raleigh (by road) for the Memorial Day weekend. So the end of the journey has arrived. A wonderful trip, memorable sights, many experiences, and met a bunch of new & old friends. We'll be ready to do it again - well, in a week or two.
05/26/2010, Adams Creek
On the edge of a low pressure depression, so another very wet day, 25 knot NE winds with gusts to 30 knots. Slipped off the dock at 8:00am to work our way up Bouge Sound in the rain. The rain let up a little in the Moorhead City turning basin, but then we got behind a tug pushing a double barge load up Adams Creek, so a little slow.
Dropped anchor in Cedar Creek at the top of Adams Creek to let the winds settle a little on Pamlico Sound & the Neuse River.
Fish for dinner - the 2 Spanish Mackerel caught while offshore coming into Cape Fear.
05/25/2010, Swansboro
An overcast day, 25 knot NE winds with gusts to 33 knots. Slipped off the dock at 6:45am to get an on-demand opening before the Wrightsville Beach bridge closed for rush-hour. A long 54 mile run today, but the tide was with us, even if the wind was not, so we made good time - thank goodness.
The Navy closed the waterway behind us for 4 hours for live-fire practice, otherwise we would still be anchored in the waterway south of Camp Lejeune with a number of other boats - got very lucky.
Tied up to the outside of Casper's Marina in Swansboro in the wind & rain, which of course stopped half an hour later - if only I had known that's all it took. But it did start raining again not long after. We'll walk the town for dinner tonight.
05/24/2010, Wrightsville
A wet & rainy morning, with a cold NE wind at 25 knots. Fought the current up the Cape Fear River before turning up the sounds to Wrightsville. Decided to take a slip rather than anchoring out in the rain & high winds, & managed to dock, fuel, & pump-out between rain squalls. Parked just below the Wrightsville Beach bridge, & right outside the restaurant - Blue Water Grill. Can almost have them pass the beer to the boat - almost. Spot has been rather laid back since Charleston, but got excited when he found out that we were back in NC waters.
A fun evening with Sarah Underwood after she finished classes at 10:00pm. Oh, another late night. Spot sure knows a good looking women when he sees one.
A very long run tomorrow to Swansboro, so up & away to catch the 7:00am bridge opening.


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Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, who is playing a Sikh in some parts of his debut production "Love Aaj Kal", says essaying the character meant a lot of responsibility for him.
"You have to work with great responsibility while playing certain characters so that you don't end up hurting others' sentiments. I have played the role of a Sikh gentleman in this film with sensitivity. A lot of work went behind it in order to make the character authentic," Saif told reporters.
"We took care of the costumes, the look, mannerisms, dialect and a lot of other things like I was told not to smoke while wearing the turban while we were shooting for the film in Patiala," he added.
"Love Aaj Kal", directed by Imtiaz Ali of "Jab We Met" fame, also stars Deepika Padukone and is set to release July 31.


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I'd go with the 2nd one.
For 60 bucks I get.
Faster cpu.
Bigger psu.
Bigger Hd.
On the down side I also get w8.....yuk.
So I'm planning on buying one of these 2 pre-built pc's and eventually learning on how to upgrade.
So should I go with this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229285#scrollReviews
or should I spend some more and get this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=83-229-361&SortField=0&SummaryType=2&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=2#scrollFullInfo
With little knowledge of computers that I have, I think I'm going to replace the video card eventually.
So the question is Which one should I buy for a starter Gaming Pc?


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Pope's blessing of "Golden Rice" - "Now it is blessed !"
Published 20 November 2013
Since 1999 there is a Genetic rice, designed to prevent blindness in the developing world has been in existence since 1999. But planting out in the fields has not yet managed to overcome the headwind against genetic engineering which is too strong. In contrast, international research has now mobilised. And the Pope likes the rice. On 7 November a miracle occurred in the Vatican : Pope Francis allowed a visitor to place a bag of rice in his hands and looked at it with pleasure . Earlier, the visitors had asked him for his blessing, in English - not for himself but for the rice. An official blessing granted Francis did not grant an official; blessing but, when he returned the rice, he said: " Now it is blessed!" Thus recalled the visitpr talikng to Die Presse: Ingo Potrykus who, until his retirement, was, a plant genetic engineer at the ETH in Zurich . There n 1992 he embarked upon a project that would solve one of the worst nutrition problems of the developing world, the lack of vitamin A or its precursor _ -carotene, it is converted in the body. But first it must get into the body; it is also abundant in many foods, including meat, butter and milk.


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Ok, so I have a huge tv that just died, and I don't want to just toss it in the trash. Does anyone know where to recycle something like that in the DSM area? If so, what is the cost?
I really do not want to move it, since it weighs 300 lbs, but at some point I will need it out of my living room.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
I believe that Best Buy just recently went national with a new recycling program. They take most all electronics, but for bigger things (probably your TV), they "charge" $10, but then give you a $10 BB gift card.
Forever trying to find a cure for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
They are going to love it when I walk in with a 40" CRT
EDIT: BB only takes up to 32" CRT TV's.
Nevermind...it looks like they don't take TVs over 32".
I tried to recycle a bunch of electronics a few years ago. Best thing I found was Phoenix Recycling in Marshalltown - and even then it was fairly pricey. All together it was around $70, but that was a few crts, a couple pcs, printers and a fax.
I had to run it up there. But I believe they will pick up now. There wasn't much else around for residential.
If Best Buy has that deal - I doubt you'll find anything better. The only other thing was Metro Waste. I think you have to take it to Bondurant and pay by the pound. Not sure how much.
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Ok, so I have a huge tv that just died, and I don't want to just toss it in the trash. Does anyone know where to recycle something like that in the DSM area? If so, what is the cost?
I really do not want to move it, since it weighs 300 lbs, but at some point I will need it out of my living room.
Try putting it up on craigslist for free. Maybe someone will grab it and decide they want to try and fix it, or who knows.
Originally Posted by ChrisMWilliams
If you guys come by Bondurant tonight, I'll **** all over every one of your dogs. I'm not the Mayor but I've been drinking a crap ton of water today and have plenty of water in the old radiator.
Ankeny has an ewaste recycling day coming up on April 4. You can take it to the City Maintenance Facility (211 SE Lorenz Dr). A tv that size will cost you $22.
Ankeny appliance, electronics recycling day set | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register
I believe it's actually illegal to throw them away. You need to properly recycle them, and that means probably taking it to Bondurant or Marshalltown.
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Try putting it up on craigslist for free. Maybe someone will grab it and decide they want to try and fix it, or who knows.
Or freecycle.
CP Recovery
You could give this place a try. They're in Johnston off of NW Beaver. I don't know much about them except they're near my house, and their website says they handle all sorts of electronics (including TVs).
Make sure you ask as many questions as possible about what is done with the recycling. Many of these end up in shady places and actually end up causing more issues and pollution than if they were thrown away intact. In many cases the company charging a fee to take them turns around and gets paid for them by a third party. Then they are turned over to be smuggled out of the country to third world locations where they are partially dismantled for the components of value and then put in landfills or even burned in the open air.
60 minutes had a good expose on this a while ago about an operation in China. I've also seen stories about many areas in Africa where this is common.
Do a little research to make sure you are dealing with a reputable recycler.
Links to the 60 minutes story.
Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste - CBS News
'60 Minutes' examines the business of e-waste recycling | Green Tech - CNET News
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Brown plan gives big money to close education gap
SACRAMENTO, Calif. California schools will receive an infusion of more than $3.6 billion in extra money this year, much of it targeted to the neediest students as part of a redistribution plan pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The Democratic governor hopes that dramatically reshaping how state aid is handed out will correct decades of inequality between districts. He also wants to give local schools much of the responsibility to decide how the money is spent.
Whether the additional money will actually help close the longstanding achievement gap between poor and minority students and their counterparts hinges almost entirely on how the money is spent. Yet just days before lawmakers are expected to begin voting on the budget Friday, there is little guidance for them to follow.
The Legislature, which is dominated by Democratic lawmakers with close ties to the state's powerful teachers unions, appears likely to avoid attaching rigorous standards to the extra money, possibly pushing many of the decisions regarding oversight and accountability to the appointed state Board of Education. That worries advocates for education reform.
"It concerns us that so many of these critical issues are being punted in some ways to the state Board of Education," said Arun Ramanathan, executive director of The Education Trust-West, which advocates for poor and minority children.
He said lawmakers need to include strict language in the state budget for fiscal transparency, parental involvement and accountability to ensure the money is spent as intended - to directly benefit disadvantaged students.
"Without those three things, the public's going to say, `You gave a bunch of money to poor kids. What happened to it? And what benefits did it produce?'" Ramanathan said.
Memos from the Democratic leadership indicate the package will require districts to spend the extra money on disadvantaged students but leave regulations up the state Board of Education. It will also require public input in annual updates to local plans.
The new funding formula targets more money to the school districts with the highest concentrations of students who are from low-income households, have limited English proficiency or are foster children, the same schools where the so-called achievement gap is most acute. Schools with the highest proportions of black and Latino students have historically fared less well and had less money per pupil compared to those attended by whites and Asians.
The plan represents "a real step forward," the governor said this week after it was included in a state budget compromise he struck with the Legislature's Democratic leadership. Giving lower-performing schools proportionately more money "will strengthen local school districts, help poor kids and kids that have serious language barriers," he said.
He has said repeatedly that he believes it's unfair that students in less wealthy parts of the state go to schools with far fewer resources than students in more affluent areas, where parents can hold fundraisers or even pay out of pocket pay for extra programs and facilities.
In pushing for the updated funding formula, Brown argued that providing additional money to certain school districts is essential to equalize the state's education system and boost achievement for its 6.2 million public school students. More than half of California students are considered poor under state guidelines, while a quarter do not speak English as their primary language.
The formula Brown proposed and that the Legislature is poised to adopt later this week, largely unchanged, also calls for more of the spending decisions to be made at the local level. Schools could choose to hire more teachers, reduce class sizes, buy new equipment or invest in neglected programs.
It is accompanied by $1.2 billion in one-time money for professional training, technology and instructional materials as the state implements a more rigorous English and math curriculum.


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Grand Lake, Colorado 9.36 miles NE
Olive Ridge, Colorado 22.93 miles NE
Allenspark, Colorado 23.04 miles NE
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May 2011 - $28.00
We had a very nice experience when we camped over Memorial Day weekend. All of the campground attendants were very pleasant and helpful. We will definitely return to this campground at some point. - Becky Muncy
Jun 2010 - $17.00
Gorgeous with woods and lakefront. Beautiful views, lovely area. No showers, pit toilets. Near Grand Lake. Huge sites with tent pads and level parking for rig. - narniadweller
May 2006 - $17.00
Beautiful campground, nice shady sites on a lovely alpine lake. It is urrounded by snow capped mountains, what a wonderful place to stay. Sites were gravel, all back in type, mostly level. Nice picnic tables and fire grates. Exceptionally well maintained. This is a rustic campground, probably not suitable for large rigs. Vault toilets. No hookups are available here, this place is for the nature lovers. It's right on the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park. Nice, friendly campground hosts. I can't wait to go back! - julievojo
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Actually a very nice campground. Our pull-through spot was fairly level. Would have been more privacy and shade but most trees were cut down because of the pine beetle. Lots of activities for our children. The staff were friendly and the place had a pretty nice gift shop. Fraser, Granby, and Grand Lake were within a short drive. We would probably stay here again. - seven_campers
Sep 2009 - $36.00
Lots of stuff for the whole family to do. This campground is part of a recreational facility that includes cabins, vacation homes for rent, and lodges. It is also the center for summer camps for kids and has many things to do including mini golf, craft activities, an indoor pool, a climbing wall, zip line, horse back riding and hiking trails up into the surrounding mountains. Some of this costs extra money, especially anything including horses. The campground itself is really only open through the summer, whereas the rest of the facility (including cabins and lodges) is popular for cross country skiing and snow-shoeing through the winter. You can rent bikes in the summer and cross country ski gear in the winter. This place is well set up for groups and reunions with all of the various housing options. The mountains are scarred by the bark beetle infestation, like pretty much everything in this general region, but the trails are still nice once you get up into the hills. The campground is otherwise not very scenic, but with all of the activities we never had to leave the property to keep the kids busy, and we'll be going back there sometime. - markandanne
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Willow Creek Campground is part of the Arapaho National Recrecreation Area. There are 3 other public campgrounds in the area but this is the only one that still has trees since the pine beetle infestation. It is a great little park to get away from it all. The sites are really nice and private. Many are on the lake. This park is for real campers. The KOA crowd would hate this place. The road in is 3 miles of gravel. There is a one lane bridge which would require anyone hauling a trailer to turn right, turn around--there is a handy turn around-- and then cross the bridge straight on. There are vault toilets and no showers. Water is available. It is a very pretty little spot. I camped here in a tent but I am planning to bring my travel trailer nest time. - NT2013


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Earlier…we talked about the cursed things at the grocery checkout lines, specifically women's magazines. One of the troubles with these magazines that we did not discuss was the problem of the covers. We don't even have to buy these magazines to be infected by them. Just looking at the "beautiful" women on the covers is a double whammy. First, it can destroy our peace by putting us under the same kind of pressures as all those articles on the perfect party or the perfect new decorating scheme. We may be tempted to think, "How can I look like that when God keeps blessing me with children?" Thus, we allow the stress of watching our diet, fixing our hair, purchasing and maintaining an attractive wardrobe, etc. to destroy the peace in our homes.
Secondly, perusing these magazines implants in our minds a false idea of what beauty is all about. Peter tells us in Scripture what our goals ought to be and he is far wiser than Helen Gurley Brown. In 1 Peter 3:1-6 we are given God's definition of what beauty truly is: "Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel—rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God."
Of course we know this passage, but do we really heed it? And do we teach it to our daughters? For that matter, do we teach this to our sons so that they will recognize true beauty when they see it and not pursue or accept a worldly counterfeit?
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For his latest installation, Ryman re-creates the log cabin of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood as an aggregation of crap—notably beer-can tabs and bullets—generally associated with the American way of life. These items, which number in the thousands, have all been plated in gold-colored chrome, to add a notable element of bling to the occasion.
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Tired of mind-altering drugs in packages with pictures of the Scooby-Doo cartoon character on them, two Shadyside women want their village to launch a local war on drugs.
Well, why not?
Throughout the Ohio Valley, lawyers who read about the women's crusade last week probably were rolling their eyes. Tiny little towns like Shadyside have no business enacting bans on specific drugs, after all.
Again, why not?
Ashley Ostrander and Terri Laquaglia attended last week's meeting of Shadyside Village Council, complaining about sales of synthetic marijuana. They - and quite a few other people - worry the new-style dope, often in colorful packages and with harmless sounding names, may be drug pushers' way of getting their hooks into a new generation of youthful customers. "Some of the packages even have Scooby-Doo on them," Laquaglia told council.
Village action, perhaps even a local ban on synthetic mind-altering drugs, may be needed, the women suggested. It's an idea heard in other local towns, too.
There's a reason you don't hear about drug arrests and prosecutions under municipal ordinances. Communities, especially small ones like those in East Ohio and the Northern Panhandle, don't have the resources to enact and enforce drug restrictions such as those found in state and federal statutes.
Do you want to be the municipal court judge who has to decide whether the chemical in a defendant's possession when he was arrested contains 3-hydroxycyclohexyl? That's one of the substances included in synthetic marijuana, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
In both Ohio and West Virginia, state laws have been enacted to crack down on synthetic marijuana and other chemistry lab drugs. The DEA has rafts of rules on what's legal and illegal.
How's a small town to manage such complexities?
But the bad guys and gals are constantly bringing out new and improved - from the standpoint of staying ahead of state and federal anti-drug definitions - substances to sell to folks who want a cheap and, they hope, at least temporarily legal high.
It takes months, sometimes years, to enact laws in Columbus, Charleston and Washington. Rest assured, the bad guys are quicker on the draw. Their goal, again, is to produce new high-inducing chemicals they can sell legally until state and federal agencies and legislators catch on and amend the rules.
Village councils can act within hours. And they don't really have to know the chemistry.
Think about it this way: Upon learning a new synthetic marijuana is being sold in packages featuring pictures of, say, Mickey Mouse, a village council can simply pass an ordinance banning sale of dried herbs in Mickey Mouse packages.
Outrageous? Of course. But do you really want to be the store owner who, knowing full well what you're selling, appeals a municipal court fine to a higher court? It's cheaper to simply stop trying to sell mind-altering drugs.
Look at it this way: It's a sneaky, underhanded way for municipal councils to fight a sneaky, underhanded way of selling drugs that, if not illegal today, will be banned by state and federal governments tomorrow.
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The Lake House
A woman doctor and an architecture school dropout live in the same house two years apart and fall in love via letters they exchange through a mailbox that mysteriously bridges time. View more >
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Keanu Reeves only said "whoa" once in this film, and not at the point when he really should have said it. The film worked as a romantic comedy, despite the deadpan delivery of Reeves.
I didn't care much for this movie, but I still going to recommend the movie on the basis of the chemistry between Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. This chemistry is very strong, althought they weren't on the screen much. I still think it's a wrothwhile movie despite it's flaws.
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A "Some Where in Time" kind of a movie. Lost/Almost love story. The previews were accurate.
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Pyongyang's new gym
- By Isaac Stone FishIsaac Stone Fish is FP's Asia editor. A Mandarin speaker, he lived in China for seven years before moving to Washington, D.C. His articles have also appeared in the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and he has appeared as a commentator on MSNBC, the BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, and PRI, among others.
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The English-language website of People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, presents the world today with 29 supremely boring photos of a newly opened gym in Pyongyang. Neon lighting on the ceiling aside, it looks like a fairly standard fitness center, with treadmills, stationary bicycles, and weights. Chinese state media sometimes feel the need to publish articles reminding the world that North Korea, despite its isolation and repression, still offers the trappings of middle-class life. The most ridiculous example is probably a 2010 article on the English-language website of China's official news agency Xinhua, entitled "Nightlife in Pyongyang offers more than imagination:"
"Roller coaster screams, karaoke happy hours, and beer glass clinks at night, quite a deja vu somewhere in metropolitan areas like New York, Tokyo or Beijing.
Well, make no mistake. That's just a snapshot of what night life in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) can provide.
There are good reasons to tour Pyongyang; its nightlife or its gym is not one of them.


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Hazleton's newest officer takes oath
Hazleton's police force is at its largest in four years with the hiring of its newest officer.
Anthony Martine of Drums was sworn in as a city officer at City Hall on Monday morning by Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi.
Martine was a full-time officer in the Mountain Top area for five years, the last 2½ years with the Rice Township Police Department.
"It's a bigger department where I'll have a chance to specialize," Martine said about coming to Hazleton. "There's a lot more room for advancement. It's a good group of guys. It's a better experience with better working conditions."
Martine said he is interested in becoming a K-9 officer, and already has his own trained dog.
"Patrolman Martine makes 40 (officers on the city force) and that's the most we had since 2007," Ferdinand said. "We have four more at the police academy. The nice thing about Patrolman Martine is that he already has the Act (120 municipal police officers training), and after a short training period, we can put him right on the street."
Martine is a 2002 graduate of Hazleton Area High School, where he was enrolled in the security curriculum at the Hazleton Area Career Center.
In addition to his Act 120 training at Lackawanna College in downtown Hazleton, Martine also holds an associate degree in criminal justice from Luzerne County Community College.
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Brad Pitt Finally Ready To Fight World War Z's Zombies
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Brad Pitt has been toying with the idea of starring in the zombie movie World War Z for almost half a decade. Its been stalled out at his production company for what seems like forever, with a script adapted from the same-named book by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski. Now theyre doing something with it.
The news comes from MTV where they say the whole thing is moving forward with Pitt, officially attached to star. The news comes straight from World War Zs author Max Brooks, which makes the whole thing seem pretty credible. He says Paramount pictures is targeting it for a Summer 2012 release and that Marc Forster is still directing it.
So whats it about? World War Z is described as the sober telling of the aftermath of a war against a legion of humans inflicted with a virus that makes them hunger for flesh and walk like theyre heavily constipated. Its a post-apocalyptic zombie movie, dont we pretty much know what were in for? Theyll put their own spin on it, but its a pretty well mined genre. The big difference here is that this may be the first zombie movie to really land an A-list star. Zombies are moving up in the world, theyre the new superheroes.
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CB: Well, why is it important? ABR: Art is just such an important part of life. It can be a social commentary; it can be a historical piece.
Contemporary art and what the young artists are doing now is just a statement on what's happening in the world, like especially the Beautiful Losers exhibition (at the CAC) and a lot of the stuff Matt has (at Country Club). We need to invest in these things. It's important that the artists can continue their careers.
If you're buying art from someone you trust and who has a decent reputation, there is a great possibility that you could get a return on your investment. We always tell our young collectors, "Buy one good piece. If you need to pay for it over time, most people will work with you. Buy one good piece, and then maybe next year you can buy another good piece. And then 10 years down the road you might look back and have a significant art collection." And I think it's such a personal reflection of who you are. It gives back in so many ways. AVS: Art really is one of the most desirable objects out there. We lose sight of that with the cars and the homes, like Annie said. … People are really uncomfortable buying art. I don't know why Cincinnati has lost touch (with col lecting).
We don't have the fever for art the way people do in other places. … Walking into someone's house is always so interesting to see what they have on the walls, whether it's pictures of their families or artwork by friends or things that they've gone out and actually collected. It really defines who you are. ABR: It becomes a process, too. I have a background in art and was always fascinated with artists. I graduated with a degree in fine art, and I knew I was never going to be an artist. I knew I didn't have what those other people had. But when I got the job at Closson's and saw the gallery side of it, I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is perfect."
Many people are afraid of art. They are intimidated by it, so if you can be that intermediary between the artist and the collector (that's exciting). … It's fun if you can be the bridge, putting (art) into homes and getting people think ing about this world that we live in.
The artists have already done all that thinking, they've done all that feeling and they put it out there for others to see and to hopefully generate some sort of a dialogue.
CB: What advice would you give to new collectors? MD: Speaking very specifically about Cincinnati, there are people like Phyllis (Weston) and Carl (Solway) and maybe to another degree someone like Toni Birckhead 9 who acti vated their generation to buy art. They got people really excited. And if you look back, you'll see that they've built amazing collections for people and made people a lot of money, which is part of what we do. I mean, it's a business too. I think you do need to do your research as much as anything. So there has to be some kind of passion there and some kind of due diligence. I think (Weston and Solway) did that. And now we have a pretty good gap (in collectors) because (Weston and Solway) are still selling to their own generation to a great degree. And so we have a pretty good gap. And now it's down to us here, with a few other people probably. I think we need to sell to our gener ation.
And to a certain degree our generation should be buying artists of our generation. I feel like that's ultimately what's going to speak to people if they're starting a collec tion. CB: Or just to be involved in the artworld. Even if it's just coming by and eating crackers and cheese and appreciat ing the art in a different way, people start to understand that it can be more than just a pretty picture to hang on your wall. MD: I came from more of a curatorial background, so that's one of the things I'm finding I need to temper a little bit. That dialogue is almost as rewarding as a sale to me. So I better watch that a little bit! We're not just selling art. We're helping artists build their careers. When you realize that, it puts you in a totally different mindset.
CB: Oh, Bill's here! Please introduce yourself to the tape recorder.
Bill Renscheler: I run the Aisle frame shop and a gallery with Krista Gregory. We show people we discover, basically in town or friends that I've had from graduate school or just about anybody locally. We just had our one-year anniver sary in September. We change shows about every six weeks.
CB: We're talking about young galleries and who's been collecting and who you want to see at your gallery.
BR: Wow. God, you mean think about things?
CB: Tell us why you started your gallery. BR: Because I was sitting on 50 Harvey Osterman photo graphs and had to show them. I went to graduate school with him. I thought he was the world's best photographer.
Oh, and Krista was walking around (the frame shop) twit ting her thumbs, so she needed to be the director of the gallery. She needed more work to do. All I did was think about it, and when I told Krista she actually did something, so it was pretty cool that way. Collectors, yeah, I don't know. It seems like we just send out cards. … and I don't know what the demographic is. It's a lot of people we know.
CB: I think people have a really hard time understanding how much money galleries need to put on these shows.
ABR: Yeah, I don't think people realize it. BR: They don't have to think about it. ABR: But it's expensive. To stay in business, it's expensive: the rent, the phone, the lights, framing bills.
BR: That's one thing I don't have to worry about. I don't really have to worry about making enough money, because my frame shop generates enough to pay for the heat and the phone and stuff.
ABR: But it's all expensive. It's really hard to be successful in the gallery business, but it's worth it.
AISLE GALLERY is located at 424 Findlay St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-241-3403.
AVS ART GALLERY is located at 314 W. Fourth St., Downtown, 513-328-3456.
COUNTRY CLUB is located at 424 Findlay St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-792-9744.
PHYLLIS WESTON-ANNIE BOLLING GALLERIES is located at 2003 Madison Road, O'Bryonville, 513-321-5200.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0971486689, Paperback)Karen DeSousa's second kumihimo book has more of everything. More braids. More patterns. More necklaces. More great tips for making and finishing beautiful braids. It's suitable for beginners and challenging enough for more experienced braiders. The book revisits the round braid (for beginners) and then pumps it up by adding seed beads and finishes without findings. The book includes the Laramie twist, the 16 bobbin Roundabout, a different round braid called the Top and Bottom Tango that lets you evenly space out beads and crystals, and the Color Tipped Swirl which puts an edge of color to a fabulous twist braid. If that weren't enough, the book then tells you how to turn these great braids into beautiful necklaces. Fun, elegant, artistic, great for all ages.
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As goes Ohio, so goes the nation. If the saying holds water regarding the upcoming presidential election, then so goes the nation--into a ditch, to paraphrase Senator Barack Obama. If only the expression were applicable to our cloned film festivals. Here's one that veers off in a different direction. The 32nd Cleveland International Film Festival, Ohio's biggest movie event, had two provocative strands that set it apart. (Nearly 300 films unspooled March 6-16 at a multiplex inside the city's restored 1929 train station, a fabulous structure that is more a naturally lit galleria than claustrophobic mall.) What other U.S. fest has been prescient enough to mount a retrospective of the work of fearless Filipino director Brillante Mendoza? His low-budget films, which fuse documentary and melodrama in a daring way, move you as they move: Motion and emotion co-exist, tugging at your viscera and heart in equal measure.
And what other American festival has a competition of films from Central and Eastern Europe? Eastern European cinema is "hot" these days (Romania's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" for example), but Cleveland has been screening these movies since the '80s. (Of course, the demographic of the city is heavily Eastern European.)
Another reason to be enamored: In a viper's nest of fests where longing to be first overrides serving the locals, Cleveland offers a whiff of purity. "We care about what our audience wants," says artistic director Bill Guentzler. "That a film has played every other festival in the U.S. indicates that it's probably worth showing. We don't care about premiere status."
Locals appeared content. Screenings were packed. The audience prize for best movie went to "One Bad Cat: The Albert Wagner Story," by Cleveland-born filmmaker Thomas G. Miller. Juries awarded Russian director Vera Storozheva's "Travelling With Pets" best Central and Eastern European film (I was a member) and Harald Friedl's "Out of Time," from Austria, best documentary.
The prolific Brillante Mendoza began directing three years ago at the age of 44. CIFF showed four of his six features. He probes interpersonal relationships, be they tender or antagonistic, in the context of social issues endemic to the Philippines.
The only misfire is "The Teacher," a simplistic doc about a young indigenous Aeta's attempt to instruct her people how to fill in ballots. In the doc-like feature "Slingshot," his best work, a horde of small-time thieves and drug dealers---mostly shirtless teenaged boys--are aggressive with one another, like animals in a bullring. Mendoza's hand-held camera runs amok in the streets of Manila's slums. He shoots not only the guys plying their trades but religious processions and political campaign rallies. The nation is so corrupt that a politico pays the boys off for support.
The lovely, tripartite "Summer Heat" is more languorous and affective. Mendoza pits a father against each of the three grown daughters he loves to denigrate. The man especially despises the lesbian Jesusa, who passively accepts his cheap jabs. Equally emotional is "Foster Child," in which a poor foster mother becomes unhealthily attached to an adorable three-year-old. Scenes in an orphanage are heartbreaking, as are those in the suite of a luxury hotel where the woman hands the boy over to wealthy Americans who, by comparison, seem like kiddie collectors. The disparity is heartbreaking.
The Eastern European films also smack of a gap, one rooted in economics. The rapid demise of Communism and the ensuing capitalist blitz have led to the loss of guaranteed basics like shelter and health care, a decline in income for the majority, and, for a few hustlers, new money without an accompanying value system. The salient characteristics of these movies are the plight of individuals who are isolated from the larger social order; and violence, earned dramatically rather than imposed gratuitously.
The most poignant of those spotlighting loners is "Travelling With Pets." In this extraordinary achievement, Storozheva, with a light touch, blends naturalistic observation with magical realism. The plot: In a rural wasteland, a beautiful young peasant woman lives like an ostracized serf under the thumb of her much older authoritarian husband. His sudden death frees her to explore popular culture, new technology, and, above all, her sexuality, of which she takes command. In Croatian filmmaker Ognjen Svilicic's "Armin," a crass Bosnian stage father forces his withdrawn teen accordionist son to audition for a movie in Zagreb. Armin captures the joyless fatalism of Bosnians today as well as the peculiar decor that is all the rage in ex-Yugoslavia.
In Czech director Jiri Vejdelek's delightful "Roming," an assimilated young academic is a voluntary outcast from his Gypsy family, who live in the traditional manner, one that society deems vulgar. His father manipulates him back into the fold and its way of life. The fine Latvian film "Vogelfrei" is divided into four sections, each by different directors, which represent stages in the life of the protagonist. Painfully shy, he finds solace while in his twenties by reinventing himself as a condescending bourgeois, but remains nevertheless persona non grata. Friendless as well is geriatric Aniela, a cultured relic of the Old World of civility in Polish director Dorota Kedzierzawska's pretentious if artful "Time To Die." She is despised by the neighboring parvenu, who finds her dilapidated but elegant pre-war house an eyesore; after all, he owns an utterly charmless new concrete home.
In Hungarian filmmaker Csaba Bollok's "Iska's Journey," you empathize with the 12-year-old title character, who is beaten by her drunken mother when she doesn't earn enough from plowing through rubbish heaps in their sad Romanian town. Iska is too much of a lone wolf to survive in the orphanage that takes her in, but a glimmer of hope arrives in the form of a doting boy who brings her out of her shell. Just as she learns how to relate to others, two men kidnap her and sell her to pimps. Beata is a country girl who marries into an urban blue-collar family in the middlin' Polish film "Savior's Square, by Krysztof Krause and Joanna Kos-Krause. Embroiled in a futile attempt to recoup from unscrupulous developers their loss on a home they were purchasing, her spiteful mother-in-law and weak husband project their frustration onto her. She becomes an exile in her own home.
And then there was violence.
In the mediocre Estonian movie "The Class," by Ilmar Raag, bullying schoolmates push two high school boys way over the edge. They mow down fellow students in the lunchroom: It's "Elephant" with explanation. One of the most original, if bizarre, films is Russian director Alexei Balabanov's "Cargo 200," set in 1984. We don't see the war in Afghanistan that is frequently referred to, rather we experience a microcosm of it in the form of the perverse actions of a powerful but impotent killer policeman. This transgressor rapes (with a bottle) a young woman and shackles her to his bed, then tosses the body of her soldier fiance on the mattress. Grotesque, but it IS a black comedy.
War is visible in Georgian filmmaker Aleko Tsabadze's Russian film, "The Russian Triangle." Though we view flashbacks of nasty battles in Chechnya, the movie is more about a dishonored police cadet's frantic search for a serial killer of Russian soldiers. He discovers that the man is in fact Chechen and is conducting a vendetta against the Russians for having killed his wife. The cadet begins to feel sorry for him. In Sdran Golubovic's excellent revisionist thriller "The Trap," from Serbia, a solitary murderer is also sympathetic. Desperate to pay for his child's heart surgery, an "ordinary" engineer hires himself out to a newly rich businessman as a one-time assassin. The victim is another rich man whose success he envies. Commerce has replaced politics as a motive. This is the new Eastern Europe.