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Students can show green ideas
DAVIDSON – The Project for Innovation, Energy & Sustainability (PiES) presents The Green Idea Factory Competition at noon April 5 at PiES Incubator Kaleidoscope Conference Center.
The Green Idea Factory Competition gives students from Lake Norman-area high schools the opportunity to display their green ideas and innovations to compete for scholarships.
Nearly $20,000 has been awarded over three years.
The Green Idea Factory Competition is part of 2014 North Carolina Science Festival, a two-week series of events statewide showcasing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Details: www.pies-northcarolina.org/education.
Students excel in Science Olympiad
HUNTERSVILLE – J.M. Alexander Middle School qualified for the state Science Olympiad tournament for the 14th consecutive year after recently placing third in a regional tourney.
That span dates back three years as J.M. Alexander and 11 years as Davidson IB School.
The varsity team received medals for 21 out of 23 events, including two gold, three silver and a bronze.
The team includes Nadia Bey, Leslie Bosse, Ava Burgess, Nick Chen, Jacob Crawford, CJ Cuica,Preston Daniels, George Dimitrov, Jackson Newton, Daniel O'Brien, Christine Park, Aneesha Raj, Caleb Shuda, Sam Thornton, Luis Villalobos and Kelly Williams.
The junior varsity team placed fifth overall, earning 11 medals, including three gold and three bronze.
The junior varsity team includes Andrew Barton, Kunal Chakraborty, Kat Daniels, Lamis Hammouda, Nathan Kendrick, Amith Koneru, Dakota Langley, Jenna Lubahn, Aisha Mahmood, Sara O'Brien, Akash Patel, Jonah Shuda, Mona Su, Jordan Truong, Anthony Venant, Yesi Villalobos, Caelen Walsh and Alex Williams.
Lake Norman Charter helps charity
HUNTERSVILLE – Lake Norman Charter School families recently raised $828 to donate to Pasta for Pennies, an effort that helps kids fighting blood cancer.
Students received a pasta party luncheon for their hard work at the Northlake Olive Garden.
Debate team competes, students qualify for nationals tournament
HUNTERSVILLE – Fifteen members of the North Mecklenburg High School Debate and Speech Team attended the 2014 Carolina West District competition March 21-22 at Asheville High School.
• Camara Hill and Antonio Rivera took first place in duo interpretation and are national qualifiers.
• June Yom finished second place in dramatic interpretation and is a national qualifier.
• Jack Watson took fifth in original oratory and junior James Haberberger took fifth in student congress, making both of them third alternates.
• Rivera and Vala Rizvanolli made the semifinals in dramatic interpretation and Madison Carr made the semifinals in domestic extemporaneous speaking.
• Kailyn Price placed sixth in student congress II.
• The duo of Aneesha Raj and Halynna Snyder finished in the top 10.
National qualifiers will compete in the 2014 NFL National Championships in June in Kansas City, Kan.
Principals talk about feeder pattern
HUNTERSVILLE – Barnette Elementary's Principal Dianna Newman will host Bradley Middle School Principal Steve Esposito and Hopewell High School Principal Dino Gisiano at a principal chat.
They will talk about how they are working to strengthen the school feeder pattern
The chat takes place 6-7 p.m. April 7 at Barnette Elementary School.
Student appointed to academy
WASHINGTON – Norman Chapman, a senior at Cato Middle College High School, recently received an appointment to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy by Congressman Robert Pittenger.
Chapman is a member of the National Honor Society and a Sunday school teacher at Ebenezer Baptist Church. He is the son of Derrick and Sharon Chapman of Huntersville.
High GPA earn college honors
HUNTERSVILLE – Four students from the Lake Norman region earned college honors for maintaining high grade point averages.
• Christian Seitz, of Huntersville, made the dean's list at Elon University and joined its chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, a national honor society for freshmen. The dean's list requires a 3.5 GPA, while Phi Eta Sigma requires 3.8 to 4.0.
• Abigail Nails, of Huntersville, maintained a perfect grade point average of at least 4.0 and Brandi Stamey, of Cornelius, earned a GPA of at least 3.30 to make the dean's list at William Peace University in Raleigh.
• Madeline Adolf, a senior from Huntersville, made the high honor roll for the winter term at The Loomis Chaffee School.
Charter school holding art fundraiser
CHARLOTTE – Pioneer Springs Community School is soliciting donations of artwork through April 30 to be auctioned off at an upcoming festival that celebrates the arts.
"ArtSpring!" takes place 2-6 p.m. May 17 at Pioneer Springs Community School, 9200 Bob Beatty Road.
To make a donation of art or become an event sponsor contact Anne Fell at firstname.lastname@example.com or 857-225-2146.
Beginning July 2014, Pioneer Springs Community School will be a charter school serving grades K-3 and adding a grade each year.
Details: www.pioneersprings.org.


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1. Will eating smaller meals curb my hunger? Contrary to what you've heard, the five-small-meals-a-day mantra doesn't work for everyone. The new thinking? You'll eat healthiest if you eat your way--meaning, if you prefer substantial meals fewer times a day, there's no reason to force yourself to do the opposite, says nutritionist Alan Aragon.

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Mirror, Mirror on the wall; who is the Most Gorgeous of them all?!
From brains to busts to business sense and butts, perfect manners to a polished image; sultry demeanour to striking confidence; incredibly sexy, and a flawless sense of style. Brilliant success in their fields, and good public persona…these are the Top 5 hottest Celebrity Women on this side of the planet (in no particular order)!
It seems "Ms. Nigerian Sweetheart", Genevieve Nnaji, has been hugging the spotlight forever. We never get tired of seeing her beautiful smile on blogs and on the pages of magazines. Genevieve gets more attractive with age. She's the girl-next-door with beauty that seems unsullied and virtuous. With all the beauty enhancements rumours- bleaching tablets, to boob jobs and butt pads in the entertainment industry, Genevieve remains an unblemished beauty- free of nips and tucks. We can imagine her in her 50s still looking as amazing as when she marked her 33rd birthday. We love her style- ingenious, easy and yet sophisticated.
Debola Esho: Genevieve Nnaji rocks! She is the kind of girl you want to go back to after work. She's not going to get the whole football team casting lustful stares at her, but for a man with good taste and class, you know she's the kind of woman that'll make you look good anytime you introduce her in public- sweet, clean and very pretty!
Meet Toolz, the girl with the most mind-boggling figure in the world! Toolz is like the carving of a goddess, something Michelangelo could have sculpted in his days. Men (even women!) wonder what she'd look like naked because it is almost inconceivable for anyone to be created with every feminine attribute in generous proportion like she has. This makes the OAP the most wanted African woman alive! Every Nigerian man would want to, at least kiss her hand and ask how it must feel to come in such a body worthy of worship. With a killer body comes a killer career. There's nobody as good as Toolz on the radio on a hot Lagos afternoon.
Chinedu Anyiam: The first time I saw Toolz in a magazine, I couldn't believe what I was looking at. She's just like a vase- a very well-sculpted vase that is meant to just sit on my table and look good- without any flowers in it! Her figure confuses me, but it's the good kind of confusion. I don't know how the guys in her office can keep a straight face and work while she's there. It's got to be a tough job for them.
Damilola Adegbite:The actress transformed right in front of our eyes, graduating from just a regular TV star to a sexy screen siren. It's exactly the way we want an actress to look- great looks with a personality and style that seems to evolve. The sexy thing about Damilola is, apart from that walk down the red-carpet aisle months back with Banky W, her private life isn't splashing all over tabloids. So there's still a mystery to her that keeps us guessing, and men do find that very attractive.
Rowland Obi: Damilola is ok. She's going to pass the beauty test over and over in the eyes of a man. She's slim and that is very important for me because with the rate we are going, it seems 4 out of 5 women are going to be obese in another 15 years in Nigeria. So the fact that she is free from any fat at the moment, stands as the true test of beauty in my opinion.
- written and compiled by Joy Isi Bewaji
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Given what the world expects from Quentin Tarantino - the man, the myth, the pastiche-driven movie machine - his latest feature, "Inglourious Basterds," stands out for its seemingly low ambition. Talked about for years by the filmmaker as his epic "guys-on-a-mission" movie, the final product, unveiled this morning in Cannes, certainly meets those standards. The story of Nazi-hunting Jewish soldiers delivers on the colorful brand of unserious entertainment implied by the plot, but no matter how much extreme contextualization and heavily stylized techniques Tarantino introduced to the production, "Inglorious Basterds" feels like a bubblegum sidedish to the heavy dinner plate of his career. While not intentionally a rudimentary project, it automatically becomes one by the limits of its design.
In the opening scene, Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) arrives at a house in the French countryside, where he interrogates a man about hiding Jews in his basement. The sequence culminates with the Nazis discovering the family hidden beneath the floorboards, killing all of them except for a young woman named Shoshanna (Melanie Laurent), who dashes into the forest. Except that's not really the opening scene, because the first image of "Basterds" arrives on the heels of credits that beg to be considered as the true narrative introduction. Written in block letters aping the title cards associated with Sergio Leone Westerns, while the jangly soundtrack follows suit, they set the stage for the barrage of genre references to follow. Despite a World War II setting, "Inglourious Basterds" mainly feels like an homage to crime and thriller movies, using Nazis as cardboard villains in a facile manner akin to the "Indiana Jones" franchise.
As the story shoots forward, building into an espionage drama, Tarantino churns out the most conventional accomplishment of his career, "Jackie Brown" included. Sure, you can tear apart the layers of references to countless genres from multiple eras, but not with the same relish allowed by "Kill Bill" or "Pulp Fiction," where reading into the text and digging its natural flow were not mutually exclusive.
That's hardly the case here. To watch "Basterds" without considering Tarantino's implementation of enyclopedic movie knowledge makes it into a breezy, insignificant experience. After introducing Shoshanna's plight, Tarantino shifts to the antics of the "basterds," a group of Jewish soldiers led by the fierce Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt). Merrily capturing Nazis, gleefully bashing their skulls and pocketing the scalps, the basterds provide the makings of a typical revenge fantasy. Tarantino wittily cast scrawny Jewish men ("Hostel" director Eli Roth and "The Office" star B.J. Novak among them) as the movie's principle musclemen, but that subtly ironic joke never reaches its potential.
That's because "Basterds" isn't really a jokefest; it's a talk-fest. Anyone familiar with the Tarantino touch will testify that the director likes to make his characters talk, and talk, and talk - and sometimes so that it ends up absorbing the spotlight. In "Basterds," we see the worst side-effects of this tendency, as much of the movie relies on chatter to propel it along the basic trajectory of a spy movie. Shoshanna emerges in the disguise of a non-Jewish theater owner in Paris, where she manages to infiltrate the Nazis and scheme with the basterds to take them out.
The ludicrous plot heads straight for a fiery climax that finds our heroes on a straightforward path to killing off Adolph Hitler, Joesph Goebbels and prettty much everyone else at the head of the Third Reich. In an nice bit of self-referential irony, they aim to pull it off at a movie theater while the Nazis view a screening of their own propaganda. So "Basterds" makes viewers watch a movie about killing Nazis in which Nazis watch a movie and get killed. Setting the stage for a slaughterfest, Tarantino wants to craft an old-school entertainment by way of his favorite examples, but the multiple layers prevent it from holding interest from scene to scene. "Basterds" has an arbitrary progression: As Shoshanna plans her glorious retribution, dialogue scenes go on and on, people gets shot, lavish music cues make way for interstitial moments of contemplation, and so on. Get around to it, already.
Despite the injection of content from a variety of directions, "Basterds" lacks the crackly excitement of Tarantino's other efforts, mainly because he can't seem to tie the whole package together. Why does Samuel L. Jackson suddenly pop up on the soundtrack to narrate a fleeting background of the basterd's evolution? If the movie pays tribute to Westerns, how come we never get a single man-on-man confrontation, the sort of climax that magically concluded "Kill Bill"? The disconnected ingredients don't mean that the movie lacks the ability to deliver a good time, but simply that it never rises above the sense of a juvenile cinephilic rush job, and everyone knows Tarantino can do better than that.


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You may remember the lovely women's tops from Rikshaw Design that Elina posted last month. Rikshaw makes some of the hippest products out there right now. Hand block-printed bedding for babies, breezy clothing for moms and tots, and this camel pillow that is beyond adorable.
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College Hockey:Harvard Completes Season Sweep of Dartmouth
Crimson Clinches Ivy and ECACHL Titles
BOSTON, Mass. — When Harvard took a 3-0 lead and 20-3 shot advantage into the first intermission against archrival Dartmouth, everyone knew the game was far from over.
Like most Harvard-Dartmouth games, this one came down to the wire, but this time the No. 6 Crimson (19-6-3, 16-1-2 ECACHL) never surrendered its lead despite every effort to the contrary from the No. 3 Big Green (23-4, 16-3). Harvard triumphed 4-3 and wrapped up its second Ivy title and third ECACHL regular season title in three years before 1,611 fans.
"We had no delusions that they weren't going to score goals tonight, for sure," said Harvard coach Katey Stone. "It was just a matter of getting one more goal than they did."
That one goal came from sophomore defenseman Lindsay Weaver just before the second intermission. After her previous shift, Weaver watched angrily from the penalty box as Dartmouth netted a power play goal to make it a 3-2 game. On her next shift, she made up for her mistake with a low shot from the point that found its way through traffic into the far corner.
Weaver had been waiting for that moment of celebration against Dartmouth for a long time. She had missed the 6-3 Harvard win over the Big Green earlier this month due to lingering effects from a concussion.
"I just had to keep a positive attitude and go out there, and I was just trying to throw it on net for a tip like we've always been practicing," Weaver said. "I didn't see it go in, but my teammates said they heard the cling."
The insurance goal came in handy when Dartmouth top scorer Cherie Piper was given space to circle around the Harvard zone and bury a screen shot of her own 4:37 into third period. Down the stretch, the Crimson kept its composure and didn't give Dartmouth too many looks at the net. Shots were even at seven in the final period.
"The third period was somewhat up for grabs," Stone said. "Down the stretch of the third period, I thought we did a nice job of keeping our composure and putting a lot of pressure on them."
Harvard was the only team with composure during the first seven minutes as Dartmouth dug itself a 2-0 hole. Just 3:38 in, the Big Green surrendered a two-on-one to Harvard's third line, and sophomore Katie Johnston scored high in the slot off the feed from tri-captain Kat Sweet for the 1-0 lead. At 6:52, freshman Laura Brady tipped a pass across from sophomore Jennifer Sifers through the five-hole of Dartmouth goalie Kate Lane.
"We were trying to be way too offensive," said Dartmouth coach Mark Hudak. "Instead of clearing the puck, we were trying to poke the puck through and do something with it. Instead of taking the puck deep, we're like, maybe I can make an extra move. Instead of taking the puck wide, it's maybe I'll drive to the middle and see if I can beat three people."
Harvard widened the gap on a 5-on-3 late in the period when Ashley Banfield found tri-captain Nicole Corriero wide open across the crease for an easy finish. The Crimson could have made it 4-0 on the ensuing 5-on-4 but Sarah Vaillancourt hit the pipe.
"It's a matter of outworking them, putting pressure on the puck right away and getting sticks in the passing lanes," Stone said of Harvard's first period success.. "Nothing flashy and fancy–just the real simple stuff and taking advantage of opportunities."
Dartmouth too figured out how to the keep things simple in gaining momentum throughout the second period. That took time because the Big Green had battled through uncertainty all week. Piper and Gillian Apps weren't cleared to play until yesterday, and several other players were battling injuries.
"I think a lot of kids we're a little worried about, how are we going to play?" Hudak said. "Once we realized we'd be okay, I think some confidence started to build up."
One of the injured players was co-captain Meagan Walton, who netted Dartmouth's first goal at 11:48 of the second period. On the power play, Harvard gave up a two-on-one within its own zone, and Walton one-timed a feed across from Tiffany Hagge. Walton scored despite a broken finger from a Canadian Under-22 tournament two weeks ago.
"Hopefully Walton's finger keeps getting better–she can't shoot right now," Hudak said. "She's a gamer–a lot of them are gamers."
Dartmouth carried the momentum over to a 5-on-3 opportunity that lasted nearly two minutes. Harvard killed the first penalty thanks to extra efforts by Sarah Vaillancourt and Nicole Corriero, as well as two pucks intercepted in midair by Crimson junior goalie Ali Boe. But the Crimson could not kill the second penalty, as Apps found Weatherston at the back door shortly after the first penalty expired.
"I was bummed because we did such a good job of killing the 5-on-3, and then bang they sink one, and she had made some huge saves there," Stone said. "Ali Boe was tremendous."
There was no doubt Dartmouth, who outshot Harvard 13-4 in the second period, was back in the game. But Weaver's goal was the difference between a win and another tie like last Saturday's against St. Lawrence.
"Being able to score that goal helped us reassert that we had the lead and we're still in control of this game, and we don't need to panic like we did against St. Lawrence where we kind of started to freak out a little," Corriero said. "We still played relaxed and played confidently."
In defeat, Dartmouth remained hopeful that its wounds will heal and that its caliber of play will return to the level of earlier this season. Pesky Brown is up next, to be followed by the ECACHL tournament and possibly another shot at Harvard.
"I think we're pretty equal teams," Hudak said. "I'm sure it will be another great game if we do see each other again."
Now that the Ivy title and ECACHL No. 1 seed are wrapped up, Harvard turns its sights to the next goal.
"The Ivy championship certainly feels great, but we have a big game tomorrow," Corriero said. "This is the beginning of a whole lot of goals we want to accomplish, so we don't want to get too excited. But we're still excited."
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A 'Kayak for Bus Travel,' Canadian Startup Busbud Launches iPhone App
Montreal-based startupBusbud, the self-described Kayak for bus travel, has released their iPhone app and it doesn't look like they're slowing down anytime soon.
Figures pointed to bus travel as the fastest growing form of intercity travel by a comfortable margin in 2012. The industry isn't getting any smaller, something CEO Louis-Philippe Maurice is acutely aware of.
"We have a jump start in this market for bus travel because we have the most geographically diverse data. That said there's going to be a lot of players that are going to be interested in this space in 2013," said Maurice. "It's going to be a pretty heated space."
Launched on the first of this month Busbud's iPhone app seeks to make booking easier, aggregating over 10,000 bus routes from 4000 cities in 60 countries around the world. The worldwide bus travel companion offers a search tool allowing travelers to discover and plan their next bus trip.
A seasoned traveller, Maurice wrote up the business plan during one of fifty bus trips while travelling in South America. It also helped that he lived in five different cities in five years, enough time to grow tired of the frequent problems involving bus schedules and payment.
Upon returning from his travels he immediately contacted cofounders Michael Gradek, a Microsoft Bing veteran and Frederic Thouin, a PhD graduate in Computer Engineering from McGill.
"I told them, 'Hey, I had all these problems travelling and it seems like a really concrete problem that we could solve'," said Maurice.
Initially the biggest challenge for the team was creating a centralized standard format for schedules, transforming thousands of bus routes to a single platform. Now they posses the largest comprehensive data set for bus travel in the world.
They've also begun focusing their energies on ticket sales. One of their largest partnerships has been with Orleans Express, the Quebec bus transport giant that sells over two million tickets a year. Quebec residents frequently travelling between Montreal and Quebec City will be all too familiar with the regular $57 price tag for that route. Busbud is currently the only site on the web that offers the trip for $22 (not even Orleans themselves offers the deal).
The Orleans partnership came from a meeting between the team and then outgoing CEO Sylvain Langis, the man who founded the company over 25 years ago. The story goes that Maurice tried to explain their ideas for the bus industry during the presentation. He never finished slide two before Langis told him he wanted in. Since then Busbud has benefitted from a strong mentor and team member.
The team thinks that their app can be successful based on its schedules as well as future ticketing partnerships. But this is only possible due to the immense popularity of busses, both a budget-friendly and eco-friendly mode of travel.
"People like the bus already, we just want to make it simpler to search bus routes and book your tickets," said Maurice.
The team has benefitted from $500,000 in angel investment and is now seeking to build up their business development and sales teams. As part of this push they'll be visiting university campuses in Montreal over the next few weeks for a recruiting drive.
In the mean time Busbud's everyday concern is to continually update their database.
"There's so many more cities to cover and even in the cities that we have there's so many more bus companies that we don't know about," said Maurice. "This morning we had an email from P.E.I and they wanted more support there. There's so many places where the bus is present."


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Federal Court Ruling Breathes New Life Into Coal
Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Referred Back to EPA
After a series of legislative and legal defeats, coal groups just scored a major victory. A federal appeals court is now telling the U.S. Environmental Protection to rewrite its "Cross-State Air Pollution Rule." That law is intended to limit the levels of harmful emissions as they travel across state lines.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled this week two-to-one in favor of several states and some large utilities that sued to have the requirement stopped. The two judges said essentially that EPA has overstepped its authority by requiring power companies to reduce their sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide levels at greater rates than what the law had intended. EPA acted in such a manner so that downwind territories would not run afoul of clean air laws.
"More than a dozen states brought this case forward, and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity commends them for the hard work and commitment they have shown in standing up for balanced environmental policies," says Evan Tracey, a senior vice president with the trade group. "The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule would have led to higher energy prices, job losses and premature coal plant retirements."
The group points to Texas-based Luminant, which says that the ruling allows it to keep generating 1,300 megawatts of electricity while also employing 500 workers.
The court decision is breathing new life into a coal sector that has had the wind knocked out of it. Unfriendly congressional votes regarding mercury pollution have occurred, along with adverse federal court rulings that are upholding EPA's right to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act.
The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule was enacted in July 2011 and it was to take effect in January 2012. Last December, the D.C. Court of Appeals suspended the regulation, all based on the lawsuit brought by the states and the utilities. If this law would have been allowed to stand, it would have affected 28 states and replaced one written in 2005 by the Bush administration -- one that the same court said in 2008 was insufficient. Now, EPA must go back to the drawing board.
"Congress did not authorize EPA to simply adopt limits on emissions as EPA deemed reasonable," writes Judge Brett Kavanaugh. "We conclude that EPA has transgressed its authority."
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Environmental groups are saying that the two judges who ruled in favor of the utilities got it wrong. They are now trying to assess their legal strategies, with the Natural Resources Defense Council saying that they might ask for a re-hearing before the full bench comprising the D.C. appeals court, although those judges can reject their plea.
That option is preferable to waiting several more years for EPA to finish a rewrite, it says, pointing out that the one jurist who dissented has already made their case. There, Judge Judith Rogers wrote a lengthy opinion stating that the court is interfering with environmental regulators as they are attempting to uphold the statute. She says that the majority's ruling "redesigns" federal-state relations.
"This decision allows harmful power plant air pollution to continue to aggravate major health problems and foul up our air. This is a loss for all of us, but especially for those living downwind from major polluters," adds John Walke, clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
According to EPA, the levels of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide would have been cut in half under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. Collectively, the law would have cost utilities $800 million a year beginning in 2014 -- an expense that would have been outweighed by savings in the health field, it adds.
The Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, however, says that the majority opinion got it exactly right. That coalition, which works on clean air issues, goes on to say that EPA has taken liberties with the federal statutes that will result in higher electricity prices for all consumers. In doing so, it adds, the EPA is intruding on certain authorities granted to the states.
"EPA has not showed sufficient respect or deference to state programs," says Scott Segal, director of the group. "The court's "decision is a stern warning against EPA's recent views."
EPA's critics have long made this argument -- that the regulatory agency under the Obama administration is too aggressive in its pursuits. The current decision will not affect existing laws or court rulings. But it will assuredly energize coal-based groups while potentially tempering future EPA actions.
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Problem with simply switching fuel in steam plants
The problem with converting coal-fired plants to gas fuel is that one wastes the "premium fuel" quality of gas. One should not burn gas to make steam because gas can be used at much higher temperatures than those at which the steam cycle operates. There are far more uses for natural gas than just making power as well--it is a chemical feedstock and is a much cleaner fuel for residential and business heating as well as a cleaner fuel for vehicles.
Coal-fired steam plants make good use of a less-than-premium fuel that basically cannot be feasibly burned in a gas turbine combined cycle plant directly. Unfortunately, integrated coal gasification combined cycle is proving very expensive to build and somewhat difficult to operate. There are some hot windbox repowering schemes and boiler feedwater heating schemes combining gas turbines and coal-fired boilers but a drawback is the schemes decrease the operational flexibility inherent in gas turbine power.
Coal Victory may be short lived
After this court's decision EPA announced that they were reviewing it; EPA can appeal decision to the Supreme Court. Presidential election and congressional partisan composition will also play a role in stricter environmental regulation of coal-fired power plants.
In addition the relatively low cost of Natural Gas encourages fuel-switching – further reducing growth of coal as energy source. This trend should remain at least until end of year and into 2013.
Recognizing these short-term variables translates into a wait-and-see approach to coal usage and new coal fired power plants.
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Liz Davey believes Tulane can help improve the environment, save money, and become a global partner in addressing pressing environmental issues. All this she says, plus provide students with hands-on experience in environmental research and activism.
On Sept. 20, Davey, Tulane's environmental coordinator, and four students will present a paper at the Greening of the Campus 4 conference at Ball State University. The paper, entitled "Connecting Campus Life to Global Climate Change," recounts the process and results of a greenhouse gas inventory undertaken last spring by the group.
According to Davey, the inventory is a catalyst for growing environmental awareness on campus. "We wanted to measure Tulane's contribution to global warming," said Davey, who supervised the four student energy-and-climate change specialists who documented the different fuels used on campus and the amount of gasses causing global warming that are emitted into the atmosphere by Tulane as a result.
The students, whose salaries were funded by the Center for Bioenvironmental Research, each took the lead on a particular component of the project.
Shelley Kahler is a sophomore who did most of the work on the actual greenhouse gas inventory; Alana Paul is a sophomore who estimated potential energy savings from computer power management, as well as surveyed students on their understanding of global climate change; Maureen Devery is a senior who studied the number of appliances in student rooms and how much electricity these rooms used in a 24-hour period; and Jennifer Karam compared student refrigerators to the most efficient models available.
Through their efforts, said Davey, the students were able to make policy recommendations for Tulane's campus. Among the most striking is that the university can save approximately $300,000 a year in energy costs if the more than 6,000 Tulane-based computers were regularly turned off at night.
According to the report that will be presented at the conference, that would equate to a five-percent reduction of Tulane's annual greenhouse gas emission. A major source of campus greenhouse emissions, according to the report, is automobiles. Commuting contributes more than 20 percent of the uptown campus greenhouse gas emissions.
One of the largest draws of electricity is residence-hall room refrigerators. Student Karam estimates that the university could save more than $10,000 a year if more efficient models replaced residence-hall refrigerators.
Also, the report indicates an average of 11.3 electrical appliances per room. The report documented that electrical consumption in student rooms contributes three pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per person per day. Michael Crago in Facilities Services provided the students with much of the campus energy data, and his collaboration with the project continued in the summer.
Crago and Davey recruited a number of campus offices and departments to set occupancy schedules for their buildings, so air conditioning could be reduced at night. Air conditioning scheduling in Newcomb Hall cut the buildings nightly electricity use in half. In June, the monthly use of electricity to provide heating and cooling on the Uptown campus was 40 percent lower than last year, a result of building air conditioning scheduling and increased use of an absorber, a cooling unit that runs off of steam from the new co-generation power plant.
Among the most interesting developments from the study is the Energy Star Showcase Dorm Room that will be officially unveiled this fall. The students came up with the idea of creating a model energy-efficient dorm last spring, and over the summer Energy Star, an EPA program in Washington, D.C., enthusiastically endorsed the project. Kahler and Paul, who worked on the initial project, live in the Willow Street Residence Hall suite with Meredith Younghein, another sophomore.
Manufacturers have donated appliances that bear the Energy Star label, said Davey. Energy Star was introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary labeling program designed to identify and promote energy-efficient products, in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Appliances with Energy Star designation run more efficiently and use less energy.
"This will be an EPA pollution-prevention program," said Davey. The EPA is taking this on as a national promotion and has requested that their Energy Star contacts make a donation of products. According to Davey, Energy Star sees the model room a chance to reach a younger audience across the country. "They want to see our students in Rolling Stone," she said.
The room will be ready for Homecoming/Parents Weekend (Oct. 12-14), when it will be available for tours. The students also will create a brochure that offers information about the room, products and energy-saving habits. The brochure will be distributed to visitors and incoming freshmen before they move into residence halls. The brochure also will be made available to other institutions over the Internet.
"I hope that through this we can reduce Tulane's greenhouse gas emissions," said Davey. "I hope this leads to saving money for the university. With a few changes we can save hundreds of thousands of dollarswithout buying anything."
Anyone interested in the greenhouse gas study, the Energy Star Showcase Dorm Room, or other environmental-related topics, should send their browsers to http://green.tulane.edu. For information on Energy Star, visit www.energystar.gov.
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The Parisian design gallerist, celebrated for her jewelry-like tableware, talks hostess gifts, the beauty of bronze and why she would never redo her home
Design polymath Muriel Grateau has a career that spans countries and disciplines. As a Milan-based fashion designer in the 1980s, she had her own line and worked with entrepreneurs like Diego Della Valle. Returning to Paris in 1992, Ms. Grateau opened her eponymous gallery in the Palais Royal gardens (the store is now on the Rue de Beaune), designing jewelry, linens and home accessories that combine her mastery of color and form with both austerity and humor. This September, Ms. Grateau celebrates 20 years of her gallery with a new all-white interior and a fresh collection of silverware and tableware. She is also working on her first watch collection. When she's not traveling to her factories, collaborating with architects like Peter Marino and India Mahdavi or designing new products, Ms. Grateau relaxes with her husband in their Versailles apartment.
My personal style is "avant-garde" and chic, at least I hope so. Avant-garde in the sense of creating, not following the others. It's not the easiest thing, but it's important to avoid what's obvious.
The most important piece of jewelry I have is a diamond and onyx ring. It's one of the first pieces I made, seven years ago. I was thinking of women who wore a lot of black. Outside of silver or gold, there wasn't much that went well with black. I wanted to do something in the spirit of cameo, but with more volume.
Every well-set table should have compelling plates. I create my own, and I had to invent the technique working with a small French artisanal porcelain producer. Unlike traditional porcelain, our plates are tinted with color while they're being made, not painted on after.
I think of my work as the "art of living." That means I'm interested in the encounter between "decorative arts" and "manners," or as French say, "savoir-vivre."
My favorite designer right now is Nicolas Ghesquière, but I am really looking forward to seeing Hedi Slimane for Yves Saint Laurent, because he has an enormous talent and a real sense of silhouette. I love Tom Ford, who has always had strong fashion intelligence and really did amazing things at Saint Laurent.
The most important items in my wardrobe are my collection of black turtlenecks and my collection of black pants. I wear Jil Sander, Prada's more simple things, Hedi Slimane and Céline.
I started drawing dresses before I could talk, and then designing my own clothes. One day, I ran into Hélène Lazareff, the founder of French Elle, in the St. Tropez harbor. She asked me who had designed my clothes and then offered me a job. That is when I began to think of design as a possible career.
If I weren't a designer, and if I had been so lucky to have an amazing artistic gift, I would love to be a pianist like Sviatoslav Richter, an opera singer like Maria Callas or a painter like Francis Bacon.
On the weekend, I try to rest, stay in Paris and do as little as possible. When I do nothing, I get lots of ideas. I sit with a bag full of my Moleskine notebooks and sketch and write.
I hate the word "trend" because it is something everyone follows. This means there is no more creativity left in them.
An underappreciated material in home design is bronze. Concrete is overrated, as is using the same material everywhere in your house.
Even if money were no object, I wouldn't redesign my home. I deeply feel the need to preserve it from my attempts to change everything, as my work is constantly pushing me to innovate. Not redesigning assures stability.
My must-have piece for the home is a black plastic tray that I bought in an inexpensive gadget shop 25 years ago in New York, and it has never left me since. It's very simple but so well designed. My husband uses it every day to bring me breakfast in bed.
On the table, I prefer an arrangement of fruit or something unexpected and magnificent. I find fruit displays more logical on the table than flowers. I don't like tables set in a very complicated way, with so many things that you end up not even seeing the food.
A gift I really treasure is a beautiful 24-karat gold medallion from my husband. It's a reproduction of a work by Pablo Picasso, made by the artist and goldsmith Pierre Hugo, who reproduces famous artists' works in metals.
I don't collect anything. I am just as happy looking at beautiful things as owning them.
I don't listen to music when I work. Listening to music is an occupation in itself, and it would distract me too much to have it in the background.
To get away from Paris, I love to go to St. Tropez or anyplace facing the sea. To re-energize, I stare at the ceiling.
The best gift I ever gave was 50 gifts for my husband's 50th birthday. We decided to take a weekend away. Normally I just take a little bag, but I packed a gigantic suitcase. He couldn't understand why.
My go-to hostess gift is linen napkins. I've been making them in 100 colors for the past 20 years. I bring them to dinner parties, like a bouquet of flowers. For me, color is like a drug.
If you're staying in a city during the summer, the best thing to wear is anything that doesn't make you look like you're on your way to the beach.
My favorite artists are architects: Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, Oscar Niemeyer and Frank Gehry.
If I could design a piece of jewelry for any woman, living or dead, I'd choose Audrey Hepburn or Charlotte Gainsbourg, because grace is an essential quality in order to wear jewelry.
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Joyce returns to form as Gilford knocks off Belmont
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GILFORD — The Gilford Golden Eagles (6-3) jumped all over Belmont early, scoring 26 points in the first quarter, to secure a NHIAA Division III victory 69-37 on Friday night. The win was Gilford's second in a row, halting a three game skid last week. Josh Joyce fueled Gilford's early surge, scoring 15 points in the first quarter on his way to a 22-point night. "Josh's energy was back to what we are used to," Said Gilford coach Chip Veazey. "He had been under the weather for the past two weeks or so."
"We played really well in the first half," Veazey said. "We were a little sloppy in the second." Gilford's starters did not see any playing time in the later half of the third quarter and remained on the sideline for all of the fourth. Kaleb Orton made his presence felt underneath for Gilford with 20 points.
Belmont (1-8) has dropped their last four. Trevor Hunt led the Red Raiders with 11 points. Belmont was stifled by Gilford's defense, scoring only 4 points in the first quarter and 15 by halftime. Half of those points were from the free throw line. The Golden Eagles' aggressive defense sent Belmont to the charity stripe 26 times, converting half of the time. "Belmont is a good young team,"continued Veazey, "they will be fine."
The Red Raiders are in action tonight hosting the Lakers from Inter-Lakes (2-6). Gilford will host Farmington (5-4) on Friday night.


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Vendée Globe - Francois Gabart fights back
by Vendee Globe on 19 Dec 2012
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The Vendée Globe 2012-13 is on the 38 day of racing with 470 miles to the Auckland Islands. How quickly the hunter becomes the hunted. Francois Gabart (MACIF) re-took his lead on Wednesday morning, 15 hours after losing it to Armel Le Cléac'h (Banque Populaire). They also both passed the halfway mark on the theoretical mileage for the race and seem destined to play cat and mouse round the world. Just as Armel The Jackal chewed his way to Gabart slowly, likewise Gabart fought his way back a mile every hour. Gabart is just 5.3 miles ahead of Le Cléac'h and only 20 miles to the north as they race in the direction of the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand.
After the various modifications to the gates the theoretical distance of the Vendée Globe, on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, is 24,394 miles. The mid-point is 12,197 miles from Les Sables d'Olonne and at 0400hrs UTC, Gabart and Le Cléac'h had, 12,173.7 and 12,179 miles respectively to the finish. So, as Gabart felt yesterday after being told he was in the Pacific, they really are into the second part of the race now and on the road back – theoretically. The reality is they will sail a lot more miles than 12,197 home. Gabart has already sailed 14,606.85 miles and even the more direct Le Cléac'h 14,042.61 miles thus far.
The small mystery of the last 24 hours is why Jean-Pierre Dick (Virbac-Paprec 3) has slowed so much. Dick, in third, has slid back to 473 miles behind the leader after losing 100 miles in the last 24 hours. He appeared to slowdown even before hit the light winds of a high pressure ridge as he approaches the East Australia gate and has averaged just 6.8 knots overnight, or his day in the southern hemisphere. But
Further west, Mike Golding (Gamesa) knows exactly how Dick feels. He hit his own private ridge crossing the West Australia gate and has made just 256 miles at and average speed of 10.7 knots in the last 24 hours. The good news for Golding is that Jean Le Cam (SynerCiel), in sixth, has been caught by it to overnight and averaged just 10.3 knots overnight and saw his lead cut to 207 miles. But Dominique Wavre (Mirabaud) Javier Sansó (Acciona 100% EcoPowered), continue to close on Golding and may bank the miles. Sansó, averaging the fastest in the fleet overnight, with 16.2 knots, has made up 138 miles in the last 24 hours on Golding and is 87 miles behind Wavre and 223 behind Golding.
'There has been a steady rise in wind pressure and that feels more permanent and so hopefully now I can stop the rot a bit,' Golding wrote this morning. 'It has been terrible. I don't know if I did something to the Wind Gods.'
Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss) held off the charge of Bernard Stamm (Cheminées Poujoulat), averaging 15.4 knots overnight, 0.4 knots better than Stamm.
There is now over 4,000 between the fleet as Alessandro Di Benedetto (Team Plastique) had the slowest 24 hours, making 190
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One of the coolest devices to be showcased at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year was Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 ( hit the link for a nice overview ).
The device is intended as a successor to the very well received Samsung Galaxy Tab, which managed to sell over 2 million units since its launch last year, something that managed to chew at the dominance of Apple in this sector. Although very appreciated, the Samsung Galaxy Tab does still go for roughly $500 depending on the retailer and Samsung was planning on releasing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with a higher price tag than the 7 inch version.
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Seawolves' Rally Falls Short
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After falling to eventual tournament champion Colorado College on Friday, Maine bounced back to claim second place in the Nye Frontier Classic by beating host Alaska-Anchorage 4-2 Saturday night.
The Black Bears did their damage early, posting three first-period goals in a span of just over seven minutes.
Colin Shields opened the scoring at 7:15 on the power play. Shields, who was named to the all-tournament team, gathered a long rebound off a slap shot and quickly blasted his shot from the right circle past UAA netminder Kevin Reiter.
Less than three minutes later, at 10:10, Chris Heisten, the Black Bears' captain and Anchorage native, drew the defense by circling the UAA net and then found Troy Barnes, who buried a one-timer low.
At 14:43, Robert Liscak got the final goal of the first period and the eventual game-winner for the Black Bears. Breaking in alone against two defenseman, Liscak flashed his speed and skated around the right defender before giving Reiter a nifty fake and beating him glove side.
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UAA made it 3-2 at 6:16 of the third when the freshman trio struck again. The three came into the Maine zone with speed and, after a shot from Johnson that Doyle couldn't corral, McMann grabbed the rebound and stuffed it in behind Doyle at the left post.
Despite the rally and excellent goaltending down the stretch from Reiter, Maine sealed the win at 18:35 on a goal from Heisten when he beat the UAA defender to the puck off a face off and slid it past Reiter for his second point of the night.
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Phoebe Taylor's 20-year-old suburban Atlanta ranch house began plain and "builder grade."
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It's called "going faux" — turning homes into something they basically are not through prefab architectural embellishments and eye-tricking wall finishes. Enthusiasts say there's no reason for even the most budget-conscious among us to live a cookie-cutter existence.
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Other "faux" features to consider include ceiling decals that look like parts of elaborate chandeliers, cabinetry embellishments and painted wainscoting.
"I have seen some trailer homes that have more personality to them thanks to paint, sweat equity, buying some lumber, and their owners using their creativity," says Lee Gamble, a Steamboat Springs, Colo.-based designer and painter who specializes in faux finishes.
Gamble says a homeowner can change anything with desire and patience — even ambitious projects, such as making the interior of a standard subdivision home look like a cozy Tudor, a classic Colonial or something out of the rustic West.
The Internet is a DIY decorator's best friend, she says, offering inspiration and sources for adding architectural and decorative elements to a home.
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Paint can be used to create illusions of architectural elements. For example, you can use blocks of color on walls to create the look of molding, or three variations of one color for a three-dimensional look — an old technique called trompe l'oeil that can make your home look just a little more like the Palace of Versailles.
Paint can make high ceilings look lower by extending the ceiling's color to a lower point on the wall, or give them more height by going dark. Using different colors on the top and bottom halves of a wall can create the look of wainscot, Gamble says.
Ornamental appliqués that adhere to anything from cabinetry, walls, mantels and molding to furniture and picture frames add ready-made detail without breaking the bank, she says.
The decorative appliqués, which can be painted, stained or glazed, are particularly helpful in transforming the look of kitchen cabinets. "If they are in good shape and the flow works for you, then there is no reason to change them out," Gamble says, adding that the appliqués, paint and new cabinetry hardware can transform a "builder-grade kitchen" to any style from classic to contemporary.
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Fabolous woos a Dominican beauty in his latest video for "Ready."
When it comes to New York rap kingpin Fabolous, it's Loso's way or the highway. But you never know — maybe he'll change his style for the right girl. At least that's what we're getting from Fab's "Ready" clip featuring Chris Brown, the latest single from Loso Way 2: Rise to Power. Shot in the gorgeous Dominican Republic, Fab's vacation is sweetened by a local beauty who gives him all kinds of special treats. MINDS OUT OF THE GUTTER: We mean she's a maid who sneaks him luxury goods like watches and chains. But we kinda led you there. Sorry!
Watch Fabolous featuring Chris Brown's "Ready" video after the jump.
Directed by Taj Stansberry, "Ready" has Fabolous checking into a hotel (shoes off and robe on, classic hotel attire), while Chris Brown sings from a picturesque cliff wearing what resembles a double-sided apron/tank top hybrid. As Loso lounges, he meets a gorgeous hotel maid who slides him an incredibly expensive watch on the low (um, can someone give us the address of this hotel, please?). Fab's impressed, so he gives her a very generous tip. (Cash! Not the other thing! We think…).
Wooed by her beauty and all those shiny gifts, Fab invites his new girl for a whirlwind romance in the D.R. while Chris Brown serenades them elsewhere in a mesh shirt (seriously, WHO did wardrobe for this vid??), and eventually decides to invite her back with him to the States. Will she go? We don't want to spoil the ending, but come on. Wouldn't you give up your cleaning job to fall in love with a rapper? (Uh, HELLO, remember J.Lo in "Maid In Manhattan"?? Except swap "rapper" for "politician." Basically the same thing.)
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April in New Orleans means Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest and, inevitably, afternoon rain and thunderstorms. With Jazz Fest at the end of the month and reaching into May, there are occasional years it escapes our April showers but seven days of Festival means that chances are better than not that someone's set will get rained on.
Get a jump on Jazz Fest on the evening of Thursday, April 23 by taking it back to the very beginning. The Louisiana State Museum will be showing seven 16mm film reels from the first Jazz Fest in 1970 at the Old U.S. Mint. The reels feature Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson, Pete Fountain, Danny Barker, and many more iconic artists.
A circa 1969 performance by a very young Jimmy Cliff of his reggae/gospel anthem "Many Rivers to Cross". You can see the man himself this Friday at Jazz Fest in Congo Square.
This year's Record Store Day is happening on Saturday, April 18. Record Store Day is an annual celebration of the people who make up the world of the record store, including staff, customers, and artists, as they come together to recognize the unique culture of a record store and the special role that independent record stores play in the community.
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Maleonn was the quintessential diamond in the rough. Even while mid career in the commercial film industry, his success gave him little personal satisfaction. For years he was starved for self-expression, desperately grasping to escape the monotony of his job. In 2004 he finally threw his hands in the air. He bought a camera and paint and became one of China's most renowned contemporary photographers.
Only such urgency to expel one's emotions could cultivate the passion Maleonn channels into his work. Photography is his language for translating ideas and emotions that he cannot express in any other tangible form. The product is a mammoth body of work covering extensive conceptual ground: mostly contrived, his images convey a narrative that seems incomplete. In his theatrical sets, stuffed animals and balloons often overtake a room in massive quantity while characters engage in bizarre actions. There is a mass of information in each image, yet no clear answers. Maleonn explores his culture through these metaphors, leaving the whimsical characters to tell their own story. —Kirsten Incorvaia
Q: What's the best grub in China?
Haha, I know that the foreigners are impressed that the Chinese love food. J But that's true. I like eating so much, and my body is easily fat. I have to run in the gym everyday in order to eat a little bit. My favorite is the chicken soup. The chicken should be raised in nature, not in the farm. The ingredients are some medicinal materials. In TCM many plants are medicines. Our traditional chicken soup is to strengthen the body.
Q: Why do you take the time to hand paint photos instead of printing them in color?
Once I bought lots of old pictures from the 18th century, which were all hand painting on black and white photos. The colors of the works moved me deeply. These colors are quite subjective, not the real color recording the objective world. The manner of hand painting is able to put my emotion into the work, which couldn't be done by color photography. Later, although I rarely use hand painting by brush, I still do the same work on computer by software. Sometimes I even took digital pictures in black and white: all the colors were rendered in computer.
Q: What does the title of your series "Unforgivable Children" mean?
"Unforgivable Children," the phrase, comes from one poem written by my favorite poet Beidao. I have loved this poem since I was young, I can even recite it. But the work is only an excerpt of the original piece. The complete version was talking about something related to politics. I only took part of that. It's hard to explain the emotion I wanted to express. Sometimes I felt only photography was my best language. All that I want to say is hidden in my photographs.
Q: Tell me about your mother and father's careers in the film industry. Why were you separated from them when you were young?
My father's character is quite arty: passionate but stormy tempered. He's one of the most important drama directors in China. His career lasted about fifty years, and he retired recently because of his sickness. I have considered him my idol since I was a child, and always dreamt of being an artist like him. My mother was quite pretty when she was young. She was a drama player, and not that famous when she was on the stage. But she became a well-known TV star later. You can often see her on TV in China even right now.
When I was young, because of the Chinese culture revolution, my father had been heavily persecuted then. My parents didn't want me to be involved, so I lived quite a long time with my grandmother. After the reform in China, my parents got the chance to work abroad. They lived in Sweden for several years. I studied in the fine art college then; I didn't go with them. Now we live together in Shanghai. Although they are old and sometimes they cannot understand my work, they give me large support spiritually during the hardest moments of my creation. I'm so lucky to have grown up in such a family.
Q: Did you always want to go to art school?
I made poor marks in school except for painting, Chinese, and sports. All the other courses I almost failed. But I didn't feel self-abased at that time. My parents are quite interesting. They were never worried about my future; even when I was the poorest-mark student at school. Entering fine art school was a pretty lucky thing for me, because there were no other culture courses then. Only being good at painting was enough. I love painting, so I painted almost everyday that time.
Q: What was your career before photography?
I was the director for commercial films and MTV, sometimes also did art direction in person and cinematography. During my most successful time being a director, I once saw six pieces of commercial films made by me in different TV channels in one night. Besides the clients of music, I also had invitations from familiar friends. Most of the collaborations between the clients and I were awful. But the reason wasn't because of them, but because I'm not suitable for the job. Although I dislike commercial work, I couldn't help but make it. I thought that was life in reality, and I wasn't imaginative; I couldn't imagine the days I live right now. I quit the job because one day I found myself a little bit old, and suddenly felt sad. I was afraid I couldn't have the chance to be an artist.
Q: What was the hardest part of leaving your previous career and establishing yourself as a photographer?
There was a period when I was very poor because I hadn't earned money for two years, and almost spent all my savings. Shanghai is the most expensive city in China, and I'm not good at accounting. So my life was once a mess. During the worst moment, I almost went to my parents' home for dinner because I was stingy with money even for food. Fortunately such days didn't last long. I'm lucky.
Actually I don't care much about the material life. Being rich or poor isn't that important for me. If I have to say the hardest thing I experienced was having no future. At that time there weren't many people who understood my work. I often was like a person talking to myself and hearing nothing in the dark. Sometimes it was quite hard to continue spiritually, my inner heart was fully worried.
Q: Before you used photography, how did you express the strong emotions that you have?
Just like what you said, I was in pain at that time. My job had no space for self-expression. So I often wrote some articles for myself after going back home later in the night. Sometime it was s fitful movie script, sometimes it was a badly written awful poem. Those articles were the outlet for me, quite incomplete, it even seems a little sick right now.
Fortunately, I happened to start photography one day. Sometimes I even think that photography was my rescue, which saved my life, to complete my soul.
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'Forty years in the wilderness'
Jan. 26 I rejoice in the saving of even one life, but I cannot see much cause for optimism. At 55 million the total number of aborted American babies could soon surpass the worst genocide in history (under Mao Zedong in China) unless a significant change occurs. We will then have to live with the infamy. Marvin Olasky mentioned the coarsening of America. How true! How sad! How convicting!
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I had to quit reading the report on abortion because it was tearing me up. Who told us it's honorable to kill a baby in the womb and first-degree murder to kill it outside the womb?
—Raymond Troyer, Rocky Mount, Va.
At the 40th anniversary of this horrific edict, the grief in my heart has been overwhelming. I have worked in the pro-life arena nearly since its inception but have not done all I could. I counsel young women and couples but don't get on my knees often enough. The judgment on us all from a holy God is and will be great.
—Sharon Lodovic, New Braunfels, Texas
On Jan. 22 my day began with learning about the wonder of prenatal development in my college class, a Lifespan Development course, and ended with a lesson from Psalm 139. It was a poignant way to observe the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and reminds me all the more of how precious life is.
—Abby Martens, Fayetteville, Ark.
We have four sweet kids but have suffered three miscarriages in the last 18 months. God doesn't waste tragedies and sorrows like these, and we have felt God's comfort. Ending these tiny lives for convenience and money through abortion is such a crazy contrast to the pain and tragedy of losing a child you long to meet.
—Marsha Michaelis, Lynnwood, Wash.
If we could provide more care and help for unwed, pregnant women, perhaps fewer of them would abort their children. Some suggestions to make adoption easier and birth less expensive are to start more charity clinics, to provide more legal help for those wanting to adopt, and to overhaul adoption regulations. We should look to businesses, denominations, and even the non-religiously affiliated to do their share.
—E. Jackson, Durham, N.C.
'Doing better on hard cases'
Jan. 26 Conservative politicians should stop reacting as if every question is well-intentioned. These rape questions are attacks on their pro-life positions. They should respond with a stronger attack by pointing out how Planned Parenthood and their allies don't report statutory rape and other sexual abuse.
—Patrick Smith, Elliottsburg, Pa.
'Broken arrows'
Jan. 26 I appreciated this column. Our children are the arrows and we have the responsibility for aiming them in the right direction. Arrows do no good if they are left in the quiver.
—David Harrell, Rock Hill, S.C.
When my daughter was maybe a month old, I had ordered in pizza but she picked that moment to be inconsolable. I was hungry and holding this screaming baby, smelling pizza that I couldn't eat, and could hardly believe this would be my life from then on. Now I'm the mother of three and I've had my bouts of selfishness, but I'm thankful that God is patient with me. This time is precious and passes so quickly.
—Janel Flor, Phoenixville, Pa.
As I write this, my wife is in our hospital room feeding our newborn daughter. Thank you for your insight into Psalm 127.
—Adam DeClercq, Anaheim, Calif.
Your observation of the new definition of the word parent was eye-opening. Not only is our society changing the way to rear children, it's redefining it, and making it more parent-centered. This column reminded me of my parents' effective child-rearing. They took their role seriously and it wasn't about them.
—Leah Frick, Atlanta, Ga.
'News from the front'
Jan. 26 I found the story about some states legalizing physician-assisted suicide astonishing. Under no circumstances should this be allowed. If someone has a limited amount of time to live, they should embrace the time left and enjoy it to the fullest.
—Elaine Jarnagin, Atlanta, Ga.
'All but over'
Jan. 26 Thank you for your update and wisdom regarding the Hobby Lobby case and the impact upon our religious freedom. I am praying for God's intervention because I cannot see hope for any significant assistance from the courts right now.
—Karen Kelly Duncanson, Danville, Calif.
I hope Hobby Lobby calls the government's bluff and closes its doors rather than comply with the healthcare mandate.
—Todd Voshell, Clarksville, Mich.
'From this day forward'
Dec. 29 Recently while I was counseling a 68-year-old gentleman who has never been married but very much wants to be, he pulled out this column. He said he appreciated Andrée Seu Peterson's rejection of the "it's too late now" mentality and how she pointed to the promises of God as the antidote. I found it encouraging, too.
—Ted McCann, Chula Vista, Calif.
'Learning curve'
Jan. 11 Regarding John Dickerson's take on addictions, we have failed to understand the incredible power available through the Holy Spirit. The embarrassingly sick people in our churches meet in their own small groups separate from mainstream church life, while many of the "nice" saved people on Sunday morning are hiding brokenness just as deep as any alcoholic. If we hope to reach the world, we need to experience the power of God ourselves, not just talk about it.
—Marshall Tompkins, Kingsley, Mich.
'Flashing red'
Jan. 11 Thank you to Mindy Belz for such a clear, concise account of the Benghazi debacle. We missed our chance when Mitt Romney decided not to make an issue of it, even after President Obama admitted that he knew it was a terrorist attack while continuing to speak of "demonstrations."
—Vic Tripp, Tucker, Ga.
'Choosing to sing'
Jan. 11 The interview with Joni Eareckson Tada hit a responsive chord in me. God disciplines us because we are His children and because He loves us, but He is not all warm and fuzzy.
—Kathryn Lee, Indianapolis, Ind.
'The Raven'
Jan. 26 I'm not sure how "Baltimore knows better" about Ray Lewis. I know he was never convicted, but it seems there is much more to the story of the Super Bowl murders. I do hope Christ truly rules his life now, but I would be cautious about jumping on the Lewis hype machine.
—Mike Myslinski, Johns Creek, Ga.
'A town clothed in misery'
Jan. 12 The U.S. reaction to the Sandy Hook tragedy shows how deeply we have fallen as a nation from true faith in Jesus. We hardly notice that God's hand of protection has been removed. We instead resort to flimsy regulatory schemes like "gun control" that have never worked, or we watch uncritically as politicians shamelessly posture to advance their agenda and their prospects for higher office. This is a time to repent.
—James T. Davis, Heunghae-Eup, South Korea
Chaplain Tommy Davis was 16 when arrested for assault in 1989 and he was sentenced in 1991 ("Firestarter," Feb. 9, p. 61).
Police shot dead Charles Whitman, whose shooting spree in Austin, Texas, killed 14 people on Aug. 1, 1966 ("Gleeful nihilist," Feb. 9, p. 30).
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