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Mary Ann Travis
Michael DeMocker
Amid the pages of a thousand cookbooks, Susan Tucker finds testament to the silences in the lives of southern women.
From soaking French bread to adding bourbon whiskey, Susan Tucker knows bread pudding. Tucker has written a history of this scrumptious, seminal dessert and, with co-authors, is writing and editing the history of other iconic New Orleans dishes for a book project. But she doesn't investigate recipes and cookbooks so she can whip up the best jambalaya on the block. She studies food because it is an insight into society. Cooking and cookbooks are fruitful avenues for exploring the lives of women--and men, says Tucker.
But she didn't always think this way. Tucker is the curator of books and records for the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women. In her second-floor office in Caroline Richardson Hall, a chafing dish perches on a filing cabinet. Downstairs, thousands of cookbooks line open shelves. Closed stacks hold mementos, recipes and scrapbooks.
Before the research center acquired its first cookbook for the Newcomb College Culinary History Collection, Tucker says she was opposed to getting cookbooks because "it seemed such a backward way to look at women." Now she appreciates cookbooks as rich sources for understanding women's lives. In order to penetrate the silence that has historically surrounded these lives, Tucker says she has to "think, more than I usually do, about things that are everyday"--such as cooking.
For most of her career, Tucker has pursued the stories of women, always looking for what has been left out in order to document that which is secret or hidden in women's lives. Tucker (NC '71) has a master's degree in library science from the University of Denver and is a certified archivist. As head of the Nadine Vorhoff Library at the Center for Research on Women since the 1980s, she has guided the library to concentrate its collection on the education of women and Southern women's history.
But, in 1992, an avalanche of donated cookbooks resulted in a sea change in Tucker's views about what constitutes the education of women. The library's culinary collection started with two gifts: Stella Barnes Adams (UC '40) left a bequest of 2,000 cookbooks to the Center for Research on Women. And six months later, Courtney Werner's heirs donated 1,000 books from his international cookbook collection. With this windfall to a fledgling library that needed books, Tucker had to make a decision.
"I didn't know if I wanted to define cookbooks as part of the education of women," she says. "I was at first not happy about the collection."
Cookbooks in a women's studies library seemed to Tucker akin to the idea that women belonged barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. The cookbooks, though, were appealing. As Tucker evaluated the books, it dawned on her that cookbooks provide clues to how people, especially women, educate themselves when they are not in school. The cookbooks, Tucker began to see, could help answer the question: what shapes a person, a society? After her initial reluctance, Tucker embraced cookbooks and more and more have come her way.
Today, the Newcomb College Culinary History Collection is a repository of thousands of books and items related to food studies. And it's inspired much scholarly activity. Tucker is a founder of the New Orleans Culinary History Group, and she's curated half a dozen exhibits about New Orleans restaurants and cooks. She writes and edits articles and books on food. The Smithsonian Institution has called on her expertise for its traveling food exhibits. And all this happens because cooks in the kitchen kept a record.
Jayne Hennessey was a fantastic cook and a meticulous record-keeper. She was a Navy nurse, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander. Her husband was also a Navy commander. They had no children and eventually settled in Algiers on New Orleans' West Bank. Hennessey loved to throw dinner parties, and for every party she hosted, she kept the menu. When she died, the culinary collection acquired her notebooks and cookbooks from her husband. One year, Hennessey listed every meal she cooked and ate. The '70s-style Day-Glo notebooks with Hennessey's recollections of scrambled eggs and grasshopper pie reside in a metal box on the collection's shelves.
Hennessey marked the margins of printed recipes for dishes such as Premium Chicken and Broccoli Bake with handwritten notes: "Added sauteed mushrooms and onions," "Used wheat crackers," and "Made nite before--baked next day." "You could tell she was a cook," says Tucker, who adds that the notebooks are a treasure-trove of middle-class New Orleans entertaining.
And someday a scholar may come along to cherry-pick the documents to tell how an American woman lived in the second half of the 20th century. Hennessey learned much about New Orleans cooking from the late Lee Barnes (NC '73). She attended every course offered at the Lee Barnes Cooking School, which Barnes founded in the late 1970s on Oak Street in uptown New Orleans. Barnes is significant in the annals of cooks because she helped preserve traditional New Orleans dishes, says Tucker.
After World War II, New Orleans cooks began taking shortcuts in their cooking "up until Lee started her cooking school," says Tucker. They used canned and frozen goods, committing such sacrileges as canned fruit cocktail in bread pudding. But Barnes resurrected recipes for dishes such as crawfish etouffee and okra/seafood gumbo with fresh ingredients. "She would write them out in her own handwriting," says Tucker, "and give them out in the classes."
Barnes' handwritten sheets, along with all her personal cooking papers, are part of the culinary collection. Her husband donated them after she died at age 42. In 2002, Tucker opened a Lee Barnes exhibit that drew 200 of Barnes' family and friends to the center. They paid a bittersweet tribute to the cooking heroine, who advertised her cooking school on the sides of streetcars and drew, probably for the first time, a clientele of both black and white New Orleans cooks and wannabe cooks to a cooking school.
The saying goes that New Orleanians live to eat, while in other places people merely eat to live. "New Orleans has been lucky," says Tucker. Historically, most people in New Orleans ate fairly well, especially compared to the rural South, where life was meager and hardscrabble and people often went hungry. This hunger and deprivation lasted for many Southerners until the 1960s.
But New Orleans was different. As a port city, it was the epicenter of imports from everywhere. Gulf of Mexico seafood was brokered and sold cheaply to locals. Boats brought an abundance of goods to the city down the Mississippi River from the Midwest's Bread Basket. And the mild climate allowed a long growing season.
"We were blessed for a long time," says Tucker. "That relative wealth and abundance really hasn't lasted but for a long time it did shape the way we lived." New Orleans had another ingredient that made it a good place to eat--a mix of people. "New Orleans rises like the Emerald City of Oz," says Tucker. For white and black Southerners moving from the country to the city, "It was a mythic, wonderful place. The more people talked about the food and restaurants, the better they grew in their imaginations."
Tucker has tracked down the lives of African-American cooks in New Orleans, gathering documentation for the collection the way a government hoards gold. One such cook is Lena Richard, a caterer, restaurant owner, cookbook author, entrepreneur and quite possibly the first person, and certainly the first African-American, to host a weekly cooking show on television. Tucker has acquired Richard's papers for the culinary collection, and it is Richard's chafing dish that sits in Tucker's office. Richard was born in New Roads, La., in 1892. She wrote the New Orleans Cook Book, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940.
Richard began her catering career in the 1920s and appeared on WDSU-TV in New Orleans in 1949. As a youngster, she was a cook for a wealthy white family who recognized her talent early and helped her attend cooking school in Boston. She returned to New Orleans to start several restaurants, including the Sweet Shop, Lena's Eatery and the Gumbo House. Richard's dishes were quintessential New Orleans fare: pork chops, fried chicken, stuffed crab, stuffed peppers, gumbo, and red beans and rice.
She also was head chef for a time at the Bird and Bottle Inn, north of New York City. Her signature dish there was "shrimp soup Louisiane." Richard died in 1950. Tucker learned about a cooking school operated by Richard through neighbors, who put Tucker in touch with Richard's granddaughter, from whom she acquired the chafing dish as well as Richard's cookbooks and recipes.
Tucker diligently hunts down cooks and their records, keeping her sights on New Orleans and the South. Her focus is for the culinary collection to further specialize in New Orleans food, in the community cookbooks of the South and the autobiographies and biographies of Southern cooks.
"For a book collection to be valuable, it must have focus and depth," she says. Other institutions in the city, such as the Historic New Orleans Collection, also are interested in culinary history, and Tucker often competes with them for acquisitions.
"I want more cookbooks," Tucker says. "I know there are things we should have. It's frustrating to me. We have no funds for acquisition. It's totally by donation. I have never had a budget to buy cookbooks for the collection."
The collection received a Newcomb Foundation grant in summer 2005 to complete the cataloging of the collection's current holdings. Vorhoff librarian Cristina Hernandez oversaw the project. Tucker and Hernandez also have developed a website, highlighting the collection.
Tucker, like any good archivist, has a passion for documentation. She gathers firsthand documents that will allow future scholars to authenticate their insights and substantiate their theories.
A "receipt" for gumbo in a yellowed scrapbook has been passed down from generation to generation and finally donated by a family to the culinary collection. An older black Creole cook first dictated the recipe to a young white bride.
With disdainful in-laws who looked down their noses at her because she wasn't French--she was a Virginian--and she did not know how to cook in the Creole style, the younger woman apparently needed an ally in the kitchen. Lovingly kept for decades, the recipe is evidence of a young housewife's gratitude.
But what about the cook? What did she think? Silences and gaps still exist in the history of black and white relations in the South. Could this recipe or an item like Lena Richard's chafing dish provide a first utterance toward giving voice to the unspoken?
Looking back at Tucker's own scholarly contributions, it's surprising that she initially resisted cookbooks as vehicles for understanding the lives of women. After all, her career was launched in domesticity. Tucker wrote the groundbreaking book--Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South--published by Schocken Books of New York in 1988 and reprinted by Louisiana State University Press.
Telling Memories is a record of black and white women's memories of an era when the economic subsistence of black women and their families often depended on their performance of arduous cleaning and caretaking chores for Southern white women of a certain class. Tucker is of that class. She grew up the oldest of four daughters in Mobile, Ala. Her father was a doctor, and her mother, an artist.
She writes in the preface to Telling Memories, "Domestic workers and members of the families of domestic workers were the only black people I knew until I was 20 years old."
Motivated by curiosity about the two groups of Southern women--black domestic workers and their white employers--Tucker undertook an extensive oral history that is the basis for the book. Mary Yelling, a black social worker, assisted Tucker in conducting several of the dozens of interviews and was particularly instrumental in getting the black women to talk frankly.
Telling Memories is a "record of the stories as well as the silences I have heard all my life," Tucker writes. In the book, the gulf between workers and employers is revealed in little details. For instance, domestic workers did not feel gratitude when they got hand-me-downs. They knew a castoff, unwanted article of clothing when they saw one.
Tucker transcribed hours of interviews, trying to look behind the masks black women wore to survive and understand the roles they and their employers played. African-American actress and playwright Cheryl Lynn Bruce was so fascinated by Telling Memories that she selected six narratives from the book to be read by actresses for "Stories on Stage," a series produced by WBEZ, Chicago's public radio station. The performance was presented at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art and later broadcast. When she wrote Telling Memories, Tucker says she had no interest in cooking. A
nd although she likes to cook, Tucker admits she simply didn't pay attention when the women related their cooking memories. Now, almost 20 years later, she's gone back to the tapes to discover that food is mentioned frequently, which makes sense since the book is about domestic life. But when she wrote the book, Tucker says, "I edited out food." Not entirely. In the Telling Memories narratives, Tucker notes "for ambiance" what she is served by her interview subjects--ginger ale and cheese straws, peppermint candy, chili and Irish coffee. Food may have been peripheral for Tucker then, but it creeps in.
So Tucker's scholarly venture comes full circle--back to the kitchen. Most scholars have ignored food, as she did. Tucker attributes this oversight to the commonness of food. "I think it's because we live it." New fields of scholarship are rising, though, like freshly kneaded bread. Food is essential and scholars have appetites.
Think of the possibilities, as Tucker does: The history of food, the sociology of food, the anthropology of food--all research fields hungry for new understandings. Cookbooks are not the only "feminine" documents that Tucker studies. She has tapped into the richness of scrapbooks, those flimsy pages of dance cards and photos, held together with yarn. Temple University Press published The Scrapbook in American Life, an anthology edited by Tucker, in 2006. She's also writing and editing a history of Newcomb College. All Tucker's work is about memory.
"It's recollections," she says. The different genres--cookbooks, scrapbooks--are tangible ways women, and sometimes men, have interpreted the world. What ties Tucker's interests together is looking for meaning in the everyday. It's the sounds of silence, again.
Mary Ann Travis is editor of Tulanian and a senior editor in the Office of University Publications.
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118 504-865-5000 email@example.com


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Krishna Murthy Vijayan, 57, has authentic taste — literally. Cooking in the traditions of southern India as head chef for T-Side, a popular Indian restaurant in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, he makes it a priority to keep his tastes authentic.
Although he has lived more than 15 years in Japan, and is appreciative of his adopted home and its own food traditions, Vijayan stays loyal to his culinary roots. He typically takes time out to greet customers from the kitchen, and his lively brown eyes, the color of chai, light up with his smile.
Born into a family of chefs in Villupuram, a coastal town in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, Vijayan naturally started cooking from an early age alongside his two brothers and two sisters.
He developed his taste for whole spices under the guidance of his father, who owned and cooked at his own restaurant. "Southern Indian people use the whole spice, not ground — the spices are always the difference."
Although he was educated at a Sacred Heart Convent school that emphasized internationalism, with students from different nationalities and representing various trades, Vijayan grew up with strong pride in his regional food and cooking. "Basically, since my country is a very old country, 3,000-4,000 years old, from all over India you find all different tastes of food."
Working as a young chef, Vijayan sought out these differences, traveling to various cities in India to learn different styles of cooking, from Delhi to Mumbai. He also worked in Singapore, Thailand and Sri Lanka, honing his tastes.
In his mid-30s, Vijayan finally settled back near his home town at the restaurant of the famous hotel Taj Coromandel in Chennai. Taj Coromandel also provided a taste of the international — although Vijayan cooked authentic Indian food, the hotel regularly hosts heads of state, royalty and executives from all over the world.
After five years, Vijayan was appointed head chef, and at the same time, he also became the head chef for India's then prime minister, Narasimha Rao, traveling throughout England and Scotland to accompany Rao on official conferences during his 1991-96 tenure. "We were both vegetarians, both from the South, so communication was very easy for me."
One highlight of his career during this period was preparing a banquet in February 1994 for over 2,000 people, including dignitaries and politicians from Asia and Europe, who were taking part in a special seminar hosted by the British government and the Indian prime minister at St. James Court in London.
It was the same year — while working at Taj Coromandel — that Vijayan's life shifted toward Japan. An 80-year-old Japanese man, who owned an Indian restaurant in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, sat down and ordered "chicken curry, South Indian style" from the hotel restaurant. Before the dishes were cleared away, he had offered Vijayan a job in Japan.
Vijayan, then 41, had been curious about Japan since he was a young man. "They had a big world expo, held for the first time in Japan in 1970, but I could not go, I was too young. But every day, we read about Japan and I dreamed about Japan with the expo."
Set for an exciting change, in a country he had only dreamed about, he and his young wife moved to Fujisawa in late 1994. "I had no problems adjusting, although I was aware of the cultural differences, because I found the people to be very gentle and welcoming from the beginning."
After working for a few years at the man's restaurant, Menon, Vijayan decided to try Tokyo, quickly finding work at the established Indian restaurant Ajanta, dividing his time between branches in Yurakucho and Ebisu. Although the work was enjoyable, life in Tokyo was not easy for Vijayan, and he missed the green of the Shonan Coast.
Sightseeing in Kamakura one weekend, he discovered T-Side. Coincidentally, its owner, Shahjahan Ali, was searching for a head chef. Vijayan took over in 1999, and has lived and worked in Kamakura ever since.
Vijayan appreciates the international feel of Kamakura, with the tourist industry adding spice to the local clientele. The philosophy of T-Side also fits Vijayan: The restaurant offers a range of Indian foods, representing many different regions of India, from Vijayan's specialties in the South — dosa and biriyani, a festive food — to dishes from northern India, famous for butter chicken curry or nan — as well as the cuisine of Bangladesh, with its emphasis on fresh vegetables.
But it's not all about the food. T-Side also supports poor children in Damurhuda, part of Chuadanga in Bangladesh, and Vijayan credits T-side's owner, Ali, for his commitment to philanthropy. Ali donates 8 to 15 percent of the restaurant's profits to enable children of the village to attend elementary school.
Vijayan himself appreciates the chance to stay connected to people in need. "I'd like to help through supporting the people who are helping others." He admits it also helps him feel closer to home.
Vijayan finds others ways to feel close to home, and it comes back to the spices: "We order all our whole spices from India, coriander, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper. We never adapt taste, we only adapt to the customer's rhythm."
Vijayan tells how Japanese prefer lunch and dinner hours, but in Chennai, where his family still has a restaurant, they open at 6 a.m. for breakfast, and do not close until after a late dinner, at nearly 11 p.m. "The big meal in Chennai is lunchtime, although we will have people waiting at 6 a.m. for breakfast. Dinner is late, 7 or 8 p.m., and usually very light."
Vijayan is proud of Japan's historical connection with India, mentioning Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the prominent leaders in the Indian independence movement who spent time in Japan during World War II while exiled from India. "Bose served Indian food to the Japanese soldiers, and one of his friends opened the famous Nair Restaurant in Ginza . . . Because of (the Nair founder), Japanese people are very familiar with true Indian food — even Japanese children know nan."
Although Vijayan himself still prefers Indian food, he has found many Japanese foods he loves, including tofu and soba noodles.
Vijayan proudly shows a picture of his 14-year-old son, who lives mostly in India for schooling, on a recent visit to Japan. His son towers over Vijayan in the picture, with his mother flanking his other side. "He loves food, too," Vijayan says proudly, and it is easy to imagine the son taking following his father's culinary path some day.
Vijayan would like to retire to India some day, but he enjoys his work and life, bringing authentic Indian food to Japan, starting with the whole spice.

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> You claim that physical memories are multidimensional; however, on the
> one occasion I recall anyone using a computational model with multiple
> dimensions of memories, it was used in the constructive proof that a
> single-tape turing machine is just as expressive as a multiple-tape
> turing machine.
But that only say that the usefulness of turing machines should not be decided based on expressivity. :-)
> I disagree. Confusing a property of a physical address space with a
> property of a logical entity is nonsense. When I put a potato into
> boiling water, I don't conclude that the boiling point of potatos is 100
> degrees celsius nor do I conclude it is a property of cooked potatos as
> opposed to potatos in general.
> Yet, having put a logical structure into a linear memory, you expressed
> a property of the linear memory as a property of the logical structure.
> Don't do that. It's nonsense even if you say it only applies to the
> implementation of the logical structure in the physical address space.
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text: GoldenBearSports.com Coaches Corner: Kevin Grimes Kevin Grimes and the Bears open the 2014 season at No. 22 North Carolina tonight By Cal Athletics on Fri, August 29, 2014 Related Links Inside the Lair Follow @CalMensSoccer on Twitter Like Cal Men's Soccer on Facebook Follow @CalMensSoccer on Instagram By Mallory Majcher. Cal Athletic Communications BERKELEY - Kevin Grimes enters his 15th season at the helm of the Golden Bears men's soccer program after coaching Cal to arguably its best season in program history last year. The Bears were ranked number one in the country by the NSCAA (National Soccer Coaches Association of America) for six consecutive weeks for the first time in the program history, and closed out their 2013 campaign with a 14-5-2 overall mark and an appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals. Through 14 years at Cal, Grimes has led the Golden Bears to three conference titles and 10 NCAA Tournament runs, including three quarterfinal appearances. Last year, Grimes eclipsed the 150-career win mark and is just the second coach in program history to accomplish the feat. With the men's soccer season right around the corner, Grimes sat down with CalBears.com for this week's Coaches Corner. CalBears.com: What is the most rewarding part of being a college coach?Kevin Grimes: The best part about being a college coach is that you get to work with kids age 18-22, and in some cases ages 17-23. It is a critical time frame for their life development. It is a tender age and you have to take that responsibility as a coach that you will be able to provide them with the nurturing and guidance that they need to make that next step into adulthood. Some of them get here and they are a little further along, and some of them aren't as far along, so we have to make sure that we recognize that to be able to continue to develop their character and responsibility to the team on and off the field. Hopefully they pick up on a lot of things in regard to accountability, leadership, and other facets they can take from being a student-athlete. CB: Talk about the benefits of coaching a premiere program at a top-tier university.KG: When somebody asks you what you do for a living and you tell him or her you work at Cal – whatever you are doing – when people know you work at an institute like Cal, you are looked upon with so much respect because of what Cal represents. It has meant so much to so many people over the years. There is so much great history here, like the freedom of speech movement. There are so many wonderful facets of the university and the community itself. It is one of the most unique places in the world to live, without question. It is so dynamic and so diverse, and I think it is a great honor to anybody that has the chance to work here. CB: What do you expect from the newcomers?KG: They are all very talented. You can put any one of them on the field and you wouldn't miss a beat. I think they just need to get experience playing at the college level in real games. The only one that has that right now is Trevor Haberkorn, he played every game at Furman as a freshman. The other guys will need to gain that experience over time – It could be this year, it could be next year, or it might be a little bit further down the road. All in all, they all have great talent. CB: What do you expect from the veteran group?KG: I think they are just going to carry the baton that was handed to them from last year's group of seniors. They obviously did a fantastic job leading the team to an unprecedented season. They are just going to try to take the leadership and competitive edge that was handed to them from last year's seniors and continue on to become part of the culture and fabric of our group. CB: What is the highlight of your coaching year?KG: Certainly being ranked No. 1 in the country doesn't happen all that often. Other than last season, it has never happened in the 108 years of Cal soccer. That just goes to show you how few and far between that actually happens for a program. We were ranked No. 1 for six weeks, which is half a regular season and was longer than any other team in the country. I think that was something we will all remember for a long time. It really meant so much to the whole athletic department, our community, and our alumni. It was so special for everyone. Catch the Golden Bears in action when they head to North Carolina to kick off their season against No. 22 North Carolina on Friday, Aug. 29, and No. 11 Wake Forest on Sunday, Aug. 31. Both kick off times are scheduled for 4 p.m. PT. RECOMMENDED STORIES < Finish First, Last The Final Chapter Isn't Life Great? > OFFICIAL ONLINE STORE < Men's Nike Gray Cal Bears Team Stripe T-Shirt $25.95 Buy Now > Cal Bears Nike Navy Blue Medium Training Duffle Bag $60.00 Buy Now > > Left Promo SHOP NOW > Right Promo MORE INFO > Bears On Pac-12 Networks Full TV Schedule Get Pac-12 Networks


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Revolution is a new movie from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Rob Stewart. A follow-up to his award-winning documentary Sharkwater, this continues his remarkable journey of discovery to find out that what he thought was a shark problem is actually a people problem.
As Stewart's battle to save sharks escalates, he uncovers grave dangers threatening not just sharks, but humanity. In an effort to uncover the truth and find the secret to saving our own species, Stewart embarks on a life-threatening adventure through 15 countries, over four years in the making.
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Are you a fan of Christian rock group Skillet? Then you probably know the band will be performing at Rock the River music festival in Eagle River, Wisconsin on August 24th.
As always Rock the River will have an awesome lineup including bands such as P.O.D., The Halo Method, Hawthorne Heights, IAMDYNAMITE, James Durbin, Go Fight, Model Stranger, Dead on TV and Nudge.
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With a regional berth within its grasp, Elma didn't count on Rochester catching its fourth wind on Tuesday.
After working the final three innings of a 17-inning victory earlier in the day, Dustin Wilson pitched a complete-game six-hitter as Rochester edged the error-plagued Eagles, 5-3, in the semifinals of the District Class 1A Baseball Tournament at Rochester.
Austin Neary's two-run homer capped a three-run seventh inning that rallied the Eagles to a 7-5 win over Toledo/Winlock in a district opener earlier in the day at Tenino.
The split left the Eagles (15-7) one win shy of a regional berth. They'll face rival Hoquiam in a winner-to-regionals, loser-out contest scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Friday at Castle Rock.
The winner of that game will play again Saturday in a regional seeding contest. Elma took two out of three meetings from the Grizzlies in Evergreen 1A League play.
Seemingly beneficial to Elma in terms of potentially wearing out the future opposition, Rochester's marathon 1-0 win over La Center in the opening round proved very much a double-edged sword for the Eagles.
A 2-hour delay while they waited for the Rochester-La Center game to conclude sapped whatever momentum the Eagles had generated from their come-from-behind victory over Toledo/Winlock. Elma wound up committing five errors against Rochester, all in the first five innings.
"It didn't help us any," Elma coach Scott Rowland said of the wait. "If you look at how we played, we kind of lost our focus. We had our opportunities, but we didn't play very well."
Staff ace Wilson, meanwhile, barely maintained his mound eligibility by working the final three innings of the La Center game. Despite a workload that included a 116-pitch count against Elma, the senior right-hander went the distance to collect his second win of the day.
Rochester won the opener on Josh Larson's bases-loaded bunt single in the bottom of the 17th. Dylan Fosnacht pitched the first 14 innings of that contest.
"The energy level was very high in both games," veteran Rochester coach Jerry Striegel said.
Eagles 7, Warhawks 5
The Eagles began and ended this game in style.
Todd Swinhart and Ricky Escalante opened the contest with consecutive triples. Nick Camenzind and Neary followed with singles for a 3-0 lead.
Toledo/Winlock pitcher Wes Kuzminsky settled down, however, to limit the Eagles to three hits and a single run in the next five innings. The Warhawks, meanwhile, cashed in on Elma errors to take a 5-4 lead into the seventh.
Swinhart reached on an error to lead off the inning, advanced to third on a stolen base and Escalante's sacrifice and scored the tying run on a wild pitch.
After Camenzind walked, Neary blasted Kuzminsky's first pitch to left. The only question was whether it would stay fair and it hooked barely inside the foul pole as it cleared the fence.
Camenzind worked a perfect bottom of the seventh — his only 1-2-3 inning of the contest — to nail down the victory. Not quite as sharp as in his one-hit victory over Montesano last week, the senior right-hander nevertheless allowed only four hits and two earned runs while striking out eight.
Neary and Camenzind had two hits apiece for Elma.
Warriors 5, Eagles 3
Possibly due to fatigue, Wilson had some difficulty locating his pitches early. He still struck out 12, however, and stymied some late-inning Eagle threats.
Rochester, meanwhile, made full use of the extra outs that Elma's shaky defense provided.
The Warriors snapped a 2-2 tie with an unearned run in the third. Lucas Eastman added an RBI double in the fourth and Wyatt Singer's sacrifice fly scored Wilson (who had doubled) in the fifth to make it 5-2.
The Eagles got a run back in their half of the fifth, but it proved to be an inning that could have been much bigger.
Swinhart's single drove in Seth Osgood, who had beaten out an infield hit and advanced on an errant pickoff throw. After a hit batsman and a wild pitch, Elma had runners on second and third with none out.
Wilson, however, picked the runner off at second, then struck out the next two batters to end the inning. The Rochester ace also worked out a two-on, two-out predicament in the sixth.
Camenzind reached on an error with two outs in the seventh, but Wilson fanned Neary to end the game.
Thomas Hughes stroked a two-run single for Elma in the first inning. He finished with two hits, as did Swinhart.
Elma's opponents scored in nine of the 14 innings Tuesday. The Eagles, however, allowed multiple runs only in Rochester's two-run first.
Elma 300 001 3 — 7 8 4 Tol/Win 110 111 0 — 5 4 5
Camenzind and Swinhart; Kuzminsky and Gove.
RBI: Elma — Neary 2, Camenzind, Escalante. Toledo/Winlock — Gove, Korpi. Two hits: Elma — Camenzind, Neary. Home runs: Elma — Neary. Triples: Elma — Swinhart, Escalante.
Winning pitcher — Camenzind (walked four; struck out eight). Losing pitcher — Kuzminsky (walked four; struck out three).
Roch 201 110 0 — 5 6 3 Elma 200 010 0 — 3 6 5
Wilson and Deal; Neary, Thornock (6) and Swinhart.
RBI: Rochester — Eastman, Deal, Singer. Elma — Hughes 2, Swinhart. Two hits: Rochester — Eastman, Fosnacht. Elma — Swinhart, Hughes. Doubles: Rochester — Eastman, Wilson.
Winning pitcher — Wilson (walked two; struck out 12). Losing pitcher — Neary (walked one; struck out two).


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The list of environmental concerns associated with downhill skiing is long. Ski areas are often built by clearing forests, frequently on public land. They are energy and water hogs. They involve the construction of massive chair lifts and the use of snowmaking machinery. And they inevitably bring real estate development and major roads to areas of pristine wilderness and wildlife habitat. And then there's the carbon emissions of all those cars driving to the ski resorts.
Most skiers care deeply about the wilderness and their impact on it, so these issues keep coming up. The answer to whether downhill skiing can ever be eco-friendly, according to internet sources and a recent article in Utne Reader, is a (very) qualified yes.
Some ski resorts are converting to wind and solar power and others are working to offset their energy use by buying Green Tags, Tradable Renewable Energy Credits from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. They are all eager to get out the news. You can read detailed information about "Setting the Clean Energy Example†at keepwintercool.org. I did not find this, about Vail Mountain - 5,289 acres and the largest single ski resort in North America – to be reassuring. "Vail Mountain buys 300,000 kilowatt-hours per year of wind energy to power the Wildwood Express Lift, eliminating 300 tons of global warming pollution.†Did I read that right? 300 tons of pollution to power one lift? And, I can't tell if they are actually using wind energy or buying energy offsets, which in my mind are not the same thing. Are they being deliberately misleading or am I just not understanding something? If you want to find out how environmentally friendly your favorite western ski resort is, you can go to www.skiareacitizens.com and see what kind of grade it receives judged on nine criteria and a possible 222 total points. The "Top 10 Best†list includes Alpine Meadows (a personal favorite from my college days in Northern California) which gets an "Aâ€. The "Top 10 Worst†list includes Breckenridge in Colorado, which receives an "F†- not the only resort with that score either. Vail Mountain gets a gentlemanly "C.†Some ski resorts offer Mini-Green Tags, for those who want to feel they are taking some kind of personally responsible action. Each Tag represents 100 kilowatt-hours of wind power entering the energy grid which is equivalent to 140 pounds of air emissions - roughly the same amount caused by driving 150 miles in a vehicle getting approximately 21 MPG. By purchasing tags, according to the Green Tags site, you offset the polluting effects of your energy use by supporting the development of clean renewable energy. This focus on alternate energy is hopeful. But it doesn't address the other issue. The one about preserving the wilderness. I wonder where all the animals have gone that lived on the 5,289 acres that are now covered by ski trails, warming huts, and condos on Vail Mountain. This is not my attempt at a guilt trip. I am a former downhill skiing addict, possibly recovering, but that's not clear. I am, however, turned off by the crowds - maniacs on new skis, snow bunnies, and those crazed 13-year old kamikazes on snowboards - all on the same slope. Nevertheless, I will send good energy and what passes for prayers for the survival of a beautiful sport in a more evolved green state. Are you a skier? What's your opinion?


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In this week's episode, Kourtney lands as part on One Life to Live (can you say "Golden Globe"?); Scott works it at a major red carpet event; Kris Jenner gets mad at Kim; and Kim rides the subway for the first time. In other words, drama drama drama! We were hard pressed to pick just 10 best quotes from the show. But we did it, and here they are — the most juicy lines from Episode 9!
10. Slore.
Kourtney: Now I feel like I could go kiss everyone and I'd be fine.
9. Since when?
Kim (to Kris): Family is more important than money.
8. Or something like that.
Scott (to Kourt and Kim, who are rehearsing): It's like I'm watching Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise!
7. Don't get too excited, Kim.
Kourtney: Woo! The subway!
Kim: I'd rather eat Subway.
6. What not to say to strangers on the subway in New York City.
Kim: Have you ever been robbed? Have you ever robbed anyone?
5. Let them eat cake.
Kourtney (to Kim, as they are eating a giant cake): We are some big lard asses.
4. How does she spell relief?
Kourt: I just want some fried food.
3. What else is new?
Scott (to Kourt): Bring be over some miso soup because me so horny!
2. Someone's got quite an imagination!
Scott (to Kourt): Imagine if you woke up and I had two pieces of bread surrounding my penis and I said, 'good morning!'
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What Are the Symptoms?
Signs of an emergency with type 1 diabetes include:
How Is Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosed?
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Coffee Feature: Ethiopia Wet Process Guji Oromo
Sure, it's okay. Ultimately
Sure, it's okay. Ultimately it's about you enjoying your coffee. I think over time roasting your own coffee (assuming you start with good quality green coffee), a couple things happen. One is that good coffee has a sweet and clean taste, while coffees that beg for cream tend to be pungent and more bittering. Sometimes that can mean a lower quality coffee. Sumatras, even nice ones, are less sweet and more pungent, and can use some sweetening. But if you find your Guatemala coffee begs for cream, maybe it's a coffee quality issue. Secondly, over time, home roasters tend to find more flavor in lighter roasting. Dark roasting (which also begs for cream because it has more bittering roast notes) is also less interesting in the long run, because all coffees taste the same with dark roasts, to some degree. Anyway, cream is fine. Now, if you add Butterscotch Vanilla Crunch flavoring to your homeroast ... well, maybe you just don't like coffee. :-) Tom
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Along with a full-service spa, this hotel has a restaurant and a 24-hour fitness center. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a bar/lounge, a coffee shop/café, and coffee/tea in the lobby.
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A business center is on site at this 5-star property. 4 meeting rooms are available. This luxury hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, coffee/tea in the lobby, and concierge services. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests.
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Caryopteris (commonly called bluebeard, blue spirea or blue mist) is a low-mounded, deciduous shrub that is valued for its aromatic foliage and late summer flowers which are said to resemble clouds of blue smoke or mist. 'Lisaura' commonly sold under the trade name of HINT OF GOLD is a variegated Clandonensis hybrid that features bright golden yellow leaves with mint-green margins. Some leaves have more gold coloring than others, but the bottom line is that the variegated foliage is superb and lasts well throughout the summer. This new hybrid typically grows to 2-3' tall and as wide. Oval to elliptic leaves retain good variegated color during the growing season. Foliage is aromatic when brushed with a hand. Dark blue flowers in terminal and axillary clusters (cymes) bloom from late summer into fall (July-September in St. Louis). Flowers are very attractive to butterflies, bees and other beneficial insects. HINT OF GOLD was developed in England at Liss Forest Nursery. The cultivar name of 'Lisaura' refers to Liss nursery and to the plant's golden leaves (aura meaning gold). U. S. Plant Patent Applied For (PPAF).
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Born in Guanajuato, Mexico, Ozzy moved to the United States as a teenager and went on to attend the Santa Barbara City College. Although he currently works as a freelance writer and photographer, Ozzy enjoys may outdoors activities including wave surfing, skateboarding, sailing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, gymnastics and motorcycles. He's also a proud landowner in Panama and spends his visits there diving thirty feet to spearfish – and can even hold his breath for three minutes!
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Oak Ridge, NC -- Students, parents and community members from Northwest Guilford High School came together to support one of their own in a charity run/walk Saturday.
Teacher Ray Parrish was diagnosed with astrocytoma, a brain tumor, in Dec. 2012. He taught at the school for 20 years and is a NWHS graduate.
When students found out about his condition, they stepped up to help.
Along with parents and other members of the Viking community, students hosted Ray's Run 5K and 1-Mile Run/Walk at Oak Ridge Town Park.
Marianne Wiener, 2013 race director, says 1,150 runners and walkers showed up for the race.
"It was an awesome day," she said.
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In case it needed to stand out in ways other than its exuding aggression, gaping intakes, bulging bonnet, quad pipes and flared wheel arches, BMW presented its M4 concept car in a brilliant colour called Aurum Dust.
It reminds us of the old and iconic Mustard Yellow hue, but that's where similarities with previous M3s stop.
Not only is the name now different, but the M4 is expected to reach showrooms next year powered by a turbocharged straight-six engine with well over 400bhp. Force-feeding is very much a recurring theme not just at M GmbH, but at AMG and Quattro GmbH departments too.
Even though Munich is calling this a concept, we all know that the finished product will differ ever so slightly from what you see here. It was the same story with the M5 concept, and the M6, so go ahead and call this the 2014 M4 Coupe.
"For four generations, the BMW M3 has put motor racing on the road and the BMW Concept M4 Coupe consistently continues to pursue this fundamental idea," said Dr Friedrich Nitschke, president BMW M Division. "The new model designation 'M4' refers — like all other BMW M automobiles — to the series on which this concept car is based."
Motor racing on the road, you say? We expect this to be nothing short of brilliant.
The design is summarised with large air intakes, a low rear-end, carbon fibre reinforced plastic elements such as the front splitter, the roof and the rear diffuser flanked by those exhaust pipes.
The classic BMW face with double kidneys is nestled between classic twin round headlamps with LED elements, and the bonnet Power Dome at the top familiarly harking back to the E92 M3. Three air intakes in total supply the ravenous turbocharged engine with air, and together they are aesthetics and aerodynamic efficiency tangled into one.
Viewed from the side the new M4 concept rakes far forward, emphasising its low roofline
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Naturally the gills are fully functional and help cool the carbon ceramic brakes, hidden behind the exclusive 20in bicoloured M lightweight alloys with the now-traditional double spoke design.
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A fresh, authoritative interpretation of Russian politics by a leading authority, this textbook focuses on political developments in the world's largest country under Putin and Medvedev. Using Russian language sources, it covers economic, social and foreign policy, and the 'system' of politics that has developed in recent years. Opposing arguments are presented and students are encouraged to reach their own judgements on key events and issues such as privatisation and corruption. This textbook tackles timely topics such as gender and inequality issues; organised religion; krizis; and Russia's place in the international community. It uses numerous examples to place this powerful and richly-endowed country in context, with a focus on the place of ordinary people which shows how policy is translated to Russians' everyday lives.
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You and I both know that nobody would have ever predicted that the same dude who head-banged his way though "Bawitdaba" would later come out with a pro-social ballad called "Care." But Kid Rock has momentarily suspended his inner bad-ass and released a truly moving song that speaks on his commitment to helping those in need: "I can't stop the war/Shelter homeless/Feed the poor/I can't walk on water/I can't save your sons and daughters/Well, I can't change the world and make things fair/The least that I can do is care."
In the beautifully shot black-and-white video, Kid is pictured amongst those in need: a mother who can't feed her child, a homeless man without shelter, and a little one who needs some extra TLC. Angaleena Presley joins him as Kid Rock strums his guitar and the duo sing in harmony: "I pray for life's salvation/Faith is tried and true in tribulation." T.I.'s the last to join in and though he looks somber, he infuses his rhymes with positivity: "And your future way brighter than your present/Quit stressin'." At the end of the video, the serious mood turns lighter as those in need finally receive the help they deserve.
Not only can Kid Rock throw down in the vocal department, but he just might be the perfect dude — a total bad-ass on the outside, and big old pile of charitable mush on the inside.
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A man already charged with carrying out a home invasion burglary on Marla Drive in Ledyard in October 2011 was charged Thursday with a home invasion in Montville around the same time.
Vincent A. Sebastian III, 21, was charged with home invasion/robbery and threatening Thursday during a court appearance stemming from the Ledyard crime. Sebastian's alleged accomplices, Louis Seignious, 23, and Dawayne Sebastian, 20, have also been charged in both home invasions.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, the three men knocked on the apartment door at 52 Sunny Hill Drive in Montville on Oct. 3, 2011 at about 9 a.m. Kyle Dubicki, 18, who had slept on the couch after a night of video games and drinking, answered the door. One of the robbers held a knife to Dubicki's throat and demanded that he rouse a man sleeping in the bedroom, according to the affidavit. While the one man held Dubicki in a chokehold with the knife close to his neck, the other two men robbed the occupant, 24-year-old Joseph McCormick, according to the affidavit. The three men left the apartment saying they would return with a gun if police were called.
McCormick said the men forced him to open a safe and hand over $900 in cash. McCormick's 25-year-old housemate, Christopher Floyd, told police that he was asleep in his own bedroom during the incident.
Seignious, who eventually spoke with police about multiple crimes that had occurred in the region during the month of October 2011, said he and the Sebastians had taken 7½ ounces of marijuana and no cash during the Sunny Hill Drive robbery.
McCormick did not report the crime until the next day, according to the affidavit. He said that as he and Dubicki were leaving to report the crime, they saw one of the men from the robbery, later identified as Seignious, sitting in a green Pontiac in the parking lot of the apartment complex. Seignious lived at nearby 65 Sunny Hill Drive.
Seignious and the Sebastians are all being held in prison in connection with the Oct. 14, 2011, home invasion at 13 Marla Drive in Ledyard. State police said they entered the residence armed with handguns and robbed the victims of cash and jewelry.
Seignious, whose bonds total $753,000, cash or surety in the Marla Drive case, was arraigned on the new charges of home invasion and second-degree threatening when he appeared last month in New London Superior Court.
Judge Susan B. Handy set an additional bond of $25,000 and continued the case to Jan. 7.
Dawayne Sebastian, who was charged in October in the Sunny Hill Drive case, is being held in lieu of bonds totaling $500,000. Vincent Sebastian, whose bond is $825,000 for the Marla Drive incident and another robbery case, was held on an additional $150,000 bond in the Sunny Hill Drive case.
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A towering figure in the Spanish American world of letters, with specialties in colonial literature and Hispanic intellectual history, Professor Luis A. Arocena commanded respect as a scholar of immense erudition. His books, particularly in the colonial field, brought him international recognition. With these eminent qualifications Professor Arocena gave new dimensions to the study of Latin American Literature and Culture in the Spanish department at The University of Texas where he came in the fall of 1963.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 21, 1914, Professor Arocena spent some of his formative years on a ranch in the pampas, where he grew up in close touch with the gaucho world of Martín Fierro. Later his family moved to Buenos Aires where he attended school and took a degree in history at the Instituto Superior del Profesorado, 1937. In 1957 he earned a doctorate degree in history, summa cum laude, at the University of Madrid in Spain.
Luis Arocena embarked on his career as a university professor at the University of Buenos Aires. During the time of the Perón dictatorship in Argentina, he went into exile, first to Venezuela, where he taught at the University of Caracas (1946-1948), and then to the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan (1948-1958). He returned to the University of Buenos Aires where he served from 1958 to 1963. During the sixties he became one of the founding members of the prestigious University of Buenos Aires Press (Eudeba). In addition to his teaching at the University of Buenos Aires, he rose in the administration to the rank of chairman of the history department. While in Puerto Rico he had met and become friends with the Spanish scholar and professor Ricardo Gullón who, in 1963, was instrumental in bringing him to The University of Texas at Austin. Here Arocena served as professor of Spanish in what was then the Department of Romance Languages and now is the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. In 1989, after twenty-six years of service, he retired at age 75.
At UT Professor Arocena regularly taught an undergraduate course in Introduction to Spanish American Culture and Civilization and graduate seminars such as El Ensayo Latinoamericano, Las Crónicas Coloniales, Teoría de la Historiografía Indiana, and from Spain, Unamuno, but more often topics from Spanish America. Each graduate course was carefully planned and thoughtfully presented. He also served as graduate advisor for five years (1979-1984). Deeply interested in the welfare of the students, he undertook this task with his usual brio, dedication, and industriousness. His door was always open to students and colleagues for consultation or just a friendly chat.
Professor Arocena played a lively part during his years at The University of Texas. For example, he helped with the presentation of a week-long celebration held in February, 1967, honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of the renowned Latin American poet Rubén Darío, and in 1972 he organized a symposium celebrating the centennial of Argentinas famous 19th century poem, Martín Fierro. Thanks to Professor Arocena, a number of prestigious Argentine scholars attended this milestone gathering, for Luis Arocena had the uncommon quality of gathering people around him to learn, to talk, and to laugh. Testament to this is his colleagues and students continually bringing up his anecdotes and remembering his wisdom and wit.
Among his publications, the most significant is his book Antonio de Solís, cronista indiano; Estudio sobre las formas historiográficas del barroco (1963). He had presented an earlier version of his research on Solís as the subject of his doctoral dissertation. With this book Arocena cemented his fame in the River Platte area and throughout Latin America as a distinguished investigator of the 17th century, a crucial period in the history of Spain and the Americas, and very importantly, he contributed a fresh new reading of this chronicler. Interestingly, the last book Professor Arocena published in 1992 was Historia de la conquista de México, población y progresos de la América Septentrional, conocida con el nombre de Nueva España, a critical edition and monumental study complementing his earlier work on Solís y Ribadeneyra.
Other significant Arocena publications fall into the category of long essays or short books like El Inca Garcilaso y el humanismo renacentista (1949), El maquiavelismo de Maquiavelo (1975), El otro Maquiavelo (1980), and Unamuno, sentidor paradojal (1981). All of these studies are filled with Arocenas keen humor and vast erudition. El príncipe de Maquiavelo (1955), Las cartas privadas de Nicolás Maquiavelo (1979), and La relación de Pero Sancho (1986) are excellent critical editions. During his last years Professor Arocena was assiduously at work on another ambitious project to crown his scholarly achievements, a complete annotated edition of Bernal Díaz del Castillos renowned 16th century chronicle, La Verdadera Historia de la Conquista de la Nueva España. He left this mammoth volume to be finished posthumously by his student, Professor Angel Delgado.
Luis Arocena offered his last seminar in the spring of 1989. It was a monographic course devoted to the study and analysis of Martín Fierro. This "ultimo curso" was a tour de force, an undisputable event attended by present and past students and auditors.
Professor Luis A. Arocena died on April 16, 1993, after a long and valiant battle with cancer. Survivors at the time of his death included his widow, Amalia, who died in 1998, and five children: two in Buenos Aires, Luis Rodolfo and Inés, and three in the United States, Martín of Austin, Texas, Fernando and Amalia of Washington, D.C., ten grandchildren, and also many students in this country and abroad who carry on his work.
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This memorial resolution was prepared by a special committee consisting of Professors George Schade (chair), Enrique Fierro, and Yolanda Solé.
Distributed to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the Executive Vice President and Provost, and the President on December 16, 1999. Copies are available on request from the Office of the General Faculty, FAC 22, F9500. This resolution is posted under "Memorials" at: http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/ .


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Over five years at TIFF Bell Lightbox, the cinema museum space in Toronto, Cowan supervised a $5-million annual budget and a staff of 30. He learned how to lure moviegoers to first-run programming, and curated a number of exhibitions including Grace Kelly and visual artists Yang Fudong and Candice Breitz, as well as major retrospectives related to the history of Chinese cinema and the Indian superstar Raj Kapoor. He and Handling curated the David Cronenberg exhibit that recently closed at the Lightbox's HSBC Gallery at the Lightbox. Cowan was also responsible for a large educational portfolio, including the TIFF Cinematheque, the TIFF Kids International Film Festival, several student learning programs and large-scale collaborations between film and visual arts institutions around the world.
From 1997–2004 in New York, Cowan logged some real-world distribution experience at Cowboy Pictures, releasing international arthouse films, but returned to the Toronto Festival in 2004. In 2002, Cowan founded the Global Film Initiative, a nonprofit organization devoted to worldwide understanding through film. In partnership with the Museum of Modern Art, the foundation funded, acquired, created, and distributed educational material for socially meaningful cinema from the developing world. He moved over to the new TIFF Bell Lightbox in 2008.
Cowan joins the San Francisco Film Society—now in its 57th year—during a period of expansion in each of its three main program areas: exhibition, education and filmmaker services. The San Francisco International Film Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. Additional year-round exhibition programs include a Fall Season slate of specialized film series featuring the best work from France, Italy, Switzerland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the San Francisco Bay Area, and a range of public and members' screenings and events.
The SFFS Education department produces year-round media literacy programs to over 10,000 K–12 learners, in addition to college and university programs that introduce students to careers in filmmaking. SFFS recently celebrated the launch of FilmEd, a new online community and toolkit that provides curricula and media to facilitate classroom instruction and connects filmmakers and educators across the globe.
Filmmaker360, the Film Society's filmmaker services program, supports emerging independent filmmakers nationwide and oversees one of the largest film grant programs in the country, dispersing nearly $1 million annually to incubate and support innovative films and filmmakers. Recent Filmmaker360 success stories include recent festival hits such as Ira Sach's "Love is Strange," Kat Candler's "Hellion," Jesse Moss' "The Overnighters," Destin Cretton's "Short Term 12," Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station," and Zachary Heinzerling's Oscar-nominated "Cutie and the Boxer" as well as Benh Zeitlin's 2012 Best Picture nominee "Beasts of the Southern Wild."


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The Ohio Supreme court has thrown out Ohio's child enticement law, saying it's criminalizes innocent behavior. For Ohio Public Radio, WKSU's M.L. Schultze has more on today's decision, which puts the responsibility to rewrite the law on Ohio legislators.
The state high court said the law is unconstitutional because it prohibits "a significant amount of constitutionally protected activity."
The case began in 2010, when Jason Romage offered money to a child in his Columbus neighborhood to help him move boxes. He was charged, because Ohio law says – with the exception of police, firefighters or emergency squads – no one can solicit a child younger than 14 to accompany them "in any manner" without a parent's OK.
Both the trial and appeals courts threw the charges out, saying the law was too broad. But that conflicted with another appeals court decision, so the case went to the Supreme Court.
In the 5-2 decision, Justice Judith Lanzinger acknowledged that protecting children from sexual predators is "a paramount governmental interest." But she said the law is written in a way that could prohibit something as innocent as a senior citizen offering to pay a kid to mow the grass.


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You see: marriage is not the beginning and not even the real goal: it is more like the diploma you receive as you graduate. Marriage is for sure a stabilizing force but the real stabilizing power in a relationship has to do with skills. You can't avoid it.
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With Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, opening in IMAX this weekend (and on December 21st everywhere else), Paramount is going for broke with some new promotional materials including a new poster for the IMAX opening of the movie, as well as two new preview clips.
Ghost Protocol will see Tom Cruise return as Impossible Mission Force (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt, but, outside of Mission: Impossible III's Simon Pegg, Cruise will be working with an all-new crew of agents, including Paula Patton and Jeremy Renner. In an interview with ComingSoon, Renner described how his character Brandt gets involved with the IMF team.
Will Brandt, he's the chief analyst for the secretary of the IMF. That's a guy who's always been a voice. You never saw him. He's the guy who handed out the missions and that kind of stuff. Now you see him in this movie. He's Tom Wilkinson and I'm his right-hand man. That's when our characters meet Ethan Hunt. Things go awry and IMF is shut down. This desk jockey sort of buttoned-up analyst is thrown together in the mix with superspy Ethan Hunt and two other rogue agents. We're all rogue at this point. We have no IMF. We're all left alone. It's Ghost Protocol. So these characters are thrown together in this mixed up sort of character drama comedy that comes out of this mix. Then we slowly reveal that Brandt isn't exactly who he says he is or shows that he is. That's pretty attractive to me as a character. Brandt has secrets and allegiances that can go either way. Whether they're good or bad, I can't speak to it, but it left it pretty wide open to slowly reveal parts of this character as the movie went along. I feel like having that happen in a big action set piece like Mission: Impossible, that chance doesn't come along very often. I felt very blessed to have such an interesting role in that kind of world.
Cruise is definitely in "superspy" mode in this three-minute, extended first clip, which sees Ethan wordlessly track down an assailant during a sandstorm.
The second clip shifts focus to Cruise's stunt work on the Burj Khalifa tower, the world's tallest building, which was the early focus of the movie's promotional campaign, and the inspiration for the design of the IMAX poster. October saw the release of a featurette about Cruise's stunt, while subsequent trailers and TV spots focused on the sequence as well. The new clip explains why Cruise is forced to scale the building in the first place.


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Many students are back at school working hard and so are our Junior Journalists.
Logan Arnold, one of our Junior Journalists spent the day learning how to nominate a teacher for Our Teacher is Tops.
He sat down with Executive Producer, Kari Buckindail to find out everything you need to know about nominating your teacher.
She says the My Teacher is Tops program helps students in Central Georgia thank their teachers for how much they do in the classroom.
So how do you nominate your favorite teacher? "You send us a letter and it needs to be a one page hand written letter that tells us how great that teacher is why you like that teacher." says Buckindail.
The letter need to include the name of your teacher, the school he or she teaches at and what grade they teach.
Buckindail says they look for letters that "stand out," and it must be neatly written. "We want it to be in a child's handwriting that way we know the child wrote it and not his or her parent, neatness counts of course and we do look at grammar. We don't want it to be text speak. We want the words spelled out." says Buckindail.
"After we choose the letter, we call the principal, says Buckindail, "It is a great big secret we don't want word to get out do the only people we tell is the principal or the assistant principal and the junior journalist."
She says we try to keep the winning teacher a secret so we can catch their surprise on camera.
Any student in Central Georgia can nominate their teacher for my Teacher is Tops from pre-k all the way up through college.
Just because we don't use your letter the week, we receive it doesn't mean it won't be selected. We keep the letters throughout the school year and consider them all each week.
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Virgie Mae "Shockley" Everhart, age 79, passed away suddenly at her residence. She was a member of Sunrise Baptist Church. She is preceded in death by her husband A.T. Everhart, daughter Caroline Shockley, mother and father Callie and Katie Helton, brothers Martin and L.B. Helton, sister Cleo Glasscock.
Survivors include her son, Charles Shockley or Bulls Gap, grandchildren, Traci and Lee Tackett and Michelle Shockley. great grandchildren, Brittany, Michael Bell and Jesse Tackett, Niece, Lynda Williams, step children, Arnold and Gayle Everhart of Texas, Jeanette Stover of Colorado, Arlene Cooper of Washington, step grandchildren, Bridgett Hardin, Michelle Welch, Nicole Cooper.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, July 12, 2010 at 8 p.m. in the chapel of Bulls Gap Funeral Home with the Rev. Johnny Shipley officiating. Family and friends will meet at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday in Philippi Cemetery for a 10:00 a.m. graveside service. Pallbearers include: Lee Tackett, Stephen Williams, Tony Park, Randy Everhart, Lash Williams and Junior Johnson, honorary pallbearers include Steve Harmon and Randy Williams. The family will receive friends from 6- 8:00 p.m. on Monday prior to the services. Bulls Gap Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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It's that time of the year for newspapers to hand out their endorsements of political candidates.
What do you think of this practice from newspapers? Does it really mean anything to you when you go into the voting booth? Do you think it is appropriate for an organization tasked with reporting on politicians to offer such endorsements? Do you think a newspaper endorsement shows a political bias?
Here's one thing I learned about newspaper endorsements as I pondered the above questions. The two biggest newspapers in the country, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, do not endorse candidates.


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