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With school back in session and the Saddledome nearing the completion of rebuilding from all that flood damage, hockey season is upon us.
The Calgary Flames will have 24 young 'uns reporting for medical testing Wednesday and then head to Penticton, B.C., for the Young Stars Tournament for games against hopefuls from the Edmonton Oilers, Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks.
Last season saw the bulk of the teardown take place, with players such as Jarome Iginla, Jay Bouwmeester, Alex Tanguay, Cory Sarich and likely Miikka Kiprusoff having played their last games for the club.
This season is the first true steps in the rebuild. All kinds of youngsters are not only expected to push for big-league ice time but take bigger roles as the campaign progresses — especially when more veterans are moved, be it before the trade deadline or come next summer.
The Flames NHL roster will include some players who will head to sunny B.C., so rookie camp this season actually has meaning for the first time in many years.
Here's a look at 26 players who will be lacing up for the Flames this week — first the Top 10 to eye, then the rest of the rookies.
LW Sven Baertschi
The 2011 first-round draft choice had a tough start to his first pro season, but that didn't work out as planned. Baertschi struggled to the point he needed more time in the minors, and it helped when he returned. He was much better and ended the season with a seven-game point streak in which he netted three goals and six assists. He'll be expected at the Young Stars Tournament to produce offence as much as be a leader.
C Markus Granlund
One of two second-round picks in '11, the 20-year-old centre made big strides last season with HIFK Helsinki in Finland's top league, and was strong during the summer prospects camp in July. Granlund, who must add size and strength, will have a tough time making the Flames roster, and would return to Finland for the year if he's not on the big-league roster. This is a big chance for him to show his skill.
C Josh Jooris
Jooris was signed as a free-agent following the summer prospects camp and coerced to forgo his senior season at Union College after collecting 12 goals and 46 points in 39 games. The 23-year-old centre/right winger signed a two-year entry-level contract and likely will spend the season in the minors, but the club expects him to push to be a part of the Flames as early as this season.
C Corban Knight
The High River product, drafted in '09 by the Florida Panthers, was acquired for a fourth-round draft choice after he completed his fourth year at the University of North Dakota. Knight, who'll turn 23 on Sept. 10, will be expected to push for the fourth-line centre spot in Calgary with his agitating game and ability to win faceoffs.
C Sean Monahan
The sixth-overall pick of the '13 draft, Monahan will be in the spotlight through rookie camp into main camp and expected to push for a spot on the Flames roster. If Monahan can't cut it in the NHL this season, a final year of junior won't hurt him. But if he's good enough to make the bigs, he'll stay for a Flames team that must give fans reason to cheer.
LW Emile Poirier
The second of three first-round picks — Morgan Klimchuk is the third — the speedy winger is likely headed to a third season with Gatineau of the QMJHL and expected to build on a 32-goal season. His future will be closely compared in this city with local lad Hunter Shinkaruk, who was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks.
D Ryan Culkin
After a very strong season with the QMJHL Quebec Remparts — five goals and 45 points in 67 games — Culkin arrived for the summer prospects camp and showed big improve-ments in a couple of key areas. The '12 fifth-round draft choice showed a much-improved level of play and also added some much-needed muscle.
D Patrick Sieloff
A hard-hitting defenceman along the lines of Denis Gauthier, Sieloff was signed to an entry-level contract, but is expected to return the OHL's Windsor Spitfires for another year and skate for the U.S. world junior team. The second-round pick of '12 could set a tone for his future in the NHL by crashing and bashing.
n D Tyler Wotherspoon
A first-year pro after four very successful seasons with the WHL's Portland Winterhawks, Wotherspoon will need some time in the minors to learn the ropes at the next level. Don't be shocked, though, if he gets some NHL action if a couple of injuries hit the Flames. This is a chance to stake his spot among the youngsters.
G Joni Ortio
The first chance to try the AHL a couple years ago didn't go smoothly, so the '09 draft choice returned home to Finland to finish the 2011-12 season. Ortio, 22, was the No. 1 goalie for HIFK Helsinki last season and will battle with Laurent Brossoit for a spot with the AHL Abbotsford Heat. This is Year 3 of his entry-level contract.
LW Turner Elson
Had a strong over-age season as captain of the WHL's Red Deer Rebels (26 goals, 57 points in 64 games), but now must show he can have an impact at the pro level.
LW Michael Ferland
So much potential, but appeared to take a step back last year, starting in Abbotsford and then working down to the WHL. First step to getting on track will be a strong tournament.
LW Coda Gordon
A 30-goal 2011-12 season was followed by a 17-goal campaign last season. The Cochrane product must bounce back and regain scoring touch.
RW Ben Hanowski
One of the players acquired in the Jarome Iginla trade, the big winger slimmed down over the summer to increase his foot speed. Hanowski will compete for an NHL job.
LW Ryan Howse
The WHL scoring star has not shown any touch in the minors, and been criticized for sub-standard fitness. This year could be his last chance to be on the team's radar.
LW Morgan Klimchuk
The third of Calgary's three first-round picks this year, 28th overall, the local product will likely return to junior and develop his scoring touch.
C Linden Penner
A 6-foot-3, 220-lb., AJHL player last season expected to skate for the WHL's Everett Silvertips, scored an invite from a strong summer camp.
C Max Reinhart
The 2010 third-round pick had a slow start to his season in the minors, but earned a late-season summons to Calgary. Will battle for a fourth-line role with the Flames.
C Dylan Smoskowitz
Scored 33 goals and 55 points in 62 OHL games for Mississauga, and invited to the rookie camp after going undrafted for a second year.
RW Andy Taranto
Another free-agent invitee, Taranto, 25, finished his college career with 30 points in 37 games for University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
D Zach Davies
Spent four years at Quinnipiac University, a college career which ended with a loss to Yale in the NCAA title game. Was ECAC Defensive Defenceman of the year.
D Keegan Kanzig
Hulking defenceman drafted in the third round this year is tagged for another junior year in Victoria, but this is a chance to show he's more than just a big blueliner.
D Brett Kulak
One of the lone bright lights for the WHL's Vancouver Giants last season, the '13 fourth-round pick skated in four AHL games last season.
D John Ramage
A first-year pro after four seasons at the University of Wisconsin. The 22-year-old son of former Flames defenceman Rob Ramage twice played at the world juniors.
D Eric Roy
Rangy defenceman who will return to the WHL for the Brandon Wheat Kings is a good skater but must work on his defensive game and add size. Netted 17 goals last season.
G Laurent Brossoit
Since being drafted in the sixth round in '11, Brossoit has put up outstanding numbers for the WHL's Edmonton Oil Kings, including a run to the '12 title. Now, he must prove he can do it as a pro.
Flames schedule
Wednesday, Sept. 4: Rookies report for testing. University of Calgary
Thursday, Sept. 5: Prospects game vs. Edmonton Oilers. Penticton, B.C.
Friday, Sept. 6: Prospects game vs. Vancouver Canucks, Penticton, B.C.
Saturday, Sept. 7: Practice. Penticton, B.C.
Sunday, Sept. 8: Prospects game vs. San Jose Sharks, Penticton, B.C.
Monday, Sept. 9: Practice, 11 a.m.; Game vs. U of C, 7 p.m. Winsport
Tuesday, Sept. 10: Practice, 11:10 a.m., Winsport
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Earlier this week, Waka Flocka Flame released his highly anticipated Triple F Life: Friends, Fans and Family, and while some critics applaud his energy, others continue critique his lack of lyrical creativity. Now, in a recent interview with Fader, the Brick Squad Monopoly rapper responds to critics' complaints about his raps.
Flocka explained that he fully well realizes that many listeners find fault in his simplistic wordplay, so much so that he even joked that "Lord knows Waka can't rap," but he maintains he doesn't care. He said that his music is more about energy and emotion rather than traditional rhymes and lyrics. He added that he's always had difficulty expressing himself even in his youth, but that his music has been a means to channel his feelings without having to verbalize them.
"People say, 'You don't have lyrics,' so I'm just like, 'Lord knows Waka can't rap'...I'm being sarcastic...throw it in their faces. I really don't have an answer for them. I'm doing Waka's music. My music is different. It don't sound like a typical rapper's music...sometimes I'll go two weeks and won't record shit, cause I don't feel it. But another week I might go do 10-12 songs."
He continued, "It's a mood. If you're happy as shit you can just rap about whatever cause you're happy as shit. The best times for me to rap are when I'm happy and mad. When I'm depressed and shit, I don't too much like rapping. When I'm happy and mad, I love it. Sometimes I verbally release my stress and it backfires on me, because sometimes I don't express how I really feel. Since I was young it's been hard to express how I feel, I really don't like talking about problems. But now, I don't have to deal with ultimate lame shit. I made my mark, so I can be around what I want to be around."
RELATED: Waka Flocka Flame Says Rick Ross "Watered Down" His Sound

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The Milo Story
Milo Gallery opened at 6130 Wilshire Blvd. in September of 2006. For the next 2 years, we showed only the most thoughtful, compelling and beautifully executed work by an exceptional group of contemporary emerging artists. In July of 2008, we closed the door to the gallery and went private.
KC in LA - Flavorpill LA, April 2008
Max Miceli - Los Angeles Times, March 2008
Max Miceli - Flavorpill LA, March 2008
David Touster - Flavorpill LA, February 2008
Helen Gullstrom - Space, December 2007
Amy Bird - New American Paintings, No. 73, Dec/Jan 2007
Amy Bird - Open City, No. 24, Winter 2007/2008
Brian Mallman - Artweek, December 2007
Joan Tucker - Flavorpill LA, 2007
Brian Mallman - ArtScene, November 2007
Anniversary exhibition - Flavorpill Fall Art Guide 2007
Jill Sykes and Michelle Stitz - Coagula Art Journal, August, 2007
Jill Sykes and Michelle Stitz - ArtScene, August, 2007
Jennifer Martin - Jewish Journal, April 20, 2007
Dean Styers - Flavorpill LA, May 2007
Steve Gorman - Around the Galleries, LA Times, March, 2007
Amy Bird - ArtForum.com, January 2007
JC Jaress - ArtLtdMag.com, April 2007
Mark Schultz - September 2006
Past Shows:
ArtScene, July/August 2007
If the expression, "you can't tell the forest from the trees" posits that an overly generalized formulation of an experience obscures, if not annihilates, its detailed and nuanced meanings, then Jill Sykes' and Michelle Stitz's painting of flowers, forests and trees arrives in the nick of time to save the day. After all, nature loves to repeat itself in fractal-like, obsessive patterns. By contrast, art celebrates the uniqueness of forms that can only flow from the limitless font of human imagination.
Sykes executes her botanical paintings, that hover between figuration and abstraction, in tastefully muted earth tones, while Stitz's oil-in-resin paintings present forests and flowers in their full mythical, dream-like and mystical splendor.
Though Sykes paints her petals and leaves opaquely, they nevertheless metaphorically express both boldness and vulnerability (i. e. the courage to be delicate). What's more, these forms, and her branches and stems, become the building blocks these works cum abstract compositions, where the negative spaces betwixt and between the solid objects form intricate and alluring geometric shapes, which the artist treats with an equal amount of painterly loving care.
Think of Cezanne's insights into nature's (and art's) underlying architectonic structural geometry meeting Matisse's ecstatic delight in life's freedom and lyrical flow, and you'll gain some insight into Sykes' considerable gifts, presented without an ounce of pretence in this show.
Poet Robert Bly has written that a forest casts a primordial aura, and that those who enter often become silent, as if listening to a supra-human type of music. Stitz's oil embedded in resin paintings of a forest, which occupy one gallery wall (paintings of flowers and leaves take up another) have this same effect. In fact Stitz composes her forest out of several individual paintings of various sizes, which she groups into clusters on the wall, perhaps to simulate the way trees often grown in contained groups in the woods. In an artist's statement, Stitz describes this forest as a place she once visited and one to which she longs to return.
She also acknowledges their dream-like quality, and their allusion to Carl Jung's theory of the Collective Unconscious, which states that at its depth, the psyche of people, even those historical who lived in cultures that had little or no contact with one another, produce virtually identical dream and/or art images. Likewise, the density and texture of these paintings create the illusions of pulsing, breathing three-dimensional corridors, which invite viewers to wander in, perhaps in search of adventure or their souls. Stitz augments the sensation of her work's psychological weight and depth (or perhaps counter-balances it) by enclosing each painting within a rather heavy, a one-and-a-half-inch thick solid steel boarder.
Stitz's paintings of flowers and leaves occupy a relaxed and ethereal space, as do Sykes'. However, whereas Sykes presents her foliage for the most part naturally, that is to say, configured with the familiar look of leaves on actual branches and/or stems, Stitz's splays hers loosely across her picture plane, so that the leaves and petals resemble those blown by the wind, or perceived in a dream, where they may, as they appear in some of these works, transform themselves into fish swimming in an aquarium. Let's see Mother Nature do that!
Jewish Journal, 7 Days in the Arts, April 20, 2007
In Milo Gallery's exhibition, "Perfect Illusion," British artist Jennifer Martin dissects glossy magazine images, layering paint as she retains some portions of these photographs and abandons others. Her goal is to move away from the facade of perfection toward reality. Martin is a finalist in England's Ben Uri Third International Jewish Artists of the Year Awards.
Flavorpill LA, May 2007, Issue 221
When you're being paid to produce gift portraits for the cast of Oceans Twelve, it's safe to say you've hit your stride. Hot off that special commission, painter Dean Styers tweaks his Barbra Kruger-meets-Lichtenstein angle tonight, moving away from the rainbow in a new, grayscale-only collection. (AT)
ArtForum.com, January 2007
Painter Amy Bird's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles features three bodies of work, each influenced by graphic design and sporting a pastel, natural-tone palette. The smooth brushwork, crisp figurative contours, and fluid gradients in these paintings recall the oneiric, horizonless landscapes of Yves Tanguy. Seven blue or green monochromatic paintings in the first room emulate overexposed photographs in which detail is blown out, leaving only the flat silhouettes of figures in landscapes. In Surfers #1, 2004, surfers and beach goers, some of the inordinate number of locals who mysteriously don't need day jobs, bask in Southern California's endless summer. Though aesthetically congruous with Surfers #1, paintings like Strawberry Pickers #3, 2005, feature another iconic yet much less idyllic figure from the regional landscape: the day laborer. In Strawberry Pickers #6, 2005, contours of migrant workers bent over in the field gracefully (if somewhat academically) evoke Jean-Francois Millet's The Gleaners, 1857. The perverse dichotomy of the Los Angeles population runs counter to Bird's consistent aesthetic, and class divisions are amplified through the juxtaposition of leisure and labor classes. A hunched-over figure combing for shells in the sand parallels one hunched over while picking strawberries. The back room of the gallery features seven paintings of tents in a forest. Inspired by the summer-camp ambience of Bird's alma mater, the Thatcher School in Ojai, these paintings are equally meticulous in their design and present a Jorge Pardo�meets�John Muir impression of the transcendental woods. The darker palette and conspicuous absence of figures positions these works as a contemplative space of reprieve from the city�or the crop field�in which to consider the how and why of daily life and one's relationship to the environment.
�Micol Hebron
Flavorpill LA (http://la.flavorpill.net), January 2007
In Amy Bird's paintings, silhouettes of surfers and farm workers melt into common natural surroundings, ebbing and flowing in human waves along the California coast in search of endless summer and an end to poverty.
Flavorpill LA (http://la.flavorpill.net), December 2006
JC Jaress paints pictures of bodies, foodstuffs, and architectural elements using thick pigments and close cropping for added surrealism. His visual sampler of the everyday is like the sexiest TV dinner you've ever eaten.
ArtLtdMag.com, April 2007
JC Jaress
JC Jaress likes to contemplate the overload of contemporary life. His paintings are multi-image meditations on the amount of visual information we receive on a daily basis�and, more importantly, what goes on underneath the surface of our visceral reception of this iconography.
"We ourselves are a bunch of parts," says the artist. "We're not whole, we have a number of faces and roles, a bunch of parts to play. You wake up, barely, and you're bombarded with images, and we think we're not responding but we are. It's informing us. All the time."
While We Weren't Watching (2002) is a typical series of juxtapositions: a man points a gun, a salacious close-up of a woman's body, an equally detailed rendition of a TV dinner all vie within the picture frame. While the effect on the eye is one that evokes a kind of automatic consciousness�a visual equivalent, say, of William Burroughs' �cut-up' writing style�Jaress is careful to marshal his sources so that they relate in specific ways beyond arbitrary automatism. For one thing, just about every person in the series has their identity subsumed: either by judicious cropping, hidden by their own hand, facing away from the viewer, or backlit by an eradicating sunlight.
In evoking overload, Jaress' obvious references are television and film. Born in 1963, he readily acknowledges the influence of growing up as a viewer. The scenes in his paintings often evoke a sense of nostalgia: the men are private detectives, the women cheesecake, the cameras and paraphernalia redolent of a pre-digital age.
"The paintings are definitely hyper... pushed a little. It's all Kodacolor. If the source is blue, then I push it to turquoise."
In some cases he produces static equivalents of a crash edit or overlay�similarly composed images framed in close proximity that cause a kinetic disjunction. Given the big screen conjunction, it's not surprising that violence and sex are evident in his work, either specifically or by implication in his objectification of flesh and consumer products next to one another. Elevated perspectives shift radically from one segment of a painting to another, further causing disorientation.
"The paintings are intended to be aggressive, but I also want to work towards another reading. For example, you look at an advert for jeans in Vanity Fair, and the model is naked. It's not logical, but we see it on the page and get it."
Jaress aims for a simulacruma of the meta-language of dominant pop culture, and each painting purposefully confounds the viewer to fill in the gaps�spatial or chronological�between his �scenes.' Meaning remains elusive, however, despite thematic clues left tantalizingly close to the surface of the paint.
"At a recent opening someone came up to me and talked about what a painting meant to them, their reading, but they had no idea how autobiographical it was to me," said Jaress. "You paint a clown and one person loves it. Another is scared. In some ways people who have met for the first time have a much more common language than people in a long-term relationship, because we assume commonality in order to communicate. It's when we think we know each other that misunderstandings start."
JC Jaress' work is available at:
Milo Gallery, Los Angeles, (323) 935-3662
McLean Fine Art, South Pasadena, (626) 799-1369
by Bimon Herbert
Flavorpill LA (http://la.flavorpill.net), September 2006
Mixed-media artist Mark Schultz turns everything you thought you knew about collage on its head in this exhibition of remarkable OCD-noir images. Taking on everything from landscape vistas to blonde bombshells made entirely out of tiny pieces of paper, he wields his glue gun like a paint brush. Schultz's compositions offer more than just intriguing narratives; they have all the sensuality, visual dexterity, and physical presence of oil paintings. Of course, as the convoluted, obsessive process of their creation becomes clear, Schultz seems less like a lyrical poet and more like a mad scientist.
Coagula Art Journal, Monday, July 2, 2007
The LowDown on High Art
The Zen of Nature or Nature as Meditation
In "VERDURE," MODERN BOTANICALS ON CANVAS AND RESIN, AT MILO GALLERY, both Jill Sykes and Michelle Stitz use nature as both a metaphor and a meditation. Jill Sykes' sensuous oil paintings on canvas of bamboo stalks and leaves strongly emphasize the negative shapes, with background and foreground continually shifting and equivocating. These images - which hover between abstraction and figuration - play with one's perception of reality. At first the images seem clearly to be a rendering of physical, solid and concrete stalks, leaves or branches. However, the longer and more intensely one looks, the more the stalks and leaves start to recede and the background jumps forward. This begs the question - Are our eyes deceiving us? Are we really seeing the shadow of the plant on a solid wall, or floor and not the actual object itself? It is at this point, that I begin to think of the analogy of Plato's cave and his rumination on the true perception of reality. How does Sykes create this conundrum?
As a consummate painter, Sykes creates luscious and juicy almost expressionistic surfaces. What looks like a solid color from afar is in actuality subtle variations scumbled lightly together. While each stalk or leaf has a vibrating edge (not unlike Wayne Thiebaud) either due to the underpainting bleeding through or intentional outlining with a vibrant red, violet or pink, the interior of the leaf is often rendered in a gauzy, greyed color. This creates a push-pull effect, as one is drawn to the graphic often hard edge of the object and then alternately fixates on the negative shape. Sykes has stated that she likes to focus on what she calls the "random patterning" inherent in plant life, which creates a rippling rhythm across the canvas. In "Joss" (2007, oil on canvas, 16 X 16"), "Big Joss I" (2007, 30 X 36"), and "Big Joss II" (2007, oil on canvas, 30 X 36") Sykes' tightly cropped images of bamboo stalks dramatically dissect the picture plane of each painting, creating bold and elegant images that are reminiscent of the late nineteenth century Art Nouveau style. The evanescent gold negative space in all three paintings is as sensuously painted as the stalks and gives the illusion of light emanating forth, as in stained glass. The stained glass quality is heightened by Sykes as she outlines the negative space with a contrasting color, which accentuates the flatness of the picture plane.
In the small scale painting entitled "Mr. Eliot" (2007, oil on canvas, 18 X 24"), light appears like dappled sunlight on still water peeking through the tiny cluster of leaves. The indistinct blue-gray shape of the leaves is ringed by an unexpectedly delicate pink line. Intimate and elegant, this shimmering image radiates both heat and light, and smacks of a sizzling summer day.
"Aire Libre" (2007, oil on canvas, 48 x 36") is quintessential Sykes with its bold, calligraphic grey-violet leaves in silhouette, against a warmer salmony-yellow background. Like all of Sykes' dreamy, gossamer "botanicals," this is filled with painted veils of color, delicate brush strokes with an emphasis on a glowing surface, which is highly varnished. Sykes, in her statement says "Though draftsmanship is a hallmark of my work, I think of myself as a colorist and take supreme pleasure in the subtle relationships of contrasting pigment."
Michele Stitz, a native of Northern California, embeds hints of foliage - delicately drawn with oil - in layers of resin. Parts of recognizable and occasionally, unrecognizable shapes struggle to the surface of the resin, to be seen or barely comprehended, like a dream half-remembered upon waking.
Stitz's landscapes of the mind evoke the four seasons both literally and figuratively. "Acacia" (2007, oil in resin, 18 x 18") is all rusts and pink like autumn leaves, with a tree drawn with childlike simplicity. This is landscape re-imagined, reinvented as dream reverie. It is paradoxically stark, with a hint of only one tree and yet incredibly rich with its delicate translucent washes of gauzy pinks, siennas and creams. In "Es Muss Sein I and II" (2007, oil in resin, 22 � x 48 1/4") which translates from the German as "It must be," the mood changes dramatically. These two resolutely horizontal and densely murky images are reminiscent of Chinese scrolls, and recall a harsher nature, devoid of color. Highly abstracted with just the merest trace of a branch lying on the "ground," these two elegant and brooding paintings are among the most powerful. In the "Forest Series," Stitz groups fourteen resin-with-encaustic paintings of various sizes (the smallest measure a scant 4 X 9" and the largest measures 21 X 28") to create a virtual wintry forest, denuded of leaves, and filled with mist. This is the most cinematic piece, suggesting different views of the same forest, ranging from close-ups to long shots. Bleak and mysterious, this grouping is an image in search of a narrative (though it does remind of that episode of The Sorpranos when Christopher and Paulie are stumbling around lost in the New Jersey forest).
In the last series, all 10 X 10" square, Stitz conjures up the rejuvenating power of spring. These six intimate oil on resin paintings, replete with bird, and flower forms are the most colorful and literal of all the images. It brings us back to that original Garden of Eden, when all is right with the world. The welded, metal frames that hem in the images only reinforce the idea of them as figments of the imagination. Stitz's ephemeral landscapes evoke memory and time passing as each translucent layer of resin both reveals and conceals what has gone before. Less a rumination on nature or on the transience of beauty, these delicate works are a metaphor for growth, change and the inevitability of change. Both Jill Sykes and Michelle Stitz have unique and strangely similar approaches to nature. Both combine the concrete and the ephemeral, evoking a state of mind as much as a particular place. Nature is the catalyst for their elegant, moody and distinctly original works which reward repeated viewings. As Albert Einstein, arguably the most famous physicist has said "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
Nancy Kay Turner
Pasadena, CA
Flavorpill's Back-to-School Gallery-Opening Guide
School's back in session, but there's something far more frenzied than the first day of freshman year afoot. In the next two weeks, things kick into overdrive as just about every gallery in town breaks out the bubbly in celebration of a new exhibition. But no worries: we've filtered out the fluff, winnowing down the massive list of worthy art openings to our 35 favorites. So breathe, baby, then get on out there: after all, that amazing art ain't gonna appreciate itself.
Group Show @ Milo Gallery Opening: Sat 9.8
The Milo Gallery celebrates its first anniversary with a show of new work by a diverse group whose takes on nature, pop culture, storytelling, and mystery helped make this new kid on the block a local favorite right from the start.
Continuing and Recommended Exhibitions
November, 2007
Brian Mallman's "Drawings" are simply and plainly comprised of graphite markings on mostly unvarnished wood panels. Just a few contour lines, a shaded surface, some scumbled patches; however direct his medium, he uses the relative neutrality of this approach to optimal results in his interpretations of "business" men. These "suits" interact in groups and are mainly sitting in portraiture pose. Although the attire depicted immediately situates these portraits in professional and political situations, the figures themselves are distorted in comical ways. Bodies are pushed together into flattened biomorphic blobs, multiple eyes are at once wistful and menacing, smiles congeal into frozen grotesque masks: something is amiss here. Mallman draws your attention on their postures, gestures and expressions to reveal how power transforms the user from within. Rather than point his finger from a distance at the obviousness of power plays and corruption, Mallman finds a strain of piety which retains a tone of optimism even as he warns of the dangers of hubris (Milo Gallery, West Hollywood).
Brian Mallman, "Meetings 3,"
2007, graphite on board, 4' x 4'.
The Time Is Always Now
Sat Nov 17 - Sat Dec 15 (Tue-Sat: 11am-5pm)
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism, this Detroit-born, LA-based painter's work is all her own. Beneath the slashes and blocks of textural paint lie Tucker's clear, individual ideas. A testament to the subconscious flow of the creative process, the paintings transform everyday inspirations into absorbing, chaotic compositions.
� Ashley Tibbits
Joan Tucker
"Under Certain Conditions"


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Staff Report
Published Dec. 21, 2012
A portion of the former auto dealership at 320 Greystone Blvd. in Columbia has been sold for around $1.27 million.
The purchaser, Enterprise Leasing Co., acquired a 1.78-acre portion of the former Stivers Lincoln-Mercury dealership, which included a 7,500-square-foot building.
NAI Avant brokers Ben Kelly and Patrick Chambers represented the seller and Paul Hartley represented the purchaser in the transaction.
Currently, 4.02 acres is still available for purchase.
Separately, NAI Avant broker Cam Kreps recently represented the purchaser in the acquisition of about 20 acres with improvements located at the intersection of Farrow and Hardscrabble roads in northeast Columbia.
The property, 121 Highland Center Drive, sold for $1.12 million. The name of the purchaser was not disclosed.
Meanwhile, Grubb & Ellis Wilson Kibler handled the recent sale of 1402 Atlas Road, Columbia. George McCutchen represented the seller, 1400 Atlas Properties LLC, in the sale of 55,000 square feet of industrial and office space to the buyer, Eat More Trees.


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A convicted sex offender who authorities say failed to update his sex offender registration was arrested Thursday in Exeter.
Dwayne Chris Parker, 42, was convicted in 2000 of third-degree rape in New York, a conviction that required him to register as a sex offender. Parker's most recent registered address was in Scranton.
State police obtained an arrest warrant for Parker on March 3 after they learned he was no longer living at his Scranton address, authorities said. On Thursday, the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force spotted Parker leaving a residence in the Birchwood Estates in Exeter. He was arrested without incident, authorities said.
The marshals service worked jointly in the investigation with personnel from the Scranton Police Department, Pennsylvania State Board of Probation and Parole, and the state police.
"These are high priority cases and we are committed to working with our law enforcement partners to ensure that registered sex offenders comply with the law," U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane said. "We owe this to our communities."
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Wusthof Ikon Blackwood - 4 1/2" Steak Knife - 4988
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I have a 1983 Raleigh Olympian (502 Raleigh Tubing = 4130 Standard Chromo)
I now also have a 1982 Team Fuji frame (331 Reynolds Chromo) that I got for free.
I use my Olympian (Lou, after the Guitar Hero boss), for everything: commuting, exploring, weekend 40m-65m adventures, mountain climbing, and planning on some Touring around California or Japan in the near future. I know the bike is built as a touring/racing hybrid, and I should not have touring structural problems. I use the durable stock 27 ARAYA wheels that came with the bike.
(not what I have, but what the stock build looks like)
The Fuji my fiance bought on eBay for $20, and decided to gift to me instead of building it up herself. We looked at the 1982 catalog and it seems that there is not much difference between the 1982 Fuji America (their touring model), and their Team Fuji, other than components. It looks like the fork is Chromo on the Fuji made for touring, but my Olympian does not have one either, so im not worried.
Are my fiance and I right to conclude that a 1982 Team Fuji is a touring frame?
If it is a touring frame is it a better touring frame than the 1983 Olympian?
-on a site note for those of you looking for something entertaining in this thread: I found a sealed Phil Woods bottom bracket cartrige and cups when I took the frame apart today. So its already paid for itself, on top of being possibly better than my main ride.


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Prior to law school, Mr. Cooper worked as an engineer for the State of New York and later for a joint venture of Air Products and Chemicals and Browning Ferris Industries called American Ref-Fuel Company, which generated energy from refuse and was involved in related business activities. After graduating from law school, Mr. Cooper served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joanna Seybert, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
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With political and economic concerns piling up, the Euro is certainly feeling the pressure today. After beginning the European session locked in a bearish relationship with the Pound, the common currency posted additional declines as Italy's potential political collapse and disappointing domestic data took a toll.
The Euro to Pound Sterling Exchange Rate is currently trading in the region of 0.8360 as of 11:30 GMT
After Silvio Berlusconi, one of the most controversial figures in the political world, attempted to force snap elections by engineering the resignation of five ministers, fears that Italy's already fragile government would peel apart climbed.
However, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta is determined to hold his nation together, and intends to build a new parliamentary majority with a confidence vote on October 2nd.
As the Eurozone's third largest economy is already struggling economically, this kind of issue cranks up the weighty pressure Italy has spent years trying to dislodge.
According to analyst Fabio Fois; 'Protracted political impasse along with any delays in the formation of the grand coalition in Germany do not bode well for swift Eurozone policy decisions.'
Similarly, currency strategist Richard Franulovich observed; 'Fresh elections thus may be inevitable, a potentially very toxic development for markets given the space it would create for anti-Euro, anti-austerity sentiment to rise yet further. Neither the Euro nor the US Dollar have much going for them this week'.
The looming deadline for the US budget negotiations also lessened the appeal of higher-risk assets overnight as the prospect of a federal shutdown spooked investors.
The EUR/GBP Exchange Rate hit a low of 0.8326
While Italian political developments are the main driver of Euro movement today, disappointing German retail sales figures also weighed on the common currency early into the European session.
Seasonally adjusted sales for the Eurozone's largest economy advanced by 0.5 per cent in August, month-on-month. Although the result was a significant improvement on the previous month's 0.2 per cent decline, it was well below economist estimates for a gain of 0.8 per cent.
And yet more pressure piled on the Euro as a report showed that inflation in the Eurozone fell even further below target, hitting a three and a half year low of 1.1 per cent in September.
Consumer prices were down from 1.3 per cent the previous month and below the 1.2 per cent level expected by economists.
Although the result is significantly below the European Central Bank's close-to 2 per cent target, economist Christoph Weil stated; 'We see no inflation risks. There is no reason for the European Central Bank to act on inflation. It can stay with its expansionary policy.'
The dip was largely caused by declining energy prices, although the climb in food costs also slowed markedly.
Other Eurozone data to look out for this week includes German and Eurozone employment figures, Eurozone manufacturing/construction and services PMI, the Eurozone's retail sales report and German producer prices.
The ECB rate decision, taking place on Thursday, will also be of particular interest.
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The Euro/Pound Sterling Exchange Rate is currently in the region of: 0.8360 <
The Euro/Australian Dollar Exchange Rate is currently in the region of: 1.4462 <
The Euro/ New Zealand Dollar Exchange Rate is currently in the region of: 1.6340 >
The US Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate is currently in the region of: 0.7405 <
The Pound Sterling /Euro Exchange Rate is currently in the region of: 1.1964 >
The Australian Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate is currently in the region of: 0.6909 >
The New Zealand Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate is currently in the region of: 0.6126 <
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First Canadian ski jumper to advance past qualifying round at Olympic Winter Games … Has competed in two WC … Set Canadian record in 2006 … First Canadian since 1991 to receive points toward world ranking … National champion six consecutive years.
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2009-10: Finished 41st and 49th in World Cups … Finished 14th in HS140 and 17th in HS109 at Continental Cup in Alpensia, KOR. 2008-09: Three World Cup appearances … Was 41st at World Cup event in 2010 Olympic Winter Games venue in Whistler, B.C. … Finished 42nd at WC … National champion for 6th consecutive year (2003-09). 2007-08: Had three Continental Cup appearances, best finish was 15th in HS134 in Zakopane, POL … Had two top-10 finishes in FIS Cups in Whistler, B.C., 8th in HS 106 and 10th in HS 106 … Competed in two Continental Cups. 2006-07: Achieved two top-30 World Cup results, 26th in HS 143 in Titisee-Neustadt, GER, and 26th in HS140 in Klingenthal, GER … Finished 37th at WC. 2005-06: Participated in Olympic Winter Games … Set Canadian distance record at Planica, SLO with a jump of 191.5 metres.
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Food banks to feel fallout
HARRISBURG - A cut in food stamp benefits for 1.8 million low-income Pennsylvanians that took effect on Friday is putting pressure on an already strained network of food banks across the state.
Federal aid for the SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is being cut 5.4 percent with the expiration of additional funding provided under the 2009 economic stimulus package.
A family of four will receive $632 a month in food stamps, a $36 a month decrease as a result.
That translates to 21 fewer meals a month for the family covered by food stamps, according to the Washington-based Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
"The federal reduction in benefits is a small decrease but unfortunately it will affect many households here in Pennsylvania," said state Department of Public Welfare Secretary Beverly Mackereth. "It is our hope that our local organizations and communities can pull together to help fill the gap for our citizens in need."
And the specter looms of a double whammy for the SNAP program.
Congress has been deadlocked on a farm bill which includes the regular SNAP appropriation. A House-approved bill would cut $40 billion from SNAP over a decade, while a Senate-approved bill would cut $4.5 billion.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey has urged negotiators on a farm bill conference committee to reject those cuts, including a plan to eliminate free school meals for about 280,000 low-income children by changing eligibility standards.
That leaves local food banks on the front line trying to help those facing problems putting enough food on the table.
The food banks have already dealt with increased demand as a result of bad economic times, said Caryn Long, executive director of Feeding Pa, the state association representing food banks. The need is especially acute during the last week of the month when SNAP benefits have been exhausted, she added.
Meanwhile, the price of food and fuel continues to go up, said Ms. Long.
The main conduit for state aid to food banks is the state Food Purchase Program.
The Food Purchase Program received $18 million in state aid in fiscal 2007-08 before the recession hit state finances, but that aid has gradually dropped to $17.3 million under the current state budget.
DCNR appointee
Brian Grove, a Tunkhannock resident and until recently an executive with the natural gas firm Chesapeake Energy, has been appointed deputy secretary for administration for the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
He will oversee budgeting, personnel matters and technology support for the department managing state parks and forests.
Mr. Grove has previously worked as a chief of staff for Sen. Lisa Baker, R-20, Lehman Twp. and had positions in the Ridge and Schweiker administrations.
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Michael Callahan, the former Husky and world-champion rower and now coach of the three-time defending national-champion Washington crew, surprises his rowers and 300 of his program's supporters by bringing the hallowed Varsity Challenge Cup to UW.
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SEATTLE – Michael Callahan and his Husky crew team were back inside Conibear Shellhouse for yet another celebration of yet another national championship.
Washington's coach and the architect of a dynasty was welcoming about 300 donors, rowing alumni, the parents of team members and all current rowers to the latest commemoration Friday night. Many of the same supporters had been here for Intercollegiate Rowing Association title celebrations in each of the previous two seasons.
"Welcome to our annual national-championship celebration," Callahan kidded to the well-dressed, well-heeled crowd as a cocktail-and-appetizer hour ended.
"You know, we joke about it … But don't be fooled. These are hard to get."
After introducing each of the five men's crews that swept the IRA grand finals in June on Lake Natoma outside Sacramento, Calif., and earned UW a national-record seventh consecutive Ten Eyck Award for most overall points at the IRAs, Callahan made the crowd that had seen this all before – twice before – gasp.
He unveiled from a purple covering the 115-year-old Varsity Challenge Cup. The tall, sleek, ornate trophy is solid silver. It is in the shape of an enormous pitcher and looks similar to yachting's cherished America's Cup.
It is the most revered trophy in U.S. men's rowing.
It's the same Varsity Challenge Cup trophy that Washington's IRA champion crews got in 1923, '24 and '26. It's the same trophy hoisted by Joe Rantz and his Husky "Boys in the Boat," further immortalized this summer in a captivating book by the same title. In 1936 Rantz and the Huskies won the Challenge Cup about two months before the eight-man UW crew shocked Adolph Hitler's Nazi and the world by winning gold at the '36 Berlin Olympic Games.
When Callahan surprised the entire room – even his current and former rowers didn't know he had secured the cherished trophy – Judy Willman let out an audible gasp. Then she smiled. Standing in the front of the crowd a few feet from the Challenge Cup she seemed to immediately recognize it as a trophy her father, Rantz, had held 77 years earlier.
The Varsity Challenge Cup dwarfed the other, "normal" trophies on the same table. The smaller, silver ornaments, more like bowls, are what that the Intercollegiate Rowing Association has been giving out to its champions for each of the last 18 years. Washington has five of those last 18, including four of the last five.
The most hallowed ornament in American rowing is at Washington only because of Callahan.
"In 1898 Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman (Cornell class of '72 – that's 1872) first gave this out to the University of Pennsylvania for winning the IRAs at Saratoga Lake in New York. It hasn't been given out in 18 years," Callahan explained to the crowd.
"Our action," he told the crowd to begin the evening, "is the pursuit of excellence."
And this is most excellent.
The original Varsity Challenge Cup is 31inches tall and weighs 16.5 pounds. It is all solid, sterling silver, made two years before the 20th century began by Theodore B Starr, a silversmith company of the day in New York City. It is a freestanding pitcher with a silver dragon at arch of the handle. A silver angel holding a laurel wreath is below the handle.
The trophy has on its sides the inscriptions of all the IRA national champions from that Penn crew in 1898 to Brown in 1995, a year before the Cup went to Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Conn., for supposedly permanent display. It also has the Latin phrase Spectemur Agendo inscribed, which translates to "let us be seen (or judged) by our actions."
The IRA says the winner of its varsity heavyweight eight grand final each season wins the Varsity Challenge Cup. But for the last 18 years that's been a merely symbolic designation. The actual Challenge Cup trophy has remained in a glass case on display in Mystic Seaport, "The Museum of America and the Sea," since 1996.
That's where Callahan saw it, when he was visiting the National Rowing Hall of Fame inside Mystic Seaport. He had known of the trophy since he rowed for Huskies until his UW graduation in 1996.
"I've been on this mission for years to get this trophy here, to honor our past and recognize what we've accomplished here recently," the coach said after Friday night's ceremony.
"The trophy is worth a lot. Virtually irreplaceable," said Callahan, who wore his signature gold-and-purple saddle shoes for the trophy's unveiling. "The silver is a fortune itself."
How much is a fortune?
I asked Paul J. O'Pecko, vice president for collections and research at Mystic Seaport, about the estimated value of the Varsity Challenge Cup.
"As a museum object we prefer not to put a price on the piece as we do not count it as an asset of the museum," O'Pecko responded, "although, of course, we consider it a priceless object."
Mystic Seaport and the National Rowing Foundation's Hall of Fame were eager to oblige Callahan when he recently requested to celebrate the trophy in Seattle.
"We do not take such requests lightly as we normally only lend to other museums that have proper spaces and conditions in which to show, and protect, such artifacts," O'Pecko said. "However, because of our association with the foundation that donated the Cup, we felt that we should honor their wish for the Cup to be at such an event."
As Callahan and I talked Friday night, Willman, who lives in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, was standing a few feet away. I profiled her relentless father as a member of UW's gold-medal winning crew at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Games, in July about a column on the release of "Boys in the Boat."
Friday Joe Rantz's daughter kept nodding her approval at the trophy coming back to Washington.
It wasn't just any ol' UPS shipment that arrived at Conibear Shellhouse two weeks ago.
When Bob Ernst, UW's director of rowing, its current women's crew coach and a past Olympic and multiple IRA champion himself, saw the box with the Mystic Seaport return address on it in the Husky rowing offices, he smiled. He knew Callahan had pulled off a coup.
"Our action is the pursuit of excellence."
"The trophy was sent via UPS at its maximum insurance level in special packaging that was made for the trophy years ago," the museum's O'Pecko said, "along with updated reinforcement for it that was managed here at Mystic Seaport."
Turns out, no college program has ever asked for, let alone received and displayed, the vaunted Cup before Callahan.
"We have not fielded any other such requests," Mystic Seaport's O'Pecko told me, "and we would need to have proof of an exceptional reason to loan the piece once again."
UW is indeed exceptional.
Some of the visitors in the Conibear dining hall, with its huge picture windows looking out of the crew team's docks and practice area on Union Bay on the east edge of campus, knew. They, especially the parents, know of the grinding, nauseating, pre-dawn workouts, the carrying of shells across iced-over docks on cold, damp, dark winter mornings. The 13 seniors from last season's champion program did that for four years to win all these titles.
Callahan noted some of the seniors graduated with zero career match-race losses. And that they possessed 12 different race jerseys of the California Golden Bears, signifying while as Huskies that they beat their archrivals a whopping dozen times and then collected their jerseys, like pelts of prized conquers.
Callahan's workouts, on erg machines by land and in the boat by water, are legendary for their fiendishness -- and their effectiveness. Rowers joked Friday night about how they thought perhaps their coach might mellow a tad after he and his wife Joanna, a Washington native who attended UW's School of Law, had a baby girl this summer.
Not this coach, who won four Pac-10 championships as a Husky rower then won gold at the Under-23 World Championships before returning to lead a juggernaut.
"We have the biggest guys. We have the toughest guys. We have the hardest guys," said Alex Bunkers, the senior captain of last season's varsity-eight champions.
Before the coach surprised everyone by unveiling the Varsity Challenge Cup, Callahan presented on the dining room's flat-screen televisions replays of each of the five grand finals that the Huskies won in Gold River, Calif., in June. The videos included the audio from UW's coxswain inside the boat during each race, providing authentic, booming voice-overs.
Bunkers, who is from Maitland, Fla., also won the 2012 IRA title as the seven seat in the varsity eight. He told the crowd he overheard Harvard in the boat next to UW's at the starting line just before the 2013 final.
"I heard the Harvard coxswain say, 'This is Harvard's day. We are going to win it in the middle 1,000 (meters),'" Bunkers said.
"I was thinking, 'If you guys wait until the middle thousand, you guys are screwed.'"
They were.
The Conibear visitors Friday night roared as the video of the varsity-eight IRA final played and UW flew past Harvard and everyone else to win by 2½ seconds.
Callahan then showed the junior-varsity eight win its IRA grand final. The coach doesn't like the term "junior varsity." At UW they call that boat the "Fun V," and it's talented and driven enough to push the varsity each day through Union Bay and the Montlake Cut in practices.
"At Washington we don't have a varsity and a junior varsity," Callahan said. "We have two varsities."
After each race video, Callahan introduced each of last season's national-champion crew members and had them speak. That's when the rest of Husky crew's excellence revealed itself.
"Pass the mike down," the coach instructed his rowers. "Tell how many degrees you have or are going to get, and what cancers you are going to cure."
See, UW rowers major in aerospace engineering and mathematics. They double major and then, like Seamus Labrum, last year's senior coxswain who earned UW's D. Wayne and Anne E. Gittinger Endowed Scholarship for law, go to law school. They come from New York, New Jersey, California, Ohio and Georgia, from England, Germany, Australia, New Zealand.
Because, as Callahan says, "Our action is the pursuit of excellence."
I went back this week to Conibear's ground floor, the "engine rooms" of UW's rowing powerhouse, to see where Callahan is storing the Varsity Challenge Cup for the month he has it on loan from Mystic Seaport.
It was nowhere to be found. A couple of his assistants thought the head man had put it in a bank vault.
"I have it hidden now," Callahan said, fearing he doesn't have a secure-enough storage place on campus – or anywhere else.
"I don't want to be the one responsible for losing that thing."
Thursday, Callahan will lead a new crop of Husky rowers on his varsity four and eight boats, his youngest team at UW after the departures of the 13, champion freshman, back to Boston for the Head of the Charles races Saturday and Sunday. The top national boats from France and The Netherlands, plus national contenders Cal, Harvard, Wisconsin, Princeton and Brown will be gunning for No. 1 in the Men's Championship Eights final Sunday at 11:54 a.m. Seattle time.
That No. 1 is UW freshman Michael Trebilcock, sophomores Alex Perkins, Marcus Bowyer and Henry Meek, juniors Myles Neary and Julian Svoboda, seniors Sam Dommer and Ryan Schroeder and sophomore coxswain Parker Ksidakis. The average age of the Huskies' boat is 20. France's is 25. Holland's, with some world champions aboard, is 28.
"Yeah," Callahan deadpanned Tuesday, "that should be a good challenge.
"This is a great way for me to produce urgency on our team during the fall (outside of prime) season.
"Everyone would like to bring us down."
Racing again on the Charles River, the surprise unveiling of the Varsity Challenge Cup, they are part of Callahan's campaign to acknowledge not just the glorious present for Husky crew but also the program's legendary, world-renowned past.
He is in the process of procuring three Olympic medals won by Husky rowers over the past 80 years. He already has the bronze of Carl Lovsted, a member of Washington's coxed-four crew that finished third at the 1952 Helsinki Games. And Callahan is coordinating with Willman, Rantz's daughter, to display his father's 1936 gold medal within the program – again, if he can find a suitably secure place to display the treasures and symbols of Washington rowing's timeless excellence.
"It certainly reminds us of our past," Callahan said of the trophy, the medals, the legacy of Husky crew.
"Right now, especially with 'Boys in the Boat,' people see the importance of it. They see more of the importance of the history of rowing."
Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director or Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for the Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
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UNIONDALE, NY - APRIL 06: The New York Islanders celebrate the game winning goal by Matt Martin #17 (C) at 13:34 of the third period against the Tampa Bay Lightning at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on April 6, 2013 in Uniondale, New York. The Islanders defeated the Lightning 4-2. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)


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"Can Mankind Make Good?" Survey Graphic. 37.3 (1948): 97-98.
Feeding the People in War-Time. London: MacMillan and Co., 1940.
Fighting for What?: To 'Billy Boy' and all the other boys killed in the war. London: MacMillan and Co., 1942.
"Food and the People." London: Pilot Press Ltd., 1943.
Food Health and Income: Report on a survey of adequacy of diet in relation to income. London: MacMillan and Co., 1936.
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If the Super Bowl XLV matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers wasn't already interesting enough, things are about to get even more intense after the Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year award was announced yesterday.
Steelers safety Troy Polamalu beat out second-place vote getter and Packers linebacker Clay Matthews. Clay Matthews, who was largely favored to win the award, lost by just three votes while Polamalu earned 17 of 50 media votes.
So did Troy Polamalu deserve the award this season more than Clay Matthews? Absolutely.
There's no question Troy Polamalu's play is down when you compare his 2010 season, but this is due to injury. But when you consider Polamalu missed two games this season and still finished the season with 49 solo tackles, 14 assisted, one sack, 18 passes defensed, seven interceptions with one returned for a touchdown, that's pretty darn impressive.
Some might argue there were stronger performances this season even on the Steelers' roster. After all,Pittsburgh had three secondary players with more tackles than Polamalu this season, Ike Taylor, Ryan Clark and Bryan McFadden.
But simply put, Troy Polamalu is a playmaker. And the style Pittburgh's defense definitely changes when he is not in the game.
Despite missing a few games this season, Polamalu still led the Steelers with seven interceptions — that's five more than any other defensive player on the team — and matches Clay Matthews' interceptions.
Speaking of Matthews, he finished with finished with an impressive 54 solo tackles, but that is just five more than Polamalu.
Matthews should have more tackles considering he is a linebacker and Polamalu is some freakish hybrid of safety and linebacker.
"With all due respect, I honestly think Troy Polamalu is probably the greatest player I've ever played with or even seen play in person," said former Steelers receiver Santonio Holmes. "Everybody has their one person they think is the greatest player. In my eyes, I think he's the greatest player I've ever played with."
You have to wonder if Clay Matthews is a little salty about losing out to Polamalu considering the type of season he had and by his response, "Despite defensive player of the year, I get the chance to play Sunday for the world championship."
Clay Matthews may have lost out on the Defensive Player of the Year award, but hey, he's still winning the hair fight.


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Mom-to-be Kelly Rowland is thinking blue! The former Destiny's Child singer is expecting a baby boy — and she accidentally spilled the beans during a recent interview, à la Jessica Simpson. Must be that Hollywood pregnancy brain!
"We're very excited," Kelly explained to FOX411. "So far, everything has been good. I just feel like the baby is already rotten — like literally, my Caress family has gotten him all of his little bathing stuff, his toys — it's just so cool."
As soon as Kelly realized she shared too much, she sighed and exclaimed, "It, it's…aw, f—k it! It's a boy. It's a boy!"
Immediately following the breaking news, Kelly asked her rep to let her husband, Tim Witherspoon, know that the cat's out of the bag! "Can you please tell him that I spilled the beans?" Kelly asked before looking down at her burgeoning belly, saying, "I'm sorry, baby."
The mom-to-be shouldn't feel too bad about ruining the surprise, since she's not the only one to let some hints drop. She was seen shopping for baby boy clothes recently, and fellow Destiny's Child group member Michelle Williams even referred to Kelly's baby as her soon-to-be "nephew."
Now that we officially know Kelly is having a boy, we can't help but wonder if the little tyke will follow in mama's musical footsteps, since apparently he actually starts moving whenever he hears some tunes. "When you play music, period," Kelly revealed. "But really to hip-hop right now!"
Who knows, Kelly could have a mini Jay Z on her hands!
Congratulations to Kelly and Tim on their son-to-be!
Source: FOX411