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Mesa County Fairgrounds to lift equine restrictions
Mesa County Fairgrounds officials announced Friday the temporary ban on horses at the fairgrounds will be lifted as of Wednesday. Two horse events planned for next weekend, team roping and barrel racing, are expected to take place as scheduled.
Mesa County imposed the ban on horses at the fairgrounds May 18 in the wake of an outbreak of equine herpes virus throughout the West that apparently originated at a horse show in Ogden, Utah, in early May. Nine cases of the disease have been confirmed in Colorado, including several on private property in Mesa County.
The disease is highly contagious among horses, and to reduce the possibility of problems in the future, the fairgrounds has instituted the following measures:
There will be self-service sanitation stations throughout the facilities.
The equestrian facilities will be disinfected, following U.S. Department of Agriculture recommendations, before and after each horse event.
Informational handouts and instructional signs will be available throughout the facility for horse owners.
For information, visit the fairgrounds' website at http://www.mesacounty.us/fair-grounds.


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September 2012 30-Second SurveyFriday, September 21, 2012 , Mark Albert,
Gardner Business Media's September 2012 "30-Second Survey" shows a definite bias towards more capital equipment spending in the next 12 months. The "very unlikely" to buy category was down noticeably while the "somewhat likely" category was significantly up and the "very likely" category was also up.
The survey, conducted every two months, asks a random sample of MMS readers about their outlook on the general economy and their own businesses, in addition to their buying intentions for the coming year.
The changes from the last survey in expectations about the economy and their business are statistically insignificant. It is important to note that these expectations were somewhat guarded overall.
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Since the first Reagan administration, the
The modern promotion of U.S.-style democracy abroad stems from an earlier form of American ethnocentrism, one which posited that the rest of the world, not being like us, was dangerous, probably evil. Foreign policy consisted of promoting our sons of bitches on the grounds that theirs posed a threat to world peace.
However, according to NED president, Carl Gershman, the NED has moved beyond the old sterile argument that the
Gershman-who has headed the program virtually since its inception-knows whereof he speaks. Before taking up his NED post, he served as aide to Reagan's U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, whose sole claim to geopolitical fame is the now wholly discredited theory that America should support authoritarian regimes over totalitarian ones because the former were more prone to reform.2 Before that, he was chairman of Social Democrats-USA and an intellectual gofer for AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland.
Indeed, consistent with an SD-USA line, so-called totalitarian states were targeted by the NED. For example, groups connected to the reactionary Polish Catholic Church were offered grants during the 1980s. But other money went to countries that might strike the uninitiated as not especially in need of American-sponsored tutelage in democracy-that is, "dictatorships" like
Overall, in its first ten years of operations, the NED-whose funding comes from Congress but whose grants are dispersed largely by four private foundations (the Republican Party-controlled International Republican Institute, the Democratic Party's National Democratic Institute, the quasi-independent and politically correctly named American Center for International Labor Solidarity [formerly the Free Trade Union Institute], and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-headed Center for International Private Enterprise)-spent roughly $200 million dollars on some 1,500 grants.3 Although backing pro-American political forces abroad has always been the main weave of the program, the promotion of American-style business unionism represents a critical accessory.
A History of Cooperation
Of course, the history of American union-government overseas cooperation goes back decades. Long before the NED was a glint in the Reagan administration's eye, conservative AFL-CIO presidents George Meany, and later Kirkland, actively collaborated with the Central Intelligence Agency in identifying militant labor leaders and infiltrating popular, mass-based labor movements (see the articles by Anthony Carew and Douglas Valentine in this issue). Moreover, the AFL-CIO participated in the formation of rump, or "kept," labor organizations and sought to promote new leaders, usually through patronage, who opposed any fundamental change and favored the
Then, in its first decade, the NED worked with the AFL-CIO to undermine militant labor movements, while fostering "democratic and independent trade unions," a thinly veiled euphemism for American-inspired labor organizations devoid of worker participation. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union,
The NED's operations were carried out through the AFL-CIO's foreign labor organizations, the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD); the Asian-American Free Labor Institute (AAFLI), and the African-American Labor Center (AALC). Operations were concentrated in regions where significant labor movements-such as those in
Since the fall of communist and authoritarian regimes around the world in the early 1990s, the program has promoted "the globalization of democracy" because, a recent NED annual report has stated, "it works," though neither "work" nor "democracy" seem to have much to do with the program; indeed, it is unclear that there is a single example of political reform, democratic or otherwise, anywhere in the world that can be attributed to an NED program.
Rather, the NED serves two functions. First, it exists as a junket-sponsoring cash cow for "conventional-wisdom"-spouting political experts, right-wing ideologues, rabidly anticommunist and frequently corrupt trade unionists, and businesspeople hot on the trail of emerging market opportunities. Much of the money lavished by the program is spent sponsoring conferences in exotic lands, where the participants get no closer to the democracy-deprived persons they claim to serve than the maids at the four-star hotels where they hole up.
Harper's magazine editor David Samuels, who reported on a 1995 NED-sponsored conference at the elegant Esplanade Hotel in
Waste and Corruption
But extravagant waste is just part of the problem. Over the years, the NED has also faced numerous corruption charges of its own. Irving Brown, a Gershman mentor, was accused of funneling NED funds to right-wing groups in France, such as the Union Nationale Inter-universitaire, in the mid-1980s for overt political activities. In February, an appeals court overturned a suit the right-wing Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) had brought against the former chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Wayne Smith.5 Smith had charged-truthfully, the court's decision implied-that the NED gave nearly $400,000 to CANF between 1984 and 1988 at the same time the foundation was setting up a political action committee that donated an equal amount to the campaigns of pro-CANF congressmen in Washington. Federal law prohibits the use of government funds for campaign purposes.
In a 1993 report, Barbara Conry of the libertarian Cato Institute-an outspoken foe of U.S. foreign aid-noted that General Accounting Office audits "have repeatedly revealed financial mismanagement at the program," including personal credit card payments made from NED accounts and grantees filing rent receipts and staff payments for non-existent offices.6
Yet the NED has survived numerous attempts to kill it. Most recently, after Clinton proposed upping its budget by half in 1994, freshmen Republicans in the House voted to cut off all funding, as an anti-foreign aid gesture. But the effort was reversed by the Senate after appearances from Andrei Sakharov's widow, Elena Bonner, and no less than three ex-presidents: Ford, Carter, and Bush. Still, some of the organization's $31 million annual budget does get through to recipients. And when it does, the agenda is an insidious one.
Again, labor unions offer a useful example. In South Africa, the NED and AFL-CIO sought to undermine the growth of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, a Black federation that had close ties to the South African Communist Party. On the other side of the globe, in South Korea, the NED supported and funded the development of the FKTU, the government-dominated labor federation, in opposition to the more militant KCTU independent labor federation, which has advocated greater workers rights and democracy and waged damaging strikes against leading corporations, even after Washington went on record praising the establishment of the KCTU as a sign of growing civic pluralism in South Korea.
Conversely, the NED has refused to support the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia-despite the fact that it represents the vast majority of Russian workers and has displayed a remarkable degree of independence and militancy since the fall of the Soviet Union-because it was originally a creation of the Soviet government. Thus, the NED continues to evince its roots in Kirkpatrick-inspired political theory, supporting the Korean federation organized by a formerly authoritarian regime but refusing to work with a Russian one, because it was set up by a communist government.
None of this surprises veteran NED watchers, as they note how the program was founded both to replace and augment traditional covert funding to pro-American political groups around the world. Hoping to diminish the impact of the 1970's congressional exposés of CIA covert action, the NED was intended as a respectable, overt means to the same ends. As Allen Weinstein, founding and then acting president of the NED told the Washington Post in 1991, "a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."7
Weinstein was not being entirely fair; the NED-though its funding remains a fraction of that still devoted to covert action by the CIA-offers a more subtle, sophisticated, and politically acceptable method for furthering U.S. foreign policy interests. Where the Cold War-era CIA once crushed genuinely democratic movements and organizations in countries allied with the U.S., the NED attempts to coopt them-by making them dependent on U.S. funding or by recruiting their leaders-or exclude them altogether from a political consensus shaped in America's own image.
In his pathbreaking book on America's newly revised role as civics teacher to the world, William Robinson points out the connection between the promotion of globalized markets and polyarchy, a kind of "low intensity" democracy in which multiple voices and institutions broaden civic participation-or, at least, the appearance of same-while at the same time excluding more "excessive," high intensity forms like the original lavalas movement in Haiti, radical free trade unionism in South Korea and South Africa, or anti-free market parties in Russia.8
Saluting the efforts of NED and its partners-the Agency for International Development (AID), the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), Voice of America and others-Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott formulated the equation more crudely. "It's an issue not just of moral politik, but of realpolitik," he told a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace audience in 1996. "Democracies are more likely to be reliable partners in trade and diplomacy and more likely to pursue foreign and defense policies that are compatible with American interests."9
This, of course, is nothing new. Washington has mouthed banal paeans to democracy. Even Henry Kissinger's overwrought memoir-Years of Renewal-makes the argument that the Nixon State Department's role in the overthrow and murder of Salvador Allende-Chile's popularly elected president-was yet another milestone in America's ongoing crusade to further democracy around the world.10
Still, to fully understand the NED's mission, it is necessary to think in terms of supply as well as demand. Clearly, the demand side of promoting democracy has changed with the fall of communism; pro-American forces abroad, NED supporters recognize, should be finessed rather than coerced. At the same time, the NED is a more pluralistic institution than was the CIA.
The NED's political durability is guaranteed through bipartisan support, says analyst Elizabeth Cohn, author of a forthcoming report on the American democracy-promoting institutions.11 But to maintain this support, it must give a piece of the action to each of the elements that comprise what Cohn calls "Democracy, Inc.": the Democratic and Republican parties, mainstream unionism, and the business community. This diversity, of course, is no broader than the ruling institutions of America, and, as there, the right remains in the ascendance.
Yet, says Cohn, to understand what the NED does, "we have to move beyond the Cold War framework of thinking. Some of what it promotes we [progressives] would all support," just as, presumably, there are things about the American form of democracy that we agree with. The NED "was clearly set up to create a world in the image of U.S.-style democracy." This, of course, begs two important questions: Is American-style democracy a good thing for the world? And what happens when forces abroad seek another form of democracy? The first question is left to the reader to answer. The second can best be understood by looking at the record.12
In locations as far afield as Serbia, Mongolia, and Peru, the NED plays a zero-sum game. The money and perks it dispenses-measly by American standards but enticing to half-starved democracy advocates in the developing and former communist worlds-lures the best and the brightest overseas, ensconcing them in organizations approved by NED and, since all NED grants must ultimately receive State Department approval, by Washington.13 There, the locals get caught up in a process where the rules and boundaries of permissible ideological content and political activism are laid down by NED-approved American political experts and ideologues. At the same time, more radical, "excessive" democratic movements and institutions dry up.
And just as the NED's board of directors ranges from the liberal (former New York University President John Brademas) to the moderate (former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean) to the extreme right (Reagan's Undersecretary of Defense Fred Iklé), so NED-sponsored projects vary from the worthy (funding anti-dictatorship newspapers among Burmese exiles) to the ridiculous (distributing tens of thousands of copies of Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America," retitled as "Contract with the Mongolian Voter") to the vicious (supporting former Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti-FRAPH-members).
Yet, during the 1990s, the political consensus that gave the NED its pluralistic cover and assured it bipartisan support in Washington has frayed somewhat. Congressional Republicans have opposed the NED or any organization that favors even watered-down labor rights, while it has attempted to promote labor unions that embrace neo-liberal capitalist principles. In the former Soviet Union, the NED and the AFL-CIO have sponsored independent unions representing the approximately five percent of all workers in Russia who were supporting privatization against the former communist Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR). As the 45 million-member FNPR opposed privatization, the NED-inspired federation defended government neoliberal reforms.
Changing Orientation
At the same time, the election in 1995 of John Sweeney as president of the AFL-CIO significantly changed the orientation of the American labor movement in the international arena. In the post-World War II era, the AFL-CIO has been one of the great labor failures worldwide as membership has declined from 35 percent of the labor force in 1955 to about 15 percent in 1995. Any foreign labor movement looking to the AFL-CIO could see that it was an utter failure and a poor model for building worker power. Indeed, by 1995, even American workers were aware of this failure. Though old cold warriors within the AFL-CIO continued to support the international policy of promoting weak unions worldwide, the new leadership sees neoliberal capitalism as the greater threat to labor.
Shortly after Sweeney became president, the four international institutes of the AFL-CIO were closed and folded into the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS), an NED front organization in Washington known colloquially as the "Solidarity Center" and founded by AFL-CIO, AID, and the NED. Asked if the AFL-CIO continues to work with the U.S. government in undermining progressive labor unions abroad, San Francisco-based labor activist Michael Eisenscher noted, "most of the spooks from the CIA that were on the Federation's payroll have been mothballed."14 At the same time, the AFL-CIO has supported progressive labor activists that the U.S. government considers suspect. The AFL-CIO's delegate to a hemispheric labor conference held in San Francisco last year intervened with the State Department to get visas for communist labor leaders from Chile to attend.
Nevertheless, the AFL-CIO continues to take NED funding and use it for purposes that remain in sync with the program's overall agenda. In Russia, for example, an AFL-CIO backed-campaign against the non-payment of wages by Russian industry leans toward amelioration of the symptoms, rather than a militant attack on the cause: the Yeltsin government's wholehearted embrace of free market ideology.
Meanwhile, the AFL-CIO's partial defection-though denying the NED an important domestic constituency and a union cover for its pro-free market activities abroad-has not stopped the program's work in this field. ACILS has taken over the AFL-CIO's regional field offices throughout the world and has reinforced the federation's contacts, in order to promote the faddish principles of neoliberal capitalism and the development of "free democratic and independent trade unions." Although the AFL-CIO is not actively involved in the operations of ACILS, some of its international unions, particularly the once staunchly anticommunist American Federation of Teachers, are actively involved in its educational and institution-building affairs, particularly in the former communist bloc. And, of course, NED's political wing has actively supported Russian president Yeltsin and his allies, offering funds to 41 parliamentarians in the 1996 elections (despite NED rules that funding not go directly to politicians abroad) and even providing make-over artists so that Yeltsin could go on television without looking like a walking corpse.15
With or without the AFL-CIO, the NED continues to serve American foreign policy, funding organizations that promote economic restructuring, undermine workers' rights, and increase layoffs, while paying lip service to labor rights. In China, it funds organizations that encourage privatization and train employers in anti-labor strategies. Moreover, in 1997, while the NED offered extensive funding for an American-inspired free labor development in Burma, it provided no support for a grassroots labor movement in American ally Indonesia under Suharto, the recently deposed dictator of 33 years, where workers have actively sought to organize independent trade unions and whose leader languished in jail.
Ultimately, with the NED, Washington sets a double standard for itself and everybody else. In 1997, congressional opponents of the Clinton administration expressed outrage over foreign-specifically, Chinese-interference in U.S. elections, a story picked up and played repeatedly by the media. Eventually, the investigation was dropped for fear it would gore too many bulls on both sides of the aisle. But imagine if the Chinese had gone further: openly funding congressional candidates, researching low-voter turnout and America's antiquated voter registration system, infiltrating trade unions, sponsoring conferences in Washington supporting groups critical of the U.S. government and actively promoting the efficacy of Chinese-style state-run enterprises. Imagine the NED.
James Ciment is the author of the recently published Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999). Immanuel Ness is assistant professor of labor politics at Brooklyn College.
1. Mike Feinsilber, "One Expert's Views on How Democracy Triumphed," Associated Press, Feb. 13, 1990.
2. Gershman, when executive director of the conservative Social Democrats-U.S.A, once praised Jonas Savimbi-longtime leader of the CIA-sponsored mercenary force in Angola-as "one of the most impressive political figures I have ever met." CovertAction Information Bulletin, No. 7, Dec. 1979-Jan. 1980, p. 25.
3. "$200 Million!: Sponging Up Grants for Democracy," Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 15, 1993, p. 8A.
4. David Samuels, "At Play in the Fields of Oppression," Harper's, May 1995, p. 50.
5. "Florida Libel Verdict Reversed; Ex-Diplomat Had Accused Exile Group of Misuse of Funds," Washington Post, Feb. 4, 1999, p. A9.
6. Barbara Conry, "The NED Is No Friend of the Taxpayer," Chicago Tribune, Dec. 13, 1993.
7. David Ignatius, "Innocence Abroad: The New World of Spyless Coups," Washington Post, Sept. 22, 1991. This view was reiterated by former CIA Chief William Colby. Discussing NED programs, he opined, "it is not necessary to turn to the covert approach. Many of the programs which…were conducted as covert operations [can now be] conducted quite openly, and consequentially, without controversy." "Political Action-In the Open," Washington Post, Mar. 14, 1982, p. D8.
8. William I. Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, U.S. Intervention, and Hegemony (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
9. Strobe Talbott, "Support for Democracy and the U.S. National Interest," State Department Dispatch, Mar. 18, 1996, p. 121.
10. Henry Kissinger, Years of Renewal (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999).
11. To be published by the Albuquerque-based Interhemispheric Research Council.
12. Elizabeth Cohn, interview with authors, Mar. 19, 1999.
13. In its most recent reported annual spending (for FY 1997), NED's four components made grants totaling $26.4 million out of a total budget of $31.6 million. Annual Report, National Endowment for Democracy, 1997 (Washington, D.C.: NED, 1998).
14. Michael Eisenscher, interview with authors, Mar. 21, 1999.
15. Saul Landau, "U.S. Spends $30 Million a Year to Meddle in Foreign Elections," Sacramento Bee, Apr. 19, 1997, p. B7.
U.S. Dollars to Serbian Opposition
U.S. funds have been flowing for several years to the Serbian opposition, both within Kosovo and throughout Yugoslavia, much of it from taxpayers.
According to the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington (an organization with a long record of anti-Serbia involvement), the Agency for International Development sent nearly $10 million to Yugoslavia in 1998 through two programs, Support for East European Democracy and the Office of Transition Initiatives. The U.S. Information Agency granted more than $1 million that year, and the National Endowment for Democracy nearly a million.
But by far the largest amount has been given to anti-government organizations by the Fund for an Open Society-Yugoslavia, a branch of the Soros Foundation based in Belgrade, until recently in Pristina, and in Montenegro. In fiscal year 1998, it bestowed some $14.8 million in grants for a wide range of activities, mostly for "information," "arts and culture," "education," and "youth" programs.
It is likely that the 1999 figures are much greater, and the overall totals are undoubtedly increasing exponentially every day.


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Small business is the key. It creates 2 out of every 3 new jobs. But it is suffering now due to lack of credit and lack of customers. As a Member of the Small Business Committee, I support expanding the ability of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to directly make loans to small business owners who've been turned down by banks but have good credit. The SBA should also ease the requirements for microloans, so we can give the smallest of entrepreneurs a chance. And we must expand the customer base of small businesses by opening doors to the billions of dollars in federal contracts and increasing the ability of small businesses to export. We must stop the erosion of California's manufacturing base by extending 100% tax credits for investment in plants and equipment, and by funding targeted programs in the Commerce Department to rebuild the American manufacturing base so that we can "Make it in America" again.
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"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
– Hermann Goering, highest-ranking Nazi official to be tried at the International Military Tribunal held at Nuremberg, Germany
The war in Afghanistan is finally coming to a close, with a majority of US troops expected to be pulled out by the end of 2014. And what a war it was. In addition to being undeclared and unfunded, it lasted longer than the military campaign carried out by the Soviet Union, costing the lives of 2,240 US soldiers (as of June 28th, 2013) and the American taxpayer over $660 billion.
And just how well was that money spent? According to a story in the Washington Post, the US plans on destroying $7 billion worth of military hardware already in Afghanistan. The argument is that it will be cheaper to just sell it as scrap (for pennies on the pound) rather than ship it back to the US. The equipment being destroyed represents more than 20% of all US military hardware deployed in Afghanistan. Among the items being junked are 2,000 mine resistant armored vehicles known as MRAPs. These were quickly rushed into production in 2007 to protect US troops from the devastating effects of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Unfortunately, the vehicles – which cost $1 million each – proved no more effective at saving US lives than less expensive alternatives.
[Author's Note: if the US military were really concerned with saving lives it would address the current suicide epidemic raging among soldiers and veterans]
On June 18th of this year, a ceremony was held near Kabul, Afghanistan, in which Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary-general of NATO, officially declared that the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) were now in charge of all security operations in the country. But NATO (which, for all intents and purposes, really means the United States), would like to keep a presence in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future. This is being complicated by the inability of the US to arrive at a status-of-forces agreement (SOFA) which would grant immunity from local prosecution to US soldiers operating in Afghanistan after 2014.
So just what are the full implications of peace breaking out in the Middle East? Unfortunately, it doesn't look good for the Military Industrial Complex. With the war in Iraq over and the war in Afghanistan winding down (the total cost of both expected to eventually reach between $4 trillion and $6 trillion), the Military Industrial Complex is facing tepid demand for their lethal hardware. For the first time since 1998, worldwide defense spending has fallen.
A report by the consulting group AlixPartners disturbingly tells us that the "prospects for the defense sector" are "clouded by shrinking military budgets in the U.S. and Europe." More troubling still, we are told that "U.S. defense spending [is] set to be cut by about 25% over the next five years and by at least $500 billion over the next 10 years." This will result in "challenges" for the aerospace industry (i.e. Military Industrial Complex) as "the focus continues to shift away from defense and toward the commercial sector." To translate that into English, the days of easy war profits are over and companies will now be forced to compete on the open market for civilian orders if they wish to survive.
Fortunately, the report isn't all negative. Defense firms are being told that they might want to look into "federally funded civil projects, including security services." It would appear that the billions of dollars the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is spending on creating an internal State security network (all to make Americans "safe" and the likes of which the East German Stasi would be jealous of) should pose an easy target for defense contractors looking to make a quick buck.
Plus, for those in the Military Industrial Complex wanting to take the "glass is half full" approach to life, there is always the chance that America will be drawn into a full scale war with Syria and / or Iran. Yes, this will probably result in the deaths of thousands of US soldiers (and needless to say, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians), but just think of the business opportunities!
As an aside, there is apparently another area for easy profits that the AlixPartners report neglects to talk about. Namely, convoluted financial transactions, the benefits of which might not be immediately obvious to outside investors.
On June 18th of this year, Moody's Investors Service lowered the corporate family rating of AlixPartners from B1 (speculative and subject to high credit risk) to B2 (even more speculative and subject to even more high credit risk). Moody's states that the reason for the downgrade was a "significant increase in leverage" and a "shift to more aggressive financial policies." This includes a proposed $191 million "special" dividend payment to current equity holders. The dividend would come almost a year after AlixPartners was purchased in a leveraged buyout transaction (LBO) by CVC Capital Partners. To be fair to AlixPartners, Moody's believes that the "ratings outlook remains stable" and that AlixPartners should see growth and is expected to "apply free cash flow to debt reduction." Let us hope so.
War and financial speculation. Two industries that should provide oversized profits for some time to come.
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"As Arms Sales Fade, Aerospace Contractors Chase Commercial Customers" by Christopher Drew, June 6, 2013, The New York Times. Accessed at:
"Baffling Rise in Suicides Plagues the U.S. Military" by James Dao and Andrew W. Lehren, May 15th, 2003, The New York Times. Accessed at:
"Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan wars will keep mounting" by Alan Zarembo, March 29th, 2013, The Los Angeles Times. Accessed at:
"Cost of War to the United States" Cost of War. Accessed at:
"CVC Capital Clinches AlixPartners Deal" by Michael J. De La Merced, April 24th, 2012, Dealbook – The New York Times. Accessed at:
"Former Stasi Officer: The NSA Domestic Surveillance Program Would Have Been 'A Dream Come True' For East Germany" by Michael Kelly, June 28th, 2013, Business Insider. Accessed at:
"Holocaust Encyclopedia – Hermann Goering" United States Holocaust Museum. Accessed at:
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"Rating Action: Moody's lowers AlixPartners' Corporate Family Rating to B2" Moody's Investors Service – Global Credit Research, June 18th, 2013. Accessed at:
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"Talking to the Taliban" June 22nd, 2013, The Economist. Accessed at:
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"The MRAP Boondoggle" by Chris Rohlfs and Ryan Sullivan, July 26th, 2012, Foreign Affairs. Accessed at:
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TEMECULA ---- The deadline to sign up for St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church's "Spring Fling" talent show is May 8.
The show will feature the talents of community members in the fields of crafts, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, quilting, needlework, baking and candy making. All items must be hand-made by the participants.
Items will be displayed in the church lobby on the walls or on tables. Sales will be equally split between participants and the church.
The singing, acting, comedic and musical instrument performance portion of the show will be coordinated by a master-of-ceremonies.
The event also will feature a silent auction to include quilts made by the Prayers and Squares church ministry, dessert-of-the-month, a gift basket from the St. Thomas Thrift Shop and an entire pool room setup.
The event will run from 4 to 7 p.m. May 21 at the church, 44651 Avenida de Missiones.
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Dorian Hargrove 10:30 a.m., Sept. 21
Insiders say Joe Flammini, whose Ocean Beach coffeehouse played an integral part in launching the careers of Atlantic recording artists Jason Mraz and Jewel, has sold his latest business, Java Joe's Pub.
The California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) confirms that the process to transfer the alcohol license from Flammini to Pelbock Enterprises LLC began December 23. The final authorization could take place as soon as this week.
The principals of Pelbock Enterprises LLC, Keith Bockmier and Mett Pelot, could not be reached for comment.
Before Flammini took over the beer-and-wine bar on El Cajon Boulevard, it was known as Kelly's Pub. Flammini presented local artists like Anya Marina, Greg Laswell, and Gregory Page at Java Joe's Pub since it opened a year ago.
The former Java Joe's coffeehouse began in Poway and then moved to two different locations in OB. According to the ABC, the new owners will change the name of Java Joe's Pub to the State House. It has a legal capacity of 142.
Flammini declined comment.
Java Joe's is moving to the Sunset Temple in North Park, around the corner from Claire De Lune, which runs the Sunset locale. The last Java Joe's event at the Ideal Hotel downtown will be Lisa Sanders performing on July 29.


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Girl Scout Troop 31092 collected more than 175 gently used coats for the Bay Area Rescue Mission this week at Bacich Elementary School.
Girl Scout parent Katie Benson said the third-grade girls have been working hard since Monday to get donations, standing in front of the school each morning to gather the coats.
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VSAC 2008 For Everyone
One of VSAC's foci is on do-it-yourself (DIY) builders and designers. With the exception of such well-known companies as Cardas, deHavilland, and Audio Note UK, many of the show's commercial exhibitors and vendors are involved with DIY and kit options. DIYers will recognize such established names as Front Panel Express, MagnaQuest, and transformer manufacturer Electra-Print. Other exhibitors are small companies not yet on everyone's radar.
The show's centerpiece is the Craftsman's Room. Its complimentary exhibit space, equipped with one or two "community systems" (the exact number had not been finalized by press time), will feature high-end gear that Stereophile readers will recognize. Attendees will be able to use the systems to demonstrate their own handcrafted gear, rotating DIY amps, preamps, and other components in and out during the show. New this year will be two People's Choice Best of Show Awards, one for commercial brands, the other for amateurs.
"We have always wanted to do a show that will draw everyone," said Michael Kilfoil, "but the truth is, if you make it DIY-oriented, you lose a lot of interest from some of the larger companies. They ask if it's DIY right away, because they consider the two sides mutually exclusive. The Rocky Mountain AudioFest has moved away from DIY because they couldn't have gotten a lot of participation from larger companies if they had mainly stuck with DIY.
"The truth is, anyone who's serious about hi-fi gets involved at some level or another with a DIY approach, whether it means swapping cables, tubes, or components. It's not necessarily about building your amp-it's about putting together your own system rather than just going out and buying something already assembled."
Extraordinary Seminars and Live Music: Special draws for every audiophile under the sun will be the VSAC seminars, with two series running simultaneously throughout each day. The "Consider the Source" series will include world-class acoustician Bob Hodas—who has worked with George Lucas, and at Abbey Road, A&M, and Fantasy—presenting "Everything You Need to Know About Listening Acoustics." To my mind, that seminar alone should be worth the price of admission (which includes a major dinner).
In another seminar, "How to Listen," Hodas will be joined by microphone specialist Klaus Heyne and mastering guru Paul Stubblebine. For "Tubes and Transformers," Oliver Archut, who owns the Telefunken design archive, will bring along a lot of old Telefunken documents to share. Stubblebine, Naylor, and Stubblebine associate Michael Romanowski will present "How Recordings Are Made." I'm also intrigued by Heyne and Archut's "Specs vs Sex Appeal" and Michael Koster's "The Dynamic Range of Music." Even the DIY track's "Discussion Forum on Digital Music Servers" should appeal to a broad audiophile audience. Kilfoil expects to have 14 seminars lined up by show time (when I wrote this, 11 were posted on the website, with presenter bios still to come), as well as exhibits on three floors of the hotel.
In an effort to attract people of diverse ages and interests, Kilfoil will begin and end each show day with live music, for a total of five concerts. Performers will include San Francisco-based singer Jacqui Naylor, Fingerstyle Guitar Contest and International Home of Legends Competition winner John Standefer, button accordionist Johnny B. Connolly, and gospel artist Tracy King. How's that for an eclectic lineup?
CD, vinyl, and tape recordings will also be available from such exhibitor-presenters as Paul Stubblebine, Dan Schmalle's Tape Project, and Jack Rock's Viewpoint Records. In addition to access to vendors of tubes and supplies, admission includes a Friday-night mixer, meals, a special Sunday dinner, and the Monday-morning awards ceremony and keynote speaker.
"Because the show hasn't happened for five years," says Kilfoil, "it's probably not on a lot of people's radar. But it's going to be very exciting. There's so much happening that no one will be able to attend everything. People are going to be surprised by how unique VSAC 2008 will be."


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The Soviet Union and the three Arab members–Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia–registered the only negative votes last night as the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) adopted an American proposal urging members to implement strict security measures against air terrorism. The council has 27 members; ICAO has 124. Dr. Theodor Meron, Israeli ambassador to Ottawa, speaking for his delegation, said that "joint and effective action by clearly defined measures must be implemented against those states which directly or indirectly bear the grave responsibility for acts of terrorism in the air."
The ICAO Council agreed to convene immediately a special subcommittee to draw up an international convention on sanctions against nations harboring air pirates. Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia and the USSR insisted that sanctions are a United Nations matter. The ICAO's resolution also asked member states to report twice yearly on security measures they are taking.
Dr. Meron declared: "The international community, spearheaded by those countries with important national airlines, has the means to coerce defaulting governments into immediately desisting from aiding and abetting terror in the air. If no cooperation is forthcoming, airlines should abstain from flying to defaulting countries' airports; law-abiding states should prevail on their national airlines not to land on territory of defaulting lands; and national airlines of defaulting states should be denied landing rights."


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Hey bored and just wondering if anyone knows any good tribute/music videos for the twd it can be either from season 1 or 2 you decide thanks !!!
Not exactly a tribute, but it's pretty awesome.
Ok, I'm just going to say it, I hate tribute videos. They are for the most part bad attempts to make you feel sad for something I have seen so many times. And so many of them follow the same rules show scenes with Clementine and Lee and have lines about something sad or something over. The only tribute video I like is TWAU tribute from Amy Chick or whatever her name was. It actually had a song that had something to do with the game and the editing was good enough for a tribute.
Maybe check out mine, then (linked above). They're not meant to be overly sad and I did try to match the lyrics with the game events.
I looked at the first one you linked and it was good but the subtitles kind of took me out of the moment, other than that it was good.
How about a funny parody of the Walking Dead game instead?
The author of that video is a Cluker, I prefer to stay away from that nasty shit and all it's supporters.
If we're gonna be posting fan videos of Telltale's TWD, I can't help but selfishly advertise my own work here. A couple people here have already seen them, I'm sure, but if you're asking for tribute videos, and that masterfully crafted "TV Spot" can take a seat here... hell, why not? Right?
(Season 2 video with some Season 1 Spoilers within it.)
Also, it should be noted that I tried to make sure there wasn't any serious spoilers within the videos, so there should be no paranoia of first-time viewers watching it by your side.
While maybe not exactly a tribute video, it sure is pretty damn good anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYNqxivsG8 Plant a tree for Lee while listening to this (this counts as a tribute, right?).


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JERUSALEM (Jun. 23)
Prof. Yigael Yadin said yesterday that Res. Gen. Shmuel Gonen should be tried for contempt of court because of his recent public criticism of the findings of the Agranat Committee. Yadin, an internationally famous archaeologist and former Chief of Staff who recently entered the political arena, told Hebrew University students that Gonen should be tried for making disclosures about his Agranat Committee testimony. All witnesses who appeared before the panel were under oath not to discuss their testimony in public, Yadin said.
Yadin was a member of the committee established in 1973 by Premier Golda Meir to investigate events leading up to the Yom Kippur War and the conduct of the war in its initial stages. Gonen. who was commander of the Sinai front when the Egyptians launched their surprise attack, was held responsible for Israel's early set-backs, according to the Agranat Committee's findings. He subsequently resigned from active duty but vowed to clear his name.
Last week he attacked the committee, specifically Yadin and another of its members, former Chief of Staff Haim Laskov, who he accused of covering up for Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. He also claimed that Yadin and Laskov were not up-to-date in their military knowledge and had no understanding of the dynamics of the Yom Kippur War.
Yadin told the students yesterday that when he and Laskov were appointed to the Agranat Committee, Gonen said "they couldn't have picked two better officers." But when the committee's findings proved uncomplimentary, Gonen changed his mind, Yadin said.
He said that his experience on the Agranat panel was partly responsible for his decision–three years later–to enter politics because he felt "things in the country were not in order." Yadin announced several weeks ago that he would seek a Knesset seat in next year's national elections and hinted that he might challenge Premier Yitzhak Rabin for the Premiership. He ruled out the possibility of a "military coup" in Israel, a reference to rumors that he might join forces with other former generals who are dissatisfied with the state of affairs. But he left no doubt that he intends to campaign vigorously. "Next year I have a sabbatical." he said.


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Campaigners working to save public baths from closure hope to step-up the fight and gather more support.
Residents of Queensbury are invited to a public meeting on Thursday, January 23, as Bradford UKIP announced it is backing the push to save the village's pool.
Bradford UKIP chairman Jason Smith, who hopes to be elected to represent the ward at this year's Bradford Council election, said he had spoken with campaign organisers and started a petition which has been given to businesses.
Although a Save Queensbury Swimming Baths petition has been running since September, when Bradford Council announced its leisure shake-up plans, Mr Smith said a more co-ordinated approach was needed.
"We've had a lot of people doing different things, people doing petitions, but they've been running independently and once it becomes fragmented it can lose its momentum," he said.
Under Council proposals, four leisure centres could close – the Richard Dunn Sports Centre at Odsal and pools in Bowling, Bingley and Queensbury. All four would be replaced by four new-build swimming pools, within the city of Bradford, at locations to be announced.
Mr Smith said: "In UKIP we are proposing to use a portion of the money to instead renovate our local pools, use modern technology to cut down their operating costs and keep local services local. We will fight tooth and nail to protect our local pools and ask all local people to support us."
Councillor Michael Walls (Con, Queensbury) said he and other councillors had been working with the campaign groups and copies of a petition in shops and venues across Queensbury had "thousands" of signatures.
* The public meeting about Queensbury Pool is at Holy Trinity Church, West End, Queensbury, on Thursday, January 23, at 7pm. The pool campaign group also has an online petition.


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I was just presenting to my wife the material for my next webcast on Infocard, and I realized I haven't blogged about it!
Actually, the webcast is going to be on WF, WCF & Infocard in Financial Services. This time the most excellent Marc will take care of the first 2, while for Infocard I'll try to restore the spirit of Vittorio "Pitching Machine" Bertocci; I practically gave the headache to all the ones that dared to open the Infocard lab in my presence during MIX [:)]
More seriously, I've yet to find the time to make a post about MIX; and given the density of the agenda for next week, I somehow doubt I'll manage to write anything soon...
Anyway, back to the webcast: this is going to be a squeezed version of Islands of Trust, with an important difference: this time we have the bits!!! I'm going to give a very brief peek of the hard work that Garrett, Community Manager for Infocard, made for putting together an ASP.NET & IC lab. A great guy, I've worked with him and Steven Woodward (does he really need introductions?[:-)]) at MIX and I really had a great time, on and off duty.
If you have specific questions or preferences, feel free to write me before the webcast and I'll see what I can do!


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The microworld imagined by French photographer Vincent Bousserez is now captured in print with his new book, Plastic Life. In placing factory manufactured figurines amongst real life surroundings, he creates ironic and poetic scenes using macro photography. The results are tiny people that are dominated by the surrounding world of lifeless giant objects.
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other computers can't see me but i can see them
So, I hooked up my computer to a personal lan in our house. I can detect two xboxes, 2 windows computers, and a fedora system. However, they can not see me.
Initially I thought it was something in the router; however, I went to a friends house and tried connecting with the same results (different router with default settings (i reset it)).
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Using windows 7 ultimatex64
I can ping the other computers.
I set us up in the same homegroup (using the password and all).
I disable my firewall (norton) when attempting these connections. (obviously windows firewall is disabled/routed through norton)
I have also tried loosening all the security settings for file sharing and such that I could find (not permanently obv.)
--this is where im not too sure about--
I am pretty sure we're in the same subnet. I use "Obtain ip address automatically" with dhcp enabled on my router. I'm pretty sure this means we're on the same subnet? anyway, here is a screenshot of our stuff
I notice that one subnet is 255.255.255.0
and the other is for 255.255.252.0 <---this one is for the modem to our router I believe (64 subnets each with 2 hosts? I could be wrong, i'm still new to subnetting)
I can provide any additional screen shots or setting values that you need.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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More than 1,000 golf balls rained down on a green in a charity golf challenge with a difference.
Rather than being hit one by one from a tee, the mass of balls were dropped 90ft from a helicopter hovering over a makeshift hole at the Cowdray Park Golf Club in Midhurst, West Sussex.
The event was organised by Portsmouth based Atlas Helicopters owner Mike Burns, who came up with the idea after being asked to raise money for the Treloar School in Hampshire, which provides education, care, therapy medical support and independence training to young people with physical disabilities.
Each ball was sold for £5 and, with spectators standing well clear, the white spheres crashed down to earth, with two landing in the hole.
The two winners received £250 each and £4,500 was raised for the school.
Captain Burns said: "We were delighted with the result, but more pleased with the money raised for such an important charity."


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The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arbeitsrecht im Deutschen AnwaltVerein (Labour Law Group of the German Bar Association) comprises of some 3.000 lawyers with a special interest in labour law. It has existed since 1981. Its members act both for employers and employees, and the organization is politically independent. Its primary aim is to foster contacts between its members and to provide professional training. The most important platform are the annual spring and autumn conferences. In addition, all members receive a quarterly review informing them on important employment tribunal decisions as well as legislative developments. The organization tries to be as open as possible and has therefore no formal requirements for membership (other than being duly enrolled in the German Bar). In particular, members do not have to demonstrate how long they have been practising labour employment law and to what extent.
The main feature of the organization's website is a search function, which allows to search for members according to their subspecialization, town/region, language skills as well as knowledge of foreign labour law systems.


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Recently an area teacher borrowed materials from the Teaching Resource Center on artist Joseph Albers to help her students understand the effects different colors have on each other. Elizabeth was kind enough to share pictures of the recent art exhibition at Wedgwood Academy as well as photos of some of the artists and their work.
Many thanks to Elizabeth Morand and her students for sharing their art and inspiring us all.
Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011
The sad news of the passing of artist Helen Frankenthaler has prompted the estate of noted photographer Ernst Haas to post a wonderful group of photographs showing Frankenthaler at work in her studio in 1969. The Amon Carter acquired works by both Frankenthaler and Haas within months of each other in 2007-2008.
Merry and Bright
Did you know that tomorrow, December 22, is the anniversary of Christmas tree lights? The bright sparkles of string lights that today adorn trees and houses alike got their start in 1882 when Edward Johnson, who worked for Thomas Edison's Illumination Company, first tried stringing together small electric bulbs on a single power cord. Though string lights did not enjoy immediate popularity, today they hold a special place in the hearts of many during the holiday season.
Whether your holiday season is brightened by friends and family, your very own illuminated Christmas tree, the Festival of Lights, or all three, we here at the Amon Carter wish you a holiday that is merry and bright.
Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Gast House, Christmas Tree [Colorado], 1929, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist
Holiday Travels
During the month of December in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their historic first flight. Only 83 years later, again in December, the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling and landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination. ~Wilbur Wright
Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), [View of Mountain from Airplane]. 1920-1950, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist, P1979.102.39
Howard Cook (1901-1980), Airplane, 1931, wood engraving, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1985.271
Happy holiday travels. Enjoy the scenery!
Spreading the Word
I am traveling this week, so I come to you this morning from gate D2 at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis. The goal of this trip is to help advance the profile of our museum across the nation. I have been in St. Louis working with our conservator, Claire Barry, and the conservators at the Saint Louis Art Museum on a proposed exhibition project that we hope to partner on.
George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, 1857, oil on canvas, Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 123, 1944
The exhibition will explore the series of paintings the American artist George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) made during the 1840s and 1850s of life along the Mississippi River—the edge of the western frontier at the time. While we are interested in the compelling cultural narrative Bingham's work suggests about western expansion, we are also exploring his working process. Yesterday we examined through technical process the underdrawings Bingham made on his canvases and their relationship to the highly finished drawings he made of his primary subject: the men who worked on the river. Through the science of conservation—the art museum equivalent of CSI—we hope to better understand how Bingham linked drawing on paper and canvas to achieve complex, multi-figured paintings. Put another way, we're endeavoring to get inside his head as a working artist creating a national story for his day. Our process began yesterday to reconstruct Bingham's process, and it will continue for more than a year.
Building partnerships with other art museums to advance scholarship is just one reason to travel on behalf of the Amon Carter. Tomorrow, I continue north to Chicago to develop more relationships that will help bring Fort Worth's great American art museum to the nation.
An American Tradition
On behalf of all of us at the Amon Carter, I want to wish you and yours a happy and safe holiday wherever this Thanksgiving finds you. After you have gathered around your own tables, we hope that you will become part of another American tradition—the Amon Carter Museum of American Art—by bringing your family and friends to enjoy the museum's great collection. You are always welcome here at our house.
Erwin E. Smith (1866–1947), Lewis Dinner Party, Spur Ranch, Texas., 1912, nitrate negative, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Bequest of Mary Alice Pettis
Feels Like Fall
Eliot Porter (1901-1990)
Apples on Tree After Frost, Tesuque, New Mexico, November 21, 1966
Dye imbibition print
© 1989 Eliot Porter
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of the artist
Eliot Porter (1901-1990)
Sunset Behind Las Tres Virgenes Volcano, Near Mezquital Baja, California, August 12, 1956
Dye imbibition print
© 1990 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Eliot Porter
Eliot Porter (1901-1990)
Foxtail Grass, Lake City, Colorado, August 1957
Dye imbibition print
© 1990 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Eliot Porter
Check out all of Eliot Porter's photographs for an in-depth look at one of the photography collections from our archives.
Thank You, Veterans
Many thanks to the millions of brave men and women who have served our country in times of war and peace, including those on our museum staff. We also thank the families who supported their loved ones during their service.
Louis Harlow (1850-1913), Farewell: The Soldier's Departure, 1887, chromolithograph, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2003.8.2
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,
Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
~Thomas Dunn English
John Marin Revealed
This past weekend, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art opened its fall exhibition, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury. The exhibition, which brings together 65 of Marin's paintings in oil and watercolor, takes a fresh and focused look at the artist's last great body of work, created between 1933 and 1953, the year of Marin's death.
During those years, Marin wrestled with the planar architectonics of Cubism—so much a part of his production as an early modernist—finally allowing the tension created by cubist form to relax into loose, flowing lines of great descriptive power and urgency. An active agent in the art world of mid-century America, as well as a tried and true observer of nature, Marin produced work in these years that deeply influenced the emerging experimentation of the New York School.
John Marin (1870–1953), Composition, Cape Split, Maine, No. 2, 1933, oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1969.9
Our museum's interest in this underappreciated period of Marin's long and innovative career began quite early in our history. In 1969, the Amon Carter purchased Marin's Composition, Cape Split, No. 2, created in 1933. That acquisition in our first decade of operation foreshadowed what is now being celebrated in the exhibition: Marin's ongoing influence on the energetic and often chaotic art world of mid-century America. The artist's painterly exuberance in this work marked the start of his period of experimentation between the mediums of oil and watercolor, and it exemplifies his achievement of a lyrical synthesis of the two.
It is fair to say this painting has not gotten its proper due until now. The authentic character of the painting only recently was able to be fully appreciated as Marin's application of paint and the true colors of his palette lay hidden beneath a thick, shiny layer of old, discolored varnish. Claire Barry and Bart Devolder, the museum's conservators, expertly removed the varnish in preparation for the exhibition. We are now able to see what Marin intended us to see: a fresh-matte surface and the physicality of brushstrokes that transform the viscosity of the oil medium into a view of the roiling seas of Pleasant Bay near the artist's home at Cape Split in Addison, Maine. It is a wonder among wonders in John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, on view at the Amon Carter until January 8, 2012.
The Hidden History of Paintings
On Friday, October 21, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art announced a major new acquisition: Mary Cassatt's Woman Standing, Holding a Fan. Completed in 1879, Cassatt made this painting at a critical point in her career. As a young artist living in Paris, she met and began working with the incomparable Edgar Degas. Their relationship was dynamic, and they worked together nearly every day during this period. Degas challenged Cassatt to experiment with new techniques and subject matter as they both explored their identities as modern artists; he would invite her to exhibit with the Impressionists the very year that our new work was completed.
A painting, however, is never frozen in time; it moves from the artist's easel through a circuitous path of environments and communities. A work of art's provenance, or history of ownership, can be fascinating and provides a window into an artist's evolving reputation, as well as into the history of taste. Charting provenance requires a detective's mind, finding clues wherever possible. Often times such a clue comes from the back of the painting, where inscriptions or labels on the canvas' stretcher are traces of its passage through time and space. Such is the case with the museum's new Cassatt. Written on the stretcher, in bold, black letters, are a single word and a number: VOLLARD 5165.
The name references Ambrose Vollard, the Parisian dealer who Cassatt met around 1896. Vollard's aggressive promotion of modern art attracted Cassatt to his gallery, and by 1904 he was buying work from the artist to present to his clientele. The inscription is the dealer's inventory number, indicating that sometime after 1904, Vollard purchased Woman Standing, Holding a Fan for his gallery's stock.
As objects, works of art have many stories to tell, both in what they represent on the canvas and in what might be hidden behind. Woman Standing, Holding a Fan is on view in our gallery, so be sure to visit soon to see our latest addition.


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General William Trousdale - Thirteenth Governor
of Tennessee
William TROUSDALE was born in Orange County, North Carolina, September 23, 1790. In 1796 his father, Capt. James TROUSDALE, moved to Tennessee, and settled on a grant of 650 acres of land on which the town of Gallatin was afterwards located. He was educated in the common schools of the county. In 1813 he volunteered for the Creek war, and was elected Third Lieutenant. Took part in the battles of Talladega and Tallahatchie. Re-enlisted in 1814, and was at the capture of Pensacola, and in the battle of New Orleans, under JACKSON. After the close of the war he returned home and resumed his studies. Admitted to the bar in 1820. In 1827 married Miss Mary Ann BUGG. In 1835 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1836 he was made Major General of the Militia. He was Colonel of the Second Regiment of Mounted Volunteers in the Seminole War in 1836. After the close of the war he declined to accept the appointment as Brigadier General in the Regular Army, tendered by President JACKSON. He was a Democratic elector in 1840. In 1847 he was appointed by President POLK, Colonel of the Fourteenth United States Infantry, and as such participated in the battles of Contreras, Cherebusco, Molina del Rey and Chepultepee, in the war with Mexico. In this last battle he commanded a brigade. He was twice wounded, but refused to leave the field. On August 23, 1848, he was made Brigadier General by brevet. In 1849 he was elected Governor of Tennessee, and served two terms. In May, 1853, President PIERCE appointed him Minister to Brazil, which office he held four years. Died in Gallatin, March 27, 1872, leaving many descendants. [Note: William Trousdale was the 1st cousin of my Alexander Trousdale]
Alexander Trousdale (son of John Trousdale, Jr. & Elizabeth) was thought to be born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1766. He married (1st) Fannie Clendennin about 1790 in Orange Co., North Carolina, and married (2nd) Edah Pearce. In 1820, Alexander Trousdale was listed in the census taken in White County, Illinois:
1820 IL CENSUS - White County
White males (21 & up) / All other White
Alexander Trousdale died in White Co., Illinois, on September 7, 1834.
Mary (Fannie) Clendennin , wife of Alexander Trousdale, was first the widow of John Clendennin, a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War.....
From: Gen. Abstracts in Rev. War Pension Files by Virgil White
Clendennan, John, BLW #1803-200, NC Line, soldier died in 1787 at "Big Harpeth" in Sumner Cty, TN leaving a widow (not named); sol's daughters & only heirs were: Ann, wife of Lewis Martin of Gallatin Cty, IL in 1831 & Rose Brisby who was living in West TN, an Alexander and James Trousdale were witnesses on 25 Oct 1831 in Gallatin Cty, IL.
22 May 1801 - John Clendening of N.C. bound unto Thomas Kennedy of Va. for 500 lbs. Va. currency...16 Jan. 1786 to make a deed for 400 acres of first rate land within 20 miles of Nashville on Cumberland in the State of N.C.
Lewis H. Arnold deputy clerk of Bourbon Co., Ky., certifies bond by oath of Andrew Kinkead.
Feb. 1802 - Thomas Kennedy complains of William Wilson, Admr. of John Clendening, dec'd...at the time of his death a plea of covenant broken....at the town of Franklin on 16 Jan. 1786 made and executed writing agreeing to make a deed to said Kennedy...deed was never made. [Miscellaneous Records, Williamson Co., TN, Vol. 6, by Louise Gillespie Lynch]
TROWSDELL, Alexander - Married before 14 Oct 1794 to Mary Clendening, widow of John Clendening, deceased. (Dav TN, Co Ct Min, B/214)*
*[Tennessee Tidbits, 1778-1914, Vol. I, compiled by Marjorie Hood Fischer, Southern History Press]
John Clendenin, ca 1730-ca 1786, was a first settler on the Haw River. He is said to serve in the Revolutionary War (Ensign to Captain) being captured at Eutaw Springs 8 September 1781. [Roster NC Soldiers] [History of Alamance County, North Carolina, by Stockard]
Alexander and wife Fannie (who died in Tennessee in 1796) were the parents of John Cornelius Trousdale, b. 1791 in Orange Co., NC; Polly (Mary) Trousdale, b. July 6, 1793, and James T. Trousdale, b. October 7, 1795, in Montgomery Co., TN. [Note: Alexander Trousdale married 2nd Edah Pearce with whom he had several more children.]
Polly Trousdale, daughter of Alexander and Fannie, first married James Sullenger. The book Early Pioneer Gravestones of Pope County, Illinois, states: "In 1812 Peter's son James [Sullenger], at age about 20, married Mary (Polly) Trousdale in Livingston County [KY]." The book further states that around 1812 or 1813 James and Polly moved to Gallatin County, Illinois. James Sullenger died in 1815 and in 1816 Polly married John S. Patillo.
Alexander T. Sullenger, the son of James and Polly (Trousdale) Sullenger, was born in 1814. He participated in the Black Hawk war in 1832. Alexander moved to Hamilton Co., Il, where he married Eliza Anderson.
"Alexander T. Sullenger, coroner, of Hamilton County, Ill., was born in Gallatin County, January 15, 1814, son of James and Mary (Trousdale) Sullenger, natives, respectively, of Guilford County, N.C., and Montgomery County, Tenn. The parents married, in 1812, in Kentucky, and soon went to near Shawneetown, where the father farmed until his death, about 1816. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and some coins he received--a 3 shilling scrip of March 25, 1776, saying the penalty for counterfeiting is death, and a $5 piece of January 14, 1779--are held as relics by our subject. Alexander T. was reared in his native county on the farm with his mother and step-father, J.S. Patillo, and secured but a limited education. December 10, 1835, he married in this county. His first wife, Eliza, daughter of John Anderson, an early settler of the county, died in 1880, leaving twelve children, seven of whom are living. In November, 1882, he married Mary Jones, a native of Herefordshire, England. He is a Democrat, and first voted for Jackson, one of the few now living who cast their first vote for Old Hickory. He was made coroner of Hamilton County in 1837, and has held the office half a century. He was justice over twenty years. He was a soldier of the Black Hawk War, under Capt. Joel Holliday, of Gallatin County, in First Regiment of the First Brigade, commanded by Gen. Posey, and is now one of the four survivors of this war in the county. He has been a Mason thirty-eight years, and has been in the marble business thirty-five years. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and a most respected pioneer. He tells the following well-vouched story: Robert Page, Alfred Moore and Moses Shirley were to survey a road from Old Frankfort to McLeansboro, when Moore suggested probably the cheapest and most novel method ever used. Each of these gentlemen had a mare and cold, the former of which each rode to Frankfort, leaving the colt at home. The mares were turned loose when they arrived, and the bee lines they made for their respective offspring is said to have answered every purpose." Bio of Alexander T. Sullenger in the Hamilton County [Illinois] book, page 742-743
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