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Meet Praesepe, a SuicideGirl who admits to being a total stoner, hates meringue and chooses her favorite position based on the temperature.
Name: Praesepe
Age: 23
Location: Ohio
Occupation: Navigator.
Current crush: Young Hunter S. Thompson.
Body mods: Specialized sebaceous glands.
Gets me hot: The shy, silent, surly one in the corner who has impeccable grammar and vocabulary and protruding clavicles, arms and hands full of very visible veins and a piercing gaze. That's the one.
Favorite position: Depends on the temperature.
Fantasy: Connection.
Sign: Covered with a shell.
Most humbling moment: Watching a satellite revolve around this planet while laying on a beach staring out.
I lost my virginity: And fortunately for me, someone else found it.
My diet: Vegetarian.
Pot: I'm a total stoner.
My status: Not telling.
Into: Marla, fermented projects, learning, physics, sensory information, local economies, organized chaos, contradictions, astrology, vocabulary,crustaceans, lattes, anatomy and physiology.
Not into: Meringue, monsanto, television and synthetic fragrances.
Makes me happy: Scarves, the smell of old books, my lemon tree, autumn in ohio, children raised by good parents, flourishing creativity, personal expression, coffee shops, vines, an excellent pen and a child's laughter.
Hobbies: Using my senses in any manner of ways.
Vices: Being a hermit, who at times, forgets how to speak.
I spend most of my free time: Living.
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Is it baseball season already?
Is it baseball season already?
The Stockton Ports, our very own minor league affiliate of the Oakland A's, are celebrating "30 Days of Opening Day."
That big, red furry mascot, Splash, has been out in the community where he is handing out donuts at offices and passing out tickets to surprised fans.
Other promotions on the team's Facebook page are making winners out of fans every day. And the team has a new app for smartphones. The Stockton Ports announced the launch last week of the official Stockton Ports Tapgift application for download on the Apple App Store or Google Play.
To celebrate the upcoming season, the Ports are hosting Fan Fest today at Stockton Ballpark.
"It's just a fun way for fans to get excited," Jeremy Neisser, senior director of marketing for the Ports, said. "This is the first time we've done it in a few years and because Easter is on Sunday, we are hosting an Easter egg hunt in addition to all the other activities."
Participants will be able to compete in a baseball accuracy contest, play catch on the field, pose for pictures with Splash, use batting cages, tour the stadium and make a craft.
The Damer family, who are season ticket holders, are looking forward to the event.
"The boys are really excited about it. We've gone before and they have fun," Veronica Damer, who has four boys younger than 11 with her husband John, said. "Our 10-year-old Ryann really likes baseball and they like that they can talk to the players from our seats. We have season tickets on the first-base line."
On Tuesday, Ports players will be at the ballpark for an exhibition game against the Sacramento River Cats.
Then on Thursday, the Ports host their season opener against the Bakersfield Blaze with fireworks to celebrate.
"It's going to be a great season," Neisser said. "We hope to see everyone out here."
Contact reporter Jo Ann Kirby at (209) 546-8256 or email@example.com.


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Saturday, January 29, 2011
My Name is Marcia and I'm an Internet Addict
23 comments:
- Freda said...
A much more dignified response in the end than I usually make. You do highlight so well how much we depend on the internet. It has become a huge part of everyday life. Especially when there is rolling news like the situation in Egypt and other parts of the Med and Middle East. You've definitely got the gift of turning a crisis into a vivid story. Every Blessing
- January 29, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Jean said...
I feel your pain, believe me. If our internet connection goes down, I pace the floors and wring my hands, at a loss what to do to make my day worthwhile. (and what are you doing up at 4:15? When I was teaching I got up at 4:45, and now I realize that was ridiculous.
- January 29, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- marciamayo said...
Jean, it is ridiculous but I need my time before I face the inmates.
- January 29, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- cile said...
Yes I suspect we have become so dependent that we will all require recovery programs soon. Brooding in the tub about the internet is a sure sign that an intervention must be just around the corner! So true! How would I live without Google? I become short of breath just contemplating it!
Great post, Marcia, and timely when you realize that Egypt pulled the plug on its populace and how that must have fueled that situation!
- January 29, 2011 at 2:37 PM
- Arkansas Patti said...
Do you suppose there is a 12 step program somewhere for this addiction? I've tried cutting back but that is a joke. Good luck to us all as we slide into the electronic abyss.
- January 29, 2011 at 2:39 PM
- Friko said...
4.15 is when I turn over to go to sleep properly.
As for the rest, the internet is for those who do not have a life, i.e. you, me and everybody I know in blogland. I don't surf as much as you do but I must know that I could if I wanted to. Emails get checked several times a day, as do blogs. I use my mac to write stuff too, I sit with my back to the window, facing the screen and miss real life going on without me.
It is pathetic, I am deeply ashamed of myself and wish I had the moral courage to switch off and come alive and smell the flowers.
No chance.
- January 29, 2011 at 3:07 PM
- Friko said...
That's a very pleasant corner you have there, at least you have daylight. I shall have to take a photo of my miserable computer desk, perhaps that'll make me come to my senses.
- January 29, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- marciamayo said...
WWW, I'm trying to remember that you call this addiction. And to all of you who mentioned Egypt, I had already started this post when I heard (or most likely read)the news, but that certainly added to my palpitations - for lots of reasons.
- January 29, 2011 at 3:10 PM
How did we ever survive all those years without the internet?
- January 29, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- marciamayo said...
Joan, I can't even remember it. There's a clip on Facebook right now with Katie Couric et al in 1994 trying to understand what you do with the internet.
- January 29, 2011 at 3:56 PM
- MaryB said...
Beautifully and perfectly describes the situation. Love it.
- January 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM
- Olga said...
Oh, I have been there as well. I want things to work without my having to figure things out. Turn on the computer, it works; turn on the car it starts up, etc. I hate to problem solve. Why can't we just have a perfect world?
- January 29, 2011 at 5:19 PM
- Celia said...
After years of rising to get ready for work my eyes still pop open at 5:30 but now I manage to shut them again. When my pc is down the first thing I do is curse the cable company, it's them about a 1/3 of the time but I feel they deserve it. I love your computer space, I wouldn't show anyone mine. You've inspired me to do better!
- January 29, 2011 at 6:24 PM
- marciamayo said...
Celia, I inherited my space. The young couple that sold me my condo had the guts to paint the sunroom orange. I would have never had the nerve. I remember my real estate agent saying the first thing I should do would be to paint the sunroom. No way. The orange was what sold me on the place.
- January 29, 2011 at 6:49 PM
You'll never push a shopping cart down Ponce de Leon as long as I'm around. You are more productive with the internet than I am piddling in the yard and walking in circles. Think of it as a tool that keeps you connected as well as a creative outlet. I actually think it's a boon for baby boomers like us. However I would like to see you be "interventioned"
- January 29, 2011 at 9:52 PM
- Brig said...
very funny & acurate. I'm trying to wean myself away from the internet, it's not going well. One day off a week so far...
- January 29, 2011 at 11:21 PM
- Wisewebwoman said...
Well *said she smugly* I've got my unplugged Wednesdays but can so relate to you as I was offline (problems with blankety blank turbo service) last night WITHOUT MY LEXULOUS and I was a pathetic sight, wringing my hands. I was irritable, crotchety and nearly in tears.
Had to resort to watching a movie, hanging up pictures, and, erm, pacing, not sitting in a corner and jonesing but nearly.....
Sheeite, It's a really bad one isn't it?
- January 30, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- LC said...
How thoughtless of you to post this hilarious description of our mutual addiction! i am sitting in a coffee shop after attending church and eating a (semi) healthy lunch, which proves I am a good person too, well maybe not good, but at least undeserving of the pain I am enduring trying not to laugh my guts out and roll on the floor. I lost it totally when you worried that your kids would think you dead OR WORSE. . . and it was downhill from there, caught in an ever growing snowball of tear-inducing laughter. Thanks! Now my husband thinks (knows) I've gone round the bend.
- January 30, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- marciamayo said...
LC, at least you are still attending church - do you check your email while there? I surreptitiously do right before turning it off with the morning announcements.
- January 30, 2011 at 1:21 PM
- Bobby Dobbins Title said...
I am ashamed to say that I can entertain myself perfectly well all day on the computer as long as I have quick meals and potty breaks. I am ashamed to say that when I walk in the door from being somewhere else I immediately head to the computer. I am hooked. Yes, I read, eat and play -- a little bit. But nothing beats wandering the world......and seeing all my new friends.
- January 30, 2011 at 6:04 PM
- Linda Myers said...
So glad others are like me!
Last year I got addicted to Farmville on Facebook. I knew the signs, as I'm in a real-world 12-step program. I had to stop plowing and harvesting and all the other fun things I had in that virtual place.
I spend a lot of time online, but I don't feel addicted like I was to Farmville. I get my news on the computer rather than from a paper or TV. I talk to friends online rather than not at all, and I still meet them for lunch. I never have been much of a phone talker, so online is actually an improvement over what I didn't do before.
Who would ever have imagined the online world even 20 years ago?
- January 30, 2011 at 8:50 PM
- schmidleysscribblins.wordpress.com said...
I agree with Friko, you do have a gorgeous place for working on the Internet.
I can understand your panic when the Internet does not light up. My mind works like yours (scary thought). When my mouse finally stopped working (apparently you can wear them out) and my keyboard got slow, I finally allowed David to touch my computer and install new ones.
Actually, that is a lie, I did it and he shined the light on the dark place at the back of my computer. Just stick the plug in the slot with the matching color he suggested. Voila! I found the purple hole (surely there is a better word?) and I had a new mouse, proving that if a woman has the right equipment, a successful connection is a no brainer.
I too am a good girl.
- February 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- Couture Allure Vintage Fashion said...
You just started my day with a LOL. Thanks for the levity!
- February 16, 2011 at 6:40 AM
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Copies of the Web pages you visit are stored in a cache. This is usually a temporary folder on your computer. However, your dialup service provider or company network may use a cache to store pages you visit.
The goal of a cache is to speed up Web browsing. If you visit the same page twice, your cache may supply the page instead of the Web server -- since the page doesn't have to travel across a network, it should load faster.
If you load a page from your cache, but the page has been changed on the server in the meantime, you might not see the latest version.
Browser Incompatibilities
Different makers and versions of Web browsers support different features. For that reason, there may be differences in the way a page of information is displayed. Typically, those differences are slight, such as larger or smaller text or different-sized margins.
While City content managers are encouraged to test their pages in as many different browsers as possible, those browser differences may lead to mistaken interpretations of the content.
A proxy is a server that collects requests from your browser and filters them before sending them to the Internet. Proxy servers can:
- protect an organization's network from outside attacks;
- mask the specific identity of the person making the request;
- filter requests and only allow certain types of requests through;
- record a history of requests; and/or
- act as a cache.
Most companies that allow their employees to browse the Internet and several large dialup providers do so through a proxy.
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Three years undercover with one of the worst gangs in the country left FBI agent Joshua Chastain shattered. Battling nightmares and addiction, he leaves the concrete jungle for New Mexico horse country, hoping to start over on his uncle's ranch. Foreman Eli Kelly spends his life rehabilitating abused animals, and Joshua is just another lost soul. But as Joshua slowly begins to put his life back together, Eli realizes that Joshua is a lot more than his newest project. Joshua's plan seems to work-maybe a fresh start was just what he needed. Then, just when he has finally found a sense of peace, crime and hatred nearly destroy all his hard work. forcing him to reevaluate what he wants out his relationship with Eli and his own life.
The bright future of a shining career within the FBI came crashing to a bloody, broken end for Joshua Chastain after two years of deep undercover work as 'Jose' in Chicago. He'd managed to break the back of the local cartel controlled gang, but the price was heavy. Joshua walked away a heroin addict with horrific nightmares based on reality.
In an attempt to give Joshua some semblance of peace his family sends him to Uncle Tucker's horse ranch outside of Albuquerque. The Triple C trains wild mustangs, horse trainers, and heals abused horses. Maybe at the ranch Joshua can soothe his soul.
Foreman at the Triple C, Elian Kelly enjoys the hard work, the people, and the open skies. Eli's first glimpse of Joshua is a real eye opener when the skin and bones man arrives. There doesn't seem to be any life inside, no spark or spirit. Like a severely abused horse Joshua will need everything Eli can give to breathe life back into the ex-agent. But as Eli soon discovers, Josh is worth the risk and more.
Love, Like Water blossoms and grows into a sensuous, satisfying tale of love. This poignant romance doesn't pull any punches with flawed characters looking for redemption, deserving of romance. Joshua is truly a haunted, broken soul who's given up on life. Luckily, Eli has the skill and strength to save his man. The secondary characters, including Uncle Tucker also add to the layered plotline. Thoughtful and insightful Love, Like Water builds from the first page to the last to offer readers an incredible story. I Joyfully recommend Love, Like Water. A deeply satisfying tale.


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I am going through Vincent opengl es implementation. My query is about pixel rasterization implementation.
Having the vertices & color values at 3 corners of a triangle, deltaX,deltaY for color along edges 1-2 & 1-3 are derived as follows:
vars.VaryingInvW[index].dX = Mul64(det2x2(DY12, IVW12, DY31, IVW31), invArea, 28);
vars.VaryingInvW[index].dY = -Mul64(det2x2(DX12, IVW12, DX31, IVW31), invArea, 28);
Could anybody please explain me, how does this exactly works.? What is the significance of finding determinant here…?
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We can find Bruce Tuckman's Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing model, the most famous model for team development, has more relation to Tannenbaum & Schmidt's Continuum theory and Situational Leadership Theory. Though he came up with four stages(forming-storming-norming-performing) in his initial publication in 1965, he added 'Adjourning'(some refers this as 'Mourning') , to include team breaks after project completion, in later 1970s.
Tannenbaum & Schmidt Continuum theory explains the relationship between the levels of freedom that a manager chooses to give to a team, and the level of authority used by him. Resemblance between Continuum theory & this theory is in existence of different team developmental levels & movement between those levels as team develops.
Situational Leadership deals with the relationship between follower's developmental level & leadership behavior(directive/supportive) based on the task/situation. SL resembles same structure if we represent the four stages in different quadrants.
Tuckman's theory aims on the way in which a team handles a task from the initial formation of the team through to the completion of the project. Development level moves from one stage to the other sequentially as they mature as a team but time taken in each stage depends on understanding of and commitment to the goals of the team.
The five stages of team development have been characterized as:
* Formation of team happens & the team comes together
* Members feel anxious and spend their time finding out about each other
* Individual roles and responsibilities are unclear
* Highly depending on the manager/leader
* Equivalent Situational Leadership style: Directing
* Team members come up with ideas through debates on how to proceed with the task
– about task priorities;
– clarity on purpose of the task;
– roles & responsibilities and
– processes to follow
* Influence of ideas and power struggles may arise
* Compromises may be required to enable progress
* Team members may challenge the leader & leader coaches
* Equivalent Situational Leadership style: Selling
* Work as a team starts
* Roles and responsibilities are clear and accepted
* Team begin to exhibit participative behavior & decision making happens by group agreement
* Commitment, trust and unity increases
* Equivalent Situational Leadership style: Supporting
* This stage is characterized by high levels of:
– goal orientation,
– interpersonal relations,
– independence, motivation,
– knowledge and
– competence in team members
* Team know what,why & how of the task they are executing
* High level of respect in the communication between team members
* Team expects delegation of task instead of instruction/assistance
* Equivalent Situational Leadership style: Delegating
* Happens when project completes
* Members moving out of the group after project goal achievement
* Everyone can move on to new things
* Achievement celebrated
* Members feel difficulty as they have developed close working relationships with other team members


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Naya Rivera Deletes Her Twitter Accountby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Naya Rivera fans no longer have an outlet to tweet the 'Glee' actress, as Rivera has deleted her Twitter handle (@nayarivera).
E! Online reports that the 27-year-old actress, however, still has her Instagram account active and posted content as recent as June 8 when she shared this photo of her with the caption "cool kids nyc."
Rivera has been surrounded with a lot of chatter about her, so it wouldn't be surprising if she was looking to step away from the noise for a while. In April, it was reported that her and rapper Big Sean had called off their engagement. Just weeks later, it was rumored that Rivera had been fired from the cast of 'Glee' when it was revealed that she was not going to appear in the show's Season 5 finale. The rumors became even juicier when it was hinted that 'Glee' co-star Lea Michele and Rivera began feuding, which led to her dismissal from the show. Rivera's rep has since denied that she's been fired.
There were also rumblings that Rivera was dropped by her record label, Columbia Records. Her rep has since denied those rumors as well.
With this much negative talk surrounding her, it's not surprising that she might have chosen to step away from unnecessary chatter.


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Stephen Lam / Reuters
A photograph of 13-year-old Jahi McMath is seen on a necklace in Oakland, California, Tuesday.
The family of Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old girl declared brain dead after complications from routine tonsil surgery, said Saturday a hospital in New York may be able to accept her and keep her on life support.
The girl's uncle and lawyer wouldn't provide the hospital's name, saying they don't want media attention to hurt her chance of being accepted and transferred there.
"It's an organization that believes in life," attorney Chris Dolan told the Associated Press.
"It's our last, last hope," he said after two facilities in California that agreed to accept Jahi decided to back out.
A nursing home in the San Francisco Bay Area that had been willing to care for the girl if she had two tubes inserted changed its mind. Dolan said a facility in the Los Angeles area also withdrew its offer because it didn't want media attention or to jeopardize its relationship with its doctors, who refused to treat someone who's been declared brain dead.
Time is short for the family, as Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo on Tuesday ruled that the Children's Hospital Oakland may remove Jahi from a ventilator at 5 p.m. Monday unless an appeal is filed.
Jahi underwent a tonsillectomy at the hospital on Dec. 9 to treat sleep apnea. After she awoke from the operation, her family said, she started bleeding heavily from her mouth and went into cardiac arrest. Doctors at Children's Hospital concluded the girl was brain dead on Dec. 12 and wanted to remove her from life support. The family said they believe she is still alive.
Before Jahi can be transferred, she must undergo two more medical procedures — the insertion of a breathing tube and a feeding tube.
"Children's Hospital Oakland does not believe that performing surgical procedures on the body of a deceased person is an appropriate medical practice," David Durand, its chief of pediatrics, said in a statement Thursday.
Douglas Straus, a lawyer for the hospital, said in a letter made public Friday that before the hospital would comply with the family's request to move Jahi, it would need to speak directly with officials at any nursing home to make sure they understand her condition, "including the fact that Jahi is brain dead" — and to discuss needed preparations, including transportation.
"Children's Hospital will of course continue to do everything legally and ethically permissible to support the family of Jahi McMath. In that regard, Children's will allow a lawful transfer of Jahi's body in its current state to another location if the family can arrange such a transfer and Children's can legally do so," Straus wrote in the letter.
He also said the Alameda County coroner needed to sign off on the move "since we are dealing with the body of a person who has been declared legally dead."
Dolan said he had already obtained signed consent from the coroner for Jahi's transfer.
The Alameda County Coroner's Bureau said it had no comment.
He said Saturday he was waiting to hear from the New York hospital after its facility director and medical director speak.
Hospital spokeswoman Cynthia Chiarappa said the hospital has not heard from any facility to discuss how it can accommodate "a deceased body on a ventilator."
Related: Family plans second opinion for teen declared brain dead after routine surgery


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The Source
MISO survey comes to L&C
February 11, 2013
This month, Information Technology and Watzek Library will participate in the national Measuring Information System Outcomes (MISO) Survey. This annual survey measures how faculty, staff and students view library and computing services in higher education. As a participant we will also receive Lewis & Clark-specific results.
This survey will be sent to all CAS, Grad, and Common Services faculty and staff and a select group of undergraduate students on February 14th. We encourage you to complete the survey as soon as possible as it will only be open for two weeks. The survey will take just 12-15 minutes to complete.
The MISO Survey was originally developed in 2004 at Bryn Mawr College. The initial survey results greatly aided their department in identifying areas where services could be improved. Other colleges expressed interest in the survey and a MISO Survey team was formed to create a common survey across many campuses that would allow each institution to not only look at their results, but also compare their results to those of similar institutions. Over the course of the survey, 61 institutions have participated, and 34 will participate this year.
Your participation is crucial! As we work to best utilize our campus resources, it is essential for us to understand what services are important to the campus community. It will also help us to understand in which service areas we need improvement. Look for the MISO survey to arrive in your inbox this Valentine's Day.


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Bords necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Bords Marketing
I need a great graphic illustration for this project for a start up consulting firm specializing in college admissions counseling. High school kids often need a good strategy or "roadmap" to take them step by step through their high school years, to build up to applying to top colleges and presenting themselves in a way that helps them stand out from the crowd. This project is for an illustration for the inside spread of a 3 panel brochure based on navigation using roadmap iconography. While there are clear steps and a lot to do- especially in Junior year, students still want to have a life- you know-get drivers licence, go to homecoming dance, time for facebook...etc. so it should look FUN!
The primary target audience is parents with a secondary audience being High School students. The parents are sophisticated, possibly driven, and have high expectations. They also have the wherewithal to hire a consultant to help them through this process. High School students are most likely taking honors classes, and have very good grades. Many would like to go to Ivy league schools or top tier. They are also kids!
Customers- parents and students need direction on the road to college.
additional copy for map/illustration
not all have to be used-soft layer, float around primary information
Change courses
Get extra help
Soccer tryouts
Swim Banquet
Technical Rehearsal for Play
Band Concert
Study for Geometry Test
Serve meals at local homeless shelter
Mid terms
Summer internship
Get Drivers License!
Take AP Tests
Junior Prom
Illustration using roadmap sign iconongrapphy
Size: 7.35 x 8.25 (horizontal x vertical) Istockphoto.com #3134611 not required but helpful
HIGH SCHOOL –Start here
Pre-freshman Year
Junior Year
Senior Year
COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE –End here/New Start!


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Anne Bailey
The Sea is History: Exploring the Atlantic. eds. Carmen Birkle and Nicole Waller, contributor of article: "Learning the Ways." Published in 2009 by Universitätsverlag Winter; Auflage. (Germany)
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and Shame (Beacon Press, 2005)
Historical monograph on the memories of the slave trade from the perspective of African communities; based on over 40 oral histories of chiefs and other elders with a focus on the major theme of the impact of the slave trade on Africa as well as African resistance to slavery.
For selective reviews and excerpts in The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Nation, Harvard Magazine and The Chronicle of Higher Education, see respective websites.
"Breaking the Silence and A Break with the Past: African Oral Histories and the Transformations of the Atlantic Slave trade" in Ato Quayson and David Goldberg, eds. Relocating Post-colonialism, (London: Blackwell Pub. Ltd., 2002)
Editorial Board Member, Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural and Historical
Perspectives. New journal published by Routledge.
Featured journalist/contributor of history related articles to magazines and newspapers in the United Kingdom including The Jamaican Weekly Gleaner and The Evening Standard. 1996-97
You Can Make a Difference: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr., children's book for ages 9-12 designed to supplement texts in American history. (Bantam/Doubleday, 1990)
Return to the Cave of Time, historical novel for children co-written
with Edward Packard. (Bantam/Doubleday)
Articles published in the UK Weekly Gleaner in 1996-97. See www.annecbailey.com (under Press).
Moulay-Ali Bouânani
A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes of William Lemprière's A Tour From Gibraltar To Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, Tarudant; and thence, over Mount Atlas to Morocco: Including a Particular Account of the Royal Harem, & C. (1791). The Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre, Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah, Fez, Morocco. 2008.
"Lauding the 'Mission Civilisatrice': Edith Wharton in 'French Morocco'".
"Propaganda for empire: Barbary captivity literature in the US" Journal of Transatlantic
Studies. Vol. 7, No 4, December 2009, 399-412.
"Mark Twain in Tangiers: A-Not-So Innocent Abroad." Sais-Fes Working Papers in Language, Literature and Culture. (2008) 66-74.
Review Essay : Abdel-Jaouad,Hédi. Rimbaud et l'Algérie. New York-Tunis : Les Mains Secrètes, 2002. Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies. Vol. 2.1 (2004) 121-132.
"Jack London's Approach to Ethnicity in 'Koolau the Leper' and 'The Mexican'." NagoyaGakuin University Journal. Nagoya Gakuin University, Seto C ity, Japan. Vol. 33.1 (1996) 37-52, co-authored with Kiyosh Shinkuma.
"The Notion of Space in American Literature." American Studies in North African Universities: An Inter-disciplinary Approach. Eds. Dahbi Mohammed, Nadia Tahri & Thomas Miller. Rabat, Morocco: Imprimerie El Maârif Al Jadida, (1992) 93-96.
James Burns
Written Publications
"Rhythmic Archetypes in Instrumental Music from Africa and the Diaspora." in Music Theory Online 16/4 (2010).
Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana: Our Music has
become a Divine Spirit (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, SOAS Musicology series, 2009).
"The West is Cold: Experiences of Ghanaian Performers in England and the United States." Isidore Okpewho and Nkiru Nzegwu (eds.) The New African Diaspora:
Assessing the Pains and Gains of Exile (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2009).
Introductory Course for African Drumming (Binghamton University Custom
Publishing, 2009).
"Review: Bissa du Burkina Faso: Musique vocale et instrumentale. 2003.
Choeurs royaux du Benin: Fon–Gbe d'Abomey. 2003. Mossi du Burkina Faso: Musiques de coeur et de village. 2002. Yoruba du Benin: Sakara & Gelede. 2002. Asante Kete Drumming: Music of Ghana. 2007. Niger: Musique des Touaregs, vol. 1: Azawagh." Ethnomusicology 52/3 (2008).
"Review: Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon by Clare
Ignatowski." Ethnomusicology Forum 17 (2007): 157-59.
"My Mother Has a Television Does Yours? Transformation in an Ewe Funeral
Drum Tradition." Oral Tradition 20/2 (2005): 300-319.
Dzigbordi Haborbor Volume II. DVD of music videos directed, filmed, and edited by James Burns. Published by the Dzigbordi group in Ghana (2010).
Denu Dunenyo Haborbor Volume I. DVD of music videos directed, filmed, and edited by James Burns. Published by the Dunenyo group in Ghana (2009). Online sample at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC5-LcHbbOE
Dzigbordi Haborbor Volume I. DVD of music videos directed, filmed, and edited by James Burns. Published by the Dzigbordi group in Ghana (2009). Online sample at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISy5LnHz3e8
Our Music has become a Divine Spirit: Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana. DVD documentary published by SOASIS (2008).
Ewe Drumming From Ghana: The Soup Which is Sweet Draws the Chairs in Closer. CD released by The British Library and Topic Records (May 2005). Recorded, Produced, and Sleeve Notes by James Burns. Reviewed by Trevor Wiggens (The World of Music 47/3 (2005): 174–75), Keith Howard (The Magazine for Traditional Music Throughout the World (2005)), and David Locke (Yearbook for Traditional Music (2006): 144.
Denu Dunenyo Haborbor Volume I. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by the Dunenyo group in Ghana (2006). Includes the dances: Afa slow, Afa fast, and Agbadza.
Denu Dunenyo Haborbor Volume II. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by the Dunenyo group in Ghana (2006). Includes the dances: Atsito and Gadzo.
Denu Dunenyo Haborbor Volume III. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by the Dunenyo group in Ghana (2007). Includes the dance Atsito.
Denu Dunenyo Haborbor Volume IV. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by the Dunenyo group in Ghana (2007). Includes the dance Gadzo.
Denu Dunenyo Haborbor Volume V. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by the Dunenyo group in Ghana (2008). Includes the dances: Afa slow, Afa fast, Agbadza, Atsito, and Gadzo.
Apeyeme Agbadza Group Volume I. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by
the Apeyeme Agbadza Group in Ghana (2006). Includes the dances: Afa, Akpoka, and Ageshe
in the sequence and style of an actual
Apeyeme Sonu Group Volume I. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by the Apeyeme Sonu Group in Ghana (2006). Includes the Sonu dance.
Tornu Yeve Shrine Ensemble Volume I: Music For Ceremony. Recorded and
produced by James Burns. Published by the Tornu Yeve Shrine Ensemble in
Ghana (2006). This is a complete recording of the repertory of the Yeve shrine including the dances: Agogbagba, Sogbadza, Sovu, Adravu, Afotui and Dzetsiha.
Audio-Visual Publications
Dzigbordi Haborbor Volume II. Recorded and produced by James Burns.
Published by the Dzigbordi Haborbor in Ghana (2006). This CD features new songs along with adzokpa (drum language dialogues) and hatsiatsia (solo songs with bell accompaniment)
Dzigbordi Haborbor: From the Vault. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by the Dzigbordi Haborbor in Ghana (2006). unreleased takes from the original Topic Records Dzigbordi CD featuring 15 minute tracks of Agogbagba, Afa, Kinka, and Dzigbordi dance-drumming.
Dzigbordi Haborbor Volume III. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by the Dzigbordi Haborbor in Ghana (2008). Includes the dances:
Vulolo, Agogbagba, Dzigbordi dance drumming, and 9 Atsiã (solo dance styles).
Apeyeme Kpanlogo Group Volume I. Recorded and produced by James Burns. Published by the Apeyeme Kpanlogo Group in Ghana (2008)
Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
African Religion Defined: A Systematic Study of Ancestor Worship Among the Akan, Third Edition. Lanham: MD., Hamilton Books, 2017.
African Personality and Spirituality: The Role of Abosom and Human Essence. Lanham: MD., Lexington Books, 2016.
African Spirituality: on Becoming Ancestors, Revised Edition, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth (UK): University Press of America, 2011
African Religion Defined: A Systematic Study of Ancestor Worship Among theAkan. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth (UK): University Press of America (Rowman & Littlefield Group), 2010
The Making of an African King: Patrilineal & Matrilineal Struggle Among theAwutu (Effutu) of Ghana, Revised Edition. University Press of America, 2014
The Making of an African King: Patrilineal & Matrilineal Struggle Among the Effutu of Ghana, Revised Edition. Lanham, MD. Hamilton Books 2019.
African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publ (This is a reprint by Pearson of the first edition without any additions or changes), 2005.
The Making of an African King: Patrilineal & Matrilineal Struggle Among the Effutu of Ghana. Trenton, NJ.: Africa World Press, 2000.
African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors. Trenton, NJ.: African World Press, 1997
Articles (Refereed)
"Akom: The Ultimate Mediumship Experience Among the Akan." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76, 1 (March 2008): 54-81. Oxford University Press
"African Spirituality and Religion." Trinity Journal of Church and Theology. 19, 3 (March 2018): 7-27
Encyclopedia (Refereed)
"Ancestor Worship in Africa." In Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture. Edited by Mariko Walter and Eva Neumann. Santa Barbara, CA.:ABC-CLIO, 2004, pp. 899-906.
"Twin Cult of the Akan (Ghana)." In Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture. Edited by Mariko Walter and Eva Neumann. Santa Barbara, CA.:ABC-CLIO, 2004, pp. 942-946.
Akbar Muhammad
Racism, Sexism, and the World-System, co-editor with J. Smith, J. Collins and T.K. Hopkins. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1988.
Animists, Muslims and Europeans: Al-Hajj Salih b. Muhammad and His Contemporaries in the Ivory Coast and Ghana. Book ms. completed.
"African-Arab Relations: Essays in the Social and Cultural Dimensions." Article in progress.
Essays on Color and Feminine Beauty in Premodern Arabic Writings
Chapters and Articles
"The Samorian Occupation of Bondoukou: An Indigenous View", International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. X, No. 2 (1977), 242-58.
"Islam and National Integration Through Education in Nigeria", in John L. Esposito (ed.), Islam and Development: Religion and Sociopolitical Change (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1980), 181-205.
"A Note on the Concept of Zakah and Taxation", in M. Raquibuz Zaman (ed.), Some Aspects of the Economics of Zakah (Plainfield, IN: American Trust Publications, 1980.
"African Contributions to Universal Culture: The Need for Scholarly Research", in New York African Studies Association Newsletter, No. 19 (Fall 1983), 2-4.
"Muslims in the United States: An Overview of Organizations, Doctrines, and Problems", in Y. Y. Haddad, B. Haines, and E. Findly (eds.), The Islamic Impact (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1984), 195-217.
"Some Factors Which Promote and Restrict Islamization in America", in The American Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (August 1984), 41-50.
"Interaction Between 'Indigenous' and 'Immigrant' Muslims in the United States: Some Positive Trends", Hijra Magazine, March/April 1985, 13-5.
"The Image of Africans in Arabic Literature: Some Unpublished Manuscripts", in John R. Willis (ed.), Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa Volume I: Islam and the Ideology of Enslavement (London: Frank Cass, 1985), 47-74.
"West's ignorance of Islam is self-defeating." Article written in response to the newspaper's written question (from Martin J. Doorey, Editorial Staff Writer, request dated Jan. 28, 1986): "The Mideast, its problems and its politics, occupy much of our news space and consciousness these days. Is it true, as some Arabs and other Islamic leaders charge, that Western leaders do not sufficiently understand Islamic culture and politics enough to make informed judgments and shape intelligent policy regarding Arab and Islamic nations? What, if any, changes should be made in U.S. Mideast policy to reflect Arab and Islamic concerns?" Press & Sun-Bulletin newspaper (Binghamton, NY), February 8, 1986, 7A.
"Black Muslim Care and Counseling", in Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Rodney J. Hunter (Gen. Ed.) (Nashville: Abingdon Press), 1990
"Muslim/Non-Muslim Relations in the United States: Survey of the Historical Roles of Religion, Politics, and Ethnicity", forthcoming in book of essays to be published by the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (London), the Division of the Humanities (CCNY), London, 1991.
"Arab Perceptions of Africans", contribution to a proposed book, "Africa and the Arab Middle East: Relations in Perspective", to be edited by Sulayman S. Nyang, J. Isawa Elaigwu, and Dunstan M. Wai.
"Muslims in the United States: History, Religion, Politics and Ethnicity." JOURNAL Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. XII, No. 11(1991), 433-48. Republished as "Muslim Relations in the United States" in Syed Z. Abdin and Ziauddin Sardar, eds., Muslim Minorities in the West (London: Grey Seal, for the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, 1995), 159-77.
"Malcolm X". The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (ed. John L. Esposito), 1995, Vol. 3, 38-41.
Nkiru Nzegwu
Scholarly Books, Edited Books and Exhibition Catalogues
Co Editor, Debating Motherhood. African and Nordic Perspectives. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute, forthcoming. 2009
Co Editor, The New African Diaspora. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2006
Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 2003
Olokoto: Songs of Chima. Lekki, Nigeria: Pendulum Art Gallery, May. [Exh. cat.] 1999
Editor, Contemporary Textures: Multidimensionality in Nigerian Art. Binghamton: ISSA. 1998
Editor, Issues in Contemporary African Art. Binghamton: International Society for the Study of Africa [ISSA].1993
Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacy of African American Craft, Wilberforce,
Ohio: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, 2-14, 24-106,1993.
The Creation...Of The African Canadian Odyssey, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada. [Exh. cat.] 1992
Celebrating African Identity: Politics and Icons of Representation, A Space, Toronto, Canada. [Exh. cat.] 1989
Rural Reflections, Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria. [Exh. cat.] 1989
Pushing The Limits Of Vision, Zegu-Nigeria. [Exh. cat.]
Match Works: A Feminist Partnership Model of Development (347 pages, under review).
Solely Edited Journal Issues
JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies,
Issue 17 (2010), Issue 13 (2008), Issue 10 (2007), Issue 9 (2007), Issue 8 (2006), Issue 7 (2005), Issue 6 (2005), Issue 5 (2004), Issue 4 (2003), vol. 2, no 1 (2002), vol. 1, no 2 (2001), vol. 1, no 1 (2000)
Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World,
Issue 5 (2002), Issue 4 (2002), vol. 2, no 1. (2001), vol. 1, no 2 (2000)
West Africa Review, vol. 2, no 1 (2000)
Peer Reviewed Chapters in Books
"The Concept and Epistemology of 'Motherhood' within Patriliny," Debating Motherhood.
African and Nordic Perspectives, ed. Signe Arnfred and Nkiru Nzegwu (Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute, forthcoming).
"Osunality (or African Eroticism)." In Mapping and Unmapping African Sexualities:
A Contemporary Reader. Ed. Sylvia Tamale. Pambazuka Press, forthcoming 2010.
"Ezekwesili Felicia Ifeoma Ekejiuba: Scholar, Activist and Champion of Women's Rights." In Igbo Scholars and the Making of Intellectual Traditions in Africa and the African Diaspora. Ed. Gloria Chuku. 2009
"Gender Issues in Contemporary Nigerian Art." In The Nucleus II: Essays on Nigerian Art and Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art, Lagos Permanent Collection. Ed Chika Okeke-Agulu and Uche Nwosu (Abuja: National Gallery of Modern Art, 2009).
"Immigration and African Diaspora Women," The New African Diaspora. Ed. Isidore Okpewho and Nkiru Nzegwu (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press), 303-332.
"Transforming Matter: A Process Principle of Creativity," Ezumezu: A Festschrift for Demas Nwoko, ed. Obiora Udechukwu and Chika Okeke (forthcoming).
"Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Self," A Companion to African Philosophy, ed. Kwasi Wiredu (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishing), 415-424.
"Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender" A Companion to African Philosophy, ed. Kwasi Wiredu (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishing), 560-569.
"School Days in Lagos: Fela, Lady, and 'Acada' Girls," Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway, ed. Trevor Schoonmaker (New York: Palgrave/MacMillan), 135-148.
"O Africa: Gender Imperialism in Academia," African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics Of Sisterhood, ed., Oyeronke Oyewumi (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press), 99- 157.
"The Politics of Gender in African Studies in the North," Women in African Scholarly Publishing, eds. Cassandra Veney and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press), 111-168.
"Art as Time-Lines: Sacral Representation in Family Spaces," Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels:
African Cultural and Economic Landscapes, eds., Ezekiel Kalipeni and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
(Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1999), 171-195. Republished in Ijele: Art eJournal
of the African World, vol. 2, no. 1 (May 2001), http://www.ijele.com/vol2.1/nzegwu.html.
Republished in Space and Time in Management and Social Analysis: Emerging Concepts and Working Models, ed. Edward Róger Churnside Harrison (Government and Public Policy, University of Costa Rica, 2004).
"Colonial Racism: Sweeping Out Africa with Europe's Broom," Racism and Philosophy, eds., Susan Babbitt and Sue Campbell (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), 124-156.
"Introduction: Contemporary Nigerian Arts: Euphonizing the Art Historical Voice," Contemporary Textures: Multidimensionality in Nigerian Art, Nkiru Nzegwu, ed. (Binghamton: ISSA), 1-39.
"Representational Axis: The Cultural Realignment of Ben Enwonwu," Contemporary Textures: Multidimensionality in Nigerian Art, Nkiru Nzegwu, ed. (Binghamton: ISSA), 139-185.
"The Concept of Modernity In Contemporary African Art," The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Self-Fashioning, eds., Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali Mazrui (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 391-427.
"Contemporary African Art and Exclusionary Politics." Issues in Contemporary African Art, ed., Nkiru Nzegwu (Binghamton: ISSA), 1-18.
"Transgressive Vision: Subverting the Power of Masculinity." Issues in Contemporary African Art, ed., Nkiru Nzegwu (Binghamton: ISSA), 105-134.
"May the bullet not find me," Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices, eds., Ann Mamary and Gertrude James (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999), 245-267. Republished in JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 2001), http://www.jendajournal.com/vol1.2/nzegwu2.html
"Bypassing New York in Representing EKO: Production of Space in a Nigerian City," Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st Century Metropolis, ed., Anthony D. King (London: Macmillan and New York University Press), 111-136.
"Recovering Igbo Women's Traditions for Development: The Case of Ikporo Onitsha," Women, Culture and Development, eds, Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995), 444-465. Reprinted in Moral Issues in Global Perspective,ed. Christine Koggel (Broadview Press, 1999).
"Are Western Aesthetic Theories Relevant For The Understanding Of African Art?" The Reasons Of Art, ed., Peter J. McCormick (Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press), 173-177.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
"Iyoba Idia: The Hidden Oba of Benin," JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies,
Issue 9. (2007), http://www.jendajournal.com/issue9/nzegwu.html. An earlier version
was published in Benin: A Kingdom in Bronze, Broward County African American Research Library and Cultural Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2005, 34-67.
"The Epistemological Challenge of Motherhood to Patriliny." JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, Issue 5. (2003), http://www.jendajournal.com/issue5/nzegwu.html. (Published in 2004).
"Africaresoruce.com: Bridging the Digital Divide." African Issues (Journal of the African Studies Association), Special Issue on the "Brain Drain," ed. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Summer 2003.
"Questions of Agency: Development, Donors and Women of the South," JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (2002), http://www.jendajournal.com/vol2.1/nzegwu.html.
"Hidden Spaces, Silenced Practices and the Concept of Igba N'rira," West Africa Review.3, 2, http://www.westafricareview.com/vol3.2/nzegwu.html.
"Islam and its Bigots: The Case of Safiyatu Huseini Tugur Tudu," JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (2001),
"1Globalization and the JendaJournal," JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (2001), http://www.jendajournal.com/vol1.1/nzegwu1.html.
"Memory Lines: Art in the Pan-African World," Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World, vol. 1, no. 2 (November 2000), http://www.ijele.com/vol1.2/nzegwu2.html.
"African Women and the Fire Dance," West Africa Review, vol. 2, no. 1 (2000) http://www.westafricareview.com/vol2.1/nzegwu1.html.
"Crossing Boundaries: Gender Transmogrification of African Art History," Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World, vol. 1, no. 1 (2000), http://www.ijele.com/vol1.1/nzegwu1.html. Republished
in the James S. Coleman African Studies Center Occasional Paper Series, African Studies Center, UCLA, (2000).
"Creating Memory: A Conversation with Carole Harris," Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World, vol. 1, no.1, http://www.ijele.com/vol1.1/nzegwu2.html.
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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: Recent 30AC Purchases« on: July 6, 2007, 01:31 PM »
Picked up a McQuarrie Chewbacca and a Stormtrooper for a friend of mine.
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Awesome haul. We have a local store where we can find stuff like that as well.


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Cooter's race: Don't mess with the General Lee
Larry Sabato doesn't give Cooter a snowball's chance in hell of winning the heavily Republican 7th District's congressional race against GOP incumbent Eric Cantor.
Back in February, when Democrat Ben Jones, who portrayed Cooter in the popular TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, announced he was entering the race, prolific pundit Sabato told the Fredricksburg Free Lance-Star, "The 7th District? Get real. Mickey Mouse with an 'R' next to his name could win."
Now, less than a month from election day, a Hickman-Brown poll shows Jones at 44 percent, creeping up on Cantor's 48 percent.
What turned what was supposed to be a run-away into an allegedly photo-finish horse race?
Jones credits unlikely bedfellows: Doug Wilder, fellow Democrat and former Governor, and his opponent Cantor, both of whom have accused Jones of capitalizing on his Southern heritage.
Wilder sent a letter to Democratic leadership complaining that Jones was using a Confederate flag as a "campaign strategy." Jones has ridden in parades in the General Lee, his Dodge Charger from The Dukes of Hazzard with a Confederate battle flag painted on its roof.
Meanwhile, Cantor derided Jones' supporters for "making Southern heritage a major part of his campaign."
"I think they both went off half-cocked," says Jones. "The General Lee is one of the most beloved cars in America. It's like attacking Roy Rogers' horse, Trigger."
Jones says he's ridden in the General Lee in just a handful of the 300 events he's attended as a candidate.
Jones thinks Wilder and Cantor didn't do their homework and were not aware of his background as a civil rights activist in the '60s, when Jones was arrested at a sandwich shop sit-in. Jones, who served two terms as a congressman in Georgia, says, "Ninety-eight percent of the blacks in my district overwhelmingly elected me."
He says Wilder and Cantor "accused me of being a racist, and that's a very serious thing." Jones believes the accusations have backfired for Cantor especially the charges that Jones is focusing on too much of his Southern heritage.
"That's total baloney," says Jones. "He's trying to distract from his campaign being in trouble. Last time I looked out the window, we're in the South."
Jones seems delighted with the General Lee controversy, which has drawn attention to a campaign in which he claims Cantor is outspending him 10 to one.
Still, Sabato is dubious about Jones creeping up to 44 percent in the polls, calling it "literally unbelievable." Nor does he think the flag flap with Wilder could have generated a surge in the polls for Jones. "The news doesn't reach enough people, and they wouldn't care anyway," Sabato says.
Undeterred, Jones, ever the showman, cites the old adage, "I don't care what you say about me as long as you spell my name right. That's B-E-N..."


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Monday, December 8, 2008
Sooty Oystercatchers
After posting last week about Pied Oystercatchers, I decided to hunt up my photos of Sooty Oystercatchers. I have never seen this species around the bay as it prefers rocky shorelines and headlands. Apart from colouring these birds look very similar to Pied Oystercatchers. I took these photos at Point Cartwright on the Sunshine Coast. I saw two Sooty Oystercatchers that day roosting among the rocks with a group of Crested Terns.
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- AnonymousDecember 8, 2008 at 8:01 PM
These are great photographs. The Sooty Oystercatcher's look exactly like our Black Oystercatcher's here in WA State. This summer I was able to get a good photograph of one of their chicks roaming amongst the rocks. I'll be sure to post it along with a photo of an adult for comparison with the Sooty.ReplyDelete
Happy Holidays...
Well - I'm learning more about Oystercatchers thanks to you Mick. Very sooty coloured indeed, Lol.ReplyDelete
Hi Bernie, I look forward to seeing your photos of the Black Oystercatchers you have over your way.ReplyDelete
Hi Tricia, thanks for the compliment - and that's what blogging is all about for me - learning from other people.
Interesting birds. I`ve never seen an oystercatcher yet. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Thanks for visiting Tom.ReplyDelete
Great shots Mick! I have yet to see any oystercatcher myself. I would see the Black Oystercatcher in my area, like Bernie.ReplyDelete
I like how their eye "shadow" matches the bill. God has a sense of humor. ;)
Hi Red, Yes, 'Sooties' certainly have great coloring.ReplyDelete
Striking bird and photograph.ReplyDelete
Thanks, VickieReplyDelete
Great pictures. Love the eyes. I can't decide if they look sunken or swollen around the edges. But either way, they are very interesting.ReplyDelete
Very nice, Mick. Apparently we have some oystercatchers along the Texas Gulf Coast, but I've never seen one myself. Nice captures of these west coast shorebirds.ReplyDelete
The Sootys isn't a common bird down our way Mick, not enough rocky shorelines. I have seen one feeding on sandworm in an estuary though. Quite a striking bird with that bill colour.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comments Sparverius, Kyle and Duncan. I am told that there are little rocky islands just off shore where they commonly breed. Haven't managed a way to get out to them yet!ReplyDelete
I really like watching the Sooty Oystercatchers! I hope I will be able to find time during the short Christmas break to go and see what the local Oystercatcher population is up to.ReplyDelete
Hi Tilcheff - have fun over the Xmas break - and lots of good birding!ReplyDelete


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Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor's race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it," he says.
In 2012, the Society of Professional Journalists inducted Wilkinson into the Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame.
Wilkinson appears on Cincinnati Edition, blogs on politics and more, and writes the weekly column Politically Speaking at wvxu.org.


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A task force has been appointed by the chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and members of the Arkansas news media have been invited to meet with the group Friday.
A task force has been appointed by the chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and members of the Arkansas news media have been invited to meet with the group Friday.
I wasn't one of the 207 people who got an invitation to the meeting, which isn't surprising since I'm just a retired editor who continues to write a column. I had a conflict anyway.
UA Chancellor G. David Gearhart explained to an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter that he wants the task force to ensure the university provides "transparency in all we do." That's an admirable goal, considering what the UA administration has been through over the past year.
If only a fourth of those 207 people actually show up, it will be tough to have much of a discussion in an hour-long meeting, but Laura Jacobs, associate vice chancellor of university relations, suggested in the invitation that the guests should be "doing all the talking, and we will be doing the listening."
I've never been to a meeting conducted by educational administrators where that actually happened.
Jacobs, as chairman of the task force, explained further: "To be clear, this isn't an interview opportunity, or a news conference, but a conversation to help inform our next steps from an operational standpoint."
The message also said:
"Some of the topics that may be discussed include 'What tools would help in FOIA efforts?' 'What are some of the issues you've encountered?' 'How are your expectations of our response to FOIA met?' 'Why do you use FOIA as opposed to other methods of inquiry, i.e., asking questions?'"
Dennis Byrd, chief of the Arkansas News Bureau and an Arkansas Press Association board member, offered an excellent suggestion: "My immediate thought was they just need to read the law. …"
Indeed, the APA, attorney general's office and other organizations collaborate in the publication of the "Arkansas Freedom of Information Handbook," a handy guide soon to be in its 16th edition. Included is the law itself, which should be a "must read" for every member of the task force.
The problem is that transparency, i.e., complying with an open meetings-open records law, sometimes gets uncomfortable.
In my 30 years as a newspaper editor, the people who had the most trouble, by far, in complying with the FOIA were educational administrators. They want to create a positive public image for their institution, and controlling the message becomes a critical tool. Then something bad happens, and that often leads to internal and external clashes.
University administrators want to run every FOIA request through staff attorneys. For years at Arkansas State University that has meant an automatic 3-day delay. But the law prescribes such a delay only if the record requested "is in active use or storage and therefore not available at the time a citizen asks to examine it."
UA-Fayetteville, which has more money to play with, apparently devised an even more elaborate system.
The UA system staff has more than a dozen attorneys, and UAF has a large Department of University Relations, whose mission includes helping shape and sustain "a distinctive, nationally respected University of Arkansas brand." (The 11-person task force includes five members of University Relations, and the office of general counsel will serve in an advisory capacity.)
Both departments, as well as the office of the chancellor, got a severe test last year when the university's Division of University Advancement was found to have overspent its budget by $4.2 million over two years. In answering a flood of press inquiries about that problem, UA administrators kept changing its system for responding.
In the middle of the controversy was John N. Diamond, hired in 2010 as associate vice chancellor for university relations. While serving as the university's official spokesman and chief speechwriter, he also answered press requests. Although Diamond had a journalism degree and had taught journalism, his experience was mostly in educational administration.
Diamond customarily fielded FOIA requests from reporters and then shared them with the chancellor, a UA counsel and any other university officers whose duties were related to the request. Messages sometimes flew back and forth about why the request was made, what should be done and who said what. Days stretched into weeks.
Diamond said in legislative testimony in January that he was removed from the process because he advocated release of certain records. Then he was fired — long after the problems in Development — because of insubordination, his superiors said.
Whatever the case, the UA process was cumbersome and doomed to fail the goal of transparency. Not only does running a request through that many people slow things down dramatically, it also increases the chances that somebody will find a reason, whether justifiable or not, to deny the request.
Outside of academia — in city and county government and most state agencies — a reporter generally can submit a request for a public record directly to the custodian of the record. That person should know best whether the record is exempt from disclosure and, if unsure, can request a legal opinion. Normally, it's a simple process.
That's what the UA needs: a simple process. Don't do it by committee. If transparency is the goal, assume that the record requested is public unless there's a clear reason to believe it's not. Instead the standard too often has been: How can we keep from disclosing it?
Roy Ockert is editor emeritus of The Jonesboro Sun. He may be reached by e-mail at email@example.com.