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President and CEO of Common Cause fought fiercely for good government
The NAACP mourns the passing of Bob Edgar, President and CEO of Common Cause. Edgar was 69 years old.
"Bob was a hero. He devoted his life to advancing the cause of good government," stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. "He knew that the best way to protect any of our rights is to protect our basic democratic rights. He fought passionately for every American to have an equal voice and an equal chance to participate in our democracy. Bob was a great friend to the NAACP and to all organizations fighting for social justice."
The NAACP has worked closely with Common Cause in recent years, most notably on the Democracy Initiative. For more information on his life, visit http://www.commonblog.com/2013/04/23/remembering-bob-edgar/.

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DetailsReplacement Glass For Gallery Classic 5
Liner Pack & Stove Kits
Direct Stoves Offer Free Stove Fitting Kits*
- Stove Pipe
- Register Plate
800mm x 400mm
- Stove Glove
for protection
What's included in the offer:
- 1. Black stove pipe.
- 2. A registration plate is used to seal the chimney opening off from the room preventing dust, soot, dirt and debris falling down the chimney. It also helps to prevent a draft coming down the chimney. We supply a standard 800mm x 400mm galvanised steel register plate with all our stoves. You will simply need to cut the plate to size to fit into your chimney opening.
- 3. We also provide you with a single stove glove that you can use for stoking the fire and adding wood without the risk of personal injury.
*Only available for wood, multifuel and gas stoves. Excludes electric stoves, flueless and balanced flue gas stoves and outdoor & garden products.
Optional Extras.
Carbon Monoxide Detector:
Due to an update to Building Regulations it is now law to have a Carbon Monoxide alarm present in any room with a solid fuel appliance:- The Building Regulations 2000 Approved Document J (2010 Edition) '2.34 Where a new or replacement fixed solid fuel appliance is installed in the dwelling, a carbon monoxide alarm should be provided in the room where the appliance is located.'
Flue Liner Packs:
The flue liner pack consists of; a nose cone, to easily manoeuvre the flue liner into place, a flue adaptor, which connects the stove pipe to the flexible flue liner, Dura Flue flexible flue liner (this is 6" in diameter and 316 Grade) cut to the required length and a 6" pot hanger rain cap, this supports the flue liner from the top of the chimney and also acts as a bird guard and rain cap.
Stove Pipe with Door:
A stove pipe with door or access point, allows the chimney to be swept through the pipe itself.
Stove Glass Insurance:
If you select to take out our stove glass insurance this covers your stove glass for the time period you select. If your glass breaks within that time period we will send you a replacement piece of glass regardless of the reason the glass broke. All we will ask is that you send a picture of the broken glass.
The insurance only covers you for one replacement piece of glass. It doesn't cover you if you break the replacement piece of glass.
All stove glass is covered during delivery and any glass broken in transit to you will be replaced free of charge, without affecting your stove glass insurance.
Please make the relevant selection above when placing your order if you require any of these parts and also select whether or not you require a Carbon Monoxide alarm sending out with your order. Please note that if these parts aren't selected with your order we can't send them for free after your order has been delivered.
- Stove Pipe
Delivery Info
Free Delivery (Parcel)
If the goods are showing 24hr or 48hr delivery then this is the quickest time we're able to deliver these items. You will be asked to select a delivery date when you're going through the checkout process . The goods will be delivered on this day.
Smaller items such as inset gas fires and electric fires are delivered by a courier. You will be contacted beforehand and a convenient delivery date agreed.
Once your parcel is dispatched, you will receive a text message confirming your delivery date and a tracking link that will keep you updated of your parcel's progress.
This is an all day ground floor doorstep service, All items must be checked for damage in front of the driver before being signed for. Please contact us immediately in the unlikely event that damage has occurred.
We know a new stove is a big investment. That's why we offer our Pay on Finance option. Spend just £250 or more online and you can spread the cost over up to 36 months - with 0% interest available on a 6 month plan.
It's as easy as:
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We want our Pay on Finance option to be as easy to understand and straightforward as possible. We've created the chart below to tell you how much you'll pay back per month.
Finance Example: £379 purchase price
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Our Pay on Finance option is provided by V12 Retail Finance.
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A UK resident for 3 or more years
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Working at least 16 hours a week or residing with a partner who is
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We can't guarantee your application will be approved. Your credit score and existing financial commitments will also be considered.
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To apply, all you will need to do is fill out an online application form, select your finance option, and add an electronic signature. Once successful, you will be asked to verify your identity by authorising a 50p transaction fee. Please note, our finance is only available online.
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Infinity Mimosa Bath Shower Mixer T8601
- Description
The Infinity Mimosa Bath Shower Mixer T8601 is manufactured from solid brass with a stunning chrome finish and comes with a shower hose, head and wall bracket included to complete the kit. With a deck mounted design and 180mm pipe centres it is ideal for any standard two tap hole bath.
The handles are lever style for ease of use giving full control to find the perfect water temperature while water is diverted from mixer tap to shower head by a simple central pull-up-knob. We recommend a minimum of 0.5 bar water pressure and are so confident in it's quality the bath tap also comes with a 5 year guarantee.
Infinity Mimosa Bath Shower Mixer at a glance:
Tap Body: Chrome plated solid brass
Tap Handle: Chrome plated zinc
Valve Type: Ceramic disc cartridge
Pressure: Suitable for medium and high pressure systems
Inlet Type: ¾" BSP male thread
Water Pressure: Min 0.5 bar - Max 3 bar
Flow Rate: 0.5 bar at 10.8 litres/min, 1 bar at 18.3 litres/min, 3 bar at 29.5 litres/min.
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Bathroom Remodeling Frisco, TX
There are few rooms in your home that are frequented as often as the bathroom. Think about it; you spend quite a bit of time in there. Among other uses, your bathroom serves as a place to escape from the world for a few moments and spend some quality alone time. Since this room is such an intimate setting, it is no wonder why remodeling the bathroom is at the top of home renovation lists all over Frisco. With nearly a decade of residential remodeling and construction experience to our name and the best remodeling team in North Texas, TriStar Repair & Construction is the company capable of providing professional bathroom remodeling Frisco, TX can trust.
The Perfect Frisco Bathroom Remodeling Solutions
Since people spend so much time in the bathroom, it is essential to remodel it in a manner that makes the space functional, inviting and beautiful. TriStar keeps this in mind during every job and has been offering top-quality Frisco bathroom remodeling services since we started doing business in 2006. With 130 thousand people living in Frisco, there is bound to be a myriad of ideas about what elements make a bathroom beautiful and what elements should change during a remodel. Think about your own bathroom. What would you change about it? The sink? The shower? The whole room? Regardless of what you want to change and what you personally find aesthetically pleasing in a bathroom design, TriStar Repair & Construction can provide the perfect solutions for bathroom remodeling Frisco residents can treasure for years.
Considerations for Frisco Bathroom Remodeling Projects
If you are thinking about giving your bathroom a facelift, there are a few things to consider before the Frisco bathroom remodeling process can begin:
What are your bathroom remodeling goals?
Establishing a clear idea about what you hope to accomplish with your bathroom remodel will provide our team with a clear direction and keep your pocketbook as full as possible.
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Establishing a budget gives you a clear picture about what to expect from your Frisco bathroom remodeling project and enables us to offer the amenities you want, need and for which you can pay.
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While our team is quick and efficient at its job, your bathroom remodel is not going to be completed overnight. We realize your time is precious and will do everything in our power to make the process of transitioning from your outdated bathroom to the bathroom of your dreams as quick and smooth as possible.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding your Frisco bathroom remodeling project, give one of our knowledgeable representatives a call at (940) 381-2222, or send us a message.
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Bathrooms have to endure a lot of wear and tear and require maintenance and repairs at some point. Could your bathroom benefit from TriStar's professional remodeling services? Does your lighting treatment need to be updated? Is your shower or bathtub outdated and showing signs of aging? Whatever the case may be, when it comes to Frisco bathroom remodeling, trust the professionals at TriStar. We are not satisfied until you are!


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A Purple Place for Dying (Tequila Cocktail)
This cocktail continues my series of Tequila cocktails named after the Travis McGee novels of American author John D. MacDonald. I have always liked the Travis McGee novels, and the titles of these novels just seem to me to be particularly well suited to be also the names of great cocktails.
A Purple Place for Dying
1 1/2 ounces Tequila (Blanco or Reposado)
3/4 ounce Blue Curacao
1 ounce Cranberry juice
1/4 ounce Grapefruit Juice
1/4 ounce Lime Juice
1 tsp of Genadine
Mix all of the ingredients over ice-cubes.
Serve in a rocks Glass
Note: If you are interested in more of my original cocktail recipes, please click this link (Cocktails and Recipes) for more of my mixed drink recipes!


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I have acquired an old photo album containing many pictures from the late 1800s. I'm going through the album to catalog the photos with as much information as can be gleaned from them. My hope is to return the album and photos to the descendants of those pictured. Read about the first photos in the album here. **Click on the images below for larger versions**
And we're off to Massachusetts to try and find out more about Photo No. 11 (no written identifying marks on this photo):
Here we have O'Flynn's Studio in Millbury, Massachusetts, which is really close to Worcester. I found a Thomas F. O'Flynn, photographer, in Worcester in many 1880s city directories.
Here are the addresses I found, all smack in the middle of Worcester:
244 Front (1884; 1888-90 [O'Flynn & Shaw; home 8 Barclay])
18 Grosvenor (1885-6; boards)
326 Main Street (1888; boards 18 Grosvenor)
I'm not convinced that this is our photographer, because he's so thoroughly ensconced in Worcester and I'm not sure why he would then list Millbury in his imprint, but I'm filing this information away, just in case. Interestingly, it appears that this individual went on to become a school teacher, from other records I found.
The next photo is my favorite so far. Look at this face:
The other reason this is my favorite is this lil' babe has a name!
Ellis is back in Danbury, Conn., and our old friend Charles Blackman took the photo. I investigated him in my post on Photos 5 & 6.
Ellis Burton Wilson was born 4 March 1893, according to many sources. He eventually moved to Hartford and went into the landscaping business. I located his death record. He lived to the age of 78, passing away 27 Jan 1971. FamilySearch has his WWII draft registration card, which includes a wealth of information, as does his WWI registration card on Ancestry.
I have high hopes for finding his descendants. [Update 3/12/11: I posted an update on my progress here.]
1900 U.S. Census, Fairfield County, Connecticut, population schedule, Danbury Town, page 3, dwelling 43, family 57, Ellis Wilson; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 March 2011); National Archives and Records Administration Microfilm Roll: T623_132.
The Worcester Directory 1885-86, Thomas F. O'Flynn, page 252. Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 March 2011).
Worcester, Massachusetts 1884, 1886, 1888-90, U.S. City Directories. Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 March 2011).
Worcester, Massachusetts Directories, 1888-90. Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 March 2011).
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Ellis Burton Wilson; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 March 2011).
World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, Ellis Burton Wilson; FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 11 March 2011).


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Private Placements—Evaluate the Risks before Placing Them in Your Portfolio
Each year, companies raise billions of dollars selling securities in non-public offerings that are exempt from registration under the federal securities laws. These offerings, known as private placements, can be a key source of capital for American businesses, especially small or start-up companies. But investing in private placements is risky and can tie up your money for a long time. As with other investments, you can also lose some or all of your money.
Fraud and Sales Abuses
FINRA uncovered fraud and sales practice abuses related to private placements that resulted in sanctions of firms and individuals for providing private placement memoranda and sales materials to investors that contained inaccurate statements. In addition, some materials omitted information necessary to make informed investment decisions, and some firms failed to conduct an adequate investigation of the issuer to determine if the private placements were suitable for their customers.
What is a Private Placement?
Simply stated, a private placement is an offering of a company's securities that is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is not offered to the public at large.
Many private placements are offered pursuant to Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, which specifies the amount of money that can be raised and the type of investor that can be solicited to participate in the offering.
If you are offered an investment in a private placement, you should know that there may be:
- Limited information about the issuer and management, and limited financial reporting. The offering document, sometimes called a private placement memorandum or term sheet, likely will contain limited information on the company's business (and may not be provided at all, if the offering is sold only to accredited investors). And since many private placement securities are issued by companies that are not required to file financial reports, you may have problems finding out how the company is doing, and gauging how your private placement is likely to perform over time.
Who Can Invest?
You generally must be an "accredited investor" to invest in a private placement. This means, broadly speaking, that you must have a net worth (excluding your primary residence) of over $1 million—either alone or with a spouse. Or you must have income exceeding $200,000 over each of the last two years ($300,000 with a spouse), along with a reasonable expectation that you will earn the same amount during the current year.
But private placements are not exclusively offered to accredited investors. If you receive information about a private placement and don't meet the net worth or income criteria, you may still be asked to invest as a non-accredited investor. Ask yourself if you can absorb a loss or potentially have your money tied up for a long time. Keep in mind that private placement securities are considered "restricted" securities and cannot be resold without registration or an exemption from registration – features that make them difficult to sell (illiquid) and may negatively impact the price at which you are able to sell them. In addition, the issuer typically does not have an obligation to provide liquidity to investors by buying the securities back when the investor wants to sell.
General Solicitation Landscape Changing Historically, companies that claimed an exemption under Regulation D were prohibited from engaging in general solicitation or using advertising to market securities. The 2012 JOBS Act changed this. In accordance with SEC rules that take effect September 23, 2013, companies are allowed to conduct general solicitation and advertising for Regulation D Rule 506 private security offerings. While the target audience will be accredited investors, the reality is that all investors—whether accredited or not—will likely be exposed to private placement sales pitches and advertising, for instance by Regulation D crowdfunding platforms, as never before.
Private Placement Tips
Follow these tips to determine if a private placement investment is right for you.
- Find out as much as you can about the company's business, including the industry in which it operates to make an informed decision. Also ask yourself whether you are comfortable getting limited information for the duration of the investment. Most importantly, understand if, how and when you might liquidate your private placement securities.
- Ask your broker what information he or she was able to review about the issuing company and this private placement. Expect your broker to be knowledgeable about any risk factors associated with the company's business, such as other competitors in the company's space, or economic risks specific to the company's business. Risk factors might also include risks associated with the issuing company itself, such as a weak balance sheet, use of leverage or a limited operating history. In addition, your broker should also be familiar with the risks and features of the private placement.
- Ask your broker how this investment fits in with the mix of other investments you hold. How does it align with your risk profile? Be extremely wary if you receive paperwork to sign about a private placement without having a personalized discussion with your broker about why such an investment is right for you.
- If you are provided with a private placement memorandum or other offering document, carefully review it. Make sure that statements by your broker or in other sale materials are consistent with it. The offering document—and any sales materials associated with the private placement—should be detailed and balanced. If you don't understand them, don't invest. Ask for a copy of the offering document, if one has not been provided to you.
- Read the issuing company's Form D, if available on the SEC's EDGAR database. While it contains only limited financial information, it identifies the company's executives and describes other matters that can be valuable. Also contact your state securities regulator for information.
- For real estate private placements, ask about the schedule and source of investor distributions. Specifically, find out if the company's income is able to cover those distributions, or if distributions may be made from proceeds from sales of additional shares or borrowings.
- For oil and gas private placements, ask what you can expect to receive in return for your investment, and the circumstances that would result in a loss of some or all of your investment. Ask if the issuer has entered into any operational or services agreements with affiliates, since this can add additional costs that may dilute your return. Also ask about the issuer's past performance in prior offerings, and review the map of the proposed well locations for drilling activity, whether successful or not, in the vicinity. Lastly, ask how—and when—you will be informed of the status of the drilling efforts and whether or not audited financials of the issuer or the specific offering will be provided.
- Ask whether the private placement is being sold on a conditional or contingency basis. These types of private placements are designed to be concluded only when certain conditions are met, such as a specific dollar amount invested by a given date. If so, there should be specific information regarding whether the proceeds from sales of securities received prior to the contingency being satisfied may be accessed by the issuer. If any specified conditions or contingencies are not met, the offering document should clearly state that investors will be refunded their investment amount. If there are no contingencies, be wary. An offering that may proceed without a minimum level of investments or other conditions could be a red flag, as the issuer can use the proceeds immediately, regardless of the amount raised from other investors.
- Be extremely wary of private placements you hear about through spam emails or cold calling. They are very often fraudulent. A legitimate broker must be properly licensed, and his or her firm must be registered with FINRA, the SEC and a state securities regulator—depending on the type of business the firm conducts. To check the background of a broker or investment adviser, use FINRA's BrokerCheck. (Note: officers, directors and other persons associated with an issuer may sell securities of that issuer without being licensed, so long as they are not compensated for the transaction and meet other conditions of SEC Rule 3a4-1.) If you suspect fraud or believe you are being treated unfairly by a securities professional or firm, File a Complaint with FINRA.
- Ask and check. Ask if the investment professional selling the private placement is registered with FINRA or the SEC. Then check to see if this is in fact the case.
Additional Resources
- FINRA Regulatory Notice 10-22, Obligation of Broker-Dealers to Conduct Reasonable Investigations in Regulation D Offerings
- FINRA News Release, FINRA Sanctions Two Firms and Seven Individuals for Selling Private Placements Without Conducting a Reasonable Investigation
- SEC Alert: Advertising for Unregistered Securities Offerings
- SEC News Release: SEC Approves JOBS Act Requirement to Lift General Solicitation Ban
- FINRA News Release, FINRA Sanctions Eight Firms and 10 Individuals for Selling Interests in Troubled Private Placements, Including Medical Capital, Provident Royalties and DBSI, Without Conducting a Reasonable Investigation
- FINRA Regulatory Notice 12-40, Private Placements of Securities, SEC Approves New FINRA Rule 5123 Regarding Private Placements of Securities
- North American Securities Administrators Association, Private Placements
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For example I could have Books, Software and clothes etc.
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Players can now memorialize their Texas Sports Writers Association All-State selection. If you were selected as an All-State player in football, volleyball, baseball, or softball -- you can order one of two available beautiful plaques with your name, sport, and year that you were selected as one of the prestigious All-State players in Texas. The lighter wood plaque is laser-cut; the darker wood plaque has a smooth metal surface.
The plaques (7" x 9") are only $40 (including s/h) and can be personally customized to serve as a reminder of your outstanding athletic achievement. Each plaque will have a silhouette of an athlete for each sport.
If you want to order a plaque - please contact us with your plaque selection, name, sport and year of being selected as an All-State player. All orders must be pre-paid. No credit cards accepted.Feel free to give us a call if you have any questions.
It is time to renew your TXSWA membership for 2018. The website is designed with you and Texas high school sports fans in mind. The membership form is on the site ready to be printed, filled out and mailed to Maury Salinger who will be happy to collect your $10.00 membership on behalf of TXSWA. Just click About TXSWA and you'll find the form.
We want to communicate to coaches, student-athletes, parents, and others who are interested in the work we are doing. This is your forum too! If you have any suggestions -- don't be bashful.
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Oprah to Do Live Interview at Facebook Next Week
Look under your seats, Facebook staffers! TV legend Oprah Winfrey will be the latest and greatest celebrity to pay a visit to Facebook, where she'll sit for one of Facebook's live-streamed video interviews with its community next week.
Winfrey, who apparently hit it off with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at this year's Allen & Company mogul meetup, is due at Facebook on Sept. 8. In addition to the live video interview, she'll meet with a gathering of local tech industry folks to discuss social media and the Oprah Winfrey Network, and she'll appear at one of Sandberg's exclusive dinner events for Silicon Valley women.
Winfrey is an active Facebook user, with nearly 6.3 million fans who have "Liked" her official page.
Facebook is already soliciting questions for the live chat, which starts at 1:30 pm PT next Thursday.
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How to Apply
Students interested in applying to the Folklore Program should contact both Lisa Gabbert, Director of the Folklore Program, and Christine Cooper-Rompato, the Director of Graduate Studies.
Prospective students must submit an application form, which is available from the School of Graduate Studies. Students must indicate specifically on the form that they are interested in the Folklore Program. In addition to the application form, prospective students should submit three letters of recommendation, school transcripts, test scores, and a writing sample. The deadline for applying to the Folklore Program is January 15 for admission for the Fall Semester. You may also want to visit the English Department's Graduate Student Page for answers to frequently asked questions.


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New York's scandalous Armory Show of 1913: Can art still shock us?
NEW YORK — The former president of the United States galloped into the exhibition of painting, printmaking and sculpture, adjusted his pince-nez, and ejaculated, in his famous soprano yelp, "THAT'S NOT ART!"
But it WAS art, no matter what Theodore Roosevelt said. It was Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Cézanne, Rousseau, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Brancusi, Munch, Duchamp, Braque, Kandinsky, and many more, some of them brandishing their heresies for the first time in the New World. It was Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Modernism, Futurism and Fauvism, crazy lines and coloured squares and curlicues and naked babes with big balloony boobs. It was a blast.
It was the International Exhibition of Modern Art of 1913: the famous, notorious Armory Show. The most scandalous of the canvases and trunkless heads were shipped from Gay Paree on the cliff-face of the First World War and installed in a military field house in Manhattan, there to set off one of the noisiest cannonades of artistic insurgency ever fired at a prudish public.
It was "the total destruction of painting."
It was "Freak Art."
It was "the Chamber of Horrors."
It was, wrote the patron-des-arts Mabel Dodge to Gertrude Stein, "The most important public event . . . since the Declaration of Independence. There will be a riot and a revolution and things will never be the same afterwards."
It was 25 cents for admission.
"Nobody who has been drinking is let in to see this show," jibed the New York World.
"Probably we err in treating most of these pictures seriously," Teddy Roosevelt wrote in a magazine review, speaking for the average Joe.
"Take the picture which for some reason is called, A naked man going down stairs, the ex-chief executive, out of the White House since 1909 and bored to tears, continued. "There is in my bathroom a really good Navajo rug which, on any proper interpretation of the Cubist theory, is a far more satisfactory and decorative picture."
Precisely a century later, I am standing before the very same painting – it is, properly, Nude Descending A Staircase (No. 2) by Marcel Duchamp – with Kimberly Orcutt, Curator of American Art of the New-York Historical Society on Central Park West, which has brought the big blowup of 1913 back to life in a delicious, irreverent retrospective featuring 100 of the original works. The centennial exhibition runs here until late February 2014.
To the virgin gallery-goer of 1913, Duchamp's brown-and-gold rendering – to me, he looks like C-3PO from Star Wars — was the most unsettling and anarchic work of all. Bewildered critics called it "splinter salad" and "an explosion in a shingle factory."
"Duchamp is creating an expectation with the title that most viewers did not know how to discern," Dr. Orcutt is calmly telling me. "It asked the question: What is the relationship between the artist and the viewer? Does the artist have a responsibility to make his work understandable? Or does the viewer have the responsibility to learn this new landscape of art?"
Cubism in 1913 was as unanticipated as an overheated Miley Cyrus would have been in 2005. Nude Descending A Staircase was purchased by an interior designer from San Francisco for $324.
(Two Canadian-born artists who exhibited at the Armory are back in the Historical Society show: Ernest Lawson's Harlem River, Winter and Charles Henry White's The Condemned Tenement.
Even Van Gogh, dead since 1890, was "new and very surprising," Orcutt says. (The Dutchman's suicide was seen by Futurism's assailants as proof that the whole enterprise of Modern Art was the work of the insane.) But for the most part, the French Impressionists and their North American acolytes had, by 1913, been recognized as masters. This posed a hair-pulling conundrum for those who looked at the offerings of Duchamp, Braque, Picasso, Kandinsky, et al and wanted to throw up. Maybe those rebels would turn out to be Van Goghs, too.
"Is it that every artist who is attacked will turn out to be a genius?" writhed the promoter/painter/critic Walter Pach. "No, a thousand times no. That is bad logic."
The subsequent century gave its answer: condemn the new at your peril. Picasso and the Cubists lived to be deified; so did the Abstract Expressionists, the loonies who flung paint at bare walls. "Art" expanded to include Banksy's graffiti; Robert Mapplethorpe's provocative photographs; Marina Abramovic, masturbating on stage.
"Can art still shock us the way this shocked our great-grandparents?" I wonder aloud as I stare at a Picasso head that looks like melting chocolate.
"That conversation about what is art and what is not is still with us," Kimberly Orcutt smiles. "We are still asking: What constitutes art? And who gets to decide?"


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Happy 4th of July, dolls! While we're off celebrating, we thought you might like a few ideas about what to wear, no matter your plans. Check 'em out, after the jump.
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus ("dull, stupid, insensible"), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us ("heavy"). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).
brute (comparative more brute, superlative most brute)
- Without reason or intelligence (of animals). [from 15th c.]
- a brute beast
- Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, "Book VII", in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- A creature […] not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason.
- Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. [from 16th c.]
- the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
- Crude, unpolished. [from 17th c.]
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:
- a great brute farmer from Liddesdale
- Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
- I punched him with brute force.
- Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
- brute violence
of animals: without reason or intelligence
of humans: senseless, unreasoning
crude, unpolished
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
brute (plural brutes)
- (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. [from 17th c.]
- 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
- they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.17:
- But if he lives badly, he will, in the next life, be a woman; if he (or she) persists in evil-doing, he (or she) will become a brute, and go on through transmigrations until at last reason conquers.
- 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
- A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. [from 17th c.]
- One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
Derived terms[edit]
animal destitute of human reason
brutal person
brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)
- (transitive) To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
Etymology 2[edit]
brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)
- Obsolete spelling of bruit
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brute f (plural brutes)
- brute, an animal lacking in reason.
- An animal lacking in intelligence and sensibility.
- (By analogy) A person without reason.
- One who imposes his will on others using violence - a bully.
Further reading[edit]
- "brute" in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- Feminine plural of adjective bruto.
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Tagged: University of South Alabama
Rebel Baseball (The Summer of '95)
My girlfriend bought me a book the other day, an awesome book that I've seen for years, but I'd never actually pulled the trigger on buying. It's called Rebel Baseball, by Steve Perlstein. Rebel Baseball chronicles the independent Northern League during the 1993 season, their inaugural campaign. Among the players in the league at this time were former and future MLB stars Rey Ordonez, Pedro Guerrero, Leon 'Bull" Durham, Kevin Millar along with other notable names (to nerds like myself) like Jeff Bittinger, Kash Beauchamp. Linc Mikkelsen. Mick Billmeyer, Jim Eppard. and Rodney McCray. The players and people that independent leagues employ have always facinated me, even before I was one of them.
My first job in professional baseball was as bat boy for the Mobile BaySharks of the independent Texas-Louisiana League during the '95 season, their second year of operation. The Texas-Louisiana League eventually became the Central League, and some of their teams eventually moved on to play in the United League, American Association, and Northern League after the Central League dissolved. The BaySharks played at Stanky Field, the home of the University of South Alabama Jaguars. Our clubhouse was a single-wide trailer down the left field line. There were three little shower stalls that also comprised the training room, about fifteen lockers, and a manager's office, but all things considered, the team and the league were a legit operation.
Former Boston Red Sox manager Butch Hobson was the manager of the BaySharks, former MLBers Neil Allen and Jamie Nelson were the pitching and hitting coaches, repectively. The league hired some big names as managers for the league to give it credibility and visibility. Besides Butch, former Cubs manager Jim Essian, and former all-stars Jose Cruz Sr. and Alan Ashby, also ran teams. Each team had a handful of former big leaguers as players too. Eric Yelding, Mike Felder, Russ Swan, and Don Carmen were among the guys trying to get back to The Show.
All indy leagues, including the TLL and the Northern League, as written in Rebel Baseball, have struggles. Big names on the field aren't often enough to ensure the survival of a team or league. The Laredo and Pueblo franchises folded midway through the season due to financial difficulties. The players from those teams were either dispersed among the league, or out of work. The league wasn't very geographically friendly. How long would a bus ride from Mobile, AL to Harligen, TX be? It had to be at least ten hours. Probably not on a bus as nice as the buses in affiliated ball, either. Each team in indy leagues are responsible for paying the players on their team, as opposed to affiliated teams, where the parent club picks up the tab.
Our team had it's bush league moments. Mobile had a midday thunderstorm on a particular game day, the sky cleared up by game time, but the field was a little mushy. Our "Star Spangled Banner" performer for the night was a high school kid that was going to do a Hendrix-esqe rendition of our national anthem. The dude set his amp down in the mud behind home plate, played one note, blew the power to the whole ballpark, and cancelled out game! Water and electricity don't mix, kids!
One of the other unbelievable moments of the season was a fight in the clubhouse. Apparently, one of our players had a 'problem' and decided the solution was to steal money out of another player's locker during a game. Apparently somebody walked in on the job, he got busted, a fight insued, and the theif was released from his contract. Theft in a clubhouse is something that IS NOT tolerated in baseball. Every person has cash, valuables, and expensive equipment in their lockers…… sorry, I've gone off on a tangent.
The 'Sharks didn't play to well on the field, we finished 40-59 that year, but 3rd in attendance. The birth of the Mobile BayBears and Hank Aaron Stadium was announced during that summer. The BayBears wouldn't actually begin play until '97, but the league didn't want to run a lame duck franchise in '96. The BaySharks existed for only two seasons, and I was there.
That summer was one of the best summers of my life. The team had four bat boys, two of which would work each home game. I had days off, but I think I only missed one game all season, and that was because I had foot surgery. If I wasn't scheduled to work, I was picking up a shift from another guy, or watching the game from the stands. "Bat Boy" on my resume was surely what got me into clubhouse management.
The End
Appendix: Notable Mobile BaySharks Players, 1995
Tim Becker (IN) – U of South Alabama alum made it as high as AAA with the Yankees. Now head baseball coach at St. Luke's School in Mobile.
Don Carmen (P) – Pitched 349 games with the Phillies, Reds, and Rangers in the big leagues.
Rex Gonzalez (OF) – U of South Alabama alum and brother of MLBer and fellow U of South Alabama alum Luis Gonzalez. Later coached and managed in the Western League.
Kelly Mann (C) – Previously played in 18 games in the majors with the Atlanta Braves.
Tommy Parks (P) – Would later be a punter in the NFL, he five punts for the New York Jets in one game in 2001. He made headlines later that year when it became apparent he had lied about his age and background in order sign with the Jets. He claimed to have played six years of pro baseball and to have reached AAA. He also embellished his college football experience, and had taken five years off his age. He has a lifetime punt average of 47.7 yards, five yards longer than Ray Guy, who is widely accepted as the best punter in NFL history.
Kinnis Pledger (OF) – Former White Sox farmhand would later sign with the Cubs and reach AAA. Also would play in Mariners, Yankees, Royals, and Rockies organizations. Now a real estate agent in Tampa-St. Pete.
Mike Porzio (P) – Pitched in the Cubs organization in 1993 and '94 before going to indy ball until 1997. Signed with the Rockies organization in 1998 and was promoted to the big leagues in 1999. He also pitched for th Chicago White Sox in 2002 and 2003. In all, went on to pitch in 51 games at the Major League level. He's lone former BayShark who would advance to MLB.
Andy Skeels (C), Mark Skeels (3B-C), David Skeels (C's) – All three are brothers. David would later play in Mariners and A's organizations. Mark was a former Marlin farmhand. Would go to law school, be a prosecuter and law proffesor, and is now General Manager of the Newark Bears of the Atlantic League. Andy had played in the Padres and Yankees organizations, reaching as high as AAA with the Yanks. He is now the manager of the Richmond Flying Squirrels, AA affiliate of the S.F. Giants. He was also, later, my manager when I was clubhouse manager of the Augusta GreenJackets in 2008, thirteen years later. Small world.
Lance Ward (OF) – U of South Alabama alum and brother of former MLBer Turner Ward.


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The price of TVs can really shoot up once you get into the 46 to 48-inch realm, especially when you start looking towards the top tier of the televisual tech tree.
At these sizes though Ultra HD 4K resolutions start to make more sense - the extra millions of pixels are able to deliver tangibly higher image fidelity than they can at lower panel sizes. This is also where we start to see the first curved screens tip up...if that's your bag.
You're also starting to get into more genuinely cinematic screen sizes too with 48-inch televisions able to fill the eyes as well as the imagination.
But that doesn't mean you've got to spend a fortune to pick up a bigger screen TV; there are also some excellent bargains out there too. We've put together a list of our current favourite televisions, from 46-inches through 47-inches and up the heady heights of 48-inches.
1. Samsung UE48JU7000T
"An excellent, if slightly small, UHD TV."
Screen size: 48-inch | Tuner: Freeview HD | Resolution: 3840 x 2160 | Panel technology: LED | Smart TV: Tizen | Curved: No | Dimensions: 683 x 1087 x 278 mm
The UE48JU7000T delivers an impressive set of specifications for its money, including a native UHD resolution, Samsung's wide colour gamut PurColor technology, direct LED lighting with local dimming, and Samsung's new Tizen smart TV system.
You'll have to get your hands dirty in the system settings to nail a quality image, though. Its pictures are badly blighted using its initial settings by some pretty heavy duty and unexpected motion blur, but fortunately - so long as you follow the advice given during our test - these motion issues can be worked round.
That then leaves you with an excellent - if slightly small - UHD TV.
Read the full review: Samsung UE48JU7000T
2. Samsung UE48JS8500
"Superb colour, awesome 4K detail and sublime depth make this one special TV."
Screen size: 48-inch | Tuner: Freeview HD and Freesat HD | Resolution: 3840 x 2160 | Panel technology: LED | Smart TV: Tizen | Curved: Yes | Dimensions: 689 x 1083 x 308mm
If you're in the market for a Samsung SUHD, the 48-inch model is well worth a long, lingering look. It's considerably cheaper than the step-up UE48JS9000 and UE65JS9500T models and has great image quality to boot.
The UE48JS8500's superb colour, awesome 4K detail and sublime depth make this one special TV, though some black crush does take the edge off. Excellent usability features – from second-screening a TV channel and hosting all UK catch-up TV apps to supporting Netflix/Amazon 4K and playing-back 4K video files – are welcome but slightly under-powered in terms of processing speed.
The UE48JS8500 though still remains a good value way to sample Samsung's impressive SUHD TVs.
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3. Philips 48PFT5509
"Its slinky design is space-saving, deceptively robust and bang on trend."
Screen size: 48-inch | Tuner: Freeview HD | Resolution: 1920 x 1080 | Panel technology: LED | Smart TV: Philips Smart TV | Curved: No | Dimensions: 684 x 1082 x 232mm
The 48PFT5509 isn't exactly the sort of TV we've become accustomed to seeing from Philips over the years. Rather than bristling with cutting-edge tech with an eye-watering price tag to match, it's stripped back and seriously aggressively priced.
Even though this 48-inch TV costs less than some 32-inch TVs it's a surprisingly strong picture and sound performer. Its design doesn't feel budget either, and while its Smart system is a little content-light, finding any Smart features at all on such a cheap set is a bonus.
Its picture, sound and build quality combine to make it a rare budget gem.
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4. Panasonic TX-47AS740
"The 47AS740 is a marvel with 3D."
Screen size: 47-inch | Tuner: Freeview HD | Resolution: 1920 x 1080 | Panel technology: LED | Smart TV: myHomeScreen | Curved: No | Dimensions: 670 x 1074 x 232
The 47AS740 is Panasonic's attempt to fit into that increasingly tricky area of the TV marketplace: the premium HD TV space. Its smart features and interface are both excellent, especially the inclusion of Freetime to deliver a full suite of UK catch up channels in an easy to use interface.
It's impressively customisable too, its suite of picture adjustments is pretty high level for an HD TV, and its 3D picture quality is outstanding. Unfortunately, though, all the features and ease of use in the world can't hide the fact that contrast problems mean its picture quality is bettered by some similarly sized but significantly cheaper rivals.
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5. Samsung UE46H7000
"Accurate colours with plenty of verve and clarity."
Screen size: 46-inch | Tuner: Freeview HD | Resolution: 1920 x 1080 | Panel technology: LED | Smart TV: Smart Hub | Curved: No | Dimensions: 1033 x 639 x 209
Flying the flag for premium Full HD flatscreens is a thankless task in the face of curved and 4K models, and models such as the UE46H7000 are in danger of being tarred with the outdated brush.
It doesn't exactly push the envelope of Full HD, but putting aside comparisons with these nascent technologies for a second, the UE46H7000 features a slew of innovations designed to enhance the user experience.
These include a point-and-click remote, streamlined Smart TV interface, dual picture display and a faster processor. In terms of picture and sound processing it doesn't offer anything beyond previous generations but is an impressive consolidation of existing technologies.
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Margot VigeantProfessor of Chemical Engineering
Educational Background
- B.S., Cornell University
- M.S., University of Virginia
- Ph.D., University of Virginia
Teaching Experience
- Bucknell University, 1999 - present
Teaching Specialties
- First-year engineering
- Chemical engineering thermodynamics
- Bioprocess engineering
Research Interests
- Chemical engineering pedagogy
- Modeling of small molecule transport in microdialysis
- Bacterial adhesion and total internal reflection microscopy
- 2009 Ray W. Fahien Award for Teaching Excellence and Contribution to Chemical Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education
- 1999 Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Studies, University of Virginia
Selected Publications
Vigeant, M. and R. Ford.; "Interactions Between Motile Escherichia Coli and Glass in Media with Various Ionic Strengths, as Observed with a Three-Dimensional-Tracking Microscope." Appl. Environ. Microbiol. (1997) 63, 3474-3479.
Prince, M., Vigeant, M., Nottis, K. Assessing Misconceptions of Undergraduate Engineering Students in the Thermal Sciences Accepted, May 2009, to International Journal of Engineering Education.
Prince, M. and Vigeant, M. A Preliminary Study on the Effectiveness of Inquiry-Based Activities for Addressing Misconceptions of Undergraduate Engineering Students. Accepted, publication pending June 2009, Education for Chemical Engineers.
Schloss, J. and Vigeant, M. Modeling Microdialysis in the Rat Brain. Presented to McNay group, SUNY Albany Department of Psychology, Albany, NY. July, 2009.
Vigeant, M., Maneval, J., Snyder, W., Hanyak, M., Prince, M.: Hands-On Chemical Engineering Senior Design: the Evolution from Paper to Practice. ASEE Conference Proceedings (2008), Pittsburgh, PA.
Armitage, J., T. Pitta, M. Vigeant, H. Packer, and R. Ford; "Transformations in Flagellar Structure in Rhotobacter Sphaeroidesand Their Possible Relationship to Changes in Swimming Speed." J. Bacteriol (1999) 181, 4825-4833.


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President Barack Obama is in Florida today, making a big push to get Congress to pass the Buffett Rule, his campaign-ready tax proposal that would raise tax rates on millionaires and billionaires. In many ways, the Buffett Rule is the Obama campaign's version of the Paul Ryan budget plan. The bill, which would force people earning $1 million or more to pay at least 30% in income taxes, has garnered virtually no bipartisan support in Congress and has little chance of passing the Senate next week.
In reality, the Buffett Rule is a populist campaign pitch designed to paint a stark contrast between Obama and his likely Republican rival Mitt Romney, a former Bain executive who has elevated out-of-touch rich-guy gaffes to an art form.
Obama basically laid out this strategy this afternoon, during a speech at Florida Atlantic University. Here's a key excerpt:
"Right now, the share of our national income flowing to the top 1% has climbed to levels last seen in the 1920s. And yet those same people are also paying taxes at one of the lowest rates in 50 years. You might have heard this, but Warren Buffett is paying a lower tax rate than his secretary.
That's wrong. It isn't fair. And it's time for us to choose which direction we want to go in as a country. Do we want to keep giving tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans like me, or Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates – people who don't need them and never asked for them? Or do we want to keep investing in things that will grow our economy and keep us secure? That's the choice.
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U of I Athletic Director Ron Guenther to Retire
University of Illinois Athletic Director Ron Guenther says he will retire after his contract runs out June 30th.
Guenther said in a news release Monday that he's been working with the university on a succession plan and a search committee has started looking for his replacement. Guenther had talked recently about possibly staying on after June to begin work on a planned renovation of the Assembly Hall.
Guenther's 19 years on the job have been marked by a number of sports-related construction projects. They include the recent $121 million renovation of Memorial Stadium. Interim Vice President and Chancellor Bob Easter praised Guenther for his integrity and high athlete graduation rates.
Guenther is a University of Illinois graduate and played on the football team in the early 1960s.


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Computational resources to be distributed:
48 000 000 core hours
Technical parameters of the cluster Salomon:
1,008 compute nodes and 129 terabytes (TB) of RAM. It will feature 864 Intel(r) Xeon Phi(tm) 7120 coprocessors cards with 52,704 cores and 13.8 TB of RAM.
Technical parameters of the cluster Anselm:
209 computing nodes; each node is fitted with two eight-core processors with an x86-64 SandyBridge architecture, 64GB of RAM and 300GB of local disk capacity.
Receipt of applications:
7 June 2018 to 31 July 2018
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When to bring someone new home to meet your family: This is great advice for single arents or someone dating a single parent.
Dating after divorce or a break up can be tricky if you're a single parent. The rules change once you become a parent. I know. I am telling you from experience and so that you don't make the same mistakes I made. They can be hurtful. Not just to you but the most important individual in your life. Your child.
I remember after the father of my daughter passed away I was very fragile. I wasn't sure if I wanted to ever get into another relationship but I also knew that I did want to give my daughter the option of a complete family. I met a great guy or so I thought. We were very much in love and I was so excited to share him with my family right away. I didn't have a care in the world. I introduced him to my daughter and my parents after just a few short months. My daughter grew very attached and always asked for him. We ended up breaking up after one year of dating. Apparently it "was too much to handle" for him to date a single parent. Wish he would have told me that from the get go! Not so much because of me but because of my daughter. She had lost her dad and now it felt like loosing another father figure all over again. It's not his fault. He should have maybe thought about my daughter when you don't have children yourself it is tough to understand or be compassionate until you have children of your own. It was my mistake for being too excited too fast and not thoroughly getting to know the person and their strengths, weaknesses and intentions before opening up the most treasured part of my life. My family.
So here are a few tips on how to help keep that from happening to you:
- Within the first 6 months of getting to know a person would be too soon to bring your date home to mom and especially to your children.
- After 6 month of being in an exclusive relationship and if you feel that the relationship is going to be longterm, would be the appropriate time to bring your date home to mom.
- Dating and children is a sensitive matter. It is no longer just about you. You have to be first and foremost considerate to your child(ren). You don't want to introduce your children to everyone that you're dating. First it isn't being a good role model to your child(ren) and second, you want to make sure that this person is here to stay to teach your child(ren) stability and not everybody is special to mommy or daddy.
- Gifts to bring: For the family it would be appropriate to bring flowers and chocolate. For the child(ren) a stuffed animal.
- Sharing the same bedroom with the family is a big NO until you are engaged and you are both committed to making the family a WHOLE.


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SHANE LOWRY must look into other ways of qualifying for next April's US Masters after illness led to him withdrawing today from the last event of the European Tour season.
A good week at the €6.2m DP World Tour Championship in Dubai could have lifted the 25-year-old into the world top 50 for the first time - and at the end of next month they all earn invitations to Augusta.
"Obviously I'm gutted," said Lowry, who was put on a drip in hospital yesterday after going down with a virus.
"It's such a big week and a great event, but given the way I feel right now there's just no way I could have played.
"I honestly couldn't even stand up on the tee, never mind play 18 holes.
"I became very sick and dehydrated. The drip helped, but when I came off it and left the hospital I became sick again and haven't been able to keep rehydrating to keep the recovery going overnight.
"It's just so disappointing to miss out on the tournament because I've been playing great for the last couple of months."
He won the Portugal Masters and then came fifth at the BMW Masters in China.
"I was looking to end the season on a real high, but such is life."


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Beach towel? Check. Sunscreen? Check. Spinach? Check. Forget lying out for hours under a sweltering sun and definitely skip the sunbed. Your answer to a beautiful tan can be found in your fridge. According to Dr. Susan Stuart, board certified dermatologist in San Diego, eating lots of fruits and vegetables can give you the same golden glow. "Studies confirm that eating certain fruits and vegetables are not only beneficial to your health but also to your skin." You can find these "skin superfoods" by choosing fruits and vegetables that are yellow or orange in color, such as carrots, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and cantaloupe. The color of these foods is caused by a very potent antioxidant called carotene. You will also find that dark leafy greens such as spinach and kale have the superpower as well.
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Carrots. A commonly known myth is that eating "lots" of carrots will turn your skin orange. But just how much is a lot? In order to have your skin turn orange from a carotene overdose would mean incorporating carrots into 90% of your diet. However, when carrots are consumed regularly in moderation, the skin adapts a more natural and healthy looking hue. Studies have found that people actually prefer the natural glow to the look of a darkened skin tone from sun exposure.
Tomatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Cantaloupe, Apricots. Like carrots, these carotenoid rich fruits and veggies improve your skin's color while providing other health benefits.
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Spinach & Kale. These dark, leafy greens should definitely be a staple in your diet as well as broccoli.
Olive Oil. All though olive oil doesn't contain any carotenoids, antioxidants and omega-3s will give your skin a moisture boost for a healthier appearance.
Other theories for tan skin include bathing in tea and taking beta-carotene supplements and other vitamins. It hasn't been proven that adding tea bags to a bath will tint your skin for longer than a few hours and taking supplements may give you an intensely orange complexion. The most effective method of achieving a natural glow is by consuming fresh fruits and vegetables as a large part of your diet.
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Somehow, for me, the black and white films of the 30's and 40's are my favorites for such times. They aren't always particularly calm, quiet stories, they aren't always deep drama, but they have a soothing, otherworldly quality that suits me at night. One that I picked for tonight is a sweet and funny little detective story released in 1934 called Murder on the Blackboard. My favorite crotchety spinster with wry humor and a good heart is Miss Hildegarde Withers, played so well by dear Edna May Oliver. She is a schoolteacher who finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery and uses her particular talents of biting wit and action to follow the clues and reveal the murderer. Edna May did two other movies as Miss Withers, The Penguin Pool Murders and Murder On A Honeymoon. I wish she had done more.
If I don't fall asleep, which I believe will be the case, I am putting on The Lodger, a 1944 film about a mysterious man (Laird Cregar) who shows up at a London home late one night looking for a room. In the streets, newsboys are crying out headlines about Jack the Ripper's latest murder that very night. I guess you can see where this is going. Merle Oberon and my favorite dashing Englishman, George Sanders, find themselves enmeshed in the life of this menacing man. It is a great film, rich with fog and shadows and sinister atmosphere.
I might have picked one of Val Lewton's films of the early 40's, like Cat People or I Walked With A Zombie, perhaps something of the early 1930's, like Dracula or The Werewolf of London, maybe one of the 1940's series The Saint with George Sanders. All have the qualities of light and shadow, atmosphere and story that appeal to me.
I wonder what you would choose in the dark hours of the night.


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AUSTIN, Texas - The dreams Pacific had of pulling an upset at the NCAA Tournament faded quickly on Friday afternoon, eventually turning into a nightmare against a Miami team that was too big, too fast and too good.
AUSTIN, Texas - The dreams Pacific had of pulling an upset at the NCAA Tournament faded quickly on Friday afternoon, eventually turning into a nightmare against a Miami team that was too big, too fast and too good.
Whatever chance the No. 15 Tigers might have had to remain competitive against the No. 2 Hurricanes was thwarted by poor shooting in the first half, as Miami ran away with a 78-49 victory at the Frank Erwin Center in an East Region second-round game.
It was the final game of coach Bob Thomason's 25-year tenure at Pacific and the last time six key seniors - Lorenzo McCloud, Travis Fulton, Colin Beatty, Markus Duran, Rodrigo de Souza and Jordan Turner - will don a Pacific uniform.
The Tigers (22-13) had earned their place into the tournament with a seven-game winning streak, but they couldn't maintain that level of play against a superior Hurricanes (28-6) team that won the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season and tournament championships.
"Miami is just a lot better than us," Thomason said. "I wish we could have shot better in the first half, but sometimes you meet those moments where you don't perform well and this was one of those games. They're a great team and they played tremendous. If I had to go out in coaching, you want to go out to a great team. I'll be rooting for them the rest of the time, so maybe they can win a national championship."
Thomason finishes his career with the most wins in Pacific (437) and Big West Conference history (248), and with a 2-5 record in five NCAA Tournament appearances.
Pacific kept it close in the opening minutes, due to energized play from junior center Khalil Kelley, but below average shooting led to a 14-0 Miami run over a 6-minute stretch. The Tigers missed 11 consecutive shots before a Kelley dunk made it 22-9. Miami then followed with another 14-4 burst, and the blowout was on.
"I think it was the jitters getting out of us early on," Fulton said. "We weren't hitting those open shots like we normally do."
Pacific missed its first seven attempts from beyond the 3-point arc, while Miami made 5 of 11 in the first half, nullifying the only advantage the Tigers may have had. Pacific shot better in the second half from beyond the arc, but it was too little, too late. The Tigers made just 33.3 percent of their overall attempts (18 of 54).
Kelley and Fulton were the only Tigers who played well. Kelley had 11 points and nine rebounds, and Fulton heated up after halftime and finished with a team-high 18 points. McCloud was just 2 of 8 from the field and finished with four points and four assists. Big West Tournament MVP Tony Gill played passively, finishing with one point on two attempts against Miami's front line that featured three players 6-foot-10 or taller.
"Obviously, with their size, it's tough to go in there," Kelley said. "We had to really get used to trying to go in there and maybe kick it out, or pull up or try to shot fake and do different things. They made it tough, so you have to give them credit."
Senior guard Durand Scott carried Miami's offense with 21 points, including three consecutive 3-pointers over a 1:23 span in the second half. Standout sophomore point guard Shane Larkin had 10 points and nine assists, and 290-pound backup center Reggie Johnson had seven points and 10 rebounds.
Miami made 12 of 22 attempts from beyond the 3-point arc, and Pacific finished 9 of 26.
Miami coach Jim Larranaga said Larkin controlled the game.
"I may have called one or two offensive plays, because I said to (Larkin) you run your team and make the decisions out there," Larranaga said. "He called the plays all game long. When you have a player of his skill level and basketball IQ, it's very, very easy to have confidence and trust he'll do the right thing."
Despite the sour ending, Pacific's turnaround season wasn't lost on its players. McCloud said a lot went into improving from an 11-19 team last season to an NCAA Tournament team a year later.
"This season was a great experience," McCloud said. "We found out what hard work, dedication and what being a team can get you. It's a valuable lesson to the guys that will be here next year."
Fulton said this season was particularly rewarding to the 10 players that signed to play at Pacific in the spring of 2011, when the program hit a low point, as four players transferred, leaving just Kelley and Andrew Bock on the roster.
"I'm so glad I came here," Fulton said. "We have come a long ways to get in the big tournament this year. That's what I've always wanted and I couldn't be more proud of our team and our guys."
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Matthew Broderick is finding the work nice on Broadway and will be sticking around, but he's getting a new co-star.
Producers of "Nice Work If You Can Get It" said Wednesday that Broderick has extended his run to June 15, but Kelli O'Hara will play her final performance on March 31. She'll be replaced by Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller starting April 2.
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a screwball romantic comedy that takes place in the 1920s and tells the story of a female bootlegger who meets a wealthy, often-drunken playboy.
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A deadly gas leak from a McDonald's soda fountain killed an elderly woman and sickened nine in Georgia, police said Wednesday.
Investigators say the carbon dioxide, used to carbonate drinks, escaped from the soda fountain's piping between the walls of a McDonald's in Pooler, Ga., a week ago, The Associated Press reports. The build-up leaked into a bathroom, where two women were found unconscious and one later died.
The death and other injuries were a mystery to officials until now.
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"It caused what is normally a harmless gas to be pumped in the wall cavity and leak into the women's restroom," Pooler Police Chief Mark Revenew told the wire. "At a high level of concentration, it displaces oxygen."
Firefighters found two unconscious women when they were called into the fast food spot on Sept. 7. One of the women, 80-year-old Anne Felton on Ponte Vedra, Florida, died in a Georgia hospital the following day. Eight other people, including three firefighters, were also treated at the hospital and released, Reuters reports.
In a statement, McDonald's franchisees John and Monique Palmaccio said they "are committed to running safe, welcoming restaurants." They reopened the restaurant after the incident.
"We worked closely with the authorities to determine the cause of this incident and we've taken action to correct the situation," they said, according to The Associated Press.
The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration is investigating the situation and looking into possible workplace violations.
"At this point we don't anticipate criminal charges," Revenew said. "It just appears to be a mistake."


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Levinsohn and Liguori Join Board of Newly Restructured Tribune Company
Former Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn and Yahoo director Peter Liguori will be joining the board of the Tribune Company, which will emerge from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization tomorrow.
Levinsohn most recently was interim CEO of Yahoo before the appointment of former Google exec Marissa Mayer; Liguori is a former News Corp. and Discovery Communications exec, who is also on the Yahoo board.
Both will become directors at the Chicago-based media giant as it completes a complex and contentious restructuring process, which includes new owners and directors, about $1.4 billion in loans and credit facility, and a new stock structure.
Oaktree Capital Management, Angelo, Gordon & Co. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. are the 165-year-old media giant's new senior creditors.
The current CEO of the Tribune Company — which owns or operates two dozen television stations and a variety of prominent newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun — is Eddy Hartenstein. But Liguori is widely expected to take over the role soon.


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My dictionary, along with many websites I've checked translates 制作 as
- to make
- to manufacture
What sorts of things may I 制作?
The second definition of "manufacture" leads me to believe that, for example, "I made new flash cards."/「我制作了新的词卡。」, is too small-scale a thing to be 制作'ed. I haven't found any examples at http://www.chinese-tools.com/ or http://www.mandarintools.com/cgi-bin/wordlook.pl or in my dictionary.