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November 29, 2007
GARY LEE BJORSTROM, PETITIONER,v.F. GONZALEZ, WARDEN, RESPONDENT.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Ruben B. Brooks United States Magistrate Judge
On September 27, 2007, Petitioner, proceeding pro se, submitted a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In its November 11, 2007 Order, the Court dismissed this case without prejudice because Petitioner failed to name a proper respondent and failed to allege exhaustion of state court remedies as to all claims presented. Petitioner was instructed that to have this case reopened he had to file a First Amended Petition no later than December 31, 2007.
On November 26, 2007, Petitioner filed a First Amended Petition pursuant to this Court's Order. Based on this Court's review of the First Amended Petition (hereinafter "Petition"), the Court ORDERS that this case be reopened. Further, in accordance with Rule 4 of the rules governing petitions for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, and upon a preliminary review of the Petition, IT IS ORDERED that:
1. The Clerk of this Court shall promptly (a) serve a copy of the Petition and a copy of this Order on the Attorney General for the State of California, or his authorized agent; and (b) serve a copy of this Order on Petitioner. 2. If Respondent contends the Petition can be decided without the Court's reaching the merits of Petitioner's claims (e.g., because Respondent contends Petitioner has failed to exhaust any state remedies as to any ground for relief alleged in the Petition, or that the Petition is barred by the statute of limitations, or that the Petition is subject to dismissal under Rule 9 of the Rules Governing § 2254 Cases, or that all of the claims are procedurally defaulted, or that Petitioner is not in custody), Respondent shall file a motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 4 of the Rules Governing § 2254 Cases no later than January 14, 2008. The motion to dismiss shall not address the merits of Petitioner's claims, but rather shall address all grounds upon which Respondent contends dismissal without reaching the merits of Petitioner's claims is warranted.*fn1 At the time the motion to dismiss is filed, Respondent shall lodge with the Court all records bearing on Respondent's contention in this regard. A hearing date is not required for the motion to dismiss.
3. If Respondent files a motion to dismiss, Petitioner shall file his opposition, if any, to the motion no later than February 4, 2008. At the time the opposition is filed, Petitioner shall lodge with the Court any records not lodged by Respondent which Petitioner believes may be relevant to the Court's determination of the motion.
4. Unless the Court orders otherwise, Respondent shall not file a reply to Petitioner's opposition to a motion to dismiss. If the motion is denied, the Court will afford Respondent adequate time to respond to Petitioner's claims on the merits.
5. If Respondent does not contend that the Petition can be decided without the Court reaching the merits of Petitioner's claims, Respondent shall file and serve an answer to the Petition, as well as points and authorities in support of such answer, no later than January 28, 2008. At the time the answer is filed, Respondent shall lodge with the Court all records bearing on the merits of Petitioner's claims. The lodgments shall be accompanied by a notice of lodgment which shall be captioned "Notice of Lodgment in 28 U.S.C. § 2254 Habeas Corpus Case - To Be Sent to Clerk's Office." Respondent shall not combine separate pleadings, orders or other items into a combined lodgment entry. Each item shall be numbered separately and sequentially.
6. Petitioner may file a traverse to matters raised in the answer no later than February 25, 2008. Any traverse by Petitioner (a) shall state whether Petitioner admits or denies each allegation of fact contained in the answer; (b) shall be limited to facts or arguments responsive to matters raised in the answer; and (c) shall not raise new grounds for relief that were not asserted in the Petition. Grounds for relief withheld until the traverse will not be considered. No traverse shall exceed ten (10) pages in length absent advance leave of Court for good cause shown.
7. A request by a party for an extension of time within which to file any of the pleadings required by this Order should be made in advance of the due date of the pleading, and the Court will grant such a request only upon a showing of good cause. Any such request shall be accompanied by a declaration under penalty of perjury explaining why an extension of time is necessary.
8. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, this case shall be deemed submitted on the day following the date Petitioner's opposition to a motion to dismiss and/or his traverse is due.
9. Every document delivered to the Court must include a certificate of service attesting that a copy of such document was served on opposing counsel (or on the opposing party, if such party is not represented by counsel). Any document delivered to the Court without a certificate of service will be returned to the submitting party and disregarded by the Court.
10. Petitioner shall immediately notify the Court and counsel for Respondent of any change of Petitioner's address. If Petitioner fails to keep the Court informed of where Petitioner may be contacted, this action will be subject to dismissal for failure to prosecute.
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Hosmer to miss three to six weeks with hand fracture
KANSAS CITY -- The Royals' postseason chances took a severe hit Thursday night when first baseman Eric Hosmer reinjured his right hand and could miss three to six weeks.
Hosmer left the 6-3 victory over the Twins in the sixth inning after aggravating the hand with a checked swing in his previous at-bat in the fourth and will be put on the disabled list.View Full Game Coverage
KANSAS CITY -- The Royals' postseason chances took a severe hit Thursday night when first baseman Eric Hosmer reinjured his right hand and could miss three to six weeks.
Hosmer left the 6-3 victory over the Twins in the sixth inning after aggravating the hand with a checked swing in his previous at-bat in the fourth and will be put on the disabled list.View Full Game Coverage
When might he return?
"They said as quick as three weeks and as long as six," Hosmer said. "So obviously I'm going to be shooting for the three to four weeks."
Hosmer accompanied the Royals to Oakland where they open a three-game series Friday night.
"It's very frustrating. Bad timing. But the positive side is I can still get back for that last month," Hosmer said. "I'll be right there with these guys, cheering them on. But the good thing is I'll be back for the last month and make that last push."
Billy Butler, normally the designated hitter, looms as Hosmer's immediate replacement in the field at first base. He filled in for Hosmer earlier as did veteran Raul Ibanez. Butler pinch-hit for Hosmer to start the sixth and singled, then took over at first base.
"We'll mix and match, depending," manager Ned Yost said.
No immediate replacement was announced for Hosmer on the active roster. Starting pitcher Jason Vargas will have to come off the disabled list Saturday for his start against the Athletics but it wasn't clear if that would be the move. It would leave the Royals a man short on the bench.
Hosmer was drilled on the right hand by a Jon Lester pitch in a 6-0 loss July 20 at Boston. He finished that game but did not start in five of the next six games because the hand was bruised and he had trouble gripping the bat. He did make late-inning appearances on defense, though.
He returned to the starting lineup in each of the three games against the Twins. Until his removal, he was 1-for-10 in the series.
"His second at-bat, he checked his swing and it really bothered him," Yost said. "Came back in, we re-X-rayed it. The swelling had gone down and it revealed a stress fracture of the third metacarpal on his right hand. So it's a definite DL situation and we're looking at three to four weeks."
Or more, according to what Hosmer was told.
After being hit by Lester, now with the A's, Hosmer tried to come back three days later but still had problems so he waited another four days. Back in the lineup for the Twins series, he felt some discomfort.
"Yeah, but it was tolerable. I could grind through it and the pain wasn't too bad but if I make my mind up and want to swing, I can get through that," Hosmer said. "But when these guys are throwing cutters and balls that are moving, you make your mind up you want to swing and, at the last second, you don't want to swing and hold it back, it just doesn't tolerate it."
When Hosmer was hit by Lester, he was the hottest hitter in the Majors and had a 16-game hitting streak. His early-season struggles seemed behind him.
"He was hot and any time you lose a player of his caliber, it hurts. You've got to find ways to overcome it and we did tonight," Yost said after the reinjury. "This game was a big win for us; it got us to four behind Detroit and we want to keep pecking at that. I like our team. I think we'll be able to overcome it."
Butler, who started five games in Hosmer's absence, has worked out at first base virtually every day this year to keep his fielding skills sharp. Before Hosmer's rookie year, Butler was the regular first baseman and in his career has started 356 games at the position.
"I've done it before. I felt like when Hoz sat out earlier trying to heal his hand up, we didn't miss a beat as a team," Butler said.
"I think that's the main goal for me defensively and everything like that. I know I'm not a Gold Glove caliber like he is. I just want to go out there and basically go unnoticed. If nobody notices I'm out there, then basically I feel like I'm doing my job."
Hosmer goes on the DL with a .267 average, 27 doubles, six homers and 46 RBIs. In July he hit .366 (26-for-71).
"It's something you don't ever want to see on anyone's team, especially our team," third baseman Mike Moustakas said. "A guy like Hoz is one of our best players and it hurts to lose him but someone's going to have to find a way to step up. We're going to have to get production from other parts of this lineup. But it's a rough day for us because he's out."


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The Scottish Higgins has re-emerged as the game's leading force having occupied that same position a decade ago.
This says more about him than it does the chasing pack. As a big occasion match player he is Mr. Dependable. This is his fourth ranking final from the last six events and he has the class to win his 21st ranking title tonight.
But Ali Carter will not be a pushover. Newport is obviously a venue he likes and if he scores heavily today he has every chance of winning.
Carter doesn't lack self belief and has the game to win frames in one visit and leave Higgins cold.
Oddly, the pair haven't met in a TV tournament for six years. Today, they will hopefully serve up a final to remember.
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Well done to Higgins. A true great, but made to look good by a journeyman this afternoon.
- 3:46 pm
Why all the cliched fence-sitting?
"today [Higgins] is poised to win it"
"[Higgins] has the class to win"
"Ali Carter will not be a pushover"
"Carter...has the game to win frames in one visit"
"Hopefully they will serve up a final to remember"
Why bother posting if you've got nothing of any substance to say? Higgins is obviously in a completely different class to Carter and will stuff him unless something remarkable happens. Carter has never beaten Higgins (or O'Sullivan), and I wouldn't give him a snowball's chance in hell of changing that today.
- 4:14 pm
- Dave H said...
And very easy to say when Higgins is already 6-2 up!
- 4:50 pm
'Higgins is obviously in a completely different class to Carter and will stuff him unless something remarkable happens.'
So what you're saying is that either Higgins will win or Carter will win?
How's that fence?
- 5:04 pm
There seems almost bewildering wonderment regarding snooker sometimes.
If player A beats player B (as mentioned by Mr Hey You) and player C defeats player D, this dos not mean that any loftily ranked player is safe against player E on a consistent basis.
What does trouble me though, is how John Evans can interview the winner and consistently ruin the occasion and become a laughing stock in frony of the dinner suited dignitaries and the Mayor of Newport.
- 5:08 pm
- Matt said...
"Carter has never beaten Higgins (or O'Sullivan), and I wouldn't give him a snowball's chance in hell of changing that today."
Carter has beaten both O'Sullivan and Higgins in the Championship League this month. A ranking event it may not be but they are competitive victories all the same.
- 5:08 pm
Hindsight is a wonerful thing, yet some fail to realise this until after the event.
- 5:29 pm
Some great stuff from Higgins this afternoon, happy that i got on him over 5.5 50+ breaks at evens with pps.
- 5:49 pm
Hi Dave,
I have to agree with most of the comments. I do disagree with the hyperbole these player's get by all the commentators.
Day, Carter, Maguire, Selby, Perry, Murphy et al are all average/good players.
But please, let us not get carried away by the odd shot selection/break they make in a match and think they're 'great' players. The term is banded around to easily by my liking these days.
They aren't. And never will be.
Very few are great, but on the circuit today, the word can only be described to Higgins, Hendry, Davis, O'Sullivan and Williams.
Yes, players do peak and mature at all different ages, but the greats start early. These average players just float around holding on to their top 16 card, much like tour golfers do...and make a good living.
Agreed no player will dominate again, but the standard from some of these top 16 players has been awful this week. Maguire said it himself. Carter's just done enough to be there. He's form has been off all season. And i think he has created a record by becoming the first to lose every game at the Premier League Snooker championship last week.
Higgin's was the closest ever to being the last person to dominate. He was a hybrid of Davis and Hendry. And last night and today he has gone back to those peaks of 1998-2000.
I hope the rivalry with O'Sullivan continues apace. The rest can only admire...
Thanks, Joe
- 6:11 pm
I think the "pandaboy" will be among "the great" eventually.
How many players has won 4 rankingtitles at 22?
And don't say that the competition were tuffer in the old days.
- 7:13 pm
- Tom said...
3:46,how can you call Carter a journeyman!?
Last time I checked,journeymen don't make maximums at the crucible,get to 3 ranking event finals(so far)win a ranking event,or make 73 clearances to win on the black from 0-72 against higgins on finals night infront of packed crowds!
Why dont you go and post on a subject you actually know something about!
- 8:00 pm
How can anyone say snooker is dyeing when we've just had the most amazing week.Great crowd's, great matches and a cracking final,snooker finally is on the way up.
- 9:22 pm
Two finals tonight, and both sponsored by toteSport. The winner of one event received £60k, the winner of the other only £35k. Both sports are headed up by one Barry Hearn - and guess what final he decided to attend tonight? And some people now think snooker is on the way up? Unbelievable!
- 12:06 am
January 2010 really has been just about the best month snooker has had in some time.
Two cracking televised tournaments, positive announcements about the future of the sport - including the return of ranking event snooker to Germany after 13 years - and a general air of optimism we've not had in the game for some time.
It's a shame there's nothing high-profile for a couple of months now, but thankfully the people responsible for that situation have been booted out and we can be hopeful of better times ahead in the near future.
No doubt there will still be negativity among people who claim to be fans of snooker, much of it on here, but frankly who cares about those people? Snooker's on the way back. Get on board.
- 12:30 am
- Trevor said...
Matt those championship league wins over ronnie and higgins are not counted in head to heads because they are to short a format.this has been confirmed before on this site.
- 12:43 am
I see Barry stopped at the dart's, presented Paul Nicholson with a cheque for £60,000 not bad for 3 days work, how much did Higgins win?
- 12:56 am
To Donal at 4.14.
You sir are what is known in gambling circles as an 'aftertimer'. I bet you didn't think the time of your post would be shown. Anychance of letting us know if you fancy Ali to make a comeback? Thanks.
- 9:13 am
To 9.22pm, nice to hear the positive outlook but Ronnie's matches and the final apart, I wouldn't quite agree with the term 'great crowds'. I also genuinely think that there were only a couple of matches that you'd describe as great and if you think that was a cracking final then.....
- 9:15 am
You must've been watching the darts anon at 9:22PM because that wasn't the Welsh Open - sparse crowds, early finishes, poor weekend to finish with. Definitely needs to change if it's to stay.
- 10:39 am
- AndyG said...
What a shame given how good that tournament was that so much of the UK will have missed it completely because it doesn't get a look in on "BBC2 not-Wales"...
- 12:13 pm
- jamie brannon said...
I agree with the anonymous poster about who deserves to be called great today, but Murphy is in a higher bracket than average/good. He has the potential to still join the greats as does Selby, Ding and Ebdon perhaps if he won another World title.
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NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College broadcast and digital communications students, Westminster's Cable Network (WCN), and Titan Radio received several awards from College Broadcasters, Inc. (CBI) for projects featured on WCN.
Joe Ligo's project, "Think Before You Post: Cyberbullying," was awarded first place for Best TV Public Service Announcement.
"Like any great production, this was a team effort. I'm so thankful for crew members' hard work and the actors' great performances," said Ligo.
Ligo also thanked three Westminster professors for their contributions: Dr. Terri Lenox, professor of computer science and chair of the department; Dr. Jamie McMinn, associate professor of psychology and coordinator of the psychology-human resources program; and Brad Weaver; communication studies lecturer.
Ligo was named runner up in this category in 2012 for "Get Out." That year "Titan Radio Never Stops" was named Best TV Promo. Ligo, the program director for the Westminster's student-run Titan Radio, came up with the concept and produced the video.
"It's great to bring home another CBI award to Westminster," Ligo said.
Ligo, a senior broadcast communications major, is a son of Jess and Amy Ligo and a graduate of Mercer Area High School.
Connor Kobis's project, "Fourth and a Miracle," was named Best Documentary. The program documents the journey shared by Scott and Sarah Coy, two people, who through much adversity, have made it through life sticking by each other's side.
"To receive this recognition from professionals in the field is really an amazing accomplishment for me," Kobis said. "I never in a million years would have expected to win this award. I'm so happy and proud that the story of Scott and Sarah Coy hit home with audiences across the nation."
Kobis continued, "I look forward to doing more digital media work in the future and would love to move to Hollywood someday to pursue a career in filmmaking."
Kobis graduated from Westminster over the summer with a degree in broadcast communications. He is a son of Michael and Kathleen Kobis of Elma, N.Y. and a graduate of Bishop Timon-Saint Jude High School.
"The CBI awards confirm that Westminster students are reaching and defining the benchmarks for digital media best practices," Weaver said. "Competing and winning on the national stage against heavy competition from major universities says so much about the quality of education Westminster students receive. I'm incredibly proud of Connor and Joe. They're gifted, skilled, creative leaders who will help shape the digital media landscape."
Westminster College also received national finalist awards for work produced by Titan Radio. WCN and its website were named national finalists for Best Audio Podcast for "Dirty Secrets and Broken News: Checkbook Journalism, Interview Poaching and Bigfoot Journalism." Producers and contributors include the following students:
Joshua Dunn, a senior broadcast communications major, is a son of Charles and Maria Dunn of Pittsburgh and a graduate of Northgate High School.
Jordan Greer received his degree in broadcast communications in May. He is a son of Joseph and Mariagnes Greer and a graduate of Baldwin High School.
Anthony Humes, a junior communication studies major, is a son of Ian and Lynne Humes of Darlington, England.
Stephanie Oleyar, a senior communication studies major, is a daughter of Stephen and Lori Oleyar of Derry and a graduate of Greensburg Central Catholic High School.
Andrea Tice of New Castle is a 2012 graduate of Westminster's Lifelong Learning Program.
Jarred Treshok, a senior broadcast communications major, is a son of Anthony and Karen Treshok of Sarver and a graduate of Freeport Area High School.
The broadcast and digital communications program is one of the largest and fastest growing at Westminster College, offering students interested in radio and television an education with hands-on experience, including: remote broadcasts of sports and other special events, in-studio production of news, magazine and interview shows, announcing and managing Titan Radio, special feature productions, and web and internet journalism on www.wcn247.com.
The objective of the broadcast and digital communications program is to prepare students for entry-level and subsequent management positions in digital media: radio, television, cable and a range of other organizations.
Contact Weaver at 724-946-7238 or email for additional information.


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The primary drugs encountered by the task force include:
In 2017, the Narcotics Unit investigated 404 cases, resulting in 369 felony arrests and 119 misdemeanor arrests. These investigations led to the seizure of over $ 884,000.00 in illegal substances and property.
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Inouye announces University of Hawaii will receive $21.2 million for storm recoveryUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Mia Noguchi, (808) 956-9095
External Affairs & University Relations
— More than $13.2 million to replace library collections — millions of books, serials, maps, photos, special collections, and government documents — that were destroyed or severely damaged.
— Nearly $4.5 million to cover the costs that exceed the $25 million insurance cap for emergency measures and content replacement, including research laboratories.
— More than $3.4 million to cover the costs that exceed the $25 million insurance cap for emergency measures and building repairs.
"On behalf of the University of Hawaiʻi, we're most grateful for Senator Inouye's tireless and continuing efforts to make our Mānoa campus whole in the wake of the October 30, 2004 flood. The funding from the FEMA Public Assistance Program will help to accelerate our recovery efforts significantly," said UH Interim President David McClain.
To see the release issued by U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye visit www.inouye.senate.gov
About the University of Hawaiʻi
Established in 1907 and fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the University of Hawaiʻi is the state's sole public system of higher education. The UH System provides an array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and community programs on 10 campuses and through educational, training, and research centers across the state. UH enrolls more than 50,000 students from Hawaiʻi, the U.S. mainland, and around the world. For more information, visit www.hawaii.edu.


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"Think of bouncing up and down in the back of the school bus," Scott Butler says. "Now think of 135,000 gallons of water bouncing up from a tank at the back of a ship that's a quarter-mile long. Even seas that don't seem that rough at all can send water jumping out onto the deck."
Butler, a principal of Boston-based Wilson Butler Architects, is discussing the design challenges in creating the Aqua Theater on the Oasis of the Seas, which is almost as long as the Empire State Building is high. He and his business partner, Scott Wilson, were the lead design team on the ship -- and the first architects to be brought in to brainstorm how its large spaces would be configured.
They're the guys, after all, who figured out how to keep the ice for a skating rink dead level on a ship, which is never dead level. They're the guys who figured out how to get grass to thrive in the middle of the Caribbean (a filtration system for removing salt from the ocean water that hydrates the greenery). They're the guys responsible for cruise ships' upgrade from show lounges to actual theaters with orchestra pits.
Wilson Butler's fingerprints are all over the fleet of ships owned by Royal Caribbean, which means the firm has a hand in designing about one out of three cruise vessels coming out of shipyards today. Royal Caribbean's chairman and chief executive, Richard Fain, even calls Wilson the company's "guru."
The two architects started designing performing arts spaces for landlubbers more than 20 years ago, adding ships to their repertoire in the 1990s and winning awards for their work along the way. On the Oasis, one of the many spaces they designed was the 1,390-seat Opal Theater, whose stage juts out toward the seats so that "the boundary between the audience and the performers becomes very blurred," Wilson says.
They made the stage's arch, or proscenium, movable rather than the typical "thick piece of architecture with some nice lights in it," he says. This one is made up of two oval-shaped staircases that rise toward the ceiling and connect by way of a slightly arched bridge. Its components can be moved or at least hidden from view to make the front and back of the large stage one huge space.
For dramatic effect, the bridge, with the orchestra playing on it, can descend onto the floor at the start of a show. The musicians don't have to begin their performance hidden in the orchestra pit.
For the Oasis' Royal Promenade, Wilson Butler designed curvy flying buttresses to secure the decks above so the wide thoroughfare wouldn't be marred by "a forest of pillars," as Wilson puts it. They enclosed the solarium with a glass canopy partly opened to the air -- to keep the space naturally ventilated but not overly so.
For the Oasis' dance club Dazzle, the architectural duo took their inspiration from New York City's Rainbow Room. Entering the Rainbow Room for a niece's wedding reception, Wilson was struck by the fact that "you are forced onto these staircases that flank the band, and then you are on the dance floor. You can't discreetly skim around the perimeter. It was a piece of social engineering as well as architectural engineering, getting the patron immersed into the vibrancy of the evening."
That's why, with Dazzle, "two sexy spiral staircases," as Wilson calls them, descend from the balcony. Two-thirds of the way down, you're on the stage. Three more steps, and you're on the dance floor. "You have to make an entrance," Wilson says. "You can't slink off to the sides."
The winding paths and tree canopies of Oasis' football-field length Central Park also come courtesy of Wilson Butler, as do the bulk of the other entertainment venues, including the Boardwalk and its carousel, which had its own design challenges. With a traditional carousel, the pole in the middle holding everything together is planted in the ground. But on the ocean, the pole isn't firmly planted in anything. To keep the carousel from swaying too much as the wooden animals go up and down, the architects put wheels around the base that run on a rail encircling the whole. The wheels aren't always touching the rail, but if the ship lists too much, the wheels bump up against the rail "to keep the carousel from getting too excited," Wilson says.
For all of that design ingenuity, "by far, the biggest Rubik's Cube on the Oasis was the Aqua Theater," Wilson says. After Wilson Butler conceived it, they had to figure out how to keep water in the deep tank from sloshing on the deck, which is aft.
The solution: creating a wall in the middle of the pool that can retract and come up almost to the height of the water surface as needed, depending on the state of the seas. Breaking the water in half, so to speak, cuts down on the wave motion. Green and red lights let the performers know when the wall is up so they can adjust their feats accordingly.


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18 August 2011|
DMCC rd5 took place over the weekend at the Mosport International raceway that's about an hour from Toronto. It's the second time that the DMCC series comes to this racetrack but for this year they used a new layout that was more technical and a lot more exiting for the fans. Unlike the other rounds of DMCC this event was only a one day event so the entire day was jam packed with action.
The practice session went off great with all teams setting up the cars for this unique track. The layout had a real high speed entry that quickly became slower and a lot more technical. This layout proved to be great for tandem even during the practice session.
It was time for qualifications before we knew it and lot of the drivers were doing great. Marc Landreville came out and drove has hard as his always does and had the crowd on its feet. It secured him the number one qualification position. Eric Paradis is a pretty consistent driver but had some issues on both of his runs that sadly took him out of the main event. An other surprise was with Babu. Everybody thought his bad luck days were over but on his second qualification pass his clutch let go and even tho he did end up qualifying for the event his day was done.
Right before the Top 16 battle was about to start its started to rain abit.. We were lucky all day considering it was supposed to be raining and we thought that the main battles might be taking place in the wet. But right as the cars came out to pre grid the rain let up and even tho the skies were gray it let us have a dry main event.
The first battle of the Top 16 was a big one. Miro going up against Dave Briggs. Both drivers are 1 and 2 in the championship standings. Both drivers has bobbles during their chase runs that resulted in a One More Time. On the second pass both drivers did well but Dave was able to get the win. The battle of the event was in the great 8. When Marc Landreville and Dave Briggs go up against each other its always an exciting tandem. The tandem ended up going to a One more time when Marc parked it and Dave had no where to go and ended up running into him resulting in Dave breaking an axle.. Daves crew did a excellent job and got the axle replace in the 5 minutes allowed. During the OMT the action was insane but Dave put two wheels off and gave the win to Marc.
Top 4 was down to Pat Cyr, Brad Carlton, Marc Landreville and JF Chiasson. JF was having his best event of the season..he was doing great and he is always super aggressive when it comes to tandem but he was taken out by Marc Landreville. Drift Posse team mates Brad and Pat faced off. It was an easy win for Pat when Brad decided to go offroading when he entered way too fast and went right off track. For the main battle it came down to Pat Cyr and Marc Landreville, two drivers that are great to watch in tandems. Pats chase run was great and he stuck to Marc. Marc knew he had to be on him to force pat to make a mistake but Marc came in way to hot and basically threw his car right into Pats. As soon as both cars came to a stop after the contact both drivers went right into celebratory burn outs and donuts. It was Pat Cyrs first podium in his home province and was cool that he was on the podium with his Drift Posse/HSD team mate Brad Carlton.. Final standings were Pat Cyr in first, Marc Landreville in second, Brad Carlton in 3rd and JF Chiasson in 4th.
Rd5 was a great event and with the second to last event of the season coming up soon its going to be an exiting finish. Next round is at the Autodrome St-Eustache.
For more info check out www.dmccdrift.com


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Tomb Raider: Underworld is the eighth installment in the series, following on from the storyline created over the last decade of games. Set in southern Mexico, Underworld sees protagonist Lara Croft discovering a series of ancient portals that transport her to the Mayan underworld Xibalba. With intricately detailed environments and destructible terrain, the game is the most advanced in the series so far. It's set to be released in November on all major platforms, so strap on your pistols and check out these screenshots!
In pictures: The latest Tomb Raider
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Mammoth Nordic bows out
Mammoth Nordic, which since 2002 has groomed its way into the winter experience here, has now announced it is grooming its way back out.
Its leader, Brian Knox, released the news last Friday, writing in an e-mail,
"Regrettably, our club's passion, funding, equipment and manpower over the last three years has not created a compelling enough case for community Nordic recreation in the eyes of town government."
Knox's announcement immediately sent the town's recreation department into a scramble.
Recreation Department director Stuart Brown said representatives from his own department, the tourism bureau (Visit Mammoth) and the forest service are trying to figure out a way to keep the trails system going.
The non-profit foundation was viewed as very much a loser when the Town Council approved its Measure R funding distribution. It had been working with the forest service and volunteers in grooming about nine miles of cross-country ski trails for the public.
"It just became apparent to me," Knox said in an interview on Monday, "that the quality of the program we're interested in running, which was the quality of program that we offered last year, takes a significant investment of time and money.
"Until we get to the point we feel like the town is genuinely interested in getting a serious partner in that, it's something that, I, unfortunately and with great reluctance, regrettably determined it was something we couldn't sustain."
Recreation Commission chairman Bill Sauser disagrees with Knox's assertion that the town isn't interested in the program.
"I really want that program," Sauser said, "but we need to scale it and work together, not just hand it over to one individual to cover the costs of an organization.
"Also, I question the timing (in the middle of winter)."
One famously active Nordic athlete, Phyllis Benham, is disappointed.
"I want a resolution of this thing," she said. "I want people to cooperate so that there will be a Mammoth Nordic program for the rest of the season."
In its slapdown of Mammoth Nordic's enormous $355,444 Measure R application request, commissioners whittled it down to $5,440.
The Recreation Commission urged Mammoth Nordic to form a committee to see if Knox's Nordic crew can integrate with John Wentworth's Mammoth Lakes Trails and Public Access Foundation (MLTPA), which received $200,520 in Measure R funds.


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The Arab states are to be involved more strongly in revitalising the peace process in the Middle East in future. That is the outcome of the meeting of the "Middle East Quartet" in Berlin this week. Rainer Sollich comments
The meeting of the Middle East Quartet in Berlin has not brought tangible progress. But it has sent out several important signals: the international community is finally showing more interest in finding a solution for the Palestinian conflict.
It has professed its commitment to the goal of an independent and sustainable Palestinian state. It demands that the planned new Palestinian government coalition of Hamas and Fatah recognises Israel's right to existence, renounces violence and keeps to the agreements already made. And it would like to involve the Arab neighbour states more strongly as partners in all future attempts at a solution for the conflict.
Failing to keep to the "roadmap"
No doubt about it: the Middle East Quartet has risen from its deathbed – revitalised not least by Germany's commitment in its role as president of the European Council.
Whether the quartet of the USA, UN, EU and Russia will also succeed in revitalising the peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians themselves in the foreseeable future is another matter entirely. The conditions, unfortunately, are not good.
Five years ago, the Middle East Quartet revealed to the world its ambitious plan to enable the foundation of an independent Palestinian state by 2005. The world, and the Palestinians, are still waiting today. Both sides of the conflict failed to keep to the "roadmap" from the very beginning: there was neither an end to the violence on the Palestinian side, nor a stop to the building of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The only option: A two-state solution
Despite the difficulties of the conflict in detail, it is nevertheless obvious that the only realistic route to peace is a fair two-state solution. One can only hope that the parties at stake finally come to this conclusion, particularly Hamas: attempting to wrest concessions out of a state that one doesn't recognise would be as senseless as it is unrealistic.
Fatah has learned this lesson the hard way. Unfortunately, however, there are few indications that Hamas will realise this. And Hamas will also have a very significant hold over Palestinian policy in the future.
An added problem is that Israel persists in building further settlements and its dividing wall along one side of the Palestinian areas – without arousing a major wave of international condemnation.
Mideast policy crisis
The situation is further complicated by the fact that there are no politicians in sight on either side with the necessary domestic support for a peaceful solution. Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is deeply mired in a domestic policy crisis, while the Palestinians are attempting to form a government out of two parties whose supporters were engaged in bloody street-fighting only weeks ago.
Ultimately, there is no lack of initiatives and plans for peace in the Middle East worthy of discussion. What is lacking is political players with the strength and will to put them into practice against opposition.
Rainer Sollich
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Gaza Disengagement
Javier Solana: EU Prepared to Step up Engagement
The EU is ready to make the Gaza disengagement work, says Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign & Security Policy – with the hope and commitment that soon after, the road to a two-state settlement can be resumed
EU Arms Exports in the Middle East
Brothers in Arms
Though European governments have been quick to criticize the escalation of violence in the Middle East, the EU still sells weapons to Israel and Lebanon. Europe needs to strengthen its arms trade Code of Conduct. Thomas Jackson reports
Dan Bar-On on the Mideast Crisis
The Vicious Circle of Rightfulness, Power, and Loss of Compassion
Israelis have internalized the sense of "victimhood" and have thus become blind to the suffering of their adversaries, writes Israeli psychologist Dan Bar-On


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Guns N' Roses latest album Chinese Democracy was released last November. People waited 15 years for it! Thankfully, Rock Band downloadable content is faster.
The Chinese Democracy album will be released in its entirely on the Rock Band Music Store. One album track, Shackler's Revenge, already appears on Rock Band 2 — foreshadowing!
Tracks on the DLC album include: Chinese Democracy, Better, Street of Dreams, If the World, There Was a Time, Catcher in the Rye, Scraped, Riad N' the Bedouins, Sorry, I.R.S., Madagascar, This I Love and Prostitute.
The album or individual tracks will be available to purchase for the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Only individual tracks will be available for the Wii. The Chinese Democracy DLC will be out on April 14, roughly six months after the album was released. If only Guns N' Roses could get an album out that fast.


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SRL is currently preparing machines for a performance in the SF Bay Area in conjunction with Web98 in June, a possible show in Oakland, and another in Chicago. Stay tuned to SRL.ORG for late-breaking information.
SRL has staged two events thus far in 1997. One " Increasing the Latent Period in a System of Remote Destructibility" was presented on July 13th in Tokyo. The second, occurred in Austin, Texas on March 28th 1997 at the Longhorn Speedway. It was entitled "The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts : A Misguided Adventure in Risk Eradication, Happening Without Known cause, in Connection With Events That are Not Necessarily Related".
For the Tokyo event, Mark Pauline and Eric Paulos traveled to the Inter Communications Center in downtown Tokyo. In the 600 lbs of baggage they carried were two machines: A Track Robot, similar to the devices used by police and military to defuse explosives, and the Button Panel machine, Using a tetherless control and video transmission system the Track Robot was operated through a standard internet browser window. A CuSeeMe image window provided a view for operator control. Back in SF, at SRL HQ, the Air launcher was on line via ISDN and connected to a local server to allow for control and video acquisition. The Japan portion of the event took place at the ICC gallery located in the new 24 story NTT complex in downtown Tokyo.
A live audience of 200 was present at the gallery. The event was broadcast live over nationwide satellite TV by Perfect TV. In this 20 minute event, the Track Robot approached the Button Panel and began pressing the five buttons mounted on it. This caused its arms to flail violently about and resulted in the 4 large squid tied to the ends of the arms to slap the floor and eventually fly about the room. This in turn sent signals to a computer on the network which were transmitted to the Air Launcher in SF. To expedite the live broadcast, Eric Paulos then controlled both devices via the browser window, using the two CuSeeMe windows as a visual control reference. Moving targets in SF were destroyed by live explosive and inert concrete rounds to the accompaniment of screams from the SRL crew in SF. By these actions SRL became the first to operate intentionally lethal machinery over the net with standard browser software. This event was sponsored by The Intercommunications Center and curated by Hisanori Gogata.
The Austin event was the largest ever mounted outside of SF to date. The venue itself was a 1/4 mile oval racetrack with fixed seating for 4500 persons, located just south of Austin. An assortment of unusual prop and set elements were built and used to fill the 500' long area inside the oval track.
Among the items in this spectacular backdrop were, a 30 ft hydraulically actuated boat disaster prop, a 35' high triangular tower with an entire cow spiked on a rotating spit, a Black Cat fireworks stand filled with assorted explosives, the ultra tacky Clown Box, the Bubba Crane, (a junkyard drop crane, rigged to drop a 60's era- dune buggy from a height of 25' over and over again), and for a distinctly local flavor, a 1/2 scale replica of the University Tower, site of the Charles Whitman massacre, was constructed and used as the set centerpiece. Several new devices were debuted for this event including the Large Shock Wave Cannon, (a 4x scaled version of smaller, window shattering designs), the Boeing Jet / Flame Whistle, and the Hand-O-God, (which was mounted on the Bomb Loader). New contributions from the People Hater crew included the Coffin Bot and the Tractorbot. As show time arrived, a record breaking 4700 people passed through the gates. Festivities began with a blistering run around the track by Deszo in the Jet Cart. The mayhem commenced with the Big Arm dashing a puppet motorcyclist to the ground while the Bubba Winch proceeded to obliterate the Dune Buggy. Crew members commenced to fire parachute flares in the air, 60 in all (some of these ignited fires in the surrounding wooded areas when they failed to extinguish themselves before landing). Machines jockeyed for position as the Large Shock Wave Cannon proceeded to brutalize the audience, literally knocking them around in the stands for the entire show. The V-1 emerged and wound its way to the Spiked Cow, where it proceeded to roast the carcass. Christian's Subjugator perpetrated spectacular mayhem on the Boat Disaster Prop as the Clown Box suffered the indignation's of the Meter maid Cart and its Flameballs. As the action raged, and machines slipped slowly into disrepair, the Flame Whistle and the V-1 set enormous fires that engulfed numerous most of the set elements including the University Tower Prop and the Carnival tent. With the unforgettable collapse of the 55' Tower, machine activity eventually ground to a halt...
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Eric Paulos his crew and Monsterbit Media, the entire event was broadcast via a T-1 point to point microwave link. According to an article in Webweek magazine this was a technical first for a webcast. The signal went out over a Real Video server to waiting viewers unable to attend the event in person.
Video Releases
Allen Kelly is furiously editing the SRL Austin tape and the Crimewave and Wired show. Both of these tapes will be released in November 1997. The Austin tape will be released as a separate tape. The Crimewave/Wired tape will include those two events as well as the 1996 Halloween V-1 firing outside the Roxie theater, the Minna St. event that occurred the same evening and a short edit of the Japan show, "Increasing the Latent Period in a System of Remote Destructibility".
|SRL released the video documentation of "SRL Contemplates: A Million Inconsiderate Experiments in Phoenix AZ." edited by Allen Kelly Directed by Dave Scardina, on Dec. 23rd. 1996
SRL staged three events between Nov. 26, 1995 and Jan. 26th 1996. Two of these shows were staged in San Francisco and one in Phoenix Arizona.
A Track Robot, similar to the devices used by police and
military to defuse explosives, and the Button Panel machine
with flailing arms, were constructed for the Japan event at
the ICC. Using a tetherless control and video transmission
system the Track Robot can be operated remotely through a
standard internet browser window. The Button Panel device
can relay control signals through a serial port to other machines.
|The WheeloCopter project was delayed by the two recent SRL events. Construction is once again actively underway. It will be tested this winter and will debut at the next SRL event (scheduled for late fall or early spring in the Bay Area). This radical concept in wheeled vehicles applies the principles of rotor craft to a two dimensional plane. It will be one of the largest devices, and the most complex ever built at SRL. It's as difficult to describe as it will be for an audience to look at. See image (above) for more confusion.
The Boeing Jet was modified for the Austin event by the addition of a large police whistle. Fuel injectors were added along with an ignition system, thereby creating the loudest flamethrower in history.
The Hand-O'-God is a giant spring loaded hand cocked by a
hydraulic cylinder with 8 tons of pressure. It was finished in
April 97 and debuted at the SRL event in Austin, attached to the
Remote Controlled Bomb Loader. It was recently modified to enhance
its bone-crushing powers.
An Exocet Cruise Missile engine is currently being set up and tested on an engine stand. This 900 lb thrust engine will form the basis for a large VTOL robot.
Parts have been collected for computer-controlled Hydraulic Walking Leg Sets, capable of supporting and moving objects weighing 40 or more tons, in the manner of groups of foraging ants. The power plant is a 175 hp Boeing gas turbine engine. This will be SRL's first mobile jet engine powered device.
Publications and Television
SRL was filmed at the SRL compound on Oct 11, 1997 for a feature documentary entitled "Sightings" produced for the Sci-Fi Channel. This 2 hour documentary will air in early 1998 in the US.
PBS produced a radio piece on the SRL show in Austin which aired nationwide in Oct. 1997.
SRL was filmed in April 1996 for the "Cyberspace" series produced by Antelope TV in London. The seven part series was aired in the UK spring 1997. It was shown on US cable in Summer 1997.
A lengthy chapter of Mark Dery's book "Escape Velocity" is devoted to SRL. Recommended reading for anyone trying to get a handle on the 21st century today. Grove Press 1996.
Mark Pauline / email@example.com


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Who: Rachel Herme, Major: French Education, Hometown: Farmington, Minn.
Why did you choose NDSU?
"I came to NDSU because I knew the university had a really good reputation and wanted to see it for myself. I felt comfortable and everyone was so welcoming. I could tell all the students and faculty were proud to be a part of the university. I decided this is where I belong and now I have that same pride."
How did you pick your major?
"I randomly started taking French in ninth grade because it seemed like an interesting and beautiful language. I really looked up to my French teacher because she had such a love for teaching and the language itself, and I decided that it was the right career path for me. "
Bison Ambassadors (a student public relations group sponsored by the Alumni Association and Office of Admission), Student Government, women's choir and Habitat for Humanity
Advice you wish you would have received as a freshman:
"Don't close any doors. College is a new opportunity. Every day new doors open. It might seem scary at first, but so many people have been in your position and want to help you and give you opportunities. Never give up and never underestimate yourself. There are so many great things you never knew you could do until you get to college."
Future plans:
She wants to study in France her junior year. After graduation she would like to teach high school French, and then earn master's and doctoral degrees and teach at the university level.
Something most people don't know about you:
"Most people at school probably don't know I was a dancer for years. I started when I was five and quit in 10th grade; but my passion is still there, and I hope to take more dance classes in the future." Herme participated in ballet, tap, jazz and dance line.
Your favorite aspect of NDSU:
"The friendliness and helpfulness exhibited by each person I meet. Although it is a large university, there is definitely a small town feel on campus; and each person on campus that I have contact with, whether it's a professor, adviser, mentor or peer, I always feel very comfortable interacting with them. I haven't had a bad experience with a person on campus since I've been here."


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Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.—Proverbs 25:28
Some people have a temper. We blame it on our Irish grandfather or on something else; but it's a plague spot. I remember a man who had a very high spiritual testimony and became a leading pastor in his denomination. One night at a board meeting, he lost his temper like a mule driver and after that, nobody believed in him.
One time, a man I thought was a fine Christian had a new car and somebody came along and dented his fender. He blew like a little bomb. I never believed in him again. Whenever I see a man blow his top, I never believe in that man unless I know he has gone to the Fountain that cleanses and gotten delivered. No man has any more right to go around with an uncleaned temper than he has to hold a rattlesnake in his jacket pocket. He has no more right to do that than he has to leave untreated a cancer on his tongue, because it will destroy his ministry. He can pray and testify, give and labor, but if one day he blows up, nobody will believe in him after that. Success and the Christian, 60.
"Lord, deliver me from any tendency to an uncontrolled temper. Keep me from the loss of credibility that can do irreparable harm to my ministry. Make me a pure vessel. Amen."
Reprinted from Tozer on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer, copyright © 2001 by Zur Ltd. Used by permission of WingSpread Publishers, a division of Zur Ltd.
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The lobby of the First National Bank of Durango was fragrant with enticing aromas and awash with slow cookers at its eighth annual Sip to Soup-port benefitting United Way of Southwest Colorado on Oct. 26.
The 70 or so people who lent their taste buds to judging took it quite seriously, discussing the fine points of various entries and steering others to their favorites.
This was the first year I was able to make it, and it will definitely be a priority in future years, mostly to see what the creative cooks, both professional and talented amateur, will prepare.
If I have any complaint, its that no one brought a great chicken-noodle soup, a classic for a reason. Of course, it would have had to be a stellar chicken noodle to be a contender against this years great entries.
The professional category included wild salmon and green chile chowder from College Drive Café; acorn squash soup from Natures Oasis; pork posole from Iron Horse Pizza; chicken posole from Zia Taqueria; Hatch green chile-pork stew with purple potatoes courtesy of the Ore House; butternut squash soup from Guidos Favorite Foods; chicken-calabacitas soup prepared by CJs Diner; harvest pumpkin bisque courtesy of Nortons Catering; the Lost Dog Bar & Lounges Southwest corn chowder; Kassidys Kitchens pumpkin, acorn squash and white bean soup; Sopa Azteca from Carver Brewing Co.; and Raiders Ridge Cafés James Ranch ham hock and great northern bean soup.
But the bragging rights in the professional category go to the Strater Hotels cream of porcini with rosemary and port. Since Im allergic to mushrooms, I couldnt sample that one, but I heard one woman say shed never think of mushroom soup the same way again.
The amateurs were no slouches, with Moni Grushkin preparing green chile-chicken posole; Eliza Brown making a tortilla soup; Lacey Meador weighing in with spicy potato-corn chowder; Cathy Wilson providing white bean-and-chicken soup; Rachael Travis offering green chili: both Jessi Scavo and Robert Mazur throwing down with a version of hot n sour; Sonya Meador entering a baked potato soup; and the shy Kelsey and Amy, who both preferred not to give a last name. Kelsey contributed a spicy, creamy butternut soup, and Amys contribution was a rich dark lager-onion soup with smoked cheddar cheese.
The amateur winner of the Golden Ladle was Brandon Schwartz, whose butternut-apple bisque with bratwurst literally tasted like fall.
United Way spends about five months working toward a goal that will help it support 80 programs vital to the well-being of five counties in our part of the state. This years goal is $764,000, and United Way President and CEO Tim Walsworth tells it had reached 37 percent of the total as of Oct. 31. (The organization had reached only 33 percent of the goal by the same date last year, and the goal was smaller, so thats a great sign.)
That doesnt mean, however, that theyre home free, because they have almost $500,000 left to go. The organization raises that money through a three-pronged approach.
The first is fundraisers, such as the Four Corners Broadcasting Radiothon, two golf tournaments, the San Juan Brewfest, the Michael Franti concert and the Durango Wine Experience. The second is payroll deductions, with most of the major companies in town offering that option to their employees.
And, finally, anyone can make a tax-deductible donation by mailing it to United Way of Southwest Colorado, P.O. Box 3040, Durango, CO 81302.
Many people have told me there are so many good causes in Durango, they have a hard time deciding where to donate, and often end up donating nothing at all. My advice is always to start with United Way, which supports so many programs, all vetted by a committee, so theyve done all the groundwork for you. You can pick some favorites to go from there.
Well learn in February how much the campaign has raised, but we can all do our part now in making sure that news is splendiferous.
Heres wishing the best of birthdays to my fellow Scorpios Patricia Beard, Price Bryant, Denise Noble, London Blalock, Lane Joseph, Debra Pene, Wayne Kjonaas, Katarina Seibert, Sofia Walt, Susan Terrill-Flint, Kalli Fassett, Michelle Unterberger, Dale Strode, Michelle Rabouin, Carolyn Bowra, Sean Jackson, Whitney Burns and Bonnie Flores.
Heres hoping one of my favorite people enjoys all the best for her big birthday, Karren Little!
And because readers in the know have given me a hard time for not putting my birthday in Saturdays column I celebrated Monday thanks for all the cards and good wishes.
Like many La Plata County residents, I recycle, try to limit my water usage and, were I not on crutches, would be using alternative modes of transportation a few days a week.
But there are many people who are doing more, and the Fort Lewis College Environmental Center is on the front lines.
At 5:15 p.m. today, the doors will open at the Smiley Building for the centers 11th annual REEL Environmental Experience fundraiser. The evening will begin with a community trash-art project and a panel of community members discussing whats going on in our area on the green front.
The main attraction is at 6:30 p.m., the screening of the Sundance Film Festival and Academy Award-winning documentary Waste Land, followed by what Rachel Landis is billing as a rowdy live auction.
A suggested $10 donation will get you all that plus food by Zia Taqueria and beer and root beer floats thanks to Carver Brewing Co.
David and Julie Downs are looking forward to an anniversary free of political advertising.
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Station to Station: An International & Nomadic Conference, 1-3 December 2011, proposals due 15 June 2011
Call for papers
(English Version--see our site for French, Italian, German & Spanish versions).
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my life, or whether that station Will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Are we entirely ourselves or entirely somebody else as we take our seat on a train or stroll into the station? Don't these actions and environments produce in us a feeling of artificiality brought about by the overconsumption of worn-out romantic and modernist myths? These places, relatively tight and stable spaces, tend to exist because they are out of time though would be senseless without the speed and trajectories crossing through them and which carry them along. Do they have a singular power over individual's behaviour and imagination? A short epistemological examination would doubtlessly permit philosophers and historians to position—or question the positioning of—such spaces in urban life. In more general terms, this is about considering the value of witness, of urban trace, but also of studying the immaterial heritage they help construct. Are the station, the wagon, and the train architectonic?
Leaving aside a little of the seriousness that weighs us down, be that in current high tech virtual reality, David Bowie's songs, or the pre-mechanical age (didn't Milton say "The planets in their station list'ning stood."? Paradise Lost, VII, 563), the station like the train is an invitation to decelerate. It becomes a place of flux and transit, of memory and forgetting, point of flight from or point of entry into the city, place of displacement—that of individuals, merchandise, and populations—an archive, traces of our fleeting rages.
Eminently European (?) or Occidental (?) phenomena—the debate remains largely open for historians—the station and the railroad, constitutive of our cultures as economic, architectural, political and aesthetic phenomena, are also invitations to immobile but endless voyages, which perhaps do not lead to a destination, towards the end of our desires or that of the night. Therefore, we would like first and foremost in this Humanities conference to reconsider the station and the wagon as what they are, inter-zones, enclosed spaces without really being that, borderless places or places with shifting and unstable borders, where law and society suspend their particular rules, where a game of entirely artificial indifferences gets established, sometimes obscenely because of the exacerbated intimacy created in such close quarters. The station can in fact be a space of disorder, of heterogeneity, but also of cross-fertilization and communication.
The station is first of all, within the city, an enclave; and the wagon, in our lives, a fantasy of annihilation of the Other.
On the occasion of the TGV line Mulhouse-Gare Centrale arriving this winter, we invite our future conference speakers to study the station and the wagon/carriage (in literature, history, the visual arts and why not even by taking to the tracks of philosophy) as cultural and artistic vectors of the programmed obsolescence of technological innovation. For historians, this may be an occasion to consider stations and railways' predominant role in the evolution of urban development.
Finally, to join act and speech, this conference will be nomadic, thus privilege the selection of propositions which may be interpreted as "university performances". Apart from a few talks which will take place within the elegant walls of the Société Industrielle de Mulhouse (a few feet from the Mulhouse Gare) most of the workshops will take place on a moving train. We will be forced to take to the stations, platforms and stops, without any particular itinerary, just an uncertain destination in search of ourselves on a perpetual round-trip voyage.
Mulhouse Terminus, but no one gets off!
--The organizing committee.
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Patrick Regan
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from his Robert Buchanan site with readers of the
'Twas clear, cold, starry, silver night,
And the Old Year was a-dying;
Three pretty girls with melted lead
Sat gaily fortune-trying.
They dropt the lead in water clear,
With blushing palpitations
And, as it hissed, with fearful hearts
They sought its revelations.
In the deep night, while all around
The snow is whitely falling,
Each pretty girl looks down to find
Her future husband's calling.
The eldest sees a Castle bright,
Girt round by shrubland shady;
And, blushing bright, she feels in thought
A lady rich already.
The second sees a silver Ship,
And bright and glad her face is;
Oh, she will have a skipper bold,
Grown rich in foreign places!
The younger sees a glittering Crown,
And starts in consternation;
For Molly is too meek to dream
Of reaching regal station!
And time went by: one maiden got
Her landsman, one her sailor —
The Lackey of a country count,
The Skipper of a whaler!
And Molly has her Crown, although
She unto few can show it —
Her crown is true-love fancy-wrought,
Her husband, a poor Poet!
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OCLC Research and OhioLINK release report and related data to support understanding of book usage patterns in academic libraries
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 21 September 2011—OhioLINK and OCLC Research have released a report of, and the data set used in, a joint study of OhioLINK circulation, to better understand the usage patterns of books in academic libraries and support further research in this area. The study, which incorporated usage data from 2007-2008, was limited to books and manuscripts because these materials typically circulate, and circulation is a significant element in evaluating collections.
The report, OhioLINK—OCLC Collection and Circulation Analysis Project 2011, provides an overview of the study, a description of how the data was analyzed and made available, and suggested uses for the data. The report is accompanied online by an extensive set of Excel spreadsheets that analyze the usage patterns observed in the study.
The data used in the report was from a collaborative OCLC-OhioLINK Collection and Circulation Analysis project that joined OhioLINK circulation data with WorldCat bibliographic records to produce a base file of circulation records for nearly 30 million different books. Ninety institutions participated in the study, including 16 universities, 23 community/technical colleges, 50 private colleges and the State Library of Ohio. The size of the combined collection and the number and diversity of participating institutions make this by far the largest and most comprehensive study of academic library circulation ever undertaken.
Perhaps the most fascinating result of the study was a test of the "80/20" rule. Librarians have long espoused the belief that 80 percent of a library's circulation is driven by approximately 20 percent of the collection. The analysis of a year's circulation statistics from this study indicates that 80 percent of the circulation is driven by just 6 percent of the collection.
The dataset generated by the project has also been made publicly available under the Open Data Commons Attribution license (an open license) to download for study and research. It is the largest and most diverse set of academic usage data for books ever collected. Because the data analysis described in the report represents only a fraction of what might be done with the data, OhioLINK and OCLC Research made the data publicly available so it could be studied to its full potential and other libraries could correlate it against their own data to determine how it compares with their individual use patterns.
"OhioLINK is happy to have had the opportunity to collaborate with OCLC and our community to learn more about how our resources are used," said John Magill, Executive Director for OhioLINK.
"On behalf of the OCLC cooperative and OhioLINK, we are pleased to make this data publicly available so that other scholars can study the data and academic libraries can use it as a basis for comparison with their own usage patterns," said Edward T. O'Neill, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC.
The current OCLC-OhioLINK project team will also continue to study the data.
About OhioLINK
OhioLINK, an initiative of the Ohio Board of Regents, is a consortium of 90 Ohio colleges and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio, working to bring books, articles, electronic resources and digital information to more than 600,000 students, faculty, and staff across the Buckeye State. Users have access to more than 49.5 million library items, 17,000 electronic journals and 140 electronic research databases, available 24/7 through their university libraries or online at www.ohiolink.edu.
About OCLC Research
OCLC Research is one of the world's leading centers devoted exclusively to the challenges facing libraries in a rapidly changing information technology environment. Its diverse staff of research scientists and program officers investigates trends in technology and library practice to identify technological advances that will enhance the value of library services and improve the productivity of librarians and library users. For more information, visit www.oclc.org/research.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org.
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Rush Limbaugh ponders running CNN
by Joe Kovacs
PALM BEACH, Fla – No, it's not reality, but radio giant Rush Limbaugh today pondered the possibility of taking over the management of CNN and running things the El Rushbo way.
America's top-rated host was responding to a listener's question about how long it would take to turn the cable-news network around and make it similar to what Fox News is.
CNN's viewership has been plunging recently, and according to Nielsen TV ratings data, it is now a distant third behind Fox News and MSNBC.
For example, on Monday night, May 14, Nielsen indicates Fox News had a prime-time audience of 2.08 million viewers. MSNBC had an estimated 835,000 and CNN had only 325,000.
Limbaugh spent a large portion of his show discussing the possibility of his being in charge at CNN.
"If it were announced that I were going to be running CNN, could you imagine the excrement storm from everywhere if that happened?" he asked rhetorically. "But the tune-in factor would be through the roof, the curiosity tune-in factor. Do any of you doubt that you could improve it? Every one of you thinks you can improve it. Just go show by show. Segment by segment. 'Nope, wouldn't have done that, here's the way to do that.' Segment by segment you could fix CNN."
He then got into specific steps he would take at CNN, saying it would not be difficult.
"Basically what I would do us have every editor there listen to this program, and then in prime time, everything we covered on this program would be treated as the news of the day, 'cause that's what I do. I do the news of the day. They ignore the stuff that we find on this program. I just put the news on that they don't find interesting or that they don't think is news. This is a broad, broad overview.
"Philosophically, what CNN's gotta do is decide who they want to be and then admit it. Right now, they've got themselves believing that they are objective, non-partisan journalists. They believe that MSNBC is liberal, that Fox is conservative and that they are Edward R. Murrow. …
"They also believe that the news should have no opinions while they're full of opinions," Limbaugh said with a chuckle. "The problem is they won't own up to their opinions, they won't admit to it. You've got to be competitive in the arena in which you choose to battle. And it's very clear what cable news has become. It's become personality-oriented opinion. Unabashed, fearless personality opinion. Anything else is pretense. And if you're going to do personality-oriented opinion and then deny that's what you're doing, then you're never gonna pull it off because people are going to realize you're not even being honest with yourself."
Limbaugh made it very clear, though, that no one should hold their breath waiting for him to ever run CNN.
"It'll never happen. Don't sweat it," he said.
Could you just imagine the mess from all those exploding heads in California, Oregon, Washington and D.C., and the northeast.
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The event I've enjoyed covering as a reporter and enjoy as a local resident will run from July 31-Aug. 3 this year.
The event I've enjoyed covering as a reporter and enjoy as a local resident will run from July 31-Aug. 3 this year.
Of course, I'm talking about the Phelps County Fair.
I think I wrote something about every fair from 1984 through 2004, when I left The Rolla Daily News to try to put out an independent monthly publication. I resumed working part-time in the fall of 2010, too late to write anything about the fair that year, but I believe I was back out at the fairgrounds in 2011 and 2012. I'll be out there at least one night this year.
Rolla, an unusual city demographically speaking, because of the preponderance of transplants from bigger places and temporary residents on their way to bigger places, has never understood the fair, in my opinion.
I continue to see the county fair the way it was seen by Eugene VanBibber, who was my Fair Board contact back when I started working here in the previous century. He saw it as a way for rural residents to show town residents the products of their farms and ranches, and that was the No. 1 reason for having the fair.
And an important subset of that purpose was this: The fair is the No. 1 way for county youth to show their town counterparts what they do out in the country, i.e. raise cattle, hogs, goats, sheep, rabbits, chickens.
He explained to me that way back yonder in time, rural folks would get together at harvest to show what they had raised. They showed off their animals and their produce. People like to rank themselves with others, so fairs and festivals soon started having animal judging and home arts contests.
Then, he explained, the rural families wanted something else to do between the judging times and in the evenings, so the fairs and festival organizers started bringing in carnivals and music.
For many city residents, that's what the fair is, a time to go hear music and ride the carnival rides.
But for Eugene, a friend as well as a news contact, the fair was always a showcase for rural residents to show off their animals and their produce to one another and to city residents.
Eugene passed away several years ago, but the fair continues to be a something of a showcase, despite the changes in agriculture that have taken place since 1984 throughout the nation, across Missouri and in Phelps County. There just aren't as many people seriously involved in agriculture nowadays.
Nevertheless, there will be plenty to do at the Phelps County Fair. There's music, contests, the carnival rides and, yes, the animal judging and the home arts contest judging.
I hope you'll attend the fair and listen to the good music and ride the rides. Please, also be sure to take time to visit with the folks, especially the young people, who exhibit their animals. Also go to the home arts show and look at what people have grown, preserved and crafted.
Enjoy the fair. It's a celebration of rural life.
More foreign ownership of the means of production is the way we are headed.
THE CHANGING WORLD: Earlier this month, July 11, as a matter of fact, the one millionth Kia was built in West Point, Ga.
Talk about a changing world. This is a South Korean car company with an auto factory in the American South, making cars to sell throughout the United States, including right here in Rolla.
According to the announcement from Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia, the one millionth car was a white Sorento SUV. It went to one of the 765 dealerships. Byung Mo Ahn, CEO for Kia Motors America and KMMG, did not specify which dealership. Maybe it was the Rolla dealer.
Kia invested $1 billion in the West Point plant, providing 3,000 jobs in the once-thriving textile town that had seen those jobs move to other countries.
The West Point plant has the capacity of 360,000 vehicles a year. A typical auto factory in the U.S. has a capacity of around 240,000.
COUNCIL MEMBERS SHOULD ATTEND: I don't think it is too much to expect our elected officials to attend the meetings of the boards, commissions and councils they sought to belong to.
I checked the attendance record of the Rolla City Council members and wrote the story this past week. I think I was kind. I didn't go back over a full year. I only went back to April, to the first meeting after the city election.
We'll keep an eye on council attendance the rest of the year. If these men and women think they're so highly intelligent that they are qualified to make decisions about your city, especially the spending of your tax money, don't you think they should attend all the meetings? I think so.
Especially since we PAY them to serve on the council.
R.D. Hohenfeldt, a Georgia native, has lived in Rolla since '84. Currently, he writes regular columns for OzarksAlmanac.com, ozarksalmanac.blogspot.com and occasional columns on the registered forums of Smoker-Builder.com. On the night shift, he helps cover Rolla city and school government for The Rolla Daily News. To register a complaint with the editor about something R.D. has written, e-mail your comments to firstname.lastname@example.com. To write to R.D. directly, send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.