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Every week, Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host today is Alex Ziebart who doesn't have as many cool links to plug up here as Matticus does but will try anyway. This week we get our Shadowform on..
PvE Shadow - Raiding
MMO-Champion has a great tool for setting up talent specs, because you can include your glyphs as well, so we're going to be using that. This spec (14/0/57) will be a fairly cookie-cutter raiding build in patch 3.1, with only very minor variations from person to person. The Shadow tree isn't a very complicated one. Either a talent boosts your DPS, or it does something else. For a raiding spec, you want all of the DPS talents and you can skip all of the 'something else' talents unless they're mandatory for a DPS talent. It's pretty straightforward. Even in the Discipline tree the ultimate goal is to pick up the DPS talents, Twin Disciplines and Improved Inner Fire. Meditation isn't a direct DPS talent, but having no mana is certainly a DPS hit.


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Is this at all normal or do I need taking outside and given a slap to bring me round to my senses?
It probably is normal, as far as the concept can go with out a dedicated thread to discuss all of the possible variant implications. Generally dangerous teritory to get into though. Especially if any of my relatives are involved in the conversation.
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Does anyone else use it regularly, or have anything good or bad to say about it?
Iv'e had FreeBSD in at one time, and have been meaning to do it again for quite a while. I found the 'man' pages far more explanitory than those in Linux. And the way the developers said basically, their focus is to produce a secure mature operating system environment and don't particually care if people like it or not. So don't bother us with feed back along the lines of 'couldn't you make it a bit more like windows please'. Very refreshing
I also liked the way that they suggested that a secure system should never have installed any program thats designed to create other programs. Which covers all the compiles and imaging, audio creation sw. You wont find other distros actually mentioning that. Though, it does sound somewhat extreme, i can see their point.
On the possible negatives -=- some thing slippery probably just forgot to mention ...
I don't think it will run windows apps very well natively

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Official Release: Miller Lite Party Deck to Debut at Miller Park in 2013
The Milwaukee Brewers and MillerCoors today unveiled plans for a new Miller Park group entertainment area, The Miller Lite Party Deck.
The Party Deck will have a capacity of 70 and will be situated above the Miller Park right field Loge Bleachers. It will feature 1,400 square feet of entertaining space and will include a new fixed bar, buffet counter, flat panel televisions and two levels of seating.
The area will be available for groups for select Brewers home games, offering an all-inclusive food and beverage experience in addition to a private setting and a spectacular vantage point for viewing the game and Miller Park surroundings.
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Some people say "condo fever" is inching away from Panama City Beach into Panama City, but right now Panama City Mayor Gerry Clemons says there are very little restrictions as to how developers can use their property.
He has added this topic to Tuesday's City Commission meeting at 5 p.m. at City Hall.
"There is no ordinance that controls height in Panama City now, we have a number of people who've expressed interest in building condos in the downtown Panama City area."
Bringing people to live downtown is vital to any community, a trait the mayor says would benefit Panama City.
"I think the possibility of having more and more people live in the downtown area will help with the character, help develop the character."
Dave Jackson, the director of the Downtown Improvement Board, looks at ways to create an urban setting where people work, play and live. He says it can become a balancing job to control growth and sustain the economy as well.
"You put height restrictions on some of those things, you have to be very careful about that because you may stymie growth and in the long-term you may inhibit some of the programs you want to do later because taxes may not be there."
The challenge is structuring a community that is already showing great improvement and receiving the interest from those who will help create the future for Panama City.
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I agree if a relative is a toxic evil kind of person you should put space between you...but from ops post this is a very good woman who has been a wonderful parent and gparent who more recently began acting out of character with being irritable and stuff. Since this is out of character for her, given her age and loss of spouse etc that its a red flag that it might be coming from depression or related issue..seems to me a big diference between a person who has a toxic character and one who its posibly caused by somthing medical loke depresion...at the least I think she could be evaluated. If it is somthing like that it can be treated and would improve the whole issue
To add, for emphasis: adult children do not "owe" it to their parents to take them in/care for them indefinitely. This is something that I and a lot of my adult friends are starting to hear now as our boomer parents age and retire, that we "owe" it to them to move in, or let them move in with us, and care for them as they age, because they raised us. This is not true. For most of us it's not even possible. But that kind of guilt is hard to get past.AutumnRose, remember that as reinforcement as you deal with this. Your responsibility is to your own children and what is best for them. Hang in there!
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Hi all,
I am dual booting Ubuntu and Vista. I downloaded a free app in Ubuntu and saved it to my Vista partition. But Vista won't let me do anything - run it, delete it, move it. I've followed loads of advice on changing the owner but vista tells me I don't have permission, even when logged in as the Administrator account. I'm reckoning I can do something with ntfs-progs but can't find info on how to do it.
So my question is: How do I use Ubuntu to modify the file owner to be my Windows login?
I can only find information on owning an entire partition.
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Can't you create a device emulator and emulate the defects?
How cheap is some code that:
1. reads an existing pattern
2. outputs that pattern via the known device interface.
If it can be done in software then it's cheap...hackers have a lot of spare time.
If you have "spare time" you're probably not a hacker.
What they are saying is that this hardware has a unique "biometric" and that can be used to definitively identify true chips/boards from fake. Hmmm...
First thought that popped up is that this isn't new: floppy disks were "copy protected" using defects punched into the original disk. That didn't work out very well so why would this?
Second thought was that biometrics have strengths and weaknesses and are not unspoofable. Why would this be any different?
Several other things come to mind:
1. If a h/w encoded w/o (write only) serial number is not good enough, why is this better? Is it because it is cheaper? ie: the flash mem is already there so additional gates/circuitry is not required?
2. What happens if the h/w tech changes? ie: flash mem is no longer cheap and ubiquitous because the whole h/w base has moved to a new technology? In other words, it binds h/w verification, which we want to be a reliable long term solution, to h/w technology which is highly volatile. Probably not a good idea.
3. There is an assumption that these defects are random. I know from experience that many things we assume to be random are actually patterned and predictable. For example: I have observed DRAM chips that power on with repeatable bit patterns that sometimes vary with production run. Highly consistent, quality controlled production runs tends to remove entropy from the product. Faults and errors occur but within well defined constraints. So... disk drives used to fail within a fairly broad standard deviation from the MTBF but now, in a storage centre with hundreds of drives, I get multiple drive failures almost all at once. The standard deviation is much narrower because the manufacturing process is so well controlled. I used to replace drives when they failed and I was confident that the spares and RAID set redundancy would be sufficient to cover the rebuild time. Now I replace drives before the point in time when I expect failures to start because I can get multiple drive failures within the disk rebuild time. The failures are random but correlated. Go figure. Fortunately, tech change often happens before pre-emptive replacement is required.
If we base a h/w verification scheme on the randomness of some aspect of a manufactured product then the scheme is bound to the manufacturing process. If you change your process then you change the verification confidence and security. Not good to make these things dependent.
I think that if there is a need to provide h/w verification then the scheme should be controllable and independent of h/w technology and processes. It should also be able to encode other information with it (er
A zillion years ago, I wrote an Int 13h intercept that could emulate floppy errors on an IBM XT. It seemed to be the obvious thing to do.
Likewise, the solution here will be to emulate the HW errors. The more that depends on the HW "fingerprint", the more motive there will be to create such an intercept for flash chips. Once created, it won't be very expensive.
That, of course, assumes that you can't just hack the routine that scans for the errors and cause it to report whatever you want it to or that you don
1. A write-once serial number doesn't prevent an attacker obtaining a brand-new, unimprinted device and cloning the original device's serial number. Which cells in a block of flash memory fail early is entirely a physical process issue, and falls in the general category of intrinsic physical unclonable functions [wikipedia.org]. The entire point of a PUF is that it can't be duplicated; by definition, this means it can't be backed up, customized, or otherwise controlled, only observed.
2. Using flash memory's bad bits as a
This translates to "It can't currently be done cheaply".
So it's reasonably secure for day to day stuff then.
If you have a working Treacherous Computing setup that you believe isn't breached, what would you want the technique in the article for? With working TC, you have all of that and more. Without TC, it can be worked around with a simple kernel patch.
Not simple as timing will definitely be used in a scheme like this. Still, it sounds hard, not impossible.
I think the hard part will be getting some quality time alone with the device you're trying to clone.
If you have a working Treacherous Computing setup that you believe isn't breached, what would you want the technique in the article for?
Sure, 30 years ago there were floppy copy protection schemes with damaged areas, (uncopyable! they called it) after a couple of weeks somebody had found a way to simulate the damage.
They never learn.
Very true.
It's getting almost funny how someone states that something is "unbreakable" or "uncopiable" (remember quantum encryption stories?) and then a few months later, someone finds a workaround, or some previously unthought of method of breaking the security.
That said, though, relying on random microscopic flaws for unique identity is very clever and would be *extremely difficult* (not impossible) to copy.
Not saying I can do it, but I'm sure someone...somewhere...will figure out a way.
Just my $0.02.
"I'm unspoofable! Not even Zeus himself could spoof me!"
At first It was mechanical punctures on floppies, then random laser marks on CD, now this...
"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again!"
At first It was mechanical punctures on floppies, then random laser marks on CD, now this...
Yeah, holes punched in floppys. However could that be circumvented? Har har har
Glad to see there are other old guys around.
I think German said the same thing about their Engima machines.
...you mean I can't create a simple device that works as a flash drive, but every time the OS requests a bad block, it responds with an entirely fake response that just so happens to match the identity of the spoofed drive? Say, by using any low-cost prototyping board to spoof a USB interface? Or SATA interface?
wiredmikey writes with a story from Security Week where they admit "we're idiots who don't know anything about computing or, indeed, security"
These are the sorts of guys that get publishers to buy into moronic DRM schemes..
Yeah. I don't know that much about security, but I think having a board on the device to digitally sign data from the drive would be better (public key cryptography type thig). At least that way you couldn't simply copy the device's signature using a program in the machine it's plugged into. If you design it right you'd have to have physical access to the internals of the device to copy its private key.
And the most retarded part is that just about everyone in any technical community can tell them why the idea is idiotic, useless and dangerous. I mean, there are pretty few things the internet does better than highlight your stupidity; they should learn to use that wonderful virtue.
Can someone send them a simple email explaining how to first post their new ideas in a tiny forum so children can tell them why it won't work, before talking to the news?
you mean I can't create a simple device [...] by using any low-cost prototyping board to spoof a USB interface? Or SATA interface?
Markus Jakobsson wrote in the article:
No need for error-correcting codes; in fact, we will read and write "raw", which is possible since all of this will be done on OS level.
He's talking about using raw NAND flash without a (hardware) controller, which is more than likely soldered to the motherboard. All USB flash drives have a controller performing error correction, as do all CompactFlash, SD, and Memory Stick memory cards. The only popular consumer flash storage devices that don't have a built-in controller are SmartMedia and xD-Picture cards; the controller for these is inside the camera or the USB card reader.
Can this be emulated - Yes
Since this relies of flaws in the silicon - it is surely really easy to accidentally change the error profile of a device so it is no longer recognised
This is the flaw in facial recognition as well, to make it so that it does not report false negatives it is easier to fool as well
Since this relies of flaws in the silicon - it is surely really easy to accidentally change the error profile of a device so it is no longer recognised
But who is going to solder in such a TSOP flash chip? In addition, reading the "key" from a device changes its error profile because setting it back to all 1's is an erase, and an erase causes wear. It's like a vinyl record, deteriorating with each play, but that might be exactly what publishers of works of entertainment want.
But who is going to solder in such a TSOP flash chip?
I can do it for you. Or you can buy an analog of a ZIF socket. None of that is rocket science - there are billions of TS[S]OP chips installed (and safely removed) on this planet. To give you an example, you can use a low temperature alloy that melts in hot water. This way you can install and remove TSOP chips until you die from old age, and the ICs will still work fine. They do that with 1000-ball BGAs at trade shows.
In addition, reading the "key" f
So what? We connect another memory device through an FPGA and emulate the error pattern. At least to the extend detected by the software.
What if one more bit goes bad during normal usage..Identity is gone. Any thing tied to it will stop working.."Very much like humans recognize faces: by their defects"..if your son had plastic surgery without your knowledge..you will fail to recognize him?
What if one more bit goes bad during normal usage..Identity is gone. Any thing tied to it will stop working.."Very much like humans recognize faces: by their defects"..if your son had plastic surgery without your knowledge..you will fail to recognize him?
Especially if that plastic surgery was done unintentionally just by looking at him one time too many.
How is an external device know what defects are in my silicon? The bits flowing through the connector will tell it whatever I want.
How is an external device know what defects are in my silicon?
The device is not external. Please see my other comment [slashdot.org].
but how is that going to help if this is using your mobile phone internal memory for purchase authentication?
There are already systems in place for that: SIM cards and electronic serial numbers. Neither of those require purposefully breaking read-write memory in a way that provides no benefit over simple ROM, and both are just as "unspoofable" as this is. Not to mention that SIMs/ESNs have a much reduced chance of randomly changing the identity.
There are already systems in place for that: SIM cards and electronic serial numbers.
Neither of which will help if you have removed the SIM card in your unlocked smartphone to use it as a PDA.
Neither of which will help if you have removed the SIM card in your unlocked smartphone to use it as a PDA.
With the example of iPhone/iPodTouch, they still have EDID (basically ESN) when no SIM is present... And if you never connect the device to a network, the whole reason for having this kind of ID is moot anyway.
I don't understand what you're trying to argue here.
I hear your point; The flip argument might be that security is never an absolute, but rather a question of the time it takes to break it. (Safes are in fact rated in the hours it takes to breach them).
One can emulate; however the emulation is often not as time-effective as the real; so I wonder if a reader could not detect the time difference of the emulation?
Precisely. And compromising an OS is in fact an expected norm by any self-respecting computer user. It goes together with having the right to f.e. change system files etc. So the second question is valid: why bother? For those with "trusted computing" systems however, it's a whole other mixbag.
Stop discouraging them! Let them think their scheme is flawless so that they'll actually implement it instead of something stronger.
The last line in TFA gives the problem in this scheme:
"If we run a secure boot or a reliable software-based attestation scheme before we ID a device, we know that there is no active malware that may modify the report that results from reading the machine identity. So we know that the reading actually comes from the intended block, and that it was done correctly."
However if this secure boot thingy is comprimised you can force to read it form a virtualized memory block that contains a forged block. . You ca
The maxim of security is that if you have physical access to the hardware then all security is pointless
This is why you are always kept one (or more) steps away from the actual hardware in secure systems
If you can secure clean boot the system then you have physical access and you can manually verify the system so this is unnecessary, if you can't then it is not reliable
Another solution looking for a problem
because this "trusted" hardware will/can have a specialized chip that contains a non-tamperable key.
Its not easy - but TPM has been proven breakable.
http://hackaday.com/2010/02/09/tpm-crytography-cracked/ [hackaday.com]
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10625082 [nzherald.co.nz]
What do I need the NAND for?
This whole thing is dumb. If I had a system which already couldn't be tampered, I wouldn't need this NAND thing. And for the NAND, I can read out all the info about the NAND that could possibly be used as a key and then replicate it in a hardware-based emulator that I attach to the board in place of the NAND, leaving the rest of the system in place so it can answer any difficult security questions that are asked.
The NAND system adds nothing of value because it is replicable. Even
From what I know of flash, the 'bad bits' aren't repeatedly bad. The bad-sector-swap-out-routine in most flash drives and USB sticks will actually swap out a sector after a single read that can't be ECC-corrected, but that doesn't mean all the bits in the sector can't be written correctly ever again.
For example, in this [ieee.org] article (IEEExplore, so paywalled for you, sorry) a generic NAND flash chip has been tested for bit-error-rates. In the 5K write cycles after an average bit has failed, it only failed to be written correctly 4 times more. That would mean that a single erase-rewrite cycle would write the complete sector without any bit errors 99% of the time: to find 'most' of the bad bits, the sector would have to be rewritten 1000s of times every time the software would want to check the fingerprint.
Not only would that take a fair amount of time, it would also introduce new failed bits. That would mean the ID of the flash chip can only be checked so many times beffore the complete sector goes bad.
So let me get this straight... They "create" an ID by writing and rewriting a bunch of bits until they start failing, then mark the whole block bad. To "read" the identity, they set all bits to 0 and see which ones are stuck at 1 and then set all bits to 1 to see which are stuck at 0. The "bad block" ID area has already been written to thousands of times intentionally. What's going to guarantee that by "reading" the bad block ID (with 2 assignments each time), we won't unintentionally be making the final write to an extra bit or two?
If all you want is data I can't change, on my general purpose machine, sorry, that's not gonna happen
Then the major motion picture studios can choose not to sell or rent their works to you if you choose to use only a general-purpose machine. Some major video game developers have made similar decisions.
Then the major motion picture studios can choose not to sell or rent their works to you if you choose to use only a general-purpose machine.
And, of course, no one can live without those movies...
Bad blocks are inherent in NAND flash. SLC NAND Flash devices are more reliable (have fewer errors) and costly. MLC NAND Flash devices are less reliable (have more inherent errors) but are affordable and easily available. NAND Flash devices are known to progressively degrade [cyclicdesign.com] until the number of bad blocks is too high to reliably store data. Inherent errors during manufacturing increase on usage (both read and write.) Most Flash Storage Devices will ultimately become too error-prone to store data. The industry might want to justify inherent errors (and gradually increasing errors) by calling it a fingerprint. They are still searching [intel.com] for techniques to make NAND Flash more reliable.
The article fails to provide mathematical basis to prove that two NAND flashes cannot have the same bad blocks on manufacturing or at some point of usage thereby obscuring identity. NAND flash controllers are designed to check and resolve errors using known algorithms. Most controllers allow hardware to hide errors while allowing OS device drivers to read the NAND flash medium. The Operating System and the NAND Flash Controller are at least two points were any such fingerprint can be compromised. The Filesystem adds another layer of abstraction. The number of "Real" bad blocks and remaps is usually stored on the NAND Flash. Altering the Bad Block Table is not difficult.
Hard Disks interestingly have similar failure rates and complex issues like Data remanence which have been studied. I wonder why no one proposed a signature scheme for using errors on Hard Drive Platters to identify them. Computer Forensics for Hard Drives has a longer track record of being studied. Marketing fud can be ignored.
There are tons of problems with this, not the least of which lies in the fact that if you have a secure boot and trusted environment, you don't really need a NAND chip to read an identity from, you can make do with a file that user cannot remove or alter, i.e. a system file. That's what trusted would mean here. This however presents another problem - amount of users willing to use such a "trusted" system is inversely proportional to how many of these users grok computers. Typically, your mildly paranoid hac
Easy to spoof by implementing a flash memory emulation in a microcontroller. A chip that will behave like a flash chip, but in fact provides an extra abstraction layer and simulates faulty areas. Just like HDD controller that remaps faulty sectors to free area at the end of the disk, so from PC viewpoint the disk is fault-free and continuous, doing a similar device (which on top of remapping bad sectors, simulates ones where ones are not present, and makes them look precisely as expected) for flash seems quite easy.
That was my immediate thought as well. Not only were those systems easy to emulate, they also had the problem that damage would make the disk (or disc) unusable by the application long before it was actually unreadable by screwing up the pattern. As with most content protection, it didn't work and screwed legitimate consumers while not harming pirates at all, yet for some reason the idea keeps coming back with every new data medium.
I'm an embedded designer, and I recently created a system which has a raw NAND flash memory chip installed on it. We've manufactured a few hundred of these already, and the majority NAND chips come from the factory with half a dozen bad blocks marked, but I've personally seen a few NAND chips which have *no* bad blocks.
And devices which do have bad blocks have the blocks marked as bad by programming them, so you can mark any good block as bad if you want. So there's nothing stopping me from buying a few trays of NAND, reading the bad blocks and picking out the few error-free ones, and cloning the NAND chip from one of these supposedly "unclonable because of its bad blocks" devices referred to in the original post - copying bad blocks and all.
But you don't even have to do that.
Even devices which *do* have bad blocks may not have hard failures in those blocks, where a bit is completely unable to be programmed or erased. And if you successfully erase a bad block, you've just marked that block as good again. So with enough program/erase cycles, you may be able to successfully make a bad block good again and hold the data you want. If not, move onto the next chip from your tray of NAND and try again.
And you might not even have to get that 100% right, provided you don't have more than 1 bit of error per sector between the original device and the clone. The ECC will correct that bit error, and the now-cloned device (assuming it uses a proper NAND filesystem) should just encounter the bad sector, move the block and mark the previously-bad block as bad again. At this point, you may only need to buy a few NAND chips instead of a few trays in order to clone any given NAND chip.
Now as a protection against this last idea, the device could fsck its NAND on boot and set a maximum # of new bad blocks as a tripwire for cloning protection. But if you know what that threshold is, just throw more NAND chips at the problem until you successfully program one below that threshold.
...I think the authors are oversimplifying way too much.
OK, you take your flash, write it until it breaks, and use the resulting cells to determine an identity. How do you read it? Write it, then read back which cells aren't written. Uh, wait, if you read it by writing it, won't you cause more failures?
Furthermore, flash often doesn't fail so cleanly. Some cells will simply not write to 0. However, other times, they will become leaky and read as 0, but then flip back to 1 at some later time. So the ap
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GREENVILLE, N.C. --- Six pitchers combined on a five-hitter as East Carolina defeated the Czech Republic Senior National Team, 3-1, in an exhibition game at Clark-LeClair Stadium Saturday. Pirate pitchers combined for 11 strikeouts in just their second day together on the field this fall.
"I felt like our pitchers would be in shape enough to throw an inning or two," Pirate head coach Billy Godwin said. "Competition exposes some things and there are a lot of things we've got to work on. We've got 15 new players, so right now we're trying to find out what they're good at and what they need to be better at.
"Anytime you get a chance to compete and play the game its good. Those guys are good. They've got several pro players and guys who've signed. It was a good way to get our feet under us and identify some things we have to work on."
David Lucroy, who was credited with the win, got the start for ECU and tossed two innings allowing two hits and striking out two. Davis Kirkpatrick and Ryan Williams also tossed two innings apiece, fanning three batters each. Kirkpatrick walked three, but didn't surrender a hit, while Williams gave up one hit without issuing a base-on-balls.
The Pirates got a first inning run without a hit. Garrett Brooks drew a leadoff walk and then promptly stole second base. After the next two batters were retired, Brooks stole third with Luke Lowery at the plate. Working with a 3-2 count against Lowery, pitcher Jan Novak uncorked a wild pitch allowing Brooks to score the game's first run.
Novak didn't surrender a hit until Drew Reynolds singled up the middle to lead off the fourth inning. It was the only hit he allowed before the sixth inning when consecutive doubles by Josh Lovick and Brooks scored the Pirates' second run.
The score remained 2-0 until the seventh when both team's scored a run in their half of the inning. The Czech Republic scored its lone run of the game on an error, while Ian Townsend homered to left field for ECU's third and final run.
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Sara Penninger Knapp, 93, of Brookstone Retirement Center, formerly of Linwood Southmont Road, died Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at Hinkle Hospice House.
Sara Penninger Knapp, 93, of Brookstone Retirement Center, formerly of Linwood Southmont Road, died Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at Hinkle Hospice House.
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Jersey Baptist Church by the Revs. Dr. Michael Collier and Morris S. Holifield. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends after the service in the multi-purpose room.
Mrs. Knapp was born March 6, 1919, in Davidson County to John Nelson Penninger Sr. and Emma Sharpe Penninger. She graduated from Linwood School in 1933; then graduated from Pfeiffer College and Appalachian State University. She began her career as an elementary school teacher at Wallburg School. In 1945, she began her employment at Linwood Manufacturing and retired after 40 years of service. Mrs. Knapp was an active member of Jersey Baptist Church as long as she was physically able. She served as Sunday school teacher for many age groups, was YWA leader, member of the church choir and member of Negrin Women's Group. She also served on many committees including pastor search committees and the Jersey Baptist Church History Committee. She also served as WMU director and church clerk for many years. She was a member of the Lexington Woman's Business Club, served with Meals on Wheels and was very active in support of the Baptist Children's Home of North Carolina.
She married Robert Knapp on Sept. 27, 1953. She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; and a brother, John Nelson Penninger Jr.
She is survived by a brother, Charles H. Penninger of Linwood; nieces and nephews Doris Penninger Farmer and husband Boyd, Glenn F. Penninger and wife Brenda, Phyllis Penninger Willis and husband John, Nelson Penninger and wife Teresa, Terry Ingerson and wife Betty, Charles Ingerson and Joanne Ingerson Boughner and husband Arnold; numerous great-nieces and nephews whom she greatly loved and enjoyed; and three foster children, George Frady, Cathy Allen Biddix and Jan Powell.
Memorials may be directed to Jersey Baptist Church, P.O. Box 849, Linwood, NC 27299; Hospice of Davidson County, 200 Hospice Way, Lexington, NC 27292; or to Baptist Children's Home of N.C., P.O. Box 338, Thomasville, NC 27361-0338.
Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.


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Following the parade opening ceremonies will be held at the Gospel Arbor at 9:30 a.m.
Gospel singing, games for adults and children will begin at 10 a.m. An antique car show will be held from 10 a.m. to noon next to Security State Bank.
The country group "Messin' Around" will perform from 8 until midnight, with a break at 10 p.m. for a fireworks show.
Bring your lawnchairs and join in the fun!


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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Dog helps itself to pizza from fridge
Posted by arbroath at 5:15 am
3 comments:
- Miss Cellania said...
Just last night, one of the kids brought home an entire leftover pizza, and it was sitting on the kitchen counter. My husband had left the cover off. He came back to get another piece, and I was in the office next door when I heard him yelling. What?
"That kitten was sitting smack-dab in the middle of the pizza!"
He hollered. He was mad (the cats know they aren't allowed on the kitchen counters), but all I could think of was the missed opportunity for a photograph.
- 3:34 pm
- arbroath said...
- 3:58 pm
- Peter78730 said...
I wouldn't mind him stealing the pizza if he'd only close the door!
Imagine what he could do with opposable thumbs.
- 7:44 pm
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High 5
Mike Carbone , Marshfield: In a 2-1 week featuring wins over Atlantic Coast opponents Falmouth and Plymouth North, the Rams outscored foes 19-5 thanks in part to the senior forward's five goals and four assists.
Rourke Flynn , Norwood: The Mustang forward put up two goals and two assists in his team's last two games, both of them come-from-behind wins. Against Needham he scored twice and assisted on the game-winner.
Jake Quinlan , Abington: Just a junior, the defenseman has collected nine goals and eight assists in the Green Wave's last four games, all wins. Three of the goals and five of the assists came in a 12-1 win Saturday over Mashpee/Upper Cape Tech.
Jane Morrisette , Whitman-Hanson/Pembroke: The three-town, two-school co-op struggled to a 1-1-1 week, but its junior forward and leading goal-getter made the most of it. With a goal and an assist in a 2-2 tie with Falmouth, she reached 100 points for her career and dashed the Clippers' (13-0-1) hopes for a perfect season.
Hannah Murphy , Duxbury: The senior captain and leading scorer continued her torrid pace, helping the Dragons to a 3-0 week with four goals, one in a narrow 2-1 road victory over Westwood and three in a home-and-home sweep of Dennis-Yarmouth.
Healey's Top 10 boys' teams
(Records through Sunday, with next game listed)
1. Duxbury (9-1-4); Sat., vs. Whitman-Hanson, 5:30
2. Hingham (9-4-1); Sat., vs. Springfield Cathedral, 3
3. Norwood (8-2-1); Sat., vs. Wellesley, 6
4. Archbishop Williams (8-2-3); Sat., at Matignon, 8
5. Marshfield (10-4); Sat., vs. Plymouth South, 5
6. Braintree (10-3-1); Sat., at Framingham, 6:10
7. Xaverian (5-5-3); Sat., at St. John's Prep, 5:10
8. Canton (10-3); Sat., at Taunton, 2
9. Silver Lake (9-2-2); Sat., at Hanover, 3:10
10. Walpole (7-3-4); Sat., vs. Milton, 6:50
Healey's Top 10 girls' teams
1. Duxbury (12-1-1); Sat., vs. Whitman-Hanson/Pembroke, 5:20
2. Hingham (8-4-1); Sat., at Sandwich, 6:40
3. Canton (12-2); Sat., vs. Westwood, 8
4. Archbishop Williams (11-3); Sat., at St. Mary's (Lynn), 8:30
5. Fontbonne (8-5-1); Thurs., vs. Westwood, 4
6. Braintree (6-3-3); Sat., vs. Framingham, 8
7. Norwood (9-2-1); Sat., at Wellesley, 6:45
8. Westwood (7-4-1); Thurs., at Fontbonne, 4
9. Walpole (8-4-1); Sat., at Milton, 7
10. Norwell (7-1-4); Sat., vs. Bourne/Mashpee/Wareham, 11:40 a.m.
Game of the Week
Hingham boys (9-4-1) vs. Springfield Cathedral (11-0-2), Saturday, 3
Tony Messina's squad hasn't fared too well against other top-notch Catholic teams this season, having lost to St. John's Prep, Malden Catholic, and Catholic Memorial, but this time the independent Harbormen have the advantage of playing on home ice. The Panthers boast a sophomore forward, Peter Crinella, and a trio of senior defensemen, Matt Foley, Jack Williams, and Artie Potter, closing in on 20 points, who will surely test Hingham goalie John Grenier (.919 save percentage, 1.39 goals-against average). Look for junior forward Sam D'Antuono (12 goals, eight assists) to lead the Harbormen offensively.


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ROCHESTER -- Annual Book Sale at Rochester Public Library, Saturday, Oct. 5-6, and Oct. 9-12. Rochester Public Library, 65 south Main St., Rochester; Annual Book Sale at Rochester Public Library. Info: 603-332-1428, www.rpl.lib.nh.us/programs/AnnualBooksale.html.
EAST ROCHESTER — VICTIMS, INC., The Joan Ellis Victim Assistance Network, is accepting items up until Saturday, October 6 for the Columbus Day weekend yard sale, Saturday, Sunday, Monday October 6, 7, and 8.
The yard sale will be held in the VICTIMS, INC. parking lot at Shoreyville Plaza, Route 202, East Rochester from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. This sale will feature household items, clothes, books, toys, furniture, etc. Anyone wishing to donate items for the sale, volunteer to set up or sell, or needing information can call 335-7777.
NEW CASTLE — The New Congregational Church at 65 Main Street, will be having a Big Rummage Sale on Saturday, Oct. 6, from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Clothing boutique, collectibles, white elephants, small appliances, books, delicious baked goods and yummy hot dogs. Questions? call 603-436-5071.
NORTH BERWICK,Maine— The North Berwick Historical Societies huge benefit yard sale will be held on Saturday October 6th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Masonic Hall Yorkshire Lodge on Rt. 4. Included will be various useful and decorative items for your selection. For further information or to donate articles for sale please call 207-676-7600 and leave a message. Your call will be returned.
NEWINGTON -- Great Bay Services Yard Sale, Friday, Oct. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Great Bay Services, 2061 Woodbury Ave., Newington; Furniture, clothes, games, toys and more. Also chili, cider and donuts available. Free.stu simon, 603-436-2014, email@example.com, www.greatbayservices.org.
STRATHAM -- Wiggin Memorial Library Fall Book Sale, Friday, Oct. 12, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Wiggin Memorial Library, 10 Bunker Hill Ave., Stratham; Come enjoy the Stratham Library's annual Fall Booksale. Books, DVDs, Music CDs, etc. Free.Tricia Ryden, 603-772-4346, email@example.com, library.strathamnh.gov.
STRATHAM — The Wiggin Memorial Library in Stratham will have its annual Fall Book Sale on Friday October 12 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on Saturday October 13 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. There will be a special sneak preview for Friends of the Library on Friday from 9-10 a.m. ($10 at the door if you are not already a Friend). Hundreds of books, audiobooks, movies and music available for children, teenagers and adults! Everything is $1 each, or 7 for $5.00. For more information please contact the library at 772-4346.
STRATHAM — Don't miss the Second Annual Wiggin Memorial Library Fall Craft Fair on Saturday, October 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Stratham Municipal Center. This early craft fair features a fantastic variety of artisans showcasing a selection of beautiful, unique, handmade goods, including jewelry, pottery, decorative items, woodworking, photography, children's wearables, holiday-themed items, and more. There will be raffles, demos, plus a table full of crafts created by Stratham teens.
SOMERSWORTH —HARVEST CRAFT FAIR - The 18th Annual Harvest Craft Fair will be held on Saturday, Oct. 27, sponsored by the Somersworth Festival Association from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Somersworth High School. This very well attended fair is one of the largest craft fairs in the area. The fair features over 150 of the best crafters in all of NH, Maine, Vermont and even Mass. This is a good time to start your holiday shopping and to buy your fall decorations. Plenty of parking and food will be served by the Board members of the Festival Association.
For more information please call Sue at (603)692-5869. Check out our website for the applications nhfestivals.org
DOVER – 1st Annual craft crawl on Nov. 3 from 9 am. - 3 p.m. Make a day of it. Come see crafters at Dover Rehab (307 Plaza Drive), the Dover Senior Center (61 Locust Street), Maple Suites (30 Holiday Drive), Langdon Place of Dover (60 Middle Road) and St. Ann's Healthcare Center (195 Dover Point Road). Each location will have snacks, raffles, crafters, and fun. Get your holiday shopping jump-started while helping to support activities for local seniors. Visit all 5 locations and enter your punch card for a drawing for a $100 Downtown Dover Gift Certificate. For information on hosting a table OR attending the event, please call 743-4110 x231.
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HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR - The 20th Annual Holiday Craft Fair on Saturday, Dec. 1 from 9 a.m to 3 p.m. at Somersworth High School is sponsored by the Somersworth Festival Association. The SFA hosts one of the areas largest and best holiday craft fair in the region. The fair features over 150 of the best crafters in all of NH, Maine and even from Mass. For those who want original gifts this fair is for you. This is also a good time to do your holiday shopping and to buy your Christmas decorations. Plenty of parking and food will be served by the Board members of the Festival Association. A full kitchen is provided by the SFA board members so you can stay and browse to your heart's content.
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GREENLAND — Greenland Community Congregational Church will hold its Annual Christmas Fair on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Greenland Parish House on Post Road/Route 151 in Greenland Center. There is no admission for this community holiday event and it will feature two floors of merchandise and activities including: A Cookie Walk with hundreds of homemade cookies, Handcrafted items made by the church's Women's Alliance, Gifts created by Greenland's Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, Tables of jewelry, gourmet foods, and other locally made products, Visit from Santa and children's activities, "Nearly New" room with bargains galore.
Luncheon featuring sandwiches, ice cream sundaes and fried dough.
The fair's Silent Auction will be at the center of the event, featuring artwork and handmade items, restaurant gift certificates, passes to area attractions, gift baskets, and more. For more information about the GCCC Christmas Fair, contact the church at 603-436-8336 or visit www.communitychurchofgreenland.org.
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SINGAPORE—Singapore urged people to remain indoors because of record air pollution Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia worsened dramatically. Nearby Malaysia closed 200 schools and banned open burning in some areas.
The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore's main measure of air pollution, surged to a record 371, breaching the "hazardous" classification that can aggravate respiratory ailments. The previous high before this week was in 1997, when the index reached 226.
The hazardous reading lasted three hours before easing to 253 in the evening, still "very unhealthy."
Smog fueled by raging Indonesian blazes has hit Singapore and Malaysia many times, often in the middle of the year, but the severity of this week's conditions has strained diplomatic ties. Officials in Singapore say Jakarta must do more to halt fires on Sumatra island started by plantation owners and farmers to clear land cheaply.
"This is now the worst haze that Singapore has ever faced," Singapore Environment Minister Vivian Balakrishnan wrote on his Facebook page. "No country or corporation has the right to pollute the air at the expense of Singaporeans' health and wellbeing."
An Indonesian Cabinet minister criticized the public Singaporean statements, saying they should have been conveyed through diplomatic channels.
"Singapore should not act like children, making all that noise," Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Agung Laksono said.
The haze has shrouded the city-state's skyscrapers in a pall of noxious fumes and posed numerous inconveniences for Singaporeans, some of whom complained of coughs and covered their faces with handkerchiefs or masks while walking outdoors.
Flight controllers at Singapore's Changi Airport were instructed to take precautions because of lower visibility, while McDonald's said it was temporarily halting delivery service to protect its workers' health.
Some hospitals shut windows in wards with elderly patients to keep out the acrid odour of burning. Sports organizers cancelled several football and sailing competitions this weekend.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong advised residents to stay indoors as much as possible, adding that "we will get through this together."
Lee told a news conference that the haze was expected to continue for a while because of wind and weather conditions. He said a government panel was being formed to protect public health and the city-state's economic resilience.
In neighbouring Malaysia, air quality remained relatively unaffected in the country's biggest city, Kuala Lumpur, but a southern state that borders Singapore recorded "hazardous" pollution in one district, where 200 schools were ordered to close through at least Friday. The Department of Environment banned open burning and made it punishable by up to five years in prison in three states separated from Sumatra by the Malacca Strait.
Indonesian officials have defended their response to the haze, saying the government is educating farmers about alternatives to traditional slash-and-burn agriculture. Some Indonesian officials have also suggested that some fires might be blamed on Singaporean and Malaysian companies involved in Indonesia's plantation industry.


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Dessie DeBoard
Dessie Irene DeBoard died Friday, Dec. 30, 2005, in Sublimity, Ore. She was 97 years of age.
A funeral service was to be held Tuesday, Jan. 3, at 11 a.m. at Anderson's Tribute Center in Hood River, Ore. Burial will follow at Pine Grove Butte Cemetery in Hood River.
Dessie Irene Clark was born on Oct. 16, 1908, the first of seven children born to John Lawson Clark and Minnie Matilda Story.
They lived in the small village of Amy, Mo., which consisted of a post office, a church and the general store owned by her grandfather John C. Clark.
Her mother died when Irene was 13, leaving a heavy responsibility on her young shoulders for caring for her younger brothers and sisters.
Irene married Floyd Wilson DeBoard on Aug. 29, 1929. The couple moved from Springfield back to the Mountain View area, where Floyd taught through the years in many of the rural schools of the region, and Irene raised their growing family.
In June of 1951 Floyd and Irene, with a family of seven children (ages 4 to 20), made the move to Oregon. They settled in Hood River, where most of their younger children graduated from high school.
In 1957, Floyd died quite suddenly. Irene and her youngest son, Bill DeBoard, moved to Salem, Ore., where she worked and Bill finished school.
She continued to make her life in Salem for the next 40 years. She attended the First Baptist Church in Salem until she moved to assisted living at Marion Estates in Sublimity, in 1997.
Irene was fashionable as a young woman in the clothing of the 1920's, and she maintained those high standards for personal grooming and attire throughout her long life; hair, nails, makeup, and jewelry were important to her. She loved to shop, and particularly enjoyed Christmas shopping for her children and grandchildren each year.
She loved watching Cardinal baseball on television, but her greatest hobby was cutting and piecing quilts; many of her quilts were sent from Oregon back to Missouri to be quilted by Mary DeBoard at the Ladies Aid of the Forest Dell community near Mountain View.
Irene particularly enjoyed family gatherings, and looked forward to her annual birthday party; the family gathered in Sublimity to celebrate her 97th birthday this past October.
Her powers of observation and perception continued to amaze her family and friends to the very end of her life.
Irene is survived by her seven children: Lu Walker of Beaverton Ore.; Cora Leah Henshaw of John Day, Ore.; Donald DeBoard of Salem; Edwin DeBoard of Hood River; Jaunita Cross of Prineville, Ore.; Snoden DeBoard of Prineville, Ore.; and Bill DeBoard of Sherwood, Ore.
She is also survived by 17 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild.
Rememberances to First Baptist Church of Salem, Liberty St., Salem, Ore.
Arrangements by Anderson's Tribute Center (Funerals, Receptions, Cremations) 1401 Belmont Hood River, OR 97031.
Rosalie Thomsen
Rosalie "Rose" Thomsen, 78, a longtime resident of Hood River, Ore.,died at her home peacefully with her family around her on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2005.
She was born on Oct. 7, 1927, in Portland, Ore., the only child to Bjarne Christian and Mabel Alma (Donaldson) Selnes.
She was raised in Dee Mill and graduated from Hood River High School, then went to college for two years at Portland State University. After college she spent her adult life in Hood River.
She married Clifton Robert Thomsen on July 1, 1949, in Washington state.
She worked for Duckwall Pooley Fruit Company for 21 years and has lived in Hood River for 78 years.
She enjoyed traveling with family, gardening, and loved animals, was devoted to her grand-daughter, Kera, loved special friends and was a loving caring mom.
She is survived by two daughters, Karen Thomsen, Robin Thomsen; her son, Jon Thomsen all of Hood River; her three grandchildren, Kera Thomsen of Hood River, Eric Shoop of Oregon City, and Gwyn Austin of Vancouver, Wash; and her great-grandchildren, Tala and Stephen Asbury.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Clifton Robert Thomsen.
Private cremation was held at Win-Quatt Crematory of The Dalles with Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home in care of arrangements.
Private family committal will be held at Idlewild Cemetery Mausoleum.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Gorge, 751 Myrtle Street, The Dalles, OR 97058, in memory of Rose Thomsen.
Richard Bailey
Richard John Bailey, 87, a long-time resident of The Dalles, died on Dec. 27, 2005.
Dick was born on Aug. 7, 1918, in Buffalo, N.Y. He and his parents drove across the U.S. to Oregon in a Model T Ford when he was four years old and after living in Portland for a short time they moved to The Dalles.
During his school years, Dick was a member of the Boy Scouts, the Oregon National Guard and the high school football team. He graduated from The Dalles High School in 1938 and attended Oregon State College prior to World War II.
After serving in the army during the war he returned to Oregon State and graduated in 1949.
In 1941 he married Adelaide Zweifel of LaGrande. In 1950 Dick and his family returned to The Dalles where he worked for the Union Pacific Railroad until his retirement.
For many years he ran the cherry orchard which he and his father owned and later he had a peach orchard in Mosier.
Dick married Jeane Coombs of The Dalles in 1972 and together they enjoyed many years growing peaches and flowers, "camping" at Lost Lake and the Oregon Coast, and attending Beaver football games.
He was active in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, The Dalles Elks (64 years), the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, the Wasco County Pioneers, Mosier Lions, OSU alumni groups, the senior centers in The Dalles and Mosier, and the Scotch Guard. He took two memorable trips to Europe in 1998 and in 2001.
He was predeceased by his parents Harry L. and Pauline M. Bailey and his wife, Jeane, who died in 1997.
He is survived by his daughters, Regan Olson of Bend, Ore., Carolyn (Doug) Morrison of Abbotsford, B.C., Canada, Ellen (Paul) Harshbarger of Hood River; two granddaughters, Novayen Olson of Ladera Ranch, Calif., and Aryana Olson of Nashville, Tenn.
Also surviving are his cousin Leonard "Dude" (Dora) Bailey of The Dalles; and many cousins in Oregon and the eastern United States.
He is also survived by Jeane's children: Frank Coombs, Jehm Roemer, Dudley Coombs, Barbara Jenkins and Beverly Bower.
Dick's family wishes to thank the staff at Columbia Basin Care Facility and his many friends in The Dalles for their care, support and friendship.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, Jan. 6, at 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 1805 Minnesota St. in The Dalles.
No flowers please, but memorials to Columbia Basin Care Facility, Home at Last Animal Friends or Seniority (c/o Mid Columbia Medical Center) would be appreciated.
Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Warren 'Rudy' Clements
The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs lost a valued member of tribal government with the passing of Warren Rudy Clements on Dec. 28 due to complications of diabetes. He died at St. Charles Hospital in Bend.
Rudy was born on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation on June 10, 1936. He was the oldest son of Bart and Helen McCorkle Clements.
Rudy's Indian name was Sta-xo-thali. Sta-xo-thali was a treaty signer and Chief of the Lower Deschutes Band, who was killed in 1864 by Paulina's band near the crossing of the Crooked River, about 12 miles Northeast of Camp Maury. Rudy was a direct descendant of Sta-xo-thali.
Clements was one of the Tribe's earliest college graduates, getting his Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from Eastern Oregon College in La Grande in 1962.
While attending college he served on the student body council, lettered in baseball four years, and lettered two years in basketball. He was also a cheerleader in high school and college. He was an outstanding high school athlete at Madras high school. As a youth he excelled as a boxer, jockey, and bowler. He later bowled in a semi-pro league and traveled around the Northwest competing.
His first job after graduating from college was teaching at David Douglas High School in Portland. Rudy also coached baseball and basketball.
Most of his career was spent with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. His understanding of the political and governmental workings of Indian Country made him a valuable asset to the Confederated Tribes. His knowledge of ancient Indian customs, traditions, dances and Indian lore, along with his entertaining speaking style, made him a much in demand speaker for a wide array of audiences.
Over the years Rudy has worked with various dance groups to raise funds for the Lincoln's Day Pow Wow held in Simnasho every February. Over the years Rudy's groups had performed for a multitude of foreign dignitaries, VIPs, corporations, and governmental agencies.
In 1964, Rudy became the first director of the new Warm Springs Community Center. Clements coached baseball and boxing at that time. In 1968, he accepted the newly created position of Education Coordinator. He also served as Community Action Program Director, responsible for Head Start, VISTA and Neighborhood Youth Corps services.
In 1969, the Northwest Lab in Portland hired Clements. Northwest Lab, under the Department of Labor, conceptualized an innovative new program. Rudy was selected over 100 other applicants. He directed the pilot program called "Northwest Area Manpower Institute for Development of Staff."
Next Rudy was asked to start up a new branch that would dispense information to the tribal public as well as the off-reservation public. The Tribal Relations branch was comprised of KWSO radio, the Spilyay Tymoo, the Print Shop and Public Relations.
He served on numerous boards, commissions, service groups and various committees. Six Oregon Governors called on him, appointing him to state boards. Rudy was particularly proud of his role in assisting the State Legislature in creating the Commission of Indian Services. Working at the grass roots level with then Senator Vic Atiyeh, Rudy was instrumental in helping lay the foundation for a body that has become a strong voice in the Oregon Legislature for Native Americans.
His passion for the last 10 years was his involvement in gaming issues for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. He was on the ground floor when the Tribe entered the gaming business. He served as Chairman of the Indian Head Casino Board of Directors since its inception. Later when the Indian Head Casino merged with Kah-Nee-Ta, he served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort and Casino. He has been working tirelessly to help the Tribe expand its gaming operation to the Columbia River Gorge. Shortly before his death, Rudy remarked that when the doors to the new casino at Cascade Locks were open, he would retire.
Rudy is survived by his wife of 47 years, Anna Queahpama Clements. Also surviving is a granddaughter, Shayla Frank, and a great-grandson, Jake Frank. Brothers George Clements, Mike Clements and Grant Clements also survive him. Other survivors include numerous nieces and nephews. Rudy's parents and daughter, Trudee Ann Clements, preceded him in death.
Rudy practiced the Washat Indian religion as he learned it from the Queahpama family. The three sisters, Nettie, Matilda, and Sylvia were instrumental in his teaching. Rudy worshiped at the Simnasho Longhouse for many years.
A prayer service was held at the Rudy and Anna Clements residence on Dec. 29. The dressing was at the Simnasho Longhouse on Dec. 30, followed by overnight Washat services. Interdenominational services followed the Washat service, with burial at the Agency Cemetery.
Delmer Wabschall
Delmer Harry Wabschall, an Odell, Ore., resident, died Dec. 29, 2005, at his residence. He was 76 years of age.
Services will be held on Saturday, Jan. 7, at 1 p.m. at Anderson's Tribute Center.
Delmer Wabschall was born Oct. 15, 1929, in Williston, N.D. to Archie and Florence (Brown) Wabschall.
He was raised and educated in Williston, coming to Hood River in 1950. He served in the Armed Forces during the Korean Conflict where he was stationed in Alaska.
Delmer worked for many years at the Tip Top Tavern and Elks Club, then Champion Plywood Mill as a hyster operator until his retirement.
He moved to Centralia, Wash. in the mid 1980's where he owned and operated Myron's Tavern for about five years.
He returned to Hood River in 1991. Delmer had been a member of the Elks Lodge since 1958 and was also a member of the Eagles Lodge, the American Legion and the V.F.W. He enjoyed playing cards and cribbage, fishing, mushroom hunting and visiting his family and many friends.
He is survived by his wife, Edith Wabschall of Hood River; son Steve Wabschall and his wife, Suzanne,of Scappoose, Ore.; daughters Loree Reinhardt and her husband John of Newberg, Ore. and Kelly Wabschall of Hood River; sisters Sybil Larson and her husband Donnie, Shirley Edmonds and Laura Oyen.
Also surviving are five grandchildren: Aaron and Jamie Wabschall and Travis, Jerad and Zachary Reinhardt. Many nieces and nephews also survive.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother Archie and sister Vada.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to PROD (Promoting Responsible Ownership of Dogs), or the Oregon Veteran's Home, c/o Anderson's Tribute Center, 1401 Belmont, Hood River, OR 97031.
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By Julie Montanaro
February 6, 2013
The American Cancer Society is looking for volunteers to help for the next 20 years.
It is launching a study in Florida of folks who have never been diagnosed with cancer.
It needs volunteers willing to answer questions about their health, diet, lifestyle and more for decades to come in hopes of identifying risk factors and preventing more cancers in the future.
"There will be behavioral factors that might put them at risk. There will be environmental factors, perhaps ehtnicity factors, age factors, can determine who gets cancer and who doesn't," ACS volunteer Sue Johns said. "So put them all together put them all together under somebody's microscope somewhere and they will notice similarities and differences."
So far 52 people have volunteered to participate in the study but the American Cancer Society says it needs ten times that number in Tallahassee alone.
The goal in this area is 500 volunteers between the ages of 30 and 65.
Johns says this is the third Cancer Prevention Study of its kind. They call it CPS-3.
A kick off was held this evening at FSU's University Center.
For information about CPS-3, visit www.cancer.org/cps3florida or call toll free, 1.888.604.5888.


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The Keene State College Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame inducted five new members on Saturday night. The Class of 2012 include Raymond "Lippy" De Rocher '64 (Baseball), Debbie Higgins '76 (Basketball), Wilson Perez '03 (Cross country/track), Michelle Mason '05 (Soccer and Lacrosse) and Meghan McLoughlin'05 (Softball).
De Rocher becomes the seventh baseball player to be inducted into the Keene State Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame. The honor holds special significance for De Rocher, who joins his wife Bette as a hall of fame athlete, although from rival schools. De Rocher is being recognized as a hard-hitting, smooth-fielding first baseman on the Keene State baseball team from 1960-64, while Bette, a former women's state golf champion, was inducted into the Plymouth State Hall of Fame in 2001. The couple now reside in Bedford, N.H.
One of his most memorable home runs – which Coach Sumner Joyce called the longest dinger he ever witnessed – came in 1962 against Lyndon State in the bottom of the ninth inning, breaking a 0-0 stalemate. Doing his best Joyce impersonation, De Rocher recalled the coach's sage advice as he strode to the batter's box: "C'mon, Lippy, don't try to kill the ball – just meet it."
"I hit one over the centerfielder's head. It kept going and landed in the Ashuelot River to win the game," said De Rocher.
Higgins is the eighth women's basketball player to be inducted into the Keene State Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame. Quiet by nature, Higgins from Bellows Falls, Vt., who played four seasons for the Owls (1972-76) and was one of the building blocks of a fledging program, was taken aback at the honor.
There was no better shooter on the Keene State team during her tenure. Higgins, who finished her career with 759 points, and surely would have been the first Owl to reach the 1,000-point milestone had the team played more games and a three-point line been in place. Her 22-point junior average stands as a Keene State record.
Perez runs into the Keene State Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame after a stellar four-year career (1997-01) competing on the trails and track for the Owls.
An eight-time All-American at Keene State in cross country and track, Perez, originally from Newmarket, N.H., help lead Keene State to second-place finishes at the 1999 and 2000 NCAA cross country championships. Individually, he finished second in the indoor 5,000-meter race his sophomore year and second in the outdoor 10,000 race his senior year. In his final season, Perez, a four-time All-Region runner, also won the New England Division III cross country championship.
Mason has the distinction of earning induction into the Keene State Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame for her accomplishments in two sports. Not only was she a record-setting goalie on the Keene State women's soccer team, but also a prolific and high-scoring attack player on the Owl women's lacrosse squad.
A four-time All-LEC and three-time All-New England goalie who earned All-Region honors as a senior, Mason rewrote the Owl record book during her time in the twines. She still holds KSC records for most wins (66), saves (437), and shutouts (43) and is among the all-time leaders in GAA (0.97) and save percentage (.826).
As good as Mason was keeping the ball out of the net in soccer, the Fairport, N.Y. native was equally proficient finding the back of the net in lacrosse. Mason's arrival on the lacrosse field catapulted the young program into the higher echelon of the LEC and earned multiple ECAC tournament berths, including 2004 when it set a record for wins (13) and claimed the title.
Standing six feet tall, McLoughlin joins an elite circle as the fifth Owl softball player to be inducted into the school's hall of fame.
McLoughlin, who tossed the first-ever perfect game by a KSC pitcher against Eastern Conn. as a junior, led Division III with a miniscule 0.21 ERA as a senior and finished her career with an impressive 0.39 mark. Using a rise ball and a deceptive change-up, she completed her career with a 39-14-5 record and 422 strikeouts, fanning a school-record 15 in a win over Norwich in her final season.
The Brattleboro, Vt. native saved her best for last, pitching Keene State to another LEC crown and NCAA berth as a senior. She was dominant in the LEC tournament. In 21 innings of work, she tossed three complete game shutouts, striking out eight and giving up three hits in the Owls 2-0 championship victory over Eastern Conn.


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Citing state records, the Des Moines Register reports today that Republican voters in Iowa have requested more absentee ballots than Democrats for 10 days running.
This is noteworthy because Democrats in Iowa have been touting their early vote effort, telling reporters that it demonstrates the strength of the party's organization and its commitment to the president's re-election. The first debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney was 13 days ago.
The Democratic effort in Iowa has included a sweeping campaign to bring supporters to the polls on the first day of early voting last month, and a "gotta vote" bus tour that brought national surrogates through key Iowa counties.
Despite the lead the last 10 days for the GOP, Iowa Democrats remain ahead in total absentee ballots requested and returned to date.
The Iowa Secretary of State's website includes current absentee request-and-return totals. Absentee balloting is one of several ways to vote early in Iowa. The Register's reporting does not take into account, for example, in-person voting, which is not similarly tracked.
Most Iowa counties sent out absentee ballots on Thursday, Sept. 27th, which was also the first day of early voting in the state. Absentee ballots are due back to county election offices by Nov. 5th.
Iowa Secretary of State Absentee Ballot Statistics:
Data current as of Oct. 15th 2012:
Democratic - 200,472 Ballots Requested
Democratic - 123,993 Ballots Received
Republican - 130,936 Ballots Requested
Republican - 70,145 Ballots Received
No Party - 97,802 Ballots Requested
No Party - 46,842 Ballots Received
Other - 409 Ballots Requested
Other - 198 Ballots Received
Note: "No party" is Iowa's designation for voters who choose to be independent of Democrats and Republicans. "Other" is the designation for the libertarian and green parties.


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I'm working on extra-curricular latin, and it is not graded. I have reached the enclitics section and I'm having trouble... For Learning purposes, I am to compose two sentences each using to enclitics. So I need to translate "When did Rufus or his friend see the man and the woman?" and "Have you seen my brother or sister?" into Latin using two enclitics. I think I have the second one down, but I am unsure. Here is what I have so far:
Vidistisne mea fratris sororisve?
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AUSTIN, Texas - Sophomore Everette Favor became the first Sooner to place in the 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays Thursday afternoon. His 16-6.75 put him into a tie for fifth in Section B of the pole vault.
The mark tied a personal best he set last spring. It followed his fifth-place finish at last week's Baldy Castillo Invitational.
Tanner Callihan also competed in the event for the Sooners, finishing in a 12th-place tie after clearing a height of 16-0.75 (4.90m).
Freshman Kyle Polman closed out the day for Oklahoma, competing in the men's 5,000-meter run.
Action starts tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. CT. Live results will be available at Branchsportstech. The meet also will be will be broadcast on the Longhorn Network (Friday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 6:30-9:30 p.m.). SoonerSports.com will have daily reviews of OU performances.
Favor Finishes Fifth at Day One in Austin
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DODD CITY, TX -- A shooting in Dodd City this afternoon sent two men to area hospitals.
Fannin County Sheriff, Donnie Foster, says when they arrived at the house, they found two men with gunshot wounds.
Right now, they're still investigating how and why these men were shot.
Fannin County Sheriff's deputies and Texas Rangers were called to a shooting at this home off County Road 3200 in Dodd City, Tuesday afternoon.
"We came to the scene and found two male subjects that did have gunshot wounds," said Sheriff Foster. "One was transported by helicopter and the other was transported by ambulance."
Foster says the man taken by ambulance went to Red River Regional Hospital while the other was flown to a hospital in Plano.
Foster would not comment on how severe the gunshot injuries were nor would he comment on whether they were self-inflicted, or whether the men shot each other.
"We're trying to figure out exactly what happened and how this all occurred," Foster said. "We've got the Texas Rangers working with us in the investigation and we'll figure out what happened."
Foster would not say if the shooting was criminal but the Texas Rangers are assisting in the investigation.
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The author presents a convincing argument as to why anyone (read the world in general) should move to Linux and the open source movement. The arguments are convincing enough only if you attempt to read the material with an "open mind." You should get more convinced if you actually try out the prescriptions. But I observe that there is no activity for about 700 days or close to two years. This effort can, however, be described as commendable.


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Skip to comments.12 WEEK OLD BABY WALKS IN THE WOMB!
Posted on 06/28/2004 1:31:10 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Scans uncover secrets of the womb
Baby 'walking' in the womb A new type of ultrasound scan has produced the vivid pictures of a 12 week-old foetus "walking" in the womb. The new images also show foetuses apparently yawning and rubbing its eyes.
The scans, pioneered by Professor Stuart Campbell at London's Create Health Clinic, are much more detailed than conventional ultrasound.
Professor Campbell has previously released images of unborn babies appearing to smile.
He has compiled a book of the images called Watch Me Grow.
Conventional ultrasound, usually offered to mothers at 12 and 20 weeks, produces 2D images of the developing foetus.
These are very useful for helping doctors to measure and assess the growth of the foetus, but convey very little information about behaviour.
Complex behaviour
More pictures of developing foetuses Professor Campbell has perfected a technique which not only produces detailed 3D images, but records foetal movement in real time.
He says his work has been able to show for the first time that the unborn baby engages in complex behaviour from an early stage of its development.
Professor Campbell told the BBC: "This is a new science for understanding and mapping out the behaviour of the baby.
"Maybe in the future it will help us understand and diagnose genetic disease, maybe even conditions like cerebral palsy which puzzles the medical profession as to why it occurs."
The images have shown:
From 12 weeks, unborn babies can stretch, kick and leap around the womb - well before the mother can feel movement
From 18 weeks, they can open their eyes although most doctors thought eyelids were fused until 26 weeks
From 26 weeks, they appear to exhibit a whole range of typical baby behaviour and moods, including scratching, smiling, crying, hiccoughing, and sucking. Until recently it was thought that smiling did not start until six weeks after birth.
An hour long session using the new technology, which is not yet available on the NHS, costs £275.
I must be really slow today, I don't understand what he means by this.
I'm not sure about that either.
(Says the proud mommy to a new four-month-old and a three-year old!)
I hope these little miracles will produce bigger ones!
Like..abortion being outlawed in all forms!
LOL! My last baby used to do that with my midwife. He would be calm, then would suddenly start to move around the second he heard her voice or the doppler came out. Almost like he was thinking, "I'm not doing this again."
I just love those pictures. We still have our pictures. We even have small avi movies of our son moving around. It is absolutely astounding to watch them. We watched out son flip over a couple of times and push his legs straight out. God is so wonderful.
Technology just keeps moving right along.
Soon we'll be able to see more and more!
Thats what I said!
He made the comments to a reporter that it was hurtful to nurses to see babies moving after they had performed an abortion on them. He was advocating to make sure that they had stuck a needle in the child to ensure it was dead before they sucked the little life out of the womb.
Oh God. How awful.
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So it's no secret that I take yoga very seriously, but I have a lighter side too. Recent headlines are causing the yogi and the cheeseball in me to clash. I admit that I'm a fan of Julia Roberts, and I also deeply loved the book, Eat, Pray, Love, so when I found out that Ms. Roberts would be playing the part of Elizabeth Gilbert in the movie based on the book, I was elated. Then, the headlines hit that the crew had taken over a Hindu temple in Mirzapur Village, just south of New Delhi in India during the Holy Festival of Navaratri and were refusing to allow devotees to enter. For a brief moment, I was torn and shocked.
Swami Dharam Dev offered blessings at the start of the filming, but no one seemed to recognize that the dates were highly conflicting to the culture into which they had entered. Navaratri, one of the holiest festivals on the Hindu calendar, celebrates the goddess and lasts for nine nights, culminating in a tenth day celebration. Devotees offer twice daily prayers during this time to the goddesses in hopes of an abundant year to come. According to dozens of reports, the temple in which devotees pray was barred. Reports of the level of security range anywhere from 50 to 350 guards, armed and unarmed, helicopters and bamboo sticks prevented local villagers from entering into the temple to pray.
So how does my yogi side feel about these reports? First, I feel certain that they are egregiously over exaggerated, but I still feel that if a temple was closed during Navaratri, then it was also very disrespectful. It is the job of very well paid filmmakers to choose locations with full knowledge of the cultural implications that they may have. Maybe that is not always the case, especially in Hollywood, but incredibly important when choosing to alight on a culture that is not your own.
But, could such an outrageous oversight actually happen? Even the sometimes grossly unaware American film industry could be attentive to one of the largest religious festivals in the country in which they are visiting, right? Well, after hundreds of news stories from all over the world proclaiming the oversight and an entire country angered, the news is now out that all of the reports were misleading and blatantly false.
An unverified post to the Huffington Post article on the subject, quotes an anonymous member of the Eat, Pray, Love crew who says all of the allegations are bogus. Other, much less apparent reports speak to the misinformation that has been portrayed in the media. Whew, now I can continue to be a cheeseball who is completely overjoyed about my favorite actress playing the lead in the movie version of one of my favorite books, and not feel torn over the thought that anyone knowingly exploited a culture from which they are borrowing a great deal of artistic license.


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14 year-old charged with killing 7 month-old sister in Silver SpringRead more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/21092899/14-year-old-charged-with-killing-7-month-old-sister-in-silver-spring#ixzz2KeHlA4xg Follow us: @myfoxdc on Twitter | myfoxdc on Facebook
SILVER SPRING, Md. -
A 14 year-old Silver Spring boy is being charged as an adult in the death of his 7 month-old sister.
Police say 39 year old Gloria Yanes, who lives in a basement apartment on Lockwood Drive, left her son in charge of her infant daughter when she went to work at 10:30 PM Thursday night.
When she tried to wake seven month old Larissa at 6 am to feed her, she was unresponsive. Someone called paramedics and police.
"Before we arrived, the paramedics had taken the child to Holy Cross Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Doctors say the little girl had injuries they determined were not self-inflicted," Montgomery County Police Captain Paul Starks says.
So they questioned her brother, Johnathan Aguiluc.
"He admitted that he had beaten the little girl which made her cry, so he covered her nose and mouth with his hands," Starks says.
Starks says because the 14 year-old is charged as an adult with first degree murder, investigators don't think the little girl's death was an accident.
Neighbors are stunned. This woman, who lives next door to the family, says she knew Ms. Yanes worked the overnight shift, but she wasn't aware of her childcare arrangements.
"I know her, but I don't know who was watching her baby. I don't know," she said.
No answer at the Yanes home, rocked by a double tragedy.
"It's not just the death of the seven month old little girl," Starks says. "If the allegations are true, she's going to lose her son too, for a time anyway."
Johnathan Aguiluc is being held without bond.
He's due in court Monday at 1 p.m. for a bond hearing.
wtf is wrong with people these days...Damn bastard obviously has some serious mental issues...
Quoting danijean:Very sad but honestly who in the heck trusts a 14 year old to watch a baby overnight? Mom needs to be charged with something!
How sad
That poor baby! You cannot possibly throw a 14 year old BOY into the responsibilities of caring for a baby and not expect him to properly handle his frustrations. It's hard enough for an adult, much less a CHILD. That mother should be charged, not that boy. He must be beside himself. Poor guy.


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Welsh midfielder Aaron Ramsey, has shown that he is a big character at the club after putting in some tireless displays, according to assistant manager, Steve Bould.
Ramsey has had a busy campaign so far and has appeared in 39 of Arsenal's games - 20 as a starter - for Arsenal this season. Only Santi Cazorla and Olivier Giroud have featured more times than the midfield man.
Not only has Ramsey shown his desire to break into the first-team, he has also shown a lot of versatility by playing in several different positions during the season. T
The Welshman has featured playing; in an advanced attacking role, in the centre of midfield and even at full-back.
At the young age of 22, Ramsey still has a long career ahead of him, something that didn't look likely after he suffered a horrifying leg break during Arsenal's 3-0 victory against Stoke in February 2010.
Since recovering from the leg break, Ramsey hasn't quite won over all the fans at Arsenal but according to Bould, Ramsey has come through a difficult patch and has a bright future ahead of him.
Arsenal's assistant manager was speaking ahead of the club's clash against West Brom on Saturday and he insisted that he believes Ramsey will have a big career at the club.
"Aaron has been fantastic," he told Arsenal Player.
"Seeing him in day-to-day training, he works extremely hard.
"He never moans, gets on with his game and has done everything he's been asked to do. He's physically fantastic and he gives something to the team. I think he's improving all the time.
"The great thing about Aaron is he never looks tired," added Bould.
"He's never weary. He adds something to the team, he gives that physicality and on the ball he's improving all the time.
"He was getting a bit of stick [from some supporters] to begin with and I think he felt that a bit. It takes a big character to come back and he's come back massively."
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SHERMAN, TEXAS -- Some of your Christmas packages might have been strewn across Sherman today.
Sherman resident Joshua Sisemore is accused of stealing a FedEx truck around 10:45 this morning when the driver left it unattended.
Sherman police say they got a call from someone saying they saw a man throwing packages out of a truck off Lake Street near the railroad tracks.
Sgt. Kevin Garbacik says police were able to find the truck, recover all the packages and arrest Sisemore.
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Paulo Coelho: Content Creators Will Be Punished For Not Sharing Their Ideas Freely
from the welcome-to-the-new-world dept
He talks about the success of his own projects, from "pirating" his own books, to having the community make their own movie out of one of his books. At the same time he discusses the rise of technology and the folly of pretending you can fight the technology. It's really a great overall statement on embracing new technologies for anyone who thinks they need to rely on copyright. On top of that, it again confirms the basic premise that we've stated here time and time again: for those who work to connect with their fans directly, there are plenty of ways to do well, even without specifically relying on copyright to do so.
We are facing a new era, so either we adapt or we die. However, I did not come here to share solutions, but my own experience as an author. Of course, I make a living out of my copyrights, but at this very moment I am not concentrating on this. I have to adapt myself. Not only by connecting more directly with my readers -- something unthinkable a few years ago -- but also by developing a new language, Internet-based, that will be the language of the future: direct, simple, without being superficial. Time will tell me how to recover the money I myself am investing alone in my social communities. But I am investing in something for which every single writer in the world would be grateful: to have his texts read by a maximum of people.And the key point he makes? In the past, heretics were punished for sharing their ideas. These days, you'll be punished if you don't share your ideas.
The Internet has taught me this: don't be afraid of sharing your ideas. Don't be afraid of engaging others to voice their ideas. And more importantly, don't presume who is and who is not a creator -- because we all are.


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Miles Coolidge was born in 1963 in Montreal. He received a BA from Harvard University in 1986 and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in 1992. He then attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany, where he studied under the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. Garage Pictures (1992), his first work following graduate school, consisted of large-scale photographs of elevator interiors that recalled the Bechers' penchant for typological categorization. He continued to investigate functional social spaces in the series Safetyville (1994), in which he photographed a one-third-scale model of an American town built in 1984 to educate children about traffic safety. In the Central Valley series (1998), the artist reduced panoramic California landscape photographs to thin strips ten inches high and ten feet long. For Ancient History (2001), he crafted a grid of 160 inkjet prints of old postcards of Native American burial mounds, juxtaposing these images with panoramic views of golf courses built upon such mounds in Louisiana and Alabama. His Drawbridges series (2003) was comprised of a suite of nine photographs of South Florida drawbridges. For Street Furniture, a series initiated in 2006, Coolidge photographed the sofas, lamps, and mattresses discarded on nearby curbs and lawns; each domestic cast-off left tilted against trees or signposts serves as the central protagonist whose off-kilter alignment dictates the image's orientation.Coolidge has had solo exhibitions at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (1992), Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (1994), Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe (2001), and Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico (2004) among others. He has also appeared in many group shows, including Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1997), Pop Surrealism at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut (1998), Picturing Modernity at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998), Supermodel at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams (2000), Moving Pictures at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2003), Austrian Triennial on Photography in Graz (2003), Only Skin Deep at the International Center of Photography in New York (2003), Modern Photographs from the Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2006), and From Close to Home at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (2007). In addition, he has received grants from DAAD (1993–94) and the City of Los Angeles (1998–99). He lives and works in Los Angeles.
"Instead of a Bridge"