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Queer Athletes and Allies seeks to help queer athletes form community and talk about issues specific to their experience within sports. The group discusses topics related to queers in athletics at both the macro level, looking at professional sports, and the micro level, looking at the experience of on-campus queer athletes and their allies [email@example.com]
Queer People of Color (QPOC)
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Queer Mentorship Program (QMP)
Need to talk? You can email the Queer Mentorship Program and ask for a mentor to meet with confidentially, one on one, and talk about issues related to sexuality and gender identity. Interested in mentoring? We're always looking for student mentors. [firstname.lastname@example.com]
Transgender Advocacy Group (TAG)
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Safe, Sane, Consensual (SafeSane)
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Asexual Support Network (ASN)
Asexual Support Network discusses issues related to asexuality and advocates for students who identify on the asexual and aromantic spectrum. [firstname.lastname@example.com]
Queer Mental Health Group (QMHG)
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Queer Rainbow Super Team (QRST)
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All Boys Cinema / Lesbian Movie Night and Organized Procrastination (ABC/LMNOP)
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The Detroit Pistons are about the embark on a six-game road trip, their longest of the season. In preparation, The Detroit News drew up a snazzy map, and Terry Foster put together some good info about start time, where to eat, what's a cute connection to Michigan, etc.
Pretty standard stuff, until you get to Game 5 at Oklahoma City (emphasis added):
- Tip-off: 8 p.m., Chesapeake Energy Arena
- Story line: Thunder try to return to the NBA Finals without James Harden.
- Local ties: Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was from Michigan.
- Restaurant to find: Cattleman's Steakhouse
- Day trip: River Walk or Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum
First of all, McVeigh is from New York. He's thinking of Terry Nichols, McVeigh's accomplice.
Second, dude, what the fuck?
[The Detroit News h/t to Patrick]

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I've been shooting ilford color-process b&w film.
The local photo processor's equipment has a glitch; sometimes the resulting negatives are slightly colorful.
In the current roll, there's a faint blue stripe in some images, and an overall purple cast to others.
I'm not a very adept Aperture user; can someone supply or point to a recipe for fixing this?


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- Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken breasts and sauté 4-5 minutes, until golden on all sides.
- Stir in leeks and cook 3-4 minutes, until tender. Add wine to pan, scraping brown bits off the bottom. Stir in peas and cook until they are heated through, about 2-3 minutes.
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: My daughter died in a car accident two years ago. She and her boyfriend, "Reed," had a 4-month-old daughter, "Angela." Since then, Reed has been very understanding and liberal with visitations. However, it didn't take him long to find another girlfriend, who has a 4-year-old daughter I'll call Madison.
The first time I went to pick up Angela, the new girlfriend hinted strongly that I should also take Madison. I didn't like it, but I took her. Abby, Madison is the meanest, rudest child I have ever met. She called my dad ugly, my daughter ugly and my house "stinky." I saw her push Angela down and laugh. Then she tried to smother my granddaughter by sitting on her head on the couch. The last time I brought Angela home, Madison told me that everything I bought for Angela I had to buy for her, too.
I don't want to take Madison anymore. It has been difficult losing my daughter, seeing her replaced with a new girlfriend and now being expected to include an unpleasant "step-granddaughter" in everything. But if I don't take her, I'm afraid they won't let me visit Angela. Do you have any advice? -- ANGIE'S GRAM IN MISSOURI
DEAR GRAM: If you haven't already spoken to Reed and the girl's mother about her behavior, you should. Madison may act out because she's jealous of Angela and, among other things, she needs to learn better manners before she's included in any more visits. If she had pulled the shenanigans with me that she has with you, I would have taken her home immediately.
This is not to say that Madison should be permanently excluded, but you should have time with your granddaughter one-on-one. The same is true for Madison and her grandparents. You are not a built-in baby sitter, which appears to be how you have been made to feel, but nothing will change until you broach the subject.
DEAR ABBY: I feel fortunate to find myself with the love of my life at 24. "Josh" is charming, intelligent, a hard worker and a wonderful partner. I know we can achieve all the things we hope for. We have discussed where we stand on issues such as children, family, finances, living arrangements, etc. We are mostly compatible, and where there is tension, we work it through and compromise.
We are clearly headed toward engagement. He has picked out a ring and I want it badly, but I am hesitant. I am afraid I won't give him what he deserves.
I dated a man in college for three years. We talked about our future, made plans, and then I changed my mind. The pain I caused was terrible. I still regret hurting him, although I don't regret leaving. I'm afraid I will do it again. I'm so anxious I sometimes think I should bail now and cut his losses just in case. I don't think I will, but who can see the future?
My mother says I have always been obsessed with making the right choice. Am I being foolish and letting my anxieties run away with me? -- SUSAN IN CONNECTICUT
DEAR SUSAN: There are better ways to cope with your anxiety than "throwing the baby out with the bathwater." You are not the same person you were in college. You have grown and are obviously more aware of the consequences of your actions.
Because you are anxious about making a commitment to "the love or your life" -- someone with whom you have many things in common -- it's time to schedule an appointment with a licensed counselor to discuss it. It will be time and money well spent.


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Adenocarcinoma of the colon and rectum grows slowly. A long time may pass before it becomes large enough to cause symptoms.
Routine exams are important for early diagnosis.
When symptoms do occur, they vary depending on the location of the tumor, its type, how far it has spread and complications it may have caused.
On the right-hand side of the colon, blockage usually doesn't occur until later stages. This is because the space inside the colon is large, the colon wall is fairly thin and the material passing through is mostly liquid. Some tumors may grow big enough to be felt from the outside of the body. If there is bleeding inside, it usually isn't obvious. However, a person may feel weak or tired because of severe anemia caused by loss of blood.
On the left-hand side of the colon, the space inside the colon is smaller and the material that passes through it is semi-solid. Colon cancer can cause both constipation and diarrhea. A person may feel cramp-like pain in the stomach. The stool may be streaked or mixed with blood.
In rectal cancer, the most common symptom is usually bleeding when going to the bathroom.
Cancer of the rectum should be considered whenever there is rectal bleeding, even if other causes such as hemorrhoids are present. A person may feel as if there is incomplete evacuation. There usually is no pain until later stages of the condition.
Symptoms of advanced disease include:
- A feeling of being full very quickly while eating
- Weakness and pain in the abdominal area
Causes and Risk Factors
There is no single cause of intestinal cancer. Several risk factors may play a role in its development.
Persons between the ages of 40 and 75 are at greater risk of getting colorectal cancer than younger people. More women get colon cancer. More men get rectal cancer.
Conditions such as familial polyposis, Lynch syndrome, Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis (ulcers in the lining of the large intestines) tend to increase the risk for the disease. Brothers, sisters and children of those already diagnosed with colorectal cancer have a greater chance of getting the disease later in life.
Population groups who have a high rate of colorectal cancer tend to eat low-fiber diets high in animal protein, fat and refined carbohydrates. The exact way the condition occurs is not yet known.


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This first one is from 1962 when my brother was off to kindergarten. He doesn't look nervous at all!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Sentimental Sunday - School Bells Are Ringing
This first one is from 1962 when my brother was off to kindergarten. He doesn't look nervous at all!
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Love the photos. I had pants and glasses just like that in junior high. And, yes, I would have loved that Mary Poppins dress when I was that age! Thanks for posting these, they brought back lots of memories, especially the rickrack!ReplyDelete
Boy, do I ever remember rick-rack. My mother sewed a lot of my clothes, and she used it liberally. I also wore dorky pants in junior high school - bellbottoms, no less. Thanks for the memories!ReplyDelete
Kathy, I also love the photos, nice to see you growing up. I guess all three of us here dressed and looked like you. Wow, cousins .ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2010 at 11:57 AM
I remember rick-rack! And my mother dressed my sister and I alike even though we were not twins. I guess it was just as easy to sew two dresses as one. Love the pictures.ReplyDelete
Those are fabulous pictures! God bless your mother for taking them. Now I feel bad. My daughters are seven years apart, and thus never went to the same school or left at the same time. I was good for taking first-day pics, but I don't think I ever took one of the two of them together. I would have loved to have had a pictoral record like this. :)ReplyDelete


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What's in a name? Or, more specifically, a title? Well, for Peter Jackson, a lot.
The director took to Facebook on Thursday to announce that he has decided to change the title of the final installment of his Hobbit trilogy from "There and Back Again" to "The Battle of the Five Armies."
"Our journey to make 'The Hobbit Trilogy' has been in some ways like Bilbo's own, with hidden paths revealing their secrets to us as we've gone along," Jackson wrote. "'There and Back Again' felt like the right name for the second of a two film telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo's arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film. But with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced—after all, Bilbo has already arrived 'there' in the 'Desolation of Smaug.'"
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The Oscar-winning director added, "When we did the premiere trip late last year, I had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title. We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at. We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate. And so: 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' it is."
But Jackson noted that it's quite possible the title "There and Back Again" could be used "on a future box-set of all three movies."
Meanwhile, "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" is scheduled to hit theaters on Dec. 17, 2014.


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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Shoes tell a lot about a person. If you stumbled into my closet, you would probably think I was a security guard, a construction worker or a Nurse Ratched wannabe. My taste in shoes tends to be boxy, low-heeled and sturdy.
If the equipment isn't cleaned properly, you could be at risk for infection when you get a pedicure.
So it probably doesn't surprise you to learn that when it comes to pedicures, I am hardly a nail salon enabler.
Unfortunately, in some sort of twisted cosmic comedy, both my teen and my tween daughters are pedicure addicts.
To pedicure addicts, there is nothing better than being seated in those massive padded massage chairs, chin deep in fashion magazines, while some woman bathes, chisels, files and paints their toes.
And up until now, the only thing I worried about was how much the extra flower motif on her big toe was going to cost me.
Now, I have plenty of other stuff to worry about.
Dr. Dina Tsentserensky, a podiatrist in New York, made it clear.
"I definitely see patients that have had problems as a result of getting a pedicure," she said. "I guess the most common is fungal nails."
Fungal nails!!! I really don't want to pay for that.
The National Institutes of Health, unfortunately, describes fungal nail in less-than-clear terms: Fungal nail infection is an infection of the nails by a fungus.
Prescription treatments are only about 50 percent effective, and most of these infections usually require the loss of the infected nail itself, the NIH Web site says.
Cuts, scrapes and some other infections are also common results of seemingly soothing foot romps. Tsentserensky thinks it's nothing new.
"I think it's a chronic problem that has been going on for a while," she said. "People just maybe chose to ignore it or don't pay attention as much as they should." Health for Her: Watch more on pedicure safety »
Anyone who did pay attention could have known about some of those risks eight years ago. That's when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported finding a nasty infection that hit more than 100 pedicure patients. The culprit: a less-than-sterile footbath screen. The result: an infection called mycobacterium fortuitum.
That mouthful of a malady left these customers, most of them women, with prolonged boils on their lower legs and some long-term scars. Although that report prompted nail salons to clean the screens on those foot baths more often, it doesn't mean that in the land of pedicure pampering, you can just relax and enjoy the polishing.
Tsentserensky's chief advice is to be on high cleanliness alert.
"I tell patients to make sure that the bathtubs are being cleaned properly, that they are using enough time in between so the disinfectant has time to work," she said.
And the magic timeframe, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, is about 10 minutes between clients. The EPA also stresses that to ensure the safest conditions, the tubs need to be cleaned with an EPA-registered hospital disinfectant, which means the bottle itself will have a EPA registration number listed somewhere on the label.
But it's not just the tubs that need to be clean. So do those instruments.
"Make sure that instruments are getting sterilized properly," Tsentserensky cautions, "that they are using a sterilizer or an autoclave to properly sanitize the instruments or using the liquids for the proper periods of time."
Timing is also important, but that's a condition that's on your side. Don't get a pedicure right after you've shaved your legs, had laser hair removal or have any cuts or bites on your legs. Any opening in the skin is an invitation that you might not want to be extending.
And finally, make sure you can communicate with your nail technician to ensure he or she is taking the proper precautions to make your pedicure a stress-free experience and, more important, to ensure that the only thing you're taking with you when you leave that salon is the pretty polish.


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Devil's in the Details for Drinking Water in Nuclear Accident Scenarios
By JENNY MANDEL of Greenwire
Published: March 25, 2011
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Residents of Tokyo and other areas around the failed Daiichi power plants have been faced with a whiplash of advisories on the safety of tap water in the face of tests showing the presence of radioactive iodine.
Tokyo officials warned Wednesday that infants should not consume tap water, only to rescind the advisory yesterday when radiation levels tested lower.
It is not clear what the precise route of exposure is through which Japanese water supplies have picked up detectable levels of radioactivity, but the rapid-fire warnings, which have led to bottled water shortages at markets serving Tokyo's 13 million people, raise questions of how U.S. authorities might cope with a similar situation at home.
One place to look? The Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts, one of two reservoirs supplying the bulk of demand to the city of Boston.
Located about 30 miles south of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon, Vt., the open-air reservoir is the largest man-made one in the United States and falls within a 50-mile "ingestion pathway zone" that extends around the nuclear plant on all sides.
Vermont Yankee has been under a cloud recently as Vermont lawmakers have voted to close the plant, citing safety concerns, when it reaches the end of its operating life next year. But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission determined this week that it should be given a 20-year extension on operations.
Vermont Yankee is of the same design as the nuclear reactors now failing in Japan, though the area is not prone to natural disasters like those that hit Fukushima (Greenwire, March 16). Still, officials believe they are prepared for an emergency.
"Quabbin is within the 50-mile extended zone [around Vermont Yankee] which, following an event, water as well as any farms, food production, any food processing would then go into a monitoring phase to see if then there would be any embargoes on such products," said Peter Judge, a public information officer with the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
The main concern, Judge said, is that particulate matter from a release plume could contain radioactive isotopes that, depending on prevailing winds and factors like the type, scale and duration of the release, could fall to the ground within the 50-mile zone and contaminate food and water supplies.
Immediately following an event, Judge said, if conditions warranted, then public health warnings would advise people to avoid potentially contaminated drinking water. "That part of the state is much more rural, much of the water supply is on-site [from] wells, personal wells as well as local wells. So I'm sure the outreach would be to at least immediately, short-term, wait for testing and determination for your water that is not covered," he said.
Beyond that point the emergency measures become more subjective, Judge said, as officials would assess the need to warn Boston residents of a potential hazard or, for example, shift to backup supplies from other area water sources.
Such backups were used for a three-day interruption last year after a water main break, and city residents were warned to boil water as a precautionary measure because the backup supplies were not treated to the same standard as the Quabbin supply, but Judge said the source switch-over and switch-back took place smoothly.
But he conceded that other parts of the state where water supplies could become compromised in a nuclear emergency -- or other parts of the country -- "wouldn't have the luxury of this kind of system" with a robust, well-integrated backup.
And how long a metro area like Boston and its 30 surrounding communities that depend on the Quabbin Reservoir could go without that source is not clear.
Long-term vs. short-term exposures
In Tokyo, the initial warnings that infants under a year of age should not drink tap water was based on a government warning that tests detected 210 becquerels per liter of radioactive iodine-13. The Japanese standard for infants' exposure is not more than 100 becquerels per liter, while the tolerance for adults is 300 becquerels per liter.
An advisory yesterday for American citizens by the U.S. embassy in Tokyo extended slightly more widely, advising that children from newborns to three years, as well as pregnant and nursing women, avoid drinking the water.
"The U.S. [EPA's] published standard for Iodine-131 contamination in drinking water is 3 picocuries per liter, which is equal to about 0.1 becquerels per liter," the embassy said, adding that "the science of radiation protection has advanced considerably since the EPA standard was published in 1974."
"If one uses the latest science and makes the adjustments in the calculations underlying the EPA standard in order to make it applicable to the temporary exposure occurring in Japan, one obtains a figure practically identical to the standard that the Japanese authorities are applying," U.S. officials said.
In an update posted this morning, though, the embassy said that "in accordance with guidelines that apply to water in the United States" and based on analysis of tap water samples from the day before, Tokyo's drinking water was safe for general consumption.
The question of how long water warnings might last in future events depends not just on fickle water sample tests but also on the types of radioactivity involved.
Iodine-131, the isotope that public health officials have said was found in Tokyo's water, has a particularly short half-life of eight days, meaning that half of the radioactivity dissipates in that time. The rule of thumb is that radioactivity becomes negligible after 10 half-lives, when about 1/1,000 of the original amount remains -- in the case of iodine 80 days, or a bit less than three months.
But cesium-137, another isotope that has been tracked in the Japanese disaster, has a half-life of about 30 years, meaning that radioactivity remains a concern for about 300 years after particles enter the atmosphere.
Ed Maher is an environmental consultant with a doctorate in radiological health and protection from the Harvard School of Public Health, who now serves as president of the Health Physics Society, a scientific organization of radiation safety professionals.
Maher downplayed the risks to the Quabbin Reservoir from its proximity to Vermont Yankee, saying the "worst possible contamination in a water supply are 10 to 100 times what you have now" in Japan.
Maher acknowledged that radioactive contamination from isotopes like cesium that have long half-lives could be more damaging long term than even a disastrous release of iodine, because of its relatively quick radioactive decay.
Iodine is particularly likely to be the culprit in long-distance contamination in a release like that seen in Japan, he said, because it is more volatile than many other radioactive materials that could be produced and thus more likely to enter the atmosphere, only to condense on particulate matter in the air and settle back to earth. Think of it as dandelion seeds, spreading on the wind.
Many other potential contaminants are heavier, making them less likely to travel long distances from the plant, he said -- poppy seeds, perhaps, that will fall quickly with gravity.
Maher stressed that doomsday accident scenarios are highly unlikely given the controls on nuclear plants. But should serious contamination from long-lived radioactive material occur, he said, water sources could potentially be treated.
Today, some water sources -- including several in Maine, for example, where radon gas is prevalent in groundwater -- must be treated before meeting EPA's drinking water standards for radioactivity, Maher said. Methods exist to treat a variety of types of radiation, whether by aerating the water to let radon gas bubble out, as is done in affected areas in Maine, or using other techniques to eliminate dissolved or particulate radiation that might be present.
Some particles cannot be removed, Maher said, and it is possible that water could be treated to a large extent, but not sufficiently to meet drinking water standards. But as an extreme example, he said the water that keeps spent fuel rods cool in storage ponds can be treated to a standard that would make it safe to drink. Indeed such water is routinely treated to a high degree to keep it from corroding the fuel rods it protects.
"You could decontaminate a huge body like the Quabbin Reservoir," Maher said, though it would be "a huge undertaking" and "right now there's no way that you could do that." But faced with an unprecedented radiological challenge, the scientific tools exist to tackle the engineering challenge.
Maher said that while to many people looking on the events in Japan appear unprecedented, specialists who mitigate radiation risk all the time do not see it that way. "This is not the first rodeo for a nuclear accident," he said.
Reasonable limits
Janet Johnson is an environmental consultant and is a past president of the Health Physics Society, who now works primarily on radiation related to uranium mining and processing.
Johnson said EPA's drinking water standards are generally reasonable, reflecting a conservative approach appropriate to the lifetime exposure risk of an individual drinking 2 liters of water per day, daily for 70 years.
For the radioactive iodine exposure seen in Japan, she also generally endorsed the Japanese standards. "In terms of overall risk, I think the Japanese standards are reasonable for temporary use of that water," she said, though they would be too high for continuous use for a year.
Rapidly growing children are more sensitive to the effects of radiation, Johnson said, which is why lower tolerances are used for the very young.
Johnson said the Japanese standards do not appear overprotective, but judging them requires balancing relative risks. "It depends on what the alternatives are," she said. "If it comes to a matter of whether you're going to become dehydrated because you're not drinking enough water, that's a more significant risk" than drinking water contaminated even at the earlier, higher test levels reported in Tokyo.
Johnson said adults' "temporary use" of water contaminated at the higher levels seen in Tokyo could be safe during the three-month time period over which radioactivity in iodine decays away.
In general, she said people's fears about radiation -- stemming in part from unfamiliarity and the fact that you cannot see or smell the threat when nearby -- are not fully rational.
Naturally occurring radiation is everywhere -- in drinking water from minerals in the ground and in all indoor environments from the radioactive decay of radon gas, for example.
"The fact is that we do live in a radioactive environment," Johnson said. "That's the way the Earth is constructed, and radiation is not some strange, alien force -- it's part of our environment and always has been."
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Made two rings for two lovely ladies -- twins. One sister - Anna -- got the Aquamarine ring made for her twin sister for her birthday. And I made a Citrine ring for Anna for her birthday. There is a secret wish which is stamped on the lower side of the Citrine ring shank...and it is there for a reason...so when Anna closes her fist, the wish is within her grasp. The three rings signify the holy trinity, and the Citrine stone, in that shape and color, signifies the flame of love.I pray that her wish comes true....very very soon. The Aquamarine ring holds a message too...from one sister to another...that message is stamped inside the shank. The metal used is sterling silver in both rings.
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Top-drawer prints see the light of day at HMA show
The doors of the storage vault have again swung open at the Housatonic Museum of Art to reveal a fantastic print collection that focuses on Collector's Press, a famed San Francisco-based printing workshop.
The company, founded by Arizona native Ernest de Soto, thrived only five years -- from 1967 to 1972 -- but it had a huge impact on the quality and quantity of lithographs available to American collectors.
The second print show at the HMA within six months, "The Art of Business: Collector's Press Lithographs" features 36 prints that rarely see the light of day.
On view through Friday, Dec. 21, in downtown Bridgeport, the show is the fruit of a one-year project by visiting print specialist Maura Brennan to catalogue, assess, photograph and review all the museum's prints (about 2,000 pieces).
Her position, now ending, was funded by the Werth Family Foundation, of Woodbridge, and the Fairfield County Community Foundation.
This summer, Brennan also organized "Paper Trail," an exhibition of about 50 prints, to mark the 15th anniversary of the HMA's Burt Chernow Galleries.
As with the last print show, Brennan pointed out that works on paper are extremely sensitive to light, temperature and humidity. Consequently, because of their fragility, they are usually stored in dark, climate-controlled rooms and, for the most part, are only on view for special shows.
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It was through the cataloging project that Brennan noticed the Collector's Press chopmark on numerous lithographs; as it turned out, the museum's permanent collection includes 75 lithographs from that specific workshop.
"As I examined the museum's holdings, I kept a running list of objects of interest for possible use" in print exhibitions, she explained. "After only a few months, I could not help but notice a growing number of the prints on my list" were from the defunct California company "and I knew that the collection warranted a show of its own."
In the exhibition, and its handsome free brochure, Brennan explores the life of de Soto, his business and the art that was produced.
According to Brennan, Collector's Press worked closely with master printers to create original lithographs that pushed printmaking techniques to their limits.
"By working with trained printers, artists who had never made a print before could create original work and experiment. The spirit of Collector's Press lived on in two subsequent print workshops that de Soto operated after its closing: Editions Press and the Ernest F. de Soto Workshop," the exhibit notes.
In addition to working with famous artists and printmakers from the Bay Area and throughout the United States, Collector's Press won renown for championing the work of Hispanic artists.
The show includes "some of the biggest names in West Coast printmaking," including Nathan Oliveira, Frank Lobdell and Deborah Remington, as well as works by Latin American masters Jose Luis Cuevas, Felix Ruvolo and Rodolfo Abularach.
Brennan, of Sturbridge, Mass., graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in art history; at Williams College she received a master's degree in art history with a concentration in prints.
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|September 7th, 2016, 05:23 PM
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Show your library!
The forum is "Show and Tell"...but doesn't exactly say what we are showing and telling about. So here is a new one. If you like carpets, chances are you have a few, or more than a few books on the topic. Show me your library!
Here is a bit of mine:
|September 7th, 2016, 07:40 PM
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Hi Jeff,
I see now why you are running circles around everybody on the Chinese and Tibetan front! I can match you at H. A. Lorentz, but that's about it.
It will be interesting to see what shows up in answer to your invitation.
|September 8th, 2016, 03:09 AM
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Hi Jeff,
Your library is impressive as well as organized! A picture of my rug library would be embarrassing. It runs to something over 125 books, plus a run of HALI, a run of the Textile Museum Journal, and volumes 8-16 of Oriental Rug Review. Bookshelves have given way more than once.
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|September 8th, 2016, 03:17 AM
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Hi Jeff,
Here's about 80% of ours; the others are not easily accessible right now, but include the Persian and Turkish volumes from Oriental Rugs, Opie's book on tribal rugs, Neff & Maggs, O'Bannon's book on Turkoman Rugs, and a respectable pile of ORR's.
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|September 8th, 2016, 07:06 AM
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Nice to see someone else as interested as I in Tibetan area rugs!
Seems I have all the books I can see in your collection (and maybe? a few more ) save for Antique Carpets of China, and I can't quite discern what the one is that is between The Piccus Collection and Temple Household Horseback. What is the one in-between if I may ask?
And re Antique Carpets of China. Is that by Lu Hongqi? If so, worth getting (as my interest of course includes central and western 'Chinese' rugs)?
PS. And let me also say here what a lovely pair (no less!) of pillar carpets in your other thread re 'lighting'. Have several myself, but no pairs.
|September 8th, 2016, 05:01 PM
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Hi Jeff,
My rug book situation sounds a lot like Lloyd's. I've got around 115 books in addition to Hali (far from a complete run), most of the Oriental Rug Review back to Vol III, the issues of Carpet Collector, a few Ghereh, and a haphazard selection of auction and ICOC catalogs. The only organization is proximity to one another in the two rooms where they share shelf space.
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|September 9th, 2016, 01:43 AM
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The one between The Piccus Collection and Temple, Household and Horseback is actually 2 books:
"Tibet Tappeti" an Italian exhibit catalog and...
"Woven Jewels/ Tibetan Rugs from Southern California Collections".
The latter is an interesting choice of names as another book on my shelf is "Vanishing Jewels"...but about Turkmen.
Hong Qi's book is well worth getting. By western standards it's a much better quality book than most available. The paper, the binding and of course the pictures are all rather good. Better than a lot of other books on the shelf.
However, the English translations leave a lot to be desired.
Xinjiang and Tibet are both covered. Hong Qi's explanation of the origin of weaving in China, is um...unique. Quite China-centric. But I would expect no less from a man whose name translates to "Red Flag Lu".
Another book on my shelf (but not in the picture) is "Carpets in the Collection of the Palace Museum" This is a heavy tome and the text is all Chinese, but the rugs are all of Imperial origin. Not the kind of stuff you would find on ebay. In the US this book goes for big bucks, however on Taobao, or one of the Taobao middle-men like buytome, you can pick it up for about $70
So...now I have to see what is on YOUR shelf!.
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|September 9th, 2016, 01:45 AM
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|September 9th, 2016, 03:02 AM
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Hi Jeff,
These two shots make up about 85% of my books and exhibition catalogs.
I see your dust jackets are in much better shape than most of mine. Lets say mine have taken a lot of abuse!
Besides whats in the pics, I have all the HALIs from Vol. 1 to about Vol. 60; probably most of the ORRs (not including the ones on newsprint, which I used to have, until a fiend who shall remain nameless disposed of them!!! ); and a motley collection of Textile Museum Journals, auction catalogs, and the like.
How about this: I was on vacation in the Carolinas in the south of the USA in July when my cell phone went off. It was my brother reporting from a flea market on Cape Cod in New England. The flea market was shutting down and one dealer had about a hundred oriental rug auction catalogs he hadnt sold. He was leaving for the west coast and didnt want to carry them out there. Did my brother want to take them? My brothers question was, did I want them? Holy mackerel! So, that set is now in my library as well. Im usually not that lucky.
P. S.: This is a fun thread.
|September 9th, 2016, 04:17 AM
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Hi Jeff,
Kings, Heroes and Lovers is a book by Parviz Tanavoli that focuses on figural rugs with royalty figures (mainly the shahs), characters from Persian literature, religious figures (dervishes, etc) and a few Persian lion rugs.
It also has his exceptionally well done chapter on rug structure with very good illustrations.
I bought it because I have a couple rugs with dervishes (and their paraphernalia) on them, and a Ferdows rug with the Khusraaw & Shirin folk story motif on it, and I was interested in learning more about them.
We'll be moving back in New England in a month; then it won't be so easy to find such deals....
Chuck Wagner
|September 9th, 2016, 08:11 AM
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Thanks for the update!
Unfortunately, as much as I would like to 'show you mine' I am disappointed to say that my extensive collection (primarily on Tibetan and central/western Chinese, but with a good selection of books orientated on the Afghan 'area' ) remain stored elsewhere, while I now reside in Europe. Maybe one day I'll ship em all over, but till then I'll have to do with the few Tibetan area orientated ones I have 'doubled up' on which I have managed to pick up 2nd hand relatively cheaply (and some not so) since I have been 'over here'.
Best I can do is say I have all I can see of yours 'cept Red Flag Lu's, which I will now look at procuring.
PS. As an afterthought I would like to highly recommend to you, given your interest in Tibetan carpets, and hence one might assume Tibet in general - that is if you don't already have same - a relatively new book (first pub. 2015) called A Historical Atlas of Tibet by Karl Ryavec. Although it has nothing to do with carpets per se - save covering in exquisite map detail the areas they are made - the extreme high quality of the newly drawn never before seen detailed maps cover the entire area of Tibet and are worth the price alone. Available very very well priced on ABEbooks (and no doubt other on-line bookstores) here is a link to it at Amazon for some reviews. (Note the few poor reviews are only for the Kindle version.)
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|September 9th, 2016, 07:53 PM
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Hi Jeff,
I realize that my previous post was only responsive to the 'tell' aspect but side-stepped your plea, "Show me your library." Here is most of it. Its lack of focus (from Norwegian and Swedish rugs in the north to ancient Peruvian textiles in the south) is a reflection of my almost equally diffuse rug accumulation habits.
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|September 9th, 2016, 09:23 PM
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OK, Joel, all I can say is, "Wow!" Nice library!!
|September 10th, 2016, 01:35 AM
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Nice books Joel! Very nice!
|September 10th, 2016, 02:42 PM
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Thanks Kay. The Atlas is on my list now.
Here are some more non-carpet related pics for you. Books on Tibet, with heavy doses of Sven Hedin.
Books on Xinjiang. More Sven and Aurel Stein.
|September 12th, 2016, 06:46 PM
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This bookshelf is in my living room, holding most of my rug books.
I started a Hali subscription around 1990 with volume 50, and have a stack of Oriental Rug Review papers and magazines, too. Turkotek is responsible for most of my utilization of these books - when a topic is posted I often grab the most closely related book or two and rifle through the pages. I picked up the Jenny Housego Tribal Rugs book in Fairbanks, Alaska, on June 9th, 1993. (I use the receipt as a bookmark.) When I asked Jim Burns to autograph my copy of his book Antique Rugs of Kurdistan, he mentioned that an author's signature could increase the value of a book as much as 10%. So I asked him to sign it twice....
The book Caucasian Carpets on the lower, right shelf, has a chunk out of the slipcover - and the book. My former dog decided to take a bite out of it one day. Former dog.
The bookshelf was made by a local cabinet maker in the first half of the 20th century for my grandparents. When I was at the Istanbul ICOC I was tempted to buy the two-volume edition of Turkish rugs, but it wouldn't fit in my luggage - which turned out to be a good thing because at Heathrow they would only let each passenger bring one carry-on through security. So I had to cram two bags of stuff into one. I would have had to carry the books on top of my head.
And there are a few books I would still like to add to the library.
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|September 14th, 2016, 02:51 AM
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During the next 5 days, three storm systems will affect the nation, according to USDA's agricultural weather highlights. The first storm, currently crossing the eastern U.S., will reach the Atlantic Seaboard by Tuesday night. The second system, now affecting the Northwest, will traverse the nation's mid-section before reaching the Great Lakes region by Friday. The third storm will arrive toward week's end in the West.
Five-day precipitation totals could reach 2 to 4 inches in the Pacific Northwest and 1 to 2 inches across the remainder of the nation's northern tier. Locally severe showers and thunderstorms could produce at least 1 to 2 inches of rain—along with high winds and large hail—from the eastern Plains into the Midwest on April 23-24.
During the weekend, markedly cooler air will arrive across the northern and western U.S. Meanwhile, an enhanced risk of wildfires will remain a concern across the southern High Plains and parts of the Southwest.
The NWS 6- to 10-day outlook for April 27 – May 1 calls for below-normal temperatures across the central and eastern U.S., except for warmer-than-normal weather in Florida and southern Texas. Warmer-than-normal weather will also prevail in the Far West.
Meanwhile, near- to above-normal precipitation across the majority of the U.S. will contrast with drier-than-normal conditions in southern Texas, portions of the Great Lakes region, and an area stretching from parts of California into the northern Intermountain West.
Watch AgDay's weather forecast for April 22:
Regional Weather Outlooks
In the West, a cold front is moving ashore bearing showers, including beneficial rainfall in parts of northern and central California. Cool weather accompanies the showers, but warmth prevails in the Southwest.
On the Plains, warm weather prevails, particularly in western areas. Today's high temperatures will exceed 80°F as far north as western Nebraska. The warmth is promoting a region-wide acceleration of fieldwork, but further stressing drought-affected rangeland, pastures, and winter wheat on the southern High Plains.
In the Corn Belt, showers are ending across the Ohio Valley and the lower Great Lakes region. Cooler weather prevails throughout the Midwest in the wake of a departing cold front, although a return to dry weather favors a limited resumption of fieldwork.
In the South, a band of scattered showers stretches from Kentucky to the lower Mississippi Valley. Elsewhere, dry weather favors planting and other spring fieldwork, especially in the southern Atlantic States.
Related story: Weather Service: Drought in Southern Plains to Persist
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In a physical game that featured 36 fouls, the Dynamo went behind on a goal from Steve Ralston early in the second half. Houston rebounded for an important road point, however, when Wade Barrett's low cross found an unlikely target in defender Ryan Cochrane, whose one-timer deflected past Matt Reis for the tying goal.
Houston Dynamo (4-3-1) vs. New England Revolution (3-3-2)
May 27, 2006 -- Gillette Stadium, Foxborough MA
Scoring Summary:
NE -- Steve Ralston 2 (Pat Noonan 1, Andy Dorman 3)
HOU -- Ryan Cochrane 1 (Wade Barrett 2) 85
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Ryan Cochrane, Kevin Goldthwaite (Julian Nash 73), Eddie Robinson, Craig Waibel (Kelly Gray 77), Wade Barrett, Ricardo Clark, Dwayne De Rosario (Stuart Holden 80), Brian Mullan, Ronald Cerritos, Alejandro Moreno.
Substitutes Not Used: Zach Wells, Chris Aloisi, Patrick Ianni, Chris Wondolowski.
NE Revolution -- Matt Reis, Jay Heaps, Michael Parkhurst, James Riley (Jeff Larentowicz 24), Andy Dorman, Joe Franchino, Shalrie Joseph, Steve Ralston, Jose Cancela, Pat Noonan (Tony Lochhead 82).
Substitutes Not Used: Doug Warren, Kyle Brown, Pat Haggerty, Willie Sims, Danny Wynn.
Misconduct Summary:
NE -- Jay Heaps (caution; Reckless Foul) 34
HOU -- Ricardo Clark (caution; Reckless Foul) 47+
HOU -- Eddie Robinson (caution; Professional Foul) 58
Referee: Shane Moody
Referee's Assistants: Rob Fereday; Richard Eddy
4th official: Gus St. Silva
Attendance: 10,882
Weather: Clear-and-75 degrees
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His Purpleness isn't so hot for Madonna and Maroon 5.
In a wide-ranging interview in Billboard's latest issue, of which he graces the cover, Prince had some not-so kind words to say about his fellow performers.
Talking about his contract with Warner Bros. Records--over which he was so upset at what he considered the company's botched promotion of his albums that he changed his name to a symbol for several years in protest--the 54-year-old music legend lashed out at the Material Girl, whom he blamed for taking up much of the label's focus at his expense.
"It was also about Madonna," Prince told the magazine (via Zap2it) regarding his decision to churn out a series of albums to fulfill his contractual obligation so he could declare his independence. "She was getting paid, but at the time we were selling more records and selling out concerts on multiple nights."
Five other stars who changed their stage names like Prince
As it happened, Madonna also sought freedom from the heavy hand of the music giant when she exited Warner, which had distributed her Maverick Records label for 15 years, for a lucrative deal with Live Nation in 2007.
But the Queen of Pop wasn't only one in Prince's bad books.
The mercurial Minneapolis musician also took a shot at Maroon 5 for covering his classic hit "Kiss." While Prince himself said he has no problem covering other bands' tunes in his concerts and paying the requisite royalty for doing so, he questioned the point of recording another artist's track for actual release.
Prince fans endure purple pain
"Why do we need to hear another cover of a song someone else did? Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there," he said.
Ouch. No word what Maroon 5, or Madonna for that matter, has to say about all of this.
As for the future of his own artistic endeavors, the artist formerly known as "The Artist formerly known as Prince" revealed, "I don't do albums anymore...I do songs."
No word when he'll be putting out new tracks. His last album was 2010's 20Ten. For now, Prince has been auditioning a new drummer in advance of a possible tour and is gearing up to accept the 2013 Icon Award at the Billboard Music Awards Ceremony happening in Las Vegas on May 19.
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Hafthor Bjornsson, who plays The Mountain on the HBO series "Game of Thrones," broke a 1,000 year old record lifting a 32-foot, 1,433-pound log.
The website IronMind says "the record has been described in Icelandic Saga book," where Orm Storulfsson carried the mast of the viking ship Ormen Lange on his own shoulders.
That mast weighed more than 650kg (1,433 pounds).


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Post-Election Audits Necessary for Electronic Voting Systems
Considering that Election Day is only two weeks away, it's reassuring to know that electronic voting machines are more secure and reliable to use than in previous years. Even so, researchers are recommending that the systems be audited thoroughly after the election and that paper records be used for manual verification.
The primary way to "safeguard the integrity" of the vote was to mandate statistically meaningful post-election audits, instead of setting security standards for each voting equipment, researchers from California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote in the latest Voting Technology Project report. A collaborative effort between CalTech and MIT, the Voting Technology Project was launched originally to investigate the voting issues that arose in Florida on Election Day in 2000, to analyze available voting technology, and to make recommendations on using the technology effectively.
Technology and process upgrades implemented in the last few years have made e-voting systems more secure than in previous years, but researchers repeatedly emphasized the importance of post-election audits. While minimum security standards should be met, requiring a thorough security review for each piece of equipment "is unrealistic and not likely to be effective," the report said.
"Legislation is needed mandating effective election auditing, which at a minimum would require post-election auditing of all voting technologies used in an election," the report said.
The Switch to e-Voting
Ten years ago, with the chaos of the Florida ballots fresh in people's minds, Congress approved $2.3 billion in fiscal years 2003 and 2004 to help states buy and implement electronic voting systems. Many states invested in direct-record electronic voting machines, such as the ones from Diebold. Since the DRE machines processed and stored all ballots electronically, it seemed to solve the problem of recording the votes.
However, it turned out DREs weren't all that secure. Several researchers examined the copy of the Diebold voting system software and found "egregious security lapses," such as incorrect use of encryption, that put it at "high risk of compromise." If the voting systems had been tampered with before the election to incorrectly record the votes, there was no easy way for election official to verify the votes had been recorded correctly.
There have been reports of technical glitches over the years, such as incorrectly tabulating totals across multiple machines so that the total number of votes was higher than the number actually cast.
The pendulum is beginning to swing back, with states moving away from all-electronic voting systems to systems that provide a paper ballot trail that can be used to manually verify the results. Security concerns such as electoral fraud (recording votes incorrectly) was not a big part of the discussion back in 2000, but are increasingly becoming important in recent years, the researchers wrote.
There is a "strong movement away from all-electronic voting systems, toward voting systems based on paper ballots," the report said.
What's Next in e-Voting?
When Congress released funds for voting reform, states bought "large numbers of voting systems that were then available, before new standards were developed and adopted," according to the report. Standards would make the entire process more secure, such as mandating all voting systems use public standards (EML) to represent data by and between voting systems.
Many states, including California and Florida, have passed laws to discard paperless DREs and go back to systems that leave a paper trail. A majority of states in 2012 will use some kind of paper ballot system, according to a different study released in July by Susannah Goodman of Common Cause, Michelle Mulder of Rutgers Law School, and Pamela Smith of the Verified Voting Foundation.
There needs to be legislating mandating "effective election auditing," the report recommended. At minimum, the laws should require "post-election auditing of all voting technologies used in an election," the researchers wrote.
There should be plenty of support for voting systems security research, as well as examining human factors and improving standard operating procedures, the report said. The research needs to emphasize auditing, verifying election outcomes, and more effective chain-of-custody rules.
While there have been a lot of improvements in voting security, researchers were concerned about the increased interest in vote-by-mail and Internet voting as "remote voting has a higher risk of vote-selling and voter coercion," the researchers wrote.


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