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High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New ReportRead time: 5 mins
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By Sharon Kelly • Friday, June 17, 2016 - 09:53
Chemicals from gas wells were discovered in biological samples drawn from residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, at levels as much as ten times the national averages, according to a new report. The study is the first to sample both the air near drilling sites and the levels of chemicals in people living and working near those wells, allowing researchers to study the ways that toxic air pollutants are entering people's bodies near gas wells and putting their health at risk.
The researchers found evidence of 16 potentially dangerous chemicals in 11 individuals who volunteered to participate in the study by wearing air monitors and providing blood and urine samples. They found benzene, toluene, 2-heptanone, 4 heptanone and evidence of roughly a dozen other substances — including some known to be quite dangerous and others for which little safety information is available.

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Whether it's a new record deal, a sold-out tour or just the everyday blessings in life, country stars such as Chris Young, Dustin Lynch, Scotty McCreery and Lindsay Ell have plenty to be thankful for. Although it's been a tough year as a whole, these -- and more -- artists are taking time out this season to be grateful.
The Boot caught up with several country artists to learn the things they're most thankful for this season, and how they plan to spend the holiday. Scroll through the photo gallery below to read their answers.


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Nostalgic readers loved the promise of a Boy Meets World spinoff getting the green light. Fans of the original show were thrilled to see that Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel will film for the Girl Meets World pilot.
The entertainment world lost some beloved members this week. Larry Hagman, best known as J.R. Ewing on Dallas, lost his battle with throat cancer at 81. Deborah Raffin of 7th Heaven also succumbed to leukemia at 59.
Celebrities are often ridiculed for giving their children bizarre names, but the Jameson family may have outdone them all by naming their baby girl "Hashtag". You agreed: Leave social media terms to the Internet.
Readers weren't sure what to make of Angus T. Jones's shocking rant about his show, Two and a Half Men. By calling the CBS sitcom "filth," and urging viewers to stop watching, Jones is said to be remaining with the program.
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The People Mover's Pricey Pensions
Barbara Hansen made $114,815 in 2010 as general manager of Detroit Transportation Corporation. DTC exists to operate the Detroit People Mover, the municipal rail system that serves downtown Detroit.
Hansen also received a $14,696 pension contribution made by her employer last year. It is a benefit DTC employees get that far exceeds the private sector. The DTC contributes 12.8 percent of W-2 wages for employees' pensions, more than double the payment made to a typical private sector employee with a retirement benefit.
"That's not where you want to be," said Rick Dreyfuss, a pension expert and adjunct scholar at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. "That wouldn't be sustainable in the long term."
In 2010 the DTC contributed $517,852 to employee pension plans for 81 employees, according to documents received in a Freedom of Information Act request. Had the DTC contributions been more in line with the private sector, the transit system could have saved $250,000.
The DTC's outsized pension contributions are part of a $5.7 billion-a-year gap between what private sector and public sector employees receive in benefits.
A 2010 study done by the Mackinac Center compared public employee retirement benefit costs to private sector employers. It used a survey of 24 large Michigan companies with a combined total of more than 600,000 salaried employees. The average employer retirement contribution for those private sector employees was just over six percent. The Mackinac Center study also notes that typical Fortune 100 workers covered only by a defined-contribution "401k" type retirement plan receive company contributions of 5.77 percent of pay for their retirement funds.
According to 2009 data provided to the Federal Transit Administration, the People Mover required a $6.2 million operating subsidy from Detroit taxpayers and another $4.3 million from the state of Michigan for a total operating cost tax subsidy of 81 percent. Fares from riders contributed just 7 percent of the People Mover's operating costs.
The operating expense to move the average rider one mile on the People Mover was $4.28. The People Mover operates a single line in downtown Detroit that is less than 3 miles long.
For comparison, fares from users of the Chicago Transit Authority's rail system and buses paid 39 percent of the total operating costs in 2009. Moving the average rider one mile on the CTA's rail lines required 38 cents.
The Detroit Department of Transportation operates buses within the city – many of which ride directly underneath the People Mover's single track. Fare revenues amounted to 16 percent of DDOT operating costs in 2009. DDOT's cost to move one passenger one mile was 82 cents.
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The Detroit People Mover Still Serves as "a Rich Folks' Roller Coaster"
Top Transit Chief Salaries Criticized by State Lawmaker
Green Buses Driving Costs Higher
Public Fares Don't Cover Costs
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Ross and his father have come a long way
ARLINGTON -- It all started with a bucket.
Chuck Ross had been a Minor League catcher, a second-round pick by the Brewers in 1974 out of Tate Creek High School in Lexington, Ky., who was later traded to the Orioles. Ross never made it to the Major Leagues.
ARLINGTON -- It all started with a bucket.
Chuck Ross had been a Minor League catcher, a second-round pick by the Brewers in 1974 out of Tate Creek High School in Lexington, Ky., who was later traded to the Orioles. Ross never made it to the Major Leagues.
"He had his best Spring Training with the Orioles and they still sent him down," Robbie Ross Jr. said. "When that happened, he decided he had enough and he retired."
Chuck Ross went back to Kentucky and eventually became a general contractor, forming his own construction business. But he never forgot how close he came to the Major Leagues, and he decided to transfer his ambitions to his sons. Chuck's oldest, a left-hander who could throw the baseball, was especially promising.
"He was my coach when I was little until I was 15," Ross Jr. said.
Dad was also Rbbbie's catcher on their 32-acre farm in Nicholasville, a town of 28,000 people just outside Lexington that serves as the seat of Jessamine County -- is the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region. It's a center for farming, the wine industry and the raising of those world-renowned thoroughbred horses. In the middle of all this, Chuck Ross was raising a Major League pitcher.
"Whenever I needed someone to catch me, he would say, 'Let me get down for you,'" Ross Jr. said. "But he couldn't stay down too long, so he would say, 'Let me get the bucket.' Then he would sit on that bucket and catch me all day long."
That's just one of many fond memories that Robbie has of Chuck on Father's Day, and, no, they do not have different formal names. Both are Robert Charles Ross, and that's why this season, beginning in Spring Training, the Rangers left-handed reliever asked to be known as Robbie Ross Jr.
"I always signed my autograph, Robbie Ross, Jr.," Ross Jr. said. "I've always signed official documents that way, so I said, 'Dude, why not get Junior on the uniform.' I wanted it for a while but I had never said anything."
The gesture honors not only the man on the bucket who taught him how to pitch, but the father who raised him, put him through a private Christian school, freely embraced and loved his future daughter-in-law and eventually became his son's best pal.
"It's great," Ross Jr. said. "I just love hanging out with him, sitting around and talking, going hunting. I always love it when he comes into town and we can sit around and talk.
"The best thing about him was his spiritual influence and the way he led his life -- the way he glorified God to the fullest. He always lived by not what he wanted but what he felt God had anointed him to do. I always respected him for that.
"He had a never give-up attitude. He always worked hard to provide for his family. He always worked hard for his family, but he was always there to spend time around his kids. I will always love him and respect him for that."
Playing at a small Christian school did not hurt Ross' baseball prospects. In 2008, he was the Kentucky Gatorade Player of the Year and earned a scholarship to the University of Kentucky. Ross also participated in all the big showcase All-Star games for high school seniors, and he ended up being drafted by the Rangers in the second round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft.
Ross signed with the Rangers, and his father continued to catch him for a few years in the Minor Leagues until Robbie's stuff just got too good.
"He just said, 'Your stuff just has a little too much giddy-up for me,'" Ross Jr. said.
The bucket had served its purpose, and Robbie Ross Jr. will never forget it.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger.


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We have the capacity in our minds to create that which we are most afraid of; in the same way that we bury some ignorance like a grain of sand inside the shell of an oyster and build around it until we come up with the end product, which in this case is not a pearl.
It is finally this consciousness that allows a human being to feel God as the constant energy that is absorbed by all of the chakras, filling him with sweetness and joy. Not feeling happy is only the result of not being in tune with this force and not having the consciousness to contain it. For whatever reason we fail in holding onto energy, we must look to ourselves. We cannot blame anybody or anything. It is only our lack of capacity to hold that which is given.
In all teachings, the temptations that appear during the revelation period are those things we identify with, that take away the energy or content from the experience. It is the courage to put the bottom on the void, so that the incoming energy is not lost during any experience, that is required. This enables a person to grow endlessly, by surrendering content as fast as it manifests itself.
It is a remarkable event when somebody presents a situation that exposes their real need. It is rare when even half the truth is given. Usually a situation is distorted beyond recognition. It is as if somebody is saying to me that if I can dig out the real situation, maybe they will allow me to help them. When a situation occasionally is presented in all its nakedness, it is only because the person is defenseless at a particular moment. As soon as they have one stitch to put on their back, they again retreat into themselves, distorting what they said and what they think you said. The ability to hear and see is rare in this world. It only exists in somebody who truly wishes to grow. This has not, unfortunately, been the attitude of most seekers. So few succeed in reaching their goal that it is safe to assume that there are few who honestly pursue a spiritual life, and even then, very few teachers who cater to anything that brings the realism that allows for enlightenment.
Spirituality is not about being where you think you should be. It is not about being where you want to be. Spirituality is about being on the highest point of an ascending energy that keeps growing and growing.
As this energy grows, it completely destroys every level of truth as you live it. This does not mean the truth that has been destroyed was not real. It was real for the level on which you existed before. With students, I am not interested in how long they are with me; I am just interested in one thing: whether or not they are strong enough to break up the horizontal level and continue growing. For myself, I do not want to limit myself by what I was. I do not think, "I did all this work to get to here." That is baloney. That is making a drama of your life and trying to build an image for yourself. The point is to keep growing. It is to have the courage to keep growing, even if it pulls apart the structure of your life. Then it is freeing you. There is nothing wrong with pulling apart the structure. What is wrong is to build yourself into a coffin and then stay there and try to justify it. Either you are working to live on a higher level all the time and to have a rebirth all the time, or you are trying to find justification for staying the way you are.
The whole point of what we do is to destroy matter, which is this horizontal plane we sit on: the earth. It is to translate this physical and material matter into spiritual force. This is our work.
You sit down. Inside you, what is going on? You want to be right. "I'm a nice guy, how could this person do this to do me? How could someone take advantage of me in the business world," or "How can somebody not love me? Don't they understand what I did?" Inside you, these muscles close up; they are protecting you. They are protecting your ego, protecting the image you have of yourself. You sit down to take your breath, and you find that something has robbed you of your heart. What robbed you of your heart ? The need to be right. These muscles do not want to open. They would rather you were safe and secure behind the wall than outside the wall.
Surrendering is opening all the muscles. This is the real test of your surrender in a situation. Can you breathe ? Does the throat open to receive the energy ? Are you free to receive this energy and open and see what your condition really is ? If you find out you are constricted in your heart, you have a pain in your back, or you can't get the air down, what does it mean? It means you are closed. What closed you? It does not matter what closed you, you do not have to find the rational reason, you just have to open. You sit and work, and you breathe. I do not have that problem anymore, but I used to sit and take that breath six hundred times in one day, sometimes, to begin to feel a little crevice start to open. If you are closed, you are dead. You can't be right if you are closed. Can a closed person know what he or she did or did not do ? So, if you find that you are closed, you have to drop the whole issue of whether the other person is or is not right.


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Beaufort County will receive $24.8 million from the State Infrastructure Bank and a four-party team will receive $4 million to fund portions of two major highway projects. The allocations were made Thursday in Columbia.
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You're never too old to be a beginner at something—whether it's a relationship or a career or just a new way of seeing the world. That's the premise of the latest film by writer-director Mike Mills, Beginners. Mills began his career as a graphic designer, but is now known for his commercials, music videos, documentaries and narrative films. In 2007 he adapted the Walter Kirn novel Thumbsucker into a feature film, his first foray into long-form storytelling. Beginners marks a beginning for Mills, too, as it's the first movie he's both written and directed. Based so closely on events in his own life that the lines between autobiography and fiction blur, Beginners centers on Oliver Fields (Ewan McGregor), a graphic designer, and his father Hal (Christopher Plummer), both of whom are dealing with the death of Oliver's mother. For Hal, it's an opportunity to start living the life he denied himself for 75 years and embrace the fact that he's gay; for Oliver it's a chance to get to finally know this man who raised him and to find a love of his own. As with all of Mills' work, it is deeply human and visually brilliant. No matter what his medium, Mills captures honesty, with all its flaws, and Beginners is no exception. When I interviewed Mills around Thumbsucker's release, he was in the process of writing this script. At the time he said, "Every film I'm going to do in the future has to be totally myself, totally as authentic as I can make it, and totally as personal and as weird, and that only I can do." And that's just what he's done. We spoke again recently, and here's what he had to say about making a film so close to home and his unique perspective as a designer-turned-director.
There aren't too many films I can think of that are told from the perspective of a designer.
I know, right? I was excited. I have great designer pride, even though I'm sure most designers probably don't think of me as a designer anymore, but part of me, I really strongly identify with that life. Working at a desk like [Oliver's in the film]… those are all my notebooks and those are my drawings. And I've been in the position Oliver's been in so many times, so… I don't know, I was very psyched that he was a graphic designer.
You show Oliver coming up with elaborate concepts that are not what the client wants, like they're missing the genius of his ideas. But when I think of you in that position, it's hard for me to imagine that you faced that much resistance. Working with bands like Air, that you created an entire visual identity for…
Oh my god, but the thing that ends up on the Air record cover is not my first pitch to them at all. For better or worse—I think I got this a bit from working at M&Co and Tibor's way with his clients—I would fully go for it, and if I felt like I was doing something other than what the client wanted, I wouldn't let that stop me, so I've been fired many times [laughs] or told to stop and go another direction. But the reason that's really in the film, I felt like that was a way to talk about grief, in a strange way. Because grief to me, part of it isn't just sadness and being down, but this strong insistence to, like, live life, and do what you want, and not just play by the rules. And there's this kind of unreasonableness that Oliver, the graphic designer, is doing when he keeps not doing what the client wants.
That's a quality that your father, I mean Hal, in the film represents. It's never too late to live life to the fullest and to defy expectations.
In a big way, yeah. My real dad did come out of the closet when he was 75, after my mom passed away, and did that in a big, deep way, I mean, overcame so many fears and so much self-loathing that he had internalized from our history and the way we've dealt with homosexuality [as a society]. And when he did that, he blossomed in so many ways, emotionally, as my dad he became such a more exciting and engaging dad. He became so much more emotionally alive and vivid. You could really talk with him about so many things.
So, I have to ask you, since I'm interviewing you for AIGA, I found an old AIGA Journal with your writing in it, about Herbert Bayer. That must have been whole other life ago for you, right?
Right, and that refers to many lives ago because I met Herbert Bayer through my father [Paul Mills, former director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art], because he lived in Santa Barbara at the end of his life, and my father was really involved with getting his big Chromatic Gates sculpture put up publicly. And Herbert Bayer told me to go to Cooper Union, because I got into Cooper and RISD, and I was trying to figure it out and he was like, [impersonating Bayer] "Oh, you must go to Cooper Union," so I was like, of course I have to listen to Herbert Bayer [laughs].
You use graphic imagery to communicate the different eras of the film—1955, when your father and mother married, and 2003, the year she died and he came out. It's especially interesting to see what the era was like for your father, who obviously did not feel free to live life as he might have wanted. You convey that by showing those advertisements that showed the ideals of the time…
A lot of those, we got them from Look, and Look had to give their whole thing to the Library of Congress, so we could use them for quite cheap. Oliver is trying to think about what it was like in 1955, and so it becomes all these representations. Like, if I show you the stars, does that help? Or if I show you pets, or if I show you presidents. How do we get closer to knowing what this historical context was like? And I knew just from doing graphics and stuff, this could be quite kinetic. If I show a whole string of people kissing, that'll actually have a lot of movement, a lot of life in it.
Before I was a filmmaker I loved Godard as a graphic designer. He does the best design, to me. And a lot of my graphics being very, almost sort of didactic or presentational, or sort of centered and clean, to me really comes from how Godard uses type and still imagery in his films, in Tout va bien or One Plus One or Pierrot le Fou, so Godard's been influencing me for a very long time. And the graffiti in the film is much more sort of May 1968, sort of Situationist graffiti rather than being like hip-hop graffiti.
And this again is drawn from your experience.
I know [laughs]. Believe it or not, I didn't want to make a narcissistic memoir, but I thought, OK, if I write about things I know, in a really concrete, authentic, specific way that just feels real, that is the best bet I have to communicating with people, really reaching out to people.
Things like, This American Life—you know, the radio show, which I adore—does it all the time. People speaking, really revealing and honestly about specific personal things. Because it's so specific and authentic, that is what makes it catching to a larger audience. Always my goal is to talk to people, not make a documentary about my family.
Anyway, I was really excited to have a graphic design film character. And Ewan really loved it. I taught him how to draw. And he's really crafty. Ewan builds bicycles and motorcycles and cars. And he has this crazy personal aesthetic. He gets old VW's and leaves the outside all rusty but then he redoes the inside with Tartan upholstery, it's really specific. And his motorcycles, he likes old, slow motorcycles. But he always leaves them slightly rusted but then fixes up one part of them. He had never done design, but he really appreciated the drawings and wanted to learn how and picked it up really quickly. A few times in the film I started drawing and just handed it to him, and you see him finishing the drawing.
I think the only reason the drawings ended up staying through the cut is that, I think it was interesting for people to watch a drawing happen, but then emotionally speaking, it was a weird way to find out what the Oliver character was thinking. Because often a scene will happen and you don't really know how he feels about the scene until you see him draw, like, a reaction to it. So it became a part of the story.
The drawings you/Oliver create in the film—and that you published in a book—bear a lot in common with the artwork for Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, the new Beastie Boys album.
Yeah, similar drawing world going on. It was funny, Adam Yauch saw the movie when it premiered in Toronto—and I used to do graphics for them, and posters and stuff—and he said I just got back in his mind. And they were finishing the album and he was like, "Mills, come out of retirement," jokingly. And then I started doing those drawings as one way to realize the Hot Sauce Committee. And then at one point he was like, can you draw us? And then he slapped himself on the forehead—like, he knew he was recreating the film.
In the movie you/Oliver design CD artwork for The Sads. Isn't that also a side project for you?
No, but I have done record covers for them really. There's a real band called The Sads, that's my friend Aaron [Rose], and then I ended up getting all doppelgangers to play them, and I made Aaron black, which was very fun… I have done record covers for them really, in the past, but I didn't do any of those record covers in the movie. Sort of all of that blurring of things I have and haven't done in real life and fictional life, [it seemed to be a] kind of really strange and odd and exciting way to go in making this film that is in so many ways about questioning what's real.
There's a poignant moment where Hal explains to Oliver what the rainbow sticker means, and Oliver says, everyone knows what the rainbow symbolizes, to Hal's surprise. Talk about a powerful example of design.
And then I go into the Gilbert Baker design, or, you know, the film does. It goes into the history of the gay pride flag and where it comes from, and what all the colors meant. That's funny, I never thought about that. I get asked about that all the time, "How did you come up with that, breaking it down to its colors and what they meant?" And I never thought, well, because I'm a graphic designer. Of course I would. That's, like, natural.
It's a very powerful scene in the film, how each color of the rainbow fills the screen as Oliver narrates the history. It's a beautiful visual.
That's one of my favorite little things. All those little history essays that happen, often with stills. People strictly from the film world are kind of like, how could you think to show 1955 just with stills? Well, if you come from a design background or if design was the first instrument you played, thinking in stills and in live action isn't that big a deal. Stills can be as important. I feel like as a designer you learn to work with all these small, simple elements, or at least I did, so it's easy for me to think of them as being as important as live action film.
Do you want to be recognized more as a filmmaker or do you like getting to be a director, designer and artist all at once? Since you were willing to do the cover for the Beastie Boys, obviously you haven't packed in design completely.
It was fun. And I'm also doing a Wild Flags record cover right now. It's weird, the film brought record covers back into my life. I love doing record covers. I have to admit, though, I don't love being a designer for hire anymore. But I love doing design and I do it in an art context all the time.
Film comes first now.
I love doing everything. But I might try having my things be, whatever you want to call it, more multimedia. Being a writer-director is the biggest stage I play on, and I got out of art and into design because I wanted to be in the public sphere more. And with film, it's really crazy, all these strangers go in a dark room and watch your story for 100 minutes, it's like the most intense audience interaction I've had with anything. So I think I'll always keep doing different things. I think I am my happiest when I'm a writer-director, when I get to play with an expanded film language that Godard brought to us.
But I really, maybe it's also that I'm turning 45 and I want things to be integrated, and I was really happy that in Beginners I got to have the graphic sensibility and the film and the drawing, and drama and comedy, and all things that I like. Sort of more integrated than they've ever been and hopefully more feeding each other than they've ever been in my work. Because that's how it is for me in life. They all help, they all bounce off each other and they happen at different paces. Films take a long time, but I could do a book of fireworks for Nieves in like a month. And so while I'm waiting and waiting and waiting, I'll do other projects, so they end up feeding each other. But I'm glad to have it in one place, and maybe working better than it ever has in one place.
So design is still important to you?
[Say] if I was a musician, I might be playing guitar now, but the way I learned music was on the piano. For me my first instrument was doing design, and doing flat, still art, and I feel it in all my photography and all my filmmaking.
More resources
- Mike Mills' website
- Watch the trailer and other clips from Beginners
- Learn more about the book Drawings from the Film Beginners


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Phil wrote:It's not that the process is complicated, it's that any permit reservations from the Happy Isles trailhead (the one you want to use), regardless of destination, are incredibly hard to get, as well as fully impacted for your desired window. It's a gateway to much of the high country wilderness, and if Tioga Rd is still closed because of snow and plowing, one of the few that will get you there without several days of hiking. The other option is to try for a walk-up permit the day before (after 11am) your planned departure date. To stay in LYV or the wilderness nearby HD, and then ascend HD, you have to apply for a backpacker's HD permit as opposed to a day-hiking permit (both decided by availability and lottery), and then, you're right back where you started from in trying get that Happy Isles entry. The walk-up wilderness permit is also problematic from the standpoint of planning in that, if you're coming from the UK, then diverting from the Bay Area just to do that hike in particular, you may very well find yourself shut out and disappointed. The keys to getting backpacking permits anywhere in Yosemite are either dumb luck, incredible timing, or flexibility in where you start.
If you haven't seen this, check it out: https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/ ... lheads.pdf
As you can see on the link, where you want to start is fully impacted for your dates.
AlmostThere wrote:If you get a wilderness permit from Glacier Point or Mono Meadow, the only place to camp will be up Ilillouette Creek somewhere, not along the Ilillouette or Panorama trail, where camping is illegal. Or you hike on to LYV.
You can get to LYV on your second night out and camp there, or the third, etc. You will be entering from another trail and not be impacting the hordes of hikers coming up from Happy Isles on that quota. LYV is a zoo tho, full of noise and people who never backpack at all, and bears are particularly bad - sneaking out to grab any unattended thing that smells like food.
You can't camp at trailheads, you can't camp within a mile of a road, and many trailheads that are very busy, you have a two or four mile limit on camping -- cannot camp within two (or four) miles of that trailhead. And some trails you cannot camp on them at all like the Panorama trail. It's a big adjustment for folks who are used to camping anywhere, sleeping the car at a trailhead for example, but if they didn't have these rules this area of Yosemite would be even trashier than it is.
AlmostThere wrote:That all depends on how far you can hike at 6000-7000 feet elevation with a backpack. It also depends on when you start hiking. You have to be a couple miles up the creek from the trail to camp, if you take Ilillouette from Glacier Point, so a couple miles down to the bridge, another couple miles up the creek. Next day you come back to the trail and go another 6 miles or so to LYV, then another two miles beyond it to camp again - or three or four miles, if you have to camp near water. You can't camp until you're 2 miles away from LYV in any direction.
Some people have difficulty hauling a backpack a few miles. I usually do 8-10 miles per day, but I do that all the time. Not knowing whether you have even backpacked before with a bear canister and everything? I'm not able to give you much in the way of definite answers. These trails are often in full sun and at lower elevations so can be quite hot in the middle of the day, which can also slow you down a lot.
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P.O.D.: Southtown Unbound
- 2006 28 Mar
P.O.D. seems open to revisiting previously traveled paths. At least, that's how it appears with the promotion behind the band's new album "Testify" (Atlantic/Word).
For example, "Testify" mirrors 1999's "Fundamental Elements of Southtown" in that both albums were preceded by a limited edition "Warriors" EP and a major tour with Staind. Likewise, P.O.D. recently returned for another New Year's Eve performance in Times Square, something it previously did right after the Sept. 11 tragedies. And once again, the gatekeepers are responding in spades.
Coinciding with "Testify"'s late January release, P.O.D. performed an unprecedented five songs on MTV's "Total Request Live" and made the rounds on other high profile outlets such as "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Last Call with Carson Daly" and DIRECTV's "CD USA." And in addition to securing CCM Magazine's cover story – again – this month, "Testify" landed P.O.D. on the front of Metal Edge, Risen, HM and Drum!, among others.
Once more, P.O.D.'s fans have responded in kind – "Testify" debuted at No. 9 on The Billboard 200 album sales chart and at No. 1 on iTunes' Alternative album download chart in late January. At press time, the album's lead single "Goodbye for Now" had entered the Top 20 of America's Rock radio airplay charts and the Top 25 of Alternative radio according to Radio & Records. The video for the song, meanwhile, had climbed to No. 3 on MTV's "TRL."
Familiar territory? Absolutely. And P.O.D. has historically demonstrated its growth with each new opportunity. But there is one path the band is continually forced to retread. After three indie albums and four major label releases with Atlantic Records, P.O.D. still faces the same scrutiny from both sides of the spiritual fence.
"It's like half the people say we're not Christian enough, and the others say we're too preachy," admits P.O.D. vocalist Sonny Sandoval. "Can't we just be P.O.D. making music, and if you like it, you like it, and if you don't, there are other bands out there for you?"
Despite what's said, Sandoval is not complaining. He's just answering another predictable question about his faith when he'd rather be talking about his new album. The fact is the band's success makes it an easy target. Even though 2003's "Payable on Death" album opened with the faith-filled anthem "Wildfire," the other songs often addressed less spiritual matters. Does this mean the band went multi-platinum and cut back its faith-related content?
"Payable on Death" sold more than a million copies worldwide but didn't come close to matching the massive success of its forerunner "Satellite," which contained more faith-related content and sold more than three million copies in the United States alone. So did that motivate the band to include more spiritual content on its latest, "Testify"? The point is, no matter what the band says or does, there's always a way to spin the facts to criticize it, and so the band finds itself with a new album and the same old set of questions.
"Even now people say, 'Are you guys still a Christian rock band?'" laughs Sandoval. "People need to get more real than that – come up with a better question."
When Sandoval mentions that question's monotony, he's not talking about sharing his faith but, rather, the way in which his faith might be used to influence record sales. "I don't ever want anyone to use my faith to sell records," he continues. "It's not the people. I love all the people who have supported us in the Christian world, and that gratefulness will never change. It's our wish that we encourage other believers, and it's our wish that people might come to know what we know because it's changed our lives. Our faith is real, but I don't want to go up there and convince you what a great Christian I am so you go buy my record."
"But I have no complaints," reflects drummer Noah "Wuv" Bernardo. "Everyone wants to label us, and our band went through a transition where we didn't want to be labeled. But now we're at the point where we don't care. Call us what you like. If you like the music, cool, and if you like the message, straight up – that's dope!"
That said, "Testify" does feature more faith-evident content than recent releases, and, while there are challenges to covering spiritual themes, Wuv also feels it's natural. He continues, "You don't want to say things over and over again until it's flat out cheesy, and you're not taken seriously anymore. But faith in God is repetitive. It is something you have to do every day in your life. It is something that, if you have it, you're going to take it with you until you die. So for us, writing those songs about faith and struggles will never get [old] because it's part of the daily struggle we're always going to have. It's not something that you can do once and then forget about it. Having faith in God is something that you work on every day."
While P.O.D.'s music has long embraced such pertinent themes, for many fans it's the integrity behind the lyrics and the band's artistic fervor that sets P.O.D. apart. Just ask Pillar, the band CCM readers recently voted their "Favorite Hard Music Artist."
"There may never be another band that comes along that has such an epic passion in their music," says Pillar's lead singer Rob Beckley. "P.O.D. is easily one of the biggest influences on musicians in this industry and one of the most looked up to. They have encouraged me to live strong and with no fear in a world that is somewhat intimidating. P.O.D. is for real – great musicians, great passion and great presence. They may never know the impact they have had not only on fans but on the industry – both general market and Christian!"
In the end, it all comes back to who the artists are as people. And the members of P.O.D. choose to live out their faith as they always have. Consider their recent visit with wounded Iraq War vets at a military hospital outside the nation's capital. The USO contacted the band knowing they were going to be in Baltimore, and they quickly set aside the time.
"It was deep," says Sandoval, speaking with a sense of hurt in his voice. "I'm not good with hospitals anyway, but, once we walked in, they took us straight to the head trauma units. I almost couldn't do it, man. The first guy had half his head gone. His wife is sitting there next to him, and he's got pictures up of his kids and how he used to look. Then there was one really young kid who couldn't communicate or even control his own body. His mother was there, and she had a sweater with his picture and scripture verses on it. Right before he went into the service, he got a tattoo on his chest that read 'The Lord Is My Shepherd.' As soon as his mother started to talk about God, he started to shake and get upset. He's got the 'Lord Is My Shepherd' across his chest, yet he's sitting there not knowing if he's going to make it. My heart was just dropping."
Ultimately, the band members expressed their gratitude to all the soldiers and found themselves encouraged as well. The singer continues, "Most of the people we saw were believers. Everyone had their scripture shirts on and Bible verses posted in the room. If anything, I walked out more encouraged because here are these kids whose lives will never be the same, yet they still push on in their faith."
"Goodbye for Now," the lead single from "Testify," was written before the military hospital experience yet addresses similar situations. This mid-tempo rocker offers courage to anyone who feels downtrodden or lost.
Sandoval explains, "'Goodbye for Now' is just a vibe track, one of those hope songs that people can relate to a little bit. It comes from struggling and feeling down and out in whatever walk of life you are in and hoping that tomorrow has a lot more promise. But so many people have taken different directions from it. For example, when I played it for my sisters, they took it from the angle of our mother passing away."
The new album also features guest vocals from Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu, whose own hit song "King Without a Crown" was poised to crack alternative rock radio's Top 10 at press time. This reggae-rock artist, who was in Jerusalem when P.O.D. first inquired about him, joins the group on the upbeat "Roots in Stereo" and the worshipful "Strength of My Life." Also making guest appearances are hip-hop legends the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. and Sick Jacken from the L.A. rap duo The Psycho Realm.
Still, the most notable appearance comes behind the soundboard. After recording its previous three albums with Howard Benson (Hoobastank), P.O.D. worked with veteran producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews Band) on "Testify."
"I think we just wanted to try something different," admits Sandoval about the producer change. "There were some scheduling issues. But at that time we had done three records, and we are always trying to learn different things. We started with one of Rick Rubin's main engineers and got some really amazing sounds, but, once we got to the vocals, we realized that we were just duplicating a lot of the early demo work we had done. That's when we started working with Glen, and he was like, 'Man, we've just got to color all of this in.' We worked with him at his studio/home for a month and a half, and it was a cool experience."
Looking back, P.O.D. – which also features bassist Traa Daniels and guitarist Jason Truby – formed 14 years ago in the San Diego suburb of San Ysidro, not far from the U.S./Mexico border. The band, whose name is short for "Payable on Death," self-released "Snuff the Punk", "Brown" and "Live at Tomfest" before finally signing with Atlantic Records. The group then broke big during the nü-metal craze, scoring huge radio hits with "Southtown" and "Rock the Party (Off the Hook)." However, when "Satellite" came out on Sept. 11, 2001, the band's emerging hit "Alive" took on new meaning and became a positive anthem for people of all faiths.
"The fact that the album came out on 9/11 and that the tragedy hit really woke up a lot of hearts and minds," remarks Sandoval. "People were like, 'I want music that makes me think about stuff and helps me take my mind off of the tragedy.' I feel very fortunate to be a part of that song, and it is still one of my favorites. The sad part is that the U.S. had such a bond and brotherhood at the time, and, now that 9/11 is said and done with, everyone's back to the grind and back to their grudges."
"Satellite" also produced the hits "Boom" and "Youth of the Nation," the latter about a local high school shooting. With the departure of Marcos Curiel in '03, the band had little time to gel with replacement guitarist Jason Truby, yet its self-titled follow-up still produced the Top 20 rock hit "Will You." P.O.D. toured heavily with groups such as Linkin Park, which gave Truby a chance to settle into his new role before recording "Testify." In recent years, the band also contributed music to "The Passion of the Christ: Songs", Santana's "Shaman" and the "XXX: State of the Union", "Matrix Reloaded" and "Little Nicky" soundtracks.
Despite all the success, Wuv still emphasizes the importance of humility. He remarks, "We always want to take the attitude 'Thanks for having us' because it's always going to be that exciting for me. When it isn't, it'll be time for us to stop. In the meantime, there's still music inside of P.O.D., and we still have stuff to say. We got the blessing from our families to keep playing music, so there's no reason to stop."
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After getting abruptly cut by the Eagles, DeSean Jackson has signed a three-year, $24 million deal with the Washington Redskins.
According to widespread reports, he'll get $16 million guaranteed.
That's a relatively small figure.
When you compare it to some of the contracts handed out to wide receivers in recent years, you see that the Redskins got a No. 1 wide receiver for No. 2 wide receiver money here.
Washington basically signed Jackson to a shorter version of the contract the Jets gave Eric Decker in March.
Decker's deal is for $15 million guaranteed ($36.25 million total) over five years. While he had similar 2013 statistics to Jackson, he did it with a two big caveats — he had Peyton Manning throwing to him and he was playing against single coverage all year.
The contract Golden Tate got from Detroit is also in Jackson's range at $13.25 million guaranteed ($31.5 million total) over five years.
Tate and Decker are very good No. 2 wide receivers. Jackson is a proven No. 1 wide receiver in a top-five offense.
The Redskins got him cheap.
No. 1 wide receivers who have comparable stats to Jackson have commanded some monster contracts in free agency in recent years. Mike Wallace got $30 million guaranteed ($65 million total) from Miami in 2013. Vincent Jackson got $26 million guaranteed ($55 million total) from Tampa in 2012. DeSean Jackson's numbers say that he's in this class of wide receivers.
There's a reason why Washington got Jackson so cheap. Chip Kelly reportedly wanted to get rid of Jackson because of off-the-field issues, even before the gang allegations came out.
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He waved to an NBC 4 New York reporter outside his home Thursday morning but didn't answer questions. Casquejo is next due in court April 2.
"We continue to reassess our security posture at the site and are constantly working to make this site as secure as possible," Dunne said.
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Steps to Transfer
The steps below will help you prepare for transferring to another institution after your time at Herkimer College.
Freshmen Year
Semester 1
- Locate the Transfer Counseling Office and make an appointment with the Transfer Counselor.
- Utilize the transfer resources available to you:
- Use the technology-computer terminals for college searches, viewing college catalogs on-line, getting information about your major.
- College catalogs/resource materials (guide books, etc.)
- College applications.
- Identify your career path. Learn how your major relates to your career goal. Make an appointment with Herkimer College's Career Counselor.
- Make your advisor aware of your long term goals.
- Visit with transfer college representatives when they visit Herkimer College in October and April for Transfer College Fairs. Learn about pre-requisites.
- Examine specific transfer agreements we currently have with many four-year colleges.
- Begin saving all college course outlines.
- Become involved in campus activities.
Semester 2
- Visit potential transfer colleges at special Transfer Open House programs.
- Begin more in depth research of transfer colleges.
- E-mail or write to colleges to obtain information, catalogs, applications, etc.
Senior Year
Semester 1
- Complete your research process.
- Apply to at least 3-5 transfer colleges.
- Keep detailed records of all contacts and make copies of all documents you send to the transfer college.
- Apply early, don't miss important deadlines for scholarships or competitive transfer programs).
- Apply on-line or paper application. Seek assistance with applications from the transfer counselor.
- Obtain application fee waivers from the transfer counselor, if eligible.
- Apply for Herkimer College scholarships.
- January- submit the FAFSA form to be considered for federal need or merit-based programs.
- All documents for financial aid usually have to be submitted by March 1st for the next academic year.
- Don't assume because you were not eligible for financial aid at Herkimer College that you won't qualify for aid at your transfer institution.
Semester 2
- Follow-up promptly on all requests for information.
- Bring transfer questions to the transfer counselor including questions about transfer credit.
- Send in deposits. Apply for housing early.
- DON'T forget to send in your final transcript to the college you are transferring to.
- Try to attend summer transfer orientation and registration (bring Herkimer College catalog and course outlines).
- Submit your health documents early (proof of immunizations can be forwarded from Herkimer College's health office).
- Anticipate a different environment and be prepared.
- When you arrive at your transfer college, have the Registrar certify your enrollment to show you are continuing at that college (for financial aid purposes and loans).
- Finally, enjoy the journey! Remember dreams are worth following if you start early, keep your goal in mind, and take these hints and suggestions to heart, you will be able to successfully master the transfer process.


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I am often asked to weigh in on the mobility wars by friends who know of my tech background. It's easy to stumble into a lively discussion these days on the highly subjective merits of Apple, Android and Microsoft mobile phones and tablets, especially since Microsoft just spiced up the game by introducing a new wave of devices. Read More
State releases campaign-finance app for Android users
LANSING –– The Michigan Secretary of State's office is announcing that a campaign-finance application is now available on the Android smartphone platform. Read More


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SIFT Workstation Version 3.0
Download SIFT Workstation VMware Appliance Now - 1.5 GB
SIFT Workstation 3.0 Overview
An international team of forensics experts, led by SANS Faculty Fellow Rob Lee, created the SIFT Workstation and made it available to the whole community as a public service. The free SIFT Workstation, that can match any modern forensic tool suite, is also featured in SANS' Advanced Computer Forensic Analysis and Incident Response course (FOR 508). It demonstrates that advanced investigations and responding to intrusions can be accomplished using cutting-edge open-source tools that are freely available and frequently updated.
Offered free of charge, the SIFT 3.0 Workstation will debut during SANS' Advanced Computer Forensic Analysis and Incident Response course (FOR508) at DFIRCON. SIFT 3.0 demonstrates that advanced investigations and responding to intrusions can be accomplished using cutting-edge open-source tools that are freely available and frequently updated.
"Even if SIFT were to cost tens of thousands of dollars, it would still be a very competitive product," says, Alan Paller, director of research at SANS. "At no cost, there is no reason it should not be part of the portfolio in every organization that has skilled forensics analysts."
Developed and continually updated by an international team of forensic experts, the SIFT is a group of free open-source forensic tools designed to perform detailed digital forensic examinations in a variety of settings. With over 100,000 downloads to date, the SIFT continues to be the most popular open-source forensic offering next to commercial source solutions.
"The SIFT Workstation has quickly become my "go to" tool when conducting an exam. The powerful open source forensic tools in the kit on top of the versatile and stable Linux operating system make for quick access to most everything I need to conduct a thorough analysis of a computer system," said Ken Pryor, GCFA Robinson, IL Police Department
Key new features of SIFT 3.0 include:
- Ubuntu LTS 12.04 Base
- 64 bit base system
- Better memory utilization
- Auto-DFIR package update and customizations
- Latest forensic tools and techniques
- VMware Appliance ready to tackle forensics
- Cross compatibility between Linux and Windows
- Option to install stand-alone via (.iso) or use via VMware Player/Workstation
- Online Documentation Project at http://sift.readthedocs.org/
- Expanded Filesystem Support
Download SIFT Workstation 3.0 Locations
Download SIFT Workstation VMware Appliance - 1.5 GB
Note: The file is zipped using 7zip in the 7z format. We recommend 7zip to unzip it. Download 7zip.
Manual SIFT 3.0 Installation
We tried to make the installation (and upgrade) of the SIFT workstation as simple as possible, so we create the SIFT Bootstrap project, which is a shell script that can be downloaded and executed to convert your Ubuntu installation into a SIFT workstation.
Check the project out at https://github.com/sans-dfir/sift-bootstrap
Using wget to install the latest, configure SIFT, and SIFT theme
wget -quiet -O - https://raw.github.com/sans-dfir/sift-bootstrap/master/bootstrap.sh | sudo sh -s — -i -s -y
Using wget to install the latest (tools only)
wget -quiet -O - https://raw.github.com/sans-dfir/sift-bootstrap/master/bootstrap.sh | sudo sh -s — -i
SIFT Login/Password:
After downloading the program, use the credentials below to gain access.
- Login "sansforensics"
- Password "forensics"
- $ sudo su -
- Use to elevate privileges to root while mounting disk images.
SIFT Workstation 3.0 Capabilities
Ability to securely examine raw disks, multiple file systems, evidence formats. Places strict guidelines on how evidence is examined (read-only) verifying that the evidence has not changed
File system support
- ntfs (NTFS)
- iso9660 (ISO9660 CD)
- hfs (HFS+)
- raw (Raw Data)
- swap (Swap Space)
- memory (RAM Data)
- fat12 (FAT12)
- fat16 (FAT16)
- fat32 (FAT32)
- ext2 (EXT2)
- ext3 (EXT3)
- ext4 (EXT4)
- ufs1 (UFS1)
- ufs2 (UFS2)
- vmdk
Evidence Image Support
- raw (Single raw file (dd))
- aff (Advanced Forensic Format)
- afd (AFF Multiple File)
- afm (AFF with external metadata)
- afflib (All AFFLIB image formats (including beta ones))
- ewf (Expert Witness format (encase))
- split raw (Split raw files) via affuse
- affuse x2010 mount 001 image/split images to view single raw file and metadata
- split ewf (Split E01 files) via mount_ewf.py
- mount_ewf.py x2010 mount E01 image/split images to view single raw file and metadata
- ewfmount - mount E01 images/split images to view single rawfile and metadata
Partition Table Support
- dos (DOS Partition Table)
- mac (MAC Partition Map)
- bsd (BSD Disk Label)
- sun (Sun Volume Table of Contents (Solaris))
- gpt (GUID Partition Table (EFI))
Software Includes:
- mantaray
- Rekall Framework (Memory Analysis)
- Volatility Framework (Memory Analysis)
- Autopsy (GUI Front-End for Sleuthkit)
- PyFLAG (GUI Log/Disk Examination)afflib
- libbde
- libesedb
- libevt
- libevtx
- libewf
- libfvde
- libvshadow
- log2timeline
- Plaso
- qemu
- SleuthKit
- 100s more tools -> See Detailed Package Listing
SIFT Workstation 3.0 How-Tos
- SANS DFIR Posters and Cheat Sheets
- SIFT Documentation Project
- How To Mount a Disk Image In Read-Only Mode
- How To Create a Filesystem and Registry Timeline
- How To Create a Super Timeline
- How to use the SIFT Workstation for Basic Memory Image Analysis
Report Bugs
As with any release, there will be bugs and requests, please report all issues and bugs to the following website and location.
SIFT Recommendations
SIFT workstation is playing an important role for the Brazilian national prosecution office, especially due to Brazilian government budgetary constraints. Its forensic capabilities are bundled on a way that allows an investigation to be conducted much faster than it would take if not having the right programs grouped on such great Linux distribution. The new version, which will be bootable, will be even more helpful. I'd highly recommend SIFT for government agencies or other companies as a first alternative, for acquisition and analysis, from the pricey forensics software available on the market.
- Marcelo Caiado, M.Sc., CISSP, GCFA, EnCE
What I like the best about SIFT is that my forensic analysis is not limited because of only being ableto run a forensic tool on a specific host operating system. With the SIFT VM Appliance, I can create snapshots to avoid cross-contamination of evidence from case to case, and easily manage system and AV updates to the host OS on my forensic workstation. Not to mention, being able to mount forensic images and share them as read-only with my host OS, where I can run other forensic tools to parse data, stream-lining the forensic examination process.
- Brad Garnett www.digitalforensicsource.com


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Voiceover: The Actor's Secret Weapon
Two hour workshop with Tish Hicks
TODAY, Dec. 1st, 10 am – noon (PT)
LIVE in L.A. and Virtual
Learn how to make voiceover the Secret Weapon that can fuel your life as a performer and create a fun, fresh, long-term source of income. You've worked hard to develop your talents as an actor, singer, improviser, storyteller… don't leave money on the table!
Join L.A. voice pro Tish Hicks (Subaru, Citibank, GTA5) for a jam-packed two hours covering what it takes to make voiceover work for you, how to break in and break through, working in different genres and different markets. Plus, you'll get time to try things out, with direction and coaching from one of L.A.'s top talents.
Your voice can persuade, provoke, entertain, and delight. It can change minds, touch lives, spark ideas, and create worlds. Your voice can even be your career. Whether you're a beginner looking to break in or a seasoned pro prepared to take your talent to the next level, The V.O. Dojo will help you get there.
We're a training, networking, and resource center connecting voiceover actors of all levels. The V.O. Dojo's unique approach, inspired by the discipline of martial arts and the playfulness of improv, will encourage you to approach your craft fearlessly and with the wisdom of a warrior.
Find your voiceover center at The V.O. Dojo.
Upcoming VO Dojo Events
So much more than just a voiceover class...
"Last March, I was new to voiceover and decided to check out the VO Dojo's 'You Should Do Voiceover' Weekend Intensive. One year later, I'm a VO Dojo Black Belt represented by William Morris Endeavor.
Tish will change the way you think about voiceover. Yes, she'll deliver countless juicy tips and tricks of the trade – but even better, she'll give you real insight into the process of mastering the art of VO and help you develop your plan of attack. This is not just any voiceover class. This is deep, important work. The supportive community, the professional connections, and the intense training you get at the VO Dojo are absolutely invaluable. You'll wish you started years ago."
– Jason Vande Brake - YSDVO, March 2013 • M2M Member • Nth Degree Member
I'm signed with a great agent and have booked several radio and TV spots!
"I cannot recommend Tish enough. I had some success prior to meeting Tish, but that was almost by accident. I couldn't figure out how to maintain any momentum in my career. Tish was able to help me focus on my strengths and offered guidance on how to improve my weaknesses. On top of that she was extremely helpful in my search for good V.O. representation. As a result of our combined efforts, I am now signed with an excellent agent, and have booked several television and radio spots. Thank you, Tish."
– Chris Pauley - V.O. Dojo Coaching Client • Pro Fight Club Member
Finished my demo and signed with a fantastic agent!
"I'd worked with Tish in the LA theater scene, so when I decided to expand my acting career into voiceover, I knew the V.O. Dojo was the place to go. Tish focuses on the craft of acting in her work, so even though I was new to V.O., I was able to jump in with both feet using the experience I already had in my stage and on-camera work. The Dojo became my V.O. workout ritual, exposing me to other actors with a full range of expertise, guiding me from being a 'White Belt' - sharpening my skills and building my confidence to finishing my demo and signing with a fantastic agent. Now I'm a 'Brown Belt', putting all of that Dojo experience into practice in the industry, and I know the Dojo will help keep me moving forward as I continue to expand my V.O. career."
– Rebecca Metz - V.O. Dojo Coaching Client
Gave me the confidence I needed to win over the first agency I met with...
"Tish helped me see a V.O. career as fun, fulfilling, lucrative, and above all, accessible. She's great at demystifying, and has helped me see that V.O. is a craft that's exceedingly learnable."


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Less-known sites enrich understanding of black history
The history of the African-American experience is a rich and diverse narrative that spans both the geographical extent of the nation and its memory. Although sites such as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial or exhibits at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., are mainstays for individuals eager to learn more about this heritage, it can be gratifying to wander off the beaten path of traditional black history to uncover lesser-known but still significant landmarks and museums.
One such site is the Kingsley Plantation in Jacksonville, the early-19th-century residence of Zephaniah Kingsley and his wife, Anna, a former Senegalese princess and slave. Since Florida was under Spanish rule until 1819 and Anna Kingsley was emancipated by her husband in 1811, she was one of the few free black women in the South of her time.
The plantation, located in the sprawling Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve, is also the location of the nation's first archaeological dig devoted to unearthing African-American artifacts. Through their work, archaeologists uncovered the plantation's slave quarters, finding some of the first evidence that slaves preserved African tribal traditions across the Middle Passage.
"Here, for the first time ever, people really began to ask questions about African-American history through archaeology," said Emily Palmer, park ranger for the Timucuan preserve. "By walking through the slave cabins, you can get a bit of a reflection of their lives, and that's very important, because the material culture they left behind gives voice to their experience."
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Another overlooked site is the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Mo., the first national historic site dedicated to African-American history. Opened in 1953, the park features educational exhibits on the life of Carver, the pioneering late-19th-century agriculturalist.
Park ranger Curtis Gregory said the site expands visitors' limited perceptions of Carver, whom many know only as an inventor who devised dozens of new uses for peanuts and other crops.
"The most important thing that visitors take away here is his determination to get an education" in a segregated America, Gregory said. "He didn't stop despite the obstacles that were in his way, and that's what we try to instill in the children that come here."
In addition to these historic locations, museums are another excellent source for enriching one's knowledge of black history. The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents a more holistic picture, focusing on a period of time as opposed to a specific location or individual. The museum's crowning feature is its Audacious Freedom exhibit, an interactive tour of African-American history in Philadelphia from 1776 to 1876.
Patricia Wilson Aden, president and CEO of the museum, believes that Philadelphia, the site of many of the USA's founding moments, is often overlooked as a site of African-American history.
"People come from all over the world to learn about the founding of this unique democracy, and as they visit the National Constitution Center and the Liberty Bell, we feel as though it's crucial that they celebrate the African-American contribution to this country as well," Wilson Aden said.
Other institutions, such as the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, take a more idiosyncratic approach to showcasing this history. With more than 100 wax figures, the museum is the first of its kind dedicated entirely to celebrating African-American individuals, including both early trailblazers and more contemporary leaders of the civil rights movement.
Perhaps one of the most unorthodox museums on the subject is the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Big Rapids, Mich. Founded by Ferris State University professor David Pilgrim, the museum showcases the inequalities and oppression of the Jim Crow era as a means of teaching social justice.
Pilgrim first began collecting objects that showed racist stereotypes as a teenager, and later used his collection as material for his classes. The museum is housed by Ferris State.
"What we try to do is place objects in their historical context. We try to trace the history of various African-American caricatures," Pilgrim said. "We use objects to give an accurate assessment of race relations in the past."
Still, Pilgrim emphasizes that the museum isn't focused solely on highlighting racism. He has been expanding the scope of his exhibits to include empowering memorabilia related to combating racism, such as one of the pens President Lyndon Johnson used to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Additionally, each tour group that goes through the museum spends time afterward discussing what they saw with a trained educator, often Pilgrim himself.
"I always feared that African Americans wouldn't get it and would think that I'm just building a shrine to racism, but that didn't happen," Pilgrim said. "When people come out of the museum, they definitely have a better understanding of race relations in this country."
By visiting these lesser-known sites and looking beyond the traditional historical narrative, Americans can learn about black history from all different focal points -- even digital ones. The Jim Crow Museum's website, for instance, is often used as an educational resource for classrooms across the nation. The African American Museum in Philadelphia, too, boasts virtual exhibits that allow non-locals to access this history.
"Museums in general are at a crucial turning point," Wilson Aden said. "The advent of technology and digital research presents an opportunity for us to share our resources with the understanding that not everyone has the ability to come to museums."


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Google said Thursday it plans to issue a stock dividend after its first-quarter profits rose 61 percent.
The Mountain View-based search giant said it will issue new Class C non-voting stocks. All current shareholders will get their share of the stock.
The company said the stock split is something that shareholders have been asking for for awhile as Google's stock pile has grown to an estimated $50 billion.
Thursday Google posted a first-quarter profit of $2.89 billion, or $8.75 a share, up from $1.8 billion, or $5.51 a share, a year earlier.
The numbers beat analyst expectations on the strength of Google's paid advertising clicks.


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When Fox News reporters hit the street, they are all business. No personal.
TV boyfriends that ruin your real-life relationships
So when TV reporter Mike Tobin faced the terrifying prospect of two women kissing him spontaneously during an on-the-scene news report, he did what was natural: Push those amorous women out of the way.
"Please don't do that," Tobin said, stiff-arming the kissing girls — who appeared to be doing it for fun — off camera. He then proceeded with his sober report about the Boston Marathon bombers.
Watch Tobin's reaction below:
What would you do in his situation?


text: In a time when punk and hardcore bands seem to have forgotten about what really matters,the Louisville, KY band By The Grace Of God have chosen to do things differently. They remind people, with their tested and approved sound, that empowerment is the key to survival. Consisting of punk veterans Rob Pennington (vocals) from Endpoint, Duncan Barlow (guitar) from Endpoint and Guilt, Johnathan Mobley from Falling Forward and Elliot, Jay Palumbo from Empathy and Elliot and Thommy Browne from Enkindel they have recently turned the tides on this "side project", developing it into a full-time band. With tours planned in Europe and the U.S., B.T.G.O.G. are bringing their message of positive hardcore to as many people as possible. Musically, the band crosses all lines between melodic and downright aggressive punk/hardcore. Their first EP., For the Love of Indie Rock (VR37) was incredibly well-received. As RIP Magazine put it, "If you're into the hard stuff, yet like a little melody in the mix, check them out." With songs that ranged from political and emotional to the importance of fun in the punk scene, they conveyed an overwhelming positivity and a push for unity that the punk/hardcore scene hasn't been addressing for a long time. Their latest release, Perspective, is just that. Their perspective on our world and our scene today. Ready for any hi fi stereo equipment, Perspective is a fast, uplifting record with songs that directly address issues the band deems important. By The Grace Of God have taken average hardcore songs and transformed them into vehicles of political motivation, self empowerment and emotional release. Recorded at Trax East Studios in New Jersey (Snapcase, Deadguy), this record completely showcases the potential and power of the band. By The Grace Of God portray straightedge and other issues in a positive way that will help dissolve any negative connotations or preconceived notions. They give hope to the people who believe hardcore is about change and feeling good about yourself. As Rob says, "You should live your life by examples..." (From Stop Smiling #5) And that's exactly what they plan to do.