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Montreal Canadiens top Ottawa Senators 3-1; series tied
- The Canadiens beat the Senators 3-1 to even the series at 1-1
- Ryan White%2C Brenden Gallagher and Michael Ryder scored for the Canadiens
- Ottawa was 0-4 on the power play and Milan Michalek scored the team%27s lone goal
MONTREAL (AP) — After watching Lars Eller taken off the ice on a stretcher the previous night, the Montreal Canadiens, especially goaltender Carey Price, found some extra motivation against the Ottawa Senators.
Price came through with a 29-save performance as the Canadiens pulled out a hard-hitting but mostly clean 3-1 victory Friday night. The win left their best-of-seven series tied at 1-1 heading into Game 3 on Sunday in Ottawa.
"It's the playoffs. You can't dwell on the last game," said Price, who took heat for two goals between his pads in a 4-2 loss to Ottawa in the series opener. "You've got to get refocused and get ready for the next one."
Fourth-liner Ryan White, rookie Brendan Gallagher and veteran Michael Ryder scored in the middle period and the Canadiens held on. The somewhat flat Senators were let down by a power play that went 0 for 4.
BOX SCORE:Canadiens 3, Senators 1
"We saw our teammate, our friend, get hurt," said Gallagher. "You have to understand how emotional that is for us."
Milan Michalek scored for Ottawa.
Missing not only Eller but captain Brian Gionta and big winger Max Pacioretty, both of whom emerged from Game 1 with upper-body injuries, the Canadiens stuck to basics. They outshot Ottawa 34-30 and outhit the Senators 37-26.
There was anticipation of rough play after Eric Gryba's hit that left Eller bleeding profusely on the ice and saw him spend a night in hospital with a concussion. Gryba was suspended for two games by the NHL on Friday.
Passions were further inflamed Friday morning as Montreal coach Michel Therrien criticized Ottawa counterpart Paul MacLean for what he felt were disrespectful comments. MacLean had suggested Eller should have kept his head up and that defenseman Raphael Diaz had left him open to a hit with a "suicide" pass.
But the teams stuck to hockey at night.
"When I read his comments this morning, I was pretty upset," said Therrien.
MacLean just stared into space without answering when asked about the two-game suspension. But he was clear on what caused his team to lose the game.
"They played harder than we did for most of the game," MacLean said. "We turned over pucks that ended up in our net.
"We need a lot of rest and on Sunday, we need to come out and play. We got a split here and now we have home-ice advantage. Now we have to respond to that."
The spotlight was on Price, who was porous down the stretch in the regular season and was thoroughly outplayed in Game 1 by Craig Anderson. He took more criticism for failing to speak to the media after the game.
But he was solid only 24 hours later, and got help from teammates who blocked 34 shots, including five each by Josh Gorges and P.K. Subban.
"The guys were letting me see the puck," said Price. "They did an excellent job of getting to the trash I left out. We're going to need the same type of effort in Game 3."
Subban was not surprised.
"When he wants to shut the door, he shuts it and he locks it," the defenseman said.
The win cost Price the bottom of his two front teeth thanks to a collision in the crease with teammate Jarred Tinordi. He calmly skated to the team bench to hand over the broken choppers.
Curiously, Anderson had lost a tooth from being hit in the mask by Rene Bourque's shot while winning Game 1.
Montreal broke through with two quick goals early in the second period.
White skated hard into the Ottawa zone and intercepted Erik Karlsson's weak backhand pass out of the air at 3:20.
Only 53 seconds later, Alex Galchenyuk took the rebound of Francis Bouillon's shot and slipped it across to Gallagher for the rookie's second goal of the series.
Ottawa had an extra man on for a delayed penalty call when Michalek tipped in Chris Phillips' shot.
A sliding pad save by Price during an Ottawa power play was big, as Montreal killed it off and then scored. Bourque slid the puck through a scramble to Ryder for a shot into an open side.
Notes: Gryba served the first of the two-game suspension and was replaced by Andre Benoit. Tough guy Matt Kassian replaced Cory Conacher and started the game on a rugged line with Chris Neil and Zack Smith. . . . With Eller as well as Pacioretty and Gionta out, Jeff Halpern, Colby Armstrong and Gabriel Dumont were suited up for Montreal.. . The Canadiens were 7-1-1 in the second game of back-to-back contests this season.
Ryan White started a three-goal second period and goalie Carey Price was back in top form with 29 saves and the Montreal Canadiens downed the Ottawa Senators 3-1 to even their playoff series on Friday.
The best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarterfinal is tied 1-1 heading into Game 3 on Sunday in Ottawa.
Brendan Gallagher and Michael Ryder also scored for Montreal. Milan Michalek scored for Ottawa, which was let down by a power play that went 0-for-4.
PENGUINS:Crosby Returns
There was anticipation of rough play after Eric Gryba's hit that saw Montreal's Lars Eller carried off the Bell Centre ice on a stretcher with a concussion and some missing teeth in Ottawa's 4-2 win in the series opener on Thursday night. Eller spent the night in hospital and was released Friday morning.
Gryba served the first of a two-game suspension for his Game 1 hit on Eller and was replaced by Andre Benoit.
Price was criticized for two goals that went between his pads in the opener, but he was sharp throughout Game 2 as Montreal outshot the Senators 34-30 and found ways to get pucks past Craig Anderson, who was coming off a 48-save effort in the opener.
Montreal got two quick goals early in the second period.
White skated hard into the Ottawa zone and was there to bat Erik Karlsson's backhand pass out of the air and between Anderson's pads at 3:20.
Just 53 seconds later, Alex Galchenyuk took the rebound of a Francis Bouillon shot and slipped it across to Gallagher for the rookie's second goal of the series.
Ottawa had an extra man on for a delayed penalty call when Michalek scored at 8:16.
A sliding pad save by Price during an Ottawa power play proved to be big, as Montreal killed it off and then scored as Rene Bourque slid the puck through a scramble to Ryder for a shot into an open side at 18:57.
Price went to the bench after apparently losing a tooth in a collision in front of his net. In Game 1, Anderson lost a tooth when hit in the mask by a Bourque shot.
Notes: Matt Kassian replaced Cory Conacher and started the game on a rugged line with Chris Neil and Zach Smith for Ottawa. ... With Eller as well as Max Pacioretty and Brian Gionta (upper body injuries) out, Jeff Halpern, Colby Armstrong and Gabriel Dumont suited up for Montreal. ... The Canadiens were 7-1-1 in the second game of back-to-backs this season.
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Grains were sharply higher today after the Midwest didn't receive as much rain as expected over the weekend. December corn finished 9 ¼ cents higher, December wheat 4 ¾ cents higher, and November soybeans 16 ¾ cents higher.
There are some big things going on this week that the market will be focusing on. For one the Pro Farmer crop tour will be reporting yields all week. Twitter was blowing up with condition reports all day, but the official Pro Farmer results will not be out until later in the day. From the press releases the tone seems mixed with a lot of variability. We also have the Jackson Hole summit where we can expect Fed Chairman Bernanke to speak about Fed policy. Last year at this time he announced QE2 at the end of the week. This year the market is speculating that he could announce a third round of quantitative easing during his speech. We will have to wait to find out.
Weekly crop progress came in today at 3pm and is as follows:
Corn August 22nd 5 year average
Dough: 73% 73%
Dented: 33% 37%
Good-excellent crop condition: 57% which is down 3% from last week and 13% from last year.
Soybeans August 22nd 5 year average
Blooming: 97% 97%
Setting Pods: 83% 88%
Good-excellent crop condition: 59% which is down 2% from last week and 5% from last year.
Overall the drop in the good-excellent categories can be seen as supportive for price action tonight. We already made new contract highs today in Dec 11 and Dec 12 corn. We also are seeing all time highs being made in other markets like gold. With so much supply uncertainty this market seems to want to remain supported and we may see soybeans make the next move higher if we don't see some adequate rains soon in the problem areas of the Midwest.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - With an address to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine enthusiastically embraced President Barack Obama's agenda and record - the same one that Republicans have worked for more than a year to connect him with.
"We have got to move forward," Kaine told the delegate-packed convention hall. "Because while we've made progress, we still have a long way to go. And we'll only get there if we elect leaders who put results over ideology. I support President Obama because he's that kind of a leader."
Kaine is running against fellow former Gov. George Allen (R) for the seat of retiring Sen. Jim Webb (D) in a state vital to both parties' hopes of winning the White House and the Senate majority.
Allen, running for the seat he lost in 2006, has said on the campaign trail that Kaine would be a "rubber-stamp" for the president, the National Republican Senatorial Committee refers to Kaine as Obama's "No. 1 cheerleader," and GOP-aligned outside groups such as Crossroads GPS have run ads highlighting Kaine's support for the 2009 stimulus package.
After working under the president for more than a year as chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as the first governor outside Illinois to endorse Obama's first bid for president, separating himself from the president was always an unlikely path for Kaine. Indeed, he has appeared with Obama several times on the campaign trail this year, including last week in the college town of Charlottesville.
Speaking with reporters after the Virginia delegation breakfast on Tuesday at a hotel near the Charlotte airport, Kaine said that unlike Allen, he will work with the president next year whether it's Obama or Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
"I support the president, and I think Virginians want the president to succeed," Kaine said. "When my opponent started to put these billboards up, 'Tim Kaine, Obama's Senator, Not Virginia's,' I looked at it and thought, 'Wow, is it really anti-Virginian to support the president of the United States?'"
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) told Roll Call after the breakfast that it was a faulty assumption by the GOP that Kaine's ties to Obama and the DNC were a liability. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's position as chairman of the Republican Governors Association has hardly hurt his approval ratings, and Obama has actually led in Virginia polling all year, he said.
"So actually Obama is an asset, not a liability," Connolly said. "Every time they remind people of that association, I think it helps Tim Kaine."
American Crossroads, a GOP-aligned super PAC, is working to chop down Obama's small lead in the state. It launched a 30-second TV ad Wednesday, backed by a $1.1 million investment and running for 10 days, that attacks Obama on the economy and his health care law.
Allen senior strategist Dan Allen said Kaine "earned his title as chairman" by advocating for Obama's policies, and he indicated that will continue to be a major storyline in the race.
"A lot of the people who are going to decide this race are not looking favorably at what Washington has produced over the past several years or saying, 'Well, we want another four years of that,'" Dan Allen said. "That's what Tim Kaine is being a vocal champion of."
Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told reporters at the convention Tuesday that the DSCC is "going to hold George Allen accountable for his record as a Senator" and in many cases "treat him as if he were an incumbent." The DSCC has $8.1 million in fall TV time reserved in Virginia, and the NRSC has about $5.5 million reserved there so far.
"I think that if you look at the third-party ads, particularly on the Democratic side, we are unafraid to draw the contrast on debt, deficit, budget and spending in the comparison between Tim Kaine and George Allen, and we think we can actually win the argument there," Cecil said.
In response, National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brian Walsh said Kaine "has been the No. 1 cheerleader in Washington for the Democrats' failed liberal agenda of reckless spending, bigger government and 43 straight months of unemployment above 8 percent. So if Democrats want to make this a race about each candidates' record, then by all means bring it on."
Kaine's convention speech wasn't a game-changing event, but his connection to the national party and its policies will play a role in which candidate wins the majority of sought-after independent voters. Still, Kaine said Tuesday morning that he'll continue to highlight the successes of both his tenure as governor and the president's record of accomplishments.
"We focus on the results, we get results and then people trust us and want to keep us in place," Kaine said.


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In the last episode we learned that the scientific research that told everyone to think outside the box to overcome challenges and to be creative in life and work, was summarily misguided. We can be primed that a box exists, and we'll still see a box as a limitation, unless we are guided to work within it. So for the… Read more →
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ProdPod: Episode 114: Thinking INSIDE the Box! – Part 1
So often I hear the cliché that you need to be an "out of the box" thinker. Creativity and problem-solving (which I feel frequently are synonymous in many circumstances) are, after all, great tools in any productive person's toolbelt. But, is thinking outside the box really possible? And, if not, how can we effectively use thinking inside the box? This… Read more →


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NAHTL 002, 3 Days, Best of Group Camping Safari to Maasai Mara
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Trip Highlights: This is an exciting 3 days best of group camping safari to Masai Mara which is the best wildlife attractions in Kenya. You will be able to enjoy the best of game viewing, and any other appealing activity that may excite you in your camp that you will spend the nights in on a full board basis. You will travel with our best tour guide/driver in a group safari minibus.
Detailed Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrival - Nairobi - Masai Mara National Reserve
Upon your arrival at Nairobi at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 10am, you will be met and welcomed by our Tour Manager and tour driver/guide who will brief you about your safari. After the briefing, you will then depart to your group for Masai Mara National Reserve to arrive in time for check in and lunch at Big time safari camp. Enjoy your first afternoon game drive and see great herds of plain game, black manned lion, leopard and cheetah and every type of wildlife in Kenya till evening where you will return to the camp for dinner and overnight.
The wildebeests are the most dominant inhabitants of the Maasai Mara. Their numbers are estimated in the millions. The great migration starts in July each year when well over one million wildebeest along with large numbers of Thompson's gazelles, zebra and other herbivores migrate from the Serengeti plains in Tanzania to fresh pastures in the north and then back south again in October.
Camp:Big time safari Camp or similar.
Day 2: Maasai Mara Game Reserve (Full Day)
Spend a full day with after breakfast, explore the magical Maasai Mara; you will also have morning and an afternoon Game viewing drive, taking your packed lunch during your drive. You will also have the option of taking a pre-breakfast balloon flight safari, at an extra cost of which will give you an unforgettable experience as you view animals very early in the morning from a birds' eye view.
Optional Balloon Flight
You can opt to carry out your game viewing activity on an adventurous and unforgettable balloon flight over the spectacular Mara at an extra cost. This package includes a bush breakfast in the wild.
Camp: Big time safari Camp or similar.
Day 3: Maasai Mara Game Reserve - Nairobi - Departure
After Morning breakfast depart for morning game drives within Maasai Mara Reserve for a chance to spot more wildlife species. After that depart back to Nairobi, upon arrival, you will be met again your group by tour manage and transferred to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your schedule evening flight to Uganda.
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Package Includes:
- Transport based on a group safari minibus with pop up roof for game viewing
- Park entry fee
- Accommodation and all meals in camp
- Service of an English-speaking driver guide
- Game drives as per the itinerary
- Government taxes
Package Excludes:
- Hot air Balloon flight in Maasai Mara
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- Tips to driver guides and porter.
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Rays vs Yankees Controversy………..or Just Hustle in the Yard
I have been reluctant to include my trivia questions in the past few blogs because no one seems to want to comment,or even try and figure them out.
Here is a Yankee/Red Sox teaser for your pleasure:
Who has the best lifetime win percentage as a starting pitcher against the New York Yankees?
Answer at the end of the Blog.
I have to weigh in my two pennies on the recent Rays/Yankees debate concerning new Yanks skipper Joe Girardi and a recent home plate collision. If you are wondering what I am referring to, it is the home plate car wreck between Yankees' catcher, Francisco Cervelli and the Rays', Elliot Johnson. I understand that most players are not up to par yet with the speed of the game in the early stages of Spring Training.
That the "rookies" or select Minor League players' invited to the MLB camp, are seeking to open eyes or even earn a coveted roster spot with the big club. Because of this situation,they ( Minor Leaguers' )might hustle or take a few risks with base running decisions. They also want to show a willingness to do what is needed to win.
It is in that vein, that I personally feel that Elliott Johnson did what was needed at the moment of the collision. He went into home plate trying to jar the ball out of the catchers mitt to score another run, not with intent to harm,dismember, or cause such a ruckus out of the Yankee camp.
A few days earlier, All-Star Left Fielder,Carl Crawford bulldozed a catcher in a Spring Training game and there was not even a hint of controversy or bad decision making put towards his actions. Of course, in that collision,Crawford was able to jar the ball from the catcher, no one was injured or taken from the game,and the Rays earned a much needed run against their opponent.
Hustle and willingness to do what is needed is what secures these "invitees" a roster spot,or at least another weeks with the big squad before going to the Ray Namoli complex, which is the site of the Minor League camp.
Now Carl did not have to drive himself into the catcher and dislodge the ball on spec, but it showed he is ready to do whatever is needed to win this year. That is a veteran sign that he is here to play and take no prisoners.
And that, gets both the Rays' fan base and Joe Maddon's attention.
Earlier in the Yankee game, New York invitee, Bernie Castro was rounding third with Rays' catcher Shawn Riggans squared up on the dish. Castro could have easily dusted Riggans off the plate, but Shawn left a nice hole for Castro to hook slide around his tag. Base running decisions have to be made in a split second. Both players had to assess the situation and do what was needed to score, or pervent a run. Castro, by sliding in under Riggans, scored the only Yankee run of that game.
He did not need to remove Riggans and ball to score. Question is, did Johnson have the same options? Answer, No, the relay throw was going to beat him to the plate by a stride, and in a Pete Rose-Ray Fosse moment he buried his shoulder into Cervelli.
He could have slide and maybe gotten in there( doubtful),or he could become a Mike Alstott A-train clone and bulldoze the Yankees minor league catcher. We know what his decision was, and I am totally in his corner for what he did.I was an aggressive base runner also in college, and used to not look back when i had to come in rough on a second baseman or a catcher. I did it when I felt it was needed to help the team. Either as a enthusiastic moment, or a game-changing play, it was done in a split second and no regrets could stop the momentum.
I can see why new Yankees skipper Joe Girardi would be a bit flustered or upset about such a play involving two Minor Leaguer's doing their all to make an impression on their managers.
But, Joe, this part of Spring Training is a time for these guys to show you what they got, and make you remember their names in your nightly meetings with your coaching staff. And all the Minor League guys know that the decision time is nearing for each of them. Johnson will probably not make the Rays' final 25 man roster, but he made a huge impression on both teams.
Either you are for or against his actions, there is no middle ground here. In his playing days, Joe Girardi was a feisty and gutsy catcher with the Yankees. He knows what it takes to hold onto the ball in a train wreck situation. That is what I find kind of "whiny" here about the Yankee skipper.
Remember, this is the manager who told his Florida Marlins' team owner to, "Shut up!", when the owner was heckling a umpire during a game. Does that sound like the same guy who whined to the press about the event, and did not even consult or send a message to Rays skipper, Joe Maddon about the collision before the newspapers were printed and on his doorstep.
How many Yankee fans are thinking WWTD right now. (What Would Torre' Do?).
I know that Girardi is in the infant stage of his managerial career, but is this the thing he wants to be remembered for this Spring?
He has a few holes in his team, and questions that needed to be addressed on personnel and setting his starting rotation.
And he pick this play to spouts off about this?
Both Joes' have different opinions about the event. Joe Maddon,the Rays' manager sees it as a rite of Spring basically. Hard nosed baseball that unfortunately ended in a Yankee injury. (Francisco Cervelli could be out 8-10 weeks with an injury). What would either manager have said if the events was reversed. Johnson was hurt in that play, or Riggans in a prior home plate play. If Cervelli had dropped the ball and the Rays scored another run to make it a 5-1 win, would it have been different or still have the same effect on Girardi.
I personally think Joe Maddon would not be crying to the heavens wanting the baseball gods to rain displeasure down on anyone. He would have applauded the effort and give kudos for the hard nosed-style of play of Johnson. I am including a video from that game,shot by a Yankee fan. It shows both home plate plays and you can make up your own mind on the issue of the collision.
In closing, I think the comments of Yankee savant and yoda, Don Zimmer speak volumes here: "Of all people – Joe Girardi's a tough guy, a tough catcher. I don't know what spring training's got to do with it," Zimmer said. "I think he was out of line. That's the best way I can put it, whether he likes that or not. That's the way I feel."
Amen Yankee Yoda, Amen.
I am all for hard play and hustle on the diamond. If Delmon Young had more hustle than his mouth, he would still be patrolling right field in the Trop for the Rays.
The answer to the Trivia Question is:
Former Yankee great, Babe Ruth. When he was first with the Boston Red Sox, he owned the New York Yankees on the mound.


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Issues surrounding Nature and Wagner's Ring Cycle were recently examined as part of an ROH Insights session.
Panelists at the event, which was chaired by broadcaster Petroc Trelawny, looked at how nature is represented in the work and the question of whether The Ring is a parable of our own ecologicaldestruction of the planet. They also questioned whether Man's impact on the environment is ever possible human beings can have a lasting impact on the environment.
The panel for the event included writers George Monbiot and Sarah Lenton, mathematician and broadcaster Marcus du Sautoy and Director of The Royal Opera Kasper Holten. As with all events in the series, the event was livetweeted.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. – UMBC senior Rob McCabe (Philadelphia, Pa./St. Joseph's Prep) scored on a wild pitch in the top of the sixth inning to tie to score at 1-1, but East Carolina pushed a run across in the bottom of the eighth to edge the Retriever baseball team, 2-1, in the series finale on Sunday afternoon at Clark-LeClair Stadium.
Sophomore left-hander Joe Vanderplas (Fairfax, Va./Fairfax/Tennessee) tossed six quality innings for UMBC (5-14), allowing just one run on two hits, but earned a no-decision. Junior Jonny Dierks (Easton, Md./Independence/Fort Scott CC) relieved Vanderplas and pitched well, but took the loss (1-2) as the Pirates plated one in the eighth.
Ryan Williams (7-1) earned the win for East Carolina (17-11) after throwing three innings in relief of starter David Lucroy. Lucroy surrendered just three hits and one run in six innings. Williams, meanwhile, struck out four batters and allowed just two Retrievers to reach base.
Both pitching staffs dominated as the offenses combined for just three runs on nine hits. Neither team committed an error in the game.
Both teams were held off the board in the first three innings before Williams sent UMBC down in order in the top of the fourth. In the bottom half, ECU opened the scoring as Drew Reynolds pulled a single to right, and eventually came around to score on a sacrifice fly to center off the bat of Ian Townsend.
Junior Jake Barnes (Annandale, Va./Annandale) singled to left with one down in the fifth, but the Retrievers could not capitalize. Vanderplas continued to hold the hosts off the board, though, and UMBC backed him up in the next frame.
McCabe drew a lead-off walk to start the inning and took second on a sac bunt by freshman Connor Hax (Bowie, Md./Bishop McNamara). Freshman Andrew Casali (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) then grounded out to the pitcher, but McCabe advanced to third. The senior then raced home on a wild pitch to knot the game at 1-1.
The game stayed tied until the bottom of the eighth, despite Barnes collecting his second hit of the game in the top of the seventh. In the home half of the eighth, Dylan Brown led off with a single through the right side and then advanced to second on a sac bunt. Charlie Yorgen then tripled down the right field line, chasing Brown around to break the tie.
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Former wall warmers, tapestries are now the coolest art hanging in the house.
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Of all the art forms to have a resurgence these days, tapestry seems the most unlikely. Tapestries are often huge and unwieldy, time-consuming to produce, and emblazoned in our minds as an antiquated phenomenon suited to the castle of a Renaissance nobleman. They seem more 1613 than 2013.
And yet, to the surprise of many, the form is returning on two parallel tracks. First, interest in older, classic tapestries is on the rise; they are taking their place in our minds as equals to other media. When no less an institution than New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art was looking for a replacement for its director in 2009, its trustees appointed Thomas Campbell, one of its European decorative arts curators—known to some as "Tapestry Tom"—and the organizer of seminal shows like 2007's "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor."
"Art history is stepping back from its obsession with painting and sculpture and looking at the arts in context," says Campbell. "The more you do that, the more you see that the great patrons were spending huge amounts on decorative arts like tapestry. There's a whole new awareness of the significance of these objects." (Click here to jump ahead to Campbell's picks of top tapestries to view around the world.)
Shown above, a mid-16th-century Flemish tapestry is embellished with leaves, flowering branches, and exotic birds. It's available at Keshishian, a London carpet and tapestry dealer.
The Underlying Beauty of Tapestry
Perhaps there's something inherently intriguing in the binary structure of a tapestry. Absent the rich, wet application of oil paint, a canvas isn't very interesting, and without a chisel, that block of marble won't be carved. It's the same with warp and weft, the twin forces without which there would be no tapestry: The warp threads create the unseen structure holding the whole thing together, and the weft threads form the pretty pictures visible to all. Usually the two are joined on a vertical loom via skilled human hands.
Threads—whether wool, silk, linen, or even gold—also draw us with their texture. "Part of the appeal is the medium itself—it's tactile," says Alice Zrebiec, a consulting curator at the Denver Museum of Art. The warmth of a tapestry isn't just visual. In the old days before central heating, tapestries were hung to prevent drafts from getting through stone walls. A painting never had such an elemental, practical duty.
Shown above is one of a pair of radiating tapestries, Purple Cool/Warm by American Richard Anuszkiewicz (b. 1930).
Tapestry as Social Commentary
But tapestries are no longer just charming throwbacks for viewing in museums. The other track of the current resurgence is among contemporary artists. In an age when nearly everyone is considered a multimedia practitioner, the woven textile is proving irresistible. "The whole tapestry format has been revived to an extraordinary extent," says David McFadden, a curator at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City.
He points to Turner Prize–winning British artist Grayson Perry's traditional textiles that comment on modern society. Perry's Walthamstow Tapestry of 2009 (shown above) has the teeming pattern of a Baroque beauty, but on closer inspection, the names of powerful brands like Microsoft are woven in, too. "He's part of a generation that has rediscovered the pictorial format of tapestry and found it extremely seductive," says McFadden.
A Living History
Part of the appeal to today's artists comes from our basic need for stories. "Sequential narrative goes back to ancient times," says the Met's Campbell. "Tapestry, because of its scale, provides a place for lots of narrative." That was part of the appeal for William Morris, who led a mini revival in the late 19th century because of his fondness for medieval arts. "And there was a further renaissance in the 1930s and '40s" among French artists like Jean Lurçat, says Campbell.
Pictured above: Led Zeppelin founder and lead guitarist Jimmy Page collects Pre-Raphaelite tapestries such as The Arming and Departure of the Knights of the Round Table on the Quest for the Holy Grail (1890–1894) by Edward Burne-Jones. It is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., through May 19. See their website for more information.
Art and Collaboration
Some designers only create the cartoon—as the preliminary design is called—and then outsource the actual weaving to a skilled workshop to create the tapestry on a loom. That was the method for some top artists of the 20th century, which saw a resurgence in a form that had changed little since the Renaissance. It was especially true among artists better known for working in other media.
Alexander Calder, famous for his mobiles, applied his unique sensibility to tapestry; so did the great modernist architect Le Corbusier and the painter Sonia Delaunay. They showed that unicorns and hunting scenes weren't the only subjects appropriate for tapestry; the form could also be abstract or gestural. Made in editions of six, these tapestries are more available today than pieces that are centuries old.
Shown above is Russian-born painter Sonia Delaunay's abstract Helice from 1971.
Tapestries in Contemporary Culture
The developments of the 20th century paved the way for artists like Sheila Hicks, who had a large retrospective in 2011 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. She alternates between making free-form fiber sculptures and weaving tapestries at a loom. Hicks, who is based in Paris, is currently in the middle of a commission from the French government to create a tapestry in the famed Gobelins workshop, established in the 15th century as a decorative arts center with tapestry at its heart.
"They're so labor-intensive," says Hicks, who is devoting two years to this new project. "It's so much more challenging to make one, but once it's finished, there's a great sense of accomplishment." Her current 9x6-foot piece at Gobelins, an abstract composition that references landscapes, will be in wool. Her colors are evocative in and of themselves: gold, bronze, ochre, cadmium, and moss green, the last of which is a venerable tapestry tone because of its frequent use in woven Renaissance landscapes.
Hicks loves many things about this form, including its portability. "A tapestry is an old-fashioned thing that fits our nomadic existence," she says. "You don't just hang it on the wall and contemplate it. It's an extension of your life. You can even wrap yourself in it."
Shown above is a 20th-century French tapestry woven in the Aubusson workshop of Raymond Picaud and signed by French artist Marc Petit.
Working with Modern Materials
But who says tapestry has to mean wool and silk? Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have been working for nearly 10 years in their Brooklyn studio on 50 Different Minds, a fiber-optic tapestry that's woven on a loom. The fiber-optic threads get their orders from electronic sources. One of the sections is fed by Twitter—if a lot of people use the word crimson, it turns red. "In the 21st century, we find our stories threaded and networked through the Web," says Ligorano. As Reese puts it, "Data is just another material."
The glowing, mysterious beauty of the abstract composition they have created is merely the next step in the tapestry story, which has been going on for thousands of years and shows no signs of ending.
Shown above is the digital tapestry, 50 Different Minds, woven in fiber-optic threads by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese.
I See Unicorns
Living with tapestry doesn't require a castle. The large interiors common to modern suburban houses are surprisingly amenable to them. "They were conceived for large spaces, and they look great in modernist interiors," says New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas Campbell. "Paintings, when they're large, have a sheen and a reflection. But a large textile brings a warmth and a unique coloration."
Campbell discusses top tapestries to seek out:
• The Unicorn Tapestries, the Met (Cloisters), New York. These seven panels, woven in Brussels around 1500 and depicting a unicorn hunt and capture, "have a complex allegorical scheme, like great poetry," says Campbell, who explains the tapestries have a higher-quality weave than that of their Parisian counterparts.
• The Lady and the Unicorn, Cluny Museum, Paris. Six panels, woven in Flanders in the late 15th century, take human senses as their allegorical theme. "Magical," says Campbell. "The figures have a poetry and grace to their conception."
• The Hunts of Maximilian, Louvre, Paris. Flemish painter Bernard van Orley around 1520 had 60 weavers working for two years on this famous series about a Hapsburg duke's outing. "Perhaps the richest visualizing of Renaissance Europe that survives," says Campbell. "They have a cinematic sweep."
• Sistine Chapel tapestries by Raphael, Vatican Museums, Rome. "People don't realize the Sistine Chapel was originally hung with tapestries woven in silk and gold," says Campbell of the commission by Pope Leo X to depict lives of the Apostles. "They cost even more than Michelangelo's ceiling." Raphael challenged the weavers to introduce perspective, "opening up a whole new era in tapestry design."
A Tapestry of Your Own
You don't have to be an archduke to buy a tapestry. "There are some amazing older tapestries available at auction for $20,000 to $30,000," says the Met's Thomas Campbell. Or less: A mid-18th-century piece from the great weaving center of Aubusson went for about $12,000 in 2009 at Sotheby's London. (That city and Paris are the best places to buy pre-19th-century tapestries.)
If the cartoon design is by a famous name, it will go for more. François Boucher's The Flute Player, circa 1778, is $185,000 at New York's Vojtech Blau gallery.
Shown above is a tapestry by French designer René Fumeron.
A Tapestry of Your Own
For animal- and nature-themed pieces by the likes of Jean Lurçat, who led a revival among French weavers in the mid-20th century, pieces range from $10,000 to $100,000; the same is true for the work of Le Corbusier, Sonia Delaunay, and Alexander Calder, who made their names in other media.
Whatever the tapestry, a few rules apply: Keep it dirt-free and out of the light. "The sun is a killer," says dealer Simona Blau. "And no major temperature changes, as the fibers expand and contract. Silk is the most delicate." When it comes to tapestry, age is ultimately less important than condition.
Shown above is Alexander Calder's Green Ball, woven in Aubusson in 1971.
Reading List
If you were awed by the Met's "Threads of Splendor" show (and who wasn't?) in 2007, read Met Director Thomas Campbell's Tapestry in the Baroque: New Aspects of Production and Patronage.


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Carrier Ethernet 2.0 made its debut less than a month ago and Comcast is already raring to get started with the new technology.
Although Comcast is a relative newcomer to the Carrier Ethernet market, the company is already positioning itself as one of the new standard's top proponents through its position on the board of directors at the Metro Ethernet Forum. Comcast first started publicly offering its own native Carrier Ethernet services just last May and the company is moving aggressively to preach the benefits of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 to both its customers and its fellow carriers.
BACKGROUND: Carrier Ethernet aims for global connectivity
LIVING LEGENDS: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe
The company has good reason for doing so, since it currently has Carrier Ethernet offerings up and running in 20 major markets in the U.S. and thus will have to rely on other carriers' Ethernet offerings to connect customers outside those markets.
The chief feature of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 is that it establishes standards for allowing Ethernet carriers to interconnect worldwide so they can share management metrics and exchange Ethernet traffic using established practices. The original version of Carrier Ethernet, by contrast, was designed just enable Ethernet standards over just one provider's network, meaning that carriers had to forge bilateral deals with one another on a case-by-case basis to effectively interconnect.
Additionally, Carrier Ethernet 2.0 lets carriers offer multiple classes-of-services (CoS) that let carriers develop more finely grained service-level agreements (SLAs) to better fit their customers' needs and desired service quality.
Karen Schmidt, the executive director of product management and strategy for Comcast Business Services, says that although Comcast has been offering Carrier Ethernet commercially for less than a year, it has quickly seen how the technology is helping out customers with large bandwidth needs.
"Carrier Ethernet 1.0 is about answering our customers' need for more bandwidth," she says. "As we talk to folks trying to replace their legacy technology, whether it's moving more data onto a data center or it's delivering real-time video, Ethernet is proving to be a superior technology for them."
Schmidt also says that having interconnectivity with other carriers will only help to further spread Ethernet as the dominant technology for LANs, WANs, mobile backhaul and more.
"Carrier Ethernet 2.0 provides the guts for how different carriers and ISPs connect to each other," she explains. "Today primarily we're only selling to customer on our own network and we anticipate that while we're already in 20 major markets, we will need to connect with other carriers to fit our customers' entire need. ... When standards are consistent, users can know what they're getting whether it's on my network or not on my network."
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A tech-stock bounce pushed major indexes higher, as heavyweight Intel led blue chips to a one-month high and the tech-centric Nasdaq Composite Index shined. Paul Vigna has details on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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No Body's Perfect
How you can help your child have a healthy body image.
The Girl Box
When she was just 11, Julia Remillard of Kittery Point, Maine, was watching music videos at a sleepover with her friends and talking about how perfect the girls in the videos looked. "They were blond and really skinny," Julia recalls. "Later my friends and I went online and took a quiz to see if we were a normal weight. Even though it said I wasn't overweight, I didn't feel very good about my body." Around the same time, her mom, Susan, noticed that her daughter would frequently look in the mirror, asking her such questions as, "Mom, if I was really fat, would you tell me?"
Susan set out to dispel any distorted notions her tween daughter was having about her body. At the mall she pointed out how mannequins were so unrealistically thin that clothes were sometimes clipped together in the back to fit them. When she found Julia watching music videos on her computer, Susan watched them with her, discussing how not everyone can attain a dancer's body.
Like many tween girls, Julia was on the verge of entering a trap called the Girl Box. "It's that imaginary place where the way a girl looks becomes more important than who she is, and doing what will make her popular trumps doing what she loves," explains Molly Barker, founder of Girls on the Run International (GOTRI), an organization that encourages preteen girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through exercise and adult-led group conversations.
Julie joined a GOTRI group at her school, where she and other girls ages 8 to 13 would meet for 2-mile runs and then talk about healthy ways to take care of their bodies and what makes each of them unique. "I'd show them pictures of models or celebrities," says Susan, who became the group coach, "and ask questions such as 'Is this too sexy?' 'What kind of look is this like?' 'Is this girl being true to herself of is she being fake?' Inevitably their answers were right on the money, but they still felt this incredible pressure to conform to ideals about what's sexy or alluring."
Unrealistic Standards
Now 13, Julia seems to have escaped the Girl Box. She eats a healthy diet without obsessing over food and loves to exercise for the fun and camaraderie of it. But for many kids her age, maintaining a positive body image is an ongoing challenge. In one recent study more than half of the 13-year-old girls and three-quarters of the 17-year-old girls said they were "unhappy with their bodies." That number climbs to 80% by the time girls reach adulthood. Although some girls complain about specific body parts ("my breasts are too small, my thighs are too big"), the overwhelming concern is not being thin enough.
Boys don't want to be overweight either, but being thin isn't as desirable as achieving a strong, athletic ideal. "Male models are now more buff and perfectly sculpted, and so are athletes such as basketball star LeBron James, acts such as Mark Whalberg, and singers such as Usher, whom boys look up to," says Linda Smolak, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. "Compare them with teen idols of a generation ago—Michael Jordan, Tom Cruise or Jon Bon Jovi, none of whom was excessively muscular—and you see a major shift in body-image role models for boys.:
Unrealistic body ideas not only affect a child's self-image but also may lead her to try dangerous behaviors to achieve those standards. Recent research shows that close to half of girls ages 9 to 11 are "sometimes" or "very often" on diets, compromising their nutrition at a time when their bodies are rapidly developing. It becomes more pervasive into adulthood; 91% of college-age women report dieting. And these restrictive eating patterns can lead to eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia typically start in the teen years and affect about 5 million to 10 million American girls and young women and about 1 million American boys and men, according to the National Eating Disorders Association.
When Harvard researchers studied more than 6,900 girls ages 9 to 14, they found that vomiting or taking laxatives to control weight increased 30% to 40% among girls who said they were trying to look like women on TV, in movies, or in magazines. And while these behaviors are less common in boys, a separate study found that boys are three times more likely than girls to use products such as protein powder or shakes, creatine (a performance-enhancing supplement), steroids, and growth hormone, especially if they also read health and fitness magazines featuring muscular male figures.
How You Can Help
A positive body image is a vital weapon against the development of an eating disorder. You can do a to encourage your teen to feel good about himself.
Arm kids with the factsExplain what happens to their bodies during puberty. "Teach your kids that we all develop at different ages, undergo changes at different rates, and that what we look like in the end varies tremendously from person to person," says David S. Rosen, M.D., M.P.H., professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and chief of the section of teenage and young adult health. "Most of that variability is genetically determined, and there's nothing anyone can do to change that."
Emphasize healthy eating, not dietingA recent study of more than 9,000 adolescents found that girls whose mothers frequently dieted were more likely to diet themselves and to frequently think about wanting to be thinner. (Boys, on the other hand, don't seem to be as affected.) "Every time you worry aloud about what you eat, whether your thighs are big or if you'll fit into your bathing suit, you send a message," says Dr. Rosen. "You signal that your self-worth is defined by how you look, and how you look is defined by what you weight." Instead, let your child see you enjoy being physically active and taking good care of your body.
Filter media messages"Point out that when your kid sees models in a magazine, a team of people have worked on their hair, makeup, and clothes, and that the picture has been airbrushed and shaded to remove flaws," says Allison E. Field, Sc.D., an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and cofounder of the Growing Up Today Study, an ongoing report on adolescents.
FC FACT: A girl's growth spurt typically starts a year after breast budding. Between the ages 9 and 16, girls grow 10 inches and gain 5 pounds annually.
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The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) unveiled the 12 film projects to receive support in its latest round of funding at the close of the Dubai Film market yesterday.
The projects include seven feature film projects, three documentaries, one short animation and one short live action film.
Feature projects that are currently in production or post-production to receive AFAC funding include two from Egypt - El Said's In The Last Days Of The City and Fawzy Saleh's Poisonous Roses - and two from Lebanon; Ghassan Salhab's The Valley, about a man who loses his memory, and Niam Itani's Shadow Of A Man.
Three feature projects that are currently in development also received funding - Rabih El-Amin's Trees Also Die (Lebanon), Ahmad Amine's A Few Days In Syria (Jordan) and Palestinian director Bassam Jarbawi's Solitaire King, which also took part in the Rawi Screenwriters Lab here in Dubai.
Documentary projects to receive support include Viola Shafik's Scent Of A Revolution, examining the aftermath of Egypt's revolution, Walou from Algeria's Hassiba Belhadj and Asphalt from Lebanon's Ali Hammoud.
Short animation In the Belly of the Beast, from Lebanon's Elie Dagher, will also receive AFAC funding, along with live action short Personal Matters from Palestine's Maha Assal.
The selection was judged by a panel comprsising Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri (The Attack), Tunisian critic and filmmaker Raja Amari (Buried Secrets) and Egyptian writer Wael Abdel Fattah.
"The jury selection process was not based on the geographical identity rather on the individual quality of each project," the jury said in a statement. "We judged each project based on its structure, character development, its uniqueness and the visual aspect of the film the way it was described in the director's statement."


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Southwest co-pilot retires after wrong-airport landing
The captain of the Southwest flight that landed at the wrong Missouri airport in January has resumed flying while the co-pilot has retired, The Associated Press reports.
Both had been on paid leave following the Jan. 12 incident in which their Southwest flight landed at a small airport near Branson instead of the destination's main, much-bigger Branson Airport.
The Southwest 737 involved in the wrong-airport landing had to brake hard and come to an abrupt stop ahead of a steep drop at the end of that airport's shorter runway.
Officials investigating from the National Transportation Safety Board say the pilots told them they mistook the bright runway lights at the smaller airport for the bigger one that's about 7 miles away. The runway at the smaller, downtown airport is about half as long as at the bigger airport.
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No injuries were reported, though the incident generated headlines across the USA. The Southwest landing came just about two months after a similar wrong-airport landing by a jumbo jet in Kansas in November.
The incidents prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to issue an unusual alert in March in which the agency reminded airline pilots to remain vigilant in finding their destinations.
"All of us have experienced a loss of situational awareness at some time," NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman is quoted as saying at the time by USA TODAY. But "mistaking a nearby airport for the intended one, or landing on the wrong runway or a taxiway, can have catastrophic consequences."
As for the Southwest pilots, airline spokeswoman Brandy King declined to identify them to AP. Bloomberg News reports that the captain has been flying for Southwest for 14 years and the first officer 12.


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Since early 2009, when the last three annual volumes (XX, XXI, XXII: 2006, 2007, 2008) of Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy / Revue Africaine de Philosophie were published, our journal (like so many others) has gone through a bumpy patch. The same year saw the end of the five-year hospitality agreement between this journal and the African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands. The Editor had negotiated this agreement in 2004 (as the only successful outcome of a long series of international applications for subsidy), and though it had failed to bring the secretarial and administrative assistance so badly needed, it had at least paid for printing and postage. We thank the African Studies Centre for its loyal support over these five years, and for its more incidental support in the future. Against the background of the international financial crisis from 2008 onward, revenue from subscriptions, sale of back issues, and reprint fees dwindled, and costs of printing, web design, hosting and postage were mounting. Meanwhile Quest was enjoying ever greater popularity on the part of established and junior contributors, and also the quality of the articles submitted went from strength to strength. Under those circumstances the Editorial Board saw no alternative but to sit back and wait until the financial situation would clear up sufficiently to produce, dispatch and host new annual volumes. In 2011-2012 the felicitous reprint of three Quest articles in the Eboussi Boulaga Festschrift edited by Lidia Procesi and Kasereka Kavwahirehi (Beyond the lines: Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, A philosophical practice / Au-delà des lignes: Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, une pratique philosophique, Munich: LINCOM), and the fees secured in that connection through the good services of Professor Valentin Mudimbe (Member of the Quest Advisory Editorial Board) seemed to bode better times for our journal; but then the Editor went down with serious illness for two periods of half a year each. By the end of 2012, these medical hurdles had finally been taken, and three new annual volumes are now lined up for imminent publication, before the middle of 2013 – including one special issue on Masolo under the guest editorship of Professor Thaddeus Metz from South Africa. A cheaper production process yet more attractive format were meanwhile initiated, of which the present double annual volume XXIII / XXIV (2009-2010) is the first implementation. For, rather than already bringing out these three volumes, we decided that we should first devote the combined annual volumes XXIII-XXIV to a long-standing book project of the Editor, in honour of his 65th birthday, and in recognition of his contributions to Quest and to the sake of African philosophy over the past decade. The book's anti-hegemonic, anti-Eurocentric approach to long-range transcontinental philosophy from an African perspective is a fitting expression of the spirit of Quest, and a significant contribution to the global history of philosophy. While the digital version of Vols XXIII-XXIV was already made available at the Quest website by the end of 2012, the printed version is only dispatched now, due to practical difficulties. These Vols XXIII-XXIV will be sent to all those who held a subscription for the years 2009-2010. The annual volumes XXV and XXVI (to be published before Autumn 2013) will be sent to entitled subscribers i.e. those holding a paid-up subscription up to and including 2012. Those who understandably suspended their payment in the belief that Quest had ceased to be published, are advised to renew and pay up. Invoices to that effect will go out in September 2013. Subscriptions may also be renewed using the relevant page on the Quest website, http://www.quest-journal.net/subscriptions.htm , or simply by an e-mail to email@example.com . After keeping the subscriptions at a constant, low level for over a decade, we are now forced to slightly raise the subscription fees as from January 2013:
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THEATER REVIEW: Theatre of Yugen's Remarkable Mystical Abyss
In its 35th year, Theatre of Yugen has been bringing Japanese classical theater (Noh, the classical tragedy, and Kyogen, classical comedy, Noh's complement--together, as Nogaku, the oldest continuous theater form in the world) during that time to the Bay Area, and busy adapting modern plays to those rigorously physical styles and fusing them with other, sometimes radically different methods to come up with something new.
Yuriko Doi, Yugen's founder, has cultivated her vision of the ancient and modern, a veteran of the "underu" underground Tokyo theater of the 60s, and longtime student of Kyogen master Mansaku Nomura and Noh principal Shiro Nomura. She has produced Yeats' 'Pugatory' as a kind of Noh play, Sophocles' 'Antigone' in a mixture of old Japanese styles, taken Garcia Lorca's 'Blood Wedding' and married it to both flamenco and Kabuki (with a Kabuki actor playing the ill-fated Bride in a deadly dance with a female flamenco Groom), as well as many other cross-cultural gratings on the branches of world theater, which have borne strange and delicious fruits indeed.