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Shoulder cutouts, cool high-low hemline and an ultra soft luxe fabric make this bebe tee a hot weekend must-own. Looks sexy with anything from a pair of leggings to skinny jeans.
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The book e-retailing industry has a new character and it's a particularly electronic one. Hudson Booksellers, the book stores that dot airports around the country and entertain travelers as they wait for their flights, has launched its first e-commerce site, and it focuses strongly on e-books.
The site, HudsonBooksellers.com, is built on the American Bookseller Association's IndieCommerce platform. The platform is the result of a deal last year between the association and e-reader maker Kobo Inc. Book sellers that are members of the association, such as Hudson, can host an e-commerce site on the IndieCommerce platform that sells print books, Kobo e-book readers and Google e-books. Google e-books work with such e-readers and tablets as the Kobo, Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook, Apple Inc.'s iPad, and tablets and e-readers using Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system. However, they do not work with Amazon.com's Kindle.
IndieCommerce costs $175 a month, according to the American Bookseller Association's web site. That fee includes such features as web hosting, a local store and online inventory search engine, a shopping cart, drop-ship fulfillment options, search-engine optimized URLs, and technical support. Membership to the association costs a one-time fee of $200 plus annual dues ranging from $299 to $10,000, depending on a store's total book sales, including online sales.
"We can now directly communicate with our customers even when they are not in our stores," says Sarah Hinckley, vice president of book buying and promotions for Hudson Booksellers. "In addition to paper books, we can offer e-books–which are of huge importance to the traveling public—flash sales, pre-orders, bulk orders, and other promotions that were not possible without a web site. Hudson's showroom gap has expanded exponentially through the explosion of e-books. Finally, last year we decided we just had to choose one approach and go for it. So, we hired staff to start working with IndieCommerce to build the site."
The site includes personal reviews from Hudson staff, and an interactive "Ask a Bookseller" feature that enables visitors to register on the site and post a question to be answered by a Hudson employee. The site also will be continually updated with news and information about books that are popular with travelers, book signing events and special offers, Hudson says.
Other features include a "Meet our booksellers" section with photos and bios of booksellers and its own Hudson Book Club that features a monthly book selection, discussion questions and links to social media site Goodreads where readers can chat about books. A photo gallery features globe-trotting readers visiting Hudson Bookseller locations and book signings at airports across North America.
"Hudson has something to offer our customers from a curatorial perspective," Hinckley says. "Not only do we have over twenty years of sales history to predict which categories and titles our customers might be interested in, we've also built our business around a strong culture of individual bookseller recommendations, whether through signed selections in all of our newsstands, or local bookseller relationships with frequent flyers. We're hoping to translate this online, and you can see it reflected in the type of store that we've built, and will continue to develop."
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I have an old toilet (water user) and it is not flushing well. I have used Red Devil or some such, poured down the inside of the tank (water off) and let it sit to clean out the holes around the rim--water is coming from all of them now.
I have noticed in the other toilets i the house(all old), that whatever solid item might be in there goes down pretty quickly and then the water swirls and fills up the bowl and then goes down the drain. The malfunctioning one seems not to take away the solid, but swirls it around and may or may not flush it down, but if it does, it is at the end of the process.
I'm wondering if my drain line might be partially constricted?
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Thursday 12/11
Grace Café and Miami Art Space hosts a retrospective exhibit by Miami-artist Purvis Young. The show features a collection of Mr. Young's work from 1970-2005 as well as selected pieces from Sharon Westbrook, Eric Jean Louis, Felix Gonzalez and Gertraud Schoen. Ends Dec. 13. Miami Art Space, 44 NW 35th St., Miami. Details: (502) 572-0731 or www.miamiartspace.com.
The Lowe Art Museum hosts a touring exhibition, "Charles Biederman: An American Idealist." The exhibit offers an overview of the acclaimed America Modernist's life and work through an array of paintings and sculptures. Ends Jan.18. Lowe Art Museum, 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables. $3-$10. Details: (305) 284-2024 or www.lowemuseum.org.
The Miami-Dade Public Library System exhibits paintings, drawings and photographs inspired by Edward P. Jones' novel "The Known World." The story follows the changing relationship between a father and daughter, living in 1960s Washington, DC, as a nearby railroad company buys up property and the neighborhood around them disappears. Ends Dec. 18. Main Library, 101 W Flagler St., Miami. Details: www.mdpls.org.
"From Roots to Routes," hosted by the Miami-Dade Public Library System, explores the historical importance and views the contributions to art by Latin American artists such as Jesus Rafael Soto and abstract artist Fernando de Szyszlo. This exhibition recognizes the works of other Latin American artists and other post-1960s work by contemporary and modern artists from South America. Ends Dec. 29. West Dade Regional Library, 9445 Coral Way, Westchester. Details: www.mdpls.org.
Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, known for fashion and commercial photography, presents photos of legendary salsa singer Celia Cruz during her last 15 years. The series of black-and-white images captures her both on and off stage and narrates the more intimate stories of the photographer and singer's friendship. Ends Dec. 21. North Dade Regional Library, 2455 NW 183rd St., Opa-locka. Details: www.mdpls.org.
Acqualina Resort and Spa hosts 23-year-old Russian artist Olga Burtseva's "Return of the Lunar Avant-Garde," the first appearance of the rising artist in Florida. Ends Jan. 6. Acqualina Resort and Spa on the Beach, 17875 Collins Ave., Sunny Isles Beach. Details: (305) 918-6772 or www.olgaburtseva.com.
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University's "A Bittersweet Decade: The New Deal in America, 1933-1943" considers the impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs on American culture. Ends Jan. 19. Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Details: (305) 531-1001 or www.wolfsonian.org.
The Historical Museum of Southern Florida is hosting "Interama: Miami and the Pan-American Dream," based on the 1960s futuristic fair, Interama. While architects' predictions and visions for Miami never came to fruition, the museum has gathered their work into a multi-sensory exhibit that looks at post-World War II culture. Ends Jan. 25. The Historical Museum of Southern Florida, 101 W Flagler St. Details: (305) 375-1492 or www.hmsf.org.
The Jewish Museum of Florida exhibits paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from Sigmund R. Balka's collection. The collection, built over the past 50 years, is an expression of Jewish life during the height of 19th century creativity in Europe. Ends Jan. 25. Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. $12 for families. Details: (305) 672-5044 or www.jewishmuseum.com.
The Historical Museum of Southern Florida hosts photography by architect Raul L. Rodriguez. "Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón" includes large color prints of the avenues, mausoleums, vaults and chapels of the Cristóbal Colón Cemetery in Havana, a resting place for national and historical figures. Ends Jan. 25. Historical Museum of Southern Florida, 101 W Flagler St., Miami. Details: (305) 375-1492 or www.hmsf.org.
Yinka Shonibare's exhibition created for the Miami Art Museum re-imagines the aspiration of flying. "A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child" features an idealized family clothed in wax-printed attire, each straddling a human-powered flying machine modeled after 19th-century drawings. Ends Jan. 18. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami. Details: (305) 373-3063 or www.miamiartmuseum.org.
The Miami Design Preservation League hosts a collection of Art Deco photos from France taken by Miami native Alice Goldhagen. Ends Jan. 3. Art Deco Education Center at Historic City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Details: (305) 672-2014 or www.mdpl.org.
The Deering Estate hosts the final exhibit of its current Artist-In-Residence program with an exhibition of works created during the past year. Ends Dec. 31. Deering Estate at Cutler, 16701 SW 72nd Ave., Palmetto Bay. Details: (305) 235-1668 or www.deeringestate.org.
Miami Art Museum hosts an exhibition exploring the nature of value. "Objects of Value" features 20 contemporary artists whose work aims to separate an object's value from the substance from which it's made. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami. $8. Ends Feb. 22. Details: (305) 375-3000 or www.miamiartmuseum.org.
The Museum of Contemporary Art hosts the first exhibition of Albanian-native Anri Sala's videos and photographs in the US. The collection reflects how the collapse of communism affected Albania and Eastern Europe. Ends March 1. Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami. Details: (305) 893-6211 or www.mocanomi.org.
Miami Dade College and Spain's Caixanova Bank will bring a collection of 100 prints to Florida commemorating the 700th birthday of Italian poet and author of the "Divine Comedy" Dante Alighieri. Commissioned in 1951 by the Italian government, Salvador Dali spent three years creating the visual narration of Dante's descent into hell and his rise through purgatory into heaven. Ends Jan. 31. Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College, 600 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Details: (305) 237-7186 or www.mdc.edu.
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation hosts a collection of work from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection titled "The Prisoner's Dilemma." The exhibition, curated by Leanne Mella, showcases contemporary art works that articulate the ways in which artists respond to the exercise of power in daily life. Ends March 1. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 1018 N Miami Ave., Miami. Details: (305) 455-3380 or www.cifo.org.
The Museum of Contemporary Art hosts an exhibit inspired by French author Michel Houellebecq's 2005 novel, "The Possibility of an Island." The exhibit addresses fundamental anxieties about such issues as aging, death, irrelevancy, culture, destruction and sexuality in the present and the future. Ends March 21. MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, 404 NW 26th St., Miami. Admission by donation. RSVP required. Details: (305) 893-6211 or www.mocanomi.org.
The Bass Museum of Art and the Multimedia Art Museum Moscow present work by Russian artists titled "Russian Dreams." The exhibit features contemporary expression across several media including photography, architecture and sculpture. Ends Feb. 8. Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach. Details: (305) 673-7530 or www.bassmuseum.org.


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Two mute, masked and costumed protesters on hand for the Sept. 3 screening of a documentary about the Douglas County School Board were revealed as teenage boys, paid for their time by an unknown person or source. The two were carrying signs reading, "Grinches for union control."
Protesters attired in the same costumes — Santa suits with Grinch masks — have stood several times outside the Douglas County School District administration building during controversial meetings, and appeared at a June 14 parent protest at Lone Tree's Marriott hotel.
Castle Rock filmmaker Brian Malone debuted a documentary critical of DCSD's education reforms at the center Sept. 3. About 200 people attended the screening.
Parker police, called because the teens reportedly were standing on private property at the Mainstreet Center, asked the two to remove their masks.
"The kids said some guy paid them to stand there," Parker Police Sgt. Andy Coleman said, adding the teens were cooperative and quickly moved to public property. "They didn't know for what reason, but he just paid them so they did. The kids didn't know what the signs meant."
The kids aren't the only ones baffled by the signs, or the Grinches' messages.
Five Grinches first appeared outside the DCSD administration building for a March school board meeting, distributing messages to those who entered the building.
"The nerve of those Whos … those parents … and the teachers who don't want union dues stripped from their paycheck," the note read. "They want more choices! We want to take away the choices. Choices bad. Union good. We know best. Signed: Grinches and the Douglas County Teachers Union."
DCSD officials said they had no knowledge of the Grinches' identity or connections to them. The Douglas County Federation teachers' union also said the Grinches are not tied to their organization.
"We are in no way affiliated with anybody that would show up dressed in costume and cover their faces," union vice president Courtney Smith said. "They are purposely trying to mislead people to believe they were representing the union."


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Skip to comments.The real reason this 73 year old robbed a bank may surprise you
Posted on 02/14/2013 12:37:36 PM PST by San Rafael Blue
A 71 year old man with a headful of uncombed steel grey hair entered the Chicago Bank of the Commenwealth. The elderly man sported a weathered tan tweed wool jacket, with no buttons or elbow pads, and gripped a scuffed -up heavily varnished cheerywood cane as he walked slowly toward the teller. The man raised his head up to directly face her. She could see her inverted reflections in his brown bloodshot eyes, eyes that appeared flat, glazed and methodical. She has yet to forget those eyes, set just below a bushy nest of eyebrows, also untrimmed, unfettered. His name is Walter Unbehaun, who was released from prison for bank robbery two weeks prior to this incident.
Mr. Unbehaun had a written note in his left hand and pistol tucked down into his braided belt. he wanted the teller to look at them both. Mr. Unbehaun's Barreta was loaded and ready for quick use if need be, said the note. The banks' camera system shows him staring mutely at the teller, moments after displaying his loaded gun and making clear his intent. Mr. Unbehaun was so very smooth and subtle in his theft, that he was able to hobble away with over 4000. without anyone giving immediate chase. Over $4000. in crisp green american bills. The dollars had probably been marked by the bank for easier identification.
Walter Unbehaun quickly surrendered to the police when they located him the next day. He had been patiently, perhaps impatiently waiting for their arrival, not to ambush or threaten the cops, but to throw the responsibility for himself, the expenses and worry of trying to stay alive, the lack of pals and peeps and long dead gun molls who understood or at least condoned, rationalized and personally benefited from his lifestyle. Mr. Unbehaun has lived a relatively long life, albeit mostly behind bars as an adult, and he has 'Had Enough' of the worry. It was time to 'leave it in the Lap of the Gods', to quote Freddie Mercury or the legal powers that presently pretend to be of influence.
Do we need to change the ease with which someone can return to the jail system in the country? I personally know of a nephew of mine who has kind of given up on trying to carve out a life for himself. He too would much prefer just living off the state, being kept like a fat rabbit in a locked cage.
We, the family try to encourage him without getting sucked down into that whirlpool or black vortex of his own making. What's that word? Recitivism. The returning crooks perpetually add layers of new expenses on top of old ones. Maybe we need a new set of rules, run state to state. Three strikes, or three episodes where it can be proven that a criminal has purposely SABOTAGED their release from incarceration, after the third occurance, they are barred from that particular prision and sent some place far less desirable. No, I don't mean we need some new Gulags, just a few less jails that resemble Frat Houses for retired golfers. No easy answers, but we could use some of that money for Charter Schools or Schoolarships, to give hope to either children OR adults.
I think there should be more opportunity for adults to be considered for schoolarships and grants. Many adults need it more than kids, because they want to expand or refine there skill set. Many adults (like me) are still paying off ancient school loans or interest on other loans.
Jail is already hellish. Prison is where the vacations are taken.
How about Hell?
Let him stay there forever. Staff the prison with women who write those love letters to them(it's feb14). That way the taxpayers don't have to pay them.They'll do it for free.
OOPs sorry about mis-spelling scholarships/ I don't need two 'o's, now do I?
No, but you do need a link.
Let him stay there forever. Staff the prison with women who write those love letters to them(it's feb14). That way the taxpayers don't have to pay them.They'll do it for free.
Let him stay there forever. Staff the prison with women who write those love letters to them(it's feb14). That way the taxpayers don't have to pay them.They'll do it for free.
The prisons in the Illinois Department of Corrections system are hellish. Part of the problem is that there is no interest by the state in rehabilitation of offenders. It is a complicated problem with no easy answers.
I'm new to posting and just barely weaned from WEBTV. I resisted the dreaded computer a long, long time. In other words, I don't know how to link other articles with my entries.
I've been meaning to ask somebody's kid under 30 for help. I see the photos and GIFs you guys post up, looks like fun, as I peer through the window of the candy shoppe.
How do you rehabilitate ex-Governors?
It's kinda simple. When you are posting a thread - there is a field asking for the url (the link).
Copy and paste it. Its that simple.
I went to The Blaze looking for this article. Didn't find it. I know better to assume anything, but you did indicate The Blaze was the source. Right?
Anyway - if you want to keep this thread from being pulled - please go find the link and ask the admin moderator to add it right away.
About 15 years ago I did 6 months for drunk driving and the jail was hell. I jumped at a chance to be a trustee and worked at a community center away from the jail for 12 hours a day.
Guys that were in the jail on a parole hold pretty much all wanted to go back to prison because the jail was so much worse. They said that the county jail was hard time compared to being in prison.
I've been a prosecutor and defense counsel. There are always more than one reason why someone would actually prefer jail.
When I was a prosecutor, we had an "Otis Campbell" type of town drunk. He basically lived in a shack with very little in the way of modern amenities. In November, he would contrive a reason to get arrested. In March, he would be ready to come to Court, and take a plea to time served. The third November he tried this, I just left his paperwork in my desk drawer and told the Judge to release him. He was shocked that the taxpayers wouldn't provide him with "winter quarters." He had to wander one county over to get his vacation.
On the other hand, some of the requirements that local governments put on "probation" are so extreme (and really just a way to squeeze money out of the minor offender), that a lot of my clients are more than happy to take 15-30 days out of their lives and just be done with it.
"Three hots and a cot."
I am reminded of the O'Henry story in which a vagrant tries to get arrested in order to spend the winter in jail with "3 hots and a cot". Christmas is fast approaching and no matter what he does, he cannot get arrested; everyone is too full of the holiday spirit to press charges.
As he stands outside a church to consider his next move, he hears the sweet voices of the choir inside and undergoes a complete change of heart. Standing there listening, he realizes that he has wasted his entire life and resolves to clean up and get a job.
Suddenly, he feels a hand on his shoulder. It's the cops, who promptly arrest him for loitering.
You misspelled "recidivism" too.
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I have a brother who has been in IL prison since 1988. I am not arguing as to your jail experience, but I can testify to the fact that IL prison is no cake walk.
I was thinking about poor houses and found this in a search. It is interesting if you scroll down and read how the County started the poorhouse, what they got paid and what they ate and other stuff. very interesting
Just being locked in somewhere is more than I can bear.
Ha! "Winter Quarters" indeed. Some people simply cannot be made to feel shame. A new high in lows. I have much respect for you who can pass The Bar Exam.
I have always heard that it's very difficult for the average graduate student to pass The Bar Exam. I recall that JFK JR. (rip) had to take it four or five times before either passing it or writing a check big enough to 'insure his success'.
I don't mean to hijack the thread. I was thinking America might have to bring back orphanages and poorhouses if things keep going the way they are.
Especially if people become so miserable they would rather go to jail then live free
Ted Kennedy never passed a bar his entire life.
What ever you do, don't break the law in Georgia. I toured one of their prisons as an out of state official on a fact finding trip. Just wow. The way that place was operated would scare the sh@t out of any rational person. The prisoners there were afraid. Not that they were abused or the place was dirty, it was very clean and modern. But they were treated like lawbreakers. That was serious time.
Should jails slash budget,& purposely become more Hellish?
I've actually discussed this with people. Take away the risks associated with dropping a bar of soap in the shower or other prisoners, time in an American prison could almost be like a sabatical. TV, library, workout room. free food and medical.
The Indiana bar was two days of nothing but essay questions. The two most intense days of spewing BS in my life. I figured it was a good way to determine who would be a good trial lawyer.
Seriously, there were several "smart" people who couldn't take the stress and choked on the test. It is designed to be grueling.
The "Smartest Woman in the World!," Hillary Clinton, failed the Washington, DC, bar exam.
I believe that's when she and Bill decided to go back to Arkansas.
California has a fairly difficult bar exam also. My two nephews sweated bullets until they got their results. It's very embarrassing to be clerking in a law firm and then told you have to leave because you couldn't pass the bar first time around.
I'm not sure I gave any indication that I seek revenge. All I did was point out that jail is generally tougher than prison.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a story on Bernie Madoff on TV who is in Butner prison somewhere down South. Apparently, it's a very easy federal prison. One of the imates actually said it was pleasant.
My brother was an auto insurance adjuster and had to go to a SC Sheriff's office. They had a bunch of arrestees there, all looking mean. They gave him hard looks while he was waiting to see the Sheriff. He became intensely interested in his laptop screen.
As the hard-cases were led out, the Sheriff came over and talked to my brother. My bother mentioned how tough they looked and the Sheriff laughed. He said they were going to the state penitentiary and didn't know what they were facing. He said that by nightfall, all the "hard-cases" would be traded around for a pack of cigarettes and would end up being someone's "wife".
"Mr. Unbehaun's Barreta was loaded and ready for quick use if need be, said the note."
He brought Robert Blake with him to rob the bank?
No convict that I know has anything good to say about jails. County, city underfunded by community, homeless shelters.
Where I grew up a surprising number of the old timers had come to town on the orphan trains during the depression. Much of the rural midwest did fairly well during the depression and farmers needed cheap help.
It sounds a bit like slavery but those kids got the same treatment as the farmer's sons and daughters. Most of them stayed in the area as adults.
Jails are just bus stations for convicts and inmates.
You are the second one here to suggest another look at orphanages. I think the idea has merit. If properly monitored, to protect against child abuse or extreme croyism protecting stupid teachers, it could work. Any politician who dares to seriously make this happen better be ready to be demonized and villified to the max.
Remember about three years ago, when a young father of about 6 children drove across state lines to 'bestow' his children onto state responsibility. I know that must've hurt, and some of the kids will probably never, ever forgive their Dad for 'abandoning them'. But he did put them in safe hands, he did not beat them and say 'stop yer cryin and caterwaulin' now did he? I don't recall the Mom's role in this, but he was already jobless, and could do nothing material for them at that time. That, my friends is pressure, and sad for all concerned.
Many poor people today living in Hong Kong have begun RENTING PERSONAL CAGES to live in!!! You heard me! I visited Hong Kong in 1980, while in the Navy, shortly before the British let go of it. I was so impressed that everyone was working everywhere, youn and old throughout the day. Perth, Australia was the same way back then. I know nothing about either nowadays.
, damned if you do, damned if you don't do something. One of those people who 'does not believe in' birth control of any kind.
That's an awful big "If".
At this point its who would do the monitoring that worries me the most.
End recidivism by not allowing criminals to return to jail, the author says?
Somebody has been smoking the koolaid, again!
Here is a novel idea: Execute violent criminals & make nonviolent prison inmates pay for their upkeep via work. Those that wont work, don't eat. Violent inmates are executed.
I like those stories. I recall my dad and mom answering, where are you going? With to the poor house or to the dogs.
This was back in early 60's. I never knew there were really poor houses where old people went to die until not so long ago.
I never did figure out why polocks became the butt of jokes but nobody cracks polock jokes anymore
As mentioned, the link is the URL field on the posting page.
They need to put work back on the plate, no tv and no sports, and none of the goodies.
Thanks, ill review the protocol.
A little stay at 'Camp Joe Stalin' might do the trick.
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Following the conclusion of the Buffalo Bills first week of Organized Team Activities, new defensive coordinator Dave Wannstedt spoke with reporters on Friday about a multitude of things regarding his new defense.
You can read most of what he said in my wrap-up article here, but Wannstedt also had a bit of praise for rookie and first-round selection Stephon Gilmore. When speaking of the Bills cornerback that opened up OTAs as part of the first-team, the defensive coordinator expressed what he especially liked about Gilmore.
"He kind of falls into that category I was talking about with Mark Anderson, the free agents, and Mario, as far as a talent that has the right mindset. He's the right type of person and, you know, he doesn't appear, and you watch him warm up in drills, to be as fast as he is but nobody runs by him. I think playing quarterback (in high school), he's got a little bit more savvy than some corners might and obviously he's a size guy. He's got size and he can run and he's got great feet, and I used the word great, he's got great hand-eye coordination. When the ball's in the air, he's going to go after it."
Not having done much jamming at the line of scrimmage while at South Carolina, Wannstedt and defensive backs coach George Catavolos really harped on that to Gilmore during the team's rookie mini-camp in May.
Just how long does the process take to get Gilmore acclimated to that aspect of a cornerback's game? The defensive coordinator answered that as well.
Well that will all come in training camp when we really get the pads on. Right now we can't do one-on-one in press, you know all the one-on-one stuff we do you have to be off because of contact. So we're kind of limited a little bit there. But he's getting enough of the work that... and he's learning the coverages, and he's learning the techniques and he's learning the terminology. The physical part will come."
Gilmore and the Bills continue their second week of OTAs on Tuesday, June 5.
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Ulster overturned a half-time deficit to edge Munster 20-19 in a nail-biting PRO12 clash at Ravenhill on Friday.
Ulster overturned a half-time deficit to edge Munster 20-19 in a nail-biting PRO12 clash at Ravenhill on Friday.
15 points from the boot of youngster Paddy Jackson helped Ulster to the narrowest of victories over their fierce Irish rivals.
The visitors raced into an early lead through two penalties and a drop-goal from fly-half Ian Keatley but his opposite number, Jackson, clawed Ulster back into contention as the half wore on with two penalties of his own.
Mistakes from both sides meant clear-cut try-scoring opportunities were at a premium but Munster finally made the breakthrough a couple of minutes before the interval as Keith Earls latched onto an inside pass from Denis Hurley to score.
Keatley slotted over the conversion with ease and, although Jackson did add another three points to the home side's tally with the last kick of the first half, Munster led 16-9 at the break.
Ulster emerged for the second half reinvigorated though and it only took them around 10 minutes to wipe out Munster's advantage and take the lead themselves.
Another Jackson penalty was followed by full-back Jared Payne's first competitive try for the club.
Good work from the Ulster forwards on the left-hand side allowed the backs to spin it wide right and Jackson provided the killer pass for Payne to score.
There was very little to choose between the sides for the remainder of the half as a second drop-goal from Keatley was cancelled out by Jackson's fifth penalty of the night to leave the hosts with a slender one-point lead going into the last 10 minutes.
Munster pushed hard for the win late on, even bringing on last-minute drop-goal specialist Ronan O'Gara, but Ulster held on to emerge victorious and take the bragging rights from this tight all-Irish affair.
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Try: Payne
Pens: Jackson 5
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Con: Keatley
Pens: Keatley 2
Drops: Keatley 2
Ulster: 15 Jared Payne, 14 Andrew Trimble, 13 Darren Cave, 12 Luke Marshall, 11 Michael Allen, 10 Paddy Jackson, 9 Paul Marshall, 8 Nick Williams, 7 Sean Doyle, 6 Stephen Ferris, 5 Lewis Stevenson, 4 Johann Muller (capt), 3 John Afoa, 2 Nigel Brady, 1 Tom Court.
Replacements: 16 Rob Herring, 17 Callum Black, 18 Declan Fitzpatrick, 19 Neil McComb, 20 Mike McComish, 21 Michael Heaney, 22 Peter Nelson, 23 Craig Gilroy.
Munster: 15 Denis Hurley, 14 Doug Howlett (capt), 13 Casey Laulala, 12 James Downey, 11 Luke O'Dea, 10 Ian Keatley, 9 Duncan Williams, 8 James Coughlan, 7 Sean Dougall, 6 Dave O'Callaghan, 5 Billy Holland, 4 Donncha O'Callaghan, 3 BJ Botha, 2 Damien Varley, 1 Dave Kilcoyne.
Replacements: 16 Mike Sherry, 17 Marcus Horan, 18 Stephen Archer, 19 Dave Foley, 20 Tommy O'Donnell, 21 Conor Murray, 22 Ronan O'Gara, 23 Keith Earls.


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If you like Sterling Knight in Sonny with a Chance, then we have a really sweet Valentine's Day present for you. He will be starring in the new music-filled Disney Channel original movie, StarStruck premiering on Sunday, February 14th at 8pm ET.
I just watched the screener provided by Disney to members of the press (It's a tough job but someone has to do it.) and I can tell you for sure that Sterling Knight is adorable in this movie! I could go on but I'll stop now, and let Sterling Knight tell you more about the movie in this interview with Scholastic. (Sadly I did not get to interview him myself. Marie Morreale had that honor!)
Q: Describe your character in StarStruck.
Sterling: Well his name's Christopher Wilde and he's an insanely successful pop star. He's been doing this since he was a child so this is really the only life he knows and unfortunately that's his greatest downfall is his inability to relate to normal people. He drives all these fancy cars and lives this crazy Hollywood lifestyle and he ends up meeting this girl that says everything that no one else will say to him and really kind of changes everything for him and you get to watch him go through this really interesting progression of accepting the fact that he can't relate and you have to grow up a little bit and mature and look for the more important things in life other than fancy cars and good times.
Q: Is there a book he would recommend?
Sterling: Probably his autobiography.
Q: What's his most redeeming quality?
Sterling: I think his most redeeming quality is the fact that he's so oblivious to the fact that he's unaware. H's a good-hearted person. It just sometimes doesn't come off that way because he's so unaware. At the end he redeems himself and comes through but I think that's his most redeeming quality. I think it's just adorable to watch someone that really has no clue.
Q: Do you identify with your character in StarStruck?
Sterling: A little bit. Not so much just because he deals with all this crazy paparazzi pressure and these kind of high stakes, high pressure situations in regards to his career and I haven't really gotten there yet. I'm on a really smooth enjoyable ride right now. But I do have friends that deal with the paparazzi and what not and I've seen it firsthand. It was nice to have that kind of experience, watching someone else go through with it to draw from and pretend like this is something I deal with on a daily basis.
Q: When did you see this firsthand?
Sterling: I was in Vancouver visiting some friends of mine that were shooting some stuff up there. I went on a little walk with Vanessa Hudgens. We were walking to a convenience store. I was thirsty. I wanted to get a soda and some chips or whatever and there were these crazy people running after Vanessa trying to grab pictures and autographs and what not so it was really funny to be going to do something abstract, walking to a convenience store and having some lady run in front of you and then stop to take twenty-five, thirty pictures and then run ahead some more to grab more photos of you walking. It's just really surreal.
Q: How does this movie compare to your other projects?
Sterling: Well, I'm one of the leads in the film which was definitely a big change. It was interesting to see how that goes, having more to do, not so much downtime on set. Which is really fun, at the same time very different. Once you get used to having at least six hours out of the day that you just get to sit in the trailer and watch movies or listen to music or something so that was probably the biggest difference.
Q: What are you going to remember most about this movie?
Sterling: The one thing I'm gonna remember most is that it was just really really fun. Brandon Smith who plays Nico on "Sonny With a Chance" is just really fun because we get along really well. And on the show we have to pretend like we hate each other so it was really nice to showcase that we get along really well on camera as opposed to just off of it. And I've known Chelsea Staub for a number of years and it was just really nice to work with her. And this new girl Danielle Campbell was really really talented. Just shooting around L.A. at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre and all these iconic locations was really exciting and just a lot of fun.
Q: What accomplishment in your life are you most proud of?
Sterling: I think if my brother and sister tell anybody that I'm a good big brother that's probably the thing that I'm most proud of. We're really close and even though we're separated by a significant age difference- my brother's fourteen and my sister's eleven while I'm twenty. So I think if they ever tell anybody that I helped them in any way or I was a good big brother and they got to learn from my mistakes and my accomplishments, that's probably the biggest thing.
Q: Any embarrassing stories from when you were in school?
Sterling: Oh gosh, how much time do you have? There was one time I fell asleep in class on accident and woke up very abruptly screaming, "No clown, no!" That was fairly awkward for me. I was in elementary school playing basketball and I completely faceplanted and had to walk around for a week with what looked like a third eye coming over my head. That was fairly exciting. Lots of good times. [laughs]
Q: Your favorite type of pizza topping is. . .
Sterling: Pepperoni and jalapenos.
Q: And finally what would you like your fans to know about you?
Sterling: I'm really not as mean as I appear on television. I try and be a nice guy and I feel like my parents have raised me properly and I try to be very gracious and cordial and polite so I'm not as mean as I look on television and I try to be very personable.
Like I said, adorable, right? Need more proof? Here's a video clip from the movie, StarStruck.
Although, I do have to say one thing to girls reading this: if you're walking alone at night after a concert and a door hits you in the head, no matter how adorable or friendly or famous the person is who accidentally hit you, no matter how sick you feel, don't get in his car with him! That only works in movies. In real life it's a BAD IDEA!! What you should do instead is get on your cell phone and call your parents, or call a cab to take you to the emergency room. OK?
Interview by Marie Morreale
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Skip to comments.'Muppet planes' on drawing board (Enviro-friendly aircraft get look from Boeing)
Posted on 06/06/2006 7:13:58 PM PDT by SandRat
SEATTLE When Boeing names an airplane design after a Muppet, it must be pretty different.
Two small teams at the company are re-imagining the airplane in futuristic configurations that sprout wings, tails and engines in unexpected shapes and places.
The research, illustrated in internal documents, aims in two directions: low-cost airplanes, and environment-friendly planes that will be quieter, use much less fuel and leave fewer pollutants in the upper atmosphere.
In the latter category is the "Kermit Kruiser," a low-noise concept airplane with main wings radically swept forward rather than back, and sporting miniature wings on the front.
Then there's the "Fozzie." It has a "Pi-tail" two vertical tails joined by a piece across the top, and sips fuel because it flies slower using open-rotor jet engines that resemble the old-style propellers.
The concepts are "intended to help us focus technology on a future out beyond the horizon," said Dan Mooney, Boeing vice president of product development, who directs both research teams.
The documents show Boeing has looked at other concepts as well: a supersonic business jet; a megasize freighter; airplanes that use biofuels or hydrogen; and even a "reduced crew" airliner one with no windows in the cockpit, judging by a sketch in the Boeing documents.
But of all the potential concepts, Boeing has prioritized the "low-cost" and the "green" planes for further research this year. Both teams have begun work with engine companies on the various propulsion alternatives.
The Boeing documents include assessments of very similar research projects that its rival Airbus has sketchily mentioned at scientific conferences. In an interview, Mooney declined to discuss proprietary details of the designs but offered insight into what his research teams are up to.
He said the latest airplanes being sold today, such as the 787, are designed to meet airlines' projected requirements for about the next two decades. Designers strike a balance among cost, fuel efficiency, capacity, range and other factors based on those projections.
His concept teams, however, think "out beyond 15 or 20 years," where fuel costs, noise or other factors may become more important and reshape what airlines want. "We need to be developing technology today to allow us to be ready for those uncertainties in the future." The low-cost team, documents show, is studying the benefits of options such as long, thin wings and new engine types. That team has not yet envisioned new structural designs, however.
In contrast, the Green Team, with a broad mandate to address diverse issues of fuel burn, noise and emissions, has considered some widely differing airplane structures each with its own whimsical code name. (The Muppet theme may be a reference to the song Kermit sang on "Sesame Street": "It's not easy bein' green.")
* "Kermit Kruiser": Low noise. The engines sit atop a twin-fin tail, so that the noise is reflected upward. The wings are placed so far back they join the fuselage right at the horizontal stabilizer. And most radically, the wings sweep forward, not back, lowering aerodynamic drag and increasing maneuverability at the price of some stability. Keeping this tail-heavy aircraft stable in flight requires a canard those mini-wings up front. The plane would be a wide-body seating nine abreast.
* "Fozzie": Ultra-low fuel burn. The airplane is designed to cruise at a much reduced speed 500 mph rather than the typical 600-plus mph of current jets. That would add an hour to the typical transcontinental flight.
Attached to a tail with twin vertical fins and a crossbar (called a Pi-tail because it resembles the Greek letter pi) are engines with an "open rotor" or "unducted fan" design.
The plane has a fanjet gas-turbine engine of the sort used on airliners today, but without the usual duct encasing the fan, Mooney confirmed. At slower speeds, this offers great fuel efficiency.
One internal drawing shows the rotors on the back of the engine; another shows them on the front, the more usual position.
* "Beaker": Low emissions. This airplane has the low fuel burn and same low cruise speed of Fozzie. It has low-emission engines and long, very narrow wings perpendicular to the fuselage. The wingspan is such that the wings must fold to fit an airport gate.
* "Honeydew": Low fuel burn. Another wide-body, this aircraft seems to be a meld of the traditional "tube-and-wing"-shaped airliner and the often-touted "Flying Wing" design that produced the B-2 bomber.
The resulting delta-shaped wing blends in a graceful curve into the fuselage. Yet there is still a distinct fuselage at the front.
The Flying Wing design is more aerodynamically efficient. One disadvantage is that most passengers are far from a window. Honeydew appears to be an intriguing compromise.
Since April, Boeing's Phantom Works research unit, in collaboration with NASA and the U.S. Air Force, has been doing wind-tunnel tests on a small-scale, 21-foot-wingspan prototype of a Flying Wing or Blended Wing Body aircraft concept. Flight testing of the prototype is planned for later this year.
The Air Force is interested in the design's potential as a long-range, high-capacity military aircraft. So how realistic are these cool-looking airplanes? "When you look at where energy costs are going in the next decade, it could be time for a change in the rules," said Jerry Ennis, a retired vice president at Boeing's Phantom Works who worked on prototypes.
Like the Detroit carmakers who wheel out fanciful concept cars that never reach the showroom, Boeing may never build an airplane that looks like any of these images.
Still, Mooney said, "Most likely there'll be parts of the technology or parts of the configuration that will find their way onto products of the future."
Just reusing designs that have been around a long time.
I feel safe now.
Wel then, we might as well close the patent office because everything that could possibily be invented has already been invented.............. ;o)
"Kermit Kruiser"? Is he back in PD now? I thought he went to Field Service.
i'll be so glad when this "extraodinary popular delusion" -- the cult of environmentalism -- has passed and sanity has returned.
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Boeing discovers the folding wing. Grumman invented it for the Navy in the 1930s.
Kermit Kruiser looks like the Sonic Cruiser redone..
Funny how people are opposed to any kind of conservation, but content to send money to our Arab "friends" to buy oil.
The Fozzie has a tremendous wetted area in its tail, but still most of the tail would be blanketed by the fuselage at high angle of attacks.
The Kermit cruizer has a canard to screw up the air, so the main wing will have higher drag at cruise. It also can, at high pitchup rates, stall both canard and main wing.
Kermit: "Bear left."
Fozzie: "Right, frog."
If they made the plane more comfortable then they might have a winner.
Slightly more space for the same ticket price as the faster planes and they would sell seats.
Automobiles, trucks, construction equipment, stationary power generators and motorcycles are all going to be required to have pollution controls within the next 5 years. Why are aircraft exempt?
The fact of the matter is your typical jetliner emits more smog-producing pollutants in one minute of operation that 1,000 modern automobiles will emit in a year. And yet we are beating our brains out making LEVs and ULEVs and SULEVs, while jet aircraft fly overhead, without a care.
Field Service got outsourced to China so Kermit was surplused.
It sounds like a B-17 when it flies over.
That may have been acceptable in 1944, but in 2006, no way.
UDF's are deader than than dead. They looked so good on paper....
Me? Are you talking about me?
What wanton presumption you exercise to make such a remark! How would you know what I'm "content" to do?
I'm opposed to the Cult of Environmentalism. I am not opposed to sound economic practice. In fact, it is my profession.
Suppose its cheaper to buy oil from Muslim countries, but the option is spending a more money on domestic solutions that use less oil, but cost more.
Is there any condition that your "sound economic practice" could support this?
That slower flight time also means that airlines will lose that plane's availability while it's still in the air instead of being turned around for the next flight. Instead of five flights a day the airline may only be able to squeeze in four flights.
When you're paying $100 ~ $150 million for an airliner, you want to make as many flights a day as possible.
"Wel then, we might as well close the patent office because everything that could possibily be invented has already been invented.............. "
As far as what those designs show there isn't anything there that if they were patented the patents would have expired a long time ago.
Boeing finds Dick Rutan?
Most commercial jet engines today are High Bypass variety where 80% or so of the thrust comes from the fan, and not the jet portion of the engine. The UHB was just the next logical progression. Get rid of the fan shroud which is restrictive and is installed only to control noise. But that was the big hang up, however. They are much louder than conventional turbofans, and could not meet the rather strict, in many cases, airport noise ordinances in most communities.
So we continue to pollute more so people who buy houses around airports and still hear the crickets chirp.
Ain't government wonderful?
Yes, UDF (Un-Ducted Fan) was another acronym for them as well.
Actually, they aren't THAT bad.
The EPA says only 2% of the NOx from mobile sources comes from Aircraft engines. Most of the air going through a turbine engine is just air. Only 8% is products of combustion and only .4% is "pollution". Large Turbofans have a compression ratio higher than a Diesel so there isn't much left to come out but soot and the impurities in the fuel/air, which aren't much.
The "typical jetliner" is also 20 years old. Compare a typical Jetliner to 1,000 or even 100, 20 year old cars and the jetliner is cleaner.
If you had said "particulates", you might have a point as most older jets emit tons of these, but they don't really have much to do with smog. Until the EPA cracked down on Diesels in 1997, trucks and trains emitted tons of this stuff, too. These older planes will go the way of the dinosaur over the next 15-20 years and the particulate problem (if there ever really was one) will go away, with them.
As for efficency, the AVERAGE revenue passenger miles for the US airlines is 44 mpg. I would guess LA traffic averages less than 20 revenue passenger mpg.
However, thanks to better gearbox designs since then (which allow the switch to ten-bladed propfans), this will allow for slower fan speeds with far less noise and less danger in case of blade failure. The Fozzie concept could actually work for an airline like Southwest Airlines flying routes under 900 nautical miles in length, where cruise speed performance is less critical. For example, this plane would be perfect for Southwest's intra-California routes and routes between California and Nevada/Arizona; another place such a plane would be useful is intra-Texas routes.
Example: Delta wings SUCK at low speed. Current commercial wing design is a compromise between straight wing (excellent lift, high drag, and poor high speed performance), and a fully swept, or delta wing (low drag, great high speed performance, lousy low speed performance requiring much higher take-off and landing speed)
Now you mixing Turbo-Prop (With gear box), with Turbo-Fan's (No gearbox) The "Open Rotor" UHB, or UDF is a derivative of the Turbo-Fan. No Gearbox involved.
It certainly is an inappropriate name for a "quiet" design.
Soon, we'll be seeing things like composting toilets.
If you spin the prop slower, the plane is going to go slower, which is unacceptable.
As Jesse says, Keep hope alive.
Me, being a realist, know that the UDF is dead. To prove my point, here is the the GE UDF test bed aircraft crashed for a movie prop. No Air and Space Museum for it. After the first flight, everyone pretty much knew it had no future.
I personally think it sounds cool (and if there were only a couple of them, I wouldn't mind), but it aint 1944 anymore.
One of the reasons why the ATR-42/72 turboprop airliners switched from four-blade propeller units to six-blade propeller units was the very fact this allows for slower fan blade speeds for the same thrust output, which 1) reduces noise quite a bit and 2) reduces fuel burn due to slower speed of the engine during flight. Why do you think Lockheed did the same thing with the C-130J, the current model of the famous Hercules cargo transport?
Hence the reason why the switch from eight-blade to ten-blade propfans. With more blades, this allows for slower blade spin speeds with all the benefits I mentioned above.
The Fozzie is a total joke of a design.
Apples and Oranges.
If you put on more blades and spun the prop slower, you may be quieter, but you also aren't going 450 mph anymore.
but where is the Animal design?
Nice designs, but I hate the Muppet names.
You keep on talking about twenty year old cars in order to compare them with twenty year old airplanes. But the fact of the matter is most cars on the road are five years old or less, so it really doesn't make a lot of sense to talk about the state of the art, circa 1985.
In any case, I was not talking about the automobiles of 20 years ago. I was talking about the mobile sources of 10 years from now. In 10 years, everything with a tailpipe is going to be regulated except aircraft. This is going to make aircraft emmissions really stand out as the last remaining area for improvement.
Eventually pollution controls are going to come down the pike for aircraft. What form they will take is anybody's guess at this point. I really don't see how conventional pollution controls can be applied to modern jet aircraft engines. Some other form of propulsion may become necessary.
So, where's the Animal? or the Miss Piggy? how bout the Great Gonzo, or the Dr. Floyd Pepper?
sound economics is a bit more thoughtful than just "what's cheapeast today." Perhaps that's how you'd make decisions if it were your responsibility, and that's why you think everyone else would do so, too.
mercifully, there are checks and balance on folly.
Sometimes old ideas need a re-look since new technology can make them work. The basic idea of the B2's shape is very old.
I like the Kermit because it reminds me of this:
It also can, at high pitchup rates, stall both canard and main wing.
I thought one of the main advantages of the forward-swept wing was that it was hard to stall the wing tips.
I understand the sentiment. I know of one airport in the middle of a suburb where 100% of the homes surrounding it were built years after the airport was established.
OTOH, less noise is always good. Maybe Boeing should talk to the Navy to see how they get their screws so quiet. Water, air, it's all just fluid dynamics.
Will they biodegrade at 40000 feet?
Perhaps Doe Eyes, like I, merely took your statement at face value, and came to the obvious conclusion.....
However, if you'd care to modify your comment into something with actual intellectual content, I'd be happy to revise my opinion.
I believe that half the burden of clear communication belongs to the hearer. Somewhere along the line someone apparently convinced you two that "sound economic principles" were defined by apparent immediate price advantage only (arbitrage), completely devoid of accountability to moral ramifications. And that may be what passes these days for "economics." But it is not a true definition.
If you're content with a plane that goes less than 20 knots, you can make it as quiet as you like.
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Three Navy midshipmen accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman while she was unconscious were charged with rape, sexual assault and other sexual misconduct Wednesday, a Naval Academy news release said.
The academy confirmed one of the accused is a current member of the football team and has been suspended throughout the investigation. It would not say whether the others facing charges had played for the team in prior seasons. The Associated Press reported that the others were football players but are no longer on the team.
The midshipmen were also charged with making a false official statement.
The academy announced earlier this week that the case will proceed to an Article 32 hearing at the Washington Navy Yard. The names of the accused are not being released by the academy until that hearing. Wednesday's release did not include a hearing date.
An Article 32 hearing is the military equivalent of a preliminary hearing. It is used to determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed with a court-martial.
The female mid alleges she went to an off-campus party at the "football house" in April 2012 and became so intoxicated that she blacked out, said her attorney, Susan Burke.
"She learned from friends and social media that three football players were claiming to have had sexual intercourse with her while she was incapacitated," Burke said in a statement.
After reporting the alleged incident to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the alleged victim was disciplined for drinking, but the three men faced no consequences and the investigation was closed, Burke said. Burke alleged one of the accused men told the alleged victim not to cooperate with NCIS and that the academy closed the investigation in 2012, citing the alleged victim's unwillingness to cooperate.
The alleged victim reached out to Burke in early 2013 for help pursuing the case and the academy reopened the investigation, Burke said.
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James Gleeson 'The attitude of lightning towards a lady mountain' 1939 oil on canvas 79.0 x 63.3 cm National Gallery of Australia Purchased with the assistance of James Agapitos OAM and Ray Wilson OAM 2007
Ron Radford AM, Director of the National Gallery of Australia, is excited to announce the acquisition of the most important Australian Surrealist collection assembled. The collection of works of art from the late James Agapitos OAM and Ray Wilson OAM is a most generous act of benefaction. This extensive acquisition of 285 works comes in two components: a generous gift and a purchase by the Gallery. The combined value of the collection is $6.6 million. The purchase amount is $2.5 million. The collection is the largest Australian Surrealist collection ever assembled.
Covering the period 1925 to 1955, the Agapitos/Wilson collection includes paintings, prints, collages, drawings, photographs and sculptures by the foremost artists associated with Surrealist art practice in Australia, including James Gleeson, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Robert Klippel, Joy Hester, James Cant, Peter Purves Smith, Jeffrey Smart, Russell Drysdale, Donald Friend, Danila Vassilieff and Dusan Marek.
James Agapitos and Ray Wilson began their collection of Australian Surrealism in 1990 with the purchase of James Gleeson's seminal painting The attitude of lightning towards a lady-mountain 1939, which has been on loan to the Gallery for more than 12 months in the International Surrealism exhibition. From this time they put together the largest and most important collection of Australia Surrealist art in private hands.
James Gleeson 'Spain' 1951 oil on canvas 67.0 x 47.0 cm National Gallery of Australia Purchased with the assistance of James Agapitos OAM and Ray Wilson OAM 2007
"Of all Australian galleries, the National Gallery of Australia has the strongest collection of International Surrealist art, recently enhanced by the acquisition of Giorgio's de Chirico's La Mort d'un esprit (Death of a spirit) 1916 and Max Ernst's giant sculpture, Habakuk 1934/1970. Combined with our International Surrealist Collection, the Agapitos/Wilson gift of Australian Surrealism means that the National Gallery of Australia has a world standard resource of Surrealist art," says Ron Radford.
The Agapitos/Wilson collection is the fifth major acquisition as part of the Gallery's 25th Anniversary Gifts Program. The acquisition by the National Gallery of Australia is the fulfillment of Agapitos's and Wilson's long-held dream to make their collection available to the nation for the enjoyment of visitors for generations to come. It constitutes a remarkable act of generosity and will forever remain testimony to the insight, vision and commitment to Australian art of James Agapitos and Ray Wilson.
The National Gallery of Australia will mount a special exhibition of the Agapitos/Wilson gift of Australian Surrealist art to open in February 2008 as part of the Gallery's 25th Anniversary year celebrations.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - A crash in Johnson City sends a woman to the hospital.
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I'm going to a conference next week and I'm a little nervous. One, because it's the first time I'll be away from my boys (all 3 of 'em) for 3 days. And two, because I won't know anyone else at the conference. Not one person. Now, I've flown solo at conferences before and ended up making friends, like the divine @themadmom, for one. But I'm still nervous.
"Be yourself," is the most common advice. At conferences and in life, it seems. (Just click through this Wisdom from Mom Bloggers and you'll start to sense a theme.) So on that note, let me tell you a little story – 2, actually -- about being yourself.
In my teens I went out on a couple of dates with a boy who was a lifeguard at the beach I went to. Let's call him "Isaac." One time, we were strolling along the boardwalk eating ice cream, and I noticed he was wearing a necklace. "What does that mean?" I asked him, pointing to the little gold symbol around his neck.
Looking puzzled, he said, "You don't know? But you're Jewish!"
"Um, no, I'm not. I go to Catholic school," I replied, equally puzzled.
"But you sit on the Jewish part of the beach!" he blurted.
This was news to me, since I didn't even know there WAS a Jewish part of the beach. But that was it for Isaac and me. The next time I saw him, he was with another redheaded girl who was wearing a star of David around her neck.
Fast-forward to one summer during college. "Jin" and I were both counselors at a sleep-away camp. We took a liking to each other, and our romance progressed to the point where, after we returned to our respective colleges several states apart, he came to visit me for a long weekend. In the middle of that weekend, he abruptly broke up with me. He realized, he said, that we had no long-term potential because he came from a traditional Chinese family and was going to marry a Chinese girl – which I'm not.
Now, this breakup struck me as cruel and unfair. First of all, he'd known all along that I was not Chinese. It's not like I tried to put one over on him and then suddenly morphed into a WASP. And second, there was nothing I could do to change the fact that I was not Chinese. Or Jewish. (At 16, converting was not on my radar.)
Looking back on these breakups now, I'm actually glad they happened the way they did. Had these guys said they wanted a girl who dressed differently, read Russian novels, or had dark hair, for instance, I might have tried to change myself. But Jewish and Chinese? Sorry, I'm out.
Not to mention that if I'd settled down with either of these guys, I would never have met my husband, a guy who loves me for being myself. (Although he might argue that I am sometimes TOO MUCH myself.) Besides, the college guy would probably have been on board with the whole Chinese mother thing, which would be a total dealbreaker.
So what can you learn from these stories, besides that I don't have a type when it comes to guys? It's not "Be yourself and everyone will love you." It's not "Be yourself and you'll have everything you ever wanted." I guess the lesson is, be yourself because it's impossible – not to mention exhausting – to be anything but. At age 36, with 2 kids, a great husband, and a lot more confidence than I had in my teens and 20's, I'll be taking that lesson with me to my conference. Wish me luck!
On Breakups and Being Yourself
I'm going to a conference next week and I'm a little nervous. One, because it's the first time I'll be away from my boys (all 3 of 'em) for 3 days. And two, because I won't know anyone else at the conference. Not one person. Now, I've flown solo at conferences before and ended up making friends, like the divine @themadmom, for one. But I'm still nervous.
Posted by Mom2Miles at 2:08 PM
Labels: boys, conferences
7 comments:
- Angie Mizzell said...
Woo hoo! Preach it, sister. I'm not sure what it is about me, but I loved going to the writers' conference by myself. And to my sweet 3 boys: See ya! Have fun at the conference.
- Amber Page Writes said...
Good luck. I'm sure you'll have a great time... at least you know you have 1 thing in common with everyone there...chinese, jewish, or not.
- Hallie said...
Good luck!! I think going by yourself knowing no one is a bit liberating. No one has any preconceived notions about you. Clean slate, if you will.
Have a great time! And for Pete's sake, take a nap while you are there! :)
You will do fine!! And just try to take the time away to relax and refuel! Right now I wish nothing more than to get away. And your post fits perfect to the day I had today. It's hard to explain but to keep it short I kept thinking today that I was not meant to be a Mom and that how in the world I could ever consider to have a third child. I want to be anybody but myself, but I know that's not going to happen so I have to deal with it. Thanks for another great post!
- littlestliu said...
Lol, a Jewish side of the beach? What the WHAT?
Unfortch, Chinese and Jewish men have a lot of pressure to marry within their race. My father (Chinese) was almost shunned from the family for marrying my mom. But my mom showed them how wonderful she is, quai lo ("white devil," lol) or not.
But I'm sure you'll do wonderfully at your conference. If you find time, dear, please go do something to spoil yourself! And have fun. That's the thick of it, I guess.
- Mom2Miles said...
Thanks, all!
That's interesting, LittlestLiu - glad your dad's family came around. :)
And Christine, you are a GREAT mom. With 2 adorable, sweet boys to prove it!
- Mrs.E said...
Best of luck honey, I am sure everyone will love you!
And I do believe that the bad experiences that a person has early in their life, is there to make them appreciate everything beautiful that will happen later!