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First of all a BIG thanks to SnoopyCool for such a high quality scanlation, and for bringing such a promising new manga to my attention, round of applause everyone!
I just have a few questions:
1. I would have thought this was a seinin rather than a shounen due to the graphic and visceral nature of the manga, however i may be wrong there so forgive me if i am! =D
2. Just wondering wether its weekly or monthly?
Thanks in advance everyone for any replies =]


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A.N.T Farm Interview!
We know you are fans of China Anne McClain and A.N.T. Farm featuring three gifted middle school students who get accepted into a prestigious A.N.T. (Advanced Natural Talents) program at their local high school. They have to deal with all the problems of high school – three years earlier than expected! It stars China Anne McClain as Chyna. She can sing and play almost any instrument. Sierra McCormick plays Olive, who has a photographic memory. Then Jake Short plays Fletcher, who is an artistic genius and practical joker. Throw into the mix the actual high-schoolers, including Stefanie Scott, who plays Lexi, the popular cheerleader and Chyna's rival. And of course, no show would be complete without the older-brother-who-is embarrassed-of-his-younger-sister character, played by Carlon Jeffery. In this interview, we hit on the show, music, & books. Check it out!
Q: Are you working on an album?
China: Yes, we have the A.N.T. Farm cast album.
Q: Will "Dynamite" be on it?
China: Yes and also "Unstoppable." And a lot of other songs. And me and my sisters are signed to Hollywood Records so we're going to have an album.
Ratha: If you guys haven't seen Chyna's cover of the Taio Cruz song "Dynamite" playing on Disney Channel, you should check it out. The girl can SING!
Q: Tell us about your characters on the show.
Sierra: (about Olive) The greatest thing about my character is how smart she is. She's really smart. I get pretty good grades, but I don't know half as much as she does!
Jake: I play Fletcher, and he's a kid genius.
Q: How close to that are you?
Jake: On a scale from 1-10, negative 30!
Carlon: (on playing Chyna's older brother, Cameron) My favorite thing is how mischievous my character is. He's not like me in real life. But he just wants to get rid of everything and relax; that's why I like him.
Stefanie: (on playing Lexi, Chyna's rival): She's so driven to get what she wants. I, Stefanie, wouldn't get things the way she does. She's willing to do anything even if it means being not so nice to get it. But I like that she's really driven.
Q: What books do you like?
Jake: I like to read fantasy and action books. I really like The Hunger Games (for ages 12 and up), the book I'm reading now.
China: I just finished The Hunger Games! It's amazing. I'm really excited to see The Hunger Games movie (rated PG-13).
Ratha: Jake and China, I could not agree more! You guys not only have a hot show, but impeccable taste in books!
Sierra: Pretty Little Liars (for ages 12 and up), I've read all of them and I really love Sara Shepard so I'm reading The Lying Game (for ages 12 and up).
Stefanie: One of my favorite books is The Other Half of Life (for ages 12 and up). I found it in the library. It's an amazing book.
When they're not reading, or singing, or busy being regular kids, they are starring in A.N.T Farm. I love it. Let us know what you think in the Comments below!
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Interview by Geri Miller
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Downed trees and flipped cars are reported, but no injuries
A powerful storm -- possibly a tornado -- toppled trees, flipped cars and damaged several buildings in parts of Mobile, Ala., early Thursday from a severe strong storm system sweeping the South.
"We have a lot of buildings with roof damage -- peeled off and blown off," Mobile County Emergency Management Agency Director Ronnie Adair told The Associated Press. "Some high-profile trucks like delivery trucks were turned over."
The National Weather Service had issued tornado warnings for parts of several counties in the area early Thursday morning but authorities said it was too early to tell whether the damage was from a twister.
Large oak trees and limbs were blown across roads, causing some of them to be blocked ahead of Thursday's morning rush hour, Adair said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries. The trucks that were toppled were parked and unoccupied.
The Weather Channel posted one photo on Twitter of cars flipped over at a Mercedes dealership in Mobile.
AL.com also carried reports of downed trees and power lines and severe damage to a gasoline station on Union Avenue.
One Mobile resident, Betty Russell, slept through the storm, even after an apparent tornado sent three pine trees crashing into her house, AL.com reported.
She said she heard a big "boom"and thought it was a blown transformer.
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Kirkland Waterfront Restaurant Presents Fall Wine & Cheese Dinner
Our Kirkland waterfront boutique hotel is excited to announce a Kirkland wine event to celebrate the fall season. Located near Woodinville wine country, our lakeside restaurant, bin on the lake, boasts over 40 wines by the glass, which highlights several Washington wines from this region.
Nothing pairs more beautifully with wine than cheese. Bin on the lake restaurant in Kirkland, Washington is thrilled to partner with Willapa Hills Cheese Farm to bring you a unique four course dinner, complete with expertly paired Washington wines. Chef Dylan Giordan has designed a specialty menu to highlight several natural, artisan cheeses from Willapa Hills Cheese Farm based in Doty, Washington. To sweeten the deal, guests can purchase any of the wines or cheeses that are tasted at the event.
With focus on fresh, local ingredients, bin on the lake is pleased to offer these products in several of its carefully crafted dishes. We look forward to sharing with you an evening of delicious foods, fabulous wines, and focus on farm-to-table cuisine in Kirkland.
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Sunday Pinasaya December 20 2015
The pilot episode of Sunday PinaSaya last August 9, 2015 beat the ratings of its ABS-CBN rival program ASAP 20 in NUTAM by 2.1 points and in Mega Manila by 5.8 points according to the Nielsen TV Audience Measurement. The new Sunday noontime show of GMA Network also improved ratings of the time slot, which was previously held by Kapuso Movie Festival and earlier portions of Sunday All Stars. Additionally, it surpassed the ratings of the pilot episode of Sunday All Stars last 2013 by 4.4 points in NUTAM and 5.5 points in Mega Manila. According to NUTAM, the ratings lead of GMA Network stretched until the evening comedy show, Vampire Ang Daddy Ko.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Family Photos, The Laverty's
Please leave a comment if the photo looks familiar.
Posted by Your Ancestors Free.Com at 3:21 PM
Labels: County Down, Dunturk, Laverty Family
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There are still Laverty,s up about Dunturk Road. I am from the family Lee, neighbors of theirs. There were other families too: Milligan, Savage and Connor, I don't know exactly who's who in this picture but the Lavertys could tell you, Email me and we'll try to figure this out. S. Lee
- January 19, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Hi just noticed the photograph of the Laverty family. The lady sitting down wearing a scarf/ tie, reminds me of my ancestors, the Connors?
- February 5, 2012 at 12:15 AM
- Your Ancestors Free.Com said...
They could be Connors as my Greatgrand mother was a Connor,would you have any photos to match them?
- February 5, 2012 at 7:17 AM
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Oscar Push Is Underway for Films About Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse
Works about Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse figure on a list of 124 documentary features submitted for Academy Award consideration.
Janis Joplin, who died in 1970 at the age of 27, was a riveting contradiction. She was overpowering and deeply vulnerable, brassy and shy, stylized and direct, indomitable and masochistic. She took the tough rasp of old blues shouters and made it her own by bringing out pain and tension to match the bravado. With magnificent timing Joplin made it seem as if she was pouring out unvarnished emotion. Jon Pareles


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All photos/art by George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum
One of the most eclectic museums in New England is found on Massachusetts' Springfield Quadrangle.
Headaches come in all shapes and sizes. If you're a curator for the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, you'll know that some even come adorned with Tiffany stained-glass windows.
Step inside the opulent Italianate building on the Springfield, Massachusetts, Quadrangle and you'll be greeted by medieval Asian armor in one gallery, Renaissance sculptures in another; upstairs you'll find a choice selection of American landscapes and Chinese cloisonne vases. The quality of the works and artifacts is superb, but they also pose one major problem: These collections don't have much in common.
As museums have professionalized over the last century, most small institutions have narrowed their focus because they have the space to tell only a few stories well. But the Smith is a relic of another era. Here curators are tasked with assembling a jigsaw with pieces from a dozen different puzzles.
When George Walter Vincent Smith made the decision to donate his private collection to Springfield in 1889, it wasn't his intention to leave behind such a conundrum. Much like Isabella Stewart Gardner, Smith had a vision. He oversaw the design of the building over the next six years and arranged his works of art in ways he found pleasing. In one room he might display Japanese swords next to Middle Eastern rugs and Hudson River School paintings. It didn't matter that the works had nothing in common historically. For Smith, the common thread was that they looked beautiful together.
"It wasn't a scholarly approach," explains Kay Simpson, vice president of the Springfield Museums. Smith believed that simply viewing art was "morally uplifting." His goal wasn't to teach visitors about foreign cultures or art history, but to create a space so striking that it would transform those who entered it: "He felt that he had the sensibility of a connoisseur and that only he could orchestrate all of these aesthetic arrangements."
It's a nightmarishly romantic approach by modern standards, so, after his death, Smith's collection was untangled and reordered by era and origin. That might have been a mistake, though. The Smith's curators are currently debating ways to reinterpret the museum, and one of the proposed options is to restore some of the galleries to the founder's original design. The theory is that perhaps the only way to make sense of these confusing collections is to view them in the context of their collector. That means giving at least passing credence to his radically old-fashioned philosophy: that sometimes beauty is the sole purpose of art.
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Posted on 10/02/2013 10:56:31 AM PDT by 11th_VAEdited on 10/02/2013 10:56:53 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders to the White House on the second day of a partial government shutdown that has furloughed hundreds of thousands of workers and closed military cemeteries as far away as France. Republican leaders welcomed the Wednesday afternoon meeting but questioned whether Democrats were ready to deal.
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"We're pleased the president finally recognizes that his refusal to negotiate is indefensible," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said. "It's unclear why we'd be having this meeting if it's not meant to be a start to serious talks between the two parties."
If OBAMACARE SUBSIDY HEALTH INSURANCE TAX, aka OSHIT, is so popular, then why isnt Mr. Michelle Obama enrolled?
This is enrollment day number TWO, Barry: tick-tock - - -
How about Obama hop on his bicycle and haul his ass to Congress and beg for a meeting?
no he;s not bending but understands that him saying no talking to the right looks bad.
This is all a stage and I bet they did a inside poll.
"President Barack Obama summoned"
He could summon all he wanted and I would tell him to kiss it! This is his baby, let him deal with it on his own.
No, he has got them up there to make it look like he is negotiating. The only thing he is willing to negotiate is whom sits in the left chair and whom sits in the right chair before the emperor.
Then his press office will put out a statement that he found Bonehead to be reluctant to deal because he was being held hostage by the tea party.
If this obamacare is so great then why are not all the Obama's signed up and why hasn't the Dems?
Summon? Obama can visit Congress, not the other way around.
He won't bend. He is calling them in to tell them that he wants everything his way or no way.
Where's Joe??
this is where the blackmail threats start.
they better treat the little man/boy with the disrespect he has earned.
people are starting to see how overpriced obamacrare is.
5000 dollar deductable, 40%(?) copays, 30-40% more expensive premiums, only moocher class qualified for subsidies...
"President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders"
Summoned like come here lackies.
This is his attempt to double punch Bonehead. Bonehead saying this is probably the first move to negotiate! What an idiot. This is just like when he asked Ryan to come to that speech he gave and in which he berated him and made him look like a fool. Typical bully move, two on one.
*He wont bend. He is calling them in to tell them that he wants everything his way or no way*
He's calling them in to wish them into the cornfield because they're "very bad men".
You know, with all the crimes the rats get away with, with all the full-throated support they show to their criminals, if I was a Republican congressman and they tried to blackmail me even with something I really did, I'd tell them to "bring it" and then have my staff start preparing charts and lists of rats who got re-elected in spite of their crimes. Sometimes you just have to fight them on their own ground, because they will never fight on high ground.
That's a good point. Congress ought to do just that.
...think the WW2 VETS hit a nerve yesterday and AGAIN TODAY...pictures of old guys in wheelchairs were NOT ALLOWED ON AN OPEN SIDEWALK...didn't make Odungo look good....he caved, no mounted police to enforce Odungo's wishes this AM...tho the threat WAS THERE LAST NIGHT. *smiles*..THEY CAME ANYWAY...
I happen to agree with you on this. These meetings with 0bama always go badly for our side or anyone who opposes this dictator. What threat will now be made? What blackmail will be used?
Can the conservative base support Boehner et al, in the face of a revealed corruption if Boehner finally decided to stand tall and lead?
It's really gonna hurt when he signs those ... (I'm optimistic today)
Invite would have been the correct word.
Summoned-authorize or order a gathering of; call together by authority, as for deliberation or action: to summon parliament.
He blinked!
Isn't it sad that we all know these summons equal blackmail by the office of the President.
Did his round of golf get rained out?
I don't know that at all. I put nothing past this lying pos in the Crack House.
Backing away from another Red Line, eh?
Listened to some of that, the Dems are blatantly, clearly arguing for keeping it shutdown.
Good thing for them the media won't put any of their speeches on the Nightly News...
No, he wants a photo op where he is "trying" but the R's won't deal.
I hate him like no other soul.
Let's hope very few are qualified for subsidies, since the only thing worse than the government requiring you to buy health insurance is the government subsidizing the cost of it.
Obama caved, Boehner.
Don't give in, make them give you:
one year delay
end of religious conscience unfairness
end of anything remotely resembling or connected to "death panels" whether in counseling, funding, or decision groups or individuals.
end of unfair costs from state to state
end of unfair advertising that doesn't include ALL monthly payments, deductibles, co-pays, and special pays, and add to that average individual costs of all new taxes, fees, etc.
Nah... he is going to pull out his race card.
Government shutdown is racist
Xerxes has deigned to meet with the mortals?
He's starting to bend ...
But he will not "Break" instead he will "Snap" and it will either herald the end of his presidency or of the Republic...
Time will tell...
He can't ride the bike today, the girls are using it.
This meeting has nothing to do with the shutdown. This meeting is to negotiate what Republicans want in exchange for increasing the debt limit.
My bet is after yesterday's debacle with Obamacare, obama will settle for the 1 year delay ( which will go to 2015) in exchange for another trillion. If that happens, both sides win politically while we all lose, as usual.
The pubbies all ought to go golfing
Got to be a lighted course around somewhere.
Don't laugh I've seen em.
Screw Obama. Maybe the WWII vets can reopen the White House while they are there.
McConnell needs to get an urgent case of Strep Throat that sends him to intensive care and he must delegate Cruz to stand in for him..
Well, I'm sure both subjects will be discussed.
Keeping the partial funding bill out of the senate and off Obama's desk will be 'the elephant in the room' re both subjects.
Hope Boehner doesn't let him off the hook on the shutdown in exchange for a debt limit deal- which is IMHO what he wants today.
"We've got to protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen! We must do something about this shutdown, immediately, immediately, immediately!!!"
He is going to play them both. You watch.
He will claim he and all four Leaders agreed that they could hammer out a deal but that the "Tea Bagger Wing" will not, so even if they did it would fail in the house.
Pitting Boehner and Mitch against the Conservatives.
Boner said last Winter he would never negotiate with the Jug Eared fraud again. SO DON'T!
FOX NEWS is reporting that WH sources are saying that Obama will reiterate to them, "Clean Bill or nothing."
I think we should shut the water, gas and electric off to the White House.
I am publishing Cantor's tweet everywhere I can.I suggest everyone do the same, even on the most innocuous sites..get it OUT!
Oh yeah...and 0bama's blackberry too, no golf either or world flights to foreign lands...
Well then, if Obama is going to take the "my way or the highway approach", there is no sense in even going to the meeting.
Pass the small CRs and go on.
And McConnell should send Ted Cruz and Mike Lee to the meeting on behalf of the Republican leadership, have microphones in there, and let's hear the tin-hat dictator say that he will not sign any of the small CRs. Put Obama on record.
I have this vision actually for some time now. I picture meetings of this sort that occur from time to time between the president and anyone in authority other than his "yes" people.
I am quite sure that Obama meetings come across as this amateur who sits there and knows nothing about anything. I think he avoids these meetings because it exposes him to the people there as being the total inept person he is.
I am sure eventually it will come out. Stories of things he has said that were off the wall, but the attendees keep silent not to come across as racist to the press.
We have president in office who is a totally unfit for the job who was not remotely qualified. Few people are.
This meeting will be a monologue. Boehner and company I would think need to stand firm.
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Chalk it up to overgrazing in other credit-market patches, interest-rate worries, or investors' friendliness to just about every asset class lately. Senior loan and floating-rate funds continue to attract fresh interest.
The $2.7 billion PowerShares Senior Loan ETF (BKLN) has pulled in approximately $100 million inflows over the last week, capping year-to-date inflows of $1.2 billion, a figure which puts this fund in the top 10 ETFs by 2013 flows. The fund, which has gained not quite 1% year to date, sports a distribution yield of 4.79%. Fund-flow data are supplied by XTF.com.
A four-month old competitor, Highland iBoxx Senior Loan ETF (SNLN), is one of the more successful recent ETF launches, having pulled in $57 million.
The party's in mutual funds, note Sterne Agee & Co. analysts Jason Weyeneth and Alex Levine recently, helped Eaton Vance (EV) ride an estimated $314 million in new floating-rate fund money to stronger-than-usual long-tern fund inflows last week.
Other examples: BlackRock Floating Rate Income Fund (BFRAX), with a 30-day SEC yield of 3.44%, is pulling in money at a 90% annualized growth rate so far this year, according to Sterne Agee data.
Eaton Vance Floating Rate Advantage Fund (EAFAX), which Morningstar says enjoys a 5% yield, will more than double its assets this year if the current pace keeps up, per Sterne Agee.


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Alex Hammond: Flemen can Star
The flat season draws to a close this weekend with the November Handicap at Doncaster the feature race for punters.
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23 horses have been declared for the mile and a half contest with First Mohican is Sky Bet's 100/30 favourite. He is a difficult horse for the handicapper to assess and could still be well treated off a mark of 100. The reason being, that the 4 year-old is unbeaten in his 3 starts and was held in such high regard by trainer Henry Cecil that he was thought of as a Derby prospect after his sole start as a juvenile.
However, he missed his Classic campaign after fracturing his knee and missing the best part of 2 years. He looked impressive when winning at Nottingham last time out and now he has had the required three runs to get him into this race he could cap off an extraordinary year for his trainer. It's his first try at the trip, but on pedigree that shouldn't be a problem.
Nicholascopernicus is next best at 15/2 but his trainer Ed Walker was hoping for more testing ground than the forecast good ground on Town Moor. Clayton (10/1) has a handy weight for Kevin Ryan who has booked Jimmy Quinn to ride. Kirthill is one of two horses at 11/1 with Sky Bet.
He is trained by Luca Cumani and Kieren Fallon is booked for the ride. They are a combination that I always look out for in handicaps like this, but never have much luck with!
Blue Surf is the other 11/1 shot for Amanda Perrett and Jim Crowley. This is a horse I really like and he comes here off the back of a win at Newbury over 10 furlongs. Although he hasn't won over this trip there is plenty to recommend him on pedigree.
The Tiger (12/1) is another progressive horse. Ed Dunlop's charge has won his last two including over this trip and any more rain would aid his chances. Graham Lee has won on him the last twice, but he can't do the 8stone 5 and rides Dunlop's other runner Voodoo Prince (16s) whom he won on at Ripon earlier in the season.
Party Line (12/1) is another off a light weight. Joe Fanning rides for Mark Johnston and she stays the trip well and comes here in good form. I'm going to go with Blue Surf and hope there is further improvement to come over this mile and a half.
There is some decent jumping as well with the Elite Hurdle and Badger Ales Chase at Wincanton. The Elite Hurdle could see the reappearance of Zarkandar who at the time of writing had Daryl Jacob down to ride him. He could be better for another summer on his back.
Potential rivals include Alan King's Balder Success, Prospect Wells, Baby Mix who should be sharper for his reappearance for trainer Tom George and Steve Golings' smart hurdler Local Hero.
Ruby Walsh is down for Prospect Wells which tell us what we need to know with regard stable first string (Paul Nicholls also has Escort'men entered and could run all three). It's hard to get away from the strong challenge and one can only assume that Ruby's mount is the pick.
The Tizzard's have their team of horses in great form as a high profile double at Exeter in the week advertised. It was great to see Cue Card win with such authority in the Haldon Gold Cup and I'm looking forward to seeing him in the King George although he showed so much pace there that a drop in trip wouldn't inconvenience him.
They have Golden Chieftain in the Badger Ales Chase. The horse was very impressive in a handicap chase at Worcester last time out although his rated has gone up accordingly. He will have to find a bit more again.
Paul Nicholls has a good recent record in this race and he has Michel le Bon entered. The horse has been targeted at this race and merits plenty of respect. There are some big names entered too, including Diamond Harry who bypassed last weekend's Charlie Hall Chase due to a knock, National Hunt Chase winner Teaforthree who isn't certain to line up according to trainer Rebecca Curtis, who also has Old Wigmore at the of the handicap, although he also has an alternative engagement.
Nicky Henderson has made a flying start to the season and his Prince of Pirates is an interesting horse. Once again I think P Nicholls will saddle the winner.
Staying at Wincanton and watch out for possible chase debutante Dynaste who is entered in the Rising Stars Novices' Chase for David Pipe.
Some of Ireland's big guns are out on Sunday with Big Zeb and Sizing Europe entered in the Fortria Chase at Navan. The race has been won by Colm Murphy's Big Zeb for the past three years and the trainer is pleased with the 11 year old ahead of his reappearance here. S
izing Europe was due to run in the JNWine Champion Chase at Down Royal last weekend but the ground was too soft and he was taken out. So the old adversaries could take each other on again and although Sizing Europe is rated much higher than Big Zeb this is a lucky race for Zeb and he can go well again after a summer break.
It could be that Sizing Europe runs in Clonmel instead and this 2 mile contest could well cut up. If it does then last year's leading 2m 4f Novice Chaser Flemenstar is worth a second look. Although he isn't 100% fit yet (which of these top jumpers are at this stage of the season?) he can have a nice pipe opener. His later targets will be over further than this trip, but he is class and that may carry him through.
One thing that the end of the flat season signals is that top class jumping is just around the corner and next week we look forward to the first major targets of the new season at Cheltenham.
I'll also be giving you my ten horses to follow on Sky Sports News from Monday and will be live from two of the biggest yards in the country on Wednesday and Thursday, join me then.
Blue Surf in the November Handicap @ 11/1 with Sky Bet
Prospect Wells in the Elite Hurdle
Michel le Bon in the Badger Ales Chase
Flemenstar in the Fortria Chase at Navan
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Episode 352: Holland Cotter
May 29, 2012 · Print This Article
This week: A PULITZER PRIZE WINNER! Holy crap. San Francisco once again brings it with an amazing guest, Holland Cotter.
Holland Cotter has been a staff art critic at The New York Times since 1998. In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, for coverage that included articles on art in China.
Between 1992 and 1997 he was a regular freelance writer for the paper. During the 1980s he was a contributing editor at Art in America and an editorial associate at Art News. In the 1970s, he co-edited New York Arts Journal, a tabloid-format quarterly magazine publishing fiction, poetry, and criticism.
Art in New York City has been his regular weekly beat, which he has taken to include all five boroughs and most of the city's art and culture museums. His subjects range from Italian Renaissance painting to street-based communal work by artist collectives.
For the Times, he has written widely about "non-western" art and culture. In the 1990s, he introduced readers to a broad range of Asian contemporary art as the first wave of new art from China was building and breaking. He helped bring contemporary art from India to the attention of a western audience.
Born in Connecticut in 1947, and raised in Boston, Cotter received an A.B. from Harvard College, where he studied poetry with Robert Lowell and was an editor of the Harvard Advocate. He later received an M.A. from the City University of New York in American modernism, and an M. Phil in early Indian Buddhist art from Columbia University, where he studied Sanskrit and taught Indian and Islamic art.
He has served on the board of directors of the International Association of Art Critics. He is under contract with Alfred A. Knopf for a book on New York City modernism. He is also working on a study of contemporary Indian art, and on a poetry manuscript.
Part two of two.
If you haven't already, you may be wondering by now what this has to do with art, why you're reading about a humanitarian crisis on an arts weblog? I'll tell you.
During the community conversation and throughout the reading of Half the Sky, there were several thoughts insisting on my full attention, one of which was how different my world would be minus any single one of the incredible women I've known, either personally or exclusively through exposure to whatever their art may be – painting or parenting, writing or teaching, cooking or counseling, making films or music. Each has been essential in some way, small or large, to my evolving understanding of the world I live in, no less my understanding of myself.
How many people would have less full lives if even a few of the women they know went missing or were never known to them at all? How would our own country be diminished intellectually, emotionally, artistically, if a million women were simply gone?
Women like Lynn Hershman Leeson, who, as a female artist trying to assert herself on the male-dominated art scene of the late 1960's and 70's, had to review her own work under a pseudonym because critics weren't giving women artists a single column inch.
Leeson went on to invent what is commonly known as Second Life, to pioneer the use of blue screen technology in film making, to become Emeritus Professor of Digital Art at the University of California, and to have work in many major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Yet there was a time that her work simply didn't get reviewed.What Leeson gave to me, however, was a film she made in 2007 called Strange Culture, a brilliant hybrid of documentary and dramatic re-enactment with a bit of comic book thrown in, which I first saw excerpted on issue four of Wholphin. The films revolves around Steve Kurtz, professor of art at SUNY Buffalo, founding member of Critical Art Ensemble, and exactly the kind of guy you'd like to smoke pot with and talk to about how to fix the world, knowing in advance that whatever lunatic THC-induced long-shots and utopian fantasies you might imagine, Kurtz was quite possibly one of the few people you'd ever know who could make those fantasies real.
When Kurtz's wife and collaborator of 25 years, Hope, suddenly and unexpectedly died of a heart attack and the police responded to his phone call, what they found and how they reacted turned the next few years of Kurtz's life into nothing less than a battle with the government for his freedom.
Strange Culture is a time capsule of our subjugated civil rights under an unelected president, a record of our most recent and surreal dark age – which, as we can currently see, will take some time to come out of.
Leeson's film inspired and enraged me. It introduced me to new ideas, people, problems. It literally influenced the way I live. (Can anyone say that about Avatar?) When I think back to the time before I had seen the film or learned about Leeson, it seems like I was in my own cultural dark age, or at least a bit more naive.
Women like Pamela Michele Johnson, an artist who perfectly illustrated my feelings about our consumer/capitalist society with six-foot tall paintings of Hostess cupcakes with glistening whipped lard centers, stacks of waffles with glowing oceans of syrup pooling in their crisp golden pockets, and toppling towers of ketchup-stained limp hamburgers looking so heavy and giant that you suddenly can't help but wonder how much of that shit you've stuffed down your gullet.
Johnson's art so poetically paraphrased every thought that I've never been able to put eloquently into words about how and what we eat, that I was instantly smitten with the paintings. She often shares people's responses to the work with me, and I'm continually surprised by how many people view these monoliths as objects of nostalgia, tributes to simpler times, especially since I see them first and foremost as satirical critiques. I can't help but view those "simpler times†as farces of progress spun into our heads by corporations disguised as clowns and farmers and cute little animals.
Her work is important to me for those two reasons; that it was the first and most personal example of how someone else's image could so singularly define my thoughts about a certain issue, and that it offered to renew my appreciation for just how differently we all interpret information, for better or worse.
Women like Pam Bannos, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University, who uncovered the wholly neglected an incredibly relevant history of Lincoln Park, something which the current residents of the neighborhood might prefer to have left underground.
During the Civil War, Lincoln Park was a burial ground – The City Cemetery, not only for Confederate soldiers but also the diseased – and it is quite possible that there are still plenty of bones beneath those lovely lanes.
Bannos's extensive research made quite a bit of noise, and the city of Chicago worked with her to place several markers throughout Lincoln Park which illuminate it's history for hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.
The project, Hidden Truths, is currently being developed into a book, and having read a few of the early chapters, the potential is exciting. There are so many strange stories within the whole that Devil in the White City comes to mind, yet with far more immediate import.
The metaphors inherent in this story – of sweeping the dead under the carpet of history (akin perhaps to not showing us the coffins of our fellow patriots as they come home from war), of affluence planting it's roots in the toil of drones (not unlike the 1 percenter's who have made their money on the backs of the 99 percent of us who have none) – fit so snugly over the template of today that Bannos really cannot go wrong.
Her photography often beautifully aims its sweet spot at the idea and nature of truth, and I have no doubt that Bannos will apply the same focus, light, and personality to her book.
Experiencing the evolution of this project, from rigorously documented research to articulate narrative, has been an education in the creative endeavor for me, an education I intend to take full advantage of.And there are so many others, like Marjane Satrapi, whose masterpiece Persepolis is the crest of the wave of a woman-made cultural revolution in Iran; musician Rachel Yamagata, formerly of Bumpus, whose residency at Schuba's a few years back still resonates with unbelievable integrity and passion; Rebecca Solnit, an author who has not only chronicled but participated in some of the monumental social demonstrations of the last decade; Vandana Shiva, the brilliant activist and intellectual who has united the people of India in rejection of agri-monsters and ecology eaters like Monsanto and Coca Cola.
Women like – though there is really no other woman like her – Cassandra O'Keefe, one of the very first contributors to BUST Magazine, a staff member of GirlsRock! Chicago, and a gifted intuitive. O'Keefe is one of those unsung heroes who constantly crashes into our ever-expanding lack of civility and refuses to accept it.
She is an activist who has marched in every anti-war demonstration in the city of Chicago for the last decade, a creative autodidact who once decorated with handmade party hats and noise makers the smoked white fish which was to be eaten for a New Years brunch; and more importantly, a parent who decided to home-school her two daughters when No Child Left Behind became the prevailing but fundamentally flawed logic of the day for our public schools.
Not only has O'Keefe fought intolerance in her own neighborhood by simply engaging everyone she meets, but she has enriched my entire vocabulary for compassion. Those two daughters are mine as well, completing a trio of amazing women in my own home, none of whom I could imagine my life without.
Any of the millions of abused, abducted, murdered women in the world could easily be this important, this provocative, this enriching, for any number of people in their own lives. If given the chance. Their influence and intelligence could reach across the globe and touch all of us. Any one of the missing could profoundly impact someone near to them, if only they were truly valued.
There is an overwhelming amount of daily proof that our current values are failing us; our resources are withering, our environment is changing dramatically, and the same destruction that we've visited upon ourselves throughout history exists today, only with more politically acceptable terms. The word genocide is used far less than the phenomenon of genocide is employed. More women have to accept rape than men have to pay for the crime.
These are truths only because of our collective lack of involvement. And there is no one I know who can't spare at least ten minutes to take the first step toward changing these truths. How much time can you spare, and to what end?
Damien James is a self-taught artist and writer living (barely) and working (constantly) in Chicago. He has contributed to Chicago Reader, New City, Saatchi Gallery Online, Art Voices, and the general goodwill of mankind, among other things. His art has been seen in Chicago's Around the Coyote Gallery and Aldo Castillo, Brooklyn's 3rd Ward Gallery with Art House Co-op's Sketchbook Project and Rhonda Schaller, various apartments in Berlin, London, Mumbai, and a tiny village in Romania.
Half the sky, all your attention.
May 3, 2010 · Print This Article
Part one of two.
I recently attended a community conversation with New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof, who was speaking about the oppression of and cruelty toward women throughout much of our global society, as illuminated with provocative bluntness and intelligence in the new book Half the Sky. A collaboration with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, the book earned the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a wife and husband team. WuDunn was not present for the conversation, but Kristof illustrated one of her connections to the subject matter by relating a story about WuDunn's grandmother, who grew up in China and was a victim of foot binding.
The conversation was made possible by Facing History and Ourselves, an "international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism,†with the intent to promote a more informed and humane citizenry.
I am uncertain as to why the Thorne Auditorium of Northwestern University was not fully attended; there must have been at least 732 people in the Chicago area who had time for this event, who might have walked away from the evening filled with a certain shock and awe after finding that their quotient for compassion had increased considerably, which I would credit to the in-depth interviews and profound friendships embarked upon by WuDunn and Kristof as they spent time in Africa, Asia, and South America.
According to Kristof, the central moral challenge of the 19th century was slavery. In the 20th century it was the battle against totalitarianism. And in the 21st century, the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle against discrimination of women and children. One might argue that the former still exist in the latter, but by the end of the presentation, that women are still treated like second-class citizens – especially in third world countries, but certainly not limited to them – becomes quite clearly a truth beyond argument.
Kristof's stories were often painful and graphic, and most importantly, personal. It was clear that he knew the women and children he spoke of, that he shared in their pains to some extent as they shared their stories with him, that he actually looked in their eyes and allowed himself to be affected by them.
He radiated a realistic sympathy as he spoke, and rather than try to make people feel guilty for how little they contribute to solving problems which seem far too large to tackle, Kristof focused – just as Half the Sky does – on making these insurmountable problems approachable by offering ways to get involved and engaged in the lives of women on the other side of the world, lives which can be radically changed by even the smallest generosity in the briefest of moments.
Beyond relating his experience and educating us about what we could do, Kristof offered hope as he spoke of women who have started fighting back, despite unbelievable odds and misogynistic patriarchal societies, not only improving their own lives but those of women around them, and in some cases gaining international attention for their cause.
In a moment I'm going to share some of these avenues for contributing to positive social change, but first I want to share some of the stories Kristof offered at the community conversation and through the book, because the myriad humanitarian crises which literally surround us are predominantly relegated to the back of our thoughts in abstraction; and there is certainly a reason for this psychic numbing.
How could we pay our Chase bills and watch the game or Idol or Top Chef, how could we Facebook our thoughts on the character arcs of Lost and Twitter our excitement at a Black Eyed Peas concert if we were always thinking about how acceptable it is to throw acid in a woman's face in a country we have little or no desire to ever visit? And I'm not just singling out fans of "reality†TV or Facebook and Twitter users. To be honest, I think such social networks have an amazing amount of untapped potential, but it might be that not enough social entrepreneurs are using these networks to get our attention in a lasting way.
Is it powerful enough to state that 3 million women and girls worldwide can be fairly termed as enslaved in the sex trade? That, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, there are more than 100 million women simply missing in the world today? That girls in India from age one to five are 50 percent more likely to die than boys in the same age group because of the value placed on gender? (Such discrimination kills up to 2 million girls each year worldwide.) That 21 percent of Ghanaian women reported their first sexual experience was rape? That 17 percent of Nigerian women had endured rape or attempted rape by the age of nineteen, and 21 percent of South African women reported that they had been raped by the age of fifteen?
I don't really even want to talk about the rates of maternal mortality in some countries, nor the number of women each year who suffer from fistula as a result of rape, women who are then ostracized from their homes because of the easily but rarely treated condition.
Such numbers just become fog, pressed back and out of our thoughts as we go through our day, which is why, Kristof argues, it is so important to personally connect with someone, to actively pursue a relationship.
Is it easier to remember – or harder to forget – if we see a photograph of Long Pross, a Thai girl who, at the age of thirteen was kidnapped and sold to a brothel in Cambodia? When Pross rebelled, the female brothel owner punished her by gouging out Pross' eye with a metal rod.
Or Meena Hasina, an Indian Muslim who was eight years old when she was kidnapped and trafficked. In the dozen years that Meena was held in the brothel, she had two children and was beaten an average of five days a week. Her children were considered property of the brothel.
Is it harder to forget Zoya Najabi, an Afghan girl who was married at twelve and subjected to constant corporal punishment at the hand of her husband and mother-in-law? Zoya's husband regularly beat her with an electrical cable until she fell unconscious. Her mother-in-law whipped the soles of her feet.
These stories are not isolated occurrences, nor are they plucked from some macabre dark age; they are entirely contemporary. Nor are they even the worst of what Kristof and WuDunn have to report. And while it might be easy to think that these women, children in many cases, should just flee, it is never that simple. The threat of punishment and death lies around every corner for many women in societies which condone such treatment in the first place.
Often the police in many of the countries Kristof and WuDunn frequent are bribed by brothels, intimidated by gangs, and will send women away with scorn for their audacity at even showing their dishonorable faces to the authorities. Occasionally police even beat the women seeking help, and there have been reports of women being raped by police before they're pushed back out on the streets.
Again, Half the Sky is not simply a litany of abuse. It is also a lifeline for involvement, for there are as many heroes to encourage as there are villains to infuriate, women who have taken a stand against the injustices they were not only born into but also fully expected to accept.
Women like Edna Adan, who grew up in Somalia. (According to Kristof, the local camels had more freedoms than the women.) At eight years old, Edna was circumcised, joining the ranks of millions of girls who are forced to undergo the traditional procedure intended to reduce sexual desire and promiscuity for the sake of becoming more marriageable.
If this seems barbaric, consider that Edna is from an enlightened family, that her parents not only allowed her to have an education but also encouraged her to do so. Now a fierce opponent of genital cutting, she became Somalia's first qualified nurse-midwife and eventually the countries first lady, marrying the prime minister. Edna went on to work for the UN and eventually retired from her post to open a hospital, which she was able to do with the support of women from around the world.
Mukhtar Mai, from a peasant family in southern Punjab, was sentenced to be publicly raped as punishment for a crime that her brother allegedly committed. Mukhtar prepared to commit suicide, a normal method of dealing with such situations in Pakistan, but was prevented by her parents, who kept constant vigil over her.
Eventually Mukhtar's shame and depression became rage, which gave her the strength to report the rape to the police and demand prosecution. President Musharraf became aware of the case and sympathized, awarding Mukhtar the equivalent of over $8,000, which she used to invest in what she felt her village needed most: a school. The story spread and Mukhtar became revered for her courage and conviction; she was honored in several countries and went on to open more schools and raise the level of visibility for abused women everywhere.
In fact, each injustice in Half the Sky is followed by a survivor's tale, someone who has turned their world around by sheer force of will.
Kristof pointed to the importance of education as intervention – the primary tool to dismantle the machinery of abuse which still runs largely unchecked in many countries – stating that education leads to professionalism which leads to community enrichment, a virtuous cycle. And while he pulls no punches about the fact that there is no easy solution to any of the problems facing women in the third world, Kristof has plenty of details, first-hand experience with individual women and girls and entire communities that have benefited from relatively small donations toward schooling.
For example, it costs only ten dollars a year to keep a girl in school in rural China, while fifteen dollars for a uniform is all that separates some African girls from a classroom. In Cambodia, the average girl has only 1.7 years of education; often in poor countries like Cambodia, girls drop out of school young – if they ever attended at all – to work and contribute to the family income.
It is when young girls join the work force that they are more susceptible to being trafficked, lured to different cities with the promise of a job, only to find themselves locked in a room empty of everything but a mattress. Cambodia has taken steps to curb trafficking by offering financial incentives to parents who keep their kids in school with perfect attendance, but it is far from a perfect system. There have been many instances of abduction while girls are walking long distances to or from their schools.
Despite how bottomless the problems of abuse and slavery in the sex trade are, both the community conversation and the book end with incredible positivity. Kristof and WuDunn have contributed so much of their time and money to improving conditions for women around the world and have seen direct results that their thrust is to encourage us to do the same, to express our humanity by taking incremental steps toward solving massive problems. Half the Sky ends with a chapter called Four Steps You Can Take in the Next Ten Minutes, a crash course in contributing to positive social change. As promised, here they are:
1. "Go to www.globalgiving.org or www.kiva.org and open an account. Both site are people-to-people (P2P), meaning that they link you directly to a person in need overseas." Global Giving lets you choose and contribute to grassroots projects in education, health, and disaster relief, among many others, in the developing world. Kiva allows you to connect to entrepreneurs as a microlender; just as kickstarter microfinances creative projects, Kiva helps fund women to start their own businesses.
2. "Sponsor a girl or woman through Plan International, Women for Women International, World Vision, or American Jewish World Service." Kristof and WuDunn are sponsors and have exchanged letters with and made visits to children in the Philippines, Sudan, and the Dominican Republic.
3. "Sign up for e-mail updates on www.womensenews.org and www.worldpulse.com. Both distribute information about abuses of woman and sometimes advise on actions that readers can take."
4. "Join the CARE Action Network at www.can.care.org. This will assist you in speaking out, educating policy makers, and underscoring that the public wants action against poverty and injustice. This kind of citizen advocacy is essential to create change."
Though it might only take ten minutes of your time, Kristof and WuDunn insist that these steps are just to break the ice. Half the Sky has a comprehensive appendix of organizations to connect with, should one feel particularly meaningful, and then the authors encourage readers to dive in.
Ten short minutes can change things. The family of one young Zimbabwean woman was given a goat through Heifer International, a gift that so radically improved their economic position that they were able to send their daughter to school in America. She has since returned and begun giving back to her community.
Ten dollars took a girl in China from poverty to formal education, which she used to better her entire village. Once barely able to scrape by on subsistence farming, the community now has wood and brick homes with electricity and a thriving export business, all because of a girl who was given the opportunity to go to school.
Kristof is also quick to admit that such problems are not unique to third world countries, that many cases of abuse and oppression exist in our own back yard, but there simply wasn't room in Half the Sky to focus on domestic issues, something he plans to remedy in the future.
Read part two of two on Tuesday. If you want to.
Damien James is a self-taught artist and writer living (barely) and working (constantly) in Chicago. He has contributed to Chicago Reader, New City, Saatchi Gallery Online, Art Voices, and the general goodwill of mankind, among other things. His art has been seen in Chicago's Around the Coyote Gallery and Aldo Castillo, Brooklyn's 3rd Ward Gallery with Art House Co-op's Sketchbook Project and Rhonda Schaller, various apartments in Berlin, London, Mumbai, and a tiny village in Romania.
Holland Cotter Wins Pulitzer Prize
April 20, 2009 · Print This Article
The NYT's Holland Cotter beats out Inga Saffron of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe for the Pulitzah Prize (and its $10,000 award) for "distinguished criticism, in print or online, or both." Only 10 grand?? I always imagined an award like that would score you more.
Read more about it directly from The Pulizer Prize website and also at the New York Times.
Updated: whoops, rushing to get this post out pronto and misspelled Cotter's last name! My bad!
Update #2: My snark about paltry prize money aside, this is a big deal for Cotter and for newspaper art critics in general. As the L.A. Times' art critic Christopher Knight points out, Cotter is the first art critic to win a Pulitzer in 35 years, "since the late Emily Genauer of Newsday won in 1974." So bravo to Cotter. Newspaper art criticism may well be in its death throes, but at least not before one of the best of them has received this kind of recognition.


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go up on the roof and run a snake down the vent. best guess is that it is plugged. scound guess is a cracked toilet (not likely if not worked on lately)
: Every so often when I go to use the toilet I notice that the water level in the bowl has gone down since the last flush. I know a toilet has its own trap and should level off after flushing. I gutted and repiped the entire bathroom about 2 years ago and the toilet is properly piped, 3" PVC drain & 2" vent that tees off the drain and goes up the wall right behind the toilet. The vent ties together with the shower vent and sink vent before going out the roof. Why would the level mysteriously go down? This just started happening. The toilet is a Kohler Rialto if that helps.
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nothing today
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
woke up this morning with a headache...
hayfever allergy..
Daughter in a bad mood
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
nothing right now..
hayfever allergy..it was soo annoying today...worst day yet!!
Allergic to the meds for my arthritis so have to start all over again next Thursday... so not on any meds till then..
Merry Christmas to all...
Thinking about my appt next week with the nephrologist and what that might turn up!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas


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It's become an obsession. For every fruit and vegetable at the farmers' market, the Ball Complete Book of Home Preservinghas a dozen recipes for pickles, juice, and pie filling, and I want to try them all. So what if I've never had an interest in pickled three bean salad? The beans are there, overflowing their baskets, and I have a recipe. I can, therefore I must.
For Pete's sake, lima beans. I've gone off the deep end.
I always buy too much at the farmers' market. The bright, fragrant vegetables and herbs are intoxicating, and the farmer's pipe smells pretty good, too. Inevitably, I'm drawn in like a moth to the light, like a fly to honey, like a vegan to organic fava beans.
These bread and butter pickles couldn't have been easier—three pounds of sliced cucumber and onion sit in brine for two hours, then simmer briefly in vinegar and seasoning before they're canned and sealed. For old times' sake, I'll also make an English version, with cider vinegar and brown sugar. We can eat twelve pints of pickles this winter if we set our minds to it.
Homemade preserves are handy to have around. Do me an unexpected favor, and I'll probably give you jam. Or pickled lima beans. Depends on your age, and the quality of the favor.
Twenty cups wild blueberries + Two cups sugar + Time + Heat = One hell of an ice cream topping.
When I see my shelves of multicolored jars, I gloat a little. I'm cheating the seasons, storing away summer food. I like self-sufficiency; I would've made a good pioneer. I may not be able to build a barn or drive a Conestoga wagon, but I can pick strawberries and eat them in December. So who needs the grocery store? I've got a farmer and a great big pot of boiling water.


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The Cannes Creative Effectiveness Awards Grand Prix was presented to the Unilever deodorant, Axe / Lynx.
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Uncapped Gloucester centre Billy Twelvetrees will start for England against Scotland in their Six Nations meeting at Twickenham.
Uncapped Gloucester centre Billy Twelvetrees will start for England against Scotland at Twickenham.
Twelvetrees comes in for Manu Tuilagi, while Joe Marler replaces Alex Corbisiero in two changes from the side that started against New Zealand.
Dylan Hartley, Toby Flood and David Strettle come on to the replacements' bench for David Paice, Freddie Burns and Jonathan Joseph respectively.
"We are happy to stick with the team that did so well against New Zealand, especially in light of the fact that they have all been in good form for their clubs since then," said England head coach Stuart Lancaster.
"There were some very tight calls, with some experienced players coming back into contention, and I am sure the bench will have a significant impact on the game.
"We can't wait to get back to Twickenham and hopefully experience the same atmosphere as the autumn when the crowd was superb. It means a lot to the players to have such support in the ground and watching on television."
England: 15 Alex Goode, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Brad Barritt, 12 Billy Twelvetrees, 11 Mike Brown, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Ben Morgan, 7 Chris Robshaw (c), 6 Tom Wood, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Joe Launchbury, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Tom Youngs, 1 Joe Marler.
Replacements: 16 Dylan Hartley, 17 David Wilson, 18 Mako Vunipola, 19 Courtney Lawes 20 James Haskell, 21 Danny Care, 22 Toby Flood, 23 David Strettle.
Date: Saturday, 2 February
Venue: Twickenham
Kick-off: 16:00 GMT
Referee: Alain Rolland (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Jérôme Garces (France), Francisco Pastrana (Argentina)
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PRICE- Our loving husband, father, son, grandfather, brother and friend, David Wade Berdan, age 46, passed away April 19, 2013 at his home in Price.
He was born Sept. 17, 1966 in Moab, Utah to William Lynn, Sr. and Donna Kaye Wood Berdan.
Funeral Mass, Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 10 a.m. Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church. Vigil service, Tuesday evening 7 p.m., Mitchell Funeral Home. Family will receive friends Tuesday and Wednesday one hour prior to service at Mitchell's. Committal service, Cliffview Cemetery, Price. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are always welcome daily and may share memories of David online at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.


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GREEN RIVER-Heidi Renea Humphrey Gardner, age 37, passed away Dec. 17, 2008 at Utah Valley Speciality Hospital in Provo after a long illness.
She was born Feb. 9, 1971 in Springfield, Ohio to Roger Michael and Paulette Stewart Humphrey. She married Adam J. Gardner, Dec. 24, 1999 in Ogden, Utah.
Heidi shared a genuine concern for others and she especially loved caring for those in need. She enjoyed camping, boating, fishing, going on walks with her dogs, and was happiest when she was enjoying these outings with Adam. She will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her.
Survived by her husband, Adam Gardner, Green River; father, Paul Hugie, Ogden; brother, Shawn Humphrey, Lake Elsinore, Calif.; sisters, Shellie (Monte) Roderick, New Carlisle, Ohio; Michaela Hugie, Ogden; in-laws, Robert (Cathy) Gardner, Green River; and many loving brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by her parents, sister, Heather Marie Weihing; nephews, Todd Colt King and Chase Weihing.
Funeral service, Monday Dec. 22, 2008, 11 a.m., Green River Bible Church. Family was at the church Monday one hour prior to service. Interment, Elgin Cemetery, Green River. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are welcome daily.


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Skip to comments.Exclusive: Woman tried new hoax in December call to Te'o
Posted on 01/18/2013 7:28:09 PM PST by iowamark
Manti Te'o has told family and friends that the woman who was the voice of his fictitious girlfriend Lennay Kekua called him in December and said she had to fake her own death months earlier to elude drug dealers, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser has learned.
The woman, who has yet to be identified, tried to re-engage a relationship with Teo months after she supposedly had died of leukemia in early September, the Notre Dame All-American linebacker has told the people close to him. The account was shared with the Star-Advertiser by a source close to the Teo family.
According to the account, Te'o asked the woman to transmit a photo to him with a date stamp, which she did, but this did not allay his suspicions and he later told his family and Notre Dame officials about being scammed.
The account does not give the date of the call but on Wednesday Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick told a campus press conference that the woman contacted Te'o on Dec. 6 while he was in Florida for an ESPN post-season awards show. "He received a phone call from a number that he recognized as having been associated with Lennay Kekua," Swarbrick said. "When he answered it, it was a person whose voice sounded like the same person that he had talked to, who told him she was, in fact, not dead."
On Dec. 26, Te'o notified school officials, according to a statement from Teo Wednesday.
Subsequently Notre Dame commissioned an investigation that concluded Te'o had been the victim of a hoax, the school said.
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Good thing thing his fake girlfriend didn't file for divorce instead. This poor guy would have been on the hook for alimony.
Celebrity pathology.
Ima get me one of them virtual girlfriends.
I have come to the conclusion he was part of the hoax to cover up the fact he is gay...JMHO
Big man on campus, jock, Heisman trophy runner up and the only girlfriend he could hook up with was on the phone with a campus crawling with honeys..... Right !
Else he's digging himself a bottomless pit...
I don't know anything about this guy, but why do you assume he had no other girlfriends? Or that he isn't a naive young man?
Obviously he never met this girl, but he still could have seen others.
I know I must be having a blond moment...but I have to ask..
Why is this story getting the coverage it is?
This guy wouldn't be the first to fake a girlfriend or get caught in some kind of internet scam.
What does it have to do with football or Notre Dame?
Prolefeed. Anything to distract from the real news.
can't argue with your conclusion...except South Bend is hardly a campus crawling with honeys. The smart girls go there, not the hot ones.
Still, the Notre Dame football captain should still be pulling some tail from somewhere other than online and on the phone.
A sad but true statement.
Made it with some smart girls back in the day,and some hot ones too.The smart ones were a whole lot more fun.
He's a very serious Mormon at a (sort of) Catholic school. Serious Mormons only date & marry Mormons.
good buddy of mine just asked for some advie- he had to choose between a smart one and a crazy/hot one...
I told him the crazy/hot ones are always a lot of fun.... at first
Then comes the screaming and yelling and police involvement and lawyers and court orders...
A composite girlfriend just like bath-house Barry.
Wonder if he has a fake Hawaiian birth certificate too.
Let's Ask Obama About His Made-Up Girlfriends
Jack Cashill
The crux of the Te'o story, of course, is whether Te'o conspired to fabricate his seemingly tragic relationship with imaginary girlfriend Lennay Kekua or whether he is a victim of a cruel hoax.
Much is at stake — or so we are told. If Te'o proves to be a willing participant in a hoax, NFL scouts will question his character and downgrade his stock in the upcoming NFL draft. For those who care, Deadspin has some excellent reporting on this story — better reporting, in fact, than anyone in the major media has done on that other Hawaiian fabricator of girlfriends, Barack Obama.
I agree. However, it may depend what one is looking for on a given day I suppose :)
If he wasn't in on it, he is the dumbest person on the planet. He can't reconcile the lie about meeting her in person when they first met or the personal meetings in Hawaii
I'm outraged and writing my Congressman.
We needs a law to protect us from fake girlfriends.
We do! Especially those 'Hi-Capacity' chippie broads, they will get ya every time!
It's a shame I couldn't reach Manti in time. My cousin in Nigeria is looking for someone to put money in a bank account.
But seriously, you can't get much more asinine than this story.
And if he is batting for the other side, being a magic underwear guy is great cover. He cannot come out if he is gay because no NFL team is going to want the headaches that will cause. Can you imagine what kind of grief a team with an openly gay player would get?
Anyway, something ain't right about the whole thing, but we will never know.
Thank goodness for your forgiving nature, Pete. Carrying around this little blond lie has been a huge burden. The truth has set me free!!
Actually it was a half truth...sometimes my stunning brunette roots grow out a little. :)
Oh,geez. LOL!
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Prep girls track preview: Head start should help Colts
South High School track coach Clint Zundel says he lost a wealth of talent from a Colts girls team that made a strong run for the Class 4A state title before finishing third on the final day of the competition.
"We graduated a talented class of 17 girls. Obviously, athletes like (triple jump state champ) Aly Ary, (high jump champ) Angelique Urenda, Tyra Cruz and Taylor Lopez-Cepero are very hard to replace for any program," Zundel said. "We definitely are rebuilding as a team this year after that group's historic run."
Yet, the well's far from dry for the Colts, Zundel added.
"I am excited about the promise of this young team. We have 16 freshmen or first-year sophomores that are very excited to be part of the program. They are tough and athletic with tons of talent and will complement those quality upperclassmen," he said.
"We have a very solid core of veteran athletes returning that have been with me the last few years in addition we have a huge freshmen class filled with athletes from other sports. Even after a huge graduating group last year, our numbers are still at 40 athletes."
Centennial: The Dogs also have a state qualifier in Caitlin Arnold, who finished eighth in the discus (123-0) and 11th in the shot put (37-2). She is joined by returning distance runners Emily Perez, Lavinia Bispo, Elizabeth Manguso and Devon Medina and sprinters Cydney Carter, Katie Holcomb and Autryana McGee. "We'll be strong in the throws (Arnold) and distance events (Perez, Manguso) and should be competitive in the sprint relays," Bulldogs coach Tim Mondragon said.
Central: The Wildcats have a state qualifier in senior high jumper Rhea Hibpsham. Coach Dean Gray is looking for good things from his girls team that includes: returning sprinters Hibpsham, Kelci Lott, Ashley Kraemer, Tiauna Rodriguez, Kennady Bradley-Wells, Gabrielle James, Mikalah Moore and Makayla Carpenter; Haylee Wiliford, Justina Vasquez and Kraemer in the throws; and Rodriguez, James and Moore doubling up in the jumps. "I have much leadership on the girls side and am hoping that will translate into success as the season progresses," Gray said.
Dolores Huerta: Senior Erin Marquez heads the team, which includes junior Domeka Martinez and sophomores Alexandria Sinker, Cassandra Burkepile and Jasmine Razo.
East: "We are looking at a lot of newcomers," Eagles coach Judith Billizone said. The top returnees include junior hurdler Asia-Marie Kelly; senior Catherine Otero and sophomore Larrisa Ruiz-Herrera in the 800 and 1,600 and members of the Eagles 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams: senior Emily Waggener, juniors Lexi Ambriz, Melissa Waggener, Mariah Romero and sophomore Alexis Romero.
Pueblo County: New coach Katie Vislosky takes over a program that returns veteran jumper Caeleigh Bowman; distance runners Lena Garrison, Brittany Musso, Monica Valdez, Micaela Quintana and Kalie Allenback; sprinter/jumpers Kelsey Singleton and Michaella Pisciotta, sprinter Erika Landis, hurdler Victoria DeVries and Diane Hanson in the discus and shot put. "I am excited to see what this year has to bring. Our key returners are looking to make a mark this year," Visolsky said.
Pueblo West: Bailie Jones placed ninth in the 800 at last year's state meet and is capable of running any race from the 200 to the 1,600, and may even give the 300 hurdles a shot. Darby Spence is a seasoned distance runner who will score points. The other returnees are Shanya Atkins, Ava Barrier, Brooke Casias, Ali Doyle, Jordan Foster, Christen Leedom, Angelica Ortega, Haley Ruiz and Autumn West.
South: The Colts return a number of other state qualifiers, including Jessica Kleven, who finished eighth in the 3,200 (11:36.89) and 16th in the 1,600 (5:30.77), and shot putter Carah Christie, who finished 17th (34-81/2) as a freshman. Zundel also has returnees Kaitlyn George, Katherine Haver, Brooke Bewley, Bethany Belport, Kayleigh Shinn, Kaylene Khosla, Briley Manazares, Colby Massey, Sydney Harris and Sissy Hall.


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Fusing together the angst of Punk Rock with the wit and lyricism of Hip Hop, P.O.S (Pissed Off Stef) steps up with his first vinyl offereing and lead single from the upcoming full-length album, Audition. The powerful A-Side, "P.O.S. is Ruining My Life" finds P.O.S. analyzing the dynamic that his newfound "popularity" brings to his interactions with people. Backed with the head nodding activists anthem "Stand Up (Let's Get Murdered)", P.O.S. get's critical of all the armchair activists that talk the talk but dont walk the walk. P.O.S. is Ruining My Life also features an exclusive bonus track "Crispin Glover" not featured on Audition.


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The Aurora Borealis
Polar auroras are an optical phenomenon of the earth's atmosphere characterized mainly by iridescent bands of red, green and blue light visible in the sky.
They are some of the most beautiful phenomena that can be observed in the high altitude atmosphere; they are normally visible above the seventy-fifth degree of latitude, but can extend to even lower latitudes, including Scotland, many areas of the Scandinavian peninsula, Japan, the United States, Australia and South America. They usually occur at heights ranging between 100 and 200 kilometers, but can sometimes reach 1000 kilometers. They appear simultaneously in both hemispheres and are known as "Aurora Borealis" in the northern hemisphere and "Aurora Australis" in the southern hemisphere.
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Auroras are generated by elementary particles emitted by the sun, which, when they arrive charged near to earth, are affected by the earth's magnetic field. Like a magnet, the earth's magnetic field lines converge near the poles where the particles of the solar wind are channeled with great efficiency and manage to significantly penetrate the upper atmospheric layers. As they enter increasingly dense regions of the atmosphere, collisions increase between the solar wind particles, charged with the atoms and molecules making up the atmosphere, which, when stimulated, emit light at various wavelengths.
They can occur in very varied shapes and colors and change quickly in time and space. The geographic extent to which the phenomenon is visible depends on the intensity of the "solar wind" and is linked to the loss of mass (plasma) of our star. This loss is not constant over time, but variable and it is associated with very violent phenomena occurring in the outermost layers of the sun. Although they are not very regular, these violent phenomena follow a cycle of around eleven years, during which there is a maximum and minimum of this type of activity. During the maximum phases of the solar cycle, the likelihood of seeing the Aurora Borealis, even at very low latitudes (in 1999 it was seen in Friuli-Venezia Giulia!), increases significantly.
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In conjunction with certain international bodies, Alitalia monitors, at planetary level, the element that forms the basis for these light phenomena: sun storms. The greater the intensity of the phenomenon, the higher the risks of it having a negative impact on the correct operation of certain pieces of navigation equipment. In the most intense cases, ad hoc warnings are issued as a precaution, banning flights in the regions concerned.
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Risk and Inchoate Crimes: Retribution or Prevention?
Larry Alexander
University of San Diego School of Law
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
University of Virginia, School of Law
September 8, 2011
SEEKING SECURITY: PRE-EMPTYING THE COMMISSION OF CRIMINAL HARMS, Forthcoming
San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-064
In this book chapter we give a definition of inchoate crimes and argue that inchoate crimes, so defined, are not culpable and do not deserve punishment. Our argument against the culpability of inchoate crimes is based on several points: the ability of the actor who intends a future act that might be culpable if performed to change his mind prior to the act's performance; the conditionality of all future-oriented intentions; uncertainty regarding the culpability-enhancing or culpability-mitigating circumstances that will exist at the future time of performance; and the roles of vacillation and duration in assessing culpability. We argue that punishment for inchoate crimes should be regarded as preventive rather than retributive.
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So Rin was a Jinchurki before the 4th Mizukage, so this means that this plan was devised by the 3rd one.
It's quite interesting that the Mist Village had a method to unseal a Jinchuriki's seal from afar.
The failure with Rin, might be the reason why Kakashi learned Sealing jutsu. After all, if he could use it at that time, then she wouldn't need to die, as long as she had enough will power to support the second seal.
Rin's body was compatible with a bijuu and she already was filled with love. Does this mean that she could have been potentially a perfect jinchuriki ?


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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allridge of Ferron are announcing the marriage of their son, Jason Wayne to Melinda Lorina Long, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Long of Townsend, Tenn.
An open house will be held in their honor Oct. 25 from 7-9 p.m. at the Ferron Millsite Ward building.
The couple will reside in West Jordan.
Robert and Donna Homer of Emery are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter Heidi Lynn Homer to Jesse "J" Larsen. Jesse is the son of Jerry and Martha Larsen of Ephraim.
The couple will be married in the Salt Lake Temple on Nov. 9. A reception will be given for family and friends to share the couple's happiness that evening from 6-8 p.m. at the Ephraim LDS Ward located at 115 East 200 South.
Jesse is a graduate of Manti High School and Heidi graduated from Emery High. The couple met while working together in Ephraim where both attended Snow College.
They plan to continue their education and make their home in Spanish Fork where both are now employed by Nestle.
Laci Jacobson and Travis Tuttle have chosen to be married on Nov. 1 in the Manti LDS Temple.
A reception will be held in their honor Nov. 2 from 6-8 p.m. at the Orangeville Church, 45 West 100 South Main. An open house will also be held Nov. 9 from 6-8 p.m. in the Springcreek South Church, 860 East 200 North, Springville.
The parents of the bride are Kirk and (the late) Sherry Jacobson of Springville. The parents of the groom are Kevin and Karen Tuttle of Orangeville.
The couple will make their home in Orem, where they are employed and while Travis attends Utah Valley State College.


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"Up here to shoot partridge and pheasant, probably."
Charlie Decker's father was a hunter. Deer, primarily. He had guns.
My dad was a hunter. Pheasant, primarily. He has guns.
As a kid, I went with my dad on a hunting day trip at least once. Of course, I was relegated to sitting on the floor of the big yellow van while the men in their gear searched for the pretty birds. The heavy side door slid open and I sat there, feet swinging over the edge, pigtails on either side of my face, wearing my favorite yellow Iowa Hawkeye hooded sweatshirt.
I watched the men hunker down, aim, pull the trigger, then, gun lowered and neck extended, search the horizon for a sign of where the pheasant landed. I watched our family dog Sadie, a black Lab – cocker spaniel mix, bouncing in and out of the grasses. Or crops. Or brush. I watched my dad: slim, dark shaggy hair, Tom Selleck mustache, with his easy gait and dark blue stocking cap.
When we arrived home, I watched (& helped!) as my dad feathered, skinned, and cut apart each bird on a makeshift table in our unfinished basement, in front of the washer and dryer.
And I ate that pheasant for dinner that evening, sitting at the card table with my pops and two siblings, careful not to fall for the teasing about "the best part!" … the heart.
I knew my dad had a gun. I knew he had a couple of guns. I knew, or was pretty sure I knew, where he kept them. Yet I never once was curious about them.
My folks did it right. There was a respect for a rifle but not an awe. It was like any other tool: something you used for a job and once that job was done, you set it aside. Since it was treated as such, the curiosity of something forbidden never besieged me.
I'm unsure where this leaves me on the spectrum of the whole Second Amendment debate, and I'm sure arguments could be made using this anecdote for and against, but I do know that some folks get it right. Like my Pops. And some don't. Like any number of infamous examples.
Like Charlie Decker's father.