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Does anyone know how to cut the sky out of an image? I have been trying all sorts of different techniques but they all have the same problem viz there is no substitute for the human eye.
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Thanks for your help and ideas guys. I have put what you have been saying together and come up with a very simple (and obvious with 20-20 hindsight :-) technique. Stack dark layer over normal layer. Use the lasso tool to drag a line along the horizon (watching out for things like white tents sticking into the sky). Do this to an accuracy of N pixels where N doesn't need to be small. Now modify the selction by feathering it by N. Now make a mask for the dark version and flatten. You can see my result for N = 20 here: gigapan.com/gigapans/105958
Tom's suggestion sounds like a winner. I'm thinking that it would also require some type of gradient on the mask so that the sky at the transition with the land is lighter but darkens gradually above. I believe that is possible to do. Great mini tutorial here.
Make a normal version (sky burned out) and a darker version (good sky). In Photoshop, drag the dark version onto the light version, holding the <shift> key to make it register perfectly. Hide the dark layer, then use the Magic Wand to select just the sky. Select>Modify>Expand 1-2 pixels. Now select the dark layer and make a layer mask.The little circle-in-rectangle icon in the Layers palette. The sky shows only where the selection is. Now change the blend mode of the sky layer to Darken. Tree branches, etc, on the horizon reappear. You may need to lower the opacity of the sky layer slightly because lighter leaves and branches will be partially burned-out by the bright sky.QED.
What if you gave Enblend two images to work with and blend the seam between the sky and land. You'd just have to create the alpha channel mask for it to work with and that you could paint in rather easily in PS for the one image and then invert it for the other. Saving each image in turn. It has been a while since I've used Enblend from a command line but it has some options as to the distance it is blending (I believe anyway). If you're quick in PS that might work for you. I always liked the blending from Enblend. I did find some ghosts, at least three. Two are an individual moving and the third looks like it came from the tone map. The pano is rather nice. There are hints of tone mapping when you look at it close up - subtle is good. If you have it in PS, crop the sky a bit lower to remove the seam locations ... it will be near perfect in my opinion.
@Planet Vision Yes, I wanted to replace the sky. In the basic +0EV shot the sky is almost completely white because it was a grey day. The sky in this image is made from the same photos but tone-mapped to bring out the structure in the clouds. I agree that the sky looks fine when you are zoomed out, but if you zoom in you'll see that the line between the dark sky and the bright land is very crude. I imagine that if I spent a lot of time using photoshop and masks then I could improve the boundary, but what I am really looking for is a technique that is accurate and *fast*.
@David All I did was to shoot the scene twice and then stitch using Autop*no using ghost removal. Plus I got lucky in that there was nobody in the wrong position in any frame in either pass.
I think the sky is fine give the attire of the participants. Can you go back and shoot a nice day and then mask it in cutting below the treeline where the eye can be deceived somewhat? You might have to do each frame individually, warping as you go unless you could mask the individual images before stitching. You might be able to make the latter happen in PTGui. Actually, I should ask ... is that your goal - to replace the sky?
Have you been keeping secrets from me? Did you buy a new camera and instantaneous GigaPan maker? How did you accomplish taking a good sized GigaPan with people and dogs in it and obviously moving around, yet there are no stitching errors. How did you do this???


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Track Similar to those of the Red Squirrel, but slightly smaller; in snow, it is nearly impossible to distinguish tracks of the two species. Hindprints are about 1 1/2" (37 mm) long, with 5 toes showing; foreprints are about 3/4" (20 mm) long, with 4 toes showing. Trail often blurred by fold of skin between front and hind legs. Animal landing on snow leaves distinctive print showing all 4 feet and folds of skin.
Sign Hickory nuts with one or two smooth edged openings, (Red Squirrels make a ragged opening, and fox and gray squirrels crush the nut). Usually lives in tree cavities, but may make summer nest of leaves, smaller than Gray Squirrel's.


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The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance. And now I must be explicit, for this that follows -- unless his explanation is to be accepted -- is an absolutely unaccountable thing. He took one of the small octagonal tables that were scattered about the room, and set it in front of the fire, with two legs on the hearthrug. On this table he placed the mechanism. Then he drew up a chair, and sat down. The only other object on the table was a small shaded lamp, the bright light of which fell upon the model. There were also perhaps a dozen candles about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sconces, so that the room was brilliantly illuminated. I sat in a low arm-chair nearest the fire, and I drew this forward so as to be almost between the Time Traveller and the fireplace. Filby sat behind him, looking over his shoulder. The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor watched him in profile from the right, the Psychologist from the left. The Very Young Man stood behind the Psychologist. We were all on the alert. It appears incredible to me that any kind of trick, however subtly conceived and however adroitly done, could have been played upon us under these conditions.
The Time Traveller looked at us, and then at the mechanism.
'Well?' said the Psychologist.
'This little affair,' said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus, 'is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through time. You will notice that it looks singularly askew, and that there is an odd twinkling appearance about this bar, as though it was in some way unreal.' He pointed to the part with his finger. 'Also, here is one little white lever, and here is another.'
The Medical Man got up out of his chair and peered into the thing. 'It's beautifully made,' he said.
'It took two years to make,' retorted the Time Traveller. Then, when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man, he said: 'Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion. This saddle represents the seat of a time traveller. Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go. It will vanish, pass into future Time, and disappear. Have a good look at the thing. Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery. I don't want to waste this model, and then be told I'm a quack.'


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My biggest issue with the drip method is water temperature. Especially this time of year, the air temp is typically cooler, and if i dont have a heater in the acclimation process, then the water temp drops pretty quickly. I had to weigh the risks, is a potential pH difference more of a shock than a known temperature difference? I honestly don't know the answer to that questions, but people hae floated bags for decades. At the same time, adding LFS water to your tank is very risky. I tend to be someone one that says "F*** it" and takes my chances and most of the time things work out fine.....but some of the time I get burned.
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What I usually do that many people do is open the bag and slowly add a little tank water a little at a time - maybe a 1/4 cup - wait a few minutes, then add more. Eventually, I let out about half the water in the bag into a sink and then resume adding small amounts of tank water for a total of about 5-10min, waiting a minute or 2 in between. I then net the fish into my tank.
I had been doing that, too, until the addition of rocks had raised my pH to 7.6 (and since I know it's from the rocks, I know there's a change in gH/kH (which can cause osmotic shock to fish). Now it's a .6 difference between the tap and my water (and I know the LFS has a pH of 7). I feel a lot more safe with the drip.
However, if you know your params don't differ much from your LFS, I'd be all for the "f*** it" method. I don't have a lot of patience, which is why QTs are not my forte.Adventures in Aquaria - The KevinVA Story
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I agree with 850R, great points.
however, i'll play devils advocate again.
if i'm setting up the QT the first time, and putting in that batch of fish, then i'll go ahead and dump in the LFS water.
I ONLY do this on the basis, of whatever is in that water, the fish is already exposed too, and in my initial treatments of the QT, will likely remove that.
But at the same time, after a few hours of the fish getting settled, I do a 50% water change, and that should dilute/help if there were any potential issues with the LFS water.
however, if i have a fish in QT already, and plan to add a new one.
I won't add any LFS water and do what 850R's process is.
I think your best troubleshooting plan needs to be QT.
if this were to happen in a QT, your list of issues is drastically cut down/narrower to chose between.
You are either risking A bucket of fish OR a tank of fish, I make the same choice every time because we occasionally see how it turns out when it goes bad.
& you never know when it will go bad.
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Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
Thats a pretty good point! See, thats why I come here, to gain a better perspective.
Well...I am very "under stocked" at the moment. I rehomed the tiger barbs, I re-installed the bubbler, and I added a dose of melafix to the tank, and I continue to lose fish.
There is no trama to the body, no discoloration, the fish totally look normal. Maybe 4-6 hours before death, the fish looks to be gasping and swimming funny. But its not like I lose a bunch of fish at once. I would say 1-2 fish every 24-48 hours.
What can you think of that would cause a pattern of death like that? Its pregnant fish, its male fish, its neon tetras, black neon tetras, and cherry barbs. Nothing else has been effected yet. I have noticed a significant drop in the carbonate hardness of the water, but thats the only parameter than has changed, and everything else looks healthy.
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I've experienced something like that when I first started up my 75gal (while it was heavily planted). I was using a canister filter w/out a spray bar, plus a koralia pump for circulation. I kept losing 1-2 fish every other day. I talked to someone at Petsmart of all places, who mentioned the possibility of the fish asphyxiating due to lack of oxygen, because of the released co2 at night from all of my plants. I added two bubblers and the problem went away.
People have already mentioned this possibility before... but who knows. Some people always shrug that off as a possibility, but if you ask me, it's clearly plausible. I see you re-installed the bubbler. When was that? How heavily planted is your tank?
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So plants take in CO2, and release O2.
hence why people add co2 systems for their plants to grow.
and turn them off at night because the light is not driving the photosynthesis process that allows plants to use the co2. leaving the co2 on over night=Overdose on it and it'll kill your fish.
He's running 2 hobs, there can't be a lack of o2 when you have that set up. the surface agitation created by hobs is plenty to full fill the tank needs.
CO2 is not absorbed, but released during the night. That is the problem. In essence, if you don't have enough free oxygen in your water, you could very well overdose your tank with CO2, if it's heavily planted w/out surface agitation. There can be a lack of O2 w/ hobs, if his tank is filled to the brink or plants are covering the outtake. Why do you think some people lower their water level in their tank, when they administer some medicines? More surface agitation to compensate for the medication's abilities to deplete oxygen in the tank.
I'm not saying this is his problem, because I don't even think that his tank is that heavily planted, I'm just suggesting that it's a possibility.Adventures in Aquaria - The KevinVA Story
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just wanted to share my experience with every one.
so a while back you may recall i bought a cheapy canister filter off ebay. for up till about 2 weeks ago it was running GREAT. the flow was slower than stated but it seemed like it had a good enough flow rate for a 55-65g tank. but now the filter has been running for almost a year its louder than a 747 airplane taking off. its too much to be around. i will be removing it and replacing it with my spare AC's till i can afford a good canister filter. over all my jebo 838 filter seemed decent for the first few months but now im kicking my self in the rear for not saving the extra 30 bucks for a rena xp2...
so if you are planning on buying a cheapy brand off ebay like i did please heed my advice and just save a few extra bucks, the cheapy will need replacing within the first year.
also i will most likely be placing this in reviews.KING OF THE GOLD BARBS RAWR!!!!
I wonder if i plant one of my tiger barbs would the demon seed grow to a full tree?
gotta love them bunnies!
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I got a used eheim classic 150 that made a racket at first. Replaced the shaft and the bushings and it was right again. Total costs about 55% of what a new one would have cost me. Classics often surface on the used market and parts are easy to find. Perhaps something for you?
A noisy filter is a royal pain in the rear. I'm often surprised that the magazines and commercial sites overlook this when they review gear.
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NLM Unveils Enhancement of Drug Naming Standard for EHRsTuesday, November 29th, 2011
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has enhanced the Drug Naming Standard for Electronic Health Records. The RxNorm standard clinical drug vocabulary produced by the NLM is now said to contain more accurate and complete connections between National Drug Codes (NDCs) and standard non-proprietary names of medications recommended for use in electronic health records (EHRs). NLM, a component of the National Institutes of Health, claims to be the world's largest medical library.


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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal Jackson Bureau
JACKSON – Both sides are playing their cards close to the vest when it comes to the authorization of bonds for the 2013 legislative session.
Last session no bonds were approved to finance long-term construction projects because the House and Senate could not agree on an amount.
This session both chambers have passed bond proposals, but those bills do not really stake out the position of House and Senate leaders on the amount of bonds they will support.
The House passed a handful of bills to authorize the sale of bonds to finance construction projects at universities and community colleges, historical preservation projects and a new building at the University Medical Center in Jackson.
The total of the House bills for the upcoming fiscal year would be about $182 million. But the House did not pass what is known as a general bond bill to deal with state agency needs or for local projects throughout the state.
The Senate has passed a bond bill totaling about $10 million. But the proposal, often referred to as "a dummy bill" in the legislative process, has all the code sections alive so that it could be amended late in the session to include any bond project.
"My goal is to pass a reasonable, rational bond package," said Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who last year blocked a bond agreement when he said the House's package was too high. House leaders contended their request would not have added to the state's debt.
Reeves said he does not have a specific number for the amount of bonds he will support this year, but said the goal is "to meet the critical capital needs" while "reducing the overall debt burden" of the state.
He said the state will pay off about $240 million in debt this year, but that does not mean that is the size of the bond package he will support. Bonds are authorized by the Legislature, but the bills routinely give the three-member Bond Commission of the governor, attorney general and treasurer the actual authority to issue the bonds.
He said about $1 billion in bonds have been approved by the Legislature in past years, but have yet to be issued by the commission. Some of those will never be issued because the projects they were authorized for never came to fruition.
But Reeves said the Bond Commission issued $100 million in bonds this past year even though the Legislature did not authorize any new bonds during the 2012 session because of the disagreement on the size of the package.
Currently the state's total bond debt is about $5 billion and it will cost about $375 million during the coming year to pay toward the retirement of that debt.
Of course, with interest rates at record lows, many say now is the time to issue debt.
But Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, said of the House package, "I think we have been very conscious of expenses and costs. We are trying to hold the bonds to only those items that are absolutely necessary … We are trying to be very cautious."
Often in recent years, the Legislature has financed maintenance and repair projects with bonds because of a shortfall in general fund dollars. Leaders in both the House and Senate have said, generally, that projects that do not last at least 20 years – the normal time to pay off a bond – should be financed through a normal appropriation instead of a bond issuance.
And this session it appears the Legislature will make a $20 million appropriation to counties to repair deficient rural bridges instead of providing the funds through bonds.
Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, said it is important to remember bonds "can enhance the quality of life for all Mississippians," such as the bonds that were matched with local funds to make improvements to the Elvis Presley Birthplace and Museum to entice more tourist dollars to Lee County or the bonds issued to provide the incentives to lure Toyota to Blue Springs.
Another Toyota-related project, an advanced vocational school funded in part by Toyota donations, will not likely be part of any bond package this session, various Northeast Mississippi legislators have said. There have been some efforts in the past to garner state funds to construct the school that would be available for students in Pontotoc, Union and Lee, which are the counties that worked together to lure Toyota to Northeast Mississippi.
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Binghamton University hosts eating disorders program
Binghamton University's Eating Awareness Committee will present "A Mother's Perspective: Children and Eating Disorders," by Mary Ellen Clausen, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, November 5, in the Susquehanna Room of the University Union. The program is free and open to the public.
Mary Ellen Clausen, founder and executive director of Ophelia's Place, will provide a real-life perspective as the mother of two daughters with eating disorders. Ophelia's Place offers assistance to those suffering from an eating disorder, as well as help families understand and gain compassion for those who struggle with a disorder.
Clausen presents nationally to health and mental health professionals, educators, students, professional organizations and associations, and parent groups.
The program is sponsored by the Eating Awareness Committee and Sodexo Campus Services at Binghamton University.
The Eating Awareness Committee's mission is to help students maintain balanced eating habits to foster a healthy lifestyle.
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Ian Somerhalder Continues Push For Fifty Shades of Grey Roleby Free Britney at . Comments
Ian Somerhalder is not only interested in the role of Christian in Fifty Shades of Grey, he's progressed to lobbying for it ... and recruiting writers.
The Vampire Diaries star, 33, has made it clear that he's more than game to turn the controversial novel into an even more controversial movie.
Now he's waging a Twitter campaign of sorts, beginning with reaching out to Bret Easton Ellis, a screenwriter who apparently wants in on the film as well.
"Id so love to be Christian Grey w/you & Angelina Jolie. Ive only waited 10 years to do a movie w/u. Im grown up now-no worries," Ian wrote.
Ellis (American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction) has also been angling to bring the S&M saga of Mr. Grey and Anastasia Steele to the big screen.
He wrote to Ian: "I'm glad you're as excited by the prospect of Fifty Shades of Grey as I am. (though I've heard that Angelina is not involved...)"
Yes, despite rumors that Angelina Jolie will direct, that's not happening.
Still, Bret and Ian? A formidable pair no doubt. Ellis previously named Alex Pettyfer as his Mr. Grey of choice, but says he might reconsider:
"Rereading Fifty Shades of Grey: it's hard for me to think of Ian Somerhalder as Christian G. because I've known him personally for so long."
"I know Ian Somerhalder and how kinky he can be and yes, he's probably Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, and he will go all-out for it."
"I'll call Ian tomorrow for Fifty Shades of Grey ...I get it, I get it."
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By JB Clark/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – The smell of exhaust and sound of idling Harley engines hung over the BancorpSouth Arena parking lot Saturday morning as more than 300 riders readied their bikes for the annual Dixie Thunder Run.
Retired soldiers and patriotic bikers sign up every year to as a way to raise money for Operation First Response, an organization that provides emergency financial aid to U.S. soldiers and their families.
The run goes north to Southern Thunder Harley Davidson in Southaven to meet up with another group of riders and then west to Tunica where they have a reception and drawings for motorcycles and cash prizes.
Tony Shackleford, director of the run, said the turnout in Tupelo was great Saturday morning for the eighth Memorial Day ride.
Iraq War veteran David Binford of Ripley rode his Honda Goldwing.
"I'm a veteran myself and believe in supporting the soldiers because I know what they've been through," he said.
Gene Sullivan of Tupelo isn't a veteran but said he rides his Honda VTX 1800 in the run to support the troops.
"I believe in helping the soldiers," he said. "I've been doing the run for six years straight and it's a great ride for a great cause with great people. And, it's nice to have your knees in the breeze."
Kent Powell of Pontotoc did the run for the first time Saturday with his coworker Ed Roy, who rode in the first Dixie Thunder Run.
"I've been doing it off and on since it started," Roy said, standing next to his Harley Fat Boy. "I'm all behind my troops."
The riders' engines drowned out all other sounds at 9 a.m. as they pulled out of the arena, going East on Main Street and then jumping on Highway 45.


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You provided a claim of charging criteria and a comparison to some known appliances. I was asking that you cite your source.
The information was from a presentation done on the Volt. I do not know what research was done to gather it.
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I thought that was fairly obvious. It would defeat the purpose of it being an electric car.
Im not really defending the Volt. I just think its ridiculous to bash something you know almost nothing about. Quite a few of the statements made on here against the Volt and electric vehicles in general has been incorrect. I just thought you might want correct information. I guess I was wrong.
By the way, you should feel free not to continue to comment on it yourself. Obviously, you arent changing my mind either, so why dont you drop it?
YOU STARTED IT!!!! I'll drop it if you will.
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YOU STARTED IT!!!! I'll drop it if you will.
Come on, you know it ain't over till Blackstone gets the last word in
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Come on, you know it ain't over till Blackstone gets the last word in
Yeah, just like DNF.
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Yeah, just like DNF.
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Auburn, AL, Sept. 25, 2013
A large group of interested and invested people attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a very unique project at the Cherokee County Career and Tech Center (Tech Center) on September 18, 2013--the unveiling of the "Ag in Action" trailer. This 26-foot learning lab on wheels is the first in Alabama and only the fourth in the nation. It is designed to be setup at local K-middle schools to allow students to experience farming hands-on.
Beth Farmer from the Cherokee County Farm Service Agency (FSA) welcomed the group to the ribbon-cutting and gave a brief time-line of the project. Dignitaries addressing the crowd included Dr. Philip Cleveland, Director, Alabama Department of ED Career and Technical Education; Dr. Mitchell Guice, Superintendent Cherokee County Schools; Brett Keasler, Tech Center Director; Keith Tolbert, Tech Center Instructor; Eddie May, Coosa Valley Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council; and Kyle Hayes, ALFA Area III Director.
The Ag in Action lab is very impressive and catches the eye. It is covered inside and out with almost life-like photos of cattle, poultry, crops, trees and other scenes of agriculture taken at local farms and lands. Inside is an "ag simulator," a converted cotton picker cab donated by Donald Sewell, a local farmer from Etowah County. While sitting in the vibrating seat, students can imagine being a farmer and harvesting cotton, corn, and soybean crops through audio visuals. Videos of a cattle farm, a poultry house, and harvesting timber are also available.
Four computer learning stations inside give students the opportunity to learn the importance of farming using touch screen technology. Outside, mounted on the back of the trailer, is a large screen TV that creates another learning station giving students virtual visits to local farms and agricultural related venues. Additional learning stations like the Eviroscape, a miniature cotton gin, and a Milking Cow can be added outside around the lab to keep multiple groups of students involved at one time.
Everyone agrees that the project would not have been a reality had it not been for the agency partnerships, in-kind hours, grants, donations, and sponsors. The planning committee thanks the many people who supported the project. The participants from seven counties--Etowah, Cherokee, St. Clair, Blount, DeKalb, Marshall, and Calhoun—include SWCDs; the Alabama Farmers Federation (ALFA); Coosa Valley and Alabama Mountains, Rivers and Valleys RC&Ds; USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and FSA; and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES). Other sponsors include Snead Ag; First South Farm Credit; Gilreath Printing and Signs; Alabama Farm Credit; Cherokee Cotton and Gin; Tile Liquidators; and Cherokee County Career and Technology Center.
The participation of the Tech Center staff and students is especially noted. Instructor Keith Tolbert took ideas that were presented to him, encouraged participation from his students, and, sometimes, worked seven days a week to build the project. Tolbert is very passionate about his students and this learning experience. He said, "The project took them full-circle. It gave them a great opportunity to ply their trade while creating a learning device for other students." Superintendent Guice said, "These are the type of opportunities that we are looking for to encourage our students. Almost every department in the school has had their hands on the project in some way."
Sharron Gross, Chairman of the Etowah County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), was one of the first visionaries to energize the project. She said, "I am very proud of how this project has turned out and feel very blessed to be a part of it."
Sarah Butterworth, who is employed through the Etowah County Farmers Federation, is the coordinator for the learning lab. She will be traveling around the seven counties and setting it up for educational events. She said, "Ag in Action is an amazing way to bring agriculture to life and teach students about agriculture. It allows them to make the connection between the farm and their everyday lives. Using the lab, students will learn where their food and fiber grows and how it is produced." She also talked about the Tech Center students and their dedication to the project. "We're extremely grateful for the Tech Center students and facility for their vision and work, especially in transforming the cotton picker cab into an ag simulator. They brought it to life," she said.
The Ag in Action trailer is already being scheduled for schools, county fairs, and agricultural events within the seven county area.
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The U14 Girls State Cup Final pitted the 99 Pool Group versus Dakota REV. U14 Coach Gabe Vogler spoke to the team before the game saying "We have 100% confidence in you to go out and play great. We have the best training environment and pool of players to be the club that will represent Minnesota at Regionals. Go out and perform at the level you have trained at and you are going to like the result."
The first half saw REV dominate with the wind as the MTA girls played very tentatively while at the same time trying to create a goal every time they touched the ball no matter where they were on the field. That combination meant that there was no rhythm for MTA and there were often large gaps between the lines. REV exploited those gaps and dominated play creating a few close chances before being awarded a penalty kick that they converted to take the 1-0 lead.
"Half time came and we had to get the girls to come out and play better." Coach Kaasa said, "We told the girls that their goal in the second half was to leave an impression that, no matter what the score ends up being, we are the best team on the field. Press harder and higher up the field. Do not let them put 3 passes together in a row. Dominate every air ball and fly at them for the entire half. Be dominant."
The girls came out flying in the second half and did everything that the coaches had asked them to do and rarely let the ball out of their attacking half. Eva Anderson won every ball out of the air, even when surrounded by 3 or 4 players.
The clock continued to run without the tying goal that MTA needed until 3 minutes left in the game when MTA was awarded a free kick 30 yards out from goal. MTA sent almost everyone forward for the ball into the box and REV had everyone back in their box. However, instead of crossing the ball, Adrienne Tarver went for goal and sailed the ball over the REV goal keeper, into the net, and sent the MTA players and fans into a fit of delirium.
Overtime came and MTA continued to press hard for the winner but no goals were scored and it was time for the shootout.
Flashback three years ago- Emma Greenfield was in tears after USA cup when the girls were U11's and we decided to go with a different goalie in a shootout. She said she wanted to be the goalie in net for the shootout. After seeing that strong desire to be in the net when it matters the most we have known that we have a great goalie that wants to be a difference maker. - Coach Kaasa
Flashback three years ago- Emma Greenfield was in tears after USA cup when the girls were U11's and we decided to go with a different goalie in a shootout. She said she wanted to be the goalie in net for the shootout. After seeing that strong desire to be in the net when it matters the most we have known that we have a great goalie that wants to be a difference maker. - Coach Kaasa
REV won the toss and elected to shoot first. Emma G made an excellent diving save on REV's first shot, MTA converted and were up 1-0. Next two players scored to make it 3-2 MTA over REV after 3 shots. REV's fourth shooter converted. 3-3. Our fourth shooter missed six inches wide left, REV converted shot number five and suddenly had a 4-3 lead and the tables had completely turned and all the shootout momentum in MTA's favor had been lost. MTA's fifth shooter had to score to keep it going or the game was over. Essentially sudden death had started in Round 5. She converted for 4-4. REV's sixth shooter converted. 5-4 and our sixth shooter converted to make it 5-5. Round 7. Each side converted. 6-6. Eighth shot. Brilliance from Emma G again for a diving stop. Final shot. MTA's eighth shooter, Taylor Kimmel, scored for a 7-6 come from behind game and shootout win.
"Before the game we spoke about this group setting the standard for our future pool groups and they have certainly done a great job of putting that standard at a very high level. It has been our expectation that the USYS group is going to compete for a Region Title." U14 Coach Andy Kaasa said. "Having both USYS and ECNL competitions to compete in has really raised the level of play for all the players in the group. Through both the USYS and ECNL we really get to compete against the best teams in the country no matter what competition that we are playing in and we are excited to represent Minnesota at Regionals."
The girls will now represent Minnesota at the USYS Region II Championships from June 22-26 in Des Moines, IA.
Shootout Scorers: AT, Olivia, Natalie, Maren, Eva, Z, Taylor
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e Madison - Eleanor C. Martinelli, age 95, of Madison, died peacefully surrounded by family on Monday, November 30, 2012 at Wynwood of Madison West.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 12 noon on Wednesday, November 5, 2012 at OUR LADY QUEEN OF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 401 Owen Drive, with Msgr. Kenneth Fiedler presiding. Burial will follow at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be at the church on Wednesday from 10 a.m. until the time of Mass.
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ORMISTON'S first sensation on re‐entering his sister's room was one of very sensible relief. For Katherine leaned back against the pink, brocade cushions in the corner of the sofa, with the baby sleeping peacefully in her arms. Her colour was more normal too, her features less masklike and set. The cloud which had shadowed the young man's mind for nearly a fortnight lifted. She knew—therefore, he argued, the worst must be over. It was an immense gain that this thing was fairly said. Yet, as he came nearer and sat down on the sofa beside her, Ormiston, who was a keen observer both of horses and women, became aware of a subtle change in Katherine. He was struck—he had never noticed it before—by her likeness to her—and his—father, whose stern, high‐bred, clean‐shaven face and rather inaccessible bearing and manner impressed his son, even to this day, as somewhat alarming. People were careful not to trifle with old Mr. Ormiston. His will was absolute in his own house, with his tenants, and in the great iron‐works—almost a town in itself—which fed his fine fortune. While from his equals—even from his fellow‐members of that not over‐reverent or easily impressible body, the House of Commons—he required and received a degree of deference such as men yield page: 77 only to an unusually powerful character. And there was now just such underlying energy in Katherine's expression. Her eyes were dark, as a clear, midnight sky is dark, her beautiful lips compressed, but with concentration of purpose not with weakness of sorrow. The force of her motherhood had awakened in Katherine a latent, titanic element. Like "Prometheus Bound," chained to the rock, torn, her spirit remained unquelled. For good or evil—as the event should prove—she defied the gods.
And something of all this—though he would have worded it very differently in the vernacular of passing fashion—Ormiston perceived. She was unbroken by that which had occurred, and for this he was thankful. But she was another woman to her who had greeted him in pretty apology an hour ago. Yet, even recognising this, her first words produced in him a shock of surprise.
"Is that horse, the Clown, still at the stables?" she asked.
Ormiston thrust his hands into his pockets, and, sitting on the edge of the sofa with his knees apart, stared down at the carpet. The mention of the Clown always cut him, and raised in him a remorseful anger.—Yes she was like his father, going straight to the point, he thought. And, in this case, the point was acutely painful to him personally. Ormiston's moral courage had been severely taxed, and he had a fair share of the selfishness common to man. It was all very well, but he wished to goodness she had chosen some other subject than this. Yet he must answer.
"Yes," he said; "Willy Taylor has been leading the gallops for the two‐year‐olds on him for the last month."—He paused. "What about the Clown?"
"Only that I should be glad if you would tell Chifney he must find some other horse to lead the gallops."
Ormiston turned his head. "I see—you wish the horse sold," he said, over his shoulder.
Katherine looked down at the sleeping baby, its round head, crowned by that delicious crest of silky hair, cuddled in against her breast. Then she looked in her brother's eyes full and steadily.
"No," she answered. "I don't want it sold. I want it shot—by you, here, to‐night."
"By Jove!" the young man exclaimed, rising hastily and standing in front of her.
Katherine gazed up at him, and held the child a little closer to her breast.page: 78
"I have been alone with my baby. Don't you suppose I see how it has come about?" she asked.
"Oh, damn it all!" Ormiston cried. "I prayed at least you might be spared thinking of that."
He flung himself down on the sofa again—while the baby clenching its tiny fist, stretched and murmured in its sleep—and bowed himself together, resting his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands.
"I'm at the bottom of it. It's all my fault," he said. "I am haunted by the thought of that day and night, for, if ever one man loved another, I loved Richard. And yet if I hadn't been so cursedly keen about the horse all this might never have happened. Oh! if you only knew how often I've wished myself dead since that ghastly morning. You must hate me, Kitty. You've cause enough. Yet how the deuce could I foresee what would come about?"
For the moment Katherine's expression softened. She laid her left hand very gently on his bowed head.
"I could never hate you, dear old man," she said. "You are innocent of Richard's death. But this last thing is different."—Her voice became fuller and deeper in tone. "And whether I am equally innocent of his child's disfigurement, God only knows—if there is a God, which perhaps, just now, I had better doubt, lest I should blaspheme too loudly, hoping my bitter words may reach His hearing."
Yet further disturbed in the completeness of its comfort, as it would seem, by the seriousness of her voice, the baby's mouth puckered. It began to fret. Katherine rose and stood rocking it, soothing it—a queenly, young figure in her clinging grey and white draperies, which the instreaming sunshine touched, as she moved, to a delicate warmth of colour.
"Hush, my pretty lamb," she crooned—and then softly yet fiercely to Ormiston:—"You understand, I wish it. The Clown is to be shot."
"Very well," he answered.
"Sleep—what troubles you, my precious," she went on. "I want it done, now, at once.—Hush, baby, hush.—The sun shall not go down upon my wrath, because my wrath shall be somewhat appeased before the sunset."
Katherine swayed with a rhythmic motion, holding the baby a little away from her in her outstretched arms.
"Tell Chifney to bring the horse up to the square lawn, here, right in front of the house.—Hush, my kitty sweet.—He is to bring the horse himself. None of the stable boys or helpers are page: 79 to come. It is not to be an entertainment, but an execution. I wish it done quietly."
"Very well," Ormiston repeated. He hesitated, strong protest rising to his lips, which he could not quite bring himself to utter. Katherine, the courage and tragedy of her anger, dominated him as she moved to and fro in the sunshine soothing her child.
"You know it's a valuable horse?" he remarked, at last, tentatively.
"So much the better. You do not suppose I should care to take that which costs me nothing? I am quite willing to pay.—Sleep, my pet, so—is that better?—I do not propose to defraud—hush, baby darling, hush—Richard's son of any part of his inheritance. Tell Chifney to name a price for the Clown, an outside price. He shall have a cheque to‐morrow, which he is to enter with the rest of the stable accounts.—Now go, please. We understand each other clearly, and it is growing late.—Poor honey love, what vexes you?—You will shoot the Clown, here, before sunset. And, Roger, it must lie where it falls to‐night. Let some of the men come early to‐morrow, with a float. It is to go to the kennels."
Ormiston got up, shaking his shoulders as though to rid himself of some encumbering weight. He crossed to the fire‐place and kicked the logs together.
"I don't half like it," he said. "I tell you I don't. It seems such a cold‐blooded butchery. I can't tell if it's wrong or right. It seems merciless. And it is so unlike you, Kitty, to be merciless."
He turned to her as he spoke, and Katherine—her head erect, her eyes full of the sombre fire of her profound alienation and revolt—drew her hand slowly down over the fine lawn and lace of the baby's long, white robe, and held it flat against the soles of the child's hidden feet.
"Look at this," she said. "Remember, too, that the delight of my life has gone from me, and that I am young yet. The years will be many—and Richard is dead. Has much mercy been shown to me, do you think?"
And the young man seeing her, knowing the absolute sincerity of her speech, felt a lump rise in his throat. After all, when you have acted hangman to your own sister, as he reasoned, it is but a small matter to act slaughterman to a horse.
"Very well," he answered, huskily enough. "It shall be as you wish, Kitty. Only go back to the sofa, and stay there, please. If I think you are watching, I can't be quite sure of page: 80 myself. Something may go wrong, and we don't want a scene which will make talk. This is a business which should be got through as quickly and decently as possible."
The sun was but five minutes high and no longer brightened the southern house‐front, though it spread a ruddy splendour over the western range of gables, and lingered about the stacks of slender, twisted chimneys, and cast long, slanting shadows across the lawns and carriage drives, before Lady Calmady's waiting drew to a close. From the near trees of the elm avenue, and from the wood overhanging the pond below the terraced kitchen‐gardens, came the singing of blackbirds and thrushes—whether raised as evening hymn in praise of their Creator, or as love‐song each to his mate, who shall say? Possibly as both, since in simple minds—and that assuredly is matter for thankfulness—earthly and heavenly affections are bounded by no harsh dividing line. The chorus of song found its way in at the windows of Katherine's room—fresh as the spring flowers which filled it, innocent of hatred and wrong as the face of the now placid baby, his soft cheeks flushed with slumber, as he nestled in against his mother's bosom.
Indeed a long time had passed. Twice Denny had looked in and, seeing that quiet reigned, had noiselessly withdrawn. For Katherine, still physically weak, drained, moreover, by the greatness of her recent emotion, her senses lulled to rest by the warm contact and even breathing of the child, had sunk away into a dreamless sleep.
The questioning neigh of a stallion, a scuffle of horse hoofs, footsteps approaching round the corner of the house, passing across the broad, gravelled, carriage sweep and on to the turf, aroused her. And these sounds were so natural, full of vigorous outdoor life and the wholesome gladness of it, that for a moment she came near repentance of her purpose. But then feeling, as he rested on her arm, her baby's shortened, malformed limbs, and thinking of her well‐beloved dying, maimed and spent, in the fulness of his manhood, her face took on that ashen pallor again and all relenting left her. There was a satisfaction of wild justice in the act about to be consummated. And Katherine raised herself from the pink, brocade cushions and sat erect, her lips parted in stern excitement, her forehead contracted in the effort to hear, her eyes fixed on the wide, carven, ebony bed and its embroidered hangings. The poor Hart had, indeed, ceased to pasture in reposeful security before the quaint pavilion, set—for its passing refreshment—in the midst of the Forest of This Life. Now it fled, desperate, by crooked, tangled ways, over page: 81 rocks, through briars, while Care, the Leopard, followed hard behind.
First Roger Ormiston's voice reached her in brief direction, and the trainer's in equally brief reply. The horse neighed again—a sound strident and virile, the challenge of a creature of perfect muscle, hot desire, and proud, quick‐coursing blood. Afterwards, an instant's pause, and Chifney's voice again—"So‐ho—my beauty—take it easy—steady there, steady, good lad"—and the slap of his open hand on the horse's shoulder straightening it carefully into place. While, behind and below all this, in sweet incongruous undertone of uncontrollable joy, arose the carolling of the blackbirds and thrushes praising, according to their humble powers, God, life, and love.
Finally, as climax of the drama, the sharp report of a pistol, ringing out in shattering disturbance of the peace of the fair spring evening, followed by a dead silence, the birds all scared and dumb—a silence so dead, that Katherine Calmady held her breath, almost awed by it, while the hissing and crackling of the little flames upon the hearth seemed to obtrude as an indecent clamour. This lasted a few seconds. Then the noise of a plunging struggle and the muffled thud of something falling heavily upon the turf.
Dr. Knott had been up all night. But his patient, Lord Denier's second coachman, would pull through right enough, so he started on his homeward journey in a complacent frame of mind. He reckoned it would save him a couple of miles, let alone the long hill from Farley Row up to Spendle Flats, if on his way back from Grimshott he went by Brockhurst House. It is stretching a point, he admitted, to drive under even your neighbour's back windows at five o'clock in the morning. But the doctor being himself unusually amiable, was inclined to accredit others with a like share of good temper. Moreover, the natural man in him cried increasingly loudly for food and bed.
John Knott was not given to sentimental rhapsodies over the beauties of nature. Like other beauties she had her dirty enough moods, he thought. Still, in his own half‐snarling fashion, he dearly loved this forest country in which he had been born and bred, while he was too keen a sportsman to be unobservant of any aspect of wind and weather, any movement of bird or beast. With the collar of his long, drab driving‐coat turned up about his ears, and the stem of a well‐coloured, meerschaum pipe between his teeth, he sat huddled together in the high, swinging gig, with Timothy, the weasel‐faced, old groom, by his side, while the pageant of the opening day unfolded itself page: 82 before his somewhat critical gaze. He noted that it would be fine, though windy. In the valley, over the Long Water, spread beds of close, white mist. The blue of the upper sky was crossed by curved winrows of flaky, opalescent cloud. In the east, above the dusky rim of the fir woods on the edge of the high‐lying tableland, stretched a blinding blaze of rose‐saffron, shading through amber into pale primrose‐colour above. The massive house‐front, and the walls fencing the three sides of the square enclosure before it, with the sexagonal, pepper‐pot summer‐houses at either corner, looked pale and unsubstantial in that diffused, unearthly light. At the head of the elm avenue, passing through the high, wrought‐iron gates and along the carriage drive which skirts the said enclosure,—the great, square grass plot on the right hand, the red wall of the kitchen‐gardens on the left,—Dr. Knott had the reins nearly jerked out of his hand. The mare started and swerved, grazing the off wheel against the brickwork, and stopped, her head in the air, her ears pricked, her nostrils dilated showing the red.
"Hullo, old girl, what's up? Seen a ghost?" he said, drawing the whip quietly across the hollow of her back.
But the mare only braced herself more stiffly, refusing to move, while she trembled and broke into a sudden sweat. The doctor was interested and looked about him. He would first find out the cause of her queer behaviour, and give her a good dressing down afterwards if she deserved it.
The smooth, slightly up‐sloping lawn was powdered with innumerable dewdrops. In the centre of it, neck outstretched, the fine legs doubled awkwardly together, the hind quarters and barrel rising, as it lay on its side, in an unshapely lump, grey from the drenching dew, was a dead horse. Along the top of the farther wall a smart and audacious party of jackdaws had stationed themselves, with much ruffling of grey, neck feathers, impudent squeakings and chatter. While a pair of carrion crows hopped slowly and heavily about the carcass, flapping up with a stroke or two of their broad wings in sudden suspicion, then settling down again nearer than before.
"Go to her head, Timothy, and get her by as quietly as you can. I'll be after you in a minute, but I'm bound to see what the dickens they've been up to here."
As he spoke Dr. Knott hitched himself down from off the gig. He was cramped with sitting, and moved forward awkwardly, his footsteps leaving a track of dark irregular patches upon the damp grass. As he approached, the jackdaws flung themselves gleefully upward from the wall, the sun glinting on their glossy page: 83 plumage as they circled and sailed away across the park. But the crow, who had just begun work in earnest, stood his ground notwithstanding the warning croak of his more timid mate. He grasped the horse's skull with his claws, and tore away greedily at the fine skin about the eye‐socket with his strong, black beak.
"How's this, my fine gentleman, in too much of a hurry this morning to wait for the flavour to get into your meat?" John Knott said, as the bird rose sullenly at last. "Got a small hungry family at home, I suppose, crying 'give, give.' Well, that's taught better men than you, before now, not to be too nice, but to snatch at pretty well anything they can get."
He came close and stood looking meditatively down at the dead racehorse—recognised its long, white‐reach face, the colour and make of it, while his loose lips worked with a contemptuous yet pitying smile.
"So that's the way my lady's taken it, has she?" he said presently. "On the whole I don't know that I'm sorry. In some cases much benefit unquestionably is derivable from letting blood. This shows she doesn't mean to go under, if I know her, and that's a mercy, for that poor, little beggar, the baby's sake."
He turned and contemplated the stately facade of the house. The ranges of windows, blind with closed shutters and drawn curtains, in the early sunshine gave off their many panes a broad dazzle of white light.
"Poor, little beggar," he repeated, "with his forty thousand a year and all the rest of it. Such a race to run and yet so badly handicapped!"
He stooped down, examined the horse, found the mark of the bullet.
"Contradictory beings, though, these dear women," he went on. "So fanciful and delicate, so sensitive you're afraid to lay a finger on them. So unselfish, too, some of them, they seem too good for this old rough and tumble of a world. And yet touch 'em home, and they'll show an unscrupulous savagery of which we coarse brutes of men should be more than half ashamed. God Almighty made a little more than He bargained for when He made woman. She must have surprised Him pretty shrewdly, one would think, now and then since the days of the apple and the snake."
He moved away up the carriage drive, following Timothy, the sweating, straining mare, and swinging gig. The carrion crow flapped back, with a croak, and dropped on the horse's skull page: 84 again. Hearing that bodeful sound the doctor paused a moment, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, and looked round at the bird and its ugly work set as foreground to that pure glory of the sunrises and the vast and noble landscape, misty valley, dewy grassland, far‐ranging hillside crowned with wood.
"The old story," he muttered, "always repeating itself! And it strikes one as rather a wasteful, clumsy contrivance, at times. Life forever feeding on death—death forever breeding life."
Thus ended the Clown, own brother to Touchstone, racehorse of merry name and mournful memory, paying the penalty of wholly involuntary transgressions. From which ending another era dated at Brockhurst, the most notable events of which it is the purpose of the ensuing pages duly to set forth.


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...with your hands full of "buy" tickets. I know that feeling of wanting to get back in at the bottom, so you can recoup all those loses. Been there, done that. Only time I got "lucky" with my timing was in the late 60's.
As Mr. Bonner sez: "Be careful...very careful." UB
Gird up your loins, dear reader. Put wax in your ears and lash yourself to the mast. You are about to be tempted.
"Lead us not into temptation," says the famous prayer. The old timers knew we were weak. They knew we couldn't resist. They didn't pray that we would "just say no" to temptation. They knew that wouldn't happen. Instead, they prayed to God to keep temptation away from us.
There's nothing like a little temptation to get the juices flowing. A roulette wheel that seems to stop just where you thought it would...a pretty woman who smiles at you on the cross-town bus...a pastry as big as a sombrero and as rich as El Dorado - oh...Heaven forefend!
But the hardest temptation to resist is the temptation of getting something for nothing.
"Investors begin dipping toes back into stocks," reports a Reuter's article.
"While economies keep contracting, stocks may have already started pricing in the end of recession and the beginning of a recovery."
Last week, the stock market showed a little leg. Yes, prices rose 12% over a 4-day period - teasing us with the prospect of a little fun. Finally - a rebound. Maybe.
The Dow rose again on Friday - up 53 points. The index is still down more than 15% for the year...and down more than 50% from its all time high. It is rare to see such big losses without a major rebound. Our guess is that we're finally ready for one.
On that basis, we have taken down our "Crash Alert" flag. If we're right, we're going to see stocks go up 20% to 50%. And we're going to hear more people talking about the end of the recession...and a new bull market.
GM said it really didn't need an extra $2 billion last week. Two of America's biggest banks said they were running in the black again. Even the retail sales figures were not as bad as people expected.
Houses in some communities - such as Riverside, California and Miami, Florida - are selling for only about half of what they brought three years ago. Surely this is the bottom of the housing slump, right? And sales of existing houses - at bargain prices - rose almost 50% in January, from a year before.
Our advice is to listen politely - but don't take it too seriously. This is a depression. If it follows the form of previous depressions, it will seem for a while that it is not a depression at all...but a recession, and one that is ending.
Many - probably most - people still believe that the crisis is merely a pause in an otherwise healthy economic model. They wait for the bailouts to take effect...and for the U.S. consumer to begin buying again. That is the fondest hope, by the way, of the Chinese government. The Chinese hold $1.4 trillion worth of U.S. dollar assets. They're worried that their stash of cash may lose value. But, so far, it is the only thing that is NOT losing value.
The poor Chinese began spreading their cash around just before Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall. A number of their high-profile deals went bad:
"China loses billions on equities bets ahead of markets' collapse," says an awkward headline in the Financial Times. By the end of June '08, the Chinese held more than $100 billion worth of U.S. equities. Bad timing. But the collapse of the U.S. stock market makes Beijing's other dollar holdings look good. The dollar has gone up. So, the lesson the Chinese have learned is this: the safest thing you can do is to continue lending to your biggest deadbeat customer.
It is a dangerous strategy. But the Chinese think that if they extend enough credit to the U.S. consumer, he'll come back in the shop. And Ben Bernanke, another dreamer, said last week that the recession could end this year.
Stocks will probably rise for a few months. The economic news will be better. The Dow could rise to above 10,000. Then, we will be tempted to think that all the king's horses and all the king's men are actually better at putting things back together than their reputation suggests. We'll be tempted to think that those bailouts and giveaways actually did the job...and that now, rather than turn our backs on temptation...we can safely give in to it.
Be careful, dear reader. Be careful.
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|Forget chicken, fish or steak--the food choices at Kate Middleton and Prince William's wedding are sure to be fit for a Queen. InStyle asked top chefs what kind of food they'd serve on Buckingham Palace's biggest day.
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|HER CLAIM TO FAME: The queen of southern cooking, Deen is the host of the Food Network's In the Kitchen With Paula and owner of The Lady and Sons in Savannah, Georgia.
HER WEDDING DISH: "I've been to England, and I don't care for the food, but they would love my cooking! If they like blood pudding, wait until they taste my banana pudding--it'll blow them away!"
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|HIS CLAIM TO FAME: Cajun chef Lagasse hosts the Food Network's Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril. He also owns several restaurants around the country.
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Date: 2004-06-21 By: Douglas De Long
The mind of man is capable of anything – because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future. ~Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Most people think of the brain and the mind as being one and the same thing. Doctors, scientists ...
Date: 2003-04-30 By: Christopher Penczak
When I started on the path of witch, my teachers stressed to me the importance of meditation. Not only is it a skill that witches should learn to help with spells and rituals, but meditation all by itself is quite magickal. What is magick? Magick ...
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The rationalist culture of the post 19th century has done its best to kill imagination. To the pure materialist, imagination is just day-dreaming and an un-necessary barrier to achieving. More recently, science seems to be reviewing its views ...
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Meditation helps train the mind to focus and achieve clarity, while promoting relaxation and fostering a spiritual connection. There are many ways to practice meditation, including guided exercises and special breathing techniques, but part of the ...


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NCAA pole vault champion Rory Quiller, seen here in April 2008, is one of six members of the 2013 Athletics Hall of Fame class. The induction ceremony is Nov. 16.
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Six selected to Athletics Hall of Fame
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Binghamton University has announced its 2013 Athletics Hall of Fame class, which will be enshrined at the 18th Annual Induction Ceremony on Nov. 16. The class, which spans five sports and 35 years of competition, includes an NCAA champion, two All-Americans and a Major League Baseball player.
Elected to membership for 2013 are former standouts Scott Diamond (baseball, 2005-07), David Holmes (swimming, 2004-07), Glenn McIver (basketball, 1973-78), Graham Munro (soccer, 2002-05), Rory Quiller (track & field, 2003-08) and Leah Truncale (basketball, 1998-03).
Diamond made history by becoming the first Binghamton University baseball player to reach the pinnacle of his sport when he earned a spot in the starting rotation for the Minnesota Twins last spring. He was named the organization's Pitcher of the Year and its Most Outstanding Rookie in 2012. Back on campus, Diamond was a three-year starter and America East Rookie of the Year in 2005.
Holmes racked up 18 America East titles in the pool and became the first male swimmer in conference history to advance to the NCAA Championship. A former Binghamton University Athlete of the Year, he was the Most Outstanding Performer at both the 2006 and 2007 ECAC Championships and he compiled 15 ECAC gold medals in a record-breaking career.
McIver followed a notable playing career with impactful service in the Binghamton community. On the court, he scored 1,101 career points and ranks fourth in program history with 699 career rebounds. In his senior season (1977-78), McIver averaged 19.0 points. After graduation, he became one of the area's most successful coaches, teaching and mentoring boys and girls throughout Broome County. His Seton Catholic Central high school boys' team captured a sectional title and made two finals appearances.
Munro was a one-of-a-kind central defender whose leadership pushed Binghamton University to the top of the America East. The school's first Division I soccer All-American, he was the conference Defender of the Year three straight years and led the 2003 Bearcats to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Munro was Binghamton's Athlete of the Year in 2004 and was selected in the third round of the 2006 MISL draft by Baltimore.
Quiller is the most decorated athlete in the school's 12-year Division I history. He captured the NCAA indoor pole vault title in 2008 and was a three-time All-American as well as a five-time NCAA qualifier. Quiller won five America East titles before making history on March 14, 2008 at the University of Arkansas when he won the national championship. Quiller went on to compete at both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Trials.
Truncale was a gifted athlete whose combination of scoring and rebounding led the Bearcats to a seamless transition from NCAA Division II to Division I. She tallied 1,341 career points and accumulated school records of 978 rebounds and 236 blocks. During her career, Binghamton won at an 81 percent clip and produced an NCAA tournament berth, two ECAC championships and an America East regular-season runner-up showing in the team's Division I debut. She was a two-time all-conference selection who averaged 15.3 points and 10.3 rebounds as a senior.
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Acclaimed cartoonist Roz Chast will give an illustrated talk about her work at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in 101 McCormick Hall.
For the past three decades, more than 800 of her cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker and in magazines as varied as Scientific American, Town & Country and the Harvard Business Review. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions, and she has published more than a dozen books.
Chast's cartoons are inhabited by recurring, often hapless characters who face the issues of our time: anxiety, guilt, aging and relationships with relatives, friends and the outside world. Her most recent collection, "Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006," demonstrates her ironic but compassionate vision. There is often a sense of foreboding in her drawings; mortality and melancholy are frequent themes, and yet readers laugh.
Cartooning for Chast is about storytelling: "… it sounds so cheesy to say it, but communicating a very specific feeling or thought, hopefully a funny one." In an interview with comedian Steve Martin, she described her affinity for interior scenes, which often involve lamps and accentuated wallpapers as backdrops for her cartoons. Peculiar objects populate her drawings, reflecting Chast's affection for what her mother once called a "conspiracy of inanimate objects." The New York Times has described Chast as "equal parts Mia Farrow and Woody Allen." David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, called her "the magazine's only certifiable genius."
Chast is this year's Belknap Visitor in the Humanities, hosted by the Humanities Council. She joins a distinguished roster of eminent writers and artists, including Ian McEwan, Meryl Streep, Chuck Close, Don DeLillo, Arthur Miller and Maurice Sendak, who have come to Princeton through a program created in memory of Chauncey Belknap of the Princeton class of 1912.


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When Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh decided to fund an investigation into - and a film about - the case of the West Memphis Three, they asked a 40-year-old documentarian with one feature credit to her name to lead it. Peter Calder spoke to her.
The bridges across the Mississippi River from Memphis, the great city of the antebellum South take you from Tennessee to Arkansas. The drive leads through cottonfields into another world where people live dirt-poor lives in trailer-home neighbourhoods.
"That's the reason for the title," says Amy Berg, the director of West of Memphis, the coolly angry and oddly beautiful new film about the so-called West Memphis Three.
"When I was interviewing people in West Memphis, it was plain they considered it part of Memphis. But in Memphis they consider it part of Arkansas.
"They are suffering from an identity crisis. It's very sad. The town is completely lost - and marked by the murders obviously."
The 1993 murders of eight-year-old boys Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers boys in suburban bush in West Memphis gave rise to what is now - thanks in good part to this film conceived and funded by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh - established as a monstrous miscarriage of justice.
Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley jr and Damien Echols were 16, 17 and 18 respectively when they were charged with the killings. They served more than 17 years in prison - Echols on death row. But on August 19 last year, the three were released on the basis of DNA evidence. Crucially - and grotesquely - they were not exonerated; under an obscure legal provision known as an Alford plea, they pleaded no contest while maintaining their innocence. In doing so, they surrender the right to bring suit for wrongful conviction; the state saves face; and the case remains closed.
It's this last bit that must hurt the most. For if the new film does something that the three-part HBO series Paradise Lost did not do, it mounts a powerful case against Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of Stevie Branch. As Variety's reviewer remarks, "where [the third Paradise Lost film] pointed a finger at Hobbs, West of Memphis shakes a fist".
Hobbs' tactical error was to sue Dixie Chicks' singer Natalie Maines (one of many celebrities, including Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder, who took up the trio's cause) for defamation for her public utterances linking him to the case. The suit opened him to searching cross-examination and coverage of that case - which Berg goes into in electrifying detail - and to say it goes badly for him is to put it mildly.
Berg came on board the project at Jackson and Walsh's invitation - they were impressed with her clear-eyed and gripping 2006 debut Deliver Us From Evil about sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. And it does not escape her notice that the films' subjects have much in common: sexual abuse is a subject that generates much of the hysteria and moral panic that we see at work in this story.
"The thing that interested me was systemic abuse," she says, speaking by phone from Los Angeles. "The justice system and the Catholic Church have a lot in common and for me it was about exposing things that needed to get out."
The allegation that the boys were sexually abused and mutilated as part of a satanic ritual was a fiction that, once established, was self-sustaining.
"Had they figured out that that was not true in the beginning, they would never have convicted these guys. If you took that out of the mix and realised that it was actually post-mortem injury [caused by animal predation] they would have had a better chance of investigating it properly.
"But they were looking for someone who looked like Damien [Echols] because they thought it was a ritual torture case and they thought he was satanic. So everything fitted together."
Watching the film, it is hard to believe how wilfully blinkered the state remains as the evidence mounts that the trio are innocent. After the Alford - technically a guilty plea - the prosecutor expresses pleasure that "we have a result".
"Everything in the case file shows they railroaded these guys," says Berg. "They didn't report all the information they were privy to and one can only imagine what evidence was actually destroyed.
"But that prosecutor is running for Congress; the judge is a state senator. The stakes are too high for them. It's such a shame. These men are out of prison and obviously that's a good thing. But the parents of the kids are feeling so wronged by the state and Pam Hobbs is in fear for her life that her ex-husband is going to come after her."
Berg pays tribute to Jackson and Walsh who funded not just the film but the painstaking investigations that provided its factual basis.
"They were very busy on The Hobbit but they were always accessible to me. Their response time was unbelievable - minutes, seconds sometimes. But they let me make the film that I wanted to make."
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104 times they've played, 31 have ended with a WSU celebration. And despite a down season, the Cougs think they can make it 32 wins against their cross-state rival Washington by beating the Dawgs on Friday.
"We know we can beat the Huskies if we come out and play our game so I'm looking forward to it," Cougs senior running back Carl Winston says.
"Records don't matter. This is Washington vs. Washington State, records haven't mattered, they won't next year, the year after, the year after," Huskies head coach Steve Sarkisian remarks.
WSU needs that to be the case. Come kickoff on Friday, it will have been a year and 11 days since their last Pac-12 win.
"This week is a huge week for us and for a lot of people it could turnaround the season, or at least shed some light on to this grim season," Cougars junior safety Deone Bucannon says.
For the 13 seniors who will be honored before the game, it's their last chance to beat the Huskies.
"Every time I talk to the old players... they just tell us about the memories they had and winning the past Apple Cups and how alive Pullman is and how our fans are just going crazy. I haven't experienced that yet, so I'm definitely hoping we could experience that this weekend," Winston says.
"They've got nothing to lose, so they're going to bring what they have and we just have to be ready for it," Huskies sophomore linebacker John Timu says.Cougs look to beat Washington, reclaim Apple Cup
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I love Torchwood, but I'm obviously in the same boat as you in that I don't get Starz. So-- phooey!
I'm very excited about the new series of Doctor Who. The last one was a bit disappointing after the RTD series, but still good. I was shocked that Mr. Moffat didn't deliver the way I had hoped he would based on the stories he'd written for the RTD incarnation. It looks like he's turned that around for the upcoming one.
And yes, as I posted in the R.I.P. thread... so sad about Elisabeth Sladen.
I DVR'd the premier special last night (not the premier episode, just a sneak peek). Looking forward to the new series.
I was happy with the last series, it worked well I thought, maybe not the best stuff ever, but it certainly did not disappoint.
I like Amy Pond, but Rory really makes it work IMO. I also like where they are going with the River Song character/story, lots of potential there.
May the force be with you.
I rarely watch those specials 'cos they tend to give up information that I don't want to know. Like, for example, last season, I was sad that I saw River Song and the Weeping Angels. I would've preferred to have been surprised by their return. So... yeah.
I'm glad it looks promising, though!
I agree with you about adding Rory to the dynamic. The whole thing works better as a trio and they haven't done that in ages.
May the force be with you.
I've been watching the early episodes from the 60's that are being shown on a Tacoma PBS station, and they had three companions from the beginning - Barbara, Ian, and Susan. For some reason, they haven't shown any of the Dalek episodes, and it seems that Susan left during the Dalek Invasion of Earth. Vicki joined during the following two part serial. Currently they are on the season two serial "The Web Planet".
In case anyone hasn't seen these...
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51JtuEa_OPc
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmiefoRcfU&NR=1
Wow, great episode. Maybe I'm a bit biased since I have been starved of new Dr. Who for so long, but I rather enjoyed this one. I can't wait for the next episode.
I like the way they are developing the River Song character.
May the force be with you.
The first ten minutes were whiskey tango foxtrot, but in a good way. The baddie in these episodes was FREAKY!!!!! I love it when Moffat goes all creepy like that.
Can't wait until the next part!!