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take it easy on my friends from bayou country. i don't think dustin was the one who brought up the closeness of the game he provided play by play on.....was he?
the thing you need to remember is that miles and saban sent coach meyer away needing to "spend more time with his family". taking him at his own word and admiring him for his decision, it becomes evident to the rest of the country that the big 10 must be weak. meyer himself has made the big 10 where an sec coach goes to post a record of 20 and 0......and still be afforded plenty of time with his family!

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Chapter 1
Ever since my friend Doreen had had the absolute nerve to move to Texas, the house next door had been vacant. I'd gotten into the habit of waltzing around in my undies or a towel (or less) on the way to the shower. After all, our master bedroom is upstairs and the bay window faces to the side. Why close the curtains when there's no one to see?
In retrospect, I realize that being so far above street level may have given me a false sense of security.
One Saturday morning, as I was enjoying a leisurely unclad stretch in front of that fateful window, I looked down to find a curly-haired blonde woman staring at me from Doreen's kitchen nook.
I swooped the curtains shut and dashed into the bathroom, where my husband, Richard, was shaving.
"I think someone is moving into the house next door!" I announced, slamming the door behind me and locking it. "There's a blonde woman in Doreen's kitchen and she's spying on me!"
The absolute worst thing about my husband is that no matter how unraveled I become, he always remains annoyingly calm. And self-righteous.
"Maybe now you'll close the blinds when you're in a state of undress," he said.
"It's too late, for your information! I've been seen, and she didn't even have the decency to look embarrassed! Oh, Richard! I've been seen stark raving naked by my new neighbor who is blonde and obviously has a sensational body and a marvelous tan and sits around all day sipping Crystal Light!"
I yanked a towel off the linen shelf, slammed it over the shower door, and turned on the water before continuing.
"That's not the kind of neighbor I need! I need someone who sleeps in, someone who leaves the breakfast dishes. I need someone with flab! I can't possibly have a sophisticated, blonde, California beach-person for a neighbor!"
Richard gave me an affectionate look in the mirror.
"Has it occurred to you that the person you saw may actually just be a realtor?"
He was right. The woman was quite possibly a realtor. Quite possibly a person I would never have to come face to face with. I could put this unfortunate episode behind me and go on with my life. I could.
Nevertheless, I raced through my shower, dug out my girdle, and dressed to the teeth. Then I hustled downstairs to attack the clutter, just to be safe.
As I scurried through the dining room with my arms full of old newspapers, I caught Richard trying to hide a smirk that said he was infinitely amused by my panicked and humiliated state of mind.
"You'll pay for that look," I said scathingly, then turned and tripped over the mat on the way into the laundry room. He laughed.
"And you'll pay for that, too!" I yelled over my shoulder.
Little did that brat realize I was throwing away all of his unread sports sections. Ha!
The blonde disappeared.
I peeked through the downstairs venetians and there wasn't even a car. Obviously just a passing realtor; no need for me to go into permanent seclusion.
All the same, as I got in my car to run errands later that morning, I found myself trying to formulate a plausible explanation for my indiscretion.
The best I could come up with (if Blondie really did turn out to be our new neighbor) was to have Richard take over a plate of brownies, and bring up in casual conversation that we occasionally rent out our home to my bizarre twin sister who is a lifeguard at the local nudist summer camp.
Of course, if that story didn't work, we could always move to South Dakota.
The following Saturday morning, after a casual brunch, I headed outside with the half-hearted notion that I might do a little weeding in the front planters. Then I saw the U-Haul truck. Leaping back inside the garage, I adjusted the curtains over Richard's workbench so I could watch next door. There was nothing to do but rearrange tools and patiently wait. Sooner or later, Mrs. Neighbor would appear in all her brunette majesty, and I could skip next door with a sunny smile and a loaf of bread.
The only thing wrong with my plan (besides the fact that Shop-Mart's "three-loaves-for-a-buck" bread makes only a so-so welcome gift) was that down the U-Haul ramp came a lamp-toting woman with that same wild blonde hair, not brunette. It was her. Just my rotten luck.
I decided that if she could spy, so could I, so I unashamedly peeked as they began unloading their belongings. You can tell a lot about people from their stuff. Within five minutes, I had a pretty good idea what our new neighbors were like, based on the style and approximate price of their furniture. (It was decent stuff, but none of it matched.)
And I also noted that Blondie did not have a "sensational body" as I had previously thought. She had flab, alright. And more than me. I took great comfort in the fact that, as far as I could tell, no tanning beds or major exercise equipment were carried in.
I almost jumped halfway across the garage when I realized Richard was standing right behind me.
"You little chicken," he whispered.
I jabbed him hard in the ribs with my elbow.
"You men just don't understand how it is with us women and our bodies!" My turn to be self-righteous.
"And what is that supposed to mean?"
"It means I'm not ready to go and unpack boxes with a total stranger who has seen me in my birthday suit."
Richard gave me that benevolent look that always precedes one of his borderline-chauvinistic mini-lectures. I decided to cut him off at the pass.
"Face it, Big Boy! The disgusting lack of privacy in men's restrooms is a pretty good indicator that your half of the human race is still living in the Stone Age!" It wasn't the best I could have come up with, but it would have to do.
He furrowed his brow in mock concentration.
"Deep, Kate. Very deep." Dodging another jab from my elbow, he chuckled. "All I can say is I'm glad men aren't this obsessed with body image."
He plunked an instant chocolate cheesecake mix down on the workbench in front of me.
"Here." He gave me the kind of kiss that always dissolves my agitation. "Now go into the kitchen and put this together like a good little neighbor, and act like Sister Thurston or Thurman or whoever the bishop said she is, never saw you in a state of nature. I've got to go call a couple of the other elders, and get over there to help unload that van."
"You know the family already?" I exploded. "Why didn't you say something? Not only do I have to hide from her at home, but now I find out she's a member, so I'll have to hide from her at church, too! I hope they put her in the nursery!"
Richard laughed and gave me a squeeze.
"The Lord is always listening, dear. Now he'll probably put you both in nursery until you overcome this little difficulty between you!"
As I put the cheesecake together, I reflected on my husband's suggestion. Maybe Rich was right. Maybe I could carry this off by acting as if being seen in a state of nature was no big deal to a totally hang-loose woman of unflinching self-assurance such as myself.
But I wasn't going over there until I absolutely had to. No, I would wait until she was settled in a bit first. Everyone knows women like to organize their spice racks alone.
No sooner had I hidden the cheesecake in the fridge to set, than there was a ferocious pounding on my front door. I opened it to find Blondie standing there. She thrust out her hand, and I grabbed it to shake it, but she unexpectedly pulled me out the door and we headed at a dead run across my lawn and around the side of her house.
"Hi! I'm Sydney Thygerson, your new neighbor!" she said breathlessly. "Sorry to have to meet you like this, but I think our sons are in a bit of trouble!"
We skidded around moving boxes, leaped over scattered lawn furniture, and finally came to a halt in front of a big stack of redwood timbers and bright yellow canvas.
At first, I couldn't figure out what in the heck the problem was. Then I saw, sticking out from one side of the pile, four skinny legs with matching Reeboks kicking furiously. And I heard the unmistakable muffled giggles of one of my offspring.
Sydney directed me to one end of a log.
"Can you lift that end on the count of three, and hold it up while I pull the kids out?" she asked. Sweat poured in little rivers down her face.
I nodded, and she counted.
The log was heavier than I thought it would be. I imagined my upcoming chiropractic bills as my wimpy, quivering muscles did their darnedest.
Sydney grabbed one set of ankles and carefully pulled out a skinny little guy about the same size as my nine-year-old son, Austin. Just when I was sure my back would snap in two, I heard Richard coming at a run. Thankfully, I shifted the log to him and bent to help rescue my son.
As it turned out, the boys weren't badly hurt. The injury count only added up to one lump on a head, one scraped knee, and about a dozen splinters between the two of them.
"What on earth were you doing over here in the first place?" I demanded of Austin, after examining his already-purpling goose egg and determining he would probably live.
"My new friend Kyle invited me over to see their new play-chalet. We were going to surprise his dad and set it up while he was gone to the store."
I restrained a look of incredulity as I glanced from the heavy redwood beams to the two sets of scrawny arms.
"And then part of it fell on us," finished Kyle, rubbing a little spit on his scraped knee.
"Well," said Sydney, giving them both a simultaneous knuckle-rub on the head. "How about if you two men go in and grab some Gatorade, and when our dad gets home, you'll be ready to give him a hand."
The boys raced into the house, leaving us sweating unglamorously in the hot sun.
Richard, evidently remembering my anxiety at formally meeting the woman who could sell my story to the tabloids, eased into introductions for us. (I made a mental note to go dig out those sports pages and put them back by his La-Z-Boy.)
Sydney shook Richard's hand and introduced herself.
"And my husband, Sheldon, will be back any minute from the hardware store," she said. "He's the tall blonde one with the big mouth. Come on in. I think all of us could use a shot of Gatorade." She bent and wiped her sweaty face on the hem of her t-shirt, just like I've seen my boys do hundreds of times. Something in that gesture broke the ice for me; it just didn't fit the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous image I'd been busily conjuring up.
We stepped over and around all the boxes as Syd introduced us to her older son, Keldon, and poured Gatorade into Dixie cups.
"Don't mind my fingers," she said, plunking an ice cube into each cup.
Keldon would probably be in the same class as my daughter, Kammy. One look at his face and that gorgeous mahogany hair, and I knew that Kammy's life was about to change forever. What a hunk.
"Two kids?" I asked.
"Two. And you?"
"Four. Two girls and two boys. This is Austin. Our two teenagers went to the late movie, so you may see them sometime around noon. And our youngest, Amber, spent the night at her friend Caitlin's house."
Sydney pushed a couple of sturdy-looking boxes together and motioned us towards them.
"Best seats in the house." She sighed. "In fact, right now they're about the only seats in the house. Here comes my hubby."
The door behind us opened, and a voice boomed, "Got the truck unloaded yet, sweets?" Then Sheldon saw Richard and I and said, "Ah, this must be the neighbors, mooching off us already!" He had the same kind of mischievous face as a boy I sat next to in sixth grade, the face of a rascal.
Setting the hardware bags on the counter, he reached over and vigorously shook our hands, introducing himself.
"Sydney and Sheldon. Sounds like a law firm, doesn't it?"
A voice like that never needs a microphone.
Syd poured him a drink and handed it to Richard to pass across the counter.
"So, tell us about yourselves," Sheldon said, as he unloaded the bags. "And tell us about the ward. We've talked to the bishop on the phone, and he says this is a great area."
"Well," Richard grinned. "The true stalwarts of the ward should be here any minute to help unload the rest of the van. It might be best to let you judge for yourself."
As if on cue, we heard a whoop and the squealing of brakes on pavement. There could be no mistaking our first arrival. Clyde Frisby (no kidding, that's his real name) made a habit of always arriving in style.
"That'll be Brother Clyde Frisby, our most recent convert and a true Saint," Richard said. "Don't let the tattoos fool you. He got all of those when he rode Harley's with the Hell's Angels. Of course, the bishop has asked him to wear proper clothing at all church-related functions so the naked-lady tattoos don't show."
Richard gave me a sly wink when he said the words "naked lady," and I hurriedly choked down the rest of my Gatorade in an effort to hide my red face. I had chosen the wrong moment to sidle over to the kitchen nook to see if Sydney really could see in through my bedroom window.
(Sure enough, I could clearly read rosignol in big red letters across Richard's skiing poster. My fate was sealed.)
Clyde pounded on the door and bellowed, "Yo!" then let himself in. Clyde's not big on social graces.
A moment later our ward clerk, Brother Ed Wycoff, and his son Devin sauntered in and glanced quickly around the room. It was well known they only came to service projects if there were good refreshments. Disappointment was evident on both their faces when their eyes rested upon the near-empty Gatorade bottle.
Richard made all the introductions, and at Ed's request, it was determined that I should "run down to the Seven-Eleven for a little something." I'd been waiting for that suggestion, and I was ready with a well-thought-out comeback.
"Oh, let's save the trip. I made whole wheat fig and molasses muffins last night, and water is just fine in weather like this."
It was worth it to see Ed and Devin turn pale and all but break out in hives. (Ed's wife, Pamela, was notorious for trying to cook without sugar, salt, or oil. My fifteen-year-old son, Chad, who spent a lot of Saturday evenings at Friscoe's Pizza and Ice Cream Palace, had reported the extraordinary frequency with which the Wycoffs - sans Pamela - furtively crept in and gorged themselves silly. And Pam, ignorant of the dual lives her family led, was constantly bragging in Relief Society about how exceptionally healthy her family was.)
Richard, the killjoy, caught on to my tactics, and cut my game short by ordering pizza from Friscoe's, and the Wycoffs set to work with gusto.
Clyde stepped over and guzzled the last of the Gatorade from the bottle, and announced that he didn't drink the stuff much at home since it gave him gas. My husband, soon to be confined in small places with Clyde, skillfully hid a sudden look of extreme alarm.
News got around fast that pizza was to be had, and more and more of the ward showed up to help - help out eating, that is. As Richard had said, the true stalwarts came to work; the rest of the crowd were actually hangers-on with healthy appetites. I noticed with no small degree of pride that my four children did more work than some of the grown men and teenagers present.
And I was right about Kammy; it was definitely love at first sight. She and Keldon spent the entire afternoon carefully ignoring each other. I watched in amazement as she who was the champion of many an Adolescent Pizza Porkout Contest at our house, sat and took twenty minutes to daintily pick at one piece of pizza at Keldon Thygerson's house.
By early evening, the Thygersons were pretty much moved in and the crowd dispersed. The pizza mess was cleaned up and the two dads loaded up all the kids to return the U-Haul, while Sydney and I put the finishing touches on the kitchen.
"I'd offer you my hot tub for the evening if I had one," I told Syd wearily.
"I'd be willing to settle for chocolate," she answered.
The chocolate cheesecake! How could I forget?
"You're in luck! Follow me."
I admit, I was looking forward to collapsing on our sectional sofa. My back was done for.
"You've got good timing," I remarked, as we climbed our front steps. "Rumor has it tomorrow they're calling a new bishopric."
She laughed. "Isn't it funny how Mormons can't keep secrets? Who've you got picked out for replacements?"
"I'll never tell."
"Give me the ward roster, and let's lay some bets!"
In the kitchen, I opened the refrigerator door and brought out the cheesecake with a flourish. "Welcome to the neighborhood!" I said, bowing elaborately as I handed her the plate.
"What an honor, Kate."
At that moment I noticed that some horrible person in my household, probably of the teenage persuasion, had snitched a major portion of my beautiful chocolate-swirl creation.
"Aughhhhhhh! They got into it! Oh, Syd . . ."
"Think nothing of it," she laughed. "I've got sneaks at my house, too. My mother-in-law taught me to hide the good stuff in dark containers and label it �zucchini.'"
"My mother-in-law is still trying to convince me zucchini is the good stuff." I sighed. "I feel rotten giving you only two-thirds of a cheesecake. There's hardly enough to go around."
She gave me a downright mischievous look.
"You're right." Her eyebrows shot up wickedly. "The way I see it, there's only one solution."
I grabbed plates and forks and we made a dash for my bedroom just as we heard the kids coming in the front door.
"Chad, honey?" I called over my shoulder. "Why don't you guys take out some of those day-old cinnamon rolls from the freezer, and heat them up in the microwave?"
Chocolate cheesecake is too good to waste on kids.
Giggling, we locked ourselves in my bedroom.
"Oh, I love your wallpaper," said Syd, running her fingers lightly over the velvet floral pattern. "You ought to see what's on the walls in our master bedroom. Doesn't match a thing we own."
"Black and white diagonals with silver edging." I murmured, as I set the cheesecake on the table in the bay window. "I helped Doreen put it up."
Sydney laughed a small laugh. "Major blunder," she said. "I always forget to take my foot out of my mouth before I say something stupid. It really is nice wallpaper, it's just . . ."
"Don't worry," I soothed. "Doreen was more . . . futuristic, whereas you're more . . ."
"Early Yard Sale." She sat in Richard's recliner, kicked off her sandals, and took the slab of cheesecake I dished up for her. "So, tell me about Doreen. Besides being into metallic wallpaper," she winked, "what was she like?"
My thoughts flickered over the years of friendship.
"Actually, she was wonderful. We planned our last pregnancies five months apart - well, it wasn't really planned, but it sure worked out great. I cooked all of her hamburger when she had morning sickness, and she scrubbed my tub when I was too huge to bend over." Noticing that I'd cut my piece of cheesecake unevenly, I reached over and sawed off the crooked edge, adding it to my already-healthy portion. "And Doreen hated ironing, so I ironed all of Wayne's shirts, and she put perms in my kids' hair. I must admit, it was nice being able to just trade for things, instead of always writing checks like everyone else in this neighborhood."
"There's a lot to be said for the barter system," said Syd, licking the last crumbs off her fork and allowing a quick glance at the rest of the cheesecake. I waved generously towards it. I had to admit, I'd really outdone myself this time. For a mix, it was spectacular.
"Doreen was constantly remodeling some room in that house," I continued. "I used to really envy her nerve. I've never had the guts to go beyond wallpaper borders. She could knock out walls! We used to love that scene in Fried Green Tomatoes where . . ."
"MmmmmHmmmmmmmm!" Syd, her mouth full, nodded vigorously and waved her fork. She swallowed and launched us into a comparison of our favorite movies.
"Did you ever see that one Pink Panther movie where . . ." she'd begin, and we'd die laughing. Then I'd start one, and we'd lose control.
Finally, she set her plate on the table and fixed me with a serious stare.
"Kate," she said. "I'll be honest with you. My bladder will not last another second. I'll never make it downstairs, much less all the way back home. Could I . . ."
"Go! Go!" I pointed to our bathroom behind me.
She ran in, bolted the door, and then unexpectedly opened it again.
"No listening!" she said, pointing in my face.
Dutifully, I saluted and switched on the bedside radio.
As I stood by the window, bloatedly gazing at the empty pie plate, I realized with a start that we'd managed to make it through the whole evening without one reference to My Embarrassing Moment in the Window. What luck for me to have flashed a person with too much social decorum to cause me further humiliation.
"You know," said Sydney, reappearing. "You know, I think we'll manage to get along just fine, Kate. Not only do we both love chocolate cheesecake and the same movies, but just think, we've both survived one of life's most humiliating events." She put her hands on my shoulders. "Did I ever tell you about my moment of crisis?"
My heart began to pound as I felt a blush start at my toes and move mercilessly upwards.
"Mind you, I don't share this story with just anyone," Syd said in a solemn voice. I caught the twinkle in her eye and was able to start breathing again.
"It was the last day of school. I mean the last day. The day of the Senior Swim. In small towns, you get creative after commencement exercises. We all went down to the Jewelsville city pool, had a mammoth picnic, and then changed and went swimming. Everybody took turns clowning around on the diving board. We had a couple of kids who'd been on the swim team, and they did some real neat flips and dives, but the rest of us just had to improvise something silly."
She sat down on the edge of my bed, ran her fingers through her hair, and continued in a subdued voice.
"My best friend, JoBeth Alexander, told a boring joke and pretended to fall asleep during it. Then I got up there. And you know what, Kate? I had planned a nice little dive I'd learned at girls' camp one summer. But when I said, �Hey, everybody! Watch this!' and raised my hands over my head, the strap popped on my swimsuit, and it dropped clear down around my waist." The twinkle in her eye had brightened into a tear.
She sniffled, and I ran for the box of Kleenex.
"And so," she finished, after blowing her nose. "I know how you must have felt last Saturday. The only difference is, I'll never, ever tease you about it, the way my classmates have teased me. I've never even been to a class reunion, but they've all managed to keep the story alive every year by calling me or sending letters with lewd cartoons drawn in the margins."
Impulsively, I hugged her, though I'm not normally the hugging type. It's just that I realized in feeling Syd's shame, I'd had to feel a bit of my own. All jokes aside, it really had been humiliating.
And it somehow felt better after we'd shed a couple of tears together.
Syd put her sandals back on with a sigh. "Don't get the idea that I'm an emotional basket case," she said, mirroring my own thoughts exactly. I had to laugh.
"I was about to say the same thing. Let's just blame it on exhaustion and chocolate overload."
"Deal." She glanced at her watch and rolled her eyes. "Sheldon'll wonder where I disappeared to. Please tell me we're on the late schedule tomorrow."
I shook my head. "No such luck. The Lord is obviously going to put you right to the test here. Nine a.m. sharp."
I could hear Richard coming up the stairs, and opened the door just as he raised his hand to knock.
"Just as I thought," he smiled. "It doesn't take them long."
Sheldon appeared behind him. "Come home, wife," he yawned, extending his hand to Sydney.
We descended the stairs like old friends, the men making plans to discuss computer software, and Sydney whispering that she'd hidden the "evidence" under the bed.
We found the kids scattered around the downstairs in varying stages of alertness. Chad and Keldon leaned wearily over the Battleship boards, while Austin and Kyle snored a duet by the Nintendo controls. We had to step over Kammy, who was wearing a headset and painting her toenails at the foot of the stairs, in order to find Amber zonked out amid a pile of dolls and kittens.
We four parents stood surveying the little sleeping darlings the way parents do, then began the task of untangling limbs and toting the limp, sweaty bodies off towards their beds.
All in all, it was an exhausting but wonderful day.
It was well after midnight before Richard and I finally dropped into bed.
"You and Syd sure seemed to hit it off," Richard murmured. "I told you the cheesecake would do the trick."
He was quiet for several minutes.
"Hey! You guys never brought us any cheesecake!"
No one can fake a snore better than me.
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Conference focuses on women artists, Nov. 10
Posted October 31, 2001; 05:24 p.m.
years ago, art historian Linda Nochlin wrote an essay that posed the question, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" On Nov. 9-10, Nochlin will participate in a conference at Princeton that will revisit this question and look at the ways in which both the question and the answers to it may have changed since 1971.
The conference, "Women Artists at the Millennium," will explore how art institutions, art history and art criticism have or have not changed in the last 30 years as a result of the women's movement and decades of feminist interrogation in the arts.
Those scheduled to participate include: Ann Hamilton, an installation artist; Yvonne Rainer, a choreographer and a dance, film and video artist; installation artist Mary Kelly, a professor of art at the University of California-Los Angeles who is best known for her piece titled "Post-Partum Document"; Griselda Pollock, professor of social and critical histories of art at the University of Leeds in England; and Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
The conference is sponsored by the Program in the Study of Women and Gender and the Department of Art and Archaeology . It coincides with an exhibition on 19th- and 20th-century women photographers called "Camera Women" at the University's Art Museum .
All events are free and open to the public and will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday in McCormick 101. For the complete conference schedule, check this Web site .
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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Years ago I spent some time collecting a few unique CD's that I came a cross in my purchases. Here are the one's I can think of.
Body Count: Includes Cop Killer which was pulled off later releases
Green Jello: Had a brief hit with 3 Little Pigs in 1991 but then had to change their names so later releases they were called Green Jelly
White Zombie/Let Them Die Slowly: WZ's first album release. Not as good as their later stuff.
Metallica/Kill'em All (first edition): includes Am I Evil? and Blitzkrieg. Due to legal reasons they had to yank the cover songs so most releases are missing them.
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Film & Discussion: Maquilapolis
Carmen Durán works the graveyard shift at one of Tijuana's 800 maquiladoras; she is one of millions of women around the world who labor for poverty level wages in the factories of transnational corporations. When the plant where Carmen worked for six years moved to Indonesia, they try to avoid paying the legally mandated severance pay to which they were entitled by law. Carmen becomes a promotora, a grassroots activist, challenging the usual illegal tactics of the powerful transnationals.
The filmmakers gave several women workers in Tijuana video cameras to make a record of their lives, giving the documentary the intimate feel of video diaries. Lourdes Lujan takes us on a tour of her colonia, Chilpancingo, which has the bad fortune to be located under a bluff from which dozens of factories expel hazardous wastes. But Lourdes and her compañeras successfully pressure the Mexican and American governments to clean up a toxic waste site left behind by a departing battery recycling plant. 68min., 2006
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How can this be?
Maybe just Al Gore opening the dialogue?
Maybe just having Obama as President?
Or.....maybe it was all BS??
"Don't mess with Mother Nature!!";-)
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US Greenhouse Gases Drop to 15-Year Low
By Matthew Kennard in Washington
Published: April 18 2011 23:20
Greenhouse gas emissions in the US dropped to their lowest level in 15 years in 2009 as the impact of the financial crisis led to decreases in fuel and electricity consumption, according to newly published figures.
In 2009, the US saw its emissions of the six main greenhouses gases drop 6 per cent year-on-year to 6,633m metric tonnes, the lowest total since 1995. Despite that annual fall, emissions rose by more than 7.3 per cent between 1990 and 2009.
A Republican-sponsored bill recently passed by the House has been viewed as a wide-ranging attack on the EPA. The proposed legislation argues that carbon dioxide was not mentioned in the Clean Air Act which gave the EPA legal authority to regulate air pollutants.
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Freed journalists: We are very grateful
Women return to U.S. after Bill Clinton secures their release from N. Korea
Freed journalists: We are very grateful
Women return to U.S. after Bill Clinton secures their release from N. Korea
I would love to know what he got from them in return.
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When Bill Clinton heard their was a need for someone to fly across the globe to pickup two women, he jumped to serve his country.
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I love the picture of Kim and Clinton that's been posted all over the internet. Kim's grinning like a cheshire cat and Slick Willie looks like he has a bad case of hemorrhoids!
I hope Algore is paying for all this. These women were his employees and he put them in harms way. They're lucky to be home.
North Korea wins this one.
Two Americans held prisoner in hostile nation. A former president negotiates and executes their release and safe return to their families. I can't wait to hear how that's ripped to shreds by neocons. When I heard of this, the first thing I said was he should have taken Bush I with him, to prevent the inevitable attacks from the extreme right. This shows true colors.
Let the name calling and attacks begin!!
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
Can't blame Slick Willy- any night not spent in the same bed as Hillary is a good night.
Besides like /paul says- gotta go where the desperate ones are.
There are three classes of people: those who see...those who see when shown...and those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci
Roger, this is old news. I think it was Aug. of last year when this lady that used to post here started a new service for hunting and PR photos in Ohio. She booked then-hopeful Dem candidates Shrillary and Obongo along with Billary and Kim Jong-Il on one of her very first ditch tiger lyin' hunts. You can't tell real well but Bill actually has his hand snaked around patting ole Kim on the buttocks here. Several of us tried to support this new business by using this as our avatars, but I hear it failed.
I read the story but all it said is they were arrested near the border. I would like to hear what they did to get arrested and why they were their.
Then I would like to know what we traded for the release.
"Communism only works in Heaven, where they don't need it, and in Hell, where they already have it" Ronald Reagan
North Korea set the terms for their release and we met them, end of story.
Now...who's going to pay the bill for the round trip flight? Current TV or the two "evacuees?" Neither....and we all know it.
Tell you what....if BHO can get those three kids out of Iran that are being held there, I'll be impressed.
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"Networking Made Easy" will be the topic of the Binghamton University Small Business Development Center's Women Business Owners Roundtable from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, October 24, at the Holiday Inn Arena on Hawley Street in downtown Binghamton.
Len Sas, owner of Everyday Business Leader, will teach participants how to network effectively at both business and social events. Sas is a certified coach, organizational change consultant, emotional intelligence trainer and has over 30 years experience in management and leadership positions.
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The return of students to campus kicks off this year with the 14th annual University Fest from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, August 25. The event welcomes visitors and the campus community to the Binghamton University Peace Quad to celebrate the beginning of the new academic year.
The festival will include carnival rides, vendor booths, a children's play area, poster sales, food, student organization tables and live music from local bands. Also, for the first time in two years, University Fest will include a free book giveaway as part of the festivities.
Musical performances begin at 11 a.m. with the Morgan String Band. Known for their dynamic bluegrass sound, the Band will perform traditional, contemporary, and original bluegrass tunes and some classic favorites with their own grassy flavor added.
At noon, The Swims, an energetic, throwback power pop band will take the stage and at 1 p.m., the Seepeoples will perform. Earning glowing accolades from critics, the Seepeoples have been dubbed one of the most dynamic and unique up and coming rock acts to appear on the scene in years.
Musical entertainment wraps up with a performance from the Korean Percussion team, Sul Poong, at 3:50 p.m. Also this year, WHRW will broadcast live throughout the festivities.
University Fest is sponsored by the Binghamton University President's Office, the Office of Campus Life and Sodexho Campus Services.


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With Better Camera and Hardware, Galaxy S IV Looks to Put iPhone on the Ropes
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Apple may be in trouble as Samsung's flagship smartphones storms into the U.S. market
March 14 -- mark tomorrow night on your calendars. That's when Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
), the world's largest smartphone maker, will
unleash its flagship smartphone
: the Galaxy S IV.
I. Galaxy S IV is Samsung's First Launch Held in America
Over the last two years Samsung has built a healthy lead in unit sales over archrival Apple, Inc.'s (
) iPhone. And it's
used attack ads
-- borrowing
a page from Apple's own playbook
-- to slowly chip away at Apple's "cool factor".
Apple, for its part, has suffered from a less aggressive path of hardware development. While analyst still praise its App Store and developer ecosystem as the best in the industry, Apple's GUI as of iOS 6 looked
increasingly long in the tooth
, and the jump to a larger screen size was derided by Android fans
as a "me too" move
And yet Apple's supporters have plenty to crow about. The company still has the strongest brand -- even if it has weakened somewhat amid the Samsung storm. And Apple is
more profitable
than any other phonemaker, making approximately twice the profit that
Samsung makes
per quarter.
But analysts believe that for all Apple's success, it may be in trouble when Samsung launches the Galaxy S IV.
The latest Galaxy phone is set to be unveiled at the Radio City Music Hall. Capturing the carnival-esque vibe
Apple once held
during the
iPhone launches of the Steve Jobs era
, Samsung's blockbuster launch will be broadcast live in Times Square. A simultaneous launch event will be held in London, the largest city in the European Union.
The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S IV will be broadcast live tomorrow night in New York City's Times Square. [Image Source: Global Torusim]
The New York City event will be held just blocks away from one of Apple's busiest stores -- a gesture that has certainly not gone unnoticed. Chung Chang Won, an analyst at South Korea's Nomura Holdings Inc. calls the launch a landmark event for a surging Samsung,
commenting to
, "The upcoming event in New York has big implications because it's Apple's home ground. This is the first time Samsung has launched its Galaxy S phone in the U.S."
Past Galaxy smartphone launches
have typically been held at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain,
at the IFA tradeshow in Berlin, Germany
, or in South Korea.
II. Spec Sheet: an iPhone Slayer
Samsung is anticipated to serve up more than just hollow-hype. It's expected to bring a much faster processor and a larger screen size. Here's what
we know so far
about the device:
5.0-inch 1080p display
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
1.9GHz Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) Snapdragon 600 processor (U.S.)
2GHz quad-core Samsung Exynos 5450 processor (international) [
16/32/64GB storage options
Removable SD card slot (up to 64GB)
13MP rear-facing camera w/ "Orb" technology for compressed panorama shots
2MP front-facing camera w/ "eye scrolling" technology
4G LTE support
Multi-purpose / Dedicated camera button
Bluetooth 4.0
3100 mAh battery
Plastic shell body
The U.S. processor (a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon), the 5-inch screen, and the new camera have all been confirmed by top U.S. news outlet
, which is owned by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
[Image Source: Sammy Hub]
Perhaps the biggest "wow" feature could be the eye-tracking technology, which will use the front-facing camera to track the users eyes allowing them to visually scroll through articles.
First reported
The New York Times
, the hands-free feature has been reportedly in the works for a long time and has been perfected to be very fluid.
's sources dispute that full-fledged eye-tracking will appear in the GSIV, but says that simplified versions of the technology may appear in the device. For example, if you look away from the screen, the phone may automatically pause the video you're watching.
The new spec appear to be well ahead of the iPhone 5 -- which only packs a 8MP rear camera with a (reportedly) smaller sensor, a 4-inch screen, and a slower dual-core CPU.
III. "Cooling Off" Apple May be Forced to Change Strategy
Park Hyun, an analyst at Seoul, South Korea-based Tong Yang Securities says that Apple will be unlikely to be able to muster its response (the iPhone 5S) until late this year. He says that is bad news for Apple, whose once hot phone is seeing slowing sales. He comments, "[The iPhone 5's] popularity has clearly cooled off."
Jan Dawson, chief analyst at the New York City office of London-based telecommunications consulting firm Ovum, says Apple's best hope to stay competitive may be to try to release different versions of the iPhone. She comments, "There's been a drumbeat of rumors about Apple working on more than one version of the iPhone. The thinking is, if Apple does several devices it would help dampen the singular effect of having only one phone a year."
Apple may be forced to launch a variety of iPhones to keep up.
But one must wonder if copycatting Android's approach of a broad range of phones will do more harm than good for Apple. Apple's app ecosystem has benefitted from a homogenous screen size/resolution for each smartphone release; likewise its marketing has always focused on the simplicity of its phone offering -- there has always been only one iPhone.
Ultimately, though Apple may be forced to try to reinvent the wheel, as it sees Samsung stealing its thunder. With over
$100B USD in the bank
, and an incredibly strong brand it's far too early to count the Cupertino, Calif. phonemaker out. But the GSIV launch is certainly serving notice that Samsung has Apple pressed up against the ropes and is hitting it hard, in its home turf.
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The Black Arts Company will present "The Talented Tenth," an original play by Yves Lola St. Vil, Thursday, Dec. 5, through Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Frist Film/Performance Theater, Room 301, Frist Campus Center.
The play, which borrows its title from the famed W.E.B. DuBois essay, explores the pressures faced by a group of talented African-American teenagers. It deals with discrimination, interracial dating and economic and social pressures.
"The Talented Tenth" features music from artists such as Missy Elliot, Paul Johnson and OutKast.
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7/9-Monomoy Island, flats, fly, wade, South Beach, Chatham
TONS of Bass moved in with the exaggerated tides.
Fished the outer beach today and was rewarded with numerous hook-ups while sight fishing the surf. Nothing big was caught but it was fun to see the large # of schools moving about. Even with a steady flow of seals the fish seamed to tolerate them and stayed close to shore. Tons of birds working just off shore. The fly of choice was a white and gray 7-inch sluggo. Ha
WOW! These big tides brought in lots of fresh fish. Good sized schools on the flats and most riding "high and happy!" (Eager to eat) As soon as the tide turned they showed up in #'s. With sun and lil wind you could see them coming 175 feet away. Some of the best flats fishing this summer. Everywhere we stopped we saw fish. West, North, East side of Monomoy. Counted approx. 350 fish! Ye-Haaa.
This was a day for Kings and Queens. It started out with 100 seagulls picking up 5-6 inch sand lances and 4-5 inch squid. Fish were crashing on the surface. This went on for an hour. Mercy hooked 3 fish on her first 3 casts. A dozen fish were released from this spot until it was time to leave and sight fish the flats with the incoming tide. As soon as our ankles hit the water they were there. We could see them coming 150-200 feet away. Numerous 20 lb'ers. Joe and Mercy jaws dropped as they witnessed wave after wave of fish coming at, behind and in between them. Today was one of the better days on the flats. Saw approx. 250 fish in half a today.
As the tide rose so did our concern about getting to higher, safer ground with these tides. Moved to a bowl 3 feet deep and to our surprise found 100 stripers milling around in the 70-degree water. They never left, so a long cast was all that was needed so as not to spook them and hook-up. We were standing on a sand bar in ankle deep water casting 60 feet. It's always neat to see them come into a foot of water or less. Released another dozen from this spot. Walked to the cross over and stood with the bird signs to our back and had a steady # coming at us.
Water temp. outside ocean-53 Flats 65-70
Stripers doing flips after bait! 1 ½ feet out of the water!
Split a trip with 2nd best Monomoy wade guide George Ryan (Mayor of Monomoy) George ant tall but he makes up for it in his tall tales.
On our way out to Monomoy, we had our game plan all set. Then to our left we watched an entire mile of gulls diving on the outside of South Beach near shore. We looked at each other and made a quick decision to change our plans and run to the surf for what could be some of the hottest action of the summer. When we arrived what we witnessed was amazing. Gulls and Turns diving, Seals munching on Stripers, Fish crashing bait on the surface.
With-in 20 casts we realized we had made the wrong decision. Birds, bait, fish were 100 feet further than we could throw it! The tide was dropping so all were moving further out of reach. O-Well, Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
After returning to the boat drop off we cast into the channel and began hooking up immediately, one after the other. Pphhewwww. We then decided we could probably do better at Monomoy in a certain stretch, so we left fish to find fish. O-O. Did we make a second wrong choice? Nope. We worked another deep channel that was LOADED with bright, fresh aggressive fish. The action was almost non-stop with largest measuring 31 inch's. It reminded us both of the salad days of spring. At one point all four anglers were hooked up in synch. They released about 40 fish. It's Miller Time!!
All were caught on small sand lance clousers-white, olive-3-5 inch's long. More of those big sand lances were spotted 6-7 inch's long.
We arrived to see 500 or so gulls working the lances over with fish doing the same.
Shawn and Laurie were treated to one of the best days yet! Between the two, 40 or so fish were released with 2 keepers and 1 barely short. Laurie worked albino sluggos-7 inch's long and Shawn used a 4-inch sand lance fly with an Orvis 300-grain depth charge line. The fish were stacked off Monomoy in the channel. Fished 1 spot all day to actively feeding fish. High, low tide it just did not matter. Endless supply of takers.
Something that was interesting to Shawn was when he slowed down his retrieve, he stopped hooking up. The retrieve to succeed was a 1-½ foot fast strip. Basically just imitating the naturals. Glad I wore my polarized sunglasses, as Laurie's smile was overwhelming! Ha
Look for the fishing to slow down a bit next week. As the tides slow down, normally so does the fishing.
We should all try to remember that we are stewards of our environment. If it were not for conservative minded people 20 years ago, we would not be enjoying the fruits of their labor today. Please remember that a fish is too valuable a resource to only be caught once. (Lee Wulff)
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Yet another thing I figured out painstakingly, by finding random bits of documentation in places other than the documentation, because apparently that's how Rails rolls.
Here's my situation. I have a controller spec like this:
describe "GET checkout" do it "redirects to Paypal" do member = FactoryGirl.create(:member) sign_in member order = Order.create!(:member_id => member.id) get :checkout, {:id => order.to_param} response.should redirect_to "http://paypal.com/..." end end
Basically I want to check that when someone checks out, they get sent to Paypal. Easy peasy, right? The thing is, I don't know the exact URL they'll get sent to — it'll be big and complicated and have lots of parameters on it, and it'll be different in test anyway, and umm… ok, well, basically I just want to test whether I get redirected, and whether it's to somewhere paypal-like. Ideally I want to do something like:
# doesn't work response.should redirect_to /paypal\.com/
… and have it do a match against the URL it's redirecting to. But that doesn't work.
I googled every-fucking-where trying to find out what else I could do with the
response object, but it doesn't appear to be documented anywhere official. In the end I found this blog post on Response object methods by Jeff Roush. Thanks, Jeff!
In conclusion, here's how I'm testing for a redirect that matches against a regexp:
response.status.should eq 302 response.redirect_url.should match /paypal\.com/
(There's also a
redirect_url_match? but it seems to be deprecated.)
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Here is what will fix him up. One Teaspoon Robitussion cough medicication, Honey , lemon, vodca and tea. It is wonderful when you are sick. This is Hot and just sip on it.
my gosh! ther is so many recipes on here don't do all of them!!!!!
My grandma makes "cough syrup" by stuffing a glass jar (like a jelly jar) with peppermint sticks, then pouring whiskey over them to cover. When the candy has dissolved it is ready to go...soothes a sore throat and helps you sleep better, too! :wink:
my remedy for sore throat is hot lemonade mix with honey as it relieves the pain quickly.this is a effective sore throat remedies
one teaspoon of elderberry extract mixed in a bit, abt 1/2 cup, water stir and chug a lug.
works for me every time.
At first sign of a sore throat I switch from coffee that has cream in it to black tea, sometimes with lemon and honey. Milk products build up flem and make it worse but the heat from the tea helps it go away. Also, normally it's caused from drainage in the back of the throat so check on something to dry that up.
I'm a fan of good apple ccider vinigar, honey and raspberry leaves
I like to keep Steptasil lemon lozenges in the house for a sore, scratchy throat. They have a numbing agent in them that really helps plus the germ killing ingredients. I keep Benylin for colds in the cabinet. If he is on heart or blood pressure meds, you need Coracidin (sp) cough medicine? It is the box with the heart on the front for people that can't take other medicines for colds. Of course, Lipton chicken noodle soup is a family favourite during cold season.
An old holistic remedy: Finely chop 1 clove of garlic ( not the whole bulb). Let it sit for 10 minutes or so. A substance called allicin is released which is anti-bacterial and anti-viral. Chew it ( try to keep it on your teeth as it is hot). You can add a teaspoon of honey if you like. I just drink water after I swallow it. Cooking destroys the allicin ingredient. It truly works but people don't believe it or like garlic. My DD and DGD were very sick coughing, sore throat, stuffed up heads, just miserable and finally agreed to try the garlic. Within 1-2 hours they were feeling so much better and by the next day all symptoms were gone!
I have shared with others I know and they poo-poo it and stay sick...
I came across this recently and they both work. They are antibacterial, antiveral and antifungal, so they cover a multitudes of sins. Mix one tsp of local (best) honey with 1/4 tsp cinnamon and swallow. Do not take anything by mouth for 15 - 30 minutes after taking this to allow it to work. The second one has more of a bite to it. It actually changes the ph balance in the throat so nothing can grow. If it saves a trip to the docs, then I'll do it. Yes, I use this one and it works great. Mix 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper, 1/4 tsp ginger, 1 T cider vinegar (organic if possible, although I use store bought) 2 T water and 1T honey (local best) I usually triple or so the recipe and store in jelly jar in the fridge. Take 1 T 3 to 4 times everyday for 3 days or until symptoms are gone which usually is 2 to 3 days.


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On request from JediTricks heres a review of 8009 Technic R2-D2:
The Box:
As in the case with my 8007 Technic C-3PO and 8008 Technic Stormtrooper my sample once again came in a thick cardboard box without the inner tray that are common in what I call seal boxes issues but cardboard it is and cardboard we get...
The instruction booklet:
Is in full color and 60 pages long and takes you through building the body, right and left leg and finally the dome on pages 2 to 57 but this time around theres no alternative model to build included in the instruction booklet.
Parts and construction:
Parts come in three sealed plastic bags but with NO pictures on them for each step building the kit but the instruction is clear on all points and easy to follow so it shouldnt cause any problems at all for anyone building this little astromech droid.
The figure itself:
Well... Im kind of torn about this kit. It looks pretty good to me being a Technic kit but since I also have the R2-D2 version from the Droid Developer Kit I got two versions of the astromech droid to compare one another with you know. Both has some good and bad features to them so its kind of hard for me to give a good review of this version but I kind of like them both so I guess I shouldnt compare them at all. LOL As its real? life counter part the dome can be turned around, its middle leg is retractable, one of its arms?/tools? folds out and then again it has wheels in the feet to move around on. So now C-3PO doesnt have to feel so utterly alone without his fellow companion and we got our all time favorite astromech droid (or is it trash can? LOL) on the shelf or desk and in our collections. Out of all the droids and human beings in the LEGO Star Wars Technic line R2-D2 is one of the better of them so therefore Ill give him a total amount of four out of five lightsabers for being so cute.
Now remember people that this is just my personal opinion...
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Adidas, the athletics footwear and apparel giant, made Tupelo High School an offer it couldn't refuse.
Starting this fall, and for the next three years, Golden Wave athletics teams will wear Adidas shoes and apparel.
"It's a deal we couldn't turn down," THS athletics director Danny Porter said. "Adidas makes a good product and it was a good deal."
Former Golden Wave quarterback Stan Hill, a sale representative for Rex Team Sports, said Adidas representatives came to his company wanting a Mississippi high school athletics program to endorse its brand.
"They wanted a 6A school, a big hitter," Hill said. "They thought Tupelo, with all its successful programs, would be a perfect fit.
"It's a first-class deal. I'm really excited for Tupelo. Adidas is hoping to build a bigger presence in Mississippi and in high school athletics."
Details of the contract were not released by Rex Team Sports or Tupelo High.
"I'm excited that we're going to be an Adidas football team and an Adidas school," Golden Wave first-year football coach Trent Hammond said. "My players are excited about it.
"We're going to get the same quality of gear that players at Mississippi State, Texas A&M and Notre Dame are playing in."
The Golden Wave football team was fitted this spring for new uniforms.
"These uniforms are different than anything we've had before," Hammond said. "We'll have Adidas everything … shoes, socks, practice gear, gloves."
Adidas makes a college/high school competition football, but Tupelo is obligated by the Mississippi High School Activities Association to use Wilson footballs.
Tupelo High fields teams in 20 sports: baseball, basketball (girls, boys), bowling (girls, boys), cross country (girls, boys), football, golf (girls, boys), powerlifting, soccer (girls, boys), swimming (girls, boys), tennis (girls, boys), track and field (girls, boys) and volleyball (girls).
The school has been recognized for having the state's top athletics program in five of the last nine years. THS has also been recognized by Sports Illustrated for having one of the nation's top 10 athletics programs.
"I think that once Adidas realized how successful Tupelo was in all of its sports, they were on board," Hammond said. "I've talked with our coaches in other sports and they like this deal."


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Somalia: ERC Valerie Amos calls on Al-Shabaab to withdraw from seized humanitarian compounds
Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said today she was "extremely concerned" by Al-Shabaab's seizure of property and equipment belonging to several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN agencies working to alleviate suffering in southern Somalia.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the seizure a "brazen act" and demanded that Al-Shabaab vacate the premises, and return the property.
The seized compounds are located in the regions of Bakool, Bay, Lower Shabelle and Hiraan, which are suffering from the world's most serious humanitarian crisis.
Ms. Amos also called on Al-Shabaab to reverse its announcement that certain UN agencies and international NGOs, working in areas under its control, should cease their operations.
"Any disruption to ongoing humanitarian efforts threatens to undermine the fragile progress made this year, and could bring back famine conditions in several areas," warned Ms. Amos.
Despite a recent decrease in the number of famine-affected areas in the country, the situation in central and southern Somalia remains critical. Four million people are still in crisis, and 250,000 face famine, reported OCHA.
Ms. Amos reiterated that humanitarian organizations working in Somalia "remain strictly neutral and their only tasks is to save lives."
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MADISON- A. James Kentzler, age 81, passed away on Saturday, May 4, 2013. He was born on March 7, 1932, the son of Paul R. Kentzler and Gertrude D. Dukert.
Jim graduated from West High School in 1950 and continued on to the University of Wisconsin. There he enjoyed theater activities, lettered in fencing and graduated with a B.S. in Speech in 1954. After college he served in the Army Signal Corp in Frankfurt, Germany and was discharged in 1956 with the rank of First Lieutenant.
He met Claire "Pinky" Prothero of Baraboo while working at the Green Ram Theater and the two were married in 1961.
Jim worked as a news photographer at WKOW-TV, at Cuna in the public relations department, as the Business Manager at the Green Ram Theater from 1957 through 1967, and as the Business Manager at the Wisconsin Union Theater and the Wisconsin Players. During his career as a flight instructor, he towed the glider plane of Nobel Prize winner, Oliver Smithies, before retiring in 1983.
Jim loved the theater, photography, wood working, flying and his cat, Orion. He has ratings of instrument, commercial and instructor in single engine land aircraft.
After his stroke in 2010, Jim spent his remaining years at Clare Bridge in Middleton.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Pinky, in 1976.
Jim's final wish was to be cremated and "buried" near his dad's tombstone in Madison.
A memorial gathering will be held from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 12, 2013, at JOYCE-RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 5701 Odana Road. A military honors ceremony will follow at 3 p.m. at the funeral home.
A special thanks is extended to the staff at Clare Bridge for making Jim feel at home there.
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Curator's Perspective
The second National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition again offers an opportunity to survey some of the most recent works by artists working within the sculptural field today. As in the nature of an open prize with few restrictions on the eligibility of works or artists, the selection of works for the exhibition covers a broad range of sculptural practices, and the finalists include established artists whose work spans several decades, as well as emerging artists.
The most apparent characteristic of both the first and second exhibitions is the diversity of the selected works. This diversity reflects both the pluralism of current sculptural practice, and the end of the notion of a definitive epochal style. Within the exhibition works are not linked by external appearance, but by convergences of themes and approaches, and the ways in which they respond to the context of their time.
The majority of the works which have been selected for the exhibition (and entered for the Prize), are 'object-based'. The ongoing activity and vitality apparent within this area of sculptural practice is significant in light of the discussion, originating in the experimentation that took place in the 1960s and 70s, of the boundaries and definition of sculpture and the subsequent 'de-materialisation' of the sculptural object into the expanded field of conceptual art, performance, installation and new media art. Ironically, today, it is not the sculptural object that has dematerialised, but the world around us, as virtual experiences play an increasingly greater role in our daily lives. In contrast, object-based sculpture offers an unmediated and physical encounter with the real, and for artists there has been a renewed interest in the physicality, perception and affects of the sculptural object and an investigation of the inherent and symbolic properties of materials and processes.
Re-defining the parameters and possibilities of their discipline has been an ongoing preoccupation for sculptors and is evident within several works in the exhibition that address the relationship between painting and sculpture, the performative aspect of sculpture, and the notion of sculpture as permanent and tangible. Other works are primarily concerned with the investigation of the particular sculptural issues of space, form, volume and mass. While many works within the exhibition have been made using conventional sculptural media and techniques, such as bronze casting, in some instances this has been to question the implied cultural authority of these practices. Apparent also, is the enthusiasm with which sculptors have embraced the artistic possibilities of a seemingly endless range of materials and processes.
A strong thread linking works in the exhibition is their productive consideration of the art of the past, and the sense of continuity, rather than rupture, with art history embodied within them. This dialogue both contextualises works, as well as provides a platform from which to address contemporary issues. Equally evident within the exhibition is the engagement of many works with other fields; with music, performance, architecture, painting, science, and the written word. For several of the finalists, sculpture is not their primary or sole form of expression, and many have come to sculpture from other disciplines. Noticeably, the self-referential concerns of much art practice of recent decades is largely absent as artists respond to issues external to art. Sculpture is utilised as the means of expression for a wide range of content, from introspective self-examination to explicit political commentary.
Within the exhibition several works directly address current social and political issues. Waiting Room by Terry Summers is a critical comment upon Australia's policy of the detention of asylum seekers. Depicting a group of men, women and children standing mute behind a barbed wire fence, Summers' use of cardboard to construct the figures is a further critique of the destruction of the environment to fuel the consumerist economy.
Since that fateful September 11, many artists around the world have responded to the destruction of the World Trade Towers in New York City. For Jan Golembiewski the incomprehensible nature of this event is mirrored in his use of carbon dioxide (commonly known as dry ice), to sculpt a crowned bust based on the Statue of Liberty in New York. Over a period of 12–15 hours this work slowly and spectacularly disappears, as the carbon dioxide turns to gas. The medium is integrated with the concept; Liberty's ever changing form, defying definition in the way that the events of September 11 defy our understanding.
Richard Tipping's work No Understanding is a continuation of his long investigation into and subversion of the language of signs. By making small changes to the text or design of existing signage, Tipping's works deliver a powerful message, questioning our unquestioning acceptance of this official public language, and creating new and unexpected meanings. Originally conceived in New York City, No Understanding has also taken on darker connotations since 9/11.
Visual perception, spatiality and repetition are addressed in the works of Andrew Leslie, Glen Clarke and David Jensz. Andrew Leslie's Mirror sets up a complex game of visual perception between the object and the viewer, dependent upon space, light and the viewer's field of vision. The work thus becomes essentially situational and conditional. The title draws a parallel between the indeterminate reflected space created within a mirror and the ambiguous spatiality of Leslie's work, as well as being an ironic reference to art's pervasive desire for mimesis.
Glen Clarke's Stemcell research site objects addresses ideas of spatial relationships and explores the notion of a 'correct distance' between objects. Clarke's work consists of two carefully placed elements, a stack of poly-pipes made from wooden spring clothes pegs, and a wooden pallet constructed of 30 cm rulers, which in their form and construction are intended to approximate arteries and a DNA platform. Through the use of such familiar objects and forms, Clarke seeks to find a way of understanding and visualising the scientific concepts informing stemcell research.
Much of David Jensz's work reflects his ongoing interest in the notion of 'implicate order' and self-replicating forms. In Slinky Jensz also explores the idea of sculpture as drawing in space, the spiral form creating dynamic visual rhythms and articulating a complex internal space. Provocatively, Jensz undermines the minimalist austerity of the composition and the impersonal quality of the industrial materials used to construct the basic form, by the application of a delicate floral lace to sheathe the rubber tubes, creating a sensuous and luxuriant dimension to the work.
The natural world and humanity's place within it is addressed by the work of Matthew Harding and Lisa Roet. Matthew Harding's Phyllotaxis draws on his deep fascination with biomorphic structures and natural geometries. The design of Phyllotaxis is based on the intricate geometry of the phyllotactic growth spiral found in many species of plants. Whereas modernism celebrated the promise of science to deliver a better future, Harding's work represents a more ambiguous relationship to scientific knowledge, recognising the limits of our understanding, and revealing the mystery and beauty of the natural world.
For over a decade Lisa Roet has undertaken extensive research on primate behaviour as the basis of her ongoing visual arts project Pri-Mates. Roet's work questions the boundaries of what it is to be human through an investigation of the similarities and differences that exist between humans and primates, and the point at which humankind is both alienated from and joined to the animal kingdom. In Political Ape Roet subverts the heroic tradition of the bronze bust for a series of highly individual portraits of chimpanzees, and adds a sound component of chimpanzee vocalisations. The title of the work can be seen to both mock the pretensions of our own politicians while drawing attention to the chimpanzees' highly-organised social and political relationships.
Landscape, and the experience of place, informs the works of both Peter D Cole and Nigel Harrison. Living for many years in rural central Victoria, Peter D Cole's sculpture refers back to this landscape through the use of abstracted and symbolic forms and colours. In Red, Yellow and Black Cole has refined this syntax to its bare essentials, creating a complex choreography of opening and closing forms, solid and void, and interior and exterior spaces in a work in which simplified geometry and intense colour recalls the modernist vocabulary of artists such as Joan Miro and Alexander Calder.
For Nigel Harrison it is the coastal environment, the meeting of the sea with the land, which is the starting point for the sweeping contours and smooth surfaces of his sculpture. Spirit level explores the qualities of mass and volume, creating dynamic relationships between the forms which fold and curve around each other. The counterpoised shapes generate a sense of uncertainty, and act as a metaphor for the ever-changing nature of the shoreline, the endless reconfiguration of waves, sand and rocks through the agency of weather.
Taking the shape of a spear-like vertebral column, Segmented Structure continues Matthew Curtis's investigation into the particular physical properties of glass and the possibility of creating large-scale structures through the joining of component pieces. Curtis carves and textures the surfaces in order to diffuse light, thereby creating the impression of an interior glow and an ambiguous impression of depth within the work.
Deliberately anti-monumental in its small scale, humble materials and prosaic subject, Noel McKenna's Train in Landscape gently mocks sculptural pretensions. Best-known as a painter, Noel McKenna's sculptures are essentially pictorial tableaux, negotiating the territory between sculpture and painting. Train in Landscape depicts a steam train passing through the countryside, a plume of smoke trailing behind and denoting motion. McKenna reveals the quiet beauty of this commonplace scene, while the work also invokes a melancholic sense of time passing, a quiet sadness in the desire to make such a moment last forever.
Arthur Wicks reflects on the fundamental question of human existence in the Boatman's Unscheduled Crossing, which also relates directly to Wick's performance work from the 1980s. The boatman lurches backwards and forwards along a 4.5 metre track at the whim of sensors activated by the movement of people in the gallery. Wicks offers an essentially existentialist view of the human condition, a theatre of the absurd where we can cry and laugh at the same time as we witness the pointless struggle of the boatman on his never ending journey.
This performative dimension of sculpture is also present within Julie Rrap's Untitled (after Manet's Olympia), in which she alters one of the most famous (and originally infamous) paintings of the late 19th century to expose the politics of the representation of the feminine body. Consisting of two elements — a digital image of Manet's Olympia where the figure of Olympia has been erased, and a cast bronze floor piece of the imprint of the artist's body in the pose of Olympia — Untitled (after Manet's Olympia) invites the viewer to sit in the floor piece and assume the pose of Olympia (and the artist) for themselves. In this manner, Rrap enlists the viewer as an active participant and performer in this 're-presentation' of art history.
Also engaged in a productive consideration of the art of the past, Geoffrey Bartlett combines, in The Bullet The Rose The Window, references to works of European art, architecture and design with the incorporation of a found object, an ancient and massive River Red Gum burl. This evocative marriage of elements, of the natural with the man-made, of the European with the distinctively Australian, reflects on both the hybrid nature of the construction of Australian cultural identity, as well as the sculptural challenge of creating a harmonious composition from such diverse materials and forms.
The long tradition of western figurative sculpture is directly referenced by the works of both Tim Wetherell and Anna Eggert. Tim Wetherell employs the forms of figurative art to signify an idealised worldview through which he examines dichotomies of reality and perception. Someone Else's Children delivers a message of the inequalities that exist between rich and poor nations, and the harsh reality that a large proportion of the world's children live in dire poverty.
Anna Eggert's Tessa, Ebony and Kelsey explores the construction of contemporary feminine identity through the presentation of the clothed body. Eggert's use of drapery to suggest the body, and the youth, grace and vitality of her figures recall the ideal forms of classical Greek sculpture. Her use of stainless steel mesh refers to the contradictory forces of strength and delicacy; qualities that Eggert considers embodied in the self-presentation of young women today.
Rejecting the idealising impulses of the classical tradition, Linde Ivimey's work reflects her fascination with sacred and ritual objects, and the expressive power of primitive art and the art of the Middle Ages. Ivimey's works are also deeply autobiographical, and are made with items obsessively collected from her immediate environment or which contain the imprint of her body: hair, clothes, chewed bones, yet which are hidden or only partially revealed in the finished work.
Expressing traditional Tiwi culture through the new medium of ceramic sculpture, Mark Virgil Puautjimi's Purukuparli – The Tiwi Warrior depicts Purukuparli and Japarra, two of the key protagonists of the Tiwi creation story and the first Pukumani ceremony. Puautjimi's work employs Tiwi artistic conventions for the depiction of the ancestral beings, his use of the relatively recently introduced ceramic medium asserts the vitality of contemporary Tiwi culture.
The collaborative work Jandamarra Crossing Project by Phillipino born artist Alwin Reamillo and Indigenous artist Roselin Eaton seeks to articulate and symbolise the continuing struggle of the Indigenous community towards self-determination and the preservation of their cultural identity. Jandamarra, also known as Pigeon, was a Bunuba man who led the aboriginal resistance against the colonisation of the Kimberley region in the 1890s. Taking the form of a single-seater helicopter constructed from found materials, the work is conceived as a 'mustering of the creative spirit of resistance.'1
The works in the exhibition take us on unique artistic journeys, nevertheless, there are also intersections on many levels across these diverse practices and a way in which all have been formed by ideas and experiences particular to our time.
Elena Taylor
1 Statement by Alwin Reamillo and Roselin Eaton, 2002
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class="gkFeaturedItemTitle" Nong-O Kaiyanghadaogym Scores Lucrative Toyota Marathon Win in Bangkok
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- Published: Friday, 31 October 2014 01:50
- Written by James Goyder
Nong-O Kaiyanghadaogym is now the proud owner of a Toyota Hilux Vigo worth 730,000 Baht as well as the Toyota Marathon belt after beating two separate opponents in Bangkok this afternoon.
At the upscale Asiatique three fighters who had already won Toyota Marathons entered a four man tournament to decide the overall winner which also had 300,000 baht in prize money on the line.
Nong-O, Singdam Kiatmuu9 and Petboonchu F.A.Group were the previous winners and they were joined by a Japanese fighter called Sato Sota in an event promoted by Petyindee.
Singdam and Petboonchu faced off in the first semi final in a battle which saw the recently crowned Lumpinee 140 lbs champion take on his Rajadamnern counterpart.
It was the taller figher who prevailed as Petboonchu was able to neutralize Singdam's right kick by repeatedly catching it and scoring with sweeps, giving him a comfortable lead at the end of the second which he easily defended in the third.
Nong-O would have been happy with the draw as he faced the unfancied, albeit much larger, Sota in the opening round and, as expected, the Thai won comfortably, although he had to cover up and defend himself from some left elbows which could have jeapordized his involvement in the final.
After a brief break for a boxing match the two fighters returned to the ring for the final and in the opening round Nong-O was able to successfuly disrupt Petboonchu's rhythm with a mixture of switch kicks, teeps and sweeps.
In the second round Nong-O, who tends to get the better of Petboonchu, manged to sweep him again before catching a kick and kicking away his opponent's standing leg to take a clear lead into the final round.
Petboonchu started the final round aggressively but never looked like turning the fight around as Nong-O was able to evade all his attacks and counter effectively to win the fight and take home the belt, cash and car.
In other Muay Thai action Kem Sitsongpeenong, Phetmorakot Wor.Sungprapai and Berneung Topkingboxing all stopped overmatched Westerners.Add a comment


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I'm thinking he probably doesn't meet that criteria.
Here is the Constitutions definition of treason:
The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offence is punished with death. By the same article of the Constitution, no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
And then there is that little thing in the First Amendment of our Constitution that protects free speech. Cmon Subrock I expected a little better from you:p


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Assignment: Education - Bring Your Own Device
Onalaska Middle Pilots New Technology Program
ONALASKA, Wis. -- While textbooks are still a major source of information for students, technology use is growing in our schools including Ms. Vogler's 8th grade language arts class at Onalaska Middle School.
"We work really hard to give our students as much access to as much information as possible," said Vogler.
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"We often don't have enough access for all the students in the class at one time," said Vogler.
So, 8th graders at Onalaska Middle School are piloting a new program called Bring Your Own Device which allows students to bring in any internet capable device like smart phones, iPods or e-readers to be used in class for research.
"Two days ago, we ran out of iPads," said 8th grader Shane Kucharczyk. "So, I just pulled out my iPod Touch and used it then."
"When a student brings in their own device, where we may need 30 devices to outfit a classroom, now we may only need five or ten," said Jed Kees, Onalaska Middle School principal.
That's because the school will only have to provide a piece of technology to students who don't already have their own. This allows more classrooms to be connected to the world wide web at the same time without the expense.
"To be a one-to-one school, where every student has a device in their hand, is not very cost effective," said Kees. "So, if there are ways that we can get towards that - take a step in that direction with the help of students and families - it's a good thing to do."
The 8th graders will be allowed to carry their devices from core class to core class and the teacher will decide when and how the technology will be used
"So, for instance, if I have a testing situation where no devices are needed, I can have all the students set their devices down and turn them off; set them up on the front table. Nobody has access to them," said Vogler. "At the end of the class they pick up their device and off they go."
However, Ms. Vogler admits that teachers realize allowing students to have smart phones and iPods in class could become a management issue, but educators at Onalaska Middle School are hoping this program will help students learn how to use technology properly.
"Our kids exist in a digital world," said Kees. "And we were asking them to shut it off when they walked in the building. We thought that by helping them be responsible digital citizens, they would enhance not only what we do in the classroom, but the experience they're taking away from school."
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If you have not yet been introduced to Chandler Parson's girlfriend Robyn Crowley, then settle in. You might also want to buckle on a chinstrap, because as soon as you take a glance below your jaw will bust through the floor – think Brent Musburger seeing Katherine Webb.
Yes Crowley is a babe, but there is so much. You don't grab our unofficial title of "NBA's Hottest WAG" for simply being hot. You must have the personality, too. Crowley sold us on this by shotgunning beers like a champ. She likes to party; so do we.
Did I mention she also has two smoke-show sisters who warrant posts of their own? So yeah … they are pretty much bordering on the hottest family in the country.
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