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For anyone interested in German and Austrian art before the Second World War, there is only one place to go and that is to the Richard Nagy gallery in London where the Silverman Collection of art is on display.
It is not just that it is a quite breathtaking collection, with half a dozen masterpieces and some of the finest paintings of Otto Dix, Egon Schiele and Ludwig Meidner anywhere. It is also such a strongly personal gathering of art by a collector who has bought the pictures that appealed to him not for their name or their value but for what can only be described as their anger. "I like paintings of torment," he told an interviewer, "of tension, of the human condition"
Well, there is plenty of that in his chosen field, which may explain the singular lack of the art in UK public galleries. The British tend not to like angst in their art, still less when it is painted by their former enemies. Even among private collectors it is a limited speciality, confined mostly to Jewish Americans from the East Coast, seeking the culture of their roots but also, perhaps, an explanation of the cataclysm that befell Europe at the time.
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Benedict Silverman fits that bill, although he lays no claim to middle-European ancestry. But there is clearly something in the art that speaks to him directly. One of his first purchases was of a black wash and charcoal sketch, Standing Boy by Egon Schiele, from 1910. It was one of a series of studies the artist made when only 20 of street urchins. It's an exquisite work but a painful one, as the boy, his hands thrust into his jacket pockets, looks with tightened eyes on the world about.
It was a picture, Silverman implies in an interview published in the catalogue, that reminded him of his own childhood, or lack of it. When he was only six his mother had been carted off to a mental asylum suffering from post-natal depression after the birth of twin girls. She remained incarcerated until her death in old age, unbeknownst to her son who was left bringing up his sisters.
The theme of loss and disruption runs throughout his holdings. His own favourite picture is a superb gouache and watercolour by Egon Schiele, Woman with Homunculus, from his most creative period in 1910. He drew it after he had taken his girlfriend for an abortion. The black-haired girl, naked except for black stockings, turns back to look at you, the figure of a child clutching her side, her eyes both accusing and resigned. Schiele died, tragically, of the Spanish flu in 1918, aged only 28, planning a life-size canvas of the Last Supper representing himself and the young artists whose task it would be to create a new world after all the destruction of the old. Silverman's collection includes an oil and tempura study for the final work, which was never completed. It's one of the most valuable paintings in the collection and, in its way, the most optimistic as the figures set about the meal with an air of determination and experience.
Few of Schiele's contemporaries shared his belief in that future. Ludwig Meidner, whose work is too little known over here, foresaw what was coming in 1913 with Apocalyptic Landscape in a violent vision of tumbling buildings, huge explosions and raging waters. His worst fears were realised once the war had started. The Incident in the Suburbs from 1915 depicts two men struggling desperately against each other as they flee the collapsing buildings. For Meidner, it represented the ruptures of society caused by the war. For Silverman, it appealed as a picture of the viciously competitive real estate market in which he started out. Meidner's feelings are mirrored in a powerful Cubist oil on board painting by his friend George Grosz, completed towards the end of the year. It is a nightmare view of a world balanced on the edge of chaos, the figures and emblems of the corporate world bustling around the figure of a lone female tightrope walker.
"I like paintings that hit me in the stomach," says Silverman. That is certainly true of the works of Meidner and Schiele. It is also true in a more cerebral sense of the works of Otto Dix. The collection contains two truly stupendous works by Germany's answer to Goya. One is a small nude done in the manner of Cranach. Venus with Gloves from 1932 is as compulsive as it is disconcerting, the classical simplicity of the nude subverted by the emaciation of the body, the wistful fragility in the eyes and the black of the gloves and falling skirt against the whiteness of the body. You could spend hours just looking at it without ever fully understanding the picture or the sitter.
The same could be said, but even more so, of the great masterpiece of the Silverman Collection, Otto Dix's Self Portrait with Model. Painted in 1923, it is one of the largest oils in the exhibition and quite the most disconcerting. The artist stands, all formal and constricted, in shirt and tie and well-groomed hair. He looks out of the picture with a set face and empty eyes. Beside him is the nude model, full fleshed, her arms above her head, looking down with wide-eyes, thinking of something else. Power and control are there, but it is the model that seems freest, and the artist most imprisoned by himself.
Benedict Silverman is now disposing of the whole collection to fund a foundation dedicated to teaching literacy around the world. Reading, he feels, is the great liberator and the lack of it the great obstacle to an individual's progress. It's a very American act of charity. But then Silverman represents a very American style of collector in his combination of private passion and public responsibility. One wishes there were more like him. One fears that, in a world of trophy buying and the super rich, they are a vanishing breed.
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Resident Evil 6 Steam pre-orders include RE5, DLC season pass
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Resident Evil 6's Siege mode finally lands on PS3, Xbox 360 next week
Capcom has announced the latest Resident Evil 6 multiplayer mode, Siege, will release on PS3 and Xbox 360 next week. The firm also dropped more dates, which you can scour below.
Resident Evil 6 benchmark test released for PC users
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Resident Evil 6 interviews discuss sound design
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Capcom Q3 financials: profits up despite Resident Evil 6 "failure"
Capcom has posted its Q3 nine-month financial report, revealing a profit surge for the company, despite its admitted "failure" of Resident Evil 6. Digital sales and social titles have also rocketed, resting on a prosperous period for the Japanese player. Its projections remain unchanged.
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I'm an electrical engineer. After the week I am having, I almost agree with this (Nyuck, Nyuck). Written by a Liberty grad?
I, for one, knows what electricity feels like! And I've seen it's consequences in the spark gap.
Holy.... shit. Same observation; I majored in EE (but I am not "practicing" it). This page illustrates at best a pre-Franklin level of understanding, electromagnetism was pretty well knocked by 1900 with Maxwell's Equations.
You made this in photoshop, right Morgan? Right?
@Freek A small change: *In an ominous voice* "Electricity has never been observed!" *lightning flash strikes the speaker, illuminating him and his surroundings, heating his body and the air around him, and coursing (gasp!) electricity through his nervous system, twitching his muscles and potentially shorting his heart* ... Yup. Never observed...
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Hmmm, so you can't feel electricity. I expect a lot of people have felt an electric shock.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - While Americans are shelling out record prices for fuel, Iraqis pay only about 5 cents a gallon for gasoline a benefit of hundreds of millions of dollars subsidies bankrolled by American taxpayers.
Before the war, forecasters predicted that by invading Iraq and ousting Saddam Hussein, America would benefit from increased exports of oil from Iraq, which has the world's second largest petroleum reserves.
That would mean CHEAP GAS FOR AMERICAN MOTORISTS and a boost for the oil-dependent American economy. More than a year after the invasion, that logic has been flipped on its head. Now the average price for gasoline in the United States is running $2.05 a gallon 50 cents more than the pre-invasion price. Instead, THE ONLY PEOPLE GETTING CHEAP GAS as a result of the invasion ARE THE IRAQIS.
Filling a 22-gallon tank in Baghdad with low-grade fuel costs just $1.10, plus a 50-cent tip for the attendant. A tankful of high-test costs $2.75.
In Britain, by contrast, gasoline prices hit $5.79 per gallon last week $127 for a tankful.
Although Iraq is a major petroleum producer, the country has little capacity to refine its own gasoline. So the U.S. government pays about $1.50 a gallon to buy fuel in neighboring countries and deliver it to Iraqi stations. A three-month supply costs American taxpayers more than $500 million, not including the cost of military escorts to fend off attacks by Iraqi insurgents. The arrangement keeps a fleet of 4,200 tank trucks constantly on the move, ferrying fuel to Iraq.
"We thank the Americans," Baghdad taxi driver Osama Hashim said. "They risked their lives to liberate us and now they are improving our lives," said Hashim, 26, topping up the tank on his beat-up 1983 Volkswagen.
Iraq's fuel subsidies, which are intended to mollify drivers used to low-priced fuel under Saddam, have coupled with the opening of the borders to create an anarchic car culture in Baghdad. Cheap used cars shipped from Europe and Asia are flooding into Iraq. A 10-year-old BMW in good condition costs just $5,000. Since gas is so cheap, anyone with a car can become a taxi driver. Drivers jam the streets, offering rides for as little as 250 dinars about 17 cents.
Analysts say the U.S. gas subsidies can't last forever and Iraqis may be in for an unpleasant shock when they end. In the meantime, however, THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER CONTINUES TO FOOT A HUGE BILL.
"The U.S. taxpayer has a right to be indignant, and Iraqis have to be warned about the long-run damages of this," said Anthony Cordesman, an Iraq analyst with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The minute the aid goes out, the party is over. And there's going to be A HELL OF A HANGOVER."
The U.S. government paid even more last year for Iraqis' gasoline between $1.59 and $1.70 a gallon when the imports were contracted to Halliburton, the Texas oil services giant formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. The cheap fuel is spurring unsustainable demand, promoting wasteful use of energy and transportation, and squandering Iraq's oil output that might otherwise be exported, Cordesman said.
"You're leading people to buy cars that aren't affordable at normal costs," he said. "You need to move toward real market prices as quickly as you can without causing instability."
Iraqi drivers protest that the price difference between a gallon of gas in the United States and Iraq is fair, because the average Iraqi earns around $1,000 a year, a thirtieth of the average U.S. wage.
"If the price of gas goes up, we'll see lots of anger in the street," said cab driver Hashim, at a grimy filling station on Saadoun Street in central Baghdad.
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You know though that if we HAD gotten a decrease in price for our gas, liberals would be saying "see, the war WAS about stealing the oil in Iraq". I don't think OUR current price in oil has anything to do with the war. Not that that article implied anything like that. But our price here is going to always go up, not down.
I don't understand anything about how we pay for the Iraqi's gas, or where our tax money goes. I wish I did. I know there are many things I DON'T want my tax money going to, but it does anyway (such as to help with abortions). But I know I'd much rather see my tax money going to help the people in Iraq, in any way it can, than to have it go to half the programs it gets spent on here in America. So I'm ok with it. I don't want it 100%, but it's still a better choice for tax money than other programs.
I don't understand the parts of politics that involve our tax money going to other countries to help them. I almost want ALL of it to help our country (really help it!), and then I wish also more people would donate to aid groups above their taxes. I don't know what the full answer is. But I guess I am ok with many of the choices our government makes - like help starving nations, help with AIDS education, or programs that teach countries about advanced technology or farming practices. I don't think I'd be too happy with a government that thought - "you're on your own, our tax money will not leave our nation". Being rich never means you should hord it all. It means you spread the money to uplift those less fortunate - whether on an individual basis, or on a national level. We are a very rich and blessed country. I personally don't make much money (under $12,000 a year), but I can still afford gas. What's really killing me on price is cigarettes (yes, this little church girl smokes, surprize surprize). We spend over $200 a month on cigarettes, but only about $65 or less a month on gas.
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My understanding is that when our money goes to other countries to "help" them, that country eventually has to pay us back (although not always true). Keep in mind also that other countries that we have helped in the past pay us for services they provide as well, which in turn helps pay back what they owe us. I guess that's besides the point. As far as the gas prices go, I would have to agree that the war is not the sole reason for prices increasing. I would say that it is used more as an excuse by the oil companies (to a point). People like to say that if the oil production was increased, the prices would drop. Yeah, sure, that's the supply part for you. Or is it? Gotta remember that oil needs to be refined to produce gasoline. And what isn't their enough of? Gas refineries. OPEC is producing enough oil, but the gas refineries are at max capacity. So what can the oil companies do but either A) build more refineries and hit John Q Public in the pocket for the cost of said refinery, or B) leave it the way it is and hit John Q Public in the pocket because of the Demand. There are a couple things that the article fails to mention that are obvious but should be mentioned as a reminder. 1) The oil is produced in their back yards, in turn, they don't pay import fees & cost of shipping it to where they are. 2) There isn't a whole lot of iraqis driving around like we do (we, as in the U.S.). There's a war going on over there, where the roads are littered with IEDs. Would you want to drive those roads? I did and it sucked. Now you have a low demand because of that driving supply even further up. Costs come down again. 3) Iraqis are broke! I know some of you might be able to remember when it cost a nickle to buy a candy bar. Think how long ago that was. That's where these people are now (if not in a hell of a lot worse shape than the U.S. was in). I'm sure their are other variables that drive their costs down, but I'm no economist. I'm just give what I believe to be the facts and hopefully show how the media doesn't tell you the whole reason for why things are the way they are. Heck, we've seen it numerous times with news stories about bees! I hope this wasn't taken that I agree or disagree with any of the posts on here to date. There's not a whole lot I can do that will "fix" the situation, so I just piss and moan about it like everyone else. :P So, that's that. I seem to remember someone saying that gas cost about 1.5 cents a few months ago, when I was over there. That's a couple hundred percent inflation for ya.
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About your smoking problems. Of course you should quit but I'm not going to suggest that because I like people that mind there own darn business.
There is a solution to your problem though.
Roll your own cigarettes.
I buy Tobbacco in a 2 pound bag for about 16 bucks. Then I buy 3 boxes of tubes at Approx $2 a piece. total $22.00 for 3 cartons.
The reason for the high cost of tobbacco are taxes. Cigarettes are a Tax Class J. Buying tubes and tobbaco are standard sales tax ~6% because they aren't cigarettes.
I use a
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October 08, 2005, 11:10:01 AM »
We Americans are a spoiled lot. Back in the 70's we waited in line
on alternate days to fill our tanks due to the oil companies lack of refining capabilities.
Then they made cars with better mileage which led to a
decrease in demand for refined fuel. Now a great number of the mini-vans
and SUVs we drive use fuel at an ever increasing rate and demand has
doubled in the last 14 years.
Remember a thing called the Windfall Profits Tax? Reagan's administration
collected billions from Big Business in the 80's, when that money could
have gone into building refineries or reserching alternative fuels. Instead,
the government wasted it on things like "StarWars" :?
We don't need more oil in 55gal. drums, we need a bumper crop
of refined gasoline.
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>Remember a thing called the Windfall Profits Tax? Reagan's administration
collected billions from Big Business in the 80's, when that money could
have gone into building refineries or reserching alternative fuels.
As I remember it,the democrats passed that law and the price of gas went up MORE the next day, by pretty much the amount the oil companies had to pay... They had to stop the evil companies from making too much money from us and raise our taxes (opps, I mean THEIR taxes) to compensate. Of course I paid those taxes in higher prices.
It is an old policitcal ploy to pretend they aren't taxing us when they really are. Raise the taxes on someone esle who raises the prices on us and pretend that we (the people) didn't have to pay that tax.
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We always get "sheared" in the end. All together now, say "Bahhhhhh" :x
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MARYVILLE, Tenn. Tenn. -- As they have done in every meet this season, Chris Bodary and Brittany Sheffey led the charge for Tennessee. Their efforts enabled the Big Orange men to place fifth and the women seventh Monday morning at the SEC Cross Country Championships at Lambert Acres Golf Club.
The Vols, picked to finish fifth in the preseason coaches poll, matched that prediction by tallying 169 points to tie with Alabama. Arkansas, led by individual champion Eric Fernandez (24:10.60), took the men's crown with 33 points, followed by Florida (66), Georgia (68) and Kentucky (126).
The Lady Vols, meanwhile, came in expected to place ninth by the coaches. Bouncing back from last year's disappointing 12th-place outcome, UT managed a seventh-place effort with 184 points. Vanderbilt captured the women's trophy with 30, followed by Arkansas (61) and Florida (62) in the top three. Kristen Gillespie of Arkansas was the individual winner in a course-record 20:19.84.
The Tennessee men, who lost three of their top six finishers from the 2010 SEC meet and underwent a coaching change in the offseason, managed to avoid a dropoff despite counting the scores of two freshmen and a sophomore at this meet after losing Michael Spooner (11th), Chris Rapp (26th) and Steve Fassino (44th) from a year ago.
"We weren't scheduled (predicted) to win, but I think we came in here and ran solid," UT Director of Track & Field/Cross Country J.J. Clark said. "I like to win, but we're not there yet.
"For the younger guys, it was a difficult situation, coming in not knowing how to respond athletically and what to do. If I could be coaching them right now, (at this point last year) I could probably do some better things with the young gentlemen. They came in, they handled the transition with new coaching, and we came in here and we ran respectable. We like to win. That's my goal, to win, and I believe we'll get to that point."
Instead of playing it safe, Bodary went for a big finish in his final SEC meet by running with the leaders and hoping to hold on at the end on his home course. Over the latter stages of the race, however, he was simply unable to keep up that pace and reported in with a 28th-place finish. The senior navigated the 8000-meter men's layout in 25:07.40 against a field of 96 runners, setting the tone for his teammates for the fifth time this season.
"Bodary went for the jugular; he went for the whole shebang," Clark said. "If he had run for the top ten, it would have been a little different run. But he went for something exceptional, which was a top-three finish.
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Sophomore Jake Rainey and freshman Austin Whitelaw weren't far behind Bodary, crossing the line 30th in 25:12.25 and 32nd (31st scorer) in 25:16.11, respectively. Rainey improved four places from his SEC All-Freshman effort of 2010, while Whitelaw earned a spot on this year's all-rookie squad with his performance as one of the top seven newcomers.
Senior Tom Gilmartin ran fourth for Tennessee, placing 34th (33rd scorer) in 25:21.32, while freshman Jeremy Dickie was the fifth man in 52nd place (47th) at 25:53.63. Rainey, Gilmartin and Dickie all had personal-record marks for 8K.
"Jake, best race of the season; Whitelaw, best race of the season, doing a nice job of making the SEC All-Freshman Team," Clark said. "Tommy Gilmartin, best race of the season. That's what you want.
"Jeremy Dickie, another freshman, ran a good last half of the race. He was a little too far back, a little too far back. But it was a good race for a freshman. He had a lot going on, and he wasn't feeling well for several weeks coming into this. He pulled it together for the guys today."
For the Lady Vols, Sheffey became only the ninth UT woman to earn All-SEC acclaim three times in a career. She made the second team once again, finishing 12th out of 104 by covering the 6000-meter course in 21:00.63 while running with lead group for much of the race. She also finished 12th in 2008 and 2009.
Sophomore Amber Zimmerman, 42nd a year ago, was UT's No. 2 finisher and claimed 26th overall in 21:34.13, while Chanelle Price checked in 43rd (41st) in 22:02.84 after taking 72nd in 2010.
Freshman walk-on Kacey Nobert, competing for only the second time this season, filled the No. 4 scoring slot. She did so by clocking a 22:17.45 readout to wind up 53rd (49th). Freshman Amirah Johnson was in the scoring five for the fifth straight meet, placing 62nd in 22:32.57. Both runners recorded career-best times for 6K.
"The women's race was a little different scenario," Clark said. "We were ranked (in the SEC) early in the season around ninth. We started pulling some things together and we were actually ranked around top five. It might have happened, but Ramzee ran too hard. She did not follow the plan, and Sheffey could've gone a little more, could've done a little better. But from a team standpoint, Sheffey locked it in, did O.K. and put us in position to score some points.
"Zimmerman came around pretty well. Chanelle did this cross country thing for the team and really, really helped us out. Kacey Nobert coming in and helping was key. We're talking about a young lady who didn't come to school to run. She's in a sorority and has different demands, but she's doing well academically, has a busy social life, and she's able to help us out. That's very important for us."
The Vols and Lady Vols are off next weekend before resuming competition on Nov. 12 at the NCAA South Regional in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
WOMEN'S TEAM RESULTS: 1. Vanderbilt, 30; 2. Arkansas, 61; 3. Florida, 62; 4. Georgia, 124; 5. Mississippi, 158; 6. Alabama, 181; 7. Tennessee, 184; 8. Kentucky, 214; 9. Mississippi State, 233; 10. Auburn, 247; 11. South Carolina, 295; 12. LSU, 337.
LADY VOL INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: 12. Brittany Sheffey, 21:00.63; 26. Amber Zimmerman, 21:34.13; 43. (41.) Chanelle Price, 22:02.84; 53. (49.) Kacey Nobert, 22:17.45!; 62. (56.) Amirah Johnson, 22:32.57!; 70. (63.) Kelsey Kane, 22:53.00!; 84. (74.) Ramzee Fondren, 23:21.84; 96. Elizabeth Altizer, 24:46.44; 97. Patavia Lowery, 24:53.39; 101. Elizabeth Tiller, 25:22.77.
MEN'S TEAM RESULTS: 1. Arkansas, 33; 2. Florida, 66; 3. Georgia, 68; 4. Kentucky, 126; 5. Tennessee, 169; 5. Alabama, 169; 7. Mississippi 179; 8. Auburn 183; 9. Mississippi State 234; 10. LSU 235; 11. Vanderbilt 300.
VOL INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: 28. Chris Bodary, 25:07.40; 30. Jake Rainey, 25:12.25!; 32. (31.) Austin Whitelaw, 25:16.11; 34. (33.) Tom Gilmartin, 25:21.32!; 52. (47.) Jeremy Dickie, 25:53.63!; 61. (53.) Daniel Tobin, 26:08.50; 65. (57.) Stephen Derlath, 26:20.52!; 75. Alex McCandless, 26:40.70!; 79. J.R. Creekmore, 26:59.74!; 95. Scott March, 28:36.95.


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18 Soroco High School students graduate during Saturday commencement
May 24, 2014
Soroco Class of 2014
Elisa Burdette Colorado Northwestern Community College, cosmetology
Bjorn Carlson United States Marine Corps
Cody Constine University of Boulder, computer science
Marley Hammer Panola College, undecided
Wyatt Harding Colorado Northwestern Community College, auto technology
Aaron Herzog Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, aerospace engineering
Andrew Herzog Undecided
Ryan Jeep Lassen College, pre-engineering
Alexis Jonas Colorado Northwestern Community College, cosmetology
Taylor Lipsie Wyotech, auto and diesel technology
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Ian Palyo University of Wyoming, business
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Barnes — a 36-year mainstay in the South Routt School District — would bark out the students' full names.
Elisa Carrie Burdett. Bjorn Laurence Carlson. Marley Sue Hammer. And so on.
Barnes sifted through the graduates' names, most of whom started their journey to the Soroco High School gymnasium Saturday by first going through her South Routt kindergarten classroom.
It's a graduating group that almost entirely will test out the tastes of college when summer wraps up. Some, like valedictorian Aaron Herzog, salutatorian Ryan Jeep, Ian Palyo, Taylor Lipsie, Matt Regan and Hammer, are leaving Colorado in search of higher education.
Herzog is off to study aerospace engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo along the California coast, a prestigious school for the field. Jeep — a perennial three-sport threat during his four years on campus — also is heading to California, where he will attend Lassen College in Susanville to play basketball and baseball as well as study pre-engineering.
Palyo and Lipsie won't be far away. The two are heading north to Wyoming to study at the University of Wyoming and WyoTech, respectively. Matt Regan is bound for Williston State College in North Dakota to play baseball, and Hammer will be at Panola College in Carthage, Texas.
A good portion of the 18 graduates are heading to Colorado Northwestern Community College, such as Burdette (cosmetology), Wyatt Harding (auto technology), Alexis Jonas (cosmetology), Jaxon Ovard (auto technology), Zach Reynen (business), Jacey Schlegel (business) and Emilee Tritz (cosmetology).
Cody Constine, the quiet giant who made big noise on the football field and wrestling mat, will be at University of Boulder in the fall, where he'll study computer science.
A few others, such as Nate Ragan and Colton Martindale, are going to test out the workforce.
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Bjorn Carlson will leave the first week of June to enlist in the Marine Corps basic training. Carlson received a large round of applause inside the packed high school gymnasium as well as a few "hoorahs" from the crowd. He is receiving an $80,000 GI bill for his service.
Jeep was the first student to speak, giving the salutatorian address. He lauded the 2014 class for being diverse and honorable and thanked them for the 12 years worth of memories. He said although he thought senior year was supposed to be the "good life," there still were plenty of hardships.
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Herzog drew an open question of "What exactly is the value of education?" in his valedictorian address. He was quick to point out that no matter the subject, advanced education dominates our lives, right down to the cellphones we frequently are glued to.
While Jeep reflected on the difficulty of senior year and moving on to an adult life, commencement speaker Coach Dick Dudas assured the Soroco Class of 2014 that though the simplicity of growing up may have been lost after his generation, what lies ahead should be smooth sailing.
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Another A-Basin dinner exceeds expectations
July 24, 2012
Locals and visiting skiers to A-Basin's Black Mountain Lodge over the last three seasons have surely noticed the uptick in deliciousness, with high-end resort-quality food still being served in a casual family ski lodge atmosphere.
Legendary Summit County chef Christopher Rybak pleased crowds yet again on Friday night with his menu, cooking and jovial atmosphere at A-Basin's Alpenglow Dinner and Wildflower Hike, held at the resort's mid-mountain lodge that opened in 2007.
This twilight dinner and hike was the first of its kind this season, and will be followed by three more such events before summer is over: a Yoga on the Mountain event featuring a hike, yoga and light lunch on July 26; a brunch Aug. 26; and a clam bake Sept. 8. All meals are designed and orchestrated by Rybak.
And although the wildflowers were slightly scarce, the food was plentiful, and featured all Colorado grown and produced products. Rybak was shopping at the Dillon farmer's market the same day for many of the ingredients, and prepared them with his staff at altitude in a meal that left everyone smiling and unbuckling their belts.
Hors d'oeuvres included assorted fine cheeses, smoked goat tacos with fresh corn tortillas and rainbow trout both smoked and in a delicious spread. The dinner buffet was set with natural chicken cassoulet, Colorado-farm raised striped bass, all-natural buffalo from Craig, Colo., sirloin of lamb, and many assorted vegetables and Colorado mashers. The salad table was not to be overlooked with its locally grown tomatoes, cucumbers, basil and feta cheese from Buena Vista's Jumpin Good Goat Dairy, as well as freshly baked rolls and pasta salad with fresh roasted and marinated vegetables. No one in the lodge was turning down dessert either, featuring Western Slope peaches and shortcake, homemade Colorado apple pie, assorted sweet bites such as peanut butter brownies, and Chef Rybak himself scooping out Higgles maple walnut ice cream from Silverthorne.
The Black Mountain Lodge also features a full bar for patrons to enjoy. Guests ride the lift up between 5:30 and 6 p.m. and then can either download or hike down the mountain after dinner.
"This is the best chef in all of Summit County," said Meredith Van Dyne of Keystone. "We'd go to the end of the world to have food with him." The Van Dyne's have attended every Arapahoe Basin Black Mountain Lodge dinner since the resort began hosting the events several years ago.
Rybak moved over to A-Basin as the resort's food and beverage director three winters ago after more than 20 years at Keystone, and he's been a Summit County resident for 26 years, not counting two seasons as a chef at Park City Mountain Resort. And while he doesn't cook every meal on the mountain, he is the "conductor of the orchestra."
"Doing these dinners I still get to be creative," Rybak said. "Sourcing good food, writing menus, the things I love about working in the industry. I like to take things to the next level."
Those interested in attending future dinners are encouraged to check the resort's website in October for winter dinner dates, including the extremely popular New Years Eve event at Black Mountain Lodge. Revelers may skin or snowshoe to mid-mountain, or ride the chairlift. The event celebrates New Years on Eastern Standard Time, so participants can be home safe and sound in front of the fireplace before midnight.
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Originally Posted by Steezus Christ View Post
i love snowboarding like the rest of us here, it's pretty much the basis of my lifestyle. i've always been one to tell my friends and family that if i do die snowboarding, no matter how horrific or brutal the death may be, just have trust in me that i died doing something i love. no regrets. if i were to take a serious injury i dont think there would be much to stop me getting back on a board or even sit-ski if i have to, even if it has to come to just cruising groomers at low speeds.
My family and friends know also.
Though they make me laugh so hard it hurts.
They know when I am happiest.
And when I am most Content.
Such a love for boarding, cannot think of any reason to give up.
Busted my arm in a border cross.
Both bones in left with surgery and plates to fix.
Within a week I just could not take it anymore.
Back on the slopes.
I would hold my cast covered arm up in the air to lessen the throbbing.
My friends all started holding a arm up in the air every time we would get in the lift line.
Made me laugh so hard the first time they did it.
20 plus people at the bottom of lift with a arm in the air so I would not feel awkward.
Been down hard on my motorcycles also.
Hit a deer at 85 plus mph.
Made it home on 3 of 4 cylinders as the deer folded then whipped around the right side of bike taking out faring, spark plug, and leg.
Dropped the bike in the driveway and crawled in the house.
Nothing broken but could not walk for a month.
Another thing I would never give up.
Some people may think I am a idiot for continuing.
They are just too scared to really live.
They are the same people who will blog on the net that life sucks and never find any self satisfaction and lasting happiness.
You know, the whiners who get knocked off the old friends list as you just get sick of all the self pity.
To live you must be willing to live.
|Im still young but ive taken my fair share of falls! Last year I broke my scaphoid after arguing with my mom about not wearing wrist splints as I heard they acted as a lever and break your arm at even the smallest fall. So I was out for the season and came back stronger than ever. Im a very experienced park rider doing it since I was 8 (im 16 now), I was participating in a transworld contest(transam) and feel wrong off a double board slide to tail slide 270 out and felt my arm go limp. In denial I stood up rode down and said please please please tell me its not broken. I could obviouslyfeel it was broken and see the deformity it was nasty. So we rode to the hospital as I was in the worst pain in my life.they took x-rays wich were sooo painful. My mom came over to me and said remember how u didnt want to wear wrist guards? Well you broke your arm and wrist.... I ended up breaking the radius and ulna towards the hand. Broke the one in 2 places. They put me under anastesha and placed the bones back. After a night of close monitoring the doctor decided I dont need surgery as of yet. Got a full arm cast, x rays weekly( its been 5 weeks now) so far no surgery. Suposivly im getting a short arm cast next week! Then 2 weeks after ill be good. These 2 big injuries plus allof the other head banging scorpions ive had! Banging offrails my tailbone being destroyed and never have I forgot about quiting but what do I know im a kid no kids,lol,no job so I dont aqueate to all of your circumstances, best of luck to evreyone!
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|i love snowboarding like the rest of us here, it's pretty much the basis of my lifestyle. i've always been one to tell my friends and family that if i do die snowboarding, no matter how horrific or brutal the death may be, just have trust in me that i died doing something i love. no regrets. if i were to take a serious injury i dont think there would be much to stop me getting back on a board or even sit-ski if i have to, even if it has to come to just cruising groomers at low speeds.
Originally Posted by j.gnar View Post
i remember my first scorpion....
I've several day enders...not coincidentally all of them have been at the end of the the day when I was probably too tired to still be riding. Never have I thought about giving up riding.
|Got snaked approaching a kinked rail at the mid-end of last year, BAD ENDING!!!! fractured a vertebrae, 3 broken ribs 2 bulging and one herniated disk. thought my life would never be the same. No surgery lots of physical therapy "I FEEL" ready to ride again
Originally Posted by mr_____awesome View Post
10 years is a long time man. What kind of surgery did you have?
See my post above, I've had back surgery and ankle surgery.
Looking forward to riding again this year!
I quit for so long mostly because, I had a fear of getting hurt again, and this time I would have no one to help.
|You can break an ankle walking off the sidewalk. I dont know, Im older now and my philosophy is that injury is a reality in any sport. That said, ego trippin is only asking for it.
|Yeah last year... but to understand the story you need to know, Im in the Army national guard so maintaining a good state of health its critical.. Im not a useful soldier if im broken... Anyways, It was my first time out all season, people had been dodging me to go so i said fuck it ill go by myself. Normally when its my first time out for the season ill ride some green trails just to kinda refresh my body and get warmed up. I had been snowboarding for about 2 hours and decided to go to the top and hit one of the gnarly diamonds on the way down. Im not good enough to totally bomb one of them but good enough to go down fairly quick, I hit the little jump just before it but i hit it at a bad angle, i landed and immediately i was totally off balance so i was swerving back and forth trying to get my balance, I should have just bailed but hingsight is 20/20, while all this is going on im going way too fast even if i was in control. after what felt like forever of trying wrestle my board back to undercontrol i caught and edge, or hit a rock or something idk, but i got into this summersault, backflip, corkscrew, crazy spinnin crash and at one point my board stopped turning but my body didnt and i felt the worst pain of my life in my back then smashed my head and i was out for a moment. when i came to i was totally alone on the trail and in more pain than ive ever been in. I thought to myself "I think its about time for lunch" and tried to stand but it wasnt happening, i could barely breath much less try to not only finish this trail but then go down the rest of the mountain. luckily someone came by and grabbed the ski patrol and they took me.. found out what happened is i torn S1 in my back, which is the disc where the nerves that goto your leg cross. My season was over the day it started and i hurt so much all the time that just getting out of bed was a difficult task. The sergeant in charge of me was pissed, beyond pissed. I had a training event coming up and i couldnt go if i was hurt. I was in trouble and in a ton of pain and for a while i said i was done, no more of this for me... But with season almost here, all the shops getting ready, the weather starting to change... how can i say no because of one miscalculation?
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I know the feeling Harry, it was fun to bump when a case of 762x39 was under $100 and you could get a battle pack of 762 NATO for $25.
Who would of thought that would have came to an end?
Now I make every box last as long as I can.
Hell, I'm in the poorhouse and rarely bump! Damn dems forcing me to get every kit I can't afford!Originally Posted by AKarl_12
I know the feeling Harry, it was fun to bump when a case of 762x39 was under $100 and you could get a battle pack of 762 NATO for $25.
Who would of thought that would have came to an end?
Now I make every box last as long as I can.
best reason not to convert a semi to full auto.... easy
cuz i dont like getting ass raped by some 400 pound cell mate
Cheap bastard plus ghetto tools=quality AK build
Why is this a sticky? It started out with a guy who clearly had no idea what he was talking about rambling on and preaching why its a bad idea to file down "something" to make an AK full auto . Thats not how you make an AK full auto. You buy a parts set and drill a hole and cut a slot. This is the AK47 forum and probably everyone here has a stack of full auto parts laying around anyway. Takes half an hour if you are slow and its as safe as anything. Is it a good idea. Sure it is as long as you have the appropriate paperwork on your side which is really easy to get. Pay the money , file the forms. The ATF WILL approve you. If you dont have the forms then don't do it. Not because its unsafe but because its illegal. It will get you thrown in jail or at least cost you a lot of money. I know someone in the federal pen for doing just that. Someone will hear you shooting and will call the cops on their cell phone !!! Pay the $500 a year and you can do whatever you want. I remember when I was a kid we'd go out to the hills outside of Los Angeles and shoot my grandpas Schnellfeuer Mauser pistol. His father in law was a LA county deputy sheriff and his sheriff buddies would often go out with us. Nobody cared! Its not like that anymore. You'll go to jail if you try that now.
Full auto in a military setting is just a waste of ammo unless your doing a quick suppressive fire burst to get the other guys heads down while your guys move. In a target shooting scenario its just plain fun albeit expensive but get the right paperwork done first. Be an SOT. Why the hell not?
Only dealers can get the $500 a year SOT license, to get around it being not allowed to produce any more fullauto guns. A buddy of mine is a dealer and has several SOT weapons, when I mentioned getting your FFL just so you could get cheap fullauto weapons and pay $500 a year for it (besides your $600 a year FFL license), he said the ATF isn't that stupid and when they see you haven't made a business buying and selling guns, but you've aquired "demo guns" they would go after you for tax evasion. Either they're dumber than I think, or maybe your not as smart as you think you are. Question is, if they were to go after you for trying to fake the system, how deep are your pockets for the fees a good lawyer will charge.
Anyhow, how is the paper work easy to get?? The business address can no longer be the same address as your home, you must have a separate address for your FFL if I'm not mistaken, the license cost for that is $600 a year now, and the SOT tax on each and every fullauto firearm you have is $500 a year.
$600 a year FFL license? What ? I believe theyre up to $160 for 3 years. Same regulations as buying a firearm. FBI background check and LEO signoff plus business license.
Your'e REALLY mistaken on several counts. The SOT is $500 a year for all the guns you can build plus the costs for a class 1 ffl and class 7 manufacturers license which are renewable every 3 years but they are much cheaper than the SOT. 11% excise tax on any rifles you manufacture and sell. If you have a home based business which are legal in most places you can have the ffl in that adress. No problem. Just keep the books up to date and they like you to have a gun safe. Ive done it and i know several guys who have home based ffl's at this time. The SOT is just another paper on top of the other two. Who said anything about faking the system. As an 01/07/SOT you just have to have regular business hours which are up to you and keep books of transfers. You deal just like a storefront FFL and you are not required to have a regular inventory . People can order through you to buy things from century or whatever wholesaler they want. Do 4-5 transfers a year and they can't say squat. As a manufacturer you arent required to have a regular inventory. You charge a fee for transfers and you can transfer class 3 items. You can't get post may samples unless you have a law enforcement letter but you can build all the MG's and silencers for evaluation on a form 2 you want. No more $200 taxes or LEO signoffs. When you go out of the SOT business you have to demill them and send your books into the ATF. All on the up and up.
Very good explanation, however by who's definition are normal business hours, if you already have a 9-5 job? With the ATF seeming to rethink everything in the past couple years, it still sounds risky unless you can show your running a business, and not a hobby that you do on the weekends.......
As my buddy told me, it would suck if you were the person they decided to make an example out of....
Make an example out of you for following the letter of the law? I dont think so. For the most part the ATF is really there to help businesses out. No shit. Business hours can be weekends , It can be evenings. It can be whenever YOU want as long as its regular hours. set aside a few hours say from 7- 9 pm. I sent my stuff in years ago but thats what I did. The guy I buy receivers through now does the same thing. Its hell to get ahold of him but its all legal.


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Through reading Dick Eastman's blog I came across this great guide to Salt Lake City it is called "The Chart Chick's Quick Insider's Guide to Salt Lake City". Written by Janet Hovorka it is an excellent guide to Salt Lake City for genealogist, she covers all aspects of a trip to Salt Lake City. Wish I had had this before my first trip there!!
The guide is available as a free PDF download and if you want a paper copy that is available for $15 US.