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What are prophets?
Prophets receive revelation from God, preach His gospel, and lead His Church on earth. They have guided God's people toward salvation through all generations of time.
The authority to speak and act in the name of God has been given to prophets since the time of Adam, and it is a vital part of the plan of salvation. The word prophet comes from a Greek word, which means "inspired teacher," and indeed that is the primary role of the prophet: to teach the gospel. While God's commandments and principles are constant, the world we live in is not. Different periods throughout time have each brought with them new circumstances and unique challenges. Prophets receive revelation from God in order to help His people navigate through their own distinct times.
Prophets are special witnesses of God; they are revelators; they teach, they perform miracles, and they lead.
Moses is perhaps the most recognized among the ancient prophets. While leading the enslaved Israelites out of Egypt, he spoke with God face-to-face, he parted the Red Sea, and he revealed tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments, given directly from God. Moses's calling and mission are comparable to other prophets recorded in the Old and New Testaments such as Abraham, Jacob, Noah, Isaiah, Elijah, and John the Baptist. Each of these prophets was called by God and given priesthood authority by Him—the divine right to speak and act in His name.
Faith and repentance were common themes taught by the ancient prophets, and their words and work still resonate with us today, even as we recognize our spiritual or moral landscape to be very different from theirs. Because many of our trials and concerns are different than ancient times, it makes sense that God would call prophets for our day, servants who could further His work among His children.
The first of these latter-day prophets was Joseph Smith, a man God called as a prophet in 1830 in much the same way as He chose the ancient prophets and apostles—from among the most humble and unlikely of candidates.
The farm boy from upstate New York became God's instrument for the considerable temporal work required to restore the truths, structure, and authority of Jesus Christ's Church here on the earth after centuries of apostasy. Joseph Smith spoke with God, received revelation from Him, revealed and translated an ancient religious record called the Book of Mormon, and brought back to the earth the Church of Jesus Christ in its fulness. Nearly 200 years have passed since Joseph Smith's calling, and the restored Church of Jesus Christ has members numbering in the tens of millions around the world. A considerable work has since been done that could not have been accomplished without the restored keys of the priesthood and divine guidance.
Guidance was indeed what Joseph Smith was seeking as a boy when he came across James 1:5 in the New Testament: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." Joseph had been searching the scriptures to know which church to join, and by kneeling in prayer, he soon came to understand the power of those words and of personal revelation, for God answered his prayer. This gift of personal revelation is one God makes available to each of His children; He answered Joseph's prayer and will do likewise for all who sincerely seek to know the truth. We are promised that if we pray about the truthfulness of the Restoration of Jesus Christ's Church and of the Book of Mormon, we can receive our own personal confirmation that they are true.
A prophet receives revelation for the entire Church.
Joseph Smith's successors have continued to receive revelation from God, constituting an unbroken line of priesthood authority to this day. President Thomas S. Monson now holds this office as President of the Church, and he is assisted by two counselors and by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who perform a function similar to the Apostles Jesus Christ called in His day. Together, these 15 inspired priesthood holders are sustained as "prophets, seers, and revelators," though only President Monson receives revelation for the entire Church. Like their ancient predecessors, these men testify of Jesus Christ and they teach His gospel.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is unique in the world today for the priesthood authority it holds and for the leaders who exercise that authority, continuing a tradition as old as humanity itself. God loves His children and has promised blessings to those who listen to His inspired servants, the prophets, whose work it is to help us come to know and become more like God.
Why do we have prophets?
When we were born, we left the presence of our Heavenly Father to live and be tested on this earth. Our Heavenly Father wants nothing more than to see us overcome our challenges, become better people, and return to Him.
Because Heavenly Father wants us to return to His presence, He gives us help. Prayer is one way we communicate with God and receive guidance in life. The scriptures also provide heavenly instruction to steer us along the path our Father would have us go. If you think about it, the scriptures are simply a record of God's communication with His prophets, faithful men who carry out His will.
What many people do not realize is that there are again prophets on earth—speaking on behalf of God today! Through prophets, Heavenly Father continues to demonstrate His love and attention by sending us the messages we need right now. These men act as mouthpieces for God. Just as Moses spoke for God to all the Israelites, living prophets give instructions and counsel to all people today.
How do prophets impact society?
God is never changing, but our lives are. Heavenly Father sees and understands the pressing issues in our world. He has the eternal foresight to know the challenges society will face.
As a perfect, all-knowing parent, God teaches and warns His children through prophets. This was true in the scriptures when prophets spoke of the scattering of Israel. Prophets gave counsel that saved the faithful from their enemies. And all prophets spoke of great promises that would attend the birth, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In the latter days, prophets continue to caution and advise all people. Recent counsel addresses social issues such as marriage and family relationships, practical matters such as education and financial prudence, and spiritual subjects that help us overcome personal trials and find greater confidence in our faith.
These messages from God are available to all people: President Thomas S. Monson, his counselors, and the Twelve Apostles speak to the world twice a year during a meeting called general conference. Their words are broadcast internationally, appear in print, and are shared online for all to examine.
The true test of a prophet's words is when we apply them to our personal lives. Those who hear these messages often comment, "It was like they were speaking to me!" Truly, God knows our deepest concerns and wants to help. Whether we know we need them yet or not, our Heavenly Father gives His children divine answers through His prophets.


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From NBC's Shawna Thomas and Carrie Dann
Three Democrats voted with all House Republicans on Wednesday to repeal the health care reform bill signed into law by Barack Obama last year.
Democratic Reps. Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Mike Ross of Arkansas, and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina joined GOP lawmakers in supporting the symbolic vote to repeal the law.
The three Democrats were among the 39 who voted against the legislation in November of 2009. Just 12 of those lawmakers are still serving in the House in the new Congress (six retired or left their seats to seek higher office; the remainder lost their re-election bids.)
Boren, Ross, and McIntyre were joined by Democratic Rep. Larry Kissell of North Carolina earlier this month in supporting a procedural measure that teed up the repeal vote. Kissell voted no on repeal today.
The final vote was 245-189.

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Speeding Up Frequency Response Estimation Using Parallel Computing
This example illustrates how to use parallel computing for speeding up frequency response estimation of Simulink models. In some scenarios, the command FRESTIMATE performs multiple Simulink simulations to estimate the frequency response of a Simulink model. You can distribute these simulations to a pool of MATLAB workers by using Parallel Computing Toolbox.
This example requires Parallel Computing Toolbox. You can optionally use MATLAB Distributed Computing Server to run simulations on a computer cluster. This example uses the local worker functionality available in Parallel Computing Toolbox.
Speeding up Simulink Simulations Performed by FRESTIMATE
When you compute frequency response using the FRESTIMATE command, the majority of computation time is usually spent in Simulink simulations. To reduce the total simulation time, you can:
1. Use rapid accelerator mode. See the "linearization validation example" as an example of using rapid accelerator mode with the FRESTIMATE command. Use this method when FRESTIMATE performs only one Simulink simulation.
2. Distribute simulations among workers in a MATLAB pool. Use this method when FRESTIMATE performs multiple Simulink simulations. FRESTIMATE performs more than one Simulink simulation when you specify the following:
- A Sinestream input signal with "SimulationOrder" parameter set to "OneAtATime". In this case, each frequency in the Sinestream signal is simulated separately.
- Linearization I/O points with more than one input point or a non-scalar input point. In this case, each linearization input point or each channel in a non-scalar linearization input point yields a separate Simulink simulation.
Note that FRESTIMATE command using parallel computing option also supports normal, accelerator and rapid accelerator modes.
Configuring a MATLAB Pool
To use parallel computing to speed up frequency response estimation, configure and start a pool of MATLAB workers before you run the FRESTIMATE command.
Use the gcp and parpool commands to check if a MATLAB pool is open, and then open a local pool on your multi-core desktop. This requires Parallel Computing Toolbox.
if isempty(gcp) %The parpool is not open, so open one parpool local end
Starting parallel pool (parpool) using the 'local' profile ... connected to 6 workers.
Distributing Simulink Simulations for Each Frequency in Sinestream Input
When you use a Sinestream input signal with FRESTIMATE command and you set the "SimulationOrder" parameter to "OneAtATime", each frequency in the Sinestream signal simulates in a separate Simulink simulation. If you enable the parallel computing option, the simulations corresponding to individual frequencies are distributed among workers in the MATLAB pool.
scdengine mdl = 'scdengine'; io = getlinio(mdl); in = frest.Sinestream('Frequency',logspace(-1,1,50),'Amplitude',1e-3,... 'SimulationOrder','OneAtATime');
In the engine model above, there is a single linearization input point and a single linearization output point. There are 50 frequencies in the Sinestream signal and the FRESTIMATE command performs 50 separate Simulink simulations, because the "SimulationOrder" parameter is set to "OneAtATime". To enable the parallel computing option for FRESTIMATE to distribute these simulations among workers, create a frequency response estimation options object using the command frestimateOptions and set the "UseParallel" parameter to "on". Use this object as input argument for FRESTIMATE.
opt = frestimateOptions('UseParallel','on'); sysest = frestimate(mdl,io,in,opt); bode(sysest,'r*')
The time it takes for the FRESTIMATE command to run to completion with and without parallel computing option enabled is shown below. A PC with Intel® Core(TM)2 Quad 2.4GHz processor and 4GB of RAM is used.
Parallel Computing Option Time(secs) Speedup ------------------------- --------- ------- Disabled 43.69 1 Enabled with 2 workers 25.34 1.72 Enabled with 3 workers 15.46 2.83 Enabled with 4 workers 11.52 3.79
Parallel computing significantly speeds up the frequency response estimation. The imperfect speedup can be caused by various factors including the overhead from data and code transfer between client and workers and resource competition between worker processes and OS processes. For first simulation (i.e. immediately after opening the pool of MATLAB workers), Simulink start-up time can add to the overhead.
Distributing Simulink Simulations for Input Channels
When the number of linearization input points or the number of channels in a linearization input point is greater than one, the FRESTIMATE command distributes individual Simulink simulations corresponding to these input channels among workers in the MATLAB pool.
scdmechconveyor mdl = 'scdmechconveyor'; io(1) = linio('scdmechconveyor/Constant',1,'input'); io(2) = linio('scdmechconveyor/Position Controller',1,'input'); io(3) = linio('scdmechconveyor/Joint Sensor',1,'output'); % Find the steady state operating point op = findop(mdl,20); % Linearize the system and create input signal using linearization result sys = linearize(mdl,io,op); in = frest.Sinestream(sys);
With the linio commands, you specify two linearization input points, which are both located on scalar Simulink signals. If you run the FRESTIMATE command to estimate the frequency response for this model, two Simulink simulations occur, one for each input. If you enable the parallel computing option, the simulations are distributed among workers. Run FRESTIMATE command with parallel computing option enabled and plot the estimation result against analytical linearization:
opt = frestimateOptions('UseParallel','on'); sysest = frestimate(mdl,io,in,op,opt); bodeopts = bodeoptions; bodeopts.PhaseMatching = 'on'; bodeplot(sys,sysest,'r*',bodeopts)
The time it takes for the FRESTIMATE command to run to completion with and without parallel computing option enabled is shown below. A PC with Intel® Core(TM)2 Quad 2.4GHz processor and 4GB of RAM is used.
Parallel Computing Option Time(secs) Speedup ------------------------- --------- ------- Disabled 56.99 1 Enabled with 2 workers 31.94 1.72
As in the case of distributing simulations for frequencies, the table shows nearly a two-fold speedup with the parallel computing option enabled. As mentioned before, several factors may contribute to imperfect speedup including data and code transfer between client and workers and resource competition between worker processes and OS processes.
Close the model and the parallel pool:
bdclose(mdl); delete(gcp);
Parallel pool using the 'local' profile is shutting down.


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The use of social media has exploded in recent years, and while adoption has been slower for hedge funds and investment firms, even they are utilizing tools such as Twitter and Facebook to communicate.
As social media adoption continues and firms begin to rely on it for business-related purposes, it's essential they exercise caution and understand their legal and compliance obligations.
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Comearroz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 47 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
visYoga™ is a compendium, a reflection of who I am. Ive done yoga for about 15 years, martial arts for 20, been a certified personal trainer for 2 years but have worked religiously for over 30 years. visYoga™ is an exercise discipline which incorporates moves from power yoga, martial arts and personal training principles, isometrics and relaxation. Think of a fitness-club style class with engaging music , lots of energy. The sweat is pouring, the muscles and blood are pumping and then at the end the practitioners are led through a guided muscle relaxation sequence. There is no "becoming one with the universe" in my classes. There is no spiritual talk, my classes are all about the physicality of the practice. I believe yoga should be unique to the individual. Every person is different; thus, so should your yoga be your own. No two classes are ever the same. The practitioner is forced to pay attention by never relying on set routines. The slogan of visYoga™ is "A workout for the body and a break for the mind."..... i think that should do it. if you have more questions please email me at email@example.com
Fitness enthusiasts, martial artists, yoga practitioners. People that might want to work out for as short period of times, perhaps 10-15 minutes to people who might want to do the whole 75 minute DVD. The DVD is divided in 10-15 min segments. People that don't want to sit through an ethereal- hippie- like yoga class but instead want to get a great work out. A workout which will challenge their balance, engage their muscles, engage their core and then offer them relaxation at the end.
I need a design for the cover (front and back of the DVD) which makes people want to know more about this type of exercise workout routine/ yoga style. I want the design to be urban, modern, tactical, hip without going into the goth realm of tattoo art. Something that can appeal and straddle the patchouli-using-earth-loving-mystic crowd to the iron-pumping- martial-arts-kiaaing- acrobatic- modern-gym rat.
All of these characteristics need to be incorporated w a stylized version of the visYoga™ logo. (please see attached). I dont care how big or how small you use the logo, I just need it to be somewhere in the cover and for it to be recognizable. Also please use the other silhouetted image of me doing yoga. Be creative with it but please dont destroy the purity of the logo design but feel free to solarize it, emboss it, tile it, mossaic it... whatever you think works.. Ive uploaded the most basic version of the logo. Have fun with it, make it your own. The visYoga™ logo is meant to be interpreted by the individual in whatever way they might see fit. Meaning this logo means whatever you, the practitioner want it to be. I expect you the designer to interpret it as such as well.
PS Feel free to stylize the silhouette as well. change the colors, crop the top... whatever you think you need in order to make it eye-catching.
* Im adding a couple more visYoga stylized logos so you see what I mean


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of Migration:
Paintings by Kenwyn Crichlow
and Obiora Udechukwu
War and Peace
After the Wall:
Gender and Social Relations in
Post-Communist European
Posters and Ephemera
"To Whup Up On Sin"
African-American Self-Taught Art
Barnes Endowment Annual Juried
Student Art Exhibition
Kenwyn Crichlow, Solace, oil
on canvas
Kenwyn Crichlow
The question about lines—lines of departure,
lines of enclosure, lines of demarcation, lines of separation, and
so on—is an important part of the process of [understanding]
community, especially in the diaspora. We've grown up with
maps that show a line coming from Africa to the Caribbean and then
breaking up; that is the line that describes the diaspora. I also
relate [the idea of line as metaphor] to the lines that root me
personally to Trinidad and to the rest of the world. I remember
being asked at one point about my descent, and I say, as I look
at my own physiology and the physiology of my relatives, that we
seem to resemble Yoruba people. I don't know if I am Yoruba
or Igbo, whichever continental African nation, because the line
that joins me to that continent is somewhere, but it has been snipped
off; that is an area of darkness. But there is a line that joins
me to the Caribbean, which is becoming clearer as I grow older because
I'm now able to more usefully piece together the narratives
and the anecdotes that members of the previous generations have
told me. To restructure the past, to look at the social and political
evolution of society and see where my family was in the landscape,
[allows me] to work out the line that joins me to Trinidad or to
the southern Caribbean.
When we talk about issues of diaspora, [we] return
to issues of race, class, and identity, issues of sociology and
heritage. But there are other important issues upon which these
also reside, which have to do with the making of things, which is
one of the ways in which we define ourselves. People in Trinidad
of African descent make things—much of this making comes out
of the ramagé process, which is a way of improvising, of
getting in touch with other areas of knowledge through time. My
way of making a painting is informed by the ramagé process,
which is part of the whole way of identification. I am informed
by the discourse about identities. That is, I suppose, quite subjective,
and maybe I am unable to tease it apart. It's a value of negotiation,
especially of identity.
Obiora Udechukwu,Udummili
(Rising Season),
1993, acrylic on canvas
Obiora Udechukwu
Although I have my Nigerian heritage, I've been living in
the United States for five years, and you can't exist as an
island here. You have to be part of the society where you live;
all kinds of things impinge on your life. How do you rationalize
these things; how do you come to terms with your present position?
There's a lot of ambivalence in my practice now as an artist.
In the 1970s, I moved away from strictly realistic painting and
began to work in the Uli idiom. Typically, Uli painting by rural
women in southeastern Nigeria is completely abstract and has a hard-edge
effect. The colors are very few and not intermixed. Occasionally,
I include figures in my work. For example, in a painting from the
Dark Days series, people are huddled inside a cell. Although the
picture references a specific and tragic period in the history of
Nigeria, it transcends that. The work looks back several centuries
to the infamous Middle Passage in which millions of Africans were
transported in unspeakable conditions from the continent to the
Caribbean and the United States to work as slaves on plantations.
In the 1990s, the military government in Nigeria treated people
in much the same way, locking large numbers of citizens in overcrowded
cells without trial. At a personal level, I was incarcerated by
the Nigerian military government in 1997 for some weeks, along with
other academic colleagues. So, there is a link. I take the particular
and use it to address the general. As far as I am concerned, human
beings have not changed. Human beings have not changed at all.
It is important for people in the diaspora to retain the good part
of their culture. I say this because there is a tendency for people
to give up everything they have when they encounter a "superior"
culture. Look at the United States—so powerful; with its technological
advantages it can take over any country, and so on. U.S. culture
becomes the index, but it does not necessarily mean it is the best.
Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote a book entitled It Takes a Village
[to bring up a child]—and that's the way we do it back
home. Human beings are more important than capital. They are more
important than money. The point I'm making is that it's
necessary for those of us who are in the diaspora to make sure that
our children know our stories, our histories.
In May-June of 2002, in conjunction with the planning
for this exhibition project, I attended part of a two-week summer
institute at the University of West Indies for students from St.
Lawrence University, Trent University, and UWI. Two concurrent seminars
were offered: "cultural performance: arts and identity"
and "social justice and comparative multiculturalism."
Among many other topics, we discussed the functions of carnival
and the commodification of culture, and we learned about the history
and politics of cricket in the Caribbean (and sat through most of
a monsoon-like downpour to watch T&T fave Brian Lara in a match
against India). I drove through Port of Spain with Ken Crichlow
to find a gargantuan Spider Man billboard cutout perched atop one
of Trinidad's ubiquitous Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants,
right across the street from a monument to Captain Arthur Andrew
Cipriani, an important activist in the country's labour movement.
One evening, students in the arts course performed in a cabaret
of sorts, and I was stunned by their creativity and passion. I listened
to a Celtic fiddler and a folk guitarist who sang Bob Dylan's
"Tangled Up in Blue." A storyteller shared a parable
about the sun and the moon, and a visual artist/poet performed a
radical feminist manifesto. On the BWIA trip home, "Shallow
Hal" was featured as the "in-flight entertainment,"
and I stopped off at the "America!" store in the Washington
Dulles airport terminal to purchase Osama bin Laden "Terrorist"
ID cards.
As I tried to sort through this weird collage of images and phenomena,
I realized that many of the concepts that the students explored
in the institute were made evident in my travels. Lines of migration—people,
capital, and cultures moving across borders, in ways that don't
often make sense. In this exhibition, Kenwyn Crichlow and Obiora
Udechukwu reflect and comment upon issues of the diaspora and identity
in the Caribbean and North America. As such, they are both eloquent
narrators. Their work strives to make meaning of their own personal
histories as well as the ambiguities and contradictions of contemporary
culture. The juxtapositions reveal many lines of departure.
-Cathy Tedford, Director
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
Kenwyn Crichlow, Painting
through to the Dream,
2001, oil on canvas with 22 carat gold leaf
In January 2000, the Ford Foundation awarded St.
Lawrence University a three-year faculty and curriculum development
grant entitled "Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies"
to work collaboratively with Trent University in Canada and the
University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. Through
the project, faculty and students at the three institutions have
studied the relationships between geographic areas and the global
movement of people, capital, and cultures across geographic borders,
and they have investigated and compared the influence of Africa,
Asia, Europe, and indigenous peoples within the United States,
Canada, and the Caribbean from transnational, multicultural, and
interdisciplinary perspectives. This exhibition was proposed by
Eve Stoddard and Grant Cornwell, grant project coordinators at
St. Lawrence, both of whom have long recognized that gallery programs
can be well integrated into the academic life of an undergraduate
liberal arts institution.
Presented during the 2003 Festival of the Arts The
Gullah Connection: From West Africa to the Islands of the Americas,
the exhibition and educational programs are funded by the Ford
Foundation grant. Special thanks to Carole Mathey at St. Lawrence
University, Ronald Joseph at Gallery 184.108.40.206., and David LaRiviere
at artspace for their assistance with the traveling exhibition.
Obiora Udechukwu, Night Journey,
2000, gouache on paper
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Zalmaï: War and Peace
I had to leave without it. It was a Zenit, a Soviet camera my father
had brought back from a trip. A crazy luxury for a child of Kabul
who dreamed only of living in images. I was sixteen years old and
had to flee Afghanistan like a thief.
Months of travel followed. An itinerary without images, a black
hole. I needed a reason to escape, and chance encounters gave it
to me. The discovery of the world through photography showed me
that my bewildered gaze was no longer alone. I had to set off again.
But where? The question was rhetorical: where the dead speak nonsense,
where misery spreads on beaches of silence. Wherever life overflows
on itself, raw and naked. In Manila, on the steaming mountains of
rubbish or in the swamps surrounding the shantytowns; in a camp
of refugees, lost in Central Africa, where children dance under
the stars; among nomads of every race, of every ethnicity. What
does humanity have to say to these barefoot nobles, wounded to the
bone, so close to lives nearly extinct, yet still burning brightly.
Faced with these conflicting interpretations, I rage, I exult,
and have the wild desire to open the eyes of those who have seen
What use is photography? On the road fleeing Kabul, I remember
a sea of white flags floating on a village turned graveyard. I do
not know why I have kept this image, so sharp, of such aberrant
disaster. In whose name? For what end? But it resonates in my eye
like a reminder of reality.
Zalmaï Ahad,Quetta,
Pakistan, 1994,gelatin silver print
Zalmaï's photographs capture the slow, distressing drift
of exile and dispossession: spectral figures against a stormy sky,
a sheared row of peaks that frame a figure like a sacred relic,
horizons of men, both of this world and of some timeless land. This
is a documentation of a journey through ambiguous territories—from
Cuba to India, Mali to the Philippines, Indonesia to Egypt, and
a return to Zalmaï's native Afghanistan—a search
for place when one's own land has been destroyed. Most of
all, his work is about the fragility of presence.
Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1964, Zalmaï fled his homeland
in 1980 to escape the occupation of the Soviet Army. He [moved to]
Switzerland, where he studied at the School of Creative Photography,
Lausanne, and at the Center of Professional Education in Photography,
Yverdon. Since 1989, Zalmaï has worked as a freelance photographer
for The New York Times, Le Temps, Geo, Newsweek, Reflex Magazine,
Outside Magazine, and Vanity Fair. His assignments have taken him
around the world, and his work has covered a variety of topics,
from Tibetan refugees and rickshaw drivers in Calcutta to pygmies
and Sudanese refugees in the Central African Republic, before bringing
him back to his native Afghanistan to photograph the effects of
landmines. Since his first solo show at 16/25 Gallery, Lausanne,
he has had numerous others at museums and galleries throughout Europe.
More recently, Zalmaï's exhibition Afghanistan, produced
by the International Red Cross, toured Switzerland, Germany, and
Austria. He currently resides in New York City.
On January 28–31, 2003, St. Lawrence University will host
a peace conference entitled "The Real Situation: A Peaceful
Anti-War Uproar." Organized by Erin Cianchette '03 and
a committee of students and faculty, the event will bring together
international and local scholars, activists, and musicians in an
effort to shed critical light on a range of issues related to the
ongoing "war on terrorism." All of the events are free
and open to the public; see http://student.stlawu.edu/~ecianc91/
or call 315-229-7548 for more information.
War and Peace is an Umbrage Editions exhibition.
Curator: Nan Richardson; Associate Curator: Lesley A. Martin; Director
of Exhibitions: Launa Beuhler.
Photographs by Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen, Chris' Dogs, 2001,
archival pigment print, 20 x 20 inches
[Viggo Mortensen] is photographer, painter and poet; a triple-time
eye/I who shares with us the desire for the perfect as never more
than an elusive glimpse of something that surprises us all. It seems
that these moments can only be held if they appear to be escaping
or yielding to what cannot last. Photography, whatever else it may
be, is a focusing on detail. Mortensen likes sotto voce details;
he gives his attention to instants that would otherwise have passed
by unobserved, or more significantly, unregistered—things
that in a literal sense were simply there for him because he was
there for them—things that would have easily passed by as
all else passes by, as we ourselves finally do.
Mortensen seems to suggest that all incidents are photographable;
perhaps none carry more significance than any others, or they carry
the overwhelming significance he has given them through his involvement.
It is a matter of being involved, being present, being, as Pollock
might have said, "in it," in what is happening, trusting
it. He returns us to the subject as a connection through which life
passes. We form the event, selecting what seems significant to us,
and in so doing we shape ourselves through the precise energy of
our attentions. The things he photographs belong to him, are of
him because they happened to him, and therein lies their coherence.
- from "Viggo Mortensen: A
Life Tracking Itself" by Kevin Power
Signlanguage (Smart Art Press, 2002)
Viggo Mortensen, Winter, Venice, 2000
archival pigment print, 10.5 x 30 inches
Viggo Mortensen, Blue #4, 1998,
arhival pigment print, 20 x 20 inches
Viggo Mortensen graduated in 1980 from St. Lawrence University,
where he majored in government and Spanish. Special thanks to Pilar
Perez at Perceval
Press and to Robert Mann and Irene Grassi at Robert
Mann Gallery, New York, NY. The exhibition is supported by the
Carlyle and Betty Barnes Endowment Fund.
Note: The
Gallery not be open on Friday, February 28 until the opening reception
at 7:30 p.m. We will have special open hours on Saturday as follows:
a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (open)
p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (closed for poetry reading/book signing)
p.m. - midnight (open)
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The Astonishing World of Tom Tomorrow:
An Exhibition of Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow
While there's a certain comfort in calling Tom Tomorrow a
political cartoonist, there's also something lost in that
designation. His work transcends the typical one-cell Op-Ed page
cartoon, both stylistically and substantively. What other "political
cartoonist" would use vintage action figures to critique social
security reform, or cram several hundred words into a single cartoon
in an attempt to clarify misconceptions about single payer healthcare
systems? His frequently bizarre and always humorous off-kilter approaches
give Tomorrow's cartoons a depth that extends his parody and
critique even further, making them all the more effective.
We live in a political climate in which the once unthinkable is
now commonplace. Orwellian Total Information Awareness schemes,
a highly secretive executive branch with unprecedented power, and
a president who declares crusades arguing that "you are either
with us or with the terrorists" now mark the order of the
day. It has become "un-American" and "unpatriotic"
to question these developments, yet Tom Tomorrow continues on week
after week, levying an effective, biting, and pointed critique of
these new sacred American phenomena. In this sense, Tom Tomorrow
is no mere political cartoonist. He's a vital cultural critic
and link to the common sense that we seem to have lost in declaring
war on everything and everyone.
-Robert Torres
assistant professor of sociology
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After the Wall: Gender and Social Relations in
Post-Communist European Posters and Ephemera
Rich Hopkins & Luminarios, 2002,
Blue Rose Tours/Jack Wolfskin, offset lithograph,
32 13/16 x 23 1/4 in.
The posters and street ephemera on display in this
exhibition were collected during four trips to central Europe since
the summer of 2000. What began as mere curiosity for the odd flyer
taped to a light pole became something of an obsession: I found
myself roaming the streets of (east) Berlin, Prague, or Warsaw—streets
that are, generally, far safer than the streets of American cities—in
search of posters, flyers, announcements, advertisements, etc.,
whatever caught my eye. These were materials on their way to becoming
rubbish; soon enough, every single object would be pulled down,
covered over, thrown away, or scratched out. This was the ephemera
of the street, visual texts cheaply produced and displayed, meant
to draw the attention of passers-by to a coming event, a demonstration,
concert, or performance; to an issue, problem or question of the
day; to a product, apartment, or a body for sale or hire; or even
to a lost cat.
The transitory artifacts of popular culture are by their nature
indicative of social change, and many of the objects chosen for
this exhibition display gender as a prominent aspect of the massive
social, economic, and political transformation still under way in
post-communist Europe more than a decade after the end of the Cold
War. In these texts, gender difference is variously displayed, encoded,
and represented. For example, a street poster from (east) Germany
advertises a band, "Rich Hopkins & Luminarios,"
with a nostalgic play on the recent Cold War past featuring a come-hither
image of a "cowgirl" in skimpy buckskin sitting atop
a wooden fence rail. The desert setting suggests the American West,
while the Soviet stars on the cowgirl's wrists indicate that
she can go both ways, ideologically speaking. Yet her blowing on
a smoking gun suggests, too, a nostalgia for (hetero)sex, or perhaps,
a sexist nostalgia, underwritten by the eroticized spectacle of
the "Old West"/Hollywood cowgirl.
On the other hand, sexism and its socially damaging effects form
the explicit topic for other posters, including those from the Centrum
Praw Kobiet (Women's Rights Center) in Warsaw and other women's
and gender studies centers newly emergent in the region. Systematically
ignored under the former communist regime, male violence against
women is emphatically denounced in visually arresting posters such
as "Zero tolerancji" ("Zero Tolerance").
In addition, the show includes works not immediately or explicitly
about gender, such as "Dem Polizeistaat entgegentreten!"
("Oppose the police state!"), featuring a disturbing
black-and-white photo of heavily armed German riot police bearing
down on a young couple (and, it seems, on us). That one of those
riot police may be a woman does not lessen the hyper-masculine quality
of their state-sanctioned threat of violence.
-Dr. Joel Morton, curator
assistant professor, Gender Studies
Dem Polizeistaat entgegentreten!, 2002,
creator unknown, offset lithograph,
21 1/8 x 16 ½ in.
Posters from Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic can be viewed
on the Gallery's Web site at http://www.stlawu.edu/gallery/eeursplash.htm.
Special thanks to Marisa Zarczynski '06 for her research assistance.
Please contact the Gallery for information about this traveling
Zero tolerancji, 2002, Centrum Praw Kobiet,
o ffset lithograph, 23 9/16 x 16 1/4 in.
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"To Whup Up On Sin"
African-American Self-Taught Art
Sister Gertrude Morgan, untitled acrylic painting
on paper,
8 x 10 inches, collection of Susann Craig
I first heard about self-taught art while interning at Intuit:
The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago during the
summer of 2002. While there, I conducted research at a desk between
two cavernous galleries and across from what I soon discovered was
a black box theater for performances, screenings, and lectures.
Given the size of the place and the scope of Intuit's programs,
I was surprised at how little I knew about this stuff. How did it
correspond to other art forms I had studied in art history courses?
At the time, I thought, "Wow, these people are crazy like
Van Gogh!" Would Van Gogh be considered an outsider artist?
Yes and no. During his lifetime, he was considered insane, his talent
unrecognized, and yet today many regard his paintings as the pinnacle
of high art.
This exhibition, the result of an independent study course I am
taking this semester, is comprised of fifteen drawings, paintings,
and sculptures by six 20th-century African-American artists. Included
are watercolors of dreamlike mountain scenes with floating eye/plant
hybrids, glimmering mosaics depicting fantastical spirits, mythical
representations of flying angels and demons, colorfully illustrated
stories of the Apocalypse, and playful wood carvings of birds, horses,
and famous or not-so-famous human figures. The artists use supplies
that can be purchased at a local dime store, like crayons, colored
pencils, glitter, or random, found objects like scrap metal, shovels,
cans, and old furniture.
Typically labeled visionary, divinely inspired, or
obsessive, these artists have had no formal training and have worked
outside of traditional institutions like museums and commercial
galleries. You probably won't find them discussing existential
philosophy at Starbucks. Yet their deeply personal approaches reflect
a range of life experiences, inner emotions, and fantasies. One
artist, Sister Gertrude Morgan, a self-proclaimed "missionary
and everlasting gospel teacher," feels her Godly work can
"whup up on sin," which inspired the title of this exhibition.
-Matthew Whitehead '03
Special thanks to Martha Watterson at Intuit: The
Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois, and to
Susann Craig, Jeff Cory, and Erik Weisenburger, lenders to the exhibition.
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Barnes Endowment Annual Juried Student Art
Steven Gianakos (American, born 1938) ,
Bedroom Scene, 1997,
i nk and watercolor on paper , 14 1/4 x 20 1/8 in.,
gift of Dr. Richard T. and Odile ('51) Stern
Student artwork in all media, including drawing, painting, photography,
sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking, will be presented in this
exhibition organized by the Student Art Union and the Department
of Fine Arts. The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition is open
to all St. Lawrence University students.
Juried by Doug Schatz, assistant professor of sculpture at the
State University of New York, Potsdam, the exhibition is supported
by the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment for Fine Arts and the
Carlyle and Betty Barnes Endowment. Special thanks to Ashley Havens
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Gallery Hours
Monday-Thursday 12-8 p.m.
Friday-Saturday 12-5 p.m.
All exhibitions and related educational programs
are free and open to the public. The
Gallery welcomes individuals and groups for guided tours; please
call (315) 229-5174 for information.
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How was everyone's Christmas? I kept it pretty chill all week and spent most of my time either binge watching movies + eating on all my fav foods. Or the few days that I did head out, went for some post-Christmas sale shopping before the Returns/Exchange crowds hit the stores right about next week after NYE :P
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…only to discover that the pain in his ass was due to the fact that the entire 2012 election had been shoved up it.
Rove came up empty, in Presidential and Congressional races.
Here in Montana, Denny Rehberg has been sent packing by Jon Tester, in an enormous victory, a virtual landslide. Tester blew him out. Libertarian candidate Dan Cox got almost seven percent, one of the biggest takes by a third party candidate since Ross Perot got in the mid-twenties in 1992.
We should all be proud of what Tester did. The polls showed him neck and neck going into the last days, but he got his vote out and closed big. And he overcame an absolute monsoon of negative ads lasting three months, one of the biggest smears ever recorded on Montana's airwaves, funded by Washington DC Republicans and Karl Rove's group Crossroads GPS. He dumped tens of millions into the race (and even paid a visit to Montana, to help Rehberg with strategy), all of it impugning Tester for having had the temerity to support his President. And the beauty is, it doesn't really look like the attack worked at all. Tester cruised to victory. What mattered more to voters was that Tester turns in a workday, doesn't whine or complain, doesn't spend his days smearing people or blaming people, but tries accomplish something.
Same for Obama, the object of vitriolic GOP hatred, who demolished the weak Mitt Romney in spectacular fashion, defeating yet another empty, negative campaign by the Republicans. Poor Rove, whose group spent half a billion dollars and got zilch in return. Dems have actually picked up a seat in the United States Senate, and Rove had the dubious task on FOXNews last night of trying to convince the public that while every network and news outlet was projecting Obama the winner, they were, according to Rove, doing so in error. He had secret math, you see, that showed Romney was, in fact, still going to win. What happened in Montana and nationally, well, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy than Karl Rove.
Dennis Rehberg, meanwhile, concludes 12 years of federal service and many more years of state government service, and the Cowgirl blog recognizes this contribution to society. Though we rarely agree with Rehberg and have always advocated against him, anybody stepping up to run for or hold public office deserves recognition and congratulations upon the completion of a career, as do his many staffers and operatives who spent the last two years in this fight. We wish Denny and his crew well in his future endeavors. Perhaps we will even see him try again two years from now for the Senate or even four years from now for governor, or maybe even try to take his seat back if Steve Daines vacates his newly won House seat to try to move up to Senate.
Speaking of Governor, Lee Newspapers, CNN, and NBC have called the race for Bullock, and now AP has as well. Down three points heading into the weekend according to a Mason Dixon poll, Bullock came up strong last night. Votes are still outstanding in Yellowstone County and also in a few key Indian countries like Glacier and Bighorn. But Bullock is showing about a 2 point edge right now, and I don't believe it will be eroded much by the balance of votes yet to be counted. He will be our next Governor. Keep the cellphone tight, Steve, for Rick Hill will be calling you shortly to congratulate you and concede the race.
Hill, like Rehberg, deserves credit for trying a comeback late in life. He came up short, and has now probably concluded his political career, but he put in a tough effort and should be congratulated on having waged a pretty close race
Pam Bucy and Kim Gillan fought the good fight, but were up against two guys who had run for statewide office before, and so these two impressive gals started out at a disadvantage. Expect to see both of them remain in the orbit of public service. Either or both would be excellent applicants for Bullock cabinet positions and Bucy, I believe, will be back again to run for something else.
Daines got a huge investment from the national Republican party, so that made life miserable for Gillan who could not pull in the same dough from her party and was running for an office that seems to have the word Republican posted on the door. It was an uphill battle from the get-go. But Bucy, a far superior candidate to her opponent, got shafted. Our new attorney general Tim Fox has achieved his office by being bankrolled by secret money, close to a million dollars worth, the source of which has still not been determined. Bucy had no such slush fund. When you tally up the money, Bucy got outspent 5-1 at least. It puts a cap on a sad chapter in Montana electoral history, in which Republicans attempted to take over the government with unlimited, secret corporate money. Poor Pam became the object of the corporate wrath, despite an impeccable resume that made her opponent look like a bum.
In other races, Juneau, Lindeen and McCulloch all have leads right now, but Juneau's race will be tight. She's up half a point, with Billings and Indian country yet to be reported. Let's keep our fingers crossed for her.
We should be proud of all these candidates. And, I am proud of all of you, who have participated in this election by tuning in, for keeping the discussion alive and spirited, providing information, and for making Cowgirl blog the place for politics in Montana.


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Passing Yards
Rushing Yards
Time of Poss.
McMINNVILLE, Ore. - Two nationally ranked programs faced off to begin the season with No. 7 Linfield getting the better of No. 16 Cal Lutheran by a 24-14 score at Maxwell Field on Saturday afternoon.
Box Score: LIN 24, CLU 14 - F
The series between these two teams has been one of trends and at least a pair of those continued on Saturday.
Cal Lutheran has opened the scoring in each of the past four meetings since the 2009 season. After Eric Rogers torched the Wildcats for 216 yards and two scores in the previous matchup, the wide out scored on CLU's opening possession Saturday on a 28-yard run.
The second and more important is the home team had been victorious in the previous five meetings. Linfield made it six straight for the home side scoring 10 second quarter points to take a three point lead into halftime.
Cal Lutheran had an opportunity to add to its 7-0 lead after driving down to the Linfield 17-yard line. On the Kingsmen attempt to convert a fourth-and-one running back Dan Mosier lost yardage and CLU turned the ball over on downs.
It would be the lone red zone scoring chance for Cal Lutheran on the day while Linfield took the ball inside the Kingsmen 20-yard line six times.
Defensive red zone interceptions snatched by Justin Haulcy-Bateman and Loren Powers turned away a pair of scoring chances and kept Cal Lutheran within striking distance. However the Cal Lutheran offense was unable to capitalize going three-and-out on one possession and Linfield returning the favor three plays later with a pick of their own on the other.
The Wildcats cashed in on the other four opportunities with two touchdowns and a pair of field goals. The running game did most of the damage going for 256 yards and an average of 5.8 yards per carry.
Linfield running back Josh Hill led the way with 24 carries, 164 yards and two touchdowns. His second rushing touchdown at the 4:24 mark of the third quarter made it 17 unanswered points for the Wildcats.
His CLU counterpart Mosier did not have the same success as he had in his previous game against Linfield in which he rushed for over 100 yards and two touchdowns in the fourth quarter alone. On Saturday the Wildcats held him to only 55 yards on 16 carries and CLU to a total of 122 yards on the ground.
Trailing 17-14 Cal Lutheran forced a punt and had possession near midfield facing a third-and-one. Again the running game was unable to gain yardage and forced to punt the ball away. On the ensuing Linfield possession quarterback Mickey Inns' four-yard touchdown pass to Jacob Priester capped off a 75-yard drive and pushed the margin back to 10 points.
The Wildcats defense also contained the aerial assault to a degree but CLU quarterback Jake Laudenslayer did find Rogers for a 28-yard touchdown that pulled the Kingsmen to within three points late in the third quarter. Laudenslayer completed 19-of-30 passes for 220 yards and found Rogers four times for 91 yards including the TD that cut the deficit to three points.
Defensively it was an impressive Cal Lutheran debut for Chris Carr who led the team with 13 tackles (10 solo) including the lone Kingsmen sack.
Cal Lutheran (0-1) will host Pacific Lutheran (1-0) on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 1 p.m. Location for this game will be announced no later than Monday, Sept. 12.


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By Jeremy Berg
I was watching the State of the Union address with my family when I heard the following passage:
Now, if we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas. Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy — every dollar. Today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's. They're developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries 10 times more powerful. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race. We need to make those investments.
I was delighted to hear President Obama acknowledge the tremendous potential impact of research. Overnight, a friend pointed out a tweet sent by National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins during the address:
@NIHDirector: Obama mentions the #NIH Brain Activity Map in #SOTU
I was puzzled and intrigued. NIH Brain Activity Map? A quick Internet search led to a 2012 paper in the journal Neuron. The authors of the paper proposed "launching a large-scale, international public effort, the Brain Activity Map Project, aimed at reconstructing the full record of neural activity across complete neural circuits." This put the president's remarks in a different context. Was the president referring to the tremendous progress that has been made in recent years on brain imaging? Or was he hinting at a new NIH project? This point was clarified April 2 when Collins introduced President Obama in the East Room of the White House to announce a new proposal: the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative. This proposal involves a first investment of approximately $100 million in fiscal 2014 from the NIH, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation plus additional investments from private-sector partners. This announcement was followed by a public relations blitz, including an opinion piece by Collins and Microsoft co-founder and Allen Institute for Brain Science founder Paul G. Allen in the Wall Street Journal and an appearance by Collins on "The Colbert Report": Like many in the scientific community, I have been struggling to understand what is being proposed and how it relates to and affects ongoing NIH programs. In order to collect my thoughts, I turned to the format used for NIH grant-application reviews. Recall that the NIH is using a scoring system from 1 (best) to 9 (worst) in each of five criteria. My critique follows.
Critique 1:
Overall Impact:The proposal presents a self-described bold attempt to understand the human brain. This is, of course, a challenge of the greatest significance. The greatest strength of the proposal, which should be embraced, is the appreciation by those in the highest positions that fundamental knowledge of structure, function and mechanism is necessary to tackle problems related to human disease and the development of desired applications. However, this enthusiasm is dampened by some implications that the approach will be centered on large-scale data collection without any clear discussion of the conceptual bases for data analysis and by the relatively opaque manner in which the proposal was generated. In addition, the tremendous financial challenges currently facing the American biomedical research enterprise require that the bar be set very high for such large-scale projects, given the clear, destructive consequences of redirecting funds away from investigator-initiated research programs. 1. SignificanceStrengths
2. Investigator(s)Strengths
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4. ApproachStrengths
5. EnvironmentStrengths
Budget and Period of Support: There is little clarity about whether this program is intended to be supported with additional funds or by redirection or recounting funds that already are allocated to brain research. This is true both for the proposed federal support and for the listed contributions from nonfederal agencies. The intended duration of the program is unclear. This completes my initial review. I hope that others in the scientific community will contribute their perspectives so that we can have an appropriate discussion of how the BRAIN initiative moves forward.
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**1/2 (out of four)
Knowing that Forest Whitaker and Evanston-raised Joan Cusack lend their voices to "Toys in the Attic" actually tells you almost nothing about the film. The stars sound unrecognizable in this Czech Republic-made, stop-motion animated feature, which easily earns a capital-W for weird.
Sorta like a dream "Toy Story" might have after experimenting in ways that could lead to arrest, "Toys in the Attic" chronicles a team effort to save kidnapped doll Buttercup (Vivian Schilling) from the clutches of the Head (Douglas Urbanski). And by team effort, I mean cooperation between a teddy bear (Whitaker), a mouse scientist (Cusack), the always rhyming Sir Handsome (Cary Elwes) and Laurent (Marcelo Tubert), a clay meatball-looking thing with a pencil nose and bottle cap hat.
The movie's Czech language version won the grand prize at the New York International Children's Film Festival, assumedly in praise of its bizarre visuals more than its ordinary, meandering story. (I love when characters scale a door mountain climber-style using nails.) "Toys in the Attic" falls well below the inventive, hand-made achievements of "ParaNorman" but above something like "The Secret World of Arriety," whose secret world is just a smaller version of our own. In "Toys in the Attic," cats don disguises to mess with train tracks and monkey EMTs tend to wounds suffered by inflatable dragons. Memorable? Not really. Trippy? Dude.
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Transfer news: Blackpool set to sign Paul Caddis from Swindon
Blackpool boss Paul Ince has confirmed the club are closing in on a deal to sign Swindon defender Paul Caddis.
Last Updated: 17/07/13 5:17pm
The Seasiders have opened talks with the 25-year-old defender after having a bid accepted by the League One side on Tuesday.
Ince is hopeful of tying up a deal for the former Celtic youngster, who spent last season on loan at Birmingham, in the coming days
"I think Paul is a very good player," Ince told the Blackpool Gazzette. "He showed that during his time at Birmingham last year. He gets up and down the park well.
"It's nice to know we have a fee agreed, even if we are a little bit away from sorting personal terms at the moment. There are one or two little things to sort out."
Birmingham boss Lee Clark revealed he tried to sign Caddis permanently in January only to see his bid rejected by the Robins.
When he became available again this summer Clark conceded the St Andrew's club couldn't afford his transfer fee.
"Everyone know my thoughts and how highly I rate him" he told the Birmingham Mail. "But once people start offering a fee, that's us out of the equation.
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Minnesota Woman Sentenced For St. Croix Falls Bank Robbery
Madison, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tanya Kay Anderson, 39, of Staunchfield, Minn., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to 46 months in federal prison for bank robbery. Anderson pleaded guilty to this charge on February 5, 2013.
On September 7, 2012, Tanya Kay Anderson robbed the Eagle Valley Bank in St. Croix Falls, Wis. Anderson drove from Staunchfield to St. Croix Falls, and entered the Eagle Valley Bank wearing heavy makeup, dark glasses, a hat, and a brightly colored construction vest. She handed a note to the teller that said, "This is a robbery. I have a gun. Put large untraceable bills on counter, do it NOW or die."
Anderson left the bank and drove away, but was promptly stopped by police. Anderson was not armed, but was found with the stolen money and the robbery note.
The charge against Anderson was the result of an investigation by the Polk County Sheriff's Department, St. Croix Falls Police Department, and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The prosecution of this case has been handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin F. Burke.


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It is a staggering and sobering statistic to go up against.
Every day, 22 American veterans commit suicide due to a feeling of despair and of being left alone to deal with their demons after serving in the U.S. military in some of the world's toughest war zones, according to Judy Schaffer, a Teaneck, New Jersey, radio marketing and sales professional.
I am tagging along for a morning with a group of American veterans who have come to the Holy Land through her Heroes to Heroes program, which brings American vets on a spiritual — as well as an emotional — journey to visit holy sites and meet with Israeli counterparts in the hopes that, with help from soldiers who have gone through what they have gone through and come out on the other side, the Americans will be able to begin to find their own way to recovery.
An aside, which perhaps should have been obvious if I had given it a bit more thought: For these men seeking to reconnect with a lost Christian faith, being in the city of Jesus' birth was actually a tense experience, and they felt they had to be on alert at all times. Being more Middle Eastern in character than the westernized Jewish cities, it brought back memories of their military service in Iraq and Afghanistan. One veteran confides that when he got off the bus and souvenir hawkers surrounded them, he became very nervous. And despite their friendliness, which he clearly recognized, he was unable to shake off the need to constantly check his back as the group walked towards the Church of the Nativity. As I chatted later with another young vet at Shepherd's Field in nearby Beit Sahour, he made sure his back was facing the building as we sat on a low stone wall in the sun just outside the Franciscan chapel.
Though it was a pleasure to accompany them, and the vets were friendly and very polite, I felt uncomfortable prying into the difficult private circumstances that have brought them to the Holy Land. Yet, I needed to get the basics of their stories in the short amount of time we had. It reminds me of the interviews I did over a decade ago with bereaved Palestinian and Israeli parents and with the injured on both sides during the years of the intifada.
Those are not easy interviews — speaking with people who have experienced immense tragedies due to acts of violence, knowing you are not giving them the amount of time rightfully due them, feeling like a voyeur of sorts. They leave you with a sense of sadness at the wastefulness of war and all the bloodshed and hate there is in this world.
Though the American vets made it through the physical battles, they have been left with deep invisible scars. But with only 1 percent of the U.S. population serving in the military, most Americans have little idea of what many of these vets who have seen the worst of humanity go through when they return home to an apathetic and bureaucratic Veterans Affairs and an indifferent community. They are the first large group of veterans who have returned from the battlefield, and most people and government administrations don't know what to make of them, one vet tells me.
Thousands of miles away from home, the vets say they found a place where some of them not only have come closer to a faith they lost or never had, but also where people understand them, where they have found a sense of camaraderie with others who have gone through similar experiences.
Sadly, they had to come to a part of the world where animosity, violence and war are an almost unfortunate daily occurrence to find that support.
Both her grandfather and father were veterans, notes Schaffer, and only when her father was older did she discover that throughout his life he had volunteered helping wounded vets. After his death, she knew it was her turn.
Judith Sudilovsky writes from Jerusalem.
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A winner was selected from 71 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
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We are a growing sales & marketing association in Atlanta and need to develop a visual identity.
Sales and marketing professionals and executives, as well as partner organizations and associations.
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Karelian Borscht:
a Finnish - Russian Beet Borscht Soup
A Russian beet borscht soup recipe, made extra hearty with sausage and a swirl of sour cream but also especially earthy and delicious as a vegetarian borscht.
First published in print in 2004, updated and republished in 2015 for a little weekend cooking inspiration. Beet lovers, welcome to beet heaven!
"... it was delicious, thank you ..." ~ rog peppe
Winter is the perfect time of year for large kettles of hearty soups and stews. Bubbling on the stove, they fill a home with an earthy, smoky aroma that seems to proclaim, "There may be snow and cold outside but we're warm in here."
The country of Finland is known for snow and cold. I was fortunate to call this northern land home while an exchange student and hold its people – and its food – close to my heart.
This borscht recipe comes from Karelia, a small piece of land along the Baltic Sea ceded by Finland during World War II to what was then the Soviet Union and is now the most western part of Russia. The recipe is adapted from the classic of Finnish-American cooking, "The Finnish Cookbook" by Beatrice Ojakangas.
Some borscht recipes call for cooking the beets and other ingredients, then blending until smooth in a blender or food processor. In contrast, this recipe calls for cooking but not processing the beets so the end product has considerable texture.
If you don't have access to or time for fresh beets, canned beets are a more-than-acceptable alternative. And if you're watching calories, omit even the small ration of sausage and the sour cream. You won't leave the table unsatisfied.
a RUSSIAN BEET BORSCHT RECIPE
Time to table: 2 hours, 45 minutes
Makes: about 6 cups
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 pound beets, peeled and grated (about 4 cups)
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons vinegar
- 8 cups beef broth or vegetable stock (for vegetarian)
- 1 small red cabbage, shredded (about 3 cups)
- 2 carrots, peeled, grated (about 1 cup)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/4 pound spicy sausage such as andouille, optional
- For serving, sour cream and fresh chopped dill, optional
Melt butter in a Dutch oven on medium heat. Add the beets and gently cook until soft and almost brown. Stir in vinegar, salt and flour, work in flour until all signs of it have been absorbed. A small cupful at a time, stir in broth. Add cabbage, carrots, bay leaf, garlic and sugar. Simmer gently at least 2 hours, adding water or broth if too much liquid evaporates.
Close to serving time, cook sausage in a skillet until fully cooked and slightly crispy on the edges, slice into small bits.
To serve, place soup in bowls and top with sausage. Add a dollop of sour cream and sprinkle with fresh dill. Try it with Finnish Whole-Wheat Flatbread !
VEGETARIAN BORSCHT Most times, I use vegetable broth, skip the spicy sausage and just enjoy the earthy beet soup in a vegetarian version. It's still hearty and the beet flavor really shines through!
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Spring Is Finally Here...
Kids and the Texas Bluebonnets
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Texas Bluebonnets
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Beautiful kids and bluebonnets. How wonderful to have a field full of them. I wonder if they would grow in Ohio?ReplyDelete
Ooooh, homesick.... It's lovely.ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Spring does look like it is here with this!ReplyDelete
This is gorgeous! Kids and bluebonnets!ReplyDelete
I love how you put all the pics together. I'm so bad. I've never taken my girls to get bluebonnet pictures.ReplyDelete
This looks great.
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They say that good things come in small packages, and after attending the show for KM2's Spring 2010 shoe collection, I couldn't agree with that statement more. Anyone that can understand the context of fashion can understand how shoes can make or break an ensemble. The average Joe may not place any more emphasis on shoes than the ability to protect ones feet as they are walking from here to there. But just ask any fashion conscious diva and they are sure to attest the importance of a great pair of shoes as a make or break complement to any given outfit. Think Carrie from Sex In The City and you will have summed up the fierceness that was brought during the KM2 show.
Founded by sisters, Katelyn, Megan, and Mattison Gelber, KM2 is all about being classy, artistic, and timeless. Although the duo of three started the collection less than a year ago, they have been in the fashion industry since childhood.
"Our Father is a successful women's fashion designer, so seeing him create is part of what motivated us to create KM2" states Megan.
Inspiration from dear old Dad isn't the only thing that pushed the girls in the right direction. They were also able to gain mentorship from noted shoe expert Gregg Boyher. The collection of shoes and boots can be customized to the customer's specifications which can range from simple to whimsical. Adorning shoes with vintage jewelry, feathers, beads, and studs are a part of the lines signature looks. I was even surprised to see a golden hand gun dangling from one pair of heels. Wouldn't those be great on the next Bond girl?
Hosted by Bleeding Edge PR, the show was held at the quaint 3rd street boutique of EM & Co. EM & Co is also the location where you can purchase the KM2 line. They boast a large selection of the latest trends which includes a mix of well-known designer labels and emerging L.A. designer labels. DJ Teemaree set the tone of the night with a cool mix of funky beats as guests mingled and enjoyed cocktails sponsored by Pearl Vodka and IZZE sparkling juice.
Once the show started, it was definitely a sight to see. The models paraded across the window-framed runway which only gave a view of their legs and of course the tantalizing shoes. As a bit of comic relief, a barefoot, hairy-legged, guy walked across the runway toying with guests and trying to trump the other shoe models to no avail. All-in-all it was loads of fun! So, back to the phrase "good things come in small packages." This wasn't just meant for the shoes but for the darling designers that made them. Two of the sister's were on hand to meet-and-greet and at the ripe old age of 20 and 23, they seem to have it all figured out. I asked them how they have gotten to the point they are now at such a young age and they simply stated that it is about doing what you love. Isn't that the truth!
So, if one of the things that you love is fashion or shoe shopping, then you have to get familiar with KM2 shoes. Trust me, you may want to get ahead of this next big name in the world of shoe design.
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Welcome to Dugout Hats!
2011 marks a climactic year for The Dugout. In its 15th year in business, the shop will open a 5,000-square-foot store directly across from TD Ameritrade Park, to debut during the 2011 College World Series. While the location of The Dugout changed, it will remain the largest vendor of CWS fan gear and continue to carry an exclusive collection of on-the-field caps.
We also specialize in Nebraska Huskers gear. In another recent exciting addition to The Dugout, we opened Husker Express, on S. 84th Street. Husker Express carries tons of Cornhusker apparel and knickknacks. Our website carries merchandise from both stores, so you have plenty of a selection. Shop Now!
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a holiday evening visit to the home of Ziv Shilon, a company commander in the Givati infantry brigade who was wounded in last year's Operation Pillar of Cloud in the Gaza Strip.
The visit came as a result of Ziv's mother, Margalit, inviting the prime minister to eat couscous with the family back when Netanyahu called on the wounded commander at Soroka Hospital in Beersheva.
Netanyahu asked to fulfill his promise on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
The prime minister told the family: "Margalit, you are a virtuous woman who raised a virtuous hero (a reference to Proverbs 31). Ziv is a hero of the people of Israel, and thanks to people like him we have the State of Israel. Your son is a model to teach us the true meaning of heroism. When I visited Ziv in the hospital, you invited me to partake of the couscous you would make when Ziv was released. I promised I would come, and have done so on this Rosh Hashanah. I wish you health and length of days and a good year ahead for you and all of Israel."
When Netanyahu first heard of Ziv's injury in the Gaza Strip last November, he asked to speak to the soldier and his family to offer them support and strength. Following a phone call, Netanyahu asked to personally visit Ziv at the hospital.
The prime minister acknowledged being very impressed with Ziv's strength of will and his desire to return to the front lines as soon as possible. Netanyahu was presented with documentation of the process doctors at Soroka undertook to save Ziv's hand and help him rehabilitate.
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Northern Rockies Skies for April
A monthly look at the night skies of the northern Rocky Mountains, written by astronomers Ron Canterna, University of Wyoming; Jay Norris, Challis, Idaho Observatory; and Daryl Macomb, Boise State University.
Say adios to the conspicuous winter constellations: Orion the hunter, Taurus the bull, and Canis Major, the big dog.
Sirius, the brightest star in the sky in Canis Major, is as bright as Jupiter, which can be seen right after sunset in Aries. The brightest object in the sky right after sunset is Venus, which is located in Taurus this month.
April heralds some of our summer constellations and the night skies will now be ruled by two familiar constellations -- Ursa Major, the Big Bear, and Leo the lion. Both are visible, high and to the northeast, and easily identifiable.
The Big Bear, known to most as the Big Dipper, allows us to spot the star Polaris by following northward a straight line from the two stars at the end of the dipper. Polaris, the North Star, is in the constellation Ursa Minor, which means Little Bear, and is known as the Little Dipper.
Note that Mars is in Leo and will rival the brightness of the star Regulus. Toward the zenith, you can see the constellation Auriga and its bright star, Capella, as well as the two Gemini Twins, Castor and Pollux.
For our planetary watchers this April, you can see Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn, which rises right after sunset in the constellation Virgo.
Meteor shower alert for April 21-22: Look in Lyra after midnight. The Lynids will average around 20 meteors per hour.
April Interest: Stellar Death: 5 -- Gamma-Ray Bursts
(best URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst)
Infrequently, a star that goes supernova also will have very unusual characteristics that result in the emission of a gamma-ray burst at nearly the same time as the supernova itself. The required stellar prerequisites appear to be very rapid rotation; prior ejection of the outer layers of the star; and very low ratio of metals to hydrogen in the star's composition.
These conditions generate extremely intense magnetic and electric fields. This causes the acceleration of charged particles that emit gamma rays. Photons are just like ordinary light, except that the gamma-ray photons are at least 100,000 times more energetic than visible photons. Such photons also are generated, for instance, in energy transitions that occur within a nucleus. Satellites, designed to monitor the Earth's atmosphere for violations of the nuclear test ban treaty created in the late 1960s, instead detected gamma-ray bursts coming from outer space.
Gamma-ray bursts look like randomly placed pulses, with total durations lasting from a fraction of a second to hundreds of seconds. This wide variety of burst appearances, combined with the fairly low angular resolution of the satellites' gamma-ray detectors, kept astronomers guessing for 30 years as to the nature of the bursts. Hypotheses ranged from the burst sources being near our solar system, to somewhere within our Milky Way galaxy, to the limiting distance of the universe -- billions of light years distant. The luminosity of a burst, at such cosmological distances, would be, very briefly, around 1 billion times the luminosity of a galaxy.
The cosmological hypothesis turned out to be true, as revealed when ground-based telescopes and orbiting X-ray telescopes detected long-lived afterglows (lasting hours to months in the optical part of the spectrum) associated with the bursts, and localized their sources to lie within small young galaxies. These host galaxies lived in the universe about 1-3 billion years after the Big Bang, or 10-13 billion years ago.
Approximately one gamma-ray burst per day can be seen from Earth. The bursts that we get to see are "beamed" in our direction, like a narrow-cone search light. For each burst we see, about 500 are beamed in other directions.
Evidence points to two kinds of bursts: Short ones, possibly associated with coalescing binary white dwarfs or neutron stars, are Type Ia supernovae. Long ones, associated with extreme core-collapse, are Type Ic supernovae.
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Located in the heart of New York State, Syracuse's ideal summer climate and active community make it an idea family IRONMAN host. Located within 300 miles of nine major cities, including Boston, New York, Montreal, Toronto, and Philadelphia, Syracuse can be considered an exciting city experience for the family to enjoy. There is also terrific fishing along historic Erie Canal, numerous lakes and parks, and an active performing and visual arts scene combine to make Syracuse a vibrant race location. The IRONKIDS fun run offers young athletes the opportunity to feel the excitement of competition while enjoying the outdoors and promoting healthy living. Parents, family, and friends are invited to cheer on the racers while enjoying the area and family-centered event.
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Dust can be a huge drag, and if you're an allergy sufferer or just a lover of a clean house, you might feel like you're engaged in a never ending battle. But don't worry, you can win the war. There are plenty of things you can do to keep your home dustless and your air… Read more »
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Over the course of 2013, I read about a gross of books (probably equally distributed among the platforms of published paper, yet-to-be-published paper galley, ebook [both Kindle and iBook], and with my ears). It was a relatively light reading year for me and I even had several opportunities to make selections based on purely personal grounds (It's the "purely" in there that is unusual for me). However, as December 31 rolled into January 1, I could pronounce the hands down "winner" in my reading year: Samuel Arbesman's The Half-life of Facts enlightens me daily, even though I gobbled it up months ago.
Arbesman, a scientist, walks readers through a wholly accessible and skillfully scaffolded exploration of how we retain "facts" long past their due date, or information about their debunking spreads. This "half-life" is personal, with variance from person to person, and cultural. Especially as adults of iddle age, we know what we know. But we also tend to have formed rigorous beliefs about knowing that we know. Do you know full well that Pluto isn't a planet, and yet "feel" as though "really" it is?
Applying this to the library, and to people who use the library: Do we know that we know what is important that we provide them? And applying this to the library, and the people who work in the library: Do we know that they know what is expected that they know in order to provide the community what is important? In Infopeople's Core Reference Fundamentals course, I am lucky to have the opportunity to discuss basic library tenets straight on twice a year, with cohorts of 50-75 library people in all stages of career and all ages of adulthood. This allows me to see the half-lives of a whole smorgasbord of facts--both arising from the group and in my own initial takes on the assertions of one member or another in the group. Some participants work in libraries where the outmoded "fact" that public internet access is "extra" and beyond what a community information and cultural resource needs to provide. Some are sure of the "fact" that homeless people are by definition behavior problems, a "fact" of a little "fact" nest: to be homeless is to be mentally ill and to be mentally ill is to exhibit disruptive behavior.
Of course, when it's asserted that way, the logical fallacies get up on their tap shoes and dance. And that is part of Arbesman's message: sometims, just by pausing to investigate logically, we can see where the "fact" leaves off and the belief begins.
And sometimes, we need to remember to ask ourselves: am I sure that I'm making this decision with factual information, or am I relying on the half-life of a fact that has been debunked?
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