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Just like the rain during the year, entries into The Hook's "Is It Time to Build the Ark?" contest arrived in a steady stream, with guesses ranging from the winning entry to a wild 138 inches.
Martin Quinn's estimate of 74.26 inches of rainfall was within .29 inches of 2003's total: 74.55, which topped the old record of 72.08 inches set in 1937.
Jerry Stenger in the state climatologist's office at UVA, who kept track of the precip, reports that not only did the area set a record for the amount of wet stuff that hit the ground, but also for the number of days when we needed umbrellas: 166, topping the 1948 record of 146.
Quinn, an environmental engineer with The Environmental Company, who graduated from UVA in 2001, doused the assumption that mystical intuitive powers or even the Ouija board– helped him come up with his guess.
"I feel a little bit guilty because I guessed close to the deadline after we'd had an inch and a half of rain. Then I looked at the 10-day forecast," he confesses.
No massaging of the Magic 8-Ball?
"Nope," Quinn says matter-of-factly. "It was all science. I can thank [state climatologist] Patrick Michaels because I took his meterology class at UVA, and through the knowledge he instilled in me, I knew where to look."
For his methodical musing, Quinn wins a deluxe umbrella from Order from Horder, which should come in handy if 2004 tries to set a record of its own.


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After the U.S. women's gymnastics teamwon gold Tuesday night, their Twitter accounts were inundated with congratulatory tweets from pretty much every famous person that matters. Those eager to get in line and offer social media high-fives to the victorious young women included President Obama, Oprah, Justin Fucking Bieber, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, Bruce "The Reanimator" Jenner, and Snooki, because winning a gold medal at the Olympics isn't officially an accomplishment until at least three reality-TV stars publicly acknowledge it. The team was understandably thrilled about all of this because, well, they're kids and they just won Olympic gold.
For the complete list of tweet exchanges between gushing celebrities and the gymnasts, take a little gander at the litany machine machine that is Buzzfeed. Here, for your perusing convenience, are some of the most notable congratulations.
Lady Gaga was especially starstruck and then dispensed digital kisses:
@mckaylamaroney tweeted at me! Why didnt anybody tell me!!! DEAD. You were brilliant give all the girls a kiss for me
Wes Welker realized that people who get hit in the head for a living aren't the only tough humans:
I have a new respect for the women's gymnastics team. Those girls are TOUGH.
And the President played it straight, offering a very hearty thanks to the team for making America look awesome:
@Jordyn_Wieber, @GabrielleDoug, @Aly_Raisman, @McKaylaMaroney, @Kyla_Ross96: Congratulations! You've made us all proud. #TeamUSA
Meanwhile, Team U.S.A. continues to be really ecstatic about their new hardware.
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For this recipe, it's best to choose a head of cauliflower with a very dense crown so that the "steaks" will hold together during cooking. However, even if they separate a bit, the dish is still delicious.
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- Makes 4 side-dish or first-course servings
- 1/2 cup salt-packed capers*
- 5 (1/4-inch-thick) slices pancetta (Italian unsmoked cured bacon; 5 oz), cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1/2 cup golden raisins
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 small head cauliflower (1 3/4 pound)
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 3/4 stick (6 tablespoons) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 pinches of sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 8 drained bottled caper berries*, rinsed
- Garnish: coarse sea salt (preferably sel gris); chopped fresh chives
- Special Equipment
- 2 (12-inch) ovenproof heavy skillets
- Rinse salt-packed capers in a sieve and transfer to a small bowl. Soak capers in water to cover by 2 inches for 30 minutes. Drain and repeat soaking. Drain again, then rinse and pat dry.
- While capers soak, put oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cook pancetta in 1 dry 12-inch skillet over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, about 10 minutes, then transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Pour off fat and wipe skillet clean.
- Stir together raisins and lemon juice in a small bowl.
- Trim cauliflower stalk flush with base of crown, discarding stalk, then trim any leaves. Put cauliflower crown, stalk side down, on a cutting board. Cut a 1-inch slice from 2 opposite sides of crown and discard, then cut crown lengthwise into 4 "steaks," each about 3/4 to 1 inch wide.
- Heat 1 tablespoon oil, 1 tablespoon butter, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and a pinch each of sugar and pepper in each 12-inch skillet over moderate heat, swirling skillets occasionally, until butter begins to brown. Add 2 cauliflower steaks to each skillet and lightly season with salt and pepper, then cook until undersides are golden, about 4 minutes.
- Transfer skillets to oven and roast cauliflower, without turning, switching position of skillets halfway through roasting, until cauliflower is just tender and undersides are golden brown, 8 to 15 minutes (depending on thickness).
- While cauliflower roasts, bring water just to a boil in a 1-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, then stir in pancetta, capers, raisins with lemon juice, and caper berries. Add remaining 1/2 stick butter and stir until incorporated. Remove from heat and season with pepper.
- Carefully invert cauliflower steaks with a spatula onto a platter and spoon sauce over them.
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When a child is born or diagnosed with disabilities, parents are not alone in their concerns. Grandparents are often anxious, too, not only for their grandchild, but for their child whose life is affected by the baby. Many grandparents and parents have been interviewed to ask how grandparents can best help their children and grandchildren.
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- Offer support, but don't hover
Unconditional love and support are very important for the parents. They are making very important decisions about many things in the early days and it helps a great deal to know that they have that unconditional support and love of the people who love them.
- Ask how you can help in practical matters
If the grandparents don't know how to help the family, please say so. Ask what the family needs help with. Sometimes it's the very practical matters in which the grandparents can assist, such as baby-sitting the siblings, providing some meals, etc. One set of grandparents used their sewing and carpentry talents to make special equipment for the baby. Another grandparent accompanied her daughter to many of the medical appointments, providing moral support and extra set of ears and hands. This also allowed the grandparent to learn first hand about the disability.
- Learn as much about the disability or diagnosis as possible
Becoming informed will show you want to be involved. Ask if there are any books or articles to read up on. Learning about it will reduce some of the fear you may experience.
- Offer opinions only if asked
One parent felt that the grandparents thought she wasn't doing enough, or doing the right things. Do your best to let them know they are doing a good job.
- Accept your grandchild as he or she is
First and foremost he or she is a child, who should be loved unconditionally. Don't gloss over their difficulties but try to treat them just like all your grandchildren.
As grandparents, you can offer your children much love and support through this difficult time. You will even find that there are many positive aspects to this that you may not have expected to find.
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Today, the LAC has released a new research guide called "Canada At War: A Guide to Library and Archives Canada's Website Recalling the Canadian War Experience".
For the first time, this guide brings together the complete compendium of resources regarding the First World War available at the LAC ranging from Exhibitions such as Aboriginal Soldiers to Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography) which feature such online databases as Court-Martials of the First Word War, the Soldiers of the First World War, and Canadian Historical Sound Recordings of the First World War Era.
The last item that is mentioned in this itemized list of resources is the "War Diaries of the First World War", and they are very interesting. <www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/veterans/025001-4000-e.html>.
They are not diaries written about the individuals in the war, but diaries of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), where they were required to keep a daily account of their "Actions in the Field" <www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/020152_e.html>.
I checked the establishment of the 1st Canadian Stationary Hospital as it mobilized in Quebec City in September, 1914, and the Cyclist Division with the Canadian Reserve Cyclist Company as they set up their operations.
If you know what unit your ancestor served in during the war, these are very helpful diaries, and offer a bit of reflection into the war. I got the feeling while reading them that they understood what was at hand, and they prepared the best they could for what the four years of the war would bring to them - reward, misery, and death.


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Intelligent women attracted to disgusting professors?
"There is something perfectly sick about universities — filled with fat, balding, middle-aged men (and women) and a constantly replenished crop of gorgeous 20-something girls (and boys). Like the Catholic church, with its scheming pedophiles and innocent choir boys, it's a recipe for disaster…
Why would an intelligent female ever sleep with a disgusting professor?"
Such is how Erik Ringmar, a professor in Taiwan, begins his post "Sex With Students, Pt 1, on his blog, Too Many Mangoes.
Maybe the good professor knows too many disgusting professors who have eaten too many mangoes or maybe the not so good professor considers himself to be a disgusting professor whose lecherous meandering have run amok?
Whatever the specifics may be, Ringmar's imagery tells us more about himself and his imagination then anything about the multiple realities of student professor intimate relationships.
As for his question as to why an intelligent female would ever sleep with a disgusting professor, I would surmise that the intelligent female would not consider the professor disgusting. The same would be said about the professor who sleeps with an intelligent female, the overwhelming probability is that the professor does not consider the female to be disgusting? Maybe Ringmar's problem is that he considers any party to such a relationship to be disgusting in the same manner that people who are anti-gay consider all gay relationships to be disgusting.
Professor Ringmar's problem is that apparently he can't get beyond his disgust, and that he feels uninhibited in degrading persons who are or have been in a student professor relationship.
Well, Ringmar should know that more than a couple of professors who have been subjected to such degrading rhetoric do not feel degraded. Far from it. They live their private lives in private, not engaging in any sort of sexual spectacle. Some have had the good fortune of meeting an intellectual confrere who they found attractive and such attraction was reciprocated. Some, including the dankprofessor, eventually transitioned from student professor to husband and wife.
I have no doubt that even in Taiwan the love of knowledge can lead to the knowledge of love. For those of you who have an open mind as well as having their eyes wide open, it can also happen to you.
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I am an intelligent, twenty year old, female student and I have been attracted to multiple professors–none of which were balding, middle-aged, or disgusting.
The reality is that, a lot of the time, professors at universities are NOT drastically older than their students. Nearly half of my professors have been less than fifteen years older than me, which makes them far from middle-aged. And this is just argument for the sake of argument. Because, in reality, age is nothing but a number and ought to have no bearing on the issue.
Furthermore, the teachers that I have been attracted to, were attractive in the degree to which they were LESS disgusting than other men that I've met. They are rational, sensitive, inquisitive, socially involved, and far from "scheming pedophiles." These two issues (catholic preist pedophilia and student-teacher passions) simply can't be compared if only for the sheer fact that twenty year old girls are adults. I am an adult. Sorry to break it to you, Mr. Ringmar.
I am even somewhat involved with a former professor of mine. We are friends, but our friendship has negotiable boundaries. And for the record he is only 28. He is working toward his Doctorate. He has never disrespected me.
That is the reality of things.
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This is biologically normal behaviour.
It is the younger women conducting themselves with an internalised locus of sexuality, where they are the focus of sexual attention. They are the ones who are observed for their physical attributes, and follow the lead of the older man in his choice of sexual partner.
Although 50 years of degenerative liberalism has undermined this essential process, you'll still find this pattern of behaviour time and time again.
People indoctrinated along gender liberalist lines ponder may be puzzled by this, thinking: Why is that beautiful woman married to that older guy? she must be a gold digger!
However, if gender psychometric studies are anything to go by, this is how normal biological male-female attraction is meant to occur; ie. how we are hard-wired to think at a cortical level of function and design.
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'm off for a few days to attend a graduation ceremony. I admit to a weakness for graduation speeches, most of which, as glazed, bored graduates can tell you, are worthless. (Typically, I can't remember who spoke at my graduation 41 years ago.) In recent years, however, I've posted some splendid graduation speeches -- last year by Rebecca Solnit, the year before by Mark Danner. Both gems. This year I thought I'd try my hand at the form and write the speech I'll never be asked to give.
Graduates of the class of 2007, close your eyes.
No kidding. That's my advice in a nutshell.
Okay, take a last look around if you want, you who entered college in September 2003, when it still wasn't apparent to most Americans that our President had crash-landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, to give his famed May Day speech declaring "major combat operations in Iraq" at an end.
Look at your world just a little longer. As on that sunny September day when you arrived here almost four years ago, it's another lovely day as you prepare to depart and, at a glance, the world -- the American world anyway -- doesn't seem that much the worse for wear. Okay, the price of a barrel of oil essentially doubled in those four years, as did the price of a gallon of gas at the pump; the Democrats retook Congress; Iraq descended into the charnel house of history, into what was already being termed back then, in a bow to the Vietnam War, the "q-word" (for quagmire); newspapers began losing young readers to the Internet as if into a black hole; and the Bush administration, touted in 2003 as the "most disciplined" in anyone's memory, has fallen into belligerent disarray; but, hey, the stock market is at a high-water mark, the Boston Red Sox are leading the American League East by 8 games, lawyers are suing, doctors are medicating, and brokers are brokering away more or less as usual.
And here you are in your serried ranks, your parents nearby, your school's president and various deans, as well as distinguished faculty, arrayed before you on this stage in impressive gowns and tasseled caps. Today is a much-awaited moment for you, the culmination of years of work, just as graduation days like this have been for those who preceded you.
The campus, this balmy afternoon, seems hardly changed from four years ago. The same gentle carpet of grass, green with spring, dotted on its distant edges with beds of tulips, surrounded the graduating class of '03 -- and probably the class of '66, the year I sat through one of these ceremonies. The dorms you slept in are behind us; the dining hall you ate so many unmemorable meals in is just over that hill, which I have no doubt you climbed grudgingly on many wind-chilled winter mornings. At least some of the classrooms you did your learning in, housed in solemn gray stone (as monuments to timeless knowledge should be), flank us. The Greek-style columns of your library with its million-plus volumes can just be glimpsed through the distant trees.
Yes, look around. All is as it should be. Everything we can see and everything we know is here -- all of it normal, all of it fit for a graduation speech. Fit for you.
In the years just after I graduated from college, the much praised (and maligned) 1960s, the young were said to believe in a single aphorism: "Never trust anyone over thirty." I must admit I never heard such a thing myself, but then, as now, the media has a way of knowing what we think better than we do. I read it, ergo it's so.
Now, I want to update the phrase for your moment which, believe me, is far worse than anything I ever imagined possible in the Sixties. On such a normally celebratory day, I wouldn't say that if I didn't urgently believe it -- and if I didn't think that, in your heart of hearts, you believed it too.
So here goes. Some graduation advice -- three pieces of it, actually -- that probably run against most of what you've been taught at this distinguished institution in these last four years:
Don't trust what you see around you.
That's right. No matter what anyone tells you, don't trust the world that's most obviously in front of you. Don't trust your own eyes. Not on a day like this, not in a country like this. Reality is elsewhere.
That's why I say, close your eyes. Go ahead. Listen to me for a while in the dark and understand that I'm not trying to blind you. I'm only suggesting that you'll be able see the world more clearly with your eyes shut tight and so graduate with a more reasonable sense of what your future job on this planet really is.
That's no easy thing to assess, if you're on this pristine campus, or in any mall in America, or, for that matter, in most parts of the city on the outskirts of which this campus stands rather than in Baghdad, or Kabul, or low-lying Bangladesh, or the melting Arctic, or some exposed Pacific atoll.
This sunny May day -- the one you are not looking at any more -- is deceptive indeed. It masks a far darker world that your generation is about to inherit on a planet two-thirds of whose inhabitants, as a group of retired admirals and generals interested in climate change recently noted, live near a coastline (that might in coming decades flood). Put another way, according to the NGO Christian Aid, one out of every seven people on the planet -- perhaps a billion in all -- might, over the next half century (essentially your post-college work lifetimes) be forced from their homes and into the kinds of desperate migrations that would make the present American debate over illegal immigration seem like a global joke.
Over the next 100 years -- the heart of your life and that of your children -- the Earth could lose its glaciers (major sources of water in places like South Asia); the Greenland ice sheet could radically melt down; and up to half this planet's wealth of species could go extinct. You could also experience the onrush -- evidently already underway -- of ever more extreme weather patterns (massive hurricanes, typhoons, monsoons, 100-year droughts, and the like), the spread of lethal diseases to new locales, and a host of other unnerving phenomena.
In other words -- and even those of you who claim to doubt the reality of global warming sense that this is so -- fifty years from now, you are likely to be living on another, poorer kind of planet. It will also be a far lonelier one. People, who have the urge to frighten, often say that we are "destroying the planet," but that is probably not accurate. The planet will undoubtedly spin on. Given a few million, or a few tens of millions, or even a few hundreds of millions of years -- the sort of time that, without our consciousness, wouldn't matter a tinker's dam -- Earth is likely to develop a future filled with life, just without us (and many of our creaturely neighbors).
The planet's future may not be in doubt, but surely ours is. New Scientist magazine has offered an estimate of 10 million years for the planet to "repair" the present "dent" made in biodiversity. I like to use the example of the pronghorn antelope, "the prairie ghost" of our West, to explain this. It's a speedy creature, capable of running at up to 60 miles per hour, at least 30 mph faster than any predator in its environment. That extra mileage might seem hard to explain unless you understand that, before the last great mammalian megafaunal die-out on this continent, some 13,000 to 16,000 years ago, there were evidently creatures (perhaps lions or dire wolves) that could power along at something close to those speeds. So, for all those thousands of years, far longer than human history from Ur to the latest disasters in Iraq, the pronghorn has had a ghostly companion. So much time in human terms and it still hasn't "registered" the loss; so much time and that niche in our environment remains empty.
Back in the ancient 1950s, a half-century-plus in the other direction, only one thing could end our world, the world I grew up in -- nuclear weapons or The Bomb (which, when that was all there was, often sported capital letters) via the Cold War superpower confrontation. The thought of a nuclear war was paralyzing and nightmare-inducing enough. Believe me, when I heard President John F. Kennedy's famous speech on October 22, 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis (aka "the most dangerous moment in human history"), I feared my world was toast -- and I wasn't alone. I always believed that the Sixties held such a powerful sense of liberation, in part, because world-annihilating possibilities were, for a few brief years, simply left behind.
Over half a century later, nuclear weapons have multiplied and proliferated (even without the other superpower in attendance), and yet they now have to queue up for attention in a jostling line of potentially world-ending perils, real and fictional; while all of you live in the peculiar sunshine of a locked-down, locked-up, Patriot-Act, homeland-security, gated-community country (of a sort no one in the 1950s could have imagined). I stand here looking out at you, your eyes closed, and I doubt I can really imagine your world, the one I'm trying to describe, or the almost unnoticed, largely unacknowledged exterminatory grid that has settled paralyzingly over consciousness in this country, that has left you able perhaps to imagine a job, a mate, even a family -- the most immediate of futures, but not a human future beyond that.
An image comes to mind. You know how bits of semi-knowledge from who knows where stick in your brain? Here's one from mine that's useful for this speech, whatever its historical accuracy. Around 1000 AD, there was a millenarian movement of peasants who, believing they saw the end days coming, built their own coffins, and, at the predicted moment, climbed into them to await their foreordained fate. To tell you the truth, I don't know what happened next. Assumedly, sooner or later they climbed out again.
But here's the point I want to make: As long as you're looking at our world through your usual lenses, I suspect you're already in our version of those coffins, even if they pass for normal daily life. Only in the dark, can you begin to imagine the possible Pompeii-scapes to come, the potential for the extreme unraveling of normalcy. And only after you imagine that, can you do what those peasants undoubtedly did when they realized that the last days had not come -- not yet anyway: climb out.
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If all of you were to clamber out of the coffins we've built for you, there would still be trouble ahead, but the end of times would be just that much less likely to arrive.
"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." As you English majors already know, Dante claimed this inscription was over the entrance to Hell. Today, as you form your processional, walking like every class before you through the arch that fronts this campus, I think you should imagine that inscription over your heads, because that's the futureless world you're entering with your eyes open. My definition of hell is, in fact, futurelessness, a world in which no one can imagine their grandchildren or great-grandchildren -- and so, no one can work to build a country, a planet for them.
Now, for a second piece of advice -- probably not best given at a world-renown center of learning -- but here goes.
Believe the Hollywood previews. Believe your video games. Believe "24." Believe The Day After Tomorrow.
It's true that, despite what the screen showed in the global-warming film, The Day After Tomorrow, the Northern Hemisphere is not going to turn into an ice sheet in approximately 30 seconds; wolves, freed from the local zoo, are unlikely to roam the streets of New York City any time soon or movie stars burn books for warmth in the fireplace of the frigid New York Public Library; spy Arnold Schwarzenegger or his equivalent will not, despite True Lies, kiss Jamie Lee Curtis while an atomic bomb, handled by Arab terrorists, goes off behind them in the Florida Keys; you won't save us or the planet the way you do in first-person shooter video games; and, no, torturing àla "24" is neither good, nor even effective as an information extractor. Meanwhile, all these blimps, trains, buses, cable cars, and who knows what else hijacked by terrorists and heading toward everything we hold dear will not all arrive as the stadium blows up, the airport goes down, the White House is zapped, or the city, country, planet disappears.
Nonetheless, since my childhood, Hollywood, not religion, has been the greatest deliverer of end-time scenarios. This has been true at least since the atomic war-film-that-couldn't-be-made -- the one that would have ended not in American victory but in a planet-shaking set of explosions -- mutated into the horror and science fiction genres. Those films moved under the mushroom cloud in various futuristic settings where all sorts of monstrous, irradiated beings and alien creatures possessing strange rays did to our cities and towns what we had done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while crowds of onscreen Americans, screaming and fleeing, were crushed or mangled, burned or consumed.
And then, of course, we all left the movie theaters or drive-ins a little shaken, a little thrilled, and life began again. However weird or warped or fantastic these films may have been, however happy the endings when the giant ants went down for the count in the sewers of Los Angeles, or the aliens were themselves zapped, or the terrorists foiled, or the monsters destroyed, these were, in essence, Hollywood's previews of our world to come.
The movie-makers knew, but only because we knew. They wanted our eyes (and our popcorn money) and so they made a beeline for the stories, the fears, that resonated most deeply in us, the ones that could be returned to profitability over and over again. Perhaps, from the beginning, what we humans had was an ability to view possible ends. Perhaps what made us human wasn't that opposable thumb, but the fact that we arrived in the world capable of imagining its termination.
Explain it as you will, Hollywood has been sending us a single riveting message over the last half-century-plus as the mushroom clouds rose, the aliens descended, the post-apocalyptic zombies feasted, the swarthy terrorists arrived, the pandemics spread, and Los Angeles or New York (the nation's pre-9/11 Sodom and Gomorrah) became a dystopian prison, or an ice palace, or a place to be zapped, or stomped by monsters, or…
Well, you of all people know the story. You've seen it again and again, your eyes open in another kind of darkness -- or you've experienced it in your own living room, while you desperately manipulated hand-held controls to save us from the mutants, zombies, terrorists, bad guys who wanted to end it all. You've watched the previews, just as al-Qaeda did, just as people all over this planet have.
And then, as most of us have for over fifty years, you left the multiplex pretending that what you just saw was simply fun, or plain-old entertainment, or plain crud, or eye-candy, the sort of thing that only puritan wackos (or academics) could wax ridiculously serious over. Whatever it was, it wasn't life, not this life anyway.
But you were wrong, I think. To get things straight, you now have to ignore much that you've been taught and you've got to attend to the essential wisdom of the most watched, but least respected, teachers on the planet. Only they can give you the real, inside dope on what's coming our way -- if, that is, you're going to lead a life that matters, if you're going to do something.
So here's a final piece of advice, possibly not the best to offer in the heart of a great university:
Don't think too much.
I look out over this audience, remembering that, when I was 21, there seemed so much that needed to be done. How could it be that, over 40 years later, there seems to be so much more -- starting with somehow ending not (as in my college days) one, but two mad frontier wars, two scenes of slaughter and carnage, Iraq and Afghanistan, in a world where frontiers no longer exist? These are wars guaranteed to kill tens of thousands more and, in the long run, to endanger us all -- and there's only you to end them. There's only you, really, to change everything. It's a terrible burden that my generation of parents should never, never have loaded on your shoulders, but understand this clearly: It's not a coffin, not by a long shot.
We failed you. I believe that and I don't even know exactly how.
If you aren't already settled in, awaiting the end times we have bequeathed you in our short-sightedness, but you think too carefully for too long about what needs to be done, all will seem hopeless. As with so many tasks that desperately need to be undertaken, those who undertake them must be, in a sense, foolhardy just because the burden looks so heavy, the path so long and twisting, the end so out of sight. It seems so much easier to lie in those made-in-America coffins and wait.
But that, of course, is the royal route to everything none of us could possibly want for our world. No one of you can save a planet of people and, if the future already seems stolen from you and the previews are so apocalyptic, then the possibility of building movements of any sort must seem dim indeed. But don't settle back quite yet and don't ponder too long. Acting is usually better.
The moment you begin to act, I suspect you will discover that there is much you might still be able to call on for support, including many in my generation who, if you're willing to trust some over-thirties (but not too much), might have a little energy and perspective still to offer. Then, there's an American can-do (even quick-fix) tradition that has been lost in recent years, in Katrina-level idiocy and incompetence. How we turned from a can-do into a can't-do (or, as I like to think, a Republican't) nation is worthy of a history or two, if people are still writing them somewhere down the line. But the Iraq War, our oil dependency, even the potentially massive effects of global warming might all respond to a new surge of can-doism, to a nation still rich enough to put its money, its best brains, and its efforts where its mealy mouth and consumer culture (and a President whose idea of sacrifice in "time of war" is a trip to Disney World) now is.
To my mind, here's your first job: With your eyes closed, try to see our world honestly for what it is and then perform a magical act: Conjure up a new set of previews -- fit for a future for which it's worth doing a great deal. To act in concert and meaningfully, you need to able to imagine yourself, fifty years from now, standing at a podium like this, speaking to a group of graduating seniors, or perhaps simply sitting with all those parents proudly watching your own child in cap and gown in -- let's hope -- a very different world with fewer coffins in sight.
Now, with those eyes still closed, take a good look at our world, the one you already know is there, but don't think too much. It's time to pass through the portals of this school that has held you these last four years, out the gate, into the streets beyond, into the world beyond, and get yourself an education. It's time to look up and read the inscription -- by now, you can surely do so with your eyes closed -- and then reformulate it. How about, for example: Abandon paralysis all ye who exit here.
I can't tell you how to act or what to do. I wouldn't even pretend to know. For that, in the dark, you, all of you, have to look into our world and then into yourselves. I suspect that, when enough of you close your eyes and begin to believe your own previews, you'll know. At least perhaps, you'll know where you want to start and, knowing, you'll act; or perhaps, not even knowing, you'll act anyway; and, in acting, hope -- because, in bad times, it's always the act that engenders hope -- and, then, in hoping you'll know.


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Danica Patrick says she's fine after getting hit in the head by a rock while racing on a dirt track.
Patrick says she got smacked by a stray rock Thursday night, leaving her feeling like she had a concussion. But she says the infield care center checked her out and pronounced her healthy.
Patrick says it hit her "straight in the head" and she's glad she had a hat on or "there would have been blood."
Patrick had one of the most significant crashes of her career last Sunday in Phoenix, slamming into a wall with about 100 laps left and leaving her with a stiff neck.
Patrick became the first woman to win a pole and lead green-flag laps at the Daytona 500 last month, finishing eighth.
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Do you have a big family that lives close by? My family is spread around the world. Mostly in the States, but my cousin Josh has travel fever and is always sending postcards from the most remote places. I live in Arlington, Virgina, just across the river from Washington, DC. It's a pretty hectic place My grandmother, whom I call Oma, German for grandma, lives on Wagtail Mountain, a little more than a six hour drive from my house.
I was at a very chic dinner with my boyfriend at his boss's vineyard when I received a desperate phone call from Oma's best friend, Rose. She told me to come as soon as I could. Naturally I left immediately, even though Ben was fairly put out with me for that. I took his car, which may not have been the best move because it meant his boss's daughter, Kim, would have to drive him back to Washington. Kim and her mother had their eyes on Ben all evening. Still, my Oma came first. I would never forgive myself if something happened to her or if she needed me, and I didn't go. After all, geographically speaking, I'm the closest to her. And I love her dearly.
Oma always provided a wonderful escape from my divorced parents. Every summer I spent school vacations with her at the Sugar Maple Inn. My cousin Josh, his best friend, Holmes, and I worked at the inn. Oma had us do everything. And she didn't differentiate between boys and girls when it came to work. But she made sure we had plenty of time for swimming in the lake and playing in the woods. Summers in Wagtail were my favorite part of the year.
Now that I'm headed for the Sugar Maple Inn again, I can't quite figure out why it's been so long since I was there. Have I really been too busy to visit my beloved Oma? Can it be that I've turned into a workaholic with little time for the meaningful things in life? I'm ashamed that it took a crisis for me to make the trip to Wagtail. I just hope Oma is okay. Rose sounded so desperate. She wouldn't have called if something wasn't terribly wrong.
How about you? Do you live close to your family and see them a lot? Or are they spread out like my family?
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Apache Indians
Apache (əpăch´ē), Native North Americans of the Southwest composed of six culturally related groups. They speak a language that has various dialects and belongs to the Athabascan branch of the Nadene linguistic stock (see Native American languages), and their ancestors entered the area about 1100. The Navajo, who also speak an Athabascan language, were once part of the Western Apache; other groups E of the Rio Grande along the mountains were the Jicarilla, the Lipan, and the Mescalero groups. In W New Mexico and Arizona were the Western Apache, including the Chiricahua, the Coyotero, and the White Mountain Apache. The Kiowa Apache in the early southward migration attached themselves to the Kiowa, whose history they have since shared. Subsistence in historic times consisted of wild game, cactus fruits, seeds of wild shrubs and grass, livestock, grains plundered from settlements, and a small amount of horticulture. The social organization involved matrilocal residence, a rigorous mother-in-law avoidance pattern, and the husband's working for the wife's relatives.
Historically the Apache are known principally for their fierce fighting qualities. They successfully resisted the advance of Spanish colonization, but the acquisition of horses and new weapons, taken from the Spanish, led to increased intertribal warfare. The Eastern Apache were driven from their traditional plains area when (after 1720) they suffered defeat at the hands of the advancing Comanche. Relations between the Apache and the white settlers gradually worsened with the passing of Spanish rule in Mexico. By the mid-19th cent., when the United States acquired the region from Mexico, Apache lands were in the path of the American westward movement. The futile but strong resistance that lasted until the beginning of the 20th cent. brought national fame to several of the Apache leaders—Cochise, Geronimo, Mangas Coloradas, and Victorio.
Today the Apache, numbering some 50,000 in 1990, live mainly on reservations totaling over 3 million acres in Arizona and New Mexico and retain many tribal customs. Cattle, timber, tourism, and the development of mineral resources provide income. In 1982 the Apaches won a major Supreme Court test of their right to tax resources extracted from their lands.
See G. C. Baldwin, The Warrior Apaches (1965); D. L. Thrapp, The Conquest of Apacheria (1967); K. Basso and M. Opler, ed., Apachean Culture and Ethnology (1971); J. U. Terrell, Apache Chronicle (1972).


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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) — A federal judge Tuesday temporarily barred Hazleton, Pennsylvania, from implementing a law designed to prevent illegal immigrants from living in the town.
Judge James Munley of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued a temporary restraining order against Hazleton City Council, preventing it from enforcing its Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance.
The measure has become a model for other U.S. towns that blame illegal immigrants for a range of social problems.
The law, which had been scheduled to take effect Wednesday, would fine landlords found to be renting space to illegal aliens, close down businesses that hire them, and allow legal employees to sue the businesses for employment lost during such a shutdown. A related law also establishes English as the town's official language.
The restraining order is valid until November 14.
In a 13-page opinion, Munley said immigrants risked "irreparable injury" by being evicted from their apartments if the law is enforced. He also said he was not convinced by the city council's argument that illegal immigration increases crime and overburdens social services.
"Defendant offers only vague generalizations about the crime allegedly caused by illegal immigrants but has nothing concrete to back up these claims," Munley wrote.
He added that since the plaintiffs — representing the town's Hispanic community — claim the law affects constitutionally protected rights, it is in the public interest to delay enforcement of the ordinance until a court can consider its constitutional implications.
About a third of Hazleton's 31,000 residents are immigrants from Central America. According to local civil rights activists, about a quarter of the town's immigrant population is in the United States illegally.
The law, passed by the city council in July and revised in September, is seen as a template for similar laws passed by 10 other towns around the country, according to the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, one of the groups that has joined in a lawsuit challenging the measure.
Thirty-two towns are considering similar measures.


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WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) — Babson College has announced that former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey has been selected the first woman to lead the college.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Bernice Corpuz reports
Healey was elected president of the private business school Sunday night by a vote of the college board of trustees. She will assume her new position on July 1, succeeding Len Schlesinger.
Healey was lieutenant governor under Mitt Romney and a past chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party. An academic by training, she has been an advocate for the expansion of women's rights and higher education in Afghanistan.
Trustees chair Joseph L. Winn says Healey's "achievements in academia, government, and humanitarian efforts across the globe speak to the impact she can make in any environment."
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Justin Mabus Named CAA Rookie of the Week for Second Straight Week
RICHMOND, Va. – Freshman midfielder Justin Mabus has been selected as the Colonial Athletic Association Men's Lacrosse Rookie of the Week for the second time in as many weeks, it was announced by league officials on Monday.
Mabus, who leads the Tigers with nine assists this season, did his damage this week at No. 20 Hofstra by netting the biggest goal of his young career. The freshman capped off the largest fourth quarter comeback in the 53-year history of the program by scoring the game-winning goal with just 38 seconds remaining in double overtime.
Mabus' goal gave the Tigers a dramatic 10-9 victory in a game they trailed 9-3 in the fourth quarter.
UMass' Will Manny won Player of the Week honors after scoring eight goals and dishing out seven assists in a pair of victories for the second-ranked Minutemen.
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Note in the GH Preview of the SA Clone that they indicate Hasbro told them paint variants were in the works for #41. I don't really care for these 3 packs either
Yeah! Another example of "take a hard to find figure and make it even harder to find"! Way to go Hasbro! Now just make sure that the re-painted #41 is only 1-per-case to really screw us... Go ahead and give us some paint variants on #38 AT-TE Gunner too while you're at it...
They should do a yellow (mustard?) version of the Clone Commander, because I don't think the Evolutions one comes with a visor. Or does he? Can't remember.
So, I wonder if the V-Wing actually appears anywhere?
OK, after seeing the movie, I can't really see Hasbro making too many of the different colored Clones. Why? Because outside of 1 or 2, they appear on screen for so short a period of time, it would be pointless. Kinda disappointing, to be honest.
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Among the works of Max Ophuls, this film based upon a short story by Arthur Schnitzler stands out as a mature work where his grasp of the story telling and a particular style that we associate with him converge. This is his first milestone and fifth feature film.
Ophuls treats love straightforward and in Liebelei where adultery is not taken casually but with gravity such liaisons that entail between parties of unequal standing. Yet the pull of love the baroness and a junior lieutenant cannot dismiss for the thrill of it. Their expectations from it also seem unequal. As often the case is the woman in such exigencies can demand and get what she desires. The lieutenant thus gives in to a fatal error of giving the key to his lodging house that he shares with his buddy who is oberlieutenant (one rank above). Love and friendship are not stretched to test the credulity of the viewer in order to keep the story move headlong. While the buddies pursue their love, life seems to move away from their social milieu. It is romantic love that people lonely streets, empty cafes, dreamed landscapes where love must grow as naturally as intended. But the past makes its thrust like an assassins stiletto when least expected and it makes this film a poignant essay on love.
The film begins with staging of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio where the heroine is restrained by the Pasha Selim's harem. The story that unfolds before our eyes is the young lieutenant who is abducted by fate for his past indiscretion. We cannot but feel the malignant gaze of Baron von Eggersdorff from the upper stall fixed on Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer who is seated below. Even as the young man leaves for his assignment before the third act commences we know he is not far from the thoughts of the suspicious husband. The baron wants to surprise his wife and when he arrives we know it is a matter of time their stolen kisses would leave its shadow on the lovers.
Contrasting the gloom of the baronial mansion that envelops the lover making a getaway we see him with Christine, the daughter of a musician, his new found love and they ride through a romantic landscape. The lieutenant means when he pledges eternal love against the backdrop of fresh snow glittering in the light. He promises to meet her every day except Saturdays where he is obliged to meet Baron and his wife. He is related to the baron and hence the liaison is much more damning for the class that stood for honor and good manners.
The duel between the baron and the lieutenant is crucial to the resolution of the story. A similar duel is treated in Ophul's later film The earrings of Madame de… which is his crowning achievement as a film maker.
François Truffaut on Ophuls: in a moving obituary for Ophuls, wrote: "He was not the virtuoso or the aesthete or the decorative filmmaker he has been called. He didn't make ten or eleven shots with a single sweep of the camera merely to 'look good' . . . Like his friend Jean Renoir, Ophuls always sacrificed technique to the actor. Ophuls thought actors were at their best and least theatrical when forced to some physical effort—climbing stairs, running through the countryside, or dancing throughout a long single take."
* Magda Schneider as Christine Weyring
* Wolfgang Liebeneiner as Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer
* Luise Ulrich as Mitzi Schlager
* Carl Esmond as Lieutenant Theo Kaiser
* Olga Tschechowa as Baronin von Eggersdorff
* Gustaf Gründgens as Baron von Eggersdorff
* Paul Hörbiger as Old Weyring, Christine's father
Ophüls later remade the film in France as Une histoire d'amour, using most of the original cast.
Magda Schneider's daughter, Romy Schneider, played the same role in the 1958 film Christine.


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And the Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank will hold its 20th annual "Empty Bowl" Fundraiser next week. Nearly 4-million meals have been provided with money raised through the event.
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By Rania Iskramor
Special to the Pennsic Independent
The Pennsic Independent has received warning of a great danger facing the populace of the Pennsic War. The Soothsayers of the Circus of the Damned have predicted that a horde of vicious Vorpal Rabbits will plague the Marketplace and Food Court, starting Tuesday morning. Based on the accuracy of their Plague predictions of last year, we believe that the populace of Pennsic should make whatever preparations they can against this latest terror.
Rania Iskramor of the Circus of the Damned warns, "They look harmless all right, but if any adult messes with them, they'll be sorry. Those things have great big, pointy teeth! The adults had best step aside and let the kids handle this problem. The innocent touch of a child lulls these critters into a harmless slumber."
The Independent has confirmed that the creatures do exist. Johan Cervus, Pennsic's Animal Control Officer, told Independent reporters, "We're not sure where they came from, but they're definitely heading toward the marketplace. They seem to be particularly hostile when approached by adults; the only specimens we have in captivity were caught by children."
Lord Cervus has made this plea to the children, "Although it may be dangerous, I need to ask every child to scan the roads and pathways of the Food Court and Marketplace to try to locate and capture one of these rabbits and turn it in to the Circus of the Damned during the Children's Fete on Wednesday between 1-3 pm. The best thing we can do is keep these creatures separated, so each child should only try to capture one rabbit.
The Circus of the Damned has negotiated with the Kingdom of Lochac to create a sanctuary for the captured bunnies. Queen Therasa and King Hugh believe that these creatures will find great joy in the vast expanses of Lochac's territories and have given their blessing to relocating the bunnies to their Kingdom.
Every child that captures a Vorpal Rabbit and turns it in at the Children's Fete will be rewarded with a Royal Commendation signed by the Monarchs of the East, Æthelmearc, Atlantia, the Middle, Lochac, Artemisia, Trimaris, Meridies, the West, Atenveldt, and Ealdormere, as well as a prize from the Circus of the Damned.
Any child not finding a rabbit on Tuesday in the Marketplace is requested to please come to the Fete in the Barn on Wednesday to help keep the creatures contained. While the members of the Circus of the Damned are fine entertainers, they are somewhat lacking in their zoo-keeping skills and will need all the help they can get while they prepare these feisty critters for the move to their new home.


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Rupture, Repression, and Uprising
Raced and Gendered Violence Along the Color Line
Conference sponsored by the
African American Studies & Research Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
By marking the anniversaries of the 1908 Springfield, Illinois riot, and the cataclysmic events of 1968, this conference (re)investigates their legacies for a dawning new century. This commemoration also provides a powerful point of entry into larger scholarly conversations about the history of riots, other organized violence against racialized bodies (including sexual and state violence), rebellions and resistance, and their reverberations across time and
Indeed, the violence in Springfield was but an episode in a broader pattern of white mob actions that encompassed Wilmington, North Carolina (1898), Atlanta (1905), East St. Louis, Illinois (1917), the "Red Summer" of 1919, and Tulsa, Oklahoma (1921). These urban racial pogroms, often backed by white police and governmental authority, were part of a long-term project of black subjugation, one that paralleled the emergence of the United States as a white supremacist empire in the Western Hemisphere and Pacific through the Spanish-American War (1898), as well as the continuing brutality of European colonialism in Asia and Africa.
Sixty years after the events of Springfield, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, headed by Illinois governor Otto Kerner, issued an influential report on a wave of urban conflagrations that peaked that year following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Detailing a web of U.S. racial stratification, the Kerner Commission report, and the urban revolts it addressed, came in the midst of a domestic and international sea change – radical U.S. popular struggles and reactionary countermovements; anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles in southern Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America; the Tet Offensive in Southeast Asia; and the short-lived takeover of the streets by Parisian students and workers.
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Phil Everly, who with his brother, Don, made up the most revered vocal duo of the rock-music era, their exquisite harmonies profoundly influencing the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Byrds and countless younger-generation rock, folk and country singers, died Friday in Burbank of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his wife, Patti Everly, told The Times. He was 74.
"We are absolutely heartbroken," she said, noting that the disease was the result of a lifetime of cigarette smoking. "He fought long and hard."
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May 02, 2013
By Troy Tieuel
Contributing Writer
When driving down Centinela, south from Florence, on the left side stands a stretch of grassy knolls and concrete pathways, lined with palms and unassuming greenery. Occasionally, kids will be seen running, playing, jumping, and living. What is in the future for those innocent faces and happy smiles? Glancing to the side, at the graffiti scrawled walls that read of gang slogans, it can be assumed that a limited future in in store for those inquisitive youths, searching for outlets for their boundless energy, darting between trees and running through the rolling landscape. It's hard for some to imagine that this sanctuary, surrounded by bustling city and roaring traffic contains a future lawyer, doctor or artist. It's easy to assume the worst.
That stretch of land is called Edward Vincent Park, named after the first African-American mayor of Inglewood. If you looked back in time, back before the renaming in January of 1997, when the park was commonly known simply as 'Centinela Park,' one of those children that might be seen standing thespian-like on a bench, jumping, spinning, or dancing, might have been a future Alvin Ailey Dancer named Matthew Rushing.
In a brown, wood framed building containing a modest stage and seating for about 100, stands the Inglewood Playhouse, the place were a young, Jr. High School student first discovered his interest for the theater arts. Describing his time spent doing plays at the Playhouse with dance instructor Kashmir Blake, Matthew states, "At that point, learning about my history through the arts and being able to perform and articulate through a gift I was given, I felt like that was a peak in my life. I remember, I felt really complete, even as a kid, you know, when you feel like you haven't learned that much? I felt like that was exactly where I was supposed to be. It was almost like the moment that you fall in love for the first time. [At the Inglewood Playhouse] I fell in love with performing and the performing arts."
An Inglewood native, Rushing attended Latijera Elementary, and the Los Angeles County High School for the Performing Arts, where he honed his talents as a performer. Rushing describes himself as a "student of dance" who admits to getting started in dance by taking classes and training as a dancer after he was exposed to theater at Latijera and eventually the Inglewood Playhouse. Rushing's first dance teacher Kashmir Blake, created choreography for students with little to no dance training and prepared them for performances. "She [Blake] knew we had passion," explained Rushing, "and she knew we were moldable."
At the tender age of 12, working with Blake taught Rushing how to use dance to express deep, emotional topics such as drug addiction and how drugs effect you and those around you. This training in performance arts and dance lead him to be accepted in the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and receive in-depth, classroom instruction in classical ballet, modern, jazz and training in ethnic dances such as East Indian. "When I look back, I'm really grateful for that [the time spent with Blake]," said Rushing, "Because I had a huge understanding of performing, first."
"I think the discipline of dancing is one of the most important disciplines, I feel, as far as getting control of mind, body and soul," says Rushing, "I say that, because I often tell allot of people that even if you're not interested in becoming a dancer, taking dance is very important, because it teaches you certain skills and certain ideas about will power that you probably wouldn't learn doing anything else. With dance, you have this idea of being disciplined physically, but you have to add your emotions to it. You have to add expression to it."
Rushing goes on to describe how dancers must combine both the physical aspects of being an athlete, the discipline of bodily control, and willpower with being a creative artist in order to be truly successful at performing at the highest level. "You see these athletes…you see these people jumping and spinning and turning, and using their bodies in an extreme way. At the same time, they are speaking to your heart," said Rushing in a phone interview while preparing for the Ailey shows in Berkley California, "That is what so awesome and beautiful about the art of dance."
Joining Alvin Ailey Dance Company was a defining moment for Rushing who, although he had to work extremely hard, describes his journey to becoming a professional dancer as a "smooth," with support from friends, family teachers and administration. "I couldn't afford to fly to New York for the [Alvin Ailey Dance Company] audition, so one of my dance teachers from the High School for the Arts flew with me to Berkley, and came with me while I auditioned for the company."
That trip to Berkley California early in the year 1992, garnered Rushing not only a scholarship training with Alvin Ailey, but a place on the training company that came with a job after he finished high school within the segment of the Alvin Ailey Company called 'Second Company,' now called 'Ailey II.'
Normally a dancer trains in Ailey II for two years, but Rushing's extreme talents and hardworking mentality allowed him to be accepted into the Ailey Company after one year, something that Rushing called, "totally unexpected."
"I've had so many fulfilling moments with Ailey, it's hard to say," recalls Rushing, "My first time going to South Africa, was one of my proudest moments as an artist, as a dancer, as a person. We went to South Africa to perform in Johannesburg, but part of our purpose for going there was to make sure we had a huge hand in the out-reach. We went to the local townships and gave master classes and lecture demonstrations." Rushing goes on to describe the participants, who walked for hours along dirt roads with no shoes, just to participate in the classes and how they quickly picked up the moves and the choreography of Ailey's 'Revelations' that was taught as part of the classes, despite most of them not having experiences in traditional classrooms. "They performed as though they had choreographed the work. It was mind blowing. I realized that because of what they were going through. Their spirits were much more mature than mines, and to see them find so much joy in something so simple, really blew me away."
A typical training day for Rushing starts at 8:30 am, at the gym with cross training, weight lifting, biometrics, swimming and stretching. He also does lots of cardio to aid him in getting through those longer performances. After the gym, Rushing takes Company Class, a ballet or modern class that starts around 10:30 am. Then, he goes into rehearsal at 12:00 pm until 7:00 pm.
Rushing plans to continue indefinitely with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company and continue with his promotion as 'Rehearsal Director' for the Ailey Company. "I'm still trying to find myself in it, and [figuring out] how to become completely devoted to the dancers and still be completely devoted as a performe. Ailey is my home. I enjoy teaching, choreographing, and helping other artist, younger dancers, and even more mature dancers become better artists have become a new passion of mines."
Rushing has had a incredible career with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. His many accomplishments include a Spotlight Award, Dance Magazine Award and he was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He became Rehearsal Director for the Ailey Company in June 2010. He has choreographed many Ailey performances and plans on creating more.
For more information on Alvin Ailey Dance Company go to www.alvinailey.org. The Inglewood Playhouse is located on Warren Lane and Centinela, in the center of Edward Vincent Park and can be reached by calling (310) 412-5451.


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It's a shame that this picture is so gloomy, but the last time I made this pizza, it was dark when it came out of the oven and I had to hold back a pack of ravenous, excited beasts (you know who you are, Mike, Sebastian, and David) to get even these moody photos. But let me assure you: This pizza is delicious, by far the best-loved pizza in my household. I think the original idea for this pizza came down from Wolfgang Puck; I am sure it has been bastardized since his original, but the main concept is the same: sweet and slightly bitter caramelized onions balanced against the acidity of the goat cheese and the salt of the bacon. It is a beautiful thing.
Making the Dough
A good pizza consists of two major parts: the dough and the toppings. Let's start with the dough. Now, I make pizza dough from scratch, but when I first started making this pizza, I would use purchased pizza crusts. Problem with those is that, like many commercial breads, they tend to have a lot of nearly unpronounceable mystery ingredients, so now I make my own dough. It definitely takes more time and a bit more effort, but I think it's worth it. I've found two pizza dough recipes that I like: The one used in this delicious broccoli rabe, potato, and rosemary pizza from Food52, which comes out crispy and beautiful, and Deborah Madison's basic pizza dough from her book Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, which is also excellent and takes less time but is a bit less crispy. Here are the directions for Deborah Madison's pizza dough:
- 1 1/2 cups warm water
- 2 teaspoons (about one packet) dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 to 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 3 to 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- Add the yeast to 1/2 cup of the water and let it stand until it gets foamy (about five to 10 minutes).
- Add the rest of the water, the salt, and the oil to the foamy water.
- Then add the whole wheat flour and enough all purpose flour to make a shaggy dough.
- Pour or scrape the dough out onto a floured board or counter and knead until the dough is smooth. Add enough flour to keep the dough from sticking but no more. The dough should be slightly tacky.
- Let the dough rise in a covered, oiled bowl for about 40-60 minutes. (Keep the dough in a somewhat warm place.)
- Turn the dough out on the counter and divide it into the number of pizzas you want (you can make four 10-inch pizzas or two 12- to 14-inch pizzas). Shape the pieces into balls, set them on a lightly floured counter, cover with a slightly damp towel, and let them rise for 20 to 30 minutes.
- About half an hour before you want to put the pizzas in the oven, pre-heat your oven to 500 degrees Fahrenheit and start shaping the dough. Take one ball at a time, flatten it into a disk, and start pushing the dough out toward the edges until you achieve the size you want. It's helpful to have a baking board with diameters. When you have achieved the size, shape, and thickness you want, let the disks rest for 15 minutes before adding any toppings. (The thinner you can get the dough without tearing, the crispier your final product will be.)
When you make this pizza, start the toppings at about the same time you start the dough. That way, all you will have to do is add the toppings to the pizza disks just before you put them in the oven.
The toppings for this pizza are caramelized onions, crispy bacon, and goat cheese. You will also need some grated Parmigiano Reggiano.
- 3-4 large yellow onions, thinly sliced (get ready to cry)
- 4 Tbsps olive oil
- 8 slices bacon, sliced into 1-inch pieces (or you can just crumble the slices after they have cooked and cooled)
- 1 8-oz log of soft goat cheese (Chevre), crumbled (do this with a fork in a bowl and you will eliminate a lot of mess)
- grated Parmigiano Reggiano
- dried thyme
- a pinch of red pepper flakes (optional)
To caramelize the onions, bring 4 tablespoons of olive oil to medium heat in a large pan with tall sides (you will start off with a large volume of onions that will cook down to a very small amount) and then add the onions. Stir the onions to coat them completely with the oil and then basically leave them alone for up to an hour, stirring perhaps once every five to 10 minutes. Don't worry if they get a little crispy around the edges, but don't let them burn either. They should look like this when you are done:
When they are done, sprinkle in half to a whole teaspoon of dried thyme and a pinch of red pepper flakes if you are using them. Set the onions aside.
For the bacon, just cook it until it's nice and crispy and let it drain on paper towels. Set aside.
Not much to do with the goat cheese except to break it up with a fork. Set it aside.
Now, when it comes time to make the pizza, here's what to do. First, make sure your oven is on (500 degrees, remember?). If you have a pizza stone and a peel, now is a great time to use them. If you don't, line baking sheets with parchment paper and set your pizzas down on them.
- Sprinkle grated Parmigiano Reggiano all over the pizza dough.
- Add half (or a quarter, depends on how many pizzas you are making) of the caramelized onions and spread them evenly around the pizza.
- Sprinkle half (or a quarter) of the goat cheese over the onions.
- Sprinkle half (or a quarter) of the crumbled bacon over the goat cheese.
- Grate some more Parmigiano Reggiano over the top and slide the pizza into the oven. Tip: If you are using a peel, rub some corn meal or flour into the peel to prevent sticking.
- After seven minutes, check the pizza. If it's a little golden brown on top, the pizza is done. If not, leave it in for a few more minutes.