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Here, There Be Monsters is a phrase that was used by early mapmakers to describe areas of the sea where monsters were sited. Monsters of course referring to giant squids, or kraken as they were referred to then. So already the story is going to be big fun because theres literally nothing not exciting about a gigantic sea creature.
The phrase is being used as a title for a project that, according to The Wrap, Robert Zemeckis is circling to direct that will center around Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, except this time around theyre adding some sea monsters to make things more interesting (because apparently the Revolutionary War isnt that interesting on its own). The idea comes from Legendary CEO Thomas Tull, who will also produce the film.
Brian Helgeland has signed on to pen the script so we can expect something pretty great from him. His impressive resume includes films like L.A. Confidential, Mystic River, Man on Fire and many, many more great films. The real question is whether or not Robert Zemeckis, who is responsible for some classics, but hasnt produced anything great in quite some time, can come through in a return to form to deliver a solid film.
Theres a lot of potential in Here There Be Monsters for something awesome. John Carter is getting a lot of buzz right now with its civil war hero on Mars story, so the timing might be just right for more augmented reality war stuff like this. Its just a matter of getting the right talent in line, which hopefully Tull and the Legendary banner can take care of. More on this as details fall into place.
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Not the best race I've ever had but figured I might as well post the good with the bad.
I left the house around 6:15 yesterday morning and headed to some friends house. By the time I met up with them and we got on the road it was around 7:15 or so. We were on our way. We had about a four hour drive to get to the race which was near Louisville, KY. We had a rather uneventful drive, which is always a good thing. We ended up finding the race and parking the car around 11:00 am. I couldn't believe how many riders were there, it was actually hard to find a parking spot. We all went to register and could not believe how long the line was. After standing there a minute someone asked if we were pre-registered. Luckily the answer was yes, we went straight to the front of a second line and were on our way in no time.
To me the way they had the cat's was a little weird. They had a cat 1/2/3, a cat 3/4, a cat 4/5/citizens and a womans group. Apparently if a cat 3 didn't think they were too strong they could ride with the 4's. If a cat 4 didn't feel all that strong they could ride with the 5's. It was up to them. I was under the assumption that if you were a cat 3 you rode with the 3's. If you were a 4 you rode with the 4's. If they combined cat's then the 3's still all rode together and the 4's all rode together etc, etc. To me that is kind of like me racing sport in mountain biking but then not feeling all that strong one day and deciding to race the beginners field. Maybe I'm wrong though.
Well onto the race. I am a cat 5 so I was in the cat 4/5/citizens group. I was amazed at the number of riders in our group, there was at least 80. It seemed like I was constantly going from the front third of the group to the back of the group. I felt strong I just couldn't do anything, there were just way too many people. The course had some little rollers with one climb that was about a mile long. Each lap was about 9 miles and our group had to do three laps.
The first lap was rather uneventful. Just a lot of speeding up then everyone slamming on the brakes. It was much more tiring mentally than physically. The second lap was going pretty much the same up until about the eight mile mark. That was when we came up on a couple of police cars and an ambulance. Everyone dismounted and starting walking around the cars. Their were a bunch of the women standing around. I started looking around for a good friend of mine that was in their group, one of the people I rode to the race with. At first I didn't see her standing around so I was pretty relieved, then I saw her bike on the side of the road with a tacoed front wheel. That is when I looked over and saw her in the middle of the road with blood everywhere. They were in the process of putting her on a backboard. I threw by bike to the side of the road, my race was over.
I went over to her and apparantly she had just regained consciousness. She had a huge cash right abover her left eye from her sunglasses. Some road rash on her arm, shoulder, knee, hip, and leg. However even more noticable she was scared. Who can blame her? She kept asking me if she was alright and what had happened. I couldn't convince her that I wasn't there when it happened. I stayed around until they got her in the ambulance then I jumped in the front seat and rode to the hospital with her. One other girl from the crash got in the ambulance as well. At the time I don't believe she thought she had any major problems.
I was able to talk to one very helpful gentleman that took responsibility for my bike, my friends bike and took the key to my friend's car to give to our other buddy that was still riding. If it hadn't been for him the whole ordeal would have been much worse.
Anyway, as for the crash I later found out that nine of the fifteen women went down in the crash. Nobody really knows what caused it though. If anyone has any idea please pm me, the girl involved would love to know. Her mind has blocked the whole thing.
Ok, on to the hospital. It was one of the better organized ER's that I have been to. Everyone was extremely nice and helpful. People kept loaning me their cell phone's to contact the girl's boyfriend to let him know what was going on. The doctor was very helpful as well. Before she started doing the stitches she asked if she wanted her (the er doctor) to do the stitches or get a plastic surgeon to do them to minimize scarring. She chose the plastic surgeon. This will involve us going to another hospital but it's well worth it. Now it was time for the CT scan and a bunch of x-rays. It all went very smooth.
While we were still there the uscf official came and took a statement and got all of the details. They are definitely on the ball. After that our other riding partner showed up with the bikes and the car. We then headed to the other hospital. Once we made it there we were treated as kings as well. Everything went very smooth (considering the circumstances).
It was after this that we learned about the other rider that went to the hospital. She had received some broken ribs. One of the broken ribs lacerated her kidney. The last I spoke with anyone she was in surgery. We all certainly wish the best for her.
All in all I received my first dnf after four years of racing (4 mtb, first year road), my one buddy finished with the pack for the first time so that is basicly a victory for him and my other friend ended up with a story to talk about for a very long time. It was definitely an experience.
We finally made it back in town around 11:30 pm, I made it home around 12:30 last night.


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Sam D'Arco spun two yo-yos and pulled their strings as he spoke, making them dance around each other.
That was just one of the tricks the 14-year-old will use at the 2013 World Yo-Yo Contest, which began Thursday in Orlando, Fla. The Lakeside High School freshman is already a champion, having won the Southeast Regionals in the 3A division in November.
His passion for the activity began three years ago when his mother, Ruth Ann D'Arco, put a dollar store yo-yo into a care package for him while he was at camp in North Carolina.
Grovetown officials filled an open seat on its city council at Monday's monthly meeting, replacing a councilman who resigned in April.
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City officials considered three candidates at the July meeting, but opted to meet with them in late July before making the appointment.
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For enrollment information, please check the USC Schedule of Classes at http://web-app.usc.edu/soc/20121/fsem.
Bob Dylan, The Early Years
Eric Trules
Wednesday 2-3:50; Section 34612
Bob Dylan, The Early Years, will be an investigation of Dylan's recorded songs, from his first Columbia album, "Bob Dylan" (1962) through "Nashville Skyline" (1969), including "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", "The Times They Are a'Changin'", "Bringing It All Back Home", "Highway 61 Revisited", "Blond On Blonde", and more. Each week of the ten weeks of the Seminar, students will be assigned an individual song on a specific album and asked to analyze and "interact" with it, making a presentation to the rest of the class. In this way, we will all be listening to, studying, and learning about the music and the artist together. Bob Dylan is arguably the greatest poet and song writer of the 20th century, and as such, massive amounts of material have already been gathered and published on him. But this class is designed to discover Dylan, his songs, and their lyrics, anew, as if for the first time, by each member of the class… and collectively.
Eric Trules is an Associate Professor of Practice at USC's School of Theatre and is currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Studies. He has been an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award winner, a screenwriter, and a USC Phi Kappa Phi "Faculty Recognition Award" winner. He was co-founder of Mo Ming, the renowned dance-theater in Chicago, and director of NYC's Resident Clown Troupe. Trules has produced city-wide arts festivals and directed and produced THE POET AND THE CON, a feature length documentary film. He believes that college can be more than merely the acquisition of knowledge and the preparation for a vocational career, but also about the discovery of oneself, one's voice, and one's passion.
Conflict, Power, and the Secret Weapon of Persuasion
Holly Bridges
Thursday 2-3:50; Section 34614
In this seminar we will explore the pivotal role storytelling plays in conflicts and power struggles, whether in the political arena or on the personal front. How do stories, rhetoric, and images manipulate our perceptions of conflict? And which portrayals of solutions serve to exacerbate and escalate, or defuse and ameliorate? We'll look at the differences between examples of violent solutions and those of nonviolent tactics. Our exploration will take us through culture, politics, relationships, and the human brain, from ancient recorded history to today as we examine the messages, the messengers, and their effects on beliefs and behavior.
Having started her career as a newspaper reporter, Holly Bridges has been a speechwriter for fourteen years. She now leads a department at USC dedicated to executive communications. The author of three books on spirituality topics, and a published poet, she has been responsible for writing or editing more than a thousand speeches and has spent some time on the local speaking circuit herself.
Cowboy Up: The American Cowboy in Fact and Fiction
Robert Scheer
Wednesday 2-3:50; Section 34613
Early cowboys in the 19th century were young, wild, and considered a public nuisance whenever they came into town from herding and trailing cattle on the open ranges. Hollywood made this unwashed, uneducated, and untamed hell raiser into a heroic and mythic figure. In movie westerns, the cowboy became an icon of American character, standing for our best national traits: honesty, loyalty, patriotism, courage, determination, and both physical and moral strength.
Let's look at the cowboy as we find him over the years from "The Virginian," first adapted by Cecil B. DeMille from Owen Wister's novel in 1914, to the most recent version of the same story almost a century later. Drawing on the university's library of westerns and on downloadable films from Netflix, we'll be looking at examples of western classics (both in and out of class) to explore evolving ideas about this particular American figure of the popular imagination. We'll also take side trips into cowboy song and poetry, and short stories, plus a reading of the novel Shane. Come prepared to think, talk, discuss, and enjoy.
Dr. Scheer is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Writing Program. He has taught film, literature and writing. He grew up just west of the 98th meridian on the Great Plains.
Emotional Intelligence: the University, Literature and Your Life
Thomas Gustafson
Tuesday, 2-3:50; Section 34608
The university holds itself as a place devoted to the study and practice of critical thinking, and college curricula always give a pre-eminent place to courses on the history of Western (and non-Western) thought. But where in our education do we study and develop emotional intelligence? Can emotional intelligence even be taught? What if the university offered a course where we had the chance to study not just the head but the heart, not critical thinking but emotional intelligence, and where love of knowledge was combined with knowledge about love?
This Freshman Seminar will be such a course: It will draw upon literature ranging from the writings of Epicurus and Montaigne to stories by James Baldwin and the film "Groundhog Day" (and upon recent research in the sciences and psychology) to study such emotions as love, jealousy, anger, fear, hate, compassion, joy and happiness. At the heart of the course will be an attempt to study how and where we learn forms of intelligence not measured by any SAT test but significant for your life, including what one author calls such "essential human competencies" as "self-awareness, self-control, and empathy, and the arts of listening, resolving conflict, and cooperation."
Inside the classroom, Thomas Gustafson teaches courses in American literature and American Studies. Outside the classroom, he serves as Faculty Master of Birnkrant Residential College.
Musical Subcultures of the Sixties
Bill Biersach
Wednesday 4-5:50; Section 34622
During the sixties, due to circumstances within the music industry peculiar to the time, various popular musical styles developed which expressed the social, cultural, religious, political and sexual changes in our society. While the music of this period survives today and enjoys considerable popularity, much of the meaning behind it has been lost because the context has largely been forgotten.
In this seminar, students will pair off to do research projects involving various aspects of the sixties and how they found musical expression. Together we will sift through the lyrics, musical styles, facts, tall tales, and contrived myths surrounding various influential people, events, and movements. In so doing we will try to arrive at an understanding of what was really going on in the music business, the drug scene, the pop culture, political and social trends, and the minds of the youth during those turbulent years.
William L. Biersach has been teaching electro-acoustic media and recording technology in the Thornton School of Music since 1975. In 1997 he received the USC Gamma Sigma Alpha Professor of the Year Award. As a studio musician and synthesizer programmer he composed the score for the Japanese cartoon series, Dan Cougar, and the musical theme for the USC Campaign for Leadership into the 21st Century. His courses on the Beatles and Classic Rock have attracted the attention of Rolling Stone Magazine, CNN and Prime Time Live.
Seinfield is Life
James Brecher
Monday 2-3:50; Section 34606
Seinfeld, which aired on NBC from 1989-1998, became one of the most successful situation comedies in television history. The self-described "show about nothing" really was about something: it presented the lives of its four main characters facing their everyday problems as individuals relating to each other and the world around them. These situations mirror the problems we "real people" face each day, and the solutions the show presents through the characters' reactions provide guidance in how we should live our lives.
This seminar will look at these situations, the characters' responses, and their – often disastrous – results as a guide to learn how more appropriately to respond to the situations we face in our own daily lives. This is not a class about the creation and the mechanics of the show, but an examination of what these situations faced by the characters can teach us. We will accomplish this examination and personal growth through academic and popular readings, class presentations based upon particular episodes, and the occasional guest.
James Brecher, J.D., Ph.D., has practiced law, worked in the business world, and for the past nine years has taught advanced composition to pre-law and arts and humanities students and leadership and writing to occupational therapy doctoral students here at USC. He has been awarded the USC College Outstanding Teaching Award in Advanced Writing, the John R. Hubbard award for fraternity and sorority service, and two "Tommy" awards for the development of leadership skills and attributes in students.
Sensual Science
Margo Apostolos
Tuesday 3-4:50; Section 34619
Sensual Science is a way of looking at the world, a thought process that merges scientific inquiry with artistic creation. An objective of this course is to foster the growth of creative thinking by providing alternative approaches to problem solving which integrate art and science.
The course will follow a lecture/discussion format. The lectures will provide a philosophical, historical, and sociological basis. That is, readings and discussions will vary from aesthetics to the philosophy of science; industrial design will frame a historical view; and relevant ideas in today's society will comprise the applications of creative thinking to current issues.
Margo K. Apostolos is an Associate Professor and Director of Dance in the School of Theatre at USC. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University and holds a M.A. in Dance from Northwestern University. Her research includes the exploration of an aesthetic dimension to robotics movement and the use of robots by the severely disabled in rehabilitative settings.
Truth or Dare: Telling Your Own Story
Stacie Chaiken
Monday 3-4:50; Section 34618
This is a seminar for students who might want to be actors, writers, filmmakers, poets -- or doctors, lawyers, and business tycoons. It's for anyone who is grappling with personal story and meaning. You'll be invited to cruise the galaxy of your own (uncensored) personal opinion and deeply personal meaning. For those of you looking to develop a "product," we'll guide you through the morass (mess) of information into the kernel of the story you want to tell. We'll be asking, What really means something to you?
Through a group process, students will write — or find some way to embody (bring into the room) — a personal (not necessarily autobiographical) story. We'll open the room to a friendly invited audience at the end of our session.
Actor-writer Stacie Chaiken is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the USC School of Theatre, where she teaches Acting and Solo Performance. She has performed on and off-Broadway, on television and film, in the US and abroad, and is the writer-performer of the acclaimed solo play Looking for Louie. Chaiken has served as a visiting Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar on the faculty of the Theatre Department of Tel Aviv University, and has lectured at Bar Ilan and New York Universities.
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"No one but a blockhead ever wrote except for money," said Samuel Johnson, but that's not the end of the story. There is after all a reader or an audience, expecting something. This is a seminar for writers or for people who are trying to be. We will focus on the question, "How does it change what I write when I'm determined to affect my readers?" Writing to express yourself accurately is hard, but it's like falling off a log compared to writing things that succeed in stirring other people's emotions.
Students will be expected to read other writers' work in several genres and to share with the class what they themselves have written, sometimes on the spot. We promise not to laugh unless it's funny -- and if that isn't scary, the devil knows what is.
Richard Fliegel is the Director of the Freshman Seminar program and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs in USC Dornsife College. He has published detective novels and tried his hand at some other forms, from poetry to episodic television.


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L. Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center (MRC) and a member of The Cardinal Newman Society board of directors, has announced a unique lawsuit seeking protection from the HHS Mandate.
In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, MRC is the first organization to affirm its "self-certification" as an exempt organization based upon its Judeo-Christian beliefs.
The federal government currently exempts churches from the HHS mandate that requires employers to provide insurance coverage for contraception, abortifacients and sterilization. The government also allows for an exemption for "eligible organizations" through a self-certification process. A nonprofit organization may self-certify that it opposes provisions of the mandate on religious grounds and hold itself out as a religious organization.
Bozell pointed to MRC's work for nearly three decades of defending pro-life views and Judeo-Christian values from attacks in the liberal media as evidence of the organization's religious mission. "The HHS mandate destroys the right to practice one's faith and forces individuals and organizations to reject their faith or face crippling government imposed fines and punishment," said Bozell. "If Americans can't exercise their religious freedom under Obamacare, the results will be disastrous."
If MRC is not exempt, it faces exorbitant fines totaling more than $4 million per year, Bozell said.
"We were hoping that, by now, reasonable minds within the government would have prevailed on this issue," wrote Bozell. "But sadly this has not happened, so now we have no choice but to undertake this lawsuit. By challenging this mandate, we join the growing chorus of organizations which are resisting this unjust and pernicious law."
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Chalese Fankhauser turned on her second homer of the season on Wednesday at No. 10/9 Oregon.
April 3, 2013
EUGENE, Ore. - Junior center fielder Chalese Fankhauser and senior second baseman Jackie Sweet wrapped back-to-back home runs in the third inning, but the University of Utah softball team came up short in a 5-2 decision at No. 10/9 Oregon in a Pac-12 Conference series finale Wednesday at Howe Field.
Utah (14-19-1, 1-8 Pac-12) jumped out to a 2-0 advantage after three complete innings, but the Utes saw their record dip to 11-6 when scoring first this season.
Three of Utah's first three batters in its order posted multi-hit efforts as Sweet went 2-for-4 at the plate, including her third homer of the season. She has seven games with two or more hits in seven games this season and is currently enjoying a team-high 10-game hit streak, which is also the highest such streak for the Utes in 2013. Sweet also has now has 55 career RBI and 15 this season.
Fankhauser went 2-for-4 as well with her second round-tripper of the season. She has nine-multi-hit games in 2013.
Senior shortstop Kelsi Hoopiiaina enjoyed a 2-for-3 day and she leads the team with 12 mult-hit outings this year. The Riverton, Utah native laid down a bunt single to start the second frame and sent a 1-1 pitch to center field for a single in the third.
Freshman right-hander Kayce Nieto did not yield a hit to the Ducks through the first 2.1 innings of the game before a double to center field by Oregon third baseman Koral Costa. In total, she allowed three earned runs on seven hits, while striking out one. The Farmington Hills, Mich., native did not issue a walk in her fourth complete-game effort of the season. Unfortunately, Nieto was given the loss and now stands 3-5 overall.
The Ute offense got things going when Fankhauser and Sweet connected on back-to-back one-out home runs to give Utah a 2-0 lead in the top of the third.
Sweet did not hit a home run in the first 28 games of this season, but now has three round-trippers in the last five games. The Corona, Calif., native has 13 home runs for her career.
Costa's double in the bottom of the third off Nieto came with one out, but Utah was able to keep Oregon off the scoreboard as Allie Burger put down a sacrifice bunt and Nieto got Janie Takeda to ground out harmlessly to Hoopiiaina at shortstop for the third and final out of the inning.
Oregon scored three in its half of the fourth to jump out to a 3-2 edge and the Ducks' Kailee Cuico and Alexa Peterson both hit solo homers in the bottom of the sixth to set the final margin at 5-2.
The Utes return to Utah Softball Stadium for a three-game set against No. 15/T-15 UCLA on Saturday and Sunday. A doubleheader will be played on Saturday, starting at 1 p.m. MT. Saturday will be the annual Power of Pink event. Join the team in wearing PINK to promote Cancer Awareness. Get there early for pink give-a-ways supporting community-wide cancer awareness, and a ceremonial first pitch by Kathy Howa by Swing for Life. Admission is always free.
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Seattle Symphony Orchestra music director Gerard Schwarz looks over his 26 years with the SSO as he prepares to step down after the June 18 concert.
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Asked if there's anything in his Seattle Symphony tenure he'd do over, Gerard Schwarz thought for a moment, and responded: "I don't think about do-overs. Everything is not 100 percent successful, but it is all a part of your experience and your life. There's really nothing I'd do over: the way things have evolved, I think I was right. Everything I've done has been in the service of great music."
Looking backward is not Gerard Schwarz's natural stance; he is more interested in what's coming next. But in these weeks, as his long Seattle Symphony music directorship winds down, national and international publications are focusing on the history of this city's man of music with considerable intensity. Those 26 years are among the lengthiest tenures in today's major orchestras — though Schwarz is far from the longest-running maestro (the late Eugene Ormandy, for example, led the Philadelphia Orchestra for 44 years, and such conductors as Seiji Ozawa and Leopold Stokowski held 29- and 28-year music directorships).
So how did it all happen?
Schwarz sits back in his Queen Anne home with a cup of coffee and considers his answer.
"I always wanted to be a trumpeter when I was a kid," he reflects, "not a conductor; that was never of interest to me. I wanted to be in the New York Philharmonic."
And he was — becoming the youngest co-principal trumpet in the orchestra's history. He rose to the top of his profession, making solo recordings that are still considered among the finest available. That's why few in the classical-music world could quite believe it when Schwarz left the Philharmonic in 1977, at the age of 30. His reasoning was simple: The music had become more important to him than the instrument, which had a limited repertoire. Schwarz wanted to "delve into the great 19th-century repertoire" — works by Brahms, Schumann, Schubert and Beethoven, among many others. He didn't hedge his bets by trying to be an instrumentalist/conductor, that hybrid career that was becoming popular in the 1970s.
"I wanted to be taken very seriously as a conductor," he explains. "I continued teaching trumpet lessons for a time because I had to have some income. But I didn't want to be a conductor/trumpeter. I wanted to make it very clear that I was a conductor."
Schwarz rose quickly to podium prominence, and was already music director of six orchestras or ensembles when he was called in to conduct as a replacement for Seattle's previous maestro, Rainer Miedel (shortly before Miedel's death in 1983). Schwarz had no idea of taking a job in Seattle — much less staying here for 26 years as music director.
"I wasn't into longevity," he notes. "I was in the Philharmonic for four years, and in the American Brass Quintet for seven or eight years. I had no idea of the kind of tenure and impact I would have in Seattle; I didn't think about it. When you're young, you do what comes along: 'Great, let's go to Seattle.' But you don't always think in terms of your career, of what this means for the future."
And, indeed, some of Schwarz's other appointments have not been all that lengthy. He headed the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for seven years, for example; the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for five, and the Tokyo Philharmonic for a specific three-year appointment.
If he wouldn't redo anything here in Seattle, which aspect of his career here makes him the happiest?
"So many things!" the conductor responds. "That I was able to be here and raise my family here, with all four kids with us; that Jody and I were able to make our home here and lead a normal life, which musicians rarely have the opportunity to do. That I was able to make repertoire the way I do — I must have conducted 50 or 60 Beethoven's Fifths — and make every performance meaningful."
Not everything, of course, has been rosy. Most observers think it was Schwarz's appointment of John Cerminaro as principal horn, against the recommendation of the orchestra's hiring committee, that started a groundswell of discontent among some of the players. Some also were perplexed when a three-year search for a new concertmaster ended in an unprecedented four-way tie, finally settling on a player who wasn't a candidate in the first place (Maria Larionoff, who steps down as concertmaster at the end of this season).
"The Cerminaro appointment was among the most important artistic things I've done," Schwarz says. "He has probably done more to help the artistic growth of this orchestra than anyone else. John is a good friend of mine, but I have never made musical decisions in terms of friendship. I wanted him here because he is one of the greatest horn players that ever lived. Now we are playing, as an orchestra, like John; we know what greatness is."
For players like principal flutist Scott Goff, who joined the orchestra in 1969 and has sat in the first chair longer than anyone else in the Seattle Symphony, it is Schwarz himself who has lifted the orchestra to its current level.
"This man is one of the great conductors of the world, and so many in this city and this orchestra haven't the confidence and the perception to realize the great artistry that has been in their midst for the past 28 years," says Goff, who will retire this month at the top of his game. "This orchestra is now recognized as great outside of Seattle. Jerry's legacy will be the recordings, which document his artistic achievement and what he has done."
Cerminaro agrees: "Everywhere I travel, people talk about our terrific CDs and distinctive sound. Jerry will be enormously missed — his vision, enthusiasm and devotion to the SSO for over a quarter-century have been truly awe-inspiring. I'm sure we will enjoy his continued participation from time to time as conductor laureate.
"I'm equally sure Ludovic [Morlot, the incoming music director who takes over this fall] already appreciates the quality ensemble that has been turned over to his leadership now. I am certainly dedicated to giving him a memorable first season with the orchestra. Truly, we all look forward to accomplishing great things with him in the future."
Looking back on his years here, Schwarz says it has been "an amazing trajectory. It's like watching a relative grow up, having more depth and becoming more interesting. As long as an orchestra keeps growing and adding depth, why would anyone want to end that? You can't make a real artistic impact in five years, not even in 10. The growth in the audience, the interaction with the community, have both flourished in the past five years."
In addition to his more public work on the podium, Schwarz has involved himself with the community in a wide span of educational and civic activities that don't get as much notice. A tireless advocate for contemporary music, he has conducted more than 100 world premieres in Seattle, including this season's unprecedented commissioning of 18 short works.
And, of course, there's Benaroya Hall. Schwarz "pushed long and hard," he says, for a concert hall to allow the orchestra to take that great leap forward, and his close friends, philanthropists Jack and Becky Benaroya, made the hall possible with an unprecedented gift of more than $15 million — committed during a fateful lunch at the Rainier Club.
Now, as Schwarz begins his third career phase, he will wear several hats: conductor laureate in Seattle (he'll return to the Symphony for several weeks each year); composer (currently working on a band piece for Cornell); and director/conductor of an upcoming educational TV/DVD series featuring an "All-Star Orchestra" of the country's best players in great concert repertoire, in eight hourlong annual programs with many other enhancements.
"I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to do what I have done," Schwarz reflects, "and I couldn't do it without a lot of people saying yes. It's been a phenomenal time."
Melinda Bargreen also reviews concerts for 98.1 Classical KING FM. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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If you had to pick one time of year that would give you the best overview—the fullest picture of the range of art today—you could hardly do better than spring in New York City. This year, the Whitney Biennial is structured so that three curators—one in performance art, one in contemporary art and one in painting, all from different cities—each have their own floor of the museum. The artists included in the show reflect an intriguing, eclectic roster for such an unusual arrangement, ranging from Norwegian provocateur Bjarne Melgaard to the late David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest; pieces from relative newcomers like Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Darren Bader mingle with longtime artists gaining renewed appreciation, among them weaving fabulist Sheila Hicks and Julie Ault, creator of heady, politically charged work (through May 25).
If you're more into European modernism, Gauguin: Metamorphoses at the Museum of Modern Art traces the career of the turn-of-the-century artist from a period in France to the last 12 years of his life in the South Pacific; the exhibition features about 120 works on paper and 30 paintings (through June 8). Gauguin's lush landscapes stand in stark contrast to the work at the Guggenheim's Italian Futurism, 1909–1944 (through September 1). More than 300 pieces from the influential art movement—notable for geometric, mostly abstract paintings influenced by the new mechanics of trains, planes and automobiles—take over the museum, including rare murals on loan from a post office in Sicily.
Nearby, the Neue Galerie opened Degenerate Art in March (runs through September 1), presenting a roundup of what few pieces remain from an infamous tour that traversed Hitler's Germany in 1937. Seen in this context, these presumed-lost examples from such classic modernist artists like Max Beckmann, George Grosz and Paul Klee bring the "monuments men" to life more than any film can. The truly degenerate may get a kick out of Andy Warhol's 13 Most Wanted Men and the 1964 World's Fair, opening April 27 at the Queens Museum, which finally re-creates the one public piece that the New York City artist made but, due to its controversial subject matter, was painted over days later at the direction of the fair officials. (The show features prints that Warhol made after the destruction of the earlier versions.)
As the weather becomes more pleasant, outdoor public exhibitions begin to spring up as well. Up at Central Park, the Public Art Fund is installing the latest in its arts series at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza, an unassuming stretch of 60th Street on the west side of Fifth Avenue. Clouds, by the Swiss prankster photographer Olaf Breuning, is a 35-foot-tall collection of cartoon-looking fluffy blue objects. It runs through August 24.
The most ambitious public project this spring is Kara Walker's takeover of the Domino Sugar Factory on May 10, and the endeavor has an over-the-top title to match its scope. A Subtlety, or The Marvelous Sugar Baby bills itself as an homage to those who have worked in cane fields so that sugar could be such an accessible commodity worldwide. The 90,000-square-foot site, at one time the largest sugar refinery in the world—and now slated to be converted into luxury towers—provides an evocative backdrop for the artist's often controversial and racially charged installations.
For true New York–ophiles, the Museum of the City of New York is hosting the ongoing exhibition City as Canvas, a collection of more than 150 gems of graffiti on paper and canvas, done primarily in ink and aerosol, from early stylists both big—Keith Haring, Futura 2000—and small. And through June 15 at the New-York Historical Society, Bill Cunningham: Facades pays tribute to the series of pictures that Cunningham—who by now should be considered the City's in-house photographer—shot during an eight-year stretch, juxtaposing vintage fashion with NYC architecture from the same period.
Ragnar Kjartansson: Me, My Mother, My Father, and I
New Museum
May 7–June 29
Family ties play a significant role in this show. The Icelandic artist's first museum show in New York City keeps his penchant for long-form performance endurance tests intact courtesy of a musical score, composed by former Sigur Ros member Kjartan Sveinsson, that will be played by 10 musicians during the length of the show. But as the title suggests, there are also cameos from his mother, who appears with Kjartansson in an ongoing video series, and his father, who also collaborated with his son on a series of drawings of the sea.
Frieze New York
Randall's Island
May 9–12
For the third year, the British-based art fair Frieze will set up shop on Randall's Island, hosting more than 190 galleries from all over the world, ranging from multimillion-dollar City stalwarts like Gagosian and Marian Goodman to downtown nonprofits like Artists Space and White Columns. Despite its reputation as a playground for the moneyed art-buying elite, the event can still hold pleasures for those who make the effort to trek out. The "Projects" part of the programming, organized by High Line Art curator Cecilia Alemani, features a playground of a different sort: NYC provocateur Darren Bader will make a pamphlet consisting of proposals for imaginary (and often very funny) works on the island, while Argentine artist Eduardo Basualdo will install a soccer field bounded by goals covered in glass, rendering them useless. If you're feeling adventurous, skip the officially sanctioned ferry ride and take Marie Lorenz's alternative—a makeshift rowboat—that turns the trip over the East River into a performance all its own.
Ladies and Gentlemen … The Beatles!
The New York Public Library
Through May 10
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' debut in NYC, this show displays photographs, posters, letters and musical instruments from 1964 to 1966, the high point of the country's obsession with the band after it arrived in the City.
Robert Longo: Strike the Sun and Gang of Cosmos
Friedrich Petzel Gallery and Metro Pictures
Through May 10 (Strike the Sun), through May 23 (Gang of Cosmos)
It's only every few years that you get a one-man show from a "Pictures Generation" artist on the level of the Brooklyn-born, Long Island–raised Longo, and this month, you get two. His newest works take over both Petzel Gallery and Metro Pictures: Strike the Sun features an overwhelming seven-panel image of the US Capitol lining the wall, while the other, Gang of Cosmos, hangs 12 charcoal-drawing reproductions he made of famous abstract expressionist paintings.
Are Your Motives Pure? Raymond Pettibon Surfers 1987–2012
Venus Over Manhattan
Through May 17
There are no Black Flag album covers at this show, no Gumbys, no J. Edgar Hoovers or homicidal teenage punks. In this exhibition, Pettibon's paintings keep a DIY-inspired ethos intact while raising the figure of the lone surfer to the level of an American icon, on par with the cowboy or the frontiersman. The 40-plus works are often funny, mostly colorful and pretty much always an earnest appreciation of the balance between young men and the sea.
GCC: Achievements in Retrospective
MoMA PS1
Through May 25
A good choice for politics buffs, this deadpan "retrospective" charts the work of a multinational collective of nine artists—most based in Kuwait City—that uses the English-Arabic translations found at global summits as fodder for a show that's part World Economic Forum, part off-kilter video art project.
Considering the Quake: Seismic Design on the Edge
AIA at the Center for Architecture
Through May 26
More than just an in-depth look at earthquake-resistant architectural engineering, this exhibition includes real-world examples of structural design in cities where seismic activity remains a threat. Among the buildings examined are the Taipei Performing Arts Center, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and the Hansha Reflection House in Nagoya, Japan.
Michael Scott & John Chamberlain: A Conversation
Sandra Gering Gallery
Through May 31
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this inspired pairing is worth a monthlong conversation. The gallery has placed Asarabaca, a 1973 piece by John Chamberlain, who's known for his delicate yet muscular sculptures of crushed automobile parts, with recently completed monochrome and striped enamel aluminum paintings by the New York City–based artist Michael Scott. Though both use metal as a material starting point, their close proximity here highlights their differences as well, creating a dialogue that lives up to the promise of the show's title.
Matt Connors: Machines
Canada Gallery
Through June 1
Although he's sometimes grouped in as a so-called painter's painter, the up-and-coming New York City–based artist Matt Connors produces abstract pieces that draw on influences from fields of design, literature, music and, yes, painting, but the trick is that they never feel like inside jokes to a select few. His new series is often obsessed with framing devices within the four corners of the canvas itself, but his gorgeously deliberate process creates a surface depth that tweaks expectations, which should likely appeal to both art history buffs and casual fans alike.
Oscar Murillo: A Mercantile Novel
David Zwirner
Through June 14
In a sure treat for those with a sweet tooth, the Colombian artist Oscar Murillo has created a functioning replica of the Colombina candy factory where his mother worked when he was a child. After the pieces of candy are made, they'll be given away for free to guests—but the artist asks that those who take a piece then give it away, so that the candy is dispersed throughout the five boroughs. Participants are encouraged to share the experience on a social-media account that's been set up for the occasion: @mercantilenovel, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Jim Campbell: Rhythms of Perception
Museum of the Moving Image
Through June 15
Jim Campbell is beloved for his low-resolution projections, and this show collects more than 20 large-scale sculptural installations by the artist, who has spent his 30-year career turning computers and custom electronics into sensual, visual pieces. Included here are low-resolution projections, grids of LEDs, suspended lightbulbs and a digital self-portrait.
Pierre Soulages
Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin
Through June 27
Two galleries with French connections come together at their shared space inside a New York City landmark building to celebrate a historic exhibition: 14 new paintings from 94-year-old Pierre Soulages, who currently holds the unofficial title of most important living artist in France. The show will pair the new works alongside his seminal paintings from the 1950s and '60s—he's one of the last remaining connections to the vibrant community of abstract expressionists in NYC after World War II. His most recent series continues to illustrate his ability to turn simple black-and-white constructions into fantastic canvases.
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties
Brooklyn Museum
Through July 6
The political and racial upheaval of the 1960s is examined through the lens of pieces like the body paintings of David Hammons, the cartoonish figurative work of Philip Guston, and Barkley Hendricks' gold-leaf altarpieces—depicting his contemporaries with a reverential iconography à la the Virgin Mary.
Chicago in LA: Judy Chicago's Early Work, 1963–74
Brooklyn Museum
Through September 28
This is your chance to get a fuller look at the work of artist Judy Chicago, whose classic feminist manifesto, The Dinner Party, is already on permanent display at the Brooklyn Museum. In all, there are 60 pieces that span the years leading up to her most famous work, from brightly colored high-gloss minimalist canvasses to photographs documenting the bursts of colored smoke she used in her early performances.


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The New Energy Foods: Helpful or Hype?
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by Norine Dworkin-McDaniel
You need to eat for energy, and what you put into your mouth matters. Some foods are energy sappers (think sugary treats that leave you in a slump). Others are tried-and-true ways to keep fatigue at bay all day longlike high-fiber quinoa.
Here are some other foods often cited as energy boosters, and the real deal on whether or not they deliver.
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VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) — Knox County's Life After Meth program is helping incarcerated addicts like Hyla "Angel" Richter, a former user, recover and re-enter the community.
Richter was 13 when she tried methamphetamine for the first time. At age 16 she started cooking it, and by 18, she said, she was sitting in prison.
"I've been in and out of prison all my life," Richter told the Vincennes Sun-Commercial (http://bit.ly/XN4q8I ). "It was a path I never meant to take, but I did."
Growing up, Richter's life was far from the ideal, she explained. Her father died when she was eight, and her mother remarried, a couple of times.
"I was 12 when I got moved out of my house," she said. "And when I was 13, my grandparents legally adopted me.
"I had night terrors really bad when I was moved out, for some pretty obvious reasons, so when I was 13, I went to try and buy my first joint," she said. "They said, 'There's no weed left, but here, try this,' and I was hooked. I was a 13-year-old who was afraid to go to sleep, and I found an option that meant I never had to sleep again."
Meth was an easy, though temporary, escape from the past, she said, and it wasn't until she found LAM that she realized she was destined for more.
Now Richter is a full-time student at Vincennes University working to become a juvenile drug counselor at a correctional facility, all while also working full-time.
Sleep is rare, she added, but unlike in the past, she actually misses it.
"I look at it like this, I didn't sleep for 17 years for nothing, what's four more for something," she said. "If it weren't for the LAM program, I wouldn't be in school. They helped me line up financial aid, and fill out my (application), they walked with me through all of the steps."
That's what the LAM program does, Richter said. It's not a program that ends when the jail sentence does, but instead it's a constant, lifelong support, which Richter said is vital in the journey of staying sober.
"This program can be so successful, this can make you clean," she said. "It gives you all of the tools you need to become a productive member of society, and they take steps to ensure our success.
"They show us how to live of life's terms."
Sobriety didn't come overnight for Richter, but it did come.
"A couple of years before I got clean I knew I didn't want to get high any more, but I didn't know how to stop," she said. "I was sick of the life and I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.
"They say when you hit rock bottom you'll bounce, but I lived on rock bottom for a long time," Richter said. "I was wanted, I was an addict, and I was depressed.
"I tried to kill myself five times in that last year," she said. "Eventually, I knew I was going to get it right, but I realized if life has gotten so bad that you don't want to live anymore, something has to change.
"And I knew it had to be me, because it's me who's interfering with my life."
Going to jail the last time, she said, was the best thing that could have happened to her.
"I think a lot of times, addicts come to a realization that this isn't the life they want to lead anymore, but they don't know how to stop," she said. "And that's where LAM came in for me."
LAM hopes to raise funds to support the creation of two transitional facilities in Knox County.
"Our main focus is to give them the sense that there is a community out here supporting them to have a good life," said Rev. Peter Haskins, director of the program. "It's a tribute to our community that we have this kind of support for recovering drug addicts.
"We're not out to save everybody but we are trying to save the people who are sick and tired of being sick and tired," he explained. "We aim to help the people who are ready to make a change."
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Debit card holders will from December 1, be required to punch in their PIN numbers every time they use the card, a move aimed at minimising frauds. In June, the Reserve Bank had extended the deadline for implementation of mandatory PIN punching at Point-of-Sales (PoS) and merchant outlets till November 30 following a representation from banks.
Gold softens in lacklustre trade
Mumbai: Notwithstanding buoyant global cues, gold prices declined marginally in thin trade at the domestic bullion market on Saturday on reduced off-take from stockists as well as poor local buying interest. Standard gold (99.5 purity) eased by Rs 5 to settle at Rs 30,690 per 10 grams. Silver ready (.999 fineness) fell by Rs 115 to end at Rs 45,600 per kg.
Videocon seeks nod for raising R5,000 cr
New Delhi: Videocon Industries on Saturday said its board has proposed to seek shareholders approval to raise up to Rs 5,000 crore through issue of shares in domestic as well as international markets, via instruments including qualified institutional placement, American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs).
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EUGENE, Ore. -- Jeshua Anderson advanced from the men's intermediate hurdles first round Friday evening during the second day of the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene.
Anderson, a WSU junior in the fall, won his 400m hurdles heat and had the second-fastest time of the day at 50.22 seconds. Justin Gaymon, who just completed his eligibility at the University of Georgia, ran the top time of the first round of 49.86. Anderson is the two-time Pacific-10 and NCAA 400m hurdles champion and holds the WSU record time of 48.47. Gaymon finished third at the 2009 NCAA meet. The top three in each of the four heats and next four fastest runners advanced to the Saturday semifinals. WSU 2009 grad, Barry Leavitt, ran a time of 51.87 for 19th place.
"It was pretty windy out there today, but I'm used to Hayward by now," Anderson said in a post-race interview provided on www.usatf.org. "I ran a little bit too fast in the prelims last year so having that experience helped me today. I'll be ready for the finals."
Ian Waltz (WSU '00) punched his ticket to the World Championships in Berlin in August by throwing the discus 203-1 (61.91m) for third place. Drew Ulrick (WSU '07) finished 21st with a discus throw of 180- (55.07m). Casey Malone, a Colorado State alum, won the men's discus with a throw of 213-3 (64.99m). Waltz' long-time training partner, Jarred Rome (Boise State) took second place with a toss of 208-3 (63.48m). Waltz, who was the US discus champion in 2005, 2006 and 2008, won the bronze medal in the discus at the 2006 World Championships.
Blessing Ufodiama (WSU '04), competing unattached, placed seventh in the women's triple jump with a best effort of 44-feet, 7 inches (13.59m), which came on her fourth attempt. Penn State grad Shakeema Welsch (unattached) won the event with a leap of 46-11w (14.30m).
Bernard Lagat (WSU '99) did not run in the men's 800m semifinals after running a first round time of 1:48.59 for 11th in the prelims. Lagat, the reigning world champion in the 1500m and the 5000m, only had to compete at the national championships in order to place himself on the U.S. team for the World Championships.
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My son's '82 Raleigh has Araya alloy rims that say 27 X 1 1/4 on them. I'm changing the rim tape and started wondering whether the rim itself would fit a 27 x 1 1/8" tire. The rough measurements are 2 cm outside to outside on the rim and the inner measurement is roughly 1 cm. On the inner portion of the rim there are two numbers repeated three times 23 and 13 (with something in between but always hidden by a spoke end).
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Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr. are officially joining Keith Urban at the judges table for the newest season of 'American Idol,' Fox announced on Tuesday (September 3).
The line-up change comes after Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj failed to bring it ratings last season.
Randy Jackson is slated to come back as a mentor after leaving the show after 12 seasons at the judges table.
"American Idol has always been about discovering the next singing superstar, and next season our judging panel will deliver a most impressive combination of talent, wisdom, and personality to do just that: Jennifer Lopez, the triple-threat global superstar who loves and whom 'Idol' fans love," Fox president Kevin Reilly said. "Harry Connick Jr., a bona-fide musical genius and fantasticIdol mentor whose honesty and expertise can help turn these hopefuls into stars; Keith Urban, a multi-Grammy-winning artist who was such a positive force on the show last season. We are also very excited to have our friend Randy Jackson now in a new role as mentor, and the captain of our team – the heart and soul of Idol – Ryan Seacrest returning as host."
Idol will return in January 2014.
The fact that this show is still going is shocking but what I am most a happy about is that I won't have to hear the phrase "In it to win it" from Randy Jackson.
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Trocadero (1944)Judy (Rosemary Lane) and Johnny (Johnny Downs) are orphaned siblings being raised by Tony Rocadero (Charles Calvert), a Hollywood restaurateur who knows no limit in supporting his adopted children, even sending them both off to college. The film opens with a present-day (present-day 1944) sequence of cameo appearances by 1940s Hollywood celebrities, then becomes a series of flashbacks explaining the history of the Hollywood Trocadero, usually in the form of musical numbers by the various types of big band, singing-dancing and stand-up acts which had kept the club going.
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Hey there guys! After seeing that Lukc might enter this challenge I almost gave up! But then I had the perfect idea.
Temer Temple is a PnP (Print and Play) game, that will use the room mechanics from the Challenge. My final Wip will be an image of the final product, that is, all the rooms in a simulated gameplay.
Temere Temple will be a simple game, something that you could play within 20 minutes, and all you will need is some dices, some markers, and the boards of the game.
Temer is a latin words that means ´´Random´´, which pretty much explain the mechanics of my boardgame. The player is an adventurer that just found Temere Temple, looking for some loot and fame. The player must pass through 5 rooms, with different challenges, all using dices and markers as mechanics.
There are 5 types of rooms, all numbered from 1 to 5, and the first room the player enters is 1, and if he wins the challenge he goes to the room number 2, and so on.
For each room there´ll be 3-4 different types of encounters, that means a possible output of over 1024 different playthroughs.
The rules are not ready yet, so I´ll be updating it with the development of the rooms.
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Since this is CARTOGRAPHERS GUILD, its obvious that I must have a final demonstration of a 5 room complex of my game. My last WIP will be a simulation of an ongoing playthrough with all the rooms of that play, and the unused ones too.
Along with that I´ll be uploading all the Boards, and some markers that the player need to play the game, and off course the rules.
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Wildflower tourists find solace in desert
Getting away from the crowds in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park during the wildflower season can be difficult. Here are some tips:
- The park's visitors center can suggest spots that match your ability, vehicle durability and depth of desire to leave behind the masses. Call (760) 767-4205.
- Go on weekdays. Attendance can triple on weekends.
- Take a backcountry tour with California Overland Desert Excursions. Call (760) 767-1232 or go to californiaoverland.com.
- Sign up for guided tours led by members of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Botany Society. Cost is $5. Call (760) 767-0446 or go to theabf.org.
- Take the alternate trail in the popular Borrego Palm Canyon. Far fewer people will be on it.
- Cool and rainy weather late this winter has delayed the peak wildflower season in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
- Experts expect a good variety of plants, though there may not be the blankets of flowers seen in some years.
- Temperatures are forecast to reach the mid-80s early next week, and that could make many flowers pop.
- For updates on the wildflower status in the park, call (760) 4684 or go to parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638.
- For information about wildflowers around Southern California, call (818) 768-3533.
Creosote bushes and thorny mesquite branches thrashed against the sides of two converted military troop carriers, which bounced and swayed along sandy Beckman Wash in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
The 32 passengers aboard the open-air, camouflage vehicles kept their arms inside and their eyes peeled. They were hunting for the park's big springtime attraction: wildflowers.
Blooms weren't out in force yet on this recent excursion. Only a couple of ocotillos, with their long and spindly branches, were beginning to bud, and a few sand verbenas, desert lilies and brown-eyed evening primroses were popping up in spots.
The flowering peak might come next week, thanks to a stretch of warm and sunny weather after weeks of cool and rainy conditions.
But the trip was still a treat for these travelers, all park veterans, because they were seeing a slice of the 650,000-acre gem they had never witnessed. They were on a backcountry tour with the park's lone concessionaire, California Overland Desert Excursions, and operator Joe Raffetto was taking them down a road that isn't even on most park maps.
Raffetto and John Hunt, the other driver, soon shifted the vehicles into six-wheel drive (two extra wheels in back) for a crawling, leaning descent into the western edge of Anza-Borrego's eerie and colorful badlands. The guests had seen the terrain from popular Font's Point, but never from this angle.
Later, the group rumbled down isolated Inspiration Wash, then pulled up for lunch at the aptly named Shipwreck Mesa in the Hills of the Moon Wash. There was no paved road within five miles. It was a long way from the popular fields near town, where visitors can see nearly as many people as flowers on some spring days.
"It's difficult to do the desert and get away without a four-wheel drive — and without knowledge of the desert," said Ron Burge, one of the park volunteers along for the adventure. "This operation gives people a chance to get away."
Raffetto, 53, is from the New Jersey shore, where, he said, the closest thing to the desert is the local gravel pits. His love of Anza-Borrego began decades ago, but he took a rather circuitous route to his current career as a backcountry tour operator.
His first ventures into the park were in the 1980s, after he returned from multimonth voyages aboard tuna boats or ocean research vessels in the Pacific. He worked as an observer for the National Marine Fisheries Service for nearly five years, reporting the numbers of dolphins seen and killed in fishing nets.


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Dr. Ben Carson's conservative speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast with President Barack Obama on stage has led to suggestions from the right that he run for president in 2016.
With his appearances at conservative and Republican events (including last month's Palm Beach County GOP Lincoln Day dinner), it's widely assumed that the retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon would be a GOP candidate if he decides to run.
That would require a party switch. Carson — who moved to West Palm Beach and registered to vote in Palm Beach County last year — is registered to vote with the obscure Independence Party of Florida, according to the county elections office.
Carson was slated to speak at an Area Agency on Aging fundraiser in West Palm Beach on Thursday, but the event has been postponed until the fall, agency CEO Jaime Estremera-Fitzgerald said.
Carson finished third in this month's Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll with 9 percent — putting him ahead of Sen. Marco Rubio, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and other nationally known Republicans. A "Dr. Ben Carson for President" Facebook page has more than 74,000 followers.


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Fall is by far my favorite time to be in the kitchen. The weather cools down, making it perfect to cook/bake food that warms your soul! I am a HUGE pumpkin fan! Pumpkin cookies are one of my absolute favorite cookies!
Don't they look delicious?!
I made these at my in-laws house on sunday…and I kid you not, In a matter of 5 minutes of walking in the door from church,they were ALL gone!
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup pumpkin puree, I used it from the can. Just make sure its NOT the pumpkin PIE filling :)
- 1 egg
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. salt
- chocolate chips
- Cream shortening, sugar, and pumpkin.
- Add egg and mix well.
- Add sifted dry ingredients and mix.
- Mix in desired amount of chocolate chips.
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Welcome aboard!
Experience, shmexperience! Doesn't matter, jump in with both feet and feel free to ask questions.
Hey people, I'm not exactly a talented, or experienced, cartographer of any sort, but I like maps a lot, so I figured I might fit in here.
Welcome aboard!
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My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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