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BRUNSWICK - Georgia waters will open for commercial and recreational harvest of food shrimp at 8 a.m. Wednesday, according to DNR Commissioner Mark Williams.
Well friends and neighbors when it rains it pours, and we certainly have had our share - no pun intended. As they say the rain is good for all things, plants and fish, shrimp and crab. I know there are more things out there, but these are the ones I am most interested in.
BRUNSWICK - The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has announced a men's record for blackfin tuna (Thunnus atlanticus) landed in Georgia by Tyler Deal of Statesboro.
PERTH, Australia — While smartphones have become increasingly sophisticated over the years, most people consider them useless once they break. An angler in Australia decided to disprove this theory by rigging a broken iPhone with a treble hook and filming the ensuing action.
BRUNSWICK - Oyster harvest, both commercial and recreational in state waters, will close at 6 a.m. June 1, DNR Commissioner Mark Williams announced.
BRUNSWICK - The Coastal Resources Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources recently deployed 50 fish aggregating devices, FADs, at the Joe's Cut inshore artificial reef site as part of ongoing efforts to increase fish habitat and angling opportunities in coastal Georgia.
This week in fishing:
The fifth annual Fishin' for a Cure Tournament, a panfish fundraiser for area children with health issues, will be Saturday at Noble's Cabin in Long County on the Altamaha River.
When many people think about the benefits of going on a hike, they focus on burning calories and improving physical health. However, there are a lot of benefits for your mental well-being as well.
ATLANTA - Georgia's State Parks and Historic Sites have planned family friendly activities in celebration of National Kids to Parks Day on May 21. Sponsored by the National Park Trust, the celebration encourages children to explore public lands.
This week on the coastal waterway:
FINGAL HEAD, Australia — The biggest limitation of surf fishing has always been the inability to reach fish that are further out than you can cast. Another challenge is locating schools of fish from your vantage point on the shore.
THE GREAT OUTDOORS — Spring adventures often bring an accompaniment of rain. While a light drizzle can be an absolute pleasure during a hike, it can cause major discomfort at higher elevations where the temperatures are cooler.
This started off as a column listing all the reasons running has made me a better mom. Rummaging through old post-race photos looking for inspiration, I realized my own mom took almost every single picture. Out of 43 marathons, my mom has been at over 30 of them. Rain, heat, wind, her camera always ready, sometimes catching all the good and a lot of the bad.
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To the editor: Every day should be Veterans Day.
I am proud of my husband who is a Vietnam veteran. As we prepare for Veterans Day, I find it tragic so many of my fellow Americans view Nov. 11 as just another day off work.
I lost friends in Vietnam and I made a vow they would never, ever be forgotten. With wars on two fronts, and the VA workload topping a million claims, it's time for all Americans to remember the true meaning of Veterans Day.
If you ask my 7-year-old, "Astro Boy" is the best movie ever made. I wouldn't go that far.
For kids ages 7 and older, you can't get much more exciting than this computer animated action hero story about a grieving scientist father, voiced by Nicolas Cage, who creates a robot version of his lost son.
The robot, "Astro," must then find his place in the world. In the process, he befriends other "orphans," becomes a fighter and eventually, saves the world.
To the editor: If you are asked, "Are you good enough to go to Heaven?" most will say, "I am not bad; I go to church; I have never murdered anyone."
If you judge yourself on a scale of 1-10, where would you put yourself? The scale goes from God being perfect at 10, Mother Teresa and Billy Graham being 9 and to Hitler and Manson being 1. Most will say anywhere from 6-8.
Do you know that to go to Heaven you would have to score 10? That is right, because "all have sinned and fall short of God's glory," Romans 3:23.
To the editor: It's a shame this event turned out to be what everybody knew it would: a one-sided, poorly attended vitriol by a camera-hungry '60s reject. It would have been nice if there could have actually been a "discussion" so all sides were considered.
I would bet there wasn't one because no one with a reputation of any merit would waste his or her time arguing with her.
To the editor: A national Medicare program appears to be the least complex, most cost effective, easiest to implement and will not create an undue burden on the overall population and the business community.
This solution has been discussed but does not appear to be on the congressional priority list, perhaps, because it is overly simplistic.
We know it works. Old people like me (80) love it, so it can't be too expensive. The elderly are careful with their money. They are also vocal about their concerns and politicians know they all vote.
To the editor: I was so glad to see Cindy Sheehan's picture and her story on the front page of the Beacon. She is one great lady and not afraid to speak the truth.
She lost her son in George Bush's war. Cindy wants our boys brought home, but not in body bags. On that we should all agree. But it will not end as long as our leaders take orders from AIPAC.
This war has bankrupted our nation, and we will not win. We won our last war in World War II. Why? Because Israel wants us to stay, and they don't care how many Americans come home in body bags.
To the editor: On behalf of the Shallotte Lions Club, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the donors at our recent blood drive at Walgreens in Shallotte. We surpassed our goal and this will definitely assist the blood bank.
One donor in particular needs mention. Her son was diagnosed with Hodgkin's and had needed blood and she was with us in his memory on his 32nd birthday. What a special tribute to Christopher. Three Walgreens employees donated, too.
Thanks to all involved.
There is a battle ongoing this election season in Carolina Shores.
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In recent months, Carolina Shores commissioner Gere Dale has made it clear he has a real problem with the way mayor Stephen Selby does town business.
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Though a few roses bloom here in late May, I associate roses in general with summertime. I tend to like shrub roses, with numerous small blossoms, such as this, better than hybrid tea roses in garden settings.
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Composer Ashley to perform at Woodland Pattern's party
Composer Robert Ashley will help Woodland Pattern Book Center mark its 32nd anniversary by performing "Lectures to Be Sung" at a Nov. 16 gala.
Ashley, 82, pioneered a number of electronic and experimental approaches to musical composition, especially in opera. Each performance of "Lectures to Be Sung" draws from a pool of vocal pieces from Ashley's operas. Milwaukee native Tom Hamilton, Ashley's frequent collaborator, will assist him with the performance. »Read Full Article
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As Public Records Go Online, Some Say They're Too Public
By AMY HARMON
Published: August 24, 2001
A new Web site that makes New York City voter registration records -- including home addresses -- freely available on the Internet has become the latest example of a growing tension between the individual's right to privacy and the public's right to public records in an electronic age.
As local, state and federal governments begin to make public records of all kinds available online, easy electronic access to personal information is increasingly raising concern. Advocates of open records see the Internet as a means to make records like court proceedings and property rolls accessible to a wide group of citizens. But privacy advocates worry that by making information like a neighbor's home sale price or a battered woman's address or criminal allegations against a prospective employee as convenient as the nearest computer, the Internet in effect makes public records too public.
At www.registeredtovoteornot .com, any visitor can type in the last name and birth date of anyone registered to vote in New York City and retrieve that person's address and party affiliation. The site uses data that has always been publicly available on paper at the Board of Elections, and more recently for a fee on compact disc. Run by a nonprofit group called e-the People, the site is intended to encourage voting by letting voters check their registrations, find the proper polling place, or download a voter registration form.
But critics say the privacy risks of such an online system may actually discourage voter registration -- particularly among celebrities, people who fear they are targets of stalkers and those who might go out of their way to keep their addresses and other personal information private.
''This site in the long run will do a disservice to the people of New York,'' said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation and a longtime advocate of using the Internet to encourage political participation. ''It's an example of the kind of unintended consequences that can result with digital democracy projects.''
A handful of the 1,500 or so New Yorkers who have used the site since it was unveiled last week have asked that their information be removed, according to e-the People, which hopes to expand the service to other counties and states.
''One of our personal frustrations living in New York is the difficulty in figuring out where you can vote,'' said Scott Reents, president of e-the People. ''We could have said, 'Jjust put in your name or ZIP code,' but we felt there was a reasonable assumption that only you, your family and closest friends know your birthday. The potential for abuse is relatively low.''
Similar conflicts over the privacy implications of making records available online that in the past were only available on paper are unfolding across the country. In Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Council is squabbling over a proposal to remove property owners' names on the county's popular Web site showing assessments. In New Jersey, the American Civil Liberties Union has complained to the state's Division of Consumer Affairs about a Web site it began recently containing the addresses of accountants, registered nurses and others who must register to obtain a icense from the state.
The New Jersey A.C.L.U is also planning the latest in a series of challenges to state governments that have begun publishing registries of sex offenders on the Internet. At least 30 states now publish such information, which was previously made public in far less accessible -- often only to residents in the vicinity of an offender's home.
The limited publication of such registries under what is known as Megan's Law, for the 7-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and killed by a sex offender who moved into her neighborhood without her family's knowledge, has been widely upheld. But the courts are so far divided about whether the electronic dissemination of such information is legal.
In April, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco, overturned Alaska's law, arguing that ''because the Internet is much more accessible to the public than records at the police department,'' offenders were much more likely to be subjected to ''obloquy and scorn.'' But courts in other states have upheld similar statutes.
And in a move that could have the most far-reaching impact on public records, a committee of federal judges last week concluded a closely watched investigation into whether to make court proceedings electronically accessible. The group's recommendation, to be voted on next month by the full conference of judges, is to put the bulk of civil proceedings online, but to restrict criminal matters to paper, because of concerns about protecting witnesses that cooperate with law enforcement authorities.
At the hearings over the hotly contested matter, representatives of the press and private investigators argued that the public's interest was best served by making virtually all of the records available online.
Privacy advocates and dozens of individuals testified that online publication of sensitive personal information like transcripts of interviews with children by state-selected psychologists in custody cases or bank account information made them far more vulnerable to identity theft or simply misuse by potential employers, insurance companies, stalkers or others.


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Complaint Review: F & M Reloading
F & M ReloadingHamilton, Ohio United States of America
F & M Reloading F&M Reloading, FM Reloading, FMRELOADING.COM Incomplete order. Refused further contact. Hamilton, Ohio
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On 8/16 I received a second box, which included other items from my order, but the back-ordered items were not in the box, as well as one other item that was missing. I contacted the company again to let them know I had received the second box, and to inform them of the missing items.
The last contact I received from F & M Reloading was on 8/14. No further attempt to contact me, and my phone calls were not returned. The date of 9/24 was my final attempt at trying to make contact with this company. I sent one, last email requesting that somebody please get in touch with me, and let me know what was going on. My request was ignored.
Being as it was past the 30 day limit by now, my credit card company would not help me. I am now out some $60 for these three items, not to include the shipping charges. In my attempt to find the cheapest online retailer, I neglected to research customer feedback. Had I taken this step, and spent only a few minutes online, I would have quickly found that this company has a history of very poor customer service.
Time and again former customers remark on how extraordinarily long it takes for orders to arrive, as well as an extreme lack of effort to keep up with email contact. Some remarked this is a "fly-by-night" type operation being conducted out of someone's home when they're not at their day job. Others remarked that while it's nothing unusual for shipments from this outfit to take a very long time to arrive, "they always get there....eventually." Unfortunately, in my case, it didn't!
I would STRONGLY urge any potential shopper looking for reloading equipment or supplies to look elsewhere! While the thought of "saving" a few bucks seems attractive when looking at their prices, when you factor in the terrible customer service, the long wait, and the strong possibility that you, too, may get RIPPED OFF...it's more than worth a few dollars to save your aggravation and piece of mind by taking your business somewhere else! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
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Complaint Review: STEPHEN STROTHER - ARMUSIC1.COM
STEPHEN STROTHER - ARMUSIC1.COM2132 SARA ASHLEY WAY Suite 300 LITHONIA, Georgia U.S.A.
Stephen Strother AKA ARMUSIC1.COM Stephen Strother AKA ARMUSIC1.COM is a fraud be safe!!! LITHONIA Georgia
*General Comment: STEPHEN STROTHER = LOU PEARLMAN - ARMUSIC1.COM SCAM
*Consumer Comment: In Defense of Mr. Stephen Strother
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: To Mr. Muhammad Shakir (aka East, Steve1, James, Thashine) Extortion, Slander and Defamation are Serious Crimes!
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Their site if full of broken links and promises and also broken people stealing the money from those wanting to pursue their dreams.I see that someone else already reported them on here and at a couple more places on the inter net one of which i will include here: http://www.sonicbids.com/forum/topic_list.asp?forum_id=8&page=1
Check that out also there are more on that same forum that say's they are fraud and unprofessionall and sloppy with their gimmick. I spoke to the head of the "Rip Off" squad (STEPHEN STROTHER)and instantly didn't get a good vibe from him he' a "Natural Born Loser" and once i find him i will whip his a*s and take my money back!
Patterson, New Jersey
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SUBMITTED: Wednesday, January 06, 2010POSTED: Wednesday, January 06, 2010
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In Defense of Mr. Stephen Strother
AUTHOR: Ladybug72 - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, February 17, 2009POSTED: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Mr. Strother is indeed a legitimate industry contact and the former A&R Executive for LaFace records and once LaFace records went out of business and moved offices to New York, Mr. Strother continued his A&R services independently. I know this for a fact because when I was in the midst of the the problem I was going through with a local (hate to say it), but fake record label, the people that were trying to scam my brothers group claimed that they were being "endorsed" by LaFace records, so in order to find out if this were true or not, I contacted LaFace myself (then located in Atlanta) and was forwarded to Mr. Strother, who was very helpful and told me to discontinue any business with the label until he investigated it. Within 24 hours, Mr. Strother got back to me and told me that the label was indeed a scam and LaFace knew nothing of them. After several months of conversing back and forth with Mr. Strother, it was then that I found out about A&R Music 1 Music Business seminars.
I paid to go to one of the seminars but had to cancel at the last minute due to illness. I didn't receive money back because when you sign up for these seminars it stipulates strict refund policies in that you have only a short period of time to request a refund, otherwise no money will be returned, which makes completes sense given the fact that this money goes towards the panel of industry exects that come out to the seminars. To get any industry exect or artist to come out to events is very costly. However even though I wasn't able to get money back, he did send me paperwork that he would forward my registration to the next event if I still wanted to come, which again I couldn't lol, but I still appreciate Mr. Strother for taking the effort in trying to help me make it down to Atlanta.
I hope everything works out.
Take care.
Kristi S
Washington, DC
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To Mr. Muhammad Shakir (aka East, Steve1, James, Thashine) Extortion, Slander and Defamation are Serious Crimes!
AUTHOR: Stephen Strother - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Monday, December 27, 2004POSTED: Monday, December 27, 2004
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Stocks to Watch: Alcoa, Barnes & Noble, WD-40
Among the companies whose shares expected to actively trade in Tuesday's session are Alcoa Barnes & Noble, and WD-40
Alcoa Inc. reported a steep $119 million net loss, taking huge charges to close capacity in face of tepid demand, a global glut of aluminum, record-high inventories and lower prices.
Barnes & Noble Inc. Chief Executive William Lynch has resigned and the bookseller unveiled a handful of executive changes, moves that come as the company has posted sharp drops in same-store sales and significant challenges in its Nook e-reader division.
WD-40′s fiscal third-quarter profit rose 12% as the company reported strong sales of its multipurpose products, including its flagship lubricant spray, in Europe and the Americas. Shares jumped 14% to $65.70 premarket as the company also raised its full-year outlook.
Intuitive Surgical projected second-quarter results below analyst expectations, saying that sales of its robotic surgery machines were hurt by increased economic pressure on hospitals and slower growth of benign gynecologic procedures. Shares slumped 13% to $433.50 premarket.
Wolverine Worldwide second-quarter earnings fell 13% as the shoe company logged higher expenses, but margins widened sharply amid strong revenue growth driven by acquisitions. The company raised its adjusted per-share earnings view for the year. Shares rose 5.4% to $58.23 premarket.
AmeriGas Partners lowered the top end of its projection for full-year adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and said one of its unitholders has launched an offering of 6 million common units. Units fell 5.2% to $47.20 premarket. The company has about 92.8 million units outstanding.
Biopharmaceutical firm Amarin PLC is offering to sell 21.7 million American depositary shares. The company recently had around 135.5 million ADSs outstanding, according to FactSet. Amarin's ADSs were down 7.6% to $5.70 premarket.
Ixia cut its second-quarter revenue guidance amid lower than expected revenue from network equipment manufacturers and certain service providers. Shares fell 9.8% to $16.00 premarket.
Home Properties plans to offer 3.5 million shares, as it looks to fund acquisitions, new development and redevelopment of apartments. The real estate investment trust had around 52.2 million shares outstanding as of April 25. Shares fell 3.5% in premarket trading to $63.29.
Chelsea Therapeutics International said it resubmitted a New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking approval to market its treatment for symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension in patients with primary autonomic failure from conditions like Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy. Shares of the biopharmaceutical company rose 9.4% to $2.90 premarket.
Applied Materials is seeing a four-year growth path that should at least double its earnings. The big maker of tools for manufacturing computer chips and displays on Monday projected adjusted earnings per share of anywhere from $1.50 to $2.15 by its 2016 fiscal year. Applied reported earnings of 75 cents in the fiscal year ended Oct. 28 on that basis, which excludes restructuring and acquisition-related charges and other one-time items.
Specialty chemicals firm Cytec Industries said it is changing the way it accounts for pension and other retirement benefits, and anticipates related charges to be lower than expected in 2013.
Kroger agreed to acquire grocery chain Harris Teeter Supermarkets for about $2.44 billion, a deal that will expand its store base in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic markets. Shareholders will receive $49.38 a share, a 1.8% premium to the regional supermarket company's Monday closing price and a 34% premium to its close on Jan. 18, the day media reports surfaced that the company was exploring options.
Ignite Restaurant Group filed plans for certain shareholders, including investment fund J.H. Whitney, which holds a 68% stake in the casual eatery operator, to offer an undisclosed number of shares.
NGL Energy Partners launched an offering of 9 million units, planning to use the proceeds to pay down debt. The energy company recently had around 49.1 million units outstanding.
Quanex Building Products has named board member William C. Griffiths as its new chairman, president and chief executive, succeeding David D. Petratis who has resigned to accept a position with another company.
ScanSource lowered its fiscal fourth-quarter revenue view, with sales of the maker of bar-code scanners and label printers expected to decline from a year earlier but improve from the previous quarter.
SORL Auto Parts said EFP Rotenberg LLP has resigned as its independent accounting firm because it is withdrawing from auditing Chinese companies.
Tibco Software has promoted Matt Langdon to the role of chief financial officer.
United Continental Holdings consolidated traffic shrank 0.6% in June as the carrier's capacity declined.
The Washington Post said it will make a financial investment in church-finding website FaithStreet.com and contribute the contents of its online OnFaith section.
Wynn Resorts said the Securities and Exchange Commission doesn't plan to recommend any enforcement action against the casino operator following an informal investigation.


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At the end of 2010 Gi Group became a "Global Corporate Member" of Ciett, the International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies. In this role, Gi Group has joined six other human resource multinationals.
In India, Gi Group is one of the founding members of Indian Staffing Federation (ISF). The purpose of ISF is to enhance long-term growth of the staffing industry and to ensure its continued ability to make positive contributions to the economy and society.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been placed under further pressure after the 3-0 defeat at Everton left their hopes of a 17th successive Champions League qualification under threat.
The Goodison Park club moved a point behind the Gunners with a game in hand after strikes from Steven Naismith, Romelu Lukaku and an own goal by Mikel Arteta secured the win.
Bleacher Report's Arsenal writer James McNicholas believes the defeat to Everton has placed a question mark over Wenger's future at the club.
And Arsenal legend Ian Wright claims Everton manager Roberto Martinez is the ideal replacement for Wenger if he ends his long reign at the club in the summer, as Graeme Yorke of the Daily Mail reported.
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Flat images
I have owned a D100 for about a month now and have a shot a few hundred pictures. When loaded into the computer almost all the photos appear flat and I have to use photoshop elements to punch up the pictures. Mostly they need a levels adjustment or and Auto-contrast adjustment because there is usually some space between the ends of the histogram and the pure black/white points.
Is this normal? When I get prints from film back from the processor, they are usually very crisp. Does the processor run some sort of batch compensation as part of the printing process?
Bob R.
#1. "RE: Flat images" | In response to Reply # 0genec57 Basic MemberTue 20-Aug-02 08:26 PM
Post processing at some level is a fact of the digital world.
If your photos are generally flat you might need look at your white point. If it is set to auto that will be a problem. I recommend a read of Moose Peterson's excellent review of the D100, particularly his discussion on white point. http://www.moose395.net/tdg.html
White point settings are vital to get the most out of digital photography. I would also recommend you look at Bibble as an excellent initial post processing program; www.bibblelabs.com. I like it better than Nikon Capture and it is less expensive.
To really get the most out of your camera I recommend Thom Hogan's "The Complete Guide to the D100". http://www.bythom.com/.
The digital world has opened a whole new enthusiasm for photography for me but it does involve a significant learning curve to make the best of it.
#2. "RE: Flat images" | In response to Reply # 1glasseye Registered since 12th Jul 2002Wed 21-Aug-02 10:02 AM
I have noticed similar findings, I now shoot with the histogram display active. But I would still load into PS for post production. It's like developing film and printing with no compensation? I assume? I will also check out the above links. Thanks Harry


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Women in Israel protest for the right to sing in public
Attendees, many of them females, sang 'well liked classical Israeli songs.' She adds: 'We believe that the restriction not to hear women singing [diminishes us and ridicules us]. Both women and men were participating in the event, including conservative Jewish men, who apparently have different interpretation of the issue from the extremely orthodox Jews, and believe that a limit was crossed.'
- elchueco, CNN iReport producer
After an incidence were religious male soldiers refused to participate in a ceremony which included women singing, and other incidences that impact women basic rights (for example: women face are absence from all street posters in Jerusalem), concern citizens were protecting by singing in public in major cities (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and more) on 11.11.11 at 11AM. Those images were taken during the protest in Tel Aviv.


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South Korean authorities have confirmed the death of a ninth victim from early Thursday's sinking of a ferry with 475 passengers aboard, most of them high school students.
The death toll is expected to far exceed nine because at least 287 passengers are missing more than 24 hours after the vessel flipped on its side and took on water. Dozens were injured.
More than 400 rescuers searched nearby waters overnight and into Thursday morning. Poor visibility and strong currents are hampering the effort. The coast guard says currents have prevented drivers from getting into the wreckage.


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Q&A on gas prices
Published: Saturday, November 12, 2005 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 12, 2005 at 7:54 a.m.
Consumers got a break this week as the price of gasoline continues to drop. While the prices may no longer resemble that of liquid gold, we still are paying more than we did last year.
Need some gas?
Self-Serve Regular price:
Low: $2.19.9
Average: $2.31.9
High: $2.41.9
Average Cost to Fuel a Vehicle with a 15-gallon tank:
Current: $35.15
Month Ago: $43.09
Year Ago: $29.27
For more detailed fuel cost by auto visit the Fuel
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Price ranking
1.) Hess Wilco Spartanburg Highway $2.20.
2.) Enmark Spartanburg Highway $2.28.
3.) Shell Spartantburg Highway $2.29.
4.) Chevron Haywood Road $2.30.
5.) Chevron N. Main Street $2.30.
T-N Staff
Q: What is the latest price of gas?
A: On Friday, some stations in the area were selling a gallon of self-serve regular for $2.20. AAA Carolinas reports that the average price in the Asheville area is $2.32 a gallon for regular with the high at $2.42$2.50 for mid-grade; $2.61 for premium and $2.85 for diesel.
Q: How does that compare to previous prices?
A: It is down from its historic high here of $3.15 for a gallon of self-serve regular, but still higher than one year ago when the price was $1.93.
Q: Why is the price lower?
A: Availability. U.S. stock piles of crude oil are at a 15-month high. Producers in the Gulf of Mexico are recovering from bad weather that knocked out drilling platforms, refineries and pipelines. Also, because the price has been so high, consumers are changing their driving patterns and using less fuel.
Q: What is the difference between crude oil and gasoline?
A: Crude is the product when it leaves the ground; gasoline is crude that has been refined, or changed. The comparison is similar to wheat and bread.
Q: Who sets the price of crude oil?
A: The futures market sets the price of crude. Since the mid-1980s, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) stopped setting the price of crude, three international petroleum exchanges the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the International Petroleum Exchange in London and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange set the price.
Q: How do the exchanges work?
A: The exchanges work on the free market principle the prices quoted for transactions on the exchanges are the prices that people throughout the world are willing to pay for a commodity, such as crude oil. Strangely, those buying and selling rarely take possession of the products. To them, it's purely an investment opportunity.
Q: What makes the price of crude oil drop?
A: Supply. The more plentiful a product is the cheaper its price. Supplies this week are at a 15-week high hence the price drop from a high of nearly $71 per barrel immediately after Hurricane Katrina to Thursday's price of $57.65 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Often, the prices change in anticipation of shortages or surpluses.
Q: Why were crude prices so high?
A: Again, supply and also insecurity. The United States is at war, emerging markets such as China and India are buying more crude, traders are jittery because of the terrorist threat and exploration for new supplies is costly.
Q: Are high crude oil prices the only reason the price of gasoline is so high?
A: No. Aging refineries can't process crude into gasoline as efficiently as necessary. Additionally, storms in the Gulf of Mexico knocked out some refineries. While they are coming back on line, there is still a gap.
Q: Who makes the most money from the sale of gasoline?
A: Surprise it's not the oil companies. The federal and state governments, through taxation, make the most.
The Wall Street Journal reports that between 1977 and 2004 total taxes on gasoline sales have been $1.34 trillion, more than double the $640 million of oil company profits. And, the trillion dollar number does not include taxes the oil companies paid on their profits.
Q: Will gas prices continue to decline?
A: If you know, get in the futures market. But energy analyst Jim Williams of the Web site www.wtrg.com said that since most production in the Gulf of Mexico will be back by spring, and with inventories generally high, "it is amazing that prices remain as high as they are."
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Press Release: Tallahassee Police Department
If you drink and drive in Tallahassee, beware! The Tallahassee Police Department is joining with law enforcement throughout the nation for the "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign August 16 to September 2, 2013.
The strong, nationwide impaired driving crackdown will include high-visibility enforcement and high-profile events. Supported by national paid advertising, this comprehensive campaign aims to curb alcohol impaired driving in August and through the Labor Day holiday weekend.
Tallahassee Police Department officers will be aggressively looking for impaired drivers during the crackdown and will arrest anyone caught driving impaired.
In 2011, the latest year for national statistics, there were 9,878 fatalities on America's highways in which drunk drivers or motorcycle riders were involved. That averages out to be approximately one fatality every 53 minutes.
Violators face jail time, loss of their driver licenses, and steep financial consequences such as higher insurance rates, attorney fees, court costs, lost time at work, and the potential loss of job. When family, friends and coworkers find out, violators also often face tremendous personal embarrassment.
"Obviously we want to remind everyone that it is illegal to drive impaired. We hope the campaign will remind people that if they plan on drinking, to never get behind the wheel," said Chief Dennis Jones. "But if someone does choose to drive impaired, we will arrest them. No warnings. No excuses."


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CIA failing to recruit and promote minorities, study finds
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The CIA is failing to hire and promote enough minorities despite years of vowing to do so, Director John Brennan said Tuesday,…
HAWKISH ON TERROR–President Barack Obama speaks at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Lansdowne, Va. For all of his liberal positions on the environment, taxes and health care, Obama is a hawk when it comes to the war on terror. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) by Lara JakesAP National Security WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — For all of his liberal positions on the environment, taxes and health care, President Barack Obama has proved to be a hawk when it comes to fighting terrorism.
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I have a biracial daughter who is two years old. I am white (straight blonde hair, green eyes), her father is black. My daughter has black super curly hair and hazely eyes, her skin tone is a dark tan. Anyways, everytime we go out I often get asked questions about wether I am her mother or not and what her racial make up is (we look nothing alike). It doesn't bother me as I find it's more of a curiousity thing. MOST people are very kind and offer compliments about her looks. I respond in an equally nice manner. I have heard other mother's of mixed race children take any questions about their childs race or maternity as offense and will come back with smart remarks. My question is if you have been in this situation, what is your feeling on it? Should people mind their own business, is it rude for a person to ask such questions about your child? What would your response be?
Questions about your childs race, rude??
Aniya Blaize (12-20-2010)
It was odd, but I didn't find the person rude.
I would never ask someone that though.
I take comparisons to cave parents about as seriously as I take comparisons to French parents. (RVC)
I take comparisons to cave parents about as seriously as I take comparisons to French parents. (RVC)
Why can't he just be a handsome kid?! Why question his ethnicity at all?
I would never ask someone what their race is, or their child's. How odd.
Fuckin Renee! 😂 -Megomomma
When i always thmalk about this to a doctor they always see me lije a mad face. - isabelizabeth
Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
One if my closest friends has two sons, ten months apart. One looks like her (dark hair, skin, eyes)...one looks like her DH (blonde, blue eyes, fair skin) and she has told me people ask her if he is "hers".
Now she has two more kids and they ALL look like her except the one son...poor guy is probably going to get lots of rude questions growing up.
My DD is white and you would not believe how many people ask me if she is Asian. People on DT have asked when I post pic of her. I'm not offended unless they ask in an offensive way.
Then she smiled.
That was it.
I take comparisons to cave parents about as seriously as I take comparisons to French parents. (RVC)
Not growing up in the US, asking about a persons racial / ethnic background was very much the norm - not as a negative but as a way of getting to know people.
I think some Americans can get a little too uptight about it.
DH and I are both white ( Italian and Irish ) but our kids have super almond shaped eyes. I often get asked when I am with them if their father is Asian or Filipino, I take it as people being curious. Other then the lady at the gym who asked me why they had "chinky eyes" she was an asshole.
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Listen: Beyonce shows her vulnerable side on 'Best Thing I Never Had'
Beyonce's "4" isn't out for another four weeks, but we're hearing another track today. That's three and counting.
"Best Thing I Never Had" is the best of the three tunes we've heard so far and much more radio friendly than either "Run The World (Girls)" or "1 + 1," which she nailed during a performance on "American Idol" last week. "Best Thing" counts as the official second single after "Run," which flamed out at radio immediately.
"Best Thing I Never Had" is a classic heartbreak song that Beyonce delivers with total conviction. Though she wants desperately to be over this guy, she doth protest too much, and the pieces of her broken heart stab her at every turn. It's a tale of false bravado that rings true.
Unfortunately--and, for me, this is a big sticking point—the glaring, train wreck line of "It sucks to be you right now," repeated throughout, threatens to ruin the song. That's some lazy, horrible songwriting right there. (Beyonce told JustJared that the brilliant Babyface wrote the song. He knows ways better than that.) It takes an emotional song about pretending you're over someone when you're hurt and your resentment bleeds through every line and brings it to a complete stop and reduces it to a total, of-the-moment, cliche. Maybe Beyonce can wear an "I'm with stupid" t-shirt in the video and close the shoot looking into the camera, saying "See ya. Wouldn't want to be ya," before declaring that she is all that "and a bag of chips."
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By Jane E. Brody
Published: April 28, 1982
IN the fourth century B.C. Hippocrates described a disease characterized by erosion and scarring of the skin on the face. Many centuries later physicians named it lupus (Latin for wolf) because they thought the lesion Hippocrates described resembled the bite of a wolf.
In the 1840's the word erythematosus (from the Greek word erythema, meaning redness or flush) was added to the name to distinguish the characteristic red rash of lupus from other skin disorders.
At the turn of the century Sir William Osler, the Canadian physician, added the adjective systemic (involving the whole body) to distinguish this sometimes devastating attack on organs throughout the body from forms of lupus limited to the skin.
Thus was born the name systemic lupus erythematosus, commonly called S.L.E., or lupus for short. Until recently it was thought to be a rare and nearly always fatal disease. Now it is known that this chronic disorder of the immune system is common and is fatal much less frequently than previously thought. It afflicts about one in 500 women of childbearing age and a tenth that number of men, making it more common than multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, leukemia and cystic fibrosis.
From 500,000 to 1 million Americans have lupus and 50,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Half the victims develop their first symptoms between the ages of 15 and 25.
Though no cure for lupus is known, thanks to a host of drug therapies and the ability to detect and intercept flare-ups before serious damage is done, the prognosis for most patients has improved. Eighty to 95 percent of lupus victims live at least 10 years after diagnosis, many experience only mild symptoms with infrequent flareups and some never have a recurrence after the initial attack subsides.
Even when symptoms wax and wane, many patients with lupus can live nearly normal lives, limited only by the confines of periodic treatment and the continual need to avoid circumstances that can trigger onsets.
The confusion about lupus arises largely because no two patients have precisely the same symptoms and because many symptoms are easily attributed to other disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis, dementia, psychosis, stroke, epilepsy, kidney disease, allergy and hypochondria.
Sometimes the disease is first picked up as a falsely positive premarital test for syphilis, which prompts a search for an explanation of the test result. Proper diagnosis involves an inventory of symptoms and a series of blood and urine tests that may sometimes take months to sort out. Suspected cases should be examined by a rheumatologist.
The basic problem in lupus involves damage to the body's connective tissues, which hold together and support cells. In lupus the connective tissues are attacked as a result of an error made by the immune system, which normally defends the body against foreign invaders.
Some experts think of lupus as an autoimmune disease in which the body launches an attack against its own tissues. Others say the attack is not deliberate; rather, the damage results from a normal immune mechanism that has gone out of control. An overproduction of normal immunological substances causes inflammation and damages tissues in various parts of the body.
The symptom for which lupus was originally named - a butterflyshaped red rash across the bridge of the nose and cheeks - is found in only about 5 percent of newly diagnosed patients. Far more common are arthritic symptoms - painfully inflamed joints. Other symptoms may include weakness, lack of energy, hair loss, loss of appetite, weight loss, sores in the mouth or vagina and increased susceptibility to infection.
Some lupus patients suffer from Raynaud's phenomenon - painfully cold fingers and toes caused by spasms of the small blood vessels in response to cold or intense emotions. Others get Sjogren's syndrome, a dryness of the mucous membranes throughout the body.
The membranes that surround the heart, lungs or abdominal organs may become inflamed. The gastrointestinal tract may also be involved. When the disease affects the cardiovascular system, it may mimic an arterial clot or rheumatic heart disease. An attack on the nerves may adversely affect sensations and movements; the consequence of brain involvement may be misdiagnosed as a mental disorder. In severe cases lupus may attack the kidneys and lead to kidney failure, a common cause of death among lupus patients.
The disease may begin in any one of several organ systems and progress to others. However, many cases are mild and do not get worse. A closely related disorder, discoid lupus erythematosus, is characterized by the facial rash but rarely affects internal organs and is a much less serious disease.
There is a familial tendency to develop lupus, though it is not known whether this is due to a genetically inherited susceptibility or to exposure to the same environmental factors.
Sometimes a reversible form is caused by medications, among them a cardiac drug called procaineamide, the tetracycline and sulfonamide antibiotics, blood-pressure-lowering drugs and birth control pills containing estrogens.


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Saint James, son of Zebedee (d. AD 44) was one of the disciples of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome and brother of John the Evangelist. He is called Saint James the Greater to distinguish him from the other apostle named James (James, son of Alphaeus). James is described as one of the first disciples to join Jesus. The Synoptic Gospels state that James and John were with their father by the seashore when Jesus called them to begin traveling (Mt.4:21-22, Mk.1:19-20). According to Mark, James and John were called Boanerges, or the "Sons of Thunder" (3:17). Acts of the Apostles 12:1-2 records that King Herod had James executed by sword (Ac.12:1-2).
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Dissertation Title: "Neighborhood Perceptions and Well-being across the Early Life Course"
Dissertation Chair: Andre Christie-Mizell
Research Interests: Social Psychology, Family, Life Course, Neighborhoods, Quantitative Methods
Dissertation Abstract: "Neighborhoods structure the availability of resources necessary for the healthy functioning of their residents. Because neighborhoods vary greatly in the amount of physical, social, and economic resources available, they have been implicated in creating disparities in health and well-being based on levels of neighborhood disadvantage and disorder. Drawing on social capital, social disorganization, and stress process frameworks, this dissertation examines processes linking neighborhood perceptions to a variety of well-being outcomes during three periods in the early life course: childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. The dissertation consists of three papers which each focus on a single life stage. The data for these studies come from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child and Young Adult surveys.
Paper 1 explores the relationship between maternal perceptions of neighborhood disorder and child distress. In this paper, I find that disordered neighborhoods are associated with higher levels of child distress through maternal distress and strained mother-child relationships. Paper 2 examines how childhood neighborhood perceptions influence the growth of self-esteem and mastery, two aspects of self-concept. I find that these early experiences are related to lower levels of both self-esteem and mastery, but tend not to alter growth trajectories. Nonetheless, these early experiences of disorder appear to establish low levels of self-concept that last through young adulthood. Paper 3 extends the finding from Paper 2 by showing that childhood perceptions of disorder are associated with more depressive symptoms, lower self-rated health, and more arguments between spouses and partners in young adulthood. This relationship appears to be mediated by neighborhood impacts on self-concept. However, these findings were not supported for two other outcomes: alcohol consumption and positive relationship interactions.
The dissertation demonstrates how neighborhoods can influence well-being in different ways at each stage in the early life course. Further, this research supports the assertion that early experiences of neighborhood disadvantage can accumulate throughout life to create worse well-being for those continuously exposed to neighborhood disorder."
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Dissertation Title: "It 'Just Happened' One Night: Gender Norms and Consent to Unwanted Sexual Activity on College Hookups."
Dissertation Chair: Laura Carpenter
Research Interests:Gender & Sexuality; Violence Against Women; Media & Social Problems; Collective Behavior; Family Violence; Intimate Relationships in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Dissertation Abstract:Popular media often portray college hookups (i.e., casual sexual encounters with no expectation or guarantee of commitment) as harmful to young women and beneficial to young men. Research indicates that hookups tend to be positive experiences for both young women and men, but young women are more likely to report negative hookup experiences (i.e., unwanted sexual activity, lower sexual pleasure than men, negative feelings following a hookup). Rather than being a direct product of contemporary hookup culture, these gender-divergent outcomes may be related to dominant gender norms that can place young men in a privileged position over young women (e.g., sexual double standards and mores that prioritize male sexual desire/pleasure over female desire/pleasure). In this dissertation I present findings from three empirical investigations that use data from the Online College Social Life Survey to examine relationships between gender norms and negative outcomes of college hookups. In the first study I explore relationships between sexual subjectivity (i.e., self-entitlement to pleasure and pursuit of sexual activity) and unwanted sexual activity on college hookups and, as a comparison, dates. In the second study I examine relationships between endorsement of sexual double standards and negative experiences on hookups (i.e., unwanted sexual activity and feelings of regret following a hookup). In the third study I Investigate relationships between unwanted sexual activity, sexual pleasure, and college students' post-hookup interest in their hookup partners (i.e., interest in a relationship or subsequent hookup). Collectively, findings indicate that (1) hookups can, in some cases, be harmful to young men and (2) negative hookup outcomes may not be inherent to hookup culture itself, as they are associated with gender norms that privilege young men over young women. These findings have implications for outreach efforts targeting adolescents and college students and may inform debates about transforming "sex education," which focuses on physical health, into "sexuality education," which includes attention to social aspects of sexuality (e.g., power).
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Dissertation Title: Difference or Disorder?: Medical Authority, Intersex Advocacy, and the Politics of Consensus
Dissertation Chair: Laura Carpenter
Research Interests: Medicine, Health, and Illness; Sex and Gender; Health-Social Movements; Qualitative Methods
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This dissertation examines the ways in which professional and lay knowledge shape the diagnosis and treatment of intersexuality—reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not correspond to what is typically considered male and female. Although the conditions associated with intersexuality are not typically life threatening, they are almost always treated with surgery and/or hormones in order to modify the body to an assigned sex. In my dissertation, I investigate the changes to the diagnosis and treatment of intersexuality as a result of multiple and often competing forces, including the rise of evidence based medicine (EBM), technological advancements, and the visibility and power of health based advocacy groups. Drawing on 42 semi-structured interviews with medical professionals and intersex individuals and advocates; participant observation at "gender team" meetings at a large, tertiary medical center; published recommendations (e.g., practice-based guidelines, clinical handbooks and texts), and news coverage between 1993 and 2013, I demonstrate how current standards of care not only complicate understandings about what intersex is but how intersex should be treated.
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Dissertation Title: The Market Inscribed Landscape: Industry and City Causes of Food Deserts
Dissertation Chair: Richard Lloyd
Research Interests: Crime, Law and Deviance; Economic Sociology; Food Deserts/Food Environment; Historical Methods; Quantitative Methods; Social Problems; Theory; Urban Sociology.
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My dissertation contributes to the urban sociology and 'food desert' literatures by showing that the 'neighborhood effects' of concentrated poverty (popularized by Robert Sampson and William J. Wilson) and concentrated %black (e.g. Massey and Denton) depend on city and industry dynamics. I do this by investigating how city and industry factors affect the relationship between demographics and supermarket placement (and thus the correlates of the 'neighborhood effect' of living in an area with limited access to fresh produce).
I first look at how industry dynamics affect the relationship between economic neighborhood characteristics and the number of supermarkets in a zip code. Using self-collected historical data in nine urban areas I find that the relationship between the number of supermarkets in a zip code and the economics of a zip code changed over time: whereas in 1970 the relationship between poverty and supermarkets was positive, from 1970 to 1990 this relationship gradually became negative. Conducting a content analysis of grocery trade journals I hypothesize that a change from an 'everyday shopping' to a 'one stop shopping' institutional logic from 1970 to 1990 explains this change in the relationship between the poverty of a zip code and supermarket placement.
Finally, I look at how the relationship between neighborhood characteristics (especially %black) and the number of supermarkets depends on city dynamics. I argue that racial threat theory explains the negative relationship between a higher proportion of African Americans in a zip code and a lower number of supermarkets in the zip code. I extend both the understanding of the correlates of food deserts and racial threat theory by arguing that (racial) majority perceptions of the threat of (racial) minorities leads to the 'hoarding' of neighborhood resources such as supermarkets by the (racial) majority. Using a 'geocoded' 2010 census and zip code business patterns dataset I conduct a negative binomial HLM showing that the city level racial composition (non-linearly) predicts the variation in the zip code level association between %black and the number of supermarkets.
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Dissertation Title: Everything but the Funnel Cake: Art and the University of Puerto Rico Student Occupation of 2010
Dissertation Chair: Richard Lloyd
Research Interests: Sociology of Culture; Social Movements; Political Sociology; New Media
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My dissertation, Everything but the Funnel Cake: Art and the University of Puerto Rico Student Occupation of 2010, explores the use of art and culture in protest. In the summer of 2010, students occupied the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) for 62 days, protesting the austerity measures of newly elected governor Luis Fortuno. The occupation was striking for its use of artistic and cultural performance; subsequently, it is remembered as the "Creative Strike" due to this overwhelming aesthetic dimension. Drawing upon two years of ethnographic data, including both on-site and virtual observations, 31 in-depth interviews, and movement documentation, my research is situated at the nexus of sociology of culture and social movements.
The use of artistic intervention in protest is not novel; however, contexts specific to the 21st century, including new media, pave the way for an emerging tactical consensus in response to neoliberalism and austerity measures. The UPR protest resembles past actions like the 1999 Battle of Seattle and anticipated coming interventions such as Occupy Wall Street. These actions are notable for the heterogeneity of the participants and a stated commitment to non-hierarchical organization. This dissertation illuminates the elevated role of art as a means to manage this movement pluralism, showing how aesthetics are deployed to both unify and differentiate movement participants. In doing so, it illuminates both longstanding protest challenges and 21st century configurations.
My approach contrasts with existing literature that emphasizes the role of art in creating a single collective identity, in that my data shows that artistic expression allows participants to perform multiple activist identities. In turn, while too much diversity of identity within a movement can lead to infighting among activist groups, artistic and cultural interventions act to ease the tensions among groups. It combines major theoretical perspectives from social movements, the sociology of culture, and political sociology, filling in subdisciplinary gaps in the engagement with movement tactics, "user created" culture and identity formation, and the challenge of political pluralism.
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Dissertation Title: Off Center: Art Careers in Peripheral Places
Dissertation Chair: Dan Cornfield
Research Interests: Urbanization and Community; Art and Culture; Stratification; Theory; Race and Ethnicity; Work and Occupations; Public Policy
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How do contemporary cultural producers navigate career opportunities and constraints in places where resources for career mobility are lacking? Most studies of visual art worlds take place in their urban centers – New York City and Los Angeles in the U.S. – where robust concentrations of galleries, museums, collectors, critics, and other artists are already known to generate the social and institutional rewards that propel artistic careers. 21st century trends have shifted the geography of cultural production, however, so by the year 2010, most (80%) professional visual artists in the U.S. live in cities other than New York and Los Angeles.
I examine contemporary artistic production using a multi-city, comparative ethnographic study of artists in two theoretically interesting urban contexts: Portland, Oregon and Nashville, Tennessee. Portland and Nashville are similar in size, but differ greatly in their artist populations and population-trends, thus allowing an analysis of both general and context-dependent career patterns. Further, this study takes an artist-centered approach, drawing from two years of participant-observation and 76 in-depth interviews to analyze the structures of the field from the lived experiences of artists themselves. I analyzed artists' career strategies in domains of exhibiting, networking, and work, their understandings of their cities and scenes, and their definitions of success.
This study extends a Bourdieuian field perspective to contemporary conditions, arguing that artistic careers are dually embedded in local scenes and a global field. I complicate existing center/periphery models of cultural production by inductively deriving a typology of cities as dynamic positions, relative to each other. Cities vary by the institutional and social resources that sustain artistic careers, but also by the place-based symbolic credits that legitimate them. Off-center artists' careers are also uniquely translocal. Because off-center cities cannot sustain many careers alone, most artists have to struggle to accumulate recognition both within and beyond the city in which they live. One way they can do so is by working to draw attention to their city as a legitimate site of artistic production, recognizable to outside observers and gatekeepers. As such, places are symbolic resources, and they are moving targets in this global, reputational field.
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