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Sutro had plans to drain water and gasses from the mine shafts of "The Comstock Lode" by building a tunnel through Mount Davidson to drain the water. He incorporated the project and over time made considerable money from the project. When he saw that modern technology would soon be able to out dig his equipment he sold out and moved to San Francisco.
Sutro invested his fortune in many projects in the San Francisco area, many of them remain today, and bear his name. His popularity led him to be asked to run for mayor. He won and served as the 24th mayor of San Fransisco from January of 1895 to January of 1897.
In the collection of records left by Malcolm Stern at United Hebrew College is a descendency chart of the Sutro family beginning with Abraham Sutro (grandfather of Adolph) and continuing down through almost 700 members of the family.
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Hi! Just wanted to pop in and let you know that I am still here. I have had a super stressful week and to cap it all off, last night I went to my niece's dance recital. It was great until I went to leave and noticed that my car had been keyed! Now, this is NOT my old car! This is the Grand Cherokee that I mentioned in a previous post that I just purchased on WEDNESDAY! So, it took two days for something to go wrong. Needless to say, I am not happy. I mean who keys a car at a dance recital? lol Anyway, I will be back with some positive, fun stuff tomorrow night or Monday! Hope everyone is doing well and having a better week! :) Thanks for stopping by!
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$13,010 Base Price MSRP
$23,955 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: XL ($13,010); XLT ($14,670); Edge ($15,190)
Standard Engine: 4.0-liter sohc 12-valve V6
Engine Options: 143-hp 2.3-liter dohc 16-valve inline 4; 154-hp 3.0-liter ohv 12-valve V6; 207-hp 4.0-liter sohc 12-valve V6
Standard Transmission: 5-speed automatic
Transmission Options: 5-speed manual; 5-speed automatic
Basic Warranty: 3 years/36,000 miles
Assembled In: Twin Cities, Minnesota; Edison, New Jersey; Norfolk, Virginia; Ontario, Canada
Model Tested MSRP: Edge SuperCab 4x4 ($21,645)
Standard Equipment: Power dome hood design, monochromatic color scheme, power disc/drum brakes with EBD and ABS, power steering, dual front airbags, 4.0-liter V6 engine, 5-speed manual transmission, air conditioning, AM/FM/6-disc in-dash CD, cloth and vinyl 60/40 split bench seat with fold-down armrest/console, auxiliary rear doors, textured rubber floor, analog instruments with tachometer, two 12-volt power points, sliding rear window, Styleside 6-ft. box, cargo bed rails, four cargo tie-down hooks, mud flaps, step bars, rear step bumper, front tow hooks, fog lamps, 16-inch aluminum wheels, P245/75/R16 tires
Options As Tested: 5-speed automatic transmission ($1000); limited-slip rear axle ($295); Power Equipment Group ($405) includes power windows, locks, mirrors, remote keyless entry
Standard Safety Equipment: dual front airbags, three-point seatbelts with force-limiting pre-tensioners, child restraint seat anchor brackets, anti-lock brakes (ABS), Electronic Brake Distribution (EBD)Destination Charge: $610
For 2003, Ford has improved and refined the Ranger with better brakes, new interior fabrics, and more extensive sound insulation. New options and special option packages are available for serious off-road slogging or boulevard cruising.
Some of us still remember when pickup trucks primarily hauled lumber, sand, and fertilizer. They do that better than ever. But to succeed today, a pickup also has to haul attitude. Fortunately, Ford's compact Ranger can haul just about anything with ease. Whether you want an economical truck for your business, a family vehicle with more personality than a car, or a too-hip platform to help you share your tunes with the neighborhood, Ford can build a Ranger just for you.
Prices for basic work trucks start at just over $13,000. A wide range of options, including a powerful 4.0-liter V6 engine, a five-speed automatic transmission, a four-wheel-drive system, and a variety of trim levels and body styles should extend Ranger's appeal over a wide audience.
Ford Ranger comes in a wide range of configurations: three trim levels, three cab configurations, three wheelbase lengths, three engine, a choice of transmissions, and is available with two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive. Buyers can also choose six- or seven-foot beds, and flat Styleside or notched Flareside fender shapes. Ranger's base-level four-cylinder engine is supplemented by two optional V6s. Five-speed manual and five-speed automatic ($1000) transmissions are offered with all three engines.
The 2.3-liter inline-four breathes with dual overhead cams and four valves per cylinder. For 2003, new valve timing and a new exhaust manifold have boosted its rated horsepower from 135 to 143. Torque is increased to 154 pounds-feet.
An optional 3.0-liter ohv V6 is rated 154 horsepower and 180 pounds-feet of torque. Ford offers this engine with flexible fuel capability, meaning it can operate on ethanol, gasoline or any combination of the two fuels in the same tank. This engine is standard on all 4x2 SuperCab models equipped with a five-speed automatic transmission.
Topping the chart is a 4.0-liter V6 with single overhead-cams developing 207 horsepower and 238 foot-pounds of torque.
The price-leading Ranger is the XL Regular Cab Styleside ($13,010) with the 2.3-liter engine, manual transmission, and two-wheel-drive.
XLT trim adds chrome trim, interior amenities (including a CD player, tilt wheel, full carpeting), and useful truck accessories (rear step bumper, sliding rear window, mud flaps). XLT models with 4WD get step bars and fog lights, and upgrade from 15-inch steel wheels to 16-inch aluminum rims, wearing P245/75R16 outline-white letter (OWL) tires. A new Bright Appearance Package, offered only on XLT SuperCabs with the Styleside bed, adds chrome step bars, exhaust tips and bedrails with platinum-colored end caps.
Ranger's top trim level is called Edge, and sports monochromatic color schemes that include a vivid Chrome Yellow. Edge comes in 4x2 and 4x4 editions, but either way it rides at the 4x4 height. A raised power dome hood and mesh-pattern front grille contribute to its hip attitude. Four-door SuperCab buyers can choose Edge Plus, with aluminum wheels, keyless entry, and power windows, locks and mirrors. The Edge comes with either a 6-disc in-dash CD player or an MP3 player, depending on the model. Edge prices start at $15,190 with the 3.0-liter V6 as standard equipment.
XLT 4x2 SuperCab buyers will be able to get a little closer to the Edge with the Wheels and Tunes package, which adds machined 16-inch, 5-spoke aluminum wheels, Michelin Pilot XGT P235/60HR16 tires, and an AM/FM single CD/MP3 player or an optional AM/FM in-dash 6-disc CD changer.
Need more power? And not the kind that's under the hood? Ranger's appropriately named Tremor package for 4x2 SuperCabs boasts a premium Pioneer sound system producing 485 watts of eardrum-splitting volume, and a custom-designed subwoofer enclosure that fits in the rear floor area. A high-output alternator keeps the current flowing and white-faced gauges add interior style. Sixteen-inch wheels, P235/70R16 all-season tires, a 4x4 ride height, three monochromatic color schemes (Chrome Yellow, Black and Sonic Blue) and a Tremor decal on your tailgate announce your coolness to anyone who cares.
For serious off-roading, Ranger offers the FX4 package, based on a four-door SuperCab XLT. FX4 packs heavy-duty shocks, skid plates, all-terrain tires, limited-slip axle and nine exterior colors, including the new Arizona Beige.
For 2003, mud-daubers who are even more determined may order the new FX4/Level II, with Bilstein shocks, a Torsen limited-slip axle, eight-hole Alcoa forged aluminum wheels and 31x10.5-inch B.F. Goodrich All-Terrain T/A tires. Completing the exterior of the FX4/Level II package are stainless steel front tow hooks, black wheel lip moldings, and skid plates that cover the front suspension and differential, transfer case and fuel tank.
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The Ford Ranger was last redesigned for 2001, when it received its bulging hood and aggressive fender flares. The designers borrowed elements from Ford's bigger F-150 trucks and used them to both strengthen and streamline the Ranger's visual stance. Ranger's exterior appearance has changed little since then and it sounds like it will be awhile before it changes again.
We find the door handles a bit hard to hang onto; they snapped away from our fingers when we were in a hurry.
Full-width Styleside beds sweep a continuous line from tip to tail, while sporty Flaresides carve a recessed step into each side panel immediately behind the cab. The notch accentuates a rounded rear fender. Indentations in the bed support partitions to segment cargo.
The Edge focuses on a monochromatic treatment, with a power-dome hood that hints at a powerhouse beneath. The Edge also features protective bed rails and four tie-down hooks. We didn't care for the Edge trim, and the running boards/stump guards looked tacked on.
An optional bed extender ($195) flips out and rests on the tailgate, like a U-shaped cage of tubular stainless steel. It won't keep dirt in, but it will sure stop your kayak from sliding out. An optional hard tonneau lid ($895) unfolds in separate front and rear sections, divided by a central vertical partition, with a lock added on the forward bin for security.
Ford Ranger has consistently set the standard among compact trucks for spacious, comfortable accommodations and convenient features. The 2003 model is even more quiet, thanks to thicker glass, new door and B-pillar seals and a new drive shaft tunnel insulator shield.
Seat fabrics for selected models have been upgraded for 2003. XLT now features a soft, contrasting headliner and trim, revised interior door panels, new instrumentation and a new center panel bezel. As before, a tachometer is supplied at all trim levels, and the center pod for climate and audio systems uses large, easy-to-use rotary dials.
The Regular Cab carries a cloth bench seat that can squeeze three aboard. The seat splits 60/40 for access to the space behind it. The SuperCab offers a larger interior storage bay behind the front seat, with a 6-foot (71.8 inch) bed behind that. Two small side-facing jump seats may be added to the SuperCab's rear bay; each folds down from the back wall. Two optional rear-hinged doors (standard on Edge 4x4's) allow easy access to the SuperCab's rear quarters.
The Edge adds a textured rubber floor cover for wash-and-wear convenience. A car-wash jockey put Armor-All on ours, which was a bad idea, making it slippery. A 60/40 split bench is still standard, but new bucket seats with black twill bolters are optional. The fabric in the Edge seemed tough. Our SuperCab Edge test truck also featured the optional Power Equipment Group ($405), with electric assists for windows, locks and mirrors, plus remote keyless entry.
Driving Impressions
Topping Ranger's power chart is a 4.0-liter single-cam V6 built by Ford in Germany. With this engine, the Ranger leaps off the line and runs quickly to speed. More important, it provides strong low-rpm torque for off-road work in four-wheel-drive, or for pulling heavy loads or trailers.
The V6 teams with either a heavy-duty five-speed manual gearbox or a five-speed automatic with adaptive shift logic. Rather than adding a taller overdrive, the five-speed automatic adds a gear between what would be first and second in a four-speed automatic. This provides closer ratios for better throttle response when accelerating, towing a trailer or driving off-road. A high-gear lockout switch on the tip of the shift lever enables the driver to kick down a gear with the tap of a finger.
Our Ranger SuperCab 4x4 with the 4.0-liter V6 and five-speed automatic delivered good performance for passing, even at altitude. It could scamper up mountain grades or effortlessly pass a line of heavy freight haulers.
The Ranger handles bumps and curves with confident dexterity. Its rigid ladder-like chassis, fully boxed in the front section, combines with an independent wishbone front suspension to pamper passengers with smooth ride sensations.
At the same time, the Ranger offers aggressive performance off the pavement, as we saw on a primitive track laced with lumps and rocks and tire-sucking mud pits. A high ground clearance enables the Ranger 4x4 to clear ruts and bumps easily. And when it doesn't, skid plates shield the transfer case and fuel tank from damage.
A pulse-vacuum hub-lock device engages the front hubs quickly, for push-button shifting into four-wheel-drive while rolling as fast as 80 mph. A rotary dial on the dashboard provides seamless switching from rear-wheel-drive to four-wheel-drive high, or further down to four-wheel low for serious off-road maneuvers.
For a growing number of individuals, even young families, a compact pickup is a sensible choice. Base prices compare favorably with those of entry-level sedans, and many folks feel that a truck has more personality. Virtually any power or luxury item you might order for a compact sedan is offered on a truck as well. A truck can be a versatile weekend workhorse and, especially when equipped with an extended cab and auxiliary rear doors, a competent family car the other five days out of the week.
We love the four-wheel-drive system with the vacuum-activated hubs and you can't beat the 4.0-liter V6 for performance. Several high-zoot trim packages are available, but we prefer a relatively tame Styleside SuperCab body. Get out of here with the Edge.
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New research by Harvard professor David J. Deming studied the crime rates of young adults who participated in a random lottery at the middle or high school level. The lotteries decided whether students were able to attend a school of their choice or whether they were forced to attend their assigned public school. Students who won the lottery committed significantly fewer crimes as young adults than those who lost it. So here is another in the long list of educational outcomes improved by market freedoms and incentives.
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A South Florida woman who was on her way to the hospital to deliver twins had to give birth to one in her car after she was involved in a crash Friday morning.
Thankfully for the new mother Jessica Stanley, a nurse who was on her way to work was right behind her.
The improbable sequence of events happened around 6 a.m. in southwest Miami-Dade, as Betty Horne, a gastroenterology technician at Baptist Hospital, was making her way to work.
Stanley and her fiancee Antavian Milton were rushing to Jackson South Community Hospital from their home in the Goulds after her water broke, the hospital said.
Meanwhile, Horne said she was driving on Southwest 102nd Avenue when she saw the car in front of her struck while making a turn onto 152nd Street across from Coral Reef High School. No one was injured.
Milton jumped out of the car as she ran over to help. Horne peered inside the car and saw the woman laying back in the passenger seat, her legs apart.
"I saw the guy jump out, frantic. He said 'I'm gonna have a baby, she's gonna have twins,'" Horne said. "I look, and I saw the baby's head, just the hair."
Horne said she grabbed a towel from her car and put her hands under the baby's head and slowly brought him out.
"I said 'your baby's doing fine, breathe nice and easy,'" Horne said. "I took the baby out and second or two, the baby didn't say anything, and so I took my fingers, my index fingers and swiped the bavk of the baby's mouth, and he started crying ... said 'cry, baby, cry.'"
Horne said she wrapped the baby in the towel. The paramedics arrived and clamped the umbilical cord and when they put the mother on the stretcher, Horne gave her her baby, which the couple named Antavian II. He weighed 7 pounds and 13 ounces.
"It was amazing, I was on an adrenaline rush," she said.
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Horne said she may have gotten a little help from a passerby who stopped and prayed next to the car as she helped the mother give birth.
"That gave me a little courage, I thought 'Hey, God's got this under control,'" she said.
The mother and babies are doing well.
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There is a generation of Americans who can tell you exactly where they were when they heard of JFK's assassination. The next generation has space shuttle Challenger to hold as a common cultural experience. And 9/11 is etched into every living psyche the way December 7th, 1941 lives in the hearts of the "Greatest Generation."
We all have personal dates which we cannot shake as well; dates of births and deaths and, in the case of many of us with multiple sclerosis, there are dates of diagnosis.
Today is the 10 year anniversary of my Dx. When I look back, like many of us can, before I heard the words "you have MS", I know that I'd lived with this disease for many years prior. In fact, a reexamination of mysterious symptoms I experienced in high school lead me (along with my medical team) to believe that I likely lived with MS for about 18-19 years before my diagnosis.
So much happened in the field of MS in the decade before my Dx; the first MS drugs were released, stem cell research became a viable avenue of thinking and the MRI revolutionized the diagnostic process.
In the decade since, there have been more research papers published on the topic than ever before, patients are diagnosed and treated earlier in the disease's progression and one drug treatment option has become seven and that number seems to be growing every year.
While I cannot help but look back for a little while today, I'd much rather look forward to the next decade… and I'd rather look forward for the good than for the bad.
I was four months away from my 35th birthday when MS became a part of my lexicon. Looking to the day, a decade on from now, when I celebrate my 55th year my hope is for a healthscape for those living with multiple sclerosis much altered from what we see today. We have made tremendous advances but there is so far to go.
Advances in basic science on our horizons will change the way we see our disease in ways that we cannot even imagine today. Could micro-"robots" help deliver restorative treatments to our scarred myelin? Will geneticists be able to predict MS before it shows itself? May there be a vaccine to prevent the next generation from having to even know what the letters MS meant in their parent's generation?
Short answer: I don't know.
I will say, however, that if I look at the rate of advancement from the 10 years before my MS and I look at the past decade, I can only suspect that advancements will happen faster and faster in the next chunk of my mid-life.
I have witnessed far too many friends with this disease take pretty heavy hits in the years 45-55 for me to tell you that I am not worried about my progress. Far too many, indeed.
For today though, I'll take a moment and think back before I turn around and refocus my sites on the good that will come in the next decade of MS research and treatment. I think we all owe that to the next generation.
How long have you been diagnosed with MS? How long before your Dx do you think you "had" multiple sclerosis?
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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is ready to be done with politics, but even after her replacement, Ted Cruz, has been elected she is still out there providing spin for the Grand Old Party.
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Today while appearing on Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien, she once again tried to shift the political focus from social issues to economics. The Dallas Republican said the party should emphasize its efforts to limit spending and repair the economy, issues which she believes are as important to women as men.
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And I think the Tea Party, for instance, started by focusing on the debt and the deficit and the fiscal cliff. And then, I think, it got all mired in other issues, the myriad of issues, that sort of muddled the message that we've got to do something about the economy. We cannot sit here with a $16 trillion debt, with trillion-dollar deficits, every single year, and think we're going to get out of the mess.


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When beautiful, smart Nicole, disfigured by acid thrown in her face, and computer hacker Jay meet in the school psychologist's office, they become friends and Jay resolves to find her attacker.
A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.
Adopted from a Russian orphanage by a wealthy New York family then growing into a rebellious street youth, fifteen year-old Wally resolves to find the birth mother who stole a fortune from her murderous, dark-eyed father.
After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.
Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
Galen, prince of the Syrena, is sent to land to find a girl he's heard can communicate with fish. He finds Emma and after several encounters, including a deadly one with a shark, Galen becomes convinced Emma holds the key to his kingdom.
Having been brought back from the dead repeatedly by a top-secret government super drug called Revive, and forced to move so the public does not learn the truth, fifteen-year-old Daisy meets people worth living for and begins to question the heavy-handed government controls she has dealt with for eleven years.
When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Told from various viewpoints, Gabie and Drew set out to prove that their missing co-worker Kayla is not dead, and to find her before she is, while the police search for her body and the man who abducted her.
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Any lingering trade notions that corn, soybean, and wheat prices will experience systemic price weakness in the near-term have been largely dismissed following today's USDA crop reports. The U.S. balance sheets for corn and soybeans are tight as a drum. And the question marks surrounding the adequacy of world wheat supply remain in place.
If this were a three legged stool, then all three legs appear to have been structurally reinforced by USDA's numbers today. The supply-side of the equation for corn and soybeans has essentially realized closure. While USDA/NASS will revisit row crop production projections in the November 9th Crop Production report, historical patterns suggest that any revisions will not be altered in any dramatic degree. If anything, the outlying risk of a change to either corn or soybean crop size resides in the area of a decrease, rather than increase.
For corn, it is clear that the shift in late-season weather towards generally cooler temps proved inadequate. There was not any accompanying above-average precipitation to coax more fill in moisture starved kernels. To ask of Mother Nature to provide the right elements to fill a corn crop as agronomically advanced as this 2012 crop, was a daunting proposition. Certainly, ear counts were not going to magically appear. Ear weight was the only vehicle to enlarge the overall U.S. crop. It obviously didn't happen where it counted. And if didn't happen by now… it isn't going to.
The one supply-side item still capturing the trades' attention in this post-crop report timeframe is the historically high percentage of the crop USDA continues to designate as being harvested for grain. Not only did the October Crop Production report not retreat in this area, but served up numbers to modestly reinforce the situation.
With the benefit of FSA data planted acreage increased to 96.946 Mil Acres (+500,000) and harvested acreage placed at 87.721 Mil Acres (+300,000). From a percentage standpoint, the change in the Plant/Harvested acreage is as close to nominal as one can get. The persistently high (now .905 percent) harvested acreage figure almost appears to as a subtle message to the naysayers – those who believe USDA is overestimating how many acres are ultimately going to be shelled in a drought ravaged crop year. I am in the naysayers' camp. Even after allowing for improved genetics, rapid harvest pace, etc. – it remains a curious statistic.
While the 2012/13 marketing year end stocks levels in corn are already at minimal pipeline levels, soybean end stocks appear to be on a similar trajectory. There is even this fringe idea circulating that the U.S. will ultimately be required to import South American soybeans to meet domestic demand. It seems like too dramatic a proposition at this point. Given, a relatively small quantity of South American soymeal has regularly been floated up to the East Coast for years…and more recently Brazilian corn. The rub is not whether or not South American soybeans ultimately are shipped to the U.S., but rather that the idea is being "floated".
This idea of soy demand outstripping supply is given some credence by how efficiently the hefty 2.5 BPA soybean yield mark-up and resulting 226 Mil Bu increase in production, was readily absorbed on the demand side of the ledger. The net result – a 15 Mil Bu increase in end stocks to 130 Mil Bu - is not a bearish development. Odds of the U.S. soybean crop increasing or decreasing in subsequent reports appears as a statistical toss-up.
Though structurally sound fundamentals, aligned in a mutually supportive fashion are in place that is no reason to for any producer to get lackadaisical with marketing. Be mindful of your local basis. And that even under the best of circumstances, unpriced production/inventory always carries with it unknown price risk. Perhaps the best option is options - on futures.


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I have refrained from using my perspective from the 28th century to report events to this period, but this was so monumental that I felt compelled to share the information. Don't worry too much, because Trump was just a minor blip in history who was mostly forgotten within a decade.
It was early September, and the country was getting used to the idea that Trump probably would be president for another term. We were even getting used to having a president who knew as much about the
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There are some people who doubt the validity of Hobbes' Theory of Social Contract. They think that they want no government at all. There are places in the world where there is no effective government, no government other than criminal gangs; those are dangerous
It has come to my attention that some people do not believe that Donald J. Trump has done anything for which he should be impeached, convicted, and thrown out of office. Maybe those people are confused by the phrase used in the Constitution for reasons for impeachment and conviction: high crimes and misdemeanors. That isnt how it would be put these days, but high crimes means felonies or major crimes, but the term misdemeanor has not significantly changed over the years, and it still means lesser
Its too early to predict a winner in the 2020 presidential election with much confidence, but a few things have happened recently that provide some reasonable ideas. In early October, the Dems had another debate, and the alleged pundits think that Elizabeth Warren came off the winner, and Biden was in second, but Lizzie has since then come out with her 70 trillion dollar medical insurance plan, and Biden continues to plug along. I get the impression that Sanders is seen as falling, and the munchkins
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An early morning blaze in downtown Cortez on Sunday gutted three businesses in a historic building, closed a coffee shop and halted traffic on Main Street for hours.
Emergency fire crews were dispatched to Stewart's Floor Covering at 20 East Main St. at 3:38 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9. Within four minutes, firefighters were on scene as flames jumped some 20 feet in the air. Assistant Fire Chief Charles Balke was with one of the first crews to respond.
"We saw heavy smoke pushing through the roof and through the front of the building," he explained.
Some 50 firefighters responded to the scene, including crews from Dolores, Lewis, Mancos and Pleasant View. No injuries were reported, but Stewart's Floor Covering Center, Cortez Works, and Family Shoes and More were destroyed, said Balke.
The cause of the fire remains under scrutiny by the department's arson investigator and Cortez Police Department detectives.
"It doesn't look suspicious, but the cause remains undetermined at this time," Vandevoorde said.
The owner of the building, Bill Armstrong said he was waiting to speak with his insurance company and for the cause of the fire to be determined before deciding to rebuild.
The building dated back to the 1920's and had been home to the Palace Barber Shop until the 1990s, he said. Armstrong's family had owned the building since the 1950s.
If he rebuilds Armstrong said he would like it to be a slightly bigger structure.
He also said he had "Lots of hope for the future of Main Street Cortez. It's what gives a small town it's character."
Annette Stewart, an owner of Stewart's Floor Covering Center, said she was sad to lose her shop after nine years on Main Street. But she planned to reopen a show room as soon as possible.
Stewart said her inventory was stored off-site and she is still doing business.
Power was shut off to the entire block of Main Street as a precaution, impacting a half-dozen businesses. Officials allowed business owners to remove computers and other pertinent items, Vandevoorde said. Power was restored by 12:30 p.m. Sunday.


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Monique Meloche grew up immersed in the art of the deal, via her car-salesman father in Toronto.
But she didn't intend to combine art with commerce when she graduated with an art history degree from the University of Michigan, then a master's from the School of the Art Institute.
"I really thought I was going to be in academia," she said. "I had zero interest in the commercial side."
Fast-forward a few years to 2154 W. Division St., where double m's signify the gallery that bears her name, one that has helped foster artists like Rashid Johnson, a finalist for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's 2012 Hugo Boss Prize.
Meloche warmed up to commerce after working as an assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She ventured out to the Rhona Hoffman Gallery. Next came a stint at the Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago. Then she opened her own.
Last year, Meloche experimented further, founding Gallery Weekend Chicago, to make the city a global destination for contemporary art. It was successful enough for a sequel, Sept. 21 to 23, boasting Mayor Rahm Emanuel as honorary chair and 15 of Chicago's premier contemporary art galleries as partners.
Designed to attract national and international collectors, the curated weekend, which dovetails with Expo Chicago at Navy Pier, entails chauffeured visits to galleries and museums and access to coveted reservations at Next and other top restaurants. Although attendance at VIP events is by invitation only, many happenings are free and open to the public at the participating galleries, including opening receptions and conversations with artists and curators. (For details, go to GalleryWeekendChicago.com.)
We asked Meloche to discuss her evolution in the art world.
Q: How did you get from zero interest in commerce to being a leading contemporary art dealer in Chicago?
A: Kavi Gupta had hired me to be his director while he was changing and expanding his gallery. He gave me a lot of responsibility. I was able to really take some risks. Then it became obvious once his new building was rolling out that he was coming back in. I left in early summer of 2000 and took a couple of months off to figure out what I was going to do next. I thought, this is ridiculous, I should throw my hat in the ring. By the end of summer, I realized the art world's memory is short. I thought, let's do this sooner rather than later. But I had no space, I didn't have a roster of artists.
My husband and I had just gotten married and we had a new house in Ukrainian Village. He was crazy and kind enough to allow me to open in October 2000 with an exhibition that we called "Homewrecker." I invited 30 artists to exhibit 90 pieces over three floors of our home. More than 350 people showed up on opening night. We had thought we would keep it up for a month and ended up having it up for three months, and I was getting calls from college and museum groups to tour it. Thankfully, I found a space in Fulton Market and opened in May 2001.
Q: You went from risk-averse to gutsy with your first exhibit?
A: We opened with Joel Ross' "I Borrowed My Mother's Bedroom." He really did. He drove down to Texas and knocked on her door and took her carpet, her bed, her answering machine even with blinking messages on it, and he brought it here and made this really eloquent portrait of a woman. At the end of each night we would make sure we'd shut the door so the talc smell would reconstitute itself. There were people who couldn't cross the threshold because they felt like they were trespassing.
It was a calculated maneuver to open with that, because the installation was not for sale. Even though I was opening a commercial gallery, I wanted to be someone who was championing these projects that needed to be fostered. I could offset that by making sure I didn't have five of these exhibits in a row. I didn't open just to be like, here's a picture, let me try to sell it. I wanted to take everything I learned from my time in a museum, and work backward and see how to get my artists there.
Q: Who's your mentor?
A: For sure, Rhona Hoffman. She would acknowledge she's a tough person to work for but she taught me a lot. She allowed me to mount my thesis exhibition, "The History of the Shoe in Contemporary Art." There was no way I could have secured loans of Andy Warhols and Philip Gustons without her. She went to bat for me. She is a strong-willed woman who is very focused on the direction she wants to take her gallery. You don't stay in business for over 30 years, especially with a great hunk of artists she shows who now are household names, but weren't back in the '70s, without that. Her ability to keep taking chances — even as she became established — is really inspiring.
Q: What's your proudest accomplishment?
A: Rashid Johnson, I've worked with him since Day One when I couldn't even give his work away. Now he lives in New York, but he just celebrated a 10-year survey show at the MCA — the museum where I worked and his hometown museum. Now it's on to the Miami Art Museum, then the High (Museum of Art) in Atlanta and the Kemper (Art Museum) in St. Louis.
Q: What do you know now that you wish you knew then?
A: I have much less anxiety now, and it allows me to be much more efficient. We had a fire here last fall on the opening night of a show. We didn't know we were having a fire. The lights just went off and we couldn't get them back on. We had 150 people in here. We thought, well, let's just get every extension cord and every clip light out — and we ended up getting a positive review of how wonderful the lighting was. The fire became a major event later in the night and we were able to evacuate all the artwork. We had to basically rebuild.
Q: What is your mantra?
A: It always gets done. There's not a day where something isn't awry. But I don't want that to be my mantra. I want my mantra to be the answer to that.
Q: What's your favorite artwork?
A: A 17th-century sculpture by Bernini, of Pluto and Persephone (aka Proserpina). There's a point where Pluto's hands are gripped on Persephone's thighs, and you feel that it's flesh. It's that sort of mastery of craft. It's so beyond my grasp as more of a cerebral art historian and someone who's not really hands-on. That's always the thing that's consistent among artists I work with — a high level of craftsmanship.
Q: What's your biggest mistake?
A: A couple of artists I had interest in and didn't move fast enough. There have been a couple of those moments where I stupidly didn't trust my instincts. I don't want to let that happen again.
Q: What's the role of art in life?
A: It opens your eyes to seeing things in a different way. That can be translated to every other facet of life. Not every person needs to collect art on the level that I work on. One of my favorite things in my house is a $10 cartoon painting that I bought at an antique store when my husband and I were first dating. We have it in our bathroom. That little thing makes me happy every day.
Art opens up inquisitiveness, whether you like it or you don't. On the wall a few feet back from the facade of the gallery we have what we look at as a public art project, separate from what's inside the gallery. Wicker Park is a pedestrian neighborhood and very diverse. Roberto Clemente High School is down the way, and we've had teenagers peek their heads in here and say, "What is this?" Who knows, maybe that's their first experience. I didn't realize how just that gesture of building that little interstitial space could be so satisfying.


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I love the surge of endorphins after a good workout! My body is relaxed; I can breathe a sigh of relief after a long day and just be. Music is essential to my workouts. When listening to music, people run farther, bike longer and swim faster than usual—often without realizing it. I put a lot of thought into my cycling playlist. My number one song is AC/DC's Thunderstruck. Gets me going everytime! The next few songs are steady beats that make you want to get up and move. The mid section starts with Pink's Raise Your Glass and ends with JT's Sexyback, 'cause that's what I'm doing this for! (Not really, I'm just trying to get off my blood pressure pills, but bringing sexy back sounds sooooo much better!) The songs are fast tempos and help me keep a steady pace. The last few wind down slowly and end with Queen's We are the Champions. Hey! It's cheesy, but every workout is a huge feat for this former couch 'tater and makes an hour bike ride breeze by.
I really don't like music when I practice yoga. I try to focus on breathing and background music interferes with my concentration. However, AFTER class I'll roll down the windows, open the sunroof and blast some ELO for the ride home. Mr. Blue Sky never gets old!
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"I'll think of a reason later"
Faith & Inspiration
by Dave Burchett
Posted on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, at 7:10 pm
A recent romp through the high-definition television channels triggered today's thoughts. I stumbled upon a concert by an artist named Lee Ann Womack. She was beginning to sing a new tune so I lingered. The song made me laugh and then made me think.
A bit of set up for the lyrics: Apparently Lee Ann's ex-boyfriend has met another and the upcoming wedding announcement is in the paper. A picture of the new love triggers a wave of jealous, immature, and childish behavior. She thinks the new woman doesn't take a very good picture and blacks out a couple of teeth for good measure. Yep, she responds like most of us have at one time or another. Here's the chorus:
It may be my family's redneck nature,
Rubbin' off, bringin' out unlady-like behavior.
It sure ain't Christian to judge a stranger,
But I don't like her.
She may be a stranger who spends all winter,
Bringin' the homeless blankets and dinner,
A regular Nobel Peace Prize winner,
But I really hate her.
I'll think of a reason later.
Is that not typical of our nature? I hate her. I'll think of a reason later. With all due respect to Lee Ann Womack, that response really is not due to her family's redneck nature. That response comes from the sin nature that is common to everyone's family, whether they are redneck or royal.
I've had that less than graceful response when someone has threatened my turf. I would simply decide that I didn't like someone before I knew much, if anything, about him or her. I am just not honest enough to admit that I didn't need a reason. I always had a rationalization or catalogue of grievances.
That judgmental behavior is particularly destructive in the body of Christ and in the church. A journey-changing book for me was a little volume on practical theology called Truefaced. In it, the writers argue that grace changes how we treat each other when we sin. It reorients all our relationships. Our fundamental identity is one of saints who sometimes sin rather than sinners who are saved. Don't get sidetracked. The book is clear that we are sinners saved by grace when we first put our trust in Jesus as Savior. But after that event occurs that identity (sinner) is no longer who we are. We are now saints who occasionally sin. That simple spiritual paradigm shift in how I view other followers of Jesus (and myself) is changing me dramatically.
The authors of TrueFaced write that when we view other Christians as sinners trying to become saints we naturally demand that they work on their sin to be in right relationship with us. When our theology gives us permission to see Christians as sinners, we give ourselves permission to reject them. Ouch.
I realized, sadly, that I have done this. Too often. Now as I am learning to view these flawed and very human fellow travelers as saints I cease trying to compare my sin and see if I am doing "better." It doesn't matter. We are in this together. God's Word says I am a saint because of Jesus. So are you if you have trusted Him for salvation. I know that some have abused the freedom of grace. Paul talked about that at some length in Romans. I know that there are consequences of sin. I know that God disciplines like a loving Father when discipline is what we need to mature. But it is also true that seeing myself and others as a new creature in Christ is transforming. Realizing that is how God views us should change everything. That is the message of Paul to the church at Colossae:
". . . you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. In this new life, it doesn't matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.
"Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Make allowance for each other's faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful" (Colossians 3:9-15, NLT).
I would be disingenuous (Christianese for lying) if I said I have never enjoyed making judgments and thinking bad things about fellow believers. The old nature revels in that kind of behavior. It is just hard to reconcile that approach with Paul's message above. So I am learning (painfully and slowly) to view all of you irritating and messy Christians as saints. I am learning to trust that what God says is true about you and about me. I am learning to love you because of God's grace. To paraphrase Lee Ann Womack, perhaps I'll think of "another" reason later. For starters, grace is enough of a reason.
Dave Burchett
Dave is a former WORLD contributor.


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The mainstream media propaganda machine for the Obama Administration has shifted into high gear. The New York Times, which used to be a newspaper, has announced a new age of peace and goodwill in international relations. Such gushing suggests that the discipline of "optimistic autosuggestion," invented by the French philosopher Emile Coue, has swept the Times.
Fortuitously, this new age in foreign relations has arrived just in time for the U.S. presidential election campaign. In a recent series of foreign affairs articles run by the Times, the danger of conflict with Iran over nuclear weapons is claimed to be diminishing; relations with Europe are warming; and China is inching closer to the U.S. view of the world. Peace on earth!
Puh-lease. This is not journalism, but a generous contribution to Obama's reelection campaign.
Looking at Iran, February and March saw barely controlled hysteria from the American left, which hyperventilated over the idea that the U.S. or Israel might resort to bombs to stop Iran's nuclear program. Yet, by April, the Iran crisis had blown over…according to The New York Times. Under the headline "Experts Believe Iran Conflict Less Likely," the Times cited the following reasons:
1. Iranian officials attended a meeting with U.S. representatives in Turkey two weeks ago.
2. Israeli opponents of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu have raised cautions against an airstrike.
3. It is an election year in the United States, and President Obama probably will not want to disrupt the supply of oil from the Middle East.
BINGO on No. 3. At least the paper got that much right. Yet it is important to note that the article does not indicate that Iran has actually given up its nuclear program—which of course it has not.
Somewhat more believably, another recent Times article, "Crisis Forges Closer Europe–U.S. Alliance," states that Europe feels closer to the United States than it has in decades. Europeans, of course, have had a love affair with Obama since before the 2008 election and most fervently hope for his reelection. So this may not be a big surprise.
Yet the focus of the article is not actually Europe but the European Union—a very different kettle of fish. True, the EU includes 27 European nations, but it is also identified with the massive Brussels-based bureaucracy that runs its policies. As it happens, the United States is building its own vast new bureaucracy in Brussels, counting 108 diplomats and representatives of every U.S. government department—an increase of 20 percent over the last three and a half years. The Times says the Obama Administration "is embracing the logic of Brussels as never before." Shudder.
What, then, about China? "U.S. Sees Positive Signs from China on Security Issues," the Times gushes. China is very much in the news because of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit this week and because of the asylum request by a blind Chinese human rights activist who, inconveniently for the Obama Administration, has sought asylum in the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
Last week, the Times wrote that China had been practically cooperating with the U.S. on Iran, reducing its imports of Iranian oil, which account for more than 20 percent of Iran's exports. Unnamed Obama Administration officials shared their delight in this fact with the Times (as they seem to do so often when they have good news to impart). Yet, it is entirely possible that China is playing nice to get a waiver from the U.S. government in July when sanctions against those who trade with Iran kick in.
But why wait and see? The New York Times is head over heels for Obama's foreign policy, and it wants the world to know about it. Before anyone else gets swept away by the euphoria, though, let us keep our foothold in the real world.


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A new reading series at the PRB begins Saturday night: Hearts of Palm Reading Palace, hosted by Feliz Lucia Molina! This weekend's inaugural readers are Kendall Grady and Emily Toder.
The night also features a tiny balloon pop launch of Kendall's chapbook Roomba (almost out from Museum Of Expensive Things). Six bucks or what-have-you in trade!
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I flirted with the idea of changing this blog a while ago, when it dawned on me my observations on Brazilian culture are mostly filtered through my time here in Latin America's second largest city, Sao Paulo. So I wanted a name that reflected this.
I decided on 'What About Sao Paulo' when thinking about how often I'm explaining my decision to live in this city to Brazilians here. I'm aware that as a foreigner many expect me to want to live in Rio, lured by its obvious beauty and laid back lifestyle. Sao Paulo on the other hand is pretty damn ugly, prompting a lot of people to ask me what the hell I'm still doing here when I could be living somewhere much more beautiful!
On reflection this is a pretty good question, given that I never intended to even visit the city at all...let alone live here!
Back in 2009 I was planning my trip to Brazil with my friend Kazu and we were ready to skip coming here altogether. "What about this Sao Paulo?" he asked before showing me the chapter on it in his Brazilian guide book. I really wasn't impressed by the bland looking skyscrapers I was looking at. "Nah" I responded quite flippantly, "I mean, it just looks like any other city, doesn't it? Why the hell would we want to go to Sao Paulo?" No sooner had I said this than Kazu was taking a second look at the picture for himself. "You're right" he conceded reluctantly before flicking on to the next chapter.
In hindsight the reason I dismissed visiting Sao Paulo so quickly was because it just wasn't the Brazil I wanted to buy into. When I used to think about Brazil before my first trip here, it was the picture perfect beaches, wildlife and nature that came to mind. It wasn't a city cased in layer upon layer of concrete. Skipping it on my trip was a total no-brainer for me because I had no great desire to come and see it; not with all the other locations Brazil had to offer.
Yet as the bus journey from Rio to the Iguazu Falls was going to take almost a full day, we ended up splitting up the trip with a stopover in Sao Paulo anyway. After sampling some of the city's nightlife on my first night here I realised that there was so much more to the city than I'd anticipated, and it intrigued me.
There is a real vibrancy to Sao Paulo; it is chaotic, sprawling and exciting. I knew that it definitely wasn't somewhere you can fully appreciate in a few days. As I considered this on the bus to the falls, a seed had been planted. It was one that would later grow into full blown intrigue about how I'd fare in Sao Paulo on a more permanent basis.
Four years on I'm still enjoying the chaos of life amongst the concrete, and am hoping my new blog can persuade you all this city really isn't the armpit of Brazil.
The blog will still contain my usual dissections of Brazilian culture from a foreigner's perspective, but will also come with the occasional focus on city life. So if you're thinking of coming over to Brazil and find yourself asking 'what about Sao Paulo?', hopefully my new blog will go some way to convince you that the trip is worth it!
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Although some refer to the odor of the crushed leaves as the "heavenly essence of the desert," the Spanish word for the plant, hediondilla, means "little stinker," signifying that not everyone considers the odor heavenly or pleasing to the senses.
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Take Hwy 60 east to Lake Michigan, turn left (north), the Lion's Den is about 3 miles south of Port Washington.
East of intersection at County "C" & Lakeshore Drive.
This Park is undiscovered & unspoiled, as it just opened in 2006.
This park is 120 acres featuring 100 foot bluffs has almost a mile of shoreline.
Looking north, you can see the Port Lighthouse & looking south, you can see the tall buildings in Milwaukee.
Unlike the beautiful Harrington Beach and Kohler Andre lakeshore State Parks,
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One mile south of Port Washington, WI
Port Lighthouse in the distance
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The 105 year old Ghost Town tavern and a few pilings of the pier remain as the only remaining remnant of the historic Port Ulao village.
Unlike the dry Western States, where you will see whole towns preserved,
Wisconsin climate is tough on old buildings.
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Anne Hathaway Is a Princess in Valentino For the White Fairy Tale Love Ball
Anne Hathaway arrived looking the part of a princess in an ethereal Valentino gown to tonight's White Fairy Tale Love Ball in Crespieres, France. Olivia Palermo and her boyfriend, Johannes Huebl, also stepped out in their finest black-tie attire for the charity event benefiting the Naked Heart Foundation with proceeds going to underprivileged children in Russia. Earlier in the day Anne picked a chic black gown for a viewing of Valentino's Fall/Winter collection and later changed into a delicate white lace dress for a sightseeing tour through Paris with her boyfriend, Adam Shulman. Anne's attention is focused on fashion right now, but soon enough she'll return to her big-screen projects. Next month we'll see her making the promotional rounds on behalf of One Day while her other flick The Dark Knight Rises continues filming.


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Coppice is Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer
For a long time, Coppice—the intimate collaboration between sound artists Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer—was focused on the physical; Kramer and Cuéllar approached their work with clinical objectivity, eschewing representation and mimesis to let their restricted palette of sound generators (bellows instruments) and filters (analog tape) be both the subject and the medium of the music. The abstract soundscapes and drones of their early work seem to belie the fact that they were created by human agents.
In 2014, that all changed. In a long-term project called Newly Cemented Dedication to Freedom (NCDTF), the pair have expanded their old approaches to create a new sound world based on emulation, modeling, and illusion, including instrumentation as varied as "Rhodes electric piano (and emulator), Korg drawbar organ (and emulator), varied physical modeling and modular syntheses, Multi-Material Filter and Copper Plate, the sound sculpture series Screens for Mutual Attraction to Related Objects (copper, galvanized steel, brass, cork, acrylic), Capillaries (brass, aluminum), acrylic screen, guitar amp, multi-channel amplification systems, cymbal, percussion, objects, auxiliary speakers, and acoustic filters." The resulting work is mysterious and cinematic, and makes room for a particularly human interiority, despite the often synthetic origins of the music's component sounds. I spoke to Coppice about NCDTF on the occasion of their Turning Concerts this weekend at Silent Funny.
DM: This track is part of a long-term project called Newly Cemented Dedication to Freedom, which is characterized by a departure/expansion from your previous bellows/electronics instrumentation to a more synthetic approach, emphasizing emulated instruments and effects. You developed a portion of the project as Resident Artists at Experimental Sound Studio, and are showing a new installment this weekend at Silent Funny. Where were you in the process at ESS, and what developments/evolutions has the project undergone in the interim?
JK: At ESS we experimented with recording methodology, and listening to the differences between recording real vintage instruments and their emulations. The recordings involved music that was being written at the time. The showcase was presented as a disintegrated performance across multiple speakers and speaker types placed inside and outside [the performance area].
Since the residency some songs have evolved and new ones have formed. They've taken on new performance techniques and approaches to fold physical materials back in, such as copper, acrylic, brass, and concrete. We began placing voices and text. The music has become more simultaneous, heterogeneous and dreamlike.
NC: It's taking more architectural dimensions at Silent Funny. We hope readers can join us this weekend.
DM: One thing that surprised me about the NCDTF work is how the specter of the songwriting has seemed to infect your previously crisp, ordered sound worlds. I know that you both have a fondness for songwriting and songwriters, but hasn't been immediately evident in your work as Coppice until recently. Can you talk a bit about your relationships to songwriting, and this unattributed phrase from your description of NCDTF?: "Sensual music for a folding world in which songs are directions to look."
NC: Language and its suspension is very important in Coppice.
JK: It seems relevant to finally allow it to slip into the sonic world of the songs.
NC: And songs forms are like language, so perhaps this has more to do with communication. Shaped air.
DM: It's ironic to me that despite the inherently tactile, analog nature of the instrumentation of your pre-NCDTF work, the new work comes off as far more embodied—more human. Can you talk about how the shift to more synthetic means led to the inclusion of melody, voice, and text? Is this what freedom sounds like?
JK: I am glad to know that the new work is being perceived more embodied.
NC: We decided to follow our interests in sound, through the abstract, towards evoking a clearer music sensation. Previous work is very musical to us but in an abstract, concealed way. Perhaps this clearer musical intention is what you sense as more embodied.
JK: I think that NCTDF intentionally opened up the Coppice world to try to let it include more of the outside world, including some elements of music that we hadn't yet dealt with explicitly.
NC: The outside world, but also the body's inner response to music. NCDTF responds to the freedom from an object, specifically the musical instrument. Whereas the bellows/tape work is founded on the history, fragility and power of the instrument/device, NCDTF is founded on the illusion of concrete. Music founded within the prison of the screen. I've approached sounds more as "images." When I use an emulator of a Rhodes electric piano it's for its "imageness" of a Rhodes, sucked out of its mechanical origin.
JK: Emulation and simulation, virtual and augmented reality are such a strange and pervasive things. They can be nearly invisible due to their ubiquity, and while they can be very pleasant and lead to very pleasurable responses and experiences, they still need to be carefully tended.
NC: We've had conversations regarding the ambiguity of heavy words like "freedom," "concrete," "dedication," "new,"…what do they mean?
JK: I am still not sure that we both agree on the particulars of "freedom!" But trying to find it out together has been a very productive and sometimes overstimulating process.
NC: Our objective isn't to represent any of those words in music, but to represent the leakage of music undergoing "Coppice processes." Air would leak through, and now fake air leaks through… perhaps that's what freedom sounds like: tactile, fake, suspended.
DM: The title of this piece leads me to question the authenticity of its content. What is the speaker's role? Can he be trusted? What text is he delivering?
JK: I think those are excellent questions. I would add: What is the temperature where the speaker is speaking?
NC: Can fidelity be trusted? Do you trust timbre? Do you trust melody?
JK: Was this all spoken at one time? Where is the arc of the song? What is a Memories Object?
NC: His role is to use his voice to hold the illusion of song as object.
DM: I imagine the titles of your work to be items in some alien catalog of conceptual objects. Do they describe the "impossible objects" you mention when you describe NCDTF? How do you go about assigning titles to things?
NC: The impossible objects are the physical modeling instruments I've modeled. They're only a component of the songs… songs get more complicated!
JK: Different songs get titles in different ways. Some titles describe scenes and some include words that are related to the way we hope to guide the listeners' experience. Also, many songs have multiple versions that receive title variations based on where they are expected to appear.
NC: It can be intuitive and complicated to title things, but some titles are matter of fact and direct.
DM: The NCDTF work comes off as particularly cinematic—and there are visual components to the larger project, including silent repetitive video objects on your website, and collaborations with live video artists in performance. Can you talk about the influence of visuals—real or imagined—in the work?
NC: I'm not sure specific visuals have influenced the work, but rather our motions of images, swiping, infinite scrolling, the staggered paces of viewing—the pervasive traces of screens and viewership on memory and the senses. Philosophy of photography and media studies, the writings of Jean Baudrillard and Andy Grundberg have been repeated references for me during this project. We're more interested in stimulating the mind's eye, inner images. Therefore the grayed-out images we've made for the internet show aspects of restriction, banality, unappeal and flatness.
JK: I like the word "cinematic" for this work. We have been conceiving the whole project as players, scenes and stages for action or no action.
NC: We've talked a lot about evoking the sensation of a film where the characters have been removed. An undefined perspective that navigates through transitions and spaces without a main figure. The concept of "image" has been a strong theme. We found an underwater recording of an Arctic walrus mating call and then wrote a song over it, with several parts assimilating and subverting one another. We call it "Walrus Dream (Wet Hologram)." It's a romantic superimposition of "images" that sink into each other.
DM: Where are we in the life of NCDTF? Do you have plans to issue a final statement on the project—perhaps a definitive release of music, or a retrospective?
JK: We think it is a triangle.
NC: An abstract, elastic triangle. Right now it appears in live settings, spreads out in space to surround bodies.
JK: We know that it is presently ongoing, we would like to see it collected, but probably not resolved.
NC: It'll make its way to home listening devices, and later an epitaph.
Coppice present two evenings of Turning Concerts this Friday and Saturday at Silent Funny (4106 W Chicago Ave.), featuring guests Lou Mallozzi, Peter Speer, and visual artist Phil Peters. Advance tickets available via Eventbrite.
"Singletrack" is CAR's Artist Story for Chicago performers in which songwriters, bands, playwrights, actors and writers discuss the creation of a recorded work alongside audio or video clips of the performance. To submit your song for consideration, please email our researchers.
Photo is by Guido Gamboa.


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The Super Foods are a team of superhero foods, who appear in the Food for Thought resource video (which also aired as part of a 2010 episode of Sesame Street). Each member represents a different food group.
They appear all over the street, helping out citizens when Super Grover can't. Unlike Grover's traditional methods of saving the day, the Super Foods help out by providing healthy tips, suggesting Elmo tries some of his kiwi to see if he'll like it or helping the Bear Family see that a meal together is the best way to get together. Although Super Grover finds them a nuisance, they end up helping him gain some super strength by eating some breakfast.
Their performers include Stephanie D'Abruzzo (the cheese), Kevin Clash (the broccoli), Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (the whole-wheat bread) and Matt Vogel (the banana).


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Rule 7. Admission by Motion
Effective Date: 8/1/2001
Obsolete Date: 3/1/2009
A. Eligibility by Practice.
1.Any person who is a member of the bar of another state or the District of Columbia may apply for admission by motion if that person:
a. meets the requirements of Rule 1;
b. has been a member of the bar of another state or the District of Columbia for at least five (5) years;
c. has for at least four (4) of the last five (5) years immediately preceding the application for admission on motion been actively engaged, to an extent deemed by the Board to demonstrate competency in the practice of law, in one or more of the following:
(1) the private practice of law;
(2) service as a judge of a court of record.
(3) the teaching of law as a full-time instructor in a law school or schools accredited by the American Bar Association; or
(4) the performance of full-time legal work in a legal capacity.
2. The application for admission by motion shall be filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court.The application must be accompanied by:
a. an affidavit identifying all other jurisdictions in which the applicant has applied foradmission and the final decision of the admitting authority in each jurisdiction;
b. certification of admission to practice by the admitting authority in each jurisdiction that the applicant has identified in a. as having admitted the applicant to the bar;
c. an affidavit disclosing the place or places in the other state or states or the District of Columbia where the applicant has practiced law;
d.the name and post office address, whenever possible, of at least one judge of a court ofgeneral jurisdiction who, during the specified period, has presided in a court before which the applicant has practiced law;
e.certification by the attorney disciplinary authority in each jurisdiction where the applicant has been admitted to the bar that there are no prior or pending proceedings of disbarment or suspension of the applicant's license to practice law against the applicant in that jurisdiction;
f.the affidavits of at least two attorneys from another jurisdiction where the applicant has been admitted to the bar which attest to the applicant's good moral character and fitness to practice law. The affidavits must be from attorneys who practiced law contemporaneously with the applicant; and
g.verification of 45 hours of approved or approvable course work in Continuing LegalEducation, three hours of which shall be in the area of ethics or course work commonlyconsidered professional responsibility, during the three years immediately preceding the application for admission to the bar of this state.
3. If the Board determines that the applicant's legal experience does not demonstrate sufficient competency in the practice of law, it shall require the applicant to take an attorney's examination. The Board shall set the date, time, place and content of each examination.
B.Eligibility by Test Score.
1. An applicant may be eligible for admission by motion provided the applicant:
a. meets the requirements of Rule 1;
b.has received a scaled score of 150 or above on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) taken as a part of and at the same time as the essay or other written bar examination given by another jurisdiction;
c.has received a scaled score of 80 on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) given under the auspices of the National Conference of Bar Examiners;
d.has been admitted to the bar of the jurisdiction in which the MBE examination was written.
2.Proof of the MBE score and a completed application must be received at the offices of the Board within two years of the date of the examination in the jurisdiction of admission.
C.The application for admission by motion must be referred to the Board which shallinvestigate the same and its sufficiency, including the moral character of the applicant.
D.Taking into consideration each applicant's moral character, and the results of the attorney's examination, if required, the Board shall make a recommendation to the Supreme Court regarding the admission of each applicant to the bar.
E.Upon the report of the Board recommending an applicant's admission, a written motion for admission may be considered by the Supreme Court. The motion must be:
1.made by a member of the North Dakota bar; and
2.filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
[Amended effective August 1, 2001.]