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Ever wondered just who's snooping about the local food scene? Why, it's Christina Ball, who bursts out of the shadows this week. Until now, Dish had been running without a byline, but her identity is now revealed. After all, why keep talent a secret?–editor
You can't get far in Taiwan or Hong Kong or San Francisco without bumping into a bubble teashop. There's one on just about every corner.
Well, thanks to the new oriental restaurant, First Wok, owned and operated by the Chu family, bubble tea is now also available right here in Charlottesville on The Corner. First Wok opened on Monday, August 18, just next door to the Subway on 14th Street and just in time to quench the thirst of returning UVA students.
For the uninitiated (which included, until very recently, Dish herself), bubble tea also called pearl tea– is made by adding soft, chewy black tapioca pearls to shaken, generally fruit-flavored iced tea. Not ancient by any means, bubble tea was a two-part invention originating in Taiwan.
Step one: shaken and sweetened, not stirred. To satisfy the sweet tooth of her young clientele, an owner of a tea stand near an elementary school decided to start adding fruit flavoring to her iced teas. The shaking process, necessary to mix the powdered flavoring with the tea, produced bubbles, and so the name "bubble tea" was born.
Step two: a straw of pearls. In 1983, Liu Han-Chieh introduced Taiwan to the fad of pouring cold, shaken "bubble tea" into a clear plastic cup containing a few spoonfuls of pea-sized tapioca pearls. The bubbles float on the top of the drink, and the pearls rest on the bottom– that is, until they are sucked up through the straw along with the tea.
"A lot of people trying bubble tea for the first time are surprised when they taste that first tapioca ball," says Julia Chu, 22, who is directly responsible for adding bubble tea to First Wok's eat-in/take-out menu.
Julia's dream is to open a teashop of her own some day, but for now she's happy shaking up flavors like lychee, mango, cantaloupe, and taro from behind the bar of her family's new plum-colored dining room.
Open wide: Big Mouth Pizza brings gourmet pies to West Main
What are you in the mood for tonight– sushi, or gourmet pizza? In a few months, you'll be able to satisfy either craving or both in the same West Main Street building.
If you've driven past the recently renovated brick building across from the Hampton Inn lately, you may have noticed the red and white "Big Mouth Pizza" banner hanging in the space next to Asian Express.
Many seem to know him, but for those who don't, meet Frank Cramblitt, the 32-year-old owner of Big Mouth Pizza. Cramblitt, a UVA grad who's worked in all aspects of the restaurant biz here for the past 10 years, plans to open his high-end eat-in/take out restaurant and bar by mid October.
What's unique about Big Mouth pizza, besides the name?
"Our crust. It's phenomenal. You've gotta taste it," Cramblitt says of his family's secret recipe. "It's thick, but also incredibly light and airy." Because this specific sort of dough requires fermenting and the specialized equipment of a baker, Gerry Newman of Albemarle Baking Company will make– and par-bake ("partial-bake")– all of the dough for Big Mouth, merging his expertise, equipment, and oven space with Cramblitt's recipe.
"I'm very excited to work with Frank," Newman told Dish. "His flavors are really very good."
When the dough reaches Big Mouth- in Bobolo form- it will be ready for white or red sauces and toppings like fresh crabmeat, roasted duck, portabello mushrooms, and sun-dried tomatoes. Big Mouth's menu will also feature salads and pasta, as well as a full bar.
Cramblitt says he's going for an upbeat atmosphere, which, together with the steadily buzzing Asian Express, will continue to spice up this once sleepy, hungry block.


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A patient is taken to a waiting medical transport vehicle outside Bellevue Hospital in New York on Wednesday.
Bellevue Hospital, New York City's flagship public hospital, started evacuating about 500 patients who had stuck it out during Sandy's winds and flooding on Wednesday. The hospital has been on generator power since the storm knocked out power to much of the city of Monday, and it had already transferred patients on ventilators to other hospitals.
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As noted in the previous article, peak oil doomers constantly say that oil shocks (or high oil prices) inevitably cause economic recession. They produce graphs showing the coincidence of recessions with oil price spikes, and suggest that the historical record is unequivocal.
For some countries, like the US, their point is very true. However, consider the flipside: when the US is getting bled to death and recessing due to high oil prices, countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia are swimming in cash and growing like never before. The money that is sucked out of the US economy is diverted to and spent by oil exporting economies, and the result is a net wash in terms of global GDP. The global GDP doesn't care who spends the money, or where it is spent, or what it is spent on. In fact, there is no simple logical reason why an oil shock should cause global growth to halt or reverse -- a fact which has been noted by economists.
The actual statistics on world growth bear my point out. Here is a graph of world oil production from 1978 to 1994 (a period I like to call "The Big Glitch"; figures from the BP. Stat. Rev. 2007). Note that there was no net growth in oil production in the 14 years from 1979 to 1993.
This was a period which began with a huge oil shock, and some of the highest real oil prices in history (click to enlarge):
And yet world real GDP grew the entire time (figures from the World Bank's World Development Indicators Database):
This is further supported by the following Table of global real GDP 1950-2001 (P. 233, The World Economy, Angus Maddison; click to enlarge). Note that an oil shock has never caused global growth to even halt, let alone reverse:
If declining oil production and high oil prices cause recession, why didn't the world economy recess during the Big Glitch? The world economy grew steadily without any net growth in oil production for 14 years.
In fact, in the 1979-1993 period, the world produced far less than it would have produced in a 14-year production plateau:
And yet world growth continued, unimpeded. The peak oilers tell us that a plateau will have devastating effects on economic growth, because the economy can't grow without growth in oil production. And yet that did not happen during the Big Glitch, even though far less oil was produced than would have been produced in a plateau. On the global level, something is very wrong with their theory that oil shocks cause recession... what is it?


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Personnel Files Released in Los Angeles
NEWS ANALYSIS: Cardinal Mahony and Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Curry discussed ways to keep sexual predators from legal scrutiny.
LOS ANGELES — In 2007, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay out a reported $660 million to about 500 plaintiffs who alleged that they had been abused by Catholic priests.
Now, more than five years later, the local Church's grim history of clergy sexual abuse is back in the news with the release of personnel files of 14 accused sexual predators dating back to the mid-'80s; the contents of at least 75 additional personnel files will be published in the weeks ahead.
The confidential files were made available to the public under the terms of the 2007 civil settlement. The documents reveal that Cardinal Roger Mahony, the retired archbishop of Los Angeles, and his then-vicar of clergy were aware that some priests had sexually abused minors and, at least in some cases, the two expressed concern that the perpetrators might face legal consequences. The documents expose serious insufficiencies in the Church's past efforts to keep such priests away from children without removing them from ministry or making their records public.
The picture revealed in interactive news stories with embedded links to the original documents provides a disturbing, if incomplete, portrait of Church authorities, decades ago, engaged in what the Los Angeles Times calls a "concerted effort to hide abuse from police."
In a July 22, 1986, letter cited in a Jan. 21 article, then-Archbishop Mahony expressed concern that the return of a priest known to have molested undocumented children might prompt "legal action."
"I believe that if Msgr. Garcia were to reappear here within the archdiocese we might very well have some type of legal action filed in both the criminal and civil sectors," said Archbishop Mahony in a letter to an out-of-state facility where Msgr. Garcia was receiving treatment.
The names of deceased and living priests accused of child sexual abuse have already been disclosed in reports posted on the archdiocesan website. However, the names of Church officials who handled the cases are now fully accessible after redactions were removed following a ruling last month. Readers can access specific documents that chart the efforts of Archbishop Mahony, who became a cardinal in 1991 and retired in 2011, and his vicar of clergy, Msgr. Thomas Curry, now a Los Angeles auxiliary bishop, to monitor the progress of the priests under scrutiny.
The fresh headlines about cases dating back to the mid-1980s have revived demands that Cardinal Mahony and other Church leaders who failed to protect minors should be held accountable and face criminal prosecution. However, legal experts have noted that Church authorities were not required by law to report such accusations at that time and that the statute of limitations bars criminal prosecution.
The recent media coverage provides a painful reminder of the record of failure that led the U.S. bishops to approve, in 2002, the "zero tolerance" policy of removing from ministry all priests with credible accusations of child sexual abuse and promptly contacting law enforcement when allegations are brought to Church authorities. The Los Angeles Times reported that, in "a 2010 deposition, Mahony acknowledged the archdiocese had never called police to report sexual abuse by a priest before 2000."
Both Cardinal Mahony and auxiliary Bishop Curry issued statements of apology for their past failures of judgment.
The Los Angeles Archdiocese's lawyers did not respond to requests for comment.
Inadequate Policies
The documents from the personnel files dating back to the mid-1980s show that quiet efforts to restrict contact with children could not be fully enforced and left minors vulnerable to predators in a position of trust.
In 2004, the Los Angeles Archdiocese issued a report that, in part, sought to explain why it had failed in previous decades to protect children from sexual predators.
"Our understandings were more limited in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. Experiences of personal violation were not as easily revealed to others. There was concern in families and in the Church for the privacy of victims, motivated by the conviction that actions that might disclose their painful experiences would produce intolerable suffering," stated the 2004 "Report to the People of God."
In the report, local Church authorities also repeated their pledge to fully enforce the U.S. bishops' Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, released in 2002, which requires prompt reporting of allegations to local law enforcement, a policy of zero tolerance for priests credibly accused of abuse and "safe environment" training for children and all Church employees and volunteers working with minors.
But documents culled from the personnel file of Msgr. Peter Garcia, a diocesan priest with an admitted history of abusing minors dating back to his 1966 ordination, show Church leaders handling abuse in a disturbingly different manner.
In a November 1987 letter to Archbishop Mahony, Msgr. Curry acknowledged the scope of Father Garcia's criminal behavior, but made no suggestion that he should be reported to the police.
"[T]here are numerous — maybe 20 — adolescents or young adults that Peter was involved with in a first-degree felony manner. The possibility of one of these seeing him is simply too great," wrote Msgr. Curry, expressing concern about the possible ramifications of Father Garcia returning to the archdiocese following his treatment.
Within two years, Father Garcia had left the priesthood, and he never faced criminal prosecution before his death. But Father Garcia's personnel file also includes a letter from a local priest who was appalled that Church administrators had failed to aid the children harmed by Father Garcia and at times seemed "more concern[ed] for the criminal."
Cardinal Mahony was named archbishop of Los Angeles in 1985, and Church records show that he was intimately involved in monitoring troubled priests and did act to remove some credibly accused priests before and after he took up his duties in Los Angeles. The personnel files do not explain how every case was decided, but they do underscore the problems of an ad hoc approach to dealing with clerical predators.
The Father Baker Case
One of the most tragic stories is Father Michael Baker, a laicized priest now serving time for sexually abusing minors.
The priest's case was explicitly addressed in the archdiocese's 2004 report, which, in addition to offering an explanation of the context of historic cases, listed information about past clerical abusers.
In 1986, Father Baker had disclosed his sexual misconduct to Cardinal Mahony and subsequently received a psychological evaluation and ongoing therapy in an out-of-state residential program. He was allowed to return to restricted ministry in local parishes and later was permitted to fill in for absent pastors without any notification of his past sexual contact with minors.
"Cardinal Mahony has publicly admitted his misjudgment in handling this case and has apologized for allowing Father Baker to remain in ministry. The cardinal admitted that he placed too much reliance on Father Baker's perceived good faith in self-reporting and was far too lenient in permitting him to continue in assignments despite the boundary violations. This case brought to the attention of the archdiocese that placing a person in a restricted ministry was not sufficient to prevent future abuse. The lesson is that either much closer monitoring is needed, which is practically impossible, or the priest must be removed from ministry," the 2004 archdiocesan report stated.
In 2005, a timeline of Father Baker's ministry in Los Angeles was posted on the archdiocese's website. The timeline notes Dec. 22, 1986, as the date he first met with "Cardinal Mahony and Vicar for Clergy Msgr. Curry to discuss his relationship with two boys from 1978 to 1985."
Over the next decade, the timeline marks three separate meetings between the vicar and Father Baker to discuss "breaches" in his agreement to stay away from children, following his evaluation and treatment. It is noted that the observed contact was "non-sexual" in nature.
Then, an April 2000 entry points to the "first complaint by a victim" forwarded by an attorney. Two weeks later, Father Baker was removed from ministry; he was laicized by the end of the year.
However, a Jan. 21 Los Angeles Times story offers a more complete, if disturbing, picture of how Church authorities handled this case. The Times' story cites a June 1987 memo to Archbishop Mahony from Msgr. Curry, which noted that Father Baker was slated to return from the residential therapeutic program and was expected to continue therapy. However, the vicar for clergy expressed concern that Father Baker's new therapist would learn of his past misdeeds and contact the authorities.
In 2007, Baker would plead guilty to criminal child sexual abuse, and the Los Angeles Times story cites unidentified local authorities who "believe that Baker molested at least 23 boys in his 26 years as a priest."
While some official timelines of accused priests offer few details of any oversight by Church authorities and others point to prompt action following credible accusations, Baker's case offers a stark reminder that Church officials once sought to cobble together policies designed to protect priests from criminal prosecution while limiting their contact with children.
New Protections Instituted
The zero-tolerance policy subsequently instituted by the U.S. bishops has been criticized by some as unjust to falsely accused priests, but Father Baker's story reveals that even when a troubled priest has contacted his bishop to seek help, the high rate of recidivism for sexual predators means that they cannot be trusted in active ministry. Further, when their supervising pastor was directed to "police" their movements, there was still no guarantee that children could be effectively protected.
The archdiocese's 2004 report confirmed: "Now, all credible allegations involving living clergy are reported in writing to law enforcement by the archdiocese, whether or not the victim is now a minor and whether or not the victim or his or her parents have made a report. No offense will be hidden."
Since 2004, the Los Angeles Archdiocese has been found in full compliance with the Dallas Charter in every audit of its archdiocesan implementation. The archdiocese has reported that in recent years nearly 200,000 clergy, teachers, parish employees, parents and volunteers have received safe-environment training, and more than 120,000 employees or volunteers who work with children have had background checks, including fingerprinting.
In a statement released Jan. 22, the archdiocese repeated its earlier pledge to report all credible allegations of sexual abuse, as the local Church steeled itself for a continuing cascade of damaging disclosures as additional court documents from the civil proceedings are published.
"The past cannot be changed, but we have learned from it. … [W]e remain vigilant against all that would harm our children and young people."
Joan Frawley Desmond is the Register's senior editor.


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EXETER — Best of Show has been awarded for the April theme show, Around Town, but the People's Choice is still to be announced at the art reception, Saturday, April 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Seacoast Artist Association Gallery, 225 Water St. Enjoy interpretations of the theme and meet artists who've been around town. Refreshments will be served.
And don't forget to vote for your favorite before 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 20 when the winner of the People's Choice Award will be announced.
SAA awarded Best of Show to Chris Kfoury of Raymond for her watercolor, "The Paradise."
The exhibit runs through Friday, April 26. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Call 778-8856 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. For directions, visit www.seacoastartist.org.


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In this video, I will show you what to do on week 1 of you aquaponics cycling. The hardest part in setting up your first aquaponics system is waiting for you system to cycle. Most of you are likely scratching your head and thinking "wtf is cycling?" I thought the same thing when I setup my first aquaponics system.
The best place to start is to explain the nitrogen cycle that takes place in an aquaponics system. We start with the fish. Now you might think that fish are the key to making aquaponics work, but you would be wrong. The real key is ammonia, without the ammonia there is no nitrogen cycle. Ok, ok, what about the fish right? Well as the fish go about their day, they produce a fair amount of ammonia. They breath through their gills, pee and poop, all creating ammonia. Now ammonia is toxic to fish and most other living creatures, so if the ammonia levels get too high, say 0.5 to 1 ppm or so, the the fish will die. Luckily for the fish, a bacteria called Nitrosomonas can convert ammonia into nitrites through a process called nitrification.
Nitrification is simply a conversion of ammonia to nitrates. Before you get on my back, I am fully aware that I said that Nitrosomonas converts ammonia into nitrites and not nitrates. The nitrogen cycle is a 3 step process and nitrites to nitrates is the last step, so lets not get ahead of ourselves. We need to focus on the first step, introducing ammonia into the system.
We know that in order to begin the nitrogen cycle we need ammonia. This is where the fish come in right? Well that would be one way to go. It is a method called fish cycling. This is where you add a few fish at a time to produce ammonia. If the fish are lucky, the nitrogen cycle completes before the ammonia levels become toxic. In order to reduce the toxic ammonia build up, some of the water is removed and fresh water is added to the system. In this attempt to restore balance, significant stress is placed on the fish and loss may occur. Eventually the nitrification will take place and you will end up with a balanced aquaponics system. In order to avoid fish loss, an alternative method to fish cycling is fishless cycling.
Fishless cycling is where you find a source of ammonia other than fish waste. There are many sources of ammonia that can be added to the system, I have even heard of people peeing into the fish tank. I am sure the fish really want to live there after that, gross. I just use pure ammonia from the drugstore. You have to make sure that its only pure ammonia and not ammonia mixed with detergent, because the detergent will kill the fish. Finding a nonliving source of ammonia to use for cycling offers us many advantages over using fish. In my opinion, the greatest advantage is the speed we can cycle the system. Because we can raise the levels of the ammonia quickly, we decrease the time necessary for nitrification to occur. Fish cycling can take weeks for ammonia levels to increase to a desirable amount, whereas fishless cycling allow us to raise the ammonia levels to 0.5 ppm immediately. So, with fishless cycling we are able to jump start the nitrogen cycle by raising the ammonia to toxic levels without killing any organisms. This is where we begin week 1 of cycling our aquaponics system.
Follow these simple steps for the first week of the cycling process:
Add the ammonia to the fish tank a few capfuls at a time.
After you add a dose of ammonia to the system, take a reading with the ammonia reading kit.
When you read an ammonia level of 0.5 ppm, take note of how many capfuls it took to get to that point.
Add the same amount of ammonia each day, then take a reading with the nitrite kit.
When you see a nitrite level of 0.5 ppm begin to appear, cut back the daily dose of ammonia by 50%. This will decrease the levels of ammonia in the system making it more hospitable to your future fish.
It will take about 7 to 10 day to reach this point. Stay tuned for the next video that will outline the next steps to cycling your system in week 2.
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New Collection of Writings from Fr. George Morelli
Antiochian author, psychologist, chaplain and priest Fr. George Morelli has recently released Healing Vol.2: Reflections for Clergy, Chaplains and Counselors. This new collection of writings anthologies many of Fr. Morelli's Chaplain's Corner columns, as well as several articles concerning anxiety, despression, suicide and end-of-life ministry. Healing Vol. 2 is available to order from the Eastern Christian Publications website.
From the preface:
For the past several years I have been writing a monthly column, Chaplain's Corner, that has appeared in The Beachcomber, the newsletter of the V.A. Healthcare Hospital of La Jolla, California, and was then edited for the general reader for publication in The North County Times, a San Diego newspaper. These columns comprise the Chapters in Part I of this book. All have in common that they deal with issues that are important in the lives of contemporary mankind in the 21st century, especially military personnel, veterans and their families.
In Part II of this book I deal with a particularly egregious set of problems confronting both military and civilians in the 21st Century: anxiety, depression, suicide and ministering at end of life. In the case of military personnel, the conditions of fighting in the boundary-less, uncertain "war on terrorism" in the Middle East and elsewhere has greatly increased the incidence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and concomitant rate of suicide. Even among the general population climate change has introduced unprecedented climactic upheavals that have been likened to the stresses of warfare and its effects. Hopefully, my contribution to an understanding of anxiety, depression, suicide and end of life ministry will in a small way be helpful to clergy and mental health practitioners as well as to victims and their families.


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ESA's SMOS water mission celebrates first year in orbit
A year ago today, ESA's SMOS satellite was launched to improve our knowledge of the water cycle. We are now not only closer to understanding more about Earth, but the novel technology employed by SMOS is clearly demonstrating a new way of monitoring Earth from space.
The Earth Explorer Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite was lofted into space in the early hours of 2 November 2009 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
The next six months were spent commissioning the mission. This included calibrating the instrument to ensure that the science community receives the best-possible data on soil moisture and ocean salinity. With everything in good working order, the mission formally began operations at the end of May.
Despite some problems caused by interference from radar, TV and radio transmissions, which are gradually being turned off, the mission is now delivering a wealth of data on soil moisture and sea-surface salinity.
Speaking about soil moisture data, Yann Kerr from the Centre d'Etudes Spatials de la Biosphere said, "From monitoring drought and floods down to the soil conditions that lead to locust hatching, SMOS is fulfilling all our expectations and more. Further availability of the data will open up new research areas, paving the way to new successes."
Jordi Font from the Institut de Ciències del Mar at the Spanish Research Council added, "It has been a really exciting 12 months. With the excellent performance of the SMOS instrument we now have the challenge of improving the models and processes to provide more accurate data for sea-surface salinity.
"Nevertheless, I am convinced that SMOS will mark a milestone in the history of ocean remote-sensing."
Although there is still work to be done on refining the processing for sea-surface salinity, the first global map combining both soil moisture and ocean salinity data has recently been produced.
Nicolas Reul from Ifremer said, "One year after launch the ocean salinity data are very promising. However, we still have a little way to go to filter and understand the signals in order to reach the measurement goal of 0.1–0.2 practical salinity units."
SMOS carries an innovative interferometic radiometer that operates in the L-band microwave range to capture images of 'brightness temperature' which are used to produce global maps of soil moisture and ocean salinity.
By consistently mapping these two variables, SMOS will not only advance our understanding of the exchange processes between Earth's surface and atmosphere, but will also help to improve weather and climate models.
Patricia de Rosnay from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) commented, "So far, SMOS has been providing an enormous amount of data and information on land and ocean surfaces. Integrating these observations in ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System has been challenging, but will eventually increase our understanding of land-surface processes and is expected to result in better weather forecasts."
As scientists and engineers celebrate the mission's achievements over the past 12 months they also look to the future, assured that the coming months will bring more success. Happy first birthday SMOS!


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Yes folks it's that time of year again where people huddle in darkened corners to make lists of the things they have been listening to during the year in an effort to remind you of the cool things you may have missed. Last year I did something like this but was a bit more specific and did radio shows on best gig, best act, best album etc – but I only had one show then so I was limited on what I could ram down your ears during the last few weeks of the year.
This year – with a little more air time available – I thought I would concentrate on albums for this show – so for this week and the next three in the run up to Christmas I am playing a track each from what I and a select bunch of chums (Fall Fans and DJs mostly) feel have been the best releases in the long form format during in 2011. This proved exceedingly difficult of course in that people are troublesome types and when you ask them to list their five favourite albums of the year they deliver lists which numerically vary between 0 and 30 odd albums. So I have to use my judgement and skill (don't laugh) to get down to around 50 albums which at least made us smile amongst all of the Elbow/Muse/Coldplay clones out there in the wide and wacky world of rock and roll.
The criteria for getting on the list is that it must be a full album, not a re-release and have been released during 2011.
You are not going to see a great number of local bands in this list as they will be dealt with in a "review of the year" run of shows on Salford Music Scene.
So the first batch – in no particular order – as nominated are:
PJ Harvey – The Last Living Rose – Let England Shake (February) – I have to admit to initially being a bit disappointed with this after the magic of "White Chalk", however it holds up well ten months later and at least she is back to her best on the words side of things after the dip in quality on the last album with John Parrish. This is probably her most political album to date and reflects the state of the nation quite effectively. There are one or two Polly Jean classics on here and the stripped down sound suits her best. Begs the question mind you where she goes next with her music.
Dave Graney – I'm Gonna Release Your Soul – Rock 'n' Roll Is Where I Hide (April) — an abiding obsession for me, wherein the high priest of coolness reinvents a number of tunes from his back catalogue. The album was recorded at Soundpark in Melbourne by Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist and mixed by Victor Van Vugt in New York. It was released with Graney's second book, 1001 Australian Nights, by Affirm Press, which concentrates on his life as an artist and performer, which I must track down and read – not had the time. The excellent track featured is actually an old Coral Snakes number from 1994 which was released on the "You Wanna Be There But You Don't Wanna Travel" album (also on The Baddest compilation).
Ryan Adams – Chains of Love – Ashes and Fire (October) – back to his very best after a long lay-off. Incredibly laid back and a little less angry than he has been previously. Some commentators likened it to Bob Dylan in the 1970s which I think is a little lame frankly. This is an artist who, after many years of mis-direction, appears to have found his inner voice and how to express it coherently and cogently.
Earth – Old Black – Angels and Darkness, Demons of Light Volume 1 (February) – Dylan Carlson, like Ryan Adams, had been on an extended break (five years) and came back with a totally re-invented sound for Earth. The trademark drones are there but this is an altogether more ambient and laminal sound. The restrained tension in this music creates a unique listening experience and removes the band from the general melting pot of doom to create something rather special. A perfect example of less is more in music.
The Raveonettes – Recharge and Revolt – Raven Is The Grave (April) – the one album which caused the greatest amount of debate amongst the participants in this little exercise. Views varied from admiration to "I only play the first track" through to "very disappointing". Given I came to this band late in their existence I found myself erring on the side of positive – the reviewers felt that the sound had got "more pop" and "less guitar" – coming at it cold, with no back history as such, I found it to be a good listen. The band have defined sound of their own which is well worth over a listen.
Rocket from the Tombs – Sister Love Train – Barfly (October) another gap between initial formation and release (however in this instance some 36 years) the band that would become Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys, returns with it's debut album. Uniquely quirky and rather marvelous in a way that anything associated with David Thomas usually is. Sounds nothing like the original band of course, for any number of reasons, but mostly I guess the experience of the collected members from their other work has taken the initial plan and moved it on somewhat.
Atlas Sound – Mona Lisa – Parallax (November) – Bradford Cox, of Deerhunter of course, in his solo guise. The third "proper" album after the flurry of Bedroom Databank releases last year. There is a clearer link between his main bands work on this release which moves between a populist sound and the more experimental end of his work in this incarnation.
Grails – All the colors of the dark – Deep Politics (March) – a little self indulgence from me here as no-one else picked this album but I think it is so marvelous that it requires inclusion. The Portland bands back catalogue is replete with some excellent instrumental, and mostly post-rock, music – however in this instance they have upped their game considerable with some excellent writing – touching on an almost cinematic approach to their writing. This track alone is worth the price of the album.
Mogwai – San Pedro – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (February) – Ten albums in and the grandaddies of post-rock seem to have gone back to their initial agenda for an album which, whilst not their best, still kicks the bottom of most of the young pretenders out there. There is enough variety in here as well to keep the most jaded of listeners entertained.
The Ettes – Excuse – Wicked Will (August) – some would argue (and I would be one of them) that Greg Cartwright's production on the predecessor to this release removed a lot of the primal cohones of The Ettes. This album gets us back to the core garage rock sound of the group. Thus demonstrating no doubt that recording garage rock in London works, but it completely fails in Nashville.
The Strange Boys – Punk's Pajamas – Live Music (October) – a group feted by the Alliance DJs on Salford City Radio after hearing their sophomore outing "Be Brave" in 2010. This is better and just as weird/strange/unique/wonderful as the first two albums. This can sound as though they are doing things without much effort until you start to burrow deeply into the layers of musical history that makes up this bands work.
Boston Spaceships – Tourist UFO – Let It Beard (August) – if you have immersed yourself into the music of Guided By Voices over the years then you are duty bound stick with Robert Pollard to see what madness he is going to deliver next. Pleased to say that five albums in to this ongoing endeavour with John Moen of The Decemberists and Chris Slusarenko of The Takeovers that he hasn't lost his ability to be utterly unigue and surprise the listener. There are a fair few guest guitarists on this if you would to play spot the star – Colin Newman, Steve Wynn etc etc
65 Days of Static – Space Montage – Silent Running Rescore (November) – gone are the angry young men of the previously releases with their intense and breathtaking re-invention of math and post rock – instead we have an excellent soundtrack to an excellent movie. A band that deserves a lot more attention than it has got hitherto has grown up somewhat.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Book by Its Cover
Julia Rothman, a fellow RISD grad, recently invited me to share my sketchbook at her blog, Book by Its Cover. Some of the sketches may be familiar to readers of this blog, but there are some new ones as well. I hope you enjoy the tour. Thank you for the invitation, Julia (and thanks for throwing my name in the hat, Mom!
By the way, the above sketch was drawn during my visit to the Frazetta Museum, which I highly recommend visiting.
Posted by Paolo Rivera at 9:00:00 AM
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i would love to go to that museum someday. You see quite a bit of it in the Frazetta documentary "painting with fire"
just got Fire and Ice on DVD and admiring the character design. the backgrounds were done by James Gurney and Thomas Kinkade.
love the sketch. i believe its from one of Frazatta's ink drawings.
nice sketch
Thanks, Eddy. I've been meaning to rent that DVD. The sketch is actually from Thuvia, Maid of Mars, which is probably my favorite Frazetta painting. You can see it here.ReplyDelete
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Thats a great Frazetta painting.
i remember seeing that in one of the early Frazetta books published by ballantine.
the DVD "painting with fire" is definitely worth seeing.
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One can only hope that crow tastes like chicken, because after the success of the Baltimore Grand Prix, there are a number of people dining on it this week.
That may even include, gentle reader, the members of this newspaper's editorial board who, along with many letter writers, publicly pouted about the inconveniences and controversies imposed by the three-day event. "It had better be worth it," was one of our snappier headlines.
So let's take the inventory. The turnout of spectators was greater than promised — as high as 160,000 over Labor Day weekend, though the numbers are a little soft given the inexact accounting of tickets. The big race on Sunday was a TV ratings hit, the best ratings on the Versus cable network that an IndyCar series event has drawn this season.
That translates into a lot of favorable publicity for Baltimore and revenue for the various vendors, hotels and other businesses that depend on tourism dollars. Exactly how much probably won't be known for weeks, but there is reason to be optimistic.
Nobody was seriously hurt because of a crash or other mishap (one of the fears trotted out by naysayers), so there's no lasting image of death and destruction. Nor did crime mar the event. Indeed, the typical coverage seen and heard on local TV and radio stations was nothing short of glowing, as reporters excitedly described the thrill of watching cars run around the harbor at eye-popping speeds.
The downside? Some trees were cut down in the process (although organizers have agreed to finance replacements), and some motorists were greatly inconvenienced by downtown traffic snarls, particularly last week but also when certain streets were repaved and upgraded to accommodate the race.
Make no mistake, hosting the race came with a cost — not just the money spent directly on the event but the indirect expense to businesses that were inconvenienced by the preparations and event itself.
Nevertheless, it's hard to see the Baltimore Grand Prix, on balance, as anything short of a nice coup for the city, not only as an economic development boost but perhaps a psychological one as well. Racing fans saw Charm City as something other than a homicide capital, both fictional and real, and a lot of local residents probably woke up feeling better about Baltimore (call it pride if you will) and themselves than they did just a few days ago.
Some of us may even be a bit embarrassed for having such low expectations of an event that, from the beginning, was only meant to promote Baltimore and create economic opportunities. There may be a certain occupant of City Hall who bore the brunt of the public criticism and now may be feeling a certain vindication for her troubles.
Still, the race was a gamble, and maybe the biggest lesson to be learned from its success is that Baltimore ought to take more such risks. If the city can host big-time racing, then is it really all that far-fetched to promote an expansion of its convention center or arena — to note two high-profile projects that may soon be approaching the starting line?
Of course, wagers don't always pay off. That's why it's called risk taking. In the business community, people understand that's what competition is all about. If the path to prosperity was easy and not a no-holds-barred race from start to finish, everyone would be Warren Buffett and nobody would ever find themselves in bankruptcy court.
Sometimes you cross the finish line first, and sometimes you're stuck in the pit with a busted engine and no hope of contending. But unless one gives it a shot, the only guarantee is that you'll never win anything — no trophy, no success, no jobs or opportunities.
Finally, how perfect that the winning driver was an Australian named Will Power. After a dismal week of Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. crews cleaning up outages after Hurricane Irene, it was nice to see at least one kind of power surging through the city so triumphantly.


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Aggie bids to be 1st female yell leader
Sarah Petta, a junior anthropology major at Texas A&M, is attempting to make history by running for election as a yell leader.
The yell leaders are five juniors and seniors - traditionally all men - who work up the crowd at Aggie sporting events.
This year's election is Friday, with results to be announced at 8:30 p.m. in an outdoor gathering.
Petta, who's from Corpus Christi, announced her candidacy in a YouTube video, describing herself as the "loudest, proudest, most redass member of the class of 2014."
One of the reasons she's running, she says in her video, is that her little sister idolizes her.
"She wants to come to A&M just like her big sister," said Petta, who also has a younger brother. "And when she gets here, I want her to have every opportunity available to her, and I don't want anyone to say 'No' just because she's a girl."
Two women ran unsuccessfully for yell leader last year, and Petta said in a phone conversation that she followed their campaigns but didn't get the idea for her own candidacy until last semester.
"I was complaining about the lack of diverse leadership at A&M, about not being able to see women in positions of authority," she said. "I thought, 'Well, if I see this as a problem, I really should do something about it.' "
The 12th person in her family to attend A&M, Petta said she loves the school and wants it to reflect the student body.
Petta's father, Jim Petta, said he and his wife, both A&M graduates, are pleased with their daughter's decision.
"It's great," her father said. "She's coming alongside tradition. She's not fighting tradition. She's a very traditional Aggie, if you will."
He noted that the position of yell leader is the last all-male bastion at the school which first admitted women in 1963.
"She very much wants to win," he said. "She loves A&M and wants to be a part of it."
The Aggie tradition of male yell leaders dates to 1907, according to the school. Among former yell leaders, one of the most well known is Texas Gov. Rick Perry.


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Okay, what were the odds of the 10,000 pound meteorite unexpectedly plowing into the Russian City of Chelyabinsk at 43,000 mph on Feb. 15, smashing glass, injuring 1,500 people and damaging buildings?
And on the same day, a rocky asteroid big as an Olympic-sized swimming pool made a record-close approach to Earth – just 17,200 miles away from us.
Make both showing up on the same day a one-in-a-100-million chance, calculates the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Gee, at least that rocky asteroid left us alone – it was big enough to take out London.
So what's going on out there in what used to be in the simple 1950s man-conquers-space realm of tiny screen TV's Captain Video and his Video Rangers (no props)? Turns out this kind of scary collision stuff goes on all the time.
The best advice, says SUNY Orange astronomy instructor John Wolbeck, is make the most of its beauty, fascinating science and avoid at all costs the crippling "catastrophobia."
"That's what my friends call it," says Wolbeck. "It means you're walking around afraid you're going to be hit by these things any moment."
Well, OK. But stuff does crash. Such as the now-famous Chevy Malibu struck by a 27-pound asteroid remnant of nickel, iron and stone that smashed through the car's trunk in Peekskill in 1992 at an estimated 160 mph. The fireball had been tracked across several states by high school football fans using camcorders.
The really breathtaking smasher was the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It plunged into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, leaving a 300-mile-wide crater whose outline was tracked from space.
"We're lucky to be here," says Wolbeck, who is doing his doctoral thesis on the formation of one of our best friends – the moon that's shielded us from many asteroid and meteorite blows that could have been fatal.
"The moon's pocked with big craters from hits," says Wolbeck.
He takes the really long view of maybe another big wipeout collision happening in a million years.
"It is going to happen," he says, "and who knows what will be left?"
Every day, adds Storm King School astronomy teacher Warren Mumford, "the Earth gets hit by tiny meteors all the time."
Make that 100 tons of space debris a year, adds the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
In fact, NASA says there are at least 5,000 known Near-Earth Objects out there bigger than 100 feet that can crash into Earth – some day.
It all began maybe 4.5 billion years ago when swirling dust clouds led to Earth's start-up.
As reminders of this rugged beginning, Wolbeck carries some of the small stones seared black from intense heat, that were part of Earth's formative debris. They actually floated around before the Earth formed.
"They are amazing; you hold them in your hand and think what they went through!" says Wolbeck.
Just under 4.5 billion years old, these rocks, he says, are actually a touch older than our planet, which is kind of neat.
"They're the oldest thing you've ever held," says the astronomer. "And they end up here. That's amazing."
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Okay, what were the odds of the 10,000 pound meteorite unexpectedly plowing into the Russian City of Chelyabinsk at 43,000 mph on Feb. 15, smashing glass, injuring 1,500 people and damaging buildings?


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Then... nothing. Or almost nothing. The Mountain West switched Utah for Boise. The two most old-school conferences finally got a championship game by adding Nebraska to the Big Ten [12] and Colorado and Utah to the Pac. The Big XII [10] decided that championship games are for conferences that like making life harder for their champions and engaging in actual competition. Notre Dame breathed a sigh of relief. And that was all.
The question we are left with is whether the crazy off-season of 2010 ["expansion-palooza" as some are calling the affair] was a near total shakeup masterminded by a single outsider [former Tennis executive now Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott] or the next incremental step in a gradual, inexorable evolution toward the long expected "age of the super-conference." Due to the lightening pace at which rumor became event and event became non-event there is, I think, a general tendency to view this entire affair as an aberration. Many commentators are giving Larry Scott massive credit for "shaking up" the stolid, crusty Pac-10 and coming nearer than any thought possible to advancing college football more than one step forward in a single move.
Viewed in light of the conversations that surrounded the last major wave of realignment, however, this summer's events seem less unprecedented and revolutionary. Back in 1988 then SEC commissioner Roy Kramer spotted a potentially lucrative loophole in an NCAA by-law that implicitly did not apply to football. The rule states that conferences made up of twelve or more members may decide regular-season champions through championship games. Kramer accurately predicted that a one game playoff for a two-division, twelve-member SEC could generate massive revenue as well as the national prestige with pollsters that the league had historically lacked. The search was on for the best fitting two schools to incorporate.
Meanwhile, the once-mighty Southwest Conference was undergoing an existential crisis. No SWC school could boast a national championship since the 1970 Longhorns. During the ensuing two decades every member institution barring Rice, Baylor, and Arkansas had met with major NCAA sanctions on account of cheating scandals. A negative cycle of pay-for-play slush fund arms races and rival schools turning one another in to the authorities culminated with SMU receiving a one-year total suspension of its football program after the 1986 season. There was some symmetrical justice in this move as it had been ultra-rich oilman and SMU booster William Clements who first set the league on its slippery slope to financial depravity. By 1986 Clements occupied the Texas governor's mansion. The unrepentant Mustang-backer sensationalized a state whose tolerance for football motivated madness is remarkably high by instructing SMU to continue its slush fund payments to players even after existence of the practice had come to public light.
Cash incentives for players and recruits had been an open secret in the SWC for years. Gary Shaw claimed in his sensational 1972 expose on the Darrell Royal regime, Meat On The Hoof, that on his recruiting visit to SMU coaches had unabashedly asked him what kind of car he wanted to drive and promised that one would await him upon his enrollment in Dallas. Shaw claimed he had partly chosen Texas precisely because UT made no such offers. Coaches on Austin only told him, "If you come here you will have a chance to start." But after Royal retired in 1976 the 'Horns began to loose their overwhelming competitive advantage and UT also slid into the new culture of cheating. Between 1981 and 1984 SMU compiled a 41-5-1 record and earned three SWC championships with teams made up of blue-chip recruits who had gone to Dallas for money, stayed for money, and played for money. Conference rivals who cried foul were no more than pots screaming "black" at the kettle. By the time Roy Kramer began tentatively searching for new SEC members in 1989 the SWC had become a national laughing stock and byword for disgrace.
Frank Broyles, Royal's old sparring partner then Arkansas AD, chaffed under the guilt-by-association his beloved Razorbacks suffered. Broyles was also an astute business manager. He had already done more than anyone to move Arkansas toward the modern age of athletics finance, increasing alumni donations and exploring all manner of new revenue streams. As part of that process Broyles petitioned the SWC for permission to negotiate an independent distribution contract for University of Arkansas radio broadcasts. That request was denied.Other league members did not want to allow the Razorbacks, who alone enjoyed the advantage of not sharing their state with any rival school, any revenue stream or media market it did not have to share. That short-sighted decision alienated power-brokers in Fayetteville and only heightened the mistrust that was rampant within the SWC ranks.
A former University of Texas women's athletic director Donna Lo-piano summed the situation up best, telling Sally Jenkins:
"[The SWC] is a bunch of institutions that care more about themselves than each other. It's a bad business conference."
Arkansas people began to cast hungry eyes over the SEC's notoriously passionate fan bases and the cache new visiting conference mates would bring. As one Arkansas athletics department official astutely foresaw:
"You don't have to worry about selling out the stadium—you have to worry about expanding it."
SWC average attendances fell consistently through the 1980s while those across the SEC only rose. And home gates were only the tip of the iceberg. By 1990 the complete overhaul of college football's relationship to television broadcasting was in full swing. The sixty-three member College Football Alliance had recently signed a $300 million five-year deal with ABC effective to begin in 1991. The promised riches that led to the landmark Oklahoma Board of Regents vs. NCAA Supreme Court case in 1984 were finally beginning to materialize. If University of Arkansas officials felt alienated by the refusal of the SWC brethren to liberate their radio broadcasting rights, they experienced even greater emotions when considering the possible resources conference TV deals might command in the brave new world of post-NCAA monopoly contract negotiations. The 1990s promised to be an very uncertain decade for collegiate football, and athletics directors worked tirelessly to figure out the best options for their institutions.
Many factors remained uncertain, but several issues could not have been clearer. Firstly, the money collegiate football could command in its immediate future promised to dwarf past revenue. Secondly, through conference-based contracts individual schools could hope to gain a larger slice of the pie than they had under the old NCAA contracts. Consequently, the factors that had created the long-established conference alignments that had defined the game during the twentieth century would necessarily be superseded by new considerations. If Arkansas bolted, the SWC would not only be a discredited, scandal-ridden hive of mutual distrust and institutionalized backbiting, it would also be a single-state league with little appeal to national broadcasters.
While the SEC looked to expand, add a championship game, and promised to command big bucks on the open market, the SWC became a decreasingly appealing asset. Officials at Texas and Texas A&M did everything they could increase their market share in the ailing conference. In 1992, the first year Arkansas played in the SEC, the SWC introduced new revenue sharing arrangements. The league scrapped its ancient 50-50 division of gate revenues between home and away teams. Member institutions playing in televised non-conference games were to retain 80% of the revenue generate rather than the previous 50%. And schools participating in post-season play were to keep the first $500,000 before sharing the remainder with the league as opposed to the previous $300,000. As the SWC cash-cow grew sicker the Longhorns and Aggies milked it harder and kept a greater share. In a statement that rings with starling familiarity to football fans in 2010 DeLoss Dodds, whose tenure as AD in Austin began back in 1981, brazenly told a reporter:
"The world is going to dictate where Texas goes. The marketplace will dictate it."
The very portrait of dysfunction.
The openness with which UT officials implicitly acknowledged that the school was considering following Arkansas out of the SWC created panic in the state legislature. David Silbey, a State Representative and Baylor alum, threatened that if the Longhorns and Aggies left the SWC without his Bears:
"The next time they want to talk about appropriations for new physics professors, they'll have to come through me."
Such threats will surface every time conferences realign. Schools that can command the highest market share will go looking for more, and those that cannot will threaten, rant, claw, beg, and sell their dignity cheap to avoid the ultimate uncertainty of temporary homelessness.
Market driven conference realignment in the early 1990s also created headaches for independents. As future television revenues seemed predestined to follow the most attractive and prestigious conference lineups, the east coast's host of historic independents looked for safe harbors in which to anchor their football programs. The Big East Conference, formed primarily for basketball in 1979, began conference play in football in 1991 to provide a more stable future for nervous independents such as Miami, Boston College, Syracuse, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Rutgers. When Penn State began Big Ten play in 1993 Notre Dame stood alone as the last great independent. Within three short seasons a landscape that had once been filled with independents who had every hope of playing in major bowls and winning national titles [as the Hurricanes, Nittany Lions, and Fighting Irish often did] was all but devoid of such schools.
Only Notre Dame's own lucrative mystique allowed the Great White Whale of conference realignment to hold out. Even then, expectations of the Irish's impending move to the Big Ten ran wild. The possibility of that move created a nervous apprehension in Big East country then as it still does today. One Big East AD commented to a reporter:
"Big Ten officials have declared a moratorium [of four years] on expansion, but who knows if they'll stick to it, once they see the writing on the wall?"
Then as today the Big Ten had its "timetable" and appeared to hold more cards than other conferences. But the bottom line was and always will be the market. Money might make the Big Ten move at any moment in any one of a number of directions. After that everyone else would have to move as well. Of course, Notre Dame didn't want to move. NBC's relationship with ND football began in February of 1990 and has funded Irish resilience at premium rates of return ever since. That precious money, the lifeline keeping Rockne's legacy of lone defiance against the simultaneously loved and hated Big Ten alive, allowed ND athletics director Dick Rosenthal to state emphatically:
"We've been an independent for 148 years. We are independent by desire."
Twenty years on that same money allowed current Notre Dame AD Jim Swarbrick to state that his school's "strong preference" remains independence [a state of being sought over every alternative save Armageddon].
The potential wild card in the whole process both in the early 90s, as today, was post-season revenue. Power players want to figure out the way to maximize bowl revenue while minimizing the number of mouths that revenue feeds and the list of schools that enjoy the opportunity of winning a national championship. Within two seasons of Arkansas' departure from the crumbling SWC the members of the College Football Association had negotiated a post-season structure known as the Bowl Coalition, which pitted the two highest ranked member teams in a championship bowl. This embryonic system grew into the current BCS with the inclusion of the Rose Bowl conferences in 1998. Bowls wanted the most lucrative matchups. Conferences wanted guaranteed bowl berths to add to their new TV contracts. No one except the fans wanted the unpredictable chaos of a playoff, which might generate more money but would also expose bigger fish to post-season competition and claims to revenue shares from upstart minnows.
Orange Bowl president Arthur Hertz stated to Sports Illustrated:
"I'm told by our legal people that if the Big Eight is not constituted the same as it was when we signed the contract [in 1988, with NBC, for six years], then we have the right to reevaluate."
In other words, conference realignment offered the opportunity for renegotiated post-season contracts that could mirror the game changing value of new regular season conference contracts. In such a market the parochial appeal of smaller conferences like the Big Eight and SWC held limited appeal. Frank Broyles saw the writing on the wall and even before Arkansas had officially accepted an invitation from the SEC publicly predicted:
"The '90s are predicted to be moving in the direction of three super-conferences, each with a major network."
Dodds sensed the future direction of college football with equal clarity. Bigger conferences housing multiple heavyweights and boasting blockbusting championship games were the wave of the future. The old SWC was not.
Viewed in light of the landscape as it stood in 1990, the summer of 2010 seems less revolutionary and more a case of 'same song, different verse.' In that same light the final outcome of the Big XII missile crisis seems even more surprising. It also would appear to be utterly unsustainable. The same factors which made the old SWC unstable and undesirable after the departure of Arkansas makes the current Big XII [10] a necessarily impermanent solution. The show may have been temporarily saved at the eleventh hour by money Dan Beebe raised from sources presently known only unto God and a select few other similarly tight-lipped individuals, but in the grand scheme simple market economics must dictate that the patch job will not last. Who in their right mind beyond the Texas-Southwest region will tune in on a weekly basis come fall Saturdays to witness the ritual ass whippings Texas and OU will most assuredly dole out to the grateful likes of Kansas, Iowa State, and Baylor?
Tom Osborne in 2010. Not so keen on Texas.
In 1990 the University of Arkansas left the old SWC because the league had decayed to a shell of its former self. A once-proud conference [home to the state of Texas' first national championship team and first Heisman winner -- neither of which hailed from Austin] had become an irrelevant, parochial group of infighting, backbiting brethren whose incessant scandals reflected poorly on the Hogs and had even begun to cost their athletics programs precious revenue rather than provide it. Association with the dysfunctional Southwest Conference family had, quite simply, become a liability where once it had been an asset.
In June of 2010 the University of Nebraska fled the company of its century-long conference mates for the safe refuge of Big Ten Country. For fifteen years Huskers have indignantly felt the offensive implications of the expanded Big XII's revenue sharing arrangement [which reflects more nearly the post-1992 SWC than the old Big Eight], and the location of the conference headquarters in Dallas. The extra second which miraculously appeared on the clock at the end of the 2010 conference championship game [much to Tom Osborne's chagrin] was, perhaps, the final straw. In pastures new Big Red can be one of twelve equally heard voices at the table rather than one ten utterly irrelevant ones.
Texas politicians and the complete dependence of OU football on its annual date at the state fair in Dallas may be able to keep the rump of the Big XII together for a while, but neither can force the football pedigree rich flagship institutions of other states to suffer bad company indefinitely. Texas politics could not keep Arkansas in the fold back in 1990 when common sense and market economics made the SEC an attractive prospect. Nor could they keep Big Red in the fold when the stable, equitable, lucrative, and cordial Big Ten came calling twenty years later. They, Dan Beebe, nor any other force save God himself will not prevent the Big XII [10] from crashing in a blaze of unmarketable ignominy sooner or later.
Questions have been raised as to the new name for the now numerically challenged Big XII. Presuming the obvious title of "Longhorn Athletic Conference" will not be adopted for fear of depriving Adam his fig leaf, there really is only one sensible choice:
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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Montemartini was professor of political economy at the University of Padova. He was a supporter of the marginal school of economic thought. He is best remembered for being a precursor to the modern Public Choice school as represented by James Buchanan.


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GE Healthcare gets Frost & Sullivan 2012 North America Award for Customer Value Enhancement for its AgileTrac hospital solution
Singapore: Frost & Sullivan recognized GE Healthcare with the 2012 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement following its analysis of real-time location system (RTLS) solutions for the hospital operations management market. GE is commended for its exceptional healthcare enterprise resource management solutions, specifically the RTLS technology-based AgileTrac.
"GE Healthcare's AgileTrac offers complete and real-time visibility into the flow and working of assets and resources in a hospital," noted Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Ms Nandini Bhattacharya. "In addition to offering rapid and easy identification of asset location, the solution offers visibility on inventory stock levels and potential workflow bottlenecks. Such total visibility allows hospital personnel to proactively address any holdups, resulting in optimum capacity utilization."
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers with a focus on improving the return on the investment that customers make in its services or products. This award recognizes the company's inordinate focus on enhancing the value that its customers receive, beyond simply good customer service, leading to improved customer retention and ultimately customer base expansion.
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The East Holland Police Station is a police station of the Liberty City Police Department in the Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, located in East Holland, Algonquin.
The East Holland Police Station is located on the corner of Bismarck Avenue, Topaz Street and San Juan Road in East Holland near the north eastern shore of Algonquin, near the Humboldt River. The station has two entrances, both guarded by LCPD officers, the main one on San Juan Road and a back entrance on Bismarck Avenue.
Like all Police Stations, a wanted level is attained for breaking into the compound. At the car park in the entrance, a few police patrols and cruisers are found in parking bays. At the south side a large building is found. You can enter the building, and walk up the stairs through the many stories to the top. On the roof there is a helipad, and a large open space. Along the building there are no walls, and it is open, so you can see down to the bottom from any floor. Halfway up, there is an exit from the building onto the roof of the second smaller building, whose interior is inaccessible to the player. However in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars there is a staircase leading to the top of this building, where Huang Lee will find a Security Camera.
The East Holland Police Station appears to be based on the NYPD 23rd Precinct and FDNY Engine 53 / Ladder 43 station, as well as NYPD 25th Precinct, both in Manhattan, New York City.
- Police Patrol - Spawns randomly in the car park.
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- Annihilator - Spawns on the helipad on the roof of the station.
- APC - Spawns in a garage (TBoGT Only)
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- A random car also spawns next to the east-side entrance.
- A NOOSE Enforcer spawns in the garage in GTA: Chinatown Wars.
- In GTA IV, there is a poster which has LCPD officers and then the title: "We See It All, We Know It All". Above those words there is a picture of an eye, the all-seeing eye. This is a reference to the Illuminati, a secret group that has the all-seeing eye. This is referenced again on www.liesdamnlies.net, where the Illuminati is heavily referenced.


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FIRE crews worked through the night to get flooding in Oxford under control, but there are fears further extreme weather will cause chaos in the days to come.
Abingdon Road was last night fully reopened after workers pumped water for more than 12 hours.
But with sleet and snow forecast today, and a further deluge of rain tomorrow, the situation could get worse before it gets better.
- A view from the air of Abingdon Road, Oxford, submerged in flood water
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Mike Adcock, Rewley Road station manager, said: "We have had a presence on Abingdon Road since 6pm on Tuesday and we expect to be working here for the foreseeable future."
Maryann Loughran, who lives in Abingdon Road, said: "I'm glad they're sorting it out – and I take my hat off to the people who have been out all night."
But the mother-of-three said: "This should have happened before. Why has it taken them so long?"
- Abingdon Road resident Maryann Loughran
Oxfordshire fire service area manager Nigel Wilson said it was the first time the "Oxford Method" had been used on Abingdon Road, with three hoses used to create a barrier and pump water from the road surface.
Wayne Gray, manager of Fat Phil's angling shop, was relieved the road had reopened.
He said: "People think you're shut if the road is shut, and now I can park up here rather than miles away, so it makes it easier for us who work here too."
Mohammad Afsal, 75, owner of the Nisa shop in Abingdon Road, said: "It means it's not like a ghost town any more. It was really scary with no-one coming through and with all the water.
"I wish they could have done it a bit earlier to prevent the water from getting here in the first place."
Oxford City Council was continuing to plan for the worst, with thousands of sandbags being prepared at the Redbridge Park-and-Ride site for residents at the bottom of Abingdon Road.
Grounds maintenance worker Scott Moor was among those busy bagging sand.
He said: "Everyone is working their hardest. We've got Botley Road and Abington Road on watch 24/7, but I'm praying we won't be needed."
- County council grounds maintenance worker Scott Moor
In Botley Road firefighters were continuing to use the "Oxford Method", coined by Local Government Minister Eric Pickles during a visit to the city on Tuesday.
Station manager Simon Sumners said: "We're expecting more rain and we're expecting to have to be stationed on Botley Road for some time."
While residents welcomed some relief from the rain yesterday, they remained worried about what was to come.
Mary Timbrell, 76, who volunteers as a flood warden in Duke Street, said people should not get complacent.
She said: "I'm sending a letter out, saying: 'Don't get your hopes up and keep your sandbags in place because it may flood again'."
- Duke Street flood warden Mary Timbrell
James Robertshaw, who is building an annexe in Duke Street, was also worried about further rain.
He said: "It has been quite a worry and I'm having to protect the building from the weather."
Environment Agency officers were yesterday operating pumps in Duke Street, Earl Street and Osney Yard, in West Oxford.
Temporary flood defences remained in place in Osney Island and at Hinksey Lake, South Oxford.
Howard Davidson, Environment Agency regional director, said: "With further rain expected in the coming days, after the wettest January on record in England, the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better."
Rodney Rose, Oxfordshire county councillor with responsibility for flooding, defended its speed in getting roads reopened.
He said "We don't act without making sure that firstly we protect houses. Reopening blocked roads is our second interest.
"We did have worries that pumping water into the allotments would be putting more houses at risk, but we have taken professional advice from the Environment Agency."


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