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As Crew President and General Manager Mark McCullers and Technical Director Brian Bliss alluded to on Thursday, the Black & Gold could consider trading their ninth overall pick in next Thursday's SuperDraft given the flexibility that has come with signing potential First Round selections Chad Barson and Wil Trapp as Homegrown players.
Columbus has executed trades involving First Round picks six times in club history, most recently drafting Justin Meram with the 15th overall pick in 2011 after sending allocation money and Steven Lenhart to the San Jose Earthquakes. The Crew has traded its First Round pick away three times: 2000 (third overall), 2007 (second overall) and 2009 (15th overall). In those trades, the Black & Gold acquired established talent in Dante Washington, Andy Herron and Pat Noonan, respectively.
Unable to project a prospect's future success, McCullers and Bliss would consider doing the same as a safer bet in 2013.
"I know the fans are always excited about a new player and a high Draft pick, and as well they should be," Bliss explained. "But as we've seen in the past couple of years the quality of the League has gone up significantly and that's been partially because of Designated Players and partially because of team's doing better homework in terms of guys they're bringing in. Cracking a roster at a younger age has been more difficult, not only with the Crew, but at other teams. Sometimes if you're really in need of something, it may be better to trade and know that you're going to get a proven starter. Obviously, it depends on each individual team's needs."
"There are opportunities out there and I think, generally speaking, if it fits into the plan of the club and you can get a known commodity, it's certainly the safer thing to do. We've got a little bit of riverboat gambler in us, so I don't mind rolling the dice and taking good calculated risk," McCullers added.
McCullers and Bliss are currently in Fort Lauderdale for the MLS Player Combine, where trade talks typically gain momentum ahead of the SuperDraft.
"A lot of the deals get done prior to leaving Fort Lauderdale or the evening before the Draft in the bar, and it's usually four beers and a prayer at that point," Bliss elaborated. "That's how the action usually takes place. It really takes place the day of the Draft on the phone. Although you see a lot of people on the phone, it's typically them re-confirming what was talked about the night before or the day you left Fort Lauderdale."
If the Crew decides to hold on to the ninth pick, the team is comfortable with making a careful decision based on its needs and the player's skill. In the end, selecting a player in the SuperDraft that goes on to be a superstar in MLS often speaks to the scouting and development ability of a club's technical staff.
"That's the exciting part of it," McCullers said. "Draft picks are the hope of making that great selection that people are going to look at for years to come and say, 'Wow, look at what they did with that pick,' especially the lower round picks. In this sport, in this situation, you can turn a supplemental pick into a starter in this League."


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This report re-airs Dateline Friday, Sept. 3, 9 p.m./8C.
Do you remember making mix tape cassettes for your friends? All these years later, that's something a best friend recalls about Cindy.
Theresa Olechowski: Dance music. She loved to dance.
Maybe the soundtrack to your life in the middle 80's was like Cindy Zarzycki's. Another, Cyndi -- Cyndi Lauper -- Motley Crue, and especially hometown favorite: Madonna.
The older sister she swapped clothes with still laughs about it.
Connie Johnson: We had a song. I still remember every move to this day. Madonna's "Borderline" and Cindy and I would dance to that song over and over upstairs.
In the middle 80s, a kid like Cindy didn't live in a big universe. Hers was a blue-collar Detroit suburb known back then as East Detroit. Neighbors mostly assembled cars or stamped out the parts for them.
The borders of this teenage girl were home, school, church and the mall for movies, meeting boys and messing around. In the warm months, there were rundown ballfields for softball games, a family passion. And, of course, there was the friendly Dairy Queen down the street after softball. Eddie Jr.'s the kid brother.
DennisMurphy: what did Cindy get, do you remember?
Eddie Jr.: Vanilla, probably swirled ice cReam cone. We always got the twist with the chocolate and...
Connie Johnson: The sprinkles! (laughs)
Eddie Jr.: Like, vanilla with sprinkles.
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Ed Zarzycki: It was kinda exciting because it was something that, as a father, I could connect with her.
It hadn't been easy for Cindy's father--raising a son and two daughters by himself after the marriage broke up. Ed Zarzycki was a school custodian and what exactly to do with a young daughter, other than love her, perplexed him a bit. So this new softball connection was a welcome one between father and daughter.
Ed Zarzycki: I mean, I had no problems with her. It was a joy to watch her come home from school and that, 'cause she had so much enthusiasm, you know? And she always had a smile.
And not at all a shy kid. There was that time the summer before on a family camping trip across the river in Canada.
Ed Zarzycki: And in the middle of the night, when the bonfire was going and at that time, Greenwood had that song.
DennisMurphy: "I'm proud to be an American," Lee Greenwood.
Ed Zarzycki: "Proud to be an American." And she was just singing that song just as loud. That was the type of person. She enjoyed life."
And in the last couple of years, she'd discovered boys.
Eddie Jr.: All I remember is she used to come home from school and write boys' names, like 50 times... "I love Scott." or "I love Dave."
The boy's name she was writing the most that spring, filling notebooks, was Scott.
Theresa Olechowski, Cindy's best friend since the second grade, like sisters in their matching too-cool-for-school white boots with buckles…
Theresa Olechowski: We wore those shoes everywhere!
...was at the mall the day Cindy's crush on 14-year old Scott began.
TheresaOlechowski: Scott had a couple of friends with him. And we passed by. We started talkin' to them. They started talkin' to us. And-- I think they had a lot of the same interests.
Cathy Bouford was Cindy's other great friend from school and sleepovers.
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CathyBouford: Puppy love. Yes, exactly.
But the place where puppy love blossomed - here at the Macomb Mall - would a few weeks later get Cindy in hot water with her father. This mall was about 7 miles from Cindy's house and she had standing orders from her dad never to walk home. But she did. And a single dad, raising a teenager, needed his rules followed.
Ed Zarzycki: So I had grounded her.
DennisMurphy: Which meant what? Come home right after school?
Ed Zarzycki: Right after school. You know, to stay at the house.
Grounded. No mall. No Scott. They went to different schools.
TheresaOlechowski: I think she was probably frustrated like any 13-year old would be when grounded. But then, at that time, the most important thing on her mind was Scott. You know, "How am I gonna talk to Scott? And how am I gonna see Scott?"
After school Friday April 18, 1986, Cindy said goodbye to her friends Cathy and Theresa and reported directly home as per her father's punishment. But the next evening, Saturday, Cindy bolted from house arrest.
CathyBouford: Well, she called me and wanted to come over. And she escaped her house. Came over to my house between 6:00 and 6:30.
DennisMurphy: She wasn't supposed to be there?
CathyBouford: No.
The two girls talked about--what else?—Scott, a boy Cathy had never met. Cindy used the phone to finalize surreptitious plans: She would go to the Dairy Queen and get a ride to a surprise birthday party planned for Scott the next day, Sunday. Cathy would be the alibi.
CathyBouford: She had told Mr. Zarzycki that she was going to church with me the next morning.
Come the next morning, Cindy told her kid brother she was going out for awhile.
Eddie, Jr.: I'm like, where? And you know we're supposed to be together, you know? You know Dad's not gonna be happy with us. And then she was like, I'm going and then just stay here. And then she started walking and then I followed her. And she's like, "Go home. Go back," and that's when she really changed her voice and like scReamed at me to go back, I wasn't supposed to come there.
DennisMurphy: You can't be the tag-along kid brother?
Eddie, Jr.: Right. Yup.
The infatuated 13-year old softball ace--in her cool white boots and jeans purse--pivoted and strode to the Dairy Queen. And then, she vanished.
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Herb Boyd | 2/20/2014, 11:32 a.m.
Fins out more: There is so much more to know about Debi Thomas, and reporter Lynn Norment wrote a wonderful profile of her in Ebony magazine, which you can find online. Thomas also has a website (http://www.docdeb...">www.docdebithomas...) that is rich with photos and articles.
Discussion: We would be curious to know the extent to which Thomas was encouraged by her parents and what she attributed to her determination to excel in a field where few African-Americans have participated. She was clearly undaunted by the widespread racism and prejudice. These and other questions should create lively exchanges.
Place in context: Thomas competed mainly in the 1980s, and by this time, some of the racial barriers had already been scaled. Even so, she was a pioneer, and it raises the question of why there have been few Blacks to follow her on the ice rinks.
This Week in Black History
Feb. 17, 1942: Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton is born in Louisiana. On this same day in 1982, the legendary composer and jazz pianist Thelonious Monk dies.
Feb. 18, 2006: Speed skater Shani Davis becomes the first African-American to win the gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
Feb. 19, 1919: W.E.B. Du Bois helps to organize the first Pan-African conference in Paris.
Ordinarily, the people profiled here have joined the ancestors and are often forgotten heroes and sheroes of the past. But with the current Winter Olympics in Sochi underway, particularly with speed skater and two-time gold medalist Shani Davis—the one Black participant of note no longer a medal contender—I thought of Debi Thomas. Maybe it's time to shift my focus a bit to celebrate a few living icons rather than summoning—however meaningful and important—figures no longer among us but who should be remembered.
While I haven't given too much attention to the competition in Sochi, it would be nice to hear some mention of Thomas, especially as the figure skating events become more prominent. Thomas was the first African-American to win a championship contest when she participated in the U.S. National Figure Skating Championship event. She accomplished this feat twice, in 1986 and 1988. In 1986, she won the World Figure Skating Championship. At the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, in 1988, she won the bronze medal and remains the only African-American woman to achieve this feat in figure skating.
An article in Ms. magazine offered this description of her talent and physicality: "She's perhaps the most physically powerful performer women's figure skating has ever seen, racing along the ice at a breathtaking pace before translating that motion into a spectacular vertical leap and speed-of-light midair spin. She then lands effortlessly with the elan of a ballerina, and completes the seamless meld of artistry and athleticism that the sport has come to demand. Watch her skate for a few minutes and you quickly forget about color and academics."
Born Debra Thomas in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on March 25, 1967, her parents are computer professionals, and it was her mother who introduced her to skating and made sure she received the best training.


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Bastards: someone who could also be called a "Black Sheep" was John Danson, the brother of my great great grandfather, who fathered a bastard child in 1810 and became the subject of an affiliation order, which I came across at Lancashire Record Office - a great find! It ordered John to contribute to the upkeep of his "said bastard child" - a daughter by Ann Butler of Marton. The poor child was repeatedly given this tag in the document below which is fascinating in its choice of language:
Unfortunately I have been unable to trace anything further on this story. John Danson died in 1836, aged 46, as far as I know unmarried and predeceased his father Henry by 3 years.
Birthday Cards - surely many of us keep birthday cards as precious memories of our families. Here is one sent by my grandfather in Flanders to my mother Kathleen Danson on her 9th birthday on 8th September 1917.
Business Cards: perhaps, like birthday cards, these are a piece of ephemera that often gets thrown away. I was so pleased to find, after her death, this memento of my mother's early working life.


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Ascent of Eldorado Peak on 2006-03-23
Dennis Poulin
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
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Eldorado Peak
8868 ft / 2702 m
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Recently, I had the pleasure of attending an 8 day Denali Prep Course with Alpine Ascents. The guides for the course chose Eldorado Peak (8,868) as our classroom.
On Friday, March 17, 2006 I drove from my home in Medford, Oregon to Seattle and checked in with Alpine Ascents at their headquarters. I met the lead guide Allen Corbert and left my equipment in their facility for the night. I checked in at the Mediterranean Inn, but returned to Alpine Ascents by 6:30AM the next morning for a gear check and final coordination with the other members of the course.
On Saturday, I met the other 6 members of our team and the other guide, Andy Rich. Since this was a Denali Prep Course, the equipment needed for the climb was everything that would be need for a Denali expedition. It took us a few hours to go through the equipment list and make sure everyone was prepared. Alpine provided all the group gear including tents, ropes, stoves, fuel, protection, sleds, and food. Some of the team members had to rent sleeping bags, trekking poles, double plastic boots, crampons, and snowshoes.
After much fussing and organizing the guides finally decided we were sufficiently ready and we packed everything into a trailer and a large 15 passenger van. We headed north on I-5 for an hour before turning east towards the North Cascades National Park. In another hour we were slowly making our way up the nice gravel Cascade Road. Just before Mineral Campground at elevation 1,360 ft, the snow was too deep for the van, so we pulled over and our expedition began.
We loaded up all our gear in massive packs and full sleds. This total load was about 120 lbs for me. When everyone was ready, one guide took the lead and the other was in the sweep position. We slowly started moving up the road with our objective being Eldorado Creek some 4 miles and 800 ft elevation gain ahead. Since this was my first experience pulling a sled, I was pleasantly surprised at how well it followed. I could feel it back there, but it wasn't that heavy.
After about 2 miles, the snow was deep enough and soft enough that snowshoes were in order. We arrived at our destination after about 2.5 hours and were happy that the forest service outhouse was unlocked. At least we wouldn't have to use our WAG Bags until we were further up the mountain.
We set to work stomping out a level area large enough to pitch 4 tents. When the area was sufficiently compressed, the tents went up in a hurry and we moved in. This had been a busy first day and we were all grateful to be having a hot meal, hot drinks, and get to bed early.
Sunday, March 19th, dawned with clear skies and it was only about 26 degrees in camp. After breakfast, we did some skills training and then we filled our pack with all our extra gear. The goal was to double carry all our stuff up to Camp 2. With heavy packs we set off. The first thing we did was cross the North Fork of the Cascade River. The water level wasn't too high, but it did get our feet wet through our mountaineering boots. We started climbing on the west side of Eldorado Creek in a northerly direction. I'm sure there is some sort of trail here in the summer, but it was all snow covered at this point. We struggled up through an old growth forest crossing over many down trees and post holing often in the soft snow. After struggling for 3 hours we crossed over a wide open avalanche area, climbed a few hundred feet more and then created a cache at about 4,200 ft. It was a relief to unload our packs before heading back to our base camp. It only took us an hour to get back to camp and hot drinks and a hot dinner were very welcome.
Monday, March 20th, was again clear and after more skills training we broke camp, created a cache for the sleds and everything we would not need for the rest of the week, loaded our packs full and headed back up the hill we had climbed the previous day. After a few hours we passed the cache that we had established the previous day and finally established Camp 2 at about 4,500 ft. We went back down to pick up our cache from the previous day and then established camp. The terrain did not lend itself to one large camp site, so we established separate tent sites and also established a latrine area and a kitchen area. Alpine Ascents uses a Posh Tent for the kitchen that allows all the climbers to congregate in one tent to share meals. This was a great way to get too know your fellow climbers and to ask the guides a 100 questions while dinner or breakfast was being prepared.
Tuesday was somewhat of a rest day in that we didn't move camp or have to shoulder a large pack. We had skills training for about 8 hours.
Wednesday, March 22nd, it was snowing when we got up. It was just a light snow with a little wind so it was business as usual. After a morning filled with more skills training we loaded everything into and onto our packs and made a single carry up to our High Camp at elevation 5,800 ft. The snow was soft and it was slow going. The lead climber broke trail and the rest of us just followed in his footsteps. High Camp was set up in a relatively flat area and we built 4 ft walls with ice blocks on three sides as training and as protection in case a storm blew in.
Thusday, dawned clear and cold. The guides made a decision to go for the summit while the weather looked good. This excited the group and we all hurriedly packed our cold weather stuff and we were off hiking by 8:00AM. We hiked over the ridge at about 6,000 ft and then down to the Eldorado Glacier. Here we put on our harnesses and roped up. We couldn't see any open crevasses, but this was a training course, so we did everything by the book. We had 3 rope teams of 3 climbers each and we slowly made our way up the Eldorado Glacier and onto the Inspiration Ice Cap. It was still a beautiful day and we could see Glacier Peak behind us and many other impressive peaks in all directions.
By the time we climbed up to the east ridge of Eldorado, the weather was starting to change. The wind was blowing up higher on the ridge and it looked like it was going to be colder. We bundled up and headed up the ridge. The wind picked up with gusts up to about 40 mph. The temperature dropped enough so that ice was forming in my Nalgene bottles. The lead guide set 3 pickets along the summit knife edge for protection and we all made it up to the summit and crowded together. I was the last man on the last rope, so when I arrived, the first team had seen enough and were freezing to death. They immediately started down. My team was the last to go and we picked up the pickets on the descent. It was still bitterly cold and would stay that way until we got far down on the east ridge. The middle climber on the first rope team fell into a crack up to his waist on the descent but managed to extricate himself without falling any further.
We arrived back at our High Camp 10 hours after we started. We were entirely happy with our accomplishments of the day and had a great dinner in the Posh.
Friday, March 24th, we got up to 2 inches of new snow. We started the day with more skills training learning how to set up haul systems to rescue climbers in a crevasse. It snowed all morning. After the training we loaded up everything in camp and headed down to Camp 2 where we picked up more cached equipment. From Camp 2 we were carrying large heavy packs down to our Base Camp. We passed through the avalanche area where a large avalanche had passed while we were up at High Camp. The snow here was really soft and we were sinking in up to our crotches with the heavy packs. We struggled all the way down the mountain and finally reached our Base Camp just as it was turning dark.
We quickly set up camp, ate dinner, and collapsed into our tents for some sleep. In the morning, Saturday, the weather had cleared but it was cold. We had a good breakfast, had the last of our field skills training, and then packed up everything along with our sleds for the hike back to the van. The hike out was peaceful and easy as we each reflected on the weeks activities.
I think the total climb was over 10,000 feet with the double carry on Sunday. This was a great experience for me and I received great training from Alpine Ascents. I think I will be ready for Denali in May.
Summary Total Data
Total Elevation Gain:
10820 ft / 3296 m
Total Elevation Loss:
10820 ft / 3296 m
Round-Trip Distance:
16 mi / 25.7 km
Route Conditions:
Road Hike, Unmaintained Trail, Stream Ford, Snow on Ground, Snow Climb, Glacier Climb
Gear Used:
Ice Axe, Crampons, Rope, Snowshoes, Guide, Tent Camp
Ascent Statistics
Gain on way in:
7910 ft / 2410 m
Gain Breakdown:
Net: 5000 ft / 1524 m; Extra: 2910 ft / 886m
Loss on way in:
2910 ft / 886 m
8 mi / 12.9 km
Start Trailhead:
3868 ft / 1178 m
Descent Statistics
Loss on way out:
7910 ft / 2410 m
Loss Breakdown:
Net: 5000 ft / 1524 m; Extra: 2910 ft / 886m
Gain on way out:
2910 ft / 886 m
8 mi / 12.9 km
End Trailhead:
3868 ft / 1178 m
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Towards the end of actress Frances McDormand's Academy Awards speech Sunday night, she asked women in the industry to stand up and to make contractual demands on film studios, NBC News reported.
McDormand ended her speech with two words: "Inclusion rider." An inclusion rider refers to a star's ability to put companies under clear, contractual obligations to hire more women and minorities.
The concept is not new and celebrities have been able to add demands into their contracts. The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which has produced many reports on the lack of women and minorities in movies, tweeted an explanation of the phrase and its power, if actors were to demand change through their lawyers.


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NameDoes society have a role to play in conduct costs?Date2013-12-28 00:00:00 +0000Text
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Too often we hear about moves to reset the banking system, introduction of new regulatory mechanisms to banks' risk management structures, etc. But can regulation really surpass the risks that banks and banking activities inherently possess and 'prevent' the next financial crisis? Or is regulation merely a theoretical myth to make us believe that banks can be safe and ethical?
The publication of the Conduct Cost Project's findings throws light on the cost of banking misconduct. Making this information public has the effect of educating the public, making us more aware of banking behaviours, and question the concept of sustainability in banks more generally. Can we expect these costs to decrease if banks became more ethical? To assert this is to assume that banks can alter their ethical culture, or that there exists one already. It has repeatedly been suggested that the failure of the banking culture is, in fact, a broader social phenomenon, in that the societal values we believe in and thus promote, explicitly or implicitly, fuelled the gradual fall or innately low ethical standards of banks. To expand, it may be reasonably argued that insofar as society pinpoints profit maximisation as a goal for firms and corporations, their ethical culture will not change and conduct costs will perpetually be incurred.
Risks and benefits often come hand in hand, whether the risks will outweigh the benefits attainable has declined in importance in the decision-making process of banks. Combination of various incentives and guarantee of security (i.e. government bail-outs) has been exploited in that banking, hedging and other speculations had merged into the sole purpose of profit maximisation where taking unreasonable and unjustifiable risks and surpassing competitors has become more important than sustaining long term financial health. And it is these incentives which encourage manipulation and short-termism, blinding the ideal of ethical sustainability. As mentioned briefly above, insofar as the government, a reflection of popular will at large, is willing to bail out banks, there will be nothing to lose in the eyes of the banks. If anything, it can be interpreted as encouragement to partake in high-risk and illegal activities.
Whilst the publication of these results has led us to question banks' risk management systems, and whether our banks are really as safe as we once perceived them to be, it also brought to surface the underlying paradox of the broader societal failure. Effectively, society is breeding this profit-maximisation culture. Supposed regulation and government bail-outs are evidently in direct tension with one another. The effect of the publication of these results is yet to be seen, the big question is whether the comparative element will exert pressure for banks to enter into a 'race to the bottom', and just how much is tolerated by the society at large.
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Robert Irwin (American, b. Long Beach, California 1928)
Conceived 1980, constructed 1981
Creson signboard, luaun wood, Masonite, acrylic latex paint
Wall relief in two segments: left: 11 ft. x 7 ft. x 16 in. (335.5 x 213.5 x 40.7 cm); right: 11 ft. x 4 ft. x 16 in. (335.5 x 122 x 40.7 cm)
Gift of the artist in honor of Ellen H. Johnson, 1980
Distinctions between artwork and context all but disappear in Robert Irwin's Untitled, a permanent wall installation in the entrance corridor of the museum's Ellen Johnson Gallery of Modern Art. As its dimensions exactly repeat those of the deep-set windows just opposite, Untitled responds to the windows' voids with mass, shape, and relief, and a surface that absorbs the entering light.
In 1975, Robert Irwin donated a "Piece to be designed and executed within the designated space of the Bidder," to the benefit auction held to raise money for the construction of Oberlin's Ellen Johnson Gallery of Modern Art, designed by the firm of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates.1 The lot did not reach its reserve, and thus became the property of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, as a gift from the artist in honor of Ellen Johnson.In August 1980, Irwin visited Oberlin to explore the museum's interior and grounds for a fruitful site. He was especially drawn to the Venturi addition (see About the Building in The Museum), and proposed two works in direct response to the building's eccentric details and references to the external environment: a sculptural piece addressing Venturi's large, wooden Ionic column located outside the northeast window of the gallery, and the piece Irwin ultimately selected, an exact reversal of the distribution of solids and voids formed by the west windows and their off-center pier.
Since 1970, Robert Irwin's work has consisted of installations that respond to preexisting, physical phenomena in a given environment.2 A remarkably concentrated example of Irwin's work, Untitled focuses on the space and light of the museum and gallery interiors, while subtly transforming the viewer's experience of that space.
Comprised of two slablike forms of great height, Untitled narrows and marks the entrance to the Ellen Johnson Gallery on a heroic scale. Yet the gallery visitor is hardly aware of Untitled's existence, as its white surfaces and neutral geometry blend into the gallery environment. To the visitor entering the gallery, Untitled is only peripherally visible; and once the relationship to the windows opposite is discovered, it may still appear that Untitled's volumes are simply part of the gallery's architecture. Irwin has described such works as "site determined," to the extent that the installation is "visually woven into that space, part of the scene yet not changing the whole."3
As Robert Evren has noted, Untitled points to the tangible, material direction that Irwin's work began to take from 1979 onwards.4 Prior to the Oberlin piece, Irwin worked in ephemeral and transparent materials, such as nylon scrim, tape, and string, creating scrim veils and wall divisions that reframed--and thus heightened and multiplied--the viewer's experience of existing conditions of light and space.5 While the Oberlin work has similar aims, its means are much more concrete and literal, as Untitled re-presents (not merely reframes) the negative space of the windows in terms of solidity, relief, volume, and color.
A. Kurlander
Work reproduced with permission of Robert W. Irwin
Robert Irwin was born in Long Beach, California, in 1928, and studied at the Otis Art Institute (1948-50) and the Chouiard Art Institute, Los Angeles (1952-54). Throughout the 1950s, Irwin painted in the Abstract Expressionist style only to reject it later for lacking "potency." In the early 1960s, Irwin, like other Minimalist sculptors, began to experiment with ways to make the work of art represent nothing other than itself. His desire to draw the viewer into the work of art led to a series of installations, beginning in 1968, that altered the viewer's perception of space primarily through lighting and nylon scrim sheets (for example, Scrim Veil - Black Rectangle - Natural Light, 1977; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art). Irwin's outdoor sculpture and installations (such as 9 Spaces, 9 Trees, 1980; Seattle, Washington) similarly draw attention to the viewer's perceptual experience of site and place. His site-specific work of the 1970s and '80s includes indoor works at the University Art Museum at Berkeley (1977), and the present work at Oberlin. In the mid 90s, Irwin was selected to create a major outdoor installation on the grounds of the J. Paul Getty Trust's Getty Center in Brentwood, California.
S. Jost
General References
Levine, Edward. "Robert Irwin's Recent Work." Artforum 16, no. 4 (December 1977), p. 28.
Wortz, Melinda. "Surrendering to Presence: Robert Irwin's Esthetic Integration." Artforum 20, no. 3 (November 1981), pp. 63-68.
Fox, Judith Hoos. In Aspects of the Seventies: Sitework. Exh. cat., Davis Museum and Art Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.,1980.
Weschler, Lawrence. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1982.
Irwin, Robert. Being and Circumstance: Notes toward a Conditional Art. Larkspur Landing, Calif., 1985.
Robert Irwin. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1977.
Koshalek, Richard, and Kerry Brougher. Robert Irwin. Exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1993.
Gift of the artist and created for the Ellen Johnson Gallery of Modern Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, in 1980
Evren, Robert. "From Window to Wall: Robert Irwin's Untitled." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 39, no. 1 (1981-82), pp. 39-47.
Technical Data
The plain materials--Creson signboard, luaun wood, Masonite, and acrylic latex paint to match the walls of the gallery--were chosen by Irwin. The piece was technically designed, constructed, and installed by the museum preparator, Henry Paustian, in 1980-81.The work is in good condition. It was repainted in 1984 to cover moderate cracking. The work is prone to buckling during fluctuations in humidity.
1. Sale New York (Sotheby Parke Bernet), 9 April 1975, lot 40.
2. A selection of Irwin's project descriptions and photographs of installations is offered in Robert Irwin, Being and Circumstance: Notes toward a Conditional Art (Larkspur Landing, Calif., 1985).
3. Quoted by Judith Hoos Fox in Aspects of the Seventies: Sitework (exh. cat., Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.,1980), p. 13, apropos of Irwin's work for the Wellesley exhibition. Cited in Robert Evren, "From Window to Wall: Robert Irwin's Untitled," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 39, no. 1 (1981-82), p. 41.
4. See Evren's "From Window to Wall: Robert Irwin's Untitled," Allen Memorial Art Museum 39, no. 1 (1981-82), pp. 39-47, for an extensive discussion of the Oberlin work. Much of this entry is drawn from Evren's essay.
5. Perhaps the most successful example of these earlier installations is no title, a temporary installation created for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in 1975. The MCA Chicago installation is widely discussed in the Irwin literature; see, for example, Edward Levine, "Robert Irwin's Recent Work," Artforum (December 1977), p. 28.


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Yesterday we walked you through some truly amazing pumpkins crafted to look like the people behind and in some of our favorite games.
Today we're posting a collection of video game-inspired Halloween costumes sent to and found by us. Please drop your own costume pictures in comments. We'd love to see what you're wearing.


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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, April 21
Today's recommended picks
Albert Pujols, 1B, Cardinals
10-for-26 (.385 AVG) lifetime vs. Mets starter Oliver Perez
Brian Roberts, 2B, Orioles
.404 AVG in '09; 11-for-30 (.367 AVG) lifetime vs. White Sox starter Jose Contreras
Matt Kemp, OF, Dodgers
13-game hitting streak to start season; .383 AVG in '09
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
Thanks to a couple of rainouts that shrunk an already light slate of games, only 31 fans were able to extend their streaks to a BTS-best 15 games. Of course, those who picked hit machines Derek Jeter and Chase Utley from the postponed games simply held steady with their current streaks, so they'll get another chance to move forward if Mother Nature cooperates with the schedule today.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Kevin Youkilis (BOS): 8.6%, 1-for-2
2. Miguel Tejada (HOU): 8.4%, 0-for-3
3. Derek Jeter (NYY): 6.6%, 0-for-0
4. Chase Utley (PHI): 6.0%, 0-for-0
5. Robinson Cano (NYY): 5.9%, 0-for-0
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The top group today, unlike yesterday, in which most concentrated around a few players, features a diverse mix of 18 players, in which no one player garnered more than 4 picks:
Dustin Pedroia: 1
Manny Ramirez: 2
David Wright: 3
Brian Roberts: 3
Felipe Lopez: 1
Aramis Ramirez: 1
Ichiro Suzuki: 3
Orlando Hudson: 1
Kevin Youkilis: 1
Jose Reyes: 3
Albert Pujols: 4
Alfonso Soriano: 1
Derek Jeter: 1
Hanley Ramirez: 2
Ryan Ludwick: 1
Rafael Furcal: 1
Endy Chavez: 1
Carlos Quentin: 1
Ollie and then our bullpen is gonna shut down Pujols
Well so much for that, Ollie is imploding
If only I had a nickel for every time I read that one statement…


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"Do you every listen to any of the older fellas?"
Bing and Bowie in 1977 …
Ferrell and Reilly in 2010 …
"Do you every listen to any of the older fellas?"
Bing and Bowie in 1977 …
Ferrell and Reilly in 2010 …
Nominations for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 have been announced. Once again, Harry Nilsson is not on the list. This is a great disappointment to Nilssons fans including many who have participated in the Harry in the Hall campaign the past year.
Sometimes the journey is as important as the destination. The moment has passed, but the movement lives on. We have just been given another year to share what Harry's music has meant to us with other fans, musicians, and the public in general.
Some kid is going to see one of the videos and start learning how to play a Nilsson tune on his guitar. A filmmaker is going to read one of the articles online and recall a song of Harry's that is perfect for the soundtrack of her movie. Some people are going to be reminded of why they love Harry's music while others are going to fall in love with Harry's music for the first time.
These little seeds we've planted have the potential to become large trees – not only to "keep the memory green" but to encourage it to grow.
[Edit: The recording is "in the can," but your help is still needed to fund post-production and promotion!]
The grass roots effort to promote the induction of Harry Nilsson into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in full swing, yet the biggest event is still to come.
On August 10, fans of Harry Nilsson, including musicians and others you may recognize, will go into a recording studio to record an anthem calling for Harry to be recognized by the Hall of Fame.
You can support the effort by donating to the Go Fund Me campaign to raise money to cover the expenses of renting the studio and recording the song.
The San Diego Rep, located in downtown San Diego, California, presents "Everybody's Talkin': The Music of Harry Nilsson," from May 23 to June 21, 2015.
Two Tony-winning Broadway actors, Alice Ripley and Gregory Jbara, star in the "song cycle that explores the incredible journey from innocence to adulthood through the many stages of love." Based on the music of "the most famously anonymous composer and performer of our time," Harry Nilsson, "Everybody's Talkin'" was created by Steve Gunderson and Javier Velasco (the award-winning team behind "Suds: The Rockin' 60s Musical Soap Opera" and "Back to Bacharach and David").
7 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays; 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays (plus 2 p.m. June 6 and 4 p.m. June 20); 2 and 7 p.m. most Sundays. San Diego Rep's Lyceum Stage, 79 Horton Plaza, Gaslamp Quarter. About $38-$67. (619) 544-1000 or sdrep.org
With the release of the Harry Nilsson Biography and a new box set of Nilsson's recordings, Harry Nilsson is receiving numerous mentions in the news and other media.
Douglas Wolk illustrates his overview of Nilsson's career and it's affect on others, The Surprising, Lasting Influence of Harry Nilsson, at mtvhive.com with videos of Nilsson and others performing Harry's songs.
On August 6, Jane Fonda talked with Jimmy Fallon about Harry Nilsson's Nilsson Schmilsson album which was produced by Fonda's boyfriend, Richard Perry.
Geoff Edgers talked with Van Dyke Parks and Lee Blackman for his August 3 Boston Globe article, Harry Nilsson gets star treatment in new set, book. Edgars also appeared on WBUR's Radio Boston show to talk about Nilsson (Rediscovering Musician Harry Nilsson).
Sean Fennessey describes Nilsson as "the great lost music genius of the 1970s" in his grantland.com article Deconstructing Harry (August 2).
Ben Greenman lists "The Ten Best Lesser-Known Nilsson Songs" in his July 30, New Yorker article.
While discussion the biography and box set, Slate describes Nilsson as a cross between John Lennon and Paul McCartney: "Harry Nilsson had John's perversity, Paul's whimsy, and one of the strangest careers in singer-songwriter history."
More from the News and Media:
Sony's Legacy label has released the following promotional video for the upcoming box set of Harry Nilsson's RCA albums.
Joining the recently announced biography and RCA box set, Varese Sarabande Records CD of Harry Nilsson's, Flash Harry, is coming August 13. Originally released on LP and cassette, and only outside the US, by Mercury Records in 1980, Flash Harry was the last album Nilsson released.
The new CD includes four bonus tracks: "Old Dirt Road (alt. version)," "Feet," "Leave The Rest To Molly" and "She Drifted Away."
The last three tracks are previously unreleased outtakes from the Flash Harry sessions which took place at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles. They feature Lowell George, Fred Tackett, and Bill Payne (of Little Feat); Ringo Starr; Van Dyke Parks; Jim Keltner; Jim Gordon; Klaus Voormann, Dr. John; and Donald "Duck" Dunn.
The CD includes an eight page booklet with additional liner notes by Jerry McCulley. A vinyl version of Flash Harry (limited to 2,500 units) is also planned. The LP will not contain the four bonus tracks.
Now that Amazon.com has spilled the beans a little early, here's a part of the big news that I couldn't report earlier!
This summer, Sony's Legacy label is releasing The RCA Albums Collection, a huge box set of Harry Nilsson's RCA albums on CD along with three additional CDs of outakes and single-only releases. The set includes 17 CDs in total:
The three newly-compiled CDs, Nilsson Sessions 1967-1968, Nilsson Sessions 1968-1971, and Nilsson Sessions 1971-1974, contain a total of 58 tracks, half of which (29 tracks) are previously unreleased.
The set will be released in July, 2013. It is available for pre-order from Amazon.com.
Chester Cannon, of the For the Love of Harry Nilsson blog, suggests that you may be able to order the upcoming box set for less from Amazon.co.uk even if you are in the US.
During a little housecleaning, I can across an extra copy of The Nilsson Anthology Songbook. So, I decided to offer it on eBay. This rare songbook includes 25 of Nilsson's songs arranged for piano and guitar. Click here to visit eBay.
You may have noticed that the Harry Nilsson Web Pages web site has a new home at http://www.nilssonschmilsson.com/. I moved the site to the new domain because Sony is developing an official Harry Nilsson web site which will reside at http://www.nilssonschmilsson.com/. Until the new site is ready, HarryNilsson.com will automatically forward to NilssonSchmilsson.com.
I've always understood that it was a privilege for us to be allowed to use the HarryNilsson.com domain name. Domain names like HarryNilsson.com are very important, not so much for the traffic they attract, but because they impart authority to the web site associated with the domain name. While we think of Harry Nilsson as an incredibly gifted singer and songwriter (and to many of the wonderful people I've met over the years, a friend and family member), the name "Harry Nilsson" also represents a very valuable business asset.
Although The Harry Nilsson Web Pages site was never the official Nilsson web site, many visitors probably thought it was due to the domain name. It's a great compliment to the fans of Harry Nilsson that Una Nilsson, Lee Blackman (the manager of Harry's Estate), and RCA/BMG/Sony allowed us to use it for so long. Many thanks to Una, Lee, and Sony!
The transfer of HarryNilsson.com to Sony was completely amicable. Lee Blackman called me and asked if I was willing to let Sony have the domain. Without hesitation, I said "yes." At Mr. Blackman's request, Sony will include a link to NilssonSchmilsson.com on the new web site.
I'm looking forward to seeing the new official Harry Nilsson web site. It's just the first of many new, exciting Nilsson-related developments on the horizon.


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August 14, 2014
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Community leaders in Watts were on hand Friday Aug. 8 for the grand opening of the AltaMed PACE Senior Center in the South L.A. neighborhood. The health center, will provide services to people 55 and older who might otherwise need to be placed in a nursing home. Patients will be able to live at home and receive primary and specialty care, along with dental services and physical and occupational therapy.
The center will be AltaMed's first facility in south L.A. Officials stressed the importance of helping people stay out of nursing homes.
"We're militant about that," said AltaMed President and CEO Castulo de la Rocha. "We want to keep them out of institutions. We want to keep them in the community...with their family."
Watts has historically suffered from a lack of readily available health care.
"I watched my seniors not be able to go to a doctor, because the grandchildrens was working, and she had no way to get there," said "Sweet" Alice Harris, a community leader who has lived in the area for 60 years. "I watched them die when they could have went and took care of herself before it was too late."
At the end of the ceremony, Harris, Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas and a handful of local officials, join with several others to cut the ribbon for the opening of the sparkling new facility.


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Community Justice Part II: Senate bill pushes new ways to deal with crime
copyright the Chronicle March 19, 2014
by Joseph Gresser
If a bill passed last week by the Vermont Senate becomes law, it will be the latest step in Vermont's very long struggle to find new, and better, ways to deal with criminals. That struggle began about 20 years ago, with a group of young idealists, led by a visionary Westmore man, reshaping how justice is meted out.
The recently approved Senate bill would allow some offenders — primarily those who pose no threat to public safety — the option of participating in a nontraditional program, such as the community justice program that operates in Newport.
Its intent is "that law enforcement officials and criminal justice professionals develop and maintain programs at every stage of the criminal justice system to provide alternatives to a traditional punitive criminal justice response…."
In the nontraditional reparative justice program, community volunteers work with an offender to develop a plan for making amends to the victims of his crime and to repair the damage done by his actions.
That program was developed about two decades ago by a group of young workers at the state Department of Corrections (DOC), with support from several governors and an important contribution from a longtime resident of Westmore, Bill Page.
In the 1970s the nation was seized by a fear of violent crime, and a concern that prisons were not fulfilling the intended purpose of rehabilitation. John Martinson, a noted researcher on the subject, grew pessimistic about the results of all the programs he investigated.
He wrote an article for the magazine Public Interest setting out his findings, an article whose conclusion, usually summarized under the heading "Nothing works," was spread throughout the popular media.
Around the country, prisons were generally seen only as a means to keep offenders from harming law-abiding citizens. Legislators followed the public mood and voted for increasingly harsh sentences for all manner of offenses.
A group of new officials at the Vermont DOC, however, thought they could find a solution to what seemed an intractable problem.
"We were arrogant, brash and young enough not to know better," recalled John Perry in a recent telephone interview. Mr. Perry retired from the DOC as director of planning in 2011. "We thought we could make a difference," he said.
They began in ignorance.
"We knew crime was increasing — increasing like crazy in the late '70s and '80s," Mr. Perry said.
What the young officials at the DOC did not know was that the increase was in reported crime, not actual crime.
In the late '60s and early '70s, Vermont experienced an influx of new residents coming from other parts of the country. One of the things they brought with them was an expectation of what government was supposed to do, Mr. Perry said. As a result, the new residents tended to call police for assistance more often than the locals had.
As in other states, Vermont legislators reacted to what they perceived as an increase in crime by increasing penalties in an attempt to stem it.
The result, recalled former DOC Commissioner John Gorczyk in a telephone interview, was "an explosion in incarceration without an increase in crime."
The DOC, in those days, was "underfunded, overcrowded and under-loved," Mr. Perry said.
But young, idealistic officials were put in a position to make changes to the system when Governor Richard Snelling brought William Ciuros to Vermont to take over the DOC. Mr. Ciuros forced the department's old guard out and installed "the new kids" in their place, Mr. Perry said.
Those included Joseph Patrissi, then deputy commissioner, Mr. Gorczyk, and Mr. Perry. Mr. Patrissi is currently executive director of Northeast Kingdom Community Action (NEKCA).
Mr. Ciuros got his deputies to cut their long hair and change their attire from woolen shirts to suits.
"We worked 12 hour days," Mr. Perry recalled. "I never worked so hard in my life."
Mr. Ciuros soon ran afoul of Governor Snelling and was dismissed, to be replaced by Con Hogan, but his team remained in place.
Among other initiatives, they started letting nonviolent offenders serve their sentences in the community, or on weekends, so they could continue working, Mr. Patrissi said.
That program hit a hard bump when the son of vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Farraro was arrested at Middlebury College with two and a half pounds of cocaine, said Mr. Perry.
He met the qualifications for release, except for having a residence in Vermont, Mr. Perry recalled. That was quickly managed, but the national media soon descended on Vermont to photograph the sign saying "luxury condominiums" outside his apartment complex, Mr. Perry said.
Madeleine Kunin had just been elected governor, and she tried to provide political cover for the DOC by creating the Community Corrections Advisory Board, Mr. Patrissi said.
She appointed Mr. Page to the board, as well as John Downs, a founding partner at Downs, Rachlin and Martin, and Fay Honey Knopp, a director of the Safer Society Foundation. The Safer Society program is a national referral service for sex offenders seeking therapy. She was also the founder of the Prison Research Education Action Program. Also on the committee was Jack Coleman, a former president of Haverford College who spent a sabbatical from his job as an inmate at a Pennsylvania prison. Mr. Coleman was a friend of the warden, who was the only one who knew he was there voluntarily, Mr. Perry said.
Mr. Patrissi and Mr. Page had already met, at a book club meeting at Mr. Page's house on Willoughby Lake where both men spent summers.
After the meeting, Mr. Page, who knew Mr. Patrissi was commissioner of corrections, approached him.
"He asked, 'How would you like to know something about human nature?'" Mr. Patrissi recalled. "I'd been in corrections 20 years and I was schooled in that side of human nature," he said.
Mr. Page had been director of corporate planning at the Polaroid Corporation during that firm's glory years and had learned from the work of E.O. Wilson, a sociobiologist and the world's foremost expert on ants. Professor Wilson's work, which traced the genetic basis of human nature, was being used by Polaroid in its marketing efforts, Mr. Patrissi said.
If Mr. Page decided someone was worthy of his attention, he'd latch on to that person as a teacher, said Mr. Gorczyk. Both Mr. Perry and Mr. Patrissi called him a mentor.
Mr. Page began running a kind of school for DOC officials, inviting them to his house, or taking them down to the Cambridge, Massachusetts, headquarters of Polaroid for classes with him or other experts.
As Mr. Perry recalled, he outlined some of the basic principles of human nature, including an innate fear of strangers, a preference for working in groups of around six members and, most importantly, the principle of reciprocity.
"If I buy you a drink at a bar," Mr. Perry said to explain reciprocity, "you had better buy the next round. If I have to buy the second round, there won't be a third one, and we won't be friends."
Working with Mr. Page and Mr. Downs, the group began to feel its way toward the system of reparative justice.
All felt that a real system of justice had to begin by putting the victim at its center, something that the English system of law, which was largely adopted by most U.S. states, did not do.
A reading of history, Mr. Perry said, shows the English originally had a system of law that rated the worth of an individual by his or her rank and punished offenses with fines that were proportional to the crime.
The basic idea, Mr. Perry said, was that a village needed all of its citizens if it was to function, so disputes had to be resolved in a way that would not cause the loss of someone's skills to the community.
When William the Conqueror took over England in 1066, he assigned his son the task of creating a system of colonial law, Mr. Perry said. That law treated every crime as an offense against the king, who was presumed to own everything in the country. Fines were no longer paid to a victim, but were given to the king, and many crimes were punished by death or mutilation.
Vermont, in its Constitution, bans the latter form of punishment, which it calls "sanguinary punishment," Mr. Perry said, so a system that turned away from the English model could be seen as being in accord with the intent of the state's founders.
Mr. Perry found similar ways of meting out justice in such native societies as the Navaho, who resolve criminal offenses with a series of meetings or circles which seek to define the nature of the crime and gradually, through discussion, to find a way to mend the damage.
Whenever they hit a problem, Mr. Page would create a report that analyzed the situation in detail and proposed a solution, Mr. Perry said.
"He was right every damned time," he recalled.
Mr. Patrissi said Mr. Page showed great patience with the group.
"Here we were, with this genius, who already knew where this was going to go," he said. "We were in the hands of a genius."
When Governor Snelling returned to office after Governor Kunin finished her last term, he called Mr. Patrissi in and demanded 12 great ideas, Mr. Patrissi said.
He liked the proposal for a reparative justice program and, after his sudden death, so did his replacement, Governor Howard Dean.
In order to figure out how to sell the program to Vermonters, the DOC wrote a grant and hired a polling firm to conduct the sort of market research that might be undertaken before a company like Proctor and Gamble launches a product, said Mr. Perry.
After conducting focus groups and an extensive telephone poll, the results were in. The people of Vermont hated the DOC, they also disliked the state's attorneys, criminal defense lawyers and judges. They did like juries, though, Mr. Perry said.
"They trusted themselves," he concluded.
Vermonters were also very positive about the reparative justice system when it was explained to them. The polls showed 92 to 94 percent favorability ratings, Mr. Perry said.
"Nothing gets 94 percent favorability ratings," he said.
The first attempts at operating a reparative justice system were run through the DOC, but it soon became clear that the program would work better if it were handled by community members through an organization outside state government.
That led to the creation of community justice centers.
Over the years, the results of the reparative board have proved the worth of the idea. A 2007 study was hard to publish, said Mr. Perry, because journals found it hard to believe that recidivism could be reduced in Vermont by 26 percent through the process.
Since the creation of restorative justice programs, Vermont has been frequently visited by representatives from other states and other countries seeking to learn from the state's experience.
Because Vermont has a unified corrections system, unlike other states with county, city and other government subdivisions running jails, its database is the most comprehensive in the country — a boon for researchers, Mr. Perry said.
Still, he and Mr. Gorczyk said they are not satisfied with the system as it exists. They feel it is underused.
Mr. Perry said he is pleased to see many schools are beginning to use the principles of restorative justice is dealing with infractions such as bullying. The results, he said, are very promising.
State law prohibits the use of reparative boards for some crimes, such as domestic abuse. Mr. Perry said he regrets that and believes the practice can achieve excellent results in those cases, if used properly.
Mr. Gorczyk said he has been pessimistic about the future of reparative justice until recently, but said the new Senate-passed bill is giving him renewed hope.
For Mr. Perry, it's important to take the long view.
"We're only 20 years into what will be a 100-year process," he said.
This is the second of a three-part series on community justice. The first part was in the February 19 issue of the Chronicle, and can be read here.
contact Joseph Gresser at [email protected]
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Training a Tank
A warrior is not a tank, though some tanks are warriors. A Bear (druid) is not a tank, though some tanks are bears. You know, I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
Sadly, most people I see claiming the role of "tank" don't do a good job. They're often excellent melee dpsers. They're often decent tacticians. But as tanks, they're mediocre at best.
As a priest – especially if you're a healpriest – you're ideally placed to help fighters become tanks. But to get there, you have to start by understanding what the tank is.
Referencing the Rule of Groups, a perfect tank takes all the damage.
The hardest thing for the proto-tank to grasp is that creating threat is more important than doing damage. And learning how to tank is hard. It is hard for two reasons. First, optimizing talents and gear for tanking makes the player far less able in solo play. Priests, we can sympathize. Healpriests are massively beneficial for groups. All of us who've tried to level as a healpriest… know the pain. In addition, the tank can ONLY LEARN HOW in a group. Ponder that a minute. A healpriest can get some idea of spell timing by self-healing. Other than that… learning the 5SR dance takes a group. So does sharing heals – getting a feel for when you can heal the party and when everything belongs to the tank. The tank doesn't even get the healpriest slice. If the prototank is alone he can't learn what works or not because EVERYTHING HE DOES WORKS.
It's worse, actually. A tank in solo learns to balance dancing and killing. In fact, he does a lot better if he kills – if he works on his DPS. Which is why, again: The hardest thing for the proto-tank to grasp is that creating threat is more important than doing damage.
So…. you can help. ESPECIALLY if you're a higher level trying to train lower level tanks. Here's the drill in that case.
Pick an instance where everything is gray to you. Ideally it's at least green to your tank, but still gray to you. (Make sure it's a party instance, not a raid – you're good but not THAT good.) Now you and the tank are going to two-man the instance.
Heh – the concept is easy. The practice… See, you probably can't tell the tank what to do. (Maybe you can – maybe you have a tanking druid or warrior alt. But the odds are…) You can't tell the tank: "Shield smash. Now thunderclap. Now change target and sunder twice – and change back to the first." Disregarding your knowledge, the battle's too fast. BUT… You can mention the tools ahead of time. And then you can run the instance.
You are the healer, and you are the DPSer. You want to use Just Enough DPS to challenge the tank, but not enough the tank can never recover. You also will need to pop a heal now and then – maybe a lot more.
What spells should you use – and of what rank? Guess who else is learning? (grin).
Seriously, however, I recommend a surprisingly simple set of spells. Choose an SW:P that will barely kill the mob — or come just short of it — and use that as your sole offensive spell. The rank, of course, depends… The rest of your casts are healing. The time it takes to kill the mobs (between the SW:P and the tank's damage) will be enough that the third mob will test the tank's aggro management. Which is the reason you're there after all.
Now you're going to have to deal with the troublemakers. Spellcasters usually – the ones who the tank usually ignores because they're for the DPSers. But if you're training a lower level tank, that's within your capability.
As your tank gets more comfortable, start making his job harder. Kick a level 1 SW:P at one of the mobs that aren't tagged. Call an add (a quick dot will do fine).
And don't forget to start training on other tasks that'll matter down the road. For example: facing. Have him turn the mobs so they're facing away from you – refuse to kill what's looking. Have him practice kiting – single and multiple – down a hallway and around obstacles. Remember this is HARD for him so keep the heals going, and be prepared to catch the mess when he slips.
After each pull – not after the instance, but every time he's done something new and interesting, good or bad, TALK ABOUT IT. And analyze the battles when you're done. (To help with this remember to start your combat log before the instance — and use one of the analysis addons or supplements for further assistance.)
"What could you have done to keep this skeleton?" "You taunted here, very good. Was there anything else you could have done?"
or the evil "Did you ask me to reduce my DPS till your cooldowns cleared?" (Yes, I try to teach the benefit of TALKING during the fight — communications turn out to be Oh So Helpful.)
OK, let me wrap this with two variations and some philosophy.
Variation one is the fact I can teach a healer and tank as easily as I can just a tank. The healer of roughly equal level enters and is solely responsible for healing the tank. I am DPS, OMG Squasher, and troublesome team member. The healer needs to learn what to do when mobs change target – for priests it's a lesson in when and how to fade (even preemptively), and to RUN TO THE TANK, just for basics.
Variation two is… if the tank's high enough level, I cannot do it alone. But I still don't need a full group. The key, really, is that the mobs of the instance are barely green for the tank but gray for you and your assistance. Too difficult and you might as well learn the hard way — and there's always the background question as to whether the problem is the tank, or if it's you doing not-quite-so-good a job. You need there to be no doubt when things get sticky — and you will prefer it if you can bail out your party if things go from sticky to ugly. If the tank is high enough he needs levels that are challenging to you, bring in assistance.
Finally, a bit of philosophy. If YOU are the low level, you can make this work for you. If you've got a friend or acquaintance with the right level and skill have them help. If not, ask. "Looking for level HIGH tank to help me learn how to properly party-heal by running Gnomer." Yep, most of us hate clearing an instance for other player's spoils (Plz, 70, run me thru DM??) But make it clear you're in it for the training, not the loot, and you just might get the help you're needing.
Final message. If you DO get the opportunity to train a tank, do it. Do it well. And friend that tank, because while players are everywhere a good TANK is hard to find.
2 Responses to "Training a Tank"
Great post!! My main is a Prot Warrior who I sometimes call a Tank. Sometimes he's just added waste… (lean concept) in a raid or instance. There are so many guilds and raiding parties in the game that just assume that if you're high level and spec'd for prot, you know how to tank. When I decided to create a new toon and raise that toon as my next 70, I decided to pick a class that was to me, the most helpful to my warrior growing up. I never put the similarity of priests and warriors soloing in the perspective you just showed me. What a concept. It makes learning my new toon that much more interesting. Thank you once again.
I might just take your advice… although in a backwards way.
Ya see, I just started a priest. My first healer ever. And my wife just started a paladin who she plans to make a tank. But! And this is the fun part: I have paladin tanking experience, and she has healing experience (although not priest: she's run a resto-druid and a holy-paladin). And we're both comfortable with those other roles.
So I might see if she wants to run some instances once we start leveling over them, so that we can both learn our roles.
And for this advice, and a couple of your other posts: Thanks!


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El Tejano (Midland, Tx) had a back to back release of a blue marlin and a white marlin to add 900 points to their Day One 600 point total for a blue marlin release - finishing in first place with 1500 points. Ol' Fish N'Grits (Saint Simons Island) released two blue marlin on Saturday, good for 12oo points - but they finished third behind Daymaker (G'town) who had already reached the 1200 point level on Friday. Black Sheep (Hampton), Game On (HHI) and NOFA (Chas.) also released one blue marlin each on Saturday. Kiki (Wadmalaw), Aggressor (Chas.) and Full Pull (G'town.) each released one white marlin during Saturday's fishing. Miss Wy IV (G'town.) released the only sailfish during the last day of the Georgetown event, which was blessed with sunny skies and a jam-packed dock when the fleet returned to port. Their was a change in the dolphin category when Jimmy Bass brought his 45-pound mahi to the scales - fishing from On The Hook (Wilmington, De.). Later in the day Jim Moore aboard At Ease (G'town) weighed in a fine 44-pound mahi - coming up just one pound shy - but that's fishing! As of now these results are unofficial. This was the 42nd annual Georgetown Blue Marlin Tournament - and only the 21st year of the Governor's Cup Billfishing Series, which tells you about the respect that offshore anglers have for this event.
To view more blog coverage from the 2009 G'town Gov. Cup click here.
Photos By Jeff Dennis: Jay Bass with the tournament winning dolphin, DNR law enforcement gave these aspiring sportsmen a citation for being 'caught' with their lifejackets on, Lauren Leasure aboard Summer Girl (Chas.) reeled in this 20.5-pound dolphin, the Saturday afa'noon activities rocked the dock!, and Luke Blythe from Brainstorm (Chas.) with his 30-pound dolphin


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PORTLAND — Industry data are too scant to gauge the health effects of coal dust blowing off trains headed from the Great Plains to export terminals along the West Coast, according to a review by Multnomah County's health department.
County Chairman Jeff Cogen, a coal export opponent, requested the report on health effects.
Local governments can't stop the export projects, he said, but, "The burden should be on the coal companies and the train companies to prove that this is not going to damage the health of our residents."
One in nine Multnomah County residents lives within a third of a mile of potential coal-train routes, the report said.
Three of the five terminals being considered for coal exports — one in Coos Bay, Ore., and two on the Columbia River, in Longview and near Clatskanie, Ore. — could send trains through Portland.
The analysis looked at the impact if all three projects succeed, bringing up to 90 million tons of coal through the county on 16 to 19 trains each day. But some of the traffic might be on the Washington side of the river, and two of the terminals haven't applied for permits.
"The bottom line is, a lot of the information on coal dust dispersal is proprietary, and it's not well validated," said Gary Oxman, who recently retired as county health officer and oversaw the report. "It doesn't mean there's a terrible risk from train transport, but it needs to be illuminated more."
The report says the federal government should do a regional study of export proposals, a call similar to one made by Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber.
The dust contains harmful metals, including cadmium. But little is known about how it's dispersed or the size of the particles. Smaller particles are more likely to lodge in the lungs.
A ton, at route's start
BNSF Railway has estimated that up to a ton blows off of a single car. But terminal and rail officials say most of the dust is lost near mines, which are in Montana and Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
Coal shipments have been going through Washington to export ports in British Columbia for decades with no complaints made to regulators there, say advocates such the Alliance for Northwest Jobs and Exports, a trade group that includes railroads and coal companies.
"Coal dust is one issue where people involved in the alliance feel very, very comfortable that it's not a concern," said spokeswoman Lauri Hennessey. "I really feel it's a red herring."
The report concludes the trains a mile long would generate relatively small increases in diesel pollution and noise, but they would go through areas already heavily affected by pollution. The trains could add cumulative delays of up to two hours per day at at-grade rail crossings, the report said.


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With BlizzCon tickets selling out within minutes again this year, fans wonder why the company doesn't just sell more tickets. After yesterday's opening ceremonies, the reason become abundantly clear.
The picture above was taken holding my camera high amidst the press of bodies trying to either get in or out of the main hall. Some waited patiently while we stood still for the better part of ten minutes, while others tried squeezing through the crowd, pushing past large, sweaty members of the press as if they weren't there. I was frustrated myself, not being a big fan of being trapped in small spaces, and if it weren't for the fact that I could see above everyone I might have panicked. Looking around, it seemed like I wasn't the only one having issues either.
Blizzard sold more tickets this year and added a new hall, but at events that everyone wants to attend, the new hall doesn't make much of a difference. Last night's costume contest was another example, with folks packed into the hall, sitting on the floor, and crammed up against the concession stands off to the side.
So yeah, selling more tickets just wouldn't work. With Blizzard's legion of fans, I have doubts that there exists a venue large enough to really satisfy their needs. Perhaps next year they can institute a system where customers place their ticket orders over the course of a week, with some sort of random algorithm determining who gets a chance to actually purchase them and attend the show. All I know is more tickets is definitely not the answer.