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May 15, 2014
LAWT News Service
Over 1,500 families from Compton and surrounding areas enjoyed a high-flying day of fun at this year's Arts and Aviation Career Expo, Saturday, May 3, at Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum.
Sponsors included TAM, Compton Unified School District's Visual and Performing Arts Department and Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement program, and the City of Compton.
The event featured musical performances by middle and high school bands, flight simulators, airplane and helicopter rides, arts and crafts, and an art gallery that showcased the works of CUSD's secondary school students, food stands from local vendors.
Partners including Raytheon, Boeing, California Science Center, and Trash 4 Teaching delighted students with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics activities.
Job seekers received career resources sponsors including Best Buy, the Los Angeles Police Department, ChildCare Careers, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Medical Services Bureau. CUSD College and Career Support Services Administrator Renee Cobb said the District is proud of its continued work with TAM and the growing popularity of the Annual Arts and Aviation Career Expo.
"This was our best event so far," she said.
"We are thankful for the District's partnerships with the Compton Airport, TAM, the City of Compton, JPL and NASA, Boeing, Van Wagner, and the Workforce Group. Their support made it our most successful event so far. It was also great to see our students' talents shine on the outdoor stage and in their amazing art work."


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Professional Paths
February 06, 2014
Lewis & Clark students thrive in the classroom and the workplace. Our Career Development Center helps students define their goals and prepares them to make good on those aspirations by offering a variety of resources, including career counseling, mock interviews, resume workshops, and access to our wide alumni network.
The skills learned in a liberal arts education—critical and creative thinking, analytical reasoning, global literacy, and the ability to collaborate across specialties—allow graduates to pursue diverse career paths.
Young alumni in the workforce share how their education at Lewis & Clark equipped them for life beyond college.
Rachel Young BA '10
Major: Environmental Studies
Occupation: Researcher, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
The analytical, technical, and critical thinking skills I gained at Lewis & Clark have served me tremendously. I first ran statistical analyses in SPSS—something I now do in my job—in introductory biology and Environmental Studies 220. As a researcher, I also draw on the specialized analytical skills I developed in an environmental law course I took my senior year.
Yurop Shrestha BA '11
Major: Economics
Occupation: Senior Associate, Aginsky Consulting Group; Cofounder of Galt US Ventures
I took a number of finance-related economic courses while at Lewis & Clark and I did my senior thesis on a corporate finance topic, asset pricing models. I think that coursework and experience helped me secure this position.
Beau Barnes BA '06
Major: International Affairs
Occupation: Law Clerk, U.S. District Court
It's a cliché, but a liberal arts education prepares you to think critically about whatever you're dealing with. I gained a lot of important substantive knowledge in my four years, even though I don't really apply the lessons of 19th-century German literature and international relations theory in my day-to-day work. I do, however, face a lot of complex problems without easy answers, and being able to think in different ways about these issues makes me better at my job.
Molly Gray BA '10
Major: International Affairs
Occupation: Program Director/Volunteer Coordinator, Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls
My job is often as varied as my Lewis & Clark education. I majored in international affairs and I certainly use my diplomacy skills now, but I also took classes in French, queer studies, women's and gender studies, and music, all of which have been relevant to my life and my work.
David Hurt BA '01
Major: Psychology
Occupation: Financial Representative, COUNTRY Financial
Having knowledge in an array of subjects has increased my success and sense of fulfillment both professionally and personally. I believe my psychology background helps me to be a better financial representative than I would be had I spent my college years studying only finance and economics.
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Florid, rich colour creates a visual entrapment in the works of Orlanda Broom. Wildly blossoming, excessive jungles are exuberantly portrayed in a whirlwind of colour. The paintings themselves warn of temptations. Tempestuous juxtapositions are explored through the human desire to explore yet the dangers that we should inevitably fall upon; not just in the nature we explore, but also, consequently in the losing of ourselves. The intoxicating use of colour, may lead us astray with their bewitching beauty. The paintings are a testament to human desire whilst also satisfyingly leaving no proof of our, or other animal existence. These works beseech a world untouched, unblemished, blooming and completely unattainable.
Orlanda Broom has exhibited regularly in London and Internationally. Her paintings have been selected for curated shows and competitions including Threadneedle Prize, NOAC, BEEP and the RA Summer Exhibition. In 2016 Orlanda completed a major commission (4m x 4m) for the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in New York.
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"Beauty and the Priest"
Aired June 1, 2013 - 20:00 ET
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening. I'm Anderson Cooper. Tonight, a murder that's gone unsolved for more than half a century. A south Texas beauty queen, sexually assaulted and killed shortly after going to confession. Suspicion turned to the priest but nothing stuck. Police, though, they never gave up. So, now, 53 years later, evidence points only to the man who heard Irene Garza's final confession, the man they still suspect took her life. CNN's Gary Tuchman has the remarkable story. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She had beautiful shiny hair. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She had this natural effervescence. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She had the most musical type voice. NOEMI SIGLER, IRENE GARZA'S COUSIN: She had a way with children and she smelled like flowers. GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In 1960, Irene Garza was raped and murdered in McAllen, Texas. LYNDA DE LA VINA, IRENE GARZA'S COUSIN: The one thing I remember is just screams. TUCHMAN: There was a suspect. (on camera): Who do you believe killed Irene Garza? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Father John Benard (ph) Feit. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Father John Feit, back then, a Catholic priest. CHIEF VICTOR RODRIGUEZ, MCALLEN POLICE: No evidence in this case right now points us in any other direction. TUCHMAN: So why is he still a free man? By all accounts, Irene Garza was a remarkable young woman. SIGLER: She kind of broke the mold. TUCHMAN: Irene's younger cousin, Noemi Sigler. SIGLER: At that time, Hispanics stayed one side of town, Anglos lived in another side, and she kind of transcended that. DE LA VINA: She was gentle and sweet and beautiful. TUCHMAN: Lynda de la Vina is another cousin. DE LA VINA: She was really a role model and to see how she had gone through college was a teacher, was a beauty queen and yet was, you know, just a very sweet and simple person to us as children. TUCHMAN: But in 1960, the body of this inspiring woman was found face down in this canal. She was 25, the age for thinking about getting married and raising a family. DE LA VINA: She didn't have a life. Irene never had that chance. TUCHMAN (on camera): Irene Garza lived in this house, in what was a very nice neighborhood near downtown McAllen, and remains so today. She lived here with her sister and her parents. (AUDIO GAP) before Easter, she hopped in her car for the short five-minute ride to her church. (voice-over): Irene went to confession every Saturday. SIGLER: She was highly religious. It was very, very important to her. TUCHMAN: On that April day in 1960, Irene met with Father John Feit, a 27-year-old visiting priest. He had come to the Sacred Heart Church from a nearby town to help out on the busy Easter weekend. DALE TACHENY, FORMER MONK: Kind of a nice guy but he was a ridged fellow. TUCHMAN: Dale Tacheny, a former monk, says he spent six months with Father Feit at this monastery in Missouri after Irene's murder. Tacheny was Feit's spiritual counselor and says that in bits and pieces, Feit told him about a young woman he saw for confession just before Easter. TACHENY: He offered to take her to the rectory. TUCHMAN: About sexually assaulting her. TACHENY: After fondling her breasts, he took her to the basement. TUCHMAN: About keeping her bond and gagged. TACHENY: He put something over her head. TUCHMAN: About her struggle to live. TACHENY: She was saying I can't breathe. I can't breathe. TUCHMAN: And about dumping her lifeless body at the canal. TACHENY: On the way over there, Father Feit said that he patted her on her breasts, she was in the backseat and was saying to her, "Irene, everything will be OK. Everything will be OK, Irene." TUCHMAN (on camera): Even though John Feit knew she was dead. TACHENY: Yes, yes. TUCHMAN (voice-over): While it was not unusual at the time for the church to deal with criminal priests internally, Tacheny says he asked Feit about the secular authorities. (on camera): Why was he sent to the monastery in your opinion and not to the police? TACHENY: I asked, "Why are you here and not in prison?" And he said simply, "The church protected me." TUCHMAN (voice-over): The autopsy states that Irene showed evidence of recent trauma, sexual intercourse and trauma to the head. Evidence of strangulation could not be found but suffocation could have been carried out by placing a cloth over the mouth and nose, especially if Irene was unconscious. The subject was dead when placed into the canal. TACHENY: I believe he killed her and I believed that then. I had no doubt about it. Because he said he did. TUCHMAN (on camera): You have no doubt John Feit killed Irene Garza. TACHENY: Correct. TUCHMAN (voice-over): But Dale Tacheny did not come forward with any of this until four decades later, when he said the guilt became too much to keep quite. John Feit left the priesthood. He has lived a full life. (on camera): Mr. Feit, I'm Gary Tuchman with CNN. I want to talk to you about Irene Garza. JOHN FEIT, FORMER PRIEST: Good for you. TUCHMAN (voice-over): It's not surprising he doesn't want to talk about Irene, because not only do Irene's relatives and Dale Tacheny believe he killed her, so does every police officer and law enforcement agency that's dealt with this case. (on camera): Do you believe you know who the murderer is? RODRIGUEZ: We have developed evidence sufficient to the responsibility of probable cause that John Feit was the person involved in this particular homicide. TUCHMAN (voice-over): But with so much heat, why did the case go cold? (on camera): Early on, why do you think he wasn't prosecuted? SIGLER: A cover up. TUCHMAN: Who were they trying to protect? SIGLER: John B. Feit. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) TUCHMAN (voice-over): McAllen, Texas in the 1930s was segregated, the neighborhoods, the schools, even at the hospital Mexican-Americans and Anglos were treated in separate wards. But when Irene Garza was born in 1934, her parents were determined that she and her sister Josephine would transcend the discrimination, together. JOSEPHINE CAVAZOS, IRENE GARZA'S SISTER: We were very tight. We were very close, because it was like us against all of those that were prejudice -- (AUDIO GAP) CAVAZOS: Hispanics, yes, and my dad fostered that because we're in it together. TUCHMAN: In their parent's day, the public schools for McAllen's Hispanic children only went to fifth grade. But the Garzas had bigger dreams for their daughters. CAVAZOS: From the beginning, we were told, oh, when you go to college, when you go to college. It was something that was just the thing that was going to happen. TUCHMAN: If education was the way out, religion would show them the way up. Parochial school for the elementary grades offered both. CAVAZOS: We were told, don't get mad, pray. Catholic school, don't get mad, pray. So we would say we have to pray for so and so, we start praying. TUCHMAN: Later at the public high school where girls often aspire to be baton twirlers with the marching band, Irene and Josie were reluctant. It was the late 1940s. (on camera): Was it unusual for Mexican-American teenagers to do twirling? CAVAZOS: It was. My mom says, go ahead and try out. They have a new music director and we'll see if he'll get you in. And he was impressed with the two of us and he let us in. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Irene went on to McAllen's first Mexican- American drum majorette, an inspiration to her younger cousins. NOEMI SIGLER, IRENE GARZA'S COUSIN: In essence it didn't matter what race she was. She was just Irene. TUCHMAN: Irene also made an impression in the local beauty pageants. Eventually being crowned Miss South Texas in 1958. SIGLER: She was everything I think that all little girls, especially the young cousins wanted to grow up to be because she was so poised. I don't know if this is the right word, elegant. TUCHMAN: After graduating from college, both Irene and her sister became elementary schoolteachers in McAllen. It was both a mission and a joy to be with the children. CAVAZOS: She caught second grade. We had hilarious stories to tell each other and she said, "I just love him" and she said, "He has these little cheeks and I just go over there and do this to him." He says, "Stop it, Ms. Garza." TUCHMAN: Friends and relatives say Irene's good looks never went to her head because her heart was so big. CAVAZOS: She would go every Saturday to the (INAUDIBLE) homes and do their nails or do their hair, whatever they wanted, so they would look nice when their families would come to see them on Sunday. TUCHMAN: Irene's good deeds grew out of her deep faith. Sacred Heart Church in McAllen felt like an extension of home. CAVAZOS: I would say the feeling would be love, a gentle quietness. That's where we felt safe. TUCHMAN (on camera): Did you and your sister regard the priests as godly men? Close to God? CAVAZOS: We thought they were. Yes, we believe they were and respected that. Respected their calling. TUCHMAN (voice-over): One of those priests was John Feit, living and studying in the South Texas Pastoral House. Members of his order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. But at a church in nearby Edinburg, Father Feit would be accused of sexually assaulting this young woman, Maria America Guerra. (on camera): The 20-year-old woman told police she came into the church which was empty at the time to pray. The communion rail was right up here near the chairs, she knelt down and then was attacked by a man. She told police he had dark hair and horn-rimmed glasses. She bit him on the finger and drew blood and then she ran away. (voice-over): Father Feit matched Maria America Guerra's description of a suspect. She identified him to police and he had what appeared to be a serious bite mark on one of his fingers. In this sworn statement, Feit said the injured finger was from a mimeograph printing machine, an accident. After a jury deadlocked on a felony charge of assault with intent to commit rape, Feit would eventually plead nolo contendere, no contest, to misdemeanor aggravated assault. The judge found him guilty and fined him $500. No prison time. Just 24 days after Maria America Guerra was attacked, Father Feit was working at Irene Garza's church. On the Saturday before Raster, Irene went to confession. She had been doing this routinely for years. But this time, she would meet with Father John Feit. And this time, she would not return home. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) TUCHMAN: How old were you when Irene died? LYNDA DE LA VINA, IRENE GARZA'S COUSIN: Nine. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Lynda de la Vina vividly remembers the day her cousin Irene Garza disappeared. DE LA VINA: Irene had actually called us on Saturday before Easter. We were going to have the typical Easter egg hunt. She had gotten us baskets late that evening. My parents got a phone call that said Irene had gone to church and she hadn't come back and she was missing. TUCHMAN: Another cousin, Noemi Sigler, was at Irene's house that day waiting for the Easter egg hunt. SIGLER: What I remember is the grown ups, talking, whispering, crying. We were wondering what in the world was happening but we knew something really bad had happened. TUCHMAN: Irene was missing. But her car was still parked outside the church. Family, friends and neighbors formed search parties and looked frantically. DE LA VINA: Everybody was hoping that there was just some misunderstanding or that she had maybe gone with friends or something and everybody was very, very worried. TUCHMAN: Two days later, people began to find her belongings. DE LA VINA: I remember when they found her shoe that was thrown in a field and they found her purse. Something was definitely wrong. TUCHMAN: And then, on day five, the 25-year-old beauty queen and teacher was found floating face down in this canal, about three miles from her church. (on camera): When you found out, what went through your mind? DE LA VINA: The one thing I remember was just screams, screams from my aunt, screams from my mother. Everybody screaming. I just remember the screams. TUCHMAN (voice-over): The death certificate states the cause of death was trauma to the right side of her head causing hemorrhage of the brain and suffocation. It also states Irene's body bore evidence of having been raped while in a coma. (on camera): Noemi, when you stand here at this site, tell me what goes through your mind. SIGLER: A great sadness. Just -- it breaks my heart. TUCHMAN (voice-over): All of McAllen was shaken. Nothing like this had ever happened here. SIGLER: It was just so horrible to know that this beautiful, beautiful, nice person was found dead, murdered. TUCHMAN: Since Irene's car was still at the church, that's where investigators focused and on the last man believed to see her alive, Father John Feit, the visiting priest. In a sworn statement, Feit said he had taken a phone call from Irene wanting to speak to one of the priests about an important matter, but instead of taking Irene's confession in the church, Father Feit had her go next door to the rectory and after the visit, Irene went missing. DE LA VINA: So immediately, my dad and others were wondering, you know, what had happened and what did this guy know? TUCHMAN: Traumatized, Irene's family retreated into their home surrounded by their closest relatives. SIGLER: I remember being in the house and the lady sitting on the bed just crying her heart out. TUCHMAN: As painful as the memories are, cousin Noemi wanted us to see the family home today, to better understand what happened that horrible time more than 50 years ago. We knocked and a young woman named Sarah came to the door. (on camera): We're doing a story about who lived in this house in 1960. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. TUCHMAN: Do you know about this? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Irene Garza. TUCHMAN: Irene Garza, you knew that. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. TUCHMAN: This is Irene Garza's cousin. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, nice. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Sarah had learned about Irene's murder when she was in high school. (on camera): How old are you now? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm 25. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Twenty-five years old, the same age as Irene when she died. And like Irene, Sarah lived with her parents. In fact, Irene's old bedroom is now Sarah's bedroom. Sarah even bares an eerie resemblance to Irene. SIGLER: You almost have the same hair. TUCHMAN: Noemi asked if she could go inside the house. SIGLER: To see what it triggers back. I was here as a child the day she went missing I was here. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You were here, wow. TUCHMAN: Sarah welcomed her inside where the past came back in a way Noemi never imagined. Inside Sarah gave something to Noemi. After all these years, a high school yearbook from 1949 had remained in the house, through three different owners, waiting for the family that would cherish it. SIGLER: Bye, bye, thanks. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thanks. SIGLER: God bless you. TUCHMAN (on camera): What is that? SIGLER: They found it in there. TUCHMAN: This is Irene's sister's yearbook. SIGLER: Irene might even be in here. TUCHMAN: Here she is. Here is Irene Garza. SIGLER: Thank you. You have no idea what you did. Thank you. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're welcome. I'm sorry for your family's loss. SIGLER: Wow. TUCHMAN: You were a remarkable family to save this. I think it's going to be a lot of joy to this family. SIGLER: I never would have expected this. TUCHMAN (voice-over): To Noemi, the unexpected gift was a sign from Irene, a pointed reminder that the murder case is still open and that Irene's cousins still have work to do. SIGLER: I want to give her a voice from the grave. She is here. She is here. And she wants justice. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) TUCHMAN: Who do you believe killed Irene Garza? RUDY JARAMILLO, TEXAS RANGER: John Feit. TUCHMAN: Who do you believe killed Irene Garza? SONNY MILLER, DETECTIVE: Father John Benard Feit. RODRIGUEZ: Nothing in this case ever pointed differently. TUCHMAN (voice-over): These three law men who had lead this investigation say the evidence takes them straight to John Feit, starting the day Irene's body was pulled from the canal. In the water, police recovered two candelabra that were from Irene's church and the slide viewer. MILLER: That slide viewer was found next to her body. TUCHMAN: Sonny Miller is the former supervisor for McAllen's crime scene investigations. (on camera): The slide viewer that was found, whose slide viewer was that? MILLER: Investigators found out that belonged to Father Feit. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Father Feit always denied to police he killed Irene Garza. He acknowledged taking Irene's confession in the rectory and told investigators she left, but family members suspected him immediately. DE LA VINA: Certainly that was in everyone's mind since her car was still at the church. She had gone to confession. TUCHMAN: Later that night, Father Feit had cuts and injuries on his hands. He told fellow priests and investigators he got them when he was locked out of his home and climbed to a second floor balcony to get in, but when experts administered a lie detector test they concluded he was concealing facts and showing guilt. They thought definitely he was guilty of the murder. But there were no eyewitnesses and soon after the murder, the church moved Feit far away to a series of monasteries. He was never charged and the murder of Irene Garza went cold for decades. (on camera): Early on, why do you think he wasn't prosecuted? SIGLER: A cover up. In those days, it was impossible for a priest to do such a deed. If you thought of it, that would be sacrilegious and I don't know whether it was out of respect for the church or anger or fear. I have no idea but protect him, they did. TUCHMAN: In 2002, 42 years after the murder of Irene Garza, the cold case heated up. Two witnesses came forward independently. Both men of the church saying they knew without a doubt that Father John Feit murdered Irene Garza. For the police, it was a bombshell. Rudy was a lieutenant with the Texas Rangers. Before retiring in 2012, he worked cold cases. JARAMILLO: It was just incredible. I just couldn't believe we had been looking for something that could help us in this case and all of a sudden, here it is. TUCHMAN: One of the new witnesses, Father Joseph O'Brien, the lead priest from Irene's church, admitted being part of a cover up. RODRIGUEZ: He said he was following direction. TUCHMAN: Victor Rodriguez is the McAllen police chief. RODRIGUEZ: He knew the complicity of John Feit in this particular case. TUCHMAN (on camera): Was he emotional when he talked to you. RODRIGUEZ: Yes. It was obvious that he was parting ways with a heavy burden he carried for a long time. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Father O'Brien died in 2005, but before his death. FATHER JOSEPH O'BRIEN, PRIEST (via telephone): Noemi, this is Father O'Brien I'll call you later. TUCHMAN: He spoke with Irene's cousin about what he knew and she recorded the conversation. SIGLER: So he told you also, sir, that he had killed her. O'BRIEN: Yes. SIGLER: Oh, my God. O'BRIEN: Well, I suspected from the very beginning. We searched the attic and searched the basement looking for her. That's how suspicious we were. TUCHMAN: And Father O'Brien told Noemi that the church sent Feit away for a reason. O'BRIEN: We knew he was dangerous. SIGLER: Yes. O'BRIEN: So we shipped him off to Trappist monastery. TUCHMAN: And then there was the second witness, Dale Tacheny, the former monk in our Lady of the Assumption Monastery in Missouri that finally decided to end his silence. TACHENY: I was told a priest was coming who had murdered a young woman. TUCHMAN (on camera): And what was that priest's name. TACHENY: Father John Feit. TUCHMAN: At that time in 1963, you're not thinking, why don't you call the cops? TACHENY: Never entered my mind. TUCHMAN: How come? TACHENY: We were taught to obey and to do as a superior tells us. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Tacheny was assigned to be Feit's spiritual counselor. TACHENY: What I remember in telling, it was very close to Easter and a young woman came to him to confession. TUCHMAN: Tacheny told police that Feit gave up more details overtime about sexually assaulting Irene and holding her bound and gagged. TACHENY: He put something over her head and put her in the bathtub. TUCHMAN (on camera): This is what he told you. TACHENY: Yes. And as he was leaving she was saying I can't breathe, I can't breathe. Later on that day, he came back and she was dead in the bathtub. TUCHMAN (voice-over): With Father O'Brien and Dale, the former monk finally coming forward, the police were ready to make an arrest. But one man in McAllen, Texas, had other ideas. RENE GUERRA, DISTRICT ATTORNEY: The problem with the Irene Garza case is that you have no credible person that you can put on the stand beyond a reasonable doubt saying this man killed Irene Garza. TUCHMAN: How could the D.A. say that? And why? (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) TUCHMAN (voice-over): After decades with no progress, two new witnesses had come forward with striking details about the murder of Irene Garza. Investigators thought they could at last close the case. RODRIGUEZ: We thought at that point in time we had reached the threshold of probable cause. JARAMILLO: I prepared an affidavit for an arrest warrant. TUCHMAN (on camera): So you were ready to arrest John Feit for the murder of Irene Garza? JARAMILLO: Yes, sir. TUCHMAN (voice-over): But one man was not convinced and never has been. GUERRA: You have no credible person back in '04 and even before that you could put on the stand that could convict Feit. TUCHMAN: Rene Guerra is the district attorney for Hidalgo County, Texas. He says he's not protecting the church. He just doesn't believe the two witnesses, Father O'Brien and Dale Tacheny, partially because they both changed their stories after years of silence. And he questions Father O'Brien's age and state of mind. Father O'Brien was 77 when he came forward. He has since died. GUERRA: O'Brien might have been credible in some aspects of the case but because of his senility and his advanced age, the question here is whether he could be reliable. JARAMILLO: I felt that he was credible. I think he had a remarkable memory. TUCHMAN: Rudy Jaramillo, retired lieutenant from the Texas Rangers, met with Father O'Brien when he was investigating the murder. (on camera): So you judged Father O'Brien to be credible. JARAMILLO: Yes, sir. TUCHMAN: Did you think he was possibly senile? JARAMILLO: No. TUCHMAN (voice-over): McAllen chief of police, Victor Rodriguez, agrees. (on camera): Do you believe Father O'Brien was a good credible witness? RODRIGUEZ: Absolutely. TUCHMAN (voice-over): The D.A. also said he did not believe the former monk. GUERRA: Tacheny was not a witness that I could rely on. I believe that Tacheny received all the information that he wanted to say from Rudy Jaramillo, the Texas Ranger. TUCHMAN: The D.A. says Texas Ranger Rudy Jaramillo fed the former monk information which he didn't have himself. Lieutenant Jaramillo said that never happened. And that the D.A.'s claim is a great insult to his integrity. What's more? The D.A.'s concern about Tacheny seems to ignore this man. GEORGE SAIDLER, BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF: Back in 2002, I was a detective with the San Antonio police homicide unit and I was assigned to the cold case unit, and I had received a phone call -- TUCHMAN: George Saidler is now deputy chief of criminal investigations for the Bexar County, Texas sheriff's office. In April 2002, months before Lieutenant Jaramillo of Dale Tacheny, the former monk called Detective Saidler. Tacheny gave him details about how Father Feit admitted murdering a 25-year-old woman. SAIDLER: I remember Mr. Tacheny telling me that the girl had been placed in the bathtub, wrapped in, I call it saran wrap or cellophane. That she was naked from the waist up. That he had fondled her breasts. TUCHMAN: Tacheny gave Detective Saidler numerous details about the murder that had never been made public and put it in writing. SAIDLER: I was convinced that Mr. Tacheny knew about a murder and that that person told him about it. TUCHMAN: Rudy Jaramillo could not have possibly fed information about the murder to the former monk says the chief. SAIDLER: I knew Dale Tacheny months before Ranger Jaramillo ever knew about Dale Tacheny and the details of the case. I certainly found him credible enough that I was convinced that he knew about a murder. TUCHMAN: But Guerra says he doesn't believe Saidler either. And despite the new witnesses, the D.A. told the family and law enforcement that he would not take the case forward. (on camera): So, Guerra fought your request to bring this before a grand jury; is that correct. DE LA VINA: Yes. TUCHMAN: What did he say to you? DE LA VINA: When pigs fly. It can't be prosecuted. It can't be prosecuted. Old case, old people. And he basically told me to my face with finger in my face saying he will never be indicted. GUERRA: You know, it's an unfortunate statement that I made. TUCHMAN: About the pigs flying. GUERRA: Yes, because it comes across that I'm insensitive and callous which is not true. TUCHMAN: It was not until Irene's family organized vigils and demonstrations outside the courthouse that the district attorney in 2004 finally agreed to bring the case before a grand jury. (on camera): When the grand jury was convened, Father O'Brien and the monk Dale Tacheny were prepared to testify, to reveal what they say John Feit told them about the murder. They certainly would have been the star witnesses. But the district attorney never called for them. (voice-over): Instead, the grand jury only had a transcript of what they told police. And the main suspect, John Feit, he was never subpoenaed to testify. Eventually, the grand jury voted not to indict John Feit. Irene's family was crushed. DE LA VINA: They're supposed to be representing the people of the state of Texas. They're supposed to be representing the victims. SIGLER: All we wanted was a grand jury to hear the facts. If they build it on their own, so be it. But it just seemed like he was hampering the evidence to be presented because the Texas Rangers were there, the McAllen P.D. police chief and the investigators were there waiting outside to go in and they were never called, week after week after week after week. TUCHMAN: District Attorney Guerra stands behind his decision not to ask Dale Tacheny and Father O'Brien to testify in person, and now, Father O'Brien is dead. (on camera): If you could do it over again, could it have made a difference if you allowed O'Brien to personally take the stand and let the grand jurors see his eyes? Could that have made a difference? GUERRA: I don't believe so. I honestly don't believe so. And again, it's not the indictment that I need. I need a conviction. TUCHMAN: I -- GUERRA: Because I don't want to try just anybody just for the sake of it, for the glory because if I -- if I start going for the glory and indictments of very sensational cases, I'm going to compromise my integrity and the oath that I took. Some people want to glorify themselves through solving cold cases. TUCHMAN: But I think some people want to bring a murderer to justice. GUERRA: Sure. But isn't there some glory and fame behind it? I'm not against glory and I'm not against fame, but the thing here is I'm not going to allow you to use me as a stepping stone. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Coming up -- (on camera): Mr. Feit, I'm Gary Tuchman with CNN. I want to talk to you about Irene Garza. FEIT: Good for you. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) TUCHMAN (voice-over): Today, Irene's family lives in limbo. Certain that John Feit killed Irene, powerless to bring him to trial. (on camera): What would you say to John Feit if you could talk to him? DE LA VINA: I wouldn't talk to him. I won't say what I would do. TUCHMAN: Because? DE LA VINA: I believe he's a very evil man. SIGLER: I really would like to talk to him face to face. No tapes, no cameras, no nothing. I really would like to sit down and speak to him because I'm going to tell him you killed her body but you did not kill her soul. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Today, John Feit lives here in a pleasant neighborhood in Phoenix, Arizona. He left the priesthood in the late 1960s. He is married, has children and grandchildren. (on camera): Mr. Feit, I'm Gary Tuchman with CNN. I want to talk to you about Irene Garza. FEIT: Good for you. TUCHMAN (voice-over): We wanted to hear John Feit's version of what happened. We wanted his response to those that say he's guilty of rape and murder. (on camera): Back in 1960, this Texas Ranger memorandum says you expressed guilt to the Texas Rangers about killing Irene Garza. Is this true? Do you ever have trouble sleeping at night? Can you just answer that question? The McAllen police and Texas Rangers believe you killed Irene Garza. Are you worried about that, sir? Are you concerned? (voice-over): Feit would not answer our questions. But when we interviewed him five years ago, Feit had more to say. (on camera): Did you commit the murder of Irene Garza? FEIT: Interesting question. The answer is no. TUCHMAN: He also told us what he thought of Dale Tacheny, the former monk who says Feit admitted murdering Irene. (on camera): He says you told him you committed the murder. FEIT: I think he's demented. TUCHMAN: What about the priest, Father O'Brien? He says you committed the murder too. He knew you very well, sir. FEIT: (SPEAKING LATIN) TUCHMAN: What does that mean, sir? FEIT: Look it up. TUCHMAN (voice-over): He was speaking Latin, with the reference to the late Father O'Brien. It means "do not speak ill of the dead." Now, 80 years old, Feit has done volunteer work at this local Catholic food bank. SIGLER: I don't care what type of person he has become nowadays. He's helping the poor, he's doing this. But deep down inside, there's John B. Feit there. And he cannot deny that. He knows it and I know it. DE LA VINA: And I don't care how old he is. My view is he should spend his last years where he should have been all this time, in jail. TUCHMAN: During our recent interview attempt, John Feit did have one message for Irene's family. We caught up with him just a few days before the anniversary of Irene's murder. She was killed on Easter Sunday. (on camera): I'm going to ask you one more question, sir. It's obvious that you don't want to talk but I want to know if you feel bad for this family who suffered for 53 years. Their daughter was found dead. She was last scene with you. Your slide viewer was found by her body. You never apologized. You never said a word of support to this family. What would you like to say about that, sir? FEIT: Have a happy and blessed Easter. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Had Irene lived, she would have been 78 years old. Her short inspiring life and brutal death forever left a mark on this south Texas town. RODRIGUEZ: I'm hopeful that one day we will successfully bring this case to a close. My community can't compare to the family. The impact to them is direct, it's familial, it's blood, all those kinds of things. But this case also is an incident that has impacted our community. We have come to be defined some what by that case that has kind of been like an open wound for this community. JARAMILLO: I made it my goal to try to solve this case. So, it's kind of been with me, you know, all of this time, you know? I wanted justice for her. TUCHMAN: Former Texas Ranger never knew Irene in life, but he spent years investigating her death. Now, she is never far from him. (on camera): How long will you keep that picture behind your desk? JARAMILLO: Until I'm not here on this earth anymore. I don't see a reason why I should take it down. TUCHMAN: Do you think Irene is watching over you and grateful that you're doing this for her? DE LA VINA: I think she watches over all the family. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Family members admit there were times when they considered giving up. SIGLER: I went to her grave to tell her I've done all I could. I've given it my all, because I want closure on this. I'm tired, 17, 18 years of doing research on the case. I went to her grave, sat there on this nice beautiful sunny day and I was literally telling her "good-bye, Irene." And that hurts because I promised her I'd never leave her. I'd never leave her behind. And I heard this little like flapping and it was the most beautifullest white dove and it just flew over, landed, turned around and just sat there and looked at me and I looked at it and it was so beautiful. So I told Irene, "Yes, I got the message, I'll keep on." TUCHMAN: Even after 53 years, Feit could still be charged. There's an election for district attorney next year, and a new D.A. could push the case forward. And there's no statute of limitations on murder. DE LA VINA: What I want to see happen is justice for Irene. I would like a new D.A. to bring this to the grand jury to get it indicted, and for law enforcement to do what they have wanted to do since 2003, is to go and arrest him and bring him back to justice, prosecute him, and find him guilty. (END VIDEOTAPE)


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Tesla is as known for what he couldn't manage to accomplish as for what he did, and his admirers are doing their best to save the site of his ballsiest, most outlandish failure.
After his work on alternating current made him a rich, famous, and respected electrical inventor, Tesla had no trouble securing funds (about $US3 million in today's money) for what was seen as the next frontier: Wireless transmission. Tesla built a massive tower on a site he named Wardenclyffe, in southern New York, to experiment with the beginnings of what would become radio waves.
But when he was beaten to the punch by Italian Marconi (here we can shake our fists, a la Colbert, and yell: MARCONI!!!!), he decided he was actually going to transmit wireless energy, not just information, out to those who couldn't afford it. His investors, seeing no trail to profit, abandoned him, and as turned out, his tower was in no way capable of doing any such thing in the first place.
Wardenclyffe is a maze of Tesla lore; giant batteries without documentation, rumours of extensive secret tunnels surrounding the site, and half-finished experiments are all part of its now-dilapidated charm. It's fallen into disrepair in recent years, and is currently littered with the throwaways of damn teenagers with their damn beer cans, but now with the possibility that the property could be sold as mere real estate, Tesla fanatics are up in arms.
Tesla's admirers stress that this 16-acre estate is his most important workshop, and that any other fate but a museum is an insult to the ambitious genius's memory. The company that currently owns it is open to such a change, but is not in a position to simply donate the site. The site seems fascinating, and we really do hope somebody steps up and gives it the new life as a museum it deserves. [New York Times, image courtesy of New York Times]


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How to create a release without the maven2 release plugin
One of the most referenced articles I have written is "How to create a release using the maven release plugin". But what if you can't get the maven release plugin to work with your project? Perhaps like our team, you've got a legacy maven2 multi-module project that's been nigh impossible to use with the release plugin. Our project has a mix of WAR modules combined with some Flex modules. I believe our last issue was some googlecode flex mojo wasn't working with the release plugin. Consequently, for the past year or so, we've been manually creating our releases. This actually hasn't been that much of a pain since we really only do it once a sprint at the end. Combined with my favorite perl script it doesn't really take that long. However, it does have the disadvantage of requiring some knowledge of what and now to do it. Ideally, it would be a job in Hudson, anyone on the team could run as many times as they like.
In an effort to try and automate as much as possible, I decided to try and automate releasing our legacy multi-module project using bash. This has several benefits: create a release faster, done consistently each time, turn-key solution anyone on the team can run that doesn't require stale documentation on how to do it.
It took my several hours to essentially duplicate the maven release plugin process. Thanks to our new intern Scott Rogers and linux master Ron Alleva, I was eventually able to get it finished. It's my first "official" bash script so pardon the mess. If you've never attempted to automate your release project, first consider reading my article on How to effectively use SNAPSHOT.
Here is the script available as a gist on github: project-release.sh. Here is what it does:
- Copies the current working branch (i.e. trunk) into another branch. It uses the pom.xml
value to get the current working branch.
- Updates all the pom.xml version sections of the current working branch
- Commits the pom.xml changes
- Checks out the release branch
- Updates all the pom.xml version sections of the release branch (basically stripping off -SNAPSHOT)
- Commits the pom.xml changes
A few notes about the script:
- The base branch URL is hardcoded but could easily be passed in as another parameter or placed and read from some external file.
- It uses the cmd xpath to extract out the pom version, project name, and scm url. I'm on ubuntu 9.10 and according to synaptic I have libxml-xpath-perl version 1.13-6 installed.
- It doesn't run any maven commands like mvn deploy. Other jobs in CI can accomplish that or you can easily add them into the script.
- To run from Hudson:
- Create a New Job
- In the Build section Add a Execute Shell Step
- Update the Command text with: $WORKSPACE/trunk/project-release.sh 2 false


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Welltok Acquires Leading Health App Developer Mindbloom
Welltok Acquires Leading Health App Developer Mindbloom Mar 2014
Company to leverage mobile, gaming and consumer engagement expertise
Denver – March 20, 2014 – Welltok, the pioneer in health optimization, today announced the acquisition of Seattle-‐based Mindbloom, an innovative mobile health company. The acquisition will expand Welltok's capabilities to deliver engaging, interactive mobile experiences through its CaféWell Health Optimization Platform, and allow consumers anytime, anywhere access to compelling health programs, content, applications and communities.
"To profoundly change consumers' health-‐related awareness, actions and behaviors for the better, we need an effective and practical platform to become engrained in their daily lives," said Jeff Margolis, chairman and CEO of Welltok. "We were impressed by the Mindbloom team's ability to integrate behavioral science and user-‐centered design principles with health-‐related content to deliver a superior consumer experience."
Mindbloom has built popular, top-‐rated apps, including Bloom for inspiration and Life Game for life improvement. The company has garnered a highly engaged user base and has had apps featured in the Apple App Store℠ and by ABC News. Additionally, leading health plans and pharmacy retailers have collaborated with Mindbloom to create solutions for millions of consumers.
Welltok is revolutionizing the way population health managers align consumer actions and behaviors with the right incentives and rewards. The company recently raised $22.1 million in Series C funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), which included the first investment from the IBM Watson Group and participation from Qualcomm Incorporated, through its venture capital arm, Qualcomm Ventures. The new capital is being used to accelerate product development of CaféWell Concierge powered by IBM Watson and expand the CaféWell Connect partner program, as well as integrate Mindbloom's capabilities into the CaféWell platform.
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Big-name guest stars – including a madcap mom and some major man-candy – will be dropping in on the Dunphy clan on "Modern Family."
"Shelley Long is coming back!" says Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who's stoked to see the classic sitcom star reprise her role as Mitchell and Claire's prodigal mother DeDe Pritchett. "We have a birthday party for Lily and she's coming back in, and the writers have assured me that something crazy will happen with her again. I think her first episode was kind of classic, so another incident might happen with Shelley Long."
Actor James Marsden (Hairspray, X-Men) is also making a splash on the show as Mitchell and Cameron's easy-on-the-eyes neighbor, says Ferguson. "He ends up in our hot tub, which is quite a sight. He was very sweet, very fun to work with – and then on top of that very handsome! So it was a nice day."


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H.L.A. Hart and the Invention of Legal Philosophy
19 Pages Posted: 29 Sep 2011
Date Written: September 28, 2011
In this essay I argue that in some sense legal philosophy, at least as the term is now understood among analytic jurisprudence in the Anglophone world, is to a large extent a creation of H.L.A. Hart. It is with him that the search for the concept of nature of law has been established as an independent object of inquiry that consciously tried to avoid moral or political questions. In framing the province of jurisprudence in this way Hart not only depart from the work of Thomas Hobbes and Jeremy Bentham, whose political commitments are well-known, but also from the seemingly much closer enterprise of John Austin. After demonstrating the difference between Austin's work and Hart's I criticize the direction legal philosophy has taken following Hart's lead.
Keywords: Jurisprudence, H.L.A. Hart, John Austin, Normativity
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THE BLIND DATE CHALLENGE Christa & Paul
Blind Date Challenge
Christa is 23 years old with blondish hair, green eyes, a thin frame, and medium height. She enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking and camping, as well as music, traveling, cooking, and "overall having fun." A UVA grad who now works as a graphic designer in Charlottesville, she's pretty active– runs and works out every week– and says her easy-going sense of humor makes her stand out. Christa is looking for "a tall guy with a great smile who doesn't take himself too seriously."
Paul is 26 years old, 5'11" with short blond hair and green eyes. He likes listening to live music, going to shows, outdoor activities, sports, and playing with his dog. He graduated from Virginia Tech and now does event marketing and promotions. Like Christa, he runs a few times a week and wants to become involved in intramural sports. Paul is looking for a "confident, athletic girl with natural beauty and a smile that makes others do the same... someone open-minded and willing to experience life to its fullest."
Christa and Paul met at Bel Rio in Belmont.
What did you do to get ready for the date?
Christa: not much out of the ordinary, showered, figured out what to wear.
Paul: Changed clothes and looked up directions to the restaurant.
How long did it take to get ready?
Christa: About an hour.
Paul: 15 minutes or so.
Did you get there first? If so, what did you do while waiting?
Paul: Yes. I sat outside and enjoyed the evening.
Were you nervous?
Christa: A little, since I've never been on a blind date.
Paul: Not really.
What was your first impression of your date?
Christa: He seemed very relaxed, comfortable, and happy.
Paul: Wonderful personality, easy to talk to.
What was he/she wearing?
Christa: Black button down shirt and jeans.
Paul: Sleeveless top with jacket and dress pants.
Was he/she your type?
Christa: In some ways, yes, but not in others.
Paul: Fun, intelligent girl with a career: yes.
Did you order drinks?
Christa: We both got a couple beers.
Paul: A few.
What did you order?
Christa: We shared a calamari appetizer, I got paella, and then we shared tiramisu for dessert. He had a steak. It was really good.
How were you date's table manners?
Christa: They were very good. He was very polite.
Paul: Very polite.
What did you talk about?
Christa: A lot! Music, hobbies, interests.
Paul: Our jobs, upbringing, family, hobbies and interests, past relationships and lack of blind-date experience.
How did the conversation flow?
Christa: Very smoothly, lots of talking; it took us half an hour to even look at the menu.
Paul: Very naturally.
What did you find most interesting about your date?
Paul: She was a very interesting girl all-around, but I loved that we had similar interests in art and music.
Christa: 1. That he had lived in Charlottesville for a year and a half and had never been to Belmont. 2. He doesn't have a gallbladder.
What did you all have in common?
Christa: We both like music a lot, and have some similar favorites.
Paul: Very similar lifestyles and personalities; we got along very well together.
Did you feel any chemistry?
Christa: Not really, but sometimes it's hard to tell after just meeting someone once.
Paul: There was some chemistry as we shared a lot of laughs and smiles throughout the evening.
What was your favorite part of the date?
Paul: It was a great evening from start to finish.
Christa: I was expecting some awkwardness, but it felt like we had already been friends before the date. It was overall really fun.
How did the date end?
Paul: We gave one another a hug and exchanged phone numbers so we could hang out again.
Christa: We hung around for a while after dinner watching the band [Caravan of Thieves], and headed out when they took a break.
Kiss? or hug? or handshake?
Christa: Hug.
Paul: Hug.
Would you go out again?
Paul: Definitely.
Christa: Probably.
Rate the Date:
Christa: 8.
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4. What does the future hold for Gordon Beckham?
Good things – and lots of them. His performance with the Sox last year showed that the team was right to draft him with their No. 1 pick in 2008, and then move him out of the minors after only 59 games. The kid looks like the real deal and should have a terrific future in front of him.
… For a clearer picture what's in store for him, I did a little digging for comps. Last year, the 22-year-old Beckham posted a 107 OPS+. So, I went to Baseball-Reference.com's excellent Play Index and did a search for seasons by: 1) 22-year-olds since 1900, who 2) played an infield defensive position (short, third, or second), 3) posted an OPS+ between 97 and 117, and 4) either qualified for a batting title or had 400 PA.
Fifty-three names popped up. Two were in 2009 (Beckham himself and Everth Cabrera) – leaving the remaining 51 to serve as forecasting tools for Beckham. (I know B-ref has easily available sim scores, but I don't really trust them because of the differences of era and park. Besides, I think it matters to account for defensive position.) I then dug into their careers to get an idea what the short- and long-term future could be for him (they're all listed in references and resources at the end of this column if your curious). …


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This project will work with the MPCA to conduct watershed pollutant load monitoring at four sites in the Chippewa River watershed and one site in the neighboring Pomme de Terre River watershed . The Chippewa River Watershed Project (CRWP) team will also aid the MPCA in measuring and comparing regional differences and long-term trends in water quality. The goal is to collect quality data and complete load calculations for the five sites using the MPCA's established protocols.
The Pomme de Terre River Association has targeted and identified specific areas and activities required for marked water quality improvement. This project will implement of 16 Water and Sediment Control Basins (WASCOBs), 28 Rain Gardens, 2 Shoreline/ Stream bank stabilization, 10 Waste Pit Closures, 1 Terrace Project, and the enrollment of 1900 acres into conservation practices. These practices in total will directly result in site-specific and watershed-dependent reductions of 17,801 tons of sediment and 17,784 pounds of phosphorous from entering surface waters yearly in the watershed.
This project will support a civic engagement cohort that will be offered in southwest Minnesota to foster partnering and build capacity of local government, organizations, and residents for effective civic engagement in water protection and restoration. This project will also build networks and the skill set of local resource professionals to do effective civic engagement work for water restoration and protection. The cohort will be administered through the Minnesota River Board (MRB), established in 1995 with a goal of focusing water management efforts on the local level.
This project will allow for outreach programs to engage interested citizens in protecting 200 acres of riparian buffer in the headwaters of the watershed, accounting for 1860 tons of sediment prevented from reaching surface waters each year the practices remain in place. The desired outcome would include 30 or more participants in the program, and to develop a more extensive volunteer base.
This project will maximize the utility and usefulness of three HSPF models that have been constructed and calibrated for hydrology. The contractor will identify and reduce parameterization errors in the following three HSPF models: 1) Buffalo River Watershed, 2 ) Thief River Watershed, 3) Bois de Sioux-Mustinka Watersheds. This will result, not only in a better hydrology calibration, but will also improve each of the models' ability to more accurately estimate sediment and pollutant loads and concentrations.
The goal of this project is to construct, calibrate, and validate two (2) watershed models using Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF).
This project will complete spatial and temporal revisions of 6 Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models, the recalibration and validation of 7 watershed HSPF models, and the revision of the drainage network and point source representation of the Pomme de Terre HSPF model.
This project will complete data collection on 11 lakes over a 2 year period in the Pomme de Terre Watershed. The data collected will be be used in the Major Watershed Project proposed for this watershed.
This project addresses five reaches of the Minnesota River that have aquatic recreation impairments as identified by high concentrations of E. coli. The project will describe the water quality impairments, complete pollutant source assessments, establish loading capacities and allocations for the impairments, and develop implementation strategies.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, fieldwork, data management, and interpretation expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities.The ambient groundwater monitoring network describes the current condition and trends in Minnesota's groundwater quality.
The goal of this project is to refine the nutrient and algae simulation in the Minnesota River basin using all relevant available sources of information. The outcome of this work order is a revised Hydrological Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model application for the Minnesota River basin that correctly represents nutrient sources and algae.
Certain stretches of the Pomme de Terre River have been identified as impaired. This project will quantify the reductions in pollutant loading that would be necessary to bring water quality in the impaired stretches to an acceptable level. It will also identify strategies that would improve water quality in these impaired stretches. Some funds will support public input activities into the Pomme de Terre River watershed management plan.
The goal of the Pomme de Terre River Association (PDTRA JPB) is to improve the local water resources within the watershed through targeted voluntary efforts and the building of strong relationships with local landowners, producers, and citizens. To further our efforts in strategically working to achieve our reduction goals, listed in our Major Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies Report and Turbidity Total Maximum Daily Load report, we would like to further define our Priority Management Zones through the development of a hydrological conditioned Digital Elevation Model.
This project will establish a framework with the Pomme de Terre River Association (PDTRA), county staff, Soil and Water Conservation District staff, and state agencies that will outline their involvement throughout the development of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) for the Pomme de Terre River watershed. This work will form the basis to establish restoration and protection strategies that local governments and watershed organizations can use to make decisions that will lead to protecting and restoring the waters in the watershed.
The goal of this project is to extend through 2016, calibrate, and validate the existing watershed model using Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) for the Pomme de Terre River Watershed. The contractor will produce an HSPF model that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies.
The Pomme de Terre River watershed is located in west central Minnesota and occupies a portion of six counties. For many years surface water quality within the watershed has been a concern to local government, and in 1982 the Counties and SWCDs within the watershed area formed the Pomme de Terre River Association Joint Powers Board to begin addressing this issue. In 2002 the Pomme de Terre River was placed on the Impaired Waters list for turbidity.The project partners are collaborating to improve surface water quality within the watershed with a grant from the Clean Water Fund.
This project will collect real-time parameter data for specific conductance, water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity and stream flow at the United States geological Survey (USGS) gaging stations located at Fargo, ND and Grand Forks, ND on the Red River of the North; and publish the data both on the USGS NWIS website and in the USGS Annual Report.
This project is for Minnesota Legislative Clean Water Fund funding to engage citizens in local watershed monitoring, to work with regional partners to promote understanding and protection of watersheds, and to organize and facilitate gathering of scientific data all for the benefit of water quality in the Red River Basin.
The goal of this project is to engage citizens in local watershed monitoring, work with regional partners to promote understanding and protection of watersheds, and organize and facilitate gathering of scientific data for the benefit of water quality in the Red River Basin.
The objective of this project is to collect real-time parameter data for specific conductance, water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity and stream flow at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) gaging stations located at Fargo and Grand Forks North Dakota.
The purpose of this project is to improve understanding of primary productivity in the Red River and the diversity and population structure of the algal communities occurring along the river system. This will be accomplished through taxonomic identification of periphyton and phytoplankton assemblages necessary for characterizing responses to nutrient gradients along the Red River of the North.
The goal of this project is to collect real-time, parameter data for specific conductance, water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and stream flow at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) gaging stations located at Fargo and Grand Forks, ND on the Red River of the North. The data will be published on the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) website.
This project will develop an effective transferable model to engage and educate watershed residents, stakeholders and others to better understand and protect watershed ecostystems through environmental monitoring, training, and formal and informal education programs in their local watershed. The project will build on the foundation of the existing Red River Basin River Watch program by strengthening three main activity areas: 1) curriculum integration and teacher training, 2) youth leadership and civic engagement, and 3) applied research collaboration and watershed science skills building.
International Water Institute (IWI) staff will monitor 24 sites in the Bois de Sioux, Mustinka (2 sites), Buffalo (8 sites), Red Lake (4 sites), Sandhill (3 sites), Thief (2 sites), and Tamarac River (3 sites) Watersheds intensively over a 2 year period in an attempt to collect 25 samples per year at each site. If conditions allow for the collection of all planned samples, 1200 stream samples will be collected over the time period. Monitoring will include field measurements, observations, and at least three photographs during each site visit.
MN Legislative Clean Water Fund funding to engage citizens in local watershed monitoring, work with regional partners to promote understanding and protection of watersheds, and organize and facilitate gathering of scientific data all for the benefit of water quality in the Red River Basin.
This project will provide MPCA staff, local partners and citizen volunteers with a framework for building local capacity to design civic engagement and communication/outreach efforts that will contribute to meaningful and sustained public participation in surface water protection and restoration activities throughout the watershed.
This is a joint project between the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), North Dakota, and Manitoba. The project is a basin-wide, up-to-date water quality trend analysis using the "QWTrend" program for approximately 40 bi-national river sites to review nutrients, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, sulfate and chloride from 1980 - 2015.


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Way back when I first returned from summer holidays – and before feminist fatigue set in – I was going to write a little post about a couple of children's films me and the little monsters had been watching (and re-watching) over the summer, but I very quickly hit a language wall. No, not because we'd spent the summer watching arty French films deconstructing Foucault (or owt), but simply because of the dearth of colloquial language to accurately describe what I really wanted to describe. So I let it go because events more important than a blog post took over.
But now I have five minutes with a cup of tea, so I am suddenly re-invested in catching the language I seek.
I wanted to describe girls. I wanted to describe females who are strong, brave, fearless, gutsy and smart. I wanted a colloquial word or a phrase that encompassed all those traits, a word or phrase that would immediately tell you that these girls were strong, brave, fearless, gutsy and smart without having to spell out out that they were strong, brave, fearless, gutsy and smart all the time.
What I came up with was entirely inapplicable. I immediately rejected the phrase 'she's got it goin' on' because of it's obvious sexual connotations. I then fell into 'she's got balls', 'she's got cojones', 'she's got spunk' (in the Australian sense). I think you see my problem, right? I could go for 'kick-ass' I suppose but the girls I want to describe aren't violent. Violence is not what these girls are about. They are better than that. Whilst they can use violence on occasion, hey are too smart to just be violent. These girls are not mindless. So I'm back to testicles again. Because, bizarrely, we really do understand that testicles confer more than testosterone onto a person, they confer way more than that; to have balls/cojones/a huge, swinging pair is to be strong, brave, fearless, gutsy and smart. You know, kind of like a man, duh. It is unfortunate that we do not confer the same qualities on to a fine pair of breasts. Actually, it's not that unfortunate – I'm more than happy to leave the biological-things-that-hang references to the men – but I really would like a word or a phrase that brings forth the same connotations. Like, 'she's utterly stramsta', or 'she's got tribblequong like you wouldn't believe'.
Because as that Wittgenstein dude said: The limits of my language are the limits of my world.
But there is no word or phrase that springs readily to mind to describe a female who is fucking awesome. Not in my language. Is there in any language? Yes, I could just say, 'these girls are fucking awesome' (for they are, in many ways), but it's such a dull and generic way to describe them. This post could be fucking awesome. That strawberry Angel Delight you had for pudding last night could be fucking awesome. A dog that says 'sausages' could be fucking awesome. Now, if anybody who reads this post actually did have strawberry Angel Delight for pudding last night or actually does have a dog who can say 'sausages' that really would be fucking awesome. Not relevant, but I'm just saying. That would be so awesome – and unlikely – it'd almost make me believe in god (ha ha, only kidding god – I'd need a bit more proof of existence than that. Like waking up tomorrow to find everybody talking about which of the 90-odd female world leaders had the most tribblequong).
Anyway, enough about the dearth of appropriate language, and more about what we were watching that glorious summer that seems about eleventh billion years ago.
Two films really stood out; and by 'stood out' I mean were re-played so often, I started to think the characters were my other children.
The first was 'Tangled' which was L'il Boo's particular fave. Now, don't get me started on how the bloody thing couldn't just be called 'Rapunzel' like it's supposed to be, and how that's because we can't have a girl headlining a film even when it's her fucking film. I'm starving for some thing to celebrate, so I'm just going to skim over that kind of institutionalised misogynistic shit and go straight for the good stuff. Oh, and that does mean therefore that I won't mention her picture-perfect features and Barbie-esque body either, but I do just have to mention her eyes. Because frankly, they creep me out. They're so unnaturally huge I keep thinking they're going to jump right out and eat her face whole until she's nothing more than eyes on a neck. Creepy.
No, I am concentrating on the good stuff.
The lack of mooning for example; step-mammy may be a shit of the highest order, but at least she hasn't told Rapunzel that happiness depends on 'trapping' a man. Stuck in her tower, Rapunzel occupies herself developing her art, not her artfulness.
The fact that she's (excuse my language) kick ass, for example. Rapunzel saves Flynn as many times as he saves her; these kids are a team in the nicest sense.
The fact that her true happiness comes from finding her own destiny, for example. The end of Rapunzel's quest is finding out where she's from and who she is (OK, she's a princess, but still trying to think positive); marrying Flynn is a happy add on.
I know, I know, there are still a lot of problematic things about this film, but it remains that it's one of the few mainstream films I'll allow my children to watch because there are at least some positives. I'll take mild satisfaction (or at least un-rage) where I can get it. And, I'll be honest, I love the horse.
Film number two will have to wait, despite being my favourite of the two. My cup of tea is gone and I have actual work to do.


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Woke up this morning to 70 degrees. At 6:00. In February. In Tennessee. Which definitely means tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings all day. I'm not a big fan of having to leave Camden at school all day when there's severe weather, but I guess school is important. ;) We're also getting crazy rain. There is water everywhere. Since we didn't flood last year when our area received 17 inches within 48 hours, I'm not too concerned about flooding with 3-4 inches, but there are some huge puddles in our yard.
Speaking of thunderstorms (or "thunderthorms" as Rory says), Rory seems to have overcome her fear of storms overnight. Camden, on the other hand, who has never been scared of storms at all, is suddenly terrified. He calls them basement storms (since we've already had a trip to the basement over the weekend). Never a dull moment.
And one picture from the weekend: Brian was snoring on the couch while Camden tried to watch TV. I looked up, and he had his fingers in his ears. I feel your pain, buddy.
94. skyping with a friend who was sitting in the Seoul airport
95. lunch with a friend I can say anything to
96. my cute Rory sassing her way through the day
97. Camden's sweetness in sharing his Valentine goodies
98. for a Tuesday night spent with friends
99. a successful shopping trip
100. the sound of Camden playing in the shower
101. Rory's laughter as she listens to Brian read her a story
102. a family walk
103. safe trip to Missouri
104. Grandparents who celebrated 60 years of marriage
105. Spending time with family we haven't seen in many years
106. A fun day with the kiddos
107. slow days with plenty of time to complete my "to do" list
108. a new lens
109. a cheap fix for our refrigerator
110. Camden's excitement over his first baseball practice
111. for a reassuring first practice and patient coaches
112. for a long slow Saturday
113. for the message from Dr. Picirilli and his simple "you can."
114. for safety through a storm
115. for wonderful memories of Korea 3 years ago today
116. for a new CT gig


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Designer Richele Christensen is back as our guest today. Today she is sharing a card she created featuring Tim Holtz Alterations Mini Sewing Room dies.
Score and fold Blue Kraft Core piece in half to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Emboss the Zig Zag Stitches on the front top and bottom of card.
Sand the front of the card revealing the stitches and the texture of the card.
Die cut 3 Dress Forms form Grunge Board using the Mini Sewing Room set and your Vagabond. Paint the Dress Forms using a black paint dabber. Let dry. Die cut 3 dresses using the Mini Sewing Room set from pattern paper. Trim the Dress Form to make the dresses. You can cut a round neck, a high neck and a V-neck to make each of the dresses different. Adhere dresses to the dress forms.
Tear a small piece of Kraft Resist paper approximately 4 1/4" x 2", insert 3 long fasteners to each side of the torn piece and adhere to card. Use a texture hammer to create bumps in the fasteners.
Pop dot the 3 Dress Forms to card.
Tie a bow at the top of the Paper Hanger. Attach Cash Key to Paper Hanger with a Jump Ring. Attach to card.
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Greenest envy: STAB grads round up trouble
Even though no game was scheduled, the St. Anne's-Belfield football team was the victim of an illegal use of hands on its own gridiron.
The team arriving for a scrimmage on August 17 discovered a giant image of male reproductive organs burned into the grass with weed-killer. Sometime during the previous night, vandals using red and white paint had also sprayed an obscene message describing sexual contact between two students.
Three St. Anne's graduates in the class of 2002 have been charged with felony destruction of private property.
County spokesperson Lee Catlin characterized the graffiti as "derogatory phrases directed at personnel associated with the school." And the dead-grass image that allegedly measured 10 yards wide by 30 yards long?
"I don't want to say," responds Catlin, "but you could classify it as a lewd image." Albemarle County police officer William Underwood, who investigated the vandalism, reports the image was "a large design of a penis and testicles."
"This must be a slow news day," remarked St. Anne's headmaster George Conway when he was asked to comment. Conway says he didn't actually see the graffiti. "It was covered up very quickly with paint," says Conway. "That's our policy with all graffiti."
As for the image on the field, Conway says, "It wasn't easy to tell what it was." He adds, "If you go to a game, you can't tell there was any damage."
An eyewitness who was on the football field the morning it was discovered and spoke on the condition of anonymity says, "It's still there under a big 'S' in the middle of the field."
Catlin says the damage, estimated at $3,000, stretched from sideline to sideline at the 50-yard line, going to the 40-yard line on one side and the 30-yard line on the other.
Arrested on August 19 were Richard Brian Allis and Stuart Francis Honenberger, both 18, and a 17-year-old juvenile classmate. Allis and Honenberger are scheduled to appear in General District Court October 17. Felony destruction of private property carries a penalty of one to five years in prison, according to the commonwealth attorney's office.
So what led police to the three? Catlin says that upon discovery of the damage, Coach John Blake talked to the football team and said he wanted them to come forward and share information.
"There were several contacts over the weekend by player and nonplayer students," Catlin says. "Apparently there had been some discussion of this in advance at a party."
Officer Underwood says that in every instance, Blake was given the same three names. "Apparently they've been planning this since the end of the school year," he says. "They purchased two five-gallon containers of Round-Up that had been kept in the garage of one of the suspects all summer."
Any other evidence linking the three to the scene of the crime? "All the suspects came out and confessed when I told them the ramifications of a felony charge," says Underwood. "None had been in trouble before, and none had any concept of how serious a felony charge is."
Underwood believes that the felony charges ultimately will be reduced to misdemeanors.
None of the parents of the students involved would comment to The Hook on the prank gone awry, although one mother said, "Kids make mistakes. I don't think you need to report it in the paper."
The St. Anne's Three are all in college. Allis, an honor roll student at St. Anne's, is now at the University of Pennsylvania. Honenberger received an activities award at last year's graduation ceremony.
Headmaster Conway declines to comment on the alleged perps being St. Anne's grads, but did say, "We were very pleased with the county police, who did a full investigation. I called Chief [John] Miller to thank him."
There is one way STAB supporters can help the school's ravaged football field. A notice on the school's website calls for dads to come paint the field at 2pm Friday, October 4, a STAB tradition before home games.
Now, more than ever...
It's hard to tell what the heck is in the middle of the St. Anne's-Belfield football field.


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During November and December, several galleries in Central Virginia are devoting their walls to the collaborative project, "Focus on the Print." While Second Street Gallery and Les Yeux du Monde celebrate the career of famed Charlottesville printmaker Dean Dass, three other galleries feature group exhibits highlighting the wide range of printmaking endeavors in the region.
While the WVTF / Radio IQ Studio Gallery and Woodberry Forest School have plenty of interesting prints, Chroma's 14-artist showcase of work by Richmond's One/Off Printmakers, complemented by a small exhibit of etchings by Tim Michel, is especially worth viewers' while.
Running the gamut from monoprints to woodcuts to etchings to screenprints, the 28 pieces in the One/Off show provide a good overview of printmaking techniques (although more—lithographs, letterpress, etc.—remain for the curious to explore elsewhere). The images produced range from purely abstract, such as Janet DeCover's color-saturated monoprints, "Hew" and "Baru," hanging in Chroma's front window, to realistic, e.g. Ann Chenoweth's botanical etching, "Bermuda Bouganvillea."
Two of the strongest works, Laura Pharis' wood engraving, "The King Died, the Queen Died of Grief," and Christopher Palmer's monoprint, "October Evening," are almost conceptual opposites, though they hang next to each other. Pharis' black-and-white image of an egg-enclosed swallow, whose body is composed of tiny insects, is a wonder of fine-lined complexity. Palmer's abstract landscape, on the other hand, offers two equal-sized horizontal color blocks, blue above and brown below, printed on a yellow background—its impact residing in its bold simplicity
In Chroma's Passage Gallery, Tim Michel plays with both realism and abstraction in his solo exhibit, "Over the Wall." Known for his accomplished etchings of landscapes, Michel has begun to experiment with introducing other techniques into his basic prints. His three "Ivy Creek" etchings, for instance, feature the same image of a woodland stream, but Michel uses drypoint and colored pencils to evoke something different in each print. Two convey the melancholia of washed-out sunsets on winter evenings, while the third offers a mid-day blue sky reflected in the creek, the mirrored limbs of trees brilliantly outlined in white.
In four pieces from Michel's "Anderson Ranch" series, the artist steps out of his comfort zone to create geometric abstracts from cut-up and reconfigured etchings. The compositions offer a jazz-like feeling of improvisation. In one, Michel beautifully punctuates four colorful vertical bars of varying sizes with an off-center orange sphere on the far right.
With Michel and One/Off, Chroma's plate overflows!
Tim Michel's exhibition, "Over the Wall," and the show, "One/Off: 13 (+1) Richmond Printmakers," is on view through the end of December at Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, 418 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 202-0269.


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One of the most anticipated films of the year has now finally been unveiled to the moviegoing public, and boy is there a whole lot of discussion going on. Ridley Scott's Prometheus was met with a passionately mixed-to-positive reaction, with those on both sides of the fence ardently stating their case for why Prometheus is awesome and/or terrible. Interviews with many of the key creative people involved—including Scott and co-writer Damon Lindelof—began to hit the interwebs days before the films release, and I'm assuming a good many of you (like me) steered clear of any and all Prometheus related interviews for fear of spoiling the film before seeing it yourself. As such, we've got a lot of catching up to do.
Those who saw the film were probably left with quite a few unanswered questions. It's no secret that Scott really wants to make a follow-up to Prometheus in which some of those questions are further explored and answered, so we've rounded up what we know so far about said possible Prometheus sequel. Hit the jump for a recap. Obviously MASSIVE SPOILERS for Prometheus follow.
As most everyone knows by now, Prometheus was originally conceived as a two-part prequel to Scott's Alien. As development moved along, Lindelof was brought in to take a look at the script and give some notes. He responded by suggesting they tone down the prequel aspects of the script and further develop the larger themes and ideas of the creation of humanity, the Engineers, etc.
Scott proclaimed as far back as last year's Comic-Con that he was keen on making a sequel to Prometheus, and Lindelof recently told Heat Vision that the two had to decide what to include in Prometheus and what to save for a possible sequel:
"Ridley was very interested in talking about, 'What are the answers to the questions that Prometheus is posing that are not necessarily definitively spelled out in the body of Prometheus?' I said to him, we should be prepared for people to feel frustrated if we're going to be withholding, so we have to be very careful about what we're saving for later because it's not a foregone conclusion that there are going to be sequels, and so if there isn't a sequel, just be comfortable with what we gave them in this movie."
Lindelof went on to reiterate how Prometheus acts as both a semi-prequel to Alien as well as its own story:
"This movie has two children: One of these children grows up to be Alien, but the other child is going to grow up, and God knows what happens to them. And that's what the sequel to Prometheus would be."
Scott told Movies.com that he always knew that the film's ending would organically set Prometheus up for a sequel:
"From the very beginning, I was working from a premise that lent itself to a sequel. I really don't want to meet God in the first one. I want to leave it open to [Noomi Rapace's character, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw] saying, 'I don't want to go back to where I came from. I want to go where they came from.' "
The original title of the Alien prequel was Paradise before they settled on Prometheus, but Paradise has been bandied about as the possible title for the Prometheus follow-up. It's now clear that the "Paradise" title would refer to the home planet of humanity's makers (ie. heaven). As for what the home planet of the Engineers is like, Scott's vision doesn't sound like a happy trip for Rapace and Michael Fassbender's characters:
"Because [the Engineers] are such aggressive fuckers … and who wouldn't describe them that way, considering their brilliance in making dreadful devices and weapons that would make our chemical warfare look ridiculous? So I always had it in there that the God-like creature that you will see actually is not so nice, and is certainly not God. As she says, "This is not what I thought it was going to be, and I think we should get the Hell out of here or there won't be any place to go back to.
That's not necessarily planted in the ground at the tail end of the third act, but I knew that's kind of where we should go, because if we've opened up this door — which I hope we have because I certainly would like to do another one – I'd love to explore where the hell [Dr. Shaw] goes next and what does she do when she gets there, because if it is paradise, paradise can not be what you think it is. Paradise has a connotation of being extremely sinister and ominous."
Scott reiterated his desire to travel to where the Engineers came from in a roundtable interview we attended:
"I know where it's going. I know that to keep [David] alive is essential and to keep [Elizabeth] alive is essential and to go where they came from, not where I came from, is essential."
One of the biggest questions left open at the end of Prometheus is why the Engineers made the decision to wipe out the human race, their creation. Josh Hororwitz at MTV asked Lindelof if he and Scott had worked out the answer to that question yet, and here's Lindelof's response:
"Golly, I'm all for ambiguity, but if we didn't know the answer to THAT one, the audience would have every right to string us up. Yes. There is an answer. One that is hinted at within the goalposts of Prometheus. I'll bet if I asked you to take a guess you wouldn't be far off."
The Prometheus crew calculates that the Engineers decided humanity was to be destroyed 2000 years ago, around the time of Jesus Christ. That specific date is not insignificant in relation to the Prometheus follow-up and answering the question of why our race was targeted for destruction, as Scott brought up the issue of religion during his interview with Steve:
"It's interesting to do a sequel because this leaves the door so open to some huge questions. The real question to me is – the more mankind discovers in science the more clear and helpful everything becomes, yet we're very bad at managing ourselves. And one of the biggest problems in the world is what we call religion, it causes more problems than anything in the goddamn universe. Think about what's happening now, all based on the very simple idea that a Muslim can't live alongside a Catholic, or a Catholic can't live alongside a Protestant…"
In fact, the original script for Prometheus flat out explained why Earth was targeted for destruction, and the reasoning ties into Scott's thoughts on religion. They ultimately felt the idea was lacking in subtlety and scrapped it, but Scott elaborated on the plot point to Movies.com and his comments may provide a hint as to where the follow-up could go:
"We definitely did [have that in the script], and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an 'our children are misbehaving down there' scenario, there are moments where it looks like we've gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, 'Lets' send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him.'"
So where does this leave us? It's clear that Scott really wants to make the sequel, and he and Lindelof have distinctly discussed the answers to many of the burning questions that could be elaborated on in a follow-up. That said, there's no guarantee that Lindelof will be the one to write it, as reflected in his comments to Heat Vision:
"If Ridley wants me to be involved in something, that would be hard to say no to. At the same time, I do feel like the movie might benefit from a fresh voice or a fresh take or a fresh thought. Sometimes the baton should be passed, if that's what the story demands. I had [Prometheus] for the period of time that I was running the race, and if that story continues, it could actually benefit going into someone else's able hand. Although, I feel like some of the iceberg below the water for any potential future movies in that storyline has already been constructed based on conversations that Ridley and I had about it."
As for Scott's involvement, he's a bit of a collector when it comes to future projects. He's gearing up to direct The Counselor, and he also really wants to make the Blade Runner sequel that he's developing right now with screenwriter Hampton Fancher. Prometheus scored the 10th highest opening weekend for an R-rated movie, and if it holds up next weekend Fox will most likely be pushing Scott to make Prometheus 2 his next film after The Counselor. We're currently in the wait-and-see stage, but I'd love to see the story continue with Rapace and Fassbender's characters.
From what we've gathered here, the follow-up will most definitely center on Elizabeth and David traveling to where the Engineers came from. We'll most likely see Elizabeth try to answer the question of why humanity's maker felt Earth deserved destruction, but Scott makes it clear that the Engineers are not nice people and this "Paradise" is not all rainbows and happiness. The director seems high on tackling issues of religion and that may or may not play a role in the explanation for humanity's fate, but it's a bit too early to start waxing poetic on what the themes of this possible sequel might be.
Lindelof is currently rewriting World War Z and he just signed a development deal with Warner Bros. Television to start developing his next TV series, so his involvement in the follow-up is up in the air. Compounded with Scott's busy schedule and Fassbender and Rapace's in-demand status, the logistics of moving forward on the follow-up could prove tricky. That said, I'm pulling for Prometheus: Paradise to come together sooner rather than later if only to see a space road trip movie with Elizabeth and a slightly decapitated David front and center.