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The National Science Foundation has awarded an $18,000 EAGER Research Grant to David Bond, associate director of CAPA, to support his ongoing research on the role of fossil fuels in driving contemporary social and environmental change. Bond is joined on the grant by Lucas Bessire, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. More.
A 20-year survey of the work of faculty member Liz Deschenes opens at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art on June 29. The exhibition will include "explorations of various photographic technologies, rich and nuanced work with photograms, and sculptural installations that reflect the movements and light within a given space and respond to a site's unique features." Read more.
Faculty member Jon Isherwood was interviewed on Brainard Carey's radio show "The Art World Demystified," which airs on the Yale University radio station WYBCX, about his most recent sculpture. Read more.
Faculty member Allen Shawn published a tribute to the American conductor and writer Robert Craft, familiar to many as "Igor Stravinsky's assistant," who passed away in November 2015 (paywall). Read more.
Mark Wunderlich spoke with Christopher Johnson of Collected Words (Santa Fe public radio) and The Taos News about his work and craft.
Faculty member David Anderegg spoke with CNN about parental anxiety in the aftermath of the San Bernardino attacks. Read more.
Faculty member Michael Cohen writes in International Policy Digest that the political conflicts around Israel and Palestine will only be resolved "when Israelis and Palestinians both embrace in the most profound way that Arab lives matter and Jewish lives matter." He also wrote an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post.
"Strange Days" by MFA in Writing Director Sven Birkerts and "Vision" by Tiffany Briere MFA '11 were included in The Best American Essays 2015. "The Siege at Whale Cay," by Assistant Director Megan Mayhew Bergman MFA '10, was included in The Best American Short Stories 2015. Read more.
A newly-opened exhibition at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum includes works on paper by Bennington faculty members Jon Isherwood and Mary Lum, former faculty member William Tucker, and alumna Margaret Swan MA '78. Read more.
Road to Paradise by Carson Efird '05 is being restaged by faculty members Jenny Rohn and Kirk Jackson at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, Mass. The piece was originally commissioned by Bennington Drama for the first year of the festival, and has been invited to return for the 10th anniversary celebration. Read more.
A multimedia installation by Bennington faculty member in anthropology Noah Coburn and artist Gregory Thielker opens at the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College on September 9. (Un) Governed Spaces was first installed at Bennington College last fall. For more information, listen to this VPR interview with Coburn and Thielker.
Michael Cohen traces the history and fate of the two-state solution in the Middle East in the International Policy Digest. "What is needed," he writes, "is a positive thunderbolt to strengthen those Palestinians and Israelis who have supported the concept of two state solution in the past by letting them know they are not alone within their community as well as across the divide with such convictions." Read more.
Digital Stone Project, the not-for-profit technology organization led by faculty member Jon Isherwood, recently held the symposium and exhibition Marble Codes: Robotic Sculpture from Garfagnana in Florence, Italy. Digital Stone Project uses innovative digital technologies to serve artists, architects, designers, and the public. Read more.
In an essay in Literary Hub, faculty member Michael Dumanis discusses writing poetry "animated by American English and frequently set in a recognizably American landscape, yet wholly rooted in Russian language and tradition, composed with a distinctly Russian ear and what I think is a distinctly Soviet, ex-Soviet, or would-be-Soviet sensibility." Read more.
In the wake of a highly symbolic attack by the Taliban on the Afghan parliamentary building last week, faculty member Noah Coburn published a piece in The Diplomat arguing that the battle in Afghanistan is as much about politics as it is about military strength. Read more.
Bennington College Faculty member Betsy Sherman has a paper in the award-winning biological and medical sciences journal, PeerJ. Her research examines sea urchins' tolerance for increases in ocean temperature. Read more.
Language faculty member Sarah Harris and Enrique del Rey Cabero discuss the Spanish Civil War in Comics in a two-part conversation published in Comics Forum. Read more.
In conjunction with her solo exhibition at MASS MoCA, faculty member Liz Deschenes is curating a group exhibition featuring six artists whose work expands the field of photography. The exhibition opens with a reception on May 23. Read more.
Literature faculty member Marguerite Feitlowitz's short fiction, "In the House of Stories," is published in the current issue of 91st Meridian, a journal of the University of Iowa International Writing Program. A widely published translator, her translation of Luisa Valenzuela's "Mother and Knife" is included in the new issue of Gobshite Quarterly.
A New York Times review of pianist Julia Bartha's CD of faculty member Allen Shawn's original works called Shawn's compositions "deliberate, skillfull" and "dazzlingly conceived." Read the full review (third one down the page) here. Shawn's was recently commissioned by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra to write an 80-second fanfare in honor of their 80th season. His composition was "brilliant and colorful" said a Times Argus review.
Faculty member Mark Wunderlich recently won the 2015 University of North Texas' Rilke Prize for his latest collection, The Earth Avails. The $10,000 prize recognizes a book that "demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision." Mark was also a finalist for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His recent poem, "My Night with Jeffrey Dahmer," recounts in chilling detail his encounter with infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer at a Madison, Wisconsin, bar. Read the poem in The Stranger.
Faculty member Kerry Woods last semester completed a month-long Fulbright Senior Specialist program project in Slovenia. He was collaborating with Slovenian scientists from the University of Ljubljana to develop a network of forest researchers in eastern/central Europe to use of long-term data-sets from European old-growth forests. The project culminated in an international workshop that he organized with Dr. Thomas Nagel at Ljubljana
The New York Foundation for the Arts has awarded faculty member Yoko Inoue a Fellowship in Craft & Sculpture. The $7,000 fellowships are awarded to individual artists living and working in New York State and are intended to fund an artist's vision or voice. Read more.
An exhibitions of small-scale photo and acrylic collages by visual arts faculty member Mary Lum opens October 23 at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. Read more.
For the second year in a row, a Bennington faculty member has been named winner of the prestigious Rappaport Prize. The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced Liz Deschenes as recipient of the $25,000 award, after selecting Ann Pibal last year. Read more.
Faculty member Jon Isherwood will be featured in an international exhibition of contemporary sculpture using robots to carve Tuscan marble. The show opens at The Museum of Sculpture and Architecture (MUSA ) Pietrasanta, Italy on July 5, 2014. Read more.
A New York Times art critic praised faculty member Liz Deschenes as "one of the quiet giants of post-conceptual photography" in a review of her current exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York. Read more.
Faculty member Noah Coburn has been monitoring Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election with a team of Afghan researchers in Kabul. Read more.
Faculty member Susan Sgorbati's has published a new book with Emily Climer '12 and Marie Lynn Haas '12 on Emergent Improvisation: Where Dance Meets Science on Spontaneous Composition.
Faculty member Barbara Alfano's new book, The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film, examines the use of images associated with the U.S. in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. The book explores how the individuals portrayed in these works—and the intellectuals who created them—confront the cultural construct of the American myth. Read more.
The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum has named visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal winner of its prestigious Rappaport Prize, which awards $25,000 each year to a contemporary artist with ties to New England. For coverage in The Boston Globe, click here.
Music faculty member Kitty Brazelton was awarded the 12th annual Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize by the University of Oldenburg for her setting of Psalm 104 for mixed choir, percussion, and organ. Read more.
An exhibition of new paintings by faculty member Ann Pibal is on view at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston through Saturday, May 4, with an opening reception on Friday, April 5. The exhibition, LOS DOS, which represents Pibal's continued investigation into the possibilities presented by abstract painting, can be viewed online here.
Klat magazine, a contemporary art, design, and architecture publication, spoke with graphic designer and CAPA fellow Gong Szeto about his ongoing work in collecting and visualizing geopolitical data to enhance the risk assessment capabilities of U.S. federal agencies. Read more.
An exhibit of new works by visual arts faculty member Mary Lum will open with a reception at Yancey Richardson Gallery (535 West 22nd St., New York, NY) on Thursday, Sept. 6, at 6:00 pm. The exhibit, Small Structures—on view through Oct. 20—includes a series of small-scale photographs and acrylic-based collage works on paper, hung end-to-end in a line throughout the gallery. Read more.
Visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal's small-scale paintings are on view in a group exhibition at Sikkenma Jenkins & Co Gallery on West 22nd St., New York. The exhibition, running through July 27, features paintings by eight contemporary artists who predominately work in small or modest scale. "Small paintings intimate the domestic and the personal," says Pibal. "They create a space the size of one viewer at a time." Read more.
Photography faculty member Liz Deschenes, one of 51 artists selected to participate in the Whitney Museum of American Art's prestigious Biennial exhibition, discusses her innovative work with photograms in a video featured on the museum's website. Watch.
The International Print Center New York has selected a series of prints by visual arts faculty member Thorsten Dennerline for its "New Prints 2012/Winter" exhibit—a collection of 68 prints by 45 artists selected from a pool of more than 2,300 submissions. Read more.
Visual arts faculty member Jonathan Kline's exhibition at the University of Vermont showcased 17 prints produced using one of the many historic photographic processes that he's dedicated his recent career to preserving. Read more.
Visual arts faculty member Yoko Inoue was one of ten artists selected to receive a $25,000 grant from the Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation. The unrestricted grant enables women "at a critical juncture in their lives or careers to continue to grow their work," according to the Foundation. Inoue is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, collaborative projects, and public intervention performance art. For more on her work, click here.
Dance faculty member and professional mediator Susan Sgorbati has been awarded a six-week Creative Research residency at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. Read more.
Longtime Bennington faculty member Gunnar Schonbeck was honored at Mass MoCA's Solid Sound Festival recently when Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche performed using the unique handcrafted instruments for which the late music teacher is known. Read more.
Philosophy faculty member Karen Gover was named winner of the American Society for Aesthetics' 2011 John Fisher Memorial Prize, awarded bi-annually for an original essay in aesthetics. Read more.
Philosophy faculty member and art critic Karen Gover's review of Barry Bartlett's new work appeared in a recent issue of Ceramics: Art and Perception, a leading international magazine in the field of ceramic arts. Read more.
Bennington Writing Seminars Writer-in-Residence Donald Hall, a former Poet Laureate of the United States, was one of 10 artists to be honored by President Obama this week with the prestigious 2010 National Medal of Arts. Watch the White House ceremony here.
Music faculty member Tom Bogdan has been awarded his second Fulbright Grant to teach American composer Meredith Monk's A Celebration
Service to musicians and dancers abroad. Read more.
Faculty member Scott
Lehrer and alumnus Alexander Dodge '93 were nominated for 2010 Tony Awards
for their behind-the-scenes work on two critically acclaimed Broadway productions. Read more.
Profiled in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, MFA faculty member Major Jackson discusses his life as a writer, his just-published collection of poetry, and shares a few thoughts on the Bennington Writing Seminars—which the magazine recently ranked among the best low-residency MFA programs in the world. Read the profile here.
violin concerto composed by music faculty member Allen
Shawn has been commissioned by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO)
and was performed on Thursday, March 11, and Saturday, March 13, at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre in Rochester. Read more.
Oceana Wilson, Director of Library and Information Services, was interviewed on Vermont Public Radio after winning the American
Library Association's "I Love My Librarian Award." One of 10 winners chosen from more than 3,200 nominations, Wilson received $5,000 and was honored at a ceremony in New York. Listen to her interview here.
Dance faculty member Dana Reitz and dancer/choreographer Sara Rudner garnered rave reviews for their recent reprisal of their 1994 show Necessary Weather at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. Read more.
Faculty member in literature Benjamin Anastas reviews Elisha Cooper's memoir Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back," an account of the author's daughter's struggle with cancer, for The New York Times. Read more.
David Bond, faculty member in anthropology and associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action, spoke with Vermont Public Radio about a course that he is co-teaching with chemist Janet Foley and geologist Tim Schroeder about PFOA contamination in New York and Vermont. The course is made possible by a $90,000 Rapid Response grant from the National Science Foundation. Listen here.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Bennington College nearly $90,000 for a Rapid Response grant to support a new course and conduct original research on the the emerging contaminant PFOA. Read more.
In a piece for the New York Times Book Review, Brooke Allen writes that "There are two separate and very different novels clashing and vying with each other in Jane Mendelsohn's Burning Down the House. Read more.
Inc. magazine recently praised former faculty member Peter Drucker's "masterpiece" The Practice of Management, saying that it belonged on the list of the 100 greatest nonfiction books of all time.
Faculty member Brooke Allen's biography of Benazir Bhutto, Favored Daughter, is hailed by Kirkus as "a compelling look at Bhutto's tumultuous life and Pakistan's roiling history," while the New York Times describes her contributions to Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern, as "excellent and often droll."
"The Golden Rule" by MFA in Writing core faculty member Lynne Sharon Schwartz, which originally appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, has won an O. Henry Prize, widely regarded as one of the country's most prestigious awards for short fiction. Read more.
A new company, Collider Theatre, co-founded by faculty member Jean Randich, launches with a production of Love, Sex, and Death in the Amazon. The cast and crew includes a number of Bennington faculty and alumni Read more.
David Anderegg, faculty member in psychology and author of Worried All the Time, appeared in an article about parental anxiety. He discussed and the way that "frequency overestimation" throws off our sense of risk. "The media overplaying every child abduction makes people overestimate the probability," he says. Read more.
Visual Arts faculty member Liz Deschenes will give a talk at the New Museum in New York, NY, on July 30. The talk will take place in the galleries of the museum's current exhbition, "Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld." More info..
Bennington College dedicated the Paul Feeley Painting Studio to honor the artist, who served on the Bennington faculty from 1939 until his death in 1965 and who was a central figure in the U.S. postwar avant-garde. Read more.
Two public art sculptures created by Jon Isherwood now mark the trail entrance at Panther Springs Park. More.
Literature faculty member Mark Wunderlich, whose recent poetry collection, The Earth Avails, won the 2015 Rilke Prize, is interviewed in the current issue of The American Literary Journal. His poem "The Corn Baby" was published in the May 15 New York Times Magazine.
Drama faculty member Dina Janis, artistic director of the Dorset Theater Festival, spoke with Vermont Public Radio about a collaboration between three of Vermont's professional theater companies to stage British playwright Alan Aychbourn's comedic trilogy, The Normal Chronicles, in their 2016 seasons. The collaboration, dubbed "Hills Alive," was highlighted in The New York Times' summer theater guide.
Literature faculty member and distinguished translator Marguerite Feitlowitz
translated eleven poems by French Holocaust writer Liliane Atlan in the Brooklyn Rail. The works are among the last poems written by the experimental playwright, novelist, and poet, who died in Israel in 2011. Read more.
An article co-written by faculty member Noah Coburn in The Diplomat asserts that it's time for the United States and China, the world's two biggest economies, "to think critically about partnerships to further third countries' development." Coburn believes that Afghanistan is a logical place to start. Read more.
Faculty member Mary Lum's mixed media works, recently on view at the Yancey Richardson gallery, are featured in the March issue of Harper's Magazine. Her pieces Finchley Road and London 0213 are paired with an essay about the evolving language and historical significance of bureaucracy in American social structures. Harper's is just one of the publications featuring Lum's work lately - Artforum, Elle Decor, and our Bennington magazine have also celebrated Lum's work in recent months.
Genevieve Belleveau '07, Michael Chinworth '08, and Jo-Anne Hyun '12 will be performing in faculty member Nick Brooke's show, Psychic Driving, at the HERE Arts Center on March 10 and 11. More.
Faculty member Thorsten Dennerline was one of 34 artists selected from 2,000 submissions for inclusion in the International Print Center New York Winter exhibition; his submission is a book of his own images and text by fellow faculty member Mark Wunderlich. More. .
Faculty member Benjamin Anastas' essay, "Questions for My Grandfather's Psychiatrist," was published in the The New York Times as part of the paper's ongoing series about psychotherapy. Read it here.
A multimedia exhibition offering a complex portrait of modern Afghanistan through photographs, paintings, text, and video, opens with a reception and artist's talk on Tuesday, October 28. The exhibition runs Tuesday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00 pm through December 2 in Usdan Gallery. Learn more.
Bennington teaching technician and sculptor John Umphlett MFA '99 was interviewed by visual arts faculty member Jon Isherwood for the September issue of Sculpture magazine. Read more.
Literature faculty member Marguerite Feitlowitz's translated autobiography of Mexican writer Salvador Novo, which includes 19 translated sonnets, recounts Novo's coming-of-age amidst the violent Mexican Revolution and offers a history of his passions—both literary and otherwise. Published this spring by University of Texas Press, Pillar of Salt is "nothing short of beautiful," wrote critic Micah McCrary in his review. Read more.
History faculty member Carol Pal has been named winner of the American Historical Association's 2013 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for her book Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century. More.
Matthew Kohut, a fellow at Bennington's Center for the Advancement of Public Action, co-authored the cover story of the Harvard Business Review's July/August issue. The article, which compares warmth- vs. fear-based leadership models, comes in advance of Kohut's new book, Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential, which he co-authored with John Neffinger. Read the article here.
Visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal, MFA faculty members Major Jackson, J.C. Hallman and Brenda Shaughnessy, and alumnae Kiran Desai '93, Anne Waldman, and Cora Cohen '64 are among the 175 artists, scholars, and scientists—out of nearly 3,000 applicants—to receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships. More.
Literature faculty member Camille Guthrie is guest blogging in April for the Poetry Foundation's blog, "Harriet," in celebration of National Poetry Month. Guthrie's recently released collection, Articulated Lair, a series of poems about the art of Louise Bourgeois, was chosen as the January book-of-the-month for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club. She discusses the collection here.
A few years ago, director of library and information services Oceana Wilson began a tradition with Bennington faculty: "I'm looking for winter reading recommendations for students," she wrote, "—the kind of books you would recommend to a friend." To see how they responded this year, click here.
Several large-scale sculptures by visual arts faculty member Jon Isherwood have been installed at the Songzhuang Art Museum in Beijing, the deCorva Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, and on the campus of Rhode Island College in Providence, RI. Read more.
Photography faculty member Liz Deschenes has collaborated with Austrian photographer Florian Pumhösl on an exhibition currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition, Parcours—a French word for "route"— is inspired from an unrealized exhibition proposal of the 1930s by Austrian-born Bauhaus designer Herbert Bayer, according to the museum. Read more.
As co-chair of the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Bennington CAPA fellow Nigel Jacob is showing how technology can be used to empower citizens and involve them in the inner workings of the city, according to Fast Company Magazine. Full story.
Ecology faculty member Kerry Woods' research on "Losses in understory diversity over three decades in an old-growth cool-temperate forest" has been published in the March issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Read more.
The Boston Globe called faculty member and MFA alumna Megan Mayhew Bergman "a top notch emerging writer" after the release of her universally praised debut, Birds of a Lesser Paradise. The collection of 12 stories has been named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writer's Selection, as well as an Indie Next Pick and Amazon Top Ten pick for March. It also received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly and was named a "Must-Read Book for March" by O Magazine. For the full Boston Globe review, click here.
Photography faculty member Liz Deschenes is one of 51 artists selected to participate in the Whitney Museum of American Art's prestigious Biennial exhibition— the Museum's signature survey of contemporary American art and one of the leading art shows in the world. Read more.
An editorial by psychology faculty member David Anderegg was published in The New York Times' "Room for Debate" series, which calls on experts from various fields to weigh in on news events and other relevant issues. Anderegg's piece, Moving On With Our Lives, addresses the issue of "What parents should reveal about 'life before children,' and when." Read it here.
Faculty member Mary Lum's mixed-media exhibition at Carroll and Sons gallery in Boston is "mind bending," declared Boston Globe critic Cate McQuaid. "Lum has taken over the gallery, commanding the viewer's attention in ways large and small." The exhibition aims to evoke the experience of city life through paintings, collages, photographs, and drawings of varying scale. Read the entire Globe review here.
Director of Library and Information Services Oceana Wilson joined VPR's Vermont Edition this week for its annual Summer Reading Show, an always-popular episode that asks book experts from around the state to weigh in with their summer reading recommendations. Listen to the episode here.
Philosophy faculty member Paul Voice examines the influential work of prominent political philosopher John Rawls in his new book Rawls
Explained, published in April by Open Court Press. Read more.
Music faculty member and jazz percussionist Milford Graves will perform at a benefit
concert for Japan on Friday, April 8, at the Abrons Art Center in Manhattan's
Lower East Side. Graves will join an esteemed lineup that includes Thurston
Moore, Elliott Sharp, and Matthew Shipp, among other renowned performers. For
more information, or to make a donation online, click here.
Literature faculty member Katie Peterson was one of 14 artists and the only poet to be awarded an unrestricted $25,000 grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts this year. Read more.
Critics everywhere are praising music faculty member Allen Shawn's new memoir Twin, which looks back at the inextricable bond and life-defining relationship he's shared with his autistic twin sister, Mary, who was placed in an institution for the mentally disabled at the age of eight. Read more.
Faculty member Mansour Farhang and Maryland University professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak have received multiple grants—including $50,000 from George Soros's Open Society Institute—to convene a conference on "Toward a Culture of Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Democracy in Iran" at
the University of Maryland's Roshan Center for Persian Studies, from October 28-31. Read more.
It is with great sadness that the Bennington community notes the passing
of jazz composer, trumpeter, and longtime faculty member Bill Dixon,
who died June 16, 2010, at his home in North Bennington. He was 84. Read more.
Faculty member Mary Lum has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship to support her ongoing work in the visual arts. One of 180 Fellows chosen from some 3,000 artists, scientists, and scholars, Lum plans to continue her work on Tracing The City, she says, "a drawing project that encompasses the experience of living in, wandering through, reading about, recording, and remembering the city." Read more.
Jon Isherwood's "Sotol Duet" has been recognized by Americans for the Arts Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review which annually recognizes outstanding public art projects that represent the most compelling work for the year from across the country. Read more
Faculty member in visual arts Karthik Pandian premiered his collaboration with dancer and choreographer Andros Zins-Browne at EMPAC in Troy, NY on April 1. The piece, a multimedia performance inspired by the Arab Spring movement, featuring, among other elements, dancing camels, was attended by a sold-out audience. Read more.
Faculty member Marguerite Feitlowitz was interviewed on KPFA, the Pacifica Public Radio Station in Berkeley, California, on the 40th Anniversary of the "Dirty War" coup in Argentina, which coincided with President Obama's visit in March. Listen here.
Ellen Scully was recently named a faculty fellow in ENACT, a new national program at Brandeis University designed to engage young people in state-level legislative change. Read more.
Alexander Chee, faculty member in the MFA in Writing program, has released his new novel, The Queen of the Night, to enthusiastic reviews from Vogue, NPR, Slate, and more. Read more.
Work by Ann Pibal, faculty member in visual arts, is the subject of a solo exhibition at Lucien Terras Inc. in New York City through January 17. Read more.
Faculty member Tim Schroeder published a paper on fluid circulation and carbonate vein precipitation in the north Atlantic in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (or G-Cubed), the premier interdisciplinary journal of the American Geophysical Union. Read more.
A new book by Sven Birkerts, director of the MFA in Writing Program, has been garnering attention. Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age has been reviewed in the Chronicle for Higher Education, New Republic, and the New York Times Book Review. Read more.
Peter Trachtenberg's article in the summer issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review discusses real and virtual tigers, CGI animation, zoo-keeping, idolatry, extinction, and Ang Lee's Life of Pi. Trachtenberg is a core faculty member in the MFA in Writing program. Read more.
Rotimi Suberu participated in a panel at the Brookings Institute to discuss Nigeria's recent, historic free elections which brought to power President Muhammadu Buhari. He joined Grant Harris, special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs on the National Security Council and three former U.S. ambassadors to Nigeria. More.
Faculty member Mary Lum's solo exhibition "Way Out" at Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, Mass., was recently reviewed in the Boston Globe and Artforum magazine. The Globe writes that Lum "reinvents the city, with all its sharp edges and frenetic motion, as something hallucinatory." Read more.
OPERA America has awarded music faculty member Kitty Brazelton a Discovery Grant from its Grants for Female Composer's program. Seven women out of 61 applicants were selected to receive a total of $100,000 in support of the development of their opera compositions. Brazelton's work, The Art of Memory, re-imagines two fourth-century Christian men (sung by women) in Milan, who reflect our "now." Singing, the art of memory, saves them both. Read more.
Faculty member Charles Schoonmaker has earned a IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for best costume design for his work on Venus in Fur at the Huntington Theatre last winter. He was also nominated for an Elliot Norton Award by the Boston Theater Critics Association for his work on Far From Heaven at Speakeasy Stage Company.
Faculty member Andrew Spence is one of 30 artists included in a major exhibition surveying new work in pattern, repetition, and motif at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery (between 51st and 52nd Streets, NYC). The exhibition opens with a reception on March 16, 6:00–8:00 pm, and runs through June 12 (Monday–Friday, 8:00 am–6:00 pm). More info.
Faculty member Elena Demyanenko's latest work, Blue Room, will be performed at New York Live Arts at 7:30 pm on February 25 and 28. Music faculty member Nick Brooke and MFA fellow Dai Jian are also collaborating on the piece. For more on the event, including live stream information, click here.
Faculty member Noah Coburn was recently quoted in a New York Times article about Afghans' increasing reliance on the Taliban to settle justice disputes. Full article.
With her current exhibition at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, faculty member Liz Deschenes—recently dubbed a "giant of post-conceptual photography" by the New York Times—"turns the gallery into a camera," writes one critic. Read more.
Faculty member Allen Shawn is earning widespread praise for his recently published biography of internationally celebrated composer, conductor, and classical pianist Leonard Bernstein. Read more.
Read literature faculty member Benjamin Anastas' "The Breakup List" in the June 13 New York Times Magazine.
On Saturday June 21, faculty member Jon Isherwood joined other artists to present work with new technologies and marble. The conference delved into ideas and techniques surrounding art and sculpture in a post digital environment. Read more.
From the local to the global, morning headlines describe problems that seem impossible to fix. But what if a college course taught students skills to tackle them anyway? Susan Sgorbati's Bennington College introductory conflict-resolution class, "Solving the Impossible," attempts to do just that. And with powerful results. Read more.
The Walker Art Center announces a solo exhibit of Bennington faculty Liz Deschenes' work. Read more.
Faculty member and brain researcher David Edelman, whose current research involves putting octopuses through mazes, discusses how alien minds might function on the popular Science Channel program Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. More here.
Visual arts faculty member Jon Isherwood's interview with influential sculptor and former Bennington faculty member Anthony Caro was published in the July/August issue of Sculpture Magazine. Read it here.
Literature faculty member Mark Wunderlich's poem "White Fur" was published in the June issue of the New Republic. Look.
Music faculty member Julie Last is the audio engineer behind bestselling chantmaster Krishna Das' latest album, Live Ananda, which was nominated for a 2012 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. Last's work captures the depth and spirit of a group of chanters on a three-day retreat in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. Listen here.
Undergraduate and MFA faculty member Ben Anastas' new memoir, Too Good to Be True—about having and losing it all, both in literature and life— "is smart and honest and searching," raved one New York Times review, "…so plaintive and raw that most writers (and many readers) will finish it with heart palpitations." Read more.
A conversation between literature faculty member Camille Guthrie and visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal was published in the biannual literary arts journal Fence. Pibal's 2011 piece, FLS2, was featured on the front cover. More.
The White House last week recognized CAPA fellow Nigel Jacob and Chris Osgood, co-chairs of the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM), as "Champions of Change" for their commitment to creating a more open and innovative government through entrepreneurship. Read more.
Biology faculty member Betsy Sherman's study on eastern red-spotted newts, co-authored by Katie Van Munster '08 in Northeastern Naturalist, suggests that the amphibian is highly adaptable to conditions imposed upon it by humans. Read more.
Vermont-based poet Chad deNiord's conversation with MFA faculty member Ed Ochester was published recently in Poetry International magazine. deNiord, who's known for his in-depth interviews of renowned American poets, visited Ochester during the Bennington Writing Seminars summer residency in June. Read the interview here.
Music faculty member Susie Ibarra joined leading musicians from all 204 Olympic nations for a two-day music festival celebrating the opening of the 2012 Summer Games in London. Read more.
For his sound design of the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Death of a Salesman, faculty member Scott Lehrer has earned his fourth Tony Award nomination in five years. Read more.
History faculty member Carol Pal has been named next year's Dibner Fellow in the History of Science at the renowned Huntington Library in California. During her year at the Huntington, Carol will be working on her second monograph, Transient Technologies. Her first book, Republic of Women, will be published in May by Cambridge University Press.
A story by visiting literature faculty member Megan Mayhew Bergman is included in the recently released 2011 Best American Short Stories. Entitled "Housewifely Arts" Mayhew Bergman's story follows a grieving daughter who drives miles because she yearns to hear her dead mother's parrot mimic her mother's voice. Mayhew Bergman's first collection of stories, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, is due out in March 2012 and has been selected by Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers program. For more on her work, click here.
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I was wondering whether an Admin password like "gW%94Slkx" on a laptop is any safer than, say, "abc" if your HDD is not encrypted. If you lose your laptop or if it gets stolen, all your data is easily accessible anyway. And there are shareware/freeware utilities to recover the password anyway. Any good reason for the finger excersise every time I start up my laptop?
I'd say yes, you should always use a password on a laptop. As for a very secure password, it probably isn't necessary. Thieves and such aren't known for being the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. Chances are, if your laptop gets stolen, the thief is just looking to make a quick and dishonest buck and even a basic dictionary password will keep them out.
A strong password prevents viruses and worms from guessing it and inflicting more damage. Many worms try to replicate via SMB/CIFS and guessing the local admin password.
Sure. Tying your bike to a tree with a rope is more secure than not tying it at all. The fact that there are ways around some security-devices doesn't mean you're just as vulnerable without them. Even if you're not encrypting your data, use a strong password because it will still offer some degree of protection. In all honesty, the degree of protection a strong password offers will be sufficient in many cases to protecting your data - not all laptop thiefs are smart enough to pull the HD out, and reconnect it elsewhere.
A burglar once took off with two laptops from my employer. These were later found again, with the hard-disks nicely formatted running a Dutch version of Windows XP. (We only use English Windows versions, so we know it was reformatted and not hacked.) The thief got caught when he'd crashed his car while driving the stolen goods to someone who'd ordered them, apparently.
When your laptop is stolen, there's a big chance the thief will just ignore the data on it. The machine has value, the data often not. So encryption and/or passwords? Not such a big deal in this scenario.
But you would be in trouble if someone targets your lattop for data theft. It does need to have some valuable data on it to take the risks, though. Sourcecode of a new product. Creditcard information of visitors from a webshop. Possibly some other data that might interest them. Or maybe just your picture collection from your visit to the nude beach, last summer. If you have some data to protect, you better make sure the data itself is secure. (Thus, encrypt this data!)
However, do keep in mind that if you encrypt your data, then anyone can still access this data if they know your password. Encrypted or not doesn't make a difference in that case. Password strength does, though. Protection is as strong as it's weakest link. So, having a strong password is always best, even if you don't use encryption. (Because it requires someone to take more extreme actions to access your data instead of just logging in.)
On the contrary, I say no.
The only benefit of '$$%fOe._ba' over an 'abc' password is if someone attempts to crack your password.
YES have a password, any password. You're owned anyway, but joe shmo will be foiled.
don't reuse this password. If someone with skill DOES get your pc, sure, they will get your data, but if you password is crackable, they can try to use it on other sites.
Yes, there are benefits.
For one, the casual snooper is prevented from accessing your data.
However, with things like the TRK (http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front%5Fid=12) keep in mind that the only real security is full-drive encryption.
If it gets stolen, not really... but
If it's a complex password it will be harder or impossible to crack - meaning that yes, the data on the laptop is compromised - but as most people re-use passwords and if the thief can crack your password and figure out who you are, the thief may gain access to other resources of yours as well. Like your Faaaacebook! ^^ (I've heard rumours of banks in other countries actually allowing login with only a password - if that was true then this could mean even more trouble ;)
If it isn't stolen though, it sure makes a difference. But perhaps this computer is not connected to any networks? ;)
Keep in mind that password complexity really is about length - the longer the password the better. Special, hard to remember and type characters makes less of a difference than actual length:
Guess which one would take less time to crack? And if the second one is mostly based on a word or a name, like L3gol4s, it would go down fast with a hybrid dictionary attack as far as I know.
In my case, yes. I use Mac OS X and the Keychain feature that comes with it. It stores my passwords to websites and network shares in a secure database that is unlocked when I log in to my laptop.
The passwords in that database are encrypted (Triple DES) and can't be easily exposed just by having physical access to the machine. Likewise, using physical access to reset my account password will disable access to the Keychain database.
So if your login is tied to any kind of security or encryption measures, then yes, using a strong password is a very good idea.
What value is your data? Is it more valuable than the hardware itself? Stealing data of an unencrypted drive pretty easy . . . But if you aren't a high value target - just have a reasonably high quality password with letters and numbers and I think you'll be just fine.

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Dick Edwards is planning to build a new 50,000 square foot dealership on Golden Belt Boulevard in Junction City near the intersection of US-77 and Interstate 70.
The city commission approved an ordinance Tuesday night to issue tax incremental financing bonds to help with the infrastructure costs for the facility.
The dealership must provide a construction schedule for the project and site plan as well as financing and project costs before the development agreement can be finalized. Once those conditions are met, then the city can publish the ordinance and approve the bond money.
Dick Edwards plans to keep their Grant Avenue location open with a body shop, Quick Lane (oil and lube change) and used car sales.
The Ford, KIA and Chrysler lines will be located at the new facility once construction is complete.
Edwards will invest more than $7 million in the project.
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Vegan croissants! This is not the first recipe of its kind (Vegan LunchBox had one years ago), but I find these ingredients and method produce a wonderfully light and flaky pastry.
Makes 14
- 2 tsp instant yeast
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 3 tbsp warm water
- 1 cup cold plain soy milk
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp melted margarine
- 13 to 14 oz all purpose flour
Margarine Block
- 1 cup Earth Balance margarine (not the whipped kind)
- 2 tbsp flour
1. Whisk the yeast and sugar into the water. When yeast is hydrated, whisk in soy milk and salt. Add in melted margarine and flour and bring into a very soft dough. Do not overknead.
2. Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and roll/shape into a 9 x 13 inch rectangle. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 mins, or until well-chilled.
3. While dough is chilling, make the margarine block. Use the method described here, but shape it into a 6 x 8 inch rectangle.
4. Laminate the dough: place the margarine block in the bottom half of the dough, making sure there is a about a 1/2 inch border.
Fold the top half down and seal the edges. Take your time to make sure everything is sealed properly.
5. Making sure your surface is properly floured, place the folded side on our left and roll the dough into a 10 x 24 inch rectangle. Take your time, rolling from the centre to the edges first. Try to square everything up as best you can. With the short side towards you, fold the bottom third up, then the top third down, like a letter. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 mins.
6. Repeat step five 3 more times, always placing the folded side on your left. After the final turn, refrigerate for a few hours to chill all the way through.
7. To make the croissants, roll the dough into a 9 x 32 inch rectangle. Starting in the bottom left corner, make a notch every four inches along the length of the dough. Then, from the top left corner, make a notch 2 inches in, then every four inches thereafter. With a pizza cutter, cut from the bottom notches to the top to make triangles. (You can make mini pastries with the leftover edges)
8. Gently pull the bottom of the triangle wider then, with the point pointing at you, begin to roll up the pastry. Hold the tip/point with your finger so you can pull the pastry as you roll it up. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, making sure the tip is on the bottom. You can curve the ends inwards to get the crescent shape if you like. (You can freeze them at this point, then thaw, let rise, and bake later)
9. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for about 1.5 to 2 hours, until nicely swelled. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Brush the croissants with soy milk, if you want.
10. Place the croissants in the oven and reduce the heat to 375 degrees. Bake for 15 mins, then rotate the pan and reduce the heat to 350 degrees. Bake for another 15 mins, until a golden brown. Let completely cool in the pan before serving.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Vegan croissants! This is not the first recipe of its kind (Vegan LunchBox had one years ago), but I find these ingredients and method produce a wonderfully light and flaky pastry.
12 comments:
- Miss Rachel's Pantry said...
- February 27, 2011 at 10:33 PM
- veg on a ledge said...
These look great. I am really enjoying your blog. Thanks!
- February 28, 2011 at 12:11 AM
- nicolaknits said...
Croissants are something I've been meaning to make for years - I've bookmarked your blog post and will give this recipe a try.
- February 28, 2011 at 1:04 AM
- Kia said...
Hi!I like your blog, I dicover it now!^__^
Come in my Equo, eco e vegan blog e tell me if you like it! Bye, Kia
- February 28, 2011 at 7:27 AM
- Nourish said...
Wow!! I'm going to have to try these. I can have Pigs in a Blanket again!!
- February 28, 2011 at 7:31 AM
- LittleSpoon said...
You may think I accidentally had 'caps-lock' on there, but I didn't, I really am THAT excited!
- February 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Heather D-H said...
beautiful and amazing!
one question, what is instant yeast? is this different than "rapid rise" or the same?
Thanks for another wonderful pastry with beautiful pictures!
- February 28, 2011 at 10:14 AM
- Marisel said...
wow, I can't remember the last time I had croissants. I was a bit sad when my dad recently bought some regular ones at the store and all I could do was give them a longing look. Now I can give these a go...thanks!!!
- February 28, 2011 at 9:48 PM
- greytveganlife said...
Croissants? Oh, YUM! I've been missing croissants; I haven't had one since the "old" (omni) days!
They look beautiful - I've been enjoying your pastry series!
- March 1, 2011 at 2:02 PM
- Laurence said...
Hi Vegan Dad!
Would you, by any chance, know the weights of the ingredients used in this recipe? It would be very helpful, as I'm not used to bake breads and pastries using volume mesurements. Thank you and have a good day!
- March 2, 2011 at 7:15 AM
- blessedmama said...
Wow, I'm going to have set aside some serious time to make these. Guess I'll have to get myself one of those shapers to make sure I get a good starting rectangle. Wonderful job.
- March 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- Levi's Mommy said...
Do you think almond milk will work? We never have soy milk on hand!
- April 3, 2011 at 7:43 PM


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Stand firm Time Warner. Screw Journal Broadcast Group!
I'm not sure I have this right, but it sees that TWC doesn't care if it loses market share in Milwaukee because we are such a small part of its base - it will take losing many Milwaukee subscribers to hold the line on paying higher fees to broadcasters. And WTMJ/Journal Broadcast Group is so limited in coverage that TWC doesn't really have to bargain with them (unlike with CBS) - which leaves consumers who want to stay with TWC in a very bad position. Is this correct?
Because if it is, I may finally make that call AT&T keeps soliciting me to make...
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So if you make the switch, what will you do when TMJ tries to screw AT&T at the next contract renewal?
Personally, I don't think TWC should be paying 1 red cent to local stations to rebroadcast their signals. The stations should be paying TWC
"They expand our viewer base by 30,000 homes which means the advertising we sell is seen by more eyes and we can therefore command a higher rate for advertising? Great! Oh, THEY are paying US for this? Awesome...raise the rates!"
Frankly I don't give a damn. But actually I do especially because I will miss part of the PGA FedEx finals this weekend. As for the rest of TMJ, their local stuff is fairly obnoxious and there isn't anything else we'd ever watch. BUT, since TWC is one of the more disliked companies, we'll continue to pay high, non-negotiable prices for the huge number of dial settings that we don't watch, but can't unbundle. So it does please me to see TWC take a hit as households switch out to other providers. Now, since Govt grants the licenses etc. I'd love to see Congress force these providers, led by TWC to offer packages of lesser expensive channels and much more flexibility. (won't happen)Hide replies
Just get the antennae. I picked one up for free at the TWC store at the Mayfair Mall, no questions asked.
So let's see.... Either you "Frankly Don't Give a Damn" ... OR ... "Actually I [you] Do . Which is it ? Which of your statements should we believe ?
Your first statement is very strong; but your second statement totally NEGATES your first statement. So what would you have us believe ?
That you are a strong, opinionated person with strong convictions.... or .... Are NOT. :)
What do you think, A nal ?
SpelllChamp -- Does Time Warner Cable have The Golf Channel on either the basic tier or expanded basic tier? If so, you should be able to see the golf tournament on The Golf Channel. Heck, if TWC put The Tennis Channel on Channel 4 for the US Open, perhaps they will make sure The Golf Channel is somewhere on the basic or expanded basic tier for the FedEx Finals.
I have wtmj on uverse. I am here to assure you Time Warner subscribers nothing has changed. The idiot sports guy still proclaims Boom shakalaka . Mike Fish still talks to the audience like they are in kindergarten, and Carol Meekins still thinks a lot of things are scary.Hide replies
But hey, Speed Busters, Dirty Dining, Mug Shot of the Day!
That boom Shaka guy should just go away !!
I'm thinking that with the fall NBC programs starting next week, they will settle shortly.Hide replies
Hard to say on that one. Last year, NBC was ranked dead last in February sweeps behind ABC, CBS, Fox (not necessarily in order) and Univision (Spanish language, but has no affiliates in Wisconsin. The part-time networks -- CW and My Network TV -- do not count for overall ratings. Other than Parks & Recreation, Law & Order (if it is still in first run production), Saturday Night Live, Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and Tonight Show with Jay Leno, is there anything on NBC worth watching?
So, Journal Broadcast wanted more money and didn't get it. Now they have less than they started with; and are currently whining because their greed backfired. Sounds like some politicians I didn't vote forHide replies
Exactly! If it were hurting TWC they would be belly-aching and moaning every single day. Instead it's Journal Communications and TMJ4 that are whining every single day on the website and telling sob stories and badmouthing TWC every chance they get on the radio. It's incredibly obvious who is losing this one. As soon as TMJ4 puts their tail between their legs and drops their outrageous request for a 200% increase, I'm sure channel 4 will be back on TV again. Heck, if they dropped it altogether, or even lowered it to 50% or something like that, and asked TWC to not saying anything about them lowering their demands because this fight isn't going their way, I bet TWC would welcome them back to the family and wouldn't gloat.
Cannot wait to cancel Time Warner. Uverse scheduled for later this month. And I won't return to Channel 4 for news - I was a faithful viewer. Both TWC and TMJ have demonstrated they could care less about their customers.Hide replies
Before you switch to U-Verse, ask them who they have upcoming contract negotiations with. Certain channels will probably going dark there too in the near future.
SNL Kagan? Does that stand for Saturday Night Live Kagan? Is this real?
BTW, TWC can keep TMJ off there for another two weeks. Then we won't be able to see Twerk girl on SNL next Saturday.
TWC may well be in violation of the "good faith" standard (regarding the "David and Goliath" reference in this article)- the 'I'm bigger than you,I'll wait' attitude on TWC's part, - 'no party should use undue leverage in a negotiation'. Hmm, this reeks of undue leverage. If TWC didn't have that attitude, this thing would have been over with a while ago. Not only that, TWC's customers are still paying and not receiving what they signed up for, how does that work?
WTMJ-TV 4.1 and 4.2 as well as the lifestyle channel no one watches on 4.3 all come in crystal clear via the 20-year-old rooftop antenna on the apartment building where I live. WTMJ-TV puts out a great HDTV digital signal.
All TWC customers need, if their TV has an ATSC (digital TV) tuner, is a two-foot long section of coaxial TV cable, two "F" connectors, and an A/B switch. One input on the A/B switch is the TWC cable from the pole, and the other input comes from a rooftop or set top antenna. The output goes to your TV via the two-foot long section of coaxial cable. When you want to watch a blacked out broadcast channel, just flip the A/B switch to the other input. You will need to scan your TV via the set up menu so the TV's tuner can receive over the air channels.
This technique also works when the cable is out for some reason as well as when satellite TV signals go out due to rain or snow.
In the event your TV has only an NTSC (analog) tuner, you will then need to purchase a digital TV converter box for roughly $50 at Best Buy, RadioShack and possibly Walmart.
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I have a graph with an Eulerian cycle and no Hamiltonian cycles. I would like to divide this graph into simple cycles.
Edges may not be repeated in simple cycles.
How can this be done?
I have a graph with an Eulerian cycle and no Hamiltonian cycles. I would like to divide this graph into simple cycles.
How can this be done?
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Follow your Eulerian cycle. Whenever you arrive at a vertex you've been at before, the part between the two visits is a simple cycle. Chop that off and store it in the list of simple cycles, mark all vertices used in that, except the one you are at now, as unvisited. Continue until all edges have been used.
To find a Eulerian cycle, Hierholzer's method is efficient.
If you don't already know the Eulerian cycle, use Hierholzer's algorithm.
(Edited to show how to find every simple cycle in the network, not just those contained within the EC. Is this what the questioner wanted?)
Assuming that you actually already know a Eulerian cycle, then simply follow the Eulerian cycle. Every time you visit a node that you have already visited, then you have found a cycle. You should check that it is a simple cycle by making sure that there are no other repeats within this cycle. For example
Also, two simple cycles could share many nodes and edges with each other. For example,
= Finding every simple cycle in the graph =
Every simple cycle will either be contained with the Eulerian Cycle (EC), or will be spread out throughout the EC. For example of what I mean by 'spread out', we can see the simple cycle
where I've highlighted some edges by making them longer. Those edges form part of the simple cycle. So, given and EC and the goal to find every simple cycle, it's a question of enumerating all subsets of the edges in the EC.
But you can speed things up considerably with a simple observation. If you decide to include
In fact, I think this algorithm is pretty much optimum efficiency for finding all simple cycles. Any thoughts?
This problem is just as hard as finding a Hamiltonian cycle. I don't think you can use the fact that the graph has an Eulerian Cycle.
You can use the obvious
But you can probably do better using dynamic programming.


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Roughly speaking, my question is: Why are convex sets assumed to be subsets of vector spaces? Well, one might answer that convex sets are defined to be subsets of vector spaces, but this is not the concern of my question.
Are there spaces with a "weaker" structure (in the sense that any vector space has or induces this structure) such that one can give a meaningful definition of the property of a subset that any convex combination of elements of that subset is contained in the subset?
I wonder for the following reason (unimportant for the answer of the above question; omit if uninterested):
There are attempts in theoretical physics to construct a mathematical framework, called "generalized probabilistic theories", in which (essential parts of) quantum theory can be formulated as a "special theory", i.e. as a special case of the framework. One starts by defining a set of states (call it $S$). This set is assumed to be convex (in the sense that combinations of the form $\sum\limits_i \alpha_i \omega_i$ with $\sum\limits_i \alpha_i = 1$ and $\omega_i \in S \ \forall i$ lie in $S$). Then, without any further argument, one deals with vector spaces for which $S$ is a subset. I wonder if it is necessary to deal with vector spaces or if it is possible to deal with weaker structures.


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I was a bit puzzled to read the following sentence in the article titled "Obama showering Ohio with attention and money" in September 26 Washington Post:
"It goes without saying that, every four years, presidential candidates shower battleground states with attention. This time around, it's Obama in Ohio, doling out the perks of office — all the time."
"This time around" should refer to a specific point of time in contrast to the folowing "all the time," which is separated by em dash. Don't "this time around" and "all the time" in the same sentence contradict each other?
Though I think "all the time" means every four-year routines of every presidential candidate, is this a perfect English sentence? It may sound nitpicking, but aren't some words missing, or redundant in the last line of the above sentence?


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Should my Trashmen be begging for a Christmas Tip?
We have private garbage removal where we live. Every year, they put an envelope on the front door that says
"Trashman's Helper". I know they have a crappy job, but it's the path they have decided to take in life.
The past few years we have left them Baked Goods, Lottery Tickets, Beer and Gift Cards. Even when I leave them something crazy to take away, I usually leave a 6 pack of beer with a note on it, thanking them. But I just think it's too forward to just leave a envelope that says " GIVE ME MONEY"
I wish I could do that at my job...
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Tip your waiter/waitress, they are working below min wage and work hard to serve you and they depend on your tips to make up the difference. Whoever started the practice of tipping the garbage man should be beaten with rotten fish.
No, they shouldn't. I'd take that envelope and put it on top of the trash, so maybe they would see I threw it out. It's kind of rude, actually, since it's not a job that depends on tips and not sure it even deserves one.
Then again, everyone thinks someone else owes them "more" these days.
I have a rather unorthodox manner of gift-giving. I don't do holidays. Long ago abandoned the "If I give you a gift, you should give me one" cycle that has trapped so many. I give gifts to friends & family all year...for no reason/occasion.
When the trash collectors go overboard to assist me, I give them packaged cookies, nuts, candy and bottled water. Just 'cause I want to. Ditto: Delivery people, the mail carrier and so on. I will not be caught in the obligatory gift-giving charade. Guilt-free, too. Servers are a totally different story - I tip, often generously, if the service warrants. Wouldn't give them a Christmas gift either. ;-)
Perhaps you should put a Christmas card in their red envelope. One that says, "Help yourself to some holiday cheer!"
But, I'm a smarta$$.
they may have a crap job, but they get paid well.. (at least the ones in Columbus Oh do).. my friend makes 55-60k/yr picking up trash 6 days a week..
I am more inclined to thank someone who doesn't ask with a 6-pack of beer or something similar, then I am if they are asking me out of the blue.
"I know they have a crappy job, but it's the path they have decided to take in life."
I disagree. I would bet most trashmen did not set out in life to be trashmen. Things happen, and you can be forced into a crap job. It's very hard to get out of a job like that as well - living paycheck to paycheck is tough, and makes it nearly impossible to gain skills to find a better job.
So tired of people thinking they should get something just for doing their job.
Its not a tip/gift if you ask for it.
As stated already most get paid well.
Years ago, my father was working for a company building farm equipment. They shut his plant down and he worked for the city throwing garbage, selling suits at the mall, etc. He did what he had to do to make us not feel the pain of the shop closing (/end rant for my dad - he's an amazing man.)
While he was working for the city throwing garbage, people would occasionally give them a sixer of beer on a really hot day and they got random gifts during the holidays. I called him to night and asked him about this question. He said they never asked, that would have been rude. But, they sure did appreciate people acknowledging them for setting their garbage cans back nicely and being on time.
So ... yeah. From a guy who did the job, it is rude and uncalled for in every way.
On another note, it reminds me of the "tip jars" everywhere these days. If they don't think they are getting paid well enough for the job they are doing, go elsewhere.
@ryanpblyth: tip everyone who got stuck in the cycle you mentioned, then?
103 times out of the year (we have twice a week pickup), I deal with:
Can thrown 20 feet THIS way, Lid thrown 20 feet THAT way
Can with garbage still in it
Can that has been MAULED (like those old Samsonite commercials), usually with the wheels torn off
Catching 2-3 different guys EVERY YEAR on webcam urinating on my lawn
1 time a year I get a neatly stacked can and lid and no smell of pee... along with 'the envelope'.
Why should I tip you for a job you already are being paid for? ON TOP OF the fact that you don't even do it well!
tooo str8 for me! That's beggar's job, not trashmen's!
I rarely tip people who are being paid for their job, with the exception being waitstaff at eating establishments.
@kylemittskus: God no. Not my intention at all - I think people should be payed enough that they don't feel the need to ask for tips.
My Mom says there was someone putting out envelopes and collecting them up, but was not the trashman. Just knew the route and that some people would tip into the envelopes. The workers never saw the money.
@jha1223: The Barista doesn't put the tip jar on my doorstep :)
@mkentosh: If it's a private waste removal service I would imagine that guy actually gets paid pretty well.. I could be wrong, don't know a ton about the WM game :).. but typically that's the case with privately contracted jobs like that.
I thought you meant these Trashmen:
Nope. They get paid well to do their job. It is a dirty job, but it's not a poor job. They make the same amount with their base wage as a server does after tips (on "average" about $16.5/hour). Drivers make much more, of course. I've heard fable of drivers making 60-80K. It's all based on experience as well.
But...this person did say it's a private removal, so you can take that into consideration (could be lower compensation; could be higher.) If you know them by name, it's not a bad idea. But if you don't feel comfortable, don't feel pressured into it.
Never. Anyone who ask for a tip get no tip from me.
It's rude.
#1 I pay for trash pick up in one of my monthly utility bills (I'm old and I forget which) C-note + per year
#2 There is only the driver operating the hydraulic controls in a clean, air conditioned truck cab for $15/hour. The city forces us to use those butt-ugly bins for trash and recycles.
#3 There is almost nothing more tacky than begging for a tip. My guess is that the OP lives in Union country which explains the total lack of class displayed by the garbage workers.
BTW, for years I lived out in the county and did pay for garbage collection. It was a Black guy and his sons operating a well-used truck to empty the communal dumpsters. They provided OUTSTANDING service for a very reasonable fee. The only time there was an interruption in service was when the old man had a stoke and then the sons were back at work very quickly. They never asked for tips and the people they serviced were pretty poor for the most part but we always managed to add a little something extra.
I guess the answer is: how good is the service? Do they do a good job: take care of your trash can, empty the trash all the way, and not generally make a mess? Or do they act as above, and not give a crap?
If they DO a good job, then go ahead and leave something. The last two places I lived have had municipal garbage collection, and they aren't very good. In Florida they looked for every possible way to avoid emptying your collection bin. If something (like an old broom) was sticking even an inch out, they wouldn't take it. And they trashed the bins, made a mess, and caused mayhem generally (including running over mail boxes on a near constant basis). No tips there.
I tip my garbageman every year at the holidays, and leave him pop/water/etc on hot days in the summer. He does a great job and always picks up everything, even when we leave extra bags out. There used to be two or three of them in the truck, but for the past couple of years it's just been him.
That being said, I might feel differently if he left an envelope like that.
@gmwhit: I occasionally add a movie ticket voucher to the regular tip of the waitresses at the small handful of restaurants I frequent heavily. But these are folks that greet me at the door, invite me to sit in their section, and remember what I usually order and how I like it. They go above and beyond in serving me, so I feel a bit of extra holiday cheer is warranted. I haven't ever tipped garbage men, but we have a municipal service with automated trucks, they don't even disembark the vehicle or roll down the windows which sit like 6 feet high, so giving them something would be very hard. I have occasionally given something like boxed chocolates to my mailman. I'd give something to the UPS guys as they have been very kind, but catching them is a challenge and you never know which one will be on the truck. I wish I'd had something handy as the guy I like was the one that dropped of a box last week.
@drchops: touché
Super tacky to outright ask for tips, imo. Thankfully looking up in the thread I am not the only one.
Here's an intersting link I found on MSN today... it's all about holiday tipping
Fully agree with @inkycatz. Asking for a tip is a good way of guaranteeing you won't get one from me. Provide excellent service and I'd have no problem with kicking a little something back.
In my case, my trash is collected by a private contractor paid by the town (and thus out of my taxes). We only get pickup once a week now (used to be two times) and my trash often sits out until well after noon before it's finally picked up. When it does, the trash cans just get tossed on the sidewalk (we're on standard garbage trucks, not the kind with the lifting arms and the special square cans) and very often get beat to heck. I've even had them leave a full can of trash because it was "too heavy" one time (even though it was just 2 bags of table scrap type material... heavier sure but easily lifted nonetheless).
I've never gotten anything asking for a tip, but if I did I'd laugh all the way to the trash can.


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Say there are metrics $g_n$ on a compact Riemann surface $\Sigma$ with bounded curvature and bounded area, or even with the same area element . What can we say about the 'limit' of $(\Sigma, g_n)$? Maybe collapsing to Riemann surfaces with lower genus+circles?
You need to specify what limit you are talking about as the question makes no sense otherwise. The weakest natural topology to consider in this setting is pointed Gromov-Hausdorff topology. Gromov-Hausdorff convergence with two sided curvature bounds is very well understood by the theory developed by Cheeger, Fukaya and Gromov and is particularly easy in dimension 2. If collapsing occurs then the limit is either a point (can not happen if you fix volume), or a 1-dimensional manifold without boundary (so a line or a circle). The elements of the sequence in this case locally fiber over the limit with circle fibers (globally fiber over the limit if the limit is a circle).
If the limit is 2-dimensional then it's an Alexandrov space with 2-sided curvature bounds. It's a $C^{1,\alpha}$ Riemannian manifold (again without boundary). Moreover, in this case you have topological stability on larger and larger balls as $i\to\infty$. In particular if you fix a bound on diameter then you have diffeomorphism stability and the limit has the same genus as the elements of the sequence for large $i$.
Lastly note that collapsing with bounded diameter can only happen for a torus and a Klein bottle. This is immediate from Gauss-Bonnet.
Whatever notion of limit you're using, you need a few more things in your "limit set." Consider the sequence of flat tori $\mathbb{R}^2/\Lambda_n$, where $\Lambda_n$ is the lattice generated by $(0,n)$ and $(1/n,0)$. We have uniform bounds 0 on curvature and 1 on area. However,


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We're going to be making a Negroni, but with ingredients that all come from the 1970s! Not a cheap serve this, admittedly, but it is completely, unequivocally epic so you do very much need to get involved still. Sorry.
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With this being a potentially subjective question I know I'm threading on thin ice, but this is an actual "physics" problem I face from time to time:
The situation is this: I hear about some phenomenon. For the sake of definiteness, let's say it is the Jahn-Teller-Theorem. I'd then like to find a good source that has a graduate level introduction to this phenomenon. The problem is that all Google turns up is either a very simplified explanation of the thing at hand (think Wikipedia), or a research level text that assumes its readers already have a perfect understanding of what the thing is. And original papers often do not provide such a clear answer (Legend has it that Born and Oppenheimer's paper on the adiabatic approximation is quite inaccessible and the relevant thing, the BO-Expansion, appears hidden somewhere in the appendix...).
I believe that I am not alone with this problem and I wonder if there is a straightforward approach to finding good introductory (but NOT superficial) texts on a given phenomenon.


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What amount of cash I can take with me when going from Canada to USA? I want to travel to US and want to take ~ 12000$ with me. DO I need to declare it and pay any fee?
Travelers leaving or entering the U.S. with more than $10,000 (in any form, that includes cash or checks) are required to declare it by filling out a Report of International Transportation of Currency or Monetary Instruments (FinCEN 105). This applies even if you are passing through the U.S. in transit to other countries.
Source: eHow
In addition to Heidel's point that the US cares you are taking more than $10,000 out of the USA, Canada cares that you are bringing more than $10,000 in. The form you will fill out on arrival is at http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publications/forms-formulaires/e311-eng.pdf and you can see they want to know if you have that amount of cash on you.
According to http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/security-securite/cbcr-dmte/menu-eng.html you don't have to pay any fee, and you are allowed to bring the money, but you MUST tell them about it. Just allow some time to have a conversation with the CBSA on arrival.


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Why doesn't Woot accept deals from bricks.coupons.com?
I was trying to post a deals link to a $1 off coupon for Silk almond and coconut milk products, but I got a popup that says "Sorry, deals.woot does not accept deals from bricks.coupons.com". No gripes, just wondering why. The email I got with the coupon link in it appears to have come from the milk company. It is because you have to install a coupon downloader program to print the bar code? Or is bricks.coupons an untrustworthy site for some reason?
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This is a web site for deals. Not really a site for manufacturer's coupons. They do accept deals with coupon codes. There are coupons every day for $0.50-1.00 off products, but it's just not what this web site really specializes in.
I think it would be because you need to install the printer software.
I don't have a working printer and the public computers around me don't allow software installations so I never use printable coupons anymore.
@omnichad: That makes sense when you put it that way. This $1 off coupon represents a better than 25% discount on a product I use every day, and having it electronically means I could use it over and over again until the expiration date late next month. That will save me quite a bit so I felt like it was worth sharing. But from the perspective of your post, Deals.woot could easily be overrun by cents off coupons and that wouldn't be a service to its mission so I agree completely. Thanks for the clarification. I was just a bit worried that it wasn't a trusted site and I'd been foolish to install the coupon printer.
@moondrake: coupons.com is a coupon/deal aggregater. We do not accept posts that lead to other aggregators. You are free to post a link that leads directly to a manufacturers coupon.
All told.
Hey @Moondrake! I don't know the answer to your question but have never tried posting a Bricks Coupon Directly. I post a lot of coupon deals and usually do so with the website thats offering the coupon and instructions on how to score it :)
On another note, I just posted a Buy one get one free coupon for Silk Milk! Cracked me up that I posted my deal then came over to questions to see what was going on for the day. Little did I know that I would be helping out a fellow Silk Milk Fan! Here's my post for the BOGO coupon :)
Have a great day! XOXOXOXO
@moondrake: I hate to be the one to tell you, but coupons.com only lets you print a given coupon twice per computer. That may not limit you if you have enough computers, but it's not unlimited.
@jumbowoot: I didn't actually realize it was from a deal aggregator till woot told me so. Looked like a regular manufacturer's coupon to me. But that's good to know.
@mommyleah: Thanks! I will definitely take advantage. I mix the coconut almond milk 50/50 with skim lactose free cow's milk and get a delicious lactose free low fat full bodied milk.
@omnichad: Unless the bar code is unique and the cash register at the supermarket is keeping track of it being used, I should be able to just photocopy this one and reuse it. Have to give it a try. I get email coupons from my local movie theater with my name right on them and photocopy them several times for the people going with me and there's never been a problem.
@mommyleah: Interestingly, that coupon is also a bricks.coupons.com coupon. But since you were able to link from Silk's website it didn't get kicked back but woot's server. Which is great because I am glad to have that coupon.


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I'd be more concerned about steel swords and horses than a couple of words,
Dr. Peterson.
In any case, the BOM is still a work of fiction.
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These are a couple of the weakest arguments against the Book of Mormon that
exist, but thank you for refuting them anyway.
If the Book of Mormon is a work of fiction, nobody has yet been able to prove who made it, after nearly 200 years. I guess that is where "faith" comes into play: believing something without having any evidence whatsoever. Such as the Book of Mormon's allegedly fictitious nature.
The presence of steel swords and even horses in ancient America has already been resolved long ago. But those who insist on living in denial will never be persuaded otherwise.
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HA! Yes, the words "horses" and "steel" are a MUCH more pursuasive argument that it is a work of fiction, right Ranch? Over 500 pages of text, and those two references are your evidence against its validity? I think you're missing forest for the trees, Ranch. But thanks for chiming in....
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The Book of Mormon is a work of God. No critic has yet been able to refute that fact for me.
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Over 500 pages of text, and "horses" and "steel" are the only
things you look at to be able to dismiss the entire thing conclusively as a work
of fiction?
Somebody is definitely missing the forest for the trees here, yes, but it isn't Brother Peterson. Somebody else is also letting their preconceived notions get in the way of doing any genuine, honest research…or perhaps, more
accurately, deliberately placing them in the way.
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The issues of horses and steel in the BoM was resolved long ago? That's news to me, and news to the church actually. The church readily admits that there has yet to be a single steel artifact discovered from the precolumbian Americas; nor have there been any artifacts pointing to a horse culture or horse skeletal remains. I would love to hear how these issues have been resolved.
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@Ranch re "In any case, the BOM is still a work of fiction."
I believe you'll need just a tad bit more proof than that if you want to convince most inquirers.
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Believing something to be true is not by itself a way to establish the truth.
Objective, honestly obtained, honestly tested and honestly discussed evidence is
To date, all available objective evidence supports the conclusion that the Book of Mormon, and the Bible, are exclusively and in their totality the products of human minds.
You have the right to believe what you want. Beliefs are personal. The truth should be objective.
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Anyone who still believes in the Book of Mormon simply hasn't done their
research. With modern internet search engines, it's clear it was a work of
Check out Chris Johnson's "How the Book of Mormon destroyed Mormonism" on youtube.
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There is simply no reputable evidence or peer reviewed data outside the Mormon
apologetic community to support the numerous anachronistic claims found in the
Unfortunately, apologists like Peterson spend way too much time trying to create assumed associations regardless of contradictory evidence in order to advance an illusion of probability when such probability is entirely unsupported by non-Mormon archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists, scientists, or scholars.
Apologists do a huge disservice to the LDS community by engaging in such pretentious argument. They forget that belief in the authenticity of the BoM is a matter of faith...and there it should remain.
With all due respect, I believe the church would be much better served if stopped supporting the excess of logical fallacies perpetuated by apologists trying to defend BoM authenticity and instead focus on the book's overall message.
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The issues of horses and steel is not missing the forest for the trees. They are just two simple examples of a much deeper problem. The BoM presents an entire culture, a culture that was familiar with horses and steel weapons. The problem is that no culture yet found in any of the Americas fits the culture described in the BoM. The "trees" is the fact that these cultures as described by the BoM simply never existed in the Americas, the horses and steel issues are just two facts that support the main point.
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We shouldn't start off on our search for truth with the question already
There are too many people like Dr. Peterson who start off with the answer (that the church is true) and then try to find everything that they can to convince themselves that they are right.
Instead, what we should do is look at ALL the evidence on the matter and then make a decision on whether or not the Book or Mormon is literal truth. We are less biased when we do it this way. That is why it is so sad that children are indoctrinated into their parents religion before they know how to think for themselves.
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Let's start and end with the Lamanites and Nephites.... DNA proof/ archeological evidence/ empirical data that they emigrated to the America's from Israel would be really helpful. Even the church has backtracked on that one.
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@Blue ... re "You have the right to believe what you want." For now, and
not like only a decade ago. This right is being eroded.
Re. "...exclusively and in their totality the products of human minds." How is it possible that early man would develop the means of his own repression? I understand the idea that man would develop religion to repress others, yes; but the 'narrow road' standards apply to the men who came up with the idea, too. How do we lend credence to the belief that man decided to fabricate a Being who would condemn them to eternal torment if His precepts weren't followed? This seems too unlikely to me.
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By that logic the greek gods must also exist. After all the people who believed in them believed that these gods tortured and tormented man all the time, sometimes just for fun. Since it seems too unlikely for you to believe that men would invent a being or beings that condemn them, then Zeus, Apollo, Hades and the rest must all be real.
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To all the horse and steel critics I say, absence of evidence is not absence of
truth. Absence of evidence for horses and steel can never prove the BofM false.
This not a spiritual dictum - it is a scientific tenet.
I can never quite understand why critics care about things like horses and steel when they've made up their minds that the BofM is false. It almost seems like they're trying to justify their decision that the BofM is false, a common theme for people who leave the LDS church.
Back in the late 1970s critics used to talk about how grains like barley had not been discovered in ancient South American archaeological evidence, yet the BofM mentions barley. Care to guess why this criticism no longer comes up? Because evidence for ancient barley was discovered in the early 1980s and reported on in a scientific journal. Now the critics have looked for the next criticism du jour, "horses and steel."
Anyway, the truth of the BofM is established in a spiritual not material way, as millions of people have already discovered.
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".... it's doubtful that the very unsophisticated Joseph Smith of
1829-30 was even aware that "adieu" was French...."
The first great anti-immigrant antagonism of the early United States was the immigration influx from France when John Adams was President. I find it highly unlikely that the common French salutation 'adieu' would have been one that Joseph Smith never heard of.
Apologists for the historicity of the Book of Mormon undermine their arguments when they reach to such ludicrous examples.
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@Blue ... Because I can promise you, if Moontan and the boys fabricated a God, this Being would be a rock 'n roller. Cool Dude in the extreme. Not being funny here, either. I'm saying a god I made up would not restrict or control some of my basest desires and wishes. I don't think early man is an exception, either. Any being man invented would reflect man's desires, and therefore I doubt moral sins would be included.
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The real question is: "If evidence of steel swords and horse skeletons and DNA proof were discovered, would all the naysayers believe?" Of course not. And what difference would it make anyway? Our relationship to God is a living, breathing relationship; not one based on antiquity. The verities I live by are in the human heart, revealed by a loving God in His time, as He sees fit. I have never been disappointed. But I have been let down, even amused, by intellectual consensus attained by human reasoning and research...the truth attained by man alone takes far more faith to live by than truth revealed by God.
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Many people claim that the Book of Mormon has yet to be refuted or proven to be untrue. But we Mormons are discouraged from reading "anti" Mormon literature, so how most of us would know if something is false about mormonism would be through MORMON teachings, including apologetics. Seems a bit fishy to me.
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The much anticipated Melvin and Nadine Crackel Trusts Auction of 305 acres of farmland near the Browns community was held Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 at the Edwards County Fairgrounds in Albion.
The Multi-Par, No Buyer's Premium Auction was conducted by Barnard Auctioneers of Fairfield and resulted with three area bidders purchasing the four-farm tracts of real estate. The successful winning bid for a combined 200 acres for a total of $2.5 million to a Browns Community farm family.
The auction event drew a tremendous crowd, estimated at 200 with approximately 50 registered bidders. The auction event of 305 acres resulted in a total sold of $3,460,000.
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