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A year has gone by since a picture-perfect Boston Marathon suddenly turned into a nightmare when the homemade bombs went off at the finish line. Over the past year, we've seen New England and the nation unite to support the victims of this horrific crime. In a testament to the "Boston Strong" mantra that emerged in the days after the bombing, a strong resolve and determination to reclaim the time-honored tradition of the Boston Marathon will be on display next week.
Of course, some concerns and anxiety naturally come with the territory after a traumatic event, but moving on means replacing trepidation with determination. Boston Marathon organizers have invited those who never got to finish last year's race, including Westport's Susan Darmody, back to this year's race to cross the finish line.
With heightened security concerns, marathon organizers have put an end to some of the marathon's traditions to maintain a safer environment. For instance, spectators will not be allowed on the course. "Many people (have) had family members run the last mile with them as I hoped my daughters would do with me," said Darmody, who was about a half-mile from the finish line when the bombs went off. "That will not be allowed this year. I understand it is to keep everyone safe. It is just sad how we have to live these days."
Although the Boston Athletic Association and law enforcement felt the need to enhance security and enforce stricter rules — to prevent the unthinkable from happening again — the best way to persevere is to keep living life the way we always have. Laine (Bigos) Hardman, a Swansea native, will be returning to Massachusetts from Alexandria, Va., to run the race again this year, even as she carries along the heavy memories of the chaos she witnessed after finishing the race last year.
Instead of focusing on the tragedy that unfolded, though, Laine's athleticism will be on full display. "I love to run Boston, it is a great experience, and 2013 won't change that," she said. Indeed, we live in fear only if we let irrational fear guide our decisions. Laine's mom will also be there again, cheering her daughter along from the sidelines. "There are always safety concerns when thousands of people congregate," said her mother, Joy Bigos, of Swansea. "However, the city of Boston is taking a very proactive approach to the marathon this year. There are quite a few new regulations for the runners and also spectators."
Among marathon runners, determination and pure grit seem to be ingrained in the DNA. That's why it's so heartening to see a strong resolve on display among many of the people directly — and indirectly — affected by the unthinkable events that transpired last year. It's important to reflect on and acknowledge the events of last year. It's important to remember and honor the victims — the three lives lost and the hundreds whose lives may never be the same.
Page 2 of 2 - But to truly heal, we have to keep moving forward and stay focused on the road ahead, rather than fixating on the troubles along the course that has passed. Undaunted by the tragedy they witnessed last year, Chris Darmody plans to stand at the finish line again this year, with his adult daughters, Katie and Lindsay, to cheer on Susan. "There's nothing to be afraid of," he said. "If you don't go because (of last year's events), then the whole plan behind what those two guys did worked."
On April 21, our collective determination and resolve will be on display for the world to see. Our beloved Patriots Day tradition will be officially reclaimed as we all run beyond the figurative Heartbreak Hill and join the runners in crossing that finish line together. That is what it truly means to be "Boston Strong."
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Fall 2012 Mariinsky U.S Tour (Ardani)Costa Mesa & Berkeley, CA + Wash, DC
Posted 04 October 2012 - 10:41 PM
Posted 05 October 2012 - 06:43 AM
Long - long - long line!
Posted 05 October 2012 - 09:29 AM
Posted 05 October 2012 - 10:35 AM
I know this is reality, but I rue the reality that anyone should have to discount tickets for any performance with Kondaurova..
Well, it IS Orange County, and I can't believe that the Mariinsky has the name recognition and reputation with the general public in that area to sellout the Hall each night. (The name change back to Mariinsky from Kirov certainly throws off the non-balletomanes.) And it's worth point out that the top tier of seating isn't even being used, so the Segerstrom people must have known there was no way they were going to get enough people to come see Swan Lake each night. There were plenty of people in the auditorium on Wednesday night, Oct. 3, but there was still some open seating.
Kondaurova got her standing ovation, and that's what counts - that the dancers coming from the other side of the globe feel appreciated for their efforts.
Edit: I stumbled across this video documentary that purports to show Kondaurova in her Swan Lake debut. And I think it's safe to say that she has grown into the role since. Lovely girl. Unfortunately there's a lot of dropped-frames in the video so it's choppy. I would rather see "Big Red" in The Firebird, but that's just me - maybe next tour...
Posted 05 October 2012 - 11:04 AM
Posted 05 October 2012 - 11:55 PM
A quick google search tells me the Met has around 3,800 seats and the Koch 1,900 seats for perspective.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 09:17 AM
So I am curious: How common is it for a cat to appear on stage at Russian theaters? I'd guess that the theaters have resident cats, but that the cats _generally_ steer clear of the noise and lights of a performance.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 10:55 AM
Last night, Ekaterina Kondaurova danced an epic performance of Odette/Odile. This Swan Queen dominated the stage and the corps, not only by her presence, but by the brilliance of her technique, her aesthetic, and her concept of a woman trapped in a spell with no hope. Her Odette was exemplary. She thoroughly exhibited those characteristics that separate the good O/Os from the great ones. She was at once, majestic, vulnerable, proud, tender, anxious and submissive to her Prince in the white acts, and resolute, confident, self-absorbed and ruthless in the 2nd Act. The white pdd with the Prince exhibited all of these qualities, including deep, fluid, abiding grace. During the scene 2 curtain call, she was all modesty, assuming the folded wings in tendu with lowered head, along with the swan maidens behind her. In the 2nd act her Odile appeared with the impact of an RPG. This Odile unleashed technical ordinance the likes of which I haven't seen in this company since the days when her former coach Olga Tchyentchikova danced the role, or in the early –mid 2000s when Daria Pavlenko (used) to be cast. She executed her fouttes sur place in sharp doubles and triples, ending in extended 5th as if they were mere child's play. Her final act was the summation of her second scene as her final diagonal in the last pdd and her release from the spell reached new pathos.
The corps de ballet was, in a word, flawless. Many thanks and kudos go to corps coach Nina Ukhova for this. The special stamp of her diligence and care enveloped all 32 swans. This was Vinogradov Era perfection. They moved and danced as one. The cygnets, Marina Shirinkina, Svetlana Ivanova, Elena Chmil, and Anastasia Mikheykina likewise were flawless. They were a well matched quartet: (Someone talked to Fateev). The Big Swans, gave us new recruit, the American, Keenan Kampa, Yuliana Chereshkevich, Victoria Brileva and Yulia Stepanova. They were equally well matched and exuded the broad and sweeping movements of the dance. The opening waltz was fluid with energy and soft grace. The pas de trois, with Nadezhda Gonchar, Xander Parish (formerly of the Royal Ballet), and Ekaterina Ivannikova was exceptionally danced. Gonchar and Ivannikova delineated the steps extremely well, with high elevation and clear pointe work, and Parish was quite powerful in his variation. Hopefully, he will receive more opportunities other than this pdt, the Poet in "Chopiniana," and few other minor roles to showcase his talents.
Elena Bazhenova's Princess Mother looked absolutely beautiful and mimed with regal authority. Soslan Kulaev, a doting and narcoleptic tutor (who took a curtain call after Scene 1), Alexey Nedviga was a jovial and buoyant Jester. Konstantin Zverev was a Rothbart of exquisite line and elevation. In his death scene he really writhed in anguish and was very dramatic, (re the Prince's "reaction,"anon, it's looming ever closer). The character dances were dispatched as usual with consummate Mariinsky expertise and élan. The Spanish, Venetian, Hungarian dances and the Mazurka were all well done. The Spanish was led by Anastasia Petushkova, Yulia Stepanova, Kamil Yangurazov, Karen Ionessian; The Venetian (Neopolitan), was led by a perky Anna Lavrinenko and Ilya Petrov, and the Mazurka was danced by Lilia Lischuk, Xenia Dubrovina, Lyubov Kozaharskaya, Irina Prokofieva, Alexander Beloborodov, Mikhail Degatyrev, Alexei Kuzmin and (the tutor) Soslan Kulaev. However the top honors go to Olga Belika and Boris Zhurilov who led the Hungarians: They poured paprika on that czardas!
"Swan Lake" is supposed to be not only the story of a woman's plight, but also the story of a young man's quest and first love. Kondaurova's Prince Siegfried was Yevgeny Ivanchenko. Overall, his performance last night brought to my mind 1992 Presidential candidate Ross Perrot's running mate, Admiral James Stockdale's opening statement during the Vice Presidential Debate: "Who am I? Why am I here?" This was the impression given by Ivanchenko, and the expression on his face during the entire performance.
Ivanchenko is one of the Mariinsky premiere danseurs who seems more focused on getting steps right and landing well, than developing a clear, coherent and decisive interpretation of a role. His repertory includes all the Princes of Petipa's canon, including Romeo et.al.. Last night Yevgeny Ivanchenko didn't seem worthy of such an O/O. What we had was an intense O/O paired with a passive Siegfried. For example, when he first appeared in Scene 1 there were crickets until a substantial part of the audience thought about 25 seconds later that, "Oh it's the Prince" and deigned to applaud. That's the best way to describe his presence in a nutshell. He is a wonderful, and competent dancer but when paired with an intense prima ballerina like Kondaurova, he fades into the scenery, and is one dancer among many. Here's another example. In his Act 2 variation, he literally walked (and I mean a normal pace – not presented, devoid of dance) to the throne for his preparation before the sweeps toward the pit for the end. If he could learn to combine emotional investment with technical ability, and if he could have found that synergy, he might have been Kondaurova's match. Elizabeth Kaye (more on her in a moment), mentioned in the pre-performance chat that when she spoke with Nureyev, he told her that Natalia Dudinskaya had given him this advice: "' She said to ' "…make performance; and to sparkle.'" Last night, the O/O made a performance and sparkled, the Siegfried did not.
Pre-performance Trivia: Last night, I had to go on a safari to get a program book. Usually, these are passed out to patrons in the foyer once you gain admission. They were still in the boxes and for some unknown reason, the ushers were reluctant to pass them out. We were told that they "… would pass them out when the audience is (seated) near capacity." I know, that doesn't make sense. Needless to say, they should re-think that policy.
Elizabeth Kaye, author "American Ballet Theatre: A 25 Year Retrospective," presented a detailed biography of Tchaikovsky's life, commenting on everything you ever wanted to know about the composer, but were afraid to ask, such as: His parents, the death of his mother, his childhood, his academic career at the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence, his attempted suicide after his wedding to Antonina Milyukova, how his brother Modest saved him from drowning, etc. She also covered the history of the ballet, in snippets, and how it evolved from a family entertainment for his nieces and nephews, to the 1877 Moscow premiere, why he wrote "Eugene Onegin," how he was in love with the character of Tatiana, and how Siegfried was the name he chose for the Prince because of his fascination with Wagner's "Ring Cycle." She tied all this together stating that his attempted suicide, and all of the other extenuating circumstances in his life up to that moment were poured into his music for "Swan Lake." The ballet history was correct until she mentioned that the Mariinsky's current production, (which premiered in 1950), was premiered by Konstantin Sergeyev - in 1890.
The Music Corner: Mikhail Agrest led a very small troop of Mariinsky Orchestra members. The musicians played the score with swift and sweeping passion, as Agrest guided them through what was an ideally paced and satisfying performance. In fact, the contingent seemed so small that either they were playing very, very softly, or the volume on the Hall speakers was turned down very low. I think it was the latter. When they brought "Don Quixote," the speakers were so loud that if you were in the first 15 rows, one might have experienced body waves. When Agrest came onstage to kiss Kondaurova's hand, it was a wonderful moment. I'm happy to report that the Mariinsky conducting staff's prêt-a-porter black silk pajama trend has ended, at least with Mr. Agrest. He was resplendent in a well tailored traditional dark suit. Brava Mariinsky!
Posted 06 October 2012 - 02:51 PM
Last night, Ekaterina Kondaurova danced an epic performance of Odette/Odile. This Swan Queen dominated the stage and the corps, not only by her presence, but by the brilliance of her technique, her aesthetic, and her concept of a woman trapped in a spell with no hope. Her Odette was exemplary.
Yes, but did you like it? ;)
I'm glad to hear that the Mariinsky continued to improve as the week went on. A fine write-up of the performance, by the way. I had much the same impression of Ivanchenko as you did. It's kind of sad really, and perhaps he's simply burned out, or even nursing some type of injury, but he just didn't seem to be emotionally engaged in the performance that I saw. I was just looking at some online photos of Kondaurova dancing with David Hallberg in Swan Lake and a Tudor piece, and I couldn't help but wish we could see THAT pairing in California.
The touring orchestra is indeed small, but they don't sound tiny - I was pretty impressed by the sound they were able to achieve.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 03:04 PM
How Kondaurova did not receive first cast in L.A. is a puzzlement. At least she opens the run in Berkeley next week.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 09:23 PM
A quick google search tells me the Met has around 3,800 seats and the Koch 1,900 seats for perspective.
The State Theater had 2800 seats before the renovation and has 2600 seats after.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 10:14 PM
Posted 07 October 2012 - 10:16 AM
Sat night was almost the opposite. Schklyarov was a wonderful Siegfried. He showed great elevation, absolutely soaring leaps in the BS Pdd that drew gasps from the crowd. He was fully engaged with his O/O and all the other dancers around him, very invested in the role. He does make a slightly puppyish impression but that's due to his looks. It really can't be helped and I think it works ok in the Mariinsky version.
Skorik was curious. She was not the disaster that Somova's early performances were or that her youtube clips would lead you to expect. She was ok technically most of the time and there were no big, noticable mistakes but she did simplify some of the steps. They didn't do the iconic overhead lifts on the diagonal in the 1st lakeside scene and my friend pointed out that she didn't really do all the beats we're accustomed to seeing in Odette's coda. Her beats sur le cou d'pied (I think thats what they're called) at the end of the WS pdd were very weak. She made it through the BS fouettes with no problem till she fell out of them at the very end. This was not a big flub, it was hardly noticable unless you had seen Kondaurova the night before who ended under perfect control in a beautiful, solid, triumphant 5th position!
What I didn't like about her was her manner of dancing. She is very skinny with very long arms & legs and a long neck. That may sound like I'm describing Lopatkina, but their physiques couldn't be more different. She looked scrawny to me, all elbows and hands and head and her arm motions were distinctive but not fluid. She has an extremely flexible back, which I usually love but with her it looked like her dancing was all about hitting these specific positions, making just this or that impression. Many of her poses were striking but the sum total didn't add up for me, and she didn't seem to have much rapport with her Siegfired or her audience. I did not feel one ounce of tragedy or empathy for her plight - in fact she didn't bring out Odette's plight at all, at least not to me. So, for me she was not "unworthy" of being a Mariinsky O/O, just an unemotional performer whose style of dancing is not to my taste. It is inconcievable to me that they had her open the engagement when Kondaurova is on the tour, she should be given time to develop under less high profile circumstances.
The corps was impeccable and Anna Lavrienko really stood out for her verve in the Neopolitan dance. Xander Parrish cut a very fine figure in the pas de trois and all the women I saw in it were very good (Nikitina,Ivannikova,Gonchar & Shirinkina) but with the exception of Shirinkina I can't help feeling that they weren't quite up to the Golub, Tkchenko, Osmolkina perfomances we used to see.
Posted 07 October 2012 - 12:34 PM
I feel sorry for her, actually, as she may be experiencing sheer terror on some nights: that's not what any artist needs to develop their craft. This isn't just bad for the audience, it's bad for the dancer's psyche.
Kondaurova moved through the ranks at a fairly typical pace for a principal dancer (though some think she should have been promoted to principal sooner), and she's proven to have that rare ability that every company director dreams of: a dancer who continues to grow and absorb new techniques and roles without hesitation, year after year.
Posted 07 October 2012 - 05:24 PM
I also saw the Saturday matinee with Kolegova and Korsuntsev. I think I've read a lot of criticisms of Danila's acting before but he was practically Daniel Day Lewis in comparison to Ivanchenko and Shkylarov. Lopatkina has clearly trained him well. I too would have preferred to see him with Kondaurova. He seemed the most engaged of all of the dancers onstage, and thoughtfully responded to all of his partners even those he only partnered in big group numbers. He also tried out this new and interesting acting technique where he MADE EYE CONTACT with his partners. Hope the word spreads around that this is something you can do if you want to attempt to relate to other people on stage. I thought his best moment was after the Act III pdd where he pledges his love to Odile: he looked so dumb and happy at knowing he could have her that I actually teared up a little at his crestfallen face afterward.
Kolegova was the most remote of the O/Os for me, but I think that was purposeful. She is extremely glamorous (looks like an old movie star with her new dark hair and her big eyes). Her performance was more static than Kondaurova's but not quite the pose-a-thon that was Skorik's. She's clearly a capable and beautiful dancer, but it's hard to follow the memories of Kondaurova from the other night. Kondaurova never stopped moving, and I prefer that to turning the Act II pdd into a bunch of static arabesques and attitudes with no quality of movement in between. I think that Danila must have the strength of several bulls as they slightly flubbed a shoulder sit in Act IV and he just carried her in a semi-sitting/semi-extended position at his chest level across the stage to not mess up the counts. My partnering experience tells me that is not the most fun position in which to hold a lift.
Vasily Tkachenko has his best outing as a Jester. He's a great actor and dancer (he didn't have the slight wobbles of the Wed night performance). The audience has loved the Jester at every show.
Each performance has been a battle of wills not to laugh at the floppy fish death of Rothbart. Is there not a more dignified way for him to go?
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New York University will host Susan Wolf, a professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for "Responsibility, Moral and Otherwise," the 2013 Mala Kamm Lecture in Philosophy, on Fri., May 10, 3:30-5:30 p.m. at NYU's Department of Philosophy (5 Washington Place, Room 101 [at Mercer St.]).
Philosophers frequently distinguish causal responsibility from moral responsibility, but, according to Wolf, that distinction is either ambiguous or confused. We can distinguish between causal responsibility and a "deeper" kind of responsibility, and we can distinguish between holding people accountable for their moral qualities and holding people accountable for their nonmoral qualities. Wolf suggests, however, that these distinctions are not the same. By reflecting on the character and legitimacy of our reactive attitudes toward nonmoral behavior and character traits, we may be able to make better progress in understanding the nature of responsible agency.
Wolf, Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at UNC, Chapel Hill, has authored Freedom Within Reason and Meaning in Life and Why It Matters, and is currently co-editing, with Christopher Grau, an anthology of essays, Understanding Love Through Philosophy, Film, and Fiction.
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Pewamo-Westphalia boys golf coach Bill Hengesbach recently started off a roller coaster, nine-hole round of golf with one of the rarest achievements possible. It was just about two years after his golf league partner Todd Arens accomplished the same feat.
Hengesbach, 46, turned an errant tee shot on his first swing during a recent golf league outing into an improbable double-eagle on the first hole at Portland Country Club. After a fortuitous bounce prevented his tee shot from going out of bounds, Hengesbach holed out with a 3-wood on his second shot on the 446-yard, par-5 hole.
"I pulled my drive toward the trees and the road and thought it was out of bounds, so I hit a provisional ball," Hengesbach said. "When I got there, I saw that it kicked out a little bit from the trees. I was still 215 yards away, but thought 'What the heck' and pulled out my 3-wood and hit it fairly solid."
When the group approached the green, Hengesbach's ball was nowhere to be seen.
"We couldn't see the green or pin from where I hit the ball down the hill, and looked all over and couldn't find it," he said. "My partner asked me if I checked the hole. When I did, there it was.
"Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good."
Arens knew to check the hole from past experience. Two years ago, while playing in the golf league with Hengesbach, Arens holed out his drive on the par-4, 15th hole for a hole-in-one, double eagle.
Playing in the same group with Hengesbach and Arens on June 24 were Doug Campbell and Dan Trierweiler.
"The golf gods were shining upon him, and the trees kicked it back onto the rough," Trierweiler said. "His group got down there and looked around the green, and couldn't find the ball. His playing partner joked and asked if anyone looked in the hole. He did, and there it was.
"It's more rare than a hole in one. He got a lot of high fives and handshakes afterward. He also managed to buy our group some beers later."
With the excitement of the albatross still ringing in his head, Hengesbach promptly proceeded to bogey the next two holes. After birdies on No. 6 and No. 7, he finished with bogeys on No. 8 and No. 9 to record a 1-under-par 33 for the round. On Monday, he bettered that score by one stroke with a 32.
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The 6 Most Impressive Serial Criminals in the Animal Kingdom
Have you ever turned around and caught your cat staring at you like he was planning something illegal? Well, guess what? It turns out that, judging by the actions of these animals, he probably totally was. The results range from creepy to adorable.
#6. Sam the Seagull: Shoplifter
Unless you've been hiding under an Internet rock for the past few years, you've probably seen an animated gif of this seagull stealing a bag of chips from a store (and if you haven't, your day is about to improve dramatically):
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Ha! Look at how he tries to casually walk out at first and then just runs for it. If you thought it was either a fake clip (from a commercial or something) or a freak occurrence that somebody happened to catch on their phone, you're wrong. That's Sam the Seagull from Aberdeen, Scotland. And he's a serial chip thief. And Sam had a serious case of the munchies for a certain brand of nacho chips, which is no surprise, considering that the orange powder those things are coated with is really processed cheddar-flavored heroin.
So, to get his fix, he regularly visited a local shop to swipe a pack. And no, the "silly animal doesn't know what stealing means" excuse won't fly here -- Sam clearly showed that he was completely aware of the illegal nature of his deed, treading carefully and waiting for an unobserved moment before striking, as you can see here:
As the shop assistant put it, "He's got it down to a fine art. He waits until there are no customers around and I'm standing behind the till, then he raids the place."
Sam became so popular, and the locals found his thievery so hilarious, that the locals started paying for the chips he stole so that the store wouldn't be tempted to try to stop him. Yeah, way to encourage criminal behavior, people. Now he'll tell all his little seagull friends, and before you know it these damn things will be flocking all over us anytime they think there's a chance they can swipe some food. It'll be like that Alfred Hitchcock movie, only all of the birds will be incredibly fat.
He's an angry bird because all those Snickers bars gave him diabetes.
#5. Fred the Baboon Carjacker
You may not be surprised to hear that there's a history of gang violence in Cape Town, South Africa, but we're betting you will be surprised to hear that one of the most notorious gangs was headed up by a short, hairy baboon named Fred. And we're not insulting him -- he literally was a short, hairy baboon. Named Fred.
And Fred's crew likes to break into cars.
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They run the world's third most adorable illegal chop shop.
The baboon earned a name for himself (though, sadly, not a more impressive one than "Fred") by staking out the road that leads to Cape Point (South Africa's most southerly point), and was often seen prowling up and down the roadside, carefully surveying the cars that had so carelessly stopped on his turf. Fred had figured out that automobiles were really just huge metal treat holders, and having realized that, it was only a matter of time before he learned that pulling on the door handles gave him instant access to the goodies within.
Also, it's not like he was fussy about whether anyone was actually in the car or not, leading to many a surprised tourist leaping out of the car as a baboon rummaged through their stuff. And if they weren't smart enough to get out, Fred had no qualms about shanking them with the knives that Mother Nature had so kindly built directly into his face.
"I'll just ... sign that title right on over, sir."
In fact, Fred and his gang caused so much trouble that Cape Town went to the lengths of employing a crack team of monkey specialists to try and ward the baboons off their vehicular targets. Team leader Mark Duffell said his baboon nemesis could "hit four or five cars in like five minutes."
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This is roughly the point where it stops being cute.
Sadly, Fred's antics wouldn't be permitted forever, and he was eventually caught and given a lethal injection in March of 2011. It was only then that we learned the true badassness of this particular baboon -- an X-ray taken as part of his postmortem showed that Fred had continued his baboonjacking spree despite having been shot more than 50 times.
We highly doubt any of his victims survived being bit more than once.
#4. Princess the Orangutan: Boat Thief
Princess was raised by Dr. Gary Shapiro, co-founder of the unfortunately named Camp Leakey, part of the even more unfortunately named Tanjung Puting National Park. Like most orangutans, Princess was chock-full of the smarts, and Shapiro successfully taught her how to use sign language, with the clever ape picking up over 30 signs with which to communicate.
And sign language wasn't the only human behavior she was picking up -- Princess took in everything that went on around her, and often entertained herself by mimicking the actions of the camp workers. It wasn't long until she'd figured out the art of transportation, and was filmed for Sir David Attenborough's Life of Mammals series as she paddled a canoe across the river. In fact, she was the first orangutan ever to be seen using a boat in the same way as a human.
And not in a "drunkenly flashing her boobs to skiers on Labor Day" sort of way.
But Princess didn't always find the locals willing to accommodate her desire for sailing, probably because she wasn't too careful about bringing the boat back once she'd finished using it. But she wasn't going to let such a trifling matter as lack of permission stop her from reaching her goal -- namely, a hoard of untouched food on the other side of the river (with the horde of pissed-off humans who regularly had to round up their missing canoes being an unintentional yet hilarious bonus).
When the camp workers realized their boats were no longer safe from a boat-stealing orangutan, they thought they could outwit her by hiding the paddles, but it turns out that's not an effective form of theft prevention when you're dealing with a creature that basically has paddles for hands:
If she made a little motorboat sound with her mouth while doing that, we would gladly buy her a yacht.
Deciding they'd need to employ more cunning tactics, the boat owners elected to start tethering the boats up, which, to an uninitiated person, may have seemed like a good enough idea. What they didn't take into account, however, was the fact that Princess could just do this:
Sure, a knot's going to stop an ape that can learn freaking sign language.
Needless to say, their next ingenious idea was equally unsuccessful, given that it wasn't so much "ingenious" as it was "Well shit, let's just tie the knots tighter." Finally, they resorted to weighing their canoes down with rocks until they needed them.
That's right, folks: Princess reduced the locals to sinking their own boats in order to stop her from stealing them.


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Archbishop Grings, meet Cardinal Schoenborn
In other news from Lake Wobegone, Austrian Cardinal Christophe Schoenborn, a former student of Ratzinger's who is close to the pope, gave some noteworthy comments to Austrian media -- via the latest edition of The Tablet:
The head of the Austrian Church has launched an attack of one of the most senior cardinals in the Vatican, saying that Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, deeply wronged the victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy when he dismissed media reports of the scandal. In a meeting with editors of the main Austrian daily newspapers last week, Cardinal Christoph Schnborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, also said the Roman Curia was urgently in need of reform, and that lasting gay relationships deserved respect. He reiterated his view that the Church needs to reconsider its position on re-married divorcees.
More here.It seems the Holy Spirit does blow where he, or she, will...
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Yay, Cardinal Schoenborn! Schoenborn for Pope!!
Ann, Schoenborn backed Ratzinger in the conclave, so I imagine he's good for now. But he did get one vote himself on the last round. Where were YOU on April 19, 2005....?!
And this is the guy who wrote the Catechism. People are complex, aren't they?
Life is complex, too. To live is to change, as the fellow said...
O right--wasn't it one of the Marx brothers who came up with that line? Harpo, I think
I think Schonborn has been radicalized by the scandals and the rapid bleeding of the Church in Austria since the most recent wave broke. Three times the usual rate of defections have been counted over the past three months. Perhaps he always had it in him to see the signs of the times, but recent events seem certainly to have brought out his courage and his ability to say the right things. And, for once, we are seeing a highly placed Archbishop who is willing to give some acknowledgement to progressives in the church! I am enjoying watching him go. He even collaborated with We Are Church in putting together the litany for the recent penance service at his cathedral in Vienna that drew 3,000 people --astounding. AND he delivered it with a lay woman theologian! These are unheard-of gestures. Many bishops won't even allow We Are Church into their dioceses.
Harpo -- Anthony, that was a good one! It was really Moe or Larry, I think...And yes, good on Schoenborn. It takes a crisis, I guess.
Cardinal Schoenborn turns out to be a beautiful surprise! In all fairness, though, I have detected some other intelligent comments from him recently, so perhaps I am not really entitled to be surprised.
Didn't Newman associate life with change?
It's wonderful to watch someone wrestle with a difficult situation and get clearer and clearer about what is wrong and what is to be done about it. Maybe his example will start the ball rolling. Imagine being able to open the papers in the morning or click on our favorite blog and find other highly placed clerics suddenly speaking the truth to power. It just could happen.And thanks, David for the quick catch on this good news!
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." -- Cardinal Newman, not sure when or where.
"Archbishop Grings, meet Cardinal Schoenborn"Oh, what tangled webs!
On the down side, Cardinal Pell of Sydney is the new Prefect of the Congregation on Bishops. Wearer of the Cappa Magna, guiding spirit of Vox Clara, champion of the ad orientem position, etc., He may be influencing the choice of our new Bishops for some time to come. Curial reform can't come fast enough!
Susan, has that been made official? Sounds like it'll happen, and it would indeed be another round on the Catholic roller coaster. Luckily, of course, Cardinal Law is till on the Congregation for Bishops and can steer Pell on the right course...
"It is indeed sometimes said that the stream is clearest near the spring. Whatever use may fairly be made of this image, it does not apply to the history of a philosophy or belief, which on the contrary is more equable, and purer, and stronger, when its bed has become deep, and broad, and full. It necessarily rises out of an existing state of things, and for a time savours of the soil. Its vital element needs disengaging from what is foreign and temporary, and is employed in efforts after freedom which become wore vigorous and hopeful as its years increase. Its beginnings are no measure of its capabilities, nor of its scope. At first no one knows what it is, or what it is worth. It remains perhaps for a time quiescent; it tries, as it were, its limbs, and proves the ground under it, and feels its way. From time to time it makes essays which fail, and are in consequence abandoned. It seems in suspense which way to go; it wavers, and at length strikes out in one definite direction. In time it enters upon strange territory; points of controversy alter their bearing; parties rise and around it; dangers and hopes appear in new relations; and old principles reappear under new forms. It changes with them in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." (Newman: On the Development of Doctrine)Not so by the way, here's the wonderful site where you will find all of Newman's works, with a fine search-engine, the one I used to find the quote above.http://www.newmanreader.org/index.html
Sorry, I was a bit premature. Rocco is quite sure it is a done deal, though. He provides a long citation from an article by Andrea Tornielli (in English translation.) The other site links the article in Italian. Nothing happens till it happens, though, even in Rome. So we will have to wait and see. (And yes, of course we can rest easy with Cardinal Law aboard. And the juggernaut will roll on... )http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/http://www.catholicculture.org/n...
Where were YOU on April 19, 2005.?!:David G --I was for Cardinal Martini, the Jesuit Biblical scholar. He's too old now. I was also favorably impressed by Fr,Timothy Radcliffe, the Dominican, even though he wasn't a bishop and was too young. A big advantage of Cardinal Schoenborn is that he is one of "them". I know from my experience as a Southerner that when you want real reform it has to come from within. Such reformers often become the most radical, and they can talk back to the lingering bad guys from the their shared experience. Look at Lyndon Johnson and civil rights.I don't think he'd have gotten any white Southern support if he hadn't been brought up in a racist milieu himself. So I think Schoenborn might be just exactly what the Church needs at this point. I just don't know of anyone who'd be better. Sigh. Whom do you guys see as papabile next round?
Bravo to Cardinal Schnborn for daring to let himself be influenced by reality and for expressing some personal thoughts.
Obviously the US style of politicking is more prevalent when it cometh to papible than is the UK style.The current issue of The Tablet (Robt Mickens' column to be exact) points out how the post-Maciel Of Late Lamented Memory Sodano is more prevalent than ever, as well. This, of course, proves the old Roman axiom: Eff up, suck up, move up -- but never shut up. (I think that dates back to the Didache, but could be wrong.)
Much needed breath of fresh air, if it's for real. I could hardly believe it.Mickens wrote earlier of 25% (?) of Germans withdrawing from the Church, something like 6.25 million, if I recall. Anyway the numbers were staggering and I thought that is the kind of needed shock to wake folks up.Yes, here's the text, my memory better than on most occasions recently: "A staggering 6.25 million German Catholics, that is a quarter of the German Church, are expected to leave the Church this year because of the scandal, according to a poll in the Frankfurter Rundschau daily. This will cost the Church millions of euros as people leaving opt out of paying church tax (8 per cent of income tax). In Austria, 30,000 Catholics have left the Church this year, compared to 21,000 by this time last year, which was a record year.http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/14646 Not be too cynical but highly realistic: money talks, maybe. Germany and US provide highest monies to Rome.Prof. Kaveny has an outstanding article at http://commonwealmagazine.org/darkening#comment-165"So an effective response to the crisis will take more than truth commissions to find out what happened in the past and policy committees to protect children in the future. It will also take the development of new ways of enabling believers to identify imaginatively and affectively with the church. We will need the contributions of artists and novelists, not merely those of lawyers and psychologists. ...The sexual-abuse scandal, however, was and is reality. In real life, losing ones faith is less like losing an argument than like losing a source of light. Its like sitting in a chapel at sunset, dully watching the vivid harmony of color bleed out of the stained-glass windows, leaving nothing but a flat, leaden monochrome in its place."Leaden monochrome, yes, yes.
I saw Abp Christoph Schoenborn in the Stefansdom about 10 years ago and he looked like a mummy on his sedia, like another Pius XII.But now when he says that "lasting gay relationships deserve respect", he sounds like John Paul I, who believed the same thing. Papa subito!
The picture that Rocco posted on the Whispers-in-the-Loggia blog of Pell in his cappa magna reminded me of the infamous Cardinal Ottaviani! I remember the election of John XXIII...no one was expecting anything to change...much less Vatican II. John did not become pope with a definite agenda...certainly not a literal one, but he, from his experience in the Church, knew that things had to begin to change....John was definitely "one of them"...an old Italian cardinal, who had a great love for people, all people.
Ken L. --I thought Cardinal Ottaviani was a thoroughly awful man until I read that he personally supported an orphanage. Moral: we've got to stop judging the consciences and holiness of other people, especially those who disagree with us. That goes for all sides.
I think Ottavianni was an waful man because he may or may not have been holy, but because he tenaciously fought the reforms of VII.I also (apropos of Pell and Salttery et al.) think of the Master's words abou tbewarin gof thos ewho love high places etc.
Didn't Schoenborn do a rather. . . surprising . . . op/ed on evolution in the NYT a couple of years ago/
Yes, he did, which is one reason I never expected this turn of events.
He has a website with all his evolution articles. I didn't really care for him then because he was in argument with Jesuit astronomer George Coyne, who I really liked.
Schoenborn said that the Irish church is at a crisis of 5 with a possible five with Austria being at 3. Nothing like people turning away to wake up an empire which knows how to count. With the pr man in at the Vatican saying that Soldano was out of order it shows that they are bouncing this ball trying to gauge the danger.Follow the money. Triste dictu!
Fr. Komonchak, wonderful quote from Newman. Thanks.
Maybe Schoenborn,the aristocrat conservative, yet not tied to ideology is willing to let noblesse oblige lead him to new ground. any way the stumbling Church can get help is OK with me.
I think this Schoenborn is the same One who criticized evolution a while ago. This fact had me worried as well. I agree, Crystal. I know George Coyne personally and re. science, I'd trust him over any cardinal any day. But this does seem promising. Perhaps people really can change. Let's continue to pray, work and never lose hope. Peace and blessings.
Not only has Schonborn made some curious statements on evolution that he later tried to clarify -- his first and most public statement in a NYT op-ed (you known, that notoriously anti-Catholic newspaper) -- but he also recently did some freelancing at the Marian apparitions site at Medjugorje that did not please the local ordinary, who said Schonborn's visit last November added to the current suffering of the local church.http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/medjugorje_bishop_says_cardinal_s... I think it's a mistake to see any cardinal or potential pope as a messiah-like figure -- another John XIII, would be the liberal version, I think. And B16 has not always pleased conservatives, though he's doing better...
What does this mean?"The cardinal also said the Church needed to reconsider its view of re-married divorcees as many people dont even marry at all any longer. The primary thing to consider should not be the sin, but peoples striving to live according to the commandments, he said. Instead of a morality based on duty, we should work towards a morality based on happiness, he continued."... or this?"Questioned on the Churchs attitude to homosexuals, the cardinal said: We should give more consideration to the quality of homosexual relationships, adding: A stable relationship is certainly better than if someone chooses to be promiscuous. "It's possible to read more than one meaning into each of these statements. I could mount an argument that, giving due allowance for the fact that these quotes were lifted from a verbal back-and-forth with the press, rather than from a carefully crafted document, nothing much is really new here.Does anyone know if a transcript is available in English of the Cardinal's talk? Or if he has subsequently commented on or clarified anything from that interview?
You are right that it may not be new, since Jan Visser, co-author of Persona Humana, made similar noises.


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Given an invertible square matrix $M$ with entries from some number field $K$ which is Galois over $\mathbb{Q}$, sum the Galois conjugates of $M$ to form a new matrix $M' = \Sigma_{\sigma \in \mathrm{Gal}(K/\mathbb{Q})} M^\sigma$. What can one say about the rank of $M'$? It seems like both zero and full rank can occur. Are there any theorems related to this, perhaps with further conditions on $M$, that provide some information about the rank?
You can do this: take a normal basis for K, and write M as a linear combination of the basis elements with rational matrices as coefficients. This clarifies what happens under the trace, because the normal basis elements will all end up at the same rational number. So up to a scalar you are just adding a bunch of square rational matrices and asking the rank of what you get. Obviously if those coefficients are arbitrary you have no reason to be able to say more. Some sort of "Galois module" in the background is pretty much necessary to insert more structure into the situation.
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Although $M'$ may not be invertible, you can always adjust by a scalar $\lambda \in K^\times$ to ensure that $(\lambda M)'$ is invertible. This can be seen as follows: let $\{\alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_n\}$ be a basis for $K/\mathbb{Q}$. Write $M = \alpha_1 M_1 + \dots + \alpha_n M_n$ for rational matrices $M_i$. Now $\mathrm{det}(x_1 M_1 + \dots + x_n M_n)$ is a polynomial in $\mathbb{Q}[x_1,\dots,x_n]$ which has non-zero value at the point $(\alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_n) \in K^n$, and so is non-zero. Since $\mathbb{Q}$ is infinite, there is also a rational point $(\beta_1, \dots, \beta_n) \in \mathbb{Q}^n$ at which it is non-zero. Now by the nondegeneracy of the trace form, we can pick a $\lambda \in K$ such that $\mathrm{tr}_{K/\mathbb{Q}}(\lambda \alpha_i) = \beta_i$ for all $i$. Then $\mathrm{det}(\mathrm{tr}_{K/\mathbb{Q}}(\lambda M)) \neq 0$ as desired.


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Killeen police spokeswoman Carroll Smith said the soldier, whose name has not been released pending notification of his next of kin, was walking just after 11 p.m. Friday in the 4000 block of South Fort Hood Street when he stepped into the path of a 2000 Ford Mustang.
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TO�HAJIILEE, N.M. � This flat, dusty stretch of prairie in central New Mexico is where the leaders of a remote, sparsely populated Native American community envision a sea of solar panels capable of producing enough electricity for more than 10,000 homes miles away from the reservation.
The To�Hajiilee solar project is one of 19 energy projects that will share in $6.5 million recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy to spur renewable-energy development on tribal lands. About two-thirds of the money is earmarked for tribes in the West, and most of that will be going toward getting projects in New Mexico and Arizona off the ground.
Over the last decade, $36 million has been doled out for nearly 160 projects from Alaska to Maine as part of the DOE�s Tribal Energy Program. This year�s grants come as Congress considers new measures aimed at reducing the bureaucratic hurdles tribes face in developing their resources and as the Obama administration looks for ways to speed up the leasing of land for clean-energy projects.
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Part 1: We are Introduced to the Valiant and Haul it HomeWritten by on July 1, 2002 Valiant Effort: A project car even WE can afford!
Over the years, Mopar Muscle has done many project cars. The most recent was the Holley Road Runner, a great vehicle that was outstanding in terms of workmanship. No expense was spared in making that car a reality, with parts from the best companies in the Mopar aftermarket. We've got another project car going together in this realm right now: 'Cuda Invader, for Hot Rod's Power Tour in 2003. While we appreciate these great machines, we wanted to do a new project that was affordable. Enter Project Valiant Effort.
Frankly, though my better half has a Plymouth street rod, I was tired of going to the various car shows and not having a Mopar of my own there. Besides, that hot prewar iron wasn't practical for long drives. I was looking for something... well, cheap is the operative word. While attending the Year One Bristol Bash last year, Dale Mathews, the owner of our '01 Carlisle 383 engine hop-up Road Runner, showed me some pictures of a '67 Valiant he had for sale. It was cheap, and I was instantly hooked. This plain-jane Valiant was a good, solid car with a Slant Six engine and a three-speed-on-the-tree combination. Did it fit in my budget? Sure did. Did it have potential? In my eyes, tons of it.
Although it would be easier to ask for forgiveness after I bought it, I decided I had better check with home first. Paula's initial response was "a what?!?," but after explaining how I would pull this project off and still be able to take her out to dinner now and then, she agreed. So Project Valiant Effort was under way, almost. After the e-mails finished flying back and forth between Florida and Lenoir, North Carolina, the deal was made and my brother and I planned to make the 13-hour trip (one way) in a weekend.
We went to the tech shop by 7 that night to get the trailer...but where was it? One of the guys who works on one of the Ford magazines here had taken it to Ocala, Florida. After a frantic search to get his cell-phone number, I finally reached him. We stopped on our way 70 miles north and picked it up.
"Hey, Jeff, won't your Mustang drive that far"? (Couldn't resist that one.)
We were going to get a car that had been in North Carolina all its life. This 100 series A-Body was a budget machine from the start, equipped with vinyl bench seats, a vinyl floor mat, a 170ci six, and a three-speed crash box. Dale had warned me about what the condensation under the floor mat did to the metal there, but promised the rest was solid, which it was. We loaded it up and were back in Florida on Sunday evening--29 hours, 1,300 miles, and $140 in gasoline later.
Now with the Valiant in Florida and Stunkard still laughing (or crying, depending upon whether he's looking at his dead-in-the-water Dodge wagon), what are my plans? To create a reliable street/strip car on a budget, something the average person could build. I hope to initially keep the cost under $4,000, including the price of the car. To do this, a lot of the parts will be purchased at swap meets or traded for; this will result in some arbitrary prices, but will be as honest as possible. Companies like Year One, Holley, Autobody Specialties, and Layson's Restorations have supplied some parts, and their retail value will be figured into that four-G total as well.
Will this be a concours resto? By no means. I am going to be doing some learning along with you; thanks to the shop and friends in the know, we'll get it right the first time. We're planning on a 360 junkyard mill as the base, coupled to a four-speed and an 8 3/4 rear. When we're done, we hope to wring out some 12-second timeslips as well.
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From left, Dale, my little brother Andy, and Ken. Can't help but think they're laughing at me as I strap the Valiant to the trailer.After travelling through four states and stopping twice for gas, we arrived in Lenoir, North Carolina, at Dale's house. No, the Superbird in the background is not for sale.Depending on your particular plans for the interior, as long as everything is there, you should be OK. Reproduction parts are usually available, but it's always a good idea to check first. Since we are changing the color to blue, the OE color was not an issue.After installing a battery in the Valiant, she ran like a top, and we loaded her on the trailer for the long ride home. At 11:00 on Saturday, after sixteen hours on the road, we were on our way.


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GENESEO, N.Y. – The dean of SUNY Geneseo's School of the Arts, Jonathan Gonder, will be guest pianist at the Tremont String Quartet's concert Nov. 13 in Wadsworth Auditorium. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Gonder, professor of music, will join the acclaimed in-residence ensemble in the performance of Brahms' "Quintet for Piano and Strings, Opus 34," written in 1864. The quartet also will perform Mozart's "String Quartet in G Major," written in 1782.
"The Tremont first collaborated with Dean Gonder in the fall of 2008 for a performance of the third movement scherzo from the Brahms work at the college's annual Kaleidoscope Concert," said James Kirkwood, Tremont cellist and director of the quartet. "The success of that performance led to plans to perform the entire quintet this season."
Gonder was named the college's first dean of the School of the Arts shortly before the Kaleidoscope performance in the summer of 2008. He received his doctorate of musical arts in piano performance at the University of Michigan, where he studied with renowned pianist Gyorgy Sandor. He has received numerous awards and prizes in his career while participating in international, national, provincial and regional music competitions.
The Mozart quartet is the first of the cycle of six quartets that Mozart dedicated to Haydn, which stand as highlights of the classical cycle.
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Norah just returned from the Pitti Filati show in Italy, on the hunt for new yarns for Berroco to sell. One of the biggest yarn and knitting trade shows, it's open only to those within the industry. Inspirational artwork, experimental machine and hand knitted fabrics, and color and yarn trend forecasting are all brought together in one place.
During my years studying in RISD's textile department, any mention of Pitti Filati was accompanied by far-off looks of longing. Those who attend always bring back great ideas and inspiration, and Norah was no exception…
She took photos of these intriguing brightly colored knits on the show floor:
Did you spot all the paperclips on the orange sweater on the left? And I can't stop staring at the collar of the sweater on the right. Or the one in the middle, actually.
I'm also really drawn to these super-textured sweaters:
I love the juxtaposition of textures on all three of these looks. And check out the size of the stitches on the vest on the far right…
In addition to the photos, Norah brought back some color inspiration in the form of striped socks:
And lots of magazines, as well as a palette of color trends for Fall/Winter 2012-13:
As usual, Pitti Filati lived up to its reputation – when you're a knitter, good things come from Florence!
Those sock are AMAZING!!July 19, 2011
And she didn't let me stow away in her bag – gah!
Can't wait to see how this translates to Berroco's upcoming pattern booklets.July 19, 2011
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Those diagonally striped socks are particularly fantastic — I know I would have bought two pairs so that I could have one to wear.July 20, 2011
I love bright, cheerful colors – especially in the fall when things seem to whether and become muted. Very excited to see what's in store this upcoming season!!July 25, 2011
would love to see more pics of the sweaters in that first photo collage. are there more to share? or could you point us in the direction of the sweater's designers?November 5, 2011


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WoLK and Echoes of Doom Fire Mage Specs
I wish I could personally tell you the best way to go, but to be honest, I have just created a dinky spec to pass the time before my return from India.. Fundamentally I took all the talents that I thought might be a bit of fun for a change.
The biggest issue I have is remembering to use them! My fingers are still straying to the same old buttons…
Living Bomb… I got it… remember to use it… lol yeah right…
Anyway, in lieu of any advice I can offer, which would probably be dodgy anyway, I will offer you a link.
I have seen this come up a few times on other blogs, so had a look myself, and the link below is directly to raid Fire Mage Raid specs… but you can change it to whatever you want.
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I'm trying to understand the properties of the category $FL/S$ of finite locally-free commutative group schemes over an arbitrary base-scheme $S$. I know it is not in general an abelian category: Over the integers the morphism $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\to\mu_2$ given by the ring homomorphism $\mathbb{Z}/(T^2-1)\to\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}$ with $T\mapsto (1,-1)$ is a monomorphism and an epimorphism in $FL/\mathbb{Z}$ but it is clearly not an isomorphism.
What I don't know: Does every morphism in $FL/S$ have a kernel and/or a cokernel?
One has a notion of short exact sequences in $FL/S$: If $f:G'\to G$ and $g:G\to G''$ are morphisms in $FL/S$ we say that the sequence $0\to G'\to G\to G''\to 0$ is exact if its image under the embedding of $FL/S$ into the category of abelian fppf-sheaves is exact. How can we detect in $FL/S$ whether a sequence is exact? Specifically: If $f$ is a kernel of $g$ and if $g$ is a cokernel of $f$ (both in $FL/S$), is the corresponding sequence exact?
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They may not be Tiger Woods just yet but with the help of Parks and Rec kids in Bowling Green are well on their way to learning the game of golf.
More than forty kids were at the Kummer-Little Recreation Center for the first free Youth Golf Clinic, held this afternoon.
First with pencils, and then with clubs kids as young as five, were learning the basics of how to hit a golf ball.
Parks and Rec says it's just one way they can give back to the community and expand the game of golf.
"Some people have some apprehension about getting started, and we want to take that apprehension away so anything we can do to bring the game to the masses that's what were here for,"says Brent Belcher, with Bowling Green Parks.
"To do it for free and to give people a chance to play and to learn how to play without putting any kind of investment forward is a really, really good thing,"says Mike Rexroat, whose two kids participated in the golf clinic.
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SARASOTA, Florida (CNN) - GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney launched a new line of attack against President Barack Obama on Thursday, seizing on comments Obama made about change in Washington earlier in the day.
"The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside," Obama said Thursday afternoon at a presidential forum the candidate taped to run on the Spanish-language network Univision.
Change was the theme of the candidate's 2008 campaign slogan, and he said at the Thursday forum that change from the outside was essential for his election and policy.
"That's how I got elected, and that's how the big accomplishments like health care got done, was because we mobilized the American people to speak out," he said. "That's how we were able to cut taxes for middle-class families. So something that I'd really like to concentrate on in my second term, is being in a much more constant conversation with the American people so that they can put pressure on Congress to help move some of these issues forward."
Within hours, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney had seized on the comments. Standing before a sign that declared he would "protect and strengthen" Medicare, Romney instead peppered his speech with references to Obama's comment.
"The president today threw in the white flag of surrender again. He said he can't change Washington from inside, he can only change it from outside," Romney thundered to an audience of several thousand in Sarasota. "Well, we're going to give him that chance in November. He's going outside!"
Romney said he "couldn't believe it" when he heard reports the "president of change" had said Washington needed to be changed from the outside.
"Isn't that amazing? No wonder he's had such a hard time over the last four years," Romney said. "His first two years he had a Democratic House, Democratic Senate, he got to do whatever the heck he wanted to, but he says he can't change it from the inside. Well, I will."
Obama's campaign responded to Romney's remarks on social media, tweeting quotes of prior Obama statements about change coming from outside of Washington.
"'This campaign can't only be about me. It must be about us-it must be about what we can do together.' -Barack Obama, 1/10/07," Obama's campaign account posted.
And another post: "'The change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington. Change happens because the people demand it.' -Obama, 8/28/08."
The campaign also released a web video of comments Obama has made on the campaign trail this year - and to make their point that Romney was taking Obama out of context, the video takes comments of Romney out of context.
"America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past," he is seen saying in one of the clips. It removes critical words from around that bite, as Romney regularly makes the opposite point in his stump speeches.
The Republican White House hopeful did take aim at Obama over Medicare, claiming $1.4 billion marked for Medicare recipients in Sarasota would be used to pay for the president's health care plan.
"What he has done to Medicare to pay for Obamacare is wrong," Romney said during the sunny, outdoor rally, where several elderly supporters had to be ushered out in the heat. "I will reverse it. I will save Medicare and protect it for our seniors of today and our seniors of tomorrow."
But at the end of his speech Romney returned again to his theme of the afternoon: "I will change Washington and I will do it from the inside when you elect me on November 6th."
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A couple is going out somewhere for the evening, let's say to a special event, or to a banquet or some destination that isn't an every-day place they would normally go.
And with that being the case, it becomes the setting for one of those what-to-wear sessions.
Perhaps you've experienced one of these emotionally charged clothing-selection episodes with your spouse or significant other and lived to tell the tale.
If so, I feel your pain.
Depending on your gender and the extent of your wardrobe, the decision-making process might start days before the event, maybe even weeks.
If you're a guy, maybe it took no time at all. You just put on what your wife laid out for you.
This whole what-to-wear session is an occasion for the woman to wonder "What do I have to wear?" - as in what's in my closet, what outfit is appropriate or pretty or something I like or something that doesn't make me look too fat or funky - vs. the man approach, which also is "What do I have to wear? only the translation is a little different.
In this case, he's hoping it doesn't mean he has to get dressed up, suited up, tie on, shoes shined, yee-haw.
I thought about all this during the past week, starting with Monday when Better Half and I were at the annual Herald-Star, The Weirton Daily Times, Presented by Weirton Medical Center Community Stars dinner.
We were sitting at a table where a husband and wife were laughing about picking out clothes to wear that evening. The husband mentioned he'd been "informed" that he had to wear dress pants, which put him on a search through his closet and a discovery that the waistbands on many of the ones he had simply weren't cooperating with his waist size at present.
It made me laugh for two reasons. One was because Better Half does the same thing. I swear it's the only time our closet gets a cleansing. Out come all these pairs of pants that won't see the light of day again until the next event. It's a through-the-years kind of style show where we wonder will we lose weight? Will this come back in style again?
The other thing that made me laugh is that men's attitudes toward dressing up are very different from a woman's.
I have big worries when I am deciding what to wear somewhere, mainly did I just wear this in recent history because if I did, I surely can't wear it again too soon. I can't go to one event one week and another event the next week and wear the same thing. For pity sake, what if the same people are at both events and remember what I had on?
Better Half, on the other hand, used to have this Hawaiian kind of shirt. It was very nice, but it became a family joke because it was the "multipurpose shirt." It was his wedding shirt, graduation shirt, first holy communion shirt, funeral shirt, you get the picture.
To his credit, when Better Half decides what to wear, that's it. We have reached the "who cares anyway" stage of getting ready to go anywhere.
I, of course, am concerned not only with what outfit I'm wearing but the accessories, too. Jewelry, purse, shoes, etc.
Better Half's accessories? Wallet. Pen knife. Comb.
The beauty of all this going out and getting dressed up is knowing we can return home and be ourselves again at last.
Let's hear it for raggedy sweat pants with forgiving waistbands.
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I want to get from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago de Chile by land. What is the recommended route and what are the alternatives? Aprox. how much it costs and how long does it takes? Where can I book tickets and find schedules? What are the main problems that can be encountered?
There are some direct buses from Buenos Aires to Santiago de Chile. For example, CATA Internacional runs a daily bus, on weekdays only (Mon-Fri), which leaves at 17:00 from BA (Retiro) and arrives next day at approximately 12:30 (= duration ~19.5 hours). The price is $AR 900 / USD ~105 (semicama without service) or $AR 1050 / USD ~125 (cama ejecutivo) as of Nov 2014.
Besides the Argentine CATA, two Chilean companies run direct Santiago – BA buses on some days of the week: Pullman del Sur (details) and Buses Ahumada. Prices on Pullman del Sur from CH$ 55,000 (USD ~100).
Alternatively, take the bus to Mendoza, Argentina (12+ buses daily; 13-16 hours, USD 60–110 depending on company and comfort level), located quite close to the Chilean border, and then continue from there to Santiago (about 8 buses daily, 6-7 hours, USD 40-65). The mountain pass and border crossing is called Los Libertadores.
I haven't taken this trip to Santiago myself (only to Mendoza), but I'm fairly sure that the bus is your best (and maybe only) bet, and that you won't encounter any major problems. The coaches in Argentina and Chile are comfortable and reliable. (For a long trip, I recommend investing in cama suite or whatever the best option is called, to be able to sleep better.) You can see timetables and buy tickets (with credit card) online at Plataforma 10, or you can visit the Retiro main bus terminal in Buenos Aires [map] for the same.
By the way, Mendoza is a nice place known especially for its wines, and some of the highest peaks of the Andes nearby, and stopping there for a few days wouldn't be a bad idea.
Edit: updated for November 2014. The prices in local currency keep rising a lot (for example, Mendoza–Santiago trip went from 120 to 230 pesos during just five months in 2013). The Argentine peso is weakening at the same time, however, so visitors do not feel it as badly.
There are several bus companies that will take you. The easiest solution, once in Buenos Aires, is to head to Retiro bus station. Go up to the second floor, and to the section for 'west bound' buses.
There will be several companies. El Rapido, Andesmar, Cata, Tur Bus, and many more - it's an extremely popular route.
As Jonik mentioned, the Plataforma 10 website is easy to use, but note that it doesn't cover all the bus companies.
If you have the time, I highly recommend stopping in Mendoza, for two reasons. One - it's my favourite town in Argentina, with the best wine around. Can recommend the All in Monkey Mendoza Hostel, and they run wine tours, or you can use Mr Hugo's bike tours. The steak is also the best I've ever tasted - El Fuego's restaurant is cheap, and better than any high class restaurant steak I've ever had.
The second reason is that it allows you to get a morning bus out of Mendoza. You want to be travelling to Santiago during the day - one, because the border crossing at 3am in the snow is VERY COLD (Depending on time of year), and two, the scenery is spectacular. Seriously, spectacular. It takes 8 hours (I've done the crossing three times), and is amazing - a great day trip.
Sorry about being brief on my last post - a tad more info here now. After going Retiro teminal in B.A. on Friday I was told that there would be no coaches until Monday due to disruption in the high passes around Mendoza.
The good thing is I get a couple more days in the wonderful city of Buenos Aires however I have found this page:
It gives a current status of the main pass in English and Spanish.... There is a Tunnel Open-Closed icon just above the twitter icon on the right and current info in the main content.
Hope this is of use....
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This isn't the first time this issue has come up, but it's once again gaining discussion.
Speaker Stumbo, a democrat from Prestonsburg wants another option for eastern Kentucky kids, but lawmakers in our area said this isn't the time for another university to be added.
"Speaker Stumbo's intentions are in the right place, but his timing couldn't be more off. When we're having trouble funding the university's that we have in the system now, to add another mouth to feed, so to speak, is just not the right thing to do at this time," said Rep. Jim DeCesare (R) 21st District.
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So, for right now, it appears it won't happen this year, but many say it come up again for discussion.