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To a significant extent, all poets are concerned with transformation. The very making of a poem involves a transformation from perceived reality or experience into a verbal utterance shaped by the poet's imagination and craft. For Adrienne Rich, however, transformation goes beyond the act of writing; it extends to the culture at large through the poem's ability to challenge given assumptions and offer new visions. Rich delineated her poetics relatively early in her career in a 1971 essay, "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision":
For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality which is in no way passive... Moreover, if the imagination is to transcend and transform experience, it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at that moment.
Transformation is thus private as well as public, and Rich's poetry and essays have explored the space where these realms intersect, incorporating feminist, lesbian, historical, non-capitalist, humanitarian, multi-racial, and multi-cultural points of view. The form of her poems has evolved with her content, moving from tight formalist lyrics to more experimental poems using a combination of techniques: long lines, gaps in the line, interjections of prose, juxtaposition of voices and motifs, didacticism, and informal expression. Indeed, no poet's career reflects the cultural and poetic transformations undergone in the United States during the 2Oth century better than that of Adrienne Rich.
Rich demonstrated talent carly in life, writing poems under her father's tutelage as a child. By the time she graduated from Radcliffe College her first book, A Change of World (1951), had been selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize. This and her second book, The Diamond Cutters (1955), capture alienation and loss through the distancing devices of Modernist for malism, but hoth books contain poems that hint at her future thematic concerns. "Storm Warnings," from A Change of World, speaks of people "Who live in troubled regions" and foreshadows unspecified but disturbing change:
Weather abroad
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Regardless of prediction.
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), which reflects the tensions she experienced as a wife and mother in the 1950s, marks a substantial change in Rich's style and subject matter. "The experience of motherhood," Rich wrote in "Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity" (1982), "was eventually to radicalize me." Part of that radicalizing process involved Rich's relationship to both poetry and history. In 1956 she began dating her poems by year:
I did this because I was finished with the idea of a poem as a single, encapsulated event, a work of art complete in itself; I knew my life was changing, my work was changing, and I needed to indicate to readers my sense of being engaged in a long, continuous process.
The act of dating her poems amounted to a rejection of New Critical valucs that placed the poem outside of its cultural and historical contexts. Informed by a feminist sensibility, many of the poems in Snapshots use free verse and a more personal voice to express anger, to acknowledge a need for change, and to address or recover other women writers. The book's title piece, a ten-poem sequence written in free verse, creates an album of women's lives under male domination. The sequence moves back and forth in time and content, generalizing about the domestic repression of contemporary women and referring to female historical figures.
To many critics "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" presented a radical and problematic departure from Rich's earlier formalism, but in "When We Dead Awaken" Rich rejected the poem as "too literary, too dependent on allusion" and male literary authorities. Nevertheless, Rich's later poetry would rely heavily on allusions to literary, historical and contemporary events and persons.
Rich's next three books - Necessities of Life (1966), Leaflets (1969), and The Will to Change (1971) - reflect the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Like other poets of her generation, such as Denise Levertov, Robert Bly and W. S. Merwin, she wrote poems protesting the Vietnam War, particularly in Leaflets. Images of death pervade Necessities of Life as the poet struggled to create a life no longer shaped by the predetermined rituals and social roles. Emily Dickinson became a recurring figure in her poems, foreshadowing her influential essay, "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson" (1975). Rich's poems also became increasingly experimental, employing longer, contrapuntal lines. She adapted the ghazal, a Persian form traditionally used for expressions of love, to convey social and political comment. At the same time, Rich began to distrust her medium because of its close ties to patriarchical culture. "This is the oppressor's language // yet I need it to talk to you," she writes in "The Burning of Paper Instead of Children," a five-poem sequence with prose segments in The Will to Change.
Informed more distinctly by a feminist analysis of history and culture, Diving into the Wreck (1973) marks another turning point in Rich's career. In it she expresses her anger regarding women's position in Western culture more directly and alludes to problematic dualities or images of Otherness. Language, too, remains on trial for its duplicitous nature. The book's title poem, one of the 20th century's most significant poems, uses an androgynous diver to examine a culture wrecked by its limited view of history and myth. As with Leaflets and The Will to Change, this book's tone ranges from critical to accusatory. When Diving into the Wreck was awarded the National Book Award in 1974, Rich rejected the prize as an individual but accepted it, with a statement coauthored by Audre Lorde and Alice Walker, on behalf of all unknown women writers.
Rich's essays and poetry from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s have been considered her most radical, in part because in them she rejects her earlier use of androgyny and seems to make a case for feminist separatism. "There are words I cannot choose again: / humanism androgyny," she writes in "Natural Resources," in which a female miner replaces the androgynous diver of "Diving into the Wreck." Rich defines and addresses her villain more clearly: a patriarchical culture that inherently devalues anything female or feminine. The impulse behind the search, however, remains the same: finding a way to "reconstitute the world" (The Dream of a Common Language, 1978). Rich advocates a woman-centered vision of creative energies that she aligns with lesbianism in her essays "'It Is the Lesbain in Us'" (On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, 1979) and "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience" (Blood, Bread, and Poetry, 1986). She also critcizes the impact of patriarchical culture on motherhood in Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976). Other essays as well as poems in The Dream of a Common Language and A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (1981) offer important new readings of female literary and historical figures. Rich's lesbian love sequence, "Twenty-One Love Poems," also dates from this time and is as striking for its sensuousness as it is for its philosophical probing.
The poems and essays fron this period contributed greatly to contemporary understanding of the social construction of gender; they also generated controversy. Critics objected to the didacticism in her poetry and considered her feminist/lesbian vision too narrow. Rich's strategies are more usefully seen as a counterpoint to the pervasiveness of patriarchical culture, which harms men as well as women. While Rich may claim, for example, that women together create "a whole new poetry" in poems such as "Transcendental Etude," her ultimate vision is broader. The "lost brother" Rich describes in "Natural Resources" "was never the rapist," but rather "a fellow creature / with natural resources equal to our own" (The Dream of a Common Language).
Rich's books published in the mid- to late 1980s, Your Native Land, Your Life (1986) and Time's Power (1989), examine her relationship to her Jewish origins and to the men in her life, as well as what it means to be a feminist in the Reagan era. Her landscapes include include not only Southern California, to which she moved in 1984, but laso South Africa, Lebanon, Poland and Nicaragua. She addresses a public "you" held accountable for her quality of life: her parents, her former husband, her current lover, and a self wracked with arthritic and psychic pain. What remains consistent is Rich's insistence that poetry remain linked to a political and social context. "Poetry never stood a chance / of standing outside history," she writes in the second poem of her sequence "North American Time" (1986). "Living Memory" in Time's Power is a trasitional piece, recalling the poet's past explorations in "Diving into the Wreck" and looking ahead to her future work. The poem instructs:
Open the book of tales you knew by heart,
begin driving the old roads again,
repeating the old sentences, which have changed
minutely from the wordings you remembered.
Rich follows her instructions in An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991), one of her most accomplished books of poetry. The title piece, a 13-poem sequence, invites comparison with other long poems of the American experience by Walt Whitman, Muriel Rukeyser, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Pinsky. Its general theme of knowing one's country, however painful and disappointing, continues in Dark Fields of the Republic (1995), in which the poet's examination of America's problems uses the phrase "not somewhere else, but here" from The Dream of a Common Language. In 1995 she increases the load this phrase must bear, claiming in "What Kind of Times Are These" that "the edge of dread" along which she walks is
not somewhere else, but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
Rich sees undercurrents of violence in the materialism of the 1980s and 1990s that neither poets nor individuals can afford to ignore. These themes, as well as the role of poetry in political and social life, are also explored in her book of essays What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (1993).
In her latest book of poems, Midnight Salvage (1999), Rich continues this discussion from the perspective of an aging activist poet looking back on her life. She alludes to several of her previous poems and books, and poses several questions: Has anything useful been salvaged from the wreck of culture Rich has been exploring for more than 30 years? Have art and language served society and the poet well? Do material comforts blind Americans to the lessons of the past? Her questions are not casually answered, and the book's tone borders on despair. "I wanted to go somewhere / the brain bad not yet gone," she writes in "Letters to a Young Poet," "I wanted not to be / there so alone." The "wild patience" that helped Rich to survive into the late 1970s and early 1980s has become the "horrible patience" the poet needs to find language she can use effectively. Images of windows appear throughout the book as if the poet, enclosed and cut off from the world, were struggling to see it clearly. In the book's closing sequence, "A Long Conversation," Rich wonders if it is the "charred, crumpled, ever-changing human language" that "sways and presses against the pane," blocking her view.
Rich is best known as a key figure in feminist poetry. Her dream of a better language and a better world, however, aligns her with the visionary poetess of Shelley and Whitman, and with American transcendentalists such as Emerson. The documentary nature of her work - her poetry of witness and protest - is in keeping with the work of poets such as Carl Sandburg, Robert Hayden, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carolyn Forché, and the lesser-known 19th-century worsen poets in England and the United States who wrote about social and domestic injustice. Rich's exploration of the points where private lives and public acts intersect, as well as the confessional mode her poems sometimes employ suggests the work of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plash, and Anne Sexton. Her frank discussion and celebration of lesbian sexuality have contributed to a more open discussion of homosexuality today, not only within the walls of the academy but in the culture at large: it is difficult to imagine the work of Marilyn Hacker or Minnie Bruce Pratt without Rich as a precursor. Finally, her insistence in the 1980s that feminism move beyond the white midlle class and be more sensitive to the needs of women of color and of varying economic classes aligns her with a number of poets: Audre Lord, June Jordan, Joy Harjo, Judy Grahn, and Irish poet Evan Boland. This is a short list of links and influences, suggesting the complex and generative quality a poetics of transformation can possess. Her uses of anger, domestic imagery, and the poetic sequence or long poem suggest other possibilities.
Adrienne Rich passed away on March 27, 2012, at her home in Santa Cruz. Cause of death was reportedly long-term rheumatoid arthritis. She became 82 years old.
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In cooperation with the Lansing Board of Water Light (BWL), Mayor Karen Weaver and the City of Flint launched theFAST Start pipe replacement program in February 2016 in effortto get the lead out of Flint after a state-appointed emergency manager switched the City's water source to the Flint River in 2014 without the necessary corrosion control chemicals being added. The corrosive water removed a protective coating on the inside of the pipes, causing lead to leach into the water flowing to homes in the City of Flint. FAST Start isa key initiative identified by theFlint Action and Sustainability Team which Mayor Weaver formedin early 2016.
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In Phase One of the FAST Start program, high risk households in Flint will be given the first priority for LSL removal and replacement. High risk households include those with children under age 6, children with elevated blood lead levels, pregnant women, senior citizens, residential day care facilities, people with compromised immune systems, and households where water tests indicate high levels of lead at the tap.
In December 2016, Mayor Karen Weaver announced that a study by University of Michigan professors working with leaders of her FAST Start initiative estimates as many as 29,100 Flint residences have lead or galvanized steel service lines that need to be replaced.
The number is nearly twice the 15,000 the mayor estimated would need replacing when she kicked off her FAST Start pipe replacement program in February. The latest number is based on inspections of service lines leading to 159 homes using a Hydrovac to flush dirt from around the pipes near the curb. Based on the results, the study estimates about 52 percent of the total number of service lines leading to 55,000 parcels in the City of Flint need replacing.
"These findings make it even more imperative that the state and federal government step up to pay for replacing the lead-tainted service lines leading to residents' homes," Mayor Weaver said. "Even though by using filters many are able to drink the water, the lead and galvanized steel service lines still must be replaced so Flint residents don't have to worry about lead-tainted water coming into their homes through no fault of their own."
Google helped fund the study, which was conducted by Jacob Abernethy, U-M assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science; Eric Schwartz, U-M assistant professor of marketing; and U-M graduate students Arya Farahi and Jared Webb. Nicholas Anderson, who is assisting FAST Start coordinator Michael McDaniel with the pipe replacement program, and Ryan Doyle of the Michigan Department of Transportation also participated.
While they took into consideration what crews found as they replaced lead-tainted service lines leading to nearly 300 homes earlier this year, the study's authors focused on the lines inspected using the Hydrovac since those inspections took in a broader group of homes, including those less likely to have lead or galvanized steel pipes than the homes targeted so far by FAST Start.
Retired Brigadier General Michael McDaniel, who's coordinating the FAST Start initiative, said the study showed about 17,500 homes would need full service line replacements and 11,600 would need partial replacements.
Both the study's authors and McDaniel acknowledge the number of homes that need service lines replaced may be too high, since only a small number of the service lines in the city have actually been inspected or replaced. They said determining the true percentage of service lines that need replacing would require that a large-scale Hydrovac excavation project be done.
The city has fewer than 55,000 parcels that contain occupied residences, so the number of replacements needed may be lower, McDaniel said. But for now, he's sticking with the estimate of 29,100 homes because replacing every lead-tainted service line is necessary to ensure every Flint resident has safe drinking water flowing from the tap.
"Given our unwillingness during a city public health emergency to disregard any potential residence that might need a lead-tainted service line replaced, we have assumed a conservative estimate," he said.
The estimate was required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to comply with the requirements of the Lead-Copper Rule. Since the level of lead in the city's water supply exceeded the federal action level of 15 parts per billion, the City of Flint must replace more than 2,000 service lines by June 30, 2017. City officials are hoping to replace 6,000 lead-tainted pipes leading to Flint homes in 2017.
City records noting the location of lead service lines in Flint have proven to be unreliable, and records for some parcels don't exist at all. That has left visual inspections as the only way to get an accurate assessment of where lead and galvanized steel service lines were installed.
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The phrase "lucky dog" will have added meaning this February at Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, as the casino hosts and sponsors "Wags, Whiskers & Wines," a fundraiser to benefit the Niagara County SPCA. The event takes place Sunday, Feb. 24, at 2 p.m. at the Bear's Den Showroom.
Tickets for the fundraiser start at $50 and are available now at all Seneca Casino box offices, all Ticketmaster locations, at http://www.Ticketmaster.com, or by phone at 800-745-3000. The event also includes a concert by Niagara Falls' own Christina Custode. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter's music crosses a number of musical genres, and she was recently selected as "Best Female Vocalist" and for "Best Original Music" in Artvoice magazine.
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The pact was announced jointly on Wednesday by the big-screen exhibitor and the studio. It contains a December 2012 release date for "The Hobbit," which has been in pre-production in New Zealand with Peter Jackson exec producing and Guillermo Del Toro directing two "Hobbit" pics that will be shot back to back.
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It's been one year since Occupy Wall Street began, and organizers plan to mark the anniversary with events and demonstrations. Organizers are marking Monday's anniversary, dubbed "S17" for September 17, with scores of events and demonstrations.
The Occupy movement began on September 17, 2011, when hundreds of people descended on the streets of New York City's financial district. The movement aimed to raise awareness about the role financial institutions played in the continued economic downturn affecting the world markets, and the alleged lack of accountability on the part of the banks and financial institutions responsible for the crash.
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Once relegated to the second tier on the hierarchy of design, bedrooms are now ready for their close-ups. They have been transformed from mere sleeping quarters to glamorous retreats. Ho-hum schemes are out; style statements are in. No surprise in a state where the red carpet is routinely rolled out, the following California showhouse rooms are stars draped in luxury.
San Francisco Decorator Showhouse
San Francisco, California
Some designers are aces at combining layer upon layer of multiple colors in a single room. Designer Angela Free is one. She used seven shades in the master bedroom she designed—and that only includes the variations of white.
"I wanted to use a high-gloss finish because it's dressy and fresh," says Angela. "For interest, we used seven shades of white in a variety of finishes that all read differently. The effect was a glowing ambience."
Even with the subtle complexity of the neutral background, the room exudes a softness created by glowing colors and furniture with graceful lines.
In front of French doors that overlook what Angela calls a "not-so-nice view" sits a settee covered in lavender silk. To handle wear, the seat cushion is covered in mohair of the same hue. Matching antique Louis XVI chairs with pony-hide upholstery face each other over a tufted ottoman with crisscrossing nailhead trim. At the windows, elegance abounds with a curvy lambrequin of warm white linen edged in green hanging over linen sheers.
Photography: Michal Venera
Produced by Carla Breer Howard
Interior design: Angela Free, Angela Free Design, 415/885-4193.
On the opposite wall, embroidered linens hug the upholstered white bed. The bed ensemble also includes a cashmere-and-lamb's-wool blanket and moss green shams.
Interior designer Angela Free
Sitting area—Settee (custom): Angela Free Design, 415/885-4193. Fabric ("Kindred Spirit''/Daybreak #KD84, discontinued): Rodolph Inc., 707/935-0316, trade only.
Seat fabric ("Nimbus'' #50481, discontinued): Bergamo Fabrics, 914/665-0800, trade only.
Side pillows ("Chantel''/Blush #NC0620-118): Nancy Corzine, 310/652-4859, trade only.
Trim ("Green Brush Fringe'' #33033-9707): Houlès, 310/652-6171, trade only.
Rectangular pillow ("Silk Paisley''/Celadon): The Silk Trading Co., 888/745-5302, silktrading.com.
Trim ("Chantel''/Blush #NC0620-118): Nancy Corzine, 310/652-4859, trade only.
Ottoman (custom): Angela Free Design, 415/885-4193.
Fabric (Novasuede in Ivory #T3E3W): Majilite, 978/441-6800, nytek-usa.com.
Marble side table ("Jahangir''): Odegard, 800/670-8836, odegardinc.com, trade only.
Side table ("Madeleine Table''/Yellow Gold Leaf by Mattaliano): de sousa hughes, 415/626-6883, trade only.
Faience Brasero: Therien, 415/956-8850, trade only.
Upholstered side chairs (Louis XVI walnut chairs, upholstered in horse hair): Urban Chateau, 415/673-8026.
Sheers and Roman shade fabric ("Bliss''/Parchment #7670-01, by Larsen); lambrequin, trim on sheers and Roman shades ("Bliss''/Leek #7670-05, by Larsen): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, trade only.
Floor lamp ("Poillerat Floor Lamp'' by Mattaliano): de sousa hughes, 415/626-6883, trade only.
Area rug (antique): Claremont Rug Co., 510/654-0816.
Bedroom—Bed (custom faux ostrich leather wing bed); pillows: Angela Free Design, 415/885-4193.
Eurosham ("Delfini Strie''/Emerald #10705-05): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com, trade only.
Trim (#981-26621 in Off White #083): Samuel & Sons, 212/704-8000, trade only.
Rectangular pillow ("Elysee''/Ivory #A6-6010-15 by Christopher Norman): discontinued.
Trim ("Grecque Braid'' #31075): Houlès, 310/652-6171, houles.com, trade only.
Bolster pillow ("Chinese Peony''/Lilac #F3110-04, by Colefax & Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, trade only.
Bottom sheet; blanket; top sheet and pillow shams ("Folia''/Truffle): Scheuer Linens, 800/762-3950, scheuerlinens.com.
Throw: Frette, 212/988-5221, frette.com.
Duvet front ("Schooner'' #930013-01): Rogers & Goffigon, 212/888-3242, trade only.
Duvet back ("Samos''/Ardoise #7220-3): Bergamo Fabrics, 914/665-0800, bergamofabrics.com, trade only.
Bedside table ("Jali Table''/white marble, by Odegard): de sousa hughes, 415/626-6883, trade only.
Mirrored screen (custom, pine with whitewash finish): Angela Free Design, 415/885-4193.
Bedside table ("Felix'' round table with vellum finish, by Julian Chichester): Witford, 415/621-6260.
Chandelier: Candace Barnes Antiques, 415/431-1018.
Bedside lamp ("Tina Floor lamp''): The Lighting Center, 212/888-4689.
Flooring (bleached walnut parquet floor): Larry Klosowski, Rode Bros., 310/670-0891, rodebros.com.
San Francisco Decorator Showhouse
San Francisco, California
It's easy to get trapped into using a rainbow of electric colors or theme characters from blockbuster movies when decorating a child's room. Designers Kate McIntyre and Brad Huntzinger steered away from the expected track to create a girl's room with a refined but contemporary quality.
Embracing the entire room on all four walls is a fanciful mural depicting birds and deer painted in lavender, silver, and ivory. The organic forms of the wall decoration imbue the room with life and movement.
Photography: Michal Venera
Produced by Heather Lobdell
Interior design: Kate McIntyre and Brad Huntzinger, Ironies, 222 Fifth St., Berkeley, CA 94710; 510/644-2100, ironies.com.
"I wanted this room to be handsome instead of pretty," says Kate. "For me, the mural expands the four walls. Everything in the room, furniture included, is leaping or taking flight."
Anchoring the room is a four-poster bed faced in bone. Its openwork headboard nods to the quatrefoil pattern in the mural. Furnishings and accessories with silver accents—a bedside table with a white onyx top, a mirror above the writing desk, a desk chair with silver legs, and an armoire with metal doors—all lend layers of extravagance.
To balance the shiny accents, opaque white onyx pieces, including bedside lamps and sculptural urns atop the armoire, heighten the room's understated luxury.
Interior designer Kate McIntyre
Tall chairs ("Custom Hart Chair'' with faux crocodile upholstery); cocktail table ("Vigo Cocktail Table'' #425, drum table with polished cattle bone); floor lamp; bench ("Boreal Bench'' #364); desk ("Breton Console'' #412); mirror above desk (custom agate mirror with silver-leaf wood frame); desk chair ("Custom Bard's Side Chair''); round bedside table ("Custom Duet Round Side Table''); bed (custom canopy bed in polished cattle bone); high cabinet ("Custom Heron Cabinet''); rug (custom hand-sewn cowhide rug); mural (by Kate McIntyre and Brad Huntzinger): Ironies, 510/644-2100.
Table lamp (agate); tiny mirrors ("Custom Aura Mirrors''): Oly, 775/336-2100, olystudio.com.
Drapery (silk): Bergamo Fabrics, 914/665-0800, trade only.
Drapery fabrication: Susan Lind Chastain, 415/701-8898.
Coyote Point Museum Decorators Showcase
Atherton, California
A bedroom is supposed to be peaceful and serene, a place to unwind and rest as day melts into night. But that doesn't mean that personal retreats can't have a little pizzazz. Designers Vicki Saxton and Renée Prudhomme adorned this master bedroom with various forms of sparkle, from lush silvery velvet to glittery beaded decorative pillows.
"The gray-green color we selected was calm and somewhat somber," says Vicki. "We added light-reflecting pieces to give it life and depth."
Armchairs in front of the marble fireplace are upholstered in a duet of velvets—a rose pattern for the fronts and cushions, and a putty-colored solid on the backs. A tufted ottoman that serves as a coffee table is covered in two shades of smoky gray silk. A Venetian mirror above the mantel balances a corner seating area that features a chaise and a mirror-faced armoire.
Photography: Michal Venera and Russell Abraham
Produced by Carla Breer Howard
Interior design: Renée Prudhomme, ASID, and Vicki Saxton, ASID, Flegel's Interior Design and Home Furnishings, 870 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025; 650/326-9661.
Pulling all pieces of the silvered room together is a stately canopy bed painted black. Tapered posts and a curvy arched canopy give the traditional bed a modern update. "The bed, in black with silver ornamentation, was the perfect anchor for the room," says Renée. "The simplicity of the basic color highlights the interesting lines of the frame."
Interior designers Renée Prudhomme and Vicki Saxton
Bed ("Juliet'' #317K); sconce ("Putti'' #503): Amy Howard Collection, 901/547-1448, amyhowardcollection.com, trade only.
Side table by chaise: International Art Properties, 800/426-6471, trade only.
Demilune (by Rho Mobili); bedside table: Flegel's Interior Design and Home Furnishings, 650/326-9661.
Storage ottoman: Century Furniture, 800/852-5552, centuryfurniture.com.
Ottoman fabric ("Taos''/Sea Mist #AB03554920): Old World Weavers, 212/355-7186, trade only.
Trim (#TA5229-35): Kravet, 888/457-2838, kravet.com, trade only.
Chairs ("Tuileries Chair'' in Rivoli finish, by Jacques Garcia); ottoman: Baker, 800/592-2537, bakerfurniture.com.
Chair fabric ("Baroness''/Cement): William Switzer & Assoc., 212/207-8332, trade only.
Chair fabric ("Taos''/Sea Mist): Old World Weavers, 212/355-7186, trade only.
Pillow on chair ("Silk Tapas''/Sterling #0716): J. Robert Scott, 800/651-4354, jrobertscott.com.
Trim (#265-9911): Houlès, 310/652-6171, trade only.
Ottoman and chaise fabric ("Silk Tapas''/Sterling #0716): J. Robert Scott, 800/651-4354.
Contrasting welt ("Kazvin''/Celadon Bronze): Beacon Hill, 800/333-3777, beaconhilldesign.com, trade only.
Chaise (custom): Flegel's Interior Design and Home Furnishings, 650/326-9661.
Black-and-white prints: John McEvoy Fine Art, 415/864-2645.
Art: Capstone Art, 408/229-6503.
Venetian mirror: Flegel's Interior Design and Home Furnishings, 650/326-9661.
Black-and-silver box: Emerson et Cie, 877/393-8243.
Table lamps: Baker, Knapp & Tubbs, 800/592- 2537, trade only.
Sheet set, bed cover, Euro shams and boudoir sham; duvet, king shams and round bolster pillow; carpet ("Fabrica Chenille'' in Maison): Flegel's Interior Design and Home Furnishings, 650/326-9661.
Drapery ("Ethereal Raffia''/Celadon Bronze); drapery hardware: Beacon Hill, 800/333-3777, trade only.
Drapery ("Kazvin''/Celadon Bronze): Beacon Hill, 800/333-3777, trade only.


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Woods, Geraldine
Wiley AP English Literature and Composition
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Keywords: English Literature
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Overland Storage takes market hit on ITC's initial patents ruling
OK we're falling ... have we got a bungee on or not?
Updated Overland Storage has lost the initial determination of a trade violation case it was hoping to win and its shares have dived off a cliff. Is this a bungee jump with a bounce back, or a one way street?
Overland makes tape and disk-based data protection gear and Snap-brand filer and block access arrays for the SMB market. It's been struggling for years, hovering on the brink of Nasdaq market ejection more than once due to its low share price - which is due to its loss-making results. It's known as a persistent survivor that might, just might get out of the hole it's in.
Overland has been waiting for a US International Trade Commission (ITC) judgment on its IP infringement law case against European autoloader manufacturer BDT. Similar cases against Dell and IBM were settled out of court.
The ITC's initial determination has just come in and it is that Overland's patents are valid, but that BDT had not violated them – as Overland had alleged. Specifically – according to the initial determination – BDT has not committed a violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
That's a huge blow to Overland. If the ITC goes forward with a resolution along the same lines, it means no financial compensation and no royalty payments from BDT.
The ITC's final determination in the investigation is expected by October 22, 2012. Overland states "Resolution of the ITC action will not resolve Overland's patent infringement district court action against BDT."
Overland Storage has issued a statement saying:
Under ITC procedure, the Initial Determination is not a final resolution of an ITC action. After an Initial Determination is issued, the full Commission decides whether to review and modify the ALJ's [Administrative Law Judge Charles Bullock of the US International Trade Commission] Initial Determination. If the Commission decides to review the Initial Determination on the merits, the Commission will issue its decision in a Final Determination. The Commission's Final Determination is expected by October 22, 2012. Upon completion of the ITC case, Overland Storage plans to pursue monetary damages against BDT in district court.
Yes, okay, but the stock market is indicating it's seen Overland's future as a result of this ITC action failure and does not like it one bit. The shares have taken a huge hit, losing 38 per cent of their value in a day. It has taken Overland's market worth from $49m to $35.6m. Amazingly this is just half of its fiscal 2011 revenues.
Nine months into its fiscal 2012 year Overland revenues are just over $43 million and it may see the year out with $58m if its fourth quarter is the same as the previous two. This is bleak indeed. ®


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Quincy McDuffie ran for three touchdowns and Blake Bortles threw for two scores to lead Central Florida to a 49-24 win over Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday.
With the win, UCF (9-3, 7-1) clinched Conference USA's East Division title and will face Tulsa in the conference championship game next Saturday. McDuffie had scoring runs of 9, 8 and 43 yards in his final home game for Central Florida.
Bortles, who completed 17 of 23 for 225 yards, hit J.J. Worton with scoring passes of 18 and 4 yards. Lyle Dankenbring returned an interception 78 yards for a score as the Knights took advantage of numerous Blazer mistakes to jump out to a 35-10 halftime lead.
Jonathan Perry threw for 307 yards, two touchdown passes and a rushing score for UAB (3-9, 2-6).
UAB outgained UCF 322-237 in the first half, but three drives inside the Knights' 20-yard line ended with no points.


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Maria Flumiani calls the upgrades at the Stockton Art League's Elsie May Goodwin Gallery a step into the 21st century.
Maria Flumiani calls the upgrades at the Stockton Art League's Elsie May Goodwin Gallery a step into the 21st century.
Gone are the carpets and mauve walls. In are hardwood floors and taupe paint.
"What we want to do is show a new, modern, more contemporary look and attract new members, a younger group of members," said Flumiani, a recent president of the league. "It was looking dowdy."
An anonymous donor helped cover the cost of refurbishing the Miracle Mile gallery, and after $15,000 and a monthlong closure, the gallery re-opens Tuesday with an exhibit featuring the works of Linda Abbott Trapp.
"Her type of work goes well with the new look of the gallery," Flumiani said.
Trapp, a one-time potter and weaver, is now a devoted watercolor painter who does the occasional wood sculpture.
"My work definitely is contemporary," Trapp said. "A lot of it is abstract. This (gallery overhaul) might be a suitable setting. The main thing is people are in a change mode, and when they see the refurbished gallery, they'll be ready to accept change. A lot of my work is about reacting to changes."
One of the 30 pieces she'll show explores the most recent change in her own life, a move with her husband, Bob, from Stockton to Valley Springs six months ago.
"City or country? It's an abstract painting that deals with the decision making that went into that move," Trapp said.
Moving within an hour's drive of Stockton wouldn't seem to be such of a dramatic change, given Trapp's previous moves.
A native of New York who later lived in the Midwest, Trapp, 7 1/2 months pregnant with her third child, moved in 1973 with her husband and two young girls to Ethiopia so he could take a teaching job at the university. Six weeks after their arrival, civil war broke out in the North African country, and the Trapps were offered plane tickets home. They were told they could go home or stay, if they thought they could do any good. They stayed a year and a half. She taught art to children.
"All my kids were the children of diplomats and high-ranking government officials," Trapp said. "One night their fathers were all rounded up and shot. All I had to give them was art therapy. It wasn't enough."
When she returned to the United States, she earned a master's and a doctorate degree and became a counselor. In her role as a corporate counselor, she traveled extensively. With no time to create art, she began collecting it, mostly from Latin America.
When she retired, Trapp was able to return to art and found joy in watercolors.
"It's easy to do. You can pick it up any time and when you're done, put it away. It washes away with water," she said.
No clay flying off a wheel, no loom taking up half a room. Just a set of paints, some paper and water and she was off.
Most recently, she was off to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where she and Bob lived for five years.
"My husband had a cardiac incident," Trapp said. "It was nothing too serious, but I'd been widowed twice. I said, 'That's it. You're quitting tomorrow and you're going fishing.' "
The one-time deputy district attorney who'd become a marine salesman happily accepted the offer to fish the waters off Mexico.
The couple returned three years ago, and the recent move to the foothills means there are plenty of fishing holes for him to explore.
Their new home, on 3 1/2 acres with a steep, U-shaped driveway that frightens Trapp every time she leaves or returns, has provided new inspiration for the artist.
A recent trip on Pardee Lake to see bald eagles was one such impetus to create.
"I feel like I have my finger in a dike. I have so much stuff from all these years of living that wants to get expressed," Trapp said. "It's like I'm holding back a wall of information. It's exciting. Everything we do simulates art."
Being more prolific is on her agenda. Trapp is considering a transition into the competitive world of professional art but needs to build her collection.
Her current setting, she said, is right for her to create as many as two paintings a week as she moves toward a new venture.
"I can laugh at myself," Trapp said. "What am I doing starting a career at 70? What am I thinking? On the other hand, I'm not satisfied not doing it. I feel a little bit lazy competing at the level I've been competing.
"It's been rewarding. I've had wonderful, gratifying successes that I'm amazed and thrilled with. That's encouraging. I said, 'I'll try harder and see what I can do.' "
Before she makes the leap, though, she has a show at the San Joaquin County Administration Building with Art Expressions in the spring. And, of course, the Goodwin Gallery show that opens Tuesday. The art league will celebrate the grand re-opening of the gallery from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 9. A reception for Trapp follows from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Also this month, photographer Arturo Vera will visit the gallery at 1902 Pacific Ave. from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 14 to demonstrate different techniques of his craft.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Information: (209) 466-6604 or stocktonartleague.org.


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STRS congratulates Most Rev. Luis Antonio Tagle, Bishop of Imus, Philippines, for being appointed Archbishop of Manila on October 13.
Luis Antonio Tagle was born in Manila on 21 June 1957, and ordained to the priesthood on 27 February 1982. From 1985 to 1992, he studied at The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., where he earned a doctorate in theology and wrote his dissertation entitled "Episcopal collegiality in the teaching and practice of Paul VI (1959-1967)." In 1997, he was appointed to the International Theological Commission. In 1998, he was named a peritus (expert) for the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Asia.
On 22 October 2001, Fr. Tagle was appointed the fourth bishop of Imus, one of the nine suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Manila, and, on 12 December 2001, was ordained bishop by Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila. The Diocese of Imus with a Catholic population of 2.2 million has 46 parishes, served by 184 priests and over 600 members of religious communities. The new archbishop currently chairs the Commission on the Doctrine of the Faith of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Philippines.
Archbishop Tagle succeeds Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, who has served as Archbishop of Manila for the past eight years; Cardinal Rosales turned 79 last August and had submitted his resignation.
The Diocese of Manila dates back to 1579, when the Philippines were part of the Spanish Empire; Manila became an archdiocese in 1595. Currently, the Archdiocese has 85 parishes with a population of 2.7 million Catholics, who are served by two auxiliary bishops, 475 priests and about 2100 members of religious communities.


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Hawaii Five-0 Review: Cat and MouseJim Garner at . Comments
"Wahine'inoloa:" Evil Woman
Move over Wo Fat, there is a new criminal genius in town - and she's hot. Olivia Victor is smart, sexy and very deadly.
While I don't like seeing Steve made to look dumb, I was okay with it in the cat and mouse game Olivia and him played here, even when Steve ended up the mouse more than the cat. I mean, come on Steve, when the woman who has a restraining order against you invites you for drinks, you should know she is up to something.
Vanessa Marcil has come a long way since playing Sam Marquez on Vegas. I really hope that Olivia figures out how to get out of jail and beat the charges so she is able to come back to play with Five-0 again; she was a refreshing change of criminal.
I especially liked the twist that the private investigator was blackmailing Olivia's clients, I didn't see that one coming. Though I'm surprised she didn't grab the laptop if she took the time to drive t to his stakeout and shoot him. Maybe someone else shot him for her and wasn't as smart as she is.
In the other half of the episode, we had the hot mess that was Agent Channing and Catherine trying to stop a Colombian assassin that was believed to be dead from finding Doris McGarrett. I'm not even sure where to start with how many ways this went wrong, so I'm just going to list them:
Agent Channing at Catherine's House: If he was suspended, how was he carrying a gun? And if he found out enough about Catherine to know where she lives, why didn't he go to her commanding officer? I'm pretty sure he would know that the military frowns on officers committing crimes, especially something that could be seen as a breach of national security.
Oh, and let's not forget that if showing up at her house with a gun while suspended wasn't ridiculous enough; Channing felt she was the best qualified person to help with a "quiet mission" and that she agreed after she had to fight him for the gun. My WTF Meter shot to 11.
Catherine Rollins super spy: I have to ask, what Navy officer (that is not a SEAL) has hacking equipment to break into a hotel room and/or a digital room safe? While we are at it, in what frakking universe does a Navy communications officer carry a side-arm off duty and not work during the day to run around with a Witness Protection agent playing cops and robbers?
Mr. Lenkov, if you want to make Catherine an agent, a private investigator, a spy or some other cloak and dagger character, go for it. Michelle Borth looks great kicking in doors and hacking into safes, but for goodness' sake, please have her leave military as her "day job." She's broken so many laws that she would have been court marshaled several times by now.
Doris McGarrett and Mangosta: While I like the idea in principle that Doris turned the tables on Mangosta, it showed a very dark side of a fairly new character to have her torturing the guy when Channing and Catherine walked in.
So what did you think of the episode? I'm giving it 3.8 leftover Thanksgiving turkeys for the introduction of a great new villain facing off against Steve, but one of the most ridiculous Catherine (or Doris) stories to date.
Jim G. is a TV Fanatic Staff Writer. Follow him on Twitter.


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First announced at IFA in 2010, Sony has confirmed that it will be launching it's Sony Vaio 3D prototype this year at its press conference at CES in Las Vegas.
The new VAIO F Series will offer 3D Blu-ray support, a 16-inch Full HD VAIO Display, and the ability to switch instantly between 3D and 2D at the touch of a button.
If however the fear of having no 3D content is likely to stop you buying the new laptop, Sony will even let you convert your 2D movies and videos to 3D.
Sony says that it has used Active 3D technology rather than passive polarised 3D screens to produce a better quality experience and giving you 240fps frame refresh rate.
Inside and you get an Intel Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce graphics with DX11, 8GB of RAM, 640 hard drive, WLAN 802.11b/g/n; Bluetooth 3.0; USB 3.0; HD web camera powered by Exmor; S-force 3D with Inbox bass-reflex speakers, and Windows 7.
The new VAIO F Series 3D notebook PC is available from the end of February 2011.


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Upgrade set for disputed Williamsville toll barrier
The Williamsville toll barrier – despised by generations of residents and officials who fought to have it moved – will remain in place.
It could also become the toll plaza of the future, Thruway officials now say, part of a new statewide system where drivers breeze through at higher speeds than ever before.
Thruway officials are using that rationale to justify $14 million in planned improvements to the toll plaza – even while local leaders continue to scratch their heads.
"This is a joke," Amherst Council Member Richard "Jay" Anderson said. "They've heard Williamsville and Amherst, and now they're coming back, peeing on our leg and telling us it's raining."
Williamsville Mayor Brian J. Kulpa said improvements to the traffic-jammed toll barrier "can't make the situation any worse."
But he insists that in the long term, the Thruway Authority should remain open to the possibility of moving the barrier to another area.
"That's got to be the long-term goal," Kulpa said. "We can't persist with it where it is, unless it's truly a high-speed format."
The option of relocating the toll barrier – which officials have already spent $5 million studying – would help alleviate traffic on Main Street in the village, which is used as a cut-through to avoid the regular toll backups.
Thruway officials have planned to move the plaza as far back as the Gov. George E. Pataki administration – Clarence, Newstead and Pembroke were possible alternatives – but now appear ready to pour up to $15 million into the structure.
The investment would be made as part of a possible statewide all-electronic toll system in the years ahead that Thruway officials believe would alleviate congestion at the booth.
The new construction, which would start next year, could possibly include 35-mph E-ZPass toll lanes to cut down on traffic jams at the location.
The decision appears to be a bow not to spend far more money to move the plaza when the future of toll roads in the United States is increasingly toward electronic systems, such as all- E-ZPass or billed-at-home programs.
The new construction work will not include, officials said, a true high-speed toll area that allows vehicles to whisk under overhead electronic toll devices without having to slow down from highway speeds.
The Thruway system presently has only one such high-speed site at the Harriman exit downstate, though two more are being planned for other downstate locations at a new bridge to be constructed over the Hudson River and in Yonkers.
Exactly how the agency will spend $10 million to $15 million at the Williamsville toll site will be decided in the next several months after additional meetings with local officials.
"We have met with local officials on this, and we were pleased to have their input. We're working on a final plan for the Williamsville toll barrier based on input from local officials," said Thruway spokesman Daniel Weiller.
The agency will not specifically say why it is abandoning the toll barrier relocation effort, but Thruway officials have been under pressure to save money; the authority recently cut other capital expenditures and let go more than 200 unionized workers.
Kulpa said local leaders still haven't received official word from the state on what changes will be made.
"It sounds like stuff that could help the current toll barrier, but I don't know if it actually alleviates the massive volume that moving it does," he said.
Anderson, meanwhile, was far more blunt.
"We've had loads of traffic problems. Now you're going to do construction there?"
"Genius," he quipped sarcastically. "I don't see this as progress."
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We have a soft spot in our hearts for the ineptly named, but highly effective, committee that has been put in charge of the Mammoth Lakes Trails System.
Against long odds, the so-called Mammoth Lakes Trails System Coordinating Committee (MLTSCC) has taken one central idea—all of us want great trails around here—and created a vision on behalf of at least 21 separate user groups.
Any attempt to circumvent this young committee's work would be ill advised, particularly at a time when a resurgent Mammoth has embarked on its spring and summer recreation programming.
Yet there are rumblings, from both the Mammoth Lakes Trails and Public Access Foundation, and from at least one member of the Recreation Commission, to take a good thing and fiddle with it.
Their idea is to form a nonprofit, non-governmental organization, an NGO, to manage all our recreation in Mammoth, from the pool to the track, from the trails to the ballfields, and so on. (See Page 2 for more details about this proposal.)
Both the town staff and Mammoth District Forest Ranger Jon Regelbrugge had whipsaw reactions against such a notion, and rightly so.
First of all, there has never been a time when the Forest Service and the Town of Mammoth Lakes have been so joined at the hip. Many hours and effort have been logged, so to speak, by both Regelbrugge and the forest's recreation specialist Jon Kazmierski.
By May 1, if everything goes right, the Town Council will sign off on a Memorandum of Understanding with the forest, cementing a deal that spells out precisely who is responsible for doing what, and where.
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Once working independently toward the same overall goal, Mammoth's trails vision was in a constant state of diffusion.
Finally, we have a single committee to handle the shared vision, and it starts from the top, i.e. the Inyo National Forest. Kazmierski sits on the committee, as do representatives from a number of different mega-groups. These would include the Town of Mammoth Lakes' recreation department (Stuart Brown), its recreation commission (Sean Turner and Bill Sauser), along with longtime planning specialist Bill Taylor, and citizen activist Sandy Hogan.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – Despite trailing for a majority of the game, the UW-Eau Claire men's basketball team came back to defeat St. Olaf College (Minn.) 69-62 on the first day of the 44th Annual UW-Eau Claire Holiday Classic on Ken Anderson court in Zorn Arena tonight.
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text: Student Profiles Lauren Withey '06 Lauren Withey '06 Majors: Government (International Relations), Environmental Studies Minor: Economics Home: West Rockport, Maine Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? As a Mainer, I thought I wanted to get out of the state for college. Somehow, my plan didn't quite work out. Bowdoin was the school I couldn't seem to turn down and always seemed to get in my way. I enjoyed the classes I sat in on as a prospective student, the Bowdoin students I met were friendly and helpful, I had teachers and friends who were Bowdoin alums who couldn't seem to stop talking about the school, and the basketball program seemed to fit my needs. Even though I didn't know if the school size or town setting was what I wanted, I committed myself to make the best of both, and I am thrilled that I ended up making a great choice during that agonizing April of my senior year of high school. Why did you choose you major? I came to Bowdoin pretty frustrated with the state of the environment and searching for a way to have a positive influence on the environment and to help those affected most by poor environmental conditions. I took my first Environmental Studies course with a trio of great professors and my fears and hopes were both confirmed - the state of the environment wasn't great, but there were things that I could do to help improve that condition. I saw politics and economics as important tools for making such changes, though I find both to be fascinating for many other reasons as well. The more I learn about and work in the environmental scene, the less certain I become about how I can contribute positively to the environmental movement. I'm sorting this out in my job search this year. What has been your favorite course at Bowdoin? I've had a lot of great courses that have taught me to see the world in different ways. Perhaps "Liberalism and its Critics," a government theory class with Professor Paul Franco, was my favorite. We read Edmund Burke, Tocqueville, J.S. Mill, Marx, and Nietzsche, among others. I discovered in this course my love for studying theory and philosophy, and I especially appreciated how I was forced to question my personal assumptions about our own state and critique liberalism from multiple angles. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? I have had the opportunity to play basketball for four years at Bowdoin. Each year has been a wonderful experience in a slightly different way. Fun, commitment, success, and outstanding fan support have become standard parts of every season. I also worked to start up the Organic Garden with the Organic Garden Club in 2003. The garden, now finishing its second season, has been a great success as a result of the hard work of many students and the support and advice of Bowdoin staff. This combination of initiative and commitment by students and staff is an attribute that makes Bowdoin a wonderful place to go to school. Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin? I studied in Salamanca, Spain, over the summer between my freshman and sophomore years at Bowdoin. I loved living with a host-mother and learning to appreciate the culture of the Spanish interior - especially the incredible variety of pig parts they use in their cooking. I found Salamanca particularly fascinating because of the huge cultural and political gap between generations that I witnessed on the streets every day. While the elder members of the population had lived through the Spanish Civil War and spent the majority of their lives under Francisco Franco, the younger generation has rebelled against everything that Franco represented and created the Spain that we see on television today, protesting the war in Iraq and fighting for a somewhat socialist agenda. What is your best Bowdoin memory? Sharing potlucks with friends, time spent on Kent Island with my pre-orientation group, and celebrating NESCAC championships with my teammates have to be some of the sweetest. What are your plans for after graduation? I'm planning to take off into the wilderness like the main character in Into The Wild...though his experience didn't work out so well for him, so I'm thinking of heading to the Career Planning Center soon to come up with a good back-up. I'm also accepting offers if anyone reads this and thinks I might be able to add something to their workplace for a couple of years before graduate school. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Everyone deserves to experience a place like Bowdoin for four years. Whether you're from a large city or a rural community, Bowdoin has something worthwhile to offer you, and you probably have something great to offer Bowdoin. It is that kind of a place. The Bowdoin community runs on student energy - the faculty helps to develop this energy with its teaching skill, while the staff gives students the opportunity to focus the energy on activities beyond academics, such as community service, performing arts, or athletics. There is little that this school doesn't offer, but if you find something lacking, you will probably have an opportunity to see the hole filled during your time here, like I have with the Organic Garden, or other students have within affairs as wide ranging as yoga to musical groups. If you're looking to experience liberal arts at its finest - meaning that you crave to understand the world and yourself in new ways and want to enjoy this journey - then Bowdoin could probably be a great place for you. Story posted on November 28, 2005 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - American singer and actress Miley Cyrus notched up her first number one hit in the British singles chart on Sunday with "We Can't Stop", a new entry, the Official Charts Company said.
Cyrus, the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, sold 128,000 copies of the track in the last seven days scoring what was also her first top ten single in Britain, it said.
Her success ended Swedish DJ and producer Avicii's three-week spell at the top of the British singles charts with "Wake Me Up", which slipped to second place.
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More than 1,200 third graders from 22 area elementary schools will display their artwork at Coe College as part of a unique collaboration between the college and the Cedar Rapids Community School District. "Third Grade Clay" runs from Friday, Jan. 22 through Sunday, Feb. 7 in the Marvin Cone and Eaton-Buchan Galleries of Sinclair Auditorium.
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The USDA's May 10 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report contained supply and consumption projections for the 2013-14 marketing year for U.S. corn and soybeans.
For the most part, the market focused on the projections of crop size, but according to University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good, the most important information is in the projections of marketing year consumption.
"The U.S average corn yield is projected at 158 bushels per acre, below our calculation of trend yield near 161.5 bushels, and production is projected at a record 14.14 billion bushels," Good said.
"The U.S. average soybean yield is projected at 44.5 bushels per acre, above our trend-yield calculation near 44 bushels, and production is projected at a record 3.39 billion bushels.
"The projected corn yield reflects the expectation that yield potential has been compromised by the likelihood that a much larger-than-average percentage of the 2013 crop will be planted later than is optimal for maximum yield potential.
"The soybean yield forecast reflects an opportunity to plant much of the crop in a timely fashion with much improved soil moisture conditions in many areas," Good said.
According to Good, the yield of both crops will be determined by weather conditions yet to unfold, so considerable uncertainty will persist for another three months.
In addition, the magnitude of planted acreage is not yet known with more information to be available in the USDA's June Acreage report.
"The consumption projections for both crops reflect judgment about the size of the market under conditions of ample supplies and much lower prices," Good said. "These projections are valuable because they provide context for evaluating the price implications of production potential as it unfolds over the next few months," he said.
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For corn, use for ethanol and by-product production is forecast at 4.85 billion bushels, 250 million bushels above the revised projection for the current year, but below the record consumption of just over 5 billion bushels in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 marketing years.
"The modest projection reflects the plateauing of domestic ethanol consumption as the E10 blend wall has been reached and consumption of E15 and E85 increase slowly," Good said.
"The magnitude of ethanol trade will be an important determinant of domestic production and corn consumption.
Corn exports
"Corn exports are projected at 1.3 billion bushels, well above the revised projection of 750 million bushels for the current year, but well below the 1.8 to 2.0 billion bushels that was common before the 2011-12 marketing year. Lower prices may help to stimulate exports, but competition from South American corn is expected to limit demand growth," he said.
Feed and residual use of corn is projected at 5.325 billion bushels, well above the 4.4 billion bushels projected for the current year. The projection represents the highest level of consumption in six years, but is well below the peak consumption of 6.15 billion bushels in 2004-05 and 2005-06 when distillers' grain supplies were still small.
Consumption for all uses, including non-ethanol domestic processing, is projected at 12.92 billion bushels,1.785 billion more than projected for the current year, but about 140 million bushels below the record consumption in 2009-10 and 2010-11. Good said that, for the most part, the projection reflects a very mature market for U.S. corn.
For soybeans, the domestic crush is projected at 1.695 billion bushels, 60 million bushels above the projection for the current year but well below the peak of just over 1.8 billion bushels in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Exports are projected at 1.45 billion bushels, 100 million above the projection for the current year and just below the peak of 1.5 billion bushels reached in 2009-10 and 2010-11.
Good reported that the total consumption, including seed and residual use, is projected at 3.264 billion bushels, 184 million bushels above use during the current year that was limited by small supplies but about 100 million below the peak in 2009-10.
Projections reflect expectations of a sharp increase in Chinese imports but continued strong competition from South American supplies.
"Stocks of U.S. corn at the end of the 2013-14 marketing year are projected at a nine-year high of 2.004 billion bushels, implying that the 2013 U.S. crop would need to be about 1.25 billion bushels (9 percent) below the current projection to require consumption to be less than currently projected," Good said.
"Similarly, the U.S. soybean crop would need to be 140 million bushels (4 percent) below the current projection to require consumption to be less than currently projected.
"The 2013-14 marketing-year average farm price of corn is projected in a range of $4.30 to $5.10," Good added.
"Even though current bids for harvest delivery in much of the Corn Belt are near the upper end of that range, the market has not had a substantial response to planting delays.
"Slow progress through mid-May, along with prospects of widespread rain later this week, may well escalate production concerns and a stronger price response.
"The 2013-14 marketing-year average price for soybeans is projected in a range of $9.50 to $11.50, with harvest bids in much of the Corn Belt currently above the upper end of the range.
"It is still too early for significant production concerns for soybeans," Good said.
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