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I have read that many artists are intrigued by Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology or object-oriented metaphysics. Having just read his The Quadruple Object (Washington, USA: Zero Books, 2011), I would say they could do better. Harman's theory is fascinating, but deeply flawed. Mainly he is inspired by Husserl, Heidegger and Whitehead. Although he rejects Husserl's idealism, his theory inherits some of the weaknesses of Husserl's phenomenology. Most importantly it suffers from a lack of the kind of insight a close reading of Dewey would provide. Harman makes some of the same criticisms of traditional empiricists that Dewey made, and yet finds himself committed to a Cartesian-like dualism. This is the fatal flaw of the theory. Some might find Harman attractive simply because his theory is not anthropocentric. But there are other ways to go against anthropocentrism. Sometimes Harman worries that he might be considered a crackpot. Although I take much of what he says quite seriously and admire him for the scope of his thought, there is a crackpot dimension to it. Anyone who claims that he has isolated exactly ten ontological categories and then goes on to explicate the system in terms of the relations of suits in a deck of cards, as Harmon does in his ninth chapter, is hard to take seriously. Or, to put it another way, Harman takes himself way too seriously.
I was introduced to Harman by an article in the current issue of Art Forum, "Those Objects of Desire" by Andrew Cole (Summer 2015). Cole is critical of Harman although from a different perspective than I am. He basically thinks that Harman has failed to see how Kantian his theory really is, and that personifying such objects as commodities runs up against criticisms already raised by Marx. Although Cole makes some good points, my response draws more from the American Pragmatist tradition.
One way to test Harman's theory, which is supposed to cover all sorts of objects, is to see how it works in relation to a work of art. Heidegger himself in "The Origin of the Work of Art" developed his notion of the thingliness of a thing in relation to works of art, famously a painting by Van Gogh of shoes and a Greek Temple. Harman argues that all objects have two sides, one side being the real object, something much like Kant's thing-in-itself, and the other being what he calls the sensual object, i.e. the object-as-experienced. (It is not clear whether the thinks that the sensual dog and the real dog are two sides of the same dog or two completely different things, although usually he talks as though they are completely different things.) He believes that real things are completely autonomous and do not depend in any way on relations to other things. This raises many concerns. Use our example of a work of art. It is impossible to understand a painting by Edward Hopper, for example, without understanding something about the context in which it was created.
I should put my Deweyan assumptions to the fore before going on. (David L. Hildebrand has written an excellent book that explains how Dewey avoids the very dilemmas that Harman finds himself in: Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003). Rather than saying that we should base our metaphysics on isolated or autonomous objects, Dewey would stress experience, although experience understood in his own way. Dewey is no subjectivist or idealist. On his account, experience arises out of the interaction between ourselves as live creatures and our environments. Because Dewey takes a naturalist perspective he does not rank humans as anything special. Animals and even plants can interact as live creatures with their environments, although the nature of their experience would be quite different from that of humans. Nonetheless, Dewey is not guilty of a mechanistic worldview typical of previous naturalist philosophers, or of the simplistic approach to empiricism found in Locke and Hume.
For Dewey, and me, the live creature, say a human, confronts an object, say a watch, directly. Rejecting dualism, Dewey would not accept that the watch that we confront sensuously is to be distinguished from the real watch. There are, of course, many manifestations of the watch, many ways in which it appears to us. These manifestations are all ways we confront the watch.
One of the ways in which Harman's philosophy is both anti-art and anti-aesthetic is the way in which he discusses sensuous qualities. Harman likes to talk about these qualities as "gems, glitter, and confetti of extraneous detail" (25). The aesthetic aspect of experience is to be degraded to the merely pretty. Following Husserl, he sees sensuous objects as "frosted over with accidental features" irrelevant to their identity. Again, as he understands Husserl, the objects of our world are "heavily adorned with frivolous decorations and surface-effects." Whereas Harman sees these sensuous qualities as superfluous, the everyday aesthetics position I advocate, approaches them as rich in meaning. Moreover, from a pragmatist perspective, these meanings are played out in the activity of the live creature. The sensuous qualities may be pursued to fulfillment, for example, in "an experience."
Not to be overly negative, I want to give credit to Harman for stressing one point which he derives from Husserl. He writes: "what we encounter in experience are unified objects, not isolated points of quality. Indeed...the individual qualities of things are already imbued with the style or feel of the thing as a whole. Even if the exact hue of red in my apple can also be found in a nearby shirt or can of spraypaint, the colors will have a different feel in each of these cases, since they are bonded to the thing to which they belong." (11) This seems right, although at the same time one should take into account Goodman's idea that objects can exemplify certain qualities, thereby indirectly referencing all other instances of that quality.
Harman is opposed to something called "correlationism" which holds that "we cannot think of world without humans or humans without world." He is right to reject this view. We can certainly think a world unperceived by humans. However, whatever we think and whatever we experience is, by necessity, thought or experienced by humans. We cannot expunge that aspect of experience. We start from out own positions in life and in philosophy. There is a real world, but the world we experience is one that has us at the center and is experienced in our terms. For example, any description we make of such a world is a description necessarily in a language of human making, with terms and meanings that carry out contribution. So, although correlationism is false, it does point to a certain truth that Harman ignores.
Harman is also interested in Husserl's notion of eidetic features of the sensual object, features that make up the eidos of the object. Harman follows Husserl in thinking that real eidetic qualities "can only be the target of intellectual and not sensuous intuition." The radical division of intellectual and sensuous intuition is the source of yet another problem: this is another dualism that needs to be undercut. All intellectual intuition is in part sensual and all sensual intuition is in part intellectual. I have written about essences elsewhere and will have more to say about them in the future. Suffice it here to say that essences on my view are emergent from the activity of searching for essences. Essences are not eternal and unchanging but emergent. Nor are they solely intellectual objects. Moreover, they may be deeply connected to the particular and the accidental. Some quality in all of its particularity can exemplify. We can say for example that this particular thing standing for universal, but I think that sometimes it is deeper than that. When a particular thing stands for a universal it does not do so in such a way as to lose its particular nature.
Harman's object centered metaphysics is based as much on his interpretation of Heidegger as on his interpretation of Husserl. In particular he focuses on Heidegger's understanding of a hammer. He also has his own understanding of what Heidegger means by the four-fold, which I will discuss in a future post. I think that Heidegger's understanding of a hammer in Being and Time is deeply flawed, and this is the basis for many problems I also find in Harman. Heidegger says that hammers are usually present to us only when they fail. This idea undercuts (and is in deep opposition to) the entire aesthetics of design. When I handle a hammer I am aware of its design. It is satisfying when it feels good in my hand, looks good, and does its job well. The awareness of the hammer I have when it is broken is different in kind from that: it is an awareness of a functional ugliness. But when a hammer works well, looks good, etc. it is a thing of beauty, more so of course for a carpenter than for me. Heidegger and Harman just exclude from consciousness the aesthetically positive value of the hammer.
Let Vico intrude here. Here is a quote from wikipedia on Vico: "Vico is best known for his verum factum principle, first formulated in 1710 as part of his De antiquissima Italorum sapientia, ex linguae latinae originibus eruenda (1710) ("On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians, unearthed from the origins of the Latin language"). The principle states that truth is verified through creation or invention and not, as per Descartes, through observation: "The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself."" Vico and Dewey are on the same page here: Descartes, Husserl, Heidegger and Harman are on the other page. We know the hammer through its creation and through using it in the act of creation. Knowledge is connected with the live creature doing things in the world. Knowledge is an aspect of experience. The hammer by no means functions behind or beneath experience. Heidegger should have known better since he is the one who stressed the way in which technology has made us close our ears to Being. It is technology when treated in a merely mechanical way that causes the hammer to recede. Things lose the shiny sparkly quality of aliveness in a world which is mechanized. Heidegger's and Harman's philosophy of the receding hammer is just a sign of the very concept of the thing as mere object of use that Heidegger critiques elsewhere.
Harman's Heideggerian talk of hammers withdrawing into "subterranean background, enacting their reality in the cosmos without appearing in the least" is offensive mystification. In talking about what lies behind all phenomena, Heidegger and Harman go in the opposite direction of Dewey, since Dewey rejects precisely this dualism, the phenomena/noumena dualism that goes back to Kant, but even further to Descartes and ultimately Plato.
The sentence "conscious awareness makes up only a tiny portion of our lives" (37) seems innocuous at first, perhaps trivially true, and yet what sense can really be made of it. Even when engaging in psychoanalysis everything that happens to me is in consciousness: I become conscious of unconscious desires. Moreover, the other manifestations of those unconscious desires also happen, for example in my Freudian slips, in daily life. Conscious awareness makes up most of our lives, not a tiny portion...we are the lives we live, the lives we experience, our conscious lives.
Harman and Heidegger say that I usually fail to notice my eyeglasses. In a way that is true. If my attention is directed elsewhere from my eyeglasses I do not notice them: they are on the very edge of my consciousness. However it is easy to redirect my attention to my eyeglasses, and this does not require that they be broken or even maladjusted. I can attend more or less to my eyeglasses and to their various features, for example how well they work and how good they look. Although the idea that tools "withdraw in order to be ready-to-hand quite authentically" just seems implausible when I think about my glasses, Heidegger at least recognizes that tools exist in terms of relations to other pieces of equipment, often in a system of interrelated things, for example ink and inkstand.
The absurdity of Harman's position has be found in the sentence: "the world in itself is made of realities withdrawing from all conscious access." (38) The realities we encounter in life, for example my glasses, do not withdraw from conscious access. If I want to have conscious access to my glasses I simply attend to them. When I lose my glasses I can find them: that is because they are still available.
Following Heidegger, Harman says "an earthquake calls my attention to the solid ground on which I rely..." I have been through a major earthquake, the Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California. I was in my backyard when it happened. It drew my attention to the way in which the ground, which I formerly saw as solid, could take another form entirely, something more like a wave at sea. Retroactively I could think of how my assumptions about the earth or the "solid" ground and what it could do were naive. The solid ground is not always solid. At the same time, it is easy for me to attend to the solidity of ground in non-earthquake times, for example when I am looking for a good foundation for a ladder. What does it mean to "silently depend" on the solidity of the ground?
Harman has a strange way of combining what seems to be common sense with nonsense. He says "There will always be aspects of these phenomena [for example the solid floor of my home] that elude me; further surprises might always be in store. No matter how hard I work to become conscious of things, environing conditions still remain of which I never become fully aware. When I stare at a river, wolf....I do not grasp the whole of their reality." Who could disagree! And then "This reality slips from view into a perpetually veiled underworld., leaving me with only the most frivolous simulacra of these entities." (39) What sense can possibly be made of this idea? It must mean something more than the mere truisms that preceded it.
For Harman there are only two kinds of objects: "the real object that withdraws from all experience, and the sensual object that exists only in experience." (49) The alternative position is that there is only one kind of object, the real object which is also the sensual object, i.e. the object that I sense. Although we can imagine stuff that never can be experienced we can only deal with the world as experienced, and even the most hypothetical and intellectualized or fantastic objects are experienced in some way, for example unicorns are experienced by way of unicorn pictures even though it would be wrong to say that there are animals rightly called unicorns.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Is object-oriented ontology good for artists?
Labels: Dewey, essences, Graham Harman, Heidegger, Husserl, real objects, sensual objects, The Quadruple Object
2 comments:
- Terence Blake said...
You write: "Harman has a strange way of combining what seems to be common sense with nonsense". This seems to me to get to the heart of the matter. Harman's discussions combine seeming self-evidenc platitudes with mind-numbing "deepitudes". I present a way into and out of OOO here: https://terenceblake.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/best-introduction-to-ooo-some-advice-and-references/
- May 23, 2016 at 12:29 AM
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Badshahi Mosque Lahore Pakistan by Zoenie
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Keiji Inafune is truly a legendary game maker -- he is, after all, the man who created Mega Man. More recently, however, he's been working on the Onimusha series, which recently ended with Onimusha 3: Demon Siege.
Well, not quite.
As it turns out, there's more Onimusha goodness in store for us, as IGN and GameSpy discovered in a tag-team interview with Inafune, the game's executive producer.
What do you think is the biggest new feature in Dawn of Dreams as opposed to Onimusha 3?
Inafune: The original Onimusha series -- one through three -- was a game based around the key concept of trying to get casual gamers as well as some hardcore gamers to play this game. So it had pretty easy, intuitive controls that weren't too complex. There weren't any super complex power-up sides to it. It really was a game anyone could get into.
However, as time goes by -- at least in Japan -- there are less and less casual gamers. They are starting to be a dying breed. So what you're left with now are kind of semi-hardcore gamers and hardcore gamers only. You have to kind of appeal to those new targets that are existing.
With this new Onimusha game, what we have done is place an emphasis on greater depth of gameplay, and that is shown in being able to switch back and forth with characters -- there's a certain element of strategy there -- as well as being able to power up weapons and your characters in different ways that you couldn't before. The powering up system itself is very deep compared to previous Onimusha games.
The whole concept is us trying to get this game to appeal to the current market.
Are there any returning characters from the previous Onimusha games? Or do you totally want to separate yourself from the old series?
Inafune: There are some characters that have appeared in previous Onimusha games, and you get to learn some background stories so that people who have played the series before can get into it and still feel like there's still some Onimusha aspect to it. But it's not 100% that world, those characters being pushed into this one -- it a very different theme in general, but you are going to have some references to the point that the gamers who have played the other Onimushas will appreciate it.
I was wondering what the fan's reaction was to the more modern day and time traveling aspects from Onimusha 3. Is [Dawn of Dreams' setting] a reaction to the fans disliking time traveling?
Inafune: No, actually, the time travel aspect in Onimusha 3&#Array; I didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it, and I don't think the fans had a problem with it at all. They probably just saw it as a new, different gameplay element that we had added to Onimusha 3. But with this new Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams game, we've decided we didn't want to focus on time traveling.
We wanted to make a game in which you're in the same general area -- and, of course, the main focus of all the Onimusha games is the warring states period -- but your in that area. But now the different directions you can go within that area, within that background, is going to be many. It's the same location, just on a much deeper level, thanks to these power-up elements and slight exploration elements in the game. You're no longer going to different time zones back and forth -- you're now in the same area, just on a much, much deeper level and now have many paths to go instead of just one.
Are there any elements from Shadow of Rome that are apart of Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams?
Inafune: There are not any elements that we took directly from [Shadow of Rome]. But we did take the experience. That was a game in which we put the focus on American and European markets when developing it. And one way that I had done that was to take information from subsidiary companies, from hardware manufacturers, from buyers in that territory&#Array;
We used [the experience] as "that was a mistake" because we are a Japanese design studio. We have our Japanese design method that we're really good at. We can't put the sheep skin on and say we're sheep because we're not. We need to take that information that we got, break it down, and find out what we can apply to our already existing design model -- what was going to work within that design model we're so good at -- and then from there create a game that could appeal to both American and European markets, as well as Japanese markets.
Since the storyline of the first three games got wrapped up pretty deeply at the end of Onimusha 3, and now with the whole dropping the number -- this isn't "Onimusha 4". Is this just the beginning of a new story arc? Will it be a new trilogy? What are the plans for the franchise?
Inafune: Slightly different from the original Onimusha trilogy is that this has not been started off as a trilogy from the get-go. I personally think it would be great if this was a big enough hit so that we were able to make this a series.
Will we see Samanosuke again?
Inafune: Let's just say this is a game that fans of not only the Onimusha games but of Samanosuke will appreciate.
At any point during the game's cycle, was there any talk of making [Dawn of Dreams] a two-player simultaneous game?
Inafune: During the design phase, you think of a lot of different things, so, of course, that was one of the areas where you're like, "Man, that would be cool if it were in it." So, of course, the thought was there in our minds.
Were there any plans to bring the series to PSP or DS?
Inafune: If it's something that it seems the gamers out there want, then it's definitely possible. But it's going to have to depend or whether they want it or not.


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A PAIR of students are flying half-way around the world next year to enjoy two weeks of "hard graft".
Connor Clennan and Izy Benz, both 18, will be flying to Fiji in July next year to help build schools, but first need to raise enough funds to afford the trip.
Both from Whitby, the two study at York St John University, where they first learned about the scheme. Connor said: "I'm not usually the travelling type, but I'm very excited and it's something I'm wanting to do."
When not playing for Whitby Rugby Club, Connor also works at the Leisure Centre, but says that he expects his fortnight on the island paradise to be a lot of hard work.
"It's only two weeks but it's hard graft while you are there, you can get a lot done in that two weeks," he added. "We're going to be living with a family in the community that I'm helping. I'm looking forward to that, and to learn about their culture, but I'm quite anxious to meet them."
Connor was talked into the trip by his girlfriend Izy, who said: "I'm really excited because I like travelling and I've always wanted to do one of these things."
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Western Cape DestinationsRawsonville, Breede River Valley
To reach the little, largely undiscovered, village of Rawsonville does mean taking something of a detour off the N1 near Worcester, about 120 kilometres from Cape Town.
Up until now the quiet town that lies in the beautiful winding Slanghoek Valley has been almost indistinguishable from Worcester, belonging as it does to the greater Worcester district. But its rugged beauty is fast becoming a draw card to visitors for whom this gorgeous scenery, surrounding winelands, and family-run cellars are rather appealing.
Rawsonville might be little, but it lies in a prime spot to explore surrounding vineyards - there are thirteen wine and brandy cellars within a radius of ten kilometres, and as part of the popular Route 62, Rawsonville is in good company. Along its western flank runs the Klein Drakenstein that wends its way through the Slanghoek Valley where various cellars litter the R43 towards Ceres. On its eastern side several wineries line the banks of the Breede River, and the R60 to Robertson even more so.
And youre by no means limited to wine tasting when staying in Rawsonville. Scenic cycling routes pass through vineyards; there are wonderful drives through Du Toitskloof, Slanghoek Valley and the Louwshoek area, as well as hiking and horse trails.
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The 2011 NIP contained eight specific actions, as well as goals for each sector and overall NIP outcomes. Implementation of these is delivered through collaboration between Central Government, Local Government and the private sector.
Each year, NIU releases an annual "State of the Nation Report" reviewing the last year, and identifying key areas of progress against the outcomes and principles of the NIP. The report covers some of the outstanding opportunities and challenges ahead and identifies the priority areas for focus from a NIP perspective. The report is also an opportunity for the National Infrastructure Advisory Board to provide an overview of NIP developments and highlight areas of interest or in particular need of attention.
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Infrastructure 2013: National State of Infrastructure Report.
Infrastructure 2012: National State of Infrastructure Report.
The NIU also engages in an annual work programme. The 2014 work programme focuses on how New Zealand might respond to the challenges presented in the evidence base, published in February 2014. More information will become available throughout the year on this website.
The 2014 work programme builds on 2013, which focussed on a number of workstreams and activities that together build the evidence base on how our national infrastructure is currently performing, future demands on it and how we are tracking against the outcomes of the NIP. For more information on the key workstreams that build the evidence base, please use the links below:
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- demand management.
Alongside and as part of these work areas, the NIU is involved in a range of other infrastructure policy work related to the NIP. These include the various Christchurch and Auckland plans, Resource Management Act reforms and housing affordability, the Productivity Commission enquiries on local government regulation (and previous enquiries on housing and freight), the Better Local Government reforms, current and potential Public/Private Partnerships (PPPs), the TSO/TCA review and 700MHz spectrum auction in the telecommunications sector, oil security and energy sector resilience, long term Transport investment in a constrained fiscal environment, and progressing the Capital Asset Management (CAM) programme - including application of the Better Business Case methodology.
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Louisiana Council of Teachers of English (LCTE)
The goal of the Louisiana Council of Teachers of English is to help the teachers of English-language arts, grades kindergarten through graduate school, stay abreast of the latest changes in the field and to help them enable their students to reach their greatest potential. In order to achieve this goal, LCTE offers the following resources:
As an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English, LCTE also helps support the activities of the national council. Members of the LCTE board attend the NCTE fall conference and participate in the national council's activities. The Affiliate Director is Millie Davis, who may be reached at NCTE headquarters:
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You will be picked up from your hotel in Negombo, Colombo, or Mount Lavinia at 8:30 am and then proceed to Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
10:30am : Arrive at the Elephant Orphanage
10:45am – 12:00pm : Enjoy the elephant bathing. Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage was established in 1975 with seven orphaned elephants. Assisted by local and foreign elephant experts, they began a successful breeding program with the first baby elephant born in 1984. You can witness the entire herd take a bath in the river nearby.
12:00pm to 12:45pm : Have lunch at the Elephant Bay Restaurant.
13:00pm : Take a walk to the elephant park to see baby elephants being bottle fed.
13:15pm – 13:45pm : Witness the elephant feeding. You may also have a chance of feeding a baby elephant with a bottle of milk.
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Renee Bergeron is a birth and lifestyle photographer located in Bellingham, WA.
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Renee Bergeron is a birth and lifestyle photographer located in Bellingham, WA.
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Where are you located? I did not find it in the website…
Absolutely love your Superhero project <3
I'm an amateur photographer and schoolhelper for special kids from Finland and also have a same kind of project going on. Its called "Ainutlaatuiset", "Uniques" in english. Within year 2015 I'm about to photograph 12 children with special needs. Allready taken pictures of several of them and published four pictures on my facebook page.
Nice to notice that you also see kids with special needs as superheroes 🙂
Hi Rennee,
I just read about your amazing superheroes project. I too have a super heroes project for little kids called homemade heroes. The kids make their own costumes and then I give them powers using photoshop. If you would ever like to consider collaborating I would be thrilled to help out and give these kids some super powers.
Oh and I am a WWU alumni and miss the NW. I am currently in Minneapolis.
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LOVE the Superhero Project!! Came across an article on your work and it made my day. These pictures are beautiful and capture so much. Thank you for what you do and keep on keeping on 🙂 Apollo is beautiful by the way! Absolutely adorable!
AS a parent to my own superhero – I want to give you tremendous kudos for putting together such an amazing project!! Check out my Super Chase if you have a minute..Again this is stellar!
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Ecotopia Survey in the National Media
Exciting news: Lewis and Clark College's very own Tom Krattenmaker has an op-ed piece in the USA Today this morning! His thoughtful consideration of the role of apocalypticism in American environmental culture provides some excellent journalistic exposure for the Ecotopia Revisited research project. Coincidentally, there was an article in the New York Times on Sunday about the lasting impact of Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia; quite appropriately, the piece was titled "The Novel that Predicted Portland."
We've taken this as an opportunity to publicize our survey to a wider audience, by taking out an ad on the beliefnet.com website and sending invitations to a variety of national email listservs. We're hoping to gather a substantial number of responses and we'd love your help in spreading the word.
We've set up a page with some information about the project and links to the survey:
You can also go directly to the survey itself:
Thank you for the opportunity to take your survey…having some passing familiarity with SSPS and in the somewhat distant past been a Sociology major, I wanted to point out that the survey was missing one major sector of occupation in the list toward the end…especially considering the theme of the survey…there was not a category for "religious profession" be it clergy, religious educator, music ministry, or pastoral counseling. These people of our society (I am one of them) probably have some very good insights about why they believe what they believe on the topics of the survey.
I would have appreciated being able to comment some on my selections…perhaps a follow-up project for a student?
Thanks again for the survey.
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Quentin Tarantino is back with a "Southern", not a western but a southern, Django Unchained starring a great collection of cast with Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson and Christoph Waltz.
Set two years before the American civil war, Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave that is bought and given freedom by Dr Shultz (Christoph Waltz) and then they set on the road to find Django's wife and become bounty hunters in the process.
Django Unchained "Gentlemen, you had my curiosity. But now you have my attention."
I'm a big fan of the Spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone and Django reminded me so much of these, it even included a track by long time collaborator with Leone, Ennio Morricone, which was so nicely added in to the soundtrack of Django.
Django Unchained has all those hallmark signs of a Quentin Tarantino movie, with its choice of music tracks, editing style and story telling.
Right from the start of Django Unchained you know that you are in for a film that will keep you gripped throughout its running time, Jamie Foxx is superb as Django as he kills "bad white people" for their bounties while on his quest to find his wife.
Although some people may be taken back by the 'N' word, but it's all down to it being set on the deep south and that's how they used to speak during the slave trade era.
It is nice to see a film that has an 18 certificate for a change and Django Unchained certainly deserves the rating, with the amount of blood that flows towards the end of the film, which is all brilliantly done in true Tarantino style.
There's even those very funny moments, special one in particular that had me crying with laughter, featuring a scene with Bid Daddy (Don Johnson) discussing hoods and the eye-holes in then, maybe it was just me, but the scene was hysterical.
With a stellar cast, great directing, soundtrack and action, Django Unchained is certainly going to be a big hit, Tarentino has shown that the "cowboy" film isn't dead and he's brought the style of those spaghetti westerns right in to the 21st century with a massive bang! Also try to sopt the original Django, Franco Nero, in a cameo role in the film.
Overall Thoughts For Django Unchained
Django is a must for Tarentino fans and fans of the genre, Django is action packed and fun, it's certainly a film that is going to be extremely popular with the majority of audiences that see it.
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Hip hip hooray! Star Wars is turning 40!
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To celebrate the release of Star Wars: A New Hope four decades ago, you can win a unique, life-size Death Trooper statue.
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Show us your most creative side by bringing your creation to FACTS on the 1st or 2nd of April 2017 and dropping it off at the dedicated Star Wars booth in Hall 5. Impress the jury with precision, creativity or personal touch and maybe you will be the lucky winner.
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Castle, Manor House or Farm House?
Information about the classification castle, manor house or farmhouse. Surely you must have asked yourself by which criteria we sorted the listing of manor houses and castles.
Farm House Auerose
Auerose, south of Anklam, once was a fiefdom of the family von Schwerin. At the beginning of the 18th century the property was bought by the family von Borcken.
Franz Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm von Borcken-Auerose has built the house approx. 1848 / 1849 as a neo-gothic plaster-walled building on a high cellar, flat roof, crenellated rims and turrets. 1902 it was renovated in the neo-baroque style, at the north-east side a high tower with an arched dome was added. Its weather vane displays the renovation date. Inside the Farm House there is a two-storey high hall with parquet floor, walls panelled in wood, fireplace and other details from the building period. After the on Borcken family was expropriated in 1945, several families inhabited the house. 1992 the house was sold, the restoration began but came to an halt due to lack of financial resources. Since then the building further dilapidates.
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Engelbert - What's In A Name? : My Autobiography Paperback
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The man known simply as 'Enge' by his millions of fans worldwide has sold over 150 million records and is in the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 56 consecutive weeks in the chart with 'Release Me'. From living on the dole and receiving last rites with tuberculosis, to buying a Hollywood palace with a heart-shaped pool and a fleet of fourteen Rolls Royces, Engelbert wears his 'King of Romance' crown so well that horticulturists even named a rose after him. And the love god has certainly lived up to his reputation, indulging in a string of affairs and one-night stands, whilst remaining happily married to his first love Patricia.
Forty years on from his early hits 'Enge' is still at the very top, selling out concerts across the world, representing the UK at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, and topping the charts in all the major markets. Inspired by the warmth of his millions of affectionate fans and the endless support of his wife, Engelbert shares his incredible life story with openness, humour and astonishing honesty.
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text: Adventure: Story Story Posted 04-11-2013 Abundant Old Florida Treasures Await in the Shadow of Mickey 2013 Geico Challenge Cup, Lake Istokpoga, Oct. 22 - 27, 2012 By: Lynn Burkhead, MajorLeagueFishing.com Permitted use provided by: MajorLeagueFishing.com Ask most Americans to describe Florida and a number of iconic images come to mind. There's Mickey Mouse and the sprawling Disney empire. There are t-shirt shop filled beach towns that explode with spring breakers every March. There's the glitz and glamour of Miami's South Beach. And there are dozens of golf courses filled with snowbirds who have retired to the state's winter sunshine and warmth. But to reduce the Sunshine State to those images is to miss the very best that this remarkable place has to offer, much of what Ponce de Leon discovered when he first stepped foot onto this peninsula five centuries ago. Pay a visit to Lake Istokpoga, the nearby hamlet of Lake Placid, and the surrounding beauty of Highlands County, Florida, and you'll find the essence of the state, the quiet appeal of "Old Florida" that so many still seek. Old Florida? Absolutely. From roadside hamburger stands to wild surroundings where Spanish moss rustles in the breeze to gators and largemouth bass filled lakes to the guttural cries of sandhill cranes, there is much more to this state than a pair of felt mouse ears in a souvenir shop. Take Lake Placid for instance, a community of just under 2,000 residents lying northwest of Lake Okeechobee, north of the Everglades, and south of the sprawling Megalopolis of Orlando. Pull a block or two off of U.S. 27 and you'll discover a beautiful small town right out of a Norman Rockwell Americana painting where the local Green Dragons play high school football on autumn Friday nights. American Bald Eagle A short distance from the Green Dragon's home turf is the Old Lake Placid Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Depot, a National Register of Historical Places building where whispers from a time gone by can still be heard in the "Caladium Capital of the World." You'll also find plenty of mom-and-pop shops in the quaint downtown district filled with storytelling murals that quietly speak of the region's history. All of that as the 270-foot Happiness Tower and Toby's Clown School and the American Clown Museum loom and laugh nearby. The town's business district teems with eateries, two local newspapers and businesses like the full-service Lake Placid Marine where area fishing, boating and water craft enthusiasts come to buy gear from Norman Lee and company. No wonder Reader's Digest once named Lake Placid as one of America's most interesting towns. But there's much more to Lake Placid than Main Street businesses, historic train cars, clowns, murals and tall towers. Step away from the community and you'll find 29 named freshwater lakes in the Lake Placid vicinity, including Lake Placid, Lake June in Winter, and sprawling Lake Istokpoga. In many ways, Istokpoga is the crown jewel of Highlands County's untamed lands. At nearly 28,000 acres, this oblong, shallow-water body teems with black crappie, bluegills, redear sunfish and huge largemouth bass. No wonder it's a Fish Management Area for the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission. With two islands, ample reeds and aquatic vegetation, and an amazing array of alligators and bird life, this lake - the fifth largest natural lake in Florida - is one of the great aquatic treasures of the Sunshine State. Osceola Turkeys But Istokpoga isn't the only great fishing and boating spot in the area, mind you. Drive a short distance from Lake Placid and you'll find plenty more lakes in Highlands County, some 95 in all that literally teem with game fish populations and surrounding wildlife. Surrounding the lakes of Highlands County is a semi-tamed land filled with mysterious cypress trees, semi-tropical plants, screeching ospreys and eagle, and strutting Osceola turkeys. On many days, you'll detect the faint aroma of ripening oranges and ocean salt on an afternoon thundershower's breeze, not to mention sunsets to die for that are painted almost daily on the Creator's canvas. One place to discover the wild beauty of Highlands County is at Highlands Hammock State Park. First opened to the public in 1931, this outdoors gem near Sebring features an elevated boardwalk over an old-growth cypress swamp, nine hiking trails, a three-mile bicycling path, plenty of picnic spots and the Civilian Conservation Corps museum. Another option for outdoors enthusiasts are the hiking trails, biking paths, equestrian trails, kayaking and canoeing venues, camping areas and picnic spots at Boney Marsh, Bluff Hammock and Hickory Hammock Recreational Areas that are scattered around the Highlands County area. If birding is your thing, then make sure that you visit Lake June in Winter Scrub State Park. An oasis for the sand-scrub "Florida desert" terrain of the region, the state park is a literal birding paradise. It's also home to numerous treasured and even endangered species including the Florida scrub-jay, the Florida scrub-lizard, the Florida mouse, the gopher tortoise, and even some of the nation's most diminutive white-tailed deer. In nearby Avon Park, hikers will find literal mile after mile of hiking trails, boardwalks, and equestrian trails at the Wildflower Wayside Shrine Trail and at a variety of lands found upon the Avon Park Air Force Range (Editor's Note: Of the APAFR bombing range's 106,000 acres, approximately 82,000-acres are reportedly open for public recreational use). If you love the outdoors world, once you have explored all that Highlands County has to offer, then and only then, don't hesitate to make a day trip to the south of the region. That's where you can explore the semi-tropical wilderness of the Big Cypress National Preserve, the Everglades Wildlife Management Area, Everglades National Park, and the world renowned backcountry of the Florida Keys. Sandhill Crane If venturing into the wild outdoors world isn't necessarily the preferred cup of tea for every member of your family, then keep in mind that Lake Placid and Highlands County can serve as a gateway to many of central and southern Florida's attractions. In Sebring itself - where plenty of shopping, dining, and entertainment options await - is the world famous Sebring International Raceway built a half-century ago. With three different tracks, the raceway is home to the annual spring running of the Gran Prix style "Twelve Hours of Sebring." Numerous golf courses dot the region too, giving visitors a chance to enjoy a day on some of the country's best public and private links. Barely more than an hour's drive to the east of Lake Placid is the Atlantic with numerous ocean side communities and beaches waiting. Head an hour to the west and you'll find stunningly beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches with some of the whitest sand and bluest water on earth. 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Study of Affiliation Agreements Used by Institutions to Comply with the Requirements of Their Misconduct Assurance (1999)
All organizations that apply for or receive Public Health Service (PHS) funding are required by regulation (42 CFR Part 93) to have, among other things, an administrative process that meets the requirements of the regulation for dealing with allegations of scientific misconduct. They are also required to submit an annual report to ORI, which includes aggregate information on allegations, inquiries, and investigations, as well as information related to the institution's misconduct policies.
Of the approximate 4,500 institutions that have active assurances with ORI, a small number have established what has been described as "affiliation relationships" with other institutions, which has helped to streamline the institutional reporting requirement by allowing one institution, the "parent," to submit a consolidated annual report on misconduct activity to ORI for itself and the related "affiliates." However, the annual report has failed to capture what additional steps, if any, have been taken to insure that an administrative procedure has been established for dealing with misconduct that takes into account the consolidated relationships.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether these organizational units have policies that complied with the regulation, whether the affiliation arrangement was endorsed by all institutions, and whether the affiliation arrangement was feasible.
There have been a small number of officials within the study group who have stated that the term "affiliate" was not an accurate description of the institutional relationships within its group. The organization may be a division of the parent, or a wholly-owned subsidiary, for example. This clarification is noted. However, for the purpose of simplicity and consistency in this study, the contact organization for each of the groups will be referred to as the "parent," and each of the organizations represented by the "parent" will be referred to as an "affiliate."
Initially, 86 institutional groups were identified for this study, which included 86 "parents" and 192 "affiliates." For varied reasons, 13 of the initial "parents" were removed from the study; some institutions declined to respond to the request for policies, some were consolidated with other institutions or went out of business, and some institutions terminated the parent/affiliate relationship. The remaining 73 "parents" and 178 "affiliates" form the basis of this study.
Table 1 - Summary of Institutional Sample
|Number of Parent/Affiliate groups:
|Number of Parent Institutions:
|Number of Affiliated Institutions:
|Number of Institutions Covered:
Range of Affiliates to Parents:
Average Number of Affiliates to Parents: 2.44
Percent of Parents with One Affiliate: 56%
The types of organizations that comprise the "parent" institutions are varied; included are associations, bio-tech companies, centers, clinics, institutes, foundations, hospitals, states, and university systems, to mention a few. The "affiliate's" composition is similar to the parents. The number of affiliates associated with each parent ranges from 1 to 18; the average is 2.44. More than half the parents have only one affiliate (41/73).
The first level of review was to gather certain basic data that could be used as an indicator of whether the policies for the group were feasible. The location of the affiliates in relation to the parents was reviewed, as well as whether the contact at the affiliate was the same as the parent, or different.
Table 2 - Parent and Affiliate Institutional Connections
|Parent/Affiliate Geographic Location
|Responsible Official at Parent Affiliate
In slightly more than half the cases, the affiliated institution was located in the same city as the parent (38/73). This is an important consideration, as many of the parent policies included a centralized process, that is, an inquiry and investigation process conducted by officials at the parent institution, which would not be practical if the affiliate is geographically separate. The contact person for the parent and affiliate was listed as the same in 25 cases; in 20 cases a different official was designated, and in the remaining 28 cases the contact information was unknown or left blank. It is worth noting that in the nine cases, the contact person for the parent and affiliate was listed as the same person, but the affiliate(s) were located in different cities. Eight of the nine organizations were universities.
Whether or not the affiliate was part of the parent organization was not evident in most cases, with only 19 groups of affiliates being easily recognized as a part of the parent organizations, 16 groups being easily recognized as separate organizations, and 38 groups that could not be assessed. Interestingly, of the 16 parent affiliate groups that were recognized as being separate organizations, 7 listed the same individual as the responsible official for the parents as well as the affiliates.
Table 3 - Reference to Parent and/or Affiliate in Title of Institutional Policy Statement
|Reference to Parent
|Reference to Affiliate
|Reference Other Institution
The title of the institutional misconduct policy often gives some indication whether the policy is only for the parent, or includes the affiliates. Fifty-two policies of 73 identified the parent as the institution covered by the policies; the affiliate was mentioned in 21 of 73 cases, and some other organization was named in 5 other policies. (There is some overlap, as both the parent and affiliate were identified in 18 policies cases.) In addition, while the title may only mention the parent organization, a number of the policies did acknowledge some authority over affiliates.
The policies were reviewed to determine whether or not they covered the faculty and staff of the affiliated organizations. The review determined that 31 policies, or 42%, made some statement on the coverage of affiliate faculty and staff. A similar number, 28 or 38%, were silent on coverage of affiliate faculty and staff.
While the focus of the review was to determine whether the policies of the parent accounted for the existence of the affiliate, there were three instances where the affiliate had policies separate from the parent.
The policies, as contained in the ORI files or provided by the parent institutions, were evaluated for compliance with the Federal regulation (42 CFR Part 50, Subpart A).
Table 4 - Institutional Compliance
|Percent of Parent Policies Compliant with Regulation
|Percent of Parent Policies Requiring Revision
Thirty-four institutional policies were found to be in compliance, and 33 institutional policies required some revision, as a part of our review. In six cases, the policies provided were for an organization other than the parent, or there were separate policies for the parent and affiliate.
Table 5 - Affiliation Acknowledgment
|Reference to Affiliate Arrangement
|Affiliate Acknowledges and Accepts Arrangement
Each policy was reviewed to determine whether there was any reference to the affiliation arrangement. This question is slightly different than a previous question that asked whether the affiliated institution was included in the policy title. Only 13 of 73 institutional policies (17%) have any reference in them to the affiliate organizations. Of that number, there was some evidence in eight policies that the affiliate organization accepted the arrangement.
The policies were reviewed to determine whether the conduct of the inquiry and investigation were centralized at the parent level, decentralized at the affiliate level, or some combination of each.
Table 6 - Conduct of the Inquiry
|Inquiry Initiation Point
|Institution Where Inquiry Conducted
|Location of Official Responsible for Conduct of Inquiry
|Institution Where Inquiry Conducted
|Location of Official Responsible for Conduct of Inquiry
|Location of Deciding Official
Better than half (43 of 73; 59%) of the inquiries were handled at the parent level. Only 19% (14 of 73) were handled at the affiliate level, while in the remaining 16 cases, the policies were not specific enough to make that determination. Other questions regarding the inquiry followed the same pattern: the contact person was primarily from the parent - 55% (40/73), the individual initiating the inquiry was associated with the parent in 56% of the cases (41/73), and the deciding official was also primarily associated with the parent - 56% (41/73). Where the inquiry was held at the affiliate level, the pattern was consistent: the contact person (21%) , the person initiating the inquiry (18%), and the deciding official (16%) were at the affiliate level. In approximately 25% of the cases, this information was difficult to evaluate, as the title and description of the responsible officials with a role in the inquiry and investigation were not specific enough to be positively identified with either the parent or the affiliate.
Table 7 - Conduct of Investigation
|Investiagion Initiation Point
|Location of Deciding Official
|Location of Investigation Records
The pattern for the conduct of the investigation was similar to that of the inquiry. The investigation was handled at the parent level in 59% of the policies (43 of 73), and the deciding official was associated with the parent in 60% (44 of 73) of the cases. Investigation at the affiliate level were identified on only 9 of 73 policies (12%), and the deciding official at this level could only be found in 10 policies (14%). The level of the official responsible for the investigation process could not be determine in 25% of the policies.
The policies were reviewed to determine whether the parent institution formally distributed the policies to the affiliated institutions.
Table 8 - Distribution of Policies by Parent
There was evidence in the policies that this distribution occurred at only nine parent/affiliate groups. In all but one case where the policies were not distributed, the policies were silent on the issue of distribution.
Table 9 - Role of Affiliate in Naming Inquiry/Investigation Committees
|Full or Complete:
In only five cases (7%) did the policies acknowledge and describe a role for the affiliates in naming the inquiry and/or investigation panel. In nine cases (12%) the policies were clear that this was a responsibility at the parent level. In the majority of cases (71%), the policies were simply not clear on this topic. It is also likely that the high percentage of institutions that handle both the inquiry and investigation at the parent level (approximately 60%) simply have not made any accommodation for the affiliate, and more likely, were not designed as a multi-institutional procedure.
The review could only identify eight instances (11%) in which officials from the affiliate institutions had membership on either the inquiry or investigation committees.
A question was asked regarding who handled appeals, and the policies for the most part did not identify the official specifically enough to determine whether they were from the parent or affiliate. However, the question did yield more relevant information regarding the existence of an appeals process within the institutional policies. In only nine cases (12%) were there any provisions for an appeal.
The review of the policies also disclosed that only 31 of 73 (42%) of institutions had any reference to the protection of whistleblowers, and only a slightly larger number (37 of 73 - 51%) of the institutions identified any official as responsible for restoring the reputation of the respondent. These percentages are not inconsistent with the results of other policy reviews.
There is little evidence that any institutional policies were modified to account for the existence of the parent/affiliate relationship with ORI. For institutions that did have multi-institutional policies, they were likely developed because of the institutional relationships that existed irrespective of any interaction with ORI. For example, some universities have policies that cover several campuses; health department policies often include regional facilities. When institutions established an affiliation for the purpose of reporting to ORI, very few, if any, modified their policies to reflect this arrangement.
Part of this review involved reviewing policies for compliance with the Federal regulation, and determining whether the policies of the parents (in the absence of separate affiliate policies) were applicable to the affiliates, and whether the affiliate would formally adopt the policies of the parents. This objective, with only a few exceptions, has been accomplished. Institutions have made their policies compliant with the Federal regulation following ORI review; affiliates are covered by compliant policies, either as part of the parent's process, or with a policy of their own.
The review did highlight the type of multi-institutional policies that are effective. There are three main models. The first model involves each institution having separate policies for dealing with misconduct at that facility. The affiliation agreement is only for the purpose of reporting to ORI. The second model involves a parent policy that makes reference to the affiliated organizations, and makes accommodations for the separate organizational structures. The third model involves aspects of the first two: there is an overall policy that covers the entire multi-organizational group, with separate procedures developed by each of the affiliates to account for their separate organizational structure. In one case, the parent developed the procedure that would be effective for each affiliated unit until that affiliate developed a procedure of its own.


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- March 22: April Fool's Day Comes Early. Come with your favorite joke and be prepared to laugh (or groan).
- April 26: Earth Day. What are you doing for Earth Day? What do others do around the world? Join us to create Earth Day traditions (and maybe even paint a tree).
- May 24: Words are Wonderful. Let's brainstorm new words by mixing, matching and challenging ourselves.
- June 28: Dairy Month. Vote for your favorite cheese and milk as we celebrate National Dairy Month.
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The SPJ Press Club Night is a monthly social for journalists hosted by the Society of Professional Journalists. Everyone is welcome regardless of membership. Keep watching the Web site for details and dates of our next event.
Mingle, relax and enjoy some good company.
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Press Club is organized by the Western Washington Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists on the first Friday of every month. Full-time, part-time and freelance journalists are all welcome, and you need not be a member of SPJ. (And yes, networking is just fine with us ...)
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Oral Roberts Hammers Cal Poly, 13-3 In NCAA Opener
May 29, 2009
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TEMPE, Ariz. – The Oral Roberts University baseball team pounded out 18 hits and posted its largest margin of victory in a NCAA Regional contest with a 13-3 victory over Cal Poly on Friday afternoon at Packard Stadium. The Golden Eagles improved to 32-13 overall this season.
Six Golden Eagles posted multiple hits in the victory, including Michael Notaro (Westlake Village, Calif.), who went 4-for-4 with two RBI and Colby Price (Brenham, Texas), who drove in a career-high five runs.
Jerry Sullivan (8-3) earned the win for the Golden Eagles after allowing three earned runs in seven innings pitched. The Budd Lake, N.J., native fanned nine batters while issuing no walks.
Cal Poly's Mason Radeke (6-2) suffered the loss after allowing five earned runs on 10 hits with five strikeouts and two walks.
The Mustangs jumped on the board in the top of the first inning when Wes Dorrell hit a sacrifice fly to right field to drive in Ryan Lee for the early 1-0 advantage.
ORU countered in the bottom of the inning, as Notaro drove a sacrifice fly to right field to plate Tyler Garewal (Bakersfield, Calif.), who led off the inning with a double.
The Golden Eagles tacked on another run in the following inning to take a 2-1 lead. Danny Duffy (Glendale, Ariz.) slapped a two-out single up the middle and Robert Barbosa (Dallas, Texas) blooped a single to right field that advanced Duffy to third before he scored on a throwing error.
ORU scored four runs in the bottom of the third inning, highlighted by three home runs to take a commanding 6-1 lead. The Golden Eagles opened the inning with back-to-back homers from Juan Martinez (Bakersfield, Calif.) and Seth Furmanek (Gilbert, Ariz.). Martinez tallied his 15th long ball of the season to right-centerfield, while Furmanek followed with a bomb over the left field wall and into the street outside the stadium.
Notaro slapped a single through the right side in the next at bat and Colby Price followed two batters later with a two-run homer to left field to push the margin to five runs.
After surrendering a run in the first inning, Sullivan retired 10 of the next 12 batters until running into trouble in the fifth inning. Ross Brayton led off the inning with a single through the left side and Lee slapped a one-out single to centerfield. With two outs, Adam Buschini tripled down the left field line to plate two runs and cut the lead to 6-3.
The Golden Eagles pushed two runs across in the bottom of the sixth to extend the lead to 8-3. Barbosa led off the inning with a single to right field and Furmanek cracked a two-out RBI double to left center. Notaro then followed with a double to centerfield to drive in the fifth two-out run of the contest.
ORU added another run in the bottom of the seventh to increase its lead to 9-3 when Duffy doubled to left center to drive in Barbosa. Duffy went 3-for-5 on the afternoon with a single, double and triple.
The Golden Eagles rounded out the scoring in the eighth inning with four more runs. After three consecutive singles loaded the bases with no outs, P.J. Sequeira (Petaluma, Calif.) drew a walk for the first run. Colby Price then cleared the bases with a double down the left field line for a career-high five RBI in the contest.
Jeff Burleson (Bakersfield, Calif.) shut down the Mustangs over the final two innings, retiring five of the six batters faced and striking out three.
The Golden Eagles meet the winner of tonight's contest between No. 1 Arizona State and No. 4 Kent State at 9:00 p.m. CT on Saturday.


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With such a capable browser already included in Android—and especially with HTC's souped up iteration on their latest Sense devices, any Android owner might wonder why they should plop down $2.99 of their hard-earned cash on a third party browser. Well, in the case of xScope it may be worth it, if its plethora of added features speak to you. However, with choice comes complexity; and for the most part, users will be satisfied with the stock browser option.
The most useful feature of xScope is the tabbed browsing. With the stock browser, I often don't even realize I have tabs open until I get the error message saying I have too many open. It's just too cumbersome to hit menu, windows and then search for a tab. xScope gives you the tabbed look you're used to on your desktop and allows you to swipe between them with a side-wipe gesture. Sweet! To open a new tab, hit the plus button–to close it, tap the top of the tab you are currently viewing. The menu also slides to the left to unveil menu items, such as search and select text. Other cool features include the option to download .mp3's and movies instead of streaming them. My absolute favorite feature: using the volume keys to page scroll.


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