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Where would a discussion on pin-ups be without mention of dime novels, pulp magazines and paperback originals? These disposable diversions were sold by the millions and spawned as many fevered dreams of heros, villain and those lithe damsels in their torn red dresses. Granted, there were whole genres, like sports, aviation and westerns, that features no women at all. I'll leave those chronicles to someone else.
Dime Novels were small, inexpensive books produced following the success of Beadle's and Adams' 'Malaeska' in 1860. The story was actually a series compilation from a magazine twenty years earlier. Popularized by Horatio Alger and others, dime libraries paved the way for serialized recurring characters. They were aimed primarily at a younger readership and often featured plots rooted in American history. In contrast to hardbound 'high literature', Dime Novels were purchased at newsstands and designed to be consumed and discarded. The railroad in particular aided the distribution of these books, while improvements in printing and increased literacy combined to make them the most popular mass entertainment of the late 1800s.
In Dime Novels, the women were rarely depicted in real danger. These periodicals were aimed primarily at boys, so girls usually looked on as their protectors played rugby, fought Indians or battled exotic witch doctors. Adhering to the Victorian moral code, women and families were targeted with their own Story Papers and novels with strong messages about social responsibilities. Authors learned to express their melodramas with fast paced action and a minimum of excess verbiage. With the advent of the typewriter in the 1870s, successful authors were churning out monthly 70,000 word fiction and making a good living at a penny per word.
One of the first genres to achieve success was the western with protagonists like Wild Bill Hickock, Deadwood Dick and Commander Cody. As the nation became more urbanized, cities increasingly became the new metaphor for the Wild West and the detective became the central hero. The Bradys, Old King and his son Harry, sensationalized the perils of the new urban landscape with menacing stereotypical "Yellow Demon" Chinese tongs, opium warlords and all manner of nefarious gangs. Advances in technology invariably made their way into stories, which included motorcycles, automobiles and aeroplanes as measure of distancing themselves from their horsebacked predecessors.
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes made his debut in 1887, bringing scientific and deductive sleuthing. By that time, Old Sleuth, Old Cap Collier and Nick Carter had already been solving crimes and saving chaste women for years in Dime Novels. Munsey's weekly Golden Argosy morphed to the larger pulp format in 1894 and changed publishing forever. Still, it wasn't until the period between the World Wars that pulps became the sensation of words and images that left a lasting legacy to pin-up art. That was the time of prohibition, full of gangsters, short skirts, pre-Hays Code cinema and looser morality. Add to the mix a population suffering through the Great Depression and eager for inexpensive escapist entertainment and you'll see how the pulps (and Tijuana Bibles) filled every possible voyeuristic niche to sell literally millions of issues a month.
Before pulps, slick magazines (so-named for their glossy stock and superior paper quality) were staid publications aimed for family consumption. National brands advertised in upscale magazines and famous artists like Rolf Armstrong and George Petty were international celebrities. The pulps offset their printing costs by running ads for booklets of beautiful models 'ready to draw' and thinly veiled exotic sex manuals. By changing to newsstand distribution, pulps offered the working class a dazzling selection and the only way to initially differentiate one publication from other similar titles was the cover. Improvements in color printing made it easier to reproduce eye-catching art and the pulps succeeded in that respect. It didn't take a publishing genius to realize that sexy women would appeal to a male readership. In an attempt to buck the trend, Amazing Stories tried an issue with a symbolic cover instead of their usual space opera theme and saw sales plummet 22% for that month.
Following World War I, titles appeared depicting the 'saucy' French lifestyle. There were genres devoted to New York nightlife and Hollywood movie starlets. The movies, in particular, provided the opportunity to show as much skin as possible and many issues, illustrated by pin-up artists such as Quintana and Bolles, have become quite collectable. Some titles used blatant nudity and were relegated to 'under the counter' status. Since 'Spicy' stories were quite popular with a male readership, no doubt due to the brilliant art of H.J. Ward, the 'Spicy' theme was soon incorporated into other genres of pulp fiction.
The detective field was devoured by the public and clean cut All American boys like Frank Merriwell were replaced by hardboiled detectives and G Men. The terse prose pioneered by Allan Pinkerton in the 1870s had developed into a protagonist street wise, prone to violence and usually surrounded by women of equally dubious virtue. The style, first developed in the pulp Black Mask, influenced Film Noire Hollywood and launched the paperback careers of authors such as Micky Spillane, Dashiell Hammett and others. The covers usually depicted a square jawed dick, busting down a door, roscoe blazing, to save a hot dame from some knuckle dragging miscreant. Another variant has our fearless hero restrained, watching helplessly as evil minions took liberties with the fair sex. Norman Saunders and Walter M. Baumhofer did yeoman's work illustrating the covers of this field.
Another format that the pulps pioneered was science fiction. No respectable book publisher would take a chance on futuristic drama, despite the successful earlier romantic fantasies of Jules Vernes and H.G. Welles. The pulps, with their voracious need to fill pages gave such esteemed visionaries as Issac Azimov, Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury their start. Amazing Stories is credited with being the first 'scientfiction' publisher. Early issues featured such icons as Buck Rogers and Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter of Mars and spawned a host of imitators..
When dealing with the unknowns of futuristic science, artists such as Earle Bergey (Originator of the so-called 'Brass Bra') took liberties to display their female subjects as close to naked as possible. While there was never a lack of monsters to threaten these space lovelies, some illustrators, like Virgil Finley, had a softer and more languid approach to tasteful nudity. It is interesting to note how many men required cumbersome space suits, while space-age women braved the final frontier in the skimpiest of attire!
Women in the pulps were no longer passive spectators. Now they were involved in the action, almost always being endangered by an assortment of cliché antagonists. Fantasy titles, pioneered by the redoubtable Weird Tales which featured artwork by Virgil Finlay and Margaret Brundage were popular. Grabbing attention also were gothic horror 'shudder pulps' in the Grand Guignol style. The ever present mad scientist and evil cult villains popularized by Dime Mystery Magazine put young beauties into more and more graphic situations. The cover work by such artists as Raphael DeSoto and Rudolph Belarski regularly depicted defenseless women threatened by skeletons, savages and weird foreigners, thrown into pits and whipped by fiends. By the 1950s, the pulps had passed their graphic torch to the comics. Some publishers, such as EC, took the 'shudder' format to such extremes that public outcry and the self-imposed 'Comic Code of Authority' effectively shut down such horrific displays.
One lasting legacy of the pulps was the genesis of the hero crime fighter. Such classic characters as Tarzan, Zorro and The Shadow had their debuts in the hey day of the pulps. Interestingly, The Shadow was an accidental creation. While sponsoring a radio program of the same name, Smith & Street Publishers were beseeched to produce a magazine to continue the exploits of the serial. They did and in the process set the stage for many of the motifs that would be carried on by comic book superheros shortly after.
Consider Superman, who debuted in 1938. He is known as the 'Man of Steel', a visitor from another planet with a secret identity and Fortress of Solitude. Batman is a millionaire bachelor with amazing strength, cunning and technical expertise, called to action by the BatSignal. Compare them to pulp heroes Doc Savage, the 'Man of Bronze' with incredible strength and an Arctic fortress, the Phantom Detective, signaled by authorities by a red light in the night sky and The Black Bat, who was striking fear in the heart of criminals before the Dark Knight inhabited Gotham!
Sadly, the pulps were doomed by a variety of forces. Paper shortages during World War II are blamed for some titles disappearing. Others survived by converting to magazine or digest formats. As economic hard times hit, some publishers reprinted old stories, which prompted disillusionment in readers and an investigation by the FTC. In addition to television, comics siphoned off the younger consumers and paperbacks the older audience. I have created pages for both formats to track the trajectory of this lamentably lost American art. I think you'll agree that some of the best pulp illustrators deserve the recognition and acclaim reserved for those who drew for more respectable venues.


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So many Game 7s can be decided by a simple bounce
Chris Kelly has seen some things, over the years. The Toronto native has played more than 900 NHL games, regular season and playoffs; he has one Stanley Cup, with Boston in 2011. And on the morning of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final this year – a 3-2 Pittsburg win in double overtime- he wasn't sure he'd be in the lineup; he hadn't played much in these playoffs at age 36, in this sport he thinks is more densely packed and unpredictable than ever before.
"Yeah, it's even more than it has been in the past," said Kelly, the morning before his Ottawa Senators played the Pittsburgh Penguins. "When they put the salary cap into place, the first year the old teams were trying to (keep) their teams together and players were still in place, and every year it got closer and closer. Now it's more difficult to make the playoffs, let alone survive and continue to keep playing."
"It's fractions. It's incredible. Looking back and thinking about the Game 7s I've played in, three of them went into overtime. How close can you get? It comes down to bounces. It's a coin flip. Game 7s are coin flips. I hope the fans enjoy it, because it makes life stressful on us."
Players don't usually admit the game rattles the nerves, but Kelly has always been an honest soul. He played three Game 7s in the 2011 Cup run, and another the Bruins lost in overtime in 2012, and one more in 2013 — the Toronto game, if you remember that. All but the Cup final win over Vancouver were one-goal games. This season, there have already been 26 overtime playoff games, and Kelly has arrived at a place that could best be described as hockey Zen: hope for luck, but don't expect it.
"You hope, but it's a bounce," said Kelly, who scored an overtime winner in Game 1 against Washington in 2012. "I remember when we played Tampa in '11 in the conference final, and it was 0-0 until about six minutes left. No penalties. And I thought we played extremely well. And there was one time where (Martin) St. Louis had the puck and he shot it and it went off our defenceman's skate and just went wide, and I was thinking, I hope we don't lose this by a bad bounce, and I'm sure they're thinking the same way."
"I think if you look back, I think it was just a slight mistake that we were able to capitalize and score the winner. (Steven Stamkos tripped) on nothing. A 60-goal scorer does that 1,000 times and he never falls down and he's always in the right place, and . . . it's luck. I hate to say that. But it's a little bit of luck. You need luck on your side. If you ask every team that's won, they had it."
Kelly says the same about the Leafs' Game 7: "Play that game 100 times, 99 times you lose." But Game 7s are irrevocable. Whatever happens, happens. No going back. It's what makes them cruel, and great. Too often we write songs about the victors and we cast the losers out, and it was the result of some tiny burst of unknowable physics. Hockey.
"And you sign up for that," Kelly said. "You know. But you have a great year and you don't get the result you're looking for and ultimately you feel disappointed and somewhat defeated. But when you have time to look back on the season, there are so many positives that can come out from a season, and I think that's what you try to do if you don't get the result you're looking for."
"I think you can live with just bad luck. I think the worst thing you can have is regret. Not feeling like you pushed hard enough, or you left a little bit out there. I think that's something that — when you're finished and done and you look back on your career, you know, 'I was so close, I really wish I could have given a little bit extra,' and you have that regret — I think that stays with you. Whereas bad luck, you can live with."
It sounds easy, right? Sports is supposed to be a meritocracy, but in hockey eventually players surrender one part of that idea. The distinction becomes something different: process, as much as results. You earn your bounces, or at least you tell yourself that. Before Game 6, Kelly spoke to the Senators, who were facing elimination, and urged a simple thing: Be here, now.
"It's funny — I had this conversation with one of the reporters earlier in the year, but everyone thinks that we have these movie speeches, where somebody gets up," Kelly said. "That never happens. I watch the movies and go, that's a good speech. I think it was important just to let the guys know, stay in the moment. It's so easy to look ahead to the future or look to the past, but . . . the future doesn't happen unless you stay in the moment. And I just tried to explain that to them, and that's it.
On the morning on Game 7, Chris Kelly was hanging on at the end of a fine career, waiting for one more chance, possessed of an earned hockey wisdom. You give everything you have to earn the right to get lucky. Or not.


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Celebrate 25 Years of Division I Athletics
During the 2016-17 seasons, Sacramento State will be celebrating 25 Years of Division I Athletics competition. All Hornet Athletics programs will celebrate their own 25th anniversary during a designated home game/meet, during which we will bring back all of our former student-athletes and alumni. Hornet Sports will be putting a spotlight on our past student-athletes greatest achievements. Be sure to stay connected with the Hornet Club and hornetsports.com to know when your favorite program will be under the spotlight and celebrating their 25th anniversary.
We are not only looking to raise financial support for our student-athletes, but to bring our Sac State Alumni, former student-athletes, and Sacramento community members back to Sac State. Whether your contribution is through a donation to the Hornet Club, attending athletic sporting events or volunteering your time, no contribution is too small.
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Your additional assistance through the 25 years of Division I Athletics Campaign will go directly to funding student-athletes' tuition, upgrading our athletic facilities, enhancing Hornet Athletics branding, and funding additional student-athlete programming and can start at just an additional $25. We hope to have over 525 Hornets participate, having all of our 21 programs represented by one supporter for each of the 25 years. Whether you give to the Hornet Club Annual Fund, team support, or Block S we hope that you will help celebrate our past, support the current, and establish a legacy for our future student-athletes by giving additional funds in celebration of Hornet Athletics success and competition at the Division I level.


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Below you will find a complete tutorial on how I refinished this Graphite Entry Way Table!
Paint and paint brush (doesn't need to be Chalk Paint)
Clear wax and brush (polycrylic if using latex paint)
Clean rag or Cheesecloth Ultra Fine Cotton Commercial Grade 27 SqFt
Hand Sander tool (optional)
Baby Wipes (optional)
A friend of my moms was moving out of their house and was getting rid of a bunch of furniture. They gave me this solid wood table for FREE! I rarely pass up free furniture, especially when it's solid wood and in great condition. I have awesome friends that text me when they see free furniture out on someone's lawn and it's a mad dash to get to it before someone else does.
Baby wipes. Something I ALWAYS have in bulk at my house. They are great for wiping the dust off furniture. You always want to start with a clean surface.
When I'm working with real wood I usually love to mix stain and paint together when refinishing a piece but for this table I wanted it all one color-Graphite! Graphite is a beautiful slate gray when it's waxed and finished. If you've never used Annie Sloan Graphite before, let me warn you its really not that pretty until you wax! You'll see what I mean below…
This was after one coat. See how it almost has a blue tint to it? Don't worry about it. Just keep painting! Also, notice how sloppy the paint job looks. I never take my time with the first coat of paint. My main goal is to cover the furniture like a coat of primer. It doesn't need to be beautiful so just slap it on.
When I want a really smooth (I mean REALLY smooth) surface I always sand between coats. Take a fine grit sandpaper, 220 grit or finer and lightly sand the top. This hand sander tool is the best! It's well worth the five bucks. It helps to apply even pressure when sanding and overall makes sanding by hand much easier. When you start sanding it's going to leave a chalky residue behind and it might even look ruined but it's not, so don't panic like I did the first time I used graphite!
Here's a picture after the second coat and a little more light sanding. Still ugly, right? This is where the Annie Sloan Clear Wax comes to your rescue!
If you've never used Annie Sloan Wax before, I highly encourage you to watch this video. I'm still learning with this wax. It's definitelly not easy! Once I feel like a pro, I'll write a post with all my tips and tricks when using wax. By the way, you do not have to use chalk paint or wax. You can do this same tutorial and sub in latex paint and a polyurethane protective finish. The steps are the same! After you're done waxing and it has had time to dry over night, take an extremely fine grit (1500-2000) sandpaper and your handy sanding tool and sand the crap out of the top! You can also use really fine steel wool (000) and rub it down too. This, along with the wax will create this smooth surface. So smooth it literally feels like glass. That's what I love about Annie Sloan Chalk Paint- you can create so many different textures.
My favorite part is attaching the hardware. Hardware can really make or break a piece of furniture! Hobby Lobby is my favorite place to find decorative pulls and knobs. They also go 50% off about every two weeks! I bought this knob at 50% off for $2.00. Can't beat that! You are finished!
See how the picture frames reflect almost a mirror-like image off the top of the table? This is what I meant by "really smooth". If you run your hand over the top, it feels like glass. Hope you enjoyed this Graphite Entry Table Tutorial! Questions? Leave them below.
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The UFC has recently promoted long-running reality show the Ultimate Fighter as the toughest tournament in sports. Likewise, Bellator has made the same claim, pointing to their contendership structure as being supreme when determining the most deserving challengers/champions. One man equipped to give informed insight into the difficulty of both is welterweight Ben Saunders who has been part of TUF in addition to a handful of Bellator fields as well.
Saunders recently spoke with Fightline in relation to his Season 8 semifinal scrap tonight at Bellator 90 against Raul Amaya where addressed the debate, pointing to each endeavor as being arduous but not in the same way.
"I would have to say they were both tougher in different areas. TUF was crazy living together, and above all not knowing who you would be fighting or when you would be fighting until 24-48 hours ahead of time. That made weight cutting (which I never did before but once) and gameplan preparations a real hardship. But I enjoyed my time on the show and saw it as a vacation and seminar experience, loving most of all of the time spent there, knowing it was such an amazing opportunity to be chosen. I felt very honored, and fortunate to be there, and hardly saw any negative even in the grueling times," explained Saunders. "As for Bellator I feel it's just a more professional approach in that we know who, when, and where we are fighting ahead of time. We get to prepare like professionals with our own teams. But I do feel it is harder as the level in competition surpasses that of my time on TUF."
With Bellator ready to enter the world of reality television later this year, Saunders also added that he's interested in seeing how his current employer's product differs from TUF.
"I don't know the format or how it is being shot or filmed. I believe they are trying a different more professional approach, trying to keep it about the fighting, training, and sport. As opposed to knuckle heads looking to get famous by, arguing, drinking, or fighting outside the cage," said Saunders. "Drama sells, but so does the sport, so I am definitely interested to see what it is all about, once it airs."
Fans can catch Saunders-Amaya tonight on Spike.com shortly before Bellator 90 hits the airwaves at 10:00 PM EST.


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Are you ready for digital transformation?
Few businesses are safe from digital disruption. For many organizations the question has become to what degree will digital disruption impact their business and more importantly what can be done about it?
In a recent survey of IT executives conducted by Harvey Nash in association with KPMG International, 62 percent of respondents said that their business was already being disrupted or would be within two years, yet only 27 percent indicated that they had an enterprise-wide digital strategy. Responding to digital disruption presents CIOs with a number of significant challenges to overcome.
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Why isn't my MacBook's trackpad working properly?
The trackpad on my unibody white MacBook has started misbehaving, it works for about a minute then the cursor starts moving around for no reason and multitouch gestures are activated randomly as well. After some time (30 seconds?) it starts working again.
This whole thing keeps repeating again and again :(
I have already tried removing and cleaning the trackpad and reseating the connector but this problem just won't go away!
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The American Australian Association with the American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia (AFNGA) is appointing Mr. Aaron Cooper the 2014 AUSART Fellow. The Fellowship elicited keen interest from a highly competitive pool of applicants from top Australian visual artists and curators.
Aaron Cooper is a contemporary artist undertaking a Masters of Fine Art at Parsons, The New School for Design in New York. Working across sculpture, installation and photography – his practice investigates social, spatial and urban conditions from intersections of art and architecture. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts/University of Melbourne and has received recognition from the Australia Council for the Arts, Bill Perrin Sculpture Foundry Prize, Ironside Studios Award and Victoria Harbour Young Artists Initiative. In his current research, Aaron maintains an interest in contiguous border systems, the interplay of visuality and space, and the varying structures that regulate built territories.
In mid-March Geoff Pack, the AFNGA President, travelled to Canberra to attend the Annual Donors' Weekend hosted by the National Gallery of Australia. The weekend is always an extra-ordinary event with guests from all around Australia attending. Activities this year included gallery talks by the NGA's curators, a private viewing of the attendance record-breaking "Gold and the Incas" exhibition, the very elegant Gala dinner in the Gandel Hall, and a breakfast at the Peruvian Ambassador's residence. Geoff was also able to attend the NGA Foundation Board Meeting with Lee Edwards, who so ably and enthusiastically represents AFNGAI on the Foundation Board.
At the dinner Geoff presented a $209,000 check on behalf of AFNGAI to the Chairman of the NGA Foundation, John Hindmarsh (see photo). The donation was made possible thanks to generous support of Kenneth and Marabeth Tyler and The Wolfensohn Family Foundation.
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Published: 2006/04/16
by Benji Feldheim
Methadone for the Music Junkie
It was a pleasure to encounter metal heads at Phish shows. What testament is truer to the crossing-worlds aspect of live music bestowed upon humanity by the Phour from Vermont? People talk about genre loyalty, but aint no crowds got more fight for their right to worship their genus quite like the metal heads and punks. The punks, rabid about music as they are, cant quite seem to get down with all those notes being played. But metalyesmetal done right has everything to do with instrument prowess. Even mosh pits are not so removed from this scene. If done in true spirit, the pit is a safe and agreed-upon place to let out some anger and share that release with those around1. Only a few assholes are actually trying to hurt anyone. Take away the anger versus happiness element and both scenes are all about community. Seeing folks clad in black boots and Metallica t-shirts at Phish shows was an indicator that the scene is not so easily described as hippie or more so today, jamband. Before you, dear reader, roll your eyes at yet another rip on the namesake of this here site, know now thats not the idea. It is time to embrace going one step further to describe the bands within the scene, and point out the actual sound made by the groups. After that is done, call the scene whatever the fuck you like.
Last month, David Steinberg pointed out once again the frailties of the modern scene fans from the codger perspective of a Dead and Phish fan who saw 313 shows. Steinberg made sure to point out exactly how many shows hes seen, in case anyone had the audacity to question his credibility. Mazel Tov, D-Stein. If you could only hear my golfclap My impression of this piece is that yet another thing thats wrong with todays scene is people are now trying to deny the jamband-ness of favorite groups. Frankly bud, I believe there was a crystal clear passive/aggressive/Lamars Limp Wristed Throwing style slap at my fellow Umphreaks:
_Sometimes, they'll even redefine the term 'jamband' so that their favorite band falls outside of the definition, e.g. 'Umphrey's is really a prog band, not a jamband.' _
He certainly doesnt lie. UM fans, myself included, do say this a lot. But why is that such a bad thing? And is it really out of shame, orforward thinking (cue orchestral-shock music: dum-dum-DAAAAAAM)??
History has shown many times that a theory may sound stupendously progressive, and in practice it might begin as such but does not always maintain such a course. Organized religion may have had smatterings of control and repression, but Id say in the beginning the theories had elements of a method to ensure that people treated each other well. As time has passed, one could certainly argue that aspect has drowned in many forms of religion, but the idea of nurturing community lurked somewhere. When the endgame turns for the worse, its time for a revolution, hence Martin Luthers work.
Jamband music implies an open-minded approach to the business and creative production of music, particularly in a live setting. Yet now as a genre identifier, it suggests looooooooooooooong solos played in a couple of keys over a danceable beat. For people enough into music to even hear the term, but not in so deep to actually have gone to a festival or seen a show, that pairing of words creates a very limited image. So, if we, the fans into this scene enough to brag about catching hundreds of shows or defend the prog nature of Umphreys sound, get off our smug asses and actually tell people what exactly the bands in this scene are doing, well get some eager recruits who arent just down to get gorked on acid and sway like a twitter tree to the groove.
On a personal note, Ive heard too many from the old Dead and Phish crowd knocking Umphreys. Why are you so threatened by the Midwest Six? The way the scene is today I dont think any of the third or fourth generation will get to that kind of crowd. Phish got me started. They were the first band I ever saw live, and still love their music. But the reality is that the crowd swelled to the breaking point right after Garcia died. Their steady growth until then had everything to do with their talent and fan appreciation, but without Jerrys death happening when it did, chances are theyd still be touring right now without having to deal with the excess burden put on. Groups like moe. and Umphreys are examples of a burgeoning middle class. They can tour in a bus and go across oceans for audiences, but still have not reached that gargantuan apex of fans on their own. Thats why we have so many great festivals of varying sizes now, as well as double bills and many other combinations leading to sit ins and furthering the spontaneity of the music. Since the scene is now spread out among many, no single band must carry the massive weight that accumulated on the Dead. But know this Dead fans did not ruin the Phish scene. Rather it was the hangers-on looking for nothing more than drugs and maybe some easy sex. Its that exact element that comes from under-appreciating the complexities of the music, and we facilitate that by not really talking about the true nature of the music. It is not incorrect to call Umphreys a jamband, but any solid multiple choice test will always make you choose the best answer. So ask yourself: if you are describing a band and all you can say is jamband, what do you say about that group? Chances are youre saying they are merely following a formula done by others, and they fucking suck.
Methadones job is to give people enough of an opiate buzz so they stay off heroin. Leaving a description of a band to something as vacuous as, they jam is like methadone, it just doesnt give people ZANG! Cook with an array of spices when telling potential groove slaves about your favorite bands.
Folks who get off on their own superior attitude about the scene need to realize we dont have ownership of the term jam. The word was used a long time ago by jazz musicians, and when those players jammed they couldnt give fuck if anyone liked the music, or could dance to it. They played raw emotion when that word first was used. Does that happen now, or do groups just want to please the crowd? Maybe if they didnt have to live up to people only describing them as a jamband, balls would grow and music go even further. Ultimately the musicians playing are the ones responsible for the outcome, and the choice is theirs to push or to go with tried and true methods. But we can help by stepping up how we spread our word of mouth.
Times have changed Dave, yet I bet we agree that this scene still exudes a warmth and community like no other. But theres work to be done. We can either learn from how only the surface aspects of stupid fun became more widely known about the Dead and Phish than the music, or it can happen all over again. Bonnaroo became a lost cause the moment they decided to spend money on useless garbage like motorcycles riding in a ball cage instead of more water stations and sanitation, so good riddance as it gets farther from the core. No hate for the jam scene from me. I see nothing wrong with gettin down to the sounds of a solid jam. I just dont want to sell the scene short this time.
Oh, and by the way, if you still got doubts about Umphreys, just listen to the last track on Safety In Numbers and then try to tell me again what kind of band they are.
1. At Brians behest, I saw the Dropkick Murphys in Tampa Bay about seven years ago, and spent the first half of the show debating whether or not to fling into the pit. I got the nerve and ran in, only to be barreled back out by two elbows attached to a three hundred pound skinhead. Right as my motion abruptly changed, a guy was on all fours right behind my knees getting back on his feet after a similar strike to his body. I fell over him, and my head hit the floor. The twirling, chirping birds cleared from my sight and lo and behold the Big Ass Bald Guy was smiling at me as he grabbed my shoulders and brought me upright. After a few smacks to my face to get my eyes looking in the same direction he asked, Hey, you all right? I thought about it for a second and said, yeahcaghhh (throat clearing), I mean YEAH, FUCK YEAH!!! Back I went into the pit, a little more bruised and a lot wiser.


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BUCKEYE, Ariz. -- Buckeye police say a man impersonated an officer and demanded money from a citizen last Friday.
The citizen told police he was stopped at a stop sign in the area of 95th Avenue and McDowell Road when a man claiming to be a police officer approached him.
The impersonator said the citizen had run a red light and caused an accident, and told him to pay $1,000 to cover the damages.
The impersonator then followed the citizen to his Buckeye home, according to police.
The citizen called his bank to arrange a money transfer and the bank recommended he call police. The citizen relayed the information to the impersonator, who then fled the area.
The impersonator is described as a white man about 5 feet 10 inches tall, with black hair and a black beard. He was wearing a red shirt at the time.
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Resuming cyber-security cooperation between China and the USA would be difficult because of "mistaken US practices", China's top diplomat told US Secretary of State John Kerry.
In May, the US charged five Chinese military officers with hacking American firms, prompting China to shut down a bilateral working group on cyber-security.
Last Wednesday the FBI said hackers it believed were backed by the Chinese government had launched more attacks on US companies, a charge China rejected as unfounded.
Yang Jiechi, a state councillor overseeing foreign affairs, told Kerry in Boston the US "should take positive action to create necessary conditions for bilateral cyber-security dialogue and cooperation to resume", according to a statement seen on the Chinese Foreign Ministry website on Sunday.
"Due to mistaken US practices, it is difficult at this juncture to resume Sino-US cyber-security dialogue and cooperation," Yang was quoted as saying. The statement did not elaborate.
The US has repeatedly accused China of hacking, but Asian superpower has accused Washington of hypocrisy, citing its own evidence of hacking attempts and revelations from former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden that the NSA had hacked into official network infrastructure at universities in China and Hong Kong.


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Review: 'East of West' # 1
Jonathan Hickman's newest book East of West is an impressive blend of genres: a Sci Fi Western about the four horseman of the apocalypse. Hickman has struck gold again, creating a wildly original tale with incredible art, which manages to introduce a new take on American dystopia. The engrossing story he begins to weave here will surely become one of the most epic titles on the shelves by years end.
WRITTEN BY: Jonathan Hickman
ART BY: Nick Dragotta
PUBLISHER: Image
RELEASE: March 27th, 2013
The team that brought us Marvel's "FF" is back. Hickman and Dragotta have reunited and it feels damn good.
"East of West" begins like most Hickman stories: nearly impenetrable. Yet, Hickman is the master of the slow boil. This issue is so densely packed with information that the parts that don't make sense now, surely will in a few months time. Which is to say, the story is layered, planned, and somewhat flawed.
Hickman's approach to writing makes the reader ask a multitude of questions, with the answers slowly revealing themselves. The world Hickman has created here is filled with remarkable depth, both in character and in context.
I found myself completely enraptured in most panels. Dragotta's art brings Hickman's sci fi western wasteland to beautiful realization. Their partnership is clearly very strong and the clean panels are a clear indication of this.
The story and art really hit their stride in our main character introduction scene. The whole thing takes place in a bar, and echoes the best western stories you can think of. It flows with remarkable speed, and the characters are perfectly mysterious and endearing.
Without revealing too much the plot seems to center of the four horseman of the apocalypse entering this western dystopia. Yet, as we find out on the first page, one of the horsemen is missing. We're not entirely sure which by the end of this first issue, but we are indeed introduced to the other three.
The main character reminded me of Alucard from "Hellsing". From his body language, and general attitude. We shall see if the comparison holds up over time, but the final scene with Death and President will prove to be something comic buyers will be talking about until the next issue drops.
I can say with relative ease that Hickman and Dragotta are in the process of creating a new masterpiece. "East of West" # 1 is an incredibly strong first issue, which could have spent more time babying us into the world. Then again, this is Hickman, so I guess we'll just have to hang on and go for the ride.
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PALMETTO -- First Baptist Church of Gillette held the official ground-breaking Sunday for its new $1.8 million building scheduled to open in the summer of 2014 on the corner of Ellenton-Gillette and Moccasin Wallow roads.
Church members raised $1.25 million and borrowed the rest from the Florida Baptist Convention Church Growth Investment Fund.
Pastor Tim Durden, excitedly told a crowd of 200 the church, already rising with some trusses in place on the popular corner, will expand its role to be a "beacon" for the community and offer a comfortable place for members and strangers alike to nourish their souls with the good news of the Gospel.
The new facility on 4.5 acres, includes a 300-seat sanctuary, fellowship hall, five classrooms, 14 bathrooms, increased parking from 10 spaces to 90 and increased square footage from 5,000 to 13,000, Durden said.
Lawson Group Architects from Lakewood Ranch is handling design, Windham of Windham Construction Inc. is general contractor and Bill Konecy is site manager. Kit Cameron is Building Committee chairman.
First Baptist Church of Gillette will have a roomy new kitchen with commercial appliances, large new pantry filled with food and a huge 60-foot-long by 36-foot-wide dining hall off the sanctuary to feed hungry souls who come to the famous 5:15 p.m. Wednesday country-cooked meal, one of the best-kept secrets in Manatee County, church member Amy Cadwell said.
Those $4 meals, including treats such as "Ritz Cracker" chicken with creamy sauce and cheese, baked ziti, and roast beef and mashed potatoes, were started 15 years ago by Amy Cadwell's mother, the late Arlynne Cadwell.
Attendance at those meals sent church membership soaring to new heights and helped set the table for the ground-breaking, said David Windham, First Baptist Church of Gillette general contractor.
"The church wasn't getting many at its Wednesday service and the deacons were wringing their hands trying to figure out what to do," said Windham, whose family has attended the 125-year-old First Baptist Church of Bradenton for five generations. "But one woman, Arlynne, thought through the problem."
"She realized that mothers who are working couldn't bring their families to church on Wednesday nights because they had to cook," Amy Cadwell said. "When mom started, I think there were about 30 coming to dinner. Now, there are about 150 and many have become members of the church."
"Feeding God's people has more than one meaning," Windham said with a grin. "That's why we made sure to build a great kitchen and dining area for this church."
Windham's inspiration was to make the church face northeast so the congregation can see Jesus approach from the east.
"Graveyards face east for the same reason," Windham said.
Families grab shovels
Two prominent church families, the Cadwells and Teacheys, led by Buzbee Cadwell and Lynn Teachey, turned the ceremonial first shovels of dirt along with about a dozen others, including Palmetto Mayor Shirley Groover Bryant.
The McClure family, which helped make the building possible, was not present but will attend the first service next summer, Durden said.
Durden said three families donated a total of $900,000 toward the building fund.
The church greeted former Pastor W.A. "Brother Bud" Gillett and his wife, Velma, with much warmth. Gillett served part-time 2004-08.
"Brother Bud was the first person I met in the parking lot when I first came to the church," Durden said. "He reached out his hand, introduced himself and got my name. I didn't know he was the pastor. During that service he mentioned my name several times. He made me feel wonderful."
The Rev. Howard Carter, who served 1971-92, said a stunning prayer for the new building, offering the building to God to do His work. Carter served the longest of 43 church pastors.
During the morning service, church worship Pastor Peter Jensen, a tenor, received rousing applause after a duet with choirmember Laurie Combie, a soprano. The pair belted out, "Something's Happening," but Jensen added new words to the song, specifically, "Something's happening outside these walls...We're building a building to the glory of God...We will see souls saved for the glory of Christ."
The ever-smiling Kenneth "Skip" Bishop, a fifth-generation Manatee County resident whose great grandfather was Asa Bishop of Bishop Point, performed as unofficial Gillette greeter, making every guest feel at home. Bishop tells everyone who comes to the church the same joke.
"Do you know Bishop Point, that's my family," he says. "Do you know Bishop Harbor, that's my family. Do you know the Bishop Planetarium? That's not my family. Those are the rich Bishops."
Ken Burton, Manatee County tax collector and a longtime church member, gave the church history, which includes two fires and several name changes.
The church officially organized in October 1868 as Benevolence Church, about a half-mile northeast of its present location, Burton said. In 1887, the church relocated just south of Interstate 275 off Frog Creek until a brush fire burned it down in 1898.
A new church was built in 1901 on the corner of Ellenton-Gillette Road and Amlong Road and was renamed New Hope Baptist Church. In 1929, the church burned down again due to natural causes but members continued to meet at the Gillette school. The church moved to its present location in 1931 and was renamed First Baptist Church of Gillette.
85 feet makes difference
When the economy was booming in the late 1990s, Manatee County planners decided to widen Moccasin Wallow Road and take 85 feet from the center of the road from the oldest church north of the Manatee River. First Baptist Church of Gillette members, who had been saving money since the 1970s to construct a new building at the corner of Moccasin Wallow and Ellenton Gillette roads, were upset to lose the frontage, Durden said. There was even talk about moving, Durden added.
"But there's something special about the corner of Moccasin Wallow and Ellenton-Gillette," Durden told the congregation Sunday.
A positive emerging from the Great Recession is Manatee County abandoned plans to widen the road and take frontage from First Baptist Church of Gillette. That led to the building celebration Sunday.
"When I first came here from Macon, Ga., I heard stories about what the church meant to the town and what people did on a Sunday evening and how the kids grew up," Durden said.
"I came away believing this church needs to be a beacon to this community from this corner. From this corner we have led people to the Lord in Africa, because of the monies given on this corner. This church, this church, needs to stay. Our people knew that God wants us here to minister to souls passing this corner."
Richard Dymond, Herald reporter, can be reached at 941-745-7072 or via Twitter @ RichardDymond.


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Turnbull wants to end federal funding of schools.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the federal government should withdraw from funding public schools and urged the states to quickly adopt his controversial income tax plan.
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Mr Turnbull and the Liberal-Nationals have cut an average of $3.2 million from each school.
Now Mr Turnbull has confirmed he wants to stop funding public schools and cut every single cent of government funding.
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Dakini 2017
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A Gardenville woman and her boyfriend were denied bail today on charges of first-degree murder in the shooting death of an elderly Hereford man.
Cynthia Lee Levering, 28, and Thomas Everett Crawford, 31, both of the 5100 block of Ardmore Way in Baltimore, were remanded to the Baltimore County Detention Center after District Court Judge I. Marshall Seidler denied them bail.
The two are charged in the shooting death of Harold Leon Webb, 75. Webb was killed Friday when he and his wife opened their rural home to two strangers who said their car had broken down.


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June 5, 2014
New poll purports to show "New Low in Preference for the Death Penalty"
This new ABC News article, which has the headline quoted above, reports that a "majority of Americans favor life imprisonment without parole over the death penalty for convicted murderers, a first in ABC News/Washington Post polls." Here is more about the latest findings from this latest poll:
Given a choice between the two options, 52 percent pick life in prison as the preferred punishment, while 42 percent favor the death penalty – the fewest in polls dating back 15 years. The result follows a botched execution by lethal injection in Oklahoma in late April.
Without an alternative offered, 61 percent continue to support the death penalty, matching 2007 as the fewest in polls back to the early 1980s. That's down sharply from 80 percent in 1994....
Another result finds that most supporters of capital punishment hold that position even if lethal injections became unavailable or were outlawed. Just 16 percent of death penalty supporters say either of those would constitute grounds for doing away with capital punishment; eight in 10 would shift to another method, e.g., the electric chair or gas chamber....
Support for the death penalty is higher in the 32 states that have it, 64 percent, vs. 54 percent elsewhere. In a wider gap, people in death-penalty states divide about evenly in their preference for capital punishment vs. life without parole, while in other states life imprisonment is preferred by a 20-point margin....
Views on capital punishment range among groups. Fifty-six percent of women support the death penalty, rising to 66 percent of men. And women prefer life in prison to the death penalty by 57-37 percent, while men are evenly divided.
There's also a vast gap by race; whites are more likely than nonwhites to support the death penalty, and to prefer it over life in prison, by 23- and 22-point margins. The gaps are widest comparing whites to blacks, a group that's generally skeptical of the criminal justice system. Their support for the death penalty is lower than that of any other group.
Among other groups, support for the death penalty peaks among evangelical white Protestants and Republicans, at eight in 10 each, dropping to 47 percent among Democrats. It's 20 points higher among conservatives than liberals. Preference for capital punishment over life in prison follows similar patterns, peaking at 65 percent among evangelical white Protestants (vs. 36 percent of their non-evangelical counterparts). It's 30 points higher among Republicans than Democrats, and 25 points higher among conservatives than liberals.
In terms of change, preference for the death penalty vs. life in prison is down by 8 points since 2006, with the most pronounced drops (by 10 to 20 points) among non-evangelical white Protestants, seniors, nonwhites, less-educated adults, liberals and independents.
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I don't put much stock in these generic numbers. The Democrats were supposed to lose the Senate in 2010 based on the generic Democrat-versus-Republican polls, but that quickly changed when the Rs became Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, or Todd Akin.
It doesn't surprise me that people will choose LWOP over the death penalty as a generic matter. But put Tim McVeigh or Osama bin Laden in front of them, and I imagine their preferences will change very quickly.
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So why doesn't the Fed change course? One possibility is that it feels obliged to help the Treasury cope with the vast deficits generated by the Reid-Pelosi Congress. Another is that raising interest rates to curb inflation...


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Big Bang and 2NE1 to Release Japanese Album on Same Date March 28
Big Bang and 2NE1 will release their albums at the same time in Japan on March 28. YG Entertainment's Japanese agency YGEX stated, "We are releasing the albums at the same time because the fans overlap. We believe that we will be able to provide more happiness for fans."
Big Bang's new mini album "ALIVE" will have 9 songs. After the album is released Big Bang will hold a Japanese tour that will go through five different cities starting from May 17.
G-Dragon had showed his will to pursue Japanese activities at the YG Family Concert, "I will try harder so that fans don't have to worry."
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I'm a writer and like every other writer I can't take things lightly, I can't help but feel more than what others feel. Also, as a writer I like to imagine I have something going on my mind that is different than the rest of the world.
I should probably tell you the medical definition of panic attacks, but I'll make it personal, and tell you mines. Panic attacks usually happen in stressful, anxious situations, situations where I do not feel comfortable, or situations which are trigger to previous time I had felt anxious. Then it all starts: heart pounding, breath quickens, tears threaten, feeling disoriented, and scary thoughts. Everything at once. Everything without a head ups. Everything without you knowing why. And everything stops abruptly, but like any strong feeling, the hangover reminds. Why? Why did that just happened? Why did I feel all that? Because you have panic attacks, because you have anxiety, because you feel too much at once.
I don't think there is a perfect way to explain when I get anxious, of course I get before a big exams, or a presentation, but I also get it in a crowded cafeteria, I also get it when I have to talk on the phone, or when I have to ask for something in a store. It is not the normal before an exam anxiety, is "I have to deal with humans" anxiety.
It started around December/January when I struggling with sleeping at night, I will turn and turn but it wasn't just I couldn't find the right position. I would close my eyes and my mind wouldn't shut up, at the time I didn't have any obligations, so I was not struggling with exams or deadlines, they were just thoughts. My breath got quick, my heart beat loud… and so on and on. I thought it was only stress, but somehow it felt more than stress. I talked to my mother and she pointed out anxiety and panic attacks. I've heard of them many time but somehow they felt a little bit distance to me, like I was not allowed to deal with them, I was never involved in a traumatic experience, was I? It was always stress to me. But as I did more research (always trustworthy sources), I realize that everything felt real, I was struggling with how anxiety was describe by people. Being honest, it scared me. Was I going to deal with it always? Was it going to stop me? Does it sucks?
It does sucks. It sucks because sometimes you can't go out, sometimes you need to leave a classroom because it is too much. It sucks because people don't understand. It is so hard to explain to someone how you feel when you are anxious, just like someone suffering from depression can't explain depression to someone, because it is not just sadness, it is more. It is not just feeling anxious, it is more. It is not just a final, it is more. Maybe that is what we can call it, "it is not just...it is more." Not just a phone call, not just a photo, not just a message, not just pain, not just talking in class, it feels ten times heavier, ten times harder to proceed. It sucks, anxiety just sucks. Every word feels heavy, when someone brush you off, it is not just to the side, for me it is out of your life, you don't want me anymore. We feel everything, ten times how a regular person does.
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Clarksburg Exponent
Cedric Foster, Rep. Harley Staggers deliver addresses As Bridge
Centennial Opens
More Than One Thousand Persons Register First Day; Larger Crowds
August 29, 1952
Cedric Foster, Rep. Harley Staggers deliver addresses As Bridge Centennial Opens
More Than One Thousand Persons Register First Day; Larger Crowds Expected
PHILIPPI, Aug. 28. - More than a thousand persons registered today at the Covered Bridge Centennial, which is expected to draw a larger crowd Friday and Saturday as more events get underway. Churches served both noon and evening meals to take care of the overflow crowd from restaurants.
A concert by the Philippi High School band under the direction of Hunter Ellis preceded the official opening of the Centennial at 2:45 this afternoon at the enlarged bandstand on the court house square where benches had been put up for the convenience of those attending the program. Dr. Richard E. Shearer, president of Alderson-Broaddus college, extended the welcome and presented Dr. Floyd T. Holden, President of the Barbour County Historical Society, which is sponsoring the three-day celebration. Dr. Holden spoke briefly.
Mayor O. J. Woodford, a retired teacher in the Barbour County schools, addressed Centennial visitors and welcomed them to the celebration before presenting to Dr. Holden a large key made from the timber of the covered bridge.
The Centennial was declared officially opened by Dr. Holden as he accepted the key.
Dr. Shearer introduced Harley O. Staggers of Keyser, Congressman from the Second Congressional District, and one of the major speakers of the day. The Congressman commended Dr. Elmer E. Myers, general chairman of the Centennial and resident of the community for the careful planning of the Centennial observance. He also lauded the mountain people for their loyalty to the state and nation and said that the county historical society should be highly praised for bringing to the attention of the state and nation the building of the covered bridge one hundred years ago.
Congressman Staggers reviewed the progress made in transportation from hand-hewn canoes to air flight faster than sound. He said that while progress had been made in all fields it was necessary to go back in history to pay tribute to the early builders and to the Almighty who gave the vision and power for the accomplishments through the years as anything people do depends upon God. He remarked that he wondered if the lives of those present could stand the test of time as the covered bridge had stood the ravages of the years.
Congressman Staggers urged participation in com[m]unity activity and said that if we do that the world will take care of itself. Christian people who marry and rear families of Christian children probably have fulfilled their highest destiny. The W. Va. lawmaker called attention to communism which he asserted is creeping into one of the things closest to all Americans, our religious life. His statement that he is proud to live in a nation where people are free to worship as they please brought the only ovation during his address. He told the audience that if the nation falls, it will be from within rather than from without and referred to Abraham Lincoln who said that if the nation is divided, it will fall. Congressman Staggers said that those things of historical value must be saved and closed his address with the poem, "Myself," which he always uses to conclude an address in W. Va.
Cedric Foster of Boston, Mass., news analyst and newspaperman, was also introduced by Dr. Shearer and received a warm welcome from the audience. The international speaker told Barbour countians and their guests that he had a warm spot in his heart for covered bridges because they reminded him of the twin covered bridge over the Sandusky River near Middlesex in his native state of Vermont.
Foster delivered a stirring appeal for education relative to the present world condition and said that in all of his traveling during the past few years that he had found that the secret of victory over the Axis powers could be summed up on one word "unity". He told of seeing hundreds of thousands of children marching and clapping their hands over their heads for hours at a time in Germany as they followed the indoctrination of Russia which could be summed up as a "dying hatred of you here in Philippi and all you cherish."
The speaker said he had seen similar evidences of hatred in many places, including communist China, and that the American people were the most independent in the world but can not appreciate it until they see it denied so many in other countries. While he hoped his listeners agreed with him, he said that they did not have to because they lived in a God-given country where disagreement is possible. He described the utter devotion to a cause and the willingness to die as evidenced by communists and their followers in many places throughout the world and warned that Americans must not for one moment underestimate the fanatical movement of communists throughout the world, with Russia trying to establish would communism and dictatorship.
The only means of combating the evil, said Foster, is to first educate ourselves and he said that he was speaking particularly to young people and upon whom will rest the responsibility to hand on to future generation that which the present generation has tried to pass on to them. He urged that they learn what is going on in the world today, to make a determined study as to why people do things as they do and not to depend entirely upon their teachers for the information. There is a reason for all movement and Foster said youth must find out the motives and recognize that before they can be effective. Foster challenged them to believe him and said if they did not now, they day will come when they do.
The news commentator said there are many things worth support - not living in a land where you cannot open your mouth, cannot worship God as you wish, where every day's actions are regulated, and where the state is good. He asked if it were not possible somewhere to find a wellspring, or touch the cord, that motivated those who built the bridge and to rise in determination and crystalize in our hearts those motives. He said that we have everything in the country that no other nation possesses, clothes, food, shelter, automobiles, and modern conveniences, everything a beneficient [sic] God ever gave a free people, but warned that we may have to fight again to perpetuate it and hand it on to coming generations. Foster said he loved W. Va., has visited the state many times and knew it well, that he loved it just as he loved the U. S. and that he did not want to see it destroyed. In thanking the speaker, Dr. Shearer said that those who heard Foster "would not take his words lightly."
The first presentation of the centennial pageant "The Monarch of the Tygart" was held Thursday night in the new amphitheater on the campus of Alderson-Broaddus College and depicted the building and 100 year history of the bridge. Dr. Patrick W. Gainer of W. Va. University presented a program of Barbour County folk music Thursday evening in the Philippi High school auditorium. Both the pageant and the folk music program will be repeated Friday and Saturday evening.
The Philippi High School band will give another concert at 2 p.m. Friday at the bandstand. Adonis Hunt of Belington will preside during the afternoon program. At 3 p. m. Col. R. B. White of Baltimore, Md., will deliver an address. He is president of the B. and O. Railroad Co. and will be introduced by a former resident of Philippi, Harry H. Byrer, Martinsburg attorney. At 3:45 p. m. Cedric Foster will again deliver an address. The covered bridge is closed from 5 to 6 p. m. daily to vehicular traffic and visitors may want to inspect the construction.
Leo Lipwian of Arlington, Mass., president of the Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges in America will be the principal speaker at a luncheon meetings [sic] as 12:30 p. m. Friday in the college dining hall.


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