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Judd Zulgad, of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, reports University of Nebraska defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove told the Lincoln Journal Star that he is not a candidate for the same position with the Minnesota Vikings.
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Sean Jensen, of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, reports the Minnesota Vikings might be interested in speaking with University of Nebraska defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove about filling their defensive coordinator vacancy. Cosgrove was a candidate for the club's linebackers coach job last year.
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The defenders of clean green energy "investment" (which I put in scare quotes because when a liberal says "investment," he means "taxpayer subsidy") say we should look past Solyndra, A123, and other bankruptcies because it is normal for there to be failures in an infant industry. But the Washington Times reported last Thursday that the RENIXX index–the specialty index for renewable energy companies (it stands for the Renewable Energy Industrial Index)–has declined over 90 percent from its peak in 2007. See the figure below. Looks like Romney understated things when he said Obama "picks the losers." Many investors have too.
The only truly "green" job is one in an industry that makes its green the old-fashioned way: through a real profit.
Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit. Glenn points us to this very useful Business Insider slide show.

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Opening statement…"We have Florida Atlantic this week. They are a very athletic team that can run. They have eight starters back on defense and seven on offense. They are definitely concerning.
"On an injury update, Joshua Holsey will be out for the year. That is a tough blow for our defense. It was a freak injury on Thursday towards the end of practice. That is a tough blow. I also wanted to say Ryan White is a guy who stepped in as a cornerback who didn't get one rep at safety because of when the injury happened. He did an outstanding job in a tough situation against one of the best offenses in all of college football on Saturday. He will move into that role moving forward. He is an experienced guy and he did a great job."
Is this one of the best rushing teams of his career…"We are a run, play-action team. When we are running the ball effectively, it opens everything else up. I think the fact that our offensive line is doing a solid job, the fact that Jay Prosch, at the point of attack is as good as anyone in college football at blocking, then we have three running backs who are all different, helps us. Then the fact that our quarterback is a run threat, too. All of those factors combined have helped us."
Comparing his running backs this year to other running backs he has coached…"With Darren McFadden and Felix Jones, those are two of the better players to have ever played college football at the running back position. Our guys are talented. They are good at what they do. We are trying to put them in a position where they can be successful at what they do."
Is there a difference between his offense and other spread offenses…"I have said this before -- we don't consider ourselves a spread offense. The spread to me is an offense that throws to open up the run. We are a two-back run, play-action team that runs the football to open up the pass. We just happen to do it at a fast pace and that is why people categorize us sometimes as spread."
What have the past 72 hours been like…"It was a special thing when we got back to the airport and there was a crowd. Then we got back here and there was a huge crowd. That was a special deal. On Saturday, we enjoyed it. I told our players and coaches, they worked hard and to enjoy it. Once Sunday got here, it is behind us. We have to get back to doing what got us here and working hard, taking it one day, one practice and one game at a time. We didn't get much into that after Saturday night."
His reaction to being ranked 11th…. "We're happy that people think that highly of us, but we're on to next week, and that's our only focus."
His message to the team about how to deal with higher expectations…"Just being real honest with them that we're not changing anything that got us to where we're at, and keep doing exactly what we've been doing with the same attitude and the same approach. That's really about it."
His reaction after the Texas A&M game…"That was a big game for us. We're in this thing together: our coaches, our players, all of us. Like I said after the game, it was just a real special deal for me to see our guys win a game like that and to see them happy. We've got some things that we can build upon moving forward."
Did the win over Texas A&M provided him a sense of vindication…"No, that had nothing to do with it. None at all. It was just, 'How about that!' Like, we did it. We beat a really good team on the road, so nothing like that. It was more about happiness for our players and how far they've come and for them to find a way to win on the road like we did -- that was more or less what I meant."
Did he learn anything about his team during the Texas A&M game he didn't previously know…"Each game we have learned something about our team. We didn't handle ourselves very well against LSU. Everybody saw that. It was another challenge for our team to go back on the road against another Top 10 team. I just told our team: `We've got some questions to answer. Can we play better? Can we do it?' Of course, they answered that one."
On Johnny Manziel…"He's the real deal. I haven't seen very many guys like him. He's special. He's got that air about him. He's tough. He's one of the better players that I have ever seen."
Is he satisfied with using a receiver by committee approach…"Ideally, you want to have a guy that is kind of your go-to guy in certain situations. We're doing it by committee right now, and all of the guys that we've had have made plays for us. Sammie Coates is starting to get into a little bit more of a role like that, but we are still evolving in our passing game. I think we have a chance to get better, and that's one of the areas we do need to get better in."
On Marcus Davis' third-down catch on Auburn's final drive…"It wasn't easy. It was a real good catch. Marcus is a guy that -- we don't look at him as a freshman anymore. He grew up a lot against Mississippi State on that last drive. We've got a lot of confidence in him. He played quarterback in high school, so he kind of has that confidence to him. The moment is not too big for him, and that was a big play in the game."
Going over things with freshmen at practice…"I think early on you definitely have to. We should be kind of settling in on what we're doing. They should start having a better understanding offensively and defensively."
On Nick Marshall's improvement…"There are things that he is definitely getting more comfortable with. He was very calm during that game, and he was very confident. There are still some areas that he needs to improve on and he knows that. As a matter of fact, there are areas that we need to improve on as a whole. We've not arrived yet. We're still making mistakes we need to correct in all areas."
On Jeremy Johnson in the Texas A&M game…"Our plan was once we put him in there, let him play a little bit. That's just not the way the game unfolded. Nick was playing well. That had something to do with it too. Moving forward, Jeremy will be a part of what we're doing. He'll have a plan each week. He's a good quarterback in his own right; and he can bring some things to the table that can help us."
How play action and zone read improve the offense…"Yeah, it helps. Any time your quarterback is a run threat, it presents a different challenge for defenses with their fits and their responsibilities. If you can have good play action off of that, it just makes it that much tougher."
On the mentality of the team during the fourth quarter…"I think it's just the way our guys practice and the way they approach it. That's kind of who we are, and we can hang our hat on that in conditioning, and we hang our hat on getting to the second half and wearing people down. It just so happens that's the way the game unfolded in the fourth quarter."
Is he proud to see victories coming from behind…"Yeah, very proud. We've learned something about our team each week. Every time our team has been challenged, they've found a way. It's not just been the offense; it's been the defense and special teams. It's been a true team effort."
What would he like to see this week…"Everything that goes within the technical execution overall. As a coach, you're always trying to correct mistakes, but really we're focused on areas in all three phases that we've got to get better. We can get better. We're still making some silly mistakes. So that's really what we've focused on this week."
Will Jonathan Ford and Jonathan Jones play this week..."Both those guys are going to have to help us. Where we're at depth-wise on defense in some areas is pretty scary. We've lost some guys, and we are banged up. We need those guys, and we'll need other guys too. We need other guys that haven't played a lot to be ready."
On looking at the big picture..."The only thing we have talked about is this week and Florida Atlantic. We aren't talking about anything else or thinking about anything else. We're going to keep the same approach. That is what got us here so far. We have not looked ahead. We've not talked about anyone else. We're playing an opponent who is a solid opponent this week."
Keeping the focus one game at a time..."I think that's a challenge for any team in college football. You see it every week. You see teams that are on a high kind of losing their momentum. That's our challenge. We've got to keep moving forward. We've got to keep improving and not look ahead. It's a challenge. It's something we address. I'm very up front with our players."
On the defense's fourth-quarter performance…"They found ways to make plays. I think we have been fairly fresh in the fourth quarter. We've challenged our defense numerous times the first game, Ole Miss and the game Saturday against one of the best offenses in college football. They have found a way to get it done, but I think a lot of that has to do with them being fresh and being competitors. They are confident. They believe that can make a play, and I think that is very important for a team."
Can he build team depth against Florida Atlantic…"It would be nice any game, but we aren't approaching it that way. If we can get some guys to play any game, that is a good thing. We aren't overlooking anyone. We aren't overlooking Florida Atlantic. We have had our own injuries. We have lost our own guys. We've played banged up. We're still playing banged up. Depth-wise we are going to need a lot of our guys to be ready."
On Avery Young…"Avery is a guy who banged his ankle up against Western Carolina. We were worried about him being ready. He wasn't quite 100 percent Saturday, but he played with a lot of guts. We ran behind him in the fourth quarter a lot. He did an excellent job." Does he have confidence playing an injured Young…"It says a lot. Up front, it was a tough physical game Saturday. We had some linemen banged up, but it didn't bother them. They fought through and showed a lot of guts."
Reaction to a comment on winning it all …"I think the mental aspect of college football is very important, and I am happy where we are at, but I will say it again -- we have not arrived. We are going to take it one game at a time; we need to keep improving. When you look across college football, the teams that do not keep improving throughout the year, it is relevant; there are a lot of ups and downs. That is our challenge. We have to keep rolling, take it one game at a time and stay focused."
On Ryan Smith and Jermaine Whitehead playing dime…"Coach has a plan moving forward, but Ryan White will be a part of more of the back end."
On Mackenro Alexander..."He is doing better; we expect him to be back." On Mackenro playing this week…"It is possible."
On Kamryn Melton…"It is still kind of day by day."
On offensive strategy each week…"You have a plan each game. You try to figure out how good their offense is and everything. Each week we definitely have a plan to it."
On his players' confidence that this team is possible of the biggest turnaround in college football…"You know, I just think it is a matter of our guys bonding together. During the spring we were extremely tough on them, and extremely challenging. We challenged our guys. They came together, you could tell, and in fall camp, the same thing. They are playing for each other, and I think that is important."
Does he sleep better or worse with a season like this…"You know it just depends. That is a trick question."
How Sammie Coates responded after a couple of first-half dropped passes…"Yeah, you know we dropped some, and in a game like that, that is tough. I just told him, `Hey, we are going to come back to you, and we need you to make a play' and he did. He made a couple of plays the second half that helped us win that game."
On Sammie's throw-down play…"We talked about being physical at every position and that was just part of it. He is a strong guy and we are starting to get there. We are not there yet, but we are starting to get more physical and play the type of football that Auburn expects."
On Tre Mason's fourth-down run…"That was a great run. He ran over two of their guys and Jay Prosch; I think he ran him over too. That was an impressive run."
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a type of stroke that occurs when a blood vessel ruptures. Blood quickly fills the area immediately surrounding the brain and spinal cord. This space contains the cerebrospinal fluid. The fluid cushions and protects the brain and spinal cord.
This life-threatening condition requires emergency medical care. The hemorrhage may increase the pressure around the brain. It can interfere with the brain's ability to function.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage may be caused by:
- Head trauma
- Rupture of cerebral aneurysms and other blood vessel deformities
- Bleeding disorders
- Drug use, especially with cocaine and amphetamines
- Brain tumors
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chance of developing subarachnoid hemorrhage include:
- Past history of aneurysms
- High blood pressure, which increases the risk of aneurysm rupture
- Smoking
- Alcohol use disorder
- Cocaine use
- Disorders associated with weakened blood vessels, including polycystic kidney disease, fibromuscular dysplasia, or connective tissue disorders
- Estrogen deficiency
- Family history of aneurysms
Symptoms may include:
- A very sudden, severe headache
- Brief loss of consciousness
- Seizures
- Nausea and vomiting
- Weakness on one side of your body
- Unexplained numbness or tingling
- Slurred speech or other speech disturbance
- Visions problems, such as double vision, blind spots, or temporary vision loss on one side
- Stiff neck or shoulder pain
- Confusion
If you have these symptoms, call for emergency medical services right away. Early care can decrease the amount of damage to the brain.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Your cerebrospinal fluid may need to be tested. This can be done with a lumbar puncture.
Imaging tests evaluate the brain and surrounding structures. This can be done with:
Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a serious condition. It typically requires initial treatment in the intensive care unit. Despite treatment, many people with this condition die.
The aim of treatment is to stop the bleeding, limit damage to the brain, and reduce the risk of it occurring again. If bleeding results from a cerebral aneurysm, a doctor will usually attempt to stop it using various techniques. Patients receive medication to ensure proper blood flow to the rest of the brain. Absolute bed rest is needed to prevent additional bleeding. After the situation is stabilized, patients undertake a vigorous rehabilitation program.
Aneurysms present from birth cannot be prevented. Because they are so rare, doctors do not advise screening for them. If an unruptured aneurysm is discovered by chance in a young person, the doctor may do surgery.
Avoiding smoking and controlling blood pressure can reduce the risk of a rupture if an aneurysm exists. Wearing a seatbelt and using a helmet can also reduce the risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage from head trauma.
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New York Fashion Week might be over, but our editors have headed to Europe to check out the rest of what fashion month (yes, month) has to offer. Fashion Director Gloria Baume is sharing her London Fashion Week diary with us, and we promise you won't be disappointed—after all, she did see Harry Styles.
There's no fashion week quite like London Fashion Week! You find the purest form of talent and creativity there, as well as a real sense of humor. I always come back with tons of ideas and, more importantly, new up-and-comers I'm excited about. The city itself provides a backdrop of tradition and culture, but the designers break that all down and reinvent the rules every season.
This year I went to LFW with our style features director, Andrew Bevan. We're the perfect team! We laugh a lot and have fun wherever we go. Andrew knows tons of celebrities, and everyone who meets him is always so amused. He's a bit of a celebrity in his own right!
As for what we saw across the pond? Click through and find out!
As a rainfall of petals scattered the Burberry runway and covered the models, I don't think I've ever seen a prettier sight. Lace dresses (in a pastel palette of lemon, lilac, pistachio, sky blue, and soft pink) enveloped in oversize cashmere granny cardigans felt cozy and comfortable but also uber-chic and glamourous. It was every girl's dream, especially with Harry Styles in the front row!
Outsized ruffles, blown-up florals, and close-ups of polished brogues and sporty trainers were the objects of choice for the digital prints in this Mary Katrantzou collection. Girls strutted the runway in flirty baby doll shapes with matching printed shoes made for dancing.
Equal doses of sweet-and-girly and prim-and-proper make for the perfect Simone Rocha recipe. This season she added pearls, punky hair, and lots of coy attitude into the very pretty mix.
With Cara Delevingne closing the show, Emma Hill made her last Mulberry collection totally her own: chic, cheerful, and quintessentially British with a '60s vibe...all with a bulldog in tow, of course.
To the haunting tune of (live!) piano and cello, Erdem left behind his glamourous feminine muse and embraced the tomboy for a new masculine aesthetic. Still working his delicate organza, rich duchess satin, and perfect lace, he showed a black and white collection that played with proportion.
Suspended in a room of glass with sunshine beaming in, geometric sculptures aligned the Roksanda runway. The collection was a kaleidoscope of bold colors and minimal shapes with a quirky feel that made it a true London fashion moment. The Nicholas Kirkwood shoes were also amazing!
It's all in the concept at J.W. Anderson. Pleats, draping, and suspended chiffon created modern shapes that enticed and intrigued for an experiment in cool proportions and clean technique.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican negotiator in talks with President Barack Obama on avoiding economy-jarring tax increases and spending cuts says it's time for the White House to respond to Monday's GOP offer.
House Speaker John Boehner says that "we can't negotiate with ourselves." The GOP plan mixes $800 billion in higher tax revenue with cuts to Medicare and a stingier cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits.
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West Nile virus found in Virginia Beach mosquitoes
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Virginia Beach officials says mosquitoes in some parts of the city have tested positive for West Nile virus.
Media outlets report the testing occurred over the past three weeks.
West Nile is spread by mosquitoes and can lead to severe headaches and dizziness.
Officials say there will be increased spraying for mosquitoes in the affected areas, which include those near Red Wing Park, the Thalia and Kings Grant neighborhoods and Old Dam Neck Road in Ocean Lakes. Other crews are treating standing water in the same areas.


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Offbeat Traveler: Architecture of China's Pritzker winner, Wang Shu
Thanks to this year's Pritzker Prize judges, you have another reason to visit China, especially if you're a fan of architecture. The eight-person panel awarded Wang Shu with architecture's highest honor on Monday. His buildings, praised by the jury for their timeless nature, are concentrated in eastern China near Shanghai so you can visit several in one swoop. Here's a look at some of his unique designs, all within about 200 miles of the city. -- Jason La, Los Angeles Times
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California Children's Services (CCS) is a statewide program that arranges, directs, and pays for medical care, equipment, and rehabilitation, when these services are authorized by the program. Services can be authorized for children and young adults less than 21 years of age who have eligible medical conditions and whose families are unable to pay for all or part of their care. +more
CCS defines eligibility and selects the most qualified professionals to treat the child's CCS-eligible condition. However, it is important for you to know that CCS is not a health insurance program. It will not meet all of the child's health needs, only those related to the CCS-eligible condition. The Medical Therapy Program (MTP) is a coordinated program of medically necessary physical and occupational therapy services provided to medically eligible children. These services are provided in the Medical Therapy Units (MTUs) located at certain public schools. Therapy may help your child to be independent in such areas as getting around, getting in and out of a wheelchair, walking, feeding, dressing, staying clean and neat, and home skills.
Your child may be eligible if he/she meets all four of the following requirements:
Conditions covered by CCS include:
If you have any questions about whether your child has any of these conditions, please consult your child's doctor.
The list above is made up of common qualifying conditions. If you have a question about additional eligible medical conditions, please contact Placer County CCS at (530) 886-3630.
If a potential CCS client is suspected of having a CCS eligible medical condition, but additional tests or studies are needed to confirm the medically eligible condition, the case may be opened for just those studies or tests needed to confirm the presence or absence of the suspected CCS medical condition.
Medical case management can help access specialty care when medically necessary, and make referrals to other agencies, including public health nursing and regional centers.
The MTP is a special program within CCS that provides physical, occupational , and medical therapy conference services for children who have handicapping conditions generally due to neurological or musculoskeletal disorders.
How can I find out if my child has a CCS medically eligible condition?
Anyone may refer a child to CCS to determine if the child has an approved CCS medically eligible condition. Most children are referred by the family physician, specialist or hospital. The physician or hospital can supply important medical information necessary in making the CCS medical eligibility determination and may also participate in the child's CCS treatment program.
Where do I apply for the CCS program?
You should apply for the CCS program at your local CCS office in the county where you reside. This office should be contacted for assistance as requests for CCS coverage must be made on or before the day services are rendered, except for emergencies. This office can tell you if your child may be eligible for the CCS program. CCS eligibility must be determined before services can be covered by CCS.
How will I know if my child is eligible for CCS program benefits?
The county CCS office or the appropriate State Regional Office will consider your child's medical condition as well as the family's residential and financial status to determine CCS eligibility. This is accomplished by completing the necessary application forms and providing the required documentation. Based on this information and completed paperwork the CCS program will approve or deny your application. If your application is denied, you have the right to appeal the decisions
What if my child has health insurance coverage with the Healthy Families (HF) Program?
Your child's HF coverage does not provide payments for services to fully diagnose or treat a CCS eligible medical condition. If your child is suspected of having a CCS eligible medical condition, you will be referred to a special CCS paneled provider who is experienced in diagnosing and treating the suspected eligible medical condition. Upon approval by CCS, the diagnosis and treatment services will be covered by the CCS program. CCS is a partner with the HF program to provide your child with the specialized medical care needed to treat your child's CCS eligible medical condition. You must accept the CCS referral to a CCS paneled or approved provider in order to receive all the benefits of the CCS program. The HF plan remains responsible for providing your child's primary care, prevention and other treatment services not authorized by the CCS program. You must inform CCS at the time your child's HF coverage changes or is terminated.
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Children who are Medi-Cal eligible and have approved CCS medical conditions are usually eligible for CCS case management and other services not covered by Medi-Cal. This is also true for children who are enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care plans. This arrangement assures that all children with complex, disabling medical conditions will receive appropriate specialized care.
What if I have private health insurance coverage for my child?
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Will there be any cost to the family of a CCS client?
Some families may be required to pay an annual assessment and/or annual enrollment fee. These fees are used to help cover the cost of treatment, process applications, telephoning hospitals, physicians and other caregivers, mailing authorizations to these caregivers, and coordinating care with other agencies. All of these services are provided by the CCS program to ensure that clients receive the best care possible from physicians and specialists who provide medical care to children. The annual assessment fee is $20 and the annual enrollment fee is calculated based on family income and household size.


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Author Notes: These cookies are based on a recipe that originally appeared in Bon Appetit, for hazelnut shortbread. The first time I made them, I used hazelnuts in the cookie dough but coated them in pistachios because the green color looked nice against the dark chocolate. When I made them again, I used coarsely-chopped pistachios in the dough as well, and I just loved the outcome. either way, I prefer bittersweet chocolate to the milk chocolate called for in the original recipe. —Rivka
Serves: 1.5 dozen cookies
cup flour
teaspoon baking powder
teaspoon salt
cup (1 stick) butter
cup sugar
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cups raw unsalted pistachios, coarsely chopped, divided
teaspoon vanilla extract
ounces high-quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- Position a rack in center of the oven and preheat to 325°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl and set aside. In a large bowl using an hand mixer or in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until smooth. Add 1/2 cup pistachios and vanilla. Beat in flour mixture until just combined.
- Shape tablespoonfuls of dough into logs about 3 inches long. Place on baking sheet, leaving about 1 inch of room between each cookie. Bake until golden brown around edges, 18-20 minutes. Cool completely.
- Put chopped chocolate in a double boiler set over barely-simmering water. Stir chocolate until melted and smooth, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Place remaining 1/3 cup pistachios in a small shallow bowl. Dip one end of each cookie in the melted chocolate about 1-1 1/2 inches deep. Let excess chocolate drip back into bowl, then roll chocolate-coated end in chopped pistachios. Repeat with the rest of the cookies. Let stand until chocolate has hardened, at least one hour. Cookies will keep in airtight container up to 1 week.
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WCSU Jazz Festival to feature Benny Golson, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
DANBURY, CONN. — It's no secret that year after year, Western Connecticut State University stops at nothing to showcase the best jazz artists as featured performers for the university's annual jazz festival. And this year's event, the 16th Jazz Fest, which will run from Thursday, April 28, through Saturday, April 30, promises to be no exception.
Internationally acclaimed tenor saxophone player Benny Golson will perform with the WCSU Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Jamie Begian at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 29, in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the university's Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury.
Following two WCSU student ensembles at 7 p.m., Darcy James Argue's celebrated 18-piece big band, Secret Society, will be featured in concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, also in Ives Concert Hall.
Ticket prices for each concert are $15 for adults, and $10 for senior citizens and students; WestConn students with valid identification and student participants in the festival will be admitted free. Reservation information is available online at www.wcsu.edu/tickets, or by calling (203) 837-TIXX.
A native of Philadelphia, Golson has played in the bands of Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Earl Bostic and Art Blakey. A live performer who is said to "blow audiences away," the 82-year-old has performed in the U.S., Europe, South America, the Far East and Japan for decades.
According to his website, "Benny Golson is the only living jazz artist to have written eight standards for jazz repertoire. These jazz standards have found their way into countless recordings internationally over the years and are still being recorded."
At a music industry event in 2005, it was noted that Golson has composed more than 300 songs for acts as diverse as Miles Davis, Peggy Lee, Dusty Springfield and the Monkees. He's also scored some recognizable pieces for television, including "M*A*S*H," "Mannix," "Mission Impossible," "Mod Squad," "Room 222," "Run for Your Life," "The Partridge Family," "The Academy Awards," Bill Cosby's last TV show and television specials for ABC, CBS, NBC and the BCC.
Golson received a Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award in 2007 and a Recording Academy "Salute to Jazz Honors Giants of the Genre" in 2005, as well as numerous Grammy nominations.
Bob McCullough of The Boston Globe wrote, "Virtually every solo by Golson is a textbook tour de force." John S. Wilson, jazz critic for The New York Times, agrees. "I have known Benny Golson as one of the most complete musicians of the past twenty-five years. He is a composer with an unusually brilliant melodic sense."
Critics are similarly impressed with Darcy James Argue, crediting him with developing "a nearly perfect creative synthesis between tradition and innovation" (John Eyles, BBC.com). Argue's compositions were described as "ambitious, sprawling, mesmerizing" by Juan Rodriguez, of the Montreal Gazette; and Ben Ratliff of the New York Times noted his "big, broad musical vocabulary." Time Out New York's Hank Shteamer added, "Argue draws on the full spectrum of modern rock, jazz and classical music" in a way that "handily transcends pastiche."
A lot of the buzz was generated by Argue's Grammy-nominated debut recording, "Infernal Machines," featuring his 18-piece big band, Secret Society. The record was included on more than 100 best-of-the year lists and won Best Debut honors in the 2009 Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll. Argue and Secret Society topped three categories in the 2010 DownBeat Critics' Poll (Rising Star, Big Band; Rising Star, Composer; and Rising Star, Arranger) and were the recipients of two 2010 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards (Large Ensemble of the Year and Up & Coming Artist of the Year). The group has played high-profile concerts in New York and other U.S. cities, as well as in Europe.
A former member of the Montreal jazz scene, Vancouver native Argue moved to Brooklyn in 2003 after earning a master's degree in Boston while studying with legendary composer/arranger Bob Brookmeyer. Among the awards he has received are the BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop Charlie Parker Composition Prize and the SOCAN/CAJE Phil Nimmons Emerging Composer Award. Argue has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, the American Music Center, Meet The Composer, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Since 1995, the WCSU Jazz Fest has brought leading jazz artists to Danbury each spring for a three-day program that combines concert performances with a series of music clinics offering master-class instruction and critiques for music students at Western and at schools in the Greater Danbury area. Golson and Argue will join professional jazz artists who hold full-time and adjunct faculty positions in the WCSU music department to conduct performance clinics during the festival. Golson's clinic will be at 5 p.m. on Friday, with Argue following suit at 4:15 p.m. on Saturday.
"Having these great guest artists, one an acknowledged jazz legend and the other a rising star, 'up close and personal' provides our students an invaluable insight into the expectations of what a professional musician is and does," Begian said. "The energy level leading up to the festival is sky-high, and I'm always proud of how our students rise to the occasion and demonstrate the quality of the program here at WestConn."
This year's Jazz Fest is sponsored by the WCSU Student Government Association, the WCSU Jazz Club, and the Connecticut State University System Activities in the Arts Program. For more information, contact Begian at (203) 837-8637 or email@example.com, or the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England's best small private universities.


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Proposal for a new social contract
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(24-01-2013 10:39 PM)GirlyMan Wrote:(24-01-2013 10:20 PM)panterasr9 Wrote: Yes and some cultures in the Corporate.S.A I oops I mean U.S.A are intolerable in my mind.
They probably wouldnt taste very good. The rich people I know eat garbage corn syrup like everyone else.
RE: Proposal for a new social contract
...as my new poem ("The Prospector") says...
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(25-01-2013 09:34 AM)Zat Wrote: ...as my new poem ("The Prospector") says...
I like it. It's good. Girly's been lowering his expectations his entire life. It's apparently easier on some of us than others.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem. - Camus
RE: Proposal for a new social contract
Poetry is a tricky business.
A poem is NEVER finished.
Every time I look at it, I have to fiddle with it, make it better, leaner, snappier -- smoother.
And then there is the maxim by Richard Bach who once said to a fledgling writer: "never underestimate the power of a deleted word".
So the poem I referred to earlier (which I can't edit in-situ any more) now stands as:
The prospector
The prospector is old,
dim eyes searching for elusive glitter,
gnarled fingers still looking for gold,
but all he finds is useless litter.
He thinks he will give it up soon,
abandon this futile obsession,
stop humming this haunting tune,
extinguish a life-long passion.
It's hard to know what new role
he might find in a now hopeless life,
not looking for gold in their soul,
accepting the dullness and spite.
Not much difference but enough to make it sing better.
Once, when Marilyn Monroe was accused of wearing falsies, she said: "Those who know me better know better".
What has all this got to do, if anything, with the "Proposal for a New Social Contract"?
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Zatamon: You've got a lot of good ideas. I already thought of something similar, an economy of two basic sectors. I took the idea from human body. There are the economy sectors in the body and in the world. The primary economy is the digestive tract where there is only one way and one succession of organs, basically a long pipe, there is no competition whatsoever. The secondary economy begins with liver as interface with the colon. The tertiary economy is centered around the blood circuit where all cells partake on the results, while the blood is the symbol of money.
There is always a constant supply of money (blood) issued by the state. Just a few more details.
The state is always in control of the constant supply of money, generating them by need and taking them out of economy by selling the primary and secondary economy products - the raw resources and semi-products.
The colon, where the raw resources are extracted, is characteristic by a heavy immune system presence. I could interpret that as a necessary police/army supervision in places like Congo, where valuable raw resources are mined, or near endangered rainforests.
The brain, symbolizing a quaternary sector, the university and creative area, is large, takes up lots of blood.
Part of the brain is the cerebellum. Cerebellum is a small, primitive part of brain that directs the technical, automatic processes that do not require our conscious attention. Cerebellum is essentially the government. If in the current system our government requires much public attention and much public funds, it is not functioning properly. It is clueless as for what to do, if politicians knew it, they'd do their job and maintain minimal crew. It is a sign how primitive and uncivilized we are. Our body after millions of years of evolution chose a small automatic government and devoted most of the whole economy to the "university sector", the brain.
Btw, there is a "blood barrier" in the brain, making sure that the blood (money) and drugs (drugs) do not directly enter the creative and decision-making areas. It implies that money (blood) is should be directly used in secondary/tertiary industry (organs) but not in academics and so on.
The primary sector of economy (digestive tract) must be automatized and its input (eating) must be under a direct supervision of the intelligence/computing/government (the brain). The economy must know when it had enough. The purpose of the whole economy is to support the brain, the intelligentsia and the higher life of culture, communication and science.
Note, that this is not about people, it's about the economy. the circulation of goods and money. The way the economics is arranged now, we serve and obey the stomach and the gut. We ignore the needs of brain, we enslave it to the needs of consumption. Our priorities are heavily distorted. As a system, we're so bound by our internal disorder, that we're not capable of automatizing these processes and fully participate on the world of brain, the world of seeing, thinking, exploring, creating... We think freedom is the freedom to take any resource and produce any product out of it to get money, regardless of the product's worth. No, freedom is to replace the pursuit of money with pursuit of improvement. You can't fundamentally improve the money and the money can't fundamentally improve you. There comes a time, when money hold back our improvement.
Money are the mother of economy, but everyone should at some point move out of their mother's house.
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27-01-2013, 05:55 AM (This post was last modified: 27-01-2013 07:27 AM by Zat.)
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Quote:"Our body after millions of years of evolution chose a small automatic government and devoted most of the whole economy to the "university sector", the brain.Fascinating thoughts, Luminon, I enjoyed reading them very much.
BTW: Zatamon and Zat are the same person -- long story.
I particularly enjoyed your assessment of what money could/should be and what it actually is.
To inspire further thoughts/discussion, I will post my rant on money right here.
The Nature of Money
What are we? We are a Country. What is a country? It is a group of people residing on a well-defined territory, living together, using division of labor to produce necessities (and luxuries) and sharing what is produced.
Production is science and technology and organization. No matter who is in control, eventually something needs to be produced, or we all starve. We need farms and factories and energy and transportation and communication. We need them in communism, in capitalism, in anarchism, in monarchy, in fascist dictatorships. Makes no difference. If we do not produce, we die. We can do it better or worse, more or less efficiently, more or less messily, but we have to produce the food, build the houses, weave the fabric, run our trains, maintain our phonelines.
Production is not the issue. Distribution is. We tend to think in terms of money. But we never consume money. We do not eat it, wear it, or heat our houses by shoveling paper bills into the furnace. If we want to understand what is happening in the world, we must try to explain what is REALLY happening, leaving money out of it. Money is only the hat a magician pulls rabbits out of.
Look at it this way: take the economic output of the planet for a one-year period. Concentrate only on food, housing, clothing, furniture, means of transportation, communication, health-care and education. These are the essential products that we need for healthy survival.
So much is produced during one year. Some of what is produced is destroyed, stockpiled, lost, or whatever. But most of it is distributed. It gets into individual hands; it is owned and consumed by individual people. That is what matters.
If I have a billion dollars in the bank (or under the mattress) and never use it, I am poor. What makes me rich is not a figure on a sheet of paper or in a computer's memory chips. What makes me rich is my share of the communally-produced cache of goods. The house I live in, the car I drive, the quantity and quality of food I eat, the clothes I wear, the neighborhood I can afford to live in, the school I send my kids to, the vacations I take. That is what makes me rich or poor, not the money I own.
Money is a fiction. It is not part of the reality we were born into. It is not necessary for survival. Production is. Distribution is. Money is a human invention for simplifying and facilitating trade. It would have been completely superfluous had we decided to share equally. Then only production and distribution would be required.
But we decided not to share equally. After all this would not be fair. We don't want to feed the lazy and incompetent (or his children) and we don't want to deprive the more diligent and talented. We created money to make sure that we don't distribute products equally. Well, we got our wish. Just look at the world.
Now, instead of producing and consuming and living healthy, happy lives, we have wars, famines, pollution, poverty and despair all over the world.
Money serves as the greatest myth of all time.
Replacing the simple issue of surviving well on a lonely planet in a vast Universe, money created an insane-asylum of banks, interest rates, money supply, tax-cuts, subsidies, grants, off-shore accounts, inflation, recession, deficit-financing, leveraged buyouts, credit-rating, hostile takeovers, stocks, bonds, investment portfolios, derivatives, toxic assets, corporate bailouts and CEO compensation packages.
Is that what is meant by throwing the baby out with the bath water?
If a group of us were shipwrecked on a desert island, would we starve to death because we had no money to facilitate trade? Of course not. We would get busy building huts and planting crops to make our lives as comfortable as we could.
But now we are 'civilized'.
We wanted to make sure that no person could cheat others. So we invented money. Now money is the primary medium of cheating each other out of our share. Just look at the number of rich, unproductive parasites living in obscene luxury and the number of hard-working, productive people who have difficulty feeding their children and keeping a roof over their heads.
I believe we would be much better off if we decided to share equally and feed a few no-good, lazy bums. Most people would continue producing, if for no other reason than the sheer boredom of idleness.
If we never question the basic assumption of unequal sharing, we get our world as it is today. Total confusion, misery, fear, envy, loathing, hate, unhappiness. As Ayn Rand said in her noble speech on money in "Atlas Shrugged": "money or guns...make your choice". We did. Now we have both.
The only way to create a utopia on Earth is by resolving the age-old problem of distribution. If humanity abandoned the concept of money and started to share equally, we would gain by eliminating an enormous waste of resources on the mechanisms required to maintain the financial system (most of government, all of finance, most of enforcing, all of the military; insurance, welfare, social assistance; much of the judicial system; weapons programs, etc., etc.)
My feeling is that - even if 10-20 percent of people would decide not to contribute to production, we would still be better off. The percentage of non-contributing people is a lot higher now, if we count those who are employed in the activities that would be eliminated.
On the other hand, if what we want is a system where some of us can be RELATIVELY better off than others (even if their absolute standard of living fell below what they would enjoy in the equal sharing method) then the solution is obviously the one we have now.
We humans are creatures of habit. At birth we inherit a world with its millions of facts and billions of connections, and never really think to ask fundamental questions about the principles by which humanity is organized.
We only want to tinker with the surface, without touching the foundations. The few who dare to question basic assumptions, we recoil from, we call them crackpots, immature or insane, but we never dare to wonder whether they may be right.
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27-01-2013, 09:50 AM (This post was last modified: 27-01-2013 10:04 AM by Luminon.)
RE: Proposal for a new social contract
Hey Zat.
I totally agree with you. I'm familiar with Jacque Fresco's The Venus Project and Resource-Based Economy.
I also have something of an electrotechnic education on me, no permanent consequences but the graduation list
Except when I look at the economy, I see putting the cart in front of the horse. Economy is about allocating the rare resources. Economists focus so much on allocating that they missed why at all we need the economy. The economy or allocation is not a purpose in itself, it's a means to sustain a living.
Let's say the circulation of money is like a flow of water or electricity. Water flows from highest position to the lowest, in the way of least resistance. This creates a powerful current. We put appliances as obstacles into this current, we put there dams, turbines and generators, or we install lightbulbs, coils, resistors, capacitors and so on. Yet, these things are absolutely purposeless.
The purpose and meaning of all economy, appliances and currents is outside of the economy itself, it's us, the society. Let's look at it from the point of view of the people.
Economics is based on people wanting the money, it's based on greed. It's not exactly based on wanting the products, those most successful want money in endless supply, they're potentially endlessly greedy, they have no goal. They want to get to the source in the way of the least resistance. We put appliances into the way of their greed, so their greed provides goods and services that we need. However, the greed causes they try to get around these obstacles, shirk their duties and get to the source of money directly.
They make cheaper and worse products, they lobby to lower the government standards and so on. But ultimately, their goal is the source of money itself - the government and banking system. They put their people into the governments to profit from the government-issued public orders. In my country, they build the most expensive highways in the world, yet their foundations were made of garbage, not gravel or stone. Similarly profitable is the financial "industry", generating the various money and money derivatives through speculation, contributing absolutely nothing to the world, yet controlling it through their vastly superior buying power.
A greed-based economy is a terrible risk for the planet, greater than nuclear reactors and bombs. Economists praise the greed of the little common man, that allows us to make pencils of a dozen of different materials from all around the world. It is the greed that gave us the pencil, but also the technologic appliances that turn in the stream of greed. The same greed has the tendency to concentrate and grow, until it devours everything, whole ecosystems, governments, unions and banks of banks.
There is another name for greed. It is expansion - or growth. And the opposite pole of the circuit - scarcity. Without scarcity, there is no greed, without low there is no high. Eliminate scarcity and you eliminate greed and economy and life as we know it and hate it.
Economists praise the human self-interest and ingenious cooperation that gave us the pencil. In a greed-based system we get the pencil. Then we live through decades of slightly better and cheaper pencils. Then we go through the era of slightly better and cheaper pens. Eventually comes the era of ever slightly better and cheaper tablets and cell phones. We pay for each of them. What marvels could we have from all these wasted resources? What miracles of technology could we use daily, if we applied the resources and patents to create a top-quality hi-tech products regardless of money and shared them? I'd say it would spare us most of the resources. This is how money slow down the development, we have to pay for every step we make. It's a good thing to put a price on our steps when we don't know where are we going, but now we've become hamsters running in a monetary treadmill, who get nowhere.
In terms of electric circuit, how do we call the situation where the energy from the + pole gets directly to the - pole, going around all the appliances that we want it to go through and work?
We call it short circuit. Our planet is shorted and the flames of wars are the sparks and arcs that a shorted electric device makes before it explodes.
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Zat (27-01-2013)
27-01-2013, 11:26 AM (This post was last modified: 27-01-2013 11:30 AM by Zat.)
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Luminon. I love your picturesque analogies and metaphors.
It puts the issue in a framework that may be more accessible to most people -- more than my strictly cerebral analysis.
Maybe between the two of us we will make sense to a few more people?
Anyway, there is another aspect of the same issue here, and you touched on it several times, but I have another rant that directly addresses it:
I assume everyone is familiar with the old debate about our 'Needs' versus 'Wants'.
It is important to differentiate our needs from our wants. I define 'Needs' as those requirements commonly identified with survival of the individual as a healthy (both physically and mentally) self-aware biological entity living in a society of his own species.
I define 'Wants' as those requirements that are not essential for survival—they are mere luxuries that can enhance one's zest for life, the flavor of one's existence, but there would be no serious negative consequence to life and health if they were denied.
Of course, I realize that I just opened a can of worms. You pick a hundred human beings and you get a hundred different answers as to where to draw the line between needs and wants . It is impossible to come up with a sharply drawn boundary. It is also unnecessary (I remember reading about a mother who used a drug-store precision scale to divide a chocolate bar exactly equally for her two children). There are a number of things on which everyone can readily agree. We can say that food is a need and a diamond necklace is a want.
In a functioning society based on organized production, we have no difficulty describing food, housing, clothing, medical help, education, transportation and communication as needs. Luxury yachts, ten rooms per person mansions, gold serving dishes, half-million-dollar cars, etc would be described by most people as mere wants.
So, if we start out at the extremes and proceed systematically towards the middle, somewhere in a zone of not-being-quite-sure-any-more, we can draw our line arbitrarily.
We don't have to quibble. As far as I am concerned, we can draw the line anywhere in that zone. We would have made enormous progress.
If I try to make a list of my own basic needs, I come up with the following:
Personal needs: Food, Clothes, Home, Energy, Medical help, Meaningful work, Exercise, Sleep, Rest, Privacy, Play, Beauty, Spirituality, Nature, Animals. Social needs: Mate, Family, Friends, Community, Transportation, Communication, Education, Entertainment, Justice, Interdependence.
I am sure I missed a few but I believe that all my really essential needs are there.
If I had a life that satisfied all these needs in balance and harmony, I know I would be a contented person. And it is very important to differentiate between 'contended' and 'happy'.
We often feel happy when we are excited, thrilled, having a 'high' of some form. This feeling 'high' can be stimulated by artificial means (like drugs, alcohol, sky-diving, etc.) that are not real needs.
And the consumerist capitalistic system cashes in on this artificial addiction to 'excitement' and 'thrills'. Not only cashes in, but actively promoting it via TV and other media ads.
I think it is important to satisfy our needs in a good balance. Most people have a lot of some and almost nothing of others.
Many have almost no meaningful work, even though they spend most of their time at a place where they are supposed to have lots. They have practically no time for exercise, play, beauty, spiritual experiences.
Many also don't have any really close friends; no community to speak of, hardly any time for education and entertainment. This isn't the life most people would choose.
Our lives are shaped more by convention, social pressure, inertia and accidents than by intelligent planning.
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I decided to bump up this thread because I was referencing it frequently recently and it will be easier for people to find this way.
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There's been a lot talk lately about comedy and the controversial things that should and shouldn't be said. I say, let's bring it back to the funny and let the unfunny and shocking fade into obscurity with this week's 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos This Week.
1. Ryan O'Flanagan has an important message about being a victim. Well, he's trying to have one.
2. Shut Up! Cartoons latest web series Nature Break gives a glimpse into the lives of animals as we've never seen them before: ordering pizza and chatting with neighbors.
3. Nathan Barnatt's viral dancing videos got him on the cover of LA Weekly, which he told several people about in person.
4. Submitted by sketch group Uncle Mom, there is a new definition of what e "supportive boyfriend."
5. The cleverly edited conversation between a 12 and 32 year old did indeed go viral, which, it turns out is a watered-down parody of this more PG-13 rated "original" with Elisha Yaffe.
Per usual, I'm taking submissions for the 5 MIFV like the two featured above. Same rules still apply.
-E-mail embeddable video link to [email protected]
-Submit by the end of Monday (which would be 7/16)
-Videos must be posted online (i.e. have a time stamp that says so) between now 7/10 and the end of Monday 7/16
-Don't add any cover letters or explanations; please just send the link


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Meribel, France • Carolina Ruiz Castillo stunned the field by earning her first career World Cup victory at age 31 on Saturday, winning a downhill race 13 years after her only previous podium finish.
The Spanish skier had never placed higher than seventh in a downhill but beat Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany by 0.20 seconds and Frenchwoman Marie Marchand-Arvier by 0.21.
"The win feels even better because I know all the hard work I have done," Ruiz Castillo said.
Ruiz Castillo only had eight previous top-10 finishes on the World Cup, and the only top-three finish on the podium was second place in a giant slalom in 2000 at the Italian resort of Sestriere.
In Sochi, Russia, Olympic luge champion Tatjana Hufner edged out two other Germans to win the women's singles in the final World Cup meet of the season, a test event for the Sochi Winter Games next year.
World champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt of Germany won the men's doubles, beating compatriots Peter Penz and Georg Fischer by 0.134 seconds. Olympic silver medalists Andris Sics and Juris Sics of Latvia were third.
Mikael Kingsbury of Canada and Audrey Robichaud won World Cup mogul races in Inawashiro, Japan, on Saturday.
Kingsbury, the defending World Cup champion, scored 23.41 points to secure his sixth title this season. Bradley Wilson of the United States was second, followed by Alex Bilodeau of Canada.
After eight of 12 events, Kingsbury leads the standings with 705 points. Bilodeau follows with 513 and Patrick Deneen of the United States is third with 443.
Ski jumping
Norwegian ski jumper Anders Bardal won his first major title on Saturday by taking gold in the normal hill event at the Nordic skiing world championships in Val Di Fiemme, Italy.
Bardal had the longest jump of the day with 103.5 meters in the first round and finished with a total of 252.6 points. Overall World Cup leader Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria was 4.2 points back in second and Peter Prevc of Slovenia was third.
Downhill skiing
Christof Innerhofer of Italy won his third World Cup downhill of the season Saturday, on a course where he has a history of good results in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Innerhofer topped three Austrians to earn his sixth career victory, covering the 1.6-mile Kandahar course in 1 minute, 37.83 seconds to beat Georg Streitberger by 0.12 seconds.
"It's like a home run for me, I have nice memories from here," Innerhofer said.
The top American finisher was Marco Sullivan at 19th in 1:38.95.
Nordic skiing
Marit Bjoergen successfully defended another title at the Nordic skiing world championships, winning the 15-kilometer pursuit skiathlon on Saturday in Val Di Fiemme, Italy.
Bjoergen sped clear of Therese Johaug coming into the stadium to cross the line in 39 minutes, 4.4 seconds. Johaug was 3.4 seconds back to take silver, while Heidi Weng beat Kristin Stoermer Steira in a sprint for the bronze medal.


text: Winter and early spring will bring a flurry of important activity around City Hall and other parts of Downtown Garland. Construction on the new parking garage behind City Hall is moving quickly. State Street is closed to through traffic from Third Street to Fifth Street and will remain closed until the completion of the City Center development. The parking garage is expected to be open for use in early 2015. In March, the Landmark Historical Society will move its materials and offices back into the Landmark Museum, now located at Walnut and Fifth Streets, in front of the Central Library. An official reopening will be scheduled in late spring or early summer. The new Sixth Street extension that opens onto Walnut Street is scheduled to open to traffic in the second quarter of 2014. Also in the second quarter, the municipal annex on Fifth Street across from City Hall and the old municipal building on State and Fifth Streets, which had previously housed Garland Power & Light offices, will be demolished. The municipal annex site will be prepared for construction of a portion of the City Center project. The other site will be cleared and prepared for future uses, yet to be determined. Work on planned City Hall improvements will begin in the second quarter and are expected to be complete by the third quarter of 2015. Those improvements include exterior and lobby renovations, additions to the CGTV studio and office area, building code and safety updates. Planned improvements for the Central Library parking lot and lighting system are on hold pending City Council's decision regarding the final location for the Pace and Lyles Houses. City Council plans to resume those discussion after the approval of the 2014 Capital Improvement Plan budget. For projects updates and other details, visit Garlandtx.gov and click on the "Downtown Redevelopment" button.


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In the 1970s, the Ouija Board was the rage for a new generation of young people. They hesitantly moved their trembling fingers to slowly maneuver the planchette across the magical playing board to mystically spell out answers to puzzling questions.
Determining the best fertility management for vegetable crops is far from a game of guessing, and is best determined by scientific research to maximize crop yield and quality, control costs, reduce pest pressure, and avoid environmental scrutiny.
Tim Hartz, University of California, Davis Extension vegetable specialist, outlined the latest fertility management data on vegetables to pest control advisers attending the 2007 California Association of Pest Control Advisers annual conference and Agri-Expo held in late October in Reno, NV.
Fertilizer and yields
Does excessive fertilization reduce vegetable yields? With leafy crops like celery, cauliflower, and lettuce, clearly an upper threshold exists where salt damage eventually causes problems. "However in the real world, we really don't see that much," Hartz said.
In fruiting crops like processing tomatoes, it's absolutely possible for higher N rates to sacrifice fruit set for additional vegetative growth. A broad range of fertilizer practices will cause about the same yield even though vine growth may vary. The concept that excessive fertilizer results in lower yields is somewhat rare.
Yet excessive fertilizer can lead to problems, for example, when a 15 percent to 20 percent cracking rate in the profitable carrot cut and peel market results in culls. Anything can exaggerate cracking in sensitive cultivars.
"In carrot trials conducted a few years back studying N fertility and the cracking phenomenon, higher N use than required for maximum growth enhanced cracking and in some the cracking doubled," Hartz said. "That's surprising since carrots efficiently utilize N."
Do higher N rates affect the post-harvest life of vegetables? Arguments for years have centered on both sides of the equation — high N enhances post-harvest problems or high N allows "the product to have some legs" and extends life in the post-harvest realm.
In UC Davis research on the post-harvest storage of broccoli, the results indicated reduced post-harvest life with higher N. There was no evidence that additional N created useful benefits.
In lettuce, UC Davis conducted 11 commercial field trials a few years back to determine the most effective N application rates.
"Some growers used the seasonal average of 257 pounds. In other tests, season N use was reduced by 100 pounds, then harvested, and the product was stored for two weeks at 40 degrees Fahrenheit intentionally trying to abuse the product to induce post-harvest problems."
The end results showed essentially no difference between the N amounts. Additional fertility to increase carrying capacity has no foundation, Hartz said.
Fertilizer and pests
UC Davis conducted tests in San Joaquin Valley cotton fields with N and aphids, examining the difference between side-dress N amounts and aphid colonization.
"You really have no N impact until the 150-pound rate is surpassed which in this case was enough to maximize link yield and there was suddenly a large jump in aphid numbers," Hartz said.
Tests with the whitefly had similar dynamics. The higher N rate, especially beyond the amount needed for good growth, showed enhanced reproduction of the second insect on higher N plants. A lengthy list of evidence supports this conclusion.
Does high N application impact disease pressure? The answer is a mixed bag. Clear evidence suggests plants suffering from the lack of N are more susceptible to a whole range of issues. On the other side, like with corky root in lettuce, good data suggests that excessive N fertility enhances disease pressure. For most diseases, there is a broad middle ground where N management is not likely to make a large difference, Hartz said.
Fertilizer and the environment
When Congress passed the Clean Water Act in the 1970s, the ensuing regulatory chase collared industries and municipalities with exposed pipes dumping pollutants into rivers. In the last decade, enforcement has changed course to non-point pollution sources.
In California, that activity is mostly agriculture and enforcement is mostly targeting irrigated horticultural production agriculture, Hartz said.
The federal drinking water standard is 10 parts per million N03-N (nitrates-nitrogen). Where is nutrient enforcement headed? Phosphorus levels are lurking in the background.
"Once monitoring programs determine repeatedly that orthophosphate content in runoff water is higher than any other place in the country, this will draw scrutiny," Hartz said. "The issue is predominantly one of stimulation of algae growth because algae growth in the stimulation phase, bloom, and die back induces unfortunate things. As we go forward, we not only have the drinking water standard but the environmental standard for algae control."
The severity of the problem depends on farm location. Farmers in Kern County, Calif. have nothing to sweat about since runoff is not an issue. The Salinas and Santa Maria is a whole different story, Hartz said.
Nutrient best management practices
Hartz offered the PCAs best management practices (BMPs) for efficient and effective nutrient management:
1– Use a realistic template for N requirements in crops.
In a 2004-2005 survey of commercial lettuce fields, results showed high N rates are unnecessary. The mean of 11 N fertilization trials in head and romaine lettuce indicated plants fail to take up excess fertilizer.
A reasonable template to follow is the industry's current median rate — 170 pounds N per acre per season in lettuce and 185 pounds for tomatoes. Higher rates are seldom justified.
2- Base phosphorus (P) fertilization on the P soil test.
Is phosphorus application always necessary? In elevated, background soils with plenty of existing phosphorus, extra phosphorus fails to enter the plant. Extra P only enriches the soil base creating environmental problems.
3- Adjust N template by in-season monitoring.
Tissue sampling as a BMP may be useful in identifying yield-limiting deficiency. If the N is above a deficiency level, tissue nutrient concentration is unreliable for estimating current soil N supply and is therefore of little value as a fertilizer BMP.
4– Manage irrigation effectively.
Converting to drip irrigation saves nitrogen, but only because losses are limited by leaching.
5- Grow winter cover crops to 'trap' residual N and reduce runoff and erosion.
Fall-planted vegetation can reduce the flood of potential effects from a two-inch rainstorm. One environmental win-win is mustard crops that reduce runoff volume and sediment loss.
Some proclaim that mustard crops contain compounds that break down and release products that act as a bio-fumigant, similar to the effects from the product Vapam. However, tests conducted to determine this potential impact on soil-borne pests failed to find a single circumstance where that was true. There was no replacement for chemical fumigation.
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Students from the Lake Placid Varsity Club recently presented a $776 donation to the Merrill Oncology Center at Adirondack Medical Center. Kendra Manning, left, Brooke Reid, Haley Brandes, Garrett Woodruff and Andrew Meister presented the check to Certified Nurse Practitioner Mia Ross and Registered Nurse Bill Chamberlain. Mia and Bill are also certified oncology nurses.
A gift from Lake Placid High School students will help support patients receiving treatment from the Merrill Oncology Center at Adirondack Medical Center.
As part of the "Coaches vs. Cancer" initiative through the American Cancer Society, student-athletes with the Lake Placid Varsity Club raised $776. Since the students wanted the funds to stay local, the Merrill Oncology Center was an obvious choice for their generous act.
In addition to a range of specialized care, AMC offers supportive services free of charge for patients and their families coping with cancer treatment. For example, the "Strength for Healing" program provides Guided Imagery and Gentle Restorative Yoga to patients and their families to strengthen both the mind and body.
The "Coaches vs. Cancer program" empowers coaches, their teams, and communities to join the fight against cancer by participating in awareness efforts, advocacy programs, and fundraising activities. Guided by the Coaches vs. Cancer Council, participating coaches help people with cancer today and to find cures to end the disease tomorrow, and have raised more than $87 million to help the American Cancer Society's mission.


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David Bell
The Hiding Place
David Bell
The Hiding Place
Release Date: 10/2/2012
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Sometimes it's easier to believe a lie.
Twenty-five-years ago, the disappearance of four-year-old Justin Manning rocked the small town of Dove Point, Ohio. After his body was found in a shallow grave in the woods two months later, the repercussions were felt for years.…
Janet Manning has been haunted by the murder since the day she lost sight of her brother in the park. Now, with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Justin's death looming, a detective and a newspaper reporter have started to ask questions, opening old wounds and raising new suspicions. Could the man convicted of the murder—who spent more than two decades in prison—really be innocent? Janet's childhood friend and high school crush, who was in the park with her that day, has returned to Dove Point, where he is wrestling with his own conflicted memories of the events. And a strange man appears at Janet's door in the middle of the night, claiming to know the truth.
Soon, years of deceit will be swept away, and the truth about what happened to Janet's brother will be revealed. And the answers that Janet has sought may be found much closer to home than she ever could have imagined.
"[Bell] writes with a clarity of both vision and purpose; and his characters are eerily familiar because they are just like you and me."—Thomas F. Monteleone, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Fearful Symmetries
Praise for Cemetery Girl
"Cemetery Girl is a smasher. It twists and turns and never lets go, and...it could happen just this way."
—Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End
"Cemetery Girl is more than just an utterly compelling thriller—and it certainly is that. David Bell's stellar novel is also a haunting meditation on the ties that bind parent to child, husband to wife, brother to brother—and what survives even under the most shattering possible circumstance. An absolutely riveting, absorbing read not to be missed."
—Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Darkness, My Old Friend
"Trust me: you have never read a missing persons story like this one....A fast, mean head trip of a thriller that reads like a collaboration between Michael Connelly and the gothic fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, Cemetery Girl is one of those novels that you cannot shake after it's over. A winner on every level."
—Will Lavender, New York Times bestselling author of Dominance
"Cemetery Girl grabbed me by the throat on page one and never let up. An intense, unrelenting powerhouse of a book, and the work of a master."
—John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of Damage
"A smart, tense, creepy take on the story of a missing daughter, told by her far-from-perfect father. If you think you know this tale—from all- too-familiar newspaper accounts, from lesser movies and books--then this terrific novel will make you think otherwise."
—Brock Clarke, national bestselling author of Exley and An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England


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Article and photos by Chris Martin, Special to the Columbus School of Law
The heads of CUA Law's right-leaning Republican National Lawyers Association and left-leaning American Constitution Society put politics aside last week to raise money and lift a glass in honor of U.S. troops.
For the second year in a row, Meaghan Pedati '14, the chair of RNLA, and Michelle Lease '14, president of ACS (left), sponsored the Toast Our Troops fundraising event, which collected $1,700, with more donations expected.
"It really comes down to troops and children," Pedati said at the Nov. 14 event at Dupont Circle's Thomas Foolery bar. She said they are "the only two things that people will rally behind," despite political differences.
Funds from the event will go toward a care package for Marines stationed in the country of Georgia, and the remaining money will go to the Wounded Warriors Project, an organization dedicated to helping injured service members. The care packages include magazines, toiletries and food.
Raffle tickets were sold and drawn at the event, and winners were able to choose from a selection of gift baskets and other items. Among the prizes was an array of Washington sports paraphernalia: a photo of the Washington Wizards signed by basketball player Bradley Beal, a baseball signed by Washington Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond and a pair of gloves from the NFL Salute to Service campaign donated by Washington Redskins wide receiver Josh Morgan.
A second stream of donations came from a novel source that proved to be a crowd pleaser. CUA Law faculty members served as bartenders for thirsty students, competing among themselves to generate the most bar tips in support of the fundraising effort. In addition to bragging rights, the winner would receive a trophy dubbed the "Victory Monster."
First up behind the bar was defending champion Professor Antonio Perez (left). Tip jars runneth over as Perez kept up a steady flow of libations. But he had formidable opponents to compete with.
Professor A.G. Harmon took orders behind the bar alongside Perez. Harmon said he participated because he believes in what the Wounded Warrior Project stands for. Reflecting on his time behind the bar, he called the experience a "perfect storm of events for a good cause."
Professor Cara Drinan (left) was joined behind the bar by Professor Sarah Duggin. The fundraiser, Duggin said, is "a way for students and faculty to come together to do something to support our troops, because they do so much for us."
One of Duggin's students, Alison Landry '15, used the bulk of her tips to cast a vote for Duggin.
"I'll just put the bigger tips towards Duggin," she said, in hopes the professor would win.But whatever the end result, Landry said she'd still be satisfied. "It's all going somewhere good, so I can't complain."
Fundraising host Pedati predicted first year law students would use their tip money to cast the deciding vote.
Jessica Corrales '16, a first year, anticipated her classmates, much like herself, would rally behind Drinan. "She's getting my $20 ring," Corrales said, holding up her right hand to display a twenty-dollar bill wrapped around her pinky finger. Her classmate Andriana Vander Griend '16 followed suit.
The last round of bartenders included senior reference librarian Steve Young and law student Jonathan Tabacoff (left). Yes, you read that correctly – a student managed to find his way into the contest.
"I have a feeling that Jonathan probably sweet-talked his way into it," said Caitlyn McCarthy '14, who's on the path to joining the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps after graduation.
Lease didn't seem surprised: "He's sort of like our mascot," she said of Tabacoff. "He's very involved, he's very loud."
And Tabacoff's charisma paid off. He ended the night with the most tips, taking home the Victory Monster.
Pedati said the event was better attended than last year, and the $1,700 total more than tripled the amount raised at the 2012 event.
Lease and Pedati, who will be graduating in May 2014, hope that Toast Our Troops continues to be an annual event supported by Catholic University students and faculty. Pedati said small tasks were delegated to two other Catholic University students in the Republican National Lawyers Association in hopes they would continue the fundraiser after she and Lease receive their degree.
Still, Pedati said that Toast Our Troops will eventually need to be grown through the support of Catholic University.
"It's really going to have to become a school sponsored event," she said.
Chris Martin is a freelance journalist. More of his work can be seen at www.chrisrmartin.com. Full disclosure: this reporter feels it's important to note that he is friends with Michelle Lease and Meaghan Pedati.


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Let's do some Appleton Cocktails
Posted by Arctic Wolf on June 20, 2010
Today I decided to work on bring the rest of my Appleton Estate cocktails onto my cocktail menu. Appleton Estate rums have that sharp oak and orange peel flavour that brings such a nice character to the cocktail experience. (For each recipe just click on the title and it will bring you to the recipe page for that cocktail.)
I think I will start with a recipe more so than a cocktail, an Old-Fashioned Rum Punch. This punch uses a combination of Appleton Overproof Rum and Appleton VX Rum, worked into an old-fashioned style of punch constructed from a recipe from I found which was printed in the 1908 New York Times:
Old-Fashioned Jamaican Punch
Next I will move to another old style cocktail called the Celebration. I found this cocktail in an old cocktail recipe book from 1937, Cafe Royal Cocktail Book, Coronation Edition, compiled by W.J. Tarling, printed in Great Britain by The Sidney Press, London and Bedford. I used the recipe when I wrote my review of Appleton Estate Reserve. Then I tweaked it and made a more modern version. Here are the two cocktails:
Rum Cocktail: The Celebration
Now I noted in the beginning that Appleton has a nice oak and orange peel in its flavour profile. When I reviewed the Appleton Estate Extra 12 Yr I used that particular characteristic to bring an extra depth and character to the rum swizzle. You can view the write-up here:
The Premium Swizzle
And I guess perhaps I should finish this posting with a nice recipe I use when that oak and orange peel becomes too much. Sometimes, when I believe a rum perhaps has aged a little too long and the oak begins to dominate and turn the sweetness of a rum to a profile that for my palate is too bitter, then I will use Frangelico to massage the flavour profile. This was the case with the Appleton Estate 21 YR. I call this gem of a recipe:
The Monk's Uncle
And there you have it. My Appleton Estate rum cocktails and recipes. I hope you enjoyed them.
And always remember the aim is not to drink more it is to drink better!
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Blizzard's Chris Sigaty revealed that they "will be releasing 3D in the first few months, for those Nvidia cards and screens that support it."
Sporting a vibrant 3D-graphics engine, StarCraft II will once again center on the clash between the protoss, terrans, and zerg, with each side deploying legions of veteran, upgraded, and new unit types. Unparalleled online play for StarCraft II will be available through a new version of Battle.net, Blizzard Entertainment's world-renowned gaming service. Battle.net has been redesigned from the ground up to be the premier online gaming destination for Blizzard gamers, with several enhancements and new features, such as voice communication, cloud file storage, leagues and ladders, achievements, stat-tracking, and more.
The solo campaign for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will continue the epic saga where it left off in StarCraft: Brood War. The story line chronicles the exploits of marshal-turned-rebel-leader Jim Raynor and features both familiar faces and new heroes. Players will be able to tailor the experience, choosing their own mission path and selecting technology and research upgrades to suit their playing style throughout the 29-mission campaign. Several challenge-mode mini-games will also be included, with focused goals designed to ease players into the basics of multiplayer strategies.
- Fast-paced, hard-hitting, tightly balanced competitive real-time strategy gameplay that recaptures and improves on the magic of the original game
- Three completely distinct races: Protoss, Terran, and Zerg
- New units and gameplay mechanics further distinguish each race
- Groundbreaking single-player campaign
- Vibrant new 3D-graphics engine with support for dazzling visual effects and massive unit and army sizes
- Full multiplayer support, with new competitive features and matchmaking utilities available through Battle.net
- Full map-making and scripting tools to give players incredible freedom in customizing and personalizing their gameplay experience
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7 and Macintosh. The standard edition will sell for a suggested retail price of $59.99 and will also be available shortly after release as a download through the online Blizzard Store. The special Collector's Edition package, which is priced at $99.99 and will only be available at retail stores. Players who purchase either edition will be able to play online for no additional fee through the new version of Battle.net.
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