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A Journey with Programs to Celebrate a Milestone for Steinbeck
October 4-5, 2013
On October 4 the Oklahoma Historical Society will join the National Steinbeck Center to retrace the journey the The Grapes of Wrath's Joad family took along America's Route 66 through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona at the height of the Dust Bowl - toward California and their hopes of a better life.
On Friday, October 4 at 7pm the Oklahoma History Center will present a symposium on Grapes of Wrath, Oklahoma, and Route 66. The participants will be Dr. Bob Blackburn (Executive Director of the Oklahoma Historical Society), Bob Santelli of the Grammy Museum, a Steinbeck scholar provided by the Steinbeck Center, and a local expert on the history and significance of Route 66.
The afternoon of Saturday, October 5 the Oklahoma State University Oral History Department's Juliana Nykolaiszyn will conduct an Oral History workshop at the Oklahoma History Center in conjunction with the Steinbeck Center. The crew of the Steinbeck Center will also interview prominent Oklahomans on their reaction to the Grapes of Wrath.
The trip along Route 66 through the Southwest will be led by a team of artists, including a playwright and a filmmaker, and a woodblock print artist who will be actively engaged in exploring modern day stories of the human experience of struggle and resilience. Along the route, this team will lead programs and workshops at cultural arts and education organizations and collect oral histories exploring the human capacity to carry on from individuals they meet on the road.
The Oklahoma Historical Society and the National Steinbeck Center are excited to announce their partnership in this dynamic journey.
The artists will blog throughout the journey and invite public collaboration and feedback through multiple social media channels. The Oklahoma Historical Society and the National Steinbeck Center encourage schools to follow us on this Journey, and to respond to the artists' thoughts and observations on the road. This entire trip will be documented and shared as part of the 75th Anniversary celebration in 2014.
To stay up-to-date on this journey and to follow us when we are on the road in October, visit us at www.steinbeck.org and www.okhistory.org.
See the Penguin Book Pushcart!
In a special collaboration with Penguin Group (USA), the Penguin Book Truck and Penguin Pushcart will be travelling with the National Steinbeck Center and partners and will be stopping at selected locations to sell Steinbeck titles. The Penguin Pushcart will be at the Oklahoma History Center on Saturday, October 5.
The Penguin Book Pushcart is inspired by the design of the classic New York City hotdog cart. It will be transported by the Penguin Book Truck to various locations including bookstores, parks, beaches, sidewalks in shopping districts, summer theaters, and green markets.


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Lilly to make Triple-A rehab start on Wednesday
By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com
SAN DIEGO -- Dodgers lefty Ted Lilly is scheduled to make his next rehab start for Triple-A Albuquerque on Wednesday night when the Isotopes host Omaha.
Lilly pitched six innings and allowed three homers in a rehab start for Class A Rancho Cucamonga against Lake Elsinore Friday night.
Lilly began the season on the disabled list, unable to compile enough foundational innings for a starting pitcher in Spring Training because of the flu and a rainout. He is coming off shoulder labrum surgery.
Lilly allowed five runs on nine hits against Lake Elsinore, including two homers by Kyle Gaedele and one by Yeison Asencio. He struck out four without a walk and made 77 pitches.
Manager Don Mattingly has said Lilly is not a likely candidate for the bullpen, where the Dodgers already have stashed starting pitcher Chris Capuano.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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I got a little ambitious this week, resulting in me making my upload deadline by a matter of seconds (and not giving the game a proper writeup until now). Dragondot is my take on the action-rpg/action-adventure genre, inspired by the likes of Zelda and Crystalis. (And by not being able to justify shelling out fifteen bucks for Pokemon Rumble, but I digress.) I've learned a lot from the making of this game (such as "don't try writing an action RPG in a week", and how to make circles adorable), but I think I'm going to aim for something a bit simpler next week. Preferably not involving circles, as I'm quite sick of them after yesterday's panicked 7-hour coding spree.
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Hard hitting new book charges that Barack Obama has turned the entire U.S. economy into a "Hostile Work Environment."
Newly appointed Executive Vice Chairman of The Conservative Caucus and conservative firebrand Wayne Allyn Root is wasting no time in taking the fight to President Barack Obama. Root's new book – The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide – hits book shelves on April 15, just in time to take Obama to task for what Root calls "The Obama Axis of Evil."
Root, a former classmate of Obama's at Columbia University, a widely read political and business columnist, as well as popular Fox News guest, says the new book, "tells the true story of Obama's plan to destroy small business, damage the U.S. economy, and wipe out capitalism."
Why is Obama about to steal $19.4 trillion in our retirement accounts – and what he intends to do with it.
How Obama's "Axis of Evil" – Taxation, Regulation, Unionization, Strangulation and Litigation – is being used to kill small business
How a third world hellhole in the middle of America proves that Obama's policies will wreck the U.S. economy and destroy the American Dream
Why America is in the midst of a tragic Obama Great Depression – but it's all hidden by government spending
Why the three biggest bubbles in world history are about to crash like the Hindenburg
Why the mainstream media no longer reports the facts, just the Obama propaganda
Why Obama's education policies should be re-named "Every Child Left Behind" – and what you can do to save your precious children
The three biggest lies of the Obama economy
Most importantly, Wayne doesn't just criticize, he provides concrete SOLUTIONS. This book features a detailed 18-point plan to survive, thrive and PROSPER on every move Obama will make over the next four years!
As a priceless bonus, Wayne features advice from 18 superstars of business and finance- millionaires, billionaires, and billion dollar hedge fund managers who each detail their specific plan to profit and prosper over the next four years.
"From his phantom years at Columbia University to his phantom days as a community organizer – that left the community in shambles – to his phantom 'economic recovery, "Barack Obama is, hell bent on creating a new national Holiday: DEPENDENCE DAY" said TCC Executive VP Root. "This book exposes him for what he is – and provides the American people the ways and means to escape the havoc he is wreaking from coast to coast."
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All brake pads produce dust as they wear. However, there are some pad materials that create a less noticeable dust and don't make your wheels look like they're covered in tar. A newer form of friction material, called ceramic composite, creates a light-colored dust that's much less noticeable and is less likely to stick to your wheels. Ceramic pads are quieter and easier on brake rotors. These pads can also extend brake life beyond a semi-metallic pad.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- David Puts, associate professor of anthropology at Penn State, received the 2013 Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES). This award recognizes excellent young scientists who have made distinguished theoretical and/or empirical contributions to the study of evolution and human behavior.
HBES is an international organization of scientists studying the evolution of human behavior. Puts was previously recognized by HBES in 2011 with the Margo Wilson Award for the best paper published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, and in 2004 with the New Investigator Award for the best paper by a graduate student. His research focuses on the neuroendocrine and evolutionary bases of human behavior, especially on human sexuality and sex differences.
Puts earned a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology from Kenyon College, a master of arts degree and doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh, and conducted his postdoctoral research in neuroscience at Michigan State University.


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Casey caters too much to our "scorers" -- Rudy and DeMar ... I hate that distinction. Why do you have to peg a couple guys a single role of a "scorer" when in reality, it means running consecutive isolation plays & having your "future point guard" take on a role of a Mario Chalmers in Miami.
Kyle Lowry is probably our best shooter, ball handler & assist man in this team. Why is his usage so low? Why do you choose to give him a role as an entry passer evolving into a camper (for the next 16 seconds in the shot clock)?
Our team is full of chuckers because the coach lets it happen. We resemble a poor man's New York Knicks with all this small ball isolation bullsh!t ... I think that Casey is dead wrong with his approach but I mean, I could care less now because the L's just mean more of a chance of getting a top 3 pick.


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How do you like mutt so far?
Btw, I have some suggestions to try in Email for procrastinators [plasmasturm.org]. Particularly, using threaded view as the default and saving sent mail to the inbox is a combination that everyone should at least try once.
I'm getting there. I still have a few tricks to learn, but it's not all bad. I've got used to the drag-n-drop of a GUI, so I find I'm having to think a bit more.
I do have threading set up as default, but I find I miss new entries in some mailboxes. I imagine I should be able to flip between threaded and date order, but I haven't got around to looking that up.
The next hurdle I need to address (pun intended) is the address book. I have a lot of people I mail, some have more than one address, and it would be
You can change sort order by hitting [o]. (mutt will prompt you with the available orders and their shortcuts, so you don't need to memorise those.)
The addressbook is handled by the
alias command:
alias ap Aristotle Pagaltzis <firstname.lastname@example.com>
With that you could send me mail by saying it's To: ap. Don't miss that tab completion for aliases is available on all email address prompts in mutt!
These commands are usually kept in a file customarily called
aliases. You point mutt t
Superb. Thanks for all that, it's going to prove very useful. I think I owe you much beer
Ever thought about writing a book?
A book? Heh, not really; certainly not about mutt. You think?
I did go back to collect my comments from your journal entries, though. I want to tidy them up, flesh out the result, and eventually post it as an intro/tutorial on plasmasturm.
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Are other brands accepted at BMW rallies? Inquiring minds want to know.....
Are other brands accepted at BMW rallies? Inquiring minds want to know.....
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Certainly. You'll see several non-BMW bikes; not a big deal.
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Mufflers are strongly encouraged, though...
The spelling error threw me off. For a momnet I thought he was asking whether other bikes were "expected"
All are welcome- a bottle of single malt in your saddlebag goes a long way towards breaking the ice......
I do second the comment about quiet mufflers, and you should be aware that some of the BMW crowd get up very early in the morning to ride as many miles as they can....
I tend to travel alone but thoroughly enjoy socialising with my fellow campers at the end of the day.
Ian Robert "Scoobs" Scobie
'92 K75RT, '02 F650GS Dakar;
But fondly miss.. R80RT, R45,CB250RS,DT125MX,TS100
Not another brand but I showed up at a PA Air Head rally this July with my K, and received some looks and many warm greetings.
The BMW community is very welcoming of non-beemers.
Retired and riding my RTs, the '87 K100 & the '98 R1100 !
Niagara Riders #298 & Knights of the Roundel #333
IIRC, the Rhinebeck rally had Triumph and MotoGuzzi demo rides........
Cave contents: 16 R12RS, 13 Toyota Tacoma, 03 Simplicity Legacy, 97 Stihl FS75, Dewalt DW625 & SawStop PCS175
1) My expectations are never low enough & 2) Incompetence is infinite ........David Brooks
At the Salem rally, Annie and I camped at Airhead Central. We rode in with a state Airmarshal who rode a Goldwing and another fellow on a Nighthawk. Annie and I were on Beemers but not Airheads. No one noticed nor cared. An overly loud bike of any make will not win the rider any friends.
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May 13, 2009
Auf Wiedersehen Vancouver! Volturi Finish New Moon Filming & Leave Vancouver
First Michael Sheen, and now Dakota has left Vancity. See more pics at Gossip Girls.
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why is the title named Auf Wiedersehen Vancouver?ReplyDelete
auf wiedersehen is german o.O
and this is an american fansite
- martinaMay 13, 2009 at 5:54 PM
i agree to anonymous =)ReplyDelete
- STwilightMay 13, 2009 at 10:44 PM
...Nit-pick much?ReplyDelete
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yeeah auf wiedersehn ^^ReplyDelete
im german xDxD
I have that jacket :DReplyDelete
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Discussion in 'Shoes and Apparel' started by mrmo1115, Jan 3, 2009.
That´s a nice photo ^^
How does that outsole feels on HarTru? Not slippery?
Thanks... It helps to be in stock photography and have a homemade studio in the guest bedroom... Nikon D7100.
I play on HarTru with them every other day, the traction is similar to beat up B7s; good enough for me. I can slide without worrying about them being to sticky (unlike the B7 clay version), yet I can still stop on a dime.
Here are some more...
someon have close up pics of the turquoise Cb? thanks a lot
Ha, that's funny about your wife. you might have to get her the Sharapova Vapor 9's to make up for it!
I love what you have achieved here customizing the shoes, it's very well done. The only criticism I would have is that someone needs to find a way to get the RF sewn properly into the tongue, the way Roger's actual custom shoes have.
Seen here in this pic of an RF287, it's not a patch stuck onto the tongue:
But I'm just being pedantic, you've done a great job.
my wife does not play tennis so I don't need to buy Vapor 9 for her haha.
Actually, I was looking at women's vapor 9 for myself but since it's so popular, hard to find good deal either.
My point of customization was all about "easy to make".
Embroidery will take more time and money.
If I want to replicate like the real fed version, I don't think I will wear those shoes. RF logo at tongue was made by heat transfer material and take less than 5 min to finish. Round Swiss flag and RF logo was made by vinyl film decal. Since it's very cheap to make, I don't mind wear the shoes ^_^.
I was very interested in NikeID vapor but I have more fun with this kind of customization for myself. I have several more ideas of making other versions such as rafa version of clay vapor 9 haha but unfortunately I can't get every vapor 9s T_T
US open inspired shoes ^_^
I was thinking the same thing; I never once thought of starting with 'red' on the VaporId config tool. But these shoes are awesome and @finalfantasy7 nailed it - sure he's getting a lot of compliments when he wears them.
Will you email me on how to do this please? firstname.lastname@example.com
You might see my answer from the top part of this page.
Anyway, I sent the message but my answer is same.
Check your email ^_^
Actually CB has some rough surfaces so decal vinyls do not stick as good as smooth surfaces but it still hold well though.
one of my shoes
man some of the shoes I see here are too nice! I'd be afraid to even wear them on court hah
Wait what?????!!!!! :shock:
First Michelin rubber in babolat shoes, now Bridgestone tennis shoes?
Bridgestone started tennis bussiness in 1970s.
Probably only available in Japan and several Asian countries.
Oh okay, that took me by surprise.
I was a little surprised too that they started tennis bussiness in late 70s.
I thought as early as late 80s or even 90s.
I've seen some shoes before and it looks good. Also some of their rackets are very interesting too.
Past four years, I've seen their products lines and they make interesting items such as rackets, shoes and dampeners from the Bridgestone. unfortunately Price of rackets are almost twice and three times expensive than US so I've never tried their products except dampeners. I only bought dampeners for fun haha.
Nice acquire! The hello kitty vibration dampener would look fierce on a big bubba.
That's good combination ^_^
I used to have many kitties but gave as gift to friends teammate or Mixed double partner and only have two. I will keep it as souvenir haha.
Vapor trail...
Vapors V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX
nice collection!! love the VIs and IXs
these are pretty freakn nice! I rarely get shoes b4 they go on sale but these are too good to pass up
are we allowed to post these pics
Edit: these look different than the ones on sale, mistake by me
Thats one of my favorite colour ways my second fave is the orange ones
What are they like in person? I wish they were darker like in this picture.
yeahh I think the CB4.3's look much better when the mesh and the cage are the same color!
I'd say they might be a tad darker than the ones on the TW website, though I wouldn't say its too far off... mine looks a lil darker than in person because it was really cloudy today = not a lot of light haha! still a superb colorway tho!
Rhino it goes without saying"dopeness on a stick on your vapor set! I can't believe some of these sellers on the bay trying to get rid of those 287s for 3-10Gs?!
sports4eva115 that teal cw on the 4.3s are smoking! I've bought almost every cw and that's the next one on the chopping block.
Thanks, now I just want those US Open Vapor IV's but I've only ever seen a couple of pairs on The Bay and they were too expensive.
Yes it's a shame for the fans who want the 287's. Unfortunately there are still people paying just above $2000, so the sellers stand firm. I paid $800, which I thought was a bit steep at the time but it could've been worse.
I have a pair of those US open IVs. Thee toe area is really yellow now from age. I remember getting them for 30$ at the outlet along with the US open vapor Vs for 40$. I loved the IV's because of the leather or whatever upper.
Got these in the mail yesterday, played a high school singles and doubles match in them last night, much more comfortable than the last 2 pair of 4.3s I had!
To further this, my adidas running/trail shoes have Continental (tires) rubber soles
they look really nice, IMO, probably the rubber toe yellow looks a bit weird - but most people' are
Finally had a chance to take them all out of the box for a group pic!
From top to bottom, left to right: (but you guys all know your shoes anyway!)
adidas Barricade Team 2, adidas Barricade Team 2, adidas Barricade Team 1 (I actually have two pairs of these)
Nike Courtballistec 1.2, Babolat Propulse 4, Asics Gel Resolution 4
The CB's are my oldest pair and least comfortable so it's just for practice. The GR4 is my main shoe right now.
Got these for a great price. Seems like other don't want pink shoes, lol.
would you show a pick of your wearing the pink vapors with the pink socks. kinda curious what it looks like.
I'm in the market for some new shoes - currently using barricade 4s, how does the fit on the barricades compare to the asics and babolats?
I will try to do that tomorrow once I hit the courts again.
My adidas are 10.5 and pretty snug. The asics GR4, had to go down a size to 10 and fit great but sometimes I'll wear two socks for a really snug fit.
The Babolat PP4 is from the TW playtest so I was being cautious and went with the 11 since I couldn't try them on but I wish I had gone with 10.5. I am able to wear one sock if I really tighten the laces and straps but two socks really help here as well. My feet don't move around in the shoe so it's ok that I ordered a size too big.
Overall, I'm really happy with all three shoes but the asics are the most comfortable.
Barricades still seem clunky to me, even when they are lighter then the Nike's CBs...
Asics too flimsy if you are very heavy, but then again, I've never tried their top model (resolution or w/e), but the medium ones (around $60 on sale) and I ended up using them for walking. Their inside lining gives way pretty quick too, compared to all other brands(Addidas, Nike etc)
Just be sorting my room out, and this is the current stock
Thanks for the insight guys.
Regular, and Extra Strength.
I've got another pair just like them when these wear out,
Here's my contribution
Nice Classic design.
thanks raph!
"Vapor 9 Clay" (Stadium grey / Total crimson) just came home !
(bought for half their normal price)
Beautiful shoes !
^^^ love that colorway
Are these the turquoise?
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Geographic FractalisationPosted by Bradley L. Garrett on Friday Mar 18, 2011 Under Academia, Arrivals, Breaking and Entering, Celebration, Cultural Geography, Departures, Freedom, Geography, Heritage, Home, Psychogeography, Ruins, Surrealism, Uncategorized, Urban Exploration
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
–Raoul Duke
I arrived in Syracuse, NY and escaped as planned in my newly-acquired '88 Dodge, speeding into the Canadian winter wonderland with every intention of sucking the life out of every moment that I encountered. Dressed in black, masked up, layering my thin California skin against the wrath of Persephone, I had every intention of doing what we do best – turning an idea, absurd, slippery and unmanageable, into resolute action with a resultant outcome of epicness. I know the formula. However, expressed in this way the "idea" is only an ideal problem, which in reality takes on an unsettling and radical complexity. The problem was, perhaps, in the way I had become accustomed to how our band operated; firstly in our interdependency and then in our relative immunity. Crossing the border into Canada, I screamed through like a drunk whirlwind, smoke from a California sage bundle pouring through the windows, blasting leftover dubstep which had fermented in a Tupperware container with the lid taped down so it wouldn't spill, jumping around in the passenger seat, totally unaware that I was radically out of place. The topographical fractilisation finally evidenced itself when I pulled into Niagara Falls to stare at a tailrace now inaccessible. I have clearly underestimated the impact that seeing the Belly of the Beast sewn shut would have on my explorer constitution. Soberly drinking a very well made whiskey sour, I took a photo of Niagara falls with the other tourists and drove off to park in some farmers crop where I slept in the car, shivering and bored.
It occurred to me in a frostbitten hallucination that the photos I took were not flatly captured do to any technical limitation but because of the lack of required investment in either meaningful human exchange at the moment of shutter release nor interesting endeavour toward the moment of acquisition. A determination as to which of these factors was leading to my disillusionment became a primary goal for the trip.
But the fear set in with the realization that the expectant fracturilisation had begun to make it's move from spatial to psychological. Mental processes began to take unrecognisable forms which, at times, could only be understood in moments of lucid dreaming or utopic drug visions. My PhD thesis began acting as a gravitational tractor beam, pulling me back to the mother ship as I continued to struggle toward the liberating slavery where my work could be completed in an appropriately manly fashion. This seemingly productive internal feedback loop taking me to 'work' however, in this context, led me to a constant sensual disenfranchisement that I had forgotten in London. The pinnacle came in Chatham, Ontario, where the car broke down and I was yanked from it by a thick-necked Canadian with a machine gun who told me I 'had a mouth on me'. He seized the vehicle, called me in a 'transient', and left me standing in sub-zero temperatures with my roly suitcase. It was fucking cold.
I left the burning, green fluid-spurting car with the police and escaped Canada on a boarder-hopping shuttle full of old people without event. I caught a plane from Detroit. My line of flight to Minnesota was not to be realised and I called Darlinclem from the airport, impossibly bitter. Sweet as ever, she agreed to reschedule our Subterranean Twin City rampage for the summer.
Upon arriving in Las Vegas, the suggested endpoint for my roadtrip that barely happened, it occurred to me that the required to remedy for the situation was some old school Place Hacking. A quick personal database query revealed an aircraft boneyard halfway to LA and I hit the road. Arrival revealed incomprehensible dereliction, dozens of square miles of dead planes, military housing, cinemas, shopping malls and a giant hospital now used for urban military training. All required sneaking around inside the defunct George Air Force Base, now the Southern California Logistics Airport. It felt a lot like an abandoned Soviet military base in Poland. Except for the tumbleweeds and sand. And paintball remnants. Well that and there weren't statues of Lenin everywhere. I guess they weren't really that similar.
I was relying on known variables here trying to rip space into time with my subtle knife, creating temporal amalgamations and fresh spatiotemporalexperiential concoctions with salt and lime. My own past was here somewhere, past the Canadian ice sheets and industrial ruins of Detroit, here in a desert full of tumbleweeds, sagebrush, jackrabbits, adobe and agave. This past had to retain it's juvenile viscerality, that recognition that it's articulation historically does not mean recognizing it 'the way it really was'. It means appropriating a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger. But the danger coalesced limply. Rather than London riot police attacking me with batons, I found overweight security guards easily converted though commiseration with their existential misery. I kept praying for military police to show up so Silent Motion would descend from a rooftop to take one in the eye with a ninja star while Patch kicked another through a wall with his famous swift boot. Everyone I encountered was so apathetic, they didn't even care what my mission was, why I was wearing a giant cowboy hat covered in bodhi seeds or for what reason I was photographing their derelict hospital. The contrast between the furiousness of their illusions of control and the lacklustre enforcement of the stated boundaries was nothing short of disheartening. Freedom without boundaries is pointless.
Despite my misgivings, the moments of encounter between the present and the past, experienced through physically exploring abandoned architecture, uncovered that old embodied practice that mirrors the role of the archaeologist assaying surface material without deep excavation to analyse the character a place, as expected. It's just that I undertook my surface survey of affectation by making connections more topologically than topographically these days. I successfully temporarily inhabited those sites of material history and constructed assemblages of emotional and memorial attachments that melded pluritemporal geographic, historical and experiential imagination, perhaps one day subject to nostalgic romanticism and that was sort of satisfying. But they remained, in my mind, the product of a life left behind, each composition an infantile regression. As such, I revisited those sites of old from my research, a babe suckling a solipsistic personal history missing all my favourite characters.
The only thing, as always, that remained of interest was those impossible-to-ignore topographic characteristics, those moments when I felt London was in the desert in me and that my crew could feel the Mojave through our tingling warder bond. These are the singular incorporeal constellations which belong to natural and human history, and at the same time escape them by a thousand lines of flight. I arrived in the desert where I will write our stories and found that here the radio crackles and hums with talk of evacuation zones and potassium iodide. I'm sitting here picking at my fingernails and refreshing news pages over and over to the faint scent of burning plastic and I'm in Fukushima. It is heavenly in it's apocalyptic serenity, useless it is ineffectual attempt at human connectivity, terrible in it's aftermath.
In the end, it is the decentralization of disruptive energy created by my need to tug my thread into the desert that is causing the angst behind it all. I need it. I know that. At the same time, the media connectivity feeding me streams of information from the home I left, knowing that I am here to produce a theoretical contribution that neither I, or anyone I have come to respect by now cares much about also lingers. But more than that, it is the realisation that the dream of freedom I was taught as a child is a sham. The United States is not the land of the free, it is the land of the subjugated, the apathetic and the weak while the fight rages on in Europe and North Africa for the future world we will inhabit. My throat is dry while the deserts of the Middle East run red with the blood of a desire the population in this derelict desert has forgotten is theirs to take. And so I write.
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Trainee guards miss fake bombs in car - then return it to hire firm
It was one thing for trainees at the elite military police bodyguard unit to miss two fake bombs hidden in a car's glove box during an exercise.
It was quite another thing that the car was rented from Hertz - and was then returned to the hire firm's Sydney Airport office with the mock improvised explosive devices (IEDs) still in place.
The blunder, outlined in an investigation report obtained under freedom of information, sparked a major bomb scare and a partial shutdown of the domestic airport car park that lasted several hours on July 4. A disciplinary investigation is now under way.
In the end it fell to Hertz cleaners to find the devices nearly a fortnight after the car was returned to the airport.
Although the devices were ''inert'' and ''posed no threat to the safety of the public'', they looked real enough to Hertz staff. The car rental firm called the police ''due to the realistic nature of the two devices'', the report by the Australian Defence Force Investigative Service states.
Bomb disposal experts from the Australian Federal Police spent several hours examining the fake IEDs, a favoured weapon of insurgents in countries such as Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Hertz checked their records and found the car was one of several vehicles hired for six-and-a-half weeks by the Defence Police Training Centre at Holsworthy Barracks.
A no doubt red-faced officer from the training centre arrived at the airport and confirmed the devices were used in exercises for students training to become ''close personal protection operatives'' or CPPOs.
CPPOs are elite bodyguards assigned to protect senior defence personnel and politicians when they travel to dangerous countries, as well as foreign military VIPs visiting Australia.
Lieutenant Commander Robert Dokter, the executive officer of the training centre, told investigators that ''the devices had been hidden inside the vehicle as part of a training activity . . . but they had not been discovered by the CPPO . . . students''.
On top of this, the officer who rented the cars had gone on holiday by the time the students finished the exercise, the report states. ''As a result . . . the devices were inadvertently left in the vehicle when it was returned to Hertz,'' it states.
Commander Dokter has carried out his own inquiry into the incident to ''ensure no further reoccurrences''. The Defence Command Support Training Centre and the Army Administrative Inquiry Centre are carrying out independent inquiries.
The report stresses that the carpark closure did not cause any delays to flights.
It also concluded that NSW Police ''were not considering any further action in relation to the matter and accepted that the incident arose from an oversight in accounting procedures and not from any criminal intent''.
The Military Police page on the ADF's website states that CPPOs provide security to ''high profile personnel or VIPs who are likely to be terrorist, criminal or military targets due to their grade, assignment, symbolic value, vulnerabilities and/or location''.
Last year, an auditor's report found that Defence had failed to recover three-quarters of the bombs, cartridges and other lethal explosives stolen or lost in recent years despite pressure to account for the explosives.
David Wroe is the defence and national security correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
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Until now the Honda Fit EV has frustratingly only been available at select dealerships in California and Oregon. Well, by the end of February, the Honda Fit EV will be hitting the East Coast (which is still frustrating for those us in the state of Washington, but "Yay!" for the East Coast).
The Honda Fit EV will be available to lease (still can't purchase one) at select dealerships in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey. While we are certainly happy for residents of the eastern seaboard, we are jealous its 118 mpg and EPA-rated 82 mile range is still not an option for us here in Washington.
The Honda Fit EV will be available to lease for $389 for 36 months as a part of Honda's 'real world feedback' efforts before fully releasing it to the rest of us.


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Why review a monochromatic, monaural, lip-synched film of 1956? Foremost among the reasons is Anna Moffo. Until and unless the Madama Butterfly is found, this recording explains more than any pages of text her explosion onto the opera scene and her persistence near the top for more than a decade. She is, in a word, riveting. Beauty of voice and appearance, dramatic sense and realization of the possibilities of the score mark her performance.Opera Japonica
Moffo joined the Met in 1959, singing light, lyric soprano roles
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The reason I ask is after riding my 29er solely for so long, I can't see myself ever going back to the small wheels BUT I am interested in giving the Intense Tracer 275 a go and will be test riding the snot out of one in the next few weeks.
Just interested to see what the 29ers think, personally I'm going to reserve judgement but I'm not expecting to jump the 29er ship anytime soon, although I am quite open to stand corrected.
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Much of the credit for Blu-ray Discs' rapid
surge in sales beginning in 2007 is given to the launch of the PlayStation
3. Sony's newest console brought to the market an incredible value for the
high-definition home theater enthusiast.
The PlayStation 3 remains one of the market's cheapest, but
most capable Blu-ray Disc movie players – but oddly enough, that fact isn't as
well known as one may believe. In fact, research results released by NPD Group
suggest that the majority of gamers, including owners of Xbox 360 or
PlayStation 3 consoles, are oblivious to their machine's high-definition
Amazingly, the report finds that only 40 percent of
PlayStation 3 owners knew that the games machine was fully capable of playing
Blu-ray Disc movies. And of those who knew about the Blu-ray feature, only half
had used it to play a movie during the last 10 times they used the console. The
remaining half who knew about the movie player capabilities do not take
advantage of the feature.
While movies may not be on every gamer's agenda, only 30
percent of Xbox 360 owners knew of the machine's high-definition gaming output
capabilities, with the number rising to 50 percent in the case of PS3 owners.
This suggests that the majority of current generation gaming still takes place
on standard-definition televisions.
"The industry is still in its infancy with regard to
this "next-gen" and all the expanded capabilities of the
systems," said NPD analyst Anita Frazier to 1UP.
"Gameplay is still king, and it may take awhile for the awareness and
usage of the additional features to really take hold with consumers."
Those with HDTVs may be wishing for a
high-definition Wii, but given the NPD Group's findings, it's easy to
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Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson With Maxwell on Easter
Jessica Simpson Spends Easter Sunday With Eric, Maxwell, and Bronx
Jessica Simpson Spends Easter Sunday With Eric, Maxwell, and Bronx
Jessica Simpson and her fiancé, Eric Johnson, took their daughter, Maxwell, who held on to a stuffed bunny, out for a walk in LA yesterday. Jessica wore running shoes after giving up heels during her second pregnancy. She tweeted last week that she's been "practicing walking in flats around my house." Eric later emerged again with Maxwell in his arms and Ashlee Simpson's son, Bronx, wrapped around his leg.
The Simpsons' Sunday outing was just one of many Easter celebrations going on with stars, including Jessica Alba's pastel family outing and Molly Sims's beach getaway. Jessica was back on the West Coast for the Spring festivities following her trip to Charlotte, NC, with Maxwell and sister Ashlee last weekend.
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Apparently, gender still matters to some people - at least enough to ask a semi-embarrassing question... ;) Reminds me of a story Patrick told me. Some people at APC were apparently talking about people they'd met online, and there was some confusion as to the gender of a 'sachac'. They thought 'sachac' was gay because of the way sachac typed. Patrick had to... ahh... straighten them out.
10 things about life Hong Kong taught me in 24 hours.
1. It pays to be a girl.
People are just so much nicer and more patient.
2. Chat up the cab drivers
They'll tell you more about a place then a guidebook and might even knock off a few dollars from the meter rate if they feel like they took a longer route. My cab driver took a couple wrong turns and insisted I pay HK$ 10 less than what was required.
3. Pack light and wear thick socks.
You never know when you'll have to walk all over the place luggage in tow.
4. McDonalds: A gift for beleaguered travellers.
When you're too tired to play multiple guess with a chinese menu and don't have the stamina to get yourself understood. Surrender and crawl to McDonalds. You might be considered a philistine for doing so but at least you'll get what you expected.
5. Never overestimate the kindness of your countryfolk
"Ay Pinay!" Okay, so I let my guard down a bit and consequently got ripped off twice. Once by a Filipino (who convinced me I needed another call card) and the other time by a Filipino store. The place I got checked into was on top of a Filipino crafts store, I thought it couldn't be THAT bad... it was... worse. See item #8)
6. Anything that's too cheap to be good is probably too good to be true.
Case point: I missed the backpacking lifestyle so I gave the HK youth hostels a try. Booking a bed at the Mt. Davis Jockey Club YH, I learned that for only HK$95 per night you get a bed with linen in a dormitory. Located in a place with historical military significance, on a deserted mountain hideaway surrounded by two major cemeteries. Plus an obligatory cleaning chore before you leave each morning. Getting to the hostel though is a walk in a park... a fairly large park (it takes half an hour to hike down). Good thing there's a shuttle which runs 4 times a day, because most taxi drivers will try to avoid going through the hairpin turns which riddle the steep road to the hostel. :) For a truly haunting experience, give this a go.
7. Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you'll find it's possible to dig even deeper.
So I thought my first choice was bad. Called up a friend quickly and asked him to find me an inexpensive (I meant budget, not cheap) room nearer to Central. Given the previous choice and the next one, sleeping on the streets didn't seem entirely unappealing.
8. If your accomodations are listed under tourist attractions... You're either at the Ritz or the Red Light District.
I can't afford the Ritz and I thought it would be like Kingscross in Australia. It wasn't.
9. Keep in touch with old friends.
I'm staying in a nice, safe, familiar place tonight. My friend Elaine lives in New Territories, and though it's closer to China than Hong Kong Central, after last night's escapade, I'm glad the only thing I'll have to brave is the distance.
10. Tomorrow's a new day.
So I made a few errors in judgement. I survived and now have a story to tell. I'm a bit wiser now and so the next day will be different. Today was actually a really productive day for me. :) Wish me luck though, I still have a couple more days in Hong Kong.
Disclaimer: As of the moment, I love being in Hong Kong. Its a city that never seems to have a still moment (unless you're marooned on Mt. Davis).To experience Hong Kong is to lay siege on your senses. Nothing here is average. The juxtaposition of extremes blend into something that is uniquely Hong Kong.
In 24 hours I've seen places and things that are truly old or ultra-modern, dirt cheap or outrageously expensive. Even the people reflect this diversity, in the way they live and dress. Though you see the extremes, you don't quite feel the polarity. Its inexplicable, its Hong Kong....
Though every muscle in my body craves for rest, my spirit isn't weary. The first 24 hours weren't the greatest, but Hong Kong doesn't stop for anyone, so life goes on.


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Book Report: Remedy/curse: Drug highs and lows
Thomas De Quincy was born on this day in 1785, and would later write an eerie book that captured the romantic imagination, "Confessions of an Opium Eater."
At about the same time, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was ingesting huge quantities of laudanum, liquid opium. One day he was as high as a kite and busy writing his immortal poem, "Kublai Khan."
He answered a knock on the door. It was a bill collector, who harassed him so long his high wore off.
And guess what, gentle readers, he never finished the poem.
If you don't believe me, read John Livingston Lowes' very heavy book about it.
With that as a lead-in, let's talk about other experiences with opium. Many years ago, I spent two weeks in a hospital.
One Sunday I was in great pain, and I exhausted my supply from the morphine pump.
I complained to the nurse.
"I can't do anything until I talk to doctor (it's never the doctor, always "doctor") and he's up north skiing.
She called and came back with a little tablet that looked like a piece of Sen-Sen. "Doctor said I should insert this opium suppository.
So I became not an opium eater, just an opium receptacle.
Within minutes I was in la-la land.
I've never felt so wonderful in my life. I awoke in the morning feeling as if I had just been ridden hard and put away wet.
I've never felt so awful in my life. The doctor, returned from his ski holiday came in, asked me how I felt.
I told him.
"Now you know," he said, "why they have opium dens in the Orient. It's the morning after that hooks you."
I've just finished a frightening new book, Steven Martin's, "Opium Fiend: A Memoir" (Villard Books, $26).
Martin, a freelance writer, had what seemed like a harmless hobby. He collected antique opium paraphernalia.
On a trip to the Orient to collect more pipes, he figured it wouldn't hurt to try a bit of opium, which was relatively easy to come by.
Before you knew it, he was hooked and financed his habit of smoking 30-40 pipes of opium per day by selling off his antique paraphernalia.
Finally he tries to kick the habit.
He goes it alone, no luck. He goes to a Buddhist monastery that specializes in treatment for such addictions.
It works, but then he falls off the wagon.
Finally, he gets clean, picks up his career, even gets a job as a consultant on opium for the TV series "Boardwalk Empire."
I recently read a piece in the New Yorker Magazine's "Talk of the Town" about Martin's adventure. The reporter asked Martin if he ever misses opium.
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I've noticed several attempts from my computer to contact my DNS server from either svchost.exe or no program listed.These are all mostly from port 1025, with some from 2048 - 2061.About 48 total attempts in the last 8 days.
Anyone have any idea what this is or how to track it down?ZA has blocked all attempts, so nothing has gotten out, still, it bothers me.
Don Wright
I have SBC DSL and am running it thru a Linksys router. No open ports on router.
And XP Pro. all updates installed.
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After winning the MLS Cup in November last year, Nick Rimando responded to countless interview questions about his ability to save penalty kicks. However, in one sense, PKs are the easy part of the game. Nobody between you and the ball, and only three choices: dive right, dive left or hold your ground.
The real challenge for a goalkeeper in soccer is dealing with situations during the run of play. A 'keeper is expected to be decisive, and create a fortress around the goal, but there's plenty going on to keep this from happening.
On opening day in San Jose, Rimando faced the challenge of a strong glare from the sun at a low angle, in the diminutive Buck Shaw Stadium. He also faced a slippery surface, which saw him lose his footing on a clearance out near the edge of the box. The botched clearance could have cost Real Salt Lake a goal as an opposing player gathered it just outside of the area, with a wide open goal awaiting as Rimando scrambled to his feet.
However, Rimando dismissed the notion of focusing on the particular nuances that occur with each match, insisting that the keys for a 'keeper are much simpler.
"Staying in the game and keeping the guys organized in front of me is what's most important," he shared with MLSsoccer.com this past week. "Staying in the game" means keeping that intense focus on what is happening around you. "If you lose that focus even for a second," Rimando explained, "the result can be a disaster."
There is literally a laundry list of things that can challenge that focus in this league: altitude, humidity, blinding sun, muddy surface, wet and slippery surface, small pitch, wide pitch and all of the action and interference going on in front of and around a 'keeper. These can all play a role in leading to a so-called disaster if a 'keeper allows them to do so.
Another challenge has emerged this season as well, said Rimando: "These balls do crazy things nowadays, and you've got to be prepared for anything."
One area of focus for a 'keeper is the free kick. "There are a lot of aspects that come into play," explained Rimando, "where it's at, does the ball have time to go up and come down and how many on the wall." For Rimando, his approach to constructing the wall has evolved over time. "The last few years," he said, "I've noticed that less is more, because you get to see more of the ball."
However, taking all of these factors into account, it's all really very simple: Take control of everything you can, and be solid in your approach, then let the chips fall where they may.
"For me, you've got to react," he said. "You can't get beat to your post, and you've got to let the wall do their job. If they do their job and it goes in, then you've got to give credit to the kicker."


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VTA will divert funding from Caltrain and their existing transit services to pay for service to Fremont from San Jose.Well guess what? I told you so.
"It's clear we can't see the BART project getting money if we're spending our local money on other projects," said VTA General Manager Michael Burns. "That just doesn't add up."
There's not enough cash to build the $6.1 billion BART extension along with the more than a dozen projects approved by voters eight years ago. That half-cent sales tax may produce $2 billion less than originally forecast.What is VTA specifically talking about cutting right now?
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Rick Ross has high praise for his royal collaborators Dr. Dre and Jay-Z, who sizzled the internet last night with "3 Kings," a new song from Ross' God Forgives, I Don't.
""You already know '3 Kings, ' I feel it's the biggest collaboration in hip-hop," Maybach Music boss told MTV of the much talked about song. "Not just this year, maybe previous years."
Indeed, the buzz surrounding Ross' star-studded track has been highly positive. "3 Kings" has managed to capture the imagination of fans because, after all, it's not everyday the legendary producer Dr. Dre jumps on a song. Add the headlining likes of Jay-Z and one of the hottest emerging boss MCs in the game, Rick Ross, and you have an event record that actually lives up to the hype.
[Listen to "3 Kings" here]
But according to Rozay, the collaboration happened surprisingly easily.
"I got on the phone with Dre and we just talkin' about collaborating and he was gonna come down to Miami for the first time to record with me in my element, in my zone," Ross told MTV of how "3 Kings" track came together. "He came to Miami. I walked in the studio, I seen big homey, I turnt up," Ross recalled. "First night in the studio we went and did five records."
But Ross didn't stop there. For his upcoming solo album, God Forgives, I Don't, the Miami rapper envisioned an even bigger statement. So he called past collaborator Jay-Z to add his indelible talents to the Jake One-produced track. "Jay-Z, that's my big homey man and from day one anything I've ever asked O.G. for he always came through for me, so it's vice-versa," he said. "He got a gangsta right here for life. "We cooked up a masterpiece," he added. "This is a big joint right here."
But Dre and Hova are not the only heavyweights that are set to appear on God Forgives, I Don't. Andre 3000, Usher, Ne-Yo, and Drake are among the acts that show up on the July 31st release.—Keith Murphy, CBS Local


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dang what a lucky hit.
dang what a lucky hit.
What is Pittsburgh hitting with RISP this series. It seems like every time they have a guy on 2nd or 3d they get them in. It does not matter if the guy is a .192 hitter, they seem to get hits.
Leake is just so danged pedestrian. He drives me crazy. Heisey makes one of the best catches in baseball this season and Leake rewards the team by serving up pure weakness. Since the 4th they've been pounding him.
I heard your record..it's alright.
we can still win this!
WOW thats a strike.
Joey Votto. I don't even have to say it. On again.
leadoff single.
votto is the best clutch hitter i've seen.
WOW thats a strike???
2 on nobody out.
Phillips singles. Votto stops at second.
BP with a hit -- now is the time get a cushion
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no double play please
votto was going to 3rd.
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