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SportsZone Bar and Grill: A Cornucopia Culture of Downtown
The SportsZone Bar and Grill:
A Cornucopia Culture of Downtown
By Barbara Greenbauer
The SportsZone Bar and Grill on the Square in Downtown Tyler is now a go-to spot to eat, hangout and get your fill of sports- themed fun and entertainment.
Josh Collins, local owner and operator, wants everyone to know that "Downtown has a new lunch spot" and it's a great local bar and grill that is all about community with a "Cheers-type mentality, where everyone is welcome."
The place is light, bright, and filled with sports memorabilia, with a great-looking bar and high tabletops galore. With a brand new revamped menu, the SportsZone is ready to bring you great food in a space with a different vibe than your regular sports scene. It's never a loud, in-your face crowd, there's plenty of parking Downtown, and plenty to do inside.
While you try your hand at the pool or foosball tables, you can chow down on a great burger with a side of waffle fries. You will really get your fill of sports, as the restaurant is lined with 10 big screen TV's. The view from any seat in the house is stellar. There is always a Texas team on the screen somewhere in the restaurant. There's even TV's in the restrooms because they don't want you to miss a second!
Dart aficionados can try their luck at the dart boards or try your hand at a game of beer pong.
"We really support the Downtown culture," says Collins. "We can be the spot to go to before or after a show at Liberty Theater. I don't think folks in Tyler realize how many people live and work Downtown and the community continues to grow."
The Bar and Grill supports local events like Red Dirt BBQ and Music Festival, Hit the Bricks 2nd Saturdays, and the Rose City Farmer's Market, "to support and spread the word about the great things happening Downtown," said Collins.
Step inside the bar and grill and you will want to hang out, use the free Wi-Fi, watch some TV, and taste what the kitchen has to offer.
The edible options at the SportsZone are fast and healthy too. Lunch variables include an out of this world chipotle black bean veggie burger, seared tuna salad, and a grilled chicken salad. Lunch is served Monday-Friday 11am-2pm.
The bar and grill, open 7 days a week, features a great mixture of fare, from "Beginners" like onion rings, pickle fries, frito chili pie, chili cheese waffle fries, "Not your Mamas's Churros," humus and naan bread, and battered corn bites.
For more hearty appetites, try the ultimate BLT, fried chicken sandwich, chicken fingers, or their spectacular wings. Their wings are uniquely double-baked with choice of BBQ, lemon pepper, flaming hot or special Zone sauce. The new chickenless wings are so good that you won't even realize that they are vegetarian! They can also handle to-go orders, but guarantee fast and efficient service during the peak lunch hours. "We want to be known as the new Tyler lunch destination," said Collins.
The "Out of the Oven" pizzas include margarita, Hawaiian, or the much requested, "Build your own" with toppings including pepperoni, sausage, hamburger, Canadian bacon, black olives, mushrooms, jalapenos, and roasted tomatoes. You can get a super lunch special with a slice of pizza, side salad and a drink for just $8.
The bar is a fully-stocked cornucopia of Texas liquors and beers and the bartenders are super friendly and accommodating. From Lone Star, Shiner, Deep Ellum and ET Brewery, and True Vine – you'll find it at SportsZone. Every Tuesday, if it's made in Texas, it's on special. And if you are looking for something more exotic, the bar can handle almost any drink imaginable, all you have to do is ask!
There are always specials and giveaways going on – from Happy Hours to buckets of beer. Check their website and Facebook regularly to see what's happening. "A lot of our patrons are regular customers, but by word of mouth and social media, we've begun attracting a new group of folks who love being Downtown and taking advantage of all we have to offer," said Collins.
Come grab a drink, see a game and have a great meal at The SportsZone Bar and Grill, located at 115 E. Erwin, Downtown Tyler on the Square. Like them on Facebook at SportsZoneTyler, or Sportzonetyler.com. You can contact them at (903)266-9132. They are open Sundays 12pm-12am, Monday-Friday 11am-12am, Saturday 12pm-1am.
New Cocktails inline for "A Toast to CORE" at Razzoo's this Summer!
Razzoo's Cajun Café Partners To Support Restaurant Families
For over 25 years, guests have flocked to Razzoo's Cajun Café expecting exceptional Cajun food in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. However, many may not know that Razzoo's has a fantastic array of craft cocktails featuring fine spirits and fresh fruits and juices. On June 11th, Razzoo's launched two new specialty cocktails in a promotion titled "A Toast to CORE."
For every sale of these new drinks, Razzoo's will donate $1 to "CORE, Children of Restaurant Employees." Tito's Handmade Vodka will match that donation, up to $5,000.
The tasty new cocktails include: Tito's Peach Thyme Smash (Tito's vodka, Fresh Peaches, Sweet & Sour and Thyme), and Tito's Twizted Strawberry (Tito's vodka, Fresh Strawberries, Lemons, a splash of Sprite with a Twizzler straw).
CORE grants support to children of food and beverage service navigating life-altering circumstances. In times of extreme strain brought on by family death, injury or diagnosed medical condition, loss of home, or other sudden or extreme circumstances, food and beverage families can become overwhelmed financially and emotionally. CORE is the nationally recognized community of support for all food and beverage service families in need by ensuring they feel cared for and valued. Since 2004, CORE has raised more than $3 million and granted support to more than 350 families from across the industry and the country. Contributions from our COREporate Members and individual donors allows CORE to provide grants that keep our families safe, healthy, and happy.
"A Toast to CORE" will be celebrated through August 30th at all twenty Razzoo's Cajun Café locations in Texas and North Carolina.
"At Razzoo's we try not to take ourselves too seriously. What we do take seriously is our food and our service. To us, nothing is more fun than treating our guests to great food and a great time in one of our restaurants. That's why we're here. Our food is authentic, it's made from scratch every day in each restaurant and it's darn good. Some of it sounds a little weird, like Rat Toes (really, they aren't) or the Grilled Gator Tail (really, it is). Some of it is hard to pronounce, like the Shrimp Piquant or Chicken Tchoupitoulas – feel free to point when you order (that happens a lot). We've been at this for over 26 years and we've made a lot of friends along the way. We'd like to think that didn't happen by accident. So check out our menu, find the nearest location and hop in the car. We'll be at the door when you get here."
Razzo's is located at 7011 S. Broadway in Tyler, 903)534-2922, razzoos.com/tyler. They feature live music every Thursday evening starting at 6pm. July and August line up is:
- July 5th: Chris Colston Acoustic
- July 12th: The Haggertys
- July 19th: Blue Louie Acoustic
- July 26th: The Mansion Family
- August 2nd: The Leftovers
- August 9th: Riley Redding
- August 16th: Tyler Dudley
- August 23rd: Ally Venable
- August 30th: Al and the Longshots
July 14th: Hit The Bricks Auto & Cycle Show Downtown Tyler
There will be a FREE hop on/hop off shuttle sponsored by
Tyler Innovation Pipeline that will take you around Downtown.
PARKING IS FREE in the parking garage and on the square.
Visit Tyler in conjunction with Discovery Science Place and R.G. Car Show Productions is set to host the "Hit the Bricks Auto and Cycle Show" in Downtown Tyler July 14th, 10am-2pm.
There are expected to be 100-120 cars parked around the square in Downtown Tyler. The event is free and open to the public. Those wishing to enter their classic car or other vehicles in the show should register online at rgcarshows.com.
Attendees can also participate in games and prize drawings throughout the day. Sponsors for the prizes include: Visit Tyler, City of Tyler, ETX Brewing Co., Moss: Where Flowers are Fair, Don Juan's Mexican Restaurant, SportsZone, Ye Olde City Antique Mall and Olde City Market, Gallery Main Street, EGuide Magazine, Liberty Hall, and Goodman-LeGrand House & Museum.
Several other events will be happening that day hosted by Downtown businesses including art events, live music, shopping, and more.
Download the FREE app "EGuide Tyler" and select "Hit the Bricks" for events that will be going on July 14th Downtown Tyler.
All Day: Half Mile of History – This self-guided walking tour is an outdoor, half-mile loop around the square that commemorates significant people, places, or events in Tyler. A digital brochure for the self-guided tour is at ow.ly/s8iD30czlpb.
8-11am: Breakfast is served at ETX Brewing! Come dine on the best breakfast around with waffles, pancakes, breakfast sandwiches, tacos, and more.
8am-12 noon: The Rose City Farmers Market will be open with homegrown fruits, vegetables, herbs, pasture-raised beef, lamb, pork, chicken and turkey, free-range/non GMO eggs, goat cheeses, fresh bread, flowers, coffee, jams and jellies, baked goods, Texas olive oil, handcrafted art, and Texas fruit wines.
9am-9pm: Brands & Threads Grand Opening of Ridiculously Good Branding, located at 257 S. Broadway. Come celebrate with live screen printing, "Ridiculously Good" t-shirt sales, drinks, giveaways, 80's pop music, and all the high fives you can handle! Oh, and cool koozies too! The first 25 purchases get a free retro ice cold beer koozie.
10am-2pm: R.G. Car Show will present the Auto & Cycle Show downtown on the square. The public is welcome to view all of the cool cars and cycles for free! There will be vendors, music, and food trucks. Stop by the DJ booth and pick up a People's Choice ballot to vote on your favorite vehicle.
10am-4pm: "Paint a Car, Take It Home" will take place at Goodman Museum. This is free for the kiddos!
10am-4pm: Free Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt will be set up for families at the Smith County Historical Society Museum. A list of items to find will be provided. Children 18 and under who participate can receive a complimentary one-year Junior Membership.
10am-5pm: "The Return of the Dinosaurs" exhibit will be shown starting at 10am at Discovery Science Place. Take your picture riding a Triceratops or braving the jaws of a T-Rex! See two Protoceratops guarding their nest or view the long-necked Apatosaurus. View actual fossils along with animatronic models of the "terrible lizards" of long ago. "Return of the Dinosaurs" is featured in the DSP Annex building next door to the main museum building.
10am-5pm: Ye Olde City Antique Mall Treasure Hunt will again host "Summer Fun" at the Ye Olde City Complex where there are three great places to shop plus "cold" drinks, "cold" snacks, and free "cold" items in the monthly Treasure Hunt!
10am-8pm: The Artist Market will be open inside the HoT office located at 108 S. Broadway. Music will be provided by Michael Morse. Many artists will be exhibited in the air-conditioned office of Heart of Tyler including Sylvia Morse – Smooch-A-Licious Jewelry Designs.
1pm: Art Show with Blacksmith Sam Fontenot – Sam will be featuring and selling his custom unique metalwork designs at the Innovation Pipeline! These one-of-a-kind creations are sure to be objects of envy when friends and family visit your home. Don't miss this chance to purchase a truly unique and functional piece of art and shake hands with its creator.
2pm: Tyler Public Library Makerspace Workshop will be held. No reservations are needed and this is free to attend.
2-3:30pm: The Foundry presents Cheesecake & Coffee Pairing! The cost is $15 per ticket. Walk-ins welcome. Five Bryan's Cheesecakes will be paired with five Porch Culture offerings. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
2-4pm: Free Painting Party at Strada Caffe will be held, lead by Dace Kidd. No reservations are required. This is free to attend and there is no cost for painting or materials. All ages are welcome.
5:30-8pm: Opening of John Randall York Solo Show will be held at Gallery Main Street. The "Song of the House Where We Live" solo show by John York will have a free opening reception for the public. John Randall York was born in Tyler and has lived here most of his life. His grandfather, Henry York, was a photographer in Smith County in the early 1900's, traveling by horse and buggy. York was educated in Tyler public schools, attended TJC and received a BFA from The University of Texas at Tyler. He has also designed giftware for Fitz & Floy, Lenox, The Hamilton Collection, and S & D Fine Collectibles sold in Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Walt Disney World, and Bloomingdale's, and has illustrated five books for Gregory Miller, an author/teacher from Pittsburgh, PA.
8-10pm: Jordan Tydings Acoustic will be performing at Strada Caffe. There will be craft beer, wine, desserts, and small plate creations.
8-10pm: Card 53 will bring their unique style of improv "makemups" and will create for you an experience like no other in Tyler, made up entirely on the spot based off your suggestions! Card 53 strives each show to be what they consider "clean-ish." This is sponsored by True Vine Brewery. Tickets are available at the door for $15 but this show usually sells out fast.
8-10pm: Dubb & The Luv Machine in Concert will perform at ETX Brewing Co. There is no cover and this is a family and pet-friendly event.
8:30pm: The Haunted WALKING Tour of Downtown will be held. Tickets are $8 and available at toursoftyler.com. You must register in advance. Weather permitting.
9pm-1am: Post Profit will perform at Garage Bar. There is a cover charge and no one under 21 is admitted after 9pm.
9pm-1am: Trajikly White will be on stage at Rick's on the Square. There is a cover charge at the door and no one under 21 is admitted after 9pm.
9:30pm: The Haunted RIDING Tour of Downtown – Tickets are $15/person and available at toursoftyler.com. You must register in advance.
For a full list of events go VisitTyler.com/SecondSaturday or find the event on Facebook.
For dinner, sink your teeth into one of the local Downtown eateries. Find anything from cheap tacos and bar food to fine dining and everything in between.
Jack Ryan's Steak & Chophouse, located at 102 N. College Ave., features fine dining, wonderful food, and good drinks in the beautiful People's Petroleum building. They are open 5-10pm.
Black Pearl, located at 106 W. Erwin St., features a very classy atmosphere, delicious cocktails, and a nice menu of oysters that are prepared right in front of you. They are open 4pm-12 midnight.
Rick's on the Square, located at 104 W. Erwin St., features a lively crowd on Saturday evenings, a full menu and a live band outside on the patio. If you just want to eat, you can sit inside in the dining room. They are open 4pm-1am.
Don Juan's Mexican Restaurant, located at 113 E. Erwin, is a locals' favorite and features Mexican food and heavenly margaritas. They are open 12 noon-10pm.
SportsZone, located at 115 E. Erwin St., features TV's everywhere you look and a great menu of yummy food: onion rings, chili cheese waffle fries, green chili churro bites, create-your-own burgers, sandwiches, wings, and a few salads. They are open at 12 noon-1am.
Garage Bar, located at 418 E. Erwin St., has burgers, hot dogs, daily specials, and wings. They are open 4pm-1am.
The Foundry Coffee House, located at 202 S. Broadway, has coffee creations, teas, pastries, and quiche. They have several seating options like couches, comfy chairs, tables, a bar, as well as free wifi. They are open at 7am-11pm.
The Porch at ETX Brewery, located at 221 S. Broadway, offers breakfast every Saturday 7:30-11am, tables inside and outside, and classics for lunch and dinner like burgers, Mac 'n Cheese Fries, Fried Cheese Curds, and The Kitchen Sink Sandwich, and of course, brewed on site craft beers. They are open 7:30am-12 midnight. It is pet friendly outside on the patio.
Strada Caffè, located at 302 E. Front St., is just a little off the downtown area. They feature coffee and espresso, teas, breakfast sandwiches, salads and "Strada Evenings" with craft beer and wine.
There's no excuse to leave hungry with all of the dining options Downtown.
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Hit the Bricks: Second Saturday is an event you won't want to miss! Rain or shine, cold or hot, there will always be something to do in Downtown on the second Saturday of every month. Grab your friends and family and "Hit the Bricks!" For a full list of activities each month go to VisitTyler.com/SecondSaturday or find the event on Facebook.
ETX Brewing Company: Good Times Are Brewing Downtown
By Johnny Griffith
If you ask ten different people on the street what comes to mind when they hear the word "beer," odds are you'll get ten distinctly different answers. Ask the same question of Brian and Matt Gilstrap and you'll get one answer: family.
Brian and Matt, along with Brian's wife Annie, are the founders and operators of ETX Brewing Company, Tyler's second brewery to open and the newest addition to the growing downtown rebirth here in the Rose City.
Originally born in Arlington, both the brothers Gilstrap moved around Texas over the years after attending Texas State University in San Marcos. Brian and Annie met in college where he majored in Business Finance, and Matt majored in Computer Science. Following a move by Brian and Annie to Tyler in 2005 due to a promotion and now living in different parts of the state, Matt and Brian would come together to hang out for the weekend and began brewing beer as a hobby. Twelve years later, they realized their longtime vision of transforming the hobby into a business and now genuinely live their motto for ETX Brewing, "Do What You Love, Love What You Do."
When the vision became a reality, Matt sold his house in Austin, left his job, and moved to Tyler to help with the task of taking the brewery from the garage to the masses. After considering several different locations, the Gilstrap's finally settled on a former tire service center just off downtown on S. Broadway. After several months of hard work, the vast majority of which was done themselves, the crew at ETX Brewing Company opened their brewery and taproom in January of this year to rave reviews and thirsty crowds.
With art from local artists hanging on the walls and beer brewed on site in the facility visible from the bar, flowing through the taps, ETX Brewing Company has the feel of something you'd find on either South Congress in Austin or downtown Ft. Worth. There is a decidedly modern feel, but not so much that the character of the owners doesn't show through. Brian and Matt kept the roll-up doors of the former service center in place, which allows the bar area to have a more open feel and beckons passersby on South Broadway to stop in and take a break from their hectic schedules.
I recently sat down with Matt and Brian to talk with them about the Brewery and sample some of their libations.
Johnny: Of all the things you could be doing in life, why a brewery?
ETX Brewery: Brewing quality beer has been a hobby and a passion for the brothers for many years now. Four and a half years ago Brian and Annie had twins born prematurely at 25 weeks gestation weighing in at 11 oz. and 9 oz. They were immediately care-flighted to a higher level NICU in Dallas, where they spent the next 4.5 months. Matt made the drive every other weekend to spend time with them in the hospital. At that point, perspective on life, in general, changed forever. Life is far too precious and short to not be spending it doing what you love.
Johnny: What was THE beer that hooked you into the craft scene?
ETX Brewery: Unanimously, Dogfish Head 60min IPA was the beer we all shared together and loved.
Johnny: How did you get from your first batch of homebrew to a full blown brewery?
ETX Brewery: A lot of reading and educating ourselves on new techniques. We were constantly striving to make better beer each time. Practice! Practice! Practice! And of course, sampling the product and asking others for feedback.
Johnny: What have been some of the biggest challenges to get to this point?
ETX Brewery: With any new business, there are challenges of finances and construction, but the nature of opening a brewery brings additional legal hurdles, deciding on the size of equipment, and what beers to commit to brewing. Add to that the fact that we pretty much did all of the work on the brewery ourselves, it gives us a deep appreciation of where we are now.
Johnny: How much of a foothold does craft beer have in east Texas at this point?
ETX Brewery: Craft beer is just on the cusp of becoming big here in east Texas. For a large majority of east Texans, they are new to experiencing craft beer and especially to visiting a brewery. Our goal is really to provide an education to help people understand more about craft beer and what to look for when choosing a brew.
Johnny: How important was the location in the downtown area?
ETX Brewery: We were thrilled to have found a location in the downtown area. We love being a part of the revitalization that is happening Downtown! With all of the amazing businesses going in on and around the square, Downtown Tyler is turning into a "must see" for locals and visitors alike.
Johnny: What will customers be able to do at the brick and mortar location? Buy beer? Drink beer? Fill growlers? Hear live music?
ETX Brewery: Our tap room will have a variety of beers available at all times, which will be changing on a regular basis. Customers will be able to come in and sample or purchase these varieties by the pint. We will have live music on a regular basis, too. Our goal is to be a fun, laid back atmosphere to relax and enjoy a good brew with good company. We are also currently in the works to plan monthly events where a majority of the proceeds will go back to local charities here in east Texas.
Johnny: What is the beer lineup currently?
ETX Brewery: We currently have 6 beers on tap:
- Test Batch 1 – An American Pale Ale, a bright filtered Golden Ale
- Red House Wheat – An American Wheat unfiltered with slight notes of orange
- 1846 IPA – Easy drinking and flavorful from the heavy dry hopping with El Dorado hops
- Test Batch 2 – Blonde Ale, unfiltered and dry-hopped after fermentation to add a floral aroma
- Coffee City Stout – A Stout made with coffee, chocolate, and oatmeal (made with Belgian chocolate and locally roasted coffee from Coffee City USA)
- Hitching Post – Amber Ale, a perfect balance of malt and hops producing caramel notes and a malty sweetness
Coming soon: Black IPA – A Mexican Lager, American pale ale
We also have a non-alcoholic Root Beer which we make in house.
Johnny: I know you just opened, but what's next on your agenda for ETX Brewing?
ETX Brewery: We'd like to improve the site and make a friendly space for food trucks, so we have something in the works for that as well as an area out back for live music and more seating. The response has been fantastic so far, and the atmosphere downtown is bringing more traffic back to the area, so we want to make sure we're in a position to take care of the people who decide to spend their time hanging out with us.
Johnny: What kind of experience are you hoping new customers will take away from ETX Brewing?
ETX Brewery: We hope they will walk away with a better understanding of craft beer. A lot of people are afraid to try a craft beer when they see it on a menu at a restaurant. We want to take that fear away and empower the customer to know what they are looking for in craft beers.
ETX Brewing Company is located at 221 S. Broadway in Downtown Tyler. For more info call (903)630-7720, find them on www.facebook.com/ETXBrew or go to etxbrew.com.
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I am not proud of it but within me, I know I am 'dragging' myself despite maintaining a happy disposition.
I have always been an optimistic person and I know there will be things not within my control BUT I ask myself, why do I need a 'validation' to do what's right?
I just want to embrace life, bring love to everyone around me but yet, I have this lump in my throat and constantly harbouring fear.
What's wrong with me??? Why am I 'living in fear'?
Have I changed my preference to suit everyone?
In that process, did I 'hurt' my soul?
This day I snapped, I snapped at myself and I think I don't need a 'validation' from anyone.
Sorry if this is not a cheery post but I guess it has been long overdue.


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I have thought for years about a new name for straw bale construction. In truth, my thoughts have been casual over that time. I am at a turning point where I would like to invest in the depth of this group to ask the question: What is a better name for straw bale construction?
You may have seen my post where I offer the feedback that many buyers are turned away by the name straw bale construction because of the instant negative images that pop into their heads. They never bother to even visit a home for sale because of those images. Once they see the home, they are usually drawn in and amazed at the beauty of the home but if they won't even come to visit, many buyers are lost.
If we really want this material to move into the mainstream, which I do, then we have to understand how the mainstream thinks. Most people, in my experience, do not want to build a house out of straw because they think it will mold, it will smell like a barn, it will grow grass, etc! That knee jerk reaction is preventing many people from realizing the potential of this great building material.
Consider adobe. What a romantic name. If I said I was building a house out of mud and straw, most people would laugh and walk away. But if I say adobe, images of the Southwest immediately pop into most people's heads. So, what is the romance name for straw bale? I ask that you start throwing out some options and let's see if we can agree on something new to draw in the millions who want what we can offer but are turned off by the name.


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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police arrested two men following a three-vehicle accident on Route 7 North at around 6:40 a.m. on Wednesday, March 19. Police said the accident occurred in the northbound lane of the road when Brian Baldwin, 42, of Middlebury allegedly rear-ended a vehicle in front of him that had stopped.
ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police responded to 68 South Main St. in Whiting on March 19 at 11:20 p.m. in an attempt to locate Wayne Bezanson, who had a warrant for his arrest.
While troopers were attempting to take Bezanson into custody he began to resist arrest. Police allege that Pamela Jean Thomas, 49, of Whiting began to assist Bezanson in resisting arrest by preventing troopers from handcuffing him.
Troopers did eventually subdue Bezanson and take him into custody.
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3/22 Midd. vs. Bowdoin.......................... 10-4
3/25 Endicott vs. Midd. ........................ 14-12
Women's Lacrosse
3/22 Midd. vs. Bowdoin.......................... 14-6
3/25 Midd. vs. RIT................................. 19-4
RIPTON'S ABI JEWETT won the slalom for girls age 14 and under on March 14 at Stowe at the United States Ski Association Eastern U-14 Championships. The event brought together skiers from New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey to compete. By winning, Jewett earned the right to compete in a U-16 series later this month in Park City, Utah.
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RIPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students study and sketch the artwork on exhibit at the Middlebury College Museum of Art on March 7. The field trip was part of a Visual Thinking Strategies program between the school and the college. Pictured are fourth-grader Cody Martin, left, and third-graders Maggie Christner, Elise Heppell and Jacob Terrien.
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MONTPELIER — Middlebury Union High School senior Olivia Cacciatore will compete with peers from other Vermont high schools for a state title this Thursday evening, but it won't be in a gym or on a ski trail. She will be among the 10 finalists from the Poetry Out Loud semi-finals last week who will meet at the Vermont Public Television studio in Colchester.
TROY, N.Y. — Nine athletes on the Addison Otters Swim Team qualified for and participated in the Adirondack Gold Short Course Championship this past weekend at the Robison Pool in Troy, N.Y. Peter Bicknell coaches the Bristol-based team.
Qualifying for this meet is very difficult and gives the athletes the opportunity to swim against the best swimmers in the Adirondack league. To attend this meet the swimmer must have swum in two Adirondack meets in this swim season (October-March) and obtain a qualifying time.
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By Cliff Corcoran
With just 11 games left in their season, the Milwaukee Brewers trail the Cubs by four games in the loss column atop the National League Central, but are now just one game behind the Rockies for the second Wild Card spot in the NL. Twelve days ago, they lost their best starting pitcher, righty Jimmy Nelson, to a season-ending shoulder injury. But the Brewers never got down on themselves.
"We don't have a lot of margin for error," Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said after his team's 3-0 win over the Pirates in Pittsburgh Monday night, "so another win adds a little pressure to the teams we're chasing." (The Brewers took the second game in the series, 1-0, on Tuesday night and will go for the sweep on Wednesday night.)
"We have to keep winning," added Monday's starting pitcher, Brent Suter.
The Brewers have been doing just that. Tuesday night's win was their ninth in their past 11 games, a stretch over which they have outscored their opponents 61-26. That surge began with a three-game sweep of the Cubs in Chicago in which they outscored the defending World Series champions, 20-3. The Brewers still have four more games against the Cubs remaining, all of them in Milwaukee. That series opens on Thursday, and it seems likely that it will decide the fate of the Brew Crew.
The Cubs are by far the best team on the Brewers' remaining schedule, which consists exclusively of NL Central teams. Milwaukee got the best of Chicago earlier this month, but the Cubs have otherwise rediscovered their championship form in the second half of the 2017 season. Since play resumed after the All-Star break, the Cubs have gone 41-21 with a +107 run differential, both tops in the National League and second only to the Indians in the Majors in the second half. Since the Brewers swept them earlier this month, the Cubs have peeled off seven straight wins, padding their division lead in the process.
Meanwhile, the Rockies, the other team the Brewers are chasing, have picked up the pace themselves, going 10-5 since Sept. 4. And though Colorado dropped a game to the Giants on Tuesday, they have a series coming up against the Padres, against which the Rox have had success this season.
The fact that the Brewers are even in this position is remarkable and impressive. Yes, the Cubs' first-half struggles and the Rockies' August swoon created opportunity, but Milwaukee's contention has more to do with resiliency than anything else.
The Brewers scored 5.1 runs per game over the season's first two months. In May, they went 15-12 (.556), outscored their opponents by 21 runs and surged into first place in the Central on May 17. They remained there for all but two days through July 25, when the Cubs' post-break surge and Milwaukee's only losing month combined to drop the Brewers into second place. Milwaukee's offense has gone cold in the second half, scoring just 4.0 runs per game since the break, but the team's pitching has picked up the slack, holding opponents to that same four runs per game since July 1, a period during which the average NL team has allowed 4.6 runs per game.
Nelson had been a big part of that, posting a 3.56 ERA over 13 starts between the start of July and his injury, which occurred when he dove back into first base on Sept. 8, damaging the rotator cuff and partially tearing the labrum in his pitching shoulder. Now, with him out, Matt Garza having pitched his way out of the rotation and Junior Guerra not having started a game, or thrown more than 21 pitches in an outing, since returning from the disabled list earlier this month, the Brewers have no clear fifth starter. This past Friday, Milwaukee took advantage of an off-day and gave the entire game to its fully rested bullpen. The Brewers won't have that option when they need a fifth man again against the Pirates on Wednesday, but with an off-day next Monday, they'll only need a fifth man one more time. Every game is crucial, and in the best-case scenario, they'll still be fighting for a playoff spot when that need arises against the Cardinals on the penultimate day of the season.
All of that magnified the importance of Suter's performance Monday night. Inserted into the rotation in July, the soft-tossing rookie lefty posted a 1.50 ERA in five starts that month, but struggled in his first three starts in August before landing on the disable list with a rotator cuff strain of his own. He returned to action on Sept. 3, but hadn't thrown more than three innings or 50 pitches in either of his starts since his return. Monday night, Suter completed five scoreless frames throwing 64 pitches. He did that against an admittedly diminished Pirates lineup, but that outing will nonetheless allow the Brewers to start him with confidence on Saturday, in the penultimate game of the Cubs series, and put him in position to stretch out to or even beyond 80 pitches in that game.
With Suter in place, the Brewers have their four established starters lined up to face Chicago. Sophomore Zach Davies (2.32 ERA in his last 12 starts including a 2.57 ERA in two seven-inning outings against the Cubs) will open the series Thursday night. Rookie Brandon Woodruff (3.28 ERA in six starts since making his Major League debut Aug. 4) is scheduled to start Friday night. Suter will likely get Saturday's game, and Chase Anderson (2.88 ERA on the season including a 2.84 mark in six starts since returning from an oblique injury on August 20) is lined up to take the hill for the Sunday afternoon finale.
The Brewers are still in the mix, and that's all they can ask. Now they just have to keep winning.
Cliff Corcoran is a Sports on Earth contributor and a regular guest analyst on MLB Network. An editor or contributor to 13 books about baseball, including seven Baseball Prospectus annuals, he spent the last 10 seasons covering baseball for SI.com and has also written for USA Today and SB Nation, among others.


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What do You Fear?
It's true we all fear many things. In answering the question what do you fear, what is the first thing that comes to mind?
When we start analyzing our fears we may find there are more than we originally thought. We'll also realize we have different types of fears. Most of us possess a mortal fear, whether it be mild or strong. None of us what to die or to lose loved ones.
Possibly your first reaction to the question is you're afraid of spiders, for example. But as you give thought to your fears no doubt you'll realize you have a few phobias, maybe even a lot. Analyze each of those. Are you equally afraid of each or are some stronger phobias than others?
As we pry into our fears, we'll unearth smaller ones. Possibly these are financial strains, fear of losing a job or displeasing your boss.
Maybe you're starting to wonder where I'm headed with all of this? Here's the thing: you possess layers of fears, do your characters?
If we fail to incorporate fears into our characters we risk flatliners. Although our characters are their own entities, we need to build them by means of incorporating human qualities, thought processes and emotion. This is why I had a series on this blog entitled "The Human Observation Project". It helped breakdown some human reactions to different situations.
In TIES THAT BIND, Madison Knight is a complicated woman working in a field dominated by men. She's hardheaded, speaks her mind and is determined to find the killer even if her direction in the case doesn't please her superiors. What does she fear?
Madison Knight fears not finding the killer – of having another cold case on her record. She doesn't fear an imperfect record as much as thinking she may have somehow factored into another murder.
On a personal level, she fears commitment as she's had her heart broken before. She also has a strained relationship with her mother and even though she'd admit this to no one, her mother has more power over her than she'd like.
As comes out more in JUSTIFIED, the next in the series, Madison also fears the sight of blood. You'll find out where she pulls the strength to work through this and do her job effectively, and why with such a fear she even chose to become a detective in the first place.
In my upcoming release ELEVEN, my main character FBI Special Agent Brandon Fisher has claustrophobia. Of course that's not enough. That's only one large fear. He also fears the people responsible for the murders, especially the one killer who still roams free.
Brandon also possesses fears on a smaller scale. He doesn't want to displease his boss, Supervisory Special Agent Jack Harper, but fears he won't be able to control his temper long enough to make it through his two year probationary period.
Maybe you think the fears I've given my characters sound great. If so, thank you. But are they enough? I'll flip the question back to you – does only one person in your life possess fears, that being you? To just assign fears to our main characters would be like eradicating humanity from the rest of the cast in your book. I'm not saying that everyone needs to have them layered and textured as do the main characters, but give thought to your supporting characters. Do they have some fears that evidence themselves?
In TIES THAT BIND, Madison's partner Terry Grant fears losing his marriage. In ELEVEN, I don't want to risk giving too much away, but trust me when I say supporting characters also possess fears.
So in conclusion, if we've established our characters' fears – is that enough? No. It would be pointless to assign them fears if they never factored into the plot of the book. Make them face them! As the popular saying goes, there's nothing to fear but fear itself.
Face fears with Madison Knight in TIES THAT BIND as she tries to stop a potential serial killer from getting to the next victim.
TIES THAT BIND is available in print or for Kindle.
Join Brandon Fisher in ELEVEN as his claustrophobia is pushed to its limits as he goes underground to investigate the burials of ten victims.
ELEVEN is coming 11.11.11. But you can watch the book trailer and read the first chapter on my website.
Learn more about Madison Knight's fear of blood in JUSTIFIED, coming this December. You can read an excerpt on my website.


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I am sooooo frustrated right now. How hard could it be to find a decent picture of myself via the internet? I need to post to my college course, but the professor says I need to post a recent photo of myself. Well, if I weren't posting from a school computer, that would be easy.
School computers are not only dinosaurs, but they have restricted internet access. Therefore, I cannot get on facebook or instagram to retrieve a picture of myself. I would have done this yesterday at home, but I was only home for an hour before I had to go to drama practice and I didn't have time to do anything once I got back. I have figured out that if I search "lizardbreathwalker" on google, I can find tons of pictures from my instagram and the videos I have posted and my blog and stuff. However, I cannot find a certain picture of myself that I am looking for. I posted it on instagram a while back, and I think it is probably the most recent and most decent picture I have of myself. So... I have to wait until after drama practice today to do any work on my college stuff.
I am in aquatic science this year (yep, I'm being a lazy senior) and our class just recently ogt fish for our aquarium. They're little blue gouramis or something like that. They're rather distracting and interesting to watch. I am really interested in fish right now because I found out that I can have a fish as a pet when I go to college, which is totally going to happen. I'm not sure what type I want though. Definately not a beta fish. I hate those things. Maybe just a goldfish or something.
I really want to put more lifescouts badges up, but I can't understand how to re-blog things on tumblr and I can't upload images from the school computer for some reason. I want to find new badges thtat I have stories about too, but only one new one is posted per day. I think I might make it a competition with my brother. I'll have to wait until there are more badges though. Otherwise, he'll just declare it stupid and declare me stupid for participating.
Oh, I think I just figured out a way to upload through Picasa web albums. WHOoO!!!
There are some badges that I plan on being able to get within the next six months or so. Like, I'm supposed to go to an art museum sometime soon (Mona Lisa Badge) and I will be getting my drivers liscense this summer or something (Driving Badge). I'm wondering if I can put the guitar badge up since I know how to play the ukulele. It is basically a mini guitar. And I tried to learn to play the guitar once. There are no official rules or anything, so I guess I could.
WELL, I'm really hungry and I want to go look at the lifescouts stuff, so BYE!
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A torn tear
From unknown fear
How should I behave?
For our love to engrave
Deeply in our hearts and souls
Wasn't the same our goals?
Shall I hug him?
Shall I tell him that I love him?
I am afraid that one mistake
Can take us to an endless break
And torn tears
Are there any seers
To help me seek what's next?
Is it really my last and final text
To my precious love dear friend?
Or will everything never end?
My tears from unknown grief
Suffer a contradicted belief
A tear from tearing my heart
Will everything fall apart?
I honestly and truly don't know
But every good will come in a row
That's what I hope on Friday night
Tomorrow will bring us to light
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Because it is such a cold, rainy and dark day, I have decided to do this post in bright orange- I need a bit of brightness today.
We have been waiting on the snow, we had a little bit last night and lots of sleet and hail, but the snow has managed to stay away. We are told a big snow storm is coming, it is going to be the worst in 20 years 😦
I know the snow is pretty and fun for the kids, but it is a nusiance, hard to get to work and disruptive, and my animals will be cold lol.
It's not far away though, it is winter after all so we are prepared. I am just making some Gluten Free Peanut butter and chocolate cookies at the moment, they smell good.
I just have to show you the lovely present I received last weekend from my two Polish friends Beata and Jacek, they are living and studying in Denmark. I am so lucky, and was really surprised. I also received a handwritten REAL letter. It is a Recycled PVC handmade purse made by Gazpacho in Berlin. It was purchased from a Denmark Market in a nearby village by my friends :). Beata knew I would love it as it has the image of a VW Kombi Van on the front, just like our one. She even added the tinyiest Polish coin inside it (a Polish good luck tradition) and also a Danish coin too.
In the Gazpacho Berlin Laboratory they recover tarpaulins from Advertising and truck coverings and turn them into unique and eco-friendly fashion accessories. They are low environmental impact, and look cool. Check out their online store:
I have been my one (below) it all week….not that I ever have much cash… 🙂 Thanks again Beata and Jacek, you are tooo toooo kind. 🙂
I'll finish off with two photos of my latest vintage bargain from The Hospice Butterflies 2nd hand shop. It was only $10, I scrubbed the dirty marks off, or most of them. It is neat and very roomy inside. Funny thing is I have a blazer I picked up last year for $30 made by a Wellington Designer – it was at a Vintage Fair and a score at that price. The fabric is almost identical to the bag. 🙂 The same fair is on again in two weeks time at a local church. I was invited to have a stall there by the organizer, but I'm not well enough really. Also there is not enough time to make some things to sell as I have been working extra hours at work. I will instead save some pennies in my special coin purse and go along and buy something. It is always good to buy items from a local artist and support them and NZ Made 🙂
Good Night. I think we may have snow in the morning. !!!!!!!!!


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Man caught 'huffing' stolen can of compressed air in restroom at Staples
CARLISLE, Pa. – On Saturday, May 13 about 7:08 p.m. Carlisle Police were contacted by staff at the Staples store at 100 Noble Boulevard in the borough. They told officers that a man was believed to be "huffing" from cans of compressed air in the restroom. An officer made contact with 60-year-old Terry Eugene Darr as he sat in the restroom inhaling a can of compressed air for the purpose of causing intoxication. Darr was found to have two cans in view and another concealed within a pouch hanging on the inside of his coat. It was confirmed that he had not paid for any of the three cans of compressed air. The total value of the cans was $36.
Darr was taken into custody for the retail theft and inhalant violations. A review of his criminal history confirmed a previous retail theft conviction which raised the grading of this violation to misdemeanor level. He was transported to Cumberland County Booking Center where he was arraigned and is being held on $1,000 bail.


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Monday, February 28, 2011
Remembering "Hot Grits:" An Ode to Black Female Punk Rock in Seattle
Working in the arts in Seattle for several years, I have had the opportunity to see many types of performances in a variety of spaces. Many entertain and inspire; some have let me know what I don't like, so that I know in the future what not to go see. And there are a few that have stayed with me long after the stage has gone dark. Those performances I cherish and keep in my mental memory box, feeling that what I saw couldn't be reproduced and how fortunate I was to have been able to witness this unique and groundbreaking moment in time. At Re-Bar in October of 2008, Dirty Girl Productions' "Hot Grits" exploded onto the Seattle scene, with a unique concept that producer and conceiver of the play, Denee McCloud, refers to as a "3 a.m. idea." This was one of those moments.
"Dirty Girl" Productions was a production company dedicated to supporting modern and pioneering work produced by African American women. Written by Jude Hill and directed by Tyrone Brown of the Brownbox Theatre, the story of "Hot Grits" followed the lives of four Black women as they entered into the punk rock world where they were not necessarily welcome, and although the focus of the play centered on a band, it was set within a theatrical production. They intentionally cast actors who did not know how to play the instruments they were cast for, so not only did the dialogue have to be learned, but also the instruments, they played, the songs they sang, and the challenge of being able to come together as both a musician and an actor hats within this multi-layered performance. Incredibly all of the songs and music were written by the cast and produced by Dirty Girl productions.
During the play, the audience follows the Seattle band as they struggle to achieve notoriety while facing their own battles with drugs, alcohol, sex, racism, sexism, love, and their search to find their own identities within these issues. Through this journey, Lola, Jordan, Amber and Kenya find one another, and to an extent, themselves, through their common love of punk rock music. McCloud, who was the founder and producer of the production company, said that "Hot Grits is the result of an extraordinary team of artists and creators that have come together to wake Seattle up from a self-induced coma."
Because of its exploration of a genre seemingly new to Seattle, reviewers of the play seemed confused and unsure about this introduction to a new concept. The Seattle Times Misha Berson called it an "…an attention-grabbing concept…" while Seattle Weekly's Virginia Zech stated, "Ordinarily I couldn't care less about swearing in a play, but when a show has nothing to tell me I would rather be told gently… I was deeply disappointed to see semi-glorified drug abuse. On the upside, the costuming and set design are excellent. Many respondents to these articles felt completely opposite, but were not surprised by the lack of support from mainstream news sources. In response, many that had seen the play challenged these negative reviews stating:
• I'm really not surprised that once again, the Seattle Weekly is completely out of touch. I…LOVED it. I think it would have been odd if there were NO obscenities in a punk performance/play…
• "I am so tired of folks assuming that if a play/story/film is about black women that it has to be political or serious. If this was a play about white women in a punk band it would have been glorified as empowering."
• Hot Grits is a unique, original and fun show! I applaud Dirty Girl Productions for raising the bar on what music and art can be in this city, and for exploding the assumptions on what Black females can be & do.
It seems like when a concept is introduced that has the ability to fall into more than one category and addresses issues in a variety of ways, the reception it receives is less than supportive, even in a place that seems to boast a "progressive" attitude, such as Seattle. It seems difficult to place an identity on something when it cross more than one "boundary" such as race, class, sexual preference, etc. Confronting these complex forms of identity calls into question not only the redefinition of acceptable culture and acceptable art forms, but also as Jocelyn Guilbault refers to in her piece, Interpreting world music: a challenge in theory and practice, calls for "a redefinition of bonds, boundaries, and borders…through music people position themselves differently according to specific spaces, times and interests and, by doing so, mobilise different politics of identity." (P 34, 40)
More than just entertaining, seeing these kinds of performances allows me to examine the critical work that art does to highlight theoretical concepts within the context of an artist's craft. When the artist performs, they ask questions and create a kind of dialogue within the representation of their bodies and voice. This in turn provides an opportunity for certain messages to be spread in a powerful way. Unfortunately, it isn't surprising that folks in mainstream media felt that the story didn't have anything to say. Unlike Misha Berson, I believe that the story had many things to tell us, relating to relationships, music, struggle, and being finding comfort in your own skin. It was exciting to see women of color living their lives and dealing with issues many other women of color also do, and whether or not we would have chosen the same actions is irrelevant.
Check out a performance by Hot Grits at a Magic Wheels motorcycle club gathering in Georgetown in 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvIXM4PajUE
Guilbault, Jocelyne. Interpreting world music: a challenge in theory and practice. Popular Music (1997) Volume 16/1. Copywright 1997 Cambridge University Press
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Self-Silencing- "Diversity" on Campus
I remember speaking with fellow undergraduate students during the Seattle U orientation. It made sense that I was there, I was fair-skinned and all, and I only have a non-Pacific Northwest accent when I'm nervous, a habit picked up from my mom whose Chilean accent grows stronger during times of stress. Yet, when we discussed campus diversity as a group, people of various racial groups were asked to stand up when their race was called: "Stand up if you are Black… White… Asian… Hispanic… Native American!" I was outted. I remember talking to other kids about my scholarship, and how people always assumed that it was race-based simply because I have a Latina mother. Never mind that I graduated high school with a 3.94 acc. GPA. I'd been identifying as someone simply passing for White.
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
by Audre Lorde
I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for the Humanities conference a year ago, with the understanding that I would be commenting upon papers dealing with the role of difference within the lives of American women: difference of race, sexuality, class, and age. The absence of these considerations weakens any feminist discussion of the personal and the political.
It is a particular academic arrogance to assume any discussion of feminist theory without examining our many differences, and without a significant input from poor women, Black and Third World women, and lesbians. And yet, I stand here as a Black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of Black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism, and homophobia are inseparable. To read this program is to assume that lesbian and Black women have nothing to say about existentialism, the erotic, women's culture and silence, developing feminist theory, or heterosexuality and power. And what does it mean in personal and political terms when even the two Black women who did present here were literally found at the last hour? What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow perimeters of change are possible and allowable.
The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of Third World women leaves a serious gap within this conference and within the papers presented here. For example, in a paper on material relationships between women, I was conscious of an either/or model of nurturing which totally dismissed my knowledge as a Black lesbian. In this paper there was no examination of mutuality between women, no systems of shared support, no interdependence as exists between lesbians and women-identified women. Yet it is only in the patriarchal model of nurturance that women "who attempt to emancipate themselves pay perhaps too high a price for the results," as this paper states.
For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection which is so feared by a patriarchal world. Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women.
Interdependency between women is the way to a freedom which allows the I to be, not in order to be used, but in order to be creative. This is a difference between the passive be and the active being.
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within that interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters.
Within the interdependence of mutual (nondominant) differences lies that security which enables us to descend into the chaos of knowledge and return with true visions of our future, along with the concomitant power to effect those changes which can bring that future into being. Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged.
As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older -- know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.
Poor women and women of Color know there is a difference between the daily manifestations of marital slavery and prostitution because it is our daughters who line 42nd Street. If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?
In a world of possibility for us all, our personal visions help lay the groundwork for political action. The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Why weren't other women of Color found to participate in this conference? Why were two phone calls to me considered a consultation? Am I the only possible source of names of Black feminists? And although the Black panelist's paper ends on an important and powerful connection of love between women, what about interracial cooperation between feminists who don't love each other?
In academic feminist circles, the answer to these questions is often, "We did not know who to ask." But that is the same evasion of responsibility, the same cop-out, that keeps Black women's art out of women's exhibitions, Black women's work out of most feminist publications except for the occasional "Special Third World Women's Issue," and Black women's texts off your reading lists. But as Adrienne Rich pointed out in a recent talk, white feminists have educated themselves about such an enormous amount over the past ten years, how come you haven't also educated yourselves about Black women and the differences between us -- white and Black -- when it is key to our survival as a movement?
Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that it is the task of women of Color to educate white women -- in the face of tremendous resistance -- as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.
Simone de Beauvoir once said: "It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting."
Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives there. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Women Who Rock Conference- February 17-18, 2011
Registration is free
To ensure a seat register at: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/quetzal/111906
Women Who Rock Research Project
1. Women Who Rock Research Project (WWRRP) supports, develops, and circulates scholarship and cultural production by faculty, graduate students, undergraduates and cultural producers across disciplines, both within and outside the University, who examine the politics of gender, race, and sexuality generated by popular music. Its goal is to generate dialogue between academic researchers and music practitioners, and provide a focal point from which to build and strengthen relationships between local musicians and their communities, and educational institutions.
2. Digital Oral History Project, cross-sectoral development:
Collaborating with the UW Women Who Rock Collective of graduate students and Seattle musicians, the Women Who Rock Research Project will sponsor the collection and processing of oral histories documenting the important role of women in the history of music locally and nationally. The archive created through this project will be made available online and seeks to promote cross-sectoral partnership by sharing archival material archive with museums and through the co-development of on-line exhibits and curriculum. A pilot for the oral history project is currently in development with UW Libraries Digital Initiatives with School of Music grad. student Kim Carter Munoz conducting and editing interviews.
3. Support of Undergraduate and Graduate Courses: Winter Women Studies Graduate course, "Making a Scene: Girls and Boys Play Indie-Rock" Gender, Music, Nation AES 498 / WOMEN 542.
4 .Women Who Rock Research Project also supports academic courses by providing opportunities for students to learn about the process of oral histories and to conduct them. Archived material also provides content for courses and well as guest lectures by cultural producers in local and national. The project also supports student learning by providing opportunities for the generation of original student research and cultural production.
5. The "Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities" conference aims to be an annual event, will also introduce the initial phase of the Women Who Rock Oral History project. At the conference, we will generate contacts for future oral histories.
6. Both graduate courses (Women 542) and undergraduate courses (AES 498) support the digital oral history project and the Women Who Rock conference. In other words, Women 542, the Women Who Rock Digital oral history project and the one-day Women Who Rock conference are integrated projects which are contained under the umbrella of the Women Who Rock Project.


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Earlier tonight President Obama addressed a Joint Session of Congress on health care policy. My reaction was as follows:
Mr. President: If we spend more than all other countries, and we aren't any healthier, then why do you want us to spend another $1 trillion?
The President said: "We believe that less than 5 percent of people will sign up" for the public option. The same figure was used in Massachusetts when they initiated a government plan. The $100 million budget three years ago is now over $700 million. If only 5 percent of the people are going to sign up is there really a crisis? How does the U.S. Government legally charter a non-profit company that uses no taxpayer funds under the public option?
The President said: "30 million Americans can't get coverage." Two weeks ago he was claiming it was 48 million.
"If Americans can't find affordable coverage, we will provide you with a choice."
Why can't we give the uninsured vouchers and let them shop?
"I will not sign a plan that adds a dime to the deficit, now or in the future. . . We can pay for this plan with savings."
The plan is already projected to cost $948 billion over ten years. How are you going to find an almost $1 trillion in savings? Will it be done by rationing care? Will it be done by cutting $622 billion from Medicare and Medicaid.
The President continued to ignore tort reform. We definitely need serious reforms and the best alternative is the Patients' Choice Act. This addresses the issue of affordability without rationing care or adding to the debt. It is estimated to save us $960 billion during the next decade.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) described the need for transparency: "To understand how much government is already interfering with your health care, imagine if when you wanted to buy a new car, but all of the auto company websites had been disabled and you were directed to a third-party site set up by Congress that buried basic information about automobile features and price. Then imagine that if you lived in New Jersey you must buy certain features, however costly, but if you lived in California you had to buy another set of features. Then imagine that Congress set up a system where you did not really shop for your car at all because your employer and the government took care of the details."
Burr says the Patients Choice Act will: "Shift decision-making authority in health care away from government and health insurance bureaucrats and back to individuals. Specifically, we would shift health care tax benefits to individuals and families in the form of a tax rebate worth $2,200 for individuals and $5,700 for families. Under our plan, if you like the health care you have, you can keep it — but you will have more money in your pocket because you will still receive a tax rebate."
Reaction to the Presidential Address on Health Care
Earlier tonight President Obama addressed a Joint Session of Congress on health care policy. My reaction was as follows:


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On Tuesday Feb. 19, approximately 100 eager County College of Morris students converged on the Madeline D. and Joseph J. Longo Planetarium to engage in a bit of fun, nonsensical dancing. The students participated in a campus-wide, Harlem Shake sponsored by the student club, The Young Entrepreneurs of America.
The Harlem Shake is a dance move that originated in the 1980s, in Harlem, New York. The dance move originally gained popularity through its prevalence in hip hop music videos. Now, in 2013 the dance move has made a comeback with the help of YouTube and a number of other social media outlets. The music is played in sequence with the dance. It's an electronic song produced by music artist, Baauer, and it is now the background music to all the Harlem Shake viral videos. The dance has now become the world's newest dance craze seemingly almost overnight.
"As of Feb. 11, there have been over 12,000 "Harlem Shake" videos, and they've been watched more than 44 million times," said Joana Stern, technology editor for ABC News. "Now, YouTube says over 4,000 of these crazy dance videos are being uploaded per day."
These approximately 12,000 videos feature groups of all ages and ethnicities performing the dance in offices, schools, pools, and other places worldwide. Many students from notable colleges and universities across the country have uploaded their version of the Harlem Shake to YouTube. The CCM students that participated at the campus-wide event in mid-February are now a part of this giant group.
Members of the Young Entrepreneurs of America planned and organized the entire 'Harlem Shake' event within five days.
"We saw it as a self-proposed challenge," said Nicholas Cruz, the president of Young Entrepreneurs of America. "We wanted to break out of our shell and show CCM what the business club can really do."
The Harlem Shake began as a simple idea, an event for specifically Young Entrepreneurs of America members to participate in, but then it was suggested to include the entire CCM student body. Once the members of Young Entrepreneurs of America made the decision to plan the event,they got permission from the college's Planetarium Astronomer Chris Fenwick to host the event in the Madeline D. and Joseph J. Longo Planetarium. Members of the Young Entrepreneurs of America then began to advertise around campus, and primarily communicate the news to the student body through Facebook.
"We invited one hundred plus people . . . people started telling their friends, and from there it blew up," said Seth Plotnick, vice p resident of Young Entre- preneurs of America. "We never expected to have that many people, everyone was so happy with the final product and it came out great."
When the participating students finally all gathered in the planetarium that February afternoon, dressed in all different kinds of costumes and attire, the music began and students danced and shook nonstop for a video camera. The dancing lasted for approximately two minutes, and when it was over many students left in a better mood, and were glad to have participated in the event.
"The Harlem Shake event at CCM was different," said Toqeer Awan, a biology major at CCM. "We experienced fun, craziness and a sense of unity. CCM is a college no different than big universities where besides learning, students don't miss on creating moments of enjoyment."
Although, a number of students from high schools, colleges, and universities across the country have received minor pun- ishments, and in some cases expulsion for their involvement in the dance video, the members of Young Entrepreneurs of America along with the other students that participated in this event were not reprimanded for their actions.
The Harlem Shake will not be the last event Young Entrepreneurs of America will sponsor. Students can look forward to more Young Entrepreneurs of America hosted events throughout the semester including a trip to Wall Street and a meet-and-greet with Dr. Yaw, the President of CCM.
Yet, the Harlem Shake was an event that will remain in student's memories for being fun and unifying.
". . . So cool just to watch the student body come together on a rainy day and have a little party before class," said Cruz. "How often do you get to do that?"


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Watcha all doing?
Do you do anything else while on DS? Do you just come on here and check your messages/hugs/postings or do you hang out here for awhile?
I hang out here too much! I multi-task- I try to read or write (for work/school) plus DS at the same time. Don't try it- it doesn't work! :)
I try to be here more often but I have 2 teenagers and a 21month old son who's VERY active! If I had the time I would definitely be on here more often & I just love to surf the web and email & stuff.
I usually talk to God.... but He can't hear me now since they prescribed Him antipsychotics
I hang out. I vacillate between here and the MS board, then all the subgroups.
But I'm a horrible multi-tasker. I'm either online, or I'm not.
But I'm a horrible multi-tasker. I'm either online, or I'm not.
I rarely am concentrating on one thing at a time. I am a fairly good multi-tasker. I just fought with my gf (not a real fight, more of a snark-fest), neatened up the apartment, checked my email, facebook and DS, and ate lunch all at the same time.
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life: The excitement had got into the very blood of the nation.
- a person or group regarded as a source of energy, vitality, or vigor: It's time we got some new blood in this company.
- one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing cheerfulness.
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murder: to avenge the blood of his father.
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HVB in major hedge fund push
Alexander Schweickhardt, a board member at HVB Alternatives, told RiskNews that increased customer demand from institutional and private companies was the driver behind the restructuring, particularly in view of the sustained difficult situation in the stock market. "When we set up our business in the mid-90s, alternative investments were relatively unknown in Europe," he said. "Now there is far more accepted use in portfolios."
HVB is also broadening its investment policy. Up to now, investments in hedge funds were made as part of a fund-of-funds approach that pursued a long/short strategy. HVB will expand this strategy to include a 'targeted multi-style' approach, which allows the implementation of return-orientated and active multi-management decisions.
HVB Alternatives has offices in Munich and Luxembourg, in addition to its headquarters in Vienna. It established an investments team headed by Jeff Landle in New York in April. Schweickhardt told RiskNews that HVB would be looking to set up sales teams in its additional new core markets.
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Construction sites can be extremely dangerous, especially when collapses and falling building materials are involved. Without close attention to safety, accidents can and do happen. This is precisely what occurred on Sept. 23 at the building site of a future 18-story lab and office complex in Boston's Seaport District.
It was reported that hundreds of pounds of steel rebar collapsed in a "ripple effect" at the construction site, injuring three workers. The steel fell like a set of dominos onto two workers who were 100 feet below in a pit laying forms for the building's foundation, firefighters said. Another worker above the pit was also injured.
Luckily, other workers at the scene were able to use a crane to lift the loads of steel off of the workers, so the men weren't trapped under the weight for long. None of the men were seriously injured, but there were minor arm and leg injuries reported.
The Boston Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief said that it's a wonder no one was more seriously injured in the accident as it was "a considerable amount of force coming down." He said that by the time firefighters arrived at the scene the trapped workers had been freed but they were still stranded. The rescuers then used the crane to lift the workers to safety.
A representative from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told the Boston Herald that his agency is investigating the accident and the job site. By law, construction sites must meet certain safety codes and regulations that help keep workers safe.
If it is determined that the site was not up to code or presented an otherwise preventable danger, it is possible that the workers could sue their employer for medical expenses, lost wages and maybe even punitive damages. Punitive damages allow accident victims to recover for non-monetary losses including pain and suffering.
Source: The Boston Herald, "Tons of steel fall on 3 workers," O'Ryan Johnson, Sept. 24, 2011.