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This Day in Sports History — June 28
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on June 28 :
1939 — Joe Louis scored a technical knockout of Tony Galento in the fourth round of their fight at Yankee Stadium in New York to retain the heavyweight boxing title. (More info.)
1957 — Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick stepped in to remove three Cincinnati Reds from the starting lineup of the upcoming 1957 All-Star Game at St. Louis when it was uncovered that Cincinnati fans had stuffed the ballot box. Stan Musial, Willie Mays and Henry Aaron replaced George Crowe, Gus Bell and Wally Post. (More info.)
1958 — Getting two goals each from Pele and Vava, Brazil defeated Sweden, 5-2, to win soccer's World Cup in Solna, Sweden. (More info.)
1958 — Mickey Wright became the first golfer to win the L.P.G.A. championship and the U. S. Open in the same year by defeating Louise Suggs at Pontiac, Mich. (More info.)
1966 — Ernie Terrell beat Doug Jones in 15 rounds at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston to retain the WBA heavyweight boxing title. (More info.)
1971 — The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the conviction of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) on charges of draft evasion. (More info.)
1975 — Golfer Lee Trevino was struck by lightning at the Western Open in Oak Brook, IL. (More info.)
1976 — Detroit rookie pitcher Mark Fidrych recorded his sixth win of the month as the Tigers beat the New York Yankees, 5-1, at Yankee Stadium. (More info.)
1992 — The U.S. Men's National Basketball Team — the "Dream Team" — made its debut, routing Cuba, 136-57, in an exhibition prior to the Summer Olympics in Barcelona. (More info.)
1993 — The New Jersey Devils named Jacques Lemaire their head coach. (More info.)
1993 — Future Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk was released by the Chicago White Sox. (More info.)
1994 — New York Mets' pitcher Dwight Gooden was suspended for 60 days for violating MLB's drug aftercare program. (More info.)
1997 — Boxer Mike Tyson was disqualified from his bout against heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas for biting Holyfield's ears in the third round. (More info.)
2007 — Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros became the 27th major league player to collect 3,000 hits. (More info.)


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Singer Joss Stone Targeted in Robbery, Murder Plot
In a bizarre twist, UK's OK! Magazine is reporting that two men have been arrested for allegedly trying to rob and murder Grammy-winning singer Joss Stone.
According to police, the two men, aged 30 and 33, were arrested near Stone's home in Cullompton, Devon, where they were found carrying "swords, rope … a body bag" and "detailed maps and aerial photos of her rural property."
Police are currently investigating the situation. They were initially called to the scene after residents called to report a "suspicious-looking vehicle."
Stone, 24, has yet to comment on the situation.

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WASHINGTON, August 26, 2013 – LTG Raymond V. Mason, the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, will host the Pentagon's first event related to the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War at 1 pm on Wednesday August 28, 2013, in the Pentagon Auditorium.
Guest speakers are: GEN John Campbell, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army; and LTG (Ret) Claude M. Kicklighter, Director of the Department of Defense's Vietnam War 50th Commemoration Program, who will preview the Nation's plans for honoring Vietnam Veterans.
During the event, LTG Mason will honor nine Vietnam Veterans who currently work in Army Logistics, the G-4. In total, they served 14 tours in Vietnam, and then a combined 225 years in uniform before they all retired. A 30-minute documentary about the nine, "Veterans of Valor," will be premiered. In the documentary, prepared by the G-4 and Army TV, the Veterans discuss their remembrances of the war, life after Vietnam, and lessons they learned that can help today's Iraq and Afghan Veterans.
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I can first say that while many were enjoying the hustle and bustle of a new era, mine were still farming and barely surviving in the west. Most all of my husband's and my ancestors were in Oklahoma and a few other surrounding states 100 years ago. Many of them were poor dirt farmers and some were living on Native American reservations still living a hard life and in some cases even denying their heritage in order to survive the discrimination of the Native Americans at that time. It was not the pleasant "good old days" for many of our ancestors.
Doug Dawgz writes a great article on the history of Oklahoma City 100 years ago. It give you a really good idea what it was like then. There are also many great pictures in his blog. Though I must say this is not a good account of life for my family since none of them lived in or around Oklahoma City.
I'll start with my husband's name sake, the Crooks. The Crooks were a wild bunch. It's hard for me to keep up with them as they were always moving. But there is a migration from NC to TX and then back to OK by the early 1900's.
- Earl "Porter" Crooks was born in 1898 and would have been about 10 in 1908. His baby brother Clearance was born that year in OK. So the family was living in OK at the time. He also had two other brothers Jerel and his partner in crime, William aka "Dub." Porter and Dub were the wild ones. Later as adults they had many run ins with the law. Living a lawless life of bar fights and stabbings. Porter was said to have even spent some time in prison. He would go on the settle down and marry at the age of 45 to Ruth Ann Ward. They had two boys and he helped to raise her children from her first marriage. You might say she tamed the honorary old coot. It was the one thing my mother-in-law loved about her father-in-law. He was honorary until the very end and could make her laugh. I must say the same goes for his son, my father-in-law.
- William Marion Crooks was born in 1876 (42 in 1908). He married Quincy M Myers (27 in 1908) in 1898. She gave him four sons, Porter (above), Jerel (7), William "Dub" (2) and Clearance who was born in Dec of that year. They lived in OK at that time.
- Bolivar "Houston" Crooks was the father of William Marion Crooks. He died just months before 1908, but William's mother Martha G Thomas (64) was still alive and living in Frances, Pontotac County, OK. It's logical to think that William and Quincy were also living near by with their boys. We know they were in OK at the time at least. Martha would later go back to her home town in Yell Co., AR where she passed away in 1913.
- Ewing Richard Woolsey, my great grandfather was born in 1890 so he was about 18 in 1908. He was a young bachelor still living with his parents and siblings in Grady County. He was a farm laborer, most likely on the family's farm. Ewing is the oldest son of William G "Billy" Woolsey and Lillie Ann Graham. He had four sisters, Minnie, Eva, May and Bulah and a brother James. Another brother would be born two years later in 1910. Living next door to the family is Ewing's future wife Mary Joann Williamson. She is the woman my dad and I get our curly hair from. They would be married three years later in 1911. Ewing continued to farm in around Grady Co., OK. He died in Garvin Co,. OK in 1959. His son would later move his family to CA where I grew up.
- William G "Billy" Woolsey, my mysterious great great grandfather. It's almost like he didn't exist until he married the love of his life Lillie Ann Graham in 1889. He would have been about 43-45 years old. We don't know his exact age because so many records I have found conflict as to the year of his birth. Lillie would have been 35 that year. They had six children then and one more would be born to the family two years later. William was a farmer. He would never tell anyone who he was or about his family. I still believe he was running from something that happened in his younger days. We may never know who he truly was.
My mother was a Roe. Little did I know that this family was in fact living on an Indian Reservation in 1910, probably was in 1908 as well. I discovered the family in the 1910 census records living in Otoe Township, Noble County, OK enumerated in the Indian Population. This is where I learned that my great great grandmother was half Chipaway Indian. The family was not complete at that time. There are still three other older siblings I have not found. But in the family unit was my great great grandfather Jerry Roe (about 47), Rachel (about 44), and three sons, Piere (abt 12), my great grandfather Frank (abt 9) and the baby Jaybird "Jay" (abt 5). I believe the family migrate from Canada to the Indian Reservations of Oklahoma. Piere was born in MN about 1896, followed by Frank born in MO and then last Jay was born in KS before they end up in OK by 1910. Frank would later marry a woman from MO, May Elizabeth Rollette and live with her family for a time in MO before moving back to OK. Then in about the early 40's he takes the children, leave May and moves to CA where he starts a new life. The Roe's faired well in the Industrial world. Jerry was a farmer, but the future generations all went for Industrial work and seemed to be better off then those of our other ancestors during that era.
This was a fun post to write. I will look forward to writing about other branches of my family that lived 100 years ago in the near future I hope, lol.
So join this fun series of posts and let us know about your family 100 years ago. Post a link here for other to read your blog on the subject.


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ladybugone necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
I am making a CD of some of my new songs and I want beautiful, feel good, happy cover art and also a design for the CD itself.
Here is my bio:Her charm is contagious and her exuberance for life is robed in the utmost sincerity. She's bringing a breath of fresh air to pop music. Her recent NBC promo song for the Office, 30 Rock and SNL, "Turn the Sunshine On", is a perfect display of Cathy's sun kissed message and huge talent.
"I want to make people happy. There's far too much sadness in the world," says Cathy. Following college graduation, Cathy committed two years of her life to studies in Jerusalem and then began a graduate program at UCLA in mindfulness. Emerging with a deepened sense of awareness of living mindfully, Cathy settled in Los Angeles and began incorporating the tools she was realizing into the pop music she was writing.
Kids, adults of all ages, people who like the feel good things in life. They may listen to Tim Myers, Jack Jhonson, Regina Spector, Lenka, Colbie Callait, indie radio, like the music in the Prius commericals. People who shop at Anthropology and wear Free People brand. People who like color and little blue birds and taking care of the environment. Idealists!
Cover art for a CD sleeve, with my name Cathy Heller and an image of me, could be an illustration, something has an organic, cool, sweet, vibe. I love color. I'd love something playful and whimsical. I love trees, little blue birds, sky, rainbows, happy feeling, happy images, happy color, but also done in a cool way, so muted or pastel, something that makes it funky and appealing to a hip crowd. Also want to have a title of the CD, this may change, but for now it's "Life is Good"
I also need art work for the inside of the cd booklet, this will be primarily just lyrics of the songs, put to a cool font and a neat background behind all that.
Then art for the CD itself inside the jacket and art work for the back of the CD sleeve.
Here are some links to give you a feel for the vibe:
Thank you. Go rock and roll, Looking forward to seeing your beautiful creations!!


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Last week, readers went gaga over a graphic that breaks down the ludicrously complicated marketing environment of social media.
Today, we present another mindboggling chart from Luma Partners which explains the complex world of mobile marketing. (Luma is a boutique investment bank that provides advice to media and tech companies.)
From the agencies to trading desks, aggregators, VoIPs, DSPs, SSPs (and a bunch of other acronyms), here's how mobile ads get from the marketer to the consumer.
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A special Publication in Honour of 20 Years of Teaching at The European Graduate School With Essays and Testimonials by EGS Faculty from the Division of Arts, Health & Society and the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought. What does it mean to teach and to learn? How can education be an aesthetic experience? What is distinctive about the style of learning at The European Graduate School? These essays by noted thinkers and practitioners reflect upon their experience at what has been called The White Mountain College.
Articles: Christopher Fynsk, Teaching Events: The Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought, Philippe Beck, The Educator Educated, Stephen K. Levine, Aesthetic Education: The Division of Arts, Health & Society, Sally Atkins, Aesthetic Education at the European Graduate School: Holding the Heartbeat, Michael Schmidt, The Event of Thinking: The European Graduate School is both University and Symposium, Jeremy Fernando, Or les lecons de la maitresse, Ellen G. Levine, Degradation and Preservation, Margo Fuchs-Knill and Paolo Knill, Aesthetic Responsibility in Expressive Arts: Thoughts on Beauty, Responsibility and the New in the Education of Expressive Arts Professionals, Margo Fuchs-Knill, Three Poems, Barbara Hielscher-Witte, Thinking Art-The Art of Thinking: A Turnaround, Herbert Eberhart, Education for Life: Our Way of Teaching at EGS, Paul Antze, The Saas-Fee Experience, Victor Vitanza, Teaching and Studying in EGS: An Experience High in the Alps, both Transalpine and Subalpine, Geert Link, Teaching Critical Internet Culture, Heather Dawson, Making Meaning: Experiencing Aesthetics in Education, Ellen. G. Levine, Art Asylum: Exploring Otherness Through Play and Art-making, Brigitte Wanzenreid, Short and Intense: A One Night Exhibition at EGS, June 2014, Peter Wanzenreid, The Art of Teaching, Rowesa Gordon, Pictographs: Painted Drawings: My Experience as Artist-in-Residence, Shaun McNiff, Using and Perfecting the Universal Languages of Art, Judith Greer Essex and Wes Chester, Embodying Scholarship, Aylin Vartanyan Dilaver, Beauty & Truth, Markus G.Scott-Alexander, The Pause, Melinda Meyer, What Makes the Difference in Being a Teacher at EGS?, Simon Critchley and Manuela Kolke, Does Critique Still Hold in Paradise?: A Conversation Between Simon Critchley & Manuela Kolke, Carrie MacLeod, Composing a Home Away from Home, Alessandro De Franceso, A Place of Joy and Possibility, Christopher Fynsk, An Open Site, Sally Atkins, After.
It is said that poiesis is a way of knowing. What do we really mean by that? Is the kind of knowing that happens in the arts different than the kind that happens in scientific inquiry? Are we expecting too much of the arts when we ask them not only to move us but also to teach us something new? And what about the proper way to know art itself? Should we use art to know art or do we need to step outside of poiesis and go to theoria to understand art as it should be understood?
These and other questions are especially relevant when, on the one hand, there is a greater and greater demand for evidence-based research (even when its not clear what evidence means) and, on the other hand, art-based research becomes the slogan for a variety of approaches to research that employ the arts in one way or another. We live in a time when boundaries are crossed and sometimes crossed out do we lose something when we plant ourselves firmly in the territory of both art and science? Is poiesis enough? Or do we need to supplement poietic knowing with theory?
This issue of the POIESIS journal features contributions using art as research, thinking about art as research, and thinking and showing how art itself is to be known. Articles, poems and images from both the fields of the expressive arts and of media and communication all deepen our understanding of the art of research.
Authors: Stephen K. Levine, "Poiesis and the Understanding of Art: A Conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy," "What are Philosophers for? An Interview with Judith Butler," Wolfgang Schirmacher, "On the World View of a Vita Activa," Christopher Fynsk, "At the Stove with Ferran Adrià," Shaun McNiff, "The Open Space of Art-Based Research," Sabine Silberberg, "Knowing Not- Knowing: Rethinking Research as an Art- Analogue Process," Koenig, Schild & Hufschmid, "Seeing Art as RAW DATA: Artistic Transformation," Kelly Clark/Keefe, Jessica Gilway, and Emily Miller, "Maps, Flesh & the Radicant: Mobilizing the Expressive Arts and Arts-Based Research to do a Conceptual Translation of "Science-as-Usual," Vachel Miller, Katrina Plato, Kelly Clark/Keefe, John Henson, and Sally Atkins, "Love Letters, Notes and Post Cards: About Pedagogy, Ways of Knowing, and Art-Based Research," Ellen G. Levine and Stephen Levine, "The Beauty That Sustains: An Arts-Based Research Exploration of Expressive Arts Therapy with Children," Lisa Herman, "Playing with Auschwitz: A Liminal Inquiry into Images of Evil," Carrie MacLeod, "Per-formingHome: Spinning New Scripts for Re-Search," Jena Leake, "Living Nel Mezzo: Becoming an Artist/Researcher/Teacher/Therapist in the Expressive Arts," Kathleen Vaughan, "Map as Theory,Theory as Map: Meditations from the Middle of the Journey," Patrick Phillips, "Performance as Research-A Double Fold."
Poets: Daniela Elza, Stephen K. Levine, Dorota Kozusznik-Solarska, Stella Audonoff, James P. Lenfestey, Marc J. Straus, Thomas R. Smith, Wes Chester, Judith Greer Essex, Norman Minnick, Emily Fiddy, Carrie MacLeod, Elizabeth Gordon McKim, Jean Luc Nancy.
Artists: Mowry Baden, Paulette Phillips, Chris Cran, Don Gill, Mowry Baden, Wolfgang Laib, Marin Majic, John Newsom, Lucy Pullen, Matthew Thomson, Chris Cran, Rowesa Gordon, Andrew Harwood.
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In Honour of Paolo Knill on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday
Paolo Knill, the founder of the European Graduate School, is a pioneer in developing ways for the arts to work in the lives of contemporary individuals and communities. He has taken the psychological framework in which art is understood within the arts therapies and turned it towards a recognition of the centrality of the work, not the subjectivity of its maker. His concept of decentering emphasizes both the radical separation of the alternative world of the imagination from the concerns of the everyday and, through subsequent aesthetic analysis, the importance of works of art for our experience of life. Art is not self-expression, but it has an undeniable effect on the person or community which receives it. Achieving this effective reality is the responsibility of all those who work with the arts to help bring about change; it is our aesthetic responsibility.
In this special issue, we invite members of the EGS community and others to reflect on the work of Paolo Knill as well as on the place the arts may have within our experience. Can the work of art still play the central role which it did in traditional cultures or has what Walter Benjamin called the elimination of the aura of the work in the age of mechanical reproduction rendered it impossible for art to give meaning and value to life? Does the age of digital reproduction in which we now live intensify this process or open up new possibilities for artistic creation? In what ways can we reinvent the arts so that they have a connection with our lives? Heidegger once wrote, Das Werk wirkt (The work works). How can the work work for us today?
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Voice, Song and the Poetics of Resistance and Transformation
Are voice and song primary modes of communication? How is it that voice-work can affect us in such a powerful way? In this issue of the journal, we explore the primacy of the voice in poetry and song, seeking to understand its communicative and transformative power. Our authors explore the resurgence of the oral tradition, the origins of the poetic, the extreme reaches of vocal expression and the ways in which digital media both close off and open up new possibilities for primary vocalization. More than an academic exploration of voice, the issue speaks to us as we read it, and sometimes it even seems to sing.
And for the first time, the journal has links to audio and video presentations connected to the theme - we can look and listen as well as read.
Articles: Rishma Dunlop, "Vox Humana," Elizabeth Gordon McKim, "Ride the Poetry Bus: An Excursion Into the Oral Tradition of Song/Story/and Poem," Fides Krucker, "Chiaroscuro: The Bodhisattva in the Voice," Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, "Making Worlds: the Extended Voice Work of Richard Armstrong," Richard Armstrong, "The Irritant," Linda Wise, "Voice and Soul: The Alfred Wolfsohn/Roy Hart Legacy," Enrique Pardo, "Figuring out the Voice: Object, Subject, Project," Allucquére Rosanne Stone, "Song and Resistance," Christina Foisy, "Gloomy Sunday on a Tuesday: The Unsound Voices of Suicide re-membered Through Sound Poetics," Peter Price, "Digital Sound and the Post-Human Future"
Poetry: Norman Minnick, Rebecca Chamberlain, Shara Claire, Jeffrey Thomson, Domenico Capilongo, Alison Luterman, Stephen K. Levine, Tomas O'Leary, Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship, Kristin Briggs, Andrew Sofer, Ewan Whyte, Lamont B. Steptoe, Phil Woods, Barry Dempster, Mihku Paul, James P. Lanfestey, Frank Miller
Art Work: Jenn E. Norton, Yi Xin Tong, Nicholas Hooper, Martha Townsend, Erin Gee, Rory Dean, Faye Mullen, Michael Caines, Nicola Woods, Jennifer Chan, Audio Lodge
Featured Artist: Elise Kermani
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How can we represent the Other? How can the Other represent us? In this issue of the journal, we are looking at ways in which we may open to the Other in the arts, media and the arts therapies. Is art a vehicle for the expression of the self or does it necessarily imply transcendence toward otherness? What, if anything, is a self and how does it reach out to the Other, both the other person and the otherness of itself? Can poiesis be a basis for ethical practice or is there, as Kierkegaard thought, an insuperable gap between the aesthetic and the ethical?
Featuring articles on working with others, especially those considered radically different, through the arts, as well as articles on the political significance of the arts in Critical Theory:
"Asylums Rededicated: A Concrete Utopia," "Anthropologists of the Mind," "Conversations at the Edge of The Numinous," "Encountering the Other-Self: Essential Forms and New Therapeutic Developments in Transitional Phenomena," "Edith Turner: A Lifetime of Encountering the Other," "Teaching Peace by Piece: Two Quilts One World," "Contact Zone: The Ethics of Playing with "the Other"," "Doing the Dishes, Aferim," "Art as Counter-Thinking: Aesthetics and Revolution in the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School," "Sound as an Expression of Critique: Theodor W, Adorno's Philosophy of Music," "Art as the Experience of Alterity: Theodor W. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory."
Poetry by: Stephen Levine, Elizabeth Gordon McKim, Adriana Marchione, Charles Coe, Isabelle Schenkel, Thomas R. Smith, Phil Woods, James P. Lenfesty, Rebecca Chamberlain, Barbara Claire Kasselmann, Danielle Legros Georges, Margo Fuchs Knill, Sally Atkins, Alice Beecher, Anna M. Warrock, Judith Steinbergh, Shara Claire, Chris Brandt, Alison Luterman.
Artwork by: Susanne Sekula, Issa Ibrahim, John Tursi, Brent Taylor, Angela Silver, Kelly Lycan, Annie Si-Wing Tung, Jordan Bower, Jen Mann, Gisele Amantea, Olexander Wlasenko, Steve Cribbin, Paris Visone, Stephen Schofield, Juliana Pivato.
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ECOPOIESIS: Imagining the Earth
This issue of the POIESIS journal brings together writers from the fields of philosophy, media studies and the expressive arts in an effort to grasp our relationship to the environment in a more imaginative way.
Paul Virilio, writing about Grey Ecology, ("…the pollution of the self-created world") looks at our situation through the lens of speed and the acceleration of reality, while Jason Adams applies Virilio's concept of popular defense to an aesthetics of resistance. Thomas Zummer's eco/sophia calls for a remediation of technics and a re-membering of the world; and for Wolfgang Schirmacher, Eco-Sophia becomes an ethics for the human being as technician, the art of living humanely.
David Abram reminds us that underlying our technologized experience is a direct sensuous relationship to the world, one which we can return to through the re-awakening of our primary oral culture in story-telling. For Wes Chester, our fundmental relationship to the world is through an aesthetic encounter which can be cultivated in a disciplined way. And Thomas Trenchard and Sally Atkins make this encounter come alive by telling us of their experiences in the woods - either at night or in the mountains.
The journal is filled with art-work and poetry that embodies the call for a new aesthetics of the natural world, featuring a lengthy excerpt from the important new work by Rishma Dunlop, The New Republic: Reading Towards Ecotopia. As Dunlop says,
Everyone reaches
for nomenclature. Hoop the names of things
to your belt. When you are empty,
eat the words, drink them.
We invite our readers to join us at the feast.
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The image has always been suspect to thought. Either it is seen as a false representation which seduces us from truth (Plato) or, at best, a superceded stage on the way to the Absolute Idea (Hegel). For the artist, however, the image is home, the land of possibility where new perspectives can be found. Where are we with the image today?
In Baudrillard's view, the dominance of media and the emergence of hyperreality means that the classical opposition between image and real can no longer be maintained. Not only does the real vanish in a profusion of simulacra, but the "original power of the image," its capacity to become an event of transcendence, is also obviated.
Can we find that original power again? The coming issue of POIESIS invites readers to submit papers that explore the image today - and perhaps imagine it tomorrow. Where are we with the image, and how can we find its original power again? We hope that readers will be inspired to think about this question and its implications for philosophy, art, therapy and social change.
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Amor fati: that shall henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war against the ugly. I do not want to accuse — I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Let looking away be my only denial! And all in all and on the whole: I want someday to be purely and simply a Yes-sayer! -Nietzsche
After several issues dedicated to trauma, suffering and terror, POIESIS takes up Nietzsche's call for a "Yea-saying" philosophy of life. How can we find joy and enjoyment in everyday life and in the arts? Can we get beyond the media-driven conception of happiness as endless consumption and reclaim a non-ideological attitude of affirmation towards existence? What would this mean for the critique of ideology? What implications would it have for therapeutic and social change? What would be an aesthetics of praise?
We hope that readers will be willing to risk the foolishness of affirmative thinking in the face of all catastrophe and join us in saying, "Yea!"
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For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. -Rilke
So begins the Editor's Introduction of the latest edition of POIESIS: the annual, cutting-edge source for new research from the fields of Expressive Arts Therapy and Media & Communication. As Rilke's quote suggests, this beautiful new issue of the journal contains an extensive feature section on beauty and terror. This section also honours Shaun McNiff, one of the founders of the field of expressive arts therapy, on the event of his 60th birthday. In addition to this special and thought-provoking section, we are also proud to publish new works from Media & Communications — Pierre Aubenque, Christopher Fynsk and John Sallis — as well as poetry by Robert Bly and others. More than any other issue to date, POIESIS VIII spans geographic distance as well as time periods, exploring the art and nature of expression in places as far-reaching as Sierra Leone, Iraq, Jerusalem, Texas, and rural Canada, and from the Deep South of the 1800s to the Woodstock era to present times. Artwork appears in full colour.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
This site contains extensive statistical information on the U.S. banking system of interest to economists and bankers, as well as more general information on the FDIC and the banking system, some of which will be of interest to the general public. There are also press releases and speeches, as well as background information on the FDIC.
The "Data Bank" includes the "FDIC Institution Directory System," which "provides the latest comprehensive financial profile for every FDIC-insured institution." A new feature to the FDIC Institution Directory is the Statistics on Depository Institutions. This advanced feature allows one to obtain detailed financial reports with more "functional power to analyze the financial institutions industry." The FDIC/OTS "Summary of Deposits" provides "detailed information on over 82,000 branches of FDIC-insured institutions. Individual office data can be obtained for each institution or for each state and county. Aggregate data are available at the state and county level and for metropolitan areas." Other data sets include "FDIC Institutions," "Statistics on Banking," "Historical Statistics on Banking," and the "Survey of Real Estate Trends."


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Lynsay Sands
The Husband Hunt
Lynsay Sands
The Husband Hunt
Release Date: 2/28/2012
Main description:
Let the hunt begin …
Lisa Madison wants a husband, and she has just the candidate in mind: Robert Langley. Trouble is, the infuriating man insists on seeing her as the impish girl she once was—even as every other gentleman in London has taken notice of her womanly . . . charms. When her beauty lands her in danger, it's Robert who comes to the rescue, only to announce his affections are not of the romantic kind!
Robert saw enough sorrow in his parents' union to know he wants nothing to do with marriage, which is exactly what he'll be trapped into if he acts on his desire for the irksome siren. And then Lisa does what Robert least expects: gives up on him! As feigned indifference gives way, blistering passion burns at last. But just before the pair can succumb to hard-won bliss, an enemy with unfinished business lurks, threatening to destroy them both.
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"You can't help but fall in love with Lynsay Sands!"
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Phillies drop another one at home to red-hot Brewers
PHILADELPHIA -- Ryan Howard kept a stiff upper lip Thursday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park.
The Phillies had lost three consecutive games in sloppy fashion and needed to beat the Brewers in the series finale Thursday night to avoid a sweep and a 3-6 start with Marlins ace Jose Fernandez on the mound Friday.View Full Game Coverage
PHILADELPHIA -- Ryan Howard kept a stiff upper lip Thursday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park.
The Phillies had lost three consecutive games in sloppy fashion and needed to beat the Brewers in the series finale Thursday night to avoid a sweep and a 3-6 start with Marlins ace Jose Fernandez on the mound Friday.View Full Game Coverage
"In all actuality, we've actually played very well this year," Howard said before the 6-2 loss to the Brewers. "I disagree with everyone else. Our record doesn't reflect that right now, but I think we've played well. It's eight games and you guys are trying to start a panic attack. Really, if you want to panic, go ahead and panic. But don't bring it around here."
It is too early to panic, but it isn't too early to wonder and worry about a slow start for a team that lost 89 games last season.
The Phillies cannot afford to bury themselves.
"You want to start fast and finish the same way, try to ride it out," Marlon Byrd said afterward. "It's one of those things right now where it didn't start that way for us. There's nothing we can do, you can't go back. We have to figure out how to start winning series. It starts tomorrow."
It is hard to believe, but just a few days ago the Phillies left Wrigley Field talking about how they easily could have been 4-2 or even 5-1 on a season-opening road trip through Texas and Chicago, if not for a couple of ninth-inning failures by the bullpen in Texas. Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins said he looked forward to the trip home, dreaming of the possibilities of a 10-game homestand, saying how much he would love to go 9-1 to get the fanbase excited again.
But the white-hot Brewers, who swept the Phillies on the road for the first time in franchise history, cruised to three easy victories.
"The good news is they're going out of town," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said.
The Phillies took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Byrd hit a solo home run to left field, his second homer of the season.
But the lead wouldn't last. Phillies pitchers might need therapy to remove visions of Ryan Braun from their heads. He hit three home runs in Tuesday's 10-3 victory and tripled to score two runs in the eighth inning in Wednesday's 9-4 victory. He then hit a leadoff single to left field in the fourth inning Thursday. He scored when Aramis Ramirez doubled to left-center field to make it 1-1.
Phillies fans booed Braun as much as they could this week.
Braun loved it. He entered the series with no RBIs. He left with 10.
Ramirez advanced to third on a fielder's choice and scored on Khris Davis' single to left field to make it 2-1.
A one-run deficit in a low-scoring game has been a familiar position for Phillies left-hander Cliff Lee, who allowed eight hits, three runs and struck out eight in six innings. Since he re-signed with the Phillies in December 2010, his 3.87 run support average is the eighth-lowest in baseball out of 84 qualifying pitchers.
He might have figured it would be one of those nights again. The Phillies offense has been mostly powerless since scoring 14 runs Opening Day on March 31. They entered Thursday averaging 3.57 runs per game since Opening Day, which ranked 21st in baseball. They also ranked 25th with a .197 batting average with runners in scoring position.
Lee allowed a run in the sixth to make it 3-1 when he gave up back-to-back two-out doubles to Jonathan Lucroy and Davis.
The Phillies scored a run in the sixth, but left the bases loaded. The Phillies bullpen then gave up three runs in the seventh to give the Brewers a four-run cushion.
That seventh inning emptied the ballpark, which had an announced crowd of 25,492, the smallest at the Bank since Sept. 11, 2007.
"I'm not concerned," said Lee, asked if he is concerned about the slow start. "We've just got to turn it around like, now. So we'll see what happens tomorrow."
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com.


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With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, there's going to be a lot going on in kitchens around the country. But once the turkey has been eaten, and the football has been played, families will be gathering around the television set to watch Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang enjoying their own brand of holiday fun.
"A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" is celebrating it's 40th anniversary, airing on ABC Thanksgiving Day and getting a special DVD release. (It will be followed by "The Mayflower Voyagers" which is also included on the DVD.)
To mark the special occasion, the good folks of Peanuts Worldwide and Warner Bros. gave me another opportunity to speak with legendary Peanuts features producer Lee Mendelson. Mendelson shared his experiences producing the special, and tells about the one thing in the feature that has always bothered him.
I also have some Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Gift Packs to give away! So check out the interview, then catch up with me at the bottom of the post to learn how to win a holiday gift pack!:
Geek To Me: And how are you today sir?
Lee Mendelson: Very good. And how are you?
G2M: I'm doing well. I'm very delighted to speak with you about "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving." It's a little bit of a conversation that goes on these days, when it comes to the Thanksgiving holiday, where it seems like Thanksgiving itself is getting lost between Halloween and Christmas. What do you think about that?
LM: Well, in terms of our show, our Thanksgiving show, it got the highest rating ever last Thanksgiving. Well, not ever but for the last five years. So interest in the program, which I translate into interest in Thanksgiving, may be on the rise.
One of the reasons that the second show, that goes with our Thanksgiving show, is "The Mayflower Voyagers", to remind people of the first Thanksgiving. And in a sense, this is the 40th Anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" but it's 200 and whatever years (laughs) from the first Thanksgiving. It's kinda fun that we put it together. Maybe 400 years, I don't have the calendar-
Me: (laughs) It's very much a tradition. It seems like the Peanuts characters have been going through a real revival here. A lot of interest, again, in experiencing these holiday specials; whether it the Halloween special - which is one of my favorites; of course the Christmas special which is a family tradition for generations and generations; why do you think these characters resonate so much with people, especially around the holidays?
LM: I think it's been around 65 years now in the comic strip. In fact, I think I should mention in passing that Charles Schulz did 18,000 comic strips over 50 years which is a staggering number when you think about it. Never had any help with the drawing, lettering or anything else. (In that time) these characters have become part of the culture.
Last year the Library of Congress set aside 25 recordings that had the most cultural impact in America, and we went in with Prince and Donna Summer. And I mention that only because Charlie Brown, although fictional, has become part of the American fabric, just as any movie star or television star or politician,
And I think that people identify with Charlie Brown because no matter how many times he gets knocked down, he gets back up and tries again. I think it's the resiliency he shows that appeals to people. And I think Linus, with the security blanket, appeals to people. And then of course the not-all sweet Sally takes it out on Linus, and Lucy certainly on everybody else.
So I think it's just a repertory company, the Charlie Brown characters, much like Jack Benny was in radio, or any of the great radio shows. Where it's a group of people, that become real even though they're fictional.
They're so much a part of the fabric that a day doesn't go by where you don't hear a reference to it, whether it's on television or in a movie, in a book or on the street where people go "whah-whah-whah."
And it's become a part of our daily life. It wasn't a passing fancy like the hula hoop.
G2M: The Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special has been remastered; the picture has been improved, audio has been improved. Was that a challenge getting it through the process? Was it difficult finding source materials?
LM: No, it was remarkably easy as a matter of fact. The transformation in color and sound has been astounding to us. And it was a fairly routine operation and we were thrilled we were able to do it, whether it was for television or DVD or new media, or whatever. It was no problem.
One of the reasons is we upgraded every five or ten years. So it's not like we had to start from scratch. No pun intended.
G2M: (laughs)
LM: But no, it really was no problem.
G2M: Do you have any recollections from the original production, when you were working on this special, that you feel encapsulate what you feel putting the special together was like?
LM: The funny thing about the Thanksgiving show was that there was a scene at the end where Charles Schulz decided that Woodstock would join the party and eat some of the turkey.
And for some reason - I can't remember why, this was 40 years ago - at the time it bothered me. And I said "I really don't think we should have the bird eating the turkey."
And of course the more I said I think wasn't a good idea the more he wanted to do it. So finally it got in the original show.
And it was 25 minutes long originally. Well, when we were on CBS later on, as you know the half hours go to 22 minutes now, I was delighted when we had to cut 3 minutes that I could cut out the scene of Woodstock eating the turkey.
G2M: (laughs)
LM: But when we went back on ABC, and they said "we wanna do all the holiday shows at the original length", we had to go back to 25 minutes and I had to put the scene back in. So that's the story of that minor controversy.
G2M: It's almost like cannibalism when you think about it, if Woodstock is eating another bird.
LM: Yeah. Right. In fact, there was some blog yesterday where they were asking if Woodstock was carnivorous. It was a whole big thing, I couldn't believe it.
G2M: (Laughs)
LM: So it's still going on. The whole point of the Thanksgiving special is that it's a time when people get together, it's done in an entertaining way, because of all the confusion putting it together.
Thanksgiving is so centered around cooking, I think for Charles Schulz it was a funny idea to go and show all the things that could go wrong with the cooking with people like Peppermint Patty and Snoopy in the kitchen. And that was really the whole point of the thing.
Also in the Thanksgiving show was one of the few times we did the Disney-like thing where Snoopy gets into a big fight with the lawn chair. We hadn't done that too many times before, or since, but it was kind of Sparky Schulz' and (Bob) Bachman who was the animator, tribute to Disney animaton and do one like that.
G2M: I remember that's how I learned to make egg drop soup, when Peppermint Patty was trying to boil the eggs and she didn't realize you're not supposed to crack them before putting them in the water.
LM: (laughs) And of course Snoopy with popcorn. Or maybe because of our show that's become part of the tradition. I don't know.
I'm so glad we're able to put Charlie Brown on the Mayflower, for the second feature ("The Mayflower Voyagers") after the Thanksgiving special, because again it does remind people about what the holiday is all about. And we get as many people to watch that show as the Thanksgiving show.
G2M: And finally, I know we always conclude talking about which character we relate to the most. Around this time of the holidays, which character do you relate to the most?
LM: Well, Charles Schulz always said that when the kids grew up Linus would be the most faithful of the group. For some reason I'm attracted to Linus because of all the problems he has in the Great Pumpkin patch with Sally, and then the beautiful speech he does in the Christmas show, and he's one of the stable people in the Thanksgiving show, so I think I most identify with Linus.
But I asked Charles Shulz who he identified with and he said Snoopy was the way he'd like to be, and Charlie Brown was like the way he was.
I just think for me that Linus is a very appealing character with his security blanket.
G2M: Thanks for taking the time to talk about the special!
LM: And thank you to Chicago and the Midwest for the great ratings!
To win a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Gift pack, including the DVD, Thanksgiving card and book, all you have to do is send me an e-mail (redeyegeek [at]gmail.com) with your name and address, along with the answer to this trivia question: When did "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" first air?
All correct entries will be entered into a random drawing for 1 of 5 gift packs. Winners will be notified via e-mail. Gift pack to be sent to winner by Peanuts Worldwide LLC.
Contest deadline is Wednesday, November 27th, 2013.
This contest is not sponsored by Redeye or the Chicago Tribune.


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Just finished my first pair of TWO AT A TIME toe up socks! And they only took me one month to knit, which is awesome, considering my average project completion time is averaging about a year. I think I've caught the sock knitting bug.
I used Shibui Sock Yarn from Handheld Knitting my most favorite knitting store in the whole world. And size 2 needles.
This pair is going to my lovely aunt, who deserves a bit of luxury on her feet!
I also wanted to post about this awesome ring my sister got for me from a craft fair in the Boston area. It's handmade by this amazing jewelry designer, Monique Rancourt. I love it, it's my favorite ring, I wear it everyday. It's simple and classic enough to wear everyday, but I always feel special wearing it because it's so unique.
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Last year and earlier this year my husband spent some time working in Richmond, Virginia. My son and I took several trips to Richmond while my husband was there. We all loved Richmond! There was lots to see and do! While my son loved the Science Museum of Virginia I was interested in the area because of my Civil War ancestors.
My great-grandfather, Francois Chenette (1813-1886), was a Civil War soldier. He and his son, also named Francois (1845-1864) both enlisted in the Union Army in Woodstock, Vermont on 10 Dec 1963 and mustered in on 16 Dec 1863. Francois Sr. was 50 years old at the time and his son Francois was 18. I found it interesting that Francois Sr. gave his age as 44 at the time of enlistment! Both father and son served in the 11th Vermont Infantry, Company K. Francois Sr. was wounded at the Battle of Cold Harbor. Sadly young Francois died of disease in Strasburg, Virginia on 03 Nov 1864 and was buried at Bragg's Farm. Francois Jr.'s body was later moved to the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia where my family and I visited his grave several years ago on our drive home from Charleston, South Carolina. Francois Sr. transferred to Company A on 24 Jun 1865, and he mustered out on 29 Jun 1865.
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Not surprisingly one of the items on my agenda was to visit the Cold Harbor Battlefield. While my husband was at work my son and I stopped at the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar and the visitor center for the Richmond National Battlefield Park at the Tredegar Iron Works which was only a short distance from our hotel in downtown Richmond.
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The iron works was quiet on the day we visited. If you look at the sky in my photos you can see the storm clouds in the background that preceded Hurricane Irene which hit Virginia while we were in Richmond. My then eight-year-old son was initially less than excited about the iron works, but one of the park rangers did an amazing job at keeping him entertained with a scavenger hunt activity while I looked around the visitor center. We also discovered the gift shop sold a set of Civil War silly bandz (Remember those?) which included a silly band of Abraham Lincoln's profile, so thankfully the day wasn't a total write off at least as far as my son was concerned.
|Richmond National Battlefield Park Visitor Center
The Tredegar Iron Works was the largest iron works in the south during the Civil War and survived the burning of Richmond relatively unscathed. You can see a great vintage photo here.
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|Cold Harbor Battlefield
The fields were lovely and serene the day we visited with a bright blue sky, the literal calm after the storm, and while the visit to Cold Harbor probably wasn't high on my son's "things to do list" he does know that his ancestors fought in the war. It really is amazing to think that he is only four generations removed from a Civil War ancestor! The battlefield visit might not have been the most exciting way for him to spend a day in Richmond, but I sure bet he'll have something to talk about when his class finally does get around to learning about the Civil War in school!
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Flash Back! The Life and Times of Francois Chenet (Greatly Abridged)
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N M Tech Collaborates with Pueblos on IT Education/Training, June 29, 2006
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López addresses ITEST participants at a recent luncheon.
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., June 29, 2006 – New Mexico Tech and Santa Fe Indian School are collaborating on a new education and training program that will provide students, teachers, and mentors at several of northern New Mexico's pueblos with practical experiences using geographic positioning systems, mathematical modeling, and computer technology to help solve environmental problems the various Native American communities are facing.
With funding provided by the National Science Foundation, the state-supported research university in Socorro recently teamed up with the Santa Fe high school to initiate the Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, in which participating teachers and students gain college credits during the summer as they enhance their information technology (IT) skills and knowledge in New Mexico Tech classrooms and computer labs.
In addition, high school students enrolled in ITEST will have opportunities to test their newly acquired IT skills during the regular school year, as they work on a part-time basis as student interns in the environmental or IT departments associated with their respective pueblos.
"Through this program, high school teachers and students work together to enhance their IT skills, and then use the knowledge to help with difficulties encountered in their home communities, such as developing engineering solutions for recurring flooding problems," said Srinivas Mukkamala, IT coordinator for New Mexico Tech's Institute for Complex Additive Systems Analysis (ICASA) and one of the university's project coordinators for the ITEST program.
The innovative education and training program is based on a model already in place at Santa Fe Indian School, in which curriculum is designed around problems and practices typically encountered in traditional Pueblo Indian culture and life.
"The ultimate goal of the ITEST program is to make a difference in these Native American communities," Mukkamala said. "We want teachers as well as students to feel comfortable with information technology and to be able to apply it in developing practical solutions to common problems faced in their communities."
Supplemental funding for the New Mexico Pueblo ITEST program is currently provided by the New Mexico Tech President's Office, the Tech Academic Affairs Office, and the university's ICASA research division.


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On Sunday, just when it seemed the surfcasting season was over, boaters began finding striped bass feeding on schools of herring as desperate surfcasters, watching from shore, thrilled to the aerial assault on the herring by gannets.
A strange fall indeed. Here it is well into November and the ocean temperature remains above 50 degrees. It seems that larger striped bass time their southern migration so they can feed from the herring bounty en route to the Chesapeake Bay.
Speaking of which, both Virginia and Maryland have posted near-record totals in their respective young-of-the-year surveys of striped bass in the giant estuary. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recently announced the fourth highest totals, well above the long-term average in the survey's 58-year history.
The survey also showed an increase in the abundance of the juvenile blueback herring population, the bass's favorite forage food. Virginia's survey results were similar. The 2011 young-of-the-year bass should be fishable in three or four years.
Bob Otter told Harvey Bennett of the Tackle Shop in Amagansett that he was off Watch Hill, R.I., last Thursday, where boats were drifting through schools of herring and hauling up striped bass from their midst in the 25 to 28-inch range. Watch Hill is north of Montauk so if there's any justice, predator and prey should arrive before week's end.
And, sure enough, Chris Miller of the West Lake Marina said on Monday that the herring were thick right outside the Montauk Harbor Inlet, and the Lazy Bones party boat has reported more consistent bassing.
Michael Potts said: "If you're heading over to Block Island to do a little bottom fishing you could see sea gulls picking up bunker and trying to eat them. They were being chased up to the top." It would seem there's plenty of bait around for a strong striped bass finale.
And, as if further evidence of a strong late fall sportfishing season were necessary, the angling for bottom dwellers including blackfish, sea bass, jumbo porgies, and cod has been excellent, according to boaters.
Miller said blackfish seemed to be moving east from their late summer Fishers Island feeding ground to Cartwright Shoals, Southwest Ledge, and south of Block Island. He confirmed that a healthy number of cod were mixed in with the blackfish catch. Lots of sea bass and jumbo porgies, too. He added that West Lake Marina had plenty of hermit crab blackfish ammunition on hand at the Marina.
Bennett reported the best sea duck hunting in years, flocks of 20 to 50 birds each. "There's probably 10,000 ducks around Gardiner's Island. They fly on the falling tide to get to the shallows, so that's when you put your decoys out. I had marinated coot breast for Saturday night dinner on the grill," he said, using the local name for sea scoter. "It was out of this world."
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The White House decision to send additional ground troops to Afghanistan (see Extra!, 4/09)
is only part of the escalation of the war in Central Asia. The
increased use of airstrikes and drone-fired missiles in both that
country and neighboring Pakistan are likely to increase civilian
deaths. Recent coverage, however, suggests that corporate media will
present such incidents as aberrations that distract from U.S. strategic
interests—or highlight the supposed public relations prowess of
official enemies like the Taliban.
A Washington Post piece headlined "Tactical Success, Strategic Defeat" (3/2/09) described a house raid in Afghanistan that became the source of controversy when Afghans said that U.S. forces killed an innocent man, which U.S. officials denied. The Afghan version of events "has stuck in the public mind" in the country, an "incriminating version—colored by villagers' grief and anger, possibly twisted by Taliban propaganda and magnified by the growing influence of independent Afghan TV—[which] spread far faster than U.S. authorities could even attempt to counter." The idea seems to be that a story about fellow citizens killed by foreign troops would not concern people unless it was "colored," "twisted" or "magnified."
After reports surfaced that as many as 140 Afghans died in U.S. airstrikes in western Afghanistan, the newspaper headlines gave a clear indication of the U.S. media's priorities: "Afghan Civilian Deaths Present U.S. With Strategic Problem" (Washington Post, 5/8/09), "Civilian Deaths Imperil Support for Afghan War" (New York Times, 5/7/09), "Claim of Afghan Civilian Deaths Clouds U.S. Talks" (Wall Street Journal, 5/7/09).
The "issue of civilian casualties is extremely difficult in Afghanistan," explained one Associated Press account (4/19/09); they are "an increasingly sensitive issue with President Hamid Karzai" reported another (3/22/09). In one New York Times story (5/7/09), these deaths were "a decisive factor in souring many Afghans on the war." A raid in Afghanistan that killed five people was responsible for "resurrecting a sore point that has troubled the American-led war here," according to the Times (3/23/09). It's odd enough to describe dead civilians as a "sore point," but presenting the "war" itself as being troubled by them suggests that they are chiefly important as impediments to the military operation.
However "sensitive" and "difficult" an issue they may be, deaths of civilians are often cast as unfortunate errors committed by a diligent military. The Times' Elisabeth Bumiller (2/24/09), reporting from a U.S. aircraft carrier, quoted one U.S. commander: "We don't drop when we're unsure." (The article also reported that "pilots circle Taliban strongholds like an airborne 911 service," dropping "bombs that kill three, four or five Taliban fighters at a time.")
At the same time, reporters raise their eyebrows at complaints from Afghan or Pakistani politicians. Afghan president Hamid Karzai's regular protests against U.S. raids and airstrikes that kill Afghan civilians were dubbed "bitter outbursts" by the Washington Post's Jim Hoagland (3/22/09). New York Times reporter Jane Perlez took that line of thinking much further in an April 16 piece headlined, "Pakistan Rehearses Its Two-Step on Airstrikes."
Perlez acknowledged that "the Pakistanis' discomfort with the drones is real," but in explaining the "larger issue" she stressed U.S. strategic considerations before getting to civilian deaths: "Then there is the matter of public perception, particularly over the civilian casualties caused by the drone strikes, which infuriate Pakistani politicians and the media."
Perlez told readers that such deaths—"the matter of public perception"—number perhaps 500, but she found a former Pakistani general to make the claim that "the government fails to point out that many of those killed are most likely hosting Qaeda militants and cannot be deemed entirely innocent." The piece closed with a long discussion of an "unscientific" survey of opinion that suggested that Pakistanis might actually accept airstrikes against their country.
And to hear CBS Evening News tell it, the U.S. is at a disadvantage in that battle over public perception. Anchor Katie Couric declared (1/27/09) that a U.S. commander "says the Taliban have become masters of manipulating public opinion." Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer relied on that same military source to advance this argument, nothing that "there's huge frustration that anytime the U.S. military is honest about its lethal mistakes, that's used against them." Palmer concluded her report: "U.S. success in this complex war depends as much on controlling the message as deploying the guns."
Such coverage suggests that U.S. accounts of civilian attacks are generally to be trusted, but that Afghans are unwilling to believe them because they've been fooled by the Taliban. This ignores the many high-profile cases where U.S. officials have been forced to admit—after early denials—that Afghan accounts of civilian deaths were indeed more reliable than the stories told by U.S. officials (TomDispatch.com, 9/11/08; New York Times, 2/22/09, 5/8/09). If Afghans—or Pakistanis—choose to believe their own leaders or media accounts, they may just be learning from experience. Perhaps U.S. corporate media should follow their example.
Treating Civilian Deaths as a 'Sore Point'
The PR war in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The White House decision to send additional ground troops to Afghanistan (see Extra!, 4/09)
is only part of the escalation of the war in Central Asia. The
increased use of airstrikes and drone-fired missiles in both that
country and neighboring Pakistan are likely to increase civilian
deaths. Recent coverage, however, suggests that corporate media will
present such incidents as aberrations that distract from U.S. strategic
interests—or highlight the supposed public relations prowess of
official enemies like the Taliban.
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Buteyko breathing training, Buteyko Institute Method, Buteyko technique, Eucapnic breathing technique, Eucapnic Buteyko breathing.
The Buteyko breathing technique (BBT) consists of breathing techniques, relaxation exercises, and asthma education. The technique aims to reduce hyperventilation. BBT originated in Russia in the 1950s and has since been adapted for use elsewhere.
BBT is most commonly used to treat asthma and other breathing conditions. Some evidence suggests that BBT may help reduce reliance on asthma drugs, especially among patients who frequently use a rescue inhaler. However, studies have not shown improvement in other measures of asthma severity.
The theory behind the Buteyko breathing technique (BBT) is that individuals with asthma over-breathe (hyperventilate), causing them to lose excessive carbon dioxide from the lungs. When carbon dioxide levels become too low, the airways constrict and oxygen levels are lowered.
BBT may have an effect because of the personal attention patients receive or because of a change in the patient's perception of asthma severity. In addition, asthma education may improve patients' understanding of the disease.
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These uses have been tested in humans or animals. Safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider.
Studies have shown reduced use of rescue inhalers among patients receiving BBT. Improvements in other measures of asthma severity have not been shown. Additional study is warranted.
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Allergies, chronic fatigue syndrome, heart disease, hormonal disorders, migraine, nervous system disorders, panic attacks, respiratory disease, skin conditions (eczema), sleep apnea, snoring.
Many complementary techniques are practiced by healthcare professionals with formal training, in accordance with the standards of national organizations. However, this is not universally the case, and adverse effects are possible. Due to limited research, in some cases only limited safety information is available.
BBT is generally considered safe. BBT may interact with asthma medications and should be used with caution in patients with asthma that changes suddenly ("brittle asthma"). Patients should use caution when reducing levels of asthma medications and should always carry a rescue inhaler. Asthma should be treated by a qualified healthcare professional.
BBT is not recommended during pregnancy or breastfeeding due to a lack of safety data.
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Abramson M, Borg B, Doran C. A randomized controlled trial of the Buteyko method for asthma. Int J Immunorehabil 2004;6:244.
Bruton A, Lewith GT. The Buteyko breathing technique for asthma: a review. Complement Ther Med. 2005;13(1):41-46.
Bowler SD, Green A, Mitchell CA. Buteyko breathing techniques in asthma: a blinded randomised controlled trial. Med J Aust. 12-7-1998;169(11-12):575-578.
British Guideline on the Management of Asthma. Thorax 2008;63 Suppl 4:iv1-121.
Cooper S, Oborne J, Newton S, et al. Effect of two breathing exercises (Buteyko and pranayama) in asthma: a randomised controlled trial. Thorax 2003;58(8):674-679.
McGowan J. Health Education: Does the Buteyko Institute Method make a difference? Thorax 2003;58(suppl III):28.
McHugh P, Aitcheson F, Duncan B, et al. Buteyko Breathing Technique for asthma: an effective intervention. N Z Med.J 12-12-2003;116(1187):U710.
Opat AJ, Cohen MM, Bailey MJ, et al. A clinical trial of the Buteyko Breathing Technique in asthma as taught by a video. J Asthma 2000;37(7):557-564.
Walters EH, Johns DP. Unravelling the Buteyko effect. Med J Aust. 1-15-2001;174(2):64-65.
Weiner JM, Burdon JG. Severe allergen-induced asthma despite the use of Buteyko breathing technique. Med J Aust. 7-19-1999;171(2):109.
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Rifle Team Scores At State Championship
SOCORRO, N.M. August 28, 2012 – Seventeen smallbore rifle competitors from New Mexico, Colorado and Texas gathered in Capitan, N.M., for the New Mexico State Conventional Prone .22 Rifle Championship.
Austin Mier watching (from left to right) Patrick Ward, Justin Couch, David Best, and Brian Sun prepare to shoot. Brian Sun in position and David Best preparing for a match.
Austin Mier watching (from left to right) Patrick Ward, Justin Couch, David Best, and Brian Sun prepare to shoot.
Brian Sun in position and David Best preparing for a match.
Patrick Ward improved his shooting skills from last spring to earn High Junior. David Best won First Sharpshooter class. Brian Sun also competed and Austin Mier assisted with scoring and is eager to shoot in the next completion. Virginia McLemore is the team's coach and the N.M. state champion, outshooting the second place competitor by four points. McLemore also competed in the 2012 National Metric Prone Smallbore Rifle Championship in Bristol, Indiana, July 16 and17, where she won high intermediate senior (sixth overall). The Intermediate Senior class comprises competitors of age 55 to 64. McLemore won a championship belt buckle. She then traveled to Camp Perry, Ohio, for the National Smallbore Rifle Championships, where she placed third Intermediate Senior and 31st overall (nearly 320 competitors). McLemore then attended the NRA/USA Shooting Sports Association Collegiate Coaches Conference August 3 at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, where she attended sessions to improve coaching skills and fundraising.
The New Mexico Rifle Team is currently preparing for the .22 Rifle Clinic on Oct. 12-1, also in Capitan, and additional championships during the winter and spring. New members of the New Mexico Tech Shooting Sports Club are welcome and encouraged to attend the rifle clinic in October. The club has regular practice at the New Mexico Tech Gym Classroom from 5 to 7 p.m. every Monday during the fall and spring semesters. Contact Jim McLemore (5409) or Virginia McLemore (5521) for more information.


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SAN JOSE — Some called her "Gail." Another woman knew her as "Sandy."
But her real name was Joan Anne Hughes, and she will not be forgotten.
On Saturday, 20 mourners gathered at Westminster Presbyterian Church to remember the life of the 70-year-old homeless woman who was stabbed to death in August while sitting on the sidewalk in front of a San Jose Walgreens.
They included the social worker and kind people who tried to help her, the corporate recruiter who befriended her, the sheriff's sergeant at the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office who worked so diligently to find her true identity.
A fixture in the Midtown area for several years, Hughes was the weathered and sunburned woman with the walker and the piercing blue eyes. In her last months, she was often seen in front of the Walgreens on San Carlos Street at Meridian Avenue. When she died in August, hundreds attended a memorial in the Walgreens parking lot.
Police quickly arrested Marquis Reynolds, a 37-year-old San Jose resident, in connection with her death. But for weeks, Hughes was a "Jane Doe." State officials ultimately identified her through fingerprint records stemming from an old petty theft charge in San Diego.
J.B. Smith first met Hughes on a hot afternoon in June 2008. Shy and standoffish, Hughes refused any offers of money and barely made eye contact. But slowly, over time, the two became friends, and Smith discovered that Hughes was a chatterbox.
"Over four and a half years of friendship, I learned that she was from Brooklyn, that she loved to read, that she ran track in high school," said Smith, his voice choked with tears. "I bought her a walker, and later a second one. I told her she couldn't throw them away."
Hughes was one of five children and grew up in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, N.Y. She married and had two children; the family lived in Naperville, Ill., and in 1978 moved to Saratoga. She was a nurse, a Cub Scout den mother, a woman who loved to paints flowers and landscapes in oil and had an insatiable sweet tooth.
But after her divorce in the early 1980s, Hughes' life unraveled. She cut off contact with her family and began living on the streets, refusing offers of help. The people who knew her say she clearly had mental health issues, but didn't drink or do drugs.
"She suffered a trauma of some kind," said Kathleen Eagan, a clinical social worker who hated the idea of Hughes living alone on the streets, in the mud and the rain. "Every single time I talked to her, I talked about options. She had a tremendous effect on me — and on a lot of people."
Some people spat on her, or kicked her. She had been beaten up several times.
Homeless people are often the targets of extremely violent attacks, often by young male assailants. Advocates are urging that anti-homeless violence be classified as a hate crime. According to the National Center for the Homeless, many homeless people are women, disabled, veterans, and gay youths forced from their homes.
After Hughes died, the people who had known her got to know one another.
"I had tried to help her," said Stacey Bardo, who started a collection to pay for a funeral. "After she died, I met J.B. at the vigil."
J.B. Smith, who works a corporate recruiter for Samsung, says his friendship with Hughes changed his life.
She refused to accept $5, $10 or $20 bills, so Smith would regularly go to the bank and ask for singles, just for her. He kept new, dry white socks for Hughes in his car and would worry when he couldn't find her. On several occasions, he offered to buy her a plane ticket home to New York to visit her two sisters. She always said no.
Besides the two sisters, Hughes is survived by her son, Lawrence Hughes; daughter, Karen Anderson; and two granddaughters that she likely never met. Family members did not attend Saturday's event, but Bardo read statements on their behalf.
Hughes' family will hold services for her in New York on Dec. 14, and Bardo plans to attend. The $2,700 that was collected on her behalf was donated Saturday to the Silicon Valley-based InnVision homeless shelter network.
"All these years, I had been under the impression that I had adopted Gail," Smith said. "When she passed, I realized that it was she who had adopted me. The next time you see someone homeless in your community, adopt them. You will gain a friend."
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Physics of Superheroes on Display Wednesdayby Richard Paige • March 14, 2014 Share:
If you have ever wondered if it is really possible to do some of the things that superheroes do, this is your chance to see the stuff of comic books and Hollywood movies put to the test.
The Wabash College Society of Physics Students (SPS) will present the science behind such superpowers and more in the 2014 Physics Demonstration Show, "The Physics of Superheroes," at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19 in the Fine Art Center's Ball Theater.
"One of the fun aspects of superheroes is that they can do things that are extraordinary," said Martin Madsen, associate professor of physics and SPS advisor. "The world of physics also has many things that appear extraordinary, yet actually work. One of the best parts of presenting the demo show is that we get to show off some of those extraordinary aspects of nature. I'm excited about this year's show because it connects the superhero world to the real, extraordinary world of physics."
The seventh-annual demonstration addresses the physics behind superpower stalwarts like seeing through solid objects, control lightning, using magnetic powers to move metal, exploding matter with laser beams, and exponentially increasing the size of ordinary items.
Be there for this one-night-only show as comic book pages come to life. Admission is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. The show is generously supported by the Wabash College Student Senate.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banks must incorporate the strict new Basel III capital rules in the next set of the surveys of their financial health known as stress tests, the Federal Reserve said on Tuesday.
The central bank has adopted two so-called interim final rules, one for bank holding companies with $50 billion or more in total consolidated assets, and a second for groups with assets of $10 billion to $50 billion.
The group of bigger banks has to take Basel III into account in the next stress tests, which begins on October 1, the Fed said. For most banks in the second group, there is a one-year transition period.
The two rules are effective immediately, but could still be reviewed after a public comment period.
The Fed adopted the Basel III capital rules in July, telling banks to use more equity capital to fund their business to make them more robust following the 2007-09 credit meltdown.
The pact, which will be phased in starting next year, will force most banks to hold about three times as much top-quality capital as is required under existing rules.
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DescriptionPitfall! is a platform action game. You play Pitfall Harry who is on a quest to locate treasure deep in the jungle. With a little luck you'll be able to find money bags, silver bars, gold bars, and diamond rings. But many obstacles will get in the way, some of which merely deduct points from your score, while others are fatal. Rolling logs and falling down a hole will deduct points, and scorpions, alligators, snakes, bottomless pits, swamps, and fires will cause Pitfall Harry to lose a life. You have 20 minutes to try to collect all of the treasures on the numerous screens, if you can live that long!
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- "Pitfall Harry's Jungle Adventure" -- subtitle
- "Jungle Runner" -- Working title
- "ピットフォール" -- Japanese spelling
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- Protagonist: Treasure hunter
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|A 1980s classic!
|Gustavo Henrique dos Santos (113)
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|Feb, 1984
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CartoonPitfall! was popular enough to have a Saturday morning TV cartoon based on it. The cartoon focused on the adventures of Pitfall Harry, his niece Rhonda, and the cowardly mountain lion Quickclaw.
Explorer's ClubPlayers who were able to rack up 20,000 points or higher were eligible to receive the Explorer's Club patch from Activision if they sent in a screenshot to the company.
GlitchesA clipping bug in the ColecoVision version of the game would allow the player to actually walk through the walls in the lower area if hit just right. A demonstration can be seen in this video.
- Issue #4 - #33 in the "Top 100 Video Games of All-Time" list
- Game Informer
- August 2001 (Issue 100) - #41 in the "Top 100 Games of All Time" poll
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- September 2004 (Issue #8) – #85 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)
- Issue 37 - #21 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" poll
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- Issue 04/1984 – #3 Video Game of the Year 1983 (Readers' Vote)
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- Pitfall! 20th Anniversary (Learn the history and play of one of the most popular Atari 2600 games ever created.)
- Skatefall! (August 16th, 2006, John Freeborn released this Flash game, a skateboarding-themed homage to Pitfall!)
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