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Todd Helton Gets a DUI, Drove Drunk to Get Lotto Tickets
Colorado Rockies superstar Todd Helton is one of the greatest hitters of his generation, thanks in large part to his keen eye at the plate. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about his mugshot. The 39-year-old first baseman was arrested early Wednesday morning at a Colorado gas station for allegedly driving drunk.
That's right, the legendary Todd Helton, a man who has earned hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a 16-year career (including $20 million last year), decided that he couldn't make it even one more night without getting his drunken scratch-off fix.
According to a police report, cops were alerted that a black pick-up truck had slalomed its way straight into concrete barrier, eventually coming to rest outside of a local gas station. Sure enough, the trail of debris led straight to a thoroughly sloshed Helton, who was discovered staggering out of the convenience store with a handful of lottery tickets. When questioned, the five-time All-Star denied that he'd gotten into an accident, but was all too happy to describe the night's intake of wine and lotto purchases.
In his defense, Todd clearly felt bad about screwing up. Helton's now-infamous mugshot reveals a man who is too ashamed to face his many fans, the closed eyes indicative of someone who realizes that he's just done something incredibly stupid.
Either that, or he was just too hammered to handle his close-up.


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How to make your very own Spider Hunting Wasp cake:
I made the cake (the innards) a few days ago. As I've mentioned before, if I'm making a character cake, I always like to make the cake in advance because it's so much easier to carve and work with and also means that I have time in case it doesn't work (my cakes have a habit of not working under pressure!). Because of the shape of the wasp, I decided to make the cake in two loaf tins. I made a lemon loaf cake based on these two recipes. I like my lemon cakes to be really lemony, and this one is certainly lemony!
Beth's superzesty lemon cake
Makes 2 loaf cakes. Can be frozen.
250 g butter, at room temperature
2 cups sugar
1/3 cup grated lemon zest (6-8 large lemons)
1/2 cup lemon juice
4 eggs
400 g Greek-style yoghurt
3 cups self raising flour, sifted
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Line base and sides of 2 x 7cm-deep, 10.5cm x 20.5cm (base) loaf pan with baking paper, allowing a 2cm overhang at both long ends.
- Cream the butter, sugar and lemon zest with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. With the mixer on medium speed, add the eggs, 1 at a time.
- Combine lemon juice, yoghurt, and vanilla in a separate bowl.
- Add the flour, baking soda and yoghurt mixtures alternately to the batter, beginning and ending with the flour.
- Divide the batter evenly between the pans, smooth the tops, and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until a cake tester comes out clean.
For the body:
- 1 packet of Orchard icing
- Food dye
- 1 packet of dark melting chocolate
- 1 Kinder Surprise or Easter egg (for the eyes)
- Apricot jam
- Prepare your mounting board if needed. I use a large wooden chopping board covered with gift wrapping foil.
- Shape the cake and round any edges. You will need a head, thorax and abdomen. I made the head and thorax out of one loaf but cutting 1/3 of the end of the cake (for the head) and the rest for the thorax. I rounded the head and made the thorax pointed at one end. The second loaf was used for the abdomen. Mine ended looking up like so:
- Using bamboo skewers, join the 3 body pieces together as below. I used two skewers to attach the head to the thorax, through the front of the head. I used one skewer to attach through the top of the abdomen through to the thorax.
- Roll out the Orchard icing as per instructions. I chose to colour my wasp orange. Make strips for the segments on the abdomen.
- Start with the abdomen. Brush the abdomen with apricot jam. Lay the strips of icing over the top of the cake and press gently so it attaches to the cake.
- For the thorax, I rolled out a big square of icing, laid it over the top of the cake and with a sharp knife I cut it to shape. I rolled the icing back to apply the jam onto the cake, and then pressed the icing back into place.
- For the head, I removed the cake head piece, rolled out circle of icing, brushed the cake with jam and wrapped the icing around it. I stuck the head back on.
- 1 x 500 g packet of air drying clay
- Aluminium foil
- 500 g packet castor sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- Lightly coat the aluminium covered moulds with spray oil.
- In a saucepan (don't use a dark coloured saucepan!), heat 250 g sugar and 1/4 cup of water together. Leave it to bubble, without stirring, until it turns golden brown.
- Quickly pour it into the prepared moulds. Leave to set on the bench for 30 mins.
- Avoid getting water on your toffee or it will turn to liquid.
For the legs, antennae and eyes:
- Melt your dark chocolate. I'm lazy and melt chocolate in the microwave.
- Lay down a sheet of aluminium foil on the bench. Using a teaspoon and a skewer, spoon out chocolate onto the foil and smooth out to make the shape of a leg. Leave to set for a few minutes, then turn the leg over. Apply chocolate to the other side to give the leg more "body".
- For the antenna, carefully draw a thin line of chocolate across the foil with the edge of the teaspoon. Build up the chocolate with a few extra layers if it's too fragile. It doesn't matter if it looks a bit blobby or rough: wasp antennae are moniliform!
- I attached the legs to the body by literally shoving the edge of the leg straight into the cake.
- I gently pried open the kinder surprise using a sharp knife, then wedged the halves into the side of the head. I then attached the antennae in the same fashion as I attached the legs.
- Using a paintbrush, I made lines across the back of the plates of the abdomen with melted chocolate.
- This was a challenge that I hadn't really thought through when I started the whole project. In the end, I jammed the wings into the back of the head, which seemed to work fine. I needed to remove them for transportation though. I would probably do this right before the cake is to be presented, or alternatively make the wings thinner in future, because the weight was a bit too much for the head in the end, and it ended up partly caving in. It was able to be patched, but just a reminder for myself for the future.

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Eras Journal – Fenwick, J.: Review of "Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers", Curthoys, Ann
Ann Curthoys, Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers,
Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, 2002
Isbn 1 86448 922 7
In February 1965 a group comprised mainly of university students from Sydney set out on a bus tour to challenge the segregation and discrimination that was a feature of country towns throughout Australia. In this book, 'freedom rider' Ann Curthoys relives the experience of the Freedom Ride, drawing largely upon a diary written during the journey and the recollections of indigenous and non-indigenous people who were involved. Contemporary media reports as well as secondary accounts supplement the story, drawing attention to the impact of the ride and highlighting the ways in which the events have been remembered.
Freedom Ride begins with an account of a student demonstration for African-American civil rights in Sydney in May 1964. Goaded by criticism of the event, which emphasized that campaigners only appeared to be concerned with discrimination overseas, the students began to address racial inequalities at home. Gradually, Curthoys reports, the students became part of a growing movement within Australia that sought full citizenship rights for Aboriginal people. The students were influenced by American ideas of non-violent direct action and, in particular, by Martin Luther King's idea of 'creative tension' and, after canvassing a number of options for student action, they decided upon a tour along similar lines to the 1961 Freedom Rides in the United States. Six months preparation was to follow in which the group, which called itself Student Action for Aborigines (SAFA), gathered information on conditions in country towns, prepared a survey to be carried out on the trip, raised funds and publicised the ride.
Having introduced those involved in the tour, Curthoys describes conditions that the freedom riders encountered. In some of the towns, while there was evidence of racial discrimination, the students decided that there was nothing substantial or blatant enough to justify a demonstration; sometimes there was also a lack of Aboriginal support for direct action. In such cases, they concentrated on surveying Aboriginal residents and white locals about the treatment of indigenous people within the town. In others, such as Walgett, Moree, Bowraville and Kemsey, the students picketed the local RSL, swimming pool, or theatre and engaged in public street debates and meetings. The book chronicles the responses to the tour, describing local support and hostility, providing details of rural newspapers' mainly unfavourable reaction, and comparing this to the coverage of urban and city newspapers. After considering the immediate impact of the trip, the author reports on the return trips to the towns (and other country areas), as the students continued to pressure townspeople to address social discrimination and to provide support for Aboriginal groups which they had contacted. Freedom Ride also moves beyond the narrative of the tour to an exploration of the ways in which the tour has been remembered and to an analysis of the effects of the ride. Curthoys demonstrates that while the tour contributed to a reconsideration of the treatment of indigenous people and to improvements in their conditions, it did not bring an end to problems in indigenous and non-indigenous relations. Indeed, the book serves to remind us of their longevity, persistence and depth.
Curthoys challenges the collective narrative of the Freedom Ride which focuses on the clashes at Walgett and Moree; on the role that students played in improving the social conditions of Aboriginal people; and on the ways in which the ride enabled Charles Perkins to become one of the leading figures in Aboriginal politics. The author adds to these accounts by fleshing out the stories of other towns which the students visited, such as Wellington, Gulargambone, Boggabilla, Lismore, Bowraville and Kemsey, where students carried out surveys about the treatment of Aboriginal people, visited reserves and stations, and staged demonstrations. Curthoys also reveals that the Freedom Ride did not solely consist of one tour in the summer of 1965, but that many towns were revisited and others added as students attempted to provide ongoing support. Further, the book corrects past remembrances by drawing attention to the role that the local Aboriginal people played during and after the Freedom Ride visits.
Curthoys rightly notes that observers, activists and historians differ in how they have viewed the Freedom Ride. For some, the achievements of the tour are overshadowed by other, much larger campaigns in the 1960s, such as the call for a referendum and the struggles for equal wages and land rights. Others have drawn more attention to the trip itself, recognising the important role it played in bringing Aboriginal affairs into the public and political arenas, thus positioning the tour as a pivotal moment in the development of a new kind of Aboriginal politics in which indigenous people were encouraged to take greater control over Aboriginal affairs. Curthoys shares the view that the ride assisted in the emergence of a new, confident Aboriginal leadership and politics and that the tour urged a reconsideration of the treatment of indigenous people throughout Australia. Moreover, she argues that while it represented only a 'brief episode' in the long history of the pro-Aboriginal political movement, the tour was nevertheless a turning point in race relations in Australia. Rather than explore its impact on indigenous and non-indigenous relations, however, Curthoys argues more generally that this 'shift' was within the left, which was to become more prominent during this time, and that it also signaled the end of the Cold War period in Australian political culture. Curthoys also seems unwilling to enter into a discussion of how the freedom ride responded to assimilation. Instead, she contends that it had no clear position, being 'on the one hand supportive of Aboriginal initiative and freedom of choice, and on the other concentrating its attention on Aboriginal admission to the benefits of white society' (p.292). I would argue, however, that although pro-Aboriginal political organisations were against assimilation in this period, they frequently supported integration, and the demands for equal rights in the 1960s often upheld this position. In my opinion, Freedom Ride warrants a more thorough exploration of the ways in which the Freedom Ride was influenced by these ideas. Despite these shortcomings, the narrative makes a unique contribution to the accounts of the Freedom Ride with its personal insights into the history of these events. Curthoy's book serves to broaden our understanding of the SAFA tour and the conditions it encountered, as well as 1960s activism and the history of relations between indigenous and non-indigenous people in Australia more generally.
Julie Fenwick
School of Historical Studies, Monash University


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Entrepreneurs are getting younger and younger these days. Stories of people launching startups right out of college and becoming CEOs in their 20s seem to pop up everywhere. But it turns out some of us don't even need to reach college age to start a successful company: These business owners aren't even out of their teen years yet! Check out our list of incredible young entrepreneurs that made a name for themselves before they could drive a car.
Leanna Archer of Leanna's Hair
Leanna Archer was just 9 years old when she began bottling and selling her own hair pomade to friends and family. Based on her great-grandmother's secret recipe, Archer's line of all-natural hair products has expanded to include a variety of hair cleansers, conditioners and treatments. The now-17-year-old serves as the CEO of her company and has been recognized by prominent business publications like Forbes and Success Magazine. She even started the Leanna Archer Education Foundation to help build schools and safe learning environments for underprivileged children in Haiti.
Robert Nay of Nay Games
In December 2010, a new mobile game app called "Bubble Ball" was launched on the Apple app store. In its first two weeks it received more than 1 million downloads, surpassing "Angry Birds" as the most downloaded free game from Apple. This game was built entirely by Robert Nay, a 14-year-old with no previous coding experience. According to CNN, Nay learned everything he needed to know through research at the public library, and produced 4,000 lines of code for his physics-based puzzle game in just one month. The teen entrepreneur's company, Nay Games, released 24 new levels for "Bubble Ball" in August 2013.
Lizzie Marie Likness of Lizzie Marie Cuisine
Like many little girls, 6-year-old Lizzie Marie Likness (at right) wanted to ride horses. To pay for horseback riding lessons, she began selling homemade baked goods at her local farmers market. Eventually Marie realized that cooking was her true passion, and with the help of her parents, she built a healthy-cooking website with instructional videos to help kids eat better. Now 13, Likness has taught cooking classes, appeared on the "Rachael Ray Show," and starred in her own WebMD video series, "Healthy Cooking with Chef Lizzie," through her culinary business venture.
Moziah Bridges of Mo's Bows
Most young boys are revolted by the idea of getting dressed up, but Moziah Bridges is a rare exception. After being disappointed in the bow ties available to him on the market, Bridges learned how to sew his own with the help of his grandmother. The fashion-forward 11-year-old began selling his creations on Etsy, and his products were soon picked up by boutiques in several southeastern states. So far, Bridges has earned over $30,000 from his bow ties, and told Forbes that he eventually plans to start a children's clothing company.
Neha Gupta of Empower Orphans
From an early age, Neha Gupta (at right, in 2011) has participated in her family's tradition of celebrating birthdays by traveling to India and bringing food and gifts to orphans in their hometown. In 2005, when Gupta was 9 years old, she decided she wanted to do more to make a real difference in these children's lives. She began selling handmade wine charms door-to-door and at community events to raise money for school books and other educational expenses for orphans. These efforts led her to create her own registered nonprofit organization, Empower Orphans. Gupta, now 17, has raised more than $1 million and has received awards from numerous charitable foundations.
Jaden Wheeler and Amaya Selmon of Kool Kidz Sno Konez
Jaden Wheeler and Amaya Selmon started making snow cones with a blender and an extension cord in front of their Memphis, Tenn., home two years ago. Since then, the brother and sister team have upgraded quite a bit: at ages 12 and 11, respectively, they are now the youngest food truck owners in Memphis. In a Huffington Post feature on Kool Kidz Sno Konez, Jaden and Amaya explained that their mother purchased the truck for them after seeing how successful their (very) small business had become. The truck, which is usually stationed in local parks or at private events, now offers hot dogs, nachos, and more than 20 snow cone flavors.
Nick D'Aloisio of Summly
How many teens can say that a multinational corporation purchased their company and made them millionaires? There's probably not a lot, but Nick D'Aloisio is one of them. The 17-year-old entrepreneur is the tech prodigy behind Summly, a summarization app that algorithmically creates summaries of news articles optimized for the iPhone. At 15, he received backing from Horizon Ventures and other angel investors to develop his technology, and in March 2013, Yahoo acquired D'Aloisio's company for $30 million.
Anshul Samar of Elementeo (Alchemist Empire Inc.)
As a fourth grader, Anshul Samar loved playing card games. Two years later, he began developing his own, which he called Elementeo. Samar aimed to make chemistry fun with his board-based game, which involves pitting personified versions of each element on the periodic table against each other to "capture" electrons. Since the first iteration of Elementeo, Samar, now a 19-year-old Stanford University student, has continued to update the game and created a grant fund for other young entrepreneurs, says in a Taking on the Giant article. He has even given a TEDx Talk (an independently organized TED Talk) on his game.
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In 1757, Daniel Williams, planter, of Granville Co., NC deeded a tract of land consisting of 420 acres in Lunenburg Co., VA to his son, Henry Williams "for love and affection." Henry and his wife Elizabeth lived in Lunenburg Co., VA through 1762. In 1764 Lunenburg Co was divided to form Mecklenburg Co., VA in the south. Henry and Elizabeth Williams were then listed as living in Mecklenburg Co., VA between 1765-1770; therefore this land must have laid in the area that was originally Lunenburg that became Mecklenburg Co., VA in 1764. The Willliams family removed to Orange Co., NC, then Caswell Co., NC about 1770.
Today I searched for Henry Williams in the USGenWeb Lunenburg Co., VA archive files for deeds and court records. Although I did not find any references to Henry Williams, my ancestor, I did find a family record file of Reverend John Williams, that was submitted by JoLee Gregory Spears. Reverend John Williams of Lunenburg Co., VA was a 1st cousin of my ancestor, Henry Williams.
JoLee's family record contained a link to Reverend John Williams and Henry Williams' grandfather, John Williams, the Wealthy Welshman published by Scott K. Williams.
This website was a wealth of information regarding the history of the Williams Family in America. Scott K. Williams' two significant references were the following:
1) "Williams 300 Years of Leadership in America: A History of the Descendants of John Williams of Llangollen, Wales" by Lewis James Williams, 1997. This book can be found at the State Library of North Carolina.
2) The transcript of the Williams Family Bible written by John Drayton Williams, son of Washington Williams, grandson of Gen. James Williams; In 1910 Barbara A. McClung copied John D. Williams' family bible that he wrote in 1845 which she borrowed from William D. Williams, Jr (Greenville, TN). If I'm not mistaking, this transcription by Barbara A. McClung is housed in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the Knox Co., TN Library and is copied in several rootsweb files online.
I am very excited about all the great publications references I have come across this week on my Williams family. Now I just have to find enough records to prove that Henry Williams is really my ancestor!!! I'm not sure of what the genealogy netiquette of saying this is, but proving that Henry Williams' daughter, Susannah Williams Brooks Rice was married to Christopher Brooks, and that they were the parents of my ancestor, Christopher Williams Brooks, would disprove existing publications listing George Brooks as C W's father.
With a little help from my new-found friend in TN, I hope to solve this mystery soon.
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First let me apologize for the paucity of posts this past week. I'm self employed, which means when I go on vacation (say, to Shiloh), I have to work frenetically to catch myself up before I go and when I get back. And when I did get back, I had to get a little medical procedure out of the way. I did post two brief articles, and outlined quite a few more, but in the process of writing another I got way off track, which happens to me all the time and is really what this blog is all about.
That post was one alluded to in my last, and concerns an article in the current issue of Civil War Times Illustrated. No, not the Pete Carmichael interview of Gary Gallagher that burned up the blogosphere for a few days a couple of weeks ago. The article in question here is First View of First Manassas by Joseph Pierro, which features a letter from a Virginia cavalryman to his wife.
I thought this would be a pretty straightforward look at a battle participant's [William B. Newton of the Hanover Light Dragoons] letter home that would serve as a lead-in to a bigger piece I've been thinking about, one that considers the limitations associated with eyewitness accounts. The apparent lust with which Newton and his cohorts – as described in the letter – assaulted unarmed Yankee soldiers and civilians also fit in with some research I'm doing concerning battlefield "atrocities". Instead, one seemingly insignificant, annotated sentence derailed me.
But no! the gallant 27th, envious of the glorious achievement of the 4th, at a sing[l]e dash, had charged a regiment of regulars, swept them from the field, and taken every gun in [Colonel William T.] Sherman's battery.
Here's a Harper's Weekly engraving of Sherman's Battery before the battle, and a photo of it shortly thereafter:
No, it wasn't the fact that not a single gun in Sherman's Battery was lost in the battle that set me off. That inaccuracy in fact fits in perfectly with the often significant inaccuracies associated with contemporary, first-person accounts. Rather, it was the editor's bracketed "clarification" of just who the Sherman in Sherman's Battery was. The problem is that the Sherman in question was not William Tecumseh.
In 1861, Sherman's Battery was the most famous company of artillery in the nation. It had won its fame in the War with Mexico at the Battle of Buena Vista, where along with the battery commanded by Braxton Bragg (of whom Zachary Taylor requested "a little more grape", see watercolor at left) it played a key role in the repulse of an enemy counter-attack. It would appear that editor Pierro is not the first to erroneously associate William T. Sherman with the battery of the same name, as this site claims that Bragg fought alongside "Cump" at Buena Vista (W. T. was in California during the war). No, the battery otherwise known as Company E, 3rd U. S. Artillery was commanded at Buena Vista by Thomas W. "Old Tim" Sherman, and even after he moved on to other commands, the battery remained known as Sherman's Battery. That's his photo below on the left, courtesy of the LOC. Nice hairdo – I guess he wanted to be taken seriously (see this post).
So, why the confusion? Well, that's where things get confusing. First of all, (T. W.) Sherman's Battery was attached to (W. T.) Sherman's brigade of Daniel Tyler's Division at Bull Run. At the time it was under the command of Capt. Romeyn B. Ayres (to the right of Sherman above, also courtesy LOC). So, technically speaking, the battery was W. T.'s. But that is certainly not the Sherman to whom the letter writer was referring. So, either the editor was unaware of the story of the famous Sherman's Battery, or he was unaware that the famous Sherman's Battery was on the field at Bull Run. That's not as unlikely as it sounds, if he used as his source the Orders of Battle included in three of the most recent studies of the campaign.
Stay with me.
There are eight "major" studies of the Campaign of First Bull Run. The earliest work, R. M. Johnston's Bull Run: Its Strategy and Tactics, includes an order of battle (OOB) and a table that identifies the battery in Sherman's Brigade as E of the 3rd. It takes some looking though and the book was written in 1913. David Detzer's Donnybrook, Russell Beatie's Road to Manassas, and Ethan Rafuse's A Single Grand Victory, only refer to the battery as being commanded by Ayres or as Ayres's Battery. Only William C. Davis's Battle at Bull Run accurately identifies the battery as E of the 3rd, commanded by Ayres, and known both north and south as Sherman's Battery. Three "modern" studies include orders of battle: Ed Bearss's First Manassas Battlefield Map Study, John Hennessy's The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence and Joanna McDonald's "We Shall Meet Again". These are the sources a modern researcher would most likely use as a quick reference for what unit was where. And they all get the identification of this battery wrong.
These three all list the battery in Sherman's Brigade as Battery E, 5th US Artillery, under the command of Captain Romeyn B. Ayres. In addition to being wrong, it's impossibly wrong. But maybe understandably wrong.
Here's why Ayres's command of Battery E, 5th US Arty in July 1861 is impossible: according to Dyer's A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, that battery was not organized until May of 1862. Now, why is such a mistake understandable? I mean, we're talking Ed Bearss and John Hennessy here!
I think the answer can be found in Ayres's official report (I've made a new page for it here), and his Cullum and Heitman entries, the starting points for all biographical sketches of West Point graduates and regular army officers. Ayres (I'll post his bio sketch in the next few days) was first posted to the 3rd Arty as a First Lieutenant in March, 1852, and remained with the regiment at least until he made Captain of the 5th Arty in May, 1861, before Bull Run. That much is clear in Heitman and Cullum. But it's also clear from his report that he was in command of a battery in Sherman's Brigade at Bull Run. But a less than careful reading of his report can lead to an inaccurate conclusion.
Ayres's report, written just four days after the battle, is headed "Light Company E, Third Artillery", which is clear enough. But in the printed OR's, Ayres's report is prominently titled by the compiler as the report of Capt. Romeyn B. Ayres, Fifth US Artillery. And to add to the confusion, he signed the report "R. B. Ayres, Captain, Fifth Artillery, Commanding Company E". So, if one has no idea of the history of Battery E, 5th US Arty, and merely reads the title of the OR entry and the signature line – and ignores the heading on the actual report and the name of the 3rd US Arty AAAG at the close of the report – one could understandably conclude that Ayres was in command of Battery E, 5th Arty.
So, did these three authors all make the same mistake and come to the same conclusion when compiling their OOB's? Or did one make the mistake first, and the others carried it over to their work? Who knows? I know that I had it wrong on my OOB until I read the CWTI article and started digging. It's not the first mistake on Bull Run OOBs I've found (I'll try to get to that this week as well).
Why was Ayers in command of Sherman's Battery at Bull Run when the records indicate he had been transferred to the 5th Artillery in May? Either his commission was backdated and he had not reported to the 5th as of July 21, or there's another reason. It was not uncommon for Union officers, particularly 1861 academy graduates, to be on the field at Bull Run in some capacity other than their official assignments. Just one more thing to add to my list of things to look into.
I'll post more on Ayres later this week.
Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy (full digital text)
Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (full digital text)
Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the U. S. Army (full digital text)
Hennessy, The First Battle of Manassas – An End to Innocence
Johnston, Bull Run: Its Strategy and Tactics (full digital text)
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (full digital text)


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- Stella Ehrhart, 8, dresses as a different character each day for school in Omaha, Nebraska
- Favorite characters include Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller
- Stella says she never repeats characters because "it's better to focus on as much as we can"
- All her costumes come from her closet, she and her mother say
While most children Stella Ehrhart's age are thinking about what they're going to be for Halloween, this 8-year-old from Nebraska is thinking about who she's going to be each day of the week.
But don't misinterpret what she's doing as "dressing in costume," her mother said. Stella is dressing "in character" based on what she has in her closet and where her imagination takes her.
All it takes is a black dress and a red-tissue paper flower in her hair and she's jazz singer Billie Holiday. Or, she's Jane Goodall with a flannel shirt and stuffed chimp tucked under her arm. With a khaki shirt emblazoned with a police badge she's her Aunt Pam, a police officer.
"She's definitely drawn to characters that have overcome a lot, with a lot of inner strength," her mother, Stephanie Anderson, said.
Her ideas come from books, people she learns about or even friends and relatives, she said. The list goes on and on because she hasn't repeated a single costume since she started last year at the beginning of second grade, Stella and her mother say.
Stella was reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series about a pioneer family's life and wondered what the author wore. The next day she showed up to school in a dress with leggings, Stella said, starting a tradition that lasted the entire school year. She resurrected it this year as she began third grade.
Stella was reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series about a pioneer family's life and wondered what the author wore. The next day she showed up to school in a dress with leggings, Stella said, starting a tradition that lasted the entire school year. She resurrected it this year as she began third grade.
It's important to not repeat characters, Stella said in a phone interview, because doing so would mean fewer opportunities to try something new.
"I think it's better to focus on as much as we can," she said. "If I repeat an outfit five times that's five times we don't have for a new character."
Not all of the characters are obvious or distracting, which minimizes their potential to disturb the classroom, her mother said. To the contrary, teachers and students love it because they tend to learn something new about the person Stella is emulating.
"I think its just in her genes," said Anderson, who worked in local theater in Omaha before she had kids. Stella's father is the director of Omaha's Rose theater.
"She does this all on her own," Anderson said in a phone interview. "I don't costume her or buy anything special for this, we shop at Target and Goodwill for clothes."
Stella shared insights into her five favorite costumes and what she has learned from them.
-- Harriet Tubman: "I like her because she led people on the Underground Railroad, she was a slave. ... I like how she helped 26 people and risked her life for them."
-- Helen Keller: "I like how she never gave up on learning and she kept trying until she learned how to read Braille."
-- Rosa Parks: "She said she had enough of it. She stayed on her seat on the bus. That was her way of saying, 'No way, this is not fair and I don't like it!' "
-- Anne Frank: "People just think she's the person who hid behind the door but she had to move three times. ... You've got to do what you have to do."
Jane Adams (activist): "It's good to do what you have to do to help people, especially those in need."
So, what is she going to do for Halloween?
"I'm not sure yet," Stella said. "I haven't really thought about it yet as a special day, so probably whatever I had planned."


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Kim Kardashian Does a Lingerie Spread, Acts Like We Haven't Already Seen the Goods [PHOTOS]
Reality star slash pretty much useless person Kim Kardashian recently took time out of her busy busy day of abject famewhoredom to put on bras and panties you can't afford and stare off into space for the French magazine Factice.
Slightly NSFW photos below if ladies in lingerie (or Kim Kardashian's face) are an unacceptable part of your work day.
Ironically, the English definition of "factice" is "fake." Artificial. Factitious. As in, "Man, that Kim Kardashian sure looks plastic. Must be all that blood she bathes in."
Of course Kim wrote about the shoot on her blog, saying, "I'm so pleased with the way the shots turned out. This was such a glamorous and feminine shoot and it was an honor."
We're not sure who the intended audience is for these boudoir pics since it recently came to light that dudes just aren't that into Kim anymore. But regardless, you can see more heavily airbrushed, duck-faced photos of her below.
Or download the magazine from the Factice website if you just need something to hang for dart practice.


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Paul, Apostle of Christ (PG-13)
SynopsisIn PAUL, THE APOSTLE OF CHRIST, Paul suffers alone in a Roman prison, awaiting his execution under Emperor Nero. Mauritius, the ambitious prison prefect, can hardly see what threat this broken man poses. Once he was Saul of Tarsus, the high-ranking and brutal killer of Christians. Now his faith rattles Rome. At great risk, Luke the Physician visits the aged Paul to comfort and tend to him-and to question, to transcribe, and to smuggle out Paul's letters to the growing community of believers. Amid Nero's inhuman persecution, these men and women will spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and change the world.
March 23rd, 2018
CastJim Caviezel
James Faulkner
Olivier Martinez
Joanna Whalley
John Lynch


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Peter Grimes is a rare masterpiece of English opera, suffused with an almost overwhelming sense of place; the salty sea air and dark stormy light of Suffolk on the east coast. Its inspiration is Britten's home town, the unique coastal settlement of Aldeburgh. If you have seen the opera, and never been to the landscape that inspired it, here is a Peter Grimes Trail to inspire you to head East one stormy summer afternoon.
Peter Grimes Trail
1. Aldeburgh Parish Church: The medieval church of Saint Peter and Paul looks out to sea, with an unusually tall 14th-century bell tower once used as a key navigation point by sailors. Britten's body is buried in the church's Lawn Cemetery. A simple slate headstone marks his grave, which stands next to that of his partner the tenor Peter Pears, who first sang the title role of Peter Grimes.
Inside, near the organ, is a bust of George Crabbe, whose poem 'The Borough' inspired Britten to write Peter Grimes. The church was also the venue for the first concert of the first Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and for many notable performances since. Near the bust is a stained glass window by the artist John Piper in memory of his friend Britten.
2. The Moot Hall The prologue of Peter Grimes is set in 'a room inside the Moot Hall, arranged for a coroner's inquest'. The Moot Hall is Aldeburgh's oldest building after the church and has been the centre of civic life in the town for more than 450 years. Aldeburgh Town Council still meets in its first-floor chamber, which also houses Aldeburgh Museum. Facing the Moot Hall is the Mill Inn, which also dates from the 16th century and is today one of several fine Aldeburgh public houses that are altogether more salubrious than The Boar (the fictional inn in Peter Grimes where the townsfolk meet to gossip and carouse).
3. Scallop by Maggi Hambling: The interludes in Peter Grimes famously evoke the Aldeburgh shore in all its moods. Its shingle beach was a source of inspiration to Britten throughout his career. On the shingle north of the town, towards Thorpeness, is the giant metal sculpture of a shell, Scallop, a tribute to Britten by the Suffolk artist Maggi Hambling. The four-metre high stainless steel structure is composed of two fractured and interlocking scallop shells, pierced with words sung by Grimes towards the end of the opera: 'I hear those voices that will not be drowned'. It is a wonderful place to sit and listen to the sound of wind and sea and waves.
4. Stop to eat: The walk between the Scallop and the Moot Hall takes you past the huts of the few fisherman still working out of Aldeburgh. You can buy freshly-landed fish from them, or ready-cooked at either of the two fish and chip shops along the High Street.
5. The Red House: Here, off leafy and secluded Golf Lane, is the house where Britten and Pears lived and worked from 1957 until their deaths. Today it is the home of the Britten—Pears Foundation, which welcomes visitors to to gain new insights into Britten's music in the place where much of it was written. Visitors can browse an exhibition on Britten at work, book onto guided tours of the house, and enjoy the extensive gardens. Be quick – you only have until the end of August to visit; the house is shortly to close for a major building project (due to reopen in 2013).
6. Where to stay: The Old Mill, Snape: Peter Grimes was composed while Britten was living at a converted mill in the village of Snape, just up the hill from the Maltings that he would later turn into a world-class concert hall. The Old Mill is not open to the public, but you can in stay two separate cottages on the site.


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QUADE COOPER still wants to play for the Wallabies, but if the ARU don't reverse their decision to effectively offer him match payments only, Sonny Bill Williams is prepared to take a pay cut to accommodate him at Sydney Roosters.
Williams made the extraordinary offer at a press conference to announce he was fighting Francois Botha for the WBA International heavyweight belt, and later told Fairfax Media he had already mentioned the idea to Roosters teammates.
However, Cooper said his first preference would be to reach agreement with the ARU on a contract that would enable him to honour a three-year deal he signed with the Queensland Reds and continue playing for Wallabies.
Cooper left no doubt at the press conference of his passion for the Reds, but unless he accepts an incentive-based ARU contract that guarantees him half of his current $600,000 per season deal he cannot play Super Rugby next season.
''I have already got an agreement signed and sealed with the Queensland Reds and that is something I would love to honour but at the moment the powers that be are not allowing that,'' Cooper said.
Asked about the possibility of only committing to his $400,000 deal with the Reds if the ARU did not improve their offer, Cooper told Fairfax: ''That would be an ideal world I guess, but I've still got a major desire to represent the Wallabies.
''To represent your country and test yourself against the best is something I love doing and something I would never ever close the door on but if we can't come to an agreement that can't happen.''
Despite the stand-off with the ARU, which Cooper's manager Khoder Nasser described as a ''major breakdown in communication'', the 24-year-old attended Reds training before the press conference on Monday at Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
Cooper's supporters within the game believe the situation would change dramatically if Wallabies coach Robbie Deans were sacked and replaced by Reds coach Ewen McKenzie, with whom he has a good relationshiph.
However, Cooper indicated he was already considering other options and a stint in France's Top 14 rugby union competition is a genuine possibility.
''I don't like dealing with things that I have no control over but at the moment it is totally out of my hands, so I have had to make sure I have got things ready to go in case things don't come to fruition,'' he said. ''The boxing has opened a massive door and I have great respect and thank Sonny for allowing me the opportunity.''
Williams, whose $750,000 payout to the Bulldogs when he walked out on a contract in 2008 was covered by friend Anthony Mundine, said he was prepared to extend similar generosity to Cooper if he was able to join the Roosters next season.
''I have been one of his big supporters even before we joined up as a team and I have no doubt that he has got that ability to succeed in the 13-man game,'' Williams said. ''I would probably go as far as to say that I, myself, would give him half my pay packet to lure him across, and they're not just words. I would really do that because I think he would be great not just for the game but great for our club as well.''
Speaking to Fairfax, Williams said: ''I have said it to a couple of players at the Roosters,. I don't know if they thought I was serious or not, but that is just how it is with our team. If one of us can help the other, we are prepared to do that.''
Cooper grew up playing league in New Zealand with Roosters centre Shaun Kenny-Dowall and he said the possibility of boxing, having a stint in the NRL and playing rugby union in France or Japan all in the one season appealed to him.
''That is very much a possibility and that has never been done before, so that would be a major achievement,'' he said.
Roosters chief executive Brian Canavan said Williams's proposal had not been discussed by club management.
''Quade is a good player but it is not something we have considered and at this stage we have got our positions filled,'' Canavan said.
Brad Walter is Sports Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald


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If you ever decide to travel in time, make sure you read the Rule Book first! Jeremy should be at home eating his supper. Instead he has traveled through time with a cat named Aristotle to Mount Olympus, home of the Greek gods. Neither he nor Aristotle has any idea how to get home, let alone how to help Mr. Magnus lift Zeus's curse on his theater, where no play has been performed for years. Not knowing what else to do, Jeremy and Aristotle climb toward the summit, finding adventure all the way.
The story of George continues. At the end of The True Story of George, George, a small plastic man, went for a ride on a rocket and flew apart. Now, with Katie and Mackenzie's help, all his parts must find each other. But his head has been frozen deep in a bag of blackberries. Will he ever be whole again?
George, the little red plastic guy, is back, more famous than ever! George stood up in the saddle and waved his hand in the air. He went up and down, up and down. The lights of the night sky glittered in his eyes. He would get himself a hat. He would get himself a pair of silver spurs to match his silver saddle. He would blaze a new trail clear across the country! George is back, more popular than ever. And Katie and Mackenzie are just one step behind him. But George will have an adventure or two of his own before the three will come together again.
What has twenty legs but just one wing? What has twenty legs but just one wing? That is part of the riddle Jeremy must solve in this sequel to Jeremy and the Enchanted Theater and Jeremy in the Underworld, if he is to help Mr. Magnus save the Enchanted Theater. However, he will have to captain a ship and face a magical bull to do it.
Jeremy and Aristotle can get into the Underworld, but can they get out? In Jeremy and the Enchanted Theatre, Jeremy traveled to Mount Olympus with an orange cat named Aristotle to save Mr. Magnus's theatre, but Zeus only agreed to help Mr. Magnus if he could solve the riddles on three scrolls. Now, in Jeremy in the Underworld, Jeremy is willing to help solve the first riddle, but is he ready to travel into the Underworld to do so?
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The alien robots are back! Googol and Googolplex are back from space, ready to continue their scavenger hunt. Pippa and Troy are eager to help, but runaway bulls and disappearing rainbows make their task difficult. And dangerous!


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Regina Jose Galindo: Who Can Erase the Traces? ,2003. Street performance with blood, leaving footprints.
"Global Feminisms," an exhibition of artworks by 87 women artists born since1960 is now at the Brooklyn Museum (through July 1) and will inspire debate on many topics. Is Body Art now the feminist language? Is the feminist historical survey WACK! now at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA L.A. and scheduled for P.S. 1 next year enough of a reason for "Feminisms" to avoid all art elders in the name of globalism and youth? Isn't thematic age-ism still age-ism?
Wouldn't it be better to look at video art and digital movies - and even most photo-documents -- on our computers at home? Does the paucity of paintings and sculptures show women artists as up-to-date, economically and manually challenged, or merely following what the boys do? Is self-mutilation a justifiable expression of fear and anger? Does anyone really care about family and motherhood as art topics unless, as here, the terms are expanded to include contemporary realities?
But one topic is beyond dispute.
Women artists are still not fairly represented in galleries, museums, and art media. Maura Reilly says it all: "...despite the decades of postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist, and queer activism and theorizing, the majority continues to be defined as white, Euro-American, heterosexual, privileged, and above, all male."
Reilly is co-curator of "Feminisms" -- with the eminent and provocative art historian Linda Nochlin -- and is on-staff curator of the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. In her catalog essay, Reilly goes on to cite Voice art critic Jerry Saltz's lament that only 16 out of 410 works on display on the 4th and 5th floors of MoMA in '05 were by women artists. The Guerrilla Girls have discovered that only 3 % of the artists in the Met's modern art sections are women. Ninety percent of the Met's solo exhibitions were of work by white male artists. The Brooklyn weighs in at 23%, which is less than the Whitney's 30% but more than both the Tate and the L.A. County Museum at 2% each. Furthermore, only 17% of the artists shown in New York galleries, according to Saltz's count, are women. The perception that things have gotten better for women artists is false. The numbers in some cases have gotten worse since the '70s.
Is it because postcolonial, anti-racist, and queer theorizing in the past two decades have lessened feminist impact? Is it because women artists have bought into the male power-structure, tricked by the plums offered a handful of women artists -- some of dubious worth? No, but I think that without direct action and continued vigilance, sexism is impossible to beat. We are talking about power and money, not just gender. For too long gender prejudice has been the excuse for economic and spiritual monopoly.
Therefore, in lieu of a review, Artopia calls for a Women's Art Strike. That action must have only one goal: fair representation of women in the galleriesand museums.
If 60% of the students in art schools are now women, then 60% of the artists in galleries, art magazines, and museums must also be women. Do only men have artistic talent? Can we afford to cut off the vision of more than half the human race?
For one day, women artists, dealers, curators, critics, collectors, art gallery receptionists, auction-house staffers, tour guides, art historians, teachers, and students must refuse to participate in an art world dedicated to promoting the work of male artists. Don't show up for work; don't visit any gallery or museum. Don't buy any art. Most of the artists in galleries and museums may be male, but a big percentage of the backup is female - as is the audience, if not the customer base. Male supporters of women artists should also join in, but I fear that among critics it will only be Saltz and yours truly.
Could a Women's Art Strike shut down the art world? You bet.
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Note: Judy Chicago's still-provocative - and brilliant --- Dinner Party is now on permanent view as the centerpiece of the Sackler Feminist Art Center at the Brooklyn. I praised The Dinner Party when it debuted in 1979 and when it was shown again in 2002. For the latter, you can go to: Chicago.
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Also for those who can't wait for WACK! and for Cindy Nemser's memoirs to find a publisher, that feisty feminist art critic and historian is back. Once publisher and editor of the seminal Feminist Art Journal, Nemser has curated a stopgap exhibition of women artists at the Tabla Rasa Gallery (224 48th Street, Brooklyn) through March, featuring the works of second wave feminists Sylvia Sleigh, Audrey Flack, Hannah Wilke, Judith Bernstein and a few others. Because of her contribution to feminism and art, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz recently declared March 21 as Cindy Nemser Appreciation Day.
Charles LeDray, Party Bed, 2006-7, 25 3/4" x 49 1/4" x 4 1/2"
Small Is Beautiful
An exhibition of recent work by Charles LeDray (Sperone Westwater, 415 West 13th Street, to March 24) deals again with scale, gender, and the handmade in art. This time around most of the works are of sewn cloth. No tiny sculptures carved from human bone; no cases filled with miniature, perfectly thrown vessels. New to me are necklaces on bust forms and an array of pincushions, which are, of course, in the tradition of the self-referring artwork.
LeDray specializes in clothes for, I guess, imaginary dolls or absent action heroes, functioning as symbolic investigations into role-playing (all clothes are drag), the self, artworks, and other existentional subjects. These small garments are sometimes autobiographical and sometimes a bit expressionistic. A string of diminutive men's hats continues his look at trades, trade, and the chapeau as social signal begun with his Village People of 1995. In contrast to his usual deconstruction of masculinity, the multiple pin cushions now on display are of the high-heel shoe variety, which no self-respecting macho man would countenance.
Yes, even the midget coats strewn upon the dollhouse bed in Party Bed were stitched up by the artist. Miniatures play with whimsy; whereas the monumental threatens bombast. If whimsy were the point, Party Bed would not work. We, the giants looking down, once wore these coats in some former life, some Incredible Shrinking Man universe. The party's over!
The small Straightjacket is not whimsical either. In fact one of the miracles of LeDray's art is that it is not whimsical, ever. Certainly not his miraculous anti-netsuke of human bone.
Looking through the catalog for LeDray's 2000 Philadelphia ICA survey, I was reminded of these tiny objects:
Bone Rocker (1995), Ladder (1997), Music Stand (1997), Door (1999), Washstand (1999), Wheat (2000), Tellurian (2000), and Buttons (2000-01) made of 130 buttons.
Some of the meanings are obvious, but no less powerful. Others are conundrums. Could the list of subjects be expanded?
Re: human bone, "He enjoys using it because it is horrific and deals with the issue of human mortality. 'It is possibly the most charged material one could use outside of human flesh,' LeDray said." (Megan Braasch, "LeDray Exhibits Small-Scale Art," The Lantern, U. of Ohio, Columbus, 2/16/00.)
I want to ask: But where does he get the bone?
And then I found some images of workworkworkwork, his 45 foot long streetwork of '91 --- 588 little items, meticulously rendered, it would appear, and all laid out on a sidewalk near Cooper Union in the East Village. This was made in sympathy with the homeless sidewalk merchants who were being harassed by the police. LeDray has said that in this piece he was trying to show how the vending of the homeless is so miniature in comparison to the control the police have over their lives.
I want to say: By extension, the small clothes he sews may represent how miniature and insignificant gender is in comparison to other issues. ....
Is this the same sidewalk site near Cooper Union where David Hammons tried to sell snowballs in 1983? So near to home, what else have I missed?
LeDray, Straightjacket, 07. 15" H.
The Handmade Never Goes Out of Fashion
Like Kiki Smith's utilization of the handmade, LeDray's dedication to patience and fortitude may be a reaction to the machine-shop minimalism of a previous generation. But it may also be ironic. And just as Smith's appropriation of sewing is a bow to feminism and women's work, LeDray's embrace of sewing is a nod to Queer Theory. Men are not supposed to sew, which, of course, is silly considering the tailor's noble trade. Nevertheless, we miss the point in both cases if we do not factor in the poetry of the handmade. Handmade things have more aura.
Some of this aura is literature. By this I mean that if we were suddenly told that LeDray farmed out his practice, certain emotions would disappear. But if you think you can separate art from language, you are wrong.
Come to think of it, how do I really know LeDray sews? He says so; everyone says so. In art, we sometimes need faith.
Nevertheless, a doctorate might be obtained by someone setting up a test. Can participants tell the difference between a hat made by the man who designed it and his hat made by someone else? Or by robotics? I think that, for non-experts, there are subliminal cues. Quilts have been made with sewing machines since the invention of same, yet hand-sewn quilts have a different "feel" that is subliminally derived from the slightly irregular stitching that human hands will always impart.
I prefer to think there is a spiritual residue left behind in a handmade object. Care in making is not exactly love, but it is a close second. Objects can also be made with anger and hatred, but let's not go there.
LeDray, Wheat, 2000. Human bone, 6 1/2" x 24" x 1/2".
The Scales Have Fallen
"What people do with your art once they buy it is a constant problem. If your art is a small sculpture, it will end up on a bookshelf or coffee table. If it's a small painting, it will end up in the hall or in some decorator arrangement with a number of other small paintings and drawings, prints, photographs. Help!
Make it big. Make it too big. Only then will it stand up to the clutter."
......John Perreault
Scale means:
·--------- relative magnitude; "they entertained on a grand scale"
·--------- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it; "the scale
of the map"; "the scale of the model"
But beyond these dreary, everyday meanings, "scale" in art can also mean appropriate and yet dramatic size in relationship to subject and/or meaning, context and surroundings --- a kind of semantic, differential calculus.
When an artist or critic says "X has scale," it has oomph, but not so much that it is more about size than truth. When someone says "the scale is off," the meaning is that the sculpture or the painting is too big (or too small) for its britches, rather than that in a painting of apples and grapes, the grapes are too big.
Scale can't be measured or weighed. Scale holds the room. Scale is magnitude and attitude but not longitude and latitude.
"Scale," even in its specialized use in art, certainly has something to with the relative rather than the essential, although without too much strain one could propose that ratios are themselves essentials. Measurement only measures itself.
But isn't scale an art essence, like presence?
If we know what we mean when we say someone has stage presence, then we should know scale. Scale is an artwork's presence -- in the gallery, the room, and even in art history. A painting needs to hold the wall; and a sculpture needs to hold the room or sometimes the wall too.
It will be interesting to see if Richard Serra's huge steel works in his forthcoming MoMA retrospective will demonstrate their relational appropriateness along with their ambition. I have seen enough of his work over the years to expect that they will, unless those MoMA spaces prove overwhelming or underwhelming and not much of a foil.
But diminutive artworks can exhibit scale also. That LeDray works small, as they say, is not an innovation. There have been others before, usually in one way or another reacting to the gigantism that the art world seems to require. Big art for big men. Even if not meant as a direct critique, some diminutive work of, let us say, Richard Tuttle at his most subtle, certainly is informed by a kind of art history judo. Or contrariness. Or perversity. If everyone is straining to work too large, than obviously you will be ahead of the curve if you tackle the small.
Try this experiment: take any object (toy, pit, stone, leaf, eraser) and place it on the floor of an empty white room. It will exhibit scale. Both the room and the object will immediately become more visible.
Question: if scale is so automatic, so easy, is it worthwhile? In some sense, the planes and the space of the room function as frame. And we all know that something framed is better seen. Isn't that what cameras do for us?
Another lesson:
Almost any painting will look better hung on a wall than leaning against that very same wall. Trying to grasp an exhibition before it is installed is really much too difficult.
Studio visits used to present the same problem. I remember that in my first days at Art News, under the respectable Tom Hess, we fledglings had to view and review art before it was galleried so our single-paragraph pufferies would be in print when the shows were on view. Was this so that the viewer could compare our telegraphic texts to the stuff we were attempting to describe? Or so that whatever we wrote (description is always read as praise) would function as advertisement? In any case, this was before all artists were wealthy and knew enough to style their lofts into ersatz galleries for the proper presentation of their products. In the Dark Ages of reviews based on studio visits, unpleasant surprises would sometimes occur. A group of paintings that seemed just fine in some ratty old former sweatshop on Mercer Street or even some elder's cat-hair infested living-room studio, removed from its homey context and the artists good-will, turned back to dross on clean walls illuminated by track lighting. Or the reverse.
Although Degas proposed that ballerinas were interesting when at ease - as interesting as washerwoman, I guess, or aged ladies of the night - balletomanes prefer them on their toes. Soldiers look better when standing at attention; many flowers look best in vases, even weeds, if properly arranged.
"I want to take drama and condense it down into a size that you would not expect," said the usually not loquacious LeDray, as quoted in The Lantern, as cited above. [Artists take heed. Anything you say, can end up available on the internet!]
Or in his catalogue interview published to go along with his Philadelphia ICA survey (2002): "All my work is the actual size it needs to be." This is my favorite artist's quote of the decade.
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Annie Park reaches US Women's Amateur quarters
NCAA champion Annie Park won two matches Thursday in the U.S. Women's Amateur to advance to the quarterfinals.
The 18-year-old Park, the Levittown, N.Y., player coming off her freshman season at Southern California, beat Brittany Fan 2 and 1 in the morning in the second round, and edged Kelly Shon of Port Washington, N.Y., 1 up in the third round at the Country Club of Charleston.
Park was 3 down after 10 holes against Shon, then won Nos. 11-13 to square the match. Park took a 1-up lead with a par on the par-3 17th, and matched Shon with a par on par-4 18th to end the match.
"On the back nine, I started to get my momentum," Park said "(I thought) `I am just going to hit good shots and get out of there.'"
Park will face Yueer Cindy Feng of Orlando, Fla. Feng beat Casie Cathrea of Livermore, Calif., 1 up.
"The afternoon was really a lot of back and forth," Feng said . "Casie and I really didn't play our best. We kind of left a few out there."
In the other upper-bracket quarterfinal, Lauren Diaz-Yi of Thousand Oaks, Calif., will play Doris Chen of Taiwan in a rematch of Diaz-Yi's 10-and-9 victory in June in the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links final.
"Knowing Doris, she's going to want revenge," said Diaz-Yi, attempting to become only the third player to win the WAPL and Women's Amateur in the same year.
Diaz-Yi beat Kendall Prince of Lake Oswego, Ore., 4 and 3; and Chen topped Australia's Minjee Lee 2 and 1.
"When we made the turn, I felt like I had finally warmed up," Diaz-Yi, an incoming freshman at the University of Virginia, said about her third-round victory. "I feel like I always seem to turn it around on the back nine. ... It was pretty intense. A lot of crucial putts I missed here and there, and I gave up strokes like that on the front nine, but I was able to make them up on the back nine."
In the lower bracket, Katelyn Sepmoree of Tyler, Texas, will face Alison Lee of Valencia, Calif.; and Emma Talley of Princeton, Ky., will meet Su-Hyun Oh of Australia.
Sepmoree beat Aurora Kan of Boothwyn, Pa., 1 up; Lee topped Alexandra Harkins of Crystal Lake, Ill., 3 and 2; Talley beat Mexico's Maria Fassi 2 up; and Oh routed Cammie Gray of Northport, Ala., 5 and 4.


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New development fund to assist small tourism businesses
Winning Board Development Fund members; Ebrahim Osman and Rene Moses (Cape Town Tourism).
Cape Town Tourism's board of directors has launched a Board Development Fund to support SMMEs with the development of their tourism businesses.
Following a request for applications and a selection process, the first two beneficiaries of the fund – Ozzie's Golf Guide and Travel with René – have each received R50 000 to support the growth of their businesses. They're also receiving non-financial support in the form of complimentary Cape Town Tourism membership, mentorship by board members, training, skills development and marketing support until 31 August 2014.
Ozzie's Golf Guide provides a personalised service to local and international guests to ensure that they experience a memorable round of golf in Cape Town, including securing tee times, transportation and golf equipment.
Ebrahim Osman, owner of Ozzie's Golf Guide – which is just more than a year old – says being a recipient of the Board Development Fund has given his business a great boost in terms of a cash injection, mentorship, networking opportunities and industry exposure. 'Most of all, I have a greater sense of confidence in what I do because an organisation like Cape Town Tourism is behind me and believes that I have a great product to offer visitors,' he says.
Travel with René is a niche tourism business that offers two specialised vehicles to assist with the transportation needs of people with disabilities and their families. Owner René Moses has been a wheelchair user for more than 18 years and successfully started her business to fill the access gap. 'Having been selected means my dream of accessible transport for all, including people with disabilities, is attainable. It has instilled confidence in me to continue fighting so that every visitor to our beautiful country feels at home,' she says.
Cape Town Tourism board member and mentor Jonathan Jacobs says the board is looking to support high-growth companies that can also enhance 'Brand Cape Town'.
'One of the greatest challenges facing entrepreneurs is how to access capital, and the Board Development Fund makes it easier for small business owners to access small amounts of capital. We hope that when the new BEE codes come into effect that tourism businesses consider this fund to enhance their enterprise development points,' he says.
Enver Duminy, Cape Town Tourism CEO, says mentorship is central to growing skills and confidence in the tourism industry: 'While tourism is a vital economic driver for our city, province and country, its real impact still needs to reach a broader base of participants and beneficiaries.'
The next request for proposals will go out in November 2014, and the two selected winning businesses announced in December 2014.
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Prevalence of Bartonella infection in wild African lions (Panthera leo) and cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)
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Our labor nurse, Jeanne Faulkner, R.N., blogs about her work with CARE.
Our Ask the Labor Nurse blogger, Jeanne Faulkner, R.N., recently traveled to Peru with CARE, a global humanitarian organization working to improve access and quality of healthcare for pregnant women and mothers around the world. Here, you can read along as Jeanne blogs about her trip and her ongoing work with CARE. See what a big impact her trip has already made, and find out what you can do to get involved.
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Why Care? Jeanne introduces our new project with CARE
Planning for Peru Jeanne's trip begins to take shape
Christy Turlington and CARE Circles of Life
Arriving in Peru Day One: Landing in Lima
Starting to Care Day Two, Part I: Jeanne meets her team
Starting to Care Day Two, Part II: Bird's eye view of how health care works
Day Three: Jeanne's Biggest Day Ever The road to Vilcashuaman
Day Three: Jeanne's Biggest Day Ever, Part II Jeanne interviews the doctors and midwives who run the health clinic in Vilcashuaman.
Day Three: Jeanne's Biggest Day Ever, Part III Jeanne meets mothers living in the maternity home at the health clinic.
Day Three: Jeanne's Biggest Day Ever, Part IV Jeanne meets with the clinic staff.
Day Four: Back in Ayacucho A day for rest and gratitude
Day Five, Part I Going for a Ride
Day Five, Part II The Round Table
Day Five, Part II The Round Table Continued
Day Six Silly Girls and the President
Making an Impact
A Powerful Noise Help Fit Pregnancy support CARE
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Current EventsSeptember 30, 2005
Conferences and upcoming presentations, including a Carson Workshops event in January.
Wow! After a relatively quiet summer, all of a sudden the web is exploding with real-life events planning.
First and foremost, I'm pleased to announce that Carson Workshops is presenting a one day workshop event in London at the end of January. I'll be spending a day sharing some of the things I've been thinking about lately. We'll be covering mostly CSS- and design-related topics, and I'll be building a layout from Photoshop mockup to dynamic, CSS-based site in real time.
If you'd like to come check it out, make sure to register right now, immediately after reading this. There's a limited Early Bird discount which will expire tomorrow, so don't miss out. Whoops, the dates were wrong. Early bird extends until November 1st. You've still got time.
Elsewhere on the globe, right now at this very moment, Web Essentials '05 is happening down in Sydney. You might remember I had nothing but good things to say about last year's, which was my privilege and pleasure to kick off with a keynote. This year's is bigger and better, and if you're not there now you're missing out on a good thing. But you can follow along remotely through Flickr and podcasts of the various presentations. Looks like another smash hit. Congrats to John and Maxine and Russ and Peter and the rest of you, I can't wait to read the follow-ups.
Longer range, everyone's must-do event of the year, SXSW 2006, is heating up already. An Event Apart is about to kick off with an inaugural stop in Philadelphia in December. And the 10th UI Conference runs in just a few weeks in Cambridge, MA.
I'll be at SXSW 2006 in March, no question. If you can only make it to one, that's the one to pick. There's always plenty of hype surrounding SXSW, but once you attend you'll understand why. It's continuing to grow every year, with a growing international audience. (Well for that matter, I guess I'm an international attendee myself.) At the moment I haven't lined up any panels for this year, so feel free to get in touch if you're looking for a co-presenter.
There are a few others I'll be attending. Web Design World 2005 is happening again in Boston this December, where I'll be presenting a pair of talks on web typography and CSS Project Management.
And one I'm really excited about is a presentation called 'Working with Cascading Style Sheets' I'll be delivering here in Vancouver in February at the CASE District VIII Conference 2006. CASE is the international Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and the people attending will be educators from facilities around western Canada and various states in the Pacific Northwest, people who will be taking the ideas they learn back to their students and fellow staff.
These are the people responsible for teaching future web designers and developers, people who may or may not have upgraded their curriculum to reflect current web development trends. Even if just in a small way, it seems like this is a great opportunity to help get the standards message out to the next generation. I'm really looking forward to this one.


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Bachelor Producer Reveals What Life Is Really Like
Imagine travelling the world and visiting tropical locations that most could only dream of, with a bevy of hot, eligible singles. This is the reality for American Bachelor producer, Megan Firestone.
Megan began working on the show in 2009 and says she considers most of the cast close friends.
Her job requires her to know anything and EVERYTHING that's going on with the contestants.
She serves as the guys and girls confidante while they're away from their family and friends and according to her Instagram, it seems like she's doing a great job. Did we mention how JEALOUS we are....
"We talk through what they really want and need in a life partner, and it's amazing to see how much someone can evolve over the course of several weeks," she said.
Megan is lucky enough not just to work on The Bachelor, but the Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise. The brunette struck up a close friendship with most recent Bachelorette, JoJo Fletcher while finding her the man of her dreams.
It appears her days on the Bachelorette series were pretty gruelling...
But a dark light has recently been cast on Bachelor producers worldwide, after the release of hugely popular show Unreal.
If you're a Bachelor tragic like me, you would have been glued to your seat as The Bachelor spoof hit screens.
The show was created by two former Bachelor producers and lifts the lid on what really goes on behind the scenes of reality dating shows. It features fictional producers Quinn and Rachel who are always stirring up controversy.
The pair are often seen laughing at contestants misfortunes and setting girls up to break down and cry on camera. More disturbingly, one scene shows an assistant producer changing one of the contestant's bi-polar medication. It really makes you think.
The show was eerily real for former contestant Jessica Holcomb who was in season-five of the American series. She still remembers ex-Bachelor producer, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro who went on to write the spoof series.
In an interview with the New Yorker, Sarah revealed she's still haunted by an incident which took place involving Jessica. She claims she was forced into asking Jessica, after she was dumped by Bachelor Jesse Palmer, 'do you think he dumped you because you are fat?' This became inspiration for her series Unreal.
"It was very shocking. And then she just kept going on and on. It was just the meanest stuff ever,' Jessica said.
Jessica also confirmed producers would often play on the women's insecurities to get them to act out on camera.
"It was easy for them to manipulate me because I'm a people pleaser. I would do and say anything they wanted me to, thinking that if they like me, they won't be mean or they won't edit me bad, " she said.
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The past week has been filled with:
- A free San Francisco Symphony concert in Dolores park:
- Using this recipe for what I am re-naming "Muddy Cupcakes":
and, yes, I will, eventually tell you more about those.
3. I am dreaming about making these, since I still have a lot of coffee to use up.
4. We made these blueberry-corn muffins; I found the recipe on Two Peas And Their Pod:
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THE headteacher who has come to Deanes' rescue said the new partnership would make both schools stronger and better places to learn.
Sue Hammond, headteacher of the Billericay School, says she is only too happy to step-up and join forces with Jan Atkinson and the Deanes School, claiming the decision to shut it down was morally wrong. The two women have known each other for 15 years and already work together on teaching training to improve standards of learning at both schools.
Mrs Hammond said: "The Deanes School is a good school which serves its community well and it would be very detrimental if it closed.
"We have an obligation to ensure parents and children can choose the education they want and the scale of opinion demonstrates the community wants the Deanes to stay open.
"We were very disappointed something like that should happen to such a good school."
The Deanes School is a specialist sports and performing arts college and the Billericay School is a maths and computing specialist school, so both schools would utilise each other's expertise.
Mrs Hammond added: "It is so important schools collaborate for the good of the children and we have such strong bonds with the Deanes. There is a huge amount to be gained for both schools.
"The Deanes has its marvellous work as a sports college and we are a larger school with academy experience and post-16 facilities."
Deanes headteacher Jan Atkinson added: "Sue and I have worked together very closely in the past.
"We have picked the school because it is a good school and have a very similar ethos to ours, and we think this is the right fit for our children."
Billericay School's governors are due to consider the proposals at an extraordinary meeting on February 24.


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University library redesign — shaping the future of research and learning
Is the university library going the way of the dodo? As with all things, change is a given, and today's modern technologies have been impacting the way higher education conducts its learning and research. But that doesn't mean that libraries will cease to exist. As the concept of the university library undergoes a redesign, what can students and professors expect? Read more


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Hi ladies - ANOTHER questions for you!
Have anyone found -that their little one seems to have quite radical mood swings?! Happy one minute that screaming for no apparent reason the next. This has just started with us in the last couple of weeks (from about 4 months)
Also she seems to not be crazy about being passed around lots of people either (having been fine with it to begin with) and has also taken to screaming when she sees some men. Generally being a bit clingy
Nightmare - I'm so keen for her to be sociable.....but its a bit tricky at the mo. I still love her though!!!!!!!!!
Am wondering if she just gets a bit overwhelmed and tired - - how much sleep should a 4 to 5 month old be getting between 7am and 7pm do you think?
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - A rainy day couldn't damper the mood on a great event for the Tennessee Tech soccer team as the Golden Eagles hosted its Alumni Day Saturday afternoon. Several former members of the Tech club returned for a game against current players as well as a lunch and social time.
The Golden Eagles took advantage of Tennessee Tech's spacious Athletic Performance Center, playing its alumni game indoors to avoid the day-long rain storm that consumed Cookeville. The contest, which lasted roughly 75 minutes, pitted the future of the Golden Eagle soccer team against the past.
Following the contest, both teams, as well as parents of current players, enjoyed a nice lunch in the Eagles Nest located in the Hooper Eblen Center.
The Tech soccer program concluded its spring schedule with the alumni game and will return to the pitch next fall for the 2013 season.


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This fall semester has seen an increase in Penn State Beaver student volunteers. A group of Penn State Beaver students, guided by Christina Winniewicz, external relations assistant in the Office of Development, established the first Blue and White Society ever hosted on campus. The society now has 44 members. In addition, 32 students also are serving as volunteers with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Beaver County. The program's been growing on campus for years, but interest continues to mount. In October students gave up a Saturday to work on a Habitat for Humanity Build with members of the Beaver Valley Area Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association.
The Blue and White Society is the student membership of the Penn State Alumni Association, the largest dues-paying alumni association in the world. Blue and White Society members support the Alumni Association's service to the University and surrounding communities through Penn State pride, civic leadership, social service, volunteer projects, networking events and interaction with Penn State alumni in the community and around the world. Student membership fee is $15 per year.
Officers for the 2008-2009 Blue and White Society are Kevin Valentine, president, sophomore, Division of Undergraduate Studies; Jacqueline Matotek, vice president, junior, applied psychology, and Justin Harmon, treasurer, sophomore, business. A secretary will be announced soon.
This year, Big Brothers/Big Sisters (BB/BS) of Beaver County is providing one-to-one youth mentoring for more than 325 area children. More than 30 Penn State Beaver students (Bigs) are mentoring the children (Littles), ages 6 through 12.
A BB/BS staff member brings the children to Beaver campus where each Big spends about three hours per week with his/her Little by helping them study, play games, attend campus athletic events or just talk one-on-one in a quiet setting. All Beaver campus students must go through an interview process and must be approved by the BB/BS group to serve in the program.
Interest in the BB/BS program grows every year, according to Chris Rizzo, director of the Office of Student Affairs. The program has become part of the community service fabric at the campus, Rizzo said. "I've been very impressed by Ms. Quiana Hayes, the BB/BS mentor coordinator. Her passion seems to transfer to our students and they, in turn, engage other students. Through their relationships with the Littles, our students realize they're doing something important, something bigger than themselves."
In October Beaver campus students spent a Saturday participating in a Habitat for Humanity Build in Aliquippa with Alumni Chapter members. Many of the student volunteers were members of the Beaver campus Business Club which encourages members to apply business knowledge, concepts and ideas to real-world, community projects.
"The students' interaction with us provides a great way to enhance relationships between them and our Alumni Chapter," said Eric McIntosh '05. McIntosh, who was instrumental in organizing the Habitat project, is a member of the Alumni Chapter Board of Directors and a recruiter for UPMC International and Commercial Services.
"More importantly," he continued, "these projects provide students with a tremendous opportunity to build relationships with potential employers while proving themselves to professionals who might be able to provide or help them with job opportunities after graduation. I'm always willing to help our campus students, and events like this Habitat build are a big reason for that."
For information about Beaver campus students' involvement in the community, contact Jessica Jackson at email@example.com or (724) 773-3947.