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Today, Richard Linklater's acclaimed Boyhood (which we love) opens in select cities. (It'll be expanding next week and be practically everywhere by mid-August.) To celebrate, we decided to rank all 16 of the man's commercial features, and what we hope you'll notice is that over a 23-year career, he's had one hell of a success rate. (It's not just impressive how many good movies he's made—it's kinda miraculous how few outright stinkers are on his résumé.) From Slacker to Boyhood, he's been one of America's best and most consistent directors. And he's only 53.
16. The Bad News Bears (2005). Uniting Linklater and a post-Bad Santa Billy Bob Thornton—complete with that film's writing team—surely sounds like a great idea, so it's still a surprise how limp and haggard this remake turned out to be. Thornton looks more bored than anything, his director can't muster up much enthusiasm to hit all the familiar plot beats, and the kids aren't even that cute. It's also strangely bloodless: It's as if neither Linklater nor Paramount—this was considered a bit of a studio follow to the hit that was The School of Rock—had much desire to get legitimately Bad Santa-level dirty, which sort of defeats the whole point of a remake in the first place.
15. SubUrbia (1996). It's not surprising why Linklater was interested in adapting Eric Bogosian's play for the big screen: The story of a bunch of shiftless young people over the course of one semi-memorable night echoed Slacker and Dazed and Confused. But while SubUrbia has its moments—Parker Posey, no surprise, is aces as a sexy music publicist—the overwhelming feeling is that Linklater has already explored this terrain, and done it better. Still, the movie now stands as a sort of perfect mid-'90s time capsule: characters have serious debates about the notion of "selling out," there's a great Sonic Youth song on the soundtrack, and hey, look, Steve Zahn is in it. (He had first played the dopey, hopeless Buff onstage.) And, in its laid-back way, SubUrbia is one of Linklater's more despairing films: You can't quite shake the fear that most of these hip young people may vanish into oblivion before they have a chance to grow up.
14. Fast Food Nation (2006). Linklater certainly has displayed a social conscience in his films, but he's not a fire-and-brimstone muckraker, which made him an odd choice to adapt Eric Schlosser's bestseller about the American food industry. The film's an odd mix of Altman-esque overlapping storylines and a series of self-righteous lefty polemics that grow exhausting even if you agree with them. None of the various stories congeal into anything all that compelling, and there are times it teeters perilously on the edge of "Crash, but with nutrition rather than racism." It does feature a riotous Bruce Willis cameo in which you sense that Willis is the only one in the movie who doesn't think he's the bad guy.
13. Bernie (2011). We'll confess: We're a bit baffled by the critical love for Bernie. The story is overly confused and mannered; the interviews with local townsfolk feel disjointed and a little condescending, Jack Black tamps it down a little too much, and it features the only bad Matthew McConaughey performance during the McConaissance. The movie's a little too clever by half: It wants us to reflect on the weirdness of its real-life story without ever investing in it. It's the rare Linklater movie that doesn't seem entirely in command of its tone.
12. The Newton Boys (1998). Linklater's first big flop, this story of Texas bank robbers in the 1920s—four brothers played by McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, and Vincent D'Onofrio—never really gets out of the starting gate. In what would become a bit of a pattern when trying to do his own spin on genre movies, Linklater never warms to the conventions of a Western. He wants to upend our expectations, but he never does much more than that: We spend most of the movie waiting for a Western that never arrives. And this was also the next in a line of truly dull McConaughey lead roles that would last for almost a full decade. It's a movie about badass Texas bank robbers that is mostly boring, a feat it would seem impossible for Linklater to pull off.
11. Tape (2001). The better of Linklater's two adaptations of plays, Tape could almost be his In the Company of Men, in which men's darker qualities come slithering to the surface for all to see. Stephen Belber's script concerns three high school friends reunited in adulthood: Ethan Hawke's drug dealer Vince is convinced that Robert Sean Leonard's documentary filmmaker Jon raped Vince's girlfriend (Uma Thurman) after they had broken up. Thus sets in motion a series of confrontational, stage-bound conversations inside a hotel room, all shot on low-grade digital video to amplify the queasy factor. Probably nobody's favorite Linklater film, Tape is nonetheless gripping, not to mention a reminder that he can deliver taut psychological dramas when he desires. So many films his canon salute our better natures: This one stands in stark contrast.
10. A Scanner Darkly (2006). Or, Waking Life: Philip K. Dick Edition. Using the same rotoscope animation technique as he incorporated in Waking Life, Linklater turned the sci-fi author's mind-bending novel into a philosophical, trippy, let's-all-hang-out whatzit perfectly embodied by Keanu Reeves' post-Matrix "whoa"-ness. Truth be told, thrillers aren't exactly Linklater's métier, but he does a terrific job conjuring up a sense of dread that alternates between being darkly funny and quietly unsettling. And he's helped by a pretty great cast: Winona Ryder has never been sexier, and if we need a reminder that Robert Downey, Jr. is one fantastic bugged-out actor, A Scanner Darkly provides all the proof we need.
9. Me and Orson Welles (2008). Linklater has made movies based on plays (SubUrbia and Tape), but his best theater piece is this adaptation of Robert Kaplow's fictionalized account of a young Orson Welles' ambitious 1937 Broadway staging of Julius Caesar. Funny, romantic, and just the right amount of fluffy, Me and Orson Welles (like a lot of Linklater productions) is tickled by the energy generated from precise, searching individuals, and the film's highlight is newcomer Christian McKay's inspired portrayal of Welles. It's not just that the actor perfectly replicates the prodigy's mannerisms and speaking style: It's that McKay understands the mix of genius, arrogance, and childlike enthusiasm that makes Welles such a towering, beguiling creative force to this day. And, you know what? Zac Efron ain't too shabby in it, either.
8. The School of Rock (2003). The biggest hit of Linklater's career by a country mile, it's the perfect example of how to do a family comedy that kids and adults can love that doesn't pander to either one. The Sarah Silverman/Mike White subplot doesn't really work, but everything else is golden, especially Jack Black, who has never been better. (It's the platonic ideal of a Jack Black role: showy, over-the-top, musically oriented, and huge-hearted.) And every single kid is the best. The final musical number is crowd-pleasing at its best.
7. Slacker (1991). Not really Linklater's first movie—that would be It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, which is included on the Slacker Criterion set—this early-'90s calling card inspired Kevin Smith to become a filmmaker and was one of the first Sundance sensations. And, if we're being honest, it hasn't entirely held up. A portrait of a group of random Austin residents discussing conspiracy theories, dreams, and Madonna's pap smear, Slacker retains its freewheeling, look-what-movies-can-do energy, but what was once innovative and liberating now feels somewhat amateurish. In other words, it contains the promise of what Linklater could do—easygoing characters, simple-yet-profound scenarios, a wonderfully laid-back philosophical bent—which he would then perfect in later films.
6. Waking Life (2001). Maybe there are better movies about dreams, but Waking Life is probably the best at capturing what dreams feel like. Foggy, beautiful, and a little disorienting, the rotoscoping technique, in which live-action scenes were animated over, gave Linklater the freedom to refine Slacker's musings, producing a richer, more troubling examination of life, death, suffering, and whatever the hell it is that Timothy "Speed" Levitch is babbling on about. We can't even imagine the number of stoned dorm-room debates Waking Life inspired, but we're still amazed it opened the door for those weird Charles Schwab commercials.
5. Before Sunrise (1995). The most heated debates we had putting this list together was where to rank the three Before films, both against each other and against all of Linklater's films. We did both agree that the first is the least of the three, though that's hardly an insult. In a way, the movie has suffered as the years have gone on because its two sequels are in fact responses to the moony romance of the original; the swooning naiveté of this film is one of its primary charms, and the other two films existed in part to shatter that very naiveté. (Watching it in the mid-'90s made you believe in the perfect love; watching it now makes you shake your head at these crazy kids.) That doesn't stop this from being gloriously romantic in an almost religious way; even when you know what's coming, you still can't not believe in these two.
4. Dazed and Confused (1993). Hands down Linklater's funniest movie, it's nostalgic without ever pretending that the mid-'70s were any sort of good ole days. Packed with one gem of a scene after another—seriously, there isn't a moment in the movie that doesn't feel perfectly observed—it's a movie about the '70s that has proven timeless. And lord, that music. There are at least 10 actors in this movie (ranging from Milla Jovovich to Adam Goldberg to Ben freaking Affleck) who are better in this than they would ever be in anything else again, but now and forever, it's all about McConaughey's Wooderson. Nations have risen from the backs of worse men.
3. Before Midnight (2013). One of our happiest moments in any Linklater film was the opening of Before Midnight when we discovered that, yes, Celine and Jesse had ended up together. And then we realized that the movie hadn't even started, which is entirely Before Midnight's point. The notion of what "ending up together" really means is explored at length, with a lot of barbed humor and some dark accusations, over the course of the film. But this final (maybe?) installment of the Before series is about more than love. It has to do with realizing that some of your youthful aspirations probably aren't going to materialize. It's about reflecting on the way that actors we've seen over a span of years are getting older and somehow wiser and more themselves as time goes by. (Is there any doubt these movies are what Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy will be remembered for?) And it's about realizing that love, just like everything else, is something that has to be worked on forever—it's never finished. And maybe it's actually worth it.
2. Before Sunset (2004). The perfect mix of the romantic idealism of the first film and the caustic reality of the third, this one—at 80 minutes, Linklater's shortest film—follows Jesse and Celine in real time through Paris as they reconnect nine years after the events of the first film. Hawke and Delpy have the exact right balance between intimacy and suspicion, as well as a knowing sense that they're not quite old enough to be too old for this. (Again.) Mostly: This is about two smart people who are desperately in love with each other but aren't quite sure what to do about it, or whether they should even acknowledge it. Which makes the ending, in which they silently come upon the answer, feel triumphant, a victory for following your heart, no matter what the cost.
1. Boyhood (2014). Maybe we're jumping the gun by putting this at No. 1. (Masterpieces occasionally fade over time.) But since this movie is all about time—how it rushes by, how it changes our perspective, how there's so much of it and also not nearly enough—we'll take the risk. So much has already been written about this Sundance standout that it's practically begging for a significant backlash. (Our great fear is that, after hearing months of Boyhood hype, people will expect miracles from a movie that couldn't be gentler or more unassuming.) Nonetheless, this film seems to be a grand summation of everything Linklater has done: the rambling musings of Slacker and Waking Life; the chronicling of aging and love in the Before trilogy; the precise portrayal of youth in Dazed and Confused; the effortless, good-natured charm of The School of Rock. Throughout his career, Linklater has often come across as the nicest, least pretentious philosophy grad student of all time, the dude in the rumpled shirt constantly wondering what it all means, man. Boyhood is his best stab yet at an answer.
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when my bad friend Caro and I had been visiting our TX QTH this late afternoon, we discovered that our 11m inverted vee antenna became broken after a heavy snow storm (maybe last night).
Because there are around 80cms of snow there and -12 degrees C, its no chance to build it up again next time.
So better for us to wait till spring and repair it then...this means: No transmissions before we did so.
Have a nice winter time
Mr. Goofy and Caroline

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text: > -----Original Message----- > From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Rahul Nabar > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:38 AM > To: landman at scalableinformatics.com > Cc: Mikhail Kuzminsky; beowulf at beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Third-party drives not permitted on new Dell servers? > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Joe Landman > <landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > > > Please indulge my taking a contrarian view based upon the products we > > sell/support/ship. > > I can't and won't sanction their tone to you ... they should have explained > > things correctly. Given that PERC are rebadged LSI, yeah, I know perfectly > > well a whole mess of drives that *do not* work correctly with them. > > > > So please don't take Dell to task for trying to help you avoid making what > > they consider a bad decision on specific components. There could be a > > marketing aspect to it, but support is a cost, and they want to minimize > > costs. Look at failure rates, and toss the suppliers who have very high > > ones. > > Another worry is what happens in the long run if the vendor either > folds shop or stops selling and / or supporting that particular model > of drive. Frequently the lifecycle of these devices is longer than the > warranty. The inability to shop around for drives could be an issue. > Especially with this rigid approach of firmware rejecting a foreign > component and not just a warning. > "lifecycle" has a lot of meanings, and I think that's where the problems arise, in some cases. For the most part, PC hardware these days is designed based on a 3 year replacement schedule, so a vendor will set up their warranty terms, model introduction and retirement schedule based on that, regardless of whether the actual life is much (sometimes much, much) longer (as all of us with old NT4.0 and DOS 3.x machines lurking in the lab know). Unfortunately, the HPC (Beowulf) world is driven by the economics of the ordinary consumer/office desktop computer. That's what lets you build a teraflop machine without incurring the debt of a small country: you can leverage the mass production for consumers which drives the prices down, but also has very short product cycles. The 3 year cycle is driven by in large part by IRS depreciation rules which call computer equipment a "5-year" piece of gear, but MACRS means that by the end of year 3, you've already depreciated over 70% of the purchase price. Considering that purchase price is about half the "total cost of ownership" (at most), it makes sense to buy new gear that often (since the help-desk, configuration management, networking, etc, support costs remain fixed per month). The hardware cost is often a small fraction of the overall cost to put a computer on someone's desk. If you look at a typical desktop PC scenario, you might have a $2500 computer, where the first year depreciation is $42/mo, the second year is $67/mo, and the third year is $40/mo. On top of that, support costs might be $100-200/mo. In the fourth year, under MACRS, the depreciation is $24/mo. So you could get a brand new computer (which will be easier to support, is faster, etc.) for a big $22/month hit on your budget(which is <10% of the total monthly tab, counting the support costs). It's a no brainer to turn over the computers that fast, especially if you are trying to save on support costs by having a limited number of different models in the installed base at any given time (which is what large companies do).


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Friday, February 3, 2012
RootsTech Day 1
Goodnight all,
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- Nancy said...
I didn't attend the conference (except virtually) but one of the things I think is so very interesting is that we are in a place where the past and the future meet. I know it's always so for any person at any time but just now in the life of the world, I think the future looks so very different than it ever did to any of our ancestors. Exciting times, yet possibly very challenging and sometimes frustrating for those of us without a tech background.
- February 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM
- Amy Coffin, MLIS said...
Still getting caught up on my blog reading, but I wanted to say that it was nice meeting you!
- February 7, 2012 at 6:01 PM
- Cheri Daniels said...
Nancy, you hit the nail on the head with that one! It is such an exciting time, but also presents a challenge for many genealogists. Despite my tech heavy background over the years, the explosion in the genealogist field is even overwhelming for me sometimes....let's hope we can stabilize enough to build a good tech foundation that helps the learning process slow down a bit for people to catch up!
Amy - It was great meeting you too! I keep meaning to get back to your site or feed to see what your final blogger count was! Mine was pitiful, only managed to meet about 20.
But the fun count was off the charts!
- February 7, 2012 at 6:39 PM


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Senator Seeks $2 Million for Needed Environmental Assessment
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today made a formal request for federal funding for an environmental assessment that could speed up the ongoing effort to establish a national homeland security training center out of the entire town of Playas.
Domenici is requesting that a $2 million appropriation be included in the FY2005 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill to conduct an environmental assessment at Playas. The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is purchasing the small Hidalgo County community. The school is also engaged in negotiations with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal agencies to establish a National Emergency Response Training, Research and Development Center there.
"Negotiations on the future of the town are on track and should be resolved soon. In order to use the town to its full extent, an environmental assessment will be necessary. I want to be sure that resources are available to clear any last hurdles to establishing this training center at Playas,†said Domenici, who serves on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee.
"I am optimistic about the opportunities Playas provides for enhancing homeland security training,†he said. "As a full-fledged and relatively modern town, Playas offers the necessary facilities to operate a National Emergency Response Training, Research and Development Center.â€
New Mexico Tech is leading a collaborative effort to establish a center that would provide DHS and other federal agencies a facility that offers, among other things, standardized emergency operations training for first responders, and advanced training for emergency operations and medical personnel.
In addition to the Playas request, Domenici has made a series of funding requests related to improving security along the Southwest Border in southern New Mexico. He is also supporting a number of programs already included in the Bush administration budget that will affect operations on the border, including $10 million to purchase additional Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to deploy on the border.
Among the Domenici requests for southern New Mexico that are not included in the budget request are:
National Domestic Preparedness Consortium/New Mexico Tech: $140 million, $60 million over the administration request to support this consortium. The Domenici request would stipulate that consortium partners each receive $35 million to conduct First Responder training. New Mexico Tech, Louisiana State University, Texas A&M, and Nevada Test Site are members of the consortium that is based at Fort McClellan in Alabama.


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Everyone told Marshall Wayne Lee that Texas would be flat. "It is NOT flat," he says.
Lee should know. He just rode his bicycle through there with a basset hound named Antigone strapped into a child's trailer. They left on Oct. 3 from Chicago. and they're heading to the West Coast.
Lee, a veteran who was deployed to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, sold all his belongings this year except for what could fit in a small storage shed. He jokingly refers to the small bike cart as "the U-Haul." He's looking for a job and a new home. They were supposed to be done with their ride by now—1,800 miles along Route 66. But he's taken many diversions to visit friends and family, and he's got quite a ways to go.
He felt trapped in Chicago, working a dead-end job as an assistant office manager at a medical supply company. The same day he was laid off, someone gave him the bike as a gift. Lee's not an avid cyclist, or rather, he wasn't before he began his long journey.
There were dark days in Chicago, when Lee was out of work and suicidal. He'd lost his job, and though he'd sent out 150 résumés, he didn't get a single call back over the course of 10 months. The depression set in, and it was hard to get out of bed, he says. He started to make a plan to end his life. But the nagging questions always went something like this: If I hang myself, how long will it be before someone finds Antigone? What will happen to her?
Without an answer, he says, he was eventually able to pull himself from the grip of depression. He worked on healing himself, and later participated in the Out of the Darkness Overnight, an 18-mile foot trek from dusk until dawn put together by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The walk helped his recovery. "It brought me back to the world."
The ride, too, is connecting him to life again, he says. "It feels great. I was starting to get sad that I wasn't going to be anywhere for Christmas, but then I compared it to life in Chicago," he says. The bills are still there, and he still doesn't have a job. But he's not sitting at home fruitlessly sending out five résumés per day. "When I'm out on the bike, my thoughts go all over. I think about my life and what I want it to be like. I think about my writing. And I look over my shoulder and Antigone's back there, hanging out."
It's triumphant, he says; the ride gives him the sense that he's really doing something and getting his life back together.
As they travel, the duo is bringing awareness to two causes. Basset hound rescue and foster care, is, of course, Antigone's message. She was adopted from the Guardian Angel Basset Rescue, which pulled her out of a puppy mill at about 2 or 3 years old. Her teeth are so messed up, Lee says, it's hard to discern her age. While in the state, she's pointing her spotlight at the Basset Hound Rescue of New Mexico, which is in need of foster families. (Antigone even has her own blog.)
Lee, meanwhile, is trying to bring awareness to American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and, locally, the Agora Crisis Center.
Along the way, Lee's met a number of good people, friendly people, particularly in Oklahoma and West Texas. And he learned a thing or two about the meaning of "hill country." He tries to ride 50 miles a day, stopping in cities as he goes. He's gained 10 pounds, he says, but his pants don't fit any differently, so he's hoping it's muscle. "The effect on my emotional health is the most dramatic," he says.
There are a lot of people in America who are probably out of work and struggling with depression, Lee acknowledges. And though he's not a psychologist, he recommends simply getting out of bed as a way to combat it. "Do something every day," he says. "Clean the house. Take a shower. Volunteer somewhere." And be honest with yourself about what you're feeling.
He's got some stats to reel off: Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States. It's the third leading cause of death among teenagers, and the third for people aged 18-65. Lee fears we will see a rise in suicide rates during the economic decline, but says we won't know for a few years, because the statistics take time to compile.
In spite of the hills, the rain, the cold—the lack of Starbucks between Robert Lee, Texas, and Roswell, N.M.,—Lee says he knows he's accomplishing something. "I feel like a contributor, instead of just a taker."
If you are in crisis, call the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention at 1-800-273-8255 or, locally, Agora at 277-3013


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Saxophonist Greg Osby's previous efforts as a bandleader have included forays into song forms and jazz-funk, and have been notoriously uneven. This one, which prominently features a string quartet, is similarly frustrating. At his best, Osby demonstrates a talent that is not only open-minded but also structurally insightful; his playing on the head and in the quartet sections of "Repay in Kind" are both gorgeous, and his solos can be world-class. Similarly, the lush ballad "This Is Bliss" finds him integrating saxophone and string textures into a dense and kaleidoscopically lovely whole, layering syncopated rhythms on top of stately chord progressions and creating a work that continuously reveals itself. On the other hand, "3 for Civility" is a disaster, exactly the kind of self-indulgent noodling that drives intelligent listeners away from jazz, and "Minstrale Again (The Barefoot Tap Dance") demonstrates conclusively that Osby needs to spend less time trying to shatter expectations and more time pursuing compositional coherence. Unfortunately, the latter two examples are more typical than the former. There's no questioning either Osby's playing ability or his mastery of harmony and theory, but there's more to music than chops, harmony, and theory, and life is too short for music that's no fun. ~ Rick Anderson


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Alumnus Mackrides, Bayhawks capture MLL title
Alumnus Mackrides, Bayhawks capture MLL title
CHESTER, Pa. -- Matthew Mackrides, a 2012 Penn State men's lacrosse alum, scored a goal and dished an assist as his Chesapeake Bayhawks defeated Charlotte, 10-9, in the Major League Lacrosse Championship on Sunday (Aug. 25) at PPL Park.
Mackrides' helper with seven minutes remaining in the fourth quarter to Drew Westervelt gave Chesapeake a 10-7 lead in what proved to be the game-winning goal.
Earlier, Mackrides took a Michael Kimmel feed and laced a shot with 2:34 remaining in the third quarter. The goal gave Chesapeake an 8-4 lead, which matched the largest lead of the game.
For the playoffs Mackrides finished with three points, adding an assist during Friday night's stunning 13-12 comeback victory over Hamilton. The Bayhawks out-scored Hamilton 5-1 in the fourth to secure a spot in the league final.
Mackrides' second season in MLL was largely successful with 21 goals, nine assists and 30 points in 30 games played. He shot 39 percent from the field and picked up 11 ground balls.
For Chesapeake, the title is the third in the past four years.


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Hiding in the Open: A Holocaust Memoir
North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2001 - 225 Seiten
This is the memoir of one of two sisters who survived the Holocaust by posing as Catholic Poles in Germany during World War II. They missed the liquidation of their ghetto by mere hours, hiding in a shed all night listening to the screams of their fellow Jews. Then went into Germany and took up work in a hotel housing Gestapo officers. Many close escapes and daring moments make this book chilling.
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FLORENCE, S.C. – The No. 16 Georgia College women's tennis squad (4-4, 2-3 PBC) couldn't get much going as they fell to No. 25 Francis Marion University (8-0, 4-0 PBC) Sunday afternoon at the Kassab Courts.
The duo of Ivana Marevic (Rottweil, Germany) and Leah Pridgeon (Lawrenceville, Ga.) picked the lone victory for the Bobcats defeating Kimberly Hurter and Kerry Hall in the third slot 9-7.
GC dropped their other pair of doubles matches, with May Johnson (Sydney, Australia) and Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) falling to nationally-ranked No. 9 Jitka Gavdunova and Mona Blauen 8-2, before Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.) and Lisa Setyon-Ortenzio (Paris) lost 8-2 against Tereza Baranova and Julia Graf.
No. 9-ranked Gavdunova took down Johnson at the first singles slot 6-4, 6-2, while Setyon-Ortenzio was bounced by No. 17 Blauen 6-0, 6-1 in the second.
No. 38 Baranova defeated Marevic in straight-sets 6-2, 6-2 in the third position, as Barksdale also dropped her match to Graf 7-5, 6-3.
Hurter and Kerry Hall finished off the sweep of the singles action with victories of Pridgeon and Lingner at the final two spots, respectively. Pridegon fell 4-6, 6-2, 10-6, while Lingner lost by a score of 6-1, 6-1.
GC will look to rebound when they host Concord University Tuesday, March 13 at 2:30 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Great Littleness. — There is no growth of culture without rest and settlement, and every culture worthy of the name begins in the little fields and gardens of social life, wherein the soils are tended with particular care, and wherein deep roots are allowed to form; and even though each little patch might begin delightfully simple and unsophisticated, out of each, and between them all, something grander may arise, which itself provides the grounds for still more cultivation and wild growth, and so it might go on until in each place there arises something sublime and immeasurable. Yet:—
"Present folly seeks the unity of nations and not the creation of a single man from the entire species, so be it; but in acquiring general capabilities, will not a whole set of private sentiments perish? Farewell the tenderness of the fireside; farewell delight in family; among all the beings white, yellow or black, claimed as your compatriots, you will be unable to throw yourself on a brother's breast. Was there nothing in that life of other days, nothing in that narrow space you gazed at from your ivy-framed window? Beyond your horizon you suspected unknown countries of which the bird of passage, the only voyager you saw in autumn, barely told you. It was happiness to think that the hills enclosing you would not vanish before your eyes; that they would surround your loves and friendships; that the sighing of night around your sanctuary would be the only sound to accompany your sleep; that the solitude of your soul would never be troubled, that you would always find your thoughts there, waiting for you, to take up again their familiar conversation. You knew where you were born; you knew where your grave would be; penetrating the forests you could say:
'Fair trees that once saw my beginning,
Soon you will witness my end.'
"Man has no need to travel to become greater; he bears immensity within. The accents escaping from your breast are immeasurable and find an echo in thousands of other souls: those who lack the melody within themselves will demand it of the universe in vain. Sit on the trunk of a fallen tree in the depths of the woods; if in profound forgetfulness of yourself, in immobility, in silence, you fail to find the infinite, it is useless to wander the shores of the Ganges seeking it." [1]
If men stay still awhile, they put down roots and draw into themselves the nourishment required for their flourishing; but a constant movement and an unceasing fuss is demanded of them, and they are led hither and thither in pursuit of — what: their own tails? Even those at odds with this restless industry and movement must on account of it become wanderers; but, for them, it is a search for something so simple as home.
[1] François de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-tombe, tr. A.S. Kline, BkXLII:14:1, published online by A.S. Kline.
[1] François de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-tombe, tr. A.S. Kline, BkXLII:14:1, published online by A.S. Kline.


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(Sept. 24, 2000) -- The Murray State womens soccer team snapped a two-game losing skid with a close, hard-fought 4-3 win over visiting East Tennessee State this afternoon.
The Racers (6-4) had a 3-0 lead two minutes into the second half and had a 4-1 advantage with 65:38 elapsed, but the Buccaneers (5-4) were able to rally, scoring two goals within the last 14 minutes and threatening to tie the game in the waning seconds of the game.
Sophomore midfielder Christine Brannen (Goshen, Ky./South Oldham HS) put Murray State on the scoreboard with her first career goal, a 15-foot shot from the left of the goal with 28:52 elapsed. Sophomore forward Brooke Royer (Springfield, Ill./Sacred Heart Griffin) added to the Racer lead with her second goal of the season on a pass from freshman midfielder Lauren McAdams (Evansville, Ind./Memorial HS) with 34:47 elapsed. The assist was the eighth of the season for McAdams, and MSU led at halftime 2-0.
Murray State struck early in the second half when freshman midfielder Emily Schaller (Manchester, Mo./Rosati-Kain HS) put in her third goal of the season on a cross pass from McAdams with 47:11 elapsed, giving the Racers a 3-0 lead.
East Tennessee State finally hit the scoreboard when junior midfielder Courtney Edde picked up her second goal of the season on a long kick from 25 yards out and over the head of MSU goalkeeper Geri Thompson (Louisville, Ky./Walden HS) to cut the MSU lead to 3-1 with 62:47 elapsed.
Murray States final goal of the game came with 65:38 elapsed when junior midfielder Julia Travis (Benton, Ky./Marshall County HS) took downfield passes from freshman defender Shauna Kline (Des Moines, Iowa/Hoover HS) and freshman forward Jackie Thomas (St. Louis, Mo./Mehlville HS) in front of the goal and booted it in for her fourth goal of the season.
The Buccaneers battled back, with freshman midfielder Andrea Brown scoring her first goal of the season on a direct kick from 20 yards out and to the right of the goal with 76:21 elapsed.
ETSU scored again seven minutes later when junior midfielder Kristin Redfern put in her fourth goal of the year on a cross pass from freshman midfielder Andrea Brown with 83:57 elapsed to cut Murray States lead to 4-3.
The Bucs had the ball on the MSU side of the field for the remainder of the game, but were turned away by the Racer defense.
East Tennessee State returns home to host Appalachian State on Thursday at 7 p.m. ET.


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Taylor Swift's Cat Loves Hearing Her Songs on the Radio
It looks as though Taylor Swift's millions of adoring fans are not the only ... uh, music lovers to flock to the radio when they hear one of her songs blasting from their speakers. Swift's kitten, Meredith, also perks her furry little ears in excitement when she hears her mommy's tunes radiating from the radio.
In a video posted on Twitter this week, Swift's young Scottish Fold kitten proves that even furry felines can have a good ear for music -- and that cats can fetch just as well as dogs, with the proper training and a patient owner.
Meredith, named after a lead character from the hit prime time drama series, 'Grey's Anatomy,' has become somewhat of a pop culture phenomenon since first being introduced to the world through Swift's Twitter account last year -- so much so that the four-legged celebrity was featured on E!'s 100 Best Things in Pop Culture list earlier this year. The network cited the kitten's readiness to retrieve items equally as cute as her sweet meows and dewy-eyed glances.
Sadly, Swift's quality bonding time at home with her feline friend will likely fall to the wayside considering the global superstar's already jam-packed 2013 itinerary. The superstar will continue to promote her latest album, 'Red,' leading into the new year, just before embarking on her headlining tour of the same name in March. The 'I Knew You Were Trouble' singer has shows scheduled through the end of September.