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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The nationally ranked No. 10 Coker College men's soccer team captured their first ever regular season Conference Carolinas Men's Soccer Championship with a 3-0 win over St. Andrews on Saturday evening.
The win improves the Cobras to 15-2 overall and 10-2 in conference play. The victory also gives the Cobras the No. 1 seed in the Conference Carolinas Men's soccer Tournament that starts on Tuesday. The top seeded Cobras will take on the No. 8 seed Queens University of Charlotte at 7 p.m. at the Coker Soccer Field on Tuesday night.
Tyler Staub (Murrells Inlet, S.C.) got the Cobras on the board first when he climbed the ladder and knocked a header into the back of the net off a free kick from Carlos Recinos (Houston, Texas) in the 30th minute of play.
The score remained 1-0 into the second half until Noah Lascell (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) put home another header off a free kick , this time from Jordan Snell (Palm Bay, Fla.) in the 63rd minute.
Coker put home the insurance goal in the 71st minute when Staub sent a long pass forward to Niko Tirkonen (Hollola, Finland) who found the back of the net when he faked St. Andrew's keeper Corey Francis (Greenville, N.C.) in the box.
James Sweeney (Huntingtown, Md.) and Mark Nankervis (Virginia Beach, Va.) combined for the shutout, while Francis had 11 saves for the Knights.
McDonald's Player of the Game- Tyler Staub
Staub scored a goal and had an assist in the Cobras victory.
The McDonald's Player of the Game is presented by the Hartsville McDonald's and is given to the most outstanding performer during each Coker College home athletic event.


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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
30 Jays in 30 Days - The Game is the Game for Omar Vizquel
Provenance: Caracas, Venezuela. Signed as an amateur free agent by the Seattle Mariners in 1984.
Contract Status: Signed a one-year minor-league deal with the Blue Jays on January 24th, with an invitation to spring training. Has yet to be added to the 40-man roster.
Career Stats: 2908 games played for Seattle, Cleveland, San Francisco, Texas and Chicago (AL). .272 AVG, .337 OBP, .353 SLG, .690 OPS. 2841 hits. Three-time All-Star, 11 Gold Gloves.
Active Leader: Vizquel is the active leader in a number of career stats, including games played, plate appearances (11,850), sacrifice hits (255), outs made (8,306), assists (7,947). He has played more games at shortstop than any player in history (2,699).
2011 Stats: 58 games with the White Sox. .251 AVG, .287 OBP, .305 SLG, .592 OPS in 182 plate appearances.
Looking Back: The odd thing about Omar Vizquel is that he doesn't seem nearly as, um, "experienced" as his 44 years suggest. Maybe it's because the peak of his career came relatively late, at the age of 32. Or maybe it is because he doesn't seem to have lost that much off his game.
Vizquel has spent most of the last four seasons as a part-time player, picking up starts in the case of injuries and acting as a mentor to young Hispanic shortstops in Texas (Elvis Andrus) and Chicago (Alexei Ramirez). His offensive output isn't especially staggering, with a .673 OPS in 2010 passing as a "good" season. At the same time, he's put up better numbers than either Luis Valbuena or Mike McCoy, or John McDonald for that matter.
Most people wouldn't really think of Vizquel's bat as his main selling point. With several mantles filled with Gold Gloves, we know that he at least has a great reputation as a defender. Trying to parse through the defensive metrics for his recent seasons is next to impossible, given the fact that he bounced from position to position, and rarely spent more and 150 innings at any given one. There is an impression given by some of the negative numbers under the Range Runs column that Vizquel might have lost some range in recent years – hardly a stunning revelation – but the samples are too small to give much more than a whiff of such a thing.
Looking Forward: Initially, we figured that it was no sure thing that Omar would end up coming to Toronto. The minor league contract was a very slim commitment on the part of the Jays, and it would have been easy for either party to walk away from the deal.
But Vizquel's versatility and his willingness to contribute in smaller roles makes him a decent fit as a reserve infielder. Moreover, his ability to hit from both sides of the plate is a rare skill that we haven't really seen since Orlando Hudson left town, and could help late in games if the Jays need to play a matchups game in the final innings. If an injury forces Vizquel into regular duty at second, third or short for any amount of time, the Jays could likely hang on for a few weeks with him putting in time as a ninth hitter.
2012 Expectations: It's hard to talk about a player like Vizquel without falling back into some wistfully romantic notions about the intangible contribution that he'll make. Vizquel comes off as a thoughtful player who can potentially pass along some of what he's gleaned over the 22 seasons he's played the game. But what the value of those ephemeral notions like "leadership" and "veteran presence" are almost impossible to quantify. It's also what makes it so enticing to fall back on those sentiments.
But even if you take a completely unsentimental look at the state of those last spots on the roster, an old and possibly diminished version of Omar Vizquel is still preferable and tangibly better than the other options. With his flexibility both at the plate and in the field, he's a player we'd look forward to seeing this year, on a limited basis.
9 comments:
- John Simpson-Porco said...
Excellent post title.
- March 20, 2012 at 1:40 PM
...what a bunch of bunk
...how my hair look tao
..maybe they will have an irish wake for omar in the clubhouse
- March 20, 2012 at 1:56 PM
- drock15 said...
Zaunie was a switch hitter
- March 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Awesome as always
- March 20, 2012 at 7:43 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
- March 20, 2012 at 8:37 PM
Hispanic? Think you meant to say latino
- March 21, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Even at his worst he can't be any worse of a hitter than Valbuena is, so I say keep him around just for that fact. He's apparently showed he can still play defense.
- March 21, 2012 at 10:37 AM
- brainiac said...
You could have also gone with "Omar comin!"
- March 22, 2012 at 8:27 PM
- Roy said...
I have always loved Omar. I want to see him in the dugout in between innings, one hand on Yunel's shoulder, letting him know what it's all about. Bring him back as a coach or something next year...unless the Cubbies don't grab him for Stalin Castro (seems like the trend, eh?)
- March 24, 2012 at 8:59 AM

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Cumberland (Tenn.) Wins Third All-Time World Series
"I knew it was going to be really tough," said Cumberland head coach Woody Hunt. "Gomez pitched another terrific game for us. This team has a special make-up. We've grinded it out every tournament, with nothing coming easy to us. This is a gift from God and I thank him for the way this team came together."
Gomez, who improved to 7-4 on the year, scattered six hits over nine innings with four strikeouts and three walks. The performance gives him two complete-game victories against Lewis-Clark State at this year's World Series.
Lewis-Clark State threatened in the bottom of the ninth, however Gomez, as he did the entire game, worked out of it with a strikeout of pinch hitter Chris Woolley and ground out to third base by Brian Corliss.
With the win, Cumberland finishes the season with a 49-20 record. The third national championship puts the Bulldogs, who are now 3-2 all-time in the title game, into a tie for third all-time in most banners with former-member Lewis (Ill.). Lewis-Clark State ends the year with a 47-9 record and falls to 16-7 all-time in the finale.
Gomez found himself in trouble right out of the gates as an error and a pair of walks loaded the bases with one out for the Warriors in the top of the first. However, Gomez worked out of the jam, striking out Michael Sexton and inducing a ground ball to the shortstop from Jacob Cano.
Richie Seaton's double down the left field line, which landed just past the outstretched glove of Raymond Pedrina, drove in the first runs of the ballgame. Justin Byrd and Tyler Anderson both scored on the play to give Cumberland a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second.
Zero's littered the scoreboard until the bottom of the seventh when Cumberland added an insurance run on a Jociel Veras hot-shot that went through the legs of the Lewis-Clark State third baseman. Chris Hall, who took a ball of the shoulder to lead off the inning, scored from third to make it a 3-0 Bulldog advantage.
Lewis-Clark State threatened in the top of the eight after a single by Cody Lavalli and a double by Michael Sexton put runners on second and third with two outs. However, Gomez quickly shut the door on the inning, forcing Jacob Cano to fly out to left field on the first pitch he faced.
Five Bulldogs combined for the club's five hits, including a single by World Series Most Valuable Player Sam Lind. The senior second baseman ended the event with a .542 (13-for-24) batting average with three doubles, two home runs, 12 RBIs and six runs scored.
Three pitchers appeared in the contest for Lewis-Clark State. Ty Jackson, who was making his first start since April 26, took the loss to fall to 4-1 on the year.
Jake Shirley led the offense for Lewis-Clark State with a 2-for-3 effort at the dish. He also walked twice.
Tonight's game is the first shutout victory in the World Series finale since Lewis-Clark State defeated St. Ambrose (Iowa), 9-0, in 1996.
"We've had more talented teams that never made it out here," said Hunt. "But I've never had a team that would fight and grind like these guys. It's just a great win for us – a feeling I can't describe."
The World Series concluded with an awards ceremony that included the All-World Series team, consisting of 16 individuals, the Charles Berry Hustle Award, the World Series Gold Glove Award and the Most Valuable Player Award. Honorees listed below.
The Avista-NAIA Baseball World Series is a 10-team, double-elimination event hosted by Lewis-Clark State College (Idaho). For more information on the 58th annual championship, click here.
2014 Avista-NAIA Baseball World Series All-Tournament Team
1B – Cody Riley, Oklahoma Wesleyan
2B – Sam Lind, Cumberland (Tenn.)
3B – Ricky Coleman, Cumberland (Tenn.)
SS – Tyler Anderson, Cumberland (Tenn.)
INF – Jeff Butler, Oklahoma Wesleyan
C – Kevin Hawk, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)
C – John Fidanza, Georgia Gwinnett
OF – Ryan Sells, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)
OF – Garrett Easton, Oklahoma Wesleyan
OF – Jose Ruiz, Oklahoma Wesleyan
OF – Justin Byrd, Cumberland (Tenn.)
DH – Jake Shirley, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)
P – Anthony Gomez, Cumberland (Tenn.)
P – Julian Merryweather, Oklahoma Baptist
P – Michael Noteware, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)
P – Diego Ibarra, Oklahoma Wesleyan
Charles Berry Hustle Award – Jeff Butler, Oklahoma Wesleyan
World Series Gold Glove Award – Kevin Hawk, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)
World Series Most Valuable Player – Sam Lind, Cumberland (Tenn.)


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DreamWorks' eagerly-anticipated Martin Luther King Jr. biopic took a step closer to the promised land with the announcement that Academy Award winner Ronald Harwood will pen the screenplay.
It's a fascinating choice for the project touted as "the definitive portrait of (King's) life." The picture will be the first theatrical motion picture to be authorized by the King estate and will utilize the Dr. King's intellectual property.
The critically-lauded Harwood is probably best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for Roman Polanski's "The Pianist." But what makes this choice compelling is Harwood's consistent excellence over an incredibly diverse portfolio. First and foremost for this project is his many looks at the civil rights struggle in his native of South Africa. Works include the film "Mandela," written while the leader was still in prison, and an adaptation of the classic "Cry The Beloved Country." Harwood has two anti-apartheid plays to his credit ("Tramway" and "Another Time.").
But Harwood has also received Oscar nominations for "The Dresser," which showed backstage life in a World War II theatre, and for adapting "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
Steven Spielberg will co-produce the project, but no word on who will play the coveted role of the slain civil rights leader.
Harwood was mum on his direction for the project, only promising, "I will do my utmost to be true to truth," according to a DreamWorks release.


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In page 21 of A Problem seminar, D. J. Newman presents a novel way (at least for me) to determine the expectation of a discrete random variable. He refers to this expression as the failure probability formula. His formula goes like this
where $f_{n}$ is the probability that the experiment fails to produce the desired outcome for $n$ steps.
He goes on to outlining two ways to establish the validity of this formula, but I'm having a hard time to unravel his second proof. I'll insert it here in order for my inquiry to be self-contained:
Since the expected amount of time spent on the $n$ trial is equal to the probability that the $n$ trial occurs, and since this equal to $f_{n-1}$, we do obtain the net expectation of $f_{0}+f_{1}+f_{2}+\ldots$ as asserted.
Can any of you guys explain in greater detail this Newmanian argument? I'd also like to know whether the denomination failure probability formula is a standard one in the mainstream of Probability literature.
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Episode 7.03 - Fierce
Kara desperately wants to make friends and fit in on Earth, but Clark tells her to keep a low profile until she can get her powers under control. Despite his warnings, when the "Miss Sweet Corn" beauty pageant comes around, Kara signs up and meets the competition - Tyler (Eva Marcille), Carly (Elisa King) and Tempest (Christine Chatelain) - three meteor-infected vixens who plan to use their powers to steal a treasure map to the hidden Smallville time capsule. After Tyler witnesses Kara using her powers, the girls pretend to be her friends, but are really planning to use her for their devious plan. Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Allison Mack, Aaron Ashmore and John Glover also star.
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The growing use of mobile devices creates new challenges in authenticating the identity of government workers accessing online resources. A new cloud-based offering is intended to provide multi-factor mobile authentication as a service (MAaaS) for agencies.
The heart of the solution is the IdentityX authentication platform from Daon Solutions, hosted on the cloud provided by CGI Federal Inc., which earlier this year received FedRAMP approval.
Because the remote device is an untrusted platform it is used only for collection and delivery of data, and authentication takes place on the IdentityX server. Exchange of data between devices and the cloud is accelerated and secured by Akamai Technologies Inc.'s content delivery services. Agencies can customize access control policies to require up to six factors of user authentication, depending on the sensitivity of the resources being accessed.
The system also supports X.509 digital certificates derived from Common Access Cards or Personal Identity Verification cards to authenticate the mobile device. These secondary CAC or PIV certificates are bound to the device when it is enrolled in the service.
When accessing a government system, the user navigates to the system's portal on the browser of the mobile device, which can be a smart phone, tablet or laptop. The steps to authentication:
1. The user begins the log-in process on the government site with a user name and password. At this point the hardware device can be authenticated using the X.509 certificate.
2. The request is passed to the IdentityX server in the CGI cloud, which contains agency access policies for the application. Based on these policies, the server sends a request to the device for the appropriate additional authentication factors. These factors can include:
3. Using the camera, microphone or other features of the device, the user sends the factors to the IdentityX server.
4. To reduce latency, the Akamai content delivery service encrypts and transmits data and responses between its edge servers and the CGI cloud.
5. IdentityX authenticates the response against data stored in the system. If it matches, the device is redirected to the system portal to complete log-in.
6. Once identity is verified, authorization to access resources is granted by the agency based on local access policies.
Mobile authentication as a service, or MAaaS, is available now and CGI is in discussion with several agencies.
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The scramble is on. Any minute now, lawmakers are set to unveil the $1.2 trillion omnibus bill to fund the government ahead of a March 23 deadline to avoid a third federal shutdown this year.
Under the two-year budget deal that Congress passed last month, defense spending would rise by $80 billion and non-defense spending by $63 billion for the current fiscal year, which ends September 30. But while a number of questions about just what will be included in the funding bill still need to be answered, appropriators and observers sound confident that they'll be able to steer a path toward passage. "The pie has been baked, they are just quibbling over the scraps," Chris Kruger of the Cowen Washington Research Group told clients Monday morning.
Still, the timing is tight — the House is expected to vote on the bill Wednesday, leaving the Senate just a couple of days to also pass it. A possible snowstorm slated to hit D.C. Tuesday or Wednesday won't help. And there are still plenty of scraps for lawmakers to fight over. The omnibus bill is likely the last major piece of must-pass legislation before the midterm elections, so members of Congress "have been scrambling to attach a variety of pet issues to the bill, holding up its release," The Hill reported.
Given the likely time crunch and the many details still to be decided, Krueger warned that the week could still end with another hours-long shutdown of the sort Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) forced last month. Budget expert Stan Collender put the chances of a shutdown at 25 percent to start the week, but wrote that "President Donald Trump's positions and demands are so erratic that the possibility of a White House-induced shutdown cannot and must not be dismissed out of hand."
One factor that may smooth the way for action this week: Lawmakers are slated to depart for a two-week holiday recess once the funding bill is done. "Whenever Congress finds itself on the edge of a vacation, it typically follows the path of least resistance," Krueger said. "In this case, we think that means spending more than a trillion dollars before leaving Dodge."


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After the software is installed on the master system, special scripts can be run during creation, installation, postinstallation and first reboot. These scripts enable you to do the following:
Configure applications on clone systems. You can use a custom JumpStart script for some uncomplicated configurations. For more complicated configurations, special configuration-file processing might be necessary on the master system or before or after installation on the clone system.
Protect local customizations on clone systems. Local preinstallation and postinstallation scripts reside on the clone. These scripts protect local customizations from being overwritten by the Solaris Flash software.
Identify nonclonable, host-dependent data that enables you to make the archive host independent. Host independence is enabled by modifying such data or excluding it from the archive. An example of host-dependent data is a log file.
Validate software integrity in the archive during creation.
Validate the installation on the clone system.
When creating scripts other than the reboot script, following these guidelines to assure the script does not corrupt the OS or otherwise disrupt the system. These guidelines enable the use of Solaris Live Upgrade, which creates a new boot environment for installation of the OS. The new boot environment can be installed with an archive while the current system is running.
These guidelines are not for reboot scripts that are allowed to run daemons or make other types of modification to the root (/) file system.
Scripts must not affect the currently running system. The currently running OS might not be the one running when the Solaris Flash archive is installed.
Scripts must not start or stop any daemon processes.
Scripts must not depend on the output of commands such as ps, truss, or uname, which are dependent on the OS. These commands report information about the currently running system.
Scripts must not send any signals or otherwise affect any currently running processes.
Scripts can use standard UNIX commands that facilitate shell scripting such as expr, cp, and ls.
For an overview of Solaris Live Upgrade, see Chapter 2, Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview), in Solaris 10 10/08 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning.


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Vanishing Cultures, by Dennis Manarchy
A 35-foot long FILM CAMERA will travel 20,000 miles to document our Vanishing Cultures for a national exhibit...help us build it!
Vanishing Cultures, by Dennis Manarchy
A 35-foot long FILM CAMERA will travel 20,000 miles to document our Vanishing Cultures for a national exhibit...help us build it!
Over 10 Years In The Making...Vanishing Cultures will be an audacious 20,000-mile mission to capture the uncommon beauty and individuality that define our people in a way that has never been done before. This is an artistic mission that will reflect the true essence of our nation by capturing the unique spirit of our people...on a very grand scale. Vanishing Cultures will include the following highlights:
- Dennis Manarchy, world-renowned photographer, has spent 10 years constructing by hand a prototype 35-foot long traditional FILM camera that produces 4.5-foot by 6-foot negatives with unbelievable visual detail
- Once we construct the new traveling version of this amazing camera, we will set off on a 20,000-mile journey around the country to photograph and commemorate our Vanishing Cultures in their own environments (see list of featured cultures below)
- As we reach the 200th anniversary of the camera, the new version (shown below) will be an archival tribute to Vanishing film photography and our hope is to donate it to a museum upon completion of our mission.
RECENT PRESS: NPR | UK Daily Mail | ABC News | CNN / HLN TV |Slate | CS Magazine | Film's Not Dead | Gizmodo | Engadget
What cultures will be featured on this nationwide journey? Here's a working list...and we're always looking for suggestions!
What's it like shooting with a 35-foot camera?
"Two days of preparation results in 1/1000th of a second flash exposure and I have only one chance to get it right. I literally focus half-way down an eyelash. If the subject moves, it's out of focus...if they blink, it's a disaster...and if their expression is off the portrait suffers. I must say that the length of time it takes with the subject creates a special bond that I would never want to lose...and that moment is captured in every one of these portraits."
--Dennis Manarchy
The existing prototype is shown in the photo below...and it works in spectacular fashion.
The negatives, measuring 6 feet by 4.5 feet, have 1,000 times greater detail than an average digital photograph. This camera will be a monumental achievement for photography and it will be an unprecedented tribute to a dying art.
The size of the negatives allows us to enlarge the photos to over 2-story tall prints (24 feet x 16 feet) with such pristine detail that you can see the fleck of an iris, the weight of an eyelash on a child's face or the individual pores on our skin. They provide a true and unaltered look at the faces of our nation.
WE MUST TRAVEL with the camera in order to visit and document these incredible cultures in their natural environments and surroundings, which is why we need your help to build the version of the camera in the video below.
The Trip…Phase II
Once we build the new version we will embark on a 20,000-mile journey across America to capture representative subjects of Vanishing Cultures in their own environments. A documentary team will capture the stories surrounding each destination and culture that we visit.
The Result…Phase III
As a result of the detail and scale of the big camera, 24-foot photographs will be produced and displayed in stadium-sized outdoor exhibitions along with the negatives and the stories behind these spectacular people. Educational materials and text books will capture history and cultural background; documentaries will provide intimate views of the folklore, stories and environments surrounding these people in imaginative, cinematic ways; and the photographs will provide a timeless and artistic capture of our cultures.
A Historical Mission...
The scope of Vanishing Cultures reaches far beyond the art of photography. This is an opportunity to ensure a place in history for these amazing cultures and people before they are gone forever. This project is both a tribute to these unique people and an amazing era of traditional film photography.
About the Photographer...
Over the past 30 years, Dennis Manarchy has ranked among the world's top photographers. After growing up in Rockford, Illinois he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and apprenticed with Irving Penn. After serving as Lieutenant in the Vietnam War, he returned home disillusioned and met a Lumbee Indian Chief at a local book store in North Carolina. The Chief invited Dennis to live with his tribe and Dennis spent months readjusting to post-war life while refocusing on photography. His experience with the Tribe changed him forever.
Dennis has won countless awards for photography and commercial directing and his works are included in permanent collections within the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Museum of Modern Art, among many others. He has shot major advertising campaigns and celebrities and has twice been rated Best Photographer by Graphis. Yet despite his achievements, Dennis maintains amazing humility and deep concern for humanity, and his love and appreciation for cultures and real people are evident throughout his work. His wife, Mary Beth, and his daughter, Molly, are two incredibly gifted and talented spirits and I have been blessed with the opportunity to become friends with their family over the past 4 years as Dennis' vision for Vanishing Cultures has finally come to fruition...we are now just steps away from making this dream a reality. Thank you for your support!
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Battered Shrimp Recipes
Crispy Honey Walnut Shrimp Recipe
Crispy honeyed shrimp with walnuts is a classic in Americanized Chinese cuisine. I only make this dish when we have guests at home because I find it too rich for regular consumption. It's definitely one of my favorites though!
Making honeyed shrimp is very similar to making dessert. The shrimp are coated with corn starch, then deep-fried until golden and crunchy. Then they're tossed in a sauce made of sweetened condensed milk, honey and mayonnaise. Walnuts are added for a little texture. The walnuts are sweetened in a homemade caramel which alos gives the dish a dessert-like quality. It may sound strange, but the honey and caramel really help bring out the natural sweetness of the dish.
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A new Dem threat to health care law
A handful of moderate Senate Democrats are looking for ways to roll back the highly contentious individual mandate — the pillar of President Barack Obama's health care law — a sign that red-state senators are prepared to assert their independence ahead of the 2012 elections.
They haven't decided whether to propose legislation, but any effort by moderate Democrats that takes aim at the individual mandate could embarrass Obama and embolden Republicans who are still maneuvering to take down the health care law.
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And it's not just health care. The senators are prepared to break with the White House on a wide range of issues: embracing deeper spending cuts, scaling back business regulations and overhauling environmental rules. The moderates most likely to buck their party include Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jon Tester of Montana — all of whom are up for reelection in 2012 and represent states Obama lost in 2008.
The goal is to lay down a record of bipartisan compromises with Republicans, but it could also put Obama at odds with key centrists, right at the moment the president himself is looking to forge a more centrist path.
And their efforts could put Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) at a potential disadvantage on key votes. The Senate leader has to protect 23 Democratic seats next year, giving moderates and swing-state Democrats plenty of leeway to prove their independence, but he also has to worry about keeping a unified front for the party ahead of the presidential election. With only 53 Democrats leading the thin Senate majority, if three or four break away on any key issue, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could in some cases claim a simple majority.
The Democratic moderates said they're not concerned about how their positioning will affect their party's overarching political strategy.
"I'm not worried about the politics of this; I'm worried about the substance of it," McCaskill said. "My goal has always been pretty simple: affordable, accessible, private-market insurance for people in America who want insurance. The politics of this are hard; it's just easier to stay focused on the substance because that's what matters."
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Democrats face a "dilemma."
But there's a political complication for Republican leaders as well. Some in GOP circles fear that by teaming up with Democratic moderates, they could give these Democrats bipartisan cover that would help them in 2012.
Some Republicans are quietly warning colleagues not to work with vulnerable Democrats in the first place. This comes after Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) teamed up with McCaskill to back a proposal that would dramatically cut spending over the next decade and Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) worked with Manchin to repeal a small-business reporting provision in the health care law.


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Student experiments fly high on helium balloons
Four teams of students sponsored by ESA are jubilant after their experiments returned safely to Earth at the end of the latest Balloon Experiments for University Students (BEXUS) campaign inside the Arctic Circle. After many months of hard work and preparation, the successful conclusion was well worth waiting for.
The long-awaited lift-offs came when the launch teams at Kiruna, in northern Sweden, were able to take advantage of a break in the weather. At 05:30 on 8 October, a meeting was held between the Esrange team and BEXUS-6 experiment team leaders to discuss the launch prospects. The forecast predicted ground wind speeds below 5 m/s and little precipitation, so it was decided to go ahead with both launches in a single day.
By 08:15, the BEXUS 6 gondola had been moved to the launch position, the communication links had been tested, the experiments switched on and final pre-flight checks had been completed. Once the 10,000 cu. m. balloon had been inflated, it soared gently upward and began to drift toward the south east. 80 minutes after lift off, it reached the float altitude of 29 km, continuing its flight for just over one hour before the gondola was cut free and the parachute descent began. Touch down occurred at 12:15, just across the Finnish border.
Events continued to evolve rapidly. At 13:00, preparations at the balloon pad began for BEXUS-7. Over the next couple of hours, the gondola was moved to the launch position, final checks were completed and inflation of the 12,000 cu. m. helium balloon began. Lift off took place at 15:35, and once again the balloon completed a flawless flight, rising to a float altitude of 26 km and continuing serenely toward the south east until the payload was cut free at 19:00. The landing took place in Finland a few kilometres north of the village of Rovaniemi.
"All of the experiments on both balloons were safely retrieved by helicopter, loaded onto a truck and returned to the launch base at Kiruna," said ESA co-ordinator Helen Page. "After the success of the missions, everyone was entitled to relax and enjoy a celebration party."
On board the first balloon, BEXUS 6, were two experiments: LowCoINS (La Sapienza University of Rome), which was sponsored by ESA's Education Office, and TURA, sponsored by DLR. BEXUS 7 carried three ESA-sponsored experiments – TimePiX (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, Charles University, Prague, and Stratospheric Census (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden) and Aurora (University of Rome) – as well as a German experiment.
Two of the teams monitored their experiments throughout the flights and have been able to provide a preliminary overview of their results.
The TimePix team commented: "Telemetry was received throughout the ascent and float phases, and only cut out during descent at approximately 4 km. Over 5,000 frames of 5 second exposures were recorded and a clear increase in cosmic ray activity can be seen compared to ground-based readings. For our final report, the results will be correlated with the balloon flight profile and the magnetometer readings of the Aurora experiment."
The Stratospheric Census team reported: "The experiment worked as expected and the commands to open and close the valves and pump air through the filter were received successfully. This means that the experiment should have collected samples only at stratospheric altitudes (above 12 km). The float phase was long enough to allow for a good sample to be taken so the team are hopeful for some interesting results. The filters will be removed under clean conditions and transported to the students' institute for analysis."
A fifth ESA-sponsored experiment, known as Icarus, was removed before balloon inflation and did not fly on BEXUS. At experiment switch-on, it was found that the Icarus video feed was interfering with the balloon's communication system. This was not picked up during the previous day's radio frequency test and unfortunately there was not enough time to resolve the problem.


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On July 20, 2012, Governor John Hickenlooper, of Colorado, was attending a friend's seventieth-birthday party in Colorado Springs when he learned about a shooting in a suburb east of Denver. At 12:30 A.M., at the Century 16 movie theatre in Aurora, a young man wearing black body armor walked into the local première of "The Dark Knight Rises" and sprayed the audience with bullets; twelve people were killed and fifty-eight were injured.
At eight-thirty the following morning, Hickenlooper was ushered into a crime-scene trailer in the theatre's parking lot, where officers showed him a video that they had taken inside shortly after the incident. A light on top of a handheld camera illuminated a scene of carnage. Bodies and popcorn and empty ammunition shells were strewn about the floor; pocketbooks and other personal belongings had been left behind in the rush to escape. "They were still in the process of removing the people who were dead," Hickenlooper told me. "I mean, even the most hardened professionals were in shock. The scale and the madness of it—shooting seventy people."
The alleged murderer, twenty-five-year-old James Eagan Holmes, was captured outside the theatre minutes after the police arrived on the scene. He used three guns, including a semi-automatic rifle with a hundred-round magazine, which jammed before he could empty it. Hickenlooper, a Democrat, had grown up around guns, and his relationship with the National Rifle Association was cordial. He was not convinced that any law could have stopped the killer. After the massacre, when asked if he supported new restrictions on firearms Hickenlooper said that it was too soon to discuss the issue. "If he couldn't have gotten access to the guns, what kind of bomb would he have manufactured?" he responded to David Gregory, during an interview on "Meet the Press," two days after the shooting. "We're in an information age, where there's access to all kinds of information, and he was diabolical."
He has since changed his mind. By March of this year, a few weeks before President Obama's firearms legislation was derailed in the U.S. Senate, Hickenlooper had signed three new gun-control laws that were among the toughest in the country, including a ban on high-capacity magazines like the one that Holmes used. The N.R.A. called Hickenlooper a "fanatic," who was "only interested in pleasing Mayor Bloomberg." Some Colorado conservatives have talked about initiating a recall.
"We weren't in the right place to talk about it right after that shooting," Hickenlooper told me recently, during an interview in his office, while his dog, Skye, an Akita-bulldog-Chow Chow mix, gnawed on a bone nearby. "But there's so many of these shootings now that it seems like it's always the wrong time."
Hickenlooper, who is sixty-one, thin, and very tall, sat at a conference table hunched over briefing books. A few wisps of graying brown hair hung over his forehead. He likes to present himself as a political naïf—"I'm new to this game," he often says, even though he's been a politician for more than a decade, and he expressed surprise that the politics of guns is dominated by passionate activists who don't always consider the facts.
"The N.R.A. and the advocates for no regulation really aren't telling completely the truth when they say this is the beginning of losing your weapons," Hickenlooper said, referring to the ban on large magazines, the most controversial law that he signed. "We've asked again and again for evidence of someone defending their home who needed more than fifteen rounds in a clip for a magazine. And you can't find it!"
Hickenlooper, who campaigned as a governor who would appeal to all voters, has had some trouble keeping up with the political changes in his own state. Colorado voted for Republican Presidential candidates in three consecutive elections, from 1996 to 2004. But an influx of young liberals drawn to the mountains, retirees from the Northeast, and a growing Latino population—now twenty per cent of the electorate—has made Colorado increasingly Democratic. Obama won the state in 2008 and 2012, and the state House and Senate are both controlled by Democrats.
Colorado is part of a national trend: red states are becoming redder and blue states are becoming bluer. According to the National Journal, an unprecedented thirty-six states are controlled by one party or the other. Activists, frustrated by the partisan gridlock in Washington, are pushing their agendas in state capitals that are dominated by a single party and thus can swiftly move legislation. Two weeks before Hickenlooper signed his gun laws, the Republican governor of South Dakota signed legislation allowing school employees to carry firearms. In April, Kansas passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, while in Democratically controlled New York, Governor Cuomo unveiled a bill to guarantee in state law the protections provided by Roe v. Wade.
Hickenlooper began his tenure as a sensible centrist. But, instead of emphasizing the issues on which he campaigned—budget reform and economic development—he has found himself addressing a range of liberal social issues: gun control, civil unions, and a new law legalizing marijuana. A top aide summed up Hickenlooper's first two years as "guns, gays, and grass." He has learned the same lesson in Colorado that Obama learned in Washington: sooner or later, a politician has to choose sides.
Hickenlooper, until his mid-thirties, lived a wayward bachelor's life. In the nineteen-seventies, he spent almost ten years at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut, earning an undergraduate degree in English and a master's in geology. He took time off to teach math and science at a Quaker high school in Maine, and geology to college students in Costa Rica. He got engaged, broke it off, and, after an attempt to become a writer, ended up in Colorado, in 1981, as a field geologist for an oil company. He fell in love again, got engaged again, and broke it off again. He made beer in a dormitory bathtub and smoked a fair amount of pot, although, he told me, "I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws." When I asked him about how he handled pot in Colorado—I was referring to the state's new law—he joked, "I've always felt that you have to get the joint rolled really tightly."
In 1986, during an energy bust, he was laid off, with a sizable severance package. During a visit with his brother in Berkeley, California, he enjoyed a life-altering beer at the Triple Rock Brewery, one of the pioneers of the microbrew fad. In Denver, he raised money with the help of family and friends, and, in 1988, opened a pub, the Wynkoop Brewing Company, in an area of abandoned warehouses called Lower Downtown. By the nineteen-nineties, as other restaurants and condos moved into the LoDo district, Wynkoop had become highly profitable. At the peak of his restaurant career, Hickenlooper owned sixteen pubs and restaurants around the country. According to his tax returns, he was making almost a million dollars a year when, in January, 2001, he met Helen Thorpe, a writer (and a former contributor to The New Yorker). They were married in January, 2002, and their son, Theodore, was born the following July.
Hickenlooper got his first taste of city politics in 2000, when he joined a campaign to oppose the naming rights for a new football stadium that was being built downtown. He made up signs that said "Mile High Forever" (the old field was called Mile High Stadium) and caught the attention of the mayor, Wellington Webb, who endorsed the effort and helped raise Hickenlooper's profile. The campaign ended in a compromise—the stadium became Invesco Field at Mile High—and friends and business associates soon goaded him, he claims, into running for mayor in 2003. Hickenlooper told me, "I can honestly say I never even entertained the notion of ever running for office. I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited." In a 2006 essay for the Denver magazine 5280, Thorpe wrote that "the whole thing was more of a lark."
Colorado had lost some thirty thousand jobs when the tech bubble burst, and Hickenlooper campaigned as a pro-business outsider, winning with sixty-five per cent of the vote. The press liked him as much as the public did. On the eve of his mayoral inauguration, the Denver Post called him "the entrepreneur who charmed his way into the Denver mayor's office."
Hickenlooper's "quirky personality is one that many voters have found endearing," Ryan Call, the chairman of the state G.O.P., told me. "He's also been lucky. He's never had to run a tough race and has never had to take many political shots from tough opponents. As a result, he's never had to take strong positions on much of anything. We called him Governor T.B.D.—to be determined."
As mayor, he erased a large budget deficit and promoted Denver tourism and economic development. He was not above periodically humiliating himself. In one ad for tourism, he danced in a bear costume. In another, to push a statewide referendum that asked voters to forgo more than three billion dollars in tax refunds, he jumped out of an airplane dressed in a suit and tie. "In the nineties, Colorado's economy was flying high," he says in the ad, as he boards a small plane. In the air, before jumping, he adds, "But then we fell into a recession." In free fall, he makes a pitch about the complicated budget issue. (A chyron says, "Actually John Hickenlooper. Actually at 13,000 feet.") Hickenlooper had to overcome a lifelong fear of heights in order to film the spot. The tax referendum passed overwhelmingly. A 2004 poll reported that Hickenlooper had a ninety-one-per-cent approval rating in the city.
Hickenlooper never saw gun control as a major issue, although he took some interest in crime policy. In his first mayoral campaign, he promoted the then fashionable anti-crime theory known as "broken-windows policing," which held that addressing low-level decay in urban areas deterred serious crime. Intent on cultivating similarly non-ideological, cutting-edge ideas, he surrounded himself with erudite young professionals. His first forty-two appointees had thirty-one graduate degrees among them, according to the Denver Post, which described them as "crusaders armed with calculators, neo-liberals with new ideas for running city government, policy wonks scrawling action plans on white boards."
He also started to think about prison reform. A former business associate had a son, Evan, who was getting into trouble with the law. "He threw cinder blocks at kittens," Hickenlooper said. "He was just a bad kid." When Evan was a teen-ager, Hickenlooper's friend, a patent attorney, sent his son to a boot camp in Jamaica for two months. But after Evan returned he committed an armed robbery and ended up in prison. He fought with other inmates and was placed in solitary confinement—what corrections officials refer to as administrative segregation. "The kid obviously had some kind of mental illness already," Hickenlooper said. "His dad would go visit him every two weeks, and he just saw him getting worse and worse and worse."
Hickenlooper ran for governor in 2010, a difficult year for Democrats, by focussing on economic issues and nonpartisan reform. His signature ad this time featured him showering, fully clothed, while explaining that he might not be "a very good politician," because he felt like taking a shower every time he saw a negative ad. "Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending," he says as he scrubs his face with his tie. Hickenlooper won fifty-one per cent of the vote, in a three-way race against the anti-immigration crusader Tom Tancredo, who ran under the banner of the right-wing Constitution Party, and the Republican Dan Maes, who was mired in ethics scandals and showed up twenty-five minutes late for a live televised debate. Despite Hickenlooper's victory, Republicans did well elsewhere in the state and took over the Colorado House.
The biggest challenge of his first year was passing an austere budget that included deep cuts to education funding. After the two parties deadlocked in the legislature, Hickenlooper managed to negotiate a final deal. He maintained a strong interest in prison reform, and when he interviewed a candidate for Colorado's top corrections officer he asked the applicant, Tom Clements, for his thoughts on administrative segregation. Clements said that it was being overused and was too expensive; he estimated that a third to half of the prisoners in solitary shouldn't be there. "The real harm is what it does to these people," he told the Governor. Clements got the job, held hearings on the issue, and cut the number of inmates in solitary confinement in half. One of the programs that Clements lauded taught inmates to become dog trainers. Skye, the dog in Hickenlooper's office, had been trained in the program.
In 2012, the political terrain started to shift. The immediate crisis of the budget deficit was behind him, unemployment was declining, and Hickenlooper found himself at the center of a battle over civil unions. As with gun control, he hadn't emphasized the issue in his campaign or in his first year as governor. "In 1992, we hired a guy who was our bar manager and who was openly gay but just a great guy," he said. "Customers liked him, and he became our general manager. It never even entered my mind, but we were the first restaurant to have an openly gay manager running a big place in 1992. We had blowback from some customers, saying, 'Did you know he's gay?' 'Yeah, I know he's gay. So what?' "
As recently as 2006, Colorado voters had approved a measure amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. But in 2012, after some debate among his advisers, Hickenlooper used part of his state-of-the-state address to call on the House to pass a law legalizing civil unions. "We just felt that it had already been too long," he told me, noting that he'd championed the issue as mayor. "It just felt like it was getting closer, and that with a strong push from us we might get it done." It was the only remark in his speech that didn't receive overwhelmingly bipartisan applause.
On the last night of the legislative session, Frank McNulty, the speaker of the House, refused to allow a vote on the bill, while Hickenlooper talked with Democratic legislators about parliamentary maneuvers that could force it to the floor. They had the support of all the Democrats in the chamber and at least three Republicans. They discussed the possibility of overthrowing McNulty, who had only a one-seat majority, but decided against such a dramatic move. They had another idea, one that altered Hickenlooper's carefully cultivated identity as a folksy nonpartisan.
The civil-unions bill was allowed to die, and the session ended. The next day, Hickenlooper called a special session of the legislature and forced the House to take up the civil-unions bill again; by coincidence, President Obama publicly announced his support for gay marriage the same day. The Governor, who previously had seemed to approach every issue as if it could be subjected to a cost-benefit analysis, teared up as he told the story of a gay friend and former employee who called him and insisted, "If not now, when?" But McNulty, who accused Hickenlooper of pushing divisive social issues at the expense of focussing on jobs, scuttled the civil-unions bill on the third day of the special session and sent it to a so-called "kill committee" without allowing a vote on it.
Hickenlooper responded by rallying his party's base. As the 2012 elections approached, he sent out campaign mailers, recorded automated calls to voters, and attended fund-raisers for his Democratic colleagues. Mark Ferrandino, who was the Democratic minority leader at the time and openly gay, said that the special session helped motivate Democratic voters. "There were a lot of people that came out and were volunteering and donating based on what happened with civil unions," he told me.
Having Obama's name on the ballot also helped, and, in November, Democrats took back the Colorado House. Six years after banning gay marriage, Coloradans had pushed Republicans out of office, at least in part because they refused to back civil unions. Ferrandino, who is thirty-five, became the youngest House speaker in America. He said that many of Hickenlooper's supporters worried that the Governor didn't actually want the Democrats to control both the House and the Senate in Colorado. "Because, if you don't control both chambers, then you don't have to deal with the most controversial issues," Ferrandino said. Now Hickenlooper had no choice.
With Democrats controlling the House, the Senate, and the governor's office, Hickenlooper was pressed to move more aggressively on gun control. Obama was championing the issue, and national groups, like Mayors Against Illegal Guns, were targeting states that Democrats now controlled. Just as the Tea Party moved Republicans to the right after 2010, liberals, who voted in record numbers in 2012, had started to push Democrats to the left.
Hickenlooper had little affinity for the issue. He was brought up in Narberth, Pennsylvania, a middle-class town outside Philadelphia. His father hunted birds and collected guns, including a Revolutionary War musket and a Winchester repeater, a famous nineteenth-century rifle known as "the gun that won the West."
"My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms," Hickenlooper told me. Nevertheless, one day, when he was ten years old, he was out shooting whiskey bottles and Coke cans with his cousins at their farm, in Ludwig's Corner, Pennsylvania. As he waited for his turn, his .22-calibre target pistol accidentally fired, and he shot himself in the foot.
"I was standing on the porch, and the bullet goes into my sneaker, just between the pinkie toe and the next toe, but doesn't break the skin," he said. "I could feel it! I looked down and I saw a hole in my sneaker." He glanced furtively at his cousins to see if anyone had witnessed the incident. They were too busy shooting up the yard to notice, and Hickenlooper kept quiet. "I just went back to shooting, because I knew if I told them I wouldn't be allowed to keep shooting."
In 1999, when thirteen people were killed and more than twenty injured at Columbine High School, a few miles outside Denver, Hickenlooper was building his brew-pub empire. The event didn't affect his thinking about gun control. "I read about it in newspapers," he said. "I wasn't one way or the other. I could certainly see the point of view that you'd want to restrict some of these weapons."
After the Aurora massacre, Hickenlooper's initial response was to focus on mental health. His administration came up with a list of policy recommendations. He quickly became an expert. "You need a twenty-four-hour hotline. You need 24/7 crisis centers in different places," he said, ticking off the proposals. "And you need to look at how you can allow psychiatrists, psychologists, to commit someone, not just overnight but for seventy-two hours, so you can really try and study them."
His response seemed indistinguishable from that of the gun lobby. "There's no margin having enemies, as we say in the restaurant business," he said recently during a meeting with a Republican colleague. But he did seek out an array of activists on both sides of the debate in an effort to better sort through his options. David A. Keene, the president of the N.R.A., who met with Hickenlooper for thirty minutes this past February, was impressed. "He's serious, he's interested in policy, and, from all I know about him, he's not a governor who runs off for political reasons and pops off and tries to exploit tragedies," he told reporters after the meeting.
One day last fall, Tom Mauser, the father of one of the victims of the Columbine shooting, came to visit. "You're making a terrible mistake," he told Hickenlooper. "It's not just mental illness." He made the case for universal background checks, banning assault weapons, and limiting the size of gun magazines, like the one that Holmes used. Hickenlooper found that almost nobody was against background checks, so that's where he concentrated his attention. "The rest of it we weren't as excited about," he said.
But Rhonda Fields, an African-American legislator from Aurora, had long been determined to do something about gun violence. In 2004, her son Javad was at a Fourth of July picnic in Aurora when he saw his best friend, Gregory Vann, shot to death. Javad helped police identify the getaway driver, Robert Ray, and became the key witness for the prosecution. Not long before he was scheduled to testify against Ray, Javad and his fiancée, who were both twenty-two, were on their way to dinner and a movie when they were ambushed at an intersection and shot to death by Sir Mario Owens, who was a friend of Ray's and the shooter in the Vann murder. (Both Ray and Owens were convicted of murder and are now on death row.) Fields, who works for United Airlines, became an activist for reforming Colorado's witness-protection program, an option that was not offered to her son, and in 2010 she ran for office. She won, with sixty-one per cent of the vote.
The Aurora massacre occurred in the heart of Fields's district, and she started drafting bills. "I immediately declared that I was going to be taking bold leadership," she told me. "This was the second time I was dealing with gun violence in my community."
With the new Democratic House in place, and with Fields agitating on behalf of more aggressive gun restrictions, Hickenlooper began to have second thoughts. On December 13th, the Associated Press reported that the Governor had said, in an interview, that "the time is right" for Colorado to address gun control. The next day, Adam Lanza went on his rampage in Newtown, Connecticut. "That was just creepy," Hickenlooper told me. "I say this and all of a sudden the world changes again." After Newtown, Fields said, gun legislation was sure to pass: "Everyone felt a sense of disgust with those babies being slaughtered like that."
Hickenlooper dived into the data. He examined the history of gun control and the specifics of various gun measures. He learned that sawed-off shotguns, which were a popular and effective way to protect a home at the turn of the twentieth century, were heavily taxed in 1934, along with machine guns, after they became the weapons of choice for gangsters. He looked at statistics from 2012 to see how effective background checks really were. "We found over twenty-five hundred violent felons, either convicted or accused, trying to buy guns," he said. "So to me there's no argument about that not working." He also looked closely at which crimes might have been prevented if magazine limits had been in place. "Thirty to forty per cent of the police officers killed in the line of duty were killed with high-capacity magazines," he said.
On March 20th, Hickenlooper signed three new gun-control laws: one requires background checks for almost all firearms sales; a second bans magazines that hold more than fifteen bullets; and a third stipulates that gun buyers must pay for the background check. The next day, he signed a law legalizing civil unions in Colorado. This month, he is expected to sign a law barring individuals convicted of domestic abuse from owning a gun. The cautious moderate has become a liberal hero.
But the celebration was clouded by some grim news. The night before Hickenlooper signed the new gun laws, Clements, the much admired head of the Colorado Department of Corrections, was shot to death at his front door, allegedly by a former inmate who had been released straight from solitary confinement on January 28th. When the police finally caught up with the man, who had fled to Texas, Hickenlooper learned that the alleged killer was Evan Ebel, his friend's troubled son.
In the past decade, as Colorado moved from loosening concealed-gun laws to passing some of the most stringent firearms restrictions in the U.S., and from banning gay marriage to recognizing civil unions, it has also embraced an increasingly liberal drug policy. In 2000, the state authorized the use of medical marijuana. In 2006, a statewide ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for recreational use was defeated, fifty-nine per cent to forty-one, but last fall voters approved an initiative to legalize the drug. Although Hickenlooper had opposed the measure, it passed with fifty-five per cent of the vote, outpolling even Barack Obama, who won the state.
Hickenlooper was not thrilled about the new law. During a recent meeting, he talked to the new Republican House minority leader, Mark Waller, about the policy implications of legalizing pot. "Sometimes I have found, in this profession, that you don't adopt your issues—they adopt you," Waller said.
Hickenlooper laughed. "Tell me about it!" he said.
The law requires Hickenlooper to set up a system for taxing and regulating marijuana, which can be legally sold as of July 1st. Washington State also voted to legalize the drug in November, and similar initiatives are now being prepared around the country. Hickenlooper told me that other governors, especially Democrats in liberal states, should get ready to face the issue soon. "Look at how the acceleration of permissiveness is going on in this country," he told me. "If you'd told me four years ago that we would legalize marijuana completely in the state of Colorado, I would've laughed and said, 'Never!' "
Pot activists had long accused Hickenlooper of being a hypocrite for staking out both pro-booze and anti-marijuana positions. In 2007, Mason Tvert, who co-directed the 2012 legalization campaign, dressed one of his activists as a chicken and had him follow Hickenlooper around Denver with a sign that said, "Hey, Mayor Chickenlooper, What's So Scary About Marijuana?" Now that Hickenlooper had to implement the new law, Tvert could hardly contain himself. "This whole thing is just the greatest thing ever," he told me. "It's hysterical."
The activists were delighted to have a mayor, and then a governor, who was famous for selling beer. "He was the greatest foil ever for a marijuana-reform campaign," Tvert said. His group's first effort was a citywide ballot initiative to legalize marijuana use in Denver. Tvert appeared on a morning chat show and declared, to an astonished host, "The Mayor happens to be a drug dealer, and he is fortunate enough to sell his drug in a legal market." The initiative, which removed all penalties for marijuana possession for anyone over the age of twenty-one, passed with fifty-three per cent of the vote.
But the media stunts gradually began to penetrate and change minds. By 2012, the editorial director of the Denver Post, which had previously been dismissive of the pot activists, wrote a column in which Hickenlooper was called a hypocrite for opposing the referendum to legalize marijuana_._ Hickenlooper said that he "saw both sides of it." He told me, "I was ambivalent, in the sense that I've seen the toll of how many kids get sent to jail, and how much violence there is in low-income communities around this war on drugs that we've done a miserable job at and, without any question, have failed at." He was deeply influenced by his chief of staff, who has studied the issue closely and once ran a shelter for runaway teens. "She is adamant that marijuana in the hands of—not everyone, but certainly thirteen-, fourteen-, fifteen-year-olds leads to homeless teen-agers." He was bothered, too, by the potential effects on memory loss. "It's ten times more potent than it was twenty-five years ago," he said. "You lose ten to twenty per cent of your memory. That's such a crucial part of human existence, right?" He told me, "In the end, I came out against it, because there was no funding for the consequences."
By now, Hickenlooper is undoubtedly the most experienced politician in America when it comes to dealing with the legalization of marijuana. As mayor, he had to figure out how to set up a regulatory structure to handle medical marijuana. How close to a school can a dispensary be? Which state agency will inspect dispensaries? What are the licensing fees? As governor, Hickenlooper now spends more time on creating and implementing the new system to legalize marijuana—keeping in mind that the drug is still illegal under federal law—than he does on almost any other issue.
Still, Hickenlooper wants the government to remind minors of the drug's dangers. On a recent Tuesday morning in April, he gathered his senior staff around the conference table in his office to discuss the design of an anti-marijuana public-awareness campaign.
"There are several pretty reputable scientists that are very concerned about fifteen-, sixteen-, seventeen-year-olds, and how this could affect their memory forever, right?" he said. "Isn't it worth putting one of these guys in thirty seconds on camera, trying to create credibility with him, and having him say some scary thing? If I was a parent, that would get my attention really fast."
One of his health-care experts tactfully explained that although scare tactics work well with drugs like methamphetamine, pot was different: "Meth quickly destroys your teeth. Your hair falls out. You go from having a normal life to very, very quickly, in a lot of cases, hitting rock bottom. With marijuana, you've got, unfortunately, decades of people who've said, 'I've been using this for four decades and I'm still a responsible individual.' "
Hickenlooper slumped in his chair and silently reviewed his notes. Suddenly, he lifted his head and cut the tension with a joke. "Maybe we can connect the use of marijuana in this country and the growth over the past four years to the cataclysms we see in Congress and Washington," he said. "Just say, 'For the last thirty years, marijuana's been on the increase, and now look what's happened!' "
Recently, after eleven years of marriage, Hickenlooper and Helen Thorpe separated. She had always been a reluctant political spouse; at her suggestion, her 2006 essay for 5280 was subtitled "Journalist. Mother. Denver's First Lady. In three short years, I lost the self I'd always known. Could I ever find my way back?" Hickenlooper told me, "Neither of us had affairs. She's a writer, and she's not extroverted at all. She's got great social skills, but she just didn't like the hubbub, you know?" They live in nearby houses and raise their son together, but Hickenlooper hasn't fully adjusted. "The first time I went out for dinner with my, as I say, my sometimes wife—" He caught himself. "I've got to stop saying that." From across the room, an aide agreed: "Helen wouldn't like that."
Hickenlooper went on to tell a story about how once, over dinner, he asked Thorpe, who was thirty-seven at the time, how she felt about having children. "She said, 'I'm ambivalent.' I said, 'Well, that sort of means you can kind of take it or leave it.' She looked at me, she said, 'That's not what "ambivalent" means! "Ambivalent" means having strong inclinations in contradictory directions!' Which is right. And it makes the word a much better word."
Hickenlooper could be described as an ambivalent leader of an ambivalent state. The Republican Frank McNulty, the former speaker of the Colorado House, said that Hickenlooper "skated across the top" during his first two years in office." "The Republicans in the House would kill the controversial Democratic bills, and the Democrats in the Senate would kill our bills," McNulty told me. "Unless it had broad bipartisan support, it died. That situation makes it very easy to be governor." Hickenlooper's critics say that this year he has followed, rather than set, the Democratic legislature's agenda. "The critique that many in Colorado have, particularly the ones who have worked with him, is there's a lack of leadership," McNulty said.
Hickenlooper is up for reëlection in 2014, and his campaign will be a test case of how far Democrats can move on social issues and still win. Colorado has a well-organized evangelical-Christian community and a powerful gun-rights movement, which has started to talk about recalling House members who voted for gun control. Public Policy Polling recently reported that Hickenlooper's disapproval rating jumped from twenty-six per cent, last November, to forty-four per cent, last month, largely because "Republicans and conservative-leaning independents who were neutral on him during his first two years have moved into the negative column after his leadership on issues like guns and civil unions."
Soon after Hickenlooper became governor, local reporters wondered whether he might run for President in 2016. He dismissed the idea that someone with his background and propensity for indiscreet comments could ever occupy the Oval Office. "First separated but not divorced Presidential candidate!" he told me when I asked. "That would be fun, that would be good for the media." Nonetheless, if Hillary Clinton runs, Hickenlooper would satisfy many of the requirements of a challenger: anti-Washington, candid, a business background, a strong legislative record. His top political adviser, Alan Salazar, openly speculated about the possibility, but said, "I think we probably are not doing what we should do if we wanted to play a national campaign."
But the subject is just below the surface of many policy discussions. On the day I spent with Hickenlooper in early April, he and several aides had a sensitive conversation about a series of union issues that he would soon face. Hickenlooper has often been at odds with labor, a core Democratic constituency that is influential in Presidential politics. An adviser proffered a warning: "You could end up with three labor bills coming to your desk and you not being comfortable with any of them, and therefore vetoing them all."
"It's O.K.," Hickenlooper said with mock resignation. "I don't wanna be President." ♦


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Stephen Hutchings: Landscapes for the End of Time
This hauntingly beautiful exhibition of eight monumental paintings takes its names from Olivier Messiaen's (1908-1992) Quartet for the End of Time. Messiaen created his score while interned at a German prison camp in 1940; he and other prisoners first performed it for their fellow captives on January 15, 1941.
Hutching's paintings are not directly inspired by the score but they relate insofar as the correspondence between the life span of an individual and the idea of eternity. This evocative series of landscape paintings—all produced in 2010—resists identification with any particular historical time or geographic place. Combining historical artistic approaches with new digital technologies, Hutchings is able to create images that meld the past, present, and future into hybrid wholes.
The large works approach life-size on canvases eighteen feet wide and eight feet tall. Together, the works create an environment in the gallery that is at once beckoning, mysterious, and calm. They loom over the viewer, physically and emotionally. They are full of anticipation of something about to be discovered, or encountered just around the bend, or visible beyond the trees in the clearing, or down the road: a felt presence of things unknown or unknowable.
The paintings are accompanied by two videos produced by Hutchings that address the issue of transformation. The music accompanying the videos was composed by the artist's son Sebastian, an accomplished young composer whose work has been performed in new music festivals in Montreal, Banff, and Calgary.
This exhibition has been organized and circulated by the Glenbow Museum, Calgary. It is complemented by a 160-page catalogue carrying essays by freelance curator and critic Petra Halkes, Director of the Mendel Art Gallery; Vincent Varga; and Mary Reid, former WAG Curator of Contemporary Art and Photography.
Click here to learn more about Stephen Hutchings and the music that inspired this series of artworks.
Related Programs & Events
Past Programs & Events
Artist Talk with Stephen Hutchings
Artist Stephen Hutchings talks about the work in the exhibition Stephen Hutchings: Landscapes to the End of Time.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 from 12pm to 1pm
Artist Talk with Stephen Hutchings
Artist Stephen Hutchings joins with the Gryphon Trio to celebrate his exhibition Landscapes for the End of Time.
Friday, May 11, 2012 from 6:30pm to 7pm
The Gryphon Trio with James Campbell
The Gryhpon Trio and James Campbell perform within the exhibition Stephen Hutchings: Landscapes to the End of Time.
Friday May 11, 2012 at 7:30pm
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
- Closed Monday


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NOAH, the latest Hollywood epic, splashed across the big screen last month, revealing a flood of compromise. Described as a "biblically inspired fantasy film," reviewers bragged that "despite its compromises … it retains a sense of religious awe." But the great compromise cannot drown the truth. To use the phrase biblically inspired and the term fantasy in the same thought adulterates a historic record.
Some say the world is not held responsible for misinterpreting God's Word, but the Bible does not agree, as we clearly see in the story of Noah. "Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually … and He was grieved in His heart … And God said to Noah, 'The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth'" (Genesis 6:5-6, 13).
God not only holds His followers to account, but all of mankind. The human race continues gulping the bitter water in the sea of immorality, rejecting truth and trying to silence God's people.
Because of pressure from the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community, A&E tried to suppress Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame by suspending him from his television series because of his biblically based convictions. The Robertson family was willing to walk away from their wildly successful reality show rather than compromise their beliefs. Facing the possibility of losing the Robertsons—and millions of viewers—the network reinstated the patriarch star. The family-oriented Cracker Barrel restaurant and country store that had pulled Duck Dynasty products from their shelves in the midst of the uproar also had to back up and restock the Duck Dynasty merchandise, issuing an apology for offending a large percentage of their clientele.
In both cases, the LGBT lost. While many in the liberal and progressive media have deceived the public into thinking that this group makes up a large portion of our nation's population, surveys support the fact that this small but boisterous movement consists of less than 2 percent of society.
On the heels of these upheavals, it was particularly jolting when those who call themselves Christians departed from the clarity of God's Word, as the leadership of World Vision U.S. did in March when they announced their employment of "gay Christians in legal same-sex marriages." The very day World Vision announced its great compromise on a basic truth of Scripture—that a homosexual lifestyle is sin and that marriage is between one man and one woman—the Supreme Court began hearings to determine if the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, should be required to provide life-terminating drugs and devices in their employee health care plan, contrary to the Christian family's spiritual convictions.
The contrast was stunning. While the Christian-owned business stood up against a federal government bent on forcing them to compromise the right to life, a Christian charity compromised the sacredness of marriage, stating that "it's the right thing to do for unity within the church." Forty-eight hours after World Vision's announcement, they were forced to reverse their epic decision after a flooding backlash from offended donors.
The Bible gives strong warning to those who tamper with God's truth. "From among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away [followers] after themselves" (Acts 20:30).
The charity's original announcement was personally shocking to me because World Vision and Samaritan's Purse were founded by the same man, my mentor and dear friend, the late Dr. Bob Pierce. Much of my adult life has been guided by something he often said: "I want my heart to be broken by the things that break the heart of God." I believe the heart of God was broken by the decision of the board of directors of World Vision. This is no small matter. I was as grieved by it as I have been by anything in my lifetime of ministry, because the heart of World Vision was revealed—a disregard for biblical truth.
There was a day when World Vision's board was made up of people who believed in, and stood on, God's Word, but in making this decision they completely disregarded Scripture and made a decision based on what they perceived as public acceptance and popularity.
I do rejoice that the board of directors reversed its decision, but I pray that the fallout will cause a depth of soul-searching. True followers of Jesus Christ, whose salvation is based entirely upon God's Word, cannot endorse same-sex marriage, regardless of what our President, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the media or the latest Gallup poll says about the matter. This moral issue has been settled by God Himself and is not subject to man-made revisions or modifications. In the end, I would rather be on the wrong side of public opinion than on the wrong side of Almighty God who established the standard of living for the world He created. Marriage is a biblically moral issue, not a political or theological one.
This debate is ultimately about something much more important than the question of same-sex marriage. It is about the great compromise, calling into question the authority of Scripture. If Christians do not agree concerning the authority of Scripture, we will eventually disagree about all sorts of things.
The church is tied up in the red tape of compromise that is being played out in rewriting the Bible and preaching a gospel emphasizing the works of mankind.
The Bible says: "Now the Spirit [of God] expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy" (1 Timothy 4:1-2).
I agree with the late Adrian Rogers, who said, "It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude."
It is time for the discussion of unity within the church to come into alignment with God's Word on the issue of marriage. When there is division within the church, it is because individuals are against Christ Himself, for He is the head of His church, made up of the redeemed who are called to be one with Christ.
The church is on dangerous ground when it departs from the teaching of Christ and attempts to redefine His commands and compromise His truth. There are many things in Scripture that Christians disagree on, but the Bible is crystal clear about the sanctity of life and marriage. It is also clear that homosexuality is spelled out as sin—there are no ifs, ands or buts.
The only way the church can be unified with one another is to be in unity with Jesus Christ; unified in "faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God … to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be … tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ" (Ephesians 4:13-15).
Compromise is dangerous territory for the Christian—mixing a little truth with a lot of error, wavering between right and wrong. Jesus said, "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth … therefore, repent" (Revelation 3:15, 19). I pray that the church will return to its calling to stand on God's principles, not wavering, but steadfast, discerning the evil times in which we live. Charles Spurgeon once said, "Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right."
My father has always said, "From compromise to deceit is a small step." Let's not compromise by seeing how close we can get to right; let's stand on God's promise to walk so close to Him that almost right becomes evil in our sight.
"But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).
For anyone reading this article, if you belong to the LGBT community, you may question whether God loves you and will forgive you. The answer is yes. I want to assure you from His own Word that God is eager to forgive all sinners, including the one penning this article.
The Bible says, "I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins … state your case that you may be acquitted" (Isaiah 43:25-26). I am a great sinner who has received forgiveness by a great Savior—the Lord Jesus Christ. He went to the cross and shed His blood to cover our sin. He extends forgiveness to all who will call on His Name, turn from sin, believe in Him, follow Him as Master and Lord, and live in obedience according to His Word. My friend, God will heal your heart and give you peace the world cannot offer. Peace of mind and soul can be yours today. ©2014 BGEA
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, New King James Version. The Scripture quotation marked NLT is taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation.


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A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
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