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It's his philosophy that's at stake. All his bikes have girls' names, and his idea of bikes and women is to ride them into the ground and go get a new one. His taste in bikes is considerably better than his taste in women and this creaking heap of abused old touring bike fraying around the edges has outlasted all his jobs and all but one of his women. (At that, he's got tshirts that have endured half of his flailed life.) What isn't going on, bike or woman, is neglect or abuse. His compact is a partnership, use--hard and constant, to be sure, but entirely reciprocal. He never goes off of curbs: he opens every door and carries every parcel. Would be better if these didn't limn the absolute limits of his deference. Would be better if the absolute limits of his attentiveness weren't chain lube every half a year and constant cunnilingus. None of this was on his mind.(1)
Punks of a certain age generally have little interest in punk rock. Surely they had their run with the definitive exponents, the shirt brands now available at the mall, and know every word and most of the chords for the Ramones/Misfits/Clash/Sex Pistols/Black Flag(3)/Minor Threat(4) and they usually still have one of those ranked fairly high on the list of things they would/do actually put on deliberately to listen to(5), but those are vestiges, atavistic remnants, prototypical representations of the intersection of generic tropes and biographical periods of discovery.
All digressions aside,(8) punks frequently don't actually bother listening to punk rock. On purely aesthetic grounds, this isn't much of a surprise. The formal business of the genre generally involves stripping popular, often early, rock idioms down to the very basics--three chords, 4/4 time, verse/chorus structure, maybe a bridge. Short slogans for lyrics, short words. Choppy melodies. A brute limitation on both the acceptable combinatoric rules and the formal elements subject to same.
All this means it's a pretty quick procedure to assimilate all that these songs have to offer. The difference between the 10th time you've yeard "I've had it" and the 100th is just the addition of boredom: it's impossible to extract more information from this structure because there simply isn't any more there.
In general, then, we see punks gravitate towards formally simple works (trainwreck beats, lotta density on the low end) but with a little higher information content and unpredictability. Besides metal, there are three rap bands all punks like: NWA, Public Enemy, and the Wu-Tang Clan.
Niklavs Dahlgren sat on his porch, glaring at a pair of bicycles. The Wu-Tang Clan played in the background.
Twenty blocks away, Ross glared at a chapbook. What's somewhere between the makings and leavings of one, anyway. Her right hand manipulated chopsticks, "toying idly" with the remnant of tempura in its little bin. Left hand shoved a blunt stub of pencil over some object on a paper scrap, then proposed an alternative in the margin. Lone people gravitate toward restaurants, as cooking for one is an arid endeavour. Lone people of introspective bent gravitate toward restaurants where they can sit alone without imposing/enduring a pariah vibe--one person at a four-top looks, entirely unavoidably, like a freak. A two-top isn't much better. A counter or a bar is ideal and far the idealer if the food can be eaten with one hand. This leaves the other free to handle the necessary book. The big Sapporo looked like a fucking barrel in her small hand, the pencil jutting awkwardly out unabandoned, and she'd put down all but a couple centimeters of the beer, yet still it sweated. Her chapbook was a response, in large part, to a pathetic letter she'd once been written by an ex, ostensibly an efford to explain the awkward post-relationship interactions he'd demanded, then chafed against, all the while pretty transparently advertisements of availability. (All noble things are touched with melancholy.)
Ross' initial response to the letter had been the continuation of her not ever calling or seeing him or thinking about him when he wasn't there. Eventually her rage at these rejectable, abandonable men, a lifetime of them and their sullen, impacted failings, coalesced a little, and she began to write. The project began as it always did, with a few dioramas sketched, x-actoed out of thin cardboard, pinned and pasted together. An empty street, the first, with men facing each other at top left and right corner, a woman in bottom right corner, facing left. Everybody blocky, chunky, a strange mix of profile and 3/4 recognizable from 2D side-scrolling brawlers. A couple pop-up portraits of the principals she counted as maybe the most satisfying drawings she'd ever made. She signalled for another beer. Tried to reread a piece, but had to exhale a vast and stale breath, look at the ceiling for a couple seconds and realize the limits of her stamina had been reached.
She left 3 on 27 after slamming the beer back with a practiced desperation.
As her bootheels hit the pavement, Niklavs Dahlgren's hand grabbed the wrench and he grunted with that leaning effort. He was not thinking about music, or punk, or even really thinking about his bike. He sat on an overturned milk crate, while white-guy-approved rap blared from a battered boom box. His hands were almost completely black, his roommate's toothbrush utterly ruined by chain filth and organic solvent. A choking cloud of sickly citrusesque hung unnoticed by Dhalgren, who had a huge hank of chew stuffed in his craw. Solvent dripped from the frame and spattered the frame and floor with the grime it carried. He spat a thumb-sized drool of browned water into an ancient glass coffee cup and glared at the acorn nut. The Wu-Tang Clan noted they were not to be fucked with. Dhalgren and a quart of beer sweated on the porch in the autumn afternoon sun.
Dhalgren never knew the mad monk, the venerable (and consecrated) Brofather Flynn 'Potatoes' O-Brien, and was an adherent of no coherent school on the matter of the soul. However. No coincidence that his bike is somehow sculpture/enactment of that soul, a manifestation and (thus a) product of it; nor that another dimension or moment of that soul has been fed, nurtured, bolstered and constituted by each moment he's spent riding and especially working on his old beater. Souls are tricky critters. It is--barely--possible to have one working with neither your hands nor words (symbols?), but the evolution of the species has pushed hard toward these avenues. There are those who even dis the bike/soul connection, pointing at the manifold chains 'tween car and penis, linkages b'tween them so robust it's actually not always possible to say what's standing for what. (Of course, those who do this pointing have forgotten a reasonably large percentage of the ensouled population.)
If Dhalgren ever got his brakes satisfactorily adjusted, he halfassed a handwash and whipped up spaghetti with meatballs. Put his plant on the back porch. Passed out hours later, a case study in the emotional capitalism of scarcity economics.(9)
Out at the knees--scarf, suit jacket, gloves, glasses, head wrapped in another scarf. The only flesh visible small angles and planes of the face and those fragile joints peeking and poking through battered denim.
Dahlgren saw her, of course, around, had seen her but barely noted her, just another severe (dyke?) bony chick, thin blood, big nose and eyes pale and darkhaired--altogether the kind of chick he always scores if he scores a chick and a fur piece away from the healthy, hefty athletic lady he currently craves.
Pushing back on 40 (hard), fifth city in--what--16 years, over a dozen cities lifetime and this one, she'd have to concede, no better. Not the fix or food she'd been, always, craving.
She'd mastered some of the magics (by affinity, and necessity, by habit and by inclination), she knew the free refills, the half-dollar books, the slow meals one-handed eaten so she could still read. These, the only ways to divorce time from money. She knew a rough brown blazer or a sweater, & hair pulled back, not too tight, would get her a men's near-pass--not invisible but rarely central either (the men who'd fancy her were the most likely to be incapable of mounting an assault on her clear shields).
A rough city, this east bay--immune, apparently, to the charm once wrought by Mr. Ford, by which wage and cost were welded together. Here, everything would be priced at a premium, life and labor excluded from the equation. For that matter, jobs themselves were hard to find.
Savagely proud, particularly about those things which mattered least, she'd been up against the wall before a job'd been offered. She deigned to notice, then accept. The offer.
(It is a disservice to this woman that I do not know her name. I shall compound this--I hope only to my expense--by pinning her with a Ross. [Rhyming only visually and by connotation with "loss", natch.])
She knew it only made things--but, then, sometimes you have to make things--worse, when she'd push up her sweater's sleeves, shave to the elbow her collared button-up and show off the thick, wide, faded lines. Bones and knives, spiders and bedraggled fathers: when half-glimpsed by her admirers, they seemed more runes, signs to conjure with (like her eyebrows) or a lost map of the one, fabled, fulfilling, city.
A hard face, more owlish than mousy, despite a frankly hawkish nose. Old fables are short on athletic women. This perhaps helps explain the difficulties in of her living her life. (Without maps, schemas, hints or walkthrus.)
Another box of wine, another can of soup.
Where to take your desk was to feel like you were hearing a song you'd never hear again or forget.
Another sheaf of pages cadged from the copier discards, covered in her cramped scrawl, her angry curiosity, nearly forlorn against the equations she sought to solve.
I will not commodify my inner life. Or am I just poor--broke and afraid, poverty ruling purse and person alike?Pages like this, some nights, others
That Connie from the coffee shop, how is she, how does she when she hugs a customer, what does she see when she sees him seeing her (or what sees she when she sees him not!)? Her half-octave drop, the eye contact scattered like a handful of change as bait of the urchins, does she ever cramp or weep or open a jar for herself? I'm just being a cunt for knowing I'm better than her, larger and more filled, yet still wanting the pathetic moraine men's eyes leave to her...
Walking under the tracks earlier I thought of Kuarl and (her dots in a differently spaced hand) who CARES?
And not another entry for a month.
Black moods might last uninterrupted weeks, her skull grinding tectonic plates of fury and despair, shearing or buckling sometimes, the chasm resulting worse than the cataclysm. Because sometimes then things could get in.
Worse than this, though, were the strained stretches the world just bit from her and swallowed, August to December not forgotten or ignored, just absent from her memory, as they'd been absent from her experience, really.
First, it was always too hot--a stifling heat, now dry, now wet, always the air staying still. Windows Moses couldn't've opened with a hammer.
First thing to go was the boots, tall, brown and battered, unlovely with scars, burns and no polish. At nearly knee high and leathern, though, they didn't breathe for shit, ended up abandoned to an uncluttered corner of her rented room. She didn't know it, but that first weekend afternoon she struggled from sleep into her (solitary) afternoon and the boots seemed too much trouble, that day she was lost.
Still it was too hot. Nobody else layered up like she did, and the hallway to her floor was always punishingly hot, so she took to stripping down outside--shedding blazer and sweater or hoody, careful to keep cuffs shot past wrists and her lip uncurled.
Do they fucking get it, don't they? Do they see the keys clipped to my belt, three of them, one to a church, plus a corkscrew. It's got to be obvious to anybody's looking, but is anybody looking?
Lingering sometimes (almost always) over single-handed sushi, Ross thought of the boyfriends, the pinball players who stood tree-still at the machine, fingers and eyes moving fast, the pinball players who practically danced with the machine, feet and knees flying, slaps and hand-claps and shots, the criers and the huggers, the restrained and refined, the rich, the racist and the righteous, she remembered the secret pornographers and the sheepish masturbation. She remembered letting one drive, making another, coming like a rocket with a guy she barely tolerated and never getting off with one she'd wanted to love. She thought about one-night stands on a woman's couch, in a rich man's car, in her own bare room on a yoga mat on the floor.
It all seemed so fucking remote, the time of having cars, the time of being married. For that matter, the time of boyfriends, sex and regularly cleaned clothes.
Two pairs of jeans--newish thick stiff denim with a stout belt, old silk-thin pair, very nearly tight even on her bony thighs. It's a natural law that walking forms new and focuses old memories. How then could it be that four months had passed and nothing? Flasks snuck into infiltrated matinees, sushi three times a week (20 on 18) and smoking cigarettes rolled in the rain and nothing. 10,000 pages read and nothing. One-night stand or two, no surprise here nothing.
122 days and not a memory.
It's a long walk from her box of an apartment through the arid, pointless downtown, the reeking dampness of Chinatown and the horrifyingly loud filth of the tunnel to the island made out of trash. Or anyways built on it. There, just out of the tunnel's sullen maw, a bit past the glistening marina, squats a building nearly invisible in its bland brick squarity. It's a long walk, but Ross' spidery stride chewed miles and the urban always spat up something new for her to look at, a new wall scrawl or the street-gilt of broken glass or a man's excrement (once topped with a dime) and all the shoes and leavings of the city's evicted and rejected and mobile. That wheedling and strange building, though, she never did look at, her eyes sliding away as her gait broke down to a sidle, her mein altogether that of the abashed teenager she'd never been.
In her cube, her fingers moved like her walk: fast, aggressive, staccato. Her thumbs smacked the space bar "like it owed her money".
Hey wannah it the Hanson brothers show next week?Whoever used her cube on the day shift was one of the Lord's own slobs, she thought. A packrat and clutterbug addicted to printouts and postits, endless glossy paper ejaculated from sticker machines glimmering from the cardboard walls, crumbs and curly hair everywhere. Even so, when she was there, the space always would seem Spartan, empty.
not as good as nomeansno
fun live show, though!
not if youve seen the realthing
Lunch?(Both more or less false. She'd stalk down to a place where she could see the marina's lights shake while she smoked a pinner. She'd eat her lunch at her desk, on the clock, as she always did, and she'd glare at the roll of bills in the Bustelo can after she hit the bank, as she always did.) She was angry with herself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world around her into a vision of squalor and insincerity. As she waited for the network or waited for the tool to render, she poured scorn and rage and contempt into another .txt file.(10)
broke brought my own
Her completely unironic mental title for the bulk of her projects was Up against the vaginal walls, motherfucker!. Her chapbook was to be an evisceration of the asinine fellows of the city(11) intercalated with a highly ramified limning of the poverty of a woman's life considered in its economic, political, psychological, sexual and particularly intellectual aspects. It took the form of an extended insert for her fictional band's hypothetical single: entitled:
Mountings and Moleskins b/w Bummed at the Gyno
Angry walk "home" after work took her to nearly three, then sleepless gin hours until down and a sleep could come. This swing shift imposed a solitary schedule on the isolate Ross like few she'd known in her four decades. Impossible even to grab a quick drink with a coworker after, leaving for her long walk before anybody else was done with their own jobs. Morning and afternoons of slow drink and cold library sojourns, long sketches of graffiti, mural and stencil.
The city was signalling her, in its shrapnely way, responding to her pace. Just barely slow enough to gestalt the city, and in streets enough to synthesize its many sherds into most of a message. She was faster than some bikes, missed some stuff, but hasn't ever conceded that these ambiances are communicative, hasn't ever given her attention to this nurturing surround and (thus) has been fighting the city for 40-some years, always turning down the unfulfilling street, always stumbling into someone, always hearing nothing but the cacophony dozens of tuning instruments, never hearing the symphony cohere.
Six months she'd worked there, frowning silent through pointless meetings, meeting every overture with featurefree rejection, pouring boiling fury onto paper and into burgeoning desktop files, when the email to everyone arrived, naming no names as it insisted she stop violating the heretofore imaginary dress code. Six months and a week when it was announced that the piss tests they'd taken to secure this employment would need to be verified and reverified at random. Six months and three weeks when all files were moved from the desktops and harddrives to the server and made explicitly subject to inspection. Seven months when the "team" was cut by a third and a witheringly negative series of performance reviews began. Ross bought slacks, lost the jewelry, gave up the weed and the prework beers. Deleted all the files unread.
As she shed and abdicated the things that made her her, her father resurged somewhat, began to undodder in his trailer, began again to receive information from all life and pattern, again to slip his will into the warp and weft of the lives he chose.
A mode of summoning: quiet city night, fan on and very spare music very low. The city and the music will blend, mostly unheard, under the white noise, and the right ears there in the dark will come to hear the growls and gutterings of the cyclopean, subterranean forces that mostly drive the blind city.
O-Brien lives and thrives. Poor Ross flounders, fails, dies. Nothing quite so simple as declaring life to constitute a zero-sum game. More that power extracted, harnessed, imposed, etc., is. Is.
Ross took her mother-in-law's tongue to work one thursday, by the bus, and it thrived there in the cube, among the ergo-stretching diagrams and productivity shortcut enhancement printouts adorning her walls. The tuesday before that, she'd lost her stout sheaf of writings, absently abandoning them after another burger lunch, as O-Brien rode a wave of power he hadn't felt in half a century of cheap gin on ice. Dhalgren outlined a horror novel about a beautiful woman on the back of an envelope, then tore it open to outline some porn about vampires, two stories that would eventually get him well and truly paid. His basil plant died and he called his ex to apologize for being a bad caretaker, unshruggingly telling her "I'm not for sale; I'm just here for fun": they had some cataclysmic sex, the kind only accessible to people with a lot of shared history, a commitment to acting as though unfinished business doesn't exist, superbly toned core muscles, a lot of unfinished business, enough trust to engage in condomless rough sex in a drunken evening, obliterated night and beer-floated morning while wearing out three holes and grinding blood into a man's beard and the spiky forest around his cock.
What's at stake here is that (t)his bike isn't so much a sculpture of his soul as a transformation of it--the same thing, transposed into a different medium or dimension. The ancient and unlubed and filthy chain driving everything side to side and only accidentally forward(2) and the bar tape scraped clean to metal by crashes on both sides, then covered in blackly looped wraps of electrical tape, the plastic fender held over the back wheel only by a scrap piece of rusted chain, the gap-toothed front wheel wobbling eccentrically and the cracking tires, these are not exponents of failure or neglect. They're just the indexes of daily hard use accumulated sorites-like into an actual history, an atlas of time, rather than place; a soul.
The contribution of activity willed and unwilled to the creation, supplementation and maintenance of the/a soul--so you get chipped away at by the latter, mostly, but can be scaffolded and erected (hopefully more than merely shored up) by those things done with intention and enthusiasm.
In terms pertaining to the base, what might make a man fix a bicycle? Well, he'd bought a little porn, at the flea market, but he'd used it already and a chasm of afternoon had lain before him, horrifying in its emptiness, its pointlessness. So much he could fill the time with and so little of it that could amount to anything.
This is true. From the standpoint of physics, the process of riding a bike is precisely steering in a way such that the bike doesn't tip over.
[body paragraphs above and these notes taken from On the soft generosity of bass neck: Some inquiries into some values, Jarkko Clenninden, forthcoming, Kuolema/Jokerit Press.]
Interesting split here--Black Flag released half a dozen singles with 3 or 4 different singers before settling down with (the) one with whom they'd achieve their greatest fame, some ice-cream vendor named Henry Rollins. Now, this incarnation actually released full-length albums. In vast quantities, actually. However, it's notable that:
a) the first record is extra-great and incorporates some material from earlier singles
b) everything after side 1 of the second record is basically dogshit
Oddly, there are still punks who take Henry Rollins seriusly. You'd think doing a Gap ad and sucking at everything for decades would put paid to his credibility, but, apparently, no.
Slightly younger punks will generally replace these with something like Operation Ivy/Crimpshrine/Filth, a riot grrl band or maybe a local/regional act. When punks of this age meet those of that slightly older age, they will, as of this writing, no longer engage in long, impossibly stuffy symposia on the provenance of emo.
This reveals the thoroughgoing obsolesence of my musical-facilitation modalities. Everyone I know uses their computer as the primary locus of their music collection. Indeed, generally at this point the computer is the sole location of their collection.
My artifacts comprise a couple hundred cassette tapes, a half-dozen milk crates of vinyl, a couple beer boxes of 7" and a short bookcase of CDs. I have a computer with a couple dozen of those CDs ripped to .mp3s so I can listen to them on a walkman of 1 gig capacity.
What I listen to is thus savagely constrained by where I listen to it. In the kitchen or bathroom, it's one of the few dozen tapes not currently languishing in storage, played through a flea market boom box, in my room it's generally a CD, as my turntable is usually buried under a moraine of CD cases, empties, spit cups, trade paperbacks and shit. Out of the house, I'm down to my walkman. This technical limitation, purely mechanical and material, constrains my practice thoroughly--so thoroughly that it is difficult for me to consider the psychology of those whose entire library of music is customarily carted around in their gleaming Chrome bag.
In operational terms, we(6) could probably get away with replacing "choose to listen to" with "doesn't roll eyes and immediately hit 'skip'".
I try by this rhetorical flourish to obtain your complicity.
Probably not.
The capitalism of the heart, the belief that the essences of life too can be seized and hoarded, that you can corner the market on confidence, stage a hostile takeover of happiness. It's based on scarcity economics, the notion or perhaps the feeling that there's not enough to go around, and the belief that these intangible phenomena exist in a fixed quantity to be scrambled for, rather than that you can only increase them by giving them away.
[Ross' application letter to the Thorn Triad--once recorded by that noted blogger]
They [my old opinions] have deceived me sadly. I was taught to think, and I was willing to believe, that genius was not a bawd, that virtue was not a mask, that liberty was not a name, that love had its seat in the human heart. Now I would care little if these words were struck out of the dictionary, or if I had never heard them.
Buffoons, poltroons, idiots, imbeciles, assholes & elbows, this job. I am become surrounded all day every day by the worst and most pedestrian sort, who judge the shoddiness of their performance acceptable b/c they disdain their assignment.
I am sure they all know neither who nor how they are.
Base Frank seems to think that slovenly dress and a rigorously shambling swagger will insulate him from the environmen(t). As though nobody's read Bourdieu. Ghastly forced jocularity in all his workplace communication betrays his internalized anxieties, however; the only interesting question is whether or to what degree he's managing to fool himself. (An uninteresting question: which is correcter:
His bicycle exceeds his ignorance
His ignorance is exceeded by his bicycle)
Karen. White pants always make me think that asshole's never had a period.
Are you familiar with operating in an office environment dominated by the cubicle?
I am not tall, and I do not walk around much. Even so it is not hard to observe necks craning, backs briefly straining straight that eyes may rove over the near. What are they looking for?
How many? How many days can a person go without one single connection, a single conversation, how many days in a row?(12)
My days? Barring a little surreptitious auto-erotism and homosexuality--absolutely nothing. But don't push your luck. I won't always play my part. For the actress is the female part of me, and as a female I am an idiot, archaic, a slave of instinct who can't exercise her intelligence. As I write, I live. I write as a man. For "The universe has insulted him, and like his prototype, King Lear, he has run all his grief and anger into one pool of hatred."
Coffeeshop citizens with expensive journals a-scribbled, cigarettes hand-rolled and heads headbanded. XY chromosomes to be sure but lives lived as gestures mainly against any positively valued version of western masculinity. Young athletes in the early stages of consumption. Men with taste and opinions, if not always jobs. One could go on. Ross did.
Here is a conversation she would never (get to) have.
"It's not about social conditions. It's about the soul."
"But, you see," he said infinitely gently, "that's the same."


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A couple weeks ago I got a phone call that said, "Can you be at UCI at 2 today to see the Dalai Lama? I have 10th row seats!" I jumped at the chance. Lucky for me, my very well connected friend decided to include me in this VIP group.
I have always wanted to see the Dalai Lama. I have read several of his books, and imagined him to be very "Holy". You know, like birds chirping around his head and insects crawling towards him instead of away — his calm, happy heart, touching those around him.
His speech was on compassion and it was a few days after the US Military Seal Team 6 had hunted down and killed Osama Bin Laden. The very first thing they said when introducing him made me pause. When asked his greatest fear, the Dalai Lama had replied, "I hope I never lose compassion for my captors and those who exiled me, because it is they who need it the most."
Here is a man forced to leave his home, his country, his family, and his concern is for those who kicked him out.
It reminded me of breast cancer; first because everything reminds me of breast cancer, second because a lot of people who get cancer are so angry. When your body is in angry mode, it is not healing. And so to heal, you have to find ways to let go of that passion, hurt and sadness. How do we do this? That is the million dollar question!
My breast cancer didn't make me mad, it made me feel out of control. I thought I took really good care of myself. My dad smoked and got lung cancer (even though he quit 15 years before his diagnosis). At least there was a causal connection. I just lived and worked and had lots of friends and a great family and my body betrayed me. The year before I got breast cancer, my Christmas card said "LUCKY" across the front. I felt lucky. I still do. My cancer was caught twice at an early stage. I am alive 9 years after my first cancer and I feel great and happy and have a young daughter who lights up every day of my life.
So as I contemplated the Dalai Lama's speech, I noticed how Buddhism is actually a practice that seems at first glance to be the opposite of common sense. Pray for those who hurt you, because they need it the most. Imagine the burden of being chosen as the 14th Reincarnation of the Holy One! His whole life was a sacrifice. My favorite thing about seeing him in person is that he was not what I expected. He was a charismatic little imp of a thing, who giggled when he spoke and had a playful mischievous side. He said he liked to gossip. The idea of this Holy Man in red regal robes reading People magazine flashed in my mind. I was reminded of how multifaceted we all are, how pre conceived notions are rarely correct and how it's really true, the people or things who hurt us the most need the most compassion.

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NORTH CONWAY — The Oyster River High School boys basketball team won its sixth straight game in Division II with Friday's 51-36 win at Kennett.
The Bobcats (13-4) were led by Anthony Shea with 14 points, while Nick Lazar added 12 points and Zach Jones had eight.
OR hosts league-leading Pembroke Tuesday.
Farmington 84,
Belmont 75 (2 OT)
FARMINGTON — The Farmington boys basketball team was an 84-75 double-overtime winner over Belmont (8-10) in Division III on Friday.
Shane Hill led the way for the Tigers (7-11) with a career-high 33 points. Juan Valdez added 15 points, Spencer Deland 12 and Tanner Gibbs nine.
Farmington will host a first-round playoff game on Tuesday against a team to be announced.
St. Thomas 58, Milford 50
DOVER — The St. Thomas Aquinas boys basketball team kept its D-II playoff hopes alive with Friday's 58-50 win over Milford.
Guy Kassas led the Saints (4-12) with 16 points, while Alex Shea added 12. The two combined to sink eight 3-pointers.
STA hosts Kingswood Tuesday.
Spaulding 61,
Bishop Guertin 48
ROCHESTER — The Spaulding boys basketball team used a quick start to take down Bishop Guertin in D-I action Friday, 61-48.
The Red Raiders (13-3) jumped out to a 17-8 lead and were up 30-20 at the half.
Dominic Paradis paced three players in double figures with 18 points. Nick MacGregor added 14 points and Alex Gray 10.
Spaulding visits Nashua South Tuesday. BG is 11-5.
Kingswood 44, Coe-Brown 39
NORTHWOOD — The Coe-Brown boys basketball team dropped to 8-8 in Division II with a 44-39 loss to 2-14 Kingswood.
Chris Laurion led the Bears with 16 points and 11 rebounds, while Andrew Langdon added nine points and five assists, and Johnny Schlim had four points and five assists. Josh Jackman had four points.
Andrew Szewczyk led the Knights with 12 points and Zach Smithwood added 11.
Coe-Brown plays at John Stark Monday, while Kingswood is at St. Thomas Tuesday.
Oyster River 48, Kennett 40
DURHAM — The Oyster River girls basketball team ended the D-II regular season on a winning note with Friday's 48-40 win over Kennett (11-7).
The Bobcats were led by Sarah Messler and Claire Salmon with 13 points each, while Jenny Mistretta added 11. Megan Comeau played outstanding defense.
OR (6-12) will play in the D-II tournament Tuesday at No. 2 Portsmouth (15-3), to whom they lost twice during the regular season by a total of five points.
Milford 47, St. Thomas 33
MILFORD — The St. Thomas Aquinas girls basketball team ended the D-II season Friday losing at Milford, 47-33.
Allie Coneys led STA (8-10) with 12 points, Meaghan Flynn added nine and Mariah Desmarais had eight.
STA, which trailed 16-14 at the half, will be on the road in the first round of the D-II playoffs Tuesday.
Coe-Brown 64, Kingswood 51
WOLFEBORO — The Coe-Brown girls basketball team ended the Division II season Friday with a 64-51 win over Kingswood.
The Bears (11-7) were led by Abby Ahern with 25 points and Jenny Schlim with 18.
CBNA will play in the D-II tourney next Tuesday.
Bishop Guertin 82,
Spaulding 45
NASHUA — The Spaulding girls basketball team concluded its Division I season Friday losing at Bishop Guertin, 82-45.
Chloe Routhier led the Red Raiders 94-14) with a career-high 20 points, while Ashley Lemery added eight points and Seana Flynn had six.
Spaulding will not make the playoffs.
Dover 53, Trinity 45
MANCHESTER — The Dover girls basketball team ended the D-I season on a winning note with Friday's 53-45 win at Trinity.
Katie Boyatsis led the Green Wave (7-11) with 19 points. Kaitlin McDermott and Molly St. Germain both played well.
Dover will play on the road in the D-I playoffs next Wednesday, possibly at Winnacunnet.
Bishop Guertin 6,
STA/Dover 2
TYNGSBORO, Mass. — The St. Thomas/Dover girls hockey team ended the regular season Thursday with a 6-2 loss at Bishop Guertin (12-5-1).
Gabbi Dodier scored twice for STA/Dover (9-8-1), which will make the tournament as the sixth and final seed and play next Friday at either Lebanon or Oyster River.
STA/Dover outshot BG 32 to 20. GIRLS BASKETBALL Colebrook 68, Newmarket 64 COLEBROOK - Newmarket High School junior Katrina Holmes knew one key piece of the Colebrook Academy scouting report, and she warned of it days before her team's four-hour bus trip for the Division IV girls basketball quarterfinals. "They have one short, very quick guard," Holmes said, "that will completely destroy a team by herself." Holmes was referring to Colebrook's Josee Brunault, and despite playing well and holding a fourth-quarter lead, the Mules couldn't stop the senior's late-game magic. Brunault scored 15 of her 34 points in the fourth quarter, and No. 3 Colebrook came back from a 46-39 deficit entering the fourth quarter to beat No. 6 Newmarket, 68-64, in Friday's tournament quarterfinal game. Colebrook advanced to play No. 2 Sunapee in the semifinals. Newmarket got 15 points from Holmes, at least nine points from four players and closed its season at 14-6 overall. The Mules finished with three players in double figures. Taylor Linck returned from the sprained ankle that kept her out of Tuesday's first-round game and scored 11 points. Senior center Annaliese Schmidt finished with 10 points and sophomore Tasha Jarosz chipped in with nine. Newmarket built and maintained a slight lead after a 12-12 first quarter. Liz Hamel hit a 3-pointer, senior Jenn Levesque scored a pair of baskets and the Mules won the second quarter, 22-17, to take a 34-29 lead at the half. But Brunault erupted in the fourth quarter after Newmarket, a team that hadn't allowed more than 54 points all year, limited her to just five points in the third. Brunault scored 14 points overall from the free-throw line and Colebrook won the fourth quarter 29-18 to survive and advance. Levesque finished with six points, along with freshman Maddie Teague. Hamel finished with five points and senior Jess Selling scored two points in what was Newmarket's highest-scoring game of the year. Colebrook improved to 17-3, pushed its win streak to 12 games and scored at least 60 points — with Brunault the catalyst — for the 10th time since Jan. 14. -- by Ryan O'Leary, Portsmouth Herald


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Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and Program Advisor of the Florida Studies Program at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where he has taught since 1980.
A specialist in the political, social, and environmental history of the American South, he has also taught at the University of Minnesota, Brandeis University, and at the Universite d'Angers, in France, where he was a Fulbright Lecturer in 1984-85.
From 1980 to 1987, he was the co-director of the Fulbright Commission's Summer Institute on American Studies at the University of Minnesota; he has served as a consultant for numerous museums and public institutions, including the National Park Service, the National Civil Rights Museum, the Rosa Parks Museum, and the United States Information Agency; and he has lectured on American history and culture in a number of countries, including France, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Norway, Turkey, and Jordan.
Arsenault was educated at Princeton University (B.A. 1969) and Brandeis University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. He is the author of two prize-winning books–The Wild Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Bases of Southern Politics (1984, pbk 1988) and St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950 (1988, pbk. 1998), and of "The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture," Journal of Southern History (1984), which won the Southern Historical Association's Green-Ramsdell Prize. An edited volume, Crucible of Liberty: 200 Years of the Bill of Rights, was published during the 1991 Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights. His recent publications include Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Oxford University Press, 2006), Paradise Lost? (2005) an anthology (co-edited with Jack Davis) on the environmental history of Florida, The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968 (2002), co-edited with Roy Peter Clark, and "The Public Storm: Hurricanes and the State in Twentieth-Century America," in Wendy Gamber, et al. eds., American Public Life and the Historical Imagination (2003). He is currently working on Landmarks of American Sports, co-edited with Randall Miller.
Since 1996 he and USF history colleague Gary Mormino have served as the co-editors of the University Press of Florida's highly acclaimed "Florida History and Culture" book series.
An active member of the Florida affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union since the early 1980s, he served two terms as state president (1998-2000) and received the Nelson Poynter Civil Liberties Award in 2003.


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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of sharing the stage at Adobe's Digital Marketing Summit with Prateek Alsi from Time Warner Cable Media. In a fireside chat format (which seemed a bit out of context because it was 70 degrees in Salt Lake City this week!), we explored the state of digital video. As you know from your own media consumption habits (or watching any child with an iPad or smartphone), online video viewing is growing. Most market research shows that over the next 5 years the number of people watching online video could grow as much as 50% and represent up to three quarters of all internet-enabled users. A lot of this increased appetite for digital video is fueled by the proliferation of connected devices – smartphones, tablets, connected TV's and gaming consoles. Connected devices will become as ubiquitous as TV's in the house. So, one may think that broadcasters, operators and programmers feel threatened by this trend. Quite the contrary. Most industry folks that I talk with, including my very knowledgeable fireside co-presenter, or clients that we work with, like Major League Baseball, are embracing the trend and charting strategies to take advantage of the opportunity. Those strategies include one that I am particularly fond of – providing access to and dynamically inserting video ads into content on any connected device.
There is a good reason why they are and should be embracing this trend. Online video viewing will not be at the expense of TV. It's complementary. Total media consumption is growing and will continue to grow as it becomes more efficient and convenient for a viewer to access content where, when and how they desire. Simply said, TV (linear) and digital video viewing is about co-existence, not cannibalization. Given that fact, there are tremendous opportunities for content owners and distributors to better engage and monetize their audiences. And, this is where Adobe is focused.
There are a number of challenges to be addressed in this co-existence strategy, like cross platform measurement, multi-channel ad buying, cross-platform ad experiences, and improving user experience across devices, but we'll leave those topics for another time. Until then, let the cross-channel collaborative thinking begin.


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Lester Pitches The Game Of His life Against Halladay..Red Sox 1 Blue Jays 0
The pivotal moment came in the top of the ninth inning of Tuesday's Red Sox/Blue Jay game at Fenway Park. The score was tied at zero and Scott Rolen stood on second base after smashing a two out double off of reliever supreme Jonathon Papelbon. Vernon Wells, who wanted to hit a drive up the middle so that his team would score the go ahead run, smashed a drive that did just that. The ball was scorched and Paps deflected it with his glove. Dustin Pedroia, who had already broken towards second base, dove and came up with the ball. He got up and threw out Wells, perserving the tie. Wells put it like this, and boy, did he make me laugh! Here you go...
"My goal was to try to hit it up the middle," Wells said. "I saw it (the ball) get by the mound and I saw Superman at second base."
Peter here, and our mini-Superman saved the game with that play, for the Sox scored one run in the bottom of the ninth and won the game 1-0. Congrats go to Pedey for making such a stunning grab and throw, reminicent of the one he made to help perserve last year's Buchholz no hitter.
Both Lester and Halladay were out-of-this-world great, and each recorded 15 groundouts, 6 strikeouts and 2 infield popups. Lester only surrendered one hit during his eight inning outing, surely the best of his young career. The fact that the Red Sox bats remained silent for the third day in a row was overshadowed by the third straight phenomenal starting pitcher's performance. The Sox only collected five hits, but those bats will NOT remain silent for long - we all know that.
There's another game at the Fens tonight, and Daisuke Matsuzaka, who has had plenty of rest, hopefully not TOO much, will try to keep the starting pitcher's dominating streak alive. I'm sure you'd like to read more about last night's gem, so when you click on the title of this post, you'll be transported to the Boston Globe's Red Sox homepage. From there you can spend all the time in the world reading about the first Red Sox win in the last week. HOW SWEET IT IS, in the words of "the great one." Thank you, my Constant Readers (thanks SK), for stopping in once again and for keeping the faith. It means so much to me. And as always, BE WELL. GO SOX! Forever.


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British Columbia Ferries Launches Bike Rack Competition
Courtesy John Luton
BC Ferries is opening a design competition to equip their fleet with new racks to provide safe and efficient storage of bicycles for cyclists traveling between coastal communities it was announced today. The competition will be continue into July and is open to interested designers.
Partnering with Victoria's Capital Bike and Walk Society, Ferries will unveil winning designs at the Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference, to be held at the Victoria Conference Centre (September 7 - 10). The conference is organized by the National Center for Bicycling and Walking in Washington, DC.
Holiday packages provided by Ferries and bceh.com, a BC base tour packager will be awarded for racks designed for major vessels and the smaller ships serving the Gulf Islands. Second place winners in the two classes will also win one of two bikes courtesy of Norco Performance Bicycles, BC's leading manufacturer and distributor of bicycles for over 30 years.
80,000 bikes boarded BC Ferries in 2003 and traffic is increasing. Growing interest in recreational and fitness cycling, and the attractions of destination mountain biking and Island hopping road tours is attracting more cyclists to coastal British Columbia.
CBWS Executive Director John Luton and project coordinator Nitya Harris expressed excitement about the project.
"Cyclists want their bikes and gear to be secure on board", said Luton. "They also want an a system that gets them on and off the boat quickly and conveniently."
Ferries sees the competition as a means of welcoming cyclists on-board and signaling that they care about their customers needs. Larger groups often cause logistical problems, especially on smaller runs with multiple stops.
The partnership is also expected to generate new concepts for "bike and boat" sail pass packages that will attract cyclists with discounts for Island hopping tours. Luton also looks forward to promoting better designs and signage through terminals to help visiting cyclists find their way to nearby cycling routes and facilities.
As many as 700 delegates are expected to attend the Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference including engineers, planners, community leaders and from the health care community. Award winning designs will be introduced at a conference plenary. The many professionals in attendance will have an opportunity to comment on proposals. The profile will also signal to visiting delegates that the welcome mat for cyclists has been rolled out across coastal British Columbia.
For more information on the competition, visit www.bcferries.com
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Where Booze Is Concerned, Americans Choose Beer Over Wine & Liquor
When faced with a chilled chardonnay, a dry martini or a frosty mug of ale, all Americans who drink have a choice that we are fond of making. A new report from venerable pollsters Gallup found that a majority of us drink alcohol in some form — 66% of Americans, to be exact — but there can be only one boozy winner, and it's beer.
Gallup's results say 39% of American drinkers like beer the best, 35% lean in the wine direction and less than a quarter are all about liquor.
And don't feel bad if these results immediately conjure up a stereotypical scene or two — bros bonding over bouts of beer pong or women gabbing about some housewife show over glasses of wine — the majority of men prefer beer, as do the majority of drinkers under 54 and from the Midwest. Wine reigns supreme on the East Coast, among women and those over age 54.
That 66% of U.S. citizens who drink is up from 64% last year, and as the Los Angeles Times so amusingly puts it, "men tend to be the biggest floozies," drinking about six beverages a week, compared to about two for women.
If you're planning on making a pilgrimage to the country's biggest drinking towns, the LAT notes a separate study that found New Orleans has 8.6 bars for every 10,000 households, followed by Milwaukee and Omaha.
Beer beats out wine as Americans' booze of choice [Los Angeles Times]
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It's not all about your peachy pinks, your pink beige, milky beige, cherry reds and juicy oranges. Glosses come in all kinds of colours!
I had a rummage though my lipgloss draw and found 5 of my most unusual colours. I nicked the style of lip photo from Karen at Make Up & Beauty Blog, it looks good and it means I don't need to take a separate product and lip swatch image.
1. Lancome Phia Black, reviewed here.
Limited Edition, but still on sale on a lot of counters.
I love this gloss! I am not much of a dark lip colour wearer, but its nice worn sheer and on top of pale or dark colours. The sparkle on it is a nice silvery glitter – its much nicer than YSL's attempt which was a muddy, sparkle-less black.
2. Dior Wildest Green, reviewed here.
Limited Edition, look on eBay.
I was talking about wildest green a few weeks ago and people loved it! I have a few blue glosses too but I find them very sheer – this gloss has enough pigment to push through the green sparkles, whilst turning the lips caramel (green gloss + pigmented lips / neutralising effect = caramel lips!)
3. Dior Sparkle Lip Gloss, reviewed here.
Limited Edition, look on eBay.
This is the SPARKLIEST lipgloss I own. Its clear with super duper disco type chunky glitter. On one hand, its annoying because the grains are big and are annoying once the glossy part dries off. But it is SUPER funkay.
4. Illamasqua purple lip gloss, reviewed here.
This can be worn quite sheer, so it doesn't have to be as obvious as in the pick above. It's quite an 80s purple, it would work with a lilac eye…it's nice.
5. Anna Sui Yellow Lipgloss, reviewed here.
A limited edition. Try Ichibankao, eBay or Strawberrynet.
I took this photo later hence it looks slightly odd. The Anna Sui gloss is yellow with chunky multi coloured glitter. Once on its very sheer – you can barely see the yellow although the glitter stands out. A really easy to wear kind of summer shade.
How about you? Do you have any weird lip colours you like or wear?


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THE EDITORS' BOOKSHELF The Rise of the Accounting Profession: From Technician to Professional 1896- 1936, by John L. Carey. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 1969, 387 pages, $7.50. The first volume of this history, written by the former Administrative Vice President of the American Institute of CPAs, deserves comment in HirS Reports even before the appearance of the second volume, scheduled for 1970. While we await the balance, it is already apparent that Mr. Carey has capped his forty years of service to accountancy with yet another major contribution. This book makes clear that the vast cargo of information about the profession that he accumulated and carried with him all those years was an important factor in his capable leadership. It is cargo worthy of the intellect that won a Phi Beta Kappa key at Yale in 1925. The title might seem a bit broad in view of the book's preoccupation with professional organizations. The author acknowledges that it is "written from the viewpoint of the Institute," the organization that has absorbed his manifold talents throughout his working life. Yet this focus is entirely appropriate. Since accounting is a very social science and accountancy a most social profession, its history, more than the history of any other profession, concerns the story of its organization into societies and particularly the American Institute. 25 Hence anyone pursuing a satisfying career as a public accountant ought to know the background of the organized profession. He will not likely ever find a more informed and readable account; certainly now it stands alone among the handful available. A copy is in the library of every H&S office. One will find there the germinating forces that make the practice of public accounting what it is today. Mr. Carey is particularly interesting and authoritative on the history of professional ethics, licensing, legislation and the early development of the CPA examination before it became the uniform national test we know today. Of special significance in the light of the still unfolding relationship between the profession and the federal government is the chapter on the Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934, which established the government's legal right to set accounting principles. It includes some of the fascinating testimony of Colonel (later General) Arthur H. Carter, then managing partner of Haskins & Sells, before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. Colonel Carter was a West Point graduate of military bearing and imposing character. As president of the New York State Society of CPAs, he was facing a skeptical committee of equally powerful individuals, and he was not disposed to waste words on them. Consider the following pithy exchange: SENATOR BARKLEY. Do you not think it is more in the interest of the public that is to buy these securities, if there is to be any checkup or any guarantee as to the correctness, that it be done by some government agency rather than by some private association of accountants? MR. CARTER. . . . I think the public accountant is better equipped to do that than the average government agency would be able to do that. . . . SENATOR BARKLEY. Is there any relationship between your organization with 2,000 members and the organization of controllers, represented here yesterday with 2,000 members? MR. CARTER. None at all. We audit the controllers. SENATOR BARKLEY. You audit the controllers? MR. CARTER. Yes; the public accountant audits the controller's account. SENATOR BARKLEY. Who audits you? MR. CARTER. Our conscience. Mr. Carey traces the early sparring between government and accountants for authority over accounting principles. In showing how, by setting its house in order, the profession retained responsibility, the author helps to justify his purpose of relating "the development of the profession to the changing environment." But this is essentially an insider's story of the profession for the profession. Mr. Carey, though not an accountant himself, has long been one of accounting's leading protagonists, a committed member of the fraternity and the only non-accountant to receive the CPA Gold Medal and be admitted to the Accounting Hall of Fame. His sources, including much unpublished material from the Institute's files, are essentially confined to the profession's literature. The one exception in the one-page list of fifteen references is Samuel Eliot Morison's "The Oxford History of the American People." So we must still await a book that will do what desperately needs to be done, tell the story of the rise of the profession to the world outside. The accountants are still talking mostly to each other. The Institute persists in publishing its own books largely for the assured market of its own membership. This one is marred by the overuse of grotesque headings that give indiscriminate emphasis. And readers will have a hard time finding their way to what they are looking for, as the history has no index. It is to be hoped that Volume II will correct that inadequacy. —Charles P Rockwood Mr. Rockwood, director of public relations for H&S, was director of public relations for the AICPA from 1956 to 1962.
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The weird politics of "benefit corporations"
A recent Denver Business Journal article explained that a "benefit-corporations bill" had passed the Colorado House on a "party-line vote."
Benefit corporations? It's just a fancy term for a new category of socially conscious (and I use that term advisedly) businesses known as benefit corporations, which are committed to making a profit while promoting some beneficial cause. The legislative fiscal note explains that "specific public benefits may include improving human health, preserving the environment, or providing low-income individuals with beneficial products or services, among others."
Now, you might argue, and I would agree, that almost every law-abiding for-profit company provides a public benefit, whether it is dedicated to causes dear to the hearts of Democratic politicians or not. And that's how Republican lawmakers apparently feel, too, as every one of them ended up voting against the measure in the House. Some of them also argued that corporations can already support various good causes through community activities and contributions, as of course they do.
But here's my problem with the Republican vote: So far as I can tell from reading House Bill 1138, all it does is immunize a new class of corporations from shareholder lawsuits for pursuing a pet cause — and then only if two-thirds of shareholders sign off on this activity.
Looked at that way, HB 1138 is a form of tort reform! Maybe Republicans should get on board.


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ESA reentry vehicle on track for flight in 2013
ESA and Thales Alenia Space Italia announced an agreement today at the Paris Air & Space Show to begin building the IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle for its mission into space in 2013.
Europe's ambition for a spacecraft to return autonomously from low orbit is a cornerstone for a wide range of space applications, including space transportation, exploration and robotic servicing of space infrastructure.
This goal will be achieved with IXV, which is the next step from the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator flight of 1998. More manoeuvrable and able to make precise landings, IXV is the 'intermediate' element of Europe's path to future developments with limited risks.
Launched into a suborbital trajectory on ESA's small Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, IXV will return to Earth as if from a low-orbit mission, to test and qualify new European critical reentry technologies such as advanced ceramic and ablative thermal protection.
The 2 t lifting body will attain an altitude of around 450 km, allowing it to reach a velocity of 7.5 km/s on entering the atmosphere. It will collect a large amount of data during its hypersonic and supersonic flight, while it is being controlled by thrusters and aerodynamic flaps.
The craft will then descend by parachute and land in the Pacific Ocean to await recovery and analysis.
The detailed design and critical technologies are ready. Today's agreement allows the vehicle's manufacturing, assembly, integration and qualification to begin.
Procurement of the ground network will also begin, including the mission control centre, ground station telemetry kits, transportable antennas and communication network.
Formal approval for signing the contract will come at the end of June from ESA's Industrial Policy Committee.
"Less than two years after the Agency requested industry to quote the activities for IXV, the progress made is remarkable. The achievement of major milestones, such as the Critical Design Review, gives us the confidence to believe that the vehicle will be ready in two years," says Antonio Fabrizi, ESA Director of Launchers.
"Today's agreement confirms that ESA and industry are committed to keep up with the challenging schedule and be ready for flight in 2013."
"Thanks to this agreement, the IXV mission into space has become a near-term reality. Its success will provide Europe with valuable know-how on reentry systems and flight-proven technologies that are necessary to support the Agency's future ambitions, including return missions from low Earth orbit," says Giorgio Tumino, IXV Project Manager.
"In the long term, studies on the evolution of IXV will be consolidated and proposed to Member States, focusing on an affordable reusable craft for operating and servicing payloads in orbit before returning to touch down on land."


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Sensual. Clever. Functional. These are the elements that define the work of designer Philippe Starck. In 1984, Starck joined forces with Gerard Mialet to form xO, a "joyful, fun, and provocative" line of chairs, stools, tables, and accessories, which are now available through Gibraltar Furniture.
Inspired by his father who worked as an aircraft designer, Starck spent his childhood under his father's drawing boards, sawing, cutting, gluing, and sanding, dismantling bikes, motorcycles and other objects. After attending the Ecole Nissim de Camondo in Paris, he went on to create pieces for Paris night clubs, the Elysée Palace, and numerous hotel interiors all over the world. Today, Philippe Starck may be the most famous and prolific designer alive. His desire for transgression and challenge of aesthetic and cultural provocation leads him to transform our lamps, door handles, cutlery, kettles, vases, clocks, scooters, motorcycles, desks, beds, taps, toothbrushes, baths, toilets… in short, our whole life.
With his line xO, Starck seeks to surprise and melt contraries: to issue popular products designed by the greatest designers of the world, to use plastic to manufacture luxurious pieces of furniture, to be the one international design house in France to work hand-in-hand with Asia and the USA. Many xO items are pieces that Starck designed for specific locations including the Royalton stool, which was created for the New York hotel of the same name as well as the Peninsula chair, featured in the Felix restaurant at The Peninsula Hong Kong hotel. xO also features original pieces designed by Karim Rashid, Patrick Jouin, Christian Ghion, and Eugeni Quitllet. These new pieces, including the Bite Me chair and the Z Stool by Rashid, are clever, versatile, and distinctively xO.
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Oink, Oink, that is the sound this animal makes, and I think you all know what I'm talking about. Today I am going to teach you guys "how to draw a pig", step by step. Even though I think pigs are one of the ugliest animals around, I still have sympathy and respect for them. The potbelly pig is quite larger than the average farm pig, so larger that and adult can reach the same size as a medium sized dog. The only difference is, they have a dense body structure which makes them capable of weighing as high as 300 pounds. There are little differences that this breed has over other pigs other then their size, the ears are pointed up and they have a straight tail opposed to a short curly tail. Now an interesting fact about the potbelly pig is that, they are the same species as a farm pig and a wild boar, so that means they can totally be crossbred with either or of the two. Although pigs look dumb, they are actually quite smart which makes owning one quite challenging. Actor George Clooney owned a potbelly pig named Max, but unfortunately he died in 2006. When you own one of these animals, you definitely have to proof up your house as you would for a baby or toddler. They learn to get into anything and everything, so if you're considering to own one of these pigs make sure you know what you're getting yourself into. Males are not neutered are labeled as boars, the sterile ones are called barrows, and the females are always called gilts. This is a fun tutorial that will show you "how to draw a pig". All you need is patience, a sheet of paper, and a pencil to start you on your way. The instructions are simple to follow so learning the technique to draw a pig will be a breeze. I will see you later with another fascinating online tutorial.
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Metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) are devices that people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (chronic bronchitis and emphysema) use to deliver medicine to their lungs. The medication is delivered by a propellant in the MDI. Originally, the propellants were one or more gases called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
CFCs have been replaced in asthma medications, initially with HFA, an environmentally-friendly propellant, or with new delivery systems that do not need a propellant at all. Most inhalers will either be marked with the letters HFA, or will state that they contain no CFCs. Your doctor may need to specify HFA on the prescription to get the appropriate MDI.
Although CFCs in medicines are safe for patients to inhale, CFCs are harmful to the environment. Scientists have found that when CFCs get into the upper regions of the earth's atmosphere, they reduce the amount of ozone that surrounds the earth. The ozone layer acts as a shield to protect the earth against the sun's harmful rays. With less ozone, too many of these harmful rays reach the earth and can increase the risk of potentially serious health problems, such as skin cancer and cataracts, as well as other health and environmental problems.
To lower the risk of health and environmental problems caused by ozone depletion and to help restore the ozone layer, most countries have agreed to stop using CFCs. The agreement was made in 1987 and is known as the Montreal Protocol.
CFCs were used in many types of products (such as air conditioners and refrigerators), not just MDIs. In response to the Montreal Protocol, the manufacture of CFCs for these purposes has already been stopped. CFC MDIs were given a special exemption because they are so important for treating asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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The Piano Man and the Rocket Man will not reprise their Wrigley Field performances this year.
Sir Elton John said Friday that the summer leg of his tour with Billy Joel has been cancelled.
"Billy just wants to take a year off, and I'm so disappointed because when we came to Wrigley Field last year -- I'm a huge baseball fan, I saw my first baseball game at Wrigley Field and it was like playing in the church of baseball -- I was so delighted to be there, and we had such a wonderful two days," John told NBC Chicago. "I'm absolutely gutted because I'm so looking forward to coming back to play there."
The announcement came during a satellite interview for NBC Chicago's "The Talk" program. John was invited on to discuss his involvement in the Broadway musical "Billy Elliot," which is coming to Chicago next month. John composed the music in the production.
John said he will be in Chicago "with bells on" when Billy Elliot hits the Ford Center/Oriental Theatre beginning March 18.
Last year, John and Joel paired up for two shows at the Friendly Confines as part of their Face 2 Face tour. They played twin pianos and traded vocals, with each artist performing a set with his own band.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Harvard men's hockey team is heading back to the ECAC Hockey Championship semifinals. The Crimson rolled over rival Yale, 8-2, Sunday night at Bright Hockey Center to complete its series comeback and book a date with second-seeded Cornell Friday in Atlantic City, N.J.
David Valek registered his first career hat trick to lead third-seeded Harvard (12-9-11), while Alex Killorn and Marshall Everson notched four points each and Raphael Girard logged 39 saves. The Crimson poured in four second-period goals and added three in the third to reach the semis for the first time since 2008 but the eighth time in the last 12 years. Top-seeded Union and No. 4 seed Colgate will meet in the other league semifinal. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com.
Alex Fallstrom and Daniel Moriarty, two of 11 Crimson skaters to earn a point, added a goal and an assist each. Tommy O'Regan had two helpers, as Harvard followed up Saturday's 4-3, double-overtime victory with a less dramatic win. Yale (16-16-3) saw its season come to an end despite winning Friday's series opener, 2-1 in overtime.
Each team put 41 shots on net, and Girard narrowly missed his third straight 40-save game. He helped Harvard kill three of four Yale power plays to finish the series 17 for 18 on penalty kills. The Crimson scored twice in its five advantages.
After each team scored once in the first period, Harvard took control as soon as the puck dropped to start the second. Killorn won the opening faceoff, and 35 seconds later, the Crimson had a 2-1 lead on Fallstrom's wraparound. Yale stayed within a goal until the game's midway point, when O'Regan outworked a Bulldog for the puck in the corner of the offensive zone. His centering pass deflected off Conor Morrison to Valek, who deposited his first goal in the top corner.
Killorn added his second goal of the game—the 50th of his career—at the 12:26 mark, and Harvard did not look back. Everson banged in a Killorn rebound in the final three minutes of the period to give the Crimson a 5-1 lead after two periods. Dan Ford made a key defensive play in the period, clearing a loose puck off the goal line while Harvard led by just a goal.
Valek ignited the Crimson offense again in the third. Before the period was two minutes old, he collected the rebound of a Patrick McNally shot and banked it off the back of Jeff Malcolm, the second of three Yale goaltenders. Malcolm finished with three saves, after starter Nick Maricic made 28 and before Connor Wilson logged two.
The Bulldogs finally got their first power-play goal of the series, from Antoine Laganiere, more than four minutes into a five-minute power play. They could get no closer before both Moriarty and Valek banged in power-play goals for Harvard in the final five minutes.
Colin Moore assisted on the final goal. He was one of four Harvard seniors to register a point in the class's final game at Bright. Ryan Grimshaw blocked five shots and assisted on Killorn's second goal. Killorn fired seven shots on goal and won 11 faceoffs.
The first period was filled with end-to-end action as the teams totaled 30 shots, including 17 by Harvard to tie its season high. For the third straight game, it was Yale scoring first, on Chad Ziegler's backhand from the left side. And for the third straight game, the Crimson answered. After Everson kept the puck in at the left point, Killorn grabbed it, skated to the slot and slipped a backhand shot between the legs of Maricic.


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Reports of voting glitches subside in Guilford County
The uproar about glitches with touch-screen voting machines in Guilford County appears to have subsided as early voting enters its stretch run this week.
When early voting, known formally as one-stop absentee voting, began nearly two weeks ago, a handful of people reported that their selections of candidates weren't being properly recorded by the display screen of electronic voting machines. The glitches spawned a flurry of local media coverage and phone calls to officials with the Guilford County Board of Elections.
County Elections Director George Gilbert said the reports and calls about issues with touch-screen voting machines have tapered off, especially in the past week. The Board of Elections has received about two dozen reports from voters about problems with the voting machines, a fraction of the more than 100,000 people who had voted early through Monday evening.
"Some people who had a problem, it was handled at the precinct. They moved to another voting machine and went on," Gilbert told The High Point Enterprise as the Board of Elections met Tuesday afternoon at the old Guilford County Courthouse in downtown Greensboro.
The Board of Elections has received reports in previous election years about glitches with touch-screen voting machines. Gilbert previously told The High Point Enterprise that the issue relates to the calibration between the touch screen layered on top of the display screen. When a voting machine is out of calibration, it can affect how the display screen records someone's selections of candidates. When a voter reports an issue, the voting machine is taken off line while it's recalibrated and tested before going back into service.
Davidson County Board of Elections Director Ruth Huneycutt said Tuesday she received two initial complaints earlier this month about touch-screen voting machines, but no reports since then. The Randolph County Board of Elections doesn't use touch-screen voting machines.
In Guilford County, the total number of early votes is 25,000 ahead of the pace at the same time four years ago, which was a record year for one-stop absentee balloting in the county and state.
Early voting continues through Saturday at five High Point area locations: Oak Hollow Mall, Jamestown Town Hall, Washington Terrace Park, the Roy B. Culler Jr. Senior Center and Deep River Recreation Center. Hours for early voting at the five locations are 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. today through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Election Day itself is this coming Tuesday.


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C. National Center For Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations. It fulfills a Congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze and report full and complete statistics on the condition of education in the United States; conduct and publish reports and specialized analyses of the meaning and significance of such statistics; assist State and local education agencies in improving their statistical systems; and review and report on education activities in foreign countries.The Center's activities are designed to:
- address high priority education data needs;
- provide consistent, reliable, complete and accurate indicators of education status and trends; and,
- report timely, useful and high quality data to the Department, the Congress and other education policy makers and data users.
NCES is directed by a Commissioner, appointed by the President and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Commissioner reports to the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement.
The Center includes the Office of the Commissioner and four Divisions: Early Childhood, International and Crosscutting Studies Division, Assessment Division, Elementary/Secondary and Libraries Studies Division, and Postsecondary Studies Division
There are also two legislatively mandated entities that contribute to the mission of the NCES. The Advisory Council on Education Statistics (ACES), reviews general operating policies and advises the Commissioner on standards to ensure that statistics and other information disseminated by the Center are of high quality and are not subject to partisan political influence. The other group, the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), develops policy guidelines for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).Office of the Commissioner
The Commissioner sets NCES policy and goals. In addition, the Commissioner is responsible for overseeing the operation of the Center and ensuring that statistical quality and confidentiality are maintained.
In performing its responsibilities, the Immediate Office of the Commissioner ensures that the operations of the Center are consistent with OERI, Department, and federal standards, policies, and procedures, and that they are carried out in an effective and efficient manner, and are customer-oriented.Office of the Deputy Commissioner
The Deputy Commissioner assists the Commissioner in the overall management and supervision of the work of NCES. The Deputy Commissioner is also the NCES liaison to the Federal statistical community.
The Office of the Deputy Commissioner also includes two programs: statistical standards and technology.
The statistical standards program has Center-wide responsibilities for maintaining high standards of statistical sophistication and quality for NCES> The program is directly responsible for implementing confidentiality procedures, conducting the adjudications and publications reviews, and maintaining the Task Force on Quality Systems.
The technology program has Center-wide responsibility for providing hardware and software, web site development and maintenance, workstation support, and technology planning.Early Childhood, International, and Crosscutting Studies Division
The Early Childhood, International, and Crosscutting Studies Division (ECICSD) has Center-wide responsibility for identifying data needs across the Center as well as for improving analyses, distribution, and use of products. ECICSD also has responsibility within the Center for the broad subject areas of international activities, early childhood education, vocational education, and school crime and safety. It is also responsible for conducting studies and producing reports that cut across all levels of education, from early childhood to life-long learning, and relations with key interagency groups.
Assessment Division
The Assessment Division (AD) conceives, designs, develops, implements and reports on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) at the national and state levels and conducts a variety of related education assessment studies such as student transcripts and adult literacy. The Division gathers, analyzes, and synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data on American education and related policy and background factors. It provides normative, descriptive, trend, growth, and comparative policy-relevant data concerning achievement, education context, process, and other outcomes.
AD develops and applies state-of-the-art psychometric procedures in operationalizing comprehensive content frameworks and extensive item specifications. It utilizes standardized terminology, data definitions in such areas to ensure the compatibility of collected data and derived measures. This Division is responsible for the coordination and linking of assessments and related data collection activities across NCES surveys (e.g., international assessments) and related surveys outside the Center, including State assessments. The Division conducts in-depth statistical analyses of these selected data bases from both sources. The Division ensures the presentation of fair comparisons of student achievement and other measures. The Division is responsible for the production of focused reports on assessment-related statistical surveys, validity studies, and secondary analyses.
AD translates data needs into an integrated, long-range program of assessment surveys and studies. The Division collects, analyzes and reports data on educational outcomes at the elementary/secondary levels, and for the adult population; and applies and advances the state-of-the-art knowledge of mathematical statistics, survey design, item construction, assessment administration procedures, psychometrics, analysis techniques, and systems analysis in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of assessments and other surveys.Elementary/Secondary and Libraries Studies Division
The Elementary/Secondary and Libraries Studies Division oversees planning, design, operations, statistical analysis, reporting and dissemination for elementary, secondary and library surveys; ensures that statistical quality and confidentiality are maintained; maintains liaison with Departmental officials, Federal agencies, State and local educational agencies, State library agencies, public and private schools, statistical, education and library associations, and other individuals and groups concerned with national elementary, secondary and library statistics.
The Division serves as the primary federal data source for elementary and secondary education and for libraries in the United States. The Division collects statistics on public and private elementary and secondary schools, students, teachers, administrators, school finances and school districts in the United States. It also collects data on public, state, and academic libraries, educational attainment, student retentions, transitions, achievement, performance, placement and other outcomes to illuminate current and emerging policy issues of interest to assist Federal, State, and local educators. Finally, ESLSD is responsible for analyzing transcript data for longitudinal studies, as well as planning and disseminating information from the decennial School District Mapping Project.
The Division is responsible for the development and implementation of the Congressionally- mandated National Cooperative Education Statistics System in the areas of elementary, secondary, and library education. ESLSD is responsible for the development and implementation of standardized terminology and data definitions in the elementary, secondary, and library areas to ensure the compatibility of data to be collected and a technical assistance program that includes the promulgation of standards, training, support of electric data collection, and dissemination. It is also responsible for maintaining an on-going longitudinal study and analysis of elementary and secondary education students.Postsecondary Statistics Division
The Postsecondary Statistics Division (PSD) oversees planning, design, operations, statistical analysis, reporting and dissemination for postsecondary surveys; ensures that statistical quality and confidentiality are maintained; maintains liaison with Departmental officials, Federal agencies, State higher education agencies, postsecondary institutions, and postsecondary associations.
The Division serves as the primary federal data source for postsecondary education in the United States and collects statistics on enrollments, faculty and staff, completion and attainment, and finances on postsecondary institutions. In addition, PSD collects statistics on student financial aid, persistence, progress, and degree attainment by postsecondary students. Finally, PSD collects statistics on labor market outcomes for postsecondary students and graduates.
The Division is also responsible for the development and implementation of the Congressionally- mandated National Cooperative Education Statistics System in the area of postsecondary education. The PSD is responsible for the development and implementation of a technical assistance program that includes the promulgation of standards, training, support of electronic data collection, and dissemination.
Order of Succession
In the event that theCommissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics dies, resigns or is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office and the office is thereby deemed to be vacant, and the Secretary has not designated in writing another individual to act as the Commissioner, the following officials, in the order shown, shall perform the functions and duties of the office in an acting capacity.
In instances where the office of the Commissioner is filled, but the head of the National Center for Education Statistics is absent, unavailable, otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the position, and/or there is a disruption in the normal channels of direction and communication, and unless the head of the National Center for Education Statistics or the Secretary, in writing, designates another individual to act as the Commissioner, the following officials, in the order shown, shall serve in an acting capacity as the Acting Commissioner for Education Statistics:
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