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Alabama Football: Tide Overcomes Adversity vs. LSU with 'Pluck and Grit'November 5, 2012
As it is written in the school's fight song, "For 'Bama's pluck and grit have writ her name in Crimson flame!"
Somehow, some way, they pulled it off. Facing the most difficult and intimidating of challenges, Alabama rallied in the final minute-and-a-half to defeat the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge 21-17 Saturday night. They did it with a heavy dose of that old pluck and grit.
The Tide played quite poorly at times. Assignments were missed. They looked confused, beaten, tired, worn down and surprised at the intensity and determination that LSU brought to the battle.
Sure, there were some players who performed poorly and probably deserve appropriately poor reviews. There were key players who had never been thrown into a ring of fire like this before. Eyeballs were bulging. Pressure was mounting. Confidence was at times shattered. Heart was in question.
When the game was on the line, though, the boys played like men. The scared and scarred played like champions. Just when it appeared that conference and national titles were destined to wait for another year and when the invincible became human, the Tide rose.
In light of this amazing and improbable turn of events late Saturday night, I find myself remembering the words of "Yea Alabama". I find myself realizing now more than ever what those beautiful words mean.
LSU came into this game with something to prove. It had been dismissed and forgotten as a national power.
Quarterback Zach Mettenberger had proved himself to be inefficient and incapable of greatness. The defense had played far below the level it did in 2011. For crying out loud, they barely beat Auburn.
But when the lights were turned on and the cameras were rolling, LSU played like champions as well. LSU fought. LSU commanded and earned its respect. LSU beat Alabama up and down the field with ferocity and consistency for the vast majority of the game.
Up 14-3 at halftime, most of the Alabama family felt quite comfortable. They felt unbeatable. They were relaxed and at peace.
When LSU went up 17-14 early in the fourth quarter, everything changed. For the first time since last November, Alabama was on the ropes.
Nothing Nick Saban tried was working. The offense could not move the ball, and the AJ McCarron we had become accustomed to watching every Saturday was absent. The blitzes dialed up by Kirby Smart were ineffective and getting blown up at every turn. Alabama was simply getting outplayed.
With under three minutes to play, LSU was one more first down away from putting the game on ice and Alabama's dreams on layaway. After a pair of tackles by Damion Square and another by Jesse Williams, the Tigers faced a fourth down and a 45-yard field goal. They missed it.
There was hope.
After going just 1-7 for negative one yard in the entire second half, McCarron saw the hope as well. He connected three times with Kevin Norwood, and suddenly Alabama was at the LSU 28. The rest, as they say, is history.
On a night when the breaks were beating the boys, the Alabama Crimson Tide refused to lose. They refused to quit.
There were some very good individual performances from the Tide.
The offensive line had its best game of the season, punching huge holes in the LSU front line and allowing Eddie Lacy and T.J. Yeldon to gash the Tigers for almost 160 yards with an average of more than seven yards per carry. The inefficiency of the passing game was largely due to incredible coverage provided by the LSU secondary.
Although he struggled for most of the night, McCarron provided the confident leadership when it was most needed.
Norwood caught five passes for 62 yards, three of them on the final drive. Christion Jones had four catches for 40 yards on the night. Yeldon danced through the defense en route to the promised land on his only catch of the game.
The defensive line of Williams, Square and Quinton Dial combined for 18 tackles, three for loss, and a sack.
Nico Johnson had by far his best game of the season with 12 tackles. Adrian Hubbard and Trey DePriest appeared to be in on every play as well, combining for 22 more tackles.
Deion Belue was picked on all night, but managed to hold his own for the most part. Dee Milliner recorded eight tackles of his own, two for loss.
On the most difficult of nights, Alabama stuck with each other. It played as a team. It did not quit. When push came to shove and the Tide had their backs against the wall, they came through like the champions they are.
After the final whistle, emotions were high and tears were freely flowing. They knew. They knew they were champions. They knew that they had earned this victory.
For this, I give the entire team, everyone in the crimson jersey, an "A" for their efforts Saturday night. I give them the crimson-script A that stands for Alabama. It is the "A" that represents champions. It is the "A" that represents winners. It is the "A" that never quits.
Roll Tide.


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My PhD in Organic Chemistry (from the University in Heidelberg, Germany) gave me a solid foundation for my career in conservation science. During my time at the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the leading organization for applied research in Germany, my interests focused on glass and ceramics conservation in general and on conservation material testing and development in particular. National and European Commission-funded international research projects encouraged me to work across disciplines and made me climb the scaffoldings on Gothic Cathedrals all over Europe. I am particularly interested in the alteration of material with time in various environments, which includes outdoor weathering and degradation of objects in the soil, as well as studies on the impact of indoor climate.
Over the past years, I have broadened my interest in the museum environment after introducing "Preventive Conservation" as a stand-alone course in the newly restructured curriculum at the Center. Together with my co-instructor Steve Weintraub I am working with the students on term projects ranging from show case refurbishment to museum lighting, evaluating the building envelope and special enclosures. As a chemist I am interested in color and art on a molecular level, but also in issues related to our visual perception and the visitor experience in relation to museum lighting.
I am still deeply committed to my glass and ceramics community, serving as coordinator of the Working Group "Glass and Ceramics" within the International Council of Museums – Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC). In this role I am currently organizing the conference "Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation - ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group Interim Meeting" 25-29 May 2016, in Wrocław, Poland. I will be the editor of the conference publication, following my editorial work for the proceedings from the conferences in Amsterdam (2013) and Corning (2010).
While still being a firm believer in laboratory experiments, I always challenge myself with reality checks in the outside world, for example at archaeological excavations and in cathedral workshops. Most recently I worked with one of my former students, Eman Zidan, on monitoring the environment in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, leading to a publication in the American research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Bulletin (206/2015). The last three summers I have spent time in a Rococo Castle near Salzburg, Austria, assessing the condition of an amazing collection together with NYU students and a group from our project partner, the Winterthur / University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. Results from this research will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC) in May 2016.
In my role as Chairman of the Conservation Center I am dedicated to facilitate the highest level of teaching for our students and to explore new areas of interest in the ever changing field of conservation. During the next two years we will establish a new specialization in time-based media (TBM) art conservation as part of our MA/MS dual degree at the IFA, which will be the first of its kind in the United States. This program will require students – and faculty – to cross the disciplinary boundaries of computer science, material science, media technology, engineering, art history, and conservation.

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The Amazing Stories, Art, and History Found in 'Star Wars and the Power of Costume'
Go inside the saga-spanning exhibit, arriving November 13 at the Denver Art Museum.
Go inside the saga-spanning exhibit, arriving November 13 at the Denver Art Museum.
Check out all the new books and covers unveiled at NYCC!
Star Wars creators and cosplayers brought the galaxy far, far away to Georgia last week.
The Force surrounded the Salt Palace Convention Center in Utah last weekend!
At this year's LFCC, the Force flowed with Star Wars legends, merch, and more.
The Mythbuster himself joins the First Order, courtesy of ANOVOS.
From cosplay to new book and toy reveals, the Force was everywhere at Comic-Con.
Never mind a lightsaber. Here's what you'll need for the galaxy's biggest fan event.
Whether taking your younglings to Celebration or Comic-Con, here's what you need to know.
Special releases from Hasbro's Black Series, Funko's Pop! line, and much more await you!
The power of the Force came to LEGOLAND, and everything was awesome.
In a special event at Gnomon Gallery, the artists reveal how they brought ships, characters, and moments to life in the latest Star Wars film.
Lucasfilm's David "Nak" Nakabayashi and Doug Chiang discuss their new concept art competition.
Ready to complete your training? Here's how to prepare for next week's dark-side powered run at Walt Disney World Resort.
Take the coolest Star Wars journey since Lando flew into the Death Star!
See photos from the special launch event, including the breathtaking outfits and the Star Wars: The Force Awakens stars in attendance!
The fourth annual event featured amazing auctions and a gathering of friends and fans.
Jedi, Sith, Hutts, and Ewoks come to beautiful frozen life at a special exhibit.
The power of John Williams' music reverberates at the Symphony Hall.
Fashion and Star Wars come together in the most competitive Jedi trial yet!
An exclusive convention giveaway and new updates to the Star Wars app celebrate the return of the Ghost crew!
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September 3, 2008
West Coast Bank Will Join With Other Business Leaders in Sponsoring the Heart of Doernbecher Auction at the Oregon Convention Center October 18, 2008
To: BUSINESS EDITORS
Contact: Xandra T. McKeown, Executive Vice President of Commercial Banking, +1-503-598-3251, for West Coast BancorpLAKE OSWEGO, Ore., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the eighth consecutive year West Coast Bank will partner with other leading businesses and individuals to sponsor the Heart of Doernbecher Auction, which has raised over $2.5 million for the children of Doernbecher since 1998. The black tie event will be held at the Oregon Convention Center, October 18, 2008, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Money raised at this year's auction will go toward a much-needed pediatric emergency department renovation. The renovation will create a pediatric-friendly department and the only emergency facility in Oregon and southwest Washington staffed 24/7/365 by board-certified pediatric emergency department physicians and pediatric nurses.
West Coast Bank's Executive Vice President of Commercial Banking Xandra McKeown serves as President of the Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation. She said, "West Coast Bank proudly sponsors activities that help the communities we serve and it is a joy to support a dedicated pediatric hospital and academic health center of Doernbecher's distinction."
Sue Nicol, Executive Director of Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation, said, "West Coast Bank and the other business leaders who will partner to sponsor the 2008 Heart of Doernbecher Auction will provide immeasurable benefit to tens of thousands of children in Oregon and Southwest Washington. We are most grateful to West Coast Bank and our other civic leaders who, so graciously, are sponsoring this event."
With nationally recognized programs in pediatric heart surgery, neurosurgery, cancer, diabetes and metabolic diseases, Doernbecher Children's Hospital provides primary and specialized care to more than 56,500 children each year from Oregon, Southwest Washington, and beyond. As part of OHSU, the state's only academic medical center, Doernbecher combines healing, teaching, discovery and outreach in its mission to improve the health of all children. For donation information, contact the Doernbecher Foundation at 503.294.7101 or 1.800.800.9583.
For more information, see:
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/dchf/fundraising/ heart_of_doernbecher/index.cfm
West Coast Bancorp, (Nasdaq: WCBO), one of Oregon Business Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For, is a Northwest bank holding company with $2.6 billion in assets, operating 64 offices in Oregon and Washington. The company combines the sophisticated products and expertise of larger banks with the local decision making, market knowledge and customer service of a community bank. For more information, visit the Company's web site at http:// www.wcb.com.
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Matt visits LA, Nhi is so much fun to hang out with!
Los Angeles Travel Blog› entry 14 of 27 › view all entries
May 3rd, 2008 – by: jenn79
I picked up Matt and we met Nhi in Venice at the French Market Cafe. Sadly, Matt seems to know the Santa Monica area a lot better than I do and I kept deferring to him for directions! Nhi knows a lot of fantastic places and this one was so chill. Lots of ex-pats from Europe, and pretty good food. We heard they had great coffee here too but none of us ordered the coffee. It's very Urth-Cafe-esque, where you order at the counter, get a number and seat yourself at a table. Even the menu colors are identical to Urth!
Matt made a new friend in line, a girl from England who was formerly a model! She seemed somewhat big-gummed to be, but definitely had that long, lean look.
Then off we went to go horseback riding!! This is always a treat. I've been once before at Sunset Ranch and another time in Hawaii. This time was much better as we had great horses and did the 2 hour ride as opposed to the 1 hour ride. We also had a tiny group (just the 3 of us) so we got a private ride by a nice girl who hopefully joins travbuddy!
This was Matt and Nhi's first time horseback riding and they did great! Matt rode Lady Shakespeare, Nhi rode Glide, and I rode Malcolm. I loved Malcolm, what a great horse.
After our desert adventure we got a little hungry and decided to get some Thai food which is so delicious in LA. We tried a new restaurant which was ok. Not spectacular but still very good in the same plaza that the singing Elvis Thai place used to be in before they moved. We had a very healthy, mostly vegetarian meal and then made our way to a dessert shop that was packed with great little eats and candies.
Nhi chose about 4 things for all of us to try, from salty egg rice mochi to taro-coconut cakes to sugar cane cotton candy.
After our sugar high, we thought we would catch a flick at one of the historic cinemas in Westwood. Sadly, they were only playing Maid of Honor, some Audrey Tautou movie, and Harold and Kumar 2. I would've LOVED to see Harold and Kumar 2, but I really wanted to save that up for our TB meet since I had made such a big stink about people not seeing it when it came out in theatres.
So Nhi expressed a desire to visit Whole Foods. Me and Matt were like "MORE FOOD?!?!" Jeez Louise! We checked out some wines. We checked out some cheeses. We ragged on spoiled co-eds with their organic crap choices when we had NO supermarket at ALL. And then... da da da dum.. we walked by the bakery and chocolate truffle section and it was ALL OVER. Nhi went on a SPREE. And it was hard not to with all the colors and shiny chocolate shells and sprinkles and the chocolate fountain bubbling in the corner. It was paradise!
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For the second straight season, Ian Desmond has been selected as the top offensive shortstop in the National League by managers and coaches.
Desmond won the 2013 Silver Slugger Award among NL shortstops after hitting .280 with a .331 on-base percentage, a .453 slugging percentage, 20 home runs and 80 RBIs this season.
Desmond beat out the Rockies' Troy Tulowkitzki, the Dodgers' Hanley Ramirez and the Brewers' Jean Segura for the award.
Desmond led all National League shortstops in total bases and extra-base hits. He ranked second in the league among shortstops in home runs, RBIs, on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
"I play the game the way I do out of respect for the players who came before me," Desmond said in a statement. "It's an honor to be selected for the Silver Slugger and it is humbling to know that it is voted on by National League managers and coaches."
Desmond also joins Derek Jeter (five), Hanley Ramirez (two) and Troy Tulowitzki (two) as the only current shortstops to win multiple Silver Sluggers.
Tulowitzki had 25 homers to Desmond's 20 and had 82 RBIs to Desmond's 80. Tulowitzki's batting average was 32 points higher than Desmond's, he had an on-base percentage that was 60 points better than Desmond's, and his slugging percentage was 97 points superior to the Nats' shortstop. Plus, Tulowitzki did all that in 32 fewer games.
But Desmond still takes home the hardware again this season.
Desmond is under contract through the 2015 season, which gives the Nats two more years of team control. At some point in the near future, however, the Nationals will have to seriously consider looking into a contract extension for a guy who has clearly established himself as one of the top young shortstops in the game over the last couple seasons.
Right fielder Jayson Werth and third baseman Ryan Zimmerman were also named finalists for Silver Slugger awards at their respective positions this season.
This is the seventh time a Nationals player has won a Silver Slugger award. Desmond's two put him in with Alfonso Soriano (2006), Zimmerman (2009, 2010), Stephen Strasburg (2012) and Adam LaRoche (2012).


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Children's Summer Reading Program
May 27, 2014 – August 2, 2014
Summer is the perfect time to read for the fun of it, and the Tulsa City-County Library Summer Reading Program is the perfect way to do it. The Summer Reading Program motivates and rewards young readers while also offering fun and educational programming!
Fun & Events: Check out the Summer Reading Program Event Guide to learn about hundreds of fun, interactive and educational events and activities taking place at library locations throughout the summer. Detailed performer and event descriptions.
How to Sign up: Starting Tuesday, May 27, 2014, pick up a reading log at any library location and use it to record all of the books you read this summer. Be sure you bring your reading log with you every time you come to the library!
Ages & Grades: Children birth through entering the 5th grade can join the Children's Summer Reading Program.Young children can have books read to them. If you are going into the 6th grade, or are older, learn about the Tween & Teen Summer Reading Program.
How it Works: Make four visits to the library and read 8 books to earn a Buddy Bookworm medal of achievement and a book of coupons for food and entertainment. Read 12 more books, for a total of 20, and earn a LED foam light stick baton. Prizes will be awarded June 16 through August 2.
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Prizes will be awarded June 16 through August 2
Grand Prizes: Completing the Summer Reading Program gives you a chance to win amazing grand prizes. If you have completed kindergarten or are in first through entering fifth grade you can enter the grand prize drawing. The drawing takes place in early August. Winners will be notified by mail. Full list of Children's Summer Reading Program Coupons and Grand Prizes.
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If you can't call it dogma, you might call it karma: the property that once housed NFL star Michael Vick's dog fighting ring has been purchased by a dog rescue group, and will be a sanctuary for abused and abandoned canines.
Dogs Deserve Better (DDB), an organization dedicated to just that philosphy, bought Vick's former home in Virginia, a 15-acre, 5 bedroom in Surrey County, for a reported $600,000. The property will be a dedicated dog rehab center, and DDB welcomed their first guests over the weekend.
"We want this place to be a memorial to all the dogs who lost their lives here," Tamira Thyne of Dogs Deserve Better told WAVY-TV. And indeed, we can all take comfort from these words, and the idea that something good can come of the horror that came here before. Here are the new arrivals, many of whom have been chained or penned their whole lives, exploring the grounds.
Rescue dogs arrive at old Vick home: wavy.com
To volunteer or donate to this very worthy cause, visit Dogs Deserve Better.com.


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Click to listen to Beth Orton's 'Magpie'
Beth Orton didn't have to look very far for inspiration for "Magpie," a new tune off her new LP Sugaring Season. Observing the birds that gather outside her window, the U.K. singer-songwriter says she noticed that two blue jays would follow her wherever she lived. As she began to wonder what stories these small creatures hold, their mysteries started to unfold. "These birds hold wisdom for me. They are also oblivious to the fear they raise in others," Orton says. "All the time people are inventing stories to justify actions that often have no bearing on reality. I have experienced being silenced and this song came out of that. It was my way of keeping my voice and a sense of freedom alive."
Sugaring Season, Orton's first album in six years, is due out on October 2nd on Anti-, and Orton will kick off a North American tour on September 20th in Nashville, Tennessee. In the meantime, you can check out "Magpie" exclusively at RollingStone.com.


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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOTV) The Fifth Third River Bank Run is not only the largest 25K in the nation, but it's a way for us to make a difference in the community by running or walking for a charity.
One of the amazing charities you can help is Kids Hope USA. The non-profit is based in Zeeland, but has spread across the country. It partners local churches with elementary schools to create mentoring relationships for kids who need a loving, caring adult in their lives.
Kids Hope USA is one of the official charities for the Fifth Third River Bank Run. The partnership helps give them more exposure and another opportunity for fundraising.


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Hello, my name is Kana. I hope to be good friends with everyone here. I loved Pokemon ever since I was little. My favorite is Mew. I hope to post some of my drawings here soon (I like art). ^^
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Feeling Tied Down!
When I was born,
I was little
and perfectly flat.
Now I'm
big, round and puffy;
(or some might say fat.)
When I was born,
I was free;
Not a thing
held me down.
Now I'm bound
to a string
which is bound
to a clown.
When I was born,
I was sure
that I'd float
through the air.
But that dream
has deflated,
and it's just not fair!
When I was born,
I was brave.
Nothing hurt me
at first.
Now I'm so scared
of pins, I'm afraid I
might burst!
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Ryder preps to acquire Total Logistic Control
Freight transportation and logistics services provider Ryder System said it has inked an agreement to acquire Total Logistic Control, a subsidiary of SUPERVALU and a provider of supply chain services for shippers in the food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods sectors.
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Freight transportation and logistics services provider Ryder System said it has inked an agreement to acquire Total Logistic Control, a subsidiary of SUPERVALU and a provider of supply chain services for shippers in the food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods sectors.
Company officials said Ryder will acquire TLC for cash under a stock purchase agreement, adding that this acquisition is expected to add roughly $250 million in annual revenue to Ryder's Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) business unit and is expected to close on December 31, 2010, pending closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
TLC provides various services for shippers, including distribution management, contract packaging services, and solutions engineering, working with customers on a local, regional, national, and international basis for food and beverage manufacturing, consumer and wholesale distribution. The company operates 34 facilities comprising 10.6 million square feet of dry and temperature-controlled warehousing in 13 states and has 2,500 employees.
"This strategic acquisition is an exact fit with our strategy of developing a leading CPG capability and strengthening our focus in key vertical industry sectors," said John Williford, Ryder's President of Global Supply Chain Solutions, in a statement. "By bringing the TLC organization and operations over to Ryder intact, we are able to immediately deliver best in class supply chain solutions to a broad range of new and existing food, beverage and CPG clients. Going forward, we will build on TLC's proven and highly regarded packaging and temperature-controlled warehousing capabilities by integrating client solutions using Ryder's well-established strengths in Dedicated Contract Carriage, Transportation Management, lean operational execution and logistics engineering. We look forward to providing clients with innovative solutions in Ryder's new CPG vertical industry group."
And as a new addition to Ryder's SCS business unit, TLC brings relationships with 1,000 Fortune 1000 clients into the fold that are in the food, beverage, and CPG sectors, which Ryder's SCS unit has targeted for growth and complements the automotive, high-tech, industrial and retail sectors SCS already serves, according to the company.
A leading 3PL expert told LM that this deal makes sense on multiple levels for Ryder.
"Acquiring TLC provides Ryder with an increased Food & Grocery vertical industry customer base and additional value-added warehousing and contract packaging capabilities," said Evan Armstrong, president of supply chain consultancy Armstrong & Associates. "TLC has significant dedicated contract manufacturing and primary/secondary packaging operations. Its food industry customers include: Birds Eye, Campbell's, ConAgra Foods, Dean Foods, Diageo, General Mills, Kellogg's, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo, Ocean Spray, and Sara Lee. While it originally saw significant synergies in acquiring TLC, Supervalu has since refocused its business on grocery retailing leaving little strategic support to grow its 3PL operations."
According to Armstrong & Associates research, TLC had 2009 net revenues of $252 million, employs approximately 2,500 people, and has a domestic network of
29 warehouses with approximately 9.1 million square feet of space. And of its warehouses, 79% are dedicated (single client) operations and 21% are multi-client, with 40 percent of the operations having some temperature-controlled space: 35% having freezer/refrigerated capacity and an additional 5% having air-conditioned space."
About the AuthorJeff Berman, Group News Editor Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management, Modern Materials Handling, and Supply Chain Management Review. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis. Contact Jeff Berman
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I may have to hold my nose for this one. Hitman 2 is in development, says Variety, and 20th Century Fox has hired Kyle Ward to write a script that incorporates elements from "Hitman 5," a video game due for release in late 2010. So a movie sequel will be cribbing from a video game sequel, and more crappy product will fill the corporate pipeline.
Reportedly, the first Hitman was made for $30 million. It grossed $40 million in the US and $60 million overseas, according to Box Office Mojo. The overseas total and DVD sales must have pushed it well into the black, ensuring that a sequel would be inevitable. Putting aside the bottom line, the film itself was relentlessly mediocre. I entered with modest expectations, having heard that Fox had taken the project away from director Xavier Gens, who made the ferocious horror thriller Frontière(s). The studio denied the rumors, but Hitman felt flat and flaccid, only occasionally offering glimpses of the brilliance Gens had shown. Whether it was sophomore slump or studio interference, I ask you: did anyone leave the theater pumping their fist in the air, shouting, "More! I want more! More Hitman! Now!"
I didn't think so. Timothy Olyphant, who was so good in Deadwood, wasn't a very compelling assassin, and Olga Kurylenko supplied nothing more than decorative value. For those who care, Hitman 2 finds Agent 47 "at a low point. He must build himself back up psychologically and physically to reclaim his mantle as the world's most feared assassin." I can hardly wait.


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Henryk Goldszmit, who publicly went by the pseudonym Janusz Korczak, was a Polish pediatrician and something of a celebrity, an expert on children and child-rearing who dispensed knowledgeable advice in print and on the radio. He was also one of those very unusual, near-unbelievable souls who actually devoted his entire life, tirelessly and selflessly, to "the children," both in general as an educator, author, and radio speaker and in his every other waking moment as the head of a Warsaw orphanage for Jewish children. In Andrzej Wajda's (Danton, Ashes and Diamonds) 1990 biopic Korczak, we first meet the doctor framed in an intimate close-up, speaking into the microphone in a sound booth as he admonishes his radio audience not to believe in the myth of the noble person who makes sacrifices: some men have cards, others have women, and he's interested in the well-being of children. He thus characterizes his unfailing devotion to the 200 orphans in his charge as nothing but a gratifying hobby or enthusiasm he happens to have, and that entirely unsentimental view of Korczak and his humble, self-effacing, but undeniably impressive humanitarianism is one the film does its best to share. But even in just relating the bare facts of his life as he tries to do right by "his" children in the pre-WWII horror years of rising European fascism, anti-Semitism, the Warsaw Ghetto, and deportation/extermination, the film can't help itself giving us a picture of him as a captivating, fascinating, inspiring figure. The facts speak for themselves, and what they tell is the honest, unforced story of a Jewish hero and Holocaust martyr who would have been bemused at best to know a movie would one day be devoted to what he refused to see as the exceptional service and fortitude that were the markers of his rare grace as a human being.
Polish actor Wojciech Pszoniak (Robespieere in Danton) turns in a brilliant performance -- the film's linchpin -- as the late-middle-aged but vibrant Korczak, giving him a businesslike, down-to-earth physical presence and demeanor of forward-moving practicality from which his tenderness and steadfast morality emanate in actions much more than words. ("I have no dignity," he bluntly tells a group of idealistic young Jewish rebels taking him to task for his acceptance of black-market racketeers' donations to help his starving children, but his indefatigable labor and advocacy, his willingness to lower himself for the good of the orphans, and his very body language all belie such self-deprecation.) He is a person who sincerely wants to be of service, and although his world, as a Jew in Warsaw in the late 1930s, is already visibly closing in around him -- with the clearest signs including graduated orphans telling him of the anti-Semitic violence and vandalism they're increasingly experiencing and his own polite, excuse-offering, spineless firing from the radio program because "his person is causing problems" (with the German occupiers/authorities) -- he refuses multiple entreaties from friends to flee to safety, perhaps to the Palestinian homeland or America, because he will not for any reason abandon his children just to preserve himself. Things get worse, of course, with the removal of Korczak and the kids from their utopian-socialist "Our Home" orphanage/school compound/healthy outdoor grounds to the grimy ghetto and its impending starvation, dead bodies in the streets, black marketeering, waffling from the supposed Jewish intermediaries between the ghetto and the Nazis, and the spectre of deportation and mass-murdering genocide that is murmured about but comes most starkly in the form of a chilling, brilliantly executed scene in which an escapee frantically wanders the abandoned ghetto streets screaming the warning at the top of his lungs, climbing a tower to announce their grim fate to the ghetto Jews only to be shot down by the patrolling Germans. Korczak's attempts to keep his huge family alive and afloat in the ghetto is the perpetually engaging and intriguing "plot" of Korczak -- a story we all know perhaps too well (familiarity breeds complacency, if not contempt) told from the point of view of someone who won't let himself get caught up by the exigencies of a crisis mounting all around him, because his sole objective is to preserve the human beings he's taken responsibility for at absolutely any cost. That is, tragically, a sacrifice he is ultimately forced to make, along with the children, all of whom were killed along with Korczak in 1942 at the Treblinka extermination camp.
Rounding out the largest portion of the film, which takes place between the orphanage's ghettoization and finally its deportation, Wajda and the film's screenwriter, Agnieszka Holland (who channeled her interest in telling stories of the Holocaust as experienced in her native Poland into her own career as an auteur, helming 1991's Europa, Europa and last year's In Darkness), do abide, where they can, by Korczak's decentering of himself in his life, doing just what he would have done, making the film to the fullest extent possible as much about the children as him. The little urgencies of childhood -- an adolescent's falling in love with a Polish Catholic girl and suffering the inevitable (if not always, then certainly at this time and place) rejection, forced upon the girl and himself, for being a Jew; the taking under Korczak's wing of a boy whose mother is dying, who would rather have died with her, and who acts disruptively in the orphanage despite the loving care he's found there, etc. -- as well as the ins and outs of life as Korczak has organized it for the children, according to his progressive (no corporal punishment) principles as a pediatric expert are given their full due, so we're offered some inkling of what their lives would be like without the unwelcome intrusion of war and persecution. This focus on the amazingly resilient will to just live one's life, which always has enough unfulfilled needs and desires and problems of its own, allows Wajda and Holland to underline at the same time, without any romanticizing overemphasis, the overwhelming sadness of kids just trying to maintain the challenges, struggles, and routines of ordinary life in an environment where their "father" is doing his best to isolate and insulate them from rapidly encroaching horror, but where nobody can hide from the detailed, thorough, assembly-line efficiency of the Nazis' hate.
There's a moment at which I thought Wajda had perhaps gone too far in reflecting Korczak's stubbornly, naïvely humanistic, child-centered view of life, when the aforementioned boy who loses his mother is shown in a brief countershot, from Korczak's point of view in the face of a child's suffering he cannot ameliorate, to have a halo over his head. It fades away as quickly and suddenly as it appeared, and it's the only such moment in the film, but it reminded me that this new Blu-ray edition of Korczak comes emblazoned with a huge quote from Steven Spielberg on the cover proclaiming that "Korczak is one of the most important European pictures about the Holocaust." I find Schindler's List irretrievably problematic, and I wondered, is this halo moment Wajda's precursor to that cheesy little girl in the red dress that Spielberg concocted to wander through his Hollywood Holocaust? But no, this isn't a gimmick; it's a self-limited, momentary glimpse through Korczak's eyes, an effective and explicitly subjective visual signifier of the principal character's mindset, much better-integrated into a film that is on the whole honest and honorable, in a way Spielberg couldn't be even though he obviously wanted to, when it comes to the extremely treacherous terrain of representing the Holocaust in a dramatic/storytelling mode. Korczak also prefigures Schindler's List by being shot in black-and-white, but again, it feels less like a superimposed "device" than the best-suited choice for the story, with the subtle working in of the Germans' constant filming of the Ghetto as another mitigating factor; scenes in which Korczak is wandering past the starvation, poverty, fear, and death with a movie camera pointing toward the action from the foreground (i.e., closest to us and from our point of view) contain some of the film's most striking, haunting, and meaningful images.
Wajda's choice for artist best-suited to create for him a visual tone at once immediate and intentionally, aptly anachronistic is cinematographer Robby Müller (no stranger to working B&W miracles, as anyone who's seen Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man or Down by Law can verify), and it's proven to be a very wise one; there is almost no music (though the Wagner-referencing score by Wojciech Kilar is very effective and memorable as little bursts of aural punctuation, and in the heaving, queasy aural undertow it provides through the film's devastating closing sequence), and it is the visual dimension of Korczak that really accents, grants life to, and brings home Holland's scenario and Wajda's realization. It gives the film all the tone, all the emotional perspective it needs: the way Müller lights, frames, and travels through Wajda's blockings and compositions is very rich, somehow seamlessly seguing from an almost documentary-realist, snapshot look to a starkly elegant, white-heavy, mirrored elegance as required, evoking a time and place where movies almost exclusively existed in black-and-white, and bringing us as close as possible to the world as it looked, felt, and smelled to Korczak, his children, and their persecuted fellow residents in that atrocious ghetto.
The potential sin Korczak most scrupulously evades is using the Holocaust as an excuse for movieland optimism, trivializing it by offering false hope or an ahistorical feeling of "thank goodness we learned that lesson a long time ago." Hope was not on hand in Nazi-controlled Europe, which was much more The Grey Zone than Schindler's List: The net was extremely tight, hatred and indifference were widespread and dominant among all European gentiles, and statistically very, very few Jews who found themselves imprisoned by the Nazis were able to survive. Korczak and his 200 kids were certainly not among the survivors, and the film doesn't sugarcoat the tragic nature of its story; even though we're given a closing fantasy depicting a train car, the one into which Korczak and his children were herded like animals, miraculously cut loose and stalled, framed in a heavenly-lit exterior and opening in slow motion to allow its inhabitants to emerge and march freely forward into an open, idyllically sun-drenched field, this scene is bluntly concluded, and the fact that it's a fantasy called harrowing attention to, by the terse ending titles upon which the film closes: "Korczak died with his children in the gas chambers of Treblinka in 1942." Wajda and Holland are intelligent and respectful enough to know that no amount of optimism, imagination, or movie magic has any power to explain or reassure us about the horrors of still-recent history. To pretend otherwise would be false and cruel, and though Korczak pays tribute to a uniquely indomitable, kind, and good spirit, their final juxtaposition of the lyrical, beautiful capability of the movie camera to transform irredeemable history into what it should have been with the painful admission/acknowledgment of the severe limitations of that capability -- its utter inability to mitigate the needless extinguishing of that spirit, the best it can hope for being to serve as a sobering reminder -- is as fitting a conclusion as any imaginable.
The AVC/MPEG4, 1080p transfer, presenting the film at its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.66:1, is quite nicely done. Robby Müller's black-and-white cinematography is one of the film's main stars, and it's very well preserved here, with only two near-invisible instances of a small print scratch at a couple of random points (which don't distract at all in this context; nobody's gone so far as to artificially rough up the image, but the film is clearly meant to have a slightly antiquated look). Blacks are solid, the all-important contrast pops beautifully, and skin tones look natural, with nary a trace of any compression artifacts. The best part: The transfer's authors have deployed DNR, if at all, very conscientiously; I thought I detected one or two over-smoothed moments, but these things are subjective, and for the most part, the vital celluloid texture that makes the moving pictures actually appear to move on your home screen has been left intact.
The DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 mono soundtrack is a perfect replication of the film's sound, which in its turn is a perfect replication of movie audio from a bygone era -- the late '30s/early '40s, to be exact. The dialogue is all clear, and the sparely-used music (in the form of Wojciech Kilar's haunting score) has an additional layer of troubled mournfulness to it deriving from its limitation to a single channel. From the first moment to the end, the film sounds exactly as it was clearly meant to; way the sound has been does full justice to the filmmakers' intentions.
The film's original (Polish) theatrical trailer is a good, succinct, intriguing example of the art of the trailer, but other than that and the accompanying small stills gallery, not much has been included in the way of extras.
In Janusz Korczak, director Andrzej Wajda and writer Agnieszka Holland have found a Holocaust hero/martyr whose persistence, dedication, and loyalty -- characteristics that actor Wojciech Pszoniak burns onto the screen with his committed embodiment of the man -- are as moving and extraordinary as their ultimate powerlessness to save him or the orphans in his charge is tragic. Through the graces of cinematographer Robby Müller's impressively diverse, detailed neo-Neorealist black-and-white cinematography (which looks fantastic on this newly remastered Blu-ray edition), Wajda and Holland's period film approximates a film of the period, adding an extra boost to its ability to isolate a specific historical figure in a particular place and time and make his story live with a certain immediacy. Korczak himself was a pragmatic, be-here-now type allergic to pedestals, and everyone involved in Korczak -- from the actors, Wajda, Holland, and Müller on down -- avoid any of the grandstanding or sentimentality that the doctor himself would have (rightly) found distasteful, instead honestly giving us a happy, hopeful character without feeling the need to make a happy and/or hopeful film out of his tragic story (happiness and hopefulness being the counts on which Life is Beautiful and Schindler's List, respectively, fall far short of the relevance and integrity Wajda and Holland more mindfully attain). Korczak does conclude before depicting the atrocities to which Korczak and his 200 orphaned children ultimately fell victim, but it's not out of timidity; the priority here is the increasingly difficult, pointless but necessary hanging on to as much normal life as they can that the doctor and the children go through, so that when they're rounded up and shipped away to the death camps at the end, we know in a more specific and deep way the lives that are now to be so callously extinguished.
The film's approach is to immerse us in the brave, awe-inspiring persistence of its characters, whose courage, resilience, and sheer humanity (whether it's the doctor's amazing loyalty to and selflessness toward the children to whom he feels responsible or the innocent, forthright living of life that the children continue to be capable of under the most hopeless, extreme circumstances) are captivating and admirable, while remaining respectful enough of the horror being depicted to acknowledge that none of that meant anything to tho leaders, armies, and nations intent on destroying them and all European Jews -- the genocidal regimes whose degree of success remains a stain on human history that implicates all of us in a way that can lead to deeply uncomfortable doubts, ones we might prefer not to dwell on, about the human race, history, and "progress." Korczak doesn't make any pointless, false attempts to mitigate those doubts or scrounge ignobly for something reassuring in the unimaginable, wrenching human slaughterhouse of the Warsaw Ghetto; it remains faithful to Korczak's goodness but doesn't pretend that his heroism, martyrdom, and doing the right thing somehow amounted to anything more than a noble, doomed delaying of what dehumanizing, efficient Nazi mercilessness made virtually inevitable. The truthfulness and respect Wajda and Holland adhere to demand not softening the indifferently cruel, irredeemable end the doctor and his loved ones met, the mass murders that made a mockery of their stubborn will to live, their lives' value, and the right of every human being to live unmolested by hatred and violence. If, as is my conviction, any honorable film proposing to represent the murderous Nazi persecution of the Jews is obligated to devastate in some way -- to ultimately avoid turning away or blinking in the face of the no-way-out futility and despair at the core of an episode in our history so shameful that it actually should traumatize us, if we are genuinely considering it in any meaningful way -- then Korczak can legitimately be considered such a powerful, honorably and conscientiously devastating reminder of a story that, hard as it is to take and near-impossible as it is to understand or cope with, must never be forgotten. Highly Recommended.


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Fucale playing 'best hockey of the year': Mooseheads coach
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Like the Halifax Mooseheads needed another reason for opposing teams in the QMJHL to be shaking in their boots – or should one say skates.
According to head coach Dominique Ducharme, netminder Zach Fucale is playing his best hockey of the season, with his latest victory on Friday night arguably his most impressive – a 35-save performance on the road against the talent-laden Baie-Comeau Drakkar, a team the Mooseheads beat 3-1.
"He keeps improving. I think he's playing his best hockey of the year, and that's a great sign heading towards the end of the year," Ducharme said on Sunday.
It's not like Fucale was playing poorly – far from it. He is leading the entire Canadian Hockey League in wins (33) and his goals-against-average of 2.39 is second best in the QMJHL.
But playing with a team loaded with up-front firepower, Fucale has gone plenty of games without seeing much action, and at times, it's led to some softer goals being allowed.
"What I've liked in the last few weeks is he's more consistent," Ducharme said.
"He needed to get used to seeing a lot less shots and get used to that rhythm in the game."
Fucale has played in all but eight games this season, and Ducharme wants to make sure he gets some rest to get prepared for what the team hopes will be a long playoff run.
With that in mind, Ducharme said over the team's final 19 games, back-up Chris Clarke will be in the net more often.
"We'll see Clarke play a little bit more in the next few weeks," Ducharme said.
"It's to give (Fucale) rest, but at the same time, we need Chris to get into a few more games. You never know what can happen. He needs to be ready to go."


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|Entrance to Honolulu Academy of Arts
After lunch at the Honolulu Academy of Arts (HAA), with Piet Lincoln, his wife and son, I was shown the gift shop in the HAA. Later I took a peak at the display of cultural and materials items in the Pacific Islands Collection on the second floor of the building. Piet is a linguist with a long term connection with the Banoni language speakers of Bougainville.
History (source www.wikipidea.org)
Anna Rice Cooke (1853–1934), daughter of New England missionaries and founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, in her dedication statement at the opening of the museum on April 8, 1927 said:
"That our children of many nationalities and races, born far from the centers of art, may receive an intimation of their own cultural legacy and wake to the ideals embodied in the arts of their neighbors ... that Hawaiians, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Northern Europeans and all other people living here, contacting through the channel of art those deep intuitions common to all, may perceive a foundation on which a new culture, enriched by the old strains may be built in the islands." —Anna Rice Cooke[4]
Born on Oʻahu in 1853, Cooke grew up on Kauaʻi island in a home that appreciated the arts. In 1874, she married Charles Montague Cooke and the two eventually settled in Honolulu. In 1882, they built a home on Beretania Street, across from Thomas Square. As Cooke's career prospered, they gathered their private art collection. First were "parlor pieces" for their home. She frequented the shop of furniture maker Yeun Kwock Fong Inn who often had ceramics and textile pieces sent from his brother in China.
The Cookes' art collection outgrew their home and the homes of their children. In 1920, she and her daughter Alice (Mrs. Phillip Spalding), her daughter-in-law Dagmar (Mrs. Richard Cooke), and Catharine E. B. Cox (Mrs. Isaac Cox), an art and drama teacher, began to catalogue and research the collection with the intent to display the items in a museum. With little formal training, these women obtained a charter for the museum from the Territory of Hawaii in 1922, while continuing to catalogue the collection. Cooke wanted a museum that reflected Hawaiʻi's multi-cultural make-up. Not bound by the traditional western idea of art museums, she also wanted to showcase the island's climate in an open and airy environment, using courtyards which interconnect the galleries throughout the Academy.
The Cookes donated their Beretania Street land along with an endowment of $25,000. Their home was torn down to make way for the museum. New York architect Bertram Goodhue designed a classic Hawaiian-style building with simple off-white exteriors and tiled roofs. Goodhue died before the project was completed; it was finished by Hardie Phillip. This style has been imitated in many buildings throughout the state.
On April 8, 1927, the Honolulu Academy of Arts opened. There was a traditional Hawaiian blessing and the Royal Hawaiian Band, under the direction of Henri Berger, played at festivities. With the opening of the museum came gifts of many pieces, sometimes even entire collections. Additions to the original building include a library (1956), an education wing (1960), a gift shop (1965), a cafe (1969), a contemporary gallery, administrative offices and 292-seat theater (1977), and an art center for studio classes and expanded educational programming (1989). In 1999, the Academy created a children's interactive gallery, lecture hall, and offices.[5]
The original building was named Hawaiʻi's best building by the Hawaiʻi Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture and is registered as a National and State Historical site. The Academy is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
In the gift shop I spotted a book entitled: Fire in the Sea: An Anthology of Poetry and Art, selected by Sue Cowing. I had never seen the book before. In the content page I immediately spotted a familiar PNG name: Kumalau Tawali, then Russell Soaba and Apisai Enos.
PNG writers appeared alongside Pacific writers such as Albert Wendt, Konai Helu Thaman, Hone Tuwhare, Kauraka Kauraka, Sudesh Mishra, Raymond Pillai, Eric Chock, Wayne Westlake, and Alistair Campbell, at least the ones that I know. All these Pacific writers appeared in the book together with some of the world's favourite writers like Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Yasmine Gooneratne, Judith Wright, Nicholas Hasluck, Fleur Adcock, E. E. Cummings, and Margaret Atwood.
In the preface to this book, published in 1996 as a Kolowalu Book by the University of Hawaii Press, in association with The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Sue Cowing writes: "This anthology includes, I believe for the first time, a significant sample of Pacific poetry in an international collection. The Pacific Islands have long poetic traditions, and the last two decades have seen a lively outpouring of contemporary poetry, especially in Fiji, Hawaii, and New Zealand, and Samoa, that deserves to be better known with and beyond the region."
The title of the book: Fire in the Sea is a strong imagery of Hawaiian natural landscapes formed by its volcanic activities. Cowing writes: "Just as flowing lava turns the ocean to steam and keeps on burning—fire in the sea—the best poems we hear or read take surprising, even "impossible,' turns that change the way we see the world afterward. Poets and visual artists try to say what we would have thought could not be expressed, and they succeed, we share their deep pleasure."
The illustrations, in the book, are from the permanent collections of the Honolulu Academy of Arts and include a few pieces by young students of art at the academy, retained over the years for the lending collection at Linekona.
In the Pacific Islands Collections of the Honolulu Academy of Arts a whole array of material culture and arts of the Pacific were on display. These are material treasures of Oceania that were donated to the HAA. Traditional arts of the Pacific are well represented in the Academy collection. Fine examples from Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia include domestic containers, furnishings, mats, tools, weapons, featherwork, fishing equipment, and musical instruments.
The Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea is represented with ceremonial carvings, ancestral figures, headdresses, instruments, containers, masks, shields, canoe prows and paddles. Artifacts from the Federal States of Micronesia include a variety of masks, utilitarian objects and body ornaments. From French Polynesia are tools, headdresses, bowls, cups and containers.
The amazing thing for me was that most of the artifacts from Melanesia are from the Sepik area. There is the Iatmul slit gong drum, a ceremonial water drum from Chambri Lakes, a Malagan figure from New Ireland, an ancestor figure with skull from the Middle Sepik, a spirit board from the Gulf Province, a mask for yam ceremony from Nuku, a headdress for yam mask from Maprik and a Kavat mask from the Baining people of Gazelle Peninsula in the East New Britain Province. Seeing these on display in Hawaii made me wonder about what the visitors to this gallery would think about Papua New Guinea after they leave. What do they really think?
I know Soaba's Storyboard is anxious to know the poem published in book Fire in the Sea. The poem as Storyboard knows is my favorite poem: "Looking thru Those Eye-holes". If Storyboard does not mind, for the sake of those who have never read this masterpiece by Russell Soaba, I would like to have the honor of promoting it on this blog. It reads:
Looking thru Those Eye-holes
once an artist went overseas
his father died in his absence
& was buried in the village
he followed a rainbow upon his return
& came to a cemetry
he dug in search of reality
till he broke his father's skull
to wear its fore-half as a mask
try it/loo through those eye-holes
see the old paintings/view the world
in the way the dead had done.
Believe me, since the first day I read this poem in the mid-1980s, I have never ceased to be amazed by the power of the poem in its appeal to me. Thank you, Russ for this poem.
Kumalau Tawali's poem published in the same collection is also another powerful poem that has the magic it has always had on me since the first time I read it in the 1980s. Here it is:
The River Flows Back
In my mother's womb
Peace was mine
But I said "maping"
I greeted the light
And came into the world,
Saluting it with a cry.
I paddled downstream
Drifting at ease
Like Adam before the fall.
But now a storm rises before me
My canoe has swung around
I paddle against the stream.
The river my helper
Has become my enemy
I fight the river
Until my veins stand out
Until the paddle blisters my palms.
Yet in this battle I gain glory
Iwin fame
I grow name
The true essence of it.
One day I will reach the source again
There at my beginnings
Another peace
Will welcome me.
[Note: Maping in a term for greeting in a Manus language]
Soaba and Tawali are the first generation of PNG writers that I have unreserved admiration and respect for. Seeing their works being celebrated in an international anthology affirmed the poet in me to keep on writing. These two poems have influenced two of my early poems: "Lomo'ha, I am in Spirit's Voice I Call" and "The Mother and Child" published in my first poetry collection.
My other favorite poet, Carl Sandburg, who describes poetry as (cited by Sue Cowing): "the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air." Such animals live everywhere—on islands, on coasts, and, like Sandburg, in the middle of continents."
Am I a sea animal? Is that why I love poetry? Try looking through the eyeholes of a sea animal what would you see?
Epeli Hau'ofa is right: It is the Ocean in Us that makes us who we are and what we are in the middle of Oceania—a body of water/life around our islands.


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Due to the way the story of Dreams is set up, character profiles for any of the characters will give away some of the story.
Yeah. But if you don't care, read ahead! xD
This character profile will be a little different... Ms. Marigold comes in two parts: Her current self, and her past self (before she came to Dreams). So I will be posting two character profiles.
Name: Ms. Marigold
Nicknames: None
Age: Unknown (Appears to be around 20 to 25 years old)
Birthday: Unknown
Gender: Female
Height: 5'7
Special Talent: Excellent memory, Extremely knowledgeable, very calm
Hobbies: Reading particular books, taking orders from Luli, counceling, consulting... (are these even hobbies? xD;)
Profession(s): Luli's "consultor"; Dreams's "second-in-command"
Birthplace: Unknown (It is suggested that she was born somewhere in Europe)
Current Residence: Dreams
Likes: Order, perfection
Dislikes: Meddlers
Love Intrest: None
Sexual Orientation: Asexual
Hair Color: Brown
Hair Length: Goes past her shoulders, but always has it up in a bun
Eye Color: Purple
Jewelry: None
General Appearance: Elegant? Ish? xD;;
Relationship with Family: No family
Key Family / Relatives: No family
Relationship with Friends: Doesn't consider anyone her friends
Key Friends: Luli maybe, Alcott maybe
Key Enemies: People who break the order
Educational History: Appears to be educated, but it is unknown if she actually went to school
Phobias / Fears: Herself, imperfection
Bad Habits / Vices: None
Emotional Problems: Hids her emotions?
Best Qualities: Intellegent
Worst Qualities: Indifferent
Key Childhood Experiences: Something happened to her right eye when she was an adolescent
Personal Goals: To be "perfect"
Professional Goals: None
Style of Speech: Serious, proper
Personality: Silent and calm, and gives off a lonely vibe. When she speaks, she's not afraid to show bitterness toward the one she's talking to. Upon first meeting, she shows a signifigant amout of disdain towards Alcott.
Ms. Marigold is the Co-creator of Dreams and Dreams's first resident. She is also Luli's consultant.
She usually only speaks when she's spoken to, and only gives nessisary information. She almost never says things that are not nessisary or relevent to the conversation.
She's always seen reading, and the book she's reading is unknown throughout the whole comic. (Until the end, maybe. If I decide to do it like that.) It's possible that she gets most of her knowledge from the book she reads, but it couls also be knowledge she just knows off-hand. So her intellegence is kind of a mystery. xD
Ms. Marigold is very particular about perfection or having the image of perfection. She sits extremely straight, her clothes are perfectly ironed, and she never has a hair out of place. Despite her "perfect" appearence, she finds her greatest fault to be her missing eye. The socket of her missing eye is covered by a crudely sewn-on patch that appears to be made of cloth. The patch has a drawing of an eye on it, and was given to her by Luli. She covers the patch with her hair as a way to hide her shame. (How she lost her eye will be explained in Ms. Marigold's "past self" profile, which is located farther down this post.)
She despises haughty and arrogant people, so it's no surprise when she refuses to give Alcott any assistance when he first comes to Dreams.
Ms. Marigold is also an asexual, or someone who has no desire to take place in sexual relationships. In the comic, her sexual orientation is interpreted as someone who has no desire to fall in love/inability to fall in love. At some point, she gets into a conversation with Alcott about love. She speaks about how she can't fall in love or has no desire to fall in love, in which Alcott responds by taking pity on her.
Name: Annabelle Beaudelaire
Nicknames: None
Age: "Deceased" at age 16
Birthday: Unknown
Gender: Female
Height: 5'7
Special Talent: None
Hobbies: None
Profession(s): Student/unemployed
Birthplace: Somewhere in France
Current Residence: "Deceased"
Likes: Unknown
Dislikes: She would never say it, but her father and family
Love Intrest: None
Sexual Orientation: Unknown
Hair Color: Brown
Hair Length: Goes past her shoulders, but always has it up in a bun
Eye Color: Purple
Jewelry: Necklaces, whatever her family choses for her to wear
General Appearance: Seemingly beautiful, but is actually quite plain
Relationship with Family: Her family has high expectations for her, but show excessive amouts of indifference toward her actual feelings
Key Family / Relatives: Her father
Relationship with Friends: None
Key Friends: None
Key Enemies: None
Educational History: Private tutors
Phobias / Fears: Her father
Bad Habits / Vices: Imperfection
Emotional Problems: Depression, paranoia
Best Qualities: Obedient
Worst Qualities: Imperfect
Key Childhood Experiences: Constantly scolded by her family, beaten by her father to the extent where he got so angry he carved her right eye out of her head
Personal Goals: To please Father
Professional Goals: Whatever Father wishes
Style of Speech: Monotoned, obedient
Personality: Obedient, timid, constantly in fear of her father
Little is known about Annabelle because Ms. Marigold tries to block Annabelle (her past self) from her mind.
What is known is that Annabelle comes from a rich family from France. Her family has high expectations for her, and provided her with private tutors for music, etiquette, and general knowledge. When she did something unmannerly or made a mistake with anything her parents scolded her. At first it was just mild scolding, but soon her parents became obsessed with the idea of Annabelle being a perfect girl. Even if she made the slightest mistake in speech, etiquette, music, dancing, or anything, her father would yell and beat her.
Annabelle soon became extremely scared of everyone, because she feared that they would all beat her or yell at her if she did something "wrong". She tried to do everything perfectly, but because her motive was out of fear, she began to make even more mistakes than she had before.
One day, Annabelle (16 years old now) was reciting a poem to her father, and slipped up on her words. This brought her father to the edge, and he became furious with her. He beat on her with whatever was in the room, yelling and screaming about how imperfect she was. All through the beating, Annabelle cried "I'm sorry Father, I will be perfect." over and over again. Her father finished the beating by gouging her right eye out with a spoon, ignoring her crying. He left Annabelle lying on the floor, bleeding, while she continued to say "I'm sorry Father, I will be perfect."
It is here that Luli appeared and brought her to Dreams. Upon noticing Annabelle's missing eye, Luli made her a "replacement eye" (the cloth with a drawing of an eye on it) out of good intention.
It is unknown how Annabelle got the name Ms. Marigold from Luli, it's possible Luli just got it out of the top of her head.
Ms. Marigold gets her "perfection complex" from Annabelle, because even though her father is long gone, she still tries to prove to him that she is perfect.
Even though Ms. Marigold and Annabelle are technically the same person, I want you to think of them as two different people. When Annabelle left her home and came to dreams, she is reborn as Ms. Marigold, a completely different person.
I haven't drawn a picture of Annabelle yet, so I'll try to get one up soon. :) Thanks for reading.


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Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are termed essential fatty acids, since we must consume these from the diet. Long, long ago, when we were still true cavemen and not just people who sometimes act that way, our diets consisted of a balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Some researchers opine that the ratio was more like 4:1 of omega-6 to omega-3 rather than a true balance of 1:1, but I think we should strive toward the true balance. It's impossible to achieve, so I feel if we set our goals high, we may make it to the 4:1 that we at least know is healthy.
The only Westernized society that reaches that goal of 4:1 is the Japanese; they are considered one of the healthiest populations on the planet despite their incredibly high rate of cigarette smoking. The population of the United States consumes 19 times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3. This is the most likely reason we rank in the mid-30s in every measured health barometer. So what's so good about omega-3 and so bad about omega-6?
You see, omega-3 fatty acids are anti-inflammatory. Omega 6 fatty acids are pro-inflammatory -- they promote inflammation. An estimated 175 million Americans (more than half of us) suffer from one form of chronic illness or another, and I contend it's because we consume so much of our fat in the form of omega 6 fatty acids. So, striving toward health is not about decreasing our fat intake, but rather increasing the healthy fat intake.
According to the American Heart Association and the National Cholesterol Education Program, 80 percent of the fat we consume should be in the form of omega-9 fatty acids. I know you might be thinking, "Whoa, I thought we were talking about omega-3 and omega-6." We are, but a true conversation about fats cannot exclude the omega- 9s. This is especially important because many nutritional oil supplements promote a 3/6/9 pill -- and many unsuspecting customers are buying them, thinking they're doing the healthy thing in balancing their fatty acids. That is wrong -- and a deceptive marketing practice.
Bottom line, we need more omega-3s and omega-9s in our diets and almost no additional omega-6 fatty acids. The only one we may need is GLA, which we can get in the form of borage oil and then only for women with menstrual issues, in my opinion. We can't help but consume omega-6 fats when we eat in restaurants of any ilk because restaurants all use inexpensive oils mostly omega-6 fatty acids. Therefore, since most of us eat out several times per week, we are getting more than enough omega-6.
Another reason to go organic When we choose not to eat organic animal products or animal products fed with grain, we are consuming meats or eggs that contain more omega-6 than omega-3 fats. When the diet of the animal is changed, the fatty acid ratio of the food it produces is changed, too. To provide optimum nutrition, cows should be fed grass; chickens and other poultry, earthworms; and fish should swim in the sea, not be on farms and force-fed antibiotics.
Clearly, it is not always possible to eat this way due to sheer economics. Food produced in this manner is expensive, so we as consumers have to start demanding subsidies for farmers who produce organic foods. We also should begin to routinely search out local farms and support those who produce food in this manner. I live in one of the most congested cities in the world; yet, within two hours of my door, countless farms grow food in this way and I support them. That is what the Hamptons Diet is all about -- eating food that is local, organic when possible, minimally processed and in season. Now that The Hamptons Diet Cookbook, now reaching store shelves, can teach you how to eat deliciously in this manner.
Fatty acid recommendationsMy first recommendation is to consume more fish oils through supplements. But be careful to look at the nutrition facts and try to consume 1.5 to 3g EPA/DHA per day. You must look at the nutrition facts as the label will mislead you, and you may not be getting enough of the components of the fish oil that the body uses. Countless studies and many more in trial are proving the effectiveness of taking fish oils.
Here's a quick rundown of components you might find in supplements:
EPA protects us from heart attacks, sudden cardiac death, strokes, diabetes and even cancer.
DHA protects brain and nervous system function. It's especially important for children, as it helps their brains grow and their immune systems develop. In fact, this substance is added to baby formulas all around the world -- but not so much in the United States yet. In fact, the U.S. banned it from baby formulas until a few years ago. DHA in adults helps with antisocial behavior, attention deficit and Alzheimer's.
ALA, the vegetarian form of omega-3 fats, can be found in flax seeds and flax seed oil. However, the problem with taking flax as an adult is that the older we get, the more we lose the enzyme that converts ALA to EPA and DHA -- which are the active forms of omega-3 fatty acid in the body.
As far as food sources are concerned, cold-water fish such as mackerel and sardines (to name just a few) are rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Vegetarian sources include sea vegetables such as hijiki and arame, as well as walnuts.
Omega-9 fatty acids are best gotten from macadamia nut oil, avocado and olives. They are the richest sources. Olive oil can be used cold, but once it is heated above 300F, it begins to oxidize -- so I recommend that you use olive oil only cold in salads and macadamia nut oil for all your cooking needs, as it can be heated to 425F without oxidizing. (Plus, it's rich in antioxidants.) Eating an avocado per day also will increase your intake of these important fatty acids.
So, it is really quite simple to improve your fat intake by following the simple guidelines I have just outlined. If it is not in this article, don't consume the fat.
As in most things, balance is key. If we don't learn to properly balance our omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acid ratio, we will never get the major killers, such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes, under control.
Five steps to improve your omega ratio:
1. Eat more fish.
2. Use more EPA/DHA nutritional supplements.
3. Don't heat olive oil.
4. Use macadamia nut oil for heated uses.
5. Don't eat any omega 6 fats unless you're having difficulty with your menstrual cycle; that means no canola, grapeseed or other vegetable oils.
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I would also like to thank the staff for your due diligence in crafting the release before us today. My thanks go especially to Meredith Cross, Paula Dubberly, Katherine Hsu, and Eduardo Alemon for all the time you spent with me and my counsel. I greatly appreciate your thoughtful consideration of my concerns and all of your very hard work in getting us to today's open meeting.
I know that everyone's time is at a premium as we fulfill our many obligations under Dodd-Frank. So, let me highlight just two things about this proposal that are of particular interest to me.
First, I understand that there are various levels and types of reviews that may be performed in a securitization. Yet, what is not clear to me is what level or type of review will, in fact, be performed if our rules do not require any standard for that review.
Section 945 of Dodd-Frank lays out two areas for the Commission to engage in rulemaking - (1) requiring asset-backed issuers to perform a review of the assets underlying the asset-backed securities they issue and (2) requiring issuers to disclose the nature of that review to investors.
The release before us today does not propose a standard of review. But, we do make extensive requests for comments about a standard and will consider whether the rule should include one. My preliminary view is that we should impose a standard. However, I would like to hear what commenters have to say on this issue.
Second, we all know that the problems that occurred in the public asset-backed market were prevalent in the private market as well. Although certain of the rules we are proposing today apply to issuers of ABS in registered offerings and not issuers of ABS in unregistered offerings, I am very concerned about how the rules we adopt will impact the private market and whether any additional rulemaking can help address those concerns.
I know that not only are we under tremendous time pressure to move forward in implementing Dodd-Frank on a myriad of fronts, but you too, as commenters, suffer from that issue as well.
Given the critical role that securitization played in the financial crisis and the role that it can play in our economy's continued recovery, I ask that you please carefully consider our proposals and requests for comment. When you submit your responses, please tell us whether our proposals strike the right balance and give us your constructive suggestions as to how we can best carry out Dodd-Frank's word and intent in a pragmatic way.
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Innovative iPad Use in Liberal Arts
Recently, Dr. Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), put out a call on the NITLE listserv asking for examples of innovate iPad use by humanities faculty. I've attached a link to her presentation in which she gives a number of model use cases, including three by our very own University of Alabama faculty, Dr. David Michelson (p. 28), Dr. Jonathan Whitaker (p. 30), and Dr. Margaret Peacock (p. 36). I've also provided direct links to the posts on this blog that detail the iPad work that Dr. Davis referenced in her presentation.
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What is it with people throwing around cash in San Francisco these days?
First it was Tips for Jesus, the anonymous guy who went around leaving outrageous tips at restaurants. Now it's some guy or gal on Twitter with the handle @HiddenCash.
The Bold Italic reported Friday that a tipster called the website to say he or she — the website uses the pronoun "they" — was hiding money across San Francisco. The person put a $100 bill at an old phone booth outside a coffee shop and another under the key box at a yoga studio, and apparently there's more to come.
The money stasher said hiding spots will be announced on Twitter, like so:
New drop: Mint Plaza. Under the orange chair closest to Blue Bottle coffee. Tweet when you find it 🙂 pic.twitter.com/3uE7S7m8DH
— Hidden Cash (@HiddenCash) May 23, 2014
While this twist on hide and seek may seem a bit smug — perhaps a way to demean the poor by making them work for handouts, or maybe just a way to build a social-media following? — the money man or woman claims to be in it to do good.
The person claims to have made a fortune flipping homes and developed a desire to share the wealth. Apparently, the person has already given lots to charities like the San Francisco Food Bank.
Writers at The Bold Italic, wanting to make sure @HiddenCash was for real, asked the person to reveal where the money was hidden. They were given two locations, but they did not find the loot at either spot. @HiddenCash said someone likely beat them to the punch.
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David Wroblewski's first novel tells the story of a mute boy, his family, and his cherished dogs. With overtones of Hamlet and a beautiful style, it is one of the more distinctive debuts this year.
The Story: In the woods of Wisconsin, the Sawtelle family breeds a (fictional) variety of dog. Remarkably intuitive and clever, these dogs make the perfect companions for the young, mute Edgar Sawtelle, who communicates through sign language. Life on the farm becomes complicated, however, with the arrival of Claude, Edgar's estranged uncle. Though at first charming, Claude soon shows unmistakable signs of malice. When his brother (Edgar's father) dies under mysterious circumstances and Claude begins to woo Edgar's beloved mother, it becomes evident that something is rotten in the state of Wisconsin. Before the novel is over, 14-year-old Edgar will face ghosts, revenge, and the joys and sorrows of caring for man's best friend.
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"All this unfolds so surely and hypnotically that the reader forgets that the story is based on an old Shakespearian template. Reading it is like entering a long dream that won't let you out until it's ready." Kit Reed
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"The great novels do this—they strip away the world—and the reader re-enters the everyday as if surfacing from a depth. … This long novel begins slowly, back in 1919, but bear with it, because Wroblewski develops a hypnotic narrative, mounting in tension as Edgar's life ruptures and he flees with three dogs into the wilderness." Karen R. Long
New York Times
"[T]his is a great, big, mesmerizing read, audaciously envisioned as classic Americana. … The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is by no means Hamlet with hounds. This book's brief encounters with prophecy and the supernatural have as much to do with Mr. King's [Wisconsin] as they do with Shakespeare's Denmark." Janet Maslin
Washington Post
"The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is an enormous but effortless read, trimmed down to the elements of a captivating story about a mute boy and his dogs. … As the thriller elements of the story rise and propel it along, Wroblewski laces in signs of mysticism, sometimes a little too portentous, but usually just right." Ron Charles
Charlotte Observer
"[O]ver-clever parallels—Look, Ma, Hamlet with dogs!—too often undermine Wroblewski's genuine and considerable gifts. Yet it's a measure of those gifts that I still found myself thinking: Who cares if I'm a cat lover? I want a Sawtelle dog." Dale Bailey
Critical Summary
Critics one and all seemed much taken with this classic tale from America's heartland. The prose manages to be beautiful without blather, and the Sawtelle dogs—which even narrate the story at one point—are wonderful creations. Although most critics gave the book rave reviews, they disagreed about the novel's homage to Shakespeare. Some felt the Hamlet parallels were overdone; others praised those parallels but argued that the mysticism of the book was a bit much. None of these problems dog the book, however, and it remains one of the most praised (and hyped) recent debuts. One caveat: those who tear up easily should make sure the Kleenex is close at hand. For as every canine owner knows, the term "dog years" can be very bittersweet indeed.


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Cheetombe History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Anglo-Saxons. It is a product of their having lived in Cheetham, in the county of Lancashire. It is from the place-name Cheetham that the family name is derived.
Early Origins of the Cheetombe family
Lancashire at Cheetham, a township, in the parish and union of Manchester, hundred of Salford. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print. Now part of Greater Manchester, Cheetham dates back to the late 12th century and literally meant "homestead or village by the wood called Chet," from the Celtic word "ced" meaning "forest" and the Old English word "ham." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) The ancient archeological site Cheetham Close, a megalithic site and scheduled ancient monument is nearby and is generally thought to have been a druidical ritual place with a Roman road passed 'within two hundred yards' of the megalith. As far as the surname is concerned, one of the first records was Geoffrey de Chetham who was listed in the Assize Rolls of Lancashire in 1246. Over one hundred years later, Thomas de Cheteham was listed in Lancashire in 1394. [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X) Another branch of the family was found at Allerton in Lancashire. "At the time of the Domesday Survey, three thanes held 'Alretune;' which was in the possession of Geoffrey de Chetham in the reign of Henry III." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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Thousands of English families boarded ships sailing to the New World in the hope of escaping the unrest found in England at this time. Although the search for opportunity and freedom from persecution abroad took the lives of many because of the cramped conditions and unsanitary nature of the vessels, the opportunity perceived in the growing colonies of North America beckoned. Many of the settlers who survived the journey went on to make important contributions to the transplanted cultures of their adopted countries. The Cheetombe were among these contributors, for they have been located in early North American records: Samuel and William Chettum who settled in New England in 1748; Philip Chetham arrived in Philadelphia in 1811; Edward, James, John, Thomas, and William Cheetham all arrived in Philadelphia between 1800 and 1860..
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The Rock 'n' Roll San Antonio Marathon and 1/2 Marathon has announced its second annual Texas Showdown for Lone Star residents who are competing in the race.
The Texas Showdown is cool because it guanratees that, even though an out-of-towner may win the marathon, the fastest Texas runners will be recognized and even win cash prizes ranging from $500 to $2,000. There are separate prize categories for women and men and for the marathon and half-marathon.
To qualify, runners must have been a permanent resident in the state as of Nov. 15, 2008 — in other words, a full year before the 2009 race.
In addition, Texas women completing the marathon under 2:56 or the half-marathon under 1:17 and Texas men who complete the marathon under 2:31 or the half-marathon under 1:08:30 get a bonus of $350 if they don't win any prize money.
Free entries and accommodations are available for some qualifying athletes. Men who have finished a marathon under 2:43 or half-marathon under 1:13:30 and women who have finished a marathon under 3:07:20 or half-marathon under 1:24 in the last 12 months can submit a resume for consideration to Matt Turnbull before Oct. 1.
The prize breakdown and downloadable running resume are available here.
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FERN PARK — More than 20 tons of spaghetti sauce disappeared over the weekend in the theft of a parked trailer, Seminole County deputy sheriffs said Sunday.
The trailer, loaded with 43,000 pounds of Ragu spaghetti sauce, was parked Friday at the K mart shopping center on U.S. Highway 17-92, just south of State Road 436, Deputy Tom Wise said.
Truck driver John Cooper, 40, of 402 Eagle Circle, Casselberry, reported it missing about 4 a.m. Saturday, Wise said.
The load was being taken to a Winn Dixie store in Pompano Beach, Wise said. No value was listed on the sauce but the trailer was valued at $7,000.


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MT. ORAB — On his last day on the job as Western Brown's director of operations and transportation, Roger Taylor can breathe easily as ground finally broke on the solar energy project for the Western Brown School District.
The project has not been easy. It got underway four years ago with another company before the current provider, Solar Planet. That snag in the process delayed the start of their project, while another county school, Fayetteville-Perry, got theirs off the ground.
"We've been working on this process for so long, we actually started before Fayetteville (Fayetteville-Perry Schools), and because they got with Solar Planet first, they got done quicker. But we've been looking at this since 2011," Taylor said.
The project did not start with the intent to completely overhaul Western Brown's energy solutions. The project started small and grew into the major project it has become.
"We actually started with a behavioral energy program to cut our energy use in the schools with light plans, HVAC efficiency and then we thought, 'What can we do outside the norm to try to save energy?'" Taylor said.
He said the solar renewable credit market in Ohio made it advantageous for Solar Planet to undertake the project. The project cost Western Brown nothing to install and they have a 25-year purchase agreement with Solar Planet to buy their energy at half the current rate per kilowatt hour. Solar Planet is installing the project at no cost to Western Brown.
"This will save the district money over the next 25 years," Taylor said. "It will probably outlast everyone in the district office. It's going to be here for a long time."
According to Taylor, Western Brown was spending upwards of $50,000 per month on electricity between the buildings. Western Brown's savings comes in the form of the purchase agreement. With their current energy provider, they are paying an average of 14 cents per kilowatt hour. With Solar Planet, Western Brown will be spending 7.5 cents per kilowatt hour.
Spencer Lee, Solar Planet's general manager, said it was the largest project at any school Solar Planet had undertaken. The system is set to supply up to 70 percent of the school's energy at all three schools. The project includes four separate systems that are all grid-fed.
According to Lee, battery-fed systems are not practical for a project this size, but the technology is improving for battery systems that could lead to complete energy independence.
Taylor said the projects serves a two-fold purpose. Not only does it save the district money and free up money to be spent elsewhere in the school, but it allows students to get hands-on experience with solar energy.
"It's one of those things where they only learn about solar panels in textbooks," Taylor said. "It's something they can actually physically see and touch."
The project is set to be complete by October and be functional, with weather permitting, on the installation of the solar panels and system.