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A collection of player-created decks for Culdcept 3DS. From well-refined to just for giggles, they're here. Decks with the designation (HoF) are in the Culdcept Central Deck Hall of Fame and are acknowledged as exceptionally innovative at the time of their introduction. If you've created a deck you'd like displayed here, you can post it here in the forum.
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A Photograph of my youngest daughter. One of our boring days that led to some creative things. My other daughter Kaila' did her makeup
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April 4, 2013
Cell Therapy Could Become As Common As Mainstream Medicine
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
A new study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) reveals that treating patients with cells may one day become as common as it is now to treat the sick with drugs from engineered proteins, antibodies, or smaller chemicals. The team outlines their vision of cell-based therapy as a "third pillar of medicine" in an online edition of Science Translational Medicine."Today, biomedical science sits on the cusp of a revolution: the use of human and microbial cells as therapeutic entities," said Wendell Lim, PhD, a UCSF professor and director of the UCSF Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology.
According to the scientists, cell therapies have the potential to address critical, unmet needs in the treatment of some of the deadliest diseases. These include diabetes, cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases.
Cells can carry out functions that can't be performed by the small-molecule drugs produced by big pharmaceutical companies. Targeted drugs created by biotech firms in the wake of the genetic engineering revolution are not as effective as cells, either. Cells are adaptable, for example, and able to sense their surroundings. This allows them to vary their responses to better suit physiologic conditions, unlike today's drugs.
According to the researchers, continued advances in cellular engineering could provide a framework for the development of cellular therapies that are safe and predictable.
Michael Fischbach, PhD, assistant professor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy and an expert on the human microbiome, and Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, executive vice chancellor and provost at UCSF and a leading diabetes and transplant rejection researcher collaborated with Lim on the study.
The researchers have organized a symposium on the potential of cell therapy supported by UCSF and Science Translational Medicine, taking place April 12, 2013. It will feature talks and discussions by some of the nation's leading scientists in stem cell therapy, immunotherapy and the human microbiome. The microbiome consists primarily of the many hundreds of interacting species of bacteria that live within and upon us.
Cells were first used successfully in bone marrow and organ transplants over forty years ago. The strategies envisioned today, however, are more complex. They involve manipulating cells based on new knowledge of how genes program their development and inner workings.
Immune system cells are among those that carry out critical functions naturally. Researchers are working on manipulating these cells to create better-targeted and more effective therapies. Immune responses directed against cancer are often weak, for example, so populations of immune cells that target specific molecules found on cancer cells are being engineered and grown by researchers. These new experimental treatments are already credited with remarkable recoveries from deadly leukemia.
Therapeutic promise is also being seen in bacterial cells, which make up over 90 percent of the cells living within and on our bodies. These microbes interact with our own cells and affect our health.
The recent use of fecal transplants to introduce communities of health-promoting bacteria into patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infections, a serious gastrointestinal condition that can be life threatening, is a dramatic demonstration of the potential of bacteria to treat disease.
According to the researchers, combinations of bacteria that also are engineered to fight inflammation might prove to be even more effective in treating Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases.
Other applications for cell therapy could include combinations of bacterial and human engineered cells. Gut bacteria might be deployed to convert certain carbohydrates into non-digestible forms to control weight gain. These bacteria could also signal engineered human cells lining the epithelial walls to trigger a program that sends a message to the brain that appetite has been satisfied.
There are still many engineering and regulatory challenges to cell therapy. Reliable control of many aspects of cells are needed, including their activation, population growth, programmed death, migration to specific sites in the body, interactions and communications with other cells, production of small therapeutic molecules, and decision making.
Many scientists are leery of cell therapies because of the complexity of cells. However, this complexity might make such therapies more predictable than other drugs, according to the researchers, because complicated, naturally occurring feedback circuits tend to restrict cellular activity. Researchers ought to be able develop a systematic understanding of the cell's control modules to tune and reshape how cells behave just as cells already use molecular circuits to act very precisely.
"If small molecules and biologics are tools, then cells are carpenters – and architects and engineers as well," Fischbach said in a statement.


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I have never been an oil fan, as most of them are pretty messy and your skin feels oily forever afterwards. After using this, I have totally changed my mind. I have yet to use it on my face and hair (likely will never use it on my face), but I should try it on my ends. The smell is intoxicating and light and lasts for hours. Your skin absorbs it and stays soft and glowing.5
This product is so nice - I'd originally purchased it as a face oil, now am mostly using it on my body.
I wanted a dry face oil product, but didn't want to shell out $90-$100 on Algenist face oil (although it is totally luxurious) - was looking at the $40 pricepoint as an entry into face oil.
My only rub with it is that when you use it on your face, if the product gets on your lips, it tastes like poison.
So, I've shifted to using it on my body all over, and am very satisfied.
I was slathering thick body cream on, then have to heavily rub in white streaks, just to get general moisture on my dry skin. Now, I'll use a couple squirts and rub in to legs, arms, butt/tummy/breasts; and it takes a fraction of the time, and you feel moisturized.


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Meanwhile in court
The appeal court in London this morning met to consider an appeal regarding the case between Speed Investments Ltd & Formula one Holdings Ltd. This will determine whether the main case will go ahead at the end of the month as had been originally planned. The three appeal judges Lord Justice Carnwath, Lord Justice Neuberger and Sir William Aldous will be examining the decision made by Mr Justice Lewison, in July.
The main case concerns the control of the management of the companies in the Formula One group of companies which are 75% owned by three banks and 25% owned by a trust which is controlled by the Ecclestone family. At the moment Bernie Ecclestone has sole management control of the companies involved but his partners are challenging the way in which director have been appointed.
If the banks win the case, they will have the power to make decisions about the way the company is run.
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BT boost on FTSE
01/02/2013 - 10:22:42Back to Business Home
Telecoms giant BT led the FTSE 100 Index higher today after cost cutting helped boost third quarter profits by 7%.
The blue chip reported pre-tax profits of £675 million in the three months to December 31 and said it saw rapid growth in its broadband customer base, helping shares lift 4% or 9.8p to 258.4p.
The wider FTSE 100 Index was also making gains, up 30 points to 6306.9, after enjoying its strongest January for 24 years.
A disappointing final session of the month yesterday did not derail the new year rally, which saw the top tier rise by more than 6% – or 379 points – and add around £96 billion to the value of blue chip shares in January.
But sugar and ingredients group Tate & Lyle was suffering after its trading update confirmed that underlying third quarter profits were lower than a year earlier, although in line with expectations.
Shares in the Silver Spoon group fell 4% or 28.5p to 784p.
Elsewhere, bank note printer De La Rue was 3% higher after an update confirming that order intake has been satisfactory with some previously delayed orders having now been received.
Shares in the FTSE 250 Index firm rose 28.5p to 930.5p.


text: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:03:54PM +0100, John Marino wrote: > Assuming that the assertion that symbol lookup is slower than recursive > search is even true, one would still choose slower-but-works over > faster-but-broken. You can't bring up speed of compilation as a problem > when the entire pkgsrc wrapper system slows down native compilation by > an order of magnitude with a package like gcc. It is not an assertion. Symbol lookup *is* recursive. That is a very fundamental property of ELF. This is *not* about compile time. It is all about runtime. Joerg


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Bank of Taiwan Plans to Open First Branch in Shanghai As Ties Improve
Bank of Taiwan plans to open a branch in Shanghai to offer banking services to Chinese clients.
The move will follow the establishment of yuan business in Hong Kong last year, bank Chairwoman Susan Chang told reporters today in Taipei.
Bank of Taiwan aims to accelerate its expansion in China after Taiwan's government in March announced details of an accord to allow investment in financial companies across the Taiwan Strait, the latest agreement to underscore warming ties six decades after a civil war. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is seeking to deepen connections with the island's biggest trading partner to bolster an economic recovery.
Taiwanese banks, insurers and stock and futures brokerages will each be allowed to invest in one Chinese counterpart and vice versa, the Financial Supervisory Commission said March 16. Domestic banks will be allowed to invest as much as 15 percent of their net worth in China, while mainland banks can set up representative offices and branches in Taiwan, or acquire a maximum 5 percent stake in Taiwanese counterparts.
In response to rising Chinese tourists in Taiwan, Taiwan will offer cash withdraw services to Chinese Unionpay cards through automated teller machines from 18 banks in Taiwan by the end the month, Chang said.
Separately, Taiwan Financial Holding Co., the parent of Bank of Taiwan, doesn't have any share sale plan this year or next year, Chang said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Chinmei Sung in Taipei at email@example.com.


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Beautiful Recycled Art
- by Pavol Janovicek
- January 3rd, 2012
Today we'll be presenting an unusual collection of modern artworks. It's unusual mainly because the artists decided to transform unused stuff or let's say various garbage to beautiful artworks. If you'll check the collection you'll see it's really possible. One would think all those vinyls, magazines, semi-conductors, photos etc couldn't serve different purpose than they …Continue reading …


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(KSHB) Creepy clown accounts were the talk of the town Friday in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Multiple Facebook accounts set up for clowns contacted junior high students in St. Joseph, and even made a threat to the school district.
13-year-old Ethan Shipps was one of those students.
"They said they were going to the high schools and they were going to kidnap the kids and kill the teachers walking to their cars and stuff," he explained.
The district had extra police officers on its campuses, but said it didn't find any of the threats credible.
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In life, Tupac Shakur fought to get the struggles of young African-American men heard. In death, his work is being used to convey the same issues to a new audience — on Broadway. Featuring Saul Williams in the lead role, "Holler If Ya Hear Me" opens on Thursday and weaves emotionally complex stories of alienation around Tupac's songs for hip-hop's first jukebox musical.
"Part of the reason the show is staying away from being about Tupac's life is that his lyrics have broader impact," Daryl Waters, the musical supervisor, tells The Post. "The message of hope and love is not just confined to urban neighborhoods."
Although Tupac represented the West Coast in the gangster-rap divide of the 1990s, he was born in Harlem and relocated to California in the 1980s before being killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996.
Here, Waters reveals how four highly autobiographical 'Pac songs influenced him and the show.
1. "I Ain't Mad At Cha" (1996)
Released just two days after the rapper's death, the song addressed a friend (rumored to be fellow rapper Napoleon from Outlawz) who converted to Islam.
"It seems like I lost my little homie, he's a changed man/Hit the pen and now no sinning is the game plan."
Waters: "In the show, the character of John [Williams] is addressing a friend. They've had a beef, but he's saying, 'That all is behind us, let's move on.' I don't think Tupac's motivation . . . was too far from that."
2. "My Block" (2002)
This plaintive remix, one of several released posthumously, documents the isolation of inner-city life.
"My life is stressed and no rest, forever weary/My eyes stay teary for all the brothers that are buried in the cemetery."
Waters: "This is the springboard for the [show] opening, and Tupac's voice is spread among the cast — which shows how Tupac's lyrics speak for more than just himself."
3. "Dear Mama" (1995)
A huge hit in 1996, this was Tupac's moving open letter to his mother.
"It was hell, huggin' on my mama from a jail cell."
In the show, the character Vertus (Christopher Jackson) strays from the straight and narrow. After being implored to change by his mom, he sings this tribute.
Waters: "[Tupac's] mother, Afeni, was . . . very politically minded, and her black activism was a huge influence on Tupac all through his life."
4. "Me Against the World" (1995)
Tupac mixes defiance and vulnerability on this classic cut.
"I'm headed for danger, don't trust strangers/Put one in the chamber whenever I'm feeling this anger."
This is used after John's prison release, when he is awkwardly reunited with his girlfriend.
Waters: "It's about inner strength and having the ability to rise above. On the one hand, he doesn't want people to fear him, but he knows at the same time that he has huge personal challenges to overcome. He's strong and focused."


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Timing seems right for thoughts and memories about film critic Roger Ebert, stabbed to death when not looking on Thursday, April 4, by cancer - still the most despicable murderer of all time, a villain more evil than any conjured in any movie Ebert wrote about between 1967 and this, his final year.
I think, at the end, I was most pleasantly surprised that he apparently did not see, or feel, Death on his doorstep.
When I last read Ebert's words, two days before my wife, Jill, told me he had died, he was, of course, upset to learn that cancer had the gall to show up on his doorstep again after he and doctors had sent it packing.
Truer, he knew all too well who was the stronger.
Yet I smiled when reading that one of his fantasies was coming true.
Because of cancer's unexpected return, Ebert wrote, "I'll be able at last to do what I've always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review."
Do those sound like the words of someone who expected to momentarily leave us?
So yes, I hope his demise was quick and painless, as I would for anyone.
Yet, at the same time, cancer remains unfair. I do wish God had given Ebert at least a couple weeks to live out his aforementioned fantasy.
After sitting through so much cinematic flotsam, he had earned it - and, I had hoped, with the concession stand open and Chaz, his devoted wife of 20 years, at his side, her hand in his.
There is more to any employee's life than work, no matter how much anyone enjoys their job. That's why I mention Chaz, the trial attorney whom he married when he was 50.
They obviously were meant for one another, although, at times, I suspected that marriage might have softened his outlook on the movies.
But maybe I was wrong.
There was much I liked about Ebert. He was not afraid to change his ratings/opinions of films after a second or third viewing. There were times when his statements about movies reflected exactly what I felt:
� "No good movie is too long. No bad movie is short enough."
� "Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Ebert also wrote about the terrible way in which movies are judged, saying that for a movie to be a hit, it must win the box office race during its first weekend in theaters.
He wrote, "If a movie is not a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means mainstream Hollywood has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedies."
I also disagreed with him. He was bored by celebrity interviews. But what makes any interview interesting, whether the person interviewed is a celebrity or not, depends on research, questions asked and one's ability to develop enough trust to garner an honest answer.
Even Ebert has written fascinating features.
I saw Ebert many times at screenings. I met him only once, at what was then the USA Film Festival in Dallas. Our conversation lasted all of 10 minutes and I do not pretend to believe that he would remember a second of it.
He became a critic I admired, but I cannot say I have a favorite.
For a long time, I gave that status to Charles Champlin, of the Los Angeles Times, although that was, in part, because he wrote to me and encouraged me to continue writing film criticism.
There are many critics whom I enjoy reading. Ebert is one of the first who would write in first person. Reading Ebert was like conversing with a friend. You did not have to agree to enjoy your conversation.
Concerning death, Wikipedia prints a 2010 Ebert quote: "I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
"What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris."
In one of my very favorite questions asked of any critic, A.O. Scott asked Ebert what one movie would be shown on a continuous loop in heaven, and what snack would be served at no charge and free of calories.
Ebert replied, "'Citizen Kane,' and vanilla Haagen-Dazs ice cream."
I was about to say that I hoped heaven for Ebert would simply be good movies.
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Short Ends: Suri! Suri! Suri!
· What will the photos of Suri be worth? Not much! What do Tom and Katie have to say about anything? Not much! We really wanted to complete the Rule of Three with these "not much" links, but we're just too confused by this one to think up a way to finish the trifecta.
· What if the Banker from "Deal or No Deal" were Pat O'Brien? Everything in the world would be a little better, that's what.
Just a question: If we'd titled the earlier post today "Dead Buttons," would that have been in poor taste?
You know what? It is kind of funny when Chevy Chase calls his daughter a whore.
· The fictional character that Paris Hilton has created has decided to go on whore-hiatus (whoreatus?) for a year. So if you run into her at a club, don't buy her any drinks. She's not putting out.


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You might not have heard of Syntace but the German company has actually been making exceptionally high quality components for years now. I think 'understated German engineering' probably sums up what they do best. Their products have always been developed and tested to the highest level, yet they're not ones to shout about what they're doing. Maybe that's why you hadn't heard of them? Anyway, their new range of wheels look very interesting indeed…
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We'll start at the beginning…the reason why we, and so many others, love Stans's Flow rims isn't just because they offer an incredible strength to weight ratio, it's also because of their weight to width ratio. Before those rims came along it was very hard to find a decent light rim which also gave you plenty of width. Why don't you want a skinny rim? Well a wider rim brings about a whole number of benefits. You can run lower pressures without so much risk of pinch flatting, which of course increases grip. Studies have also shown that they can decrease rolling resistance. And another benefit is that it increases the volume of a given tyre and you get increased sidewall stability, which in turn both mean that for a certain level of performance you can run a lighter weight tyre.
Back in the day a 2.1″ tyre was considered pretty extreme for trial use, and lightweight trail rims were designed to be used with tyres up to that kind of width, but these days it's about as skinny as any of us would choose to run. The problem was though that many rim manufacturers carried on making their lightweight rims the same kind of width even though we were all starting to use bigger tyres. Thankfully a good handfull of companies are now offering more 'modern' alternatives, just like the Stan's Flow, and Syntace are the latest to join the movement.
The unique thing about these Syntace wheels though is that they're offering them with a choice of four different width rims, all of which are aimed roughly at the same kind of usage (think predominately trail/all mountain), but just optimised for different width tyres. Obviously the wider you go then the heavier and stronger the rims get, but the difference is far smaller than you'd normally find. So, essentially what Syntace are saying is that you should base your rim choice more around the size of tyre that you like to run rather than the kind of riding that you do. I reckon it makes sense. Even the heaviest of options is still very light when you consider the width.
You get a choice of 25, 30, 35 or 40mm external width and all of them are laced up upon some equally stealthy, and high quality Syntace hubs. These of course run on cartridge bearings and the rear hub features a 'spur gear' freehub mechanism similar to the one found in a DT hub. This has 36 teeth to provide fast engagement and unlike a more conventional design once one one of these teeth is engaged every tooth is engaged. This means that the hubs can deal with extreme levels of torque. It's worth noting that the freehub certainly isn't quiet, and the hubs are also available with an XX1 style freehub body.
Options really lie at the heart of these wheels as apart form the choice in rim widths you can also get each of them in a 26″, 650b or 29″ diameter, and get the hubs to fit any axle size (which can be easily converted at a later date if need be). Unlike any other company that I can think of Syntace have also decided to simplify things by offering all these many options at exactly the same price. So, no matter what rim and hubs you go for the overall price will be the same (front wheels are obviously cheaper than rears though).
The final thing that we really like about these wheels is that Syntace made a conscious decision not to do anything to whacky when it came to the spokes. With riders at the heart of the company they were all too aware of the problems that can be had when trying to track down a replacement spoke for some 'fancy' wheels and so they wanted to avoid that by using regular spokes, and a regular number of them too. I say regular, but that's actually doing them a diservice in this case as each wheel is built using Sapim CX-Ray spokes which are truly incredible spokes (and very expensive). In the unlikely case that one should break though then you can easily swap it out for just a simple plain gauge spoke, even if it's only temporarily. You also won't need any fancy spoke keys to do it either.
Overall then we like the approach that Syntace have taken, and we also really like the refreshing understated looks. We can't wait to get them fitted to a bike, but if they're anywhere near the quality that we've come to expect from Syntace then these could be pretty special wheels…
Price: Front £367.50, Rear £536.50
Example Weights:
30mm x 26″ rim on 15mm Front Hub: 730g
30mm x 26″ rim on 142x12mm Rear Hub: 805g
35mm x 26″ rim on 15mm Front Hub: 805g
35mm x 26″ rim on 142x12mm Rear Hub: 875g
40mm x 26″ rim on 20mm Front Hub: 885g
40mm x 26″ rim on 157x12mm Rear Hub: 955g
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FAIRFIELD, Conn., Aug 28, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GE [NYSE:GE] announced today the appointment of Peter Lefkowitz as chief privacy counsel, effective September 9, 2013.
Lefkowitz joins GE from Oracle where he served as vice president of privacy and security legal and chief privacy officer. In this role, Lefkowitz worked closely with Oracle corporate security on privacy and security oversight and compliance. In addition, he advised Oracle's internal business functions and product and services businesses on structuring and managing cloud services, responding to security incidents and maintaining required information protection systems, policies, standards, registrations and certifications.
"Peter is a great leader with deep operational experience," said GE Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brackett Denniston. "He brings to GE valuable skills in building secure capabilities and solutions, and we are excited to have him on our team."
Prior to joining Oracle in 1998, Lefkowitz clerked for the Honorable Robert E. Coyle, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. He graduated with a bachelor of arts in history from Yale College and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Lefkowitz is a member of the board of directors at the Jewish Family and Children's Services of Greater Boston and chairs Bet Tzedek Legal Services. He is also a member of the board of editors for the Boston Bar Journal.
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Week 13 NFL Picks: Use Your Illusion
Here's a Mr. Science moment from this here blog that you can actually use in your daily life. I'll try not to make it a habit.
Quick quiz. You are out somewhere in a noisy setting, and get a call that you have to take on your cell phone. Being unable to go somewhere quiet and unwilling to let it go to voicemail, what do you do?
Well, if you are like most people, you curl up into a ball, stick a finger in the ear that you aren't taking the call with, and have a thoroughly unsatisfying experience of not hearing the person who called you.
Believe it or not, there's a better way.
You see, our brains work differently than what we're trying to compensate for here. We do have the ability to focus on a single voice in a hubbub of other sounds; we do it for just about all of the speech that we hear, in natural stereo.
The phone companies know this, and have engineered the phone calls you get to not just be about the call. Both ends receive background noise, both from their own phone and the person they are talking to. It generally makes for a better call. Sticking a finger in one ear just means that you are going from stereo to mono, and makes the call worse.
So, if you are having trouble hearing the person you are speaking to, try this instead: cover the receiver. That will cut down on the background noise without losing the stereo effect, and give you more of what you are trying to hear.
A similar effect happens in this week's NFL picks. The short week requires focus and a distressing amount of thinking about the Lions. You can also add the sheer thankful knowledge that this is the last Thanksgiving you'll have to watch Andy Reid waddle his way around the field. Or, at least, so we all pray.
And with that, on to the ever-faster and faster picks!
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TENNESSEE at Detroit (+11)
We're really starting to get close to Perfection here, folks. Last week saw the Lions grab a big early lead against a mostly punchless Bucs team on the road. But displaying the true heart of an anti-champion, they seized the toilet bowl ring and flushed it with both hands. This week, they get the no longer perfect Titans at home, in their annual tradition of making everyone who watches NFL games wonder why in hell the Lions have to be on our television every year like this. It'll be as bad as always, but on the bright side, you won't have to watch very much of it at all.
Oh, and bonus points to LemDale White for freely admitting that if he's not getting carries, he's pretty much not paying attention to the game. Way to go, LemDale! With that attitude and your ever-increasing Fat Loadedness, you won't have to worry about watching many NFL games after, say, 2010. In Seattle, TJ Duckett is nodding with slow approval, content to know that his role as Last Fat Useless RB is secure.
Titans 24, Lions 6
Seattle at DALLAS (-13)
Everything is all better now in Big D! At least until they have to go on the road for a playoff game, completely crap the bed, then have Adam "That's Mister Spectacular Waste of Sperm and Dignity To You" Jones get into a slap fight for the ages with Terrible Owens. Tony Romo will attempt to play peacekeeper and bruise a hangnail, causing him to miss the entire 2009 season, leading to the complete and utter collapse of Jerry Jones' vast criminal enterprise.
But that's all *later*. This week, they'll pound the Seabags at home, because the Seabags never travel well even when they aren't horrible, and because the NFL always gives the Cowboys a bye on Thanksgiving. Them, and whoever plays the Lions.
Dallas 31, Seahawks 16
ARIZONA at Philadelphia (-3)
Is there a number I would not take the Cardinals at in this game? Well, it is a bad match-up for them, what with the long travel, short week, and opponent that is "best" at stopping the passing game. They also have a secondary that frequently gives up big plays, and a defense that's best at rushing the passer -- the one thing that the Eagles have been more or less good at preventing on a consistent basis all season long. And with Cap'n Andy "If There Is A Wrong Decision To Make, I'm Going To Make It" Reid going back to Donovan McNabb for the start in this one, maybe Number Five has one big final Last Hurrah And Screw You Fat Man game in him.
In talking about The Benching in IM the other day, site contributor Dirty Davey talked about the theory that Bloatboy Reid had to make the move because McNabb had permanently lost the locker room after the Chunky Super Bowl, and after Terrible Owens left town with his balls in one of those little Chinese hand exercise cases. Even if this *were* the case, however, didn't the Fatso GM do the Bloated Sack Coach a terrible, terrible disservice by keeping him around after that? Wouldn't it have been far, far better to move him on immediately afterwards, keeping the star WR and getting us to the next QB while Brian Westbrook was still, you know, a football player?
There is no way to spin the events of the last month to be anything but this: Andy Reid is trying to get fired. Asking for it. Begging for it. Expect him to show up in Week 14 wearing a tutu with diapers, under the theory that it makes his players feel young and pretty. Or that he's going to an All Wildcat offense, with AJ Feeley as his new star #1 WR. We're through the looking glass here, people.
Oh, and Tim Hightower vultures three touchdowns, and Boldin and Fitzgerald combine for 250 yards by being Big And Damned Strong; if you hated seeing what Plex Burress did to this team, you're really not going to like either of the the Cardinals' monsters. Perhaps a shootout, and maybe we'll see Andy finally eat his challenge flag. You know he wants to.
Cardinals 38, Eagles 27
San Francisco at BUFFALO (-7)
Great googly moogly, who saw 50-plus points coming out of the Bills on the road? Those I-AA Chiefs don't want anyone to forget that but for one slip-up against the Broncos, they'd be right there in the mix for Historically Awful Team, despite Tyler Thigpen getting twiggy with it for roto players. That's what you get when your defense consists of 11 guys trying to get a turnover, rather than, you know, play defense. Oh, and it also doesn't hurt that Herm Edwards is also attempting to see what he needs to go to get fired. Herm, I suggest some good pro-Nazi sentiments. It's extreme, but it'll get the job done.
For the Bills. Trent Edwards woke up just enough to make Lee Evans' roto owners put down the needle. Meanwhile, the Niners wasted early chances on the road in Dallas, then got torched on big plays en route to the big loss. Count on way too much attention from Chris Berman on this one, because the game meant something 15 years ago. For him, that's positively recent.
(Oh, and give me the home team, just because the West Coast Team is going to the East Coast time zone for a 1pm EST game, which makes them lucky just to put on their uniforms correctly, never mind play a football game. Honestly, NFL players on all West coast teams? You suck.)
Bills 24, Niners 16
INDIANAPOLIS at Cleveland (+4.5)
Oh, NFL, you so had your chance to evade the Manning Menace. Now here they are, 7-4 and with three very beatable teams in the next three weeks. They might not even be out of the division yet, if the Titans decide to gag up the Thanksgiving game. And they play the Browns in a game that's plainly shocking, seeing as it's not in prime time, with the home team flip-flopping between the not-ready Brady Quinn and the not-good Derek Anderson.
Can the Browns win this game by simply putting the ball on the ground 30 to 40 times with Jerome Harrison, rather than Jamal Lewis? Of course. Are the Colts really all that good yet, just because they squeaked out another last-minute win on the road last week in San Diego? Of course not. But what I wrote last week still holds; they are doing it with mirrors, and that's all you need when the opposing coach is highly susceptible. (For the record, I think Romeo Crennel is more of your classic backwoods rube, while Norv Turner is more of a paste-eating toddler. However, this is one of those things on which men of good conscience can disagree.)
Colts 27, Browns 17
Carolina at GREEN BAY (NL)
I heard that some honk over at the World Wide Lemur, as part of some dubious site betting game, would up losing out on a million dollar payday thanks to the Panthers spitting the bit against the Falcons last week. Now, far be it for me to laugh at another man's misfortune, but, um...
Seriously, dude? You put yourself in large jeopardy on the right arm of Jake Delhomme, a man that threw four picks against Oakland and had back to back games where he didn't break 100 yards, in a road dome? What's next, finding out what Chris Weinke is doing with his life and throwing some big dollars behind that? Heck, I'm sure Rich Kotite is just a shot of confidence away from turning things around at the Circuit City, too. (Don't tell him. He's really counting on this for the holidays.)
This week, the Panthers continue their Fraud Exposure road tour in Green Bay, where the Packers are coming off a turnover-fest loss in New Orleans that ruined all of their good momentum after a Bear crushing. I'm looking for the home team to immolate the weak road 'Cats with Mssrs. Rodgers, Grant and Jennings.
And by the way, screw all those people who want to see Giants-Jets in the Super Bowl. Give me Packers-Jets instead, if only so we can destroy any notion that Packer Fan really has much lingering good feelings over Saint Brett. Two weeks of effigy burnings and grilled pork products might provoke a spectacular arterioscleretic killing spree, but you don't break a media meme without breaking a few fatality records. (Of course, this also assumes the Packers actually make the playoffs, which is far from an even bet.)
Packers 31, Panthers 9
MIAMI at St. Loius (NL)
Back to the punk beating grind for the Dolphins, who didn't much like it when they had to step up in class for the Patriots last week in Miami. They've still got a puncher's chance for a low wild-card, which would honestly be a fine outcome after last year, thanks to their kitten-soft schedule.
As for the Rams, it's not like they are offering much up in the way of resistance these days. Could we see an interim coach firing this year? C'mon, Rams Management, give us something memorable for your NFL Films retrospective. I can just hear Harry Kalas now. "2008 was a season of transition... and transition... for the St. Louis Rams."
Dolphins 26, Rams 17
New Orleans at TAMPA BAY (NL)
If the NFC South has taught us anything -- and you can be excused from my season-long record here into thinking that it hasn't -- it's that home field matters a lot. If you could combine the Saints' offense with the Bucs' defense, you'd have the other top seed in the conference opposite the Giants, and a much more interesting conference championship opponent. Instead, you see what the relative value of offense versus defense, at least for the real world.
In this game, count on Jeff Garcia to dink and dunk his way to around 20 points, and for the Bucs to put the Saints into enough long third downs to force a mistake or two. Because as good as Drew Brees is, he's still a bit pick-prone. He'd have to be, considering that he throws the ball something like 50 times a game, isn't very tall, and relies on a million receivers to all run the right route.
Finally, there's this. If you think the Saints are on a roll now and going to rattle off a bunch of wins, consider that tonight's win over the Pack was the first time all year that they've won two games in a row. Time for Ugly to beat up on Fun. (Multiple jokes about my first marriage deleted here, in that ex-wife jokes say more about you than the ex.)
Bucs 24, Saints 16
NY GIANTS at Washington (+3.5)
One has to wonder, really, what it's like in Giant Land these days. Dallas is deluding themselves into thinking that a mini winning streak and a reinstated Adam Jones won't somehow combust in the playoffs. Philadelphia self-destructed with more drama than any sane man can stand. And here's the Redskins, suddenly looking gritty but ordinary again, starting mediocre wideouts and riding Clinton Portis too hard, because they have to for any kind of shot at the playoffs.
This game is another one of those lines that I don't quite get; this Giants team has done nothing but win, and more or less control every game they've played, with the exception of the increasingly inexplicable Browns loss. In this division game, they'll do what they always do; grind the opponent into a fine paste, and hear the lamentations of their women. You've got to respect that sort of thing.
Oh, and Jeff Lurie? Steve Spagnuolo would make for a fine next coach. Let's take a chunk out of this organization.
Giants 27, Redskins 20
Atlanta at SAN DIEGO (-5)
Here's one of those games that the Chargers win just to fool people into thinking they are some kind of sleeping giant of goodness. In reality, what they are is a team that is struggling with a terrible coach, an overrated running back, and a quarterback that seems to throw footballs laced with helium.
The Falcons are 7-4 and on the periphery of the playoffs; a road win here would be immense for them, and maybe I'm not giving them enough credit as road warriors yet. But in a Vengeance Game against his old team, I don't see Michael Turner getting it done, and the big Charger wideouts are a bad matchup for them. They've had a wonderful year, but they aren't ready to make it all the way to the playoffs in their first year.
Chargers 27, Falcons 21
Pittsburgh at NEW ENGLAND (-1)
After two straight 400-yard passing games, with a good mess of running yards added in, extremely stupid people are wondering if the Patriots would dare to choose Matt Cassel over Tom Brady.
Cassel is younger, cheaper and healthier, and if he somehow takes the Patriots all the way to the Super Bowl, maybe it's defensible. Besides, it's not like the Patriots aren't good and heartless. After this week's game, where the Steelers will fail to protect the quarterback, feel exposed on running back depth, and play close but lose, that dumbness will only grow. (Don't worry, Dreamboat fans. It'll stop when Cassel loses a home playoff game against a hot wild-card. I'm thinking that'll be the Colts, just to really make you hurt.)
Patriots 20, Steelers 16
'enver at NY JETS (-7.5)
The very worst division leader ever lost at home to Oakland last week, and no, it wasn't even close. Color me shocked, really, considering how bad the Raiders have been and how much the White Rat enjoys pounding them, but perhaps JeMarcus Russell isn't completely hopeless after all, especially when Darren McFadden has a spark. Or maybe I'm calling 'enver that for, well, a reason.
Feel free, if you want, to seriously reconsider those whole Jay Culter to Brandon Marshall is the new Tom Brady to Randy Moss meme that dumb people were pushing in the first month of the season. I have no idea what happened to Eddie Royal in this game, but from the little that I watched, the Broncos' offense consists of a quick hitting running play that doesn't get enough and two plays of Cutler throwing the ball all over the place.
The Jets are in rarefied air here, with a big home number to deal with, a growing amount of wildly premature Jets-Giants Super Bowl hype, and a tremendous running game in Thomas Jones and Leon Washington behind Faneca, Woody and other desperate men who are trying to make sure Saint Brett can't chuck his way out of a win. I don't think this will end well; Favre has, after all, ended his last 216 playoff appearances with back-breaking picks that people have somehow talked themselves out of remembering. But for this week, they're going to roll in a shootout (assuming the weather isn't crappy).
Jets 38, Broncos 24
Kansas City at OAKLAND (Now with an O!) (-3)
Somewhere out there, I am sure, there exists a sports gambler with a firm sense of conviction as to who to take in this dogfest. Clearly it's the home team, coming off the big road win in Denver, as opposed to the I-AA Chiefs, who somehow gave up 50+ points to a Bills team that looked like they were on their way to playing the third quarterback, just from having no better ideas.
But before you get too happy, Raider Fan, keep in mind that you are coached by a person that had no idea how to actually react to offensive touchdowns last week, and that the game is at home, in front of people who might not know how to act in the presence of an actual positive offensive performance.
Also, the Chiefs can score. They just can't defend anyone.
So, yes, I'm going with Oakland, but if you are putting real money down on this one, Seek Help. Quickly.
Raiders 27, Chiefs 20
CHICAGO at Minnesota (-3.5)
Both teams coming off good wins here, with the Vikes getting it done in Jacksonville while the Bears enjoyed their de facto bye in St. Louis. How hard was it for the men from Chi-town? There fans were called out for not making enough noise. In St. Louis. Yes, Rams Fan is not putting up much of a fight at this point.
As for the Vikes, they scored 30 points in a game where quarterback Gus Frerotte was 12 for 20 for 120 yards, a pick and no touchdowns. That's what you get when your defense scores early, and the home team gives you two turnovers on their first two plays. They held the Jags to 14 carries for 35 yards, got two touchdowns on the ground, and more or less just ground them into paste. But I don't like their chances of doing it to the Bears, if only because the Bears look like they can throw the ball enough to score 20 points... and the Bears are going to make Frerotte beat them.
Bears 23, Vikings 16
Jacksonville at HOUSTON (-3.5)
One of those MNF games that didn't even look good on paper when it was announced. Both teams are surprisingly poor this year, with the Jaguars' losing all semblance of predictability due to their banged-up offensive line, and the Texans' from the failure of the defense to develop the way they were expected to. It all adds up to more points than you might expect, especially since David Garrard is going to score like a top 10 quarterback this week... but it won't be enough. Too much Steve Slaton, and, more importantly, Andre Johnson.
Texans 34, Jaguars 27
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How, and when, was the scene where Cochrane shoots the Vulcan in the Mirror First Contact filmed? Neither IAMD nor ST8's pages say how it was done. Did they rebuild the set, or was it done as an alternative back when making ST8? – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 184.108.40.206 (talk).
- The film from First Contact was used (with the permission of James Cromwell and the man playing the Vulcan) up to the point where Cochrane pulls out a gun, where a body double was used(which is why you don't see his face there). 31dot 19:58, May 7, 2012 (UTC)
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Seattle-area home values plummeted 2/10ths of one percent in June, according to the well-regarded Standard & Poor / Case-Shiller Index.
Jan-08 181.62
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Mar-08 178.29
Apr-08 179.57
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Christopher Kent and Robert-Dean White completed a sponsored 13-mile hike from Harworth to Worksop in aid of Help For Heroes.
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CBC Montreal interview
We were interviewed about our studio, The Bottle Garden, on CBC Montreal show Cinq à Six with Jeannette Kelly in March. We rambled about analog recording, building the studio, and gossiped about bands who've passed through. We played some of our own music, as well as some artists who've recorded in the Bottle Garden (we couldn't play them all, unfortunately!) , including Lantern, Sheer Agony, TOPS, Jef Barbara, Moss Lime, and Exit Someone. We also got to play 'Song For Insane Times' by Kevin Ayers, as an example of one of our favourite recordings. He also mentioned that he loved playing video games with elo boosting services from http://elitist-gaming.com and other services he constantly gets from the P4rgaming site.
You can listen to the whole interview in the archives here.
There's also a short web writeup here.
2012 year-end lists
We in Freelove Fenner would like to extend a belated thank you to the following people/institutions that placed us on 2012 year-end lists:
Our cover of Chevalier Avant Garde's 'Mint' made #52 on Said the Gramophone's Top 100 Songs of 2012.
Pineapple Hair made #29 on CKUT 90.3FM's top 100 most-played of 2012 list.
Pineapple Hair also made #28 on cross-town friendly rivals CJLO 160AM's annual airplay chart.
Cool Regina DJ Amber Goodwin (of the rockin' Cobra & Vulture), host of CJTR's Natural Sympathies, put Pineapple Hair on her 'top 5 of 2012'.
Ghettoblaster magazine invited some artists to contribute year-end lists. Pineapple Hair was graciously included on San Fran artist, Jen Schande's top 10 of 2012 list. Here's what she had to say:
"Freelove Fenner – Pineapple Hair E.P. – Fixture Records
One of the best cassette tapes that has come may way in a long time. Worry not, they are bandcamp too, so you can hear their greatness if you are sans cassette player. My friend/bandmate Jim sent me a link to this band and I say thank you kind sir for that. They are slightly more poppy than what I usually listen to, but I really love what they're doing. It's stripped down '90s indie, with a pop bent, with really subtle psychedelic influence and the main vocals remind me of Amy Linton, which is a very, very, very good thing. The last release this band put out was in 2009, so I hope I don't have to wait until 2015 to see what they do next." -Hey thanks, we really like the Aislers Set.
One of our fav Japanese music bloggers, Forgotten Hall, ranked Pineapple Hair #6 on her list of best albums/EPs of 2012.
UK music site Shout4Music ranked us #10 on their Ones to Watch 2013 list.
Excellent Ottawa DJ Rocky LaLune of CKCU FM put Pineapple Hair on her year-end best of list.
Not a list per-se, but Melody Prochet (Melody's Echo Chamber) mentioned Pinapple Hair in her response to 'which albums have you been listening to on the regular in 2012?' here. We incidentally really dig her album as well.
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a nice blog post about our cover of the Postcard's (now Chevalier Avant Garde) "Mint" that we recorded for CJLO a few months ago…. lovely illustration…
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"I've had this song stuck in the periphery of my mind since first hearing it a couple of weeks back. Hailing from Montréal, all their songs have great melodies, early 90's lo-fi beauty, and this absolutely cool 'devil-may-care' attitude to them. Their soundcloud is worth checking out. I just want to live in the world where the music they make is the soundtrack." http://wunderfemme.tumblr.com
CKUT interview
Feb. 7 big group interview on CKUT90.3FM's NEW SHIT hosted by Amber Goodwyn in promo for the Passovah 4 year anniversary show. Interview with Caitlin, Charlotte Cornfield, Caroline Keating, Jamie Thompson, Erik Virtanen and the one-and-only Noah Bick…
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CKUT Montreal Sessions interview/photoz
Amber and Amanda from the CKUT music department came over for an interview and to snap a few photos in the Bottle Garden… find the whole thing–> H E R E
Caitlin filling out CKUT music department questionnaire…
Magic RPM comp
A previously unreleased track called Workshop appeared on a digital sampler in the March issue of Magic RPM, a music magazine from Paris….
Review in The Big Takeover
…review of In the Bottle Garden by Matt Lee for The Big Takeover…
The tones and colors of In the Bottle Garden are finely spun, whittled down to the barest interplay of pure unadorned melody. By avoiding the use of effects, Freelove Fenner manages to paint intricate and finely crafted vignettes that last in the mind and compel repeated listens. In the Bottle Garden is a creeper… a dark alleyway of an album that evokes and engages through understated and creative songwriting.
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In recent weeks, many PBS stations aired Ken Burns's latest film, a six-part series called The National Parks: America's Best Idea. The documentary chronicles the rise of the park concept and the often dramatic struggles to preserve—for the benefit and enjoyment of the people—some of the country's most spectacular scenery. The National Parks devotes significant attention to the ways in which both naturalists and ordinary people have responded to nature and the parks over time, which inspired me to think about the sizable group of paintings in American Stories that feature figures in landscape settings. In fact, I was struck by how much the paintings resonate with the same ideas about the American wilderness that are brought out in the documentary.
It's worth a brief interruption to mention that paintings of pure landscape, such as those by the artists of the Hudson River School, are absent from the exhibition. To be sure, landscapes can and do tell stories—sometimes truly extraordinary ones—but the works included in American Stories focus on figures and the everyday human dramas in which they participate.
One of the most extraordinary paintings of ordinary life in the exhibition is George Caleb Bingham's Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, seen here:
Above: George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811–1879). Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845. Oil on canvas; 29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933 (33.61). Photograph © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The rugged father-and-son team, accompanied by a bear cub, are in tune with and reliant on nature, floating down a river past a calm and pristine landscape that is unmarred by signs of development, or even of other people. By 1845, the year that George Caleb Bingham finished and exhibited this painting, the simple way of life he depicted had already begun to disappear in the wake of increasing development and industrialization. Calls for federal protection of American lands began as early as the 1830s, and Bingham was no doubt keenly aware of the nostalgia that urban Easterners—his target audience—felt for the rapidly vanishing frontier. (This nostalgia also provided additional support for the burgeoning conservation movement, as The National Parks points out.) In the same way that Bingham cast a longing glance backward, freezing a moment in time, proponents of protected natural reserves strove to halt the encroachment of industrial development on scenic tracts of land.
William Sidney Mount's Eel Spearing at Setauket is, like Bingham's painting, a view of "the good old days." In this case, the painting was created to appeal to a specific patron's nostalgia for his childhood:
Above: William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868). Eel Spearing at Setauket, 1845. Oil on canvas; 28 1/2 x 36 in. (72.4 x 91.4 cm). Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York (N-395.55). Photograph: Richard Walker.
This scene of figures fishing off the shore of Long Island was commissioned by George Washington Strong, a wealthy lawyer who had spent his boyhood near the island's north coast. Mount also grew up in Long Island and likely shared his patron's wistful feelings about this particular scene. But as we know from his writing, the artist sought to communicate something more than just nostalgia in his paintings. In a diary entry from the mid-1840s, Mount wrote:
There has been enough written on ideality—and the grand style of Art etc—to divert the artist from the study of natural objects. For ever after, let me read the volume of nature—a lecture always ready and bound by the Almighty.
In the same way that the boy in Mount's painting learns the ways of nature from an adult companion, we may imagine that the artist is seeking to understand the presence of the divine in the stillness and serenity of nature. The Emersonian concept of finding God in the outdoors was pervasive in the nineteenth century, and, as The National Parks tells us, fueled the notion that nature is restorative. The film presents Stephen Mather, the first National Park Service director, as a striking example of someone who warded off debilitating bouts of depression by spending time out of doors.
In American Stories, figures enjoying the restorative powers of nature can be seen in works by William Merritt Chase and Thomas Eakins:
Above, from left to right: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916). Idle Hours, ca. 1894. Oil on canvas; 39 x 48 5/8 in. (99.1 x 123.5 cm). Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (1982.1); Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916). Swimming, 1885. Oil on canvas; 27 3/8 x 36 3/8 in. (69.5 x 92.4 cm). Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchased by the Friends of Art, Fort Worth Art Association, 1925; acquired by the Amon Carter Museum, 1990, from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth through grants and donations from the Amon G. Carter Foundation, the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, the Anne Burnett and Charles Tandy Foundation, Capital Cities/ABC Foundation, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The R. D. and Joan Dale Hubbard Foundation, and the people of Fort Worth (1990.19.1).
Chase's painting depicts members of his family relaxing by the seaside in Southampton, Long Island. Although the family lived most of the year in New York City, they retreated to the countryside during the summers while the artist taught at the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art. The landscape in Chase's painting is not a national park, but the figures—especially the girl in the blue dress sprawled across the grass—seem to enjoy the same sense of relief from the stresses of urban life that visitors to Yellowstone and Yosemite might. Similarly, Eakins's swimmers, who have retreated from the city of Philadelphia to the countryside, enjoy a moment of outdoor leisure. Their nakedness also suggests that they've recovered in nature an elemental part of their humanity that's not accessible to them in urban society.
In addition to the nostalgia and restorative properties associated with nature, The National Parks describes the hold that the wilderness has on the American imagination. In 1871, readers of Scribner's Monthly were captivated by Truman C. Everts's serialized account of being stranded in Yellowstone for thirty-seven days and surviving encounters with a mountain lion, a snowstorm, and burns from the steam of a hot spring. In the 1880s, inspired by the park's geysers and boiling mud pots, and taking advantage of the popularity of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, railroad companies marketed Yellowstone as a "New Wonderland." (See the Southern Methodist University website to learn more about one of the brochures featured in National Parks.)
Several paintings in American Stories, including Frederic Remington's Fight for the Water Hole, demonstrate the power of landscape to capture the imagination. In this work and others, the artist appealed to Easterners' fantasies about rugged life in the West, shaping ideas about the frontier experience that would go on to inspire John Ford and other directors of early Western movies. Consider also these two paintings in the exhibition, which depict figures who are entranced by their natural surroundings:
Above, from left to right: Lilly Martin Spencer (American, 1822–1902). Reading the Legend, 1852. Oil on canvas; 50 3/8 x 38 in. (128 x 96.5 cm). Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Gift of Adeline Flint Wing, class of 1898, and Caroline Roberta Wing, class of 1896 (SC 1954:69); Jerome B. Thompson (American, 1814–1886). The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain, 1858. Oil on canvas; 38 x 63 1/8 in. (96.5 x 160.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1969 (69.182). Photograph © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In Lilly Martin Spencer's work, a young couple enjoys reading a book in nature. While the text they read no doubt plays a primary role, the fact that they are outdoors allows their imaginations to roam so freely that the romantic ruins of a castle have materialized in the background. Similarly, Jerome B. Thompson's depiction of a group of young men and women presents them as so enraptured by the beauty of the mountainous Vermont landscape that they have failed to begin the journey home while there is still daylight.
I hope that visitors to the exhibition will be just as captivated as I am by the stories that artists tell about figures situated in the American landscape. I welcome your observations and comments here, and encourage you to watch The National Parks, if you haven't already.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Sharks could be shuffling forwards on all but one of their lines as they try to keep their losing streak from reaching three games when they play the Minnesota Wild on Sunday.
Coach Todd McLellan did not disclose his plans for Matt Nieto and Freddie Hamilton after the two players were brought up from Worcester, but word in the locker room was that Nieto was playing with Tommy Wingels and Andrew Desjardins while Hamilton was skating alongside Tyler Kennedy and James Sheppard.
With it unlikely that the Sharks would break up their top line of Joe Thornton, Brent Burns and Tomas Hertl that would appear to move Joe Pavelski up to the second line with Logan Couture and Patrick Marleau.
McLellan did make it clear what was expected of Nieto and Hamilton, both of whom were on the season-opening roster in San Jose.
"I hope they inject some energy into the lineup and I know both of them play fast," McLellan said. "We've lacked in both of those areas the last two nights and we'll give both of them an opportunity to try and jump-start the group."
He added he knew "it's a lot to put on two guys to come in and reignite the team, and we can't expect that completely from them. It's just about holding some people accountable and creating some honesty."
The shuffle is likely to sideline Marty Havlat and John McCarthy. McLellan suggested that injuries, as well as recent performance, could be a factor in his lineup decisions.
Both Nieto and Hamilton are coming off a strong showing in Worcester's 8-2 win Friday night over the Portland Pirates in the AHL. Nieto had a five-point night with two goals and three assists while Hamilton chipped in with a goal and two assists.
"Bounces were going our way and we were finding ways to get it in the net," Nieto said.
Nieto, who had six points in 19 games with the Sharks earlier this season, said the coaching staff told him they wanted him playing more minutes when he was sent to Worcester, though it came at a slow time in the development team's schedule.
"They wanted me to get some confidence back in my game," Nieto added. "I'm feeling good and I'm ready for tonight."
Hamilton, who didn't register a point in four games with San Jose in his earlier stint, said he knows what he's expected to bring to the lineup.
"Just play fast and play hard and try to bring some energy," he said, adding his past time with San Jose makes him feel more comfortable.
McLellan talked about the threat posed by the Wild, particularly the top line of Mikko Koivu, Zach Parise and Jason Pominville. But the Sharks coach said his own team presented bigger challenge.
"The biggest challenge for our group is our group. It's not so much Minnesota," McLellan said. "With all due respect to them, it's our group figuring out what they need to do and how they want to do it."
BOX — The problem that placed forward Mike Brown on injured reserve this weekend is a lower body injury.
"I think it's just something that happened over time. I'm not sure," Brown said. "I think it's a quick fix, I hope it's a quick fix. I guess we're going to figure something out when we get home. It's all we can do now."
He said he thought it was simply a matter of rest, but didn't rule out a possible procedure.
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him at twitter.com/@PollakOnSharks.


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| Guest chapter 8 . 10/17/2014
Awww. I loved this.
| Kittylover chapter 8 . 2/16/2013
I loved this! From the little boy Ben to his grandmother the ghost. So wonderful.
| Guest chapter 8 . 12/18/2012
Drama, suspence, love, romance and a little bit of good old fashioned ghost story. You had it all in this and it's a fantastic story.
| Beverlly chapter 8 . 11/23/2012
this is one of the most awesome and heartfelt stories I have read. Just excellent. A mothers love is forever. So flawlessly done. Congrat to the both of you. Singerme you never ever disappoint!
| LadyofDodge chapter 8 . 10/25/2012
I don't usually read stories where Matt and Kitty are married and have children, but for some reason I chose to read this one tonight, and I'm glad I did! You wrote little Ben just right, and I love his unquestioning acceptance of the ghost.
| Guest chapter 8 . 10/19/2012
I love ghost stories and this was a great one. Absolutely love the little boy you gave Matt and KItty. I can imagine if they had of had kids thats the kind they would have had.
| mahc chapter 8 . 10/15/2012
Ah, so the spirit is a good one. Nice that Kitty's mother is looking after her - after all of them. She and Matt don't need to leave the window open when they are, um, intimate! That breeze might not be just a breeze!
| lilyjack00 chapter 8 . 10/9/2012
Aww, that was such a satisfying ending. A little closure for Kitty. But now I wanna go break out my ghost stories and read 'em all! Thanks for the fun Halloween story.
| Guest chapter 8 . 10/9/2012
Wow. That was different. Nice Halloween story.
| tengland2 chapter 8 . 10/9/2012
Lovely conversation between Kitty and her mother. Put some issues to rest between them. Benjamin got to see her one last time as well. Sorry to see it end, but was a very GOOD read.
| anotherredhead chapter 8 . 10/9/2012
Did it again...forgot to log in. Last guest review was me.
| tengland2 chapter 7 . 10/9/2012
The gun and the voice, got the impression Kitty wondered if it could be her son's lady. Nicely done with the simple converation and Sarah's confession. Glad the family is back together. Glad Kitty and Benjamin found the Lady together, giving them some thing to share. Soooooo sweet.
| Guest chapter 8 . 10/9/2012
Nice job, singerme. As someone who is still very close to her mom, I love that Kitty got to experience that relationship again, if only briefly, as an adult. My mom is almost 80 and her mom is 102-I believe it's an eternal bond.
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Love your story. The lady must be someone really special. The concern, compassion, and love she has for Benjamin is awesome. When she calls him Mon Cher' makes me think that she may be from Kitty's past.
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