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A Rare Symbiosis
The German painter and writer Hans Werner Geerdts has been living in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh for more than sixty years. His art has made its presence felt throughout the country. Christoph Leisten presents this portrait of the artist on the occasion of his eightieth birthday
There are many good reasons which might lead an artist to make his home in a foreign country. In our day and for artists from western cultures, a yearning for something entirely different from what they're used to may often have a lot to do with it.
An involvement with the unfamiliar can lead to major artistic innovations, but it can also lead to a kind of cultural invasion and occupation: all too often one's own culture will be thoughtlessly imposed on the unfamiliar, so that the unfamiliar culture may be sucked dry, rather than absorbed.
What emerges may be a bland art stuck somewhere between the two worlds, an art which lacks cultural authenticity as much as it lacks personal truthfulness. Those are big words, but it's exactly those qualities of authenticity and truthfulness which are not lacking in the work of the artist and writer Hans Werner Geerdts, who has been living in Marrakesh for decades.
Inspired by Djama el Fna
When his eyes fell for the first time on the famous Djama el Fna Square over forty years ago, Geerdts knew he would stay. Geerdts was born in the northern German port city of Kiel, studied with Willi Baumeister, one of the most important exponents of abstract art in post-war Europe, and then went on his travels throughout the world—through the Middle East, Japan (where he studied Zen painting), Australia and South America.
In 1963 his travels ended in Marrakesh, long before the beatniks and after them the in-crowd discovered the city. What Geerdts found in Marrakesh was an incomparable variety of ways in which people present themselves. After his period of searching throughout the world, it seemed to him like an oasis of humanity in the midst of a crude post-war reality.
Since then a rare symbiosis has emerged from Geerdts's work. Inspired just as much by the prehistoric cave paintings of the High Atlas Mountains as by the crowds of people gathering around the story-tellers and musicians on the Djama el Fna, Geerdts uses a palette knife to throw his draughtsmanlike figurations on to a coarse coat of primer, creating a tachiste style in which aspects of the informel seem to be reconciled with the figurative.
But just as the initial impulses of his art make a connection between the earliest history of humankind and the present time, so his art in its entirety offers a link between the worlds. Geerdts's art is successful because it's imbued with a fundamental respect for the Maghreb culture in which he lives, as well as by the concept of encounter with the world.
Even in the allusive sketches of crowds which are at the centre of his work, the individual is preserved—in all his colourfulness, nuance, varied movement.
A mediator between cultures
Geerdts has been recognised not least for his work with authors like Juan Goytisolo and Rolf Italiaander. Many of his works are in the collections of the world's major museums.
But it probably means more to him that UNESCO changed its statutes in 2001 specifically to allow it to declare the Djama el Fna Square and the activities which take place there (which have become the centre of Geerdts's life) the world's first immaterial heritage site.
With his commitment over decades to a greater understanding for Islam, Geerdts has become a mediator between the western world and the Maghreb. It's a process which is documented not only in his paintings but also in his books, which have been appearing since the seventies.
Geerdts creates a convincing, multi-facetted picture of Moroccan reality in his sensitive stories, sketches and poems.
A role model for Moroccan artists
Geerdts's art has become an inspiration and a role model for many young Moroccan artists. If one travels through the country, uncovering the variety of young Moroccan contemporary art, one will often be able to make out evidence of the influence of this German painter who started to create an idiosyncratic but enduring oeuvre decades ago in the Medina of Marrakesh, at a time when the fine arts in Morocco were only a shadowy presence.
Geerdts has, without making much of a fuss about it, often opened the doors of his studio to young artists, to reveal the world behind it, a universe of colour, form and figuration.
While looking for that something entirely different for himself, Hans Werner Geerdts has for decades been showing others the way. He doesn't push his views on others, but pursues his own art both modestly and persistently, keeping an eye open for the creativity which is all around him.
Celebration on the Grand Square
On January 23rd, Hans Werner Geerdts celebrated his eightieth birthday in the centre of Marrakesh, not far from Djama el Fna, the square which has become for him a metaphor of humanity.
Neither the beatniks nor the in-crowd were there—only his friends and those involved in art from all over the world. They were honouring a man in whose work Western and Maghreb culture meet in the most striking way.
Christoph Leisten
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Translated from the German by Michael Lawton


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PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Cement maker Lafarge LAFP.PA and miner Anglo American (AAL.L) have agreed to sell British assets for up to 285 million pounds ($452 million), clearing the way for a building materials joint venture in the country.
The sale, to Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, was a condition set by Britain's Competition Commission to allow the two firms to combine their building materials activities.
Lafarge and Anglo said on Friday they would sell a number of construction materials operations in Britain as well as Anglo unit Tarmac's 50 percent interest in Midland Quarry Products, one of the UK's main suppliers of hard rock and asphalts.
Nomura analysts said the deal could be seen as a positive for investors fretting over a potential rights issue at the Mittal family's debt-burdened flagship asset, ArcelorMittal ISPA.AS, the world's largest steelmaker.
"Spending $450 million on construction material assets now does not necessarily sound like someone who is thinking about imminently piling in a few billion dollars into his steel business as part of an equity raise," they said.
Anglo, refocusing on core mining activities, struggled for more than three years to find a buyer for Tarmac before agreeing last year to a joint venture with France-based Lafarge's British cement, aggregates, concrete and asphalt businesses.
The price for the assets, which include one of the UK's largest cement plants, includes up to 30 million pounds contingent on future performance.
A Lafarge spokeswoman said the company would receive around 160 million euros ($205 million) from the sale of its British assets, which it would use to cut its debt.
She added that with this deal, Lafarge had raised nearly 650 million euros from asset sales this year against a target of at least 1 billion euros.
The French company has been shedding non-core assets and refocusing on its cement and concrete business after the debt it racked up to acquire Middle Eastern cement maker Orascom in 2007 led to the loss of its investment-grade credit rating last year.
Britain's Competition Commission began looking into the proposed venture, which would have rung up annual sales worth 1.8 billion pounds ($2.9 billion) in 2010, after the tie-up was challenged by the country's consumer affairs watchdog, the Office of Fair Trading, in September last year.
Lafarge's Hope cement plant in northern England is one of the largest in Britain, and regulators hoped its sale will bring in a new player to maintain the current level of competition. The UK cement market is dominated by Lafarge, Tarmac, Cemex CMXCPO.MX and HeidelbergCement's Hanson (HEIG.DE).
Lafarge shares were up 0.2 percent at 45.72 euros on the CAC40 index .FCHI in early trade, while Anglo American was trading 0.3 percent higher at 1,695 pence on London's FTSE100 index .FTSE. ArcelorMittal shares were 0.1 percent higher.
Additional reporting by Astrid Wendlandt and Gilles Guillaume; Editing by Christian Plumb and Mark Potter

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Defending Health Care in 2017: What Is at Stake for Oregon
With a new president and Congress, the health care gains made throughout the last six years face their greatest threat yet. Congress has voted more than 60 times to roll back the historic progress that has been made to expand health coverage to millions of people in this country and to improve coverage for those who already had it. These proposed changes will put the health—and lives—of countless Oregonians at risk. Here's what Oregon stands to lose if the new president and Congress move forward to upend our health care system:


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Secure your wireless connection
Almost all newer laptop computers as well as tablets, smart phones, video game consoles and home entertainment systems utilize WiFi as a primary or secondary method of connecting to the Internet or some other network. According to published reports from several sources, the majority of home Internet users have some form of WiFi in their homes, and WiFi is very commonly used in business, commercial and academic environments. While the basics of WiFi security apply to almost all WiFi networks, home users have become especially vulnerable because many have never implemented anything more than the minimum default security settings when installing and setting up the hardware.
The Wi-Fi Alliance (www.wi-fi.org) defines WiFi as "wireless local area network (WLAN) products that are based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) 802.11 standards." WiFi is a fancy radio device that sends and receives streams of data through the air, just as any other two-way radio device. As consumers, we often see the presence of WiFi in terms of its standard designations, such as 802.11b, g, or n (as in 802.11n), each of these terms indicating the speed, bandwidth and channels available under those industry standard protocols. While new speeds and protocols are always being developed and tested, the fastest and most powerful of the current widely available standards is 802.11n, which is capable of a theoretical speed of 540 Mbps. A portion of the standard provides for downward compatibility, meaning that devices made for one of the newer standards, such as the "n" standard, must also be capable of communicating with lesser devices, such as the "b" and "g" standard devices.
For home use, most of us have some form of WiFi access point, typically either a free standing device directly connected to the Internet, integrated with a wired (ethernet) router, integrated with some form of modem (common with cable and DSL Internet services), or as a combination unit of "all of the above." In my home I have a major name-brand integrated unit that combines a broadband modem, 4-port router (four Ethernet ports for Ethernet cable connected devices), a USB port to connect a printer or other USB devices to the network, and an 802.11n wireless WiFi with MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output technology) for improved performance. Purchased from one of the big box electronics stores for about $70, my multi-function device replaced the less-capable modem supplied by my Internet service provider (ISP), and offers more features, speed and security than the one provided by my ISP.
For me, enhanced security was one of the primary reasons for replacing the older modem provided to me from my ISP just a few years ago. This broadband WiFi modem from my ISP incorporated the mid-speed 802.11g wireless access point with archaic security and encryption capabilities. Being fully cognizant that home (and business) WiFi networks are common targets of hackers and crackers, I wanted to harden my system from attack, and the newer integrated WiFi access point offered far superior protection than did my ISP provided unit.
One of the first requirements of a reasonably secure WiFi network is to implement the best encryption available on that particular device, such that unauthorized individuals who pick up the WiFi signal will only find random garbage, rather than a useful stream of data. Since only WiFi devices with the proper encryption key can exchange readable data, enabling the best type of encryption compatible with both devices (access point and remote device) will help protect the personal WiFi network from intrusion. Unencrypted WiFi leaves the entire network open to attack, which can be used to steal personal data, passwords, user names, credit card information, and other information that can be illicitly used for a variety of malevolent purposes, including identity theft. At a minimum, an unencrypted home WiFi network works like a free open network at a coffee house, where anyone can "leach" (steal or otherwise use) your Internet access, slowing your connection as the crooks use your bandwidth. This "leeching" or theft of Internet service may lead to unintended consequences, as it is not unknown for illicit drug dealers, pedophiles and child pornographers to use an innocent person's unprotected WiFi in order to conduct their evil enterprises; if law enforcement tracks the bad guys, it typically leads to the innocent WiFi owner, rather than the miscreant who purloined the system.
A common game of hackers and crackers is "War Driving" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_driving) where people with WiFi computers and some readily available software drive around an area picking up and recording the locations of all detectable WiFi networks, and posting the locations on a GPS coordinated electronic map. Even Google compiled a massive listing of WiFi networks as its specialized vehicles travelled up and down virtually every street in the country for its Google Maps "Street View" service, creating a massive firestorm with privacy and security specialists. While Google has graciously removed public access to its "war driving" database, there are a myriad of Web sites that post the maps and data found by amateur War Drivers, such that anyone can easily locate and tap into an unencrypted WiFi system. The simplest iteration is to use chalk on the side of a building or sidewalk to show the presence of a vulnerable WiFi system, telling anyone on the street about the unfettered broadband Internet access, compliments of an often unwilling provider.
Virtually all WiFi access points offer some form of encryption. During the initial setup of the WiFi system, the user is often requested to select an encryption method, or else "no encryption" is often the default setting, making the network accessible to anyone within range. On most contemporary home WiFi access points, WPA-2 is the best of the commonly available encryption methods, but is slower and requires more computing resources then WPA; except for the most bandwidth intensive uses, the majority of users will not really notice the slightly slower performance of WPA-2.
Another security trick embodied in almost all WiFi access points is the "Hide SSID" setting. SSID means "Service Set Identifier," also called "Network Name." At a minimum, the user should change the network name to some meaningless name that is not readily connected to the particular system. Hackers can easily break into networks that are only using the factory default settings. An even better trick, if available on the WiFi access point, is to totally hide the SSID, meaning that the network name is not openly transmitted, and only those in range who know the network name can connect to it. While not foolproof or totally secure, hiding the SSID is a simple way to make it more difficult for hackers to find your network.
Another feature that can be enabled to restrict unauthorized access to your home network is "MAC address filtering" (Media Access Control). Every device that can connect to the Internet has a unique MAC address, usually a series of about six two-digit alphanumeric characters separated by periods. While MAC addresses can be counterfeited or spoofed, filtering only allows selected devices, as indicated by their individual MAC addresses, to access the network. By entering the authorized MAC addresses into the filter and enabling the filter, only those approved devices can connect to the network. Likewise, the filter can prevent specific devices from accessing the network.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — For a general manager who entered the day without a draft pick, Bob Myers of the Golden State Warriors was awfully busy at the end of the first round on Thursday night.
The Warriors made three deals in a dizzying stretch that ended up with them taking Serbian guard Nemanja Nedovic with the 30th overall pick and giving up $600,000 and a 2014 second-round pick to do it.
"It all happened pretty quickly, but we're happy with the result," Myers said.
Getting there wasn't simple. The Warriors first acquired the No. 26 pick from Minnesota along with guard Malcolm Lee for $1.6 million and a 2014 second-round pick. They then traded No. 26 to Oklahoma City for No. 29, getting $1 million in the transaction.
Finally, Myers dealt the 29th pick and the rights to Lee to Phoenix and took Nedovic with the final pick of the first round.
Myers said he first saw the chance to get into the first round after Minnesota added two picks in an earlier deal. He felt comfortable moving down after that without sacrificing the chance to get the player he wanted in Nedovic.
"It's very unique and rare to be able to get a first-round pick without giving up a first-round pick or player," he said. "We jumped at that opportunity."
Nedovic, 22, played in Lithuania last season, averaging 9.8 points and 2.1 assists for Lietuvos rytas in 10 Euro League games. Nedovic, listed at 6-foot-3, 192 pounds, played the previous three years in Serbia.
Myers said the Warriors hope Nedovic will be able to join the team for summer league games in Las Vegas next month and expects him to be in the NBA either this season or next season.
"We like a lot of things about him," Myers said. "We like his size. One of the things we covet and value in all of our players is size at the position. We think a 6-4 point guard, who's athletic and can attack the basket is a great asset. We like his decision making. He played a lot of pick and roll. He attacks the rim."
Myers wanted to acquire a pick after the team had lost both picks in previous deals. Golden State's first-round pick (21st overall) ended up with Minnesota, finally paying off a debt from a series of complicated moves that started when the team sent a protected first-round pick to New Jersey for Marcus Williams in 2008. Williams played just nine games for the Warriors.
The Timberwolves got Louisville center Gorgui Dieng with the pick.
Golden State's second-round pick (51st overall) was shipped away in the trade to get David Lee from the New York Knicks in 2010 and ended up in Orlando's hands. The Magic took Oklahoma forward Romero Osby with the pick.
This is not the first time the Warriors have bought a draft pick under owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber. The Warriors paid Charlotte $2 million to move up in the second round and select Jeremy Tyler 39th overall in 2011.
Myers said he wasn't willing to give up a player to get into the first round but this deal worked well for the team.
"When the price to add a first-round pick was money that our owners were willing to spend and a future second round pick, we thought it was worth getting into the draft," he said.
Tyler did not work out at Golden State but Myers did well in his first draft a year ago when he took three players — Harrison Barnes (seventh), Festus Ezeli (30th) and Draymond Green (35th) — who became immediate contributors to a team that made it to the second round of the playoffs for the second time since 1991. The Warriors also stashed Ognjen Kuzmic (52nd) of Bosnia and Herzegovina back in Europe.
The Warriors went from a 23-43 record during the lockout-shortened season to a 47-35 team in the second season under coach Mark Jackson. Golden State earned the sixth seed in the Western Conference for its second playoff berth since 1994 and knocked out Denver in the first round. The Warriors eventually lost to San Antonio in six games in the second round.
The team's young nucleus — Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Barnes, David Lee and Andrew Bogut — will all be back. But there will still be needs to fill.
Ezeli will be sidelined a minimum of six to nine months after right knee surgery two weeks ago, so finding another backup center has become a pressing need. Guard Jarrett Jack will be a free agent, and power forward Carl Landry informed the Warriors on Wednesday that he would opt out of the final year of his two-year, $8 million deal, to become a free agent.


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WOBURN, Mass., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Covaris Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with Life Technologies Corporation enabling Life Technologies to offer the Covaris M220 Focused-ultrasonicator system to users of Ion Torrent Next-Generation Sequencing platforms.
Compact, cost effective, easy-to-use, and quiet; the M220 Focused-ultrasonicator is the ideal fragmenting system for PGM™ and Proton™ users. The M220 includes integrated cooling, eliminating the extra cost and space required for an external chiller, as well as reducing startup time to less than 2 minutes. Using acoustically engineered Covaris microTUBE and miniTUBE consumables, the M220 provides the high quality DNA libraries researchers demand and have come to expect from Covaris.
According to Jim Laugharn, Covaris Founder and CEO; "Today's highly sensitive NGS systems are clearly exposing the importance of controlled, isothermal DNA fragmentation. This is even more important when unbiased and uniform deep coverage with maximum library complexity is required to maintain clinical relevance."
Covaris AFA™ is the standard method for DNA shearing in major genome centers worldwide and the M220 Focused-ultrasonicator is the latest AFA product providing the same performance benefits as the market leading S-series and E-series systems in a smaller, more compact unit. Other applications for the M220 include Chromatin Shearing, RNA Shearing, DNA extraction from FFPE samples, and biomarker extraction from tissue samples.
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Welcome to EHDI-PALS,
Early Hearing Detection & Intervention - Pediatric Audiology
Links to Services,
a web-based link to information, resources, and services for children with hearing loss. At the heart of EHDI-PALS is a national web-based directory of facilities that offer pediatric audiology services to young children who are younger than five years of age.
LEARN MORE about childhood
hearing loss, hearing testing, and important questions parents can ask when making
appointments. This contains great web resources for parents and professionals.
Find OTHER HELPFUL WEBSITES,
including national and state parent support organizations and other resources.
You can also find out more about the
EHDI-PALS Advisory Group.


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Second Performing Arts Series concert
The Southern Fried Chicks, starring Etta May, Sonya White, Karen Mills and Style Network�s Trish Suhr, have burst out of the hen house for a night on the town with their new show, the �Cage-Free Comedy Tour.�
Join them for a night of free-range comedy when they perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center, 300 Park Ave., Kinston. The show is the second of GHPAC�s four-part Performing Arts Series 2013-14.
The new Cage-Free Comedy Tour features new stories, music, audience participation, singing, dancing and a multimedia show audiences will enjoy. Since the debut of their one-hour comedy special on CMT, this top-grossing all female comedy tour has played to venues packed with people and laughter.
Life and love in the USA has never been funnier as when these top headliners take the stage. It�s a Blue Collar comedy tour with better hair and bigger attitude.
Etta May
Winner of the prestigious American Comedy Award�s �Comic of the Year,� this Kentucky woman is a comedy icon, described as �Minnie Pearl with a migraine.� May has been seen on �Oprah,� CMT, Showtime, �Comic Strip Live,� �Comedy Stage� and others.
May is an audience favorite of XM/Sirius Radio comedy channels and on the syndicated radio show �The Bob and Tom Show.� She�s a regular on CMT countdown shows and featured programming. CMT�s Documentary Series that featured the �Blue Collar� boys and �Etta May� places her as one of the top southern comics in the business.
Sonya White
Originally from Virginia, Sonya White now calls Chicago home. She combines her southern charm with big city street smarts. Her comedy and dead on impersonations make her show unique and funny. She�s appeared on HBO, E! and Comedy Central. She�s also a favorite on �Girls Behaving Badly,� �Comedy Spotlight� and �The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.�
White�s sitcom credits include �Nightshift� on Fox, �Big Brother Jake� on The Family Channel and MTV�s �Spring Break.� When you top that off with her cartoon voices for the Cartoon Network, she�s one funny versatile lady.
Karen Mills
Mills� style of comedy is clean, clever and easy to relate to � she finds the funny in everyday life. A Tennessee native, she is a regular on Sirius / XM Blue Collar Radio and Laugh USA. She has a one-hour special on Blue Collar Radio. Her new �Menopause Rap� song is a top download on iTunes and the music video �Hot Flash Mob� is a favorite on YouTube.
The top headliner has toured with Joan Rivers, Ron White and Jon Stewart. She was a writer on �The Rosie O�Donnell Show� and most recently appeared on �The Henry Cho Show.�
Trish Suhr
What do you get when you take a girl from Middlesboro, KY, and drop her in the middle of Los Angeles? You get the Emmy winning co-host and �Yard Sale Diva� from Style Network�s long running series �Clean House.� Suhr�s expert advice and wit make her a favorite on �Good Morning America,� �Good Day LA� and �The Marie Show.�
She is a regular lifestyle contributor for Woman�s Day, Real Simple magazines and more. Her down to earth country style has made her the perfect host on Lifetime, WE, CMT, E! and VH1. She is a smokey voiced comic with material to which everyone can relate.
Comments from other venues
�The Southern Fried Chicks were the biggest success we have presented in programming since opening our doors,� said Tony Ballard, director, Hoover Opera House, Junction City, KS. �They were professional, businesslike and personable with the crowd . They waited around after the show until everyone in attendance got an autograph or a picture that they wanted. This was a great show for the whole family.�
�The audience loved the show from the moment it opened until it closed,� said Cynthia Allen, director, Potter Center Jackson, MI.� I sat in the back of the theater and kept watching all the body movement as people were laughing non-stop. The show was side-splitting funny from the moment the show opened until it closed. If the audience needed anything, it was a moment to recompose themselves and wipe away tears of laughter before hearing the next line.�
The Firelake Casino in Shawnee, OK, said it this way: �On a scale from 1-10 it, would be a 10! We definitely got our money�s worth.�
Additional Series Shows
Other shows in GHPAC�s inaugural Performing Arts Series include: Sandra Fisher and Company in �Bringing Down the House,�(Motown, gospel and old school favorites) at 7 p.m., Feb. 1, 2014; and Franco D�Ambrosio, who played the Phantom in �The Phantom of the Opera� on Broadway, singing Broadway tunes at 7 p.m., March 29.
Obie award winner Jason Petty and Grammy nominee Carolyn Martin paid tribute to Hank Williams and Patsy Cline in the opening show Sept. 27.
All concerts will be at the Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center, 300 Park Avenue, Kinston. Series tickets (four concerts) are $85, general admission; $130, reserved patron seating; $25 per ticket per concert (general admission); or $40 per concert (reserved seating).
For information and/or tickets, call Barbara Smith, (252) 521-4513; Alison Merritt, (252) 560-8515; or check Grainger Hill�s Web site at www.ghpac.com.


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This image from NASA shows the Space Shuttle Endeavor waiting on the launch pad last night, with lightning streaking the sky. In 48 hours (delayed from this afternoon), the final launch of the Endeavor will mark the end of the Space Shuttle program.
The United States will be sending fewer people into space, but we're still just entering the Space Age. Many other nations will be sending people into space. And NASA will be gathering more data than ever about our local part of the solar system, as well as what it will take to colonize the Moon, Mars, and possibly even the asteroid belt. Though the Shuttle Atlantis recently got the go-ahead to fly a mission in June, this summer marks the end of an era. Today, we salute the penultimate flight in an amazing space program, and the Endeavor's last run.
The Space Shuttle Endeavor has been operational since early May 1991, and has flown some of the longest Shuttle missions, as well as setting records for the most space walks at once time (three). Its upcoming mission is set to last 14 days, and will involve docking at the ISS to deliver some spare parts, as well as setting up one of the year's most eagerly-anticipated science experiments.
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment, a massive piece of instrumentation that the Shuttle will be delivering to the International Space Station, will measure cosmic rays in space. It will be focused on searching for dark matter and anti-matter, as well as more exotic objects in space.
According to NASA:
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a state-of-the-art, high energy particle physics experiment built in Geneva by a collaboration of 16 different countries. It will search for clues on what the universe is made of and how it began, the origin of dark matter, antimatter and strangelets, pulsars, blazers and gamma ray bursters. And that's just what the scientists know to look for.
"I am quite confident that once we start measuring data in space, we will find things that we never anticipated," NASA's AMS Project Manager Trent Martin said. "And those things will lead to potential new areas of study, new areas of science and maybe even redefine some of the physics books."
With the retirement of Endeavor, the U.S. space program will turn toward research and using autonomous space probes to explore other planets, moons, and asteroids. (Here is a primer on what Obama's NASA budget allocations include.)
Though we will miss the Space Shuttle program, and celebrate all the brave astronauts who participated, we are also looking forward to some launches coming up later this year. In November 2011, we will see the launch of our newest Mars Rover, called Curiosity. A bigger, more sophisticated version of the Mars Rovers who have roamed the Red Planet's surface for over 7 years, Curiosity will be a veritable laboratory, set up to learn more about water on Mars as well as what we'll need to know to colonize one day.
In August, the Juno mission to Jupiter launches. In its 2011 report, NASA describes Juno like this:
The Juno mission, scheduled to launch in 2011, will probe Jupiter's gravity, composition, and magnetic fields to search for the origin of planets. Arriving at Jupiter in 2016, Juno will determine how much water is in the planet's atmosphere. It will look deeply into the atmosphere to measure composition, temperature, cloud motions, and other properties. Juno's instruments also will map Jupiter's magnetic and gravity fields and magnetosphere. This evidence will help us understand planetary formation and how magnetic force fields affect the atmospheres
It will also be carrying a color camera, which it will to take the first detailed pictures humans have ever seen of Jupiter's polar regions.
Want to know what else comes after the Space Shuttle for America's space program? Find out via NASA.
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The Michigan Chronicle (Detroit, Michigan) is the state's oldest and most respected African American newspaper. Founded in April 1936, by Lucius Harper, The Michigan Chronicle is not only a newspaper, but also a productive business that participates and contributes to many worthy projects. The Michigan Chronicle has received many national and local journalism and community service awards and is recognized as one of the largest weekly newspapers in Michigan.
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These bookmarks came from an antique Bible. I just love their Victorian graphics!
Happy 4th of July everyone!
Love these! Thanks so much for sharing!
Hugs, Lisa
These are gorgeous, thanks for sharing. Happy 4th of July!
What a find! Was the Bible yours or did you purchase it and find these hidden treasures? I found one similar to the cross in my grandmother's Bible after she died. Happy 4th of July
Thank you for sharing and posting wonderful images. Happy 4th of July!!
Very pretty bookmarks! Thank you for sharing them with us..
These are so pretty - thanks for sharing them!
Thanks for sharing these, they are great!
Happy and safe July 4th to you!
Hope you had a great 4th!
Great bookmarks. I love the last one. Thanks for sharing! ~Nan
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Most people would be ashamed to admit they were sexaholics, but Zahedi, who seems to revel in publicly fessin'-up, plays himself in I Am a Sex Addict, an explicit tell-all which recounts al the sordid details of a very messy life.
Caveh Zahedi had hoped to make his mark on the world when he graduated from Yale University about a quarter century ago. But the aspiring young filmmaker fell prey to an overpowering sex urge which would ruin two marriages and repeatedly sidetrack his attention from his promising career.
Most people would be ashamed to admit they were sexaholics, but Zahedi, who seems to revel in publicly fessin'-up, plays himself in I Am a Sex Addict, an explicit tell-all which recounts al the sordid details of a very messy life. Part documentary, part re-enactment, the movie features actual film footage of several of the real-life women he's slept with, plus actresses like porn star Rebecca Lord.
Narrated by Caveh as a series of flashbacks, it opens optimistically enough, in the present, just as he is about to tie the knot for a third time. However this flashback flick really starts in 1984, when, against his better judgment, he first sought solace in the arms of the proverbial prostitute with a heart of gold (and chest of silicone). Although he confesses to feeling empty and depressed immediately after satisfaction, he still found himself hooked on whores.
He became so obsessed with his next score that he behaved in a variety of self destructive ways which served to sabotage his once-promising career. What makes this movie so compelling is its star's Woody Allen-like inclination towards introspection, for he has an appealing way of making himself vulnerable while over-analyzing his pathetic obsession. This is not to suggest that he emerges as a likable, or even as a sympathetic character in the end. At least he's finally made a decent movie, an autoerotic train wreck you can't avert your eyes away from.
Excellent (4 stars). Unrated. Running time: 98 minutes. Studio: IFC Home Video
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From the start, Herman Cain has confounded the Republican elite. The former pizza magnate, Navy mathematician, and talk radio host with no political experience jumped into the presidential race with both feet way back in January and has never looked back.
Mr. Cain has enticed GOP voters with his catchy "9-9-9" tax plan and moved them with his up-by-the-bootstraps life story. He has also raised eyebrows with a series of gaffes, strange ads, and reports of "chaos" within his campaign. But he's a robo-candidate, plowing ahead, ever-smiling. And he's ahead in the polls among likely GOP primary voters, both nationally and in key early nominating states. His Achilles' heel is fundraising and organization.
Could Cain actually win the Republican nomination? In theory, yes. But political analysts still view Cain as a long shot.
A story in The New York Times posted Wednesday quotes former aides describing a campaign that churns through staff, mishandles potential donors, and makes nonsensical scheduling decisions. All campaigns, especially those new to presidential politics, go through some disorder, but given that Cain's argument for the presidency is his private-sector management experience, he has a lot to prove in short order.
But at least one experienced Republican strategist now working for Cain speaks optimistically about Cain's chances. Steve Grubbs, the new chairman of Cain's campaign in Iowa, describes an effort that is now on track in this critical early nominating state, with fundraising that is "doing dramatically better" and finally getting volunteers organized. Mr. Grubbs, former chairman of the Iowa GOP who has worked on past presidential campaigns, spoke to the Monitor Wednesday by phone after a meeting with Iowa campaign staff and volunteers.
"The volunteer phone bank was brisk," said Grubbs. "That's what I wanted to see. That's a bit of a change."
In July, Cain's top staffers in Iowa resigned, citing a lack of attention by Cain to the state. Grubbs's appointment as Iowa chairman, announced last Thursday, signaled a renewed commitment by Cain to Iowa, which holds the first nominating contest on Jan. 3. Grubbs says the campaign's goal is to appoint precinct captains to 80 percent of the state's 1,800 precincts by Dec. 1.
"So far, we're exceeding our goals," says Grubbs, who is unpaid. Cain has four paid staffers in Iowa, he says.
The name of the game in Iowa is organization. Unlike a primary, which involves only voting, an Iowa GOP caucus entails speeches, casting of ballots, party fundraising, and other party business. To do well, a campaign needs to engage in major voter outreach to get supporters to show up on a cold winter night, and devote a fair amount of time. Voter passion matters, but it will take a candidate only so far.
Iowa's caucuses are only 10 weeks away, and Cain is getting a late start. Still, he's strong in the polls. The RealClearPolitics average of recent polls in Iowa shows Cain leading among likely Republican caucus-goers with 28 percent, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 23 percent. The latest poll, by CNN, has Cain at 21 and Mr. Romney at 24. If Cain can do well in Iowa, that could open the floodgates of donations and set him up to be a serious contender.
"He has to win Iowa; I think that's the real key," says Ford O'Connell, chairman of the conservative Civic Forum PAC. "Should he win Iowa, people will show him how to build a national organization."
Still, Mr. O'Connell believes it's "extremely unlikely" that Cain will go on to win the nomination, "given his lack of organization and campaign resources."
In the third quarter of 2011, Cain raised $2.8 million, versus Romney's $14 million and Texas Gov. Rick Perry's $17 million. But Governor Perry has sunk in the polls after a series of sub-par debate performances, and Cain has been the direct beneficiary. He won the Florida straw poll a month ago and has been a top-tier contender ever since, at least in the polls.
Romney is the only candidate who combines good poll numbers, major-league fundraising, and extensive organization. But he seems to have hit a ceiling in national polls in the mid-20s. Whether he can break through that ceiling is an open question. If voters continue to resist him, the question is who will emerge as the "anti-Romney" – and when will that alternative become clear.
Cain is certainly in the running to be the one who goes head-to-head against the establishment-backed Romney, but a lot of analysts are still looking to Governor Perry – who has the more typical résumé for a presidential candidate – to ultimately fill that role.
Cain has plenty of tea party support to fuel his outsider status, though not all tea partyers support him. Some object to his having served as chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank earlier in his career; they also didn't like his favorable comment during the Oct. 11 debate about former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan.
The real question about Cain is whether he can convince enough voters that he is running a serious campaign – and that his lack of political and policy experience wouldn't put him at a insurmountable disadvantage against President Obama in the general election.
He recently has committed a series of gaffes that make political observers wonder whether he has given this campaign enough thought to be successful. He calls himself "pro-life," but then described abortion as a personal "choice" that should not involve the government. Last week, he said he would consider freeing all the prisoners in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in exchange for a hypothetical US hostage. He didn't know what "neoconservative" meant in a discussion on foreign policy.
"He's a tremendously charming, capable guy, but he doesn't seem to be a serious candidate," says Dennis Goldford, a political scientist at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. "He hasn't taken the time to build an organization or think through in depth the range of issues and policies he'd have to address."
Other analysts point to the one commodity Cain has that is lacking in the other candidates: an idea that got people talking, his 9-9-9 tax plan. Perry did raise an impressive sum of money in the third quarter, but the history of campaigns is littered with fundraising stars who go nowhere when the voters have their say.
"The power of an idea in this primary is very important," says Republican pollster David Winston. "Cain has proven that. Whether his idea will stand up to vetting, we'll find out."
Grubbs, Cain's man in Iowa, maintains that Iowans will be seeing a lot more of Cain in coming weeks. And, he adds, Cain's book tour, which critics said was distracting from his campaign, is over. "He's campaigning," he says.


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ROME (Reuters) - Overhauling Italy's rigid labor rules was supposed to be Mario Monti's flagship reform.
It required drawn out, often heated bargaining with unions, employers and political parties. Yet six months after their approval the measures seem to be having little effect on hiring, firing or the labor market in general.
The technocrat premier's aim was to encourage hiring of permanent rather than temporary workers and to make it easier for firms to shed staff during economic downturns. Businesses and workers' bodies say it is doing neither.
Monti, who resigned as prime minister last month, hoped to boost a chronically low employment rate and end a "dual" labor market made up of over-protected older workers and millions of mostly young people on temporary jobs with no labor rights.
However, he quickly ran into strong opposition, led by the CGIL union which found support from the centre-left Democratic party (PD) that he relied on for his majority and which is now, polls suggest, likely to win February elections.
The unions, which largely represent older, more protected workers, held a series of strikes and protests to defend existing job protection. Labor minister Elsa Fornero, who drew up the reform proposal, became a hate figure for millions of workers.
After being watered down during a lengthy passage through parliament, the final version of the plan, approved in June last year, slightly eased firing restrictions in large and medium sized firms and made temporary hiring more costly.
Unions warned it could lead to a firing spree, while businesses said it would discourage new hires. Six months on, unionists now admit their fears were exaggerated, but employers say their concerns are being confirmed.
"There is no evidence that companies are firing more under the new rules. It just isn't happening," said Pierangelo Albini, responsible for labor issues at employers' lobby Confindustria.
No official data is available on the number of workers who have been dismissed under the new norms but even the unions, which are monitoring the situation closely, estimate the figure is negligible.
They were quick to denounce isolated cases concerning telecoms companies Huawei and Vodafone, which attracted attention in Italian media, yet each one involved no more than a couple of workers.
"The reform doesn't actually change much in terms of firing procedures," said Michele Tamburini, a labor lawyer with a U.S. law firm in Milan. "Potentially, it could make firing easier but it all depends how it is interpreted by judges and hardly anyone wants to test it."
Tamburini said he and his colleagues at other firms had seen no rise in new business in the form of contested dismissals, as some commentators had expected.
Monti, who says he will seek a second term at the Feb 24-25 election, initially defended the reform as a good compromise but now acknowledges its limits and blames the left-wing CGIL union for blocking more radical changes.
In a new policy platform presented before Christmas he urged a "drastic simplification" of labor market rules to "overcome the dualism between protected and unprotected workers". These were exactly the goals his reform was meant to achieve.
"Monti's intentions on the labor reform were right but the politics of it were all wrong," said Riccardo Barbieri of Mizuho International. "The PD couldn't let him make firing easier in a pre-election period and in the middle of a recession."
Despite criticism of some of his reforms, investors would love to see the former European commissioner stay on after the election, ideally at the head of a more cohesive majority that allows him to push through his new agenda.
Tens of thousands of workers have lost their jobs since the labor reform was passed as companies close or downsize, but they are still shedding staff under the old terms rather than risking difficulties by trying to capitalize on the reform.
"There has been very little recourse to the new rules," said Giorgio Santini, head of labor issues for the CISL trade union, Italy's second largest.
One reason may be that firing procedures are more complicated than ever because the changes have increased the discretionary power of the courts.
The reform made it possible for private firms with more than 15 employees to fire individual workers for business reasons, such as a fall in demand, without necessarily having to re-instate them if a judge ruled the dismissal was unjustified.
In smaller firms, where job protection was much weaker, nothing changed under the reform. The public sector, where protection is strongest of all, was also unaffected.
Companies were always able to shed staff if they were restructuring or closing a product line but it was much harder to fire people for poor performance or other reasons. Paradoxically it was easier to shed 10 or 20 workers than one or two.
The courts can now order firms to offer wrongly dismissed workers financial compensation rather than giving them their job back. However, if the unfair dismissal is for discriminatory or disciplinary reasons, re-instatement is still obligatory.
Judges now have to decide not only whether a dismissal is justified but also whether it is being attempted for business reasons, disciplinary reasons or due to discrimination.
Unions have been ready to fight any cases where they suspected firms were presenting bogus business reasons to shed workers considered difficult or disruptive. Yet even the leftist CGIL union said few had emerged.
"There have been maybe a couple of hundred cases that firms have tried to justify under the new rules, and in many we have seen evidence of discrimination and we've contested them," said the CGIL's head of labor policy Claudio Treves.
Other unions put the figure considerably lower.
Santini of the CISL union said a positive aspect of the new rules was that they oblige firms to co-ordinate more pre-emptively with unions before trying to fire, meaning that shedding staff had not actually become easier at all.
He said that with the unions acting as mediators there are signs that dismissed workers are more willing to come to terms for financial compensation rather than taking their cases through the courts, though he added that this had often happened even before the reform.
Yet if firing has not become easier, hiring has become more difficult, according to both the CISL and Confindustria.
Monti tried to boost the role of apprenticeships, taking Germany as a model, to replace temporary or "precarious" contracts that are seen as the unacceptable face of the dual labor market. These contracts were not scrapped, as some experts urged, but the rules for using them were tightened.
However, both the CISL's Santini and Confindustria's Albini said apprenticeships have failed to take off because of too much bureaucracy and a rule - required by Italy's Constitution - that regional governments must be partly responsible for organizing the apprenticeship courses, something they are failing to do.
"What is happening is confirming some of our worries," said Albini. "It's no easier to fire but it is more expensive and complicated to hire on a temporary basis, which is important flexibility especially at a time of crisis."
When the labor reform was being watered down in parliament last spring two of Italy's leading economists, Alberto Alesina of Harvard in the United States and Francesco Giavazzi of Milan's Bocconi University, warned Monti of the dangers of a weak compromise.
"Making do with marginal adjustments would be worse than not doing anything because it would create the illusion that a problem has been solved when it isn't true," they said in a joint newspaper column. Their fears now seem well grounded.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said in November it remained "fundamental" that Italy reform its labor market to make it less rigid. Yet it is unlikely that unions or leftist parties will consider returning to the issue soon.
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Three issues are central to the debate: border security, assimilation and the economic effects of immigration. Those on the right who oppose reform focus especially on the first two. But the facts don't bear out conservative hand wringing on either one.
The border has never been so secure. The flow of illegal immigration into this country is at a 40-year low, and deportation rates are higher than they have been at any time in our history. Conservatives can -- and should -- claim some credit for this. We now spend more on securing our borders than we do on all other federal law enforcement efforts combined. And whatever else President Obama has failed to do, he has deported more illegal immigrants than any president before him: 2 million since he took office.
Recently, in his column, Will made the case that conservatives may be underestimating the assimilative power of the American experience. In response, Ingraham argued that "20.8 percent of Americans don't speak English at home," noting that the percentage is up about 3 points since 2000. But her data don't actually make the case that present-day immigrants, mostly Hispanics, are assimilating at slower rates than previous groups, as she apparently believes.
Immigrants -- from Germans and Italians of earlier years to Chinese and Mexicans today -- have always chosen to speak their mother tongue at home in the first generation. German immigrants not only spoke German at home, but also supported German language education in public schools where large concentrations of German speakers lived. And early in our history, a vote in Congress to print the Congressional Record in both English and German narrowly failed. As late as 1980, more than three million Americans spoke either Italian or German at home.
Today, immigrants and their children make up 25 percent of the American population. It should be no surprise then that many of these families speak their native tongue at home, especially because so many of these families live in multi-generation households.
What really matters -- the true test of assimilation -- is what happens in the second and third generations. And here, Will is right. English is the primary language of second- and third-generation immigrants, including Hispanics. English is the language they use primarily or exclusively at work (93 percent, according to surveys by Pew Research), and it is the language for news and entertainment among Hispanics, increasingly even for immigrants.
As for the economic impact of immigration, Will has all of the facts on his side. Immigration provides a net positive increase to GDP -- no reputable economist disagrees; the question is only how large. Without immigrants and a growing population, our economy will stagnate, especially as the population ages.
Ingraham points to the economic boom of the 1980s and 1990s, ignoring the inconvenient truth that those decades were among the highest in illegal immigration, which peaked in the mid-'90s. Immigrants came by the millions during that period to take jobs Americans shunned in agriculture, meat processing and the service and hospitality industries. Those jobs still go wanting, despite high unemployment.
The majority of Republicans favor immigration reform, including a path to legalization for the more than 11 million illegal immigrants living here now. Conservatives need an open and honest debate on this important issue -- but until recently, very few conservatives have been willing to wade into the rough waters. As one who did so early and consistently, I welcome other conservatives to join the growing ranks of those of us making a conservative case for the importance of reforming our broken immigration system.
The best way to stop illegal immigration is to create a viable way for those who want to contribute to our economy and become American to do so legally.


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The great second-weekend-in-November rivalry games each stand out because of their unique traits, including the pursuit of the Monon Bell, Cortaca Jug and Victory Bell, the finality of Williams-Amherst and scenes like at Day Field, where fans will stand four or five deep surrounding the field for the entire Hampden-Sydney/Randolph-Macon game.
This season, however, the five most prominent Week 11 rivalries all have a striking similarity: There's a clear favorite playing for something greater than a rivalry win, but a .500-or-better underdog poised to end its season by springing an upset.
You know how they say throw out the record books? These are the years for which that cliché was coined. Even in rivalry games, really bad teams almost never beat really good ones. But when a team that's had its ups and downs puts it all together on the big stage, it becomes one that lives forever in rivalry lore.
These are the clashes that sustain the rivalries.
No conference championships or playoff bids are on the line, but when two of the five result in upsets this Saturday, they'll go down in history.
Randolph-Macon, 7-2 and playing its last home game before moving and renovating its football stadium, is the most obvious candidate to pull the upset. The Yellow Jackets are two close losses from being unbeaten this season. In the rivalry, they have lost nine of 10, though the past two were by a field goal and a touchdown. The 8-1 Tigers clinched a playoff spot with last Saturday's 42-35 win against Washington & Lee and have another game to play no matter what happens in Ashland.
The Yellow Jackets have a built-in sense of desperation. The final game either sets the tone for the offseason or is a player's last memory in a uniform.
"I was just saying that on Tuesday night," recalls Randolph-Macon head coach Pedro Arruza. "It was 10:30, I'm laying in bed with my wife, thinking about the game, and I said to her 'you know, the whole winter hinges on this game. If we win, it's going to be a great winter. If not, it's going to be tough.'
"I was being facetious," he said, "but there is a degree of truth to it."
R-MC seniors remember beating the Tigers in 2008 to earn a playoff spot, but have two bitter memories of H-SC clashes since.
The Tigers have to manufacture such meaning, reminding themselves that they're playing to impress alumni who might not make it to a road playoff game. They'll have to lean on the familiar refrain about how a season is only successful if it includes a win over Randolph-Macon.
DePauw and Wabash each play that card in the Monon Bell rivalry, but the 4-4 Tigers are truly trying to salvage a lost season. In transitioning from the SCAC last year to the NCAC in 2012, they're the only DePauw sports team playing 2011 as an independent, with six of the first seven games on the road. They played in Greencastle last Saturday for the first time since Oct. 1 (from Week 5 to Week 10) and can finish above .500 by beating the Little Giants.
Wabash, 9-0 with the fifth-ranked scoring defense nationally at a shade over 10 points per game, locked up a playoff spot with last Saturday's 28-17 win against Wittenberg. They should be confident after smoking DePauw 47-0 to retain the 300-pound bell last season.
Franklin's only losses in its past 19 games have come against reigning national champion UW-Whitewater. The 8-1 Grizzlies have hit or passed the 49-point mark six times this season, and travel to Hanover with the HCAC title and automatic playoff bid already locked up. The Panthers had won four straight after a 1-3 start and could have put the conference title as well as the Victory Bell on the line, but they lost, 41-23, at Mount St. Joseph last week.
Hampden-Sydney, Wabash and Franklin each have playoff games guaranteed and go on the road into hostile environments. Cortland State, at 7-2, is a virtual lock for an ECAC bowl invite, and it too travels, to South Hill to face Ithaca.
The Red Dragons lost by five to No. 16 Kean and by one to No. 17 Montclair State; as a result, those two play Saturday for the NJAC title. Cortland State's only consolation: knowing it's six points from coming into the Cortaca Jug game 9-0.
Ithaca, on the other hand, is assured of its worst record since going 5-4 in 1995. The Bombers, a one-time powerhouse and three-time national champion between 1979 and 1991, were riding a streak of 40 consecutive winning seasons. At 4-5, the best Ithaca can hope for is to extend that streak to 41 non-losing seasons; Mount Union, at 34 and counting, takes up the spot behind Linfield's 56 straight seasons of .500 or better. (And Linfield's 56 seasons are all over .500.)
The Bombers have an edge in desperation, and share their rivals' close-game luck. Six Ithaca games, including the past five, have been decided by five points or less. Four of those have been losses – 13-10 in overtime against 7-2 St. John Fisher, 38-33 against 6-3 Springfield, 13-10 to 4-5 Frostburg State and 21-19 to 6-3 Alfred.
In other words, they're perfectly capable of running alongside Cortland State even if they weren't about to meet in a game where emotions boil over.
Perhaps the king of all D-III rivalries – certainly the oldest, dating from 1884 – is Williams-Amherst. Because NESCAC football teams play no non-conference or playoff games, this is it for both, win or lose.
But like H-SC, Wabash, Franklin and Cortland State, Amherst is playing for something beyond a mere win – at 7-0, it's a chance for the ninth perfect season in Lord Jeffs history.
|Williams alum Lee Kindlon remembers his alma mater's rivalry for Around the Nation.
The Williams-Amherst rivalry is all about the perfect season – or spoiling them. Williams has completed seven perfect seasons and spoiled seven Amherst attempts. Amherst has spoiled the Ephs five times.
In the past two years, each side has beaten the other to complete perfection (Read about Amherst's 2009 here). And there's nothing more perfect than ending your season with a win over the rival.
That's why a perfect season doesn't always have to be one without a loss. Sometimes it's just one with the perfect ending.
Jake Barger plans to attend his 53rd consecutive Hampden-Sydney/Randolph-Macon game on Saturday. What stands out in his memories of game action aren't always the most successful teams. Often, they're the unexpected sublime performances. Barger remembers quarterback Brian Partlow throwing 50 passes in 1998 with a broken thumb.
Matt Sigrist looks back with fond memories on two imperfect Williams seasons that ended when his Ephs played above their heads and beat 7-0 Amherst teams.
"The coolest thing about that week was seeing the different level of intensity in practice, what happened when the sum of our team became greater than its parts," said Sigrist, a wide receiver in 1996 and '97 upsets. "We had two years where we failed to put all the parts together until the last week."
You listening DePauw, Randolph-Macon, Ithaca, Hanover and – yes – Williams?
|Wabash alum Ryan Tipps remembers his alma mater's rivalry for Around the Nation.
The rivalries need your extraordinary efforts this week. Ryan Tipps, our Mid-Atlantic columnist and a Wabash alum, tweeted last week about the importance of DePauw maintaining a certain level of success, so fans remain interested. Just as with this week's passing of Joe Frazier boxing fans said that without him, there was no Muhammad Ali, Wabash needs DePauw as a healthy rival to make the Monon Bell rivalry what it is.
Sometimes the best memories are made when the team that appears healthiest going in isn't the one that emerges. Sigrist fondly recalls being able to "eke out a couple of wins that maybe we didn't deserve. Maybe we weren't the more talented team."
Rich Willard, the Amherst quarterback who threw five touchdown passes in a 48-46 loss in the 1997 game that ended on a short last-second field goal, told Amherst Magazine "you won't find a more devastating way to lose than we did."
The old Williams assistant coach Renzie Lamb used to give this pregame speech:
"If you want to be happy for an hour, get intoxicated.
If you want to be happy for three days, get married.
If you want to be happy for eight days, kill your pig and eat it.
If you want to be happy forever, beat Amherst."
This is what both sides in each rivalry are staring at on Saturday. And while there's clearly a more successful team coming into each game, that's not necessarily the one which will get to walk away happy forever.
Memories unrivaled
There are reams of stories that have been written about the great rivalries. The more you search, the more that will turn up. I had a quest to write something that hadn't been written before, and along the way, I heard some tales I hadn't before. The A/B-plus prank from Williams-Amherst. Rob Boras, a former DePauw center who now coaches with the Jacksonville Jaguars, assured me the Monon Bell had been filled with beer and sipped from in its travels. He was a delight to talk to, as was Pete Metzelaars of Wabash.
Barger was full of great memories that didn't fit into any story I was writing – one being his first scene of the R-MC/H-SC game, when it was played in the rain in 1959 at Richmond's City Stadium.
"The field was a big bowl of soup. Guard John Bagby ran onto the field and took a big swan dive. That set the tone for the day."
The result was a 0-0 tie, one of 11 in the series.
(By the way, the 55-53-9 record in the Wabash-DePauw series – 37-36-6 in the other direction since the Bell was introduced – is one of its great attributes)
There were others, like Bob Doggett and Michael McAdam (Williams) whose contributions I couldn't even use, and Matt Hall (Amherst), who I didn't get a chance to connect with. They all have great stories – if you ever meet an alum of one of these games, ask them about it. It's worth whatever time you spend listening.
In any case, two of the contributions I got, from Lee Kindlon, a former Williams offensive lineman, and our own Ryan Tipps, were so good I had to run them in full. Hopefully including them will give you a little bit of insight into what these rivalries are like to live through.
Projection room
With so many of the playoff bids already decided – 20 of the 25 automatic bids are in hand, and there are good candidates for the other seven spots – it's not a bad idea to take a look at what a potential bracket might look like.
Of course Saturday's results can cause a ripple effect that changes everything. And of course the eight-person national selection committee could interpret information differently than I do below. This is by no means a detailed projection like the one we'll do between Saturday night's last game and Sunday's 6 p.m. selection show.
This is, at best, a rough sketch designed to get you thinking about potential playoff matchups. If you're interested in how I chose which non-AQ teams to use, read the Pool B thread and Pool C thread on D3boards.com. Also use the latest regional rankings to help understand why teams are ordered the way they are.
In this sketch, I'll use Wesley, Illinois Wesleyan, Redlands, Centre, McMurry, Case Western Reserve and Endicott/Widener. The five conference championship games (Kean/Montclair State, Delaware Valley/Widener, Hobart/Union, Linfield/Lewis & Clark and Framingham State/Western New England) are geographically irrelevant. That is to say, the outcome of those games won't affect the placement of teams in the bracket given the committee's directive to place teams within bus-ride distance of each other whenever possible. The games, will, of course, affect seeding, but let's leave those out for the moment.
I'm using seven East Region teams and nine from the South to fill out the first sketch, but those are issues easily rectified because techinically there is no requirement that the four eight-team brackets be built by region. Johns Hopkins or Wesley could easily move from the south bracket to host an eastern team. This sketch also assumes that Delaware Valley beats Widener, and Endicott gets a playoff spot.
Scenario 1: Sixteen potential first-round matchups
McMurry at Trinity (Texas); Centre at Mary Hardin-Baylor; Thomas More at Hampden-Sydney; Christopher Newport at Johns Hopkins
Norwich at Salisbury; Western New England at Wesley; LL champ at NJAC champ; Endicott at Delaware Valley
Benedictine at Mount Union; Illinois Wesleyan at Franklin; Case Western Reserve at North Central; Albion at Wabash
St. Scholastica at UW-Whitewater; Monmouth at St. Thomas; Redlands at Linfield; Dubuque at Cal Lutheran
Here's the logic behind these matchups:
Mount Union stays at home in the "North" bracket for the first time in five years, because an East team, Delaware Valley, finishes 10-0 and earns a No. 1 seed. But the East still only has seven teams, so to competitively balance the bracket, we import Wesley. Except for Norwich-to-Salisbury, everyone in this bracket can bus.
Mount Union and Wabash are the top two seeds in their bracket, and the regional rankings suggest North Central and Franklin would also get home games. But to avoid a rematch with Illinois Wesleyan, we send Case Western Reserve to North Central and IWU to Franklin.
The "south" is more like two subbrackets, the mid-Atlantic and deep south. Hampden-Sydney lucks into another home game despite having a loss – assuming they beat rival R-MC of course – while in Texas, there are three teams in, so it only makes sense not to rematch McMurry with UMHB off the bat. Distance of flight is still a travel concern, so the next-closest team, Centre, flies into Belton, and if the Cru wins, there's an all-Texas faceoff the next week.
The West is loaded as usual, with three of the country's top five teams in the bracket. With three West Coast teams, somebody has to fly, so we followed the regional rankings best we could, sending Redlands to Linfield and Dubuque out to California.
Scenario 2: Widener wins.
McMurry at Trinity (Texas); Centre at Mary Hardin-Baylor; Hampden-Sydney at Wesley; Christopher Newport at Johns Hopkins
LL champ at Mount Union; Norwich at Widener; Delaware Valley at NJAC champ; WNEC at Salisbury
Benedictine at UW-Whitewater; Thomas More at Franklin; Case Western Reserve at North Central; Albion at Wabash
St. Scholastica at St. Thomas; Monmouth at Illinois Wesleyan; Redlands at Linfield; Dubuque at Cal Lutheran
In this scenario, Del Val's loss requires Mount Union to be shifted east to be the No. 1 seed, and UW-Whitewater to take that role in the north. That makes St. Thomas a top seed and bumps Linfield up one, plus gets them out of UW-W's bracket -- so perhaps those programs are big Widener fans on Saturday.
Also in this scenario, since neither Norwich or WNEC is less than 500 miles from Mount Union, the Liberty League champ gets that honor. Widener plays itself into a home game, but Wesley staying in the south – now that eight East teams are in – significantly affects H-SC's draw.
Scenario 3: Travel consciousness
Case Western Reserve at Mount Union; Western New England at Hobart; Norwich at NJAC champ; Endicott at Delaware Valley.
St. Scholastica at UW-Whitewater; Albion at Franklin; Benedictine at North Central; Monmouth at Wabash.
Centre at Illinois Wesleyan; Thomas More at Johns Hopkins; Christopher Newport at Wesley; Hampden-Sydney at Salisbury.
Redlands at Cal Lutheran; Trinity at Mary Hardin-Baylor; Dubuque at Linfield; McMurry at St. Thomas.
In this case, I tried to keep everyone as close to home as possible, with matchups like CWRU and Mount Union and Benedictine at North Central. But even going cost-conscious on the California and Texas teams left me with two flights. This is harder than it looks. Sending McMurry to Linfield requires an even more costly charter flight, which is why I've avoided it.
What scenarios do you see? Share on the Around the Nation thread.
ATN calendar
After the last regular season game is played, there's a
lot to look forward to, so don't tune out!
Sat. Nov. 12: Week 11 games, with top rivalries.
Sun. Nov. 13: Selection Sunday (show now at 6:00 p.m. online)
Following week: Playoff features, team capsules
Thu. Nov. 17: ATN's annual playoff surprises/disappointments column
Sat. Nov. 19: Playoffs, Round 1 (32 teams), ECAC bowl games (12 teams)
Following week: ATN podcast on Mondays, D3football.com regional wrap-ups and playoff features Tues.-Wed.
Sat. Nov. 26: Playoffs, Round 2
Following week: Gagliardi trophy finalists named, D3football.com Road to Salem features, ATN podcast
Sat. Dec. 3: Playoffs, Round 3 (eight teams).
Following week: D3football.com All-Region teams announced, Gagliardi Trophy regional finalists (four) announced, Liberty Mutual coach of the year fan voting ends, D3football.com playoff features midweek, ATN podcast.
Fri. Dec. 9: D-III Senior Classic all-star game in Salem, 7 p.m. kickoff.
Sat. Dec. 10: National semifinals (four teams), live webcast with ESPN regional or syndicated coverage possible.
Wed. Dec. 14: Gagliardi Trophy presentation, live webcast
Thu. Dec. 15: Stagg Bowl luncheon, pregame festivities in Salem/Roanoke
Fri. Dec. 16: Stagg Bowl 39, 7 p.m., D3football.com all-Americans announced during pregame broadcast, wall-to-wall coverage of the championship, ATN's year-in-review column
Mon. Jan. 9: Liberty Mutual coach of the year award winner announced.
Games of the week
Pat Coleman, Ryan Tipps and I identify the games to watch among the 100 or so each Saturday across the nation, providing three distinct looks at what's ahead in Triple Take. This week we look at the impact of rivalry games and what could fall where in the playoff picture.
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