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Since there are lots of questions on UXExchange about career choices, I thought I'd pass along this article, Developing a usable career path, by UPA board member, Robert Skrobe. In it, he writes: "Mentoring, volunteering, and networking all are quality ways to build a […] career." He explains this in some detail.
closed as not a real question by JonW♦ Jun 10 '12 at 14:44
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The answer to my question is: all three! I recommend reading Robert Skrobe's article, Developing a usable career path.
Interesting. Some of the answers have disappeared, so what I wrote above, about liking "all three" answers seems weird, now. – JeromeR Dec 9 '09 at 6:08
Whenever people ask me about a move into UX I suggest a couple of books and always recommend that the person goes along to a UPA event or UX Book Club or an IA in the pub meeting. Just listening to UX professionals talking and taking part in these discussions is a great way to be bitten by the UX bug!
Those meetings are a great way of meeting fellow professionals and doing some quality networking. Discussing UX issues, problems and revelations with like minded people, making new friends and contacts in out field and, hopefully, learning new things.
I believe IxDA was setting up a mentorship program awhile back. http://www.ixda.org/mentor.php Although I registered for it, I didn't receive any feedback from anyone (I was seeking mentors).
I also know the IAI has a mentorship program: http://iainstitute.org/en/members/mentoring/welcome_to_iai_mentoring.php
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If you're still trying to find that pesky paperclip in the photocopier, odds are you've forgotten today is April Fools' Day. Yep, this patron holiday of practical jokers everywhere can sometimes get a bad rap, which is why we've decided to focus on the good gags: the cakes you'd never guess were cake.
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Liqueurs, fruit-flavored
Proprietary highly refined French brandy-based Curaçao orange liqueur upon which the generic triple sec is based. The company, in fact, coined the term to describe their product. They later dropped the term from their label when hosts of imitators deluged the market with lower quality generic products in similar bottles and the term "triple sec" in a font like that of Cointreau. An indispensible cocktail constituent.
Generally available. Produced and sold in France. Distributed world-wide. Available for on-line ordering in some markets.
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Thank you for your analysis of the differences between President Obama's budget proposal and the Republicans' proposal ("What the sides are proposing," Dec. 5). To avoid allowing tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of taxpayers to return to what they were during the Clinton administration (when the economy boomed), Republicans would cut Social Security and increase the eligibility age for Medicare.
Note how often the word "unspecified" is used in the Republican proposal. What "tax breaks" would they eliminate? The only ones that could save $80 billion per year are the deductions for home mortgage interest, charitable contributions and employer-sponsored health insurance.
In contrast, President Obama's plan would preserve Social Security and Medicare, stimulate the economy by making needed improvements to our infrastructure, and maintain current tax rates for 98 percent of Americans (and 97 percent of small business owners like me).
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Sentry - 3G3131 - Three Drawer 31" Deep Fire And Water Resistant Vertical Legal File
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Unsurpassed fire and water protection for your business records. The SentrySafe 3 Drawer Legal Vertical Water-Resistant Fire File safeguards your information, business records and other irreplaceable contents against loss from the ravages of fire and water spray. The kind of "peace of mind" you expect from SentrySafe.
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95% of all fires have water present. With water comes water damage, which can be a more common, and more serious threat to your valuable records than the actual fire itself. In the event your files are in a different location than where fire is present, your files may still be subject to devastating water damage as a result of sprinkler and/or extinguisher spray. Schwab Corp. is the first and only fireproof file manufacturer to address this issue. After achieving excellence in fire and theft protection, we took the Next Logical Step™ and developed a revolutionary design to provide superior resistance to water. We bring you TRIDENT ™
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At this point, I can't believe how far this truck has come in such a short period of time. We took a rough looking '64 Chevy longbed with a small back window and created the truck I've always wanted. I was now looking at a big-window shortbed with a GMC front clip. Just about everything we could weld up or shave was now smoothed over, and the truck even had its first coat of PPG primer.
There is still a long way to go, however. Although we finished the rough bodywork, we found that some of it was just that. Rough. We handled most of the problem areas and shot the first few coats of PPG filler primer. Progress screeched to a halt between Chris' and my work schedule and the start of the show season. We did not get another full day in on the truck until we resumed work a few weeks before the truck's planned debut at Paso Robles. We then made a few last minute adjustments. I decided it would be fun to shave the cowl, since that was about the only part left that we hadn't modified. We also opted to weld up the seams in the front fender. The inner doors still had mismatched speaker holes we had to contend with; Totally Polished's Chris Daley came up with a quick fix that would give the lower doors a custom look.
Finally, we sanded and shot primer until the big day came. Chris' neighbor offered up his paint booth and even gave us a hand cleaning and masking the truck. We shot the first coat PPG two-stage base black (DBC9700) and a single-stage base white (Concept DNC900) in the interior and found a few spots that we overlooked. A little spot putty, primer, and sanding later, we laid the final coat of gloss white on the interior and recoated the exterior with the black base. Since a durable black suede was our goal, we used a clear topcoat from PPG that leaves a matte finish. The DCU2060 was originally intended for refinishing Mercedes bumpers, but it fit the bill for our needs perfectly. I was so stoked to see the truck start to resemble Jimmy Smith's rendering that I had my Stockton wheels and Coker tires mounted up while the paint was drying. We bolted them on and torched the springs just to give you guys a glimpse of the finished exterior, which you will be seeing a lot more of next month.


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what day was this from ?
They should put a surtax on registration of copyrights and only allow french registered copyright to utilize the service. If the copyright holders have to pay for the service then at least there will be accountability for it.
except lord censorship said he had no problem with the message if it didn't get posted on a channel that was making money from it.
So dan bull is basically giving lord censorship exactly what he wanted. Which in turn means that there is no infringement for THESE upload.
shouldn't anti trust laws apply to this action given the market place dominance iTunes has over other apps marketplace.
would you still support the system if the result of a false positive was the loss of every copyright held by the accusing copyright holder.
probably not, but i would figure they would have to show him the documents to get his input (ala the upload link that he only used to test, which was never published so anyone other then him could see).
you do realize you just made an argument for not granting extradition.
If NZ has similar laws and "crime" was committed by a citizen within his own country, there is no need to cart him off to another country to be prosecuted.
see i was thinking the issue with electronic documents was the conditions of bail. Didn't kimDot have a restriction against using computers as part of his bail conditions.
if they were complicit in the copyright infringement that action would void the safe harbor provision which means you would have no problem suing them into oblivion.
That fact that Viacom failed proves they are not complicit by the legal definition.
Which comes back to the same point why not just pay 37 billion and pocket the extra 213 billion.
"Equally, google could protect the sanctity of marriage by not linking to gay sites like disney and could prevent terrorism by removing links to all sites in foreign languages or hosted outside the US."
btw if you were being sarcastic "good one"
you really need to put the sarcasm sign link at the bottom of the post.
if artist and musicians and studios and labels are losing 250 billion a year as you claim
then would 37 billion a year in cost be a good investment.
Why not pay Google 37 billion to setup such a system and pocket the extra 213 billion.
who clicked thru to the NC side just to see where you ended up
except that statement is a lie
Jack Valenti complained about commercial skipping when he testified to congress.
"Now, what does that mean, Mr. Chairman? It means that when you are playing back a recording, which you made 2 days or whenever -- you are playing it back. You are sitting in your home in your easy chair and here comes the commercial and it is right in the middle of a Clint Eastwood film and you don't want to be interrupted. So, what do you do? You pop this beta scan and a 1-minute commercial disappears in 2 seconds."
if skipping commercials is a copyright infringement
does that mean taking down a site and therefore blocking distribution of content that want to be distributed by the site also a copyright infringement.
And if that is the case, doesn't that mean that the US government is guilty of willful infringement for taking the mega upload domain down.
Is BEIN similar guilty for demand domain blocking of the pirate bay.
except the financial harm arguement doesn't exist unless you ignore reality.
Advertisers don't pay for timeshifted ad runs. If you were to record your favorite show with a non commercial skipping vcr the advertiser would not pay for that ad viewing irregardless if you were a good boy and sat thru every commercial or if you simply hit the fast forward button.
So the economic loss is zero when compared to the fair use alternative that this product is designed to replace.
It only when you falsely allocate those views to non stubstitute (watching the show live) that you get a false economic loss.
because that created a product that causes people to go to the bathroom during the commercial break.
An action that is designed to deny content producers their hard earned advertising income.
so do you support complete ignoring the success and request for changes to the law of the record industry because of this.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/12/artists-lawsuit-major-record-labels-are-the-real -pirates/
technically they took the stuff and didn't pay for it later too.
so by your standard we should never give another record company any change they want to copyright law forever because they screwed up once.
and how do you verify that when you hide your identity.
should we call you sheldon from now on
ICE combats piracy by annoying people who don't pirate even more.


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Like many of you, I anxiously tuned in to the Jays' first game back after the All-Star break with vaguely optimistic (it works on so many levels) expectations. Romero! Powder Blues! A chance to stick it to the Sox! Baseball, baby!
That lasted until, oh, the first inning. I can think of better ways to start a game. Nothing spells buzz-kill like a Youkilis homer with Pedroia on board. Barf.
It's just one game, but......in many ways last night's effort was everything I feared. Essentially, there are two ways the team can respond to The Halladay Depression:
(1) Play inspired baseball to show the league (and management) that the team is close to being a contender, or
(2) Come out flat and wait for the other shoe to drop.
If you watched last night's effort, I don't think I have to tell you how the team responded in the series opener against our favourite Nation of Douchebags. Inverse b's, friends.
Julio Lugo's designation for assignment terrifies me
Boy Wonder GM Theo Epstein pulled a Ricciardi in designating Julio Lugo - who's owed about $13M over the next season and a half - for assignment. You'll remember that our own boy wonder (jokes!) has had eyes for one of my least favourite players in MLB over the years, and now it appears he can be had for the league minimum (barring anyone foolish enough to trade anything of value for his "services").
I don't need to tell you how much this terrifies me. With the trade deadline approaching, and our own Ninja-like shortstop approaching free agency.....well, I don't even want to finish that sentence. So I won't.


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October 25, 2001
Roberto Goidanich
Head of the Human Rights and Social Affairs Section, Brazilian Embassy
3006 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Roberto Goidanich,
More and more families in Brazil are considering or actually beginning to home school their children. Although Brazilian children are receiving a good education at home by their parents, this method of instruction has still not received official recognition by the government. In fact, the Council of Education has recently condemned home schooling in the Vilhena case. This is a travesty for a free nation like Brazil to deny parents the fundamental human right to direct the education and upbringing of their children.
Carlos Vilhena family has been home schooling with great success for several years. They submitted a petition to the Council in good faith you to have home schooling officially recognized by the national government. Their process number was 23001000301/00-37.
We are writing this letter in support of their effort. We are excited about the opportunity to help home schooling grow in Brazil.
We hope you in your capacity you can recommend your Congress to help the Vilhena family and officially legalize home schooling in Brazil.
By way of introduction, the Home School Legal Defense Association is a national nonprofit organization of lawyers dedicated to protecting the right to home school throughout the United States and also around the world. At this time, we have 70,000 member home school families in the U.S. We were established in 1983 and have worked in the courts and the legislatures to help win the right for parents to home school in all 50 states.
In order for Brazil to be recognized as a democracy and as a truly free nation, parental rights, which is one of the most important, fundamental rights, must be protected. Parents have the fundamental right to direct the education and training of their children. Parents in Brazil must have the right to choose to teach their children at home.
So what is home schooling? Home schooling is exactly what the name implies: a school in the home. It is an age-old time-tested approach to education that uses the most successful method of instruction. The method is called the "tutorial method" of instruction.
The teachers in a home school are the parents and these parents have a commitment to make the necessary sacrifices in order to personally provide an education for their children. Their primary reason to home school is to teach their children strong moral principles and give them a thorough academic education in a close, nurturing environment.
And home schooling really works. In the United States, over nine state departments of education and scores of independent surveys have found that on the average, home schooled children score 30 points above the national average on standardized achievement tests. Home school students also score above average on both the SAT and Act college entrance exams.
Furthermore, these students are being accepted into nearly all universities including the "ivy league" schools of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Two colleges have conducted surveys of home school graduates in their student body and have discovered that the home schooled students have a higher grade point average than the college average. Studies also demonstrate that nearly two-thirds of home school graduates are self-employed demonstrating their entrepreneurship and self-reliance.
This success is being achieved by home school parents where over half, only have a high school diploma. Their success with their children, along with hundreds of other studies, demonstrates there is no positive correlation between teacher qualification and student performance. This exposes the myth of the necessity of a teacher license. Whether or not a home schooling mother has a teaching license, college degree or simply a high school diploma or less, makes no difference: all of their children on the average are scoring above average.
Furthermore, these home schooled children are protected from negative socialization, such as drugs, sexual diseases, and violence. Instead the home schooled child is trained in the traditional, moral values and their self esteem, which is the best measurement of determining the socialization of a child, is nurtured. Study after study provides evidence that home schooled children exceed the average in socialization skills and the ability to communicate with both adults and their peers.
Historically, home schooling was one of the major forms of education in America until the early 1900's. Hundreds of great leaders in America have been home schooled, including at least ten presidents, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, John Marshall, John Singleton Copley, John Stuart Mill, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Edison, Abigail Adams, Mark Twain, Pearl Buck, Agatha Christie, Andrew Carnegie, and Douglas MacArthur.
Today, with the resurgence of parents home schooling their children over the last 15 years, the number of home schooled students in the U.S. is estimated as high as two million and it is climbing rapidly.
Legally, all 50 states recognize the right to home school by either statute or case law. Parents have a fundamental right to direct the education and religious training of their children that is enshrined in the United States Constitution as applied by the United States Supreme Court in Wisconsin v. Yoder and Pierce v. Society of Sisters. Therefore, this fundamental right of parents to choose home schooling is derived from the First Amendment which gives parents the right to freely exercise their religious beliefs and the Fourteenth Amendment which guarantees liberty for all, which includes parental liberty to direct the education of their children.
In the last few years, this home schooling concept has spread around the world at a rapid pace. Parents in more and more countries are clamoring for the freedom to home school. They are contacting us to request assistance to help them get started and learn from our experience on how to win the right to home school.
In my role as director of our international affairs, I have had the privilege of working in several countries. In Canada, I serve on the Board of the Home School Legal Defense Association of Canada. I have worked for over eight years to help win more freedom for parents to home school throughout the provinces. In South Africa, I answered the plea of home school parents seeking the release of a mother and father who received a two year jail sentence for home schooling and sent out an alert throughout the U.S. for home schoolers to contact the South African embassy. As a result, the family was released! Over the next few years, I worked with members of parliament to get a home school law passed. Now I serve on the board of the home school legal defense fund called the Pestalozzi Trust.
In Mexico, we helped a ministry that helps teach families how to home school. It also provides a free home school newsletter and tapes to families on home schooling. The Mexican families are yearning for more materials and encouragement. The legal situation is stable.
In addition, to working with home schoolers in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines,Ireland,Australia, Germany, Switzerland and many European nations. I worked to help network the Germans lawyers and home schoolers and we were able to establish a national home school organization called School Instruction at Home in that country. In Japan, we helped establish HOSA, a national home school organization heavily endorsed by the business community and higher education.
Home schooling is spreading throughout the world and it is not a passing fad.
Home schooling works and as it steadily grows, it will continue to promote academic excellence and graduate productive citizens.
On a personal note, I am a father of 7 children and my wife and I home school all of them. Our family is living proof that home schooling works. Home schooling builds strong families. We are so thankful to have right to choose home schooling in this country.
I would be glad to talk with you on the phone or discuss this further by e-mail. I also have model language to offer if a federal home school law is drafted. I suggest the law is drafted requiring home schools to notify and promise to provide instruction for 200 days in the basic subjects, and have the children tested annually to show progress.
Please let me know if you will be supporting the official recognition of home schooling especially the matter with the Vilhena family.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Christopher Klicka
Senior Counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association
One Patrick Henry Circle
Purcellville, VA 20132 USA
(40 miles outside Washington D.C.)


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Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judi French will speak to Ohio Northern University's incoming law class in the Pettit College of Law's Celebrezze Court Room on Friday, Aug. 22, at 1:30 p.m.
Justice French's lecture will focus on the Ohio Supreme Court and opportunities for attorneys within today's legal field.
Justice French became a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio on Jan. 1, 2013, after her appointment by Gov. John Kasich. For the past two decades, French has dedicated her career to public servic
e. In that time, she has served the state of Ohio as a lawyer for a state agency, an assistant attorney general, a counsel to the governor, and a judge.
In 1993, she joined the Ohio EPA as deputy director for legal affairs. From 1997 to 2002, she worked for Attorney General Betty Montgomery as an assistant attorney general and, later, as chief counsel.
During her time in the attorney general's office, Justice French argued two cases before the United States Supreme Court. One of those cases was the Cleveland School Vouchers case, in which she served as lead counsel. Her successful presentation of the state's position helped ensure equitable educational opportunities for every Ohio student.
From 2002 to 2004, Justice French served as chief legal counsel to Gov. Bob Taft. In that role, she served as the chair of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Task Force, which made recommendations to the legislature for making Ohio's sex-offender laws more effective.
In 2004, Justice French was elected as a judge on the 10th District Court of Appeals, which hears appeals from Franklin County courts and state administrative agencies. While a judge on the court of appeals for eight years, she authored more than 800 legal opinions. She served in this capacity until her appointment by Gov. Kasich to the Ohio Supreme Court in December 2012.


text: John "Boo" Rice was a basketball star before he even set foot on the UMass Boston campus, having played for Boston State College from 1979-82. He finished his career with UMB in 1982-83 and earned N.A.B.C Northeast All-District Second Team honors with a lethal combination of scoring (18.3 ppg.) and playmaking (5.6 apg.), while leading the Beacons to their first NCAA tournament appearance. Known as one of the best point guards among small college players in New England, Rice finished his career with 1,718 points and 450 assists, averaging 17 points and 4.5 assists in 101 games, while owning a career field goal percentage of .473 (632-1334). As a junior, Rice ranked 17th in the nation, averaging 22.1 points per contest for Boston State and earned All-MASCAC honors for the second time. He is the only men's basketball player in the program's history to have his jersey retired and still holds single-season records for free throws made (153) and free throw attempts (215). His 515 points, in his only season with the Beacons, is the fifth-highest single-season scoring total at the school. Following his collegiate career, Rice was drafted by the NBA's Boston Celtics.


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The venue at Prabal Gurung's Spring 2013 show may have been smoking hot (literally, thanks to the lack of air conditioning and a cranked-up smoke machine), but the clothes on the runway were nothing short of breezy. The designer focused on the idea of freedom this season, and thus silhouettes were looser and sportier than we've seen from him in seasons past. The opening looks — softly tailored ankle pants, sheer tunics, tiered chiffon skirts, and airy mini capelets — conveyed that notion of ease to a T.
That's not to say that there weren't plenty of glitzed-up evening looks as well. Gurung is known for that, and to forgo it now would no doubt be a disappointment to the starlets in the front row — Kate Bosworth, Hailee Steinfeld — who have helped to make the designer a go-to for the red carpet. The bevy of drop-waist dresses that closed this season's show (most of which were adorned with feathers, ruffles, and shimmer) are sure to satisfy.


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|System: X360, PS3, Wii, DS
|Review Rating Legend
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|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Electronic Arts
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Sept. 28, 2010
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1-4
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Amanda L. Kondolojy
Although the MySims franchise had a shaky start, the series seemed to have found its stride in recent years by creating MySims-friendly versions of classic game genres. From the construction-friendly MySims Kingdom to the high-speed MySims Racing, there have been plenty of examples where the series has succeeded in balancing genre conventions with a MySims twist. Unfortunately MySims SkyHeroes is a bit of a stumbling block. Though the game has plenty of kid-friendly aerial gameplay, the formula applied here feels too monotonous, and in a series that strives to make experiences fun, MySims SkyHeroes feels dreadfully dull.
The sad part is that MySims SkyHeroes doesn't start off too terribly. Like all other MySims games, you start by creating a chubby little Sim who will be the game's hero. The Sim creation options here are pretty standard, with the exception of a few aeronautically-themed items. After you are done creating your Sim, you also get the chance to choose the shape and color of your Sim's new plane. However, the game wisely advises you not to take too much time worrying about the plane, as you will be able to keep several customizable planes in your inventory after only a handful of levels.
Once you are done setting up all your customization elements, you are thrust into the world of SkyHeroes. Your character takes the part of an amnesic pilot who has some serious skills, but can't remember who they are or where they are from. The story then evolves into a clichéd good vs. evil story involving the nefarious Morcubus corporation. Although there are some cute and humorous moments, the story never really develops into anything compelling, even on the kiddie-scope. There are good guys, bad guys, and a paper-thin conflict that makes Sesame Street look complex.
Still, the MySims games have never been much for plot, so the lack of any meaningful story isn't really all that surprising. What is very disappointing (and tanks the game overall) is the extreme repetition featured in the gameplay. The game's missions are set up into two groups: dogfighting and racing. And while you wouldn't expect too much variety in a flying sim game, the watered-down flying in MySims SkyHeroes gets old fast. The game takes an almost kart racing-like approach to the flying and fighting, and you'll have to zoom around finding power-ups and using them on foes to find success. It's a bit like Mario Kart in the air, but with a lot more monotony. Although there are some interesting level designs, none of them make the gameplay feel really interesting after an hour or two, and it's hard not to get the feeling that you could play a majority of the game with your eyes closed after only a few levels. Even if you are thinking about purchasing this game for a younger gamer, I doubt the game's repetitive nature would hold a child's interest for very long, and the inconsistency of the AI might even be a turn-off for them.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern softball team completed a four-game conference sweep of Centre College with two Sunday victories, winning 6-3 and 8-0 at BSC Softball Park.
The Panthers move to 13-9 overall and 10-2 in the Southern Athletic Association, and have now won six straight games. The Colonels fall to 5-12 overall and 4-7 in the SAA.
In game one today BSC fell behind 3-1 after three innings, the Panthers' first run coming in the bottom of the second on a two-out RBI triple to left field by freshman Alex Skene to plate freshman Taylor Brewer. BSC tied it up in the bottom of the fifth after junior Hannah Harris led off with a double to right field, stole third, and came home on an RBI ground-out by junior Bethany Fronk. After junior Alyssa Statham singled to right, junior Joanna Jernigan came in to pinch run for her. Jernigan advanced to third on a single by freshman Torrie Garner, and scored on a sac-fly from junior Taylor Bassett to tie the game at 3-3.
After a pitching change by BSC, bringing Fronk in for freshman Taylor Harkins, the Panthers held the Colonels scoreless the rest of the way. BSC scored the go-ahead and game-winning runs in the bottom of the sixth as sophomore Maddie Ridgway RBI singled to right-center to score Brewer, and Statham had a two-RBI single up the middle, plating Harris and Ridgway to bring the score to 6-3.
Statham was 3-4 at the plate with two RBI, while Fronk and Ridgway were both 2-3. Harkins went five innings, giving up six hits and one earned run with five strikeouts. Fronk allowed no hits while striking out two batters in her two innings of work.
In the nightcap, BSC got things started in the bottom of the first with an RBI single by Statham and a run scored on a Centre error. In the bottom of the third, freshman Amanda Ballew RBI singled to right field to bring Fronk across the plate, and a Brewer grand slam extended the Panther lead to 7-0. BSC scored the walk-off run in the bottom of the fifth on another Colonel error, ending the game early with an 8-0 win for BSC.
Statham led the Panthers at the plate again, going 2-3, while Ridgway led with four RBI. Fronk (7-7) threw the complete-game five-inning shutout, allowing five hits with three strikeouts.
The Panthers step out of conference play next weekend to face Georgia Gwinnett College in a 2 p.m. ET doubleheader on Saturday, March 29, in Lawrenceville, Ga. BSC returns home next Thursday, April 3, to host No. 15 Emory in a 4 p.m. doubleheader.


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Chess takes us to magnificent places, and we can only be grateful for the opportunity. This time, we traveled to a place that looked like it it just came out from a book of fairy-tales. It probably suffices to say that we're talking about Italy, already known for its rich history and beauty. However, this time we discovered an unknown side (for us) of this magnificent country – the northeast, with its imposing Alps.
We started out Italian chess tour in Ortisei, a town situated in Val Gardena, within the Dolomites. This is a mountain range that is part of the Alps and creates spectacular views. It hosts numerous natural parks and was included in the UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2009.
As you can probably guess, the area is also a perfect destination for ski and nature lovers. The skiing season was obviously over, but the cable railways were still available for those who like to explore the nature and discover its beauty.… Read more "3rd "ad Gredine" International Chess Festival"
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loosely based on an exhibition in early 2013, this selection shows photographs that stand on their own, not linked in terms of location, time, or story. instead, they connect to one another on a more abstract level, revolving around little but defining, often elementary human details.
i came to otherland to see a country at a critical political crossroads. i came home with a completely different story: one about its youth, its heritage, its people's rough edges and soft spots; and also one about myself, about my love and frustration, and why i chose to show no evidence of what and where otherland actually is.
a selection of my work produced in the city of istanbul / turkey, 2012-2014
gezi park protests
in the dying days of may 2013, anti-government protests violently erupted out of a small occupied park next to istanbul's taksim square and quickly spread all over turkey. this protest movement turned out to mark a defining moment in modern turkish history, similar maybe to what woodstock became for the usa, just slightly more violent than a music festival...
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the 64th edition of the berlin film festival, people, vips, red carpet, party, dresses, flashes, fans, and press conferences, photographers and a lot of self-importance.
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Applying Connections
|Introduction | Using Hexominos to Manufacture Boxes | Problem Reflection | The Hexominos Problem in Action | Classroom Checklist | Your Journal
Now that you are familiar with the Connections Standard and some of its aspects, we'd like you to apply it. Middle school teacher Nina Sepeda wants to evaluate how well students in her fifth-grade math class understand hexominos.
How do connections fit into this picture?
First, in the video segment at left (duration 4:02), watch as Ms. Sepeda's students try to identify which hexominos will form a cube and which will not.
Consider a problem similar to the one Ms. Sepeda has set for her students
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Pierre Garcon's foot injury has turned into the season-defining kind. It could end his season before long.
Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com reported Sunday that the Washington Redskins wide receiver could be shut down for the remainder of the season if his plantar plate tear doesn't improve by the end of his team's Week 10 bye, which is next week. The Redskins host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.
The plantar plate is the soft tissue that connects the base of the toe and the metatarsal. It works as a shock absorber. The injury causes pain when Garcon runs and sprints.
Garcon might need surgery if the injury doesn't heal with rest, and surgery definitely would end his season.
"I don't want to be on the sideline," Garcon said last month. "It is frustrating. But you've just got to think about what's best for it and what's best for your future, because this is long term.
"You don't want to make it worse just for one season. As bad as I want to be out there, it's a tough decision we've got to deal with."
Garcon had just eight catches for 153 yards and one touchdown on the season, with most of that production coming in the first quarter of the opener.
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Robert Wyatt & Gilad Atzmon in Haaretz
Haunted by ghosts
Self-proclaimed anti-Israeli saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and prog rock legend Robert Wyatt have joined forces to make musical magic and "political noise"
By Yaron Frid
In 1963 a baby was born in Israel. In 1972 a man fell from the third floor (or the fourth - views are divided ) in England in the middle of the night. Both of them took off on the wings of music, and life would one day organize a surprising encounter between them.
The Ghosts within by Gilad Atzmon
This is a sad story with a jolting soundtrack made of the howl of a saxophone and the wail of a clarinet. It's a story of displaced persons who have no other country, featuring war criminals, Nazi-hunters and God in a cameo role, tempered by large daubs of irony and a few crumbs of hope.
Morning. Rain. Rail strike. Soho, London. Who is the huge chuckling fellow in the Italian cafe who is polishing off a schnitzel sandwich (washed down with tea ) and welcomes me with comments like "There is no light at the end of the Israeli tunnel"? Or, "I think there is something untenable, simply untenable in the fact that the Jews, who suffered so much racial discrimination, should establish a state that is founded on race laws." And, topping the charts, "I am dead against the existence of the Jewish state." It's still early in the morning, let me remind you. I-am-dead-against-the-existence-of-the-Jewish-state-and-pass-the-sweetener-please. Good morning to you, too, Gilad Atzmon.
The fact that the cafe is across from Ronnie Scott's famous jazz club offers a subtle hint about Atzmon's identity. He is one of the most acclaimed and in-demand jazz musicians in the world and he only enhances his glory - or totally destroys it, it depends whom you ask - when his mouth isn't otherwise occupied with a saxophone (or a schnitzel ).
Atzmon says he is dealing not with politics, but with ethics. Maybe in his case it really isn't just a matter of semantics. Or cosmetics. But we're here to talk about music. And about beauty. "This beauty which simply spills out of you," he says, "effortlessly, unconsciously, in the most wonderful moments of creativity, and when that happens you understand that you are only the carrier of the spirit, of something bigger than you, over which you have absolutely no control. I have no connection with that beauty, I just eat schnitzels. I am only the messenger. I don't look for the beauty, the beauty finds me and through me finds its way into the world."
And plenty of beauty finds its way into the world in "For the Ghosts Within," the new album by Atzmon and his musical partners, which has already earned rave reviews in the British music press, with praise such as "the surprise of the year" and ecstatic descriptions of angels entering the listener's heart. On the album Atzmon joins forces, as performer, composer, arranger and musical producer, with Ros Stephen and Robert Wyatt.
This is the great Robert Wyatt himself. Cult figure, one of the fathers and pioneers of progressive rock. The one calls the other a genius ("We have a mutual genius pact," Atzmon chuckles ), while Wyatt says, "It's a huge honor for me and not at all self-evident that Gilad agreed to work with me. He is an amazing musician, amazing." But judging by the people Wyatt has worked with - Jimi Hendrix, Mike Oldfield, David Gilmour, Paul Weller, Syd Barrett, Brian Eno, Bjork (a "heavenly creature," Wyatt sighed ) among others - it's clear that the honor is also definitely Atzmon's. He has performed with Paul McCartney, but the collaboration with Wyatt, 65, a unique object of admiration who cuts across tastes, generations and categories (just ask Radiohead's Thom Yorke ), is something of a step up and a certificate of honor that further cements Atzmon's status in the British music industry.
Wyatt is the hippie enfant terrible who became a white-bearded guru, a kind of secret national treasure, a genuine survivor who is almost unclassifiable. A drummer in Soft Machine (from which he was thrown out - to this day he maintains "there is nothing worse in life than humiliation" ) and in Matching Mole, he was reborn as a singer-songwriter after falling out of that London window during a drinking binge that lurched out of control. (Pink Floyd immediately rallied to the cause and organized a benefit concert for him. ) The fall left him in a wheelchair for life.
Few musicians have done all he has done - psychedelic, punk, post-punk, avant-garde, fusion and now "clean" jazz with his own twists.
Wyatt is married to Alfreda (Alfie ) Benge, who came to England from Poland as a childhood war refugee. She does the artwork for his album covers, once wrote a searing song about his alcoholism (he has since kicked the habit, or maybe not ) and calls him an "overgrown baby," while he calls her "the dark side of my moon." He records his albums, which are like nothing else and are always received as an "event," in a studio in his home. He has a distinctive tremulous voice (a kind of trademark ), which the composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto called "the saddest sound in the world." Wyatt has survived periods of bottomless, suicidal depression, and for entire decades avoided performing live. ("I think it's stage fright," Atzmon says. )
In an interview with the Guardian in June 2009, Wyatt selected Atzmon as the "greatest living artist" and noted that he was "born in Israel, which I prefer to call occupied Palestine." Atzmon, for his part, says Wyatt is "a genius of the kind that Kant described so well - a genius who seemingly has no part in his own genius, who creates beauty as though ex nihilo. Everything he touches sounds new and completely different and utterly his own. He is totally transparent and through him you see the light."Tranquillity of the storm
Their love story began "about 10 years ago," Atzmon says. "At some festival, a woman named Alfie came over and said her husband is a musician but is very shy and loves my music and would like to talk to me. 'Sure, no problem,' I said. Robert approached, said he was an amateur musician or a crappy musician, something like that, he's very modest, and gave me his card. I had no idea it was him and I put the card in my pocket without looking. Afterward someone asked me what I'd talked about with Robert Wyatt and I said, 'Fuck! That was Robert Wyatt? I grew up on his music!'"
They invited each other to guest on their respective albums, including Wyatt's acclaimed "Cuckooland" (2003 ) and "For the Ghosts Within." (The song "The Ghosts Within" contains more than a hint to Palestinians sitting under olive trees, awaiting redemption, on the banks of the River of Shame. ) The album is on the trendy Domino label - its bands include Arctic Monkeys. Wyatt takes the role of the house singer, performing thrilling covers of jazz standards such as "In a Sentimental Mood" together with new material written and arranged by Atzmon and the violinist Ros Stephen. The result is almost a family affair (Gilad's wife, Tali, sings a marvelous solo, Bob's wife, Alfie, wrote powerful lyrics and Ros's partner is one of the musicians ). Tender and melancholy, the album is only part of the panoply of illusive and elusive contradictions of Atzmon, who is haunted by ghosts and demons, filled with gentleness and rage, naivete and depth, stubbornness and openness, storminess and tranquillity.
"The first time I invited him to play on an album of mine," Wyatt recalls, "Gilad warned me that it could be trouble. I don't think he deliberately looks for trouble, it finds him. That didn't scare me. I have been called a 'Stalinist' and a 'traitor' and worse, simply because I didn't agree with the British government's foreign policy. But that's nothing compared to the systematic character assassination being done on Gilad. He takes so many risks with his remarks, most of which are then taken out of context or presented in a twisted way so that his true intention isn't understood correctly.
"I sometimes feel a need to protect him," Wyatt continues, "an almost paternal instinct - after all, he's my son's age. The friendship with him is one of the most important and meaningful things that have happened to me in life. I truly love him. And I admire his courage. Some will call it reckless or uninhibited, but he dares to say things that no one else would. I would die of fright. He gets threats to his life, but I hope they are not serious. He doesn't enjoy the manifestations of hatred toward him but he doesn't care if he causes grief or anguish, because that's his truth, and contrary to politicians or diplomats he is committed to his truth. He's so sweet, really, he wouldn't hurt a fly, and I like his chutzpah, I think it's fantastic. There's something about him from the tradition of the great Jewish comics, like Lenny Bruce, who were never afraid to make people angry."
It would be a big mistake to assume that Atzmon's music is marginal and negligible compared with all the other noise he manages to make nonstop as a popular and prominent pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist activist. The music is important, superb, surpassingly sublime and acknowledged as such by international awards.
"My shows are always sold out, wherever I appear in the world," says the busiest jazz artist in Britain, almost drily. But in the same breath, who are we kidding? Even when Robert Wyatt sings "At Last I Am Free" on the new album, not to mention the Arabic rap ("People dying of thirst / People are dying of hunger / We haven't forgotten / And we won't forget until the day we return" ) which leaves no room for doubt, or the "Palestinian shepherd's flute," one of the instruments Atzmon plays on the album according to the liner notes, the noise always penetrates, if not through the door then through the window - not that Atzmon goes out of his way to expel it.Pathetic and absurd
Gilad Atzmon was born in Tel Aviv in 1963 and grew up in Jerusalem. "It was a regular secular childhood," he says, "with a right-wing Jabotinskyite grandfather. I wasn't ashamed of him, no way. I understood where he was coming from. I understood where I was coming from." Most of his military service was spent in the Air Force orchestra, after a stint as a combat medic. "In the first week of the Lebanon war in 1982 I saw a lot of wounded soldiers, but contrary to the rumors, that was not the turning point in my life. I think the big change actually started in the orchestra, when we went to Ansar, that concentration camp" - a prison built by the Israeli army in Lebanon - "and then I realized that I was in the wrong army."
In Israel he played and was a musical producer with the singers Yardena Arazi - talk about diversity: chapter one Arazi, chapter two Wyatt - Si Himan and Yehuda Poliker, among others.
"Poliker opened my ears to Greek music and influenced me musically. My music is popular in Greece - more than his, I'd say - but Greece, like the whole world, is falling apart, so it doesn't help me very much."
In 1994 Atzmon planned to study abroad, in New York or Chicago, but in the end found a university in England with an interesting program combining psychoanalysis, philosophy and art history. "I didn't have some five-year plan to leave the country or anything like that," he recalls. "The truth is that I was worn out from everything: from the country, from music, from life. Everything wore me out. I didn't want to play or produce anymore. I thought of starting a new career as a commercial pilot. I wanted to be like the El Al pilots, who bow to the applauding passengers after landing [he chuckles]. I liked flying planes but I wasn't good enough at it.
"I was 30, and thought I would focus on an academic career. But then I fell in love with London, which was like a small village - it has changed completely since, and not for the better - and the local music scene gave me so much love. So I said to myself: We'll play jazz for the jazz, we'll live for art. We don't need a lot of money, we have everything we need. So we'll stay. And we stayed."
"We" is Atzmon and his wife, Tali, a fine singer and a stage actress with a burgeoning career. They met - we promised you irony, we deliver - at the Hasidic Song Festival in Israel. "I didn't like Israel and what was happening there but I wasn't politically involved in any way. I also didn't understand the Palestinian idea, the true story. Somehow things happened and I started to speak and write in all kinds of forums, and suddenly I was all over the place. I was a private person with all kinds of private opinions who suddenly became public because people wanted to hear what I had to say. I think people feel that I am telling the truth, that I am not rewriting facts for anyone, that I don't have to lie because I am not part of any political body. I am Gilad Atzmon who represents Gilad Atzmon and that's all. At first I was seen as a nice Jew who was badmouthing Israel, which the goyim liked. But it didn't take me long to understand that I am not a nice Jew, because I don't want to be a Jew, because Jewish values don't really turn me on and all this 'Pour out Thy wrath on the nations' stuff doesn't impress me."
So you are pouring out your wrath on the Jews.
"I saw 'Metzitzim' a few days ago. You know where Uri Zohar is today [Zohar, the director, actor and screenwriter, is now an ultra-Orthodox rabbi and teacher], and he was the ultimate secular person, the absolute ultimate. Why are secular Israelis afraid of Uri Zohar? Because he left them alone in the dark to cope with questions like Why am I here? Why do I live on lands that are not mine, the plundered lands of another people whose owners want to return to them but cannot? Why do I send my children to kill and be killed, after I myself was a soldier, too? Why do I believe all this bullshit about 'because it's the land of our forefathers' and 'our patrimony' if I am not even religious? What the fuck? That is something the secular Jews simply cannot cope with. They are deathly afraid of those questions. I see more truth among the settlers than among the biggest secular Jews in the country.
"The Israelis can put an end to the conflict in two fucking minutes. Netanyahu gets up tomorrow morning, returns to the Palestinians the lands that belong to them, their fields and houses, and that's it. The refugees will come home and the Jews will also finally be liberated: They will be free in their country and will be able to be like all the nations, get on with their lives and even salvage the bad reputation they have brought on themselves in the past 2,000 years. But for Netanyahu and the Israelis to do that, they have to undergo de-Judaization and accept the fact that they are like all peoples and are not the chosen people. So, in my analysis this is not a political, sociopolitical or socioeconomic issue but something basic that has to do with Jewish identity.
"Think for a minute about the dialectics of Jewish identity, about 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' Who is your neighbor? Another Jew, of course. In other words, from the moment you were chosen to be the 'chosen people' you lost all respect for other peoples and for the other as such.
"Take, for example, the way gays are treated in Israel. It smacks so much of 'Look how liberal we are, we have homosexuals in Israel.' Max Nordau [Zionist leader, 1849-1923] wrote about the emancipation of the Jews, about how the Europeans don't really like Jews but like themselves for supposedly liking Jews. I find a lot of similarity between Jews and gays as separatist, marginal philosophies. It's very interesting.
"There are interesting values in Judaism, and the proof is that the Palestinians' greatest supporters are the Jews of the Torah, Neturei Karta [an ultra-Orthodox sect]. Our problem - and it took me time to understand this - lies with the secular Jews, and even more with the left-wing Jews. The idea of left-wing Jews is fundamentally sickening. Totally. It contains an absolute internal contradiction. If you are leftists it doesn't matter whether you're Jewish or not, so on principle when you present yourselves as leftist Jews you are accepting the idea of national socialism. Nazism. That is pathetic. That is why the Israeli left has never succeeded in doing anything for the Palestinians. The absolute absurdity is that it's actually the right wing that is leading toward a one-state solution and a final-status agreement."Illogic and wonder
Atzmon played into the hands of politicians such as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who in a debate with President Shimon Peres quoted Atzmon by name, to the effect that "Israeli barbarism is greater than [regular] cruelty." Atzmon has been accused from every possible platform of disseminating vitriol against Jews. He, though, maintains that he "hates everyone in equal measure." He's also been accused of self-hatred, but he is the first to admit this, and in comparison with Otto Weininger - the Austrian Jewish philosopher who converted to Christianity and of whom Hitler said, "There was one good Jew in Germany, and he killed himself" - he is even proud. "Otto and I are good friends."
Seriously, though?
"What seriously? I am married to a Jew, I work and play in a band with Jews. I have adopted a Palestinian identity, true, but to accuse me of anti-Semitism is ridiculous. Part of my success derives from the recognition that I am 'from there.' I do not try to hide that or blur it or deny it. I look, speak and behave like someone from there."
I address him in Hebrew and he replies in English with a distinctly Israeli accent, interspersed with Hebrew. He is sometimes amazed at some of the excellent Hebrew words he comes out with.
The hybrid language is intermittently amusing. Asked, for example, if he misses Israel, he replies, "I don't miss the medina [the state], I miss the eretz [the land/country], and elaborates: "When I started missing the soil, the landscapes, the scents, I understood that what I actually miss is Palestine. Palestine is the land and Israel is the state. It took me time to realize that Israel was never my home, but only a fantasy saturated in blood and sweat."
He speaks of "sweat" but really means "tears." It's a sad story, as we noted.
His children, Mai, 14, and Yan, 10, have no Jewish friends. Yan was not circumcised and bar or bat mitzvahs are out of the question. Atzmon's computer does not have Hebrew. He says he writes, thinks and dreams in English. He will not set foot in Israel until it is again Palestine.
Doesn't it hurt to cut yourself off like that? To burn all the bridges?
"No, but maybe it's true what all my girlfriends before Tal said when they dumped me."
What did they say?
"That I'm an emotional cripple."
Is that true?
"Maybe, but I didn't dump myself. I live at peace with myself." He apparently reserves his emotional intelligence for his art. There are no cripples of any sort in "For the Ghosts Within." In the music, they all fly to the highest places possible, perhaps touching the divine. Genuine talent, like passion, can't be faked. The problem is, then, only the grating noises - that's how they sound to many people - that the man haunted by ghosts and demons produces outside the recording studio.
Wyatt, playing the Dalai Lama, expresses amazement at "Gilad's struggle against racism and oppression of all kinds, and in his life's work, the search for the meaning of Jewish identity. Gilad is a traumatic but optimistic example of a widespread phenomenon of migrants who try to push aside their tribal circumstances and try to reconnect to the world and to humanity. That is what the Jews in the Diaspora have always done. Look at their contribution to world culture. Ronnie Scott was from a Jewish immigrant family from Russia, and there are also the Gershwin brothers and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein, not to mention Jesus and Karl Marx, two nice Jews who made a bit of a mess in the world.
"Gilad's point of departure is humanitarian, not real estate. Thanks to him I learned to be more tolerant of religion, every religion, and show it respect. Thanks to him, for example, I have no problem with the fact that Evyatar Banai, a terrific musician whom I met a few years ago, became religiously observant, just as I hope he has no problem with my political opinions. Gilad believes that religion is a spiritual affair and not a license to plunder olive groves from someone else, and that is something I can connect to.
"The problem," Wyatt continues, "arises when religion's illogic becomes the basis for politics. Religion is based on illogical legends: Jesus' mother was a virgin and Father Christmas comes down the chimney bringing toys. That's all very nice but it cannot be a serious foundation for politics that is supposed to make the real world run. It is unthinkable to take lands that are not yours only because it's written in the Bible - meaning the Old Testament, which is based on tribal mercilessness - that God said they are yours. And what about the other peoples? What were they told? Which God distributed what land to them? And what if they read a different book? There's no way out of it.
"People use every excuse to screw the Middle East, visit colonialist guilt feelings on the Palestinians and compare them to Nazis, which is outrageous. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the toughest knot to undo that there is, but people like Gilad are truly dreaming of a solution and fighting to realize it in their lifetime."
You once called him "Don Quixote." Do you think he is fighting a lost battle?
"I called him Don Quixote in humor, and he has a great sense of humor. I knew he wouldn't take offense. Possibly his battle is lost, but the war on crime, for example, is also lost, yet I still want the police to go on fighting it. Gilad is an artist who is trying to find meaning in a chaotic and insane world. For him, as for me, politics is the most personal thing there is. He and I cannot remain silent in the face of wrongs, injustice and inequality. Not all artists feel a need to express themselves or act politically, and you can't force anyone to do that. During the Second World War, Picasso chose to sound his voice and Matisse chose to remain silent and disappear, and both were and remain great artists who enriched the world. Gilad likes to shock and surprise in everything he does, and his very existence enriches the world."
And that world, however broken and ruined and complicated, is the same world that stars in the song that ends "For the Ghosts Within" as well as Atzmon's concerts: "What a Wonderful World."
"The newscasts report only disasters and wars, and that's natural," Wyatt notes. "I was born at the end of the Second World War, and since then the world has not stopped fighting and falling apart before our eyes. But if we forget the existence of beauty and joy and love and all the rest, what's the point of staying alive at all? To say that the world is only screwed up is an insult to those who go to work every day and build homes for their children and cook meals for their friends. It's important to sing this song with full intentionality and seriousness. I can't sing it any other way. To sing it is to remember what we're actually doing here."In praise of the spark
Atzmon, who has appeared and recorded with artists such as Sinead O'Connor, Ian Dury and Robbie Williams, this month is also launching "The Tide Has Changed," the latest album by his jazz group, the Orient House Ensemble, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. (The other members are Frank Harrison, Eddie Hick and Yaron Stavi, the son of Zissi Stavi, the legendary former editor of Yedioth Ahronoth's literary supplement ). Among the instrumental tracks are "London Gaza" and "We Lament." Surprised?
Atzmon has even been accused of Holocaust denial.
"That is very imprecise," he says. "But I am fighting against all the disgusting laws and persecutions of those so-called Holocaust deniers - a categorization I don't accept. I think the Holocaust, like any historical episode, must be open to research, to examination, to discussion and debate. I am sorry that Hitler did not live to write a summary of the events in his own words. And I am not sorry that people throw eggs at the war criminal Tony Blair, who in the Nuremberg trials of the Iraq war will be brought to trial, inshallah, along with all those who fostered and financed that benighted and unnecessary war. And at the same opportunity, it might be a good thing if the Nazi hunters hunt down [Shaul] Mofaz and [Ehud] Barak, for example, and not all kinds of 96-year-olds who are barely alive. It's pathetic."
Atzmon can be sharp, focused and trenchant, and at the same time nonsensical and diffuse, so much "pro" but also so much "con" - coarse and refined, raucous and subdued, pedantic and professional to an extreme, making declarations like "I never did homework. I wrote my two books in two weeks each, vomited them onto the page, and the first one began as a joke."
The novels - "A Guide to the Perplexed" (2001; set in 2052, in the Palestinian state that has succeeded Israel ) and "My One and Only Love" (2005; about a trumpeter who chooses to play one note only and also about Nazi-hunters; spot the obsession ?) - have been translated into 27 languages. There is something childlike, if not childish, in the guide for the perplexed being someone who is himself occasionally perplexed, who radiates personal charm, frequently chuckles and acts the smart aleck and the provocateur, with a proven ability to electrify and to hypnotize an audience.
"There is a spark in Gilad, a passion and a natural joy of the kind found in children," Robert Wyatt sums up. "His joy of creation is utterly pure. Picasso said that he tried his whole life to paint the way he painted as a child. Gilad hasn't lost that, I think. He remains filled with curiosity and filled with life in the most positive and delightful way."
"Let me make it perfectly clear," says Atzmon. "There is a war of liberation of the Palestinian people and I support it unreservedly. I also have guilt feelings. I tried to communicate with Israelis and I failed, and it's important for that to be said. I no longer know how to communicate with Israelis."
For someone who is so cut-off, Atzmon ("I'm a voluntary exile, but also a DP and a refugee from my homeland" ) sounds quite connected. Never mind "Metzitzim"; he also heard, for example, that Poliker came out of the closet and that Miri Aloni is busking on the street (though he'd like to know whether for ideological reasons or "only for the money" ).
Why don't you make a distinction between individuals and governments? For example, what happened with the Gaza flotilla was not "us."
"It was you."
It's not me.
"It is you. Unequivocally. When you live in a democracy, every crime committed by your government is a crime committed by you."
Even if I didn't vote for that government?
"Absolutely. In a dictatorship the dictator takes responsibility, in a democracy all citizens bear equal responsibility."
So what do we do? How do we fix it?
"That's the big question."
What do you want me to do, shoot Netanyahu?
"You said it, not me. And by the way, Netanyahu is a lot better for the Palestinians than Barak or Peres. I, too, as a British citizen, share in the crime of the Iraq war. But the British public at least expressed opposition to the war all along, whereas in Israel 94 percent of the nation supported Operation Cast Lead. On the one hand, you want to behave like a post-enlightenment state and talk to me about individualism, but on the other hand you surround yourselves with a wall and remain attached to a tribal identity. That's a cake you can't eat and have, too. There is a price to be paid and everyone is paying it, including me."
The price includes loss of work in the United States and the cancelation of concerts in Europe because of his views, under pressure from muscular Jewish organizations. But Atzmon, who has been crowned successor to Charlie Parker, doesn't dwell on that.
"Sometimes I ask myself what I need all these headaches for. And Tali says she married a musician and now she has a prime minister in her home."
You might not be sad that you lost us, but I'm sad that we lost you.
"That's all right, there's a place in the world for sentimental people. I know I have many readers in Israel and they know how to contact me."
I think about Gilad Atzmon the way that Arik Einstein thought about the girl he saw on her way to school in the iconic song: that to us, he is lost. Israeli public diplomacy lost someone who could have been one of its finest voices: articulate, charismatic, brilliant. The score, for now: 1-0, Palestine leading.


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MONTGOMERY – After an almost two-week layoff, the Birmingham-Southern softball (5-1) team returned by sweeping a doubleheader from Huntingdon College (0-6) by the scores of 8-2 and 8-4 Friday at the Huntingdon Softball complex.
Bethany Front went 2-for-4 with three RBI and Taylor Bassett was also 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI to lead the Panthers in game one.
The game was tied 1-1 into the third inning before the Panthers scored three runs to take a 4-1 lead. Bassett singled home the first run and Fronk delivered a two-run double to highlight the inning.
Huntingdon cut the lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the inning before BSC scored a run in the fourth, two in the fifth an another run in the sixth. Alyssa Statham belted a home run to right field in the fourth. Deanna Creps walked and scored on a wild pitch and Brittany Berkopec had an RBI double in the fifth. Bassett homered to left in the sixth to give BSC an 8-2 lead.
Fronk pitched a complete game with five strikeouts and allowed two runs, one earned on three hits to earn the win to improve to 3-0.
Melissa McClure (0-3) gave up five runs, four earned, on 10 hits with a pair of strikeouts as the pitcher of record for Huntingdon.
In game two, the Panthers scored two in the first, four in the fifth and two in the sixth and then survived a three-run sixth for the 8-4 win.
Statham got the Panthers off and going with a two-run home run in top of the first before the Hawks cut the lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the first.
Joanna Jernigan singled and scored on a Rucker single and Bassett hit a three-run home to push the lead to 6-1 in the fifth.
In the two-run sixth, Rucker had an RBI single to score Karley Chamblee and Jernigan scored on a Statham sac-fly.
Huntingdon scored three in the bottom of the sixth and had another run at third when Fronk got Kaetlen Brown to ground out.
Fronk got the win in relief of starter Deanna Creps to improve to 4-0. Fronk allowed three runs on six hits with two strikeouts in four innings. Creps pitched three innings allowing one run on four hits.
Ashley Hawkins took the loss for the Hawks in game two, giving up five runs on seven hits to fall to 0-1.
Birmingham-Southern returns to the diamond on Saturday and Sunday in the 3N2 Elite Event hosted by Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. The Panthers play Emory at 9 a.m. and Roanoke at 11 a.m. on Saturday and will play Roanoke at 9 a.m. and Emory at 1 p.m. on Sunday.