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(Posting here since this seems to be where the junior stuff gets posted now) I have a story of tennis karma. And a question. Last weekend, my son lost a match in the tiebreaker at a 10u tournament. Another day at the office, no biggie. But this one is really sticking with me. It was tied 4 all when his opponent hit long. My son called it out. His opponent replied with the usual "Are you sure?" that you hear on every out call during a tiebreakers/high pressure points at junior tourneys. My son said he was sure. He even circled the ball mark in the clay to emphasize his point. The other kid, he was borderline "losing it" for the whole match, starts raising his voice and keeps going with "I thought it was in! It was definitely in!" etc. and then walks towards the court monitor and starts loudly pleading his case. She hesitates, looking clearly intimidated, and says "umm, yeah, uh, I think it was... in." and gives the point to his opponent. She ignores the ball mark completely--doesn't even look at it. My son is really crestfallen, loses his composure, double faults, then loses the next point and the match. All the time muttering "it was out" with a stunned look on his face. "So what?" you're thinking. This stuff happens. But... I swear the girl that was the "court monitor" wasn't a day over 12! Maybe not a day over 11. And I don't think she wasn't even watching the point when it happened. She was chatting with another "tween" court monitor who is watching the adjacent court. And she didn't know what she was doing at all. For instance, there were lots of random tennis balls from early matches lying around because kids had left them/she hadn't been picking them up, so when the match started, she started picking up these random balls and tossing them to the server like she was a ball girl, even though the boys had brought fresh game balls for the match. (As you probably know, people are fussy about using fresh game balls at tourneys). I thought this was odd when she was doing it, and the boys kept looking through the balls she was giving them trying to find the ball numbers for their game balls, but she kept doing this. I was actually kind of amused, and she was so young and behaving like a ball girl, so I assumed that was what she was, albeit a very poorly trained ball girl. Later in the match, however, she suddenly called out "LET!" when a ball bounced through my son's court when he was about to hit an easy winner during a point. I was shocked for 2 reasons: I didn't realize she considered herself an umpire, and secondly, it is the player's call whether or not it is a let. If the ball doesn't bother them, they can play on, right? But unlike many tennis parents, I remained silent and stayed out of it, because that's the right thing to do. These things usually "work themselves out", with a bad call going the other way later. So at any rate, she established herself as clueless about what her role was already. She made no line calls or overrules at all except that erroneous "let" call until that fateful point in the tiebreaker, after the other player started complaining at her. It was a clear case of "deer in the headlights, say something fast." She had no idea whether the ball was in or out. This is karma, because I a few months ago I posted in response to another thread here that one solution to all the cheating on line calls in junior tennis would be to get high school students who need "community service hours" for their diplomas and train them to be court monitors. Others thought this was a bad idea. Now you can put me in that category, too! Although this girl didn't even look like a high school student, still, I can see now that it would take a special kid to be able to handle the stress/pressure of being a court monitor. I'm not making excuses because honestly my son needs to learn not to let that stuff get to him in a match. Teachable moment. But when he finally got to a private space after that match, he began to cry and cry, repeating over and over that the ball was in. It took a lot from me to try to get him in the right place perspective-wise, but inside it was killing me. He was a victim of injustice for sure, but I had to act otherwise for the sake of the bigger lessons. Now the question: What should I have done in that situation in the match? Obviously I didn't want to argue or confront the girl, she was just a kid and parents really should never argue with line judges, no matter their age. What I did do was complain to the tournament director. His only response was "She's older than 10" when I asked why he had a girl practically the same age as the players adjudicating matches. That's all he had. And I understand that there isn't much he can do at that point to fix what already happened. But there needs to be some rule about basic knowledge and age/experience requirements for "court monitors." And I will think twice before proposing suggestions for fixing line call cheating on here!
That really is too bad. You can use it by telling your son in a similar situation to calmly insist that she examine the ball mark. I hate to think we're raising another generation of John MacEnroes, but it sounds that way if arguing and temper tantrums are the accepted way to win matches. Another suggestion would be to summon the tournament official when you first see a court monitor isn't up to the job. It's too late when they spoil the match.
What you should have done is keep your mouth shut (which it sounds like you did). It's not your match and parents aren't supposed to get involved. If you think that the cheating and games at junior tournaments is bad, just imagine this now if parents were allowed to get involved when they didn't like a call or decision.
Dad...with all due respect you should be the happiest guy on the junior tennis planet. We play the 10s and 12s and there is no monitor at all in 99% of the matches. Add in the fact in SE FL we have academy kids under huge pressure to win, Russian and Serbian parents who will do anything to help their kids win, entitled Palm beacher parents..... and its a mad house. You guys at least stood a fighting chance. Just having the girl there would likely discourage many cheaters and bullies. And the odds are the monitor will make more good calls than bad. At least there is the feeling that your kid is not out there in a Mad Max scenario match after match. I was the one that made the suggestion of having someone there...seniors, high school, college...anyone. and your post makes me think its a great idea 1000 times over. After the nightmare we have been through down here which caused us recently to bail on tournaments and just focus on development....your situation of having any monitor at all, with the chance he/she helps even a little to stem the tidal wave of bullies and cheaters sounds like a dream come true!! You need to imagine that same match, except with an academy kid with dad coaching him in Russian, looking like he is really 14 years old with a fake certificate, saying "are you sure" every other point, changing the scores, with no monitor within 10 courts....now does your son's match experience seem that bad?
TCF, with all due respect, just because it is worse somewhere else in the world doesn't make us feel any better! You have detailed the south Fla situation on here before, and it sounds really bad. Up here in the Mid-Atlantic, cheating is not rampant at the 10U and 12U level. It exists, but it doesn't seem pervasive or systematic like it sounds like it is in your neck of the woods. And to be clear, I don't think the other kid was cheating. He seemed to really think the ball was in. (I love how kids standing at the other baseline think they can see on the opposite baseline whether a ball is in or not...) The girl that was standing there wasn't really deterring hooking that much because no one was really sure what she was doing there. She was paying little attention and seemed to not fully understand the game of tennis. No, sorry, I see now that junior court monitors, at least ones that young and without enough training, are a bad idea. Those crazy intimidating players you often rail about would've eaten this girl alive, and so it would be like a two-on-one match. A court monitor has the power to completely determine a match's outcome, and this is not an acceptable position to put a scared, nonassertive 11 or 12 y.o. kid in.
Oh, and sorry to post again, but I just looked back--in that other thread TCF, yes, it was you suggested college students and senior citizens, but NOT high school kids. I was the dummy who thought high school kids getting their community service credit would be a good plan, so I still maintain what happened to me was karmic payback for my dumb idea! ;-)
I do agree with you, that girl was way too young to be effective vs the bullies and cheaters. Like you said, they would eat her alive down here. These academy kids many time come with entourages that include coaches, family members, and other kids from the academy....even in the 10s. Imagine sending a shy 8-10 year old all alone to face that match after match.
It sounds horrible, but really, other than yelling, what can the other kids really do? It's not like they are going to start a fight on the court. I don't condone any of this for one minute, but I can see how a kid would get pretty mentally tough by fighting through it. Teach your kid to stand his ground. There are going to be people his whole life trying to intimidate him and cheat him, so he has to learn how to deal with it at some point. It's not like tennis is the only youth sport with bullies and aggressive parents.
You did the right thing in this situation. Getting involved would have only caused more chaos, and besides, imagine how bad things would get if all parents were to get involved in on-court disputes. In the future, your kid will have to learn to stand up to bullying opponents.
The two bigs things you should take away from this are that you are 100% correct that as soon as parents get involved it will end in tears no matter who is right/wrong. The second thing is that your son is entitled to a ball mark inspection as it is on clay. If he is confident of which mark he called out and that mark is consistent with the type of shot played then he should get the point as it is his call. If the supervisor thinks they have seen the ball go in then they should be able to point out their mark. If they refuse to do a ball mark inspection then your son can call the tournament referee. Then a polite, respectful and well argued case from your son that shows a knowledge of the rules will go a long way to having the point awarded to him. I know it is a fine line between not getting kids too worked up over these things and not giving in to bullying behaviour. For me in the end it comes down to what my kids feel comfortable with. And I know if it was a tiebreak in a final they'd kick themselves for weeks if they didn't stand up for themselves.
Junior tennis is unlike any other sport. In every other sport the pros and juniors look alike from a standpoint of scoring and rule enforcement. Junior tennis is the only sport on earth, either pros or kids, where there is no one to enforce the rules. Every other sport has score keepers in the pros, score keepers for kids. They all have refs for pros and refs for kids. Tennis is the only sport where kids have to enforce their own rules and keep their own scores yet at the pro level there are scorekeepers and refs. In every other sport kids have a buffer between them and aggressive parents....adults to enforce the rules.
My son, and by extension I, have been fortunate not to run into too much bad behavior or cheating... until today in the semis of a 12U tournament. A textbook case - very emotional kid, "come-on" after my son's UEs or DFs, moaning/yelling/banging his racquet on his own mistakes, talking to, and getting talked to by parents sitting at the fence in another language, and yes, everything close was called out. My son won the first set by just plowing though it. Then the hooking got worse and he dropped the second. Between the second and third set break, he asked an official to watch the third set. With the official there for the first 4 games (and 2 overrules and a warning for racquet abuse) my son won 6-1 in the third. Having not run into this before, I was proud of how he kept his composure and did the right thing in getting an official. I stayed out of it, although it wasn't easy!
Saw a case of this a few weeks ago. Thought they were clever by speaking in a foreign language. Opponent complains that coaching might be going on but it was not in English. So the supervisor privately asks the complainant who spoke, for how long, etc. Then asks the same of the kid allegedly being coached and his parents/family. Funnily enough the kid and the family allegedly involved in coaching gave two totally different accounts of what was said, who said it and for how long. Not enough to code them for coaching but enough for the supervisor to make his point that they had all but been caught. They didn't say another word for the rest of the match.
I do appreciate the problem. Competitive golf is a lot different, but players have to keep score and enforce rules there as well. Pickup basketball, even organized team practices, have the same dynamic of having to call fouls. Little League baseball is notorious for aggressive parents, although there are other adults present. The bottom line here is that if your kid wants to keep playing, he will have to learn to deal with it. He will face the same problem as he moves up the junior ladder, plays high school or college, even in pro challenger events, where the stakes are a lot higher. Since this seems to be a chronic problem that almost everyone involved in juniors complains about, I have to wonder if there isn't an opportunity for someone to begin organizing tournaments with some level of minimal supervision. Would parents be prepared to shell out an extra $5 per match to have a high school player ref'ing each match?
To me the issue is not that you can not teach kids to 'plow through it' or 'deal with it' in regards to the cheating, the bullies, the aggressive parents. Sure you can and it does teach some good life lessons. But when a match takes 2 or more hours of arguing, standing your ground, mentally dealing with the parents....along with waiting sometimes hours for an open court. At what point does the overall experience just chase kids away? It can take the better part of the entire weekend to get 2-3 matches in. I see week after week the draws for the 10s-12s with lots of kids, the 14s less kids, the 16s-18s sometimes no kids. I get that kids drop out of all sports as they hit the teen years, but junior tennis seems to have quite a high drop out rate compared to other sports. At least down here the typical USTA junior tournament experience is not all that pleasant.
I read somewhere that 94% of the kids drop out of tennis by the age of 15. Not sure how reliable is the number but seems like it matches up with what you see.
A tournament we are going to this weekend has 15 girls entered in the 12s, 12 in the 14s, and only 3 each in the 16s and 18s.
No surprise here. As kids become teens, all sorts of things contribute to this in addition to purely tennis reasons: specialize in another sport, dating, increased academic work, jobs, etc...
True, its just very noticeable in tennis. You never have trouble fielding a high school team in most sports but many times in the 16s and 18s no kids sign up and the draws are cancelled.
Yeah, I also wonder if other sports draw more because of spectator interest. I mean, go to a HS basketball game and you have a big crowd, the band playing, local broadcast coverage, cheerleaders, etc as opposed to a tennis match where you're lucky to have a few parents, a coach, and a couple of teammates watching. I played basketball and also ran track in HS and college. Two very different experiences. I loved the excitement and atmosphere of basketball games, but also loved the individual challenge of track, which is similar to tennis in that respect. Today, however, there are fewer multi-sport athletes and another sport might be more exciting.


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THE CAST of Dancing with the Stars Season 11 – Live Blog!!
Ten more minutes and away we go – as live as we can be when traffic is high. I'm going to suffer through Bachelor Pad…can we just talk about Bachelor Pad for a moment?? Lord, what a nasty show. The Bachelor was bad enough, in all it's train wreck-y glory, but this show takes the cake. It started out nicely enough, but when the girls started serious macking on the guys for 250k – I thought that was illegal in this country? 🙂
Anyway, below you see a very sad, very blank table. I will fill it in as we go, in the order they are announced – unless of course they do a whole mess at one time and I can't write fast enough. I'm hoping Courtney will be helping me out via Twitter. 😉 ETA means "edited to add" – I will put that in front of any new commentary I might have and it will come before the table.
ETA 1: Sitcoms Online says the press conference will be in two segments in the 9 (8 central) pm hour of Bachelor pad. First segment will be 1:55 minutes and the second one will be almost 4 minutes. We'll see.
ETA 2: Yeah, let's play a game guaranteed to make everyone HATE each other. Great idea. :::rolls eyes::: Give me ONE name please.
ETA 3: Heads up, yo! Lacey just tweeted a picture and she looks made up for TV and appears to be wearing a DWTS robe. And I'm starting to hate you all for making me watch this gawdawful show. 😉
ETA 4: So someone tells me that Lacey is at her title shoot, hence the makeup. Boo. I got my hopes up there for a mo.
ETA 5: Michael Bolton apparently just tweeted to tune into the Bachelor Pad.
ETA 6: Just saw a tweet from Apollo retweeting Ashlan Gorse who's there. Hmmm….
ETA 7: Edyta tweets that she never said she had a "major disagreement" with DWTS. In other news, chick willing to dump guy over burping.
ETA 8: 100% correct rumors. Will they miss with the men? Any surprises. Give it another 15 minutes. 🙂
ETA 9: Everyone, you're giving me lots of great comments and info – sorry if I can't respond to everything until after the madness is over. 😉
ETA 10: I'm spent. 🙂 Now, start your engines. John and Courtney are going to be ranking these contestants and I'll be making a stab at the partnerships. Tomorrow. 😉
ETA 11: Forgot to add – Kyle Massey is from "That's so Raven". Total Disney.
Who's Dancing?
No. | Celebrity | Age | Height |
1. | Brandy | 31 | 5ft 7in |
2.Jennifer Grey | 50 | 5'3″ | |
3. | Margaret Cho | 41 | 5ft 5in |
4. | Audrina Patridge | 25 | 5ft 7.5in |
5. | Florence Henderson | 76 | 5ft 3in |
6. | Bristol Palin | 19 | 5ft. 3in. |
7. | Michael Bolton | 56 | 5ft 10in |
8. | Mike Sorrentino | 27 | ?? |
9. | David Hasselhoff | 58 | 6ft 4in |
10. | Kurt Warner | 39 | 6ft 2in |
11. | Kyle Massey | 19 | 5ft 6in |
12. | Rick Fox | 41 | 6ft 7in |
If this cast turns out to be anything like what has been rumored…well, the Cheesecake Awards will be AMAZING. Provided someone gives me beer. 😉

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Some say that homesickness comes with college. That when you are home under the care of your family, you can pretend that life away would be so much better.
But, once you get there those differences make you sick for your comfort. And secretly those same people who say this, want you to be homesick.
Not for the empty feeling in your stomach, or the long hours you spend on the phone each night, but because they too want to be missed. They too want you to remember them as you grow.
Being missed is a feeling that only occurs with separation. And seeing a Colorado license plate, an addressed hallmark card with the zip code 81625 on my doorstep, or even a single mountain peak makes me reminiscent of my home in Colorado.
Last Thursday I had an impromptu speech in my public speaking class. This speech was unplanned, where you only get 2 minutes of preparation to create a structured and educational speech on an unknown topic.
When it was my turn I drew my topic out of the hat. It read "if I could be any animal I would be a _______."
Simple, right?
But have you ever thought of how many animals there are in this world?
So, I decided on the one animal that I knew the most about, the one animal that I spent years pampering, judging and leading.
A steer in the county fair.
Why not a bird, dolphin or pretty elegant animal?
That was predictable.
And I wanted to give my class a taste of the Moffat County Fair. But, of course, I put the word steer in California terms and described a steer as a "male cow that had been neutered."
Once again the knowledge I gained from my background made me unpredictable.
When people told me "stay in touch, M.K." I nodded my head in agreement, but in the back of my mind lingered all the things I had to do once I returned to San Diego.
I thought this was a selfish wish they had of me. I had the mentality that a five-minute phone conversation with a friend, or a family member from back home, would disrupt my perfect life here in San Diego.
I believed that I had grown up so much from my high school years.
I was wrong.
When did I grow?
When I admitted to my mistake.
I believe that the growth of an individual's character is not measured by how many times he is right but how many times she admits she is wrong.
Although I always represented Colorado well by talking about the greatness the state had to offer to everyone, the fact that I was ignoring the people with whom I experienced this greatness made me just another California girl.
The word homesick rarely entered my vocabulary when I was a freshman.
It came with such a negative connotation. I thought if I even admitted to an ounce of a remembrance of home or an ill feeling of homesickness that this equaled unhappiness.
This homesickness meant that I was not satisfied with my choice to go out of state for college. But for all you soon to be college freshmen, I am here to redefine the word homesick.
Homesickness isn't locking yourself up in your dorm room for the weekend with a box of Kleenex, a senior year photo album clenched to your heart, and your prom date on call waiting while you talk to your best friend from home.
Being homesick is the urge to call your mother when you get a parking ticket and failed your first biology test. Or the little butterflies you get in your stomach when you're picked up from the airport by the special someone you have back home.
Homesickness is the answers you can't find in college.
Homesickness is healthy and you will be homesick when you go to college. How you get through this homesickness will determine whether you think this feeling is a good or a bad thing.
So when my mother left this morning after spending the weekend here in San Diego. I was homesick.


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Drs. Etienne Achille and Hibba Abugideiri obtained a grant for a new interdisciplinary, team-taught course: "France, North Africa, and Modern Violence" by the Interdisciplinary Grant Program.
Dr. Cristina Percoco has been awarded the Lilly Teaching Conference Travel Fellowship for First Year Faculty, focused on learning, teaching, and assessment in higher education as well as scholarly teaching sponsored by VITAL that supports full-time, first-year faculty members at Villanova University
Dr. Mercedes Juliá was invited to participate in the International Symposium "One Hundred Years of Platero and I", (2014), at the University of Huelva, Spain. Invited to the symposium were several Jiménez Scholars from different parts of the world.
Dr. Mercedes Juliá was invited to deliver a lecture at the University of Maryland (College Park) to Celebrate the Centenary of the Publication of Platero y yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez, the second most read book in the Spanish language after Don Quixote. In the picture, Dr. Graciela Palau de Nemes, fourth from left, Dr. Carmen Benito, Dr. Mercedes Juliá, and Dr. José María Naharro Calderón, together with graduate students of the University of Maryland's Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Dr. Luca Cottini is the recipient of the 2014 ISSNAF award for the Humanities presented to the best manuscript by an Italian scholar who resides in North America. The manuscript is published by The University of Toronto Press. The Art of Objects. Designing Italy's Way to Modernity (18778-1928) focuses on the emergence of industrial modernity in Italy at the turn of the 20th century.
Dr. Adriano Duque has been chosen as this year's recipient of the Villanova Outstanding Faculty Mentor Teaching Award.
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I'm finally back after a long unprecedented break. Was caught up in a number of things that I me-self didn't realize just how much of water has flown under the bridge. I can't even sit and write about all that happened. Too many things to mention. So, let me just put it in points.
- Proposed to my best friend's sister and I lost him for a friend.
- The cops took away my bike from me 'coz I was fool enough to ride it without proper documents to show that it was my bike.
- Applied for a loan 'coz I desperately needed to raise some money and failed.
- My system had a temporary crash and got corrected by itself.
- And finally, I lost my job!
Let me elucidate on that last point. Today my Creative Director called me for a one on one and said he's not interested in maintaining me at his firm. No. It was not as bad as it sounds. I was expecting this any moment and I'm relieved that it happened soon. At least I'm spared the tension of carrying this load in my mind. He said he still would like to help me out with a job and he sounded very genuine. I really appreciate his concern for me. He said he'll be introducing me to a professional photographer soon and suggested that I pursue photography as a career 'coz I seem to have a good eye for frames! Now, that's a compliment, indeed. But I haven't decided on anything. I thought I'd take a break, weigh my options and think about tings with a cool cool head. After all, life's been always fair to me and I shouldn't be complaining much!
Will be back with more updates soon.
Signing off for the day.
Listen to me sing a song, anyhow!
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Here's the link to my song blog for those of you who're interested: Ekan Learns To Sing... (Click on the link)


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The Wonder Shaper
When we moved to Las Cruces I ditched Qwest for telephone service, and went with standalone DSL, Asterisk, and NuFone for my phone service. The other day someone was downloading stuff from my website, using all my upload bandwidth, and my wife was trying to talk to someone on the phone. Although she could hear them just fine, they couldn't hear a thing she said because she was breaking up so bad. Thus began my quest for QoS.
Actually, I had downloaded and set up a script to do QoS that I got from the
This morning, I stumbled across the Wonder Shaper and decided to give it a try. If it didn't work well for VOIP at least I'd have a starting point for modifications. The results were truly wonderful. I was able to carry on a normal conversation with my mother while uploading an ISO with scp to my ISP.
The added bonus of having really great performance for other interactive applications such as ssh has really sold me on the Wonder Shaper. Even if you don't do VOIP, you should give it a try. If you have a recent kernel it's so easy to use, and has such great returns, that you would be foolish not to.


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This web site contains a number of tutorials relating to motion in one dimension. Each tutorial explains a subject and provides exercises to test the user's understanding. Some are accompanied by images, animations or graphs to illustrate the concepts. Among the subjects are describing motion with words, diagrams and graphs, acceleration of gravity, vector algebra and explaining motion with equations.
This resource is part of a Physics Front Topical Unit.
Topic: Kinematics: The Physics of Motion
Unit Title: Motion in One Dimension This tutorial focuses on the language, principles, and laws which describe and explain the motion of objects. It is part of The Physics Classroom website, and provides links to related labs, problem sets, help for struggling learners, and curriculum support. Link to Unit:
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Tom Stilwell suffered multiple broken bones but escaped paralysis after falling from the high-rise tower block in Auckland.
The 20-year-old had been out drinking with friends when he knocked on a neighbour's door to ask if he could climb over her balcony to get to his directly below as he had locked himself out.
But Mr Stilwell, from Brighton, fell 13 storeys on to a corrugated roof, before dropping to the ground.
He was rushed to the city's hospital and under went emergency surgery, where he amazed medics who discovered he had not suffered any life-changing injuries.
His father David, who spoke to his son today, said he was doing well.
He told the Standard: "In the circumstances he is incredibly good. He has had an incredible, fortunate escape having fallen an enormous distance.
"'Miracle' is an over-used term, but it really was. It is very difficult to understand how he survived. We are all just very, very grateful."
Mr Stilwell, who is on a working holiday, was expected to be moved out of intensive care into a general ward today. He was said to be in good spirits.
He suffered a number of broken bones and fractures, as well as a punctured lung.
His father said: "He has lots of injuries, many broken bones, but they are not life-threatening. It's just incredible."
His best friend, Dave Thomas, said although he had been out drinking, the incident was not typical behaviour.
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Geraldine Bautista, 28, who lives in the apartment from which Mr Stilwell fell, said he knocked on her door at 2am before climbing over the side.
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Dog and God
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Dog is a psychologically disturbed nightkin who helps Father Elijah by capturing "assistants" for him and fitting them with explosive collars in 2281. His alternate personality, God (referred to by the former as simply "the voice"), is trying to break Dog free of Elijah's grasp.
The "Dog" personality is activated by the sound of Father Elijah's voice, and the "God" personality is activated by the sound of his own voice (via holotape or radio). When one personality is dominant, the other is said to be in "the cage" or "the basement".
Hand-picked by the Master to serve in his super mutant army, Dog's job was to fetch new humans to be turned into super mutants. Dog was crushed by the Master's defeat, and he eventually found his way to the Sierra Madre, where Elijah took advantage of his need for a "master" figure in order to enslave him. Elijah utilized his previous purpose, using him as a tool for bringing in potential treasure hunters and later for activating the Sierra Madre Gala Event. Dog is extremely loyal and will follow the commands issued by his master's voice to the letter, even when it puts him in danger. He also has a tendency to eat anything, even ghost people, when hungry. This eventually led to him accidentally eating his own explosive collar when it came off after the first Gala Event occurred trapping Elijah and, as his other personality mentions, keeping him a prisoner to his hunger and to Elijah. Like most nightkin, Dog exhibits severe mental trauma from prolonged Stealth Boy use, resulting in dissociative identity disorder. He hates the voice, and is willing to do anything to be rid of it, even going to the point of self-harm. Pain hurts him, but also quiets the voice, so he will go to extremes such as scarring his body and putting his arm in a bear trap in order to make it stop.
The voice – "God" – is very different from Dog. He is quiet, articulate, controlling, and far less pliable than his counterpart. However, he does threaten a very painful death when the Courier mentions having the power to put him back in "the cage". He claims that he only wishes to help Dog, even confessing a protective brotherly affection for him and believes the best way to do that is to eliminate Elijah - only then can he help Dog overcome his hunger and need for a master. He does not care for the treasure of the Sierra Madre, and frequently comments on the Courier's perceived greed. When in combat, he is far less adept than Dog, as he is less accustomed to using the nightkin body and lacks the bloodlust of his other personality.
Interactions with the player characterEdit
Interactions overviewEdit
General | Services | Quests | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Find Collar 8: "Dog": The Courier has to travel to the Villa Police Station and recruit Dog or God.
- Fires in the Sky: The Courier has to escort Dog or God to Salida del Sol South to Trigger the Gala Event and hunt down some ghost people for Dog or God to eat.
- Put the Beast Down: The Courier must confront Dog or God in the Sierra Madre Casino.
Other interactionsEdit
After recruiting Dog and watching him kill and consume one of the ghost people, the Courier can talk to Dog and, after going through a few speech options, receive the Ghost Hunter perk from him. However, if they have the Cannibal perk, it is possible to get the Ghost Hunter perk from him without fighting.
# | Slide | Voice-over narration | In-game condition |
1 | When Dog fell in the Sierra Madre casino, two died as one. Dog died hungry, alone, frightened. The voice in his head died with him. Screaming. Furious. Enraged. But the voice was gone, and Dog was grateful. At least Dog was dead and the voice needed to watch over him no more. In the moment before their lives ended, the wall between the two personalities fell. The two became silent as they saw the chain between them. Hunger and control are twin greeds, something Dog and his shadow had never realized. | Dog is dead. | |
2 | Dog forgot himself, as did the voice that raged within him. After their passing, a new voice spoke within the mutant's shell. It was difficult for the voice to remember the two it once was... there was the beast, Dog consumed by hunger... ...and the other in reverse... the one consumed by control. Both were driven by need for the other. The Courier brought them together, somehow, joined the two into one. All that happened at the Sierra Madre, was a faint memory to the new personality... like a flickering light in the clouds of the mind. The new voice did not think of the Courier again until the battle at the Divide reached his ears. The battle between the two couriers, beneath the torn skies and the Old World flag... each bearing a message for the other. And the mutant prayed the Courier that had saved him... had been saved in return. | Dog is alive, God is alive. | |
3 | Dog, free of the voice inside his head and no longer waiting on the voice of the Master, wandered back West. His hunger never ended. Often, small communities would suddenly vanish. They were assumed to have been hit by Wasteland creatures and dragged away... dogs, brahmin, and humans alike. | Only Dog is alive. | |
4 | Freed of both Dog and the one who held Dog's leash, the other voice resumed control. First the mind, then finally, the mutant's shell. His first act was to tend to the scars on the body with careful hands, slowly healing all the scars except the ragged name torn on his chest. He briefly thought of remaining at the Sierra Madre. But it was a monument built by humans, representing something he no longer needed. He began walking west, in search of others like him. As he did, he spoke of the courier who had set him free and allowed his life to begin again. | Only God is alive. |
Apparel | Weapon | Other items | On death |
- | - | - | - |
Much like Lily Bowen, Dog and God are limited in the weapons they can use. These weapons are:
- Assault carbine
- Baseball bat (GRA)
- Bumper sword
- Frag grenade
- Gatling laser
- Grenade machinegun
- Heavy incinerator
- Hunting rifle
- Incinerator
- Light machine gun
- Lily's assault carbine
- Lily's Vertibird blade
- Lily's gauntlet
- Minigun
- Missile launcher
- Nail board
- Plasma grenade
- Rebar club
- Sledgehammer
- Super sledge
Since Dog/God cannot equip any weapons unique to Dead Money and outside weapons cannot be brought into the Sierra Madre, Dog/God are effectively restricted to Unarmed fighting, frag grenades and the sledgehammer.
- Dog is set to level as the Courier does, and will reach a maximum level of 45 depending on the order in which each add-on is completed (Dead Money being completed last/close to last). God also levels with the protagonist, but has no maximum allowed level, and also has no minimum level either. Because of this, God/Dog has an extremely high amount of hit points at very high levels, in his God incarnation more than any other enemy in the game save for the legendary bloatfly or X-42 giant robo-scorpion. This, combined with his inside 30% DR, can make him a very powerful opponent if the Courier is forced to fight him towards the end of Dead Money.
- Dog is actually smaller than God, set to a scale of 0.9, whereas God is a normal scale of 1. Like Lily Bowen, Dog and God are both noticeably shorter than a normal super mutant, although they still stand a head taller than a normal human, in order to traverse narrow terrain like human sized followers do.
- Dog and God have different combat-related personal perks. Dog has the typical nightkin's 30% DR, while God's health regenerates over time.
- When Dog is dominant, he will occasionally refer to the Mariposa Military Base and the Cathedral in idle dialogue, stating that he misses the base and the church.
- If the Courier has the Cannibal perk, they can ask God what the ghost people taste like. He will reply that they taste like plastic and copper.
- While Dog/God are in fact an extremely crazed nightkin with obvious split personality disorder likely given to them when the Master died in Fallout, Elijah seems to be under the impression that he is merely a normal second-generation FEV mutant (or "Dumb-Dumbs" as Tabitha calls them). God has given him this impression by cleverly not speaking aloud whenever Elijah is listening, exposing him only to Dog's personality, who acts like any second-generation mutant.
- If Dog/God has throwable explosives (e.g. frag grenades) in his inventory, he will use one initially in combat against ghost people, but is then unable to attack when they get close enough to melee.
- When God is asked about Elijah, it becomes apparent that he knows about HELIOS One and Elijah's failing there.
- Dog/God has a unique face, a unique body appearance, and a unique voice compared to other nightkin.
- God will engage Dean Domino in conversation while they are both dismissed to the Villa fountain by the Courier. He is apparently familiar with Dean and expresses contempt for the ghoul for not leaving the Sierra Madre when he had the opportunity.
- Similarly, if Dog is a companion, he will engage Dean Domino in a short conversation if they meet at the Villa fountain. Dog will refer to Dean as if he was some kind of food, Dean's reply being "you stay in your corner while I stay in mine". Then, Dean will talk quietly with the Courier, asking them to "keep him away from this thing".
- If the Courier's collar explodes while having Dog or God as a companion, his subsequent death will count towards the Super Mutant Massacre challenge.
- Should Dog/God be killed in the Cantina Madrid and if the area is revisited, his corpse will be shown to have exploded into bloody chunks, due to the fact he ate his collar.
The following is based on the Wild Wasteland trait and has not been confirmed by canon sources. |
- If the Courier has the Wild Wasteland trait, Dog will say "OM NOM NOM" the first time he eats a ghost person.
End of information based on the Wild Wasteland trait. |
The following is based on developer test content cut from Fallout: New Vegas and has not been confirmed by canon sources. |
- Within the game files exists an unused character named Dog Script Test Dude. It is a generic super mutant used to test some scripts related to Dog/God.
End of information based on developer test content cut from Fallout: New Vegas. |
Notable quotesEdit
- "Where is Master? Did he go away? Dog will be good this time."
- "I'll prop your broken body in view of the Sierra Madre so you can see what you came to steal... forever out of reach as you die."
- "That Pip-Boy... maybe I'll tear it off your arm, wear it on my neck. "
- "Wish I had a Stealth Boy instead of this bear trap."
- "You look like food, smell like food, Dog - hungry."
Dog and God appear only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Dead Money.
- The dialogue options "Who's this old man that brought us here?", "So you're the one that knows how I got to the villa", "You Brought Me Here to the villa", and "I want to know more about the man who brought us here" remain highlighted even if you have selected them. [verified]
- Salida del Sol North with Dog/God, he will fall through the floor and be suspended underneath it. Sometimes, when clearing out
- stimpaks. [verified] Sometimes Dog/God may be unable to heal when idle or given
- Sometimes when he is ordered to wait, Dog/God will attack the first ghost person he can find before waiting. [verified]
- There is an exploitable bug where you can obtain God's perk without him following you. By having God as a companion, use Elijah's voice to summon Dog's persona. This is only temporary, however; as soon as you dismiss him at his post for Fires in the Sky, this perk will be lost. [verified]
- Dog/God is prone to getting stuck in walls around the villa and may be unable to follow the player in the same cell. [verified]
- FIX: If updating the game or returning to a previous save is not an option, the console is the only solution. Go to Dog and open the console, then click him. Remember the first two digits of the number at the top then type set "XX000FBF".bDogFreed to 1. Replace XX with the two digits from before.
Sometimes Dog will bug and repeat the phrase "Let Dog out. Hungry, hate being in here" after you have brought him to the fountain. This is because the game still thinks Dog is in the cage at the police station due to the result of buggy dialogue options when you are convincing him to leave the cage. [verified]
- God has no associated game script, which can have a dramatic impact on gameplay. Notably, this means he does not automatically heal after combat, and can even die outright without triggering the detonation of the player's collar directly. [verified]


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"The AXON system provides the police officers view of what is occurring," said Burnsville Police Chief Bob Hawkins. "It is cutting edge technology that will bolster our case preparation, reduce court costs and eliminate false accusations against our officers. This is revolutionary technology that we are extremely excited about."
TASER will deliver AXON tactical computers and a SYNAPSE Evidence Transfer Manager (ETM) to Burnsville during the third quarter of 2010.
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Cons: Sonic deficencies, I/O clutter, plastic top bezel, awkward usability depending on usage
FiiO has come a long way in recent years – quickly developing and releasing well-valued products – with its line of amps and DACs. Today, we have one of the newest additions to the FiiO family; the E18 Kunlun. FiiO's Kunlun is designed as a computer and Android-device USB-DAC and portable-amplifier. At $160, can the E18 perform its duty?
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There are a million ways to describe a FiiO – good sounding being a common one – but having a sexy build always is one of the first. The E18 uses the stealthy milled-aluminum look of the E12, in addition with a top control bar surrounded by a silver strip.
The silver strip, build-edges, and control-panel plate are plastic. It's hard to tell on first look, because they blend in so well with the metal. It looks good, as the black plastic provides a matte complementing-gradient to the shiny metal. I would personally say that the plastic seems strong enough – albeit a tad lightweight for me - for the purposes of the E18.
The feel of all the buttons is impeccable. There is a satisfying 'click' followed by every push. It isn't loud or hard to press, but neither is it squishy. They don't have much wiggle-room and are machined out of aluminum; which is a standard FiiO trait.
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17 August 2012 Reaffirming that terrorists and armed groups still pose a threat to Afghanistan, the Security Council today condemned, in the strongest terms, coordinated terrorist attacks across the Central Asian country on 14 and 15 August, which caused numerous deaths and injuries, mostly to civilians.
"The members of the Security Council reiterated their serious concern at the threats posed by the Taliban, al-Qaida and illegal armed groups to the local population, national security forces, international military and international assistance efforts in Afghanistan," according to a press statement from Ambassador Gérard Araud, the Permanent Representative of France, which holds this month's Council presidency.
Conflict-related violence in Afghanistan is still having devastating consequences for civilians despite the decrease in casualties this year, according to a United Nations report released last week.
The 2012 Midyear Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict states that during the first half of the year, conflict-related violence led to 1,145 civilian deaths and 1,954 injuries. While these figures represent a 15 per cent decrease compared to last year, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) stressed that more needs to be done protect civilians.
UNAMA has been in the Central Asian nation since 2002, at the request of the Government, to assist in the laying the foundations for sustainable peace and development. In March this year, the Security Council renewed UNAMA's mandate until March 2013.
In today's statement, the Council also reaffirmed the international strategy for Afghanistan's recovery from conflict toward a stable democracy, which is progressing towards national leadership in security, governance and development.
"No terrorist act can reverse the path towards Afghan-led peace, democracy and stability in Afghanistan, which is supported by the people and the Government of Afghanistan and the international community," the Council statement read, adding that the body's members extended their sympathy to victims and their families, recommitted themselves to the struggle against terrorism and stressed the need to bring the perpetrators of the attacks to justice.
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Sherbet ginger ale punch is a popular American beverage. It is also popular party drink in Canada and Australia. It can be made alcoholic as well as non-alcoholic. It is a blend of a frozen dessert sherbet, also called sorbet , and the popular American drink ginger ale. It has a fruity flavor with a kick of ginger.
Sherbet Ginger Ale Punch as such does not have any history. It has its origin in America. Ginger ale is claimed to have been invented by Dr. Thomas Cantrell.
Ingredients and Preparation
This drink has 2 main ingredients, sherbet and ginger ale.
Any flavor sherbet can be used to make it. The best and the commonly used flavors are lime, lemon, peach, orange, raspberry and pineapple.
Two varieties of ginger ale can be used, either golden or dry. Dry one is more commonly used as it is less stronger and gives a less kick of ginger.
It is one of the easiest drinks to make. Sorbet is scooped into the punch bowl and softened. Ginger ale is poured over it. It can be garnished with mint leaves and lemon wedges.
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Serving size – 1 glass
Calories – 150 cal, Fat – 0.0 g, Sugars – 25 g, Carbohydrates – 29 g, Protein – 0.0 g
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25 Alternative L.A. Art Spaces to Check Out Now
A play on a joke about California being full of fruits and nuts, Laura Owens' works made of '60s California newspapers are at Actual Size through May 12
Photo by Ooga Booga store in Chinatown, L.A.
Also check out our Google Map of L.A.'s alternative art spaces
Some of the most progressive art made in L.A. today can't be seen in museums or blue chip galleries. Instead, it's in the city's many alternative art spaces -- venues run by artists and other (typically young) people with a vision. These spaces tend to operate on a shoestring budget, in funky locales, or even out of people's homes and studios. Often you can find out about them only by word of mouth or social media.
Ten years ago, you could count the number of alternative art spaces in L.A. on your hands. Today there are more than anyone can keep track of, and they've become a significant factor in L.A.'s status as a new art capital.
We had to do some stringent paring to get this list down to 25. With a couple exceptions, the more commercial galleries were left out, no matter how cool their programming. Older and more established nonprofit venues, such as Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and 18th Street Art Center, also were excluded.
What's left is a list of cool spaces you might not be able to find on your own. Don't delay in checking these places out -- the nature of experimental art venues is that they may not be around tomorrow.
Machine Project's master class in how to be a "tranimal," organized by Austin Young and Squeaky Blonde, in February
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Machine Project: Always tinkering
Started at a humble storefront in Echo Park almost a decade ago, Machine Project, under the direction of Mark Allen, has moved into the relative big time of the alternative art world. In 2008, it organized a memorable, one-day takeover of LACMA, with offbeat events all over the campus; it later was invited to do residencies at museums from Denver to St. Louis. Back at home, it puts on community-oriented activities such as a fundraiser for those jailed in the Occupy L.A. arrests, DIY workshops on everything from home electronics to theatrical costumes and hikes with poets. Machine also recently got attention for removing its storefront windows, reinstalling them 20 feet back and creating a sort of indoor-outdoor plaza. 1200-D N. Alvarado St., Echo Park. (213) 483-8761, machineproject.com.
A work by Dashiell Manley included in the Artist Curated Projects show, "One for the Money, Two for the Show," curated by Math Bass
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Artist Curated Projects: Nomadic troopers
Begun in 2008 by artists Eve Fowler and Lucas Michael, ACP feels like one of the elder statesmen in the current crop of alternative organizations. Although Michael relocated to New York a couple years ago, the roving project is still going strong, with exhibitions, performances and talks at a range of locales, including the homes and studios of friends, art fairs and institutions like the MAK Center and Armory Center for the Arts. Check out ACP's semi-annual flat file sale for a great opportunity to purchase affordable artworks by notable artists. artistcuratedprojects.com.
Young Art: Those damn kids
Like Jancar Jones, Young Art, run by curator Kate Hillseth, considers itself a gallery rather than an artist-run space, but it distinguishes itself by showing dynamic work by, yes, younger artists. Young Art's history dates back to 2006, when Hillseth ran a space in Highland Park next door to where Public Fiction (see description below) is now. She then spent a brief spell in the Woman's Building, L.A.'s historic center for feminist activity, before her current Chinatown location. Most recently, Young Art featured "Where the Skin Gets Pinched," an adventurous, site-specific creation by Cara Benedetto and Davida Nemeroff, which obliquely explored the pressures of being a working artist. 418 Bamboo Lane, Unit B, Chinatown; youngartgallery.com.
Jancar Jones receives a visit from Cypress College teacher Elizabeth DiGiovanni, left, and her conceptual photography class
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Jancar Jones: S.F. to L.A.
Opened last fall by art historian Ava Jancar and artist Eric Jones, this Chinatown space defines itself as a commercial gallery with a set stable of artists. Its conventional structure belies its fresh programming, however. A recent show by David Berezin, for example, featured amazing photographs that looked like meticulous studio arrangements but were really Photoshopped images from the Internet; in one, a loaf of bread and a set of skis sat on a terraced pedestal, casting perfect shadows. The two gallerists met in San Francisco while attending school at the Art Institute, and actually ran the gallery there for three years. Here they show a mix of L.A. and Bay Area artists. (Don't confuse Jancar Jones with Jancar Gallery, an older Chinatown space run by Ava's father, Tom.) 1031 N. Broadway, Chinatown. (323) 223-3115, jancarjones.com.
The exhibit "Hanging Gardens," a play on the gardens of Babylon, curated by Renée Fox at Beacon Arts Building
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Beacon Arts Building: Improving Inglewood
Beacon Arts is the only venue on this list with a larger civic agenda, founded by private interests as an arts center for the Inglewood community. Located in an enormous four-story building that used to be home to Bekins Moving and Storage, Beacon Arts houses artists' studios, as well as large exhibition areas. Director Renée A. Fox has been doing a bang-up job programming exciting exhibitions such as Mat Gleason's "Tel-Art-Phone," a wild, sprawling affair in which chains of artists created artworks in response to the work of other artists, much like the childhood game of telephone. So far, every exhibition has ended with a rousing panel discussion accompanied by catered IHOP pancakes -- always a crowd-pleaser. 808 N. La Brea Ave., Inglewood. (310) 419-4077, beaconartsbuilding.com.
A whimsical installation by Audrey Chan and Elana Mann festoons the kitchen at elephant art space
Carol Cheh
elephant: The party is in the back
A cheerfully laid-back vibe permeates elephant, a humble building in Glassell Park, which houses the studios of an ever-changing roster of artists, mostly CalArts grads. A nice entry room greets visitors with the latest exhibition, while a kitchen and backyard are friendly party areas. On view recently was Audrey Chan and Elana Mann's "fake retrospective," a fun collection of props and documentation from their seven years of working together. 3325 Division St., Glassell Park; elephantartspace.com
Monte Vista Projects: We're all in this together
This relatively low-key space, in existence since 2007, houses artist studios and an exhibition space. Among past shows are an exhibition of Christmas trees that you can rent and take home; a show inspired by the gestures of classic clowns; and the first run of Dawn Kasper's Nomadic Studio, in which she moved all of her stuff into the exhibition space and hung out there all day. Kasper did it again at the Whitney Biennial, earning a New York Times profile and a tweet from Martha Stewart. 5442 Monte Vista St., Highland Park; montevistaprojects.com.
Up next: House rules apply
House rules apply
Concord Space: Our warehouse, in the middle of our street
Concord, a newer space that I got wind of through Facebook event invites, consistently comes up with catchy ideas, such as a bingo tournament with art for prizes, a concert that featured a form of Taiwanese surf-rock performed with puppetry, and an "immersive literary event" in which writers were stationed throughout the warehouse-like house, offering private poetry readings. The events are organized by the rotating mix of people who live in five bedrooms -- currently there are two artists, a writer, an architect and a "depth psychologist." 1010 N. San Fernando Road, Cypress Park. (818) 649-0189, concordspace.com.
Favorite Goods is ready for its all-night, experimental music sleepover event
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Favorite Goods: Mi casa es su art space
Located on the second story of a building on Chung King Road in Chinatown, this new space won us over back in December with a "sleep concert" in which visitors were invited to sleep over at the gallery while live experimental music played all night long. Directors Ryan Fabel and Audrey Moyer, who have done a lovely job of building out a portion of their home to start this space, met in Berlin two years ago and moved to L.A. only last March. They've already made inroads into the local art community and plan to host shows of out-of-town artists. 936 ½ Chung King Road, Chinatown; favoritegoodslosangeles.com.
Artist Jason Manley built this amazing trick bookshelf to hide the entrance to Jaus' bathroom during the run of the group show "Home on La Grange"
Carol Cheh
Jaus: No, the Spanish pronunciation
When artist Ichiro Irie bought a small residential lot in a tree-lined neighborhood of Santa Monica, it was populated with a collection of run-down shacks. He enlisted noted architect Ken Tanaka, a family friend, to design a new set of buildings for his family to live in, including Jaus, a space for exhibitions. The name "Jaus" is the Spanish phonetic spelling for the word house -- something Irie coined for the name of an arts magazine he once ran in Mexico City. Irie maintains many international ties, and recent exhibitions have spotlighted artists from Japan and France. Jaus' opening receptions are always jovial affairs that tend to spill over into the late hours. 11851 La Grange Ave., Santa Monica. (424) 248-0781, jausart.com.
Summercamp's ProjectProject: Like Meatballs if Bill Murray were Andy Warhol
Summercamp's ProjectProject is such a likable idea -- a group of crazy kids, living in a big-ass house in El Sereno, using their work-light summer months to put together shows right in their own backyard (literally). And what a backyard it is! Some of the most memorable works have made epic use of the enormous, sloping hill. Mercedes Teixido's hilarious Sisyphus and Newton was a huge, inflatable boulder that visitors could push either up the hill or down. Ryan Lamb's video Chasing Myself featured people running up and down the slope to the tune of the Star Trek battle theme. Summercamp's three directors are having intense, all-night meetings to map out their 2012 programming, scheduled to start June 3. summercampprojectproject.blogspot.com
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Evelena Ruether, right, serves up some tasty vegan cake at Control Room
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Control Room: Curating via email and other experiments
As its name suggests, Control Room is a bit of a conceptual experiment, as directors William Kaminski and Evelena Ruether are interested in playing with the various factors in the organizing of an exhibition. Case in point: the first L.A. iteration of "BCC," a curatorial concept started in Germany, in which artists are asked to respond to a prompt by sending digital files to the curators, who then realize a show based on those files alone. The results were kind of scattered, kind of unreadable yet with moments of clarity that were curiously compelling. The streets around Control Room, located in an obscure corner of downtown, have recently come to life with new pizza and beer joints that are handy for postshow socializing. 2006 E. Seventh St., L.A.; control-room.org.
Eli Langer dresses up Night Gallery with his exhibition "A Practical Approach to Spontaneous Painting and Modeling"
Carol Cheh
Night Gallery: Stay up late on a weekday
Night Gallery, which is open only between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., Tuesday through Thursday, has already become something of a local legend. As its statement poetically puts it, "Inspired by the shift that Los Angeles undergoes each night, it is a space that values soulfulness, danger and breath." Its shows are always atypical selections of work by emerging artists, and its openings feel looser and more adventurous than any standard gallery's. The gallery is run by Mieke Marple and Davida Nemeroff; recent highlights there include Marina Pinsky's leathery works, which emit dance music when you get close to them. 204 S. Avenue 19, Lincoln Heights; nightgallery.ca.
"The Thirteenth Grade," Mary Anna Pomonis' collaborative painting experiment at PØST
Carol Cheh
PØST: A legend returns, kamikaze-style
Founded in 1995 by artist HK Zamani, PØST is an important part of L.A.'s contemporary art history. In its original incarnation (POST without the strike-through), it was known as a go-to spot to see work by important young artists, some of whom went on to show in the Whitney Biennial. After a four-year hiatus to focus on his own artwork, Zamani reopened PØST in 2005 with an even more radical agenda: a monthlong series of one-night Kamikaze exhibitions, in which a different curator was invited to program a show each night. Events have included Doug Harvey's balls-out art/music/performance/film extravaganza; a thoughtful discussion exploring what was wrong with the Pacific Standard Time initiative; and a couple dozen artists collaborating on a live painting experiment. 1904 E. Seventh Place, L.A. (213) 488-1280, post-la.com.
Up next: Got live if you want it
Goth-fetish band Sphinx lights up Human Resources, while a Jack Smith movie plays in the background
Carol Cheh
Got live if you want it
Human Resources: Kung fu no more
Human Resources might be the city's most dynamic arts venue. The cavernous space, located in a former kung fu theater in Chinatown, is a perfect platform for its mix of art exhibitions, performance events, film screenings, concerts and readings. Recent highlights include a rare appearance by New York underground performance legend Penny Arcade, who went on a funny and delightfully old-school feminist rant, and a monthlong exhibition and performance series by local favorites My Barbarian, a campy theater group that likes to play with audience interaction. With its nonprofit status secured and a board that meets regularly, it looks like Human Resources is here to stay. 410 Cottage Home St., Chinatown; humanresourcesla.com.
Pieter: All we want to do is dance
Pieter -- the large, warehouse-style studio of accomplished dancer Jmy James Kidd -- has become something of a gathering spot for L.A.'s close-knit contemporary dance and movement community. When not accommodating sweaty practice sessions, Pieter is a showcase for experimental dance works, often by notable practitioners like Ishmael Houston-Jones and Neil Greenberg, whom Kidd befriended during her years in New York. The homey space in Lincoln Heights, with big windows and a freight elevator, maintains a "FREE Boutique" (of clothing, accessories and other goodies) and "FREE Bar" -- admission to events is a non-monetary donation to either, and you can also take items that you like. 420 W. Avenue 33, Unit 10, Lincoln Heights; pieterpasd.com.
the wulf: Sounds of the city
The wulf, a 501(c)(3) space located on the edge of downtown, may be one of L.A.'s best-kept secrets. Founded by musicians/composers Eric KM Clark and Michael Winter, the wulf tends to organize experimental music and sound events. Rather than having a typical concert format, however, wulf events are much more free-flowing, with visitors welcome to come and go as they please, and no admission fees charged. In August 2008, the wulf launched with a participatory performance by Alison Knowles, based on her performance score Unfurl. With musical accompaniment by Harris Wilson, visitors were asked to bring something, anything, to "unfurl" in the space. This resulted in an evocative event in which scrolls, fabrics, umbrellas and all manner of things were set free. The wulf itself has been happily unfurling ever since. 1026 S. Santa Fe Ave. #203, L.A.; thewulf.org.
A view of the group show "Voluntary Sculptures" at LM Projects; the sculpture in the foreground is by Ian Pedigo
Carol Cheh
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LM Projects: Print ain't dead
As a writer, I have a special fondness for LM Projects, whose constellation of projects places equal emphasis on publications, editioned artworks and art exhibitions. Located in a historic business building downtown, LM Projects has been run by Lorraine Molina since 2009. In summer 2011, I saw an excellent dual slide presentation by artists Kim Schoen and Cody Trepte, exploring the connections between their two practices, which deal in different ways with science, language and uncertainty. This summer, LM Projects is launching a limited-edition artist book by Kori Newkirk, in which he explores his own creative process, showing, in Molina's words, "the space that is unseen to the public and very private to the artist." 125 W. Fourth St., #103, L.A. (323) 652-0580, lmprojects.net.
A post-quake California, as envisioned by David Hendren for Public Fiction
Carol Cheh
Public Fiction: Here's the church, here's the journal
Public Fiction, the curatorial project of Lauren Mackler, changes its name and form every few months in order to accommodate its latest vision. Thus the "Free Church of Public Fiction" hosted quasi-religious-themed works and events, and a more recent series explored California-centric ideas of manifest destiny, the gold rush and earthquakes. Mackler recently published the second issue of journal Public Fiction, in which the writings are inspired by the events that take place in the gallery. 749 Avenue 50, Highland Park; publicfiction.org.
Up next: Way off the beaten path
A day of haircuts and popsicles at Actual Size
Carol Cheh
Way off the beaten path
Actual Size: A relative closet
At this tiny, adventurous space on the far reaches of Chinatown, I've seen some terrific exhibitions of photographic and sculptural works, as well as an arm-wrestling tournament, a day of free haircuts and themed Popsicles, and a 12-hour song cycle. Says co-founder Corrie Siegel of Actual Size's philosophy: "There is no distinction between the more established artists and the people who haven't had many shows. Instead, it's about developing an intimacy with the work and the artist's focus in order to create an experience that allows you to feel connected." 741 New High St., Chinatown. (213) 290-5458, actualsizela.com.
Commonwealth and Council: We dare you to find it
Run by Young Chung, Commonwealth and Council is located on the second floor of a dilapidated building, alongside a Korean church, an acupuncture practice and one of the city's oldest Latino AA meeting spaces. Here, you can follow an art party with a trip downstairs to OB Bear for a pitcher of Hite beer and some amazing Korean fried chicken. The current show, by Jennifer Moon, thoughtfully explores life and love through aspects of the artist's nine-month incarceration at Valley State Prison for Women. 3006 W. Seventh St. #220, Koreatown; commonwealthandcouncil.com.
The broken sign that gave JB Jurve its name
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JB Jurve: Head downstairs for all your travel needs
JB Jurve shares its funky Chinatown space with the ladies of Jumbo Travel agency, whose broken sign provided the inspiration for the space's name. Founders Marcus Herse and Michael Rey have a knack for the elusive and unexpected, as seen in last year's show about "flakiness," for example. Recently JB Jurve's oddness hit its apex with a shockingly conventional, and excellent, show of paintings by local star Lari Pittman, and some of his former students, an indicator of how artist networks fuel programming in this city. 742 N. Broadway, Chinatown; jbjurve.com.
A view of Mario Cutajar's "Civil War" show at JB Jurve
Carol Cheh
Latned Atsär: The myth of the Rastafarian dentist
Jefferson Park, a neighborhood adjacent to West Adams, is home to soul-food joints, jazz clubs and mom-and-pop businesses. In recent years its low rents and funky, out-of-the-way feel have attracted an increasing number of artists, one of whom, Nathan Danilowicz, decided to open Latned Atsär. The name is the backward spelling of Rasta Dental, a mythological business that might have existed in the space long before Danilowicz moved in. It has shown an impressive roster of artists, including Annie Lapin, Brenna Youngblood, Kenneth Tam and Mark Dutcher, and boasts a historic bar scavenged from Tom Marioni's The Act of Drinking Beer With Friends Is the Highest Form of Art, a 2010 performance at the Hammer, which was exactly what it sounds like. 3222 W. Jefferson Blvd., Los Angeles; latnedatsar.com.
Live painting and an auction frenzy going down at Various Small Fires
Carol Cheh
Various Small Fires: Burning up in Venice
Just launched in January, the Venice-based Various Small Fires is the youngest space on this list, but it has already managed to make a big splash. For the inaugural exhibition, artist Fiona Connor created a set of movable walls that were continually rearranged to accommodate a series of events. The most recent opening, a controversial live painting performance and auction by New York artists Debo Eilers and Kerstin Brätsch, had art followers buzzing when a well-known collector's attempt to buy a large volume of works, ostensibly for the purpose of flipping, was refused. Expect to see more viral endeavors that simply won't sit still from founding director Esther Kim Varet, who is also closely associated with Performa, the big performance-art biennial out of New York. 1212 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. (310) 426-8040, vsf.la.
Works by Keith Walsh at Weekend
Carol Cheh
Weekend: Bringing the party to Los Feliz
Run by two former CalArts students, Weekend is forging its own nascent art community in Los Feliz, across the street from Wacko Soap Plant. Proprietors Jay Erker and John Mills, a husband-and-wife team, have a great eye for talent; an excellent show last fall by underrated artist Keith Walsh, which featured compelling drawings and a stunning spaceship sculpture visitors could climb into, garnered a well-deserved Artforum Critic's Pick. 4634 Hollywood Blvd., Los Feliz; weekendspace.org.
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The best way to avoid catching West Nile later this summer is to keep the mosquito population down now, officials say.
"This is the time of year to start making sure you're not a mosquito breeder," said John Pape, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment epidemiologist.
Culex mosquitoes are the primary carriers of West Nile. The mosquitoes have been found in Colorado this year already, but none have tested positive for the virus.
In Moffat County, roughly 100 mosquitoes have been tested; all were negative for West Nile.
Last year, Colorado had 291 human cases of West Nile, four of them fatal.
Moffat County didn't have any West Nile cases, but Rio Blanco County had one.
Culex mosquitoes are not common above 9,000 feet, but Pape said that doesn't mean people in higher elevations are safe from West Nile.
"Based on some of the testing in (Northwest Colorado) you've got the right kind of mosquitoes," Pape said, which means the disease is a possibility.
Although the number of human West Nile cases in Colorado was far greater than in neighboring states, such as Utah, with 11, and Wyoming, with 10, it was a major drop-off from 2003, when Colorado had 2,947 cases of the disease.
Pape said weather is always an important factor for determining the severity of the mosquito season, but it's impossible to predict how severe the West Nile season will be.
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Pape said weather on the Front Range suggest "a much quieter" West Nile season than last year.
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Malley said it is important for people to follow the "four D's" even if they are in their own yard.
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