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Social Media Marketing Podcast 290. In this episode Andrew and Pete explore the Twitter algorithm and how to create engaging content on Twitter.
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Social Media Marketing Podcast 290. In this episode Andrew and Pete explore the Twitter algorithm and how to create engaging content on Twitter.
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Questions: Ask more questions with your tweets. Twitter can be quite automated or spammy at times, so don't do that. Be the one others can actually talk to. People struggle to find others who respond to them because so many people automate their tweets. Ask questions, create content that others can respond to, and reply to them.
With the shift in social media in the recent years, closed communities such as LinkedIn Groups might be the next best way to engage your audience. Here's why you should consider LinkedIn Groups and how to build a professional community with one.
Via Daniel Watson
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LinkedIn is the best platform to reach professionals who are interested in connecting with other professionals. This makes it a great place to build your professional community. While LinkedIn Groups might not have a great reputation (now), the few well-run groups are good indications that it's possible to create a successful one.
Daniel Watson's curator insight, February 26, 2018 4:51 AM
LinkedIn now has over 500 million users, and if your business plays in the B2B space, it is a platform you should not ignore. LinkedIn Groups are an integral part of LinkedIn, and building and controlling your own successful group, can pay great dividends over time. This great article, explains the benefits of LinkedIn Groups to participants and the group owner, and it provides clear guidance on how you can build your own successful group.
Discover how Intel iQ's content team replaced its marketing mindset with a publishing one – Content Marketing Institute
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Is your organization's content so compelling that a writer researching you would get caught up in your material and subscribe? If not, what would it take to lift your content to that level? What benefits would your organization reap from having a growing number of subscribers eager to read everything you publish?
Discover how to warm up and convert prospects by turning your blog posts into a three-part video funnel.
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For your content to have a positive impact on your business, you can follow a systematic approach to create a marketing funnel for your blog. After you lay the groundwork by tracking user engagement with your content and writing blog posts that provide value and are optimized for search, repurpose your content into videos that take advantage of the video trend on social media. You can then use ads and custom audiences to build awareness, engagement, and conversions. The key is to continuously review analytics and optimize ads based on user behavior to maximize conversions.
Savvy event planners know they have to stay on top of social media, but which tools are worth the time and energy to invest in? Which ones are worth the effort and truly the MUST HAVES for any event planner? This video is brought to you by EventMB, the number one blog for event professionals.
Via IMEX, Suzanne Axt, CMM, CTSM
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Event planners want their events to be successful. Building lots of buzz, amplifying attendee engagement, and creating a fear of missing out for people who aren't even there can be big drivers for social media communication. But there are so many channels, gizmos, and gadgets to choose from. Which ones are worth the effort and truly the MUST HAVES for any event planner? Before you start feeling overwhelmed, we've got the answer for you! Check out these 3 Social Media Tools to Boost Your Event Marketing.
In this episode, John Jantsch and founder of Backlinko, Brian Dean, discuss the steps you need to apply to every piece of content to get found online.
donhornsby's insight:
Why nobody is finding your content - and what you can do about it!
carpetcleaninginRichmondVA's curator insight, November 29, 2017 11:16 AM
banner ad design is the best technique to attract the user to the website.
Discover how to measure the performance and impact of your YouTube video content.
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Analyzing YouTube metrics might seem overwhelming at first, but it's crucial to assessing your channel's performance. Find out more about viewers, how they discovered your videos, whether they liked your content or got bored, and more to help you improve your future videos.
Discover why Social Media Optimisation has evolved into a key traffic driver for business websites.
Via Daniel Watson
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ocial Media Optimisation is one of the key strategies in successful internet marketing, and it can deliver great outcomes, when effectively implemented and then managed well.
Daniel Watson's curator insight, September 28, 2017 3:09 AM
Social Media Optimisation has evolved into one of the key methodologies for driving traffic to a business website. If your business is not utilising the power of social media to drive more traffic to your website, it is probably time, that you revisited your lead generation strategy. This article (from our topic sponsor), outlines the benefits available from being able to influence a wide audience, and provides an insight into what is involved in social media optimisation.
Here's a blueprint for a successful social media marketing plan.
donhornsby's insight:
Coming up with a social media marketing plan is a great step toward diving in to social. If social media looks thrilling and overwhelming all at once, start with a plan. Once you see the blueprint in front of you, it's a little easier to see what lies ahead.
CCI VAL D'OISE's curator insight, September 30, 2017 6:49 PM
Coming up with a social media marketing plan is a great step toward diving in to social. If social media looks thrilling and overwhelming all at once, start with a plan. Once you see the blueprint in front of you, it's a little easier to see what lies ahead.
Your cover photo is likely the first thing people see when they visit your social media profile. Here's all the ideal cover photo size for your reference.
donhornsby's insight:
Some social media platforms display cover photos slightly different on the desktop and on mobile. But in general, here are the ideal cover photo sizes for the platforms with a cover photo.
Since its first use in 2007, the hashtag has spread from Twitter to almost all major social media networks, including Facebook, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, and even Pinterest to some extent. With hashtags pervasive everywhere, we wanted to take a look again at how your brand can use hashtags with success, on any social media platform.
Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
donhornsby's insight:
With hashtags pervasive everywhere, we wanted to take a look again at how your brand can use hashtags with success, on any social media platform.
Who you are is the message to the world. What message are you sending?
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Who you are is the message to the world. What message are you sending?
Marc Kneepkens's curator insight, August 17, 2017 6:08 PM
Get yourself out in the world. Market the message.
donhornsby's insight:
Facebook and Instagram, unless it is an egregious violation, will not delete your account without first warning you, usually multiple times. If they do delete your account, they will provide an opportunity to appeal and often, even if you were in violation of the TOS, they'll reinstate your account, with a final stern warning. However, I suggest you avoid any possibilities of your account having any issues by simply reading and following the TOS. Sure, it might mean you have to stop doing a few of your favorite go-to tricks, but, as is the case in life, you're better off doing the right thing. The right thing is to follow the Terms of Service.
LinkedIn encourages company page creators to take full advantage of the platform's impressive search visibility. Do so. Write keyword-rich descriptions with words and phrases that are relevant to your company, industry and critical skills and services.
Via Anita Windisman
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Before you read any further, check out LinkedIn's own guide to five crucial LinkedIn company page best practices. Then, take a hard look at your company page. Better yet, ask a disinterested third party to review its content and structure. There's a fair chance you or your impartial reviewer will encounter at least one of these seven common LinkedIn mistakes. Let's take a closer look at why they happen—and what you can do to set them right today.
Marketers are fully aware of the big boys when it comes to social media. But they may not be aware of the growing list of 'other' social media tools that can help them achieve their goals.
Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
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Social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are the new homes of conducting business, creating consumer bases and advertising products. However, the overwhelming presence of businesses on these platforms creates a good deal of pressure for companies trying to beat out their nearest competitors.
If you're really interested in becoming a Social Media Manager and navigate social media channels effectively, these are the skills you will need to master.
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If you're really interested in becoming a Social Media Manager, you need to be able to plan social media channels effectively, write engaging content, communicate with customers and much more. To do all these things effectively, there are several important skills you will need to master:
Learn how to create a more effective content calendar that easily adapts to new initiatives, centralized planning and tracking – Content Marketing Institute
donhornsby's insight:
Is there anything left to say about how to put together a content calendar?
Perhaps one of the most useful features of Twitter analytics is the ability to view recurring-trends data: You can access valuable stats on tweet volume for commonly used hashtags; you can then use those hashtags to amplify your brand's presence on Twitter.
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Weekly hashtags, such as #WednesdayWisdom and #SundayScaries, have become standard and are something people look forward to each week. Here's a deeper look at four of Twitter's top recurring weekly hashtags along with tips on how your brand can tap into these conversations.
carpetcleaninginRichmondVA's curator insight, November 29, 2017 11:15 AM
banner ad design is the best technique to attract the user to the website.
Earlier this year, Facebook released Automated Rules, allowing advertisers to automatically update or notify of changes within your Facebook Ad Campaigns. When setup properly, these automated rules can let Facebook Ads managers be more efficient in monitoring multiple campaigns. Anything that can save you time and effort is great, right? Let's examine a handful of simple rules you can create to make your life easier.
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These three, simple, campaign rules can be set up within minutes for your campaigns and can save you time, energy and a lot of 'campaign anxiety' – allowing you to focus more on growing your campaigns, fine tuning your the targeting to your audiences and A/B testing more creative.
Google doesn't talk. But Searchmetrics' Marcus Tober does and he's sharing the three things to improve your SEO visibility – Content Marketing Institute
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You probably already knew that you could improve your site's SEO visibility by doing the things Marcus recommends: Develop a content niche, get rid of ROT, and update the remaining content to address people's intentions. Sometimes, what you need isn't the advice but the motivation. If that's your situation, Marcus's numbers may give you just the motivation you need. What kind of big data is your team analyzing? What are you learning from your numbers?
Jenny opened a Facebook account and has progressed from a personal profile to a business page. Now she'd like to delete her personal profile …
Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
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A nice overview of this question.
nicoleta susanu's curator insight, September 29, 2017 1:57 PM
"it is against Facebook's terms of service to set up a personal account using a business name, or to use a personal account for business. If you do this, Facebook can and often will delete your account. Since Facebook knows who you are, it may not be easy to create a new one."
Facebook is a must for almost all digital marketing strategies. Here are some key tips on how to boost your Facebook marketing efforts.
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With more than 2 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the network to promote your brand and connect with your target audience. You see, many consumers are leveraging this platform to engage with their favorite brands and discover new ones - in fact, one-third of Millenials say they actually prefer to communicate with brands via social, as opposed to over the phone or in person. As such, it's important to maintain an active presence to appeal to modern consumer habits. Yet with so many brands competing for attention in the News Feed, how can you separate your brand from the sea of content being shared daily? In what ways can you better promote your business on Facebook to foster engagement, expand your reach, and gain new followers? Here are three simple, yet effective tactics to help boost your Facebook presence.
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's defining attribute has long been its brevity: 140 characters in a post and no more.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
Via Gust MEES
donhornsby's insight:
The idea of extending the length of Twitter posts has been contentious internally, batted around among product groups that are trying to find ways to persuade people to use the service more frequently. At 328 million users, Twitter has been criticized for its inability to attract more people. Investors have grown nervous, as that slowing of user growth has affected the company's revenue.
Gust MEES's curator insight, September 26, 2017 10:14 PM
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's defining attribute has long been its brevity: 140 characters in a post and no more.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
Learn to grow a specialized audience on Facebook by including interests that are related to your products in your ad targeting.
Via massimo facchinetti, Jeff Domansky
donhornsby's insight:
Looking for new ways to grow your Facebook audience? Have you considered targeting prospects by interests that are related to your product? In this article, you'll discover how to grow a specialized audience on Facebook in six steps.
Noémie Maljean's curator insight, August 18, 2017 9:19 AM
Lorsque l'on veut augmenter les vues sur sa page Facebook, cet article peu être intéressant. On y passe en revue les outils de Facebook à utiliser et comment les utiliser.
CCI VAL D'OISE's curator insight, August 19, 2017 4:19 PM
Practical tips to help you grow your Facebook followers.
In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, John interviews Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer for MarketingProfs.
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In Duct Tape Selling, I suggested that writing may be the master skill for anyone that needs to communicate an idea. Even if you don't write for a living, but developing a writing practice you will become a better salesperson, speaker, thinker, and communicator. Everybody Writes is jammed packed with ideas, stories, and great advice as well as simple practical tips that every writer can use to improve their written communication. I love the last section of the book that breaks down how to write better landing pages, video scripts, emails and on and on – very practical stuff that everybody writes!
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Newbie Blogger Initiative: Blog Layout
Just a short advice post for new bloggers, based on one of the dirty little secrets of gaming blogging: Most of your readers will read your blog from their work computers during office hours. When they are at home on their gaming computers, they'll rather play games than read about them. In consequence it is advised to keep your blog "safe for work": No sound, few graphics, and a color layout that looks sufficiently neutral to look like a serious website from a distance. Your readers will thank you for that!
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Not reading from work, but from what I think is probably an increasing source of blog readers, my smartphone. Tobolds advice applies equally well for that.
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Steelers vs. Vikings
Saturday, August 19, 2006
8:00 PM - Heinz Field
Discuss the game here. Looks like Ben might not play and if he does it will be a very limited time. Vikes don't have Koren Robinson so their passing game might not be anything special. Watch out for their backup QB, Tavaris Jackson, he's a great athlete and wants to take the starting job away from Brad Johnson later this season.


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Got Cabin Fever? Do You Like Your House Clean Or Is Dirty Ok [POLL]
Happy New Year! Have you taken down the Christmas lights yet? or are you going to leave them up for easter? Have all your relatives that camped out over Christmas left now and your place is a shambles?


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You've just clicked the last box in the long list of procedures to join XYZ online dating service, confident that everything you put in your profile was exactly as you wanted. You double checked, didn't you?
Oops, you accidentally left in some key information that will make you readily identifiable to all your friends, family and co-workers. Now everybody will know about your absolute sheer desperation to find a partner.
Or worse! You put on your profile a photograph of yourself, half-plastered with alcohol at the last Christmas party, lipstick smeared across your cheeks (I haven't mentioned any gender here, so whatever pictures you have in your mind are entirely your input).
So, you see. This is a potential minefield…and we haven't even been out on our first date yet, have we?
But don't despair or feel that the cat is out of the bag. You can always go back to the profile and change the details/remove the photos/delete your entire account if you are scared enough.
But let's be serious here for a moment. In the following paragraphs I'm going to go through the three most apparent "dangers" of Internet dating.
The Stalker
Yes, ladies and gentlemen. I will put this horrible creature at the top of the list. We have all heard the horrifying stories that have often ended in tragedy. Even murder. Quite often these terrible events have come after encounters on the more "adult-oriented" sites. Perhaps a threesome has become a deadly game filled with jealousy and hatred, after what seemed to be such a cool idea at the time.
Even on a more mundane level, there are nutters out there who have harassed poor women (and men) to the point of psychological breakdown. Yep, it happens.
But, there are ways to avoid this. These guidelines, by no means a definitive list, are especially relevant for women and may help you in a tricky situation.
- Never put direct contact details in a profile. Most dating sites will not allow this anyway, as long as their screening procedures are up to standard.
- Make sure your first meetings are in well-patronized areas, like a food-court in a shopping mall, or some other busy place. That way, if the man/woman turns out to be less than what you hoped for, you can blend into the crowd before slipping away.
- If you feel nervous, take along someone you know and trust well and have them observe you from a distance. You won't believe how much more confident this makes some women feel.
- Don't give your phone number to your new online friend until you feel it is safe to do so. When is this? Certainly not after date number one.
- This may sound drastic, but keep some form of protection (in addition to condoms!) in your handbag (mace, capsicum spray, a very loud alarm device) in case you find yourself alone and in an intimidating environment. In the same vein, go and get some self-defense lessons – it will keep you fit and desirable as well as give you valuable knowledge about groin attacks and the like!
The Don Juan Crook
These are men, nine times out of ten, and there are more and more stories of these guys emerging every day.
This is where a super-charmer convinces their new date/partner that they are world-famous, super successful and know all the celebrities. For some reason or other, all their funds are tied up in something, and they cannot get their hands on ready cash for day-to-day living, or for some other "sure-fire" investment.
Before you know it. Mr or Mrs Gullible Internet Dater have handed over their bank account details, credit cards, or even packed the rolls of cash into the suitcase before driving Don Juan to the airport and kissing him good-bye as he boards the plane for Rio!
How do you avoid these crooks? It can be difficult for lonely folks, especially widows and widowers (beware the female black spider!), so the best advice here is to enlist a friend or two to give you an absolutely candid appraisal of your new-found Prince/Princess Charming.
The Dishonest Dating Site with Fake Members
This problem had a bit of press in Australia recently. I won't name the actual site, but the owners were punished by the courts and made to apologize to their members.
Sadly, it can be hard to spot the fake profiles, sometimes answering you via sophisticated software programs, or even by real people paid to pretend they are someone else (backpackers in Australia, for instance).
If you aren't careful, these pseudo-daters can waste a lot of your valuable time and money.
The best way to avoid being scammed in this way is to ask specific questions that only a real person would know the answers to. For example, ask about current events in your local area. If they can't or won't answer, you might be dealing with a robot!
However, in my opinion, Internet dating is a great option in today's fast-paced world. People are time poor, and lack the freedom to socialize they way it used to be in the "good old days'.
Online daters just need to be alert to the potential dangers, and take the appropriate steps to minimize the damage.
Happy dating!


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Hot CrowdFunded Projects This Week - Dreadball, Soap (Feb 27th)
Wow, talk about a turn around in Crowdfunding activity this past week. In the last seven days, four projects have launched and received $99k+ in their first week of funding. It will be interesting to see if this is the start of a trend, or next week will die off like the weeks past. Here is this week's rundown.
DreadBall Xtreme
More violence, intimidating sponsors and all-new teams, Xtreme is a whole new way of playing Dreadball - The Futuristic Sports Game!
$334,697 Raised So Far
Arcadia Quest
Lead your Guild and loot the Monster infested city of Arcadia! No gamemaster required, so everyone gets to join in the fun!
$192,552 Raised So Far
Axis360: modular motion control for cameras
A compact, motorized tripod head and slider for dynamic video and timelapse photography.
$143,464 Raised So Far
External USB Battery Pack- Limefuel IP66 Rugged 15000mAh
High capacity all terrain external battery keeps your devices fueled for lifes adventures!
$99,598 Raised So Far
Soap: First Smart Router w/ Touch Display Powered by Android
Make your home smart with this first ever Android based Router, with a touch screen display powered by an ARM processor.
$61,017 Raised So Far
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ently_launchedJoin TheHidden Content , and Invite your friends.
I think the High capacity all terrain external battery is a real winner. Only partway through the project and they are over 3 times funded (they asked for $30,000 and are now over $99,000). Again, proof that if the product or service is good, the backers are ready to part with their cash.


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The Fourth of July might commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, heralding our fight for freedom from British rule, but it is also the first official holiday of SUMMER! It is a time to reflect on the freedoms our courageous forefather's fought for, and also a time to spread the picnic blanket, gather friends and family around the barbeque and pop the corks! Fireworks! Parades! Vacation celebrations! And then add to the festivities a selection of libations from Airport Liquors on Airport Road and you are ready to celebrate.
Airport Liquors is a full-service, locally-owned liquor store that is conveniently located in the lower deck of the Airport Plaza (across from KFC). It offers a vast and diversified array of imported and domestic beers, wines, liquors, cordials, single malt scotches, champagne and much, much more. The goal of this popular store is to provide you with the best choices of liquor at the lowest prices, on the Fourth of July . . . and all year round.
Check out some of these special delights, perfect for your holiday celebrations:
STELLA ARTOIS, 12 pk bottles $13.99
MAGIC HAT, 12 pk bottles $14.95
CORONA, 18 pk bottles $18.99
Craft Beers:
HEAVY SEAS Sampler, 12 oz. $14.99
FLYING DOG LAGER, 6 pk, bottle $8.99
MEZZA CORONA, All 1.5L $9.99
TWISTED, All 1.5L $8.99
THREE OLIVES VODKA, All 1.75L $19.99
All of these specials, and so many more, are available at these prices until July 13th.If none of these options meets your wish-list, the knowledgeable team at Airport Liquors will be happy to make recommendations from their packed shelves of other popular choices.
Airport Liquors can be found at 1800 Post Road (remember to look for them on the Airport Road side, across from KFC). Open Monday through Saturday, 9 am to 10 pm, and Sunday from noon to 6 pm. You can also call ahead to 352-0055 or peruse their website at www.airport.liquors.net to see the latest deals.
As always, Airport Liquors urges you to drink responsibly.


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Cervisia wrote:You told me to not change ~/.asoundrc, and to use just "aplay -v".Are you going to say that the ALSA resampler is not disabled?
Yes. I told that. The reason is obvious. The Hypothesis 1 suggests that the ALSA resampler was not disabled during your "listening tests".
Do you know how to disable the ALSA resampler completely?
In a word, the output on terminal, which you posted here, allows to presume that your "listening tests" were made with 32bit 192kHz waves, which are not available for download on the 2L website.
Cervisia wrote:Anyway, for my listening tests, I didn't use dmix:viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4402#p17714
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$ aplay -D hw:D2 -v 2L38_01_192kHz.wav 2>&1 | grep -e '^[^ I]' -e '^ rate'
Playing WAVE '2L38_01_192kHz.wav' : Signed 32 bit Little Endian, Rate 192000 Hz, Stereo
Hardware PCM card 2 'Xonar D2' device 0 subdevice 0
rate : 192000
You see, "the devil is in the details" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_ ... he_details
Especially, if it is about sound quality. If you are not careful about details, it is not surprising that you do not hear the difference. If the ALSA resampler was not disabled, how are you going to prove to yourself that it was not at work?
Let us summarize:
1. The Hypothesis 1 has not been disproved yet. On the contrary, it became more credible.
2. If a hypothesis cannot be disproved, it should be accepted as valid. Right?
Let us fix the fact: you are not careful about details.
Your first message in this thread proves this point.
This allows to presume that other details (e.g. hardware details) were also neglected.
Are you going to preach here your "ALSA beliefs"? Or you are going to share valid technical information?


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Opinion: Democrats Against ObamaCare
Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on the emerging liberal criticisms of ObamaCare. Photos: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... on a chair isn't popular ... with the bass majority of Americans to spend that way for years but you know it's bad when even congressional Democrats ... are starting to question the law the so the Web columnist James Taranto ... joins me now I James what are the problems that liberals have finally figured out about Obama ... well the Senate Finance Committee held hearings last week and at least four Democratic members of this committee ... raised various problems with this they put the implementation of Obamacare ... so it's everything from ... the IRS the Social Security Administration has outdated computers that can handle the demands this law places on them ... to ... the administration is postponing ... the implementation of program called the basic health program ... by the side there's an IRS ruling that is going or result in some people losing their family coverage from their employers to ... fire the whole thing is this is just a mess they're saying is because the with the administration is implementing the law why not just because of inherent problems that the law itself creates well let's take out for example the ride ... by the IRS ruling government or think you have a quote from Sen Wyden was put them out on screen ... so we've got millions others read this for for viewers out there with that millions of people working class middle class people ... who are going to be pushed into a regulatory health coverage no man's land right ... now this is because the IRS has interpreted the sectional are having to do with the ... tax treatment of employer provided insurance ... I remember present Obama said oh you like your current insurance plan you'll get to keep it that it was out to be a false promise of Iwo parent ... I ... so ... why does like when heiress interpreted this but this is a law that Congress passed they gave enormous discretion to administrative agencies like the IRS and the Department of Health and Human Services in any number of others ... I'd ... get Congress's delegating this authority ... that the administration has to make these decisions he voted for the law but not only that but any one of these senators who's complaining ... would have prevented this whole fiasco because they needed sixty senators to bring in ... the vote before the roads actually sixty Democrats the vote was sixty deported this was on Christmas Eve two thousandnine ... any one of these guys who bought it ... so ... you know it's a little tight ridiculous for them to be complaining about it now well let's be charitable and say that they didn't anticipate all of these problems ... what are they proposing to do about ... what why is that internally there has been all these problems ... that they've ... passed this law be imposed on the country ... it didn't occur to them that in ... two thousand plus page law that nobody in red that was going to have problems ... I decided to let them off the hook that easily what they would like my guess is for the administration to implemented differently ... odd but some of these problems are just intractable such is the I the eye ... the problem with either computers ... and the ride ... of course making changes in laws may be difficult because the Republicans to control the House Republicans don't really want this lot to work better ... ride so the kind of stuck with this white elephant while me and there is a lot of discontent across America with this long very low level of support ... it's not true that in the longer we live with it the more we would like it ... aam and kick in Republicans use this dissatisfaction ... to push for re form ... well probably not for the next four years because I don't think President Obama is going to sign any law that would dive that would be to the Republicans liking ... I suppose ... that they could use the leverage created by the necessity to make certain marginal changes ... the other marginal changes along the lines that they'd want so perhaps we'll see ... some trading like that out of sheer necessity the way we've seen with the some of the tax and fiscal issues ... okay well we're half to leave it that best of the Web columnist James Taranto ... Obamacare has problems ... who knew ...


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Rancho Takes On The Monotube Shock MarketPosted in How To: Suspension Brakes on December 1, 2011
Rancho, synonymous with its popular RS-series of shocks and quality lift solutions for 4x4s, has been a major player in aftermarket suspension as long as most of us can remember. Recently, Rancho revamped its lineup with some new additions, including a line of monotube shocks dubbed the RS7000MT.
The nitrogen-charged RS7000MT comes in a brushed metallic finish that is clearcoated for maximum corrosion resistance. The body is 50mm (1.97 inches) in diameter and uses a 46mm piston on a 14mm chrome rod. The ten-stage velocity-sensitive valving is specifically tuned to the application intended and protective boots are included. All RS7000MTs come with a limited lifetime warranty and 90-day free ride offer, eliminating any reason by a prospective customer not to try them.
Knowing that monotube shocks offer superior response over twin- or triple-tube shocks and wanting to see how Rancho's monotube stacks up against other offerings in the industry, as well as its own popular RS5000s, we decided to order a set for our '07 Ford Super Duty F-250. This truck, which is typically used for towing a travel trailer and driving down backcountry roads, already had a leveling kit and RS5000 shocks installed. We figured this would be a perfect vehicle because we could compare the entry-level RS5000 with the new RS7000MT and really get a feel for any increase in performance offered by the monotube.
Rancho says that the RS7000MT will improve handling and enhance stability by reducing body roll, as the nitrogen gas charge provides additional spring rate for maximum damping response. Monotubes are also known for their ability to effectively dissipate heat and eliminate cavitation, reducing shock fade. Another feature of the RS7000MT is the hydraulic lockout, which Rancho designed to cushion the impact as the shock reaches full droop, minimizing the harshness of a suspension top-out.
Rancho's RS7000MT comes in direct replacement sizes for stock vehicles as well as many of its most popular kits. This means if you already own a Rancho-lifted vehicle, there is no guesswork involved in upgrading your shocks. Rancho already has the valving and shock lengths figured out for you.
The install, which was done in a little over an hour in our driveway, literally transformed the ride of this truck. Read on to see how easy swapping shocks can be and what a noticeable difference they can make on your rig.
How It Works
The difference in ride of our Super Duty was apparent from the moment we backed out of the driveway. Taking it on our typical test loop, we could tell that the Super Duty ride felt tighter, with less body roll around corners. The most noticeable difference was on larger bumps, such as drainage cross ditches, where the big Ford was clearly more controlled and no longer exhibited a suspension crash as the shocks were compressed.
After a few hundred miles behind the wheel, the owner of the truck told us that he feels like he has a brand new truck. He says the ride on the highway is "great" and that the truck no longer bounces over expansion joints. He tells us that the biggest change is in the way the RS7000MTs control oscillations of the rear axle with his 27-foot, 7,200-pound trailer hooked up. He is also impressed with the way short, sharp impacts, such as broken pavement or railroad tracks, are no longer harshly transmitted to the cabin.
While the previous setup on this Super Duty never exhibited a bad ride, it could sometimes exhibit ride harshness, which is all but gone with the RS7000MT upgrade. Overall, we'd have to agree with Rancho's performance claims and can recommend the RS7000MT for anyone looking for an affordable, real-world improvement in ride comfort and stability.


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Artopia: November 2005 Archives
Abramovic: How To Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 2005.
Notes on Performance Art
Conventions rule. The iron hand of custom, as outlined last time around, keeps the art world under control. We must have art that stays the same for each visit, over time. We must have catalogues. And catalogues cannot be written about art before it exists. Biographies and pictures of previous works are not quite the same thing as a thorough, thoughtful analysis or...postmortem.
The ephemeral, both in museums and in galleries, is suspect. Both writers and readers are at a disadvantage: unless the event is repeated, any review or essay cannot be checked against the art. The art is only a memory. Besides, who is going to buy a performance, and, if so, what would you buy? A photo? Or some horrible videotape or DVD that in itself won't last? And what could be more ephemeral than performance art?
Performance art takes place in space (sometimes a specific space) and time (usually a specific time, time being a material too). At its most pure, performance art is executed by the artist. The body at hand is the sculpture.
We are left with photographs and words. Or moving images, none of which are quite the same as the....what? Boredom? Fear? Titillation?
Like theater because there is a person and an audience, but unlike theater because the person is not pretending to be someone else, the most rigorous performance art eludes art history and, apparently, art criticism. But then again, both art history and art criticism are dependent on goods, both fresh and preserved.
In the '50s and '60s it was enough to dismiss events, Happenings, performances as theater rather than art. Certain formalists thought art should be pure: pure paint, for instance. No poetry, no confusing illusions or extra dimensions, no theater. And certainly no politics. It was a puritanical trope, as if there were no theater in a Pollock drip painting or a de Kooning parkway, no poetry in a Motherwell elegy.
Marina Abramovic's "Seven Easy Pieces" comprised seven performances staged at the Guggenheim (November 9-15), in evenings that went a long way toward the redemptive. With the exception of Matthew Barney's 2003 extravaganza (the films were better than the props), the Guggenheim has not exactly been pushing the envelope. We think of it more or less as a giant rental space for would-be crowd-pleasers. But now there's hope.
I first heard of Abramovic when she was Abramovic and Ulay, of Yugoslavia and Germany respectively. The couple stood naked in a small doorway and the audience had to squeeze through. Later, just before they broke up, each stated to walk from opposite ends of the Great Wall of China and met mid-point. Then too she was on the famous 1979 Crown Point Press trip to Ponope in Micronesia: John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Chris Burden, Pat Steir, yours truly, etc. But I don't think we exchanged more than two or three words, since I was more interested in wading into a lagoon full of sea cucumbers.
At the Guggenheim, Abramovic's test of will-power (hers and the audience's) offered not merely the usual Performance Art Challenge, but also the frisson of appropriationism, since five of the performances were recreations of work by other artists. The gold standard was represented by Joseph Beuys' 1965 How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare and Vito Acconci's 1972 Seedbed. In How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, Beuys (a beloved art professor in real life) did just that, his face covered with gold leaf. In Seedbed, Acconci delivered a monologue while masturbating unseen under a false floor in a Soho gallery.
After prepublicity for the Guggenheim's Abramovic festival, San Francisco conceptual/performance artist pioneer Tom Marioni sent a letter to the New York Times to clarify shoot-myself, crucify-myself Chris Burden's refusal to allow Abramovic to replicate any of his performances. Marioni wrote: "The performance art of the early 1970s was concrete. We made one-time sculpture actions. If Mr. Burden's work were recreated by another artist, it would be turned into theater, one artist playing the role of another."
I agree. And, let it be known, I have nothing against theater per se, in any of its forms, as long as I don't have to sit there and watch it.
Some found Seedbed the most disturbing of all the pieces. But, remembering Acconci's original, I did not. Parents with infants in strollers waited on line to expose themselves and their offspring to a rambling spiel. A monologue is a monologue. Well, said a friend, a woman masturbating is not as threatening as a man. Why, I asked, is a man masturbating so threatening?
Just in time -- actually a few weeks later -- a woman friend told me at Thanksgiving dinner that near the Jefferson Market Library a man in a van had been blithely having a go at his gigantic member in full public view. She called the cops on her cell phone. But why, asked another guest (a man), he was just having a bit of fun or was feeling lonely. She shot back across the turkey leg and the mashed potatoes: Would you want your daughter to see that? I don't know, said her male partner. Exactly how big was he?
Abramovic also replicated one of her own performances, the 1975 Lips of Thomas, which I skipped because I do not like to see anyone cut herself (or himself) with a razor blade. The question here is whether or not in this piece she was pretending to be Abramovic.
Her great moment, however, was the last performance on the seven-evening course of events: Entering the Other Side, A Living Installation. Lifted to the level of the first ramp, inside a shiny-blue evening dress that fell over and concealed the multitask platform that had been used for the previous Performances, she reigned supreme. She was at the center of the Guggenheim, which is rather like, as you know, being at the center of a snail; and she deliberately, slowly eyed the worshipping crowd, arrayed below and on the ramps above. Now that was something to see.
Abramovic: Entering the Other Side, 2005.
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In any case, Abramovic's "Seven Easy Pieces" certainly set me thinking about performance art again.
Performance art started in the late '60s.
Performance art, since it is ephemeral and unsaleable, was perfect for making an anti-commerce statement and was a kind of call to arms and/or affirmation of art's higher calling. Categories and genres? The hell with them. MFAs? No one thought them pertinent. Galleries? The devil's work, through and through.
Unfortunately, performance art could not pay the rent. This is why so many performance artists (like Beuys himself) depended upon and still depend upon academia or, as an alternative, living a living death as manufacturers of art products of one sort or another, trying to capitalize on former glory. Marina Abramovic is not one of these. She has remained loyal to the cause, and so Artopia honors her for that.
Vito Acconci, Following (Street Work), 1969.
Hidden History
I, a poet, artist and art critic, was a member of the street works and performance cadre in N.Y. City, 1967-69. The others were poet Vito Acconci (then the editor of a magazine called 0-9), writer/artist Eduardo Costa from Buenos Aires, writer Scott Burton, Pop artist Marjorie Strider, poet and underwear designer Hannah Weiner, and Acconci's sister-in-law, poet Bernadette Mayer. There were many others who participated in streetworks and performance art events: poets Anne Waldman and John Giorno come immediately to mind. At the final mass Street Work in 1969 there were up to 500 artists and poets involved on the streets of the new art district of Soho.
The cadre, which met weekly and sometimes daily, plotted the strategies and the venues, which ranged from designated streets during designated hours (my idea) to universities (Hunter College and N.Y.U.), the Whitney Museum and also, out of town, the Wadsworth Atheneum. The Center for Inter-American Relations and the Architectural League also sponsored some projects. Inspired by Earth Works, I invented the term street works. Marjorie Strider came up with performances and performance art. Scott Burton, whose bent was more theatrical, came up with theater works.
Acconci and I had already been offering what we called poetry events at venerable literary venues such as St. Marks Church. We shared the goal of getting poetry off the page. Strider, at one time married to Michael Kirby (who wrote the book on Happenings), had participated in some of Claes Oldenburg's Happenings in the '50s.
Happenings, however, had long been subsumed by object-making, in the case of all but the steadfast Alan Kaprow. What were Happenings? Kirby defined them as non-matrixed artists' theater, with Futurist and Dada precedents. How were performances different from Happenings? Or for that matter from Fluxus events, such as those of our hero Joseph Beuys' lecture to a hare?
From my point of view, performances were sculpture. When it became obvious to me that they were becoming theater (and not just sculpture in a theater context), I sealed my participation with Oedipus, A New Work, in 1970, which was -- ironically -- documented in The Tulane Drama Review. I was also uninterested in some of the sado-masochistic routines of some performances as they morphed into body art.
Performances, unlike Happenings, were always executed by the artist himself or herself, not by surrogates. When Scott Burton in the '70s began to use gaunt, often naked stand-ins to pose on his furniture, I thought he was entering a realm more influenced by Robert Wilson than Beuys. Performances were probably closer to Fluxus events than to Happenings, except that performances were time-and-space sculptures rather than task-driven koans. We eschewed the whimsical and the Zen.
Scott Burton: Untitled Bronze Chair (Street Work), 1972.
Whatever Happened to Performance Art?
After performance art'sconvulsive origins, that which did not become stand-up comedy became the loss-leader or the out-and-out freebie that advertised more saleable products. Back then, during the poetic genesis of performance art, we even called this the Oldenburg Effect. I doubt that Oldenburg planned it that way, but stage props from his Happenings became highly desirable sculptures. I know for a fact that furniture sculptor Burton was enamored of this strategy and lost no time moving from chairs as props to chairs as sculpture. In the world of Fluxus events, one could buy chalked up blackboards from Joseph Beuys "lectures." And once it became clear that masturbating under a specially constructed, ramplike gallery floor (Acconci) or having yourself shot in the arm (Burden) could make you famous, all sorts of lesser stunts proliferated throughout the '70s and into the '80s.
Now it is safe to say, notwithstanding all these fine points of nomenclature and classification, that artists schooled on Beuys, Acconci, Burden and Burton et alia offer up performances as sidelines, in the same way artists once made watercolors. Or use them as attention-getters, like sculptor who kicked off his career by videotaping himself shooting and killing a dog.
The art school rule is to start with an idea and then use the most suitable form, whether that form be video, performance, or even painting. And you are no longer just a painter; you are an artist, in order that one's work may embrace all media if necessary. The only problem is that, although there is no shortage of media, there is, as usual, a severe shortage of ideas. How many good ideas are there?
Richard Tuttle: Purple Octagonal, 1967
Richard Subtle
"To make something which looks like itself is the problem, the solution."
Richard Tuttle
The new Richard Tuttle retrospective, initiated by SFMOMA and now at the Whitney (945 Madison Avenue, to Feb. 5), opens old wounds. But a rehash of yesterday's art rages is instructive in outlining how hierarchies function, how blame is apportioned, and how custom impinges upon artistic innovation. Essays in the current catalogue gingerly brush against bristles once raised.
An extremely negative review in the New York Times concerning the first Richard Tuttle exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1975 seems to have had a lot to do with (1) curator Marsha Tucker being asked to resign and (2) Tuttle's eventual fame. Tucker, whom I remember swearing she would never focus on aesthetics again, went on to found the New Museum. On a new DVD called Richard Tuttle: Never Not An Artist (dir: Chris Maybach for Twelve Films), Tucker claims her departure was the best thing that ever happened to her. It's doubtful that the Whitney would have produced "Bad Painting," "Bad Girls," and the first Ana Mendieta retrospective (with yours truly as co-curator), all New Museum exhibitions of some importance.
Please note that it was not the director who was forced out of the Whitney, nor was it the chairman of the exhibition committee, nor, heaven forbid, the chairman of the board of directors. Although the Tuttle exhibition in retrospect was a brilliant experiment, someone in the museum hierarchy was asleep at the wheel. Who was in charge? Or was it simply that Tucker had not prepared her bosses for the exhibition? Why did anyone worry about an attack in the New York Times, by Hilton Kramer? Nowadays an attack by him is as good as praise.
Or, as my old friend the dance critic Edwin Denby told me when I myself was attacked by Kramer, just measure the column inches. That's what counts. Every dancer knows this. Kramer had called me avuncular, which struck me as odd, since at the time I had hair like a lion's mane and was routinely called "Jesus" by truck-drivers. To make matters worse, Kramer had misspelled my name. Oh, the pity of it.
Tuttle went on to become an art hero, all in the name of beauty. Kramer eventually moved from The Times to the New York Observer, a venue more suitable to his bent and where, although still foaming at the mouth and whether one disagrees with him or not, he can do less damage.
Richard Tuttle: Purple Octagonal, 1967
Breaking the Rules
In regards to the 1975 Tuttle show, even Lawrence Alloway in The Nation went after the jugular -- Tucker's. What caused all the ruckus?
Believe it or not, for Alloway the problem was that there was no catalogue for the opening. He had no difficulty with Tuttle (after all, the artist's dealer was a close friend, about whom he had been commissioned to write a biography). Was there a Tucker vendetta of some sort?
The exhibition was to be changed by the artist three times during the course of its run, so a catalogue to document these events had to wait until the end. Tucker, who had co-curated the Whitney's "Anti-Illusion" show in 1969, was no stranger to site-specific, process art. And neither were we. For that show I remember that Rafael Ferrer dumped autumn leaves and blocks of ice on the Whitney entrance ramp. Robert Morris's Continuous Project to be Altered Daily also debuted that year in a warehouse rented by his dealer, Leo Castelli.
For Tuttle's 1975 retrospective, the artist himself had almost total say in the installation, but then again, many of the works required this and were about installation. General art-height was determined as an inch or so lower than art industry standards: 54", like light switches. But some tiny works were daringly placed where a baseboard might be. And some were on the wall, and then in the next installment spread out on the floor. Sometimes top-and-bottom orientation -- as in the signature, Tintex-soaked canvas "Octagons" -- had to be improvised. And his still delicately beautiful "Wire Pieces" needed to be made on the spot, as did a room of string-drawings laid out on the floor (not in current exhibition).
Installation was, and is, all-important to Tuttle. A big empty wall or a floor is the ground for his 3-D doodles, his hand-held, hand-made assemblages, his disconcerting, apparently off-hand sculpture/painting/drawings. He had, after all, started in the art world with a day job as the gallery assistant, backstage installation-guy at the prestigious Betty Parsons Gallery (where Jackson Pollock had shown and where Ad Reinhardt, Tony Smith, and Barnett Newman were then still in the stable). Tuttle's focus on presentation was inherited from or inspired by his gainful employment. It was there at Parsons that Tuttle had his first solo exhibition in 1965, which is a little bit like a Warner Brothers usher getting to fill in for the song-and-dance man on the mend and turning into Dick Powell.
What? Let the artist do his own museum installation? Dicey, at best. A post-exhibition catalogue? Still unusual now. We need those catalogue essays, no matter how badly written, to write our review or, as laypersons, misguide us through the exhibitions. Both "innovations" signaled a break-down in museum protocol - i.e., territory and control.
Richard Tuttle: Purple Octagonal, 1967
A Threat to the Art Supply Industry?
To make matters worse, a lot of the works were made of bits and pieces of what would normally be studio debris, little bits of nothing anchoring big expanses of formerly inarticulate, all-white museum wall space. String, wire, fluff. But didn't Kramer get the charm of these strategies, or at least understand the precedents? Had Kurt Schwitters lived in vain? Although even then Tuttle was understood in the art world as being -- albeit perhaps too mystical and too poetic -- an important part of what would be soon valorized as postminimalism, Mr. Kramer seemed to be obsessed with the reductiveness of Tuttle's scale, which to my mind was -- and still is -- heroic in its displacement of the bigger-is-always-better American cliché. Tiny does not necessarily mean twee. But I am still not sure we have learned that yet.
As it turns out, Tuttle, in spite of some bad press, went on making art and, as the current exhibition proves, most of it is quite good: loopy, tender, deceptively modest. At this point, his triumphant retrospective is the one museum exhibition in New York not to be missed. Delight without cheap sentiment is not easy to find.
Guess what. After 1975, the art world was not destroyed. Not all artists suddenly demanded to install their exhibitions -- some, in fact, understood they were better off leaving it to the experts. One of my fantasy student assignments has always been to require the installation of a group of art masterpieces so that they look really, really dreadful. The assignment is far too easy: wrong lighting, wrong spacing, wrong placing. Even inappropriate framing can ruin the best of paintings. It all hangs within an inch of disaster.
Furthermore, after latrines, sponges, dead hares, and little bits of cloth and bubble-wrap, we now allow dung, sharks in formaldehyde, gingerbread, and any number of post-Dadaist/Fluxus, postminimalist nonart materials. Nevertheless, the art-supply industry is as strong as ever. Tubes of oil paint and acrylic still outsell chocolate syrup (re: Vik Muniz currently at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia to Nov. 27) and toothpaste (murals by yours truly) as art materials.
Richard Tuttle: Purple Octagonal, 1967
Did He Really Say That?
Other Tuttle problems are less easily solved: his mysticism (since mysticism is still a no-no unless you are in Europe or California) and his tendency to offer gnomic statements.
Although his assertions that his work is an effort to overcome identity, and that "The job of the artist is to come up with ideas of how the mystic can be accommodated" might be puzzling to those not spiritually inclined, exhibition organizer Madeleine Grynsztejn also quotes him more productively in her excellent catalogue essay:
The main subject of my work is this kind of perfection, it's an experience I've had, it's a kind of metaphysical, or maybe someone else could say a 'mystical' experience that's happened, say, three times or four times in my life and I would like it to happen everyday and I would like to be able to make a picture or a sculpture where other people can have that experience because when you have that it also clears the mind.
All of this would sound less scary if recast as what once-trendy psychologist Abraham Maslow called "peak-experiences." Maslow in the '60s had the brilliant idea of studying healthy people for a change and found, he claimed, that they were all mystics, or at least had experiences of unity and transcendence that, to soften the blow, he called peak-experiences: Religions, Values and Peak-Experiences (1964) and Toward a Psychology of Being (1968).
Aside from mysticism, is Tuttle's art (as Tucker seemed to have concluded) only about aesthetics? Even a stick or a wire tells a story. There is also the language-as-subject problem. To some degree, Tuttle has been producing alternate alphabets. Letters of 1966 is even composed of 26 discrete forms to produce a constellation of forms you can almost but not quite read. The same may be said for most of the Tuttle "runs," such as the "Octagons," the "Wire Drawings" and even the framed drawings of various sorts in a series or as exemplifications of theme-and-variations. Can all these "letters" be combined in different ways, as in scholar Moshe Idel's rediscovered ecstatic Kabbalah, to yield fresh meanings? Given five materials or five "letters," how many words can the permutations spell?
The alphabet has always been important to me. In the late '60s I did a number of performances structured by it; one, as it turns out, at the Whitney. Although as a child I could read before going to school, I had trouble memorizing the alphabet. It was, I felt, not my alphabet, not my language. Tuttle's alphabets are also not mine, but I can hear what they say. They say that Nothing - let's say a couple of inches of rope nailed to a wall - can be huge, that the ordinary can be sublime.
Yves Klein, Untitled Monochrome
Souvenirs of the Future
Georges Mathieu: What is artfor you?
Yves Klein: Art is health!
What is one to do with Yves Klein? A museum-quality painting survey at the L & M Arts Gallery ( "Yves Klein: A Career Survey;" 45 East 78th Street, to December 10) and seven late fire paintings made of torched cardboard at Michael Werner (4 East 77th Street, to December 23) move this wild man back into the spotlight -- at least here at Artopia, where we are busy forging a new canon, a new central strand in the spiral-braid of art history, a new future. Klein (1928-62) was the French Joseph Beuys, a statement that will be shocking to many, since Klein lacked Beuys' gravitas.
But who was ours? I say Barnett Newman. Duchamp evidently took a look at alchemy; Beuys nodded to esoteric Christianity. Klein embraced the Rosicrucian Conspiracy. And Newman knew the Kabbalah.
Klein's Monochromes now look great, but that's only because minimalism long ago caught up with his voids and outrageous concepts, going beyond his meanings. Klein was playing with the elements, and perhaps the elementals. His art, like Duchamp's, looks good because presentation is better than representation and because beauty is not the opposite of thought. It is, in fact, the highest form of subversion. He actually took a patent out on his particular saturated blue and deemed it International Klein Blue, applying it with rollers.
Klein, by all accounts, was a showman. He sold air, water, fire. As a young boy he imagined that he could sign the sky. He did sign the sky. He made paintings using the naked bodies of his female models, in public.
Yves Klein: Monotone Symphony Peformance, 1961
He composed (1949) and conducted (1960) The Monotone Symphony. To hear it go to: Ubuweb(click on MP3) He had himself pictured leaping out of a second-floor window. Did this publicity stunt stand in his way? No, on the other hand, that image of him jumping into the void made him immortal.
In hisChelsea Hotel Manifesto(click on same at bottom of opening page) he wrote: "Having rejected nothingness, I have discovered the void."
His only real handicap was that he was marketed as part of the so-called New Realism group, not that there is anything wrong with being associated with Arman (who has just passed away). New Realism could, however, be taken for French Pop Art and Klein, in spite of making p.r. one of his art materials, attained a level of profundity not attained by Pop, French or otherwise.
He too was an alchemist. Although outwardly it would seem that Dada and the aesthetic cannot mix, under certain saintly circumstances they do combine to form a mysterious third substance.
Americans were not ready -- neither for exhibitions at Leo Castelli and Iolas in New York and the Dwan in L.A., or later for his posthumous retrospective at the Guggenheim. The retrospective inspired the Times' John Canaday to announce that "the prodigious exaltation of non-sense is the really troubling thing about this exhibition." Whereas I myself thought it was Frank Lloyd Wright's building that was troubling, as a site for paintings; brackets that made Klein's sublime IKB's float in front of the curved wall were not exactly the right solution. Even with their curved corners they need good-old-Western rectangular walls.
The blue paintings look very different now: luscious. But in Klein's work, you should not avoid the void; art is not a question of content versus form, and/or form versus content, but one of parables and paradoxes, using the visual to conjure the invisible.
If nothing else, Klein is the postwar paradigm of the artist who does not limit artistic practice to painting or sculpture or performance, but exercises within all three. Or exorcizes all three.
Yves Klein: Untitled Fire Painting, 1961
Time's Purification
Klein achieved a Black Belt in Judo in 1952 (from the Kodokan Institute in Tokyo) and then went on to found his own Judo school in Paris, making a living teaching Judo from 1955 to 1959. As poet/artist who until quite recently had what actors call "a day job", I am always interested in how artists make a living. Joseph Beuys - another art hero - was for many years a professor at The Dusseldorf Academy of Art until he was dismissed for "breach of the peace" when he and his students protested the Academy's demand that he limit class enrollment. Marcel Duchamp worked at a library in Paris, later became Brancusi's U.S. agent, advised collectors and sold art privately, then married well.
Klein's Tokyo stint contributed to the notion bandied about that his monochromes were Zen-inspired, when in point of fact he had begun making monochromatic paintings well before his studies in Japan.
As the exquisite exhibition at the L & M Gallery may indicate, Klein's art has now undergone time's purification. Hardly anyone now would deny that the monochromes and the body paintings are beautiful. The spectacle has been removed. They are no longer performance art residue. The charlatan-like spiritual edge is subsumed by pure product.
Perhaps each decade gets the Klein it deserves. In the Sixties and Seventies we liked him because of, not in spite of, the faked image of him jumping from a building. And because of the Immaterial Transfers: he traded gold dust for particular chunks of space; the gold dust then dumped in the Seine. And then there was the legendary The Void exhibition: an empty gallery fronted by Republican Guards; the packed opening replete with blue cocktails. If the French art dealer Iris Clert is remembered at all it is for this one-week exhibit (and for Robert Rauschenberg's telegram to her stating: This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say it is). Was the gallery empty? Not really. It had his aura. He had sensitized it by repainting it white.
But even the Anthrometries, made with paint-speared female nudes, are now almost painfully elegant. At first glance they have lost what once was construed in the late 70's as anti-woman exploitation. But they have also lost the touch of the Goddess.
We no longer seem to need to know that he was influenced by Rosicrucianism. Rosicrucianism, probably a joke, was a hoax that came true. Did Christian Rosencreutz actually exist? Was there in the 18th century really an elite of "invisibles"? Does it really matter, since the Rosicrucian manifestos enflamed the imagination and stood for liberty. Now ofcourse we scorn mail order "Rosicrucians" and celebrate the inspired scholarship of our beloved Frances Yates whose The Rosicrucian Enlightenment will provide some clues to the conspiracy.
Do we need to know that Klein was made a Knight of the Order of Archers of Saint Sebastian? Or, to be contrary, do we really need to know if such an order exists? Someone decked out in Archer regalia appeared at both the opening of The Void and Klein's wedding.
Yves Klein: Untitled Monochrome (with sponges)
Mutants Unite
But before Klein is belatedly initiated as one of the art immortals, can we undo Time's Purification? In re-reading critic Pierre Restany's book on his friend Klein, (Abrams, New York; revised 1982) I was reminded of that author's invention of New Realism (Arman, Tinguely, Cesar, Klein, etc). Has Klein, whom Restany called a "mutant", finally shed this cocoon?
Was Klein's seven years of truly inspired art production of the moment or of the momentum? Do we not still yearn for his architecture made out of air? Even if it was hot air? In 1962 he died of a heart attack after seeing the sensationalizing Yves Klein segment of the dreadful Mondo Cane at its Canne Film Festival debut. His last work was his one-way-into-the-void Pneumatic Rocket.
What I suggest is that we have an official Yves Klein Day. But this should not be the anniversary of his fatal heart-attack at the age of 34, but instead November 27 --- coming up soon! This is the date of his one-day newspaper, issued in 1960, disguised as the Sunday Edition of France Soir:
Here is Restany's description:
Under the headline "A Man in Space," and the caption "The Painter of Space casts Himself into the Void," a photograph, a mysterious photomontage, shows us Yves Klein hurling himself in soaring flight from the mansard roof of a suburban house. The black-and-white reproduction of a monochrome proposition is accompanies by the caption: "Space Itself."
And then there was Klein's editorial, as quoted by Restany:
I have decided to present an ultimate form of collective theater, a Sunday for everybody...By presenting Sunday 27, 1960 from midnight to midnight, I thus present a holiday, a genuine spectacle of the Void.
All of this is in Restany's book on Klein which also documents an artist/critic relationship. Restany, along with inventing French New Realism, apparently got Klein to focus on the color blue and to insist that his paintings had nothing to do with Malevich. And how did Klein pay him back? When he was mentally formulating the faculty for his projected School of Sensitivity, his artist friend Tinguely was to be in charge of sculpture, but Pierre was in charge of press.
In truth there needs to be a dialectic between essence and context. But are the paintings the essence? I'd vote instead for the photomontage leap.
So how will you celebrate Yves Klein Day this November 27? Paint yourself blue? That's now too Blue Man Group. Jump from a second story window? Two dangerous. How about gazing into the sky while reciting "I AM the Void"?
Yves Klein: Leap Into the Void, 1960
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MEDFORD, Mass. - The visiting MIT Engineers took a close 5-4 victory over Tufts University in Greater Boston collegiate men's tennis action on Saturday afternoon. The match, which was played indoors due to rain, featured two tie-breakers in doubles and two three-set competitions in singles.
The Jumbos came out of doubles play with a 2-1 lead. The top pair of junior Jake Fountain and sophomore Kai Victoria won a tie-breaker 9-8 (5). MIT's Matthew Skalak and Tymor Hamamsy did the exact same in the #2 match. The Jumbo #3 duo of sophomore Sam Laber and freshman Ben Barad gave Tufts the edge with an 8-3 victory.
In singles, MIT won four out of six to secure the match. Skalak won the #6 match in three sets 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 against Tufts senior tri-captain Bryan Wilner. Engineer Samuel Harmatz was a 6-4, 7-6 (4) winner over Tufts freshman Andrew Lutz at #4.
For the Jumbos, Victoria won a three-set match at #3 after losing a first-set tie-breaker. Junior Andrew Rosen had the easiest win of the day at #5, 6-2 and 6-1.
The Engineers (1-0) host the Falcons of Bentley University in their next match Wednesday, October 7, at 4 p.m. Tufts (1-1) hits the courts again on Friday, October 16, against the Crimson of Harvard University.
1. Jake Fountain/Kai Victoria (Tufts) def. Kevin Pang/Larry Pang (MIT) 9-8(5)
2. Matthew Skalak/Tymor Hamamsy (MIT) def. Morrie Bossen/Andrew Lutz (Tufts) 9-8(5)
3. Sam Laber/Ben Barad (Tufts) def. Andrew Cooper/Brian Oldfield (MIT) 8-3
1. K. Pang (MIT) def. Laber (Tufts) 6-3, 6-2
2. L. Pang (MIT) def. Fountain (Tufts) 6-2, 6-4
3. Victoria (Tufts) def. Oldfield (MIT) 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-4
4. Samuel Harmatz (MIT) def. Lutz (Tufts) 6-4, 7-6(4)
5. Andrew Rosen (Tufts) def. Hamamsy (MIT) 6-2, 6-1
6. Skalak (MIT) def. Bryan Wilner (Tufts) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2


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Re: Hispanics interested in top law schools
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January 23, 2011, 08:14:57 PM »
1. I'm sorry for the late response. I only get e-mail notifications when someone messages me personally, but not when someone replies to my posts on a thread.
2. I want to know if she has taken, or is taking, any LSAT prep course? I would highly recommend taking an LSAT prep course (well) before she sits for the exam. I am not an expert on LSAT preparation, so I cannot give substantive advice as to how she should tailor her studying to best prepare for the exam, but I can say that time is a huge issue for everyone on the exam, not just her. This is why taking a prep course is so important, particularly for those people who also have to deal with growing up speaking a native language other than English. An LSAT prep course will help her develop techniques that will save precious time. So, once again, I highly recommend that she take an LSAT prep course--and practice as much as possible--if she hasn't already. Message me if financial reasons make it impossible to afford an LSAT courses, there are some resources out there for instances as such.
3. As for the discrepancy with her LSDAS GPA, I would work to resolve that as soon as possible. LSAC sometimes has a different GPA calculation rubric than one's degree-granting college.
4. When considering which schools to apply to, look at their applicant profile on LSAC's website. Look at more than just the LSAT/GPA chart. One technique I used that seemed to work for me when I was applying to law school years ago, was seeing how many people of my ethnicity were represented at the law school. I applied to law schools where students of my ethnicity were the most underrepresented, because--to the extent law schools even take race and ethnicity into account--being an applicant of a background that is significantly underrepresented is an advantage. (For example, if you are Cuban-American, and you apply to UMiami where many other Cuban-Americans apply and matriculate, the URM advantage can be less substantial than if you apply to a law school that has a much lower amount of Cuban-American applying and matriculating). Does that make sense?
5. If she plans to apply to Boston College Law School, or Boston-area law schools, we should get in touch so I can give more school-specific advice. With that said, attending tier 1 law schools that are far from the region one wishes to ultimately practice law should not necessarily be viewed as an impediment. Employers don't care so much about the location of the law school one attended as much as they care about a demonstrated commitment to permanently live and practice in the employer's region.
6. She may want to consider supplementing her personal statement with a diversity statement, (if adding such a statement would better explain the past circumstances that affect her performance). From my own experience, the difference between a personal statement and a diversity statement is that a diversity statement focuses more on the application process and how your special diverse background created special obstacles or circumstances that affect your candidacy to the law school. In contrast, your personal statement is a more general opportunity to personalize yourself on your application. If you can successfully incorporate both into one essay, then you don't need both. But in her case, and in the case of many other Latino/as who grew up speaking a language other than English, I would err on the side of writing a supplemental diversity statement.
7. As for whether or not to wait or take the LSAT now: I think over-preparation is better than under-preparation, so in that respect I would wait for the next cycle if I were feeling uncertain about my all-important LSAT score. One thing that I've heard other applicants doing with regards to the LSAT is actually going in to take the test and trying their hardest, but if they sense the test is going really bad--like worse than their practice tests--they cancel the score on the spot, rather than get stuck with an LSAT score lower than their practice test scores. I didn't use that method myself, but I know of people who have cancelled more than one test until they get the "right test" and score really high. It's risky in the sense that (1) the admissions committee will know that you cancelled, and (2) one can only take the LSAT so many times and cancel before it begins to look ridiculous. On the reverse side of the coin, if you DO chose to take and score an LSAT in which you perform well below your expectation, if a law school really wants to accept you, there is a potential for the school to actually contact you and encourage you to re-take the test (and if you score reasonably higher they likely will accept you).
Finally, I'm sorry to hear about her mother, and I wish you both the best of luck. Never give up on the process because you think you're not good enough.
Message me if you have questions or comments.
Re: Latino/as interested in top law schools
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July 19, 2011, 11:17:03 AM »
Hey everyone!
What do you think my chances are for a top 25 school? Here are my statistics:
LSAC GPA: 3.55 (Graduated 2010)
LSAT: 160 (Have decided not to re-take LSAT as I am a teaceher and will not have time to study once school starts in a couple weeks)
Soft: Teach for America (New Orleans)
I intend in applying this fall, and have just completed my personal statement. I also intend on writing a diversity statement highlighting my experiences and take aways as a Mexican female growing up in East Los Angeles.
Advice? Thoughts?
Re: Latino/as interested in top law schools
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October 29, 2011, 04:31:55 PM »
I'm sure you can definitely get into some T25 schools with that. To some extent it depends on what college you got that 3.55 at, too. And of course Teach for America's a huge soft factor. Apply early though! Hopefully you have all your applications in by now! If you haven't applied, and want another review of your PS and DS, just message me on here. Good luck!
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MELBOURNE, Australia Sloane Stephens wiped away tears as she thought about hanging a poster of herself on a wall in the place of her childhood hero.
The 19-year-old American seemed to be in shock, barely able to compute how shed produced the upset of the Australian Open by beating 15-time major winner Serena Williams in the quarterfinals Wednesday. It was her first trip that far in seven Grand Slam tournaments.
A poster of Williams had adorned the wall on Stephens bedroom as a child. Now, in her view, theyre peers.
This is so crazy, Stephens said in a postmatch TV interview after rallying from a set and a break down against an injured and angry Williams. Oh my goodness. I think Ill put a poster of myself (up) now.
The 29th-seeded Stephens won 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. She calmed her nerves and started swinging harder and lifting her tempo at 4-3 in the second set.
Thats when Williams jarred her back trying to pull up before the net as she chased down a drop shot. Williams let out a loud scream and hopped away. Stephens had a look back over the net, seemingly in concern.
Williams started taking time between points, limping, and trying to stay in the shade at the back of the court. She later called for the trainer between games, and she had a three-minute medical timeout and came back serving at a pace well below her usual speed.
Well, at that point you just have to pretend like nothings wrong, Williams said. You think of worst-case scenarios. You know, I just thought, OK, just pretend nothings wrong, and just try your best.
Stephens surprise victory did instant wonders for her celebrity.
Before the match, Stephens said she had about 17,000 followers on Twitter. A few hours after reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal, she had more than 40,000.
And she sounded like an excited schoolgirl as she gushed about receiving a congratulatory tweet from singer John Legend.
I want John Legend to sing at my wedding! she said. I was like, Oh my God. He tweeted me. What can I do?
She retweeted the sentiments from Legend: Just found out her dad is John Stephens from the Pats. (thats my real name) I had his football card when I was a kid. I was so proud, ha ha.
Stephens father, the former New England Patriots player, died in 2009.
Retired basketball star Shaquille ONeal sent a message that read: When u defeat a legend you become a legend.
The Dallas Mavericks Dirk Nowitzki wrote, Wow. What a win for Sloane. Some amazing defense. She gets every ball back.
Stephens checked her phone during her postmatch news conference and said there were 213 text messages waiting for her.
Like many a teenager, her first concern was about how high her phone bill might be.
I thought it was free to receive text messages, but someone told me otherwise, she said.
Her mother is going to be like, The money you were going to buy yourself something nice with, youre going to pay your phone bill.
Shes set for her biggest payday, regardless of the result in todays semifinal against defending champion Victoria Azarenka, who beat two-time major winner Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-1 in the previous match in Rod Laver Arena.
The semifinal losers earn $525,000, double what the quarterfinal losers receive.
For Williams, theres a further $1,500 deduction after she was fined for racket abuse.
Stephens had practiced with Williams for the Fed Cup but had played her only once, a straight-sets loss at the Brisbane International earlier this month.
Brisbane helped me because I got the first time we played out of the way, she said. First time is always tough. Definitely I was glad that I got it there ... it helped me raise my level.
Shell need to maintain that level within 24 hours to play the top-ranked Azarenka. That will follow the semifinal between No. 2-ranked Maria Sharapova and No. 6 Li Na, the 2011 French Open champion.
Stephens previous best run at a major tournament was at last years French Open, where she was the first American teenager to reach the fourth round since Williams in 2001. She was the youngest player in the year-end top 50 despite missing the last six weeks of the season with an abdominal injury.
I took a lot of time off just kind of being a normal kid, doing whatever, she said.
That means shopping, social networking and other things teens do.
Stephens was under real pressure early, and it showed. She double-faulted to give Williams triple break point in the eighth game but could save only two. Williams started pumping her fist and yelling, Come On.
Williams broke her serve again in the opening game of the second set.
From then on, I got aggressive, started coming to the net more and just got a lot more comfortable, Stephens said.
That paid off when she broke back in the fourth game.
Williams injured her ankle in her first-round win, and the back injury compounded her problems in what she said later was her worst major tournament in a long time.
The five-time Australian champion shanked a forehand to fall behind 2-1 in the third, then smashed her racket into the court, twice, flinging it toward the courtside chairs.
She picked up her service speed and was called for a foot fault, further annoying her.
Williams got the first break of the set and seemed to be back on track for victory, but Stephens answered immediately.
Serving to stay in the match, Williams hit an attempted passing shot long and looked up to the sky, muttering to herself. She hit backhands into the net on the next two points, and her winning streak had ended.
Williams walked around the net post to shake Stephens hand. The quick turnaround between matches makes it difficult for Stephens family to make it to Australia for her semifinal.
Im kind of upset my moms not here and my brother, she said. I know definitely everyones watching back home and is very proud of me, so (Ill) just do my best and make them happy.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Just when the MIT water polo team appeared to be clicking after an impressive 5-1 home invitational, Brown University proved that the Engineers still have plenty of work to do. The Bears beat up on the Engineers, winning 11-4 on Wednesday night at the Smith Aquatic Center.
After a fairly even first half, Brown was able to capitalize on numerous Engineer mistakes to pull away in the third quarter. Sophomore goalie Robert Truax tried to keep MIT in the game with several tremendous saves, but his perimeter defense let him down.
"This loss was frustrating because I felt after this past weekend we would play better," said head coach Felix Mercado. "We just let down on defense to a very explosive Brown team. They were better than us tonight."
Scoring for MIT was freshman Mike Smith Bronstein with two tallies and seniors John Rogers and Grady Snyder with one a piece. Defensively, MIT was led by Rob Truax's eight saves and three steals.
MIT next faces Queens College in the first game of the CWPA Tournament at the Zesiger Center on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.


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WASHINGTON Just four in 10 say Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has enough experience to be president, while nearly two-thirds say so about Joe Biden, her Democratic counterpart, a poll showed Friday.
Views of Palin largely reflect partisan loyalty and show she's having little initial impact on which presidential ticket people support, the ABC News survey showed.
Eight in 10 Republicans and more than four in 10 independents say they have more confidence in Republican presidential nominee John McCain's decision-making for his selection of Palin. Six in 10 Democrats say it reduces theirs.
More have a favorable than unfavorable view of Palin by 50 percent to 37 percent a bit less than the 54 percent to 30 percent positive opinion they have of Biden.
Palin is seen favorably by 85 percent of Republicans, 24 percent of Democrats and 53 percent of independents.
By just 6 percentage points, people say her choice makes them likelier to vote for than against the McCain ticket. Pivotal GOP voting blocs conservatives, Republicans and white evangelicals are all likelier to support than oppose McCain because of Palin by 32 points or more.
Biden makes people likelier to support Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama by 12 points. Most say neither vice presidential pick will make a difference.
Seven in 10 say the pregnancy of Palin's unmarried teenage daughter doesn't affect their view of Palin. By 2-to-1 most say the mother of five including an infant with Down syndrome made the right choice to become McCain's running mate.
Women and men back Palin's choice to run about equally. Republicans and independents are far likelier than Democrats to support her decision.
Four in 10 say Palin's choice to have her youngest child after a diagnosis of Down syndrome makes them feel more favorably about her, while just over half say it had no impact.
The poll was conducted Thursday and involved telephone interviews with 505 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.


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Warwick native and former Olympic hockey player Sara DeCosta Hayes visited Our Lady of Mercy School in East Greenwich on Tuesday, showing off her medals and her gear to a captivated bunch of fifth graders.
One little girl in the back of the room was especially into it. She doesn't play hockey, she said, but she watches it all the time. She knew every player DeCosta mentioned.
As she took questions from the class, DeCosta had a question, too.
"You know so much about hockey," she said to the girl. "Why don't you play?"
It was an interesting question.
When DeCosta was growing up, she played on boys' teams, all the way through to Toll Gate High School, where she starred in net for the Titans. She talked to the class about her first tryout for a girls' junior national team, and how she had to adjust to the speed. She'd literally never played against girls.
Back then, the question wasn't "Why don't you play hockey?"
It was "Why do you?"
Times have certainly changed.
Sixteen years ago, women's hockey made its Olympic debut and DeCosta was in Nagano, Japan, leading the United States to a gold medal. She and her teammates had no idea if anybody was watching – they got their answer later in the games when Kevin Costner asked to have his picture taken with them.
Girls' hockey has grown by leaps and bounds across the country in the years since, with a steep climb in Rhode Island.
And DeCosta's hometown is at the center of it. The Warwick Junior Hockey Association has a flourishing girls' program and the Warwick co-op high school team is emerging as a state championship contender.
"It's really impressive to see how much the sport has grown," DeCosta said. "There are some really good girls out there."
The high school squad is carrying the torch. The Lady Titans are in second place in the state's top division, just a point back of La Salle, a team they've beaten once this season. Sophomore Madison Balutowski is the state's top goal scorer.
DeCosta is an assistant coach with the girls' hockey program at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass., and she has run a camp specifically for girls' hockey at Providence College. She knows several of the Warwick players and couldn't be happier to see their success.
She's a fan.
"A few of the girls play with my organization so I try to follow it," she said. "It's great. I played for the boys at Toll Gate. To see the girls team excelling so much is a lot of fun. It's awesome."
The Lady Titans wear different blue and red jerseys than the one she wore when she was a Titan who happened to be a lady. It's a cool reminder of how far girls' hockey has come.
When the Olympic hockey games get underway, DeCosta and some of her former teammates plan to get together and watch the games. They know it's a different – and better – hockey world than the one they grew up in.
And that question? Why don't you play?
Turns out the girl's dad won't let her.
Thankfully, that's the only thing stopping girls' hockey now.
William Geoghegan is the sports editor at the Warwick Beacon. He can be reached at 732-3100.


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In this demonstration, students experience the Doppler effect for sound. Students can compute the frequency change for motion along the line of sight (LOS) and determine the vector LOS component for motions not exactly on it. A buzzer, battery,... (View More) bicycle wheel, string and a rubber ball and a timer are needed for the demonstration. The resource is from PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science - a collection of brief examples created by scientists and engineers showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes have real world applications. (View Less)
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