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NOTICE: We have a few parking lots closed for maintenance this summer (est. 5/13 – 7/31). Click here for closures on our parking map to view nearby options.
NMSU parking rules are in effect from 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday with free parking on the evenings and weekends and free parking lots located around campus.
Free Parking and Shuttle Service
NMSU makes it easy and affordable to park and commute around campus. Aggie Transit provides free shuttle routes that transport riders with a valid Aggie ID from free parking lots (identified in brown on the parking map).
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A variety of NMSU Parking Permits are available for those who wish to park in a designated "permitted" parking lot. Parking rules are enforced Monday-Friday from 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Please consult the parking map for designated parking locations.
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PRETORIA, South Africa — Oscar Pistorius does not display the narcissism associated with men in abusive relationships and linked to "rage-type" murders, according to a psychologist's report read Wednesday at the athlete's murder trial.
The report adds to conflicting evidence about the character of the double-amputee runner, who killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp by firing his pistol through a closed toilet door in his home. The defense has sought to support Pistorius' contention that he killed the 29-year-old model by mistake, fearing an intruder was about to attack him; the prosecution says the Paralympian is a jealous egotist who shot Steenkamp after a Valentine's Day argument.
Dr. Jonathan Scholtz, a clinical psychologist, found no evidence that Pistorius had a history of "abnormal aggression or explosive violence" but concluded he has a record of feeling insecure and vulnerable, particularly when he is without his prosthetic limbs, defense lawyer Barry Roux said. He read excerpts from the psychological report, part of a court-ordered evaluation of Pistorius' state of mind over 30 days at a state psychiatric hospital.
The evaluation, which included a separate report by three psychiatrists, said Pistorius was not mentally ill when he killed Steenkamp early on Feb. 14, 2013.
That conclusion appeared to remove the possibility that Pistorius could be declared not guilty by reason of mental illness. On Wednesday, his defense team tried to show that the psychologist's report supports the Paralympian's account of a mistaken shooting because his disability and purported fear of crime contributed to a heightened sense of vulnerability.
When physically threatened, Pistorius might have a fearful reaction that could "seem extraordinary when viewed from the perspective of an able-bodied person, but normal in the context of a disabled person with his history," said Roux, quoting from the report. The lawyer also cited the psychologist as saying Pistorius has become severely traumatized since the killing and will become an increasing suicide risk unless he continues to get mental health care.
At times during his trial, Pistorius has wailed and retched in apparent distress, particularly during graphic testimony about the shooting and also when the athlete was on the witness stand. At other times, he has been calm and taken notes. Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel has suggested Pistorius feigned distress in order to dodge a tough cross-examination; the athlete's camp has denied his emotional displays were fake.
Nel has portrayed Pistorius as a reckless narcissist with a penchant for gunplay and driving at high speeds. He has highlighted arguments between the runner and Steenkamp in the weeks before he killed her, though the defense has said most of their communication was normal and affectionate.
Pistorius, who is free on bail, faces 25 years to life in prison if found guilty of premeditated murder, but he could also be sentenced to a shorter prison term if convicted of murder without premeditation or negligent killing. Additionally, he faces separate gun-related charges.
Also Wednesday, a medical expert who has treated Pistorius said the athlete has a hand tremor as well as a sleep disorder that required medication. Wayne Derman, a professor of sport and exercise medicine at the University of Cape Town, testified that he found Pistorius to be "hyper-vigilant" and was restless, often looking around quickly and scanning for possible threats.
"He is an anxious individual," Derman said, testifying for the defense.

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Joni Sternbach was born in the Bronx, New York. She graduated from New York University/International Center of Photography with an M.A. in Photography in 1987. She was part of the adjunct faculty at New York University for over 20 years, and is currently a visiting artist at Cooper Union in NYC, a faculty member at ICP, The Center for Alternative Photography where she specializes in teaching wet plate collodion. Sternbach uses both large format film and early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and portraits. Her photography has taken her to some of the most desolate deserts in the American West to some of the most prized surf beaches in the world. Sternbach's solo exhibition, SurfLand, which captures portraits of surfers in tintype, was featured at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, in May 2009 along with her first monograph, SurfLand, published by photolucida. Sternbach is currently working on her second monograph, due out in Spring 2015. Her work is included in many public collections, with the most recent acquisition from The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, MO and Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. She is the recipient of several grants including the Clarence John Laughlin award and NYFA. She is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art in NYC.
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( 14-23, 12-19, 20-29, 22-19)16 September 2009 18:15h
Lodz (POL)
Game Summary
Turning point: Pau Gasol scored the game's first seven points and Spain had their first double-digit lead, 19-9, courtesy of Navarro's three-pointer with just over two minutes to go in the first quarter. The world champions were in complete control all game.
Hero: Pau Gasol and Navarro. They combined for 19 of Spain's 23 first quarter points.
Stats: Navarro was on fire, connecting on seven of nine three-point attempts, several of them contested. He had 23 points on eight of 11 from the field in just 22 minutes of play.----------------------------------------------------------------------
Spain crushed hosts Poland 90-68 to book their place in the last eight of EuroBasket 2009.
The win saw Sergio Scariolo's side improve to 3-2 to finish fourth in Group F of the Qualifying Round. Up next for them is a clash with unbeaten France (5-0) in the quarter-finals on Thursday.
"We had a good performance today," Gasol said afterwards. "We are growing as a team and we are very much alive in the tournament."
"It will be a tough game against France but we have to go through them to get anything done here. We very much look forward to it."
Navarro was pleased to find his way out of a recent shooting slump.
"I struggled shooting from long range in previous games, but today the shots seemed to go in and my team-mates have given me a lot of confidence," he said.
With the older of the two Gasol brothers and Navarro leading the way, the world champions jumped out to a 23-14 lead by the end of the first quarter and never looked back.
The center scored the game's first seven points and had 11 by the end of the period while the guard had eight to go along with three assists.
Navarro buried a step back three-pointer for the first double-digit lead, 19-9, with just over two minutes to go in the quarter.
Lukasz Koszarek got Poland within 27-18 on a lay-up early in the second quarter but Spain quickly reasserted their dominance and had a 42-26 cushion at the break.
The Spaniards were red hot from three-point range, connecting on seven of 14 attempts over the first two quarters. Alex Mumbru hitting two from the top of the key minutes apart before Navarro buried consecutive ones for a 38-22 advantage.
Meanwhile, Poland struggled mightily in the first half, hitting just 12 of 35 field goal attempts, including two of 12 from long range (compared to seven of 14 for Spain).
After the intermission, the Spaniards kept adding to Poland's misery and were up 50-30 when Navarro buried his fifth three-pointer.
He hit his sixth and seventh for a 58-38 score midway through the period and soon after headed to the bench for good.
The Spaniards also gave the fans something of a show as Ricky Rubio drove to the basket and flipped the ball back to Jorge Garbajosa who drained a top of the key three.
Marc Gasol then fed a perfect bounce pass to a cutting Rudy Fernandez who hung in the air for a double-pump lay-up and Sergio Llull had a breakaway dunk for a 66-38 advantage, their biggest lead of the game.
Logan buried a corner three-pointer to cut the deficit to 66-41, but Fernandez answered right back with one of his own. At that point, Spain were 12 of 21 from long distance.
They led 71-46 at the start of the final frame and Poland found some offense late on to outscore them 22-19 over the last 10 minutes for the final scoreline.
Afterwards, Scarialo gave credit to Poland, but admitted that on the day his team were just too good.
"I want to congratulate the Polish team. They improved a lot from their last participation by reaching this round. I think tonight they can't blame themselves," he said.
"My players deserved the win. They did what they had to do to make the opponents look weaker. We played excellent defense, moved the ball well and had good shooting percentages."
Poland head coach Muli Katzurin admitted competing against Spain was always going to be hard.
"It was no competition against Spain. We tried but they were superior in strength and quality. This is a team that is the best in Europe. It was tough to execute a game plan. For us the key was the game against Serbia. We lost it. We lost to a better team. Each game we played was tougher and tougher. I'm sure if we had been in the other group we could have won something more," he said.
Logan broke out of a recent shooting slump to record a team-high 20 points for Poland. Lukasz Koszarek added 17 and Marcin Gortat had 12 to go along with a dozen rebounds.
Sergio Scariolo (Spain Coach):"For today's loss the polish players definitely can't blame themselves, it was our players who deserve the credit. We did everything to make our opponents look weak, we played good defense, moved the ball well and had high shooting percentage. And because of improved physical preparation of my players we are able to maintain a high tempo during longer stretches of the games."
Juan Carlos Navarro (Spain):"We are delighted with the win, now we need to rest and continue this path we are going on now. We are very happy to be in the Quarter-Finals after all the problems we had before and during this tournament. We will look into France tomorrow and we will try to prepare the best possible way for this game." Muli Katzurin (Poland Coach):"With Spain playing like that today, we are no competition for them. We tried hard, but the gap was way too big. Maybe in other group we could win some games, but here teams were just better than us. We had various game plans prepared, but on this level of competition it was really hard to execute them properly." Adam Wójcik (Poland):
"We were withdrawn and missed many shots from field. We didn't play bad basketball in this tournament. Crucial was the game against Serbia, which put us off our game. We tried to find and optimal solution, but we didn't manage it. We know that expectations were higher. This tournament gave us priceless experience, which is a great capital for the future. It was my last performance. I end my long carrier in national team"


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Sports Education Model - Ultimate Frisbee
Dear all, Please remember to send me the Group members in the team (Chairman!)
Remember that the first name is the Captain of the team and the coach for the first session in Week 7.
The rest of the names in line are the coaches for the next sessions. I have also attached the coaching sheet for your completion. You may do it in soft or hard copy.
2013 S3-08 SW Blog
Monday, 5 August 2013
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Softball Modified Rules
Softball Modified Rules
§ Any ball going outside the 1st or 3rd base line is a foul ball ( runners can not advance and batter gets another try unless the ball was caught in the air, which translates to an out)
§ An official game is 7 innings (a inning is when both teams have had their turn to bat)
§ Pitcher must have both feet on the pitcher's rubber and can only take one step forward while pitching
§ Ball must be thrown underhand
§ Batters must follow the same order throughout the whole game The batter is out if and when:
o three strikes have been called
o a fly ball is caught
§ Runners must touch each base in order
§ One base runner can not pass another base runner that is ahead of them.
§ Stealing a base is not permitted A runner is out if:
o they are tagged with the ball before reaching a base
o the ball gets to 1st base before the runner
o they run more than 3 feet out of the base line to avoid being tagged
§ Ball- a legally pitched ball that does not enter the strike zone (four balls equals a walk) Grounder
§ Fly ball- ball hit up in the air to the infield
§ On deck- the next batter
§ Pop up- ball hit up in the air to the infield
§ Strike- term used when a ball is swung at and missed or is called when the ball enters the strike zone and is not swung at all
§ Strike zone- the ball passes the batter over the plate between their chest and knees
Hello 3-08!
I have attached the Coaching template as well as the Intra-class games schedule.
SW reps - please ensure that the Intra-class games schedule is completed with all the details.
Teams - Please assign your Team Manager and Coach of the session.
Coach of the session - please complete the drills portion of the coaching template.
Thank you!
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Oct. 15, 2001
Santa Barbara, Calif. -
UC Santa Barbara junior forward Rob Friend has been selected Big West co-Player of the Week, the league announced today.
Friend helped the Gauchos to a 1-0-1 record in the opening weekend of Big West play. On Friday night, he spearheaded a comeback that saw the Gauchos record their first win over Cal State Fullerton since 1994. UCSB trailed at halftime by a score of 2-0, but Friend scored two goals to tie the score, then he assisted on a Drew McAthy score, giving the Gauchos a 3-2 victory.
The award is the second this season for Friend. He shares it this week with UC Irvine senior forward Jon Spencer, who scored goals in two matches this weekend, including the Anteaters 2-2 tie with the Gauchos on Sunday.
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SAN DIEGO — The Astros did set a franchise record for futility. They did lose 14 consecutive road games.
That was the Astros of 1996-97, who started the streak at the end of one season and ended it after the start of another.
That also was the Astros of Biggio and Bagwell and the other B's. In 1997, they brought in a new manager, Larry Dierker, and a couple of A's, Brad Ausmus and Bobby Abreu and went on to win their division.
So I guess it wouldn't have been too discouraging for the current Astros to have gone into the record books Monday night at Petco Park by losing their 14th consecutive road game. On the other hand, they seemed ecstatic, maybe even surprised, to end the streak one game short by beating the San Diego Padres, 2-0.
"Wait wait what?" Jordan Schafer tweeted after the game. "We won!!!!!!"
Six exclamation points for a victory over a team almost as hapless as they are. The Astros' win was their 34th of the season. The Padres have won 36. And guess who was the most recent team the Astros had shut out before Monday night. Yes, the Padres.
Still, a win is a win is a win. The Astros didn't seem particularly excited about avoiding the franchise record because so many of them were in the first grade or kindergarten when it was set.
"I didn't know anything about it until somebody pointed out it was in the paper," manager Brad Mills said.
"It doesn't help us out to think about something like that. You don't want that to become a monkey."
Or a gorilla.
"You try not to bring up negative things," said Chris Johnson, who made a couple of outstanding plays at third base.
When I told him about the players who set the franchise record, he said, "When you talk about that team, it makes you feel a little better. There were a couple of Hall of Famers on that team."
There may be a couple of Hall of Famers on this team. There may be a couple of guys or more who are headed for Oklahoma City.
This game didn't mean anything to anybody else. But it meant something to them. They won!!!!!!


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Solarware necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 59 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
A worldwide incentive travel company specializing in large group packages needs a new logo to represent the company in online and print ads.
http://www.ustnyc.com, UST, Universal Sky Tours
UST® is a meetings and events management company based in Westchester County, New York. We work with some of the biggest names in industry. And most of our clients have been partnering with us not just for years-but for decades. The reason is simple: the unparalleled service and support they receive from UST®.
The company needs a logo that represents worldwide travel, yet still gives a sense of the history of decades of service.
- Be creative
- The old logo was a black and white globe next to the letter UST, to give an idea of what we USED to use
- Since we may relocate, if we could emphasize the UST and not the NYC, yeah, that would be great (and I'm sorry to everyone who heard that in the Bill Lumberg's voice from Office Space)
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Hugh Jackman left Russell Crowe battered and bruised on the set of "Les Miserables" after smashing a block of wood on his back.
The "X-Men" hunk and the "Gladiator" actor co-star in director Tom Hooper's new movie musical version of Victor Hugo's classic French novel.
They teamed up to shoot several fight scenes for the film, but Jackman admits he was so determined to make the brawl realistic that he accidentally clubbed his co-star with a lump of wood.
He tells U.K. TV show "This Morning," "I was doing scenes with 'Gladiator' – with Russell Crowe. I did get a little over-zealous in one scene where we were doing a little bit of a fight scene and I accidentally hit him with a four-by-two, and I was like, 'Did I hit you there mate?', and he was like, 'No, I'm alright, I'm fine'. At the end of the day he takes his costume off and he had this big line right down his back."


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Recent Gas Drilling News
PITTSBURGH - A much-publicized plan by two Pennsylvania health companies to study possible impacts from gas drilling is only in the preliminary stages as the groups continue to look for major funding. Meanwhile, a group that has been examining similar questions is starting to focus on air quality, as precise numbers of people who've had health complaints linked to drilling remain elusive.
Geisinger Health Systems of Danville and Guthrie Health of Sayre are in the planning stages of examining how people might be affected by gas drilling activity. Geisinger spokeswoman Marcy Marshall said the company has received $100,000 from a local charitable organization and is seeking other grants. The initial funding will pay for the planning stage and some pilot studies, she said.
Guthrie spokeswoman Maggie Barnes said the company hasn't received any funding or started research. Guthrie will seek future grants and do research in collaboration with Geisinger.
Both health systems serve many patients who live in areas that have seen a recent boom in Marcellus Shale gas drilling. The gas-rich formation thousands of feet underground has generated jobs and billions of dollars in revenue for companies and individual leaseholders. Many federal and state regulators say hydraulic fracturing is safe when done properly, and that thousands of wells have been drilled with few complaints of pollution. But environmental groups and some doctors assert regulations still aren't tough enough and that the practice can pollute groundwater and air.
Raina Rippel of the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project said their next big push will be on air quality. "We have plans in the works to look at personal monitors people could wear" to detect harmful levels of natural gas, she said. Ms. Rippel said there've been "dozens" of complaints in the community they serve, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, and some patterns are emerging. But the nonprofit group hasn't conclusively linked the complaints to nearby drilling.
Until a few months ago, Pennsylvania public health officials had expected to get a share of the revenue being generated by the state's new Marcellus Shale law, which is projected to provide about $180 million to state and local governments in the first year.
But representatives from Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's office and the state Senate cut the health appropriation to zero during final negotiations, so now the state Department of Health is left with no funding to examine whether drilling impacts health. A Congressional committee in June also turned down an Obama administration request to fund $4.25 million in research on how drilling may affect water quality.


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The monthly rate of house price growth across England and Wales has halved since April as widespread talk of a possible bubble has injected more caution into home buyers' behaviour, property analyst Hometrack has reported.
Prices rose by 0.3 per cent month-on-month in June, edging down from a 0.5 per cent monthly increase in May and a 0.6 per cent uplift in April, and Hometrack said it expected the rate of growth to continue to slow.
There was no new growth in buyers registering with agents in June and at 96.6%, the typical proportion of the asking price being achieved fell for the first time in four months, indicating that estate agents were finding it harder to sustain the pace of price growth.
But with the supply of homes on the market still fairly tight, the average length of time a property is taking to sell is continuing to fall, from six-and-a-half weeks in May typically to just under six weeks in June.
Prices rose month-on-month by 0.5 per cent in London, by 0.4 per cent in the South East and Yorkshire and Humberside, by 0.3 per cent in the North West, by 0.2 per cent in Wales, the South West and the West Midlands, by 0.1 per cent in East Anglia and they were unchanged in the East Midlands and the North East.
The Bank of England announced plans for further curbs to rein in riskier mortgage lending yesterday, saying that loans of 4.5 times a borrower's income or higher should account for no more than 15% of new mortgages issued by lenders.
The Bank also said that lenders should also apply a new "stress test" ensuring that borrowers can keep up their mortgage repayments in the event of a rise of up to 3 per cent in interest rates over the first five years of the loan.
Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) showed that nationally, 9 per cent of new home loans were for 4.5 times income or more, while this figure was 19 per cent in London.
The Bank's moves have been described by experts as an insurance policy to prevent another potential period of boom and bust in the future.
According to recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, property values across the UK have typically jumped by almost 10% over the last year to reach a new all-time high of £260,000.
In London, where competition among buyers has been particularly intense, prices have leapt by 19 per cent over the last 12 months.
But in recent weeks there have also been some signs of a slowdown in activity, which has been put down in part to stricter industry-wide mortgage lending rules which recently came into force and to growing caution among home buyers in the face of the strong price hikes.
Richard Donnell, director of research at Hometrack, said: "The tight supply of housing means that changes in demand can feed quickly into prices.
"As demand starts to cool so the rate of monthly house price growth has halved over the last three months.
"The proportion of the asking price being achieved has been steadily rising for the last 18 months but has now peaked as agents find it harder to sustain price rises.
"We expect the rate of house price growth to slow further in the coming months driven by a combination of factors.
"The primary factor is changing buyer sentiment in the face of an intense debate about a possible housing bubble and widespread calls for Government intervention in the market to cool price increases.
"Talk of interest rate rises in the near future has compounded the impact on sentiment and buyers expectations over the market outlook.
"The net result is that buyers are becoming more cautious."


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Editorial: Don't forget that other farmers are battling drought across the state
We so often talk about the divide between the city and the bush but have you ever thought about the imaginary wall that sometimes exists between farming operations across the state?
I grew up on a cattle property on the east coast where we are fortunate enough to have an average annual rainfall well over 30 inches.
I was back there over the Christmas period when there was four consecutive afternoons of solid storm rain, one day alone 100mm fell. Waking up to the green grass and cattle in optimum condition, I was living in somewhat of a bubble thinking that everywhere was probably the same. But I was quickly reminded that wasn't the case when I returned to Roma and then when I arrived in Cunnamulla a few weeks later.
It's Saturday morning and the Burrumbuttock Hay Runners have arrived in the small town. I've just met Troy Hendy, a truck driver from Victoria who is attending his fourth run. He's got half a load of round bales donated from his home state and some other square bales added from the stock pile. He is a father of three and a typical truckie, hard working, friendly and tough to crack but what he has seen on the hay runs was enough to make anybody shed a tear.
TROY: "In the transport industry we sort of get tied up in the trucks so seven days a week and you get tied up in your own little world...and when you go and do a hay run I put it down, it's like a fishing trip but in the transport and farming industry. Because I hate fishing I don't do any other sport or have any other hobbies beside trucks so when you get away and you do this and it's unreal. Even though you are going pretty hard it's good that you are helping somebody, catching up with people."
I've never been on a hay run before but the moment Troy starts telling me about the stories of people who have stuck with him, particularly on a trip to Ilfracombe, you can't help but feel goosebumps.
TROY: "I'm a tough bloke and it just sort of brings you back to reality that's why I love doing these hay runs.
TROY: "There was another old bloke standing there and I said how are you going mate and he said 'oh yeah alright doing it a little bit tough...we have been struggling a bit'. He said it's good to see … some food. I said go over and help yourself. He said we have had to cut back on a little bit. He said I've had Weet-bix for the last 12 months."
We are on our way to Alroy Station, just outside of Eulo, west of Cunnamulla where Mac and Mary Haig are battling another year of drought. I say another because it's got to the point now where they don't remember an exact start date.
MARY: "The big drought started in 2000 and we have a little bit of retrieve between 2000 and now but its just been an ongoing battle probably 15 of the 17 years have been not that good."
Alroy is a 65,000 acre property currently running 3000 sheep and 130 composite bred cows which is 50 per cent of its normal stocking rate. They are feeding 2.5 tonnes of lick to their cattle each week, harvesting mulga and preparing to hand feed weaners. Last year they received just 40mm of rain. They say it's a love for the land that keeps them strong, knowing nothing different than the south west district.
MAC: "Mary and me both, the stock are the thing we look at and how they are doing and whatever and when they're down we are down. The worst the stock get the worse we get.
After going for a drive to a paddock of first calf heifers and feeding them some hay, we arrive back at the sheep yards ahead of our departure. The truck drivers are feeling empowered, a Sydney city slicker has been educated and a girl from a place where rain is sometimes over appreciated is going back to tell their story.
Sometimes even those living in the good parts of the bush, where the seasons are going right, tend to forget that there is still a battle raging somewhere else.
MARY: "It is quite emotional because you don't think those people are out there but they are."
LUCY: "What would you say to the hay runners?"
MARY: "A big thank you. Probably hopefully that one day we could repay them."


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Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats begins screening films for potted plants Thursday in a specially built "cineplex" in New York City. Specifically, the flora will be seeing travel documentaries showing off glorious European skies.
Will the green cinematic scheme backfire when the plants are too entertained to foresee their possible extinction?
"Our destruction of the environment is bad news for plants," the brain-teasing Keats, who also pens Wired's Jargon Watch feature, said in an e-mail interview with Wired.com "I think it's only fair that shrubs and trees know what's happening, that they realize that the cataclysm they're experiencing locally is truly global in scope."
Keats has created similarly cerebral concoctions before, including antimatter currency, a religious temple dedicated to science and a story that takes 1,000 years to read.
His new plan is to start spreading the eco-news in an installation called Strange Skies at the AC Institute, a nonprofit arts institution in New York. He built a specialized cinema for potted plants (and any humans who want to bring their own leafy friends). Running through March 13, Strange Skies will give beleaguered plants a chance to escape from New York for a bit, and live a dream life unencumbered by their pots and roots.
"These documentaries expose them to parts of the planet they could never experience for themselves, allowing them to travel vicariously by showing them a selection of foreign skies," Keats said. "To our untutored eyes, these horizons may look pretty, but plants are photosynthetically attuned to subtle variations in the spectrum, including those caused by atmospheric pollutants. Make no mistake: These documentaries are incendiary, and may be infuriating to many vegetables."
But Keats is not a cinematic agitator, or even a vegetative socialist. He just wants to compel natural innovation by any means necessary.
"Botanical scare-mongering is not my intent," he said. "Plants are major players in the carbon cycle that we've so catastrophically disrupted over the past couple hundred years. Seeing Strange Skies may inspire them to evolve new methods of carbon sequestration. Or they may simply find a way to lay dormant until the human species goes extinct."
Natural outgrowth of porno for plants
This is not Keats' first foray into film for plants. In fact, his early cinematic efforts on that count were similar to those working in film for humans.
"Like most aspiring filmmakers, I started out in pornography," he said. "Several years ago, I shot some porno for plants — titillating stuff showing bees pollinating flowers — and screened it for audiences of rhododendrons and zinnias. And I'd like to think it was a success with those audiences. But pornography is pretty repetitive, if not downright boring, and so I started thinking about other subjects that might appeal to botanical audiences. Travel films were an obvious choice."
While he's showing off Strange Skies in Chelsea until March, his master plan is to migrate the experience to the internet. That way, humans worldwide can provide their faithful houseplants a means of cinematic escape. And Keats is asking for Wired.com's help with that noble cause.
"I want my documentaries to reach all plants everywhere, from indoor ferns to giant sequoias," Keats said. "While opening more theaters might help to facilitate that, I'm no James Cameron. In truth, the only feasible mechanism for worldwide distribution is the web. So I'm releasing Strange Skies on the Underwire, and encouraging people to show it to their houseplants and in their gardens. It's easy to do: Just turn off the lights, or wait for night if the plants are outside, and then move your PC or cellphone close enough to your botanical audience to illuminate the foliage with the glow of the screen. Then hit Play and your plants will experience the skies of Europe vicariously.
"I'm also encouraging people to make their own botanical travel documentaries and to post them on YouTube," he added.
Will Keats' plan work? Plants and humans have entirely different ways of perceiving and processing such information. Modifications to the light spectrum are a must, which is why Keats has reoriented the viewing technology and experience for maximum plant impact.
"Showing Strange Skies to larger audiences takes special equipment," he explained. "Since plants don't have eyes with which to focus images at a distance, the projector needs to be aimed at them, shining the film directly onto their leaves. What plants experience is an overall modulation in the spectrum of light above them. To simulate that experience in a theater, I suspend a translucent scrim between the digital projector and the audience, diffusing the imagery. I want to be careful to provide the plants with a photosynthetically appropriate experience, not to anthropomorphize them. It's bad enough that they have to share the planet with us, without the added insult of being treated like humans."
Sub-botanical cinema
Given that pernicious insult, wouldn't it make more sense for Strange Skies to incorporate some vegetative revenge cinema? Wouldn't films like, say, Little Shop of Horrors or even James Cameron's galvanizing eco-conscious epic Avatar mix in nicely with beatific footage of European skies?
Nope, says Keats.
"I'm sure that at some level Lassie is stimulating for dogs and The Lion King may stir curiosity in some cats, but those movies were not made with a canine or feline audience in mind, let alone for their exclusive viewing," he said. "Strange Skies is specifically shot, edited and projected for plants. Visiting the theater in Chelsea, a human is likely to feel left out. And I think that's a good thing. In fact, if Strange Skies has a secondary significance, it's that sense of alienation: As a species, we've made ourselves the center of attention, and we categorize all other organisms as subhuman. Strange Skies gives humans the chance to sit in a room and feel sub-botanical."
Keats has plans to follow up Strange Skies with a second travel documentary, filmed this time in the United States. Given that he lives in San Francisco, the next one "features a lot of fog," he said. The hope is to bring the sequel to Europe in 2011, and pursue festivals in Italy and beyond.
Keats has no plans, however, to move beyond cinema to climate engineering in an effort to bring plants the skies they want in real life.
"I'm not smart enough to attempt geoengineering," Keats said. "Humans aren't smart enough. Trees may make fine geoengineers. My hope is that Strange Skies will gently nudge them in that direction."
See Also:
- Jonathon Keats Derails Econopocalypse With Antimatter Currency
- Jargon Watch: Digital Ants, Deleb, Spaser, Obamu
- Story That Takes 1,000 Years to Read Is Antidote to Media Whirlwind
- Artist Builds Temple of Science
- Engineering God in a Petri Dish
- Jonathon Keats to Choreograph San Francisco's Last Remaining Bees


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How many of the 1000+ Beekeepers on the FORUM are Hams??
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How many of the 1000+ Beekeepers on the FORUM are Hams??
Ed KA9CTT
Always meant to get into Ham radio, but never found the time and the money to do it. I build a code oscilator 37 years ago (and alot of other electronics) and started to learn Morse code, but never got good enough at it.
KD4MSI Jason in Clarksville, TN
I haven`t been active enough to keep up with the stuff at Dayton ( never have been )and one of the guys that I used to talk to is WA4JEW in Clarksville
Like everything else, ham radio has changed and not all the change is good. I was active until about 1990, at which point I moved to a place where I could not be active in ham radio or in beekeeping.
Soon I will be moving back to the country, where I'll be able to resume both activities. Both of them have changed a lot in 15 years. While I am looking forward to being able to resume both, I am afraid that I will have a lot of change to get used to.
I'm getting started in Ham radio and was wondering if the people who use it can give me some tips and tricks on operation of hams. once I get my license I would like to talk to some of you guys about bees and what not and would need to know what band to use and stuff.
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Business, General Business Projects in China by Arti Krishna
My trip to Shanghai was full of wonderful and amazing experiences and my inhibitions quickly dissipated.
On arriving at Pudong airport, I was anxious that I might not recognise the Projects Abroad staff (or vice versa) or that they may have thought I had missed my flight or wasn't coming, due to the fact that it took me 45 minutes to get through immigration. I needn't have worried, as I later found out, because the reliability of Projects Abroad is astounding and I was told that they would have waited as long as it took for me to come through unless they had heard that I wasn't going to make it.
I was fortunate enough to be located in a pleasant, air-conditioned flat very close to the Projects Abroad office, the metro station and a comprehensive supermarket. I was shown the local restaurant (which served a range of delicious Chinese dishes), given a tour of the supermarket and taught how to use the metro card and get to work. Any questions I had or problems I encountered were dealt with efficiently and during the six weeks I spent in Shanghai the relationship between some Projects Abroad staff members and myself became more of a friendship than a working relationship.
This warmth and familiarity between people was also evident in my work placement.Working with Sunnybund Consulting was fascinating and gave me an insight into the cultural differences between the East and the West in more than one way.
I witnessed the day-to-day workings of a PR company and their methods of dealing with problems - quite different to the ones I am used to. Internal communication in the company was somewhat problematic at times, but I quickly learned to double check things had been understood and made sure I passed on the relevant information to the appropriate people. When things went wrong, I noticed the Chinese people sort them out and carry on, rather than agonising over whose fault it was. Moreover, they are forgiving and patient. You could always ask about anything, no matter how trivial, without getting the evil eye for wasting someone's time. My colleagues were both open-minded and perceptive, accepting new ideas and explaining their practices.
In addition to my Chinese friends, I made the acquaintance of a number of other volunteers from all sorts of backgrounds, some of whom joined me in Beijing after my placement had ended and all of whom helped to make my summer one of the most enjoyable times I have ever had.
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When Death by Audio opened in March 2007 on an otherwise deserted block of South 2nd Street, the Williamsburg music scene was a different beast. (So was the neighborhood.) Condos have risen, Williamsburg now rivals the Lower East Side as a music destination, and Death by Audio is neighbor to high end sushi, Italian and tapas restaurants (and a movie theater), but the space — an outgrowth of the guitar effects pedal company run by A Place to Bury Strangers Oliver Ackermann — remains a vital all-ages venue for indie, punk and metal. With Death by Audio's 5th Anniversary Party this Saturday (featuring Grooms, Neckbeard Telecaster, Tim Harrington and more), we talked to DBA duo Matt Conboy and Edan Wilber about the changes in the neighborhood over the last five years, some of the venue's highlights, and the impossibility of keeping the bathrooms clean.
Please explain what you do at Death by Audio
Matt Conboy: Um, I help make things work at Death By Audio.
Edan Wilber: I'm more of the day-to-day… I do most all the booking and run all the shows to a certain extent. The tedium.
When I heard it was the fifth anniversary, I thought it had been longer. There were shows there before it was called Death by Audio, right?
MC: Part of our warehouse is a recording studio and the effects pedals workshop. When that was getting built out there were random parties to help finance their construction. That was 2006, 2005?
EW: That's when there was still roof access right?
I seem to remember going there during CMJ 2005, some show that was supposed to be a roof party. Dirty on Purpose and Vaz?
MC: I think Vietnam also played? I wasn't at that show. I knew some of the guys but I didnít actually go over there till 2006.
At what point were you involved?
MC: In 2007 with three other people, I leased half the warehouse space and that's when we started doing shows, to help pay for building materials.
Do you remember who played that first show?
MC: Totally. It was March 31. There were seven bands. Growing and Thrones.
EW: Child Abuse, Vaz. And Mick Barr, maybe one other? We did front room, back room, before anything was really set up. Raw space.
MC: We didnít know what we were doing, but I already knew Todd P. It kind of happened accidentally. The show was originally supposed to be at The Woodser but they didn't want to do it for some reason…
EW: A good reason. It was a huge fucking show. I worked the door, actually. It was soon after I'd become friends with Todd and they needed somebody. So, I was there, I just not in any administrative capacity.
MC: Nobody was. Though as we started, through the first year and a half or so, I had another partner, this guy Jason Amos, who now lives in LA I think. He was instrumental in helping running everything, getting it off the ground.


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Lori, I LOVE your sense of style and display! ...Do I see the mannequins you've been working on? Absolutely SPLENDID!
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Lori, you have more talent in one finger, than I do in my whole body!! You have a fresh, unique & whimsical style & I love it all! I hope to make it to your store one day. I live in Texas so it would take some planning! Wishing you & yours a wonderful Holiday Season!
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Career: Signed a training camp contract with the Washington Mystics ... helped guide Duke to two ACC Tournament Championships, three ACC regular season titles and three trips to the NCAA Elite Eight over her four years ... part of 120 career wins ... one of only two Duke players to earn All-ACC Academic Team honors four straight years ... just the fifth Blue Devil in school history to be named Capital One Academic All-America .. one of only seven Blue Devils to score over 1,300 points and pull down over 800 rebounds ... became one of only 31 players in Blue Devil history to reach 1,000 points as a junior ... one of only four players in Duke history to hit over 50.0 percent of her field goals, 40.0 percent from downtown and over 75.0 percent from the charity stripe (Ali Day, Jenni Kraft, Laura Kurz, Alana Beard) in a season ... just the eighth Duke player to hit over 50.0 percent from the field in each of her first three years (Alana Beard, Chante Black, Payton Black, Ali Day, Tyish Hall, Monika Kost, Chris Moreland and Rochelle Parent) ... started 109 of 136 games ... featured a career field goal percentage of 50.0 ... an All-ACC second team honoree as a junior and All-ACC third team selection as a sophomore ... took 10 charges in four years ... collected 17 career double-doubles.
Duke Career Record Book: Totaled 826 rebounds to rank sixth all-time on Duke's charts ... scored 1,367 points to rank 16th ... hit 579 field goals to rank 10th ... her 556 defensive rebounds listed sixth all-time.
Duke Single Season Record Book: Pulled down 273 rebounds as a junior to rank tied for sixth on the Duke charts ... notched 13 games with 10 or more rebounds, which ranks tied for fifth on the single-season list ... hit 47.4 percent from downtown to rank tied for third on the single-season charts ... her 52.2 field goal percentage ranked as the seventh-best by a Duke freshman in school history, while also leading the team ... pulled down 184 defensive rebounds as a junior to rank 10th.
Duke Single Game Record Book: Totaled a school-record 15 defensive rebounds on Nov. 14, 2013 against USC Upstate ... her 20 rebounds versus USC Upstate was tied third most in school history.
As a Senior (2013-14): Named All-ACC Tournament second team ... preseason Naismith National Player of the Year candidate ... Capital One Academic All-America Third Team ... one of 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award ... All-ACC Academic Team ... started all 31 games she played ... missed four games with a knee injury ... averaged 11.2 points, a tied for team-best 7.6 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.3 steals ... notched six double-doubles ... pulled down a team-best 20 rebounds against USC Upstate, which was the tied for third-most in school history ... collected a season-high 22 points to go along with eight rebounds and four steals against Wake Forest ... pulled down 10 or more rebounds seven different times ... posted 15 rebounds at Georgia Tech ... in the ACC stats, ranked tied 30th in scoring, tied ninth in rebounding and sixth in defensive rebounds (5.5).
As a Junior (2012-13): All-ACC second team selection ... All-ACC Tournament first team ... All-ACC Academic Team ... Capital One Academic All-District III honoree ... started all 36 contests ... averaged 12.2 points, 7.6 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.1 steals ... totaled 10 double-doubles and 13 games with 10 or more rebounds ... led team in rebounding with a 7.6 per game average and 273 total, which ranked tied for sixth on Duke's single-season list ... ranked 34th nationally in field goal percentage (50.7) ... in the ACC stats, ranked 20th in scoring, ninth in rebounding and 10th in field goal percentage (50.7) ... in ACC games only, ranked tied for 26th in scoring (11.8), eighth in rebounding (8.1) and tied for 12th in field goal percentage (48.1) ... teamed with Elizabeth Williams to pull down a combined 14.9 rebounds a game, which was the highest per game average since the 1995-96 campaign ... hit a career-best 27 three-pointers and drained 47.4 percent from downtown ... her 47.4 percent from downtown ranked tied for second on Duke's single-season list ... tied a career high with 25 points at Virginia Tech, while pulling down 10 rebounds ... drained a career-high four treys against the Hokies ... opened the season with 21 points versus Presbyterian ... took three charges.
As a Sophomore (2011-12): All-ACC Third Team ... averaged 10.8 points, 5.6 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.3 steals ... started all 33 contests ... hit 51.2 percent from the field ... hit 18 treys and drained 43.9 percent from downtown ... posted a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds against Wake Forest ... drained 10-of-12 field goals against eighth-ranked Maryland, while scoring 21 points ... scored a career-high 25 points on 12-of-16 field goals at Vanderbilt in the NCAA Tournament ... totaled 19 games with 10 or more points ... All-ACC Academic Team selection ... pulled down at least two rebounds in every game ... grabbed a career-high four steals against Virginia and UNC Wilmington ... hit 13 out of her last 23 three-point field goal attempts to conclude the season.
As a Freshman (2010-11): Selected to the All-ACC Academic Team ... saw the court in all 36 games, while making nine starts ... started against DePaul and Connecticut in the NCAA Tournament Regionals ... brought down 3.6 rebounds per game including a career-high 13 in the win over Southern California ... shot 8-of-11 and scored a career-high 17 points against Western Kentucky ... hit 52.2 percent of her field goals and 73.5 of her free throws ... her 52.2 field goal percentage led the Duke team ... scored double-figures a total of 10 times ... averaged 10.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.0 assists in the ACC Tournament ... took five charges on the season ... dished a career-high four assists at James Madison ... pulled down four or more rebounds in 17 games ... scored 15 points and had four rebounds as she hit 6-of-7 field goals at 21st-ranked Florida State ... had 14 points and four rebounds in the ACC Championship game against 19th-ranked North Carolina ... became the eighth freshman in school history to produce 10+ points in her first two career NCAA Tournament games.
Rankings: No. 9 (Blue Star Report), No. 18 (ASGR), No. 19 (ESPN HoopGurlz), No. 23 (Collegiate Girls Basketball Report).
2010 USA U18 Women's National Team: Invited to try out for the squad from June 8-11 ... one of 16 finalists.
High School/AAU: A McDonald's All-America selection in 2010 … 2010 New Jersey Gatorade Player of the Year … 2010 Parade Magazine Second Team All-America … recorded seven points, three rebounds and two assists in the 2010 McDonald's All-America High School game … two-time New Jersey State Prep and Mid-Atlantic Prep League Player of the Year in 2009 and 2010 ... four-time First Team New Jersey All-State ... four-time Mid-Atlantic Prep League First Team All-League ... totaled 1,521 career points and 1,116 rebounds ... as a senior, averaged 19.8 points, 8.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.5 steals … shot 59.0 percent from three-point range, 84.2 percent from the free throw line and 54.0 percent from the field … led her team to a 25-2 record, its 14th straight Mid-Atlantic Prep A championship and 12th consecutive New Jersey State Prep Championship … helped Peddie win the ESPN Rise National High School Invitational her senior year, while being named tournament MVP … led Peddie to a top 25 ranking by USA Today … averaged 17.8 points, 11. 6 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.1 blocks as a junior ... totaled a career-high 34 points on 17-of-20 field goals against Lawrenceville in just over half a game ... led her squad to a 24-2 record and No. 43 ranking by ESPN Rise ... second team Sporting News All-America in 2010 and Honorable Mention selection in 2008 and 2009 ... attended the Nike National Skills Academy in 2009 ... a 2009 Boo Williams Invitational All-Tournament team selection ... Girls MVP of the 26th Eastern States Invitational ... two-time Myrtle Beach Holiday Invitational All-Tournament team in 2009 and 2010 ... as a sophomore, averaged 12.1 points, 10.6 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.8 steals ... led Peddie to a 22-4 record ... First Team All-League for the N.J. Mid-Atlantic Prep League ... Newark Star Ledger All-State, All-Mid Atlantic Prep League and Trenton Times All-Area First Team in 2007 … for her freshman year, averaged 10.0 points, 11. 8 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.5 steals ... team posted a 17-10 overall record ... named New Jersey Prep Rookie of the Year in 2006-07 ... Newcomer of the Year for the N.J. Mid-Atlantic Prep League ... played for the Philadelphia Belles AAU Nike Sponsored team from 2007-09.
Personal: Full name is Haley McCloskey Peters ... born September 17, 1992 in Summit, N.J. ... daughter of Kurt Peters and Sharon McCloskey ... has two brothers, Casey (24) and Ryan (22) ... her brother, Casey, was a member of the Duke basketball team and graduated in 2011 … her brother, Ryan, is a senior on the Emory basketball squad ... totaled a 4.2 grade-point average in high school ... earned a perfect score on the ACT college entrance exam and was valedictorian of her class … 2010 Presidential Scholar candidate ... selected to the Dean's List at Duke in her first five semesters ... majored in political science along with a minor in English ... a three-time ACC Honor Roll selection.


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A video of U.S. teens — produced by an Emmy-winning team — reacting to Canadian teen Amanda Todd's heart-wrenching story on YouTube has reignited the bullying debate.
"That's really f*cked up," said 16-year-old Adam while watching the first few minutes of Todd's video that chronicles years of online and physical bullying.
"I would try to help if I had a chance to," said 16-year-old DJ.
Last month, Todd's suicide shone an international spotlight on bullying. On Sunday, hundreds gathered in her hometown of Port Coquitlam, B.C. to celebrate the teen, just days before what would have been her 16th birthday.
The video was produced by Los Angeles-based production team, The Fine Brothers. Benny and Rafi Fine are behind YouTube's successful "Teens React" series and decided to interview 11 teens about their reactions to Todd's video for their 100th episode.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Mike Rosario scored 13 points, Patric Young added a double-double and No. 7 Florida overwhelmed Savannah State 58-40 Tuesday night.
Young finished with 13 points, 11 rebounds and a career-high six blocks. It was his second double-double in four games, Erik Murphy chipped in 10 points for the Gators (4-0), who played the final 13-plus minutes without leading scorer Kenny Boynton.
Boynton sprained his left ankle when the landed on an opponent's foot while driving to the basket. He went to the locker room, returned to the bench a few minutes later and then left for good with 7:47 remaining. The Gators next play Friday against UCF.
Rashad Hassan and Cedric Smith led Savannah State with 11 points apiece. Arnold Louis added nine points and 11 boards for the Tigers (3-3).
Savannah State nearly upset the Knights two days earlier. The Tigers overcame an 18-point deficit in the second half and held a two-point lead in the final 2 minutes before fading.
They weren't even close to competitive against Florida.
The Gators scored 15 of the first 17 points despite missing 14 of their first 18 shots. Young and Will Yeguete had the only baskets. The rest of the team started 0 for 11.
The Tigers, meanwhile, were even worse. They missed 12 of their first 13 shots and were down 20 points (24-4) with 3:36 remaining in the first half.
Savannah State made a small run, cutting the lead to 14 (28-14), but the Gators pulled away from there.
The only drama came when Boynton fell to the floor in pain. He presumably went back to the locker room to start getting treatment.
He was hardly missed in what was an expected rout, since the Gators have size, speed and talent advantages at every position.
With the game in hand, coach Billy Donovan put his four freshmen on the floor for the final few minutes.
Florida shot a season-low 35.4 percent and had 13 turnovers. The Gators also missed 10 of 28 free throws. But the huge lead and winning with such ease overshadowed the problems.


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Republicans gave $760K to Akin campaign despite disavowal
WASHINGTON — After vowing not to spend any money on behalf of Todd Akin's U.S. Senate bid, national Republicans pumped $760,000 into the Show-Me State just a few days before voters went to the polls.
New campaign finance filings show that the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent $360,000 to the Missouri Republican Party's federal campaign committee on Nov. 1. And the NRSC — which is charged with electing GOP candidates to the Senate — sent another $400,000 on Nov. 2.
The state party reported paying almost exactly that amount — $756,000 — to Strategic Media Placement, an Ohio firm that Akin had used to buy his TV ad time, on Oct. 30 and Nov. 1. The state party's FEC report shows the funds were for "W. Todd Akin."
That cash infusion came despite a complete disavowal of Akin by top party leaders —including Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, and NRSC Chairman John Cornyn, of Texas.
"We have no plans" to devote any money to the Missouri race, Cornyn said in a September interview. "I just think that this is not a winnable race," he added.
Akin earned the ire of party leaders after he said that women who are victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant because their bodies have a way to prevent that from happening. He apologized for the comment but never recovered, losing the nationally watched race to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
At the very end of that contest, the Missouri Republican Party launched a major TV ad blitz on the teetering candidate's behalf. At the time, officials at the state party declined to say where they got the money to fund the nearly $700,000 blitz, and the NRSC similarly declined comment.
But the new filings show that the NRSC gave the state party enough to cover the tab. It's not clear if officials in Washington said how that money should be spent.
Democrats seized on the NRSC funding as evidence of GOP hypocrisy.
"It is not only wrong that the NRSC would provide funds to support a dangerous extremist like Todd Akin, it was underhanded and dishonest that they would purposely mislead the public about their actions," said Matt Canter, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
An NRSC spokesman did not immediately respond to an e-mail and voicemail requesting comment. And a spokesman for the Missouri GOP also did not respond to a voicemail on Thursday.


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