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- "Courage makes heroes, but trust builds friendship."
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"Bounty Hunters" is the seventeenth episode of Season Two of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. It aired on March 27, 2010 in the UK and April 2, 2010 in the US.[1]
Official descriptionEdit
Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano form an uneasy partnership with four deadly Bounty hunters to help protect a local farmer from Hondo Ohnaka and his band of pirates.
Plot summaryEdit
A Jedi shuttle carrying Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano emerges from hyperspace to investigate the disappearance of a medical station orbiting over the fungi-world of Felucia. They immediately encounter an orbital Vulture droid base. The vulture droids attack the shuttle and force it to crash-land on Felucia. The Jedi eject from the ship once it enters the atmosphere and once the survival pods land, they look for civilization. They then find a nysillin spice farm village. It appears deserted after they started searching in houses. They then find a ship in the barn of the farm. Anakin and Ahsoka finds Felucian farmers and their families in one of their houses hiding in the cellars. Anakin and Ahsoka are then surrounded by four heavily armed bounty hunters named Sugi, Embo, Rumi Paramita, and Seripas. Obi-Wan then joins in, but then the village elder, Casiss, persuades the bounty hunters and the Jedi to stand down and listen to his village's plea for help. Casiss tells them that they paid the bounty hunters for protection against pirates who raid their village, demanding it as tribute but he also said that with the Jedi now there, the bounty hunters can fight the pirates off. Obi-wan then said that he would like nothing better than to help the farmers, but their first priority was to find a ship and report the destruction of the medical base. Obi Wan then explained that they would attract Grievous's fleet which would be much worse than pirates. Later the pirates arrived demanding their portion of the nysillin. Anakin and Obi-Wan are then surprised to see Hondo Ohnaka.
Hondo then acts friendly with the Jedi. When Hondo tries to buy off the bounty hunters, they refuse, stating they don't break deals. Obi Wan says that he would pay the pirates to take them to the Republic outpost, but he refuses, stating that he does not want Republic Credits. Hondo tells the farmers to hurry up before the crop dies. Obi Wan then put a plan together, but Dilani said they did not have enough men. Anakin then stated that the villagers would have to fight too. Then everyone started getting ready; putting up defenses, harvesting, and training. Meanwhile Dilani was still complaining on how the farmers weren't soldiers and don't even have weapons. Anakin then showed them that their farming tools can be used as weapons. Ahsoka then teaches the farmers to use slingshots against the pirates. Seripas, while cutting down a giant fungus, was nearly crushed to death by it. Ahsoka came just in time to save him. Seripas then revealed that he is actually small and that he wore a suit to make him more intimidating. Ahsoka reassured him. Soon a pirate scout spies on the farmers while they were training. Sugi spots him and orders Embo to take care of it. He shoots the pirate's speeder, causing it to explode. Then he kills him. At this point Hondo decides to attack. The bounty hunters and Jedi manage to hold back the onslaught. Hondo then comes with a tank that kills Rumi and injures Embo. Anakin then attacks Hondo and manages to knock Hondo off a cliff. He begs for mercy as Anakin pulls up. Then he shouts that the effort is no longer profitable, and retreats. With the battle over, Sugi offers the Jedi a ride to a Republic outpost.
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The episode is dedicated to Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, the director, producer, and co-writer of such films as The Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai, to the latter of which this episode is an homage.[2] Like Seven Samurai, this episode features a group of seven heroes who are defending an otherwise defenseless town against a much larger group of invaders. Both the Samurai and the Jedi, knowing they are outnumbered, teach the villagers how to fight and defend their homes.
Like "Senate Murders" and "Cat and Mouse," "Bounty Hunters" was shown in Canada and the UK one week before it aired in the United States.
Ohnaka's line, "Speak softly, and drive a big tank," is a reference to Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "Speak softly, and carry a big stick."[source?]
Notes and referencesEdit
External linksEdit
- The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Bounty Hunters on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Space Pirates versus Bounty Hunters in The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- "Bounty Hunters" Episode Guide - The Clone Wars on StarWars.com
- The Clone Wars Rewatch: Honor Among Jedi and "Bounty Hunters" on StarWars.com


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By Emma McConnaghey
We were almost there. After hours of driving along steep mountain roads and deep ravines our destination was in sight: Callahan Creek. My friend Lizzie and I had been waiting all summer for this trip. For the first time we were going camping together. We had everything planned; we would sleep in our own tent away from my family; we would fish, explore, stalk "prey," and maybe go for a swim.
Setting up camp was simple. My parents and I had been there to scope out the site just a couple weeks before, so we already had everything planned. Tents went up, fires were made, and dinner was cooking. Hotdogs and marshmallows roasted beside each other on separate branches of the same stick. A night well spent.
Our one whole day there began with a hot cup of coffee. Let's face it. You can't start the day without coffee, even while camping. After coffee was fishing. Lizzie and I assembled our poles, picked our hand-made flies, and cast off. No luck. We moved farther downstream, but there were too many rapids for any decent sized fish, so we tried upstream, but now the water was too calm and did not have enough cover.
We returned to our original place, but as we cast once again, a flurry of feathers caught our attention. A young swallow was just learning to fly and had fallen right into the middle of the river. Of course we tossed aside our poles and rushed to its aid. After seizing our newfound friend from the uncaring clutches of the near-freezing water, Lizzie and I ran back to our camp as fast as our gangly teenage legs would carry us. We caught bugs and gathered seeds and breadcrumbs (a motley collection seeing as how at the time we had no idea what a swallow would eat) and filled a medicine cup with water. We sat with the bird and kept it company until its feathers were dry.
Once the bird was acting perky again, we carried it to a spot on the rocky shore near where we had first found it and placed it on a boulder. Shrieks of terror! Lizzie and I both fell back as the bird jumped and flew up between us to a tree branch above our heads and started chirping and squealing for its mother. We assumed that if the bird was rude enough to scare us it obviously must be feeling well enough to be left alone.
I retrieved my fishing pole from where it had fallen and cast off again. No luck whatsoever. Lizzie cast. No fish. I could see them, just a few feet away, and cast again. My fly landed just above two fish between two rocks. Yes! This time for sure. There was no way they could pass this up. And yet they did. Blood rushed to my face and my eyes blazed. That was it. No more nice fishing. I threw aside my pole, (nearly hitting Lizzie in the face in the process,) and dove. Score! I stood, dripping, scratched, and bruised, with a fish in my hands. I proudly carried my prize to the other side of the creek. Just as I was stepping out of the water—oh, horror!—I lost my footing and slipped. The fish went flying. I jumped up the moment I slammed into the ground. There he was, flopping frantically in a shallow pool. I snatched him up again and, pride forgotten, carried him to our camp.
After depositing the fish into my mother's care, I returned to the water, gathered my fishing gear, and promptly caught a second fish my hands. This one I lost, but he was too small anyways. Lizzie and I carried our supplies to our tent and settled down for a dinner of fresh caught fish and more hotdogs under a glorious sunset.
Sometimes I still wonder, "Whatever happened to that swallow?" Did he make it? Did his mother accept him after being handled by humans? I don't know. I never will. All I know is that I didn't let him drown, and I can be proud of that.
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Emma McConnaughey was the 2014 overall winner of the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness High School Scholarship contest. Emma lives in Bonners Ferry, graduated from Forrest M. Bird Charter High School in Sandpoint and likes to play in Lincoln County's Callahan Creek.


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Police Bar Non-Muslims From Temple Mount Despite Court Order
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by Ezra HaLevi
Despite a High Court decision, Jerusalem's Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site, was closed to Jews on the Fast of Tisha B'Av, which mourns the destruction of the Holy Temple.
Despite the fact that the Mount represents the focal point of the fast, only Muslim women and Muslim men over the age of 45 were permitted entry Thursday.
Israel's Supreme Court ruled two days ago that members of the Temple Mount Faithful could ascend the mount on Tisha B'Av during the normal hours during which non-Muslims are usually allowed on the Mount, Sunday-Thursday. The court ruled that the group could not carry placards, dress in a provocative fashion or draw any attention to themselves - and the group's founder, Gershon Solomon, was to be barred from the Mount altogether.
In response, the head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, Sheikh Raed Selah, told Israel Radio that the Supreme Court does not have the authority to rule on the matter, "because Israel does not have sovereignty over [the Temple Mount]." He also issued a call for Muslims to flock to the Al Aqsa Mosque Thursday to confront Jewish worshipers.
Following additional threats by Arab MKs Ibrahim Sarsour and Abbas Zkoor (Ra'am-Ta'al), Police barred not only members of the Temple Mount Faithful group Ð but all non-Muslims. They said the decision was due to a fear of violent clashes between Temple Mount Faithful activists and Muslim protesters.
Police detained one Jewish man who requested to be allowed to visit the Temple Mount Thursday morning, claiming he obstructed the entrance to the Western Wall to worshipers.
Observant Jews have begun visiting the Temple Mount in larger numbers in recent years, but are encouraged to consult with a rabbi knowledgable in the related issues to receive instructions on proper preparations for the visit.
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West Africa's abundant natural resources have been a magnet for foreign investors ever since the Portuguese discovered gold in what's now Mauritania back in the 1400s.
Today, a new set of visitors is hoping to make a mint off the region's natural wealth. But they're looking for treasure above ground, not below it.
Palm oil is what they're after.
Global demand for the red-hued edible oil – a key ingredient in everything from Ben & Jerry's ice cream to Dial soap to biofuels – is expected to double by 2020. Here in West Africa, the war-battered and achingly poor nation of Liberia is leading the charge in luring palm oil investors to its fertile soils.
By any measure, the country has succeeded. In the past three years, four major companies have promised a total of $2.6 billion in palm oil investment, and more could be coming soon.
The biggest pledge has come from Golden VerOleum, a subsidiary of the New-York based private equity fund Verdant Fund LP, which announced an investment of $1.6 billion last year, the single biggest agriculture outlay the country has ever seen.
Malaysia-based palm oil giant Sime Darby is also in on the game, having pledged $800 million for a 63-year concession that grants it access to nearly 550,000 acres of land.
Taken together, Liberia's foreign investors have secured access to more than 1.5 million acres for palm oil production, or about 5.6 percent of the country's total land area.
All of that land acquisition has caused some concern among environmental groups, who fear the companies will knock down species-rich tropical forests to make way for acre upon acre of tidy rows of oil palms. Others worry about the social impact of forcing villagers off of land they have inhabited for generations.
But productive oil palm plantations promise to pump a lot of money into Liberia, and there's no disputing the fact that the country needs the revenue.
Crippled by two grisly civil wars and a long legacy of corruption, Liberia remains one of Africa's poorest countries, despite recent gains.
Under President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, total government revenue jumped from an anemic $80 million in 2006 to $360 million last year. Still, the more recent figure represents about 15 percent of the operating budget of the city of Boston, which has one-sixth the population of Liberia.
And it's not clear that the production of palm oil will necessarily lead to deforestation, as the investors claim that the land they're planning to cultivate has already been cleared of trees. All of the companies active here are already members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an international certification scheme headquartered in Malaysia.
Despite such assurances, the potential downsides of palm oil production are being carefully considered. A working group whose members represent NGOs, the government, and the private sector is working to set up sustainability standards under the RSPO that are specific to Liberia.
The group – which is considering the social impacts of palm oil production as well as the environmental ones – is doing its best to keep pace with the new investments.
"I don't think it's going to be very easy to stop it," says A.H. Barrie, who works for the World Conservation Union in Liberia and is a member of the working group. "But it needs to be looked at very, very carefully."


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Last week, I got my first one-star review of The Slaves Have Names. I read it late in the day, when I was already tired and a little raw, and so when P came in from work, I started to cry.
I showed him the review, and he said, "That guy doesn't know what he's talking about." Perfect response.
Friends sent me kind words telling me to ignore the comment – Facebook hearts and funny videos of writers reading their one-star reviews. A text came through pointing out that the review must be particularly painful because it criticized me as a person rather than focusing on the book.
By the end of the evening, I realized this – I am incredibly supported in this journey.
A bad review is still going to hurt, of course – this book and the people in its pages are precious to me, after all – but almost everyone I know – not to mention almost every review – has been amazingly kind and supportive.
So here's what I'm choosing to focus on in these days when I'm pretty bleary-eyed from marketing this book – people like what I've written. People support me in what I do. I have a crowd of people at my back cheering me on and reaching out tender hands to hold me up if I start to get blown back. I'm a blessed woman.
I cannot thank them enough – this community of supporters – some raucous and loud; some whispering from the back row. But all there for me, for this book. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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24 is 60%. It's not really significant persay, but I'm feeling fancy. Actually I've been reading Amy Poehler's book all night and she inspired me to write something and I wanted to write about this.
24 weeks equals a baby the size of corn on the cob or your standard 12 inch ruler. The baby is a good bit longer than my hand now and that feels substantial. I can hide my baby bump (in black) but some days it really stands out (horizontal stripes and white are suddenly my friends). I no longer feel like I'm walking around with just a big belly, I'm walking around everywhere with my baby.
To be honest, this past week was a weird one. I think I got a rampant influx of hormones because I've been off the charts emotionally. Not just teary but ending up in full on sobs at least once daily. I fell and hurt my knee, Colin seemed short with me, I didn't feel pretty. Break. Down. I curl up in the fetal position and cry hard for 10 minutes. Super weird. On the plus side, I think my boobs got bigger. So.....yup.
The other weird thing has been eating. I don't crave anything in particular, but I always feel up for eating. And, a lot of the time, I'm grabbing things that aren't healthy which doesn't help with the "not feeling pretty" emotional trigger. I'm trying to be more careful but it's difficult. Tonight I had onion rings for dinner (blame Colin! for being a bad, wonderful husband), which promptly made me feel gross and I chased them with this:
Which I then chased with a cookie. Because a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down?
I don't know. What I am trying to say is this eating thing is tricky and these body changes are tricky. On one hand, I hate that this crazy insecurity occasionally springs up during an event where these changes are WHAT IS PHYSIOLOGICALLY SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. On the other hand, I still need to be healthy.
So sometimes things are dandy and other times I'm crying in the mall, because.........?
Just like the rest of life.
As for the rest of life...
We are in our house. We are so thankful. The afternoon light, the counter space, the windows, the cozy living room. It feels so great to hunker down in this place.
Work is busy (starting this past week actually, could be a definite correlation with the additional exhaustion/emotions) but my students make me laugh on the daily and it's just the best. I really do love it. It's never ever boring. It takes creativity. It takes interpreting messages through minimal context. It takes managing many players but really paying attention to those key few so that they are operating in a way that enables them to create the life they want. It's pretty cool.
So there it is. 24 weeks pregnant. 2 weeks since we moved. 3 weeks until Christmas. 4.1 years until I'm 30. Numbers and things.


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The F-It List by Julie Halpern ( web | tweet )
Publication Date: November 12, 2013
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan)
Pages: 256
Target audience: Mature young adult (language, sex)
Keywords: cancer, death of parents, dealing with grief, bucket list
Format read: Borrowed from Alexa @ Alexa Loves Books. (Thanks!)
Summary: A few weeks after her father unexpectedly dies in a car accident, Alex finds out her estranged best friend, Becca, has cancer. She doesn't let the fact that they are not talking stop her from rushing to Becca's side. As her friend preps for chemo, she gives Alex the bucket/f-it list she has been composing since they were kids to accomplish "just in case." Because she'll do anything to make her friend happy, Alex complies and life gets interesting…
I really thought The F-It List was going to be more of a friendship story. When we first meet Alex and Becca, readers find out they were torn apart by a pretty major betrayal. I totally see how something as surprising and heartbreaking as cancer can wipe out petty problems, but still. Alex and Becca have so much to say, never hold back, but that click I was so desperate for them to have in the beginning? It just never happened for me.
While Becca is dealing with chemo, radiation, and the boy next door, Alex is determined to knock off as much of Becca's F-It List as she can. Since the list has been around since they were young, there are some super silly things on there, and then some super racy. (This book is actually a lot racier than I thought it would be. It's super sex positive but at the same time, ah! I was not expecting some of it to be that intense.) Alex is one of those people who puts up a lot walls and says and acts the wrong away a lot of the time. She does it with her mom and brothers, and especially with Leo, the guy she has crushed on forever who is suddenly so on her side.
A lot of Alex's reactions are due to her lack of dealing with her father's death. (She never seemed to grieve over it.) She also didn't like being in control of the bad things happening to everyone around her. I totally got that. She dealt with all these life changes in unhealthy ways –Â sex, watching a ton of horror movies (her passion), or making a ton of jokes. As soon as she felt a little vulnerable, she would bail in any way necessary and I kept wondering when she would see what she was doing, what she was giving up by acting this way.
So it was a little hard to connect with her. Though I did like how mega-horror movie obsessed she was. It's a rare passion to see in a young adult character and it all seemed so true to life. (Loved the Trolls 2 documentary mention and also the convention scene!) Another highlight:Â Alex was a high school student who had a part-time job, who interacted with her mom and brothers and was there for them.
The F-It List had so many contemporary elements that I love to see in these stories, but they didn't gel for me. Maybe it was the lack of balance between Becca and Alex's stories or how I wanted Leo to talk a little bit more? Being overwhelmed by the current pop culture references? Too much happening at once? (Especially for it to wrap up the way it did.) So while the premise does have promise, it was the execution that left me wanting more.


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INDIAN low-cost carrier IndiGo has temporarily suspended sales of its Delhi and Mumbai flights to Singapore even as it prepares to launch a daily Chennai-Singapore service on March 1.
IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh revealed that new flights from Hyderabad and Bengaluru were also possibilities.
"Singapore Airlines, Air India and Jet Airways operate multiple daily flights on these two sectors, which may cause IndiGo to rethink the continuation of these flights and deploy aircraft on the Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hyderabad to Singapore routes instead, where there would be more profit and less competition," opined Rajesh Sethi, managing director, Carnation Travel Services New Delhi.
Meanwhile, travel consultants welcomed the new Chennai-Singapore service.
Padmini Narayanan, managing director of Akshaya India Tours & Travels, said: "(The new flight) will boost both business and leisure travel to Singapore. Chennai has traditionally had good business ties with Singapore, and with investments from Singapore-based firms in Tamil Nadu increasing, the flight will see high demand."
C Nagendra Prasad, chairman of Travelexpress, added that IndiGo had a positive market reputation for on-time flights.
The airline is currently offering introductory roundtrip Chennai-Singapore fares starting from Rs15,998 (US$290).


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The electricity most people use each day at home, at work, or in places like schools and hospitals comes to them through the electric grid. Typically, the grid, which powers most of our homes, workplaces, or large building complexes such as schools and hospitals, connects to cover a wide geographical area, sometimes even multiple states. It delivers power produced at a central point, usually a large power plant facility.
This complex method of distributing power has been the norm for decades. However, upkeep of such a vast network can be costly; a disturbance to the grid by severe weather can leave entire sections without power for long periods. The standard electric grid also presents challenges to implementing sustainable energy systems. Its heavy infrastructure relies on long-established utility companies and their subsidiaries, and they can be reluctant about incorporating renewable energy sources.
In response, an alternative to the traditional large-scale grid design has emerged: the microgrid.
What is a microgrid?
A microgrid is, as the name suggests, much smaller than the traditional grid and it serves a very local area. It can power a small community or locality. In its 2016 Boston Community Energy Study, the Boston Redevelopment Authority defined a microgrid as "an electrical distribution network with underground wires that serves two or more buildings in a local area." Importantly, "Microgrids can enter into 'island mode' and separate from the larger electrical grid when there is a major outage- self supplying with locally generated energy."
New York University used a microgrid during Hurricane Sandy to "island," or provide its own power when the utility grid was out. In Fort Collins, Colorado, a microgrid is helping the community reach its goal of creating all the power it uses. Biogas and solar electricity make up a significant percentage of the power used in Fort Collins.
A community might choose a microgrid because it provides options. It can connect to the grid and use the electricity provided by a local utility company, or it can disconnect and operate autonomously. The benefits of a microgrid, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), are that they can
cut costs,
allow for independence,
provide electricity during power outages, and
offer more environmentally friendly energy sources.
Why is it important?
We discussed energy democracy in a previous post on this blog (read it here). Microgrids are another example of how clean energy and community-owned energy contribute to energy democracy. A community can choose what it needs in a microgrid rather than having to take what a utility offers. By considering needs over profits, a microgrid puts the power in the people's hands.
The recent Boston Community Energy Study explores how microgrids create "resilient" communities. It found that microgrids can provide up to 30 percent cost savings and 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The study also found that a local microgrid can help secure and strengthen a vulnerable community, which makes it energy resilient.
Why we're for it
Microgrids offer a practical way of connecting communities across the U.S. with clean energy. As advocates of energy democracy, we like that microgrids work at the local level to support the transition from traditional fossil fuels to sustainable sources.
With so many voices in the conversation on clean energy and climate change, it can be hard to get your head around just what it all means. The EESI blog puts the sometimes complex issues surrounding sustainability and renewable power into simple, plain language. Take part in the discussion–share your opinion in the comments section.


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Before Sunrise (1995)
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Directed by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Andrea Eckert, Ethan Hawke, Hanno Poschl, Julie Delpy
Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, when Ethan Hawke is talking about his travels while in the lounge car ("I had a friend in Madrid"), he's got his hands clasped in front of him, then the camera cuts to the woman, and his hand is outstretched, holding a salt cellar.
Visible crew/equipment: Towards the end, when they're listening to the harpsichord, Ethan Hawke says that he's going to take her picture. Around then (in the video, at least), a boom mike drops in slightly from the top of the screen.
Factual error: When asked, Julie Delpy says the reason her English is so good is because she spent a summer in LA. Come on. Even after a year, almost no one could manage to speak and pronounce a foreign language that well, let alone in a summer. Her English is very nearly flawless. We know she has spent some time in London before, but if she had stayed there long enough to learn to speak such good English, she would have learned it the way they speak it there, which means she would have a British accent and not an American one. Someone - whether or not she's a native speaker - doesn't change accents after spending a mere three months somewhere.Sereenie
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Centamin Egypt
87¾p +6.9
Questor says HOLD
Questor is a long-term fan of the company's asset, but the Arab Spring disruption in Egypt has sent the shares plunging over the past 12 months.
The main issue is that the company is a single-asset business, owning the Sukari gold mine in the Middle Eastern country. This means it is unlikely that the shares will reach their full potential until there is more stability in the country.
Liberum accepts this. It said: "Whilst sovereign risk fears are likely to dominate the stock until Egypt's election outcome is known, [Centamin's] remote location means it is operating uninterrupted and therefore a relief rally in 2012 could offer the highest upside of all the UK gold names."
Elections are currently under way for the country's People's Assembly parliament, which will be followed by presidential elections. Obviously, there is a great deal of unpredictably, particularly with Egypt still being run by a military council, although it has promised to hand over power to an elected president.
All of this is out of the hands of Centamin and will ensure the shares trade at a discount. This is why the shares are "cheap" and trading on a December 2012 earnings multiple of just 5.4 times.
What the company does have control over, however, are the operational aspects.
Centamin is certainly performing well operationally, as yesterday's production figures showed. Fourth-quarter gold output at Sukari rose 10pc on a year-on-year basis to a record 58,985 ounces. Production was 16pc ahead quarter-on-quarter.
This means that the company met its production guidance last year. In total 203,000 ounces of gold were mined, compared with its guidance of 200,000 to 210,000 ounces. This represented a 35pc year-on-year increase in output.
However, this production target was reduced in August from its previously targeted 250,000 to 290,000 ounces because problems of accessing explosives during the uprising.
The company needs to show in its next update that production is rising to the analysts' expected level of about 250,000 ounces in the current year.
Gold shares have also underperformed of late, despite the price of the metal hitting a series of all-time highs. One reason for the derating of the sector is the proliferation of exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
ETFs have become popular because they do not carry the operational and country risk associated with mining companies – and a lot of gold mining happens in areas such as West Africa and Russia.
The shares are 45pc below the high of 159¾p at which they were tipped before the Arab Spring, but are still 106pc above the original tip price of 42½p on January 5, 2009.
Of the 13 analysts covering the shares and monitored by Bloomberg on price targets, the average is 165.3p.
The shares are a hold because of the difficult backdrop that has emerged, but investors with a long-term view and a speculative view may wish to tuck some away.


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Community Dog Hydrobath Program Underway!/
The East Arnhem Shire Council Animal Welfare Team has started the roll out of the Community Dog Hydrobath Program with Ramingining and Gapuwiyak the first Communities to see the program in action.
Lead by the Shire's Veterinarian Dr Emma Kennedy, the program is a very positive step towards encouraging owner responsibility and promoting the human-animal bond. The hydrobath is using medicated dog shampoo to kill and prevent ticks and fleas, as well as improve skin health of our four legged friends.
The Community Dog Hydrobath Program will soon be introduced to Yirrkala, Galwin'ku, Angurugu, Milingimbi and Milyakburra.


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Panmycin is another great representative of the tetracycline antibiotic group. The medication is used to improve the symptoms of infections in the body, caused by bacteria. The remedy influences the process of the protein production, required for the bacteria growth. As the bacteria get no source for further development, it dies. Panmycin helps to stimulate this process and speed the result. The treatment is administered for conditions, such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, urinary tract infections, ear, eye, skin infections, acne and others.
Use the Treatment for Maximal Benefit
Your doctor may occasionally prescribe the medication for purposes, not listed in the safety guide. Follow the directions and instructions of your healthcare provider in order to increase the safety of Panmycin therapy. The treatment should be taken in the exact dose and for a complete length of the prescribed course. Consume much water during the treatment to keep the kidneys and liver function properly.
Panmycin can be administered with and without food, but preferably at the same time daily. Take the drug on an empty stomach for the best effect. The medication cannot be passed to other patients with similar symptoms.
How to Take Panmycin and Get to Complications
Talk to your healthcare provider before Panmycin intake in order to make sure the therapy is completely safe. Inform a professional about other diseases and health problems you have, including severe illnesses and minor impairments. Do not take Panmycin in case you:
Are allergic to the components of the drug;
Are sensitive to other antibiotics;
Have serious kidney or liver disorders;
Are pregnant or breastfeeding, etc.
Specific dose adjustments may be required for people with serious health impairments.
Panmycin Interactions with Other Remedies: Advantage or Risk?
Additionally, Panmycin should not be combined with various pharmaceuticals that may interact with it activating harmful reactions. It is inevitable to ask a healthcare provider about all the prescription and generic remedies, vitamins, minerals and supplements you use, especially:
Blood thinners;
Penicillin antibiotics;
Bismuth subsalicylate containing drugs;
Medications to lower cholesterol levels, etc.
Panmycin Side Effects
Any Panmycin misuse can lead to infection aggravation and stimulation of new complications. Call your healthcare specialist the moment you have got any abnormalities after the drug use. Pay ultimate attention to:
Decreased urination and other urination problems;
Red skin rash, blistering and peeling;
Vision disorders;
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea;
Jaundice, reduced appetite;
Vaginal discharge and others.
Seek emergency medical help if the symptoms of allergic reactions have occurred, since they may aggravate and cause disabling reactions and harmful impacts on other body organs and functions.


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Formerly a film and TV executive producer, Aurora Winter is the founder of the Grief Coach Academy. She is the author of "From Heartbreak to Happiness," "Encouraging Words" and "Grief Relief in 30 Minutes."
Aurora's husband died suddenly at the age of 33, leaving her widowed with a 4-year-old son. Now she devotes her life to helping others go from heartbreak to happiness more quickly and easily.
Aurora's latest softcover book is available here for free (first 500 copies) http://www.GriefReliefBook.com
For more information, visit: http://GriefCoachAcademy.com or http://www.FromHeartbreaktoHappiness.com


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Nancy Smith, Partner and Co-Founder of Nossaman's Infrastructure Practice Group and Yukiko Kojima, a Partner in the Infrastructure Practice Group, were recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal (LABJ) in its "Most Influential Women Lawyers " supplement. The supplement highlighted 50 of the region's most "stellar " women attorneys who are based in Los Angeles and have worked on high profile matters over the past year.
The LABJ highlighted Ms. Smith's work on the $2 billion Maryland Department of Transportation/Maryland Transit Administration Purple Line Light Rail System, which reached commercial and financial close in 2016 and will increase mobility between the Maryland suburbs and Washington, D.C.; and the approximately $500 million Metro Goldline Foothill Extension Project, which opened its 11.3 mile extension in the San Gabriel Valley in March 2016. The paper noted that Ms. Smith's projects will have a "profound impact on transportation in a number of critical regions, including Los Angeles and Orange County."
Regarding Ms. Kojima, the LABJ noted her work on some of the "largest, most innovative and significant P3 projects in California, the US and Canada" and provided an overview of her recent work on the $1.3 billion UC Merced 2020 Campus Expansion Project—which reached commercial and financial close in 2016-- and the $500 million Denver International Airport Great Hall Project. The article on her work stated that both projects will "fundamentally reshape the cities and regions in which they are located." Ms. Kojima's work on the $2.3 billion I-4 Ultimate Managed Lanes Project in Florida was also mentioned.
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By Will Lethbridge
Regional Folk Musician Mike Charles has released his first EP under the name of Six Sick Sheep. The 3 track EP is part of an ongoing project that Mike's been wanting to write for years.
Mike very kindly took some time out of his busy schedule to speak to Will on Radio Scilly and talk about the EP "The Pilot Gig."
When asked where he came up with name for the group Mike said " I was playing a bit of Folk music with a few friends a few years ago and we wanted a name which would be a bit difficult for somebody who was introducing us to actually to say. We thought it would bring out a smile in the audience when the band was introduced and we kind of kept up with it."
Mike also added "I wanted to put them out under a particular name. I've written, performed and recorded songs under my own name but I wanted a particular name for my Folk material."
The inspiration for the EP and the song "The Pilot Gig" came from a trip to Devon when Mike came across a Gig rowing event in Salcombe at the end of May 2015.
Mike said, "There was Gig rowing event going on and even though I've lived in the South West all my life I had never really heard of Gig rowing. We really enjoyed the event and we could see there was a lot of competition but there was great fun going on as well."
Later on Mike added, "Having seen it I felt I had to go away and look at the history around the subject." That was where the idea for the EP and song came from.
Mike's got further plans for Six Sick Sheep and hopes to make it over to Scilly for the World Pilot Gig Championships at the end of April and beginning of May.
You can find out more about Six Sick Sheep and by logging onto their website www.six-sick-sheep.com where you can find the links to download the EP.
You can listen to the full interview with Mike below.


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Toronto, Ontario – Atlanta Gold Inc. (TSX: ATG) announces that the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Atlanta Gold Corporation ("Atlanta Gold") has reached an agreement in principle with Newmont USA Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation ("Newmont") to purchase certain fixed assets, including two buildings, four 2,200-horsepower electrical generators, two water treatment plants and other equipment. The initial purchase is for US$1 million, with additional plant and equipment as may be agreed to by the parties, to be purchased for up to an additional US$500,000. The aggregate purchase price of US$1,500,000 will be satisfied by the Company issuing 6,000,000 common shares at a price of US$0.25 per share. Following completion of the transaction, Newmont will own approximately 9.75% of the Company's outstanding common shares.
Completion of the purchase of the fixed assets is subject to satisfactory completion of the Company's due diligence review of such assets, completion of final documentation, all required regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.
The Company and Newmont have also agreed in principle that Newmont will purchase and process the gold-silver concentrate to be produced from the Company's Atlanta Gold Project mine currently in development near Atlanta, Idaho on terms to be negotiated.
At the pilot-scale Atlanta mill, ore containing gold and silver will be crushed to a coarse size and then transported from the mine to a concentrator, where it will be finely ground and then treated by successive stages of flotation, resulting in a concentrate containing approximately 2-3 ounces of gold per ton. Gold recovery is expected to be 90%, using conventional milling, gravity separation and flotation techniques to produce the concentrate. The gold-silver concentrate will be delivered by the Company to Newmont's flotation concentrate autoclave plant in Nevada which is within a one-day return trucking distance from Atlanta, Idaho.
The Company anticipates completing an internal pre-feasibility study within the next few weeks. In conjunction with the pre-feasibility study, the Company is developing a business plan which contemplates initial annual production in excess of 40,000 ounces of gold through the use of an 800 ton per day mining and gravity-flotation milling operation. Based on a nominal production rate of 800 tons of ore per day or 275,000 tons of ore per year, average annual production over the 12-year mine life is forecast to be 40,000 ounces of gold contained in 15,000 tons of concentrate. The Company plans to begin mining at Atlanta in the third quarter of 2010 and produce concentrates in the fourth quarter of 2010.
"These transactions with Newmont collectively represent a very important milestone for the Company which will secure a market for our concentrate and provide necessary infrastructure on favourable terms to advance development of the Atlanta Project gold mine, conserve cash, significantly reduce future capital costs and support our continuing financing efforts," said Bill Baird, President and CEO of Atlanta. "We are pleased that Newmont has accepted common shares of the Company as consideration for the purchase of the assets and welcome them as one of our major shareholders. We are confident in our ability to bring the Atlanta gold mine into production in a profitable and environmentally sound manner."
About the Company
Atlanta Gold Inc. (TSX: ATG) holds through its 100% owned subsidiary, Atlanta Gold Corporation, a 100% interest in the Atlanta property which comprises approximately 2,197 acres and is located 65 miles east of Boise, in Elmore County, Idaho. A long history of mining makes Atlanta very suitable for development of new mining projects.
The Company is focused on advancing its core asset, Atlanta, towards mine development and production and on acquiring, exploring and developing other attractive gold projects.
Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. We use words such as "may", "intend", "will", "should", "anticipate", "plan", "expect", "believe", "estimate" and similar terminology to identify forward looking information and statements, including with respect to our intent to complete the offering, the intended use of proceeds therefrom and the stock exchange listing of the Company's common shares. Such are based upon assumptions, estimates, opinions and analysis made by management in light of its experience, current conditions and its expectations of future developments as well as other factors which it believes to be reasonable and relevant. Forward looking information and statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward looking information and statements and accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on those statements. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to vary include, but are not limited to, the Company's limited financial resources and the availability of financing alternatives; the speculative nature of mineral exploration, development and mining (including with respect to size, grade and recoverability of mineral reserves and resources); operational and technical difficulties; risks and hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration, development and mining, including environmental hazards; government action or delays in the receipt of governmental approvals, permits and licenses; changes in resource prices and fluctuations in currency exchange rates; contests to the title of Company property and changes in general economic conditions or conditions in the financial markets; as well as other risks and uncertainties which are more fully described in the Company's annual information form on Form 20-F, annual and quarterly Management's Discussion and Analysis and in other Company filings with securities and regulatory authorities which are available at www.sedar.com.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing lists of risks, uncertainties and other factors are not exhaustive. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking information or statements contained herein or in any other documents filed with securities regulatory authorities, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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Lilly Rain -- the entire shoot
I edited together the clips as I found them as .flv versions from when I converted the originals to flash. If you buy this one and I dig up the originals so .mov clips I'll redo this and send you that as a replacement. But for now this is all we've got, sports fans. The lower-rex quality isn't that bad:
This is all the video we shot that day Lilly Raine came to my apartment studio and did the fetish girl thing. It's 45 minutes total or so, raw and uncut, all edited together chronologically for you. There's several segments. She shakes her ass and does a twerk clip. She shaves her pussy in the shower. She does some smoking fetish. You get the idea. It's a big juicy mix. Some of them are video-interview style with me holding the camera and doing the Q&A and others are tripod-mounted as I am shooting still photos of her. If the purchase price is too high for you poorer budget-sensitive gonzo fetish aficionados this clip is viewable on our members site at www.lesrevue.c4slive.com.
Lilly Raine Sultry Smoking Fetish, Fully Nude
Lilly Raine starts out with her little white cotton panties on in this smoking fetish round two video, but soon strips them off revealing her clean shaven pussy and amazing ass. Lilly Raine smokes a cigarette and strips totally nude, walking casually around the room and then crawling on the carpet on her hands and knees, sticking this gorgeous ass way up in the air and poking her beautiful pussy out there.
Lilly Raine Shakes That Amazing Naked Ass Of Hers
Lilly Raine is such a hot ass babe. By that we mean she's a babe with a hot ass. In this clip she shows us a trick she learned as a cocktail waitress in a strip club. She's totally naked here and does an impromptu pole dance without the pole and adds some ass "twerk". So adorable. You'll love this.
Then she demonstrates her ability to cross her eyes, sort of.
Lastly Lilly Raine prepares for the video shooting of her smoking videos. I guess you could say she's "Pro-Am" because she's clearly done this for someone before us. Haha. But she's still a "real" girrrrrl.
Lilly Raine Shaves Her Pussy For Us
Holy guacamole! Lilly Raine was doing some fetish modeling and the sexy lady came by the Ocean Beach studio to get naked and shave her pussy for the camera. Afterward she does some yoga style moves on the carpet and her pussy looks dripping wet. So hot. Lilly Raine is a fresh and juicy 19 years-old here and is an amazing bomb ass babe! We love her! Wooooo!!!
Smoking Fetish With Lilly Raine
Take a smoking break with the beautiful barefoot Lilly Raine. She's a 19 year-old sexy topless Smoking Fetish Queen in this. One to relax to, enjoy the flavor.
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Supreme Court Amtrak
The new Amtrak passenger line along the Knowledge Corridor will reportedly start to run on Dec. 31.
NORTHAMPTON - It was inconvenient while it lasted, but work on the new Amtrak passenger line in Northampton is done and trains are expected to be running by the new year.
Motorist and patrons of businesses along Damon Road were surprised Saturday when crews closed the road between King and Bridge streets as crews improved the crossing on Damon Road. The work was part of the same project that prompted Pan Am Railways to install a temporary camp to feed workers on the line near North and Market streets.
The crew was replacing the old freight rails with welded rails more suitable for passenger trains along the "Knowledge Corridor," the stretch of track between Springfield and Greenfield that is part of the Amtrak route.
The new line will link Washington, D.C. and Vermont and, for the first time in years, run through Northampton and Greenfield. Previous service was routed through Amherst. Pan Am has promised that the new, welded rails will eliminate the "clickety-clack" sound that trains make and provide a smoother ride.
Pan Am spokeswoman Cynthia Scarano said Monday that the work crew needed to close Damon Road for a brief period to repave the area around the tracks. The road reopened on Sunday. Pan Am has also moved the camp cars.
"The major work is done," Scarano said of the project, which replaced 15 miles of track in three weeks. She added that there are some new signals to install and some clean-up to do.
"The major part is done," she said.
Amtrak hopes to initiate the new line by Dec. 31 and is already selling tickets, Scarano said.


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Discoveries Monument
The Discoveries Monument was first built for the 1940 World Exibition. It was demolished & the same was rebuilt in 1960 for the 500th death anniversary of Henry the Navigator. This majestic monument is erected at the Marina of Belém, where Vasco da Gama embarked after his voyage to India (1847). In 1893, Christopher Colombus also anchored here on his way back home after his discovery of America.
This 171ft monument, shaped like a ship's prow is made of cement and rose colored stone. The statues of 33 navigators are made out of limestone.On the bow of the ship is the Henry the Navigator holding a model of a carrack. He 's followed by King Afonso V, who supported African exploration. Then comes Vasco da Gama who discovered direct sea route to India, Pedro Alvares Cabrel who discovered Brazil & Ferdinand Magellan who circumnavigate the world for the first time. The others took major role in the Age of Discoveries.
Inside the monument there's a museum & an elevator leads to the top to see the panoramic view of Lisbon.


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Art INCONVERSATION
ROBERT BORDO with Seth Cameron
Robert Bordo (b. 1949) is a Montreal-born, New York-based painter. His quasi-abstract paintings were included in MoMA PS1's Greater New York show (October 11, 2015 – March 7, 2016) as well as being the subject of a micro-retrospective at Bortolami Gallery (April 28 – June 18, 2016). Bordo is an Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and Faculty at Bard MFA.
I met Bordo when I was a student at Cooper in the early 2000s. I wasn't making paintings at the time, largely because of the influence of institutional critique and a sense of urgency around political and social content. As it turns out, he was working through a similarly conflicted position. We spoke at the Bortolami space during his show there.
Seth Cameron (Rail): Let's start with the earliest painting in the exhibition, Denim #1 (1996). Could you tell me a little about where your thinking was in the '90s?
Robert Bordo: I was reading Smithson, liking Richard Long and conceptual artists that were working with topography, mapping, thinking about nature, landscape, the outdoors, the trail. It was really interesting for me to think of abstract painting as a trail. A place to walk around, explore, and rediscover the terrain, as well as a historical narrative about painting that I could access through imagery and genre.
A lot of the processes I was using in the early '90s to make my paintings were informed by thoughts of mapping, of walking, of pictorial spaces that referred to the body. And the brush was merely the covering or glazing tool, creating a surface to be imprinted or sanded down. The result was often more towards monochrome painting, working with the "void" as a space, but with an attitude of disturbed humor about modernism.
Denim #1 is a good example, where a blue monochrome is embedded with timberland boot prints, night and darkness in the form of thick swipes of blue paint obliterate the trail—there's a gay cruising narrative for you.
At the time, painting was going through one of its mini deaths, and there wasn't a whole lot of interesting new painting for me to think about. I was looking elsewhere: the art that concerned itself with identity politics and culture compelled me to rethink my own position. I was taken with artists like Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon, who were using the monochrome as a blank slate, an empty cultural space to fill with discourse, bringing in different kinds of issues: political, social, feminist, and gay. And so I was very swept up in that too, but continued to want to find my way as a painter.
I was also not always so serious, and I thought it would be funny to make small paintings about very big ideas, as part of an anti-monumental gesture that had a lot to do with not fitting in with my generation of painters, the generation of neo-Expressionists and East Village artists.
Rail: I have a theory that your paintings are attempting to reconcile two trajectories of the plastic mark in modernism. One points toward a crisis of identity, the other toward a crisis of the sublime. By crisis of identity, I'm thinking of Velazquez celebrating himself in Las Meninas, painting the paint. I'm thinking of what Manet was up to. And I'm thinking of Salvador Dalí. Your "skinny jeans" paintings for me refer directly to his paranoiac critical method, where there is an unstable image, like the rabbit that's also a duck. It's either jeans or a skull.
Bordo: I see the crisis of the sublime through the monochrome, and use the underpainting as a carrier of subject matter, suggesting that content lies below the surface. Since the "Skinny Jeans" paintings have multicolored layers underneath, the performance of the paintings is very much about revealing the surface as incidents of light, brushstroke and touch and (sometimes symbols or graphic images) so there is always a double text of "painting the paint" and revealing the image that states it's also an act, a performance of text and subtext. The drawing/scraping into the "skinny jeans" paintings with a palette knife reveal the vibrant colors underneath and present a comic (unstable) image—along with the ambiguity of a possible lurking figural presence, the psyche of the painting. The jean pockets become simultaneously a lens and a face and a body and a stare. So there's a sexual narrative combined with a 19th-century meditative subject—an old skull, or face peering out? They're hopefully both humorous and dark.
Rail: On the other hand, you have the plastic mark from Modernist landscape, as in Constable and Corot. You have the mark dissembling against the transcendental experience of nature. The mark is letting us know there is mastery, but it's an ironic mastery.
Bordo: It's interesting you bring up Corot and Constable and the Romantic period. I see my handling of the touch, mark making and the activation of the space being about this constant tension between the two dimensional surface, deep space, and the opening up of an expansive subject space—towards a kind of "modest" sublime that started for me when I was a student interested in Poussin and composition—the postcard paintings are concerned with a transliteration of landscape space and compositional layering.
At the same time I was troubled about what was then talked about as "the end game of painting." I was drawn to minimalism, especially to Reinhardt and Newman, but Clyfford Still was an important figure for me too; I imagined in him a kindred spirit, a Northern explorer, a bit of a crank, as an abstract landscape painter and mapmaker.
The paintings that I love and admire the most for their handling of touch and plasticity that we've been talking about are by Corot. And there are others, earlier painters, the French painters that went to Rome—Henri de Valenciennes and an English a painter named William Jones—who made paintings that anticipate the modern, combining plasticity of surface, abstraction, and the view. And "the view," for example, is often the Palatine Hills of Rome, which were part of a set of conventions, Neo-Classical motifs that this international group of plein-air painters were invested in as a vehicle to the sublime. I imagined the plains of that genre of romantic landscape painting resembling the planes of an abstracted landscape imagery that I was working on in tentative abstractions. I was looking for a way to construct a series of paint moves that could open the picture space into a vista and while continuing to maintain its flat compression, which is Cézanne. Incidentally, before I came to the "postcard" paintings I was making abstract paintings in landscape color palettes, but they were made by applying paint with spatula swipes and scraping into informal grids about touch and color.
Rail: How did you come to the postcard paintings?
Bordo: I was taken by an installation of Kabakov in a show, Dislocations curated by Rob Storr at the Museum of Modern Art (October 20, 1991 – January 7, 1992). The Kabakov installation (and this is how I remember it, it may have been very different) looked like a narrow room in a nursing home or hospital: there were two single beds, each with a video screen suspended, and on the screens were loops of somewhat blank, generic landscapes. At that time, I was taking care of my mother in a nursing home in Montreal. She had dementia and she kept referring to very simple memories, to place and to landscape, like a swing, a sky, a dress on a clothesline. And then after she died, I found the collection of postcards that she had sent to us, her sons at home when she was traveling abroad. So the shoeboxes of postcards became an archive for me to work with, bringing together the desire to make painterly paintings again, but this time about landscape and memory.
Rail: They look like they were a lot of fun to paint.
Bordo: Oh yeah, these were fantastically fun paintings because they're like puzzles. But it's actually quite simple: it was always the search for the horizon. So I would work them like an abstract painting, constantly readjusting the possibility of a horizon, or a space that could be read through horizontality, and so it just allowed for so many different possible images of sky and land, repeating and echoing pictorial spaces and places to roam. Also, I really got in to using specific brushes again, fancy sable brushes and fan brushes, so it was a combination of working with "la belle peinture" and process abstraction simultaneously. During this period I had begun to spend time during the summers in upstate NY, working in garages of summer rentals—so I was often painting in "plein-air" ha-ha! And so in a sense, in the period of the late '90s and early 2000s during the culture wars and "the death of painting," I, perversely, made romantic paintings. I fled into my studio and made these paintings about memory, space, touch, and loss. And they weren't seen very clearly then. They were deemed as sentimental (perhaps they are!) and that was difficult for me to handle, but I kept making more of them. Now, looking back, it feels like such a singular decision, but I don't know if it was necessarily so brave. I was reading Siebald then and his writings were a big influence on this body of work. I was inspired to follow my observations and to find ways to both entertain myself and to create a space to think about landscape and abstraction.
Anyway, I'm rambling a little, but these paintings came from choosing to engage in art that at the time at least within contemporary culture, gay culture, seemed forbidden, conservative and wrongheaded.
Rail: How so?
Bordo: There was a culture then, almost a requirement, that one needed to build platforms and contexts (social or political) to support one's thesis, and then material practice would follow. These issues were pressing, because by this time I had begun to teach at Cooper Union. I was negotiating between promoting a rigorous painting model and a new context—conversations with students and colleagues about contemporary art issues and institutional critique. So it was a very complicated time for me as an educator, to figure out how to insist on a conversation about painting rigor in relation to contemporary art. I continued to go the way that I needed to with my own work, both protecting it from the institutional framework and furthering my ideas about painting in school and in the studio—it was a tough, amazing time.
Rail: That concern that your paintings didn't fit the conditions of the time, does that recur?
Bordo: It's a recurring feeling. But I think about it less and less. I became keenly aware of it because of my teaching at Cooper and Bard MFA: the constant debate about painting's relevance and efficacy in relation to image production, etc. I'm grateful for the argument and exposure; it's part of my life. I hear from younger artists that they like my work and think it's relevant, but who knows?
Rail: You started teaching full-time just before Denim #1. Do you see the development of your approach to pedagogy mirrored in the studio practice?
Bordo: I like thinking on my feet, and finding ways to be a fluid critical sounding board comes from years of teaching and wanting to offer an open conversation around painting, while still having very strong opinions about what the education of a painter should be. I see my intellectualism as coming from practice more than from constructing positions. I don't really see my pedagogy as being directed through ideology, but more as constantly being an observer of the culture, thinking about history and, of course, being reactive and quizzical. So being around Cooper students has dovetailed with the kind of thinker and artist that I am, and so the work is always in a kind of transitory state—mind and body moving through the cultural landscape feeling kind of like a hobo. What is interesting for me is that this show at Bortolami exposes the transitory nature of my painting practice. There's walking, looking, there's thinking (so many of my more abstract mark- making paintings are about thinking), there's lust, desire, mortality, there's all of these different verbs that refer to the experience of being in the world and painting.
Rail: The horizon line in Weekend (2010), to me, is really funny. Because without it you have a very traditionally sophisticated idea, creating a sense of horizon without a signifying line, and in this painting you get away with doing both.
Bordo: Well, the line is a line in the sand of this painting. So descriptively the line is provisionally stating where the horizon line took place or could take place again, so it reveals the under painting. Without the line it would be a "sophisticated " abstract painting, but with that line the layers underneath are revealed. So it's a painting with a history, which gives it a funny circumspect attitude about how it came to be. It's about timing—leaving a lip of paint, thickening the brushstrokes on a surface, this interface of two colors. That's the language I was working with in the more minimal (landscape) paintings where the plastic mark is spatial and, for me, it's when and how the painting takes place. I like the quality of narrative—which goes back to the instability of the images, the way they slip between image and abstraction.
Rail: Your connection to Corot seems to be very much about mastery: a kind of mastery of the mistake. So often in his landscapes there is this moment, this last moment, when it appears he's just spattered some white across the surface. It looks like it could be an accident. But it's also lilies and light.
With the works in this show specifically, you're highlighting almost singular moves in each painting, a small number of moves that are very different from each other. There's evidence of mastery through practice. You don't arrive at any of the moves in these paintings unless you've tried them out a number of different times.
Bordo: I started using squeegees and printings tools and different kinds of scrapers in the early '90s as we've discussed. The paintings of that time were exploring process and imagery that were in response to Minimalism and identity politics, so the thick paint was acting to reveal and conceal the imprints of the boot prints or arrows, and those subjects are very different than why I've come back to that technique now. With the "glasses" paintings in the Greater New York show, they presented me a new opportunity to use thick paint squeegeed across the surface again. And the reason was I had the idea to represent the figural as thick grey paint, as kind of flesh, and then contain it within the framework of glasses and speech bubbles and rearview mirrors. So the material part of my imagination is always in need of a trigger, a signifier, a poetic, or a joke. I can't just make paintings simply using the technical vocabulary that I've found over time because doing so alienates me and eludes me. The material and formal are connected to content, so they require some kind of story structure, some voice, a metaphor, something topical in the culture that I'm reacting to. It's a transitory position where the techniques that I've developed over years come back and say, "Hey! You can do this again!" And it's so great when that happens, and if there is mastery that comes from that collision and excitement I'm so glad for it. But mastery is the byproduct, not the goal.
The technical aspects, for me, really come from the subject. Perhaps it's an affinity I have with certain artists—European painters mostly—who are interested in history, and who work with photographs and images. Merlin James's pivots through photography archives, materiality, motif, and elaborations on the two dimensional support. I've been interested in Luc Tuymans's use of the Xerox machine as a painting tool not merely to make materialist formalism but to determine historical trace, commentary and touch. So it is in the interface of materials with process that creates the actual practice for me. I love the tension between the pure painting part of working and the internal logic and content that develops in the making of space—so "mastery by mistake" is a great way to describe how I think it happens.


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That said, I've always loved the pinstripe suit and fedora. Maybe in today's times this look is more associated with pimps, but man do I think men back in the day looked classy rockin it.
That was the inspiration behind these nails. Simple yet sophisticated.
I couldn't do these nails without one of my fedoras making its way into a picture.


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Logan Darnell of the Rochester Red Wings, a Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, put the finishing touches on a no-hitter against the Durham Bulls Monday night. Darnell only pitched the last six innings of the game, though, and the man who originally started the game isn't even a member of the Red Wings anymore.
On July 24, Trevor May took the mound for the Red Wings and pitched three no-hit innings against the Bulls. But a rain storm rolled in after the third inning, and the game, which was being played in Durham, had to be suspended. The two teams didn't pick the action back up until Monda night, this time in Rochester, but May couldn't get back on the mound because he had been called up to the big leagues. Enter Darnell, who finished off a no-hitter that had begun 18 days earlier, in a different stadium, and with a different pitcher on the mound.
After the game, Darnell says he texted May to tell him the good news. From the Democrat and Chronicle:
"After all," Darnell said, "he was part of this, too. It's kind of sad that he's not here."
May was thrilled.
"Boom! That's awesome!" he texted back from Houston.
Even though May is now with the Twins, getting partial credit for this no-hitter was probably the highlight of his week. He has walked nine(!) guys and surrendered six runs in just four-and-a-third innings in two appearances with the big club.
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We knew we didn't want anything completely made of wood when deciding on bar stools for the kitchen island. We have dark wood floors, a dark wood island base, a large wooden built in next to the island and a wood kitchen table and chairs. Do you see a theme here? We needed a different texture to layer the space a little better.
We have a large overhang on one side of the island where two bar stools fit perfectly. After doing a little poking around, we found two possibilities, both at World Market. Affordable and stylish, just what we were looking for.
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In the end, we decided to go with the one on the right simply because it is adjusts up and down. Loving the industrial feel of them. With a swift turn of the seat, you can accommodate everyone in the family including a 6'4" hubby and two little munchkins!
More pictures of the new house to come. Still unpacking and organizing – I wish I had ten of me right now. I want everything done immediately and my husband keeps reminding me that is NOT going to happen! Who wants to come help? :)


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A vibrant city centre will make Palmerston North even more attractive for work and play, provide more opportunities for locals and visitors to connect with the city and the people who live there, and bring significant benefits for the local economy.
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Square East stage one
Stage one works will be along The Square side only. This is planned so construction will avoid the busy Christmas shopping period. In mid-2019, work will begin on the other side of the road, in front of the businesses.
Proposed stage one improvements
- new granite footpaths and kerbs
- new tree pits and generous underplanting
- informal crossing locations
- resurfacing of parking and traffic lane
- future-proofing utility services
The parking bays will be flexible spaces – as well as parking, they can be used for pop-up markets, artworks, additional seating, and added green space.
- November 2018: Stormwater
- January to March 2019: Construction
What will it look like?
Broadway Avenue would be transformed into a social space, with a central shared area outside the Regent Theatre, wider footpaths on the southern side for pedestrians to enjoy the sun, and areas that could be closed off to traffic for markets and events. A pop-up canopy would provide shade in summer and protection from the wind and rain in winter.
The Square would become the permanent home for inter-regional buses, while Main Street East would feature a new local transport hub with a pedestrian friendly bus terminal.
Ideas to enhance the current inter-regional bus terminal in The Square include additional shelter that could incorporate a café and retail space, and an area that could be used as an outreach space by the City Library, Te Manawa, or the Regent Theatre.
Other improvements around The Square would include generous footpaths to allow pedestrians to enjoy the sun or seek shade, more seating areas and social spaces, and an emphasis on public art and performance areas. Rangitikei Street would be transformed into a tree lined boulevard to create a nicer entranceway to the city, and a raised plaza at Coleman Mall would encourage pedestrians to cross over into The Square.
The Council will be working alongside city centre retailers and businesses to ensure they benefit from the Streetscape Plan. They would also like to support landowner and retailer precinct groups to assist with the revitalisation of the city centre.
What's in scope?
The plan allows for a range of streetscape upgrades including carriageways, parking, footpaths, hard and soft landscaping, and the city's urban and inter-regional bus terminals. The plan was developed in line with Council's long-term plan.


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Whether they are working out together in preparation for this season or capturing Olympic gold this summer, Kevin Durant and LeBron James have built a relationship based on respect and admiration. In the upcoming issue of Sports Illustrated where the magazine names Bron Bron their Sportsman of the Year, James took the time to give Durant some very high praise.
"I know there is someone, somewhere, trying to take my spot," James said in the upcoming issue of Sports Illustrated in which the magazine celebrates him as its Sportsman of the Year. "And I know where he is, too. He's in Oklahoma."
Trying to take his spot, huh? Then, LeBron flipped it and went as far as saying Durant was his inspiration.
"He's my inspiration because I see the direction he's headed, and it's the same direction I'm headed. I know his mind-set, and he knows mine. It's a collision course. We're driving one another."
Nothing like a little "rivalry" to bring out the best in both guys.
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What are the assumptions too many are still working with?
How many Americans now have far more knowledge of facts that before 2008 elections they were led to vote counter to, counter to as public opinion has been spread to favor decidings based on fewer facts?
Compassionate conservatism a farce? And even though both General Motors and the oil industry tended to have been more socialist before President Obama "saving"?
So going "green" in our United States of America has now become a champion over Spain in contest of statistics: USA beats Spain in going green agressiveness and has it having cost near three oil or automotive jobs for (to four or five) for each "green car" job. ???
So what are we to believe now about the Republicans? What are they? Who are they?
Are they "evil job killing socialists" acting globally too as well of those the progressive Obama/Clintons and Democrat Congress acting also extra-Constitutional on liberal theory and global socialist reaching? Can we really be sure?
What are Republicans today? Who are Republicans today?
{note: It is vitally important that any reading this also have read previous column and a few before as well.}
Mid-term elections call all for a new deciding, and now of so much better informed especially around realities around Middle East and jobs that Clintons more than Obama have tried to disguise.
Republicans are trying to get to Hell? Are you a believer? Isn't that how the Democrats are trying to get you to judge Republicans as political leaders?
Republicans of the party of Lincoln, at all - still?
Isn't it the socialists that try to destroy God, historically?
{note: I mean it, you really should have read at least the past three columns here and hopefully all 227 columns from my first year of blogging at www.jphogan.org on commentary/blog page now "un-hidden" again for a short time. Are you one of the near 100,000 visits to jphogan.org in its first year?}
So we now face mid-term elections and with a Democrat Party so "out of the closet" of Socialist garb and soul. Now though that we know we have admitted socialists governing as American Democrats how are we to work to decidings now around new and old issues involving Middle East conflicts and policies?
Are these Socialist American Democrats acting extra-Constitutionally to support anew a "RESETING" in Middle East (Muslim World?) to getting Ba'athists back on track towards a creation of a single Socialist Arab State? I am glad I dug out my signed copy of ARAFAT, Terrorist or Peacemaker by notable English journalist Alan Hart, and especially for its history of birth of Ba'athist party towards such Socialist reaching and of explaining the name of such party translates as "renaissance" or "resurrection." But to base decidings this November on just such can not be scholarly since such was mostly written on early 80's intel.
So let's discuss Iraq! Saddam of prosecution, finally, by Bush admin, of the same party as got its start towards the creation of a united Socialist Arab State. Saddam, whom Clintons, the now 'out of the closet' Socialists, were willing to let return to power was a Ba'athist and grew to power and rank in a slightly altered for his and others personal power ambitions and with Saddam rising as an assassin.
So let's discuss Iraq! Saddam? Was he favored by Clintons and Democrats trying to argue against "Operation Iraqi Freedom" or at least to letting the Ba'athists though historically, in Iraq, a minority group governing tyrannically and oppressively, and because he was of a party whose origins were in spreading socialism to all Arabs?
So let's discuss Iran! If Saddam was favored by Clintons and that explains why they nearly let him out completely from United Nations Sanctions and especially those calling for better governance for Iraqi people and greater civil rights, then why though did Clintons yet make a show of sanctions on him for possessing still WMD and leave such unresolved as the inheritance they left President Bush? Did they just love the Ba'athist loyal to the origins of such party and not see away to move such party and its ambitions out from around Saddam Hussein?
So let's discuss Iran! Seems now like Saddam Hussein was a new Stalin, and, Iran of a new Hitler? A scholarly stretch? A useful coloring? Saddam actually looked like Stalin didn't he and maybe with such from effort, right? So Republicans, American Republicans that Democrats have been fighting especially around Middle East policies are what? Republicans are not supporters of a single Socialist Arab State but of a willingness to "stand with" to help "small folk" (as seen by superior socialist party members?) to "regular Arab Munibs" towards helping other people find wisdom worth attempting to copy in our foundation of laws around federalism?
So let's discuss Iran! Shouldn't Republicans be greater friends to Iran even though more a "Hitler" once against a "Stalinist Saddam"? So Iran is largely a nation of Aryans not quite Hitler's Aryans, and likely less "socialist" than Saddam Hussein, right? So should America have let Patton march on Russia after end of WWII?
Republicans are trying to get to Hell? >>> Isn't that how the Democrats are trying to mold your decidings, still? Weren't the Republicans of oil and automotive jobs and such as an industry with decidings "less green" of creating jobs and work for people across the Middle East regardless of their "socialist party" affiliation/opinions?
Stalin tried to kill God to all Soviet subjects and but for Hitler would have finished building on the grounds of that Christ Church he had torn down for his TOWER to be the tallest in the world and so with a figure of Stalin himself on top. (source: Cities Of The Underworld recently viewed hour on USSR subway and tunnels…) (Wasn't aware what a splendid subway system Moscow subjects traverse until such show.)
So do we now know to look to base our political decidings this fall around Democrats as for spreading socialism across the Middle East and pining for days once thinking they would still have more help from Iraqi Ba'athists?
Do we now know to look to base our mid-term decidings around Republicans in more favorable understanding once thwarted by Dems campaignings around 2008 now able to be summed more to Dems being of trying to thwart efforts to defend capitalism as a historically superior system than socialism/communism? Republicans as 'evil capitalists' that though showed compassion in Middle East with willingness to stand by all Iraqi people and majority of Iraqi people to help them create their own federalist republic and without being forced to become a "copy" of America?
So Iran once could be thought to be trying to be the hero that defeated Stalin in Saddam form? Is Iran on board with Dems efforts to still be anti-Republican and of efforts to spread their socialism to Iran too?
What are the assumptions too many are still deciding with?
What now with Dems "green revolution" causing 2-4 oil and auto industry job loss and to have greatly cost Middle Easterners more such jobs and for a long time if India and China were not now of creating enough demand for their resources such that even Republicans can compassionately lobby for more efficient vehicles?
What now that Republicans that kept vehicle standards lower than needed such that more peoples around the world and especially Americans had jobs can conscientiously support "going green"?
Are we not safer now with American Socialist Dems decidings - especially in Middle East?
Or are all those in the Muslim World and/or Arab world of "anti-capitalism" supporting for spreading of socialism even as of origin of Saddam's Ba'athist party to a single Arab Socialist State?
I need some new intel. Anyone? Anyone?
{note: The interesting and even neet thing about my being on strike as long as "Hillary" officially involved, and as per economy and jobs, is that I can be an objective reporter/blogger and even journalist without compromising my strike. I will have to work to figure out who and what "Republicans" are today, now more, though.}
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