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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – On Tuesday, 12 members of the Tennessee State football team were selected to All-Ohio Valley Conference Teams as announced by the league office. Junior defensive end Anthony Bass was also chosen as the league's Defensive Player of the Year.
Kadeem Edwards, Bass, Antonio Harper, Nick Thrasher and Daniel Fitzpatrick made First Team while Ronald Butler, Tim Broughton, A.C. Leonard, Robert Myers, David Van Dyke and Jamin Godfrey were chosen to the Second Team. Butler and De'Ante Saunders were selected to the All-Newcomer Team.
Edwards, a senior left guard, was the only Tiger on the First-Team Offense and fellow offensive-lineman Myers represented the unit on the Second Team. Edwards and Myers played a pivotal role in TSU rushing for 2,096 yards and only allowing 28 sacks. Edwards started 11 games on the left side while Myers has started all 12.
Bass and Harper represent both defensive end spots on the First Team and Bass was selected as the conference's best defensive player after leading the OVC with 10 sacks, which also ranks him tied for seventh, nationally. Harper is fourth on the team with 44 stops and tied for second with 11 tackles for loss.
Thrasher and Fitzpatrick round out the First Team selections and they currently rank first and second on the team tackle list, respectively. Thrasher is the team leader in stops with 94 and 10 of those has been for losses. He also has an uncanny ability to find the football, and has forced and recovered three fumbles on the campaign. Fitzpatrick has accounted for six picks on the year, tying him for the FCS lead. The junior is also second on the team with 63 tackles and has broken up eight passes.
Offensively, the Tigers got three more players on the Second Team in Butler, Broughton and Leonard. Butler has filled in admirably for Michael German this season, completing 130-of-223 passes for 1343 yards, 12 scores and only four picks. Broughton has rushed for 1,117 yards on 212 carries for 4.9 yards per carry. Broughton has five touchdowns and is the fifth TSU back to rush for over 1,000 yards in school history. Leonard is the team leader with 32 catches, has 404 yards and has recorded five touchdowns on the year.
The lone defensive player on the Second Team is Van Dyke who recorded an interception in each of TSU's first four contests. Although the Miami, Fla. native doesn't have once since then, he recorded 52 tackles in the meantime and forced a fumble.
The final player on the Second Team is Godfrey who has made 16-of-26 field goals during 2013 and 38-of-40 point after touchdowns. The senior has 300 career points and is six points away from tying Alfred Reese for first on the school's all-time scoring list.
Butler and Saunders were selected to the All-Newcomer Team and Saunders has returned his two interceptions on the year for a total of 90 yards and scored a touchdown against UT Martin earlier this season on a blocked field goal.
The 12 Tigers on OVC Postseason Teams ties the school record set in 1999 - the last time that TSU made the Playoffs.
2013 All-OVC Football Team
Offensive Player of the Year: Jimmy Garoppolo (QB), Eastern Illinois
Defensive Player of the Year: Anthony Bass (DE), Tennessee State
Freshman of the Year: Devin Borders (WR), Eastern Kentucky
Roy Kidd Coach of the Year: Dino Babers, Eastern Illinois
QB - Jimmy Garoppolo, Eastern Illinois
RB - DaMarcus James, Jacksonville State
RB - Shepard Little, Eastern Illinois
WR - Erik Lora, Eastern Illinois
WR - Walter Powell, Murray State
TE - Jeff LePak, Eastern Illinois
C - Max Holcombe, Jacksonville State
OG - Collin Seibert, Eastern Illinois
OG - Kadeem Edwards, Tennessee State
OT - Dominic Pagliara, Eastern Illinois
OT - Wesley Sherrill, Tennessee Tech
Anthony Bass, Tennessee State
Pat Wertz, Eastern Illinois
Antonio Harper, Tennessee State
DJ Roberts, UT Martin
Nick Thrasher, Tennessee State
Ben Johnson, UT Martin
Tony Bell, UT Martin
Daniel Fitzpatrick Tennessee State
Jourdan Wickliffe, Eastern Illinois
Pierre Warren, Jacksonville State
Nick Beard, Eastern Illinois
Griffin Thomas, Jacksonville State
Chad Zinchini, Tennessee Tech
Walter Powell, Murray State
Max Shortell, Jacksonville State
Ronald Butler, Tennessee State
Tim Broughton, Tennessee State
DJ McNeil, UT Martin
Taylor Duncan, Eastern Illinois
Jeremy Butler, UT Martin
Adam Drake, Eastern Illinois
A.C. Leonard, Tennessee State
Nick Borre, Eastern Illinois
Justin Meredith, Eastern Kentucky
Travon Carter, Eastern Kentucky
Charles Sweeton, UT Martin
Robert Myers, Tennessee State
Dino Fanti, Eastern Illinois
Anthony Brown, Eastern Kentucky
Caleb Lawrence, Jacksonville State
Malcolm Mitchell, Tennessee Tech
Ichiro Vance, Eastern Kentucky
Robert Haynes, Eastern Illinois
Tra'Darius Goff, Tennessee Tech
J'Vontez Blackmon, UT Martin
Brandon Wicks, Murray State
David Van Dyke, Tennessee State
Marty Jones, Tennessee Tech
Jamin Godfrey, Tennessee State
Jordan Berry, Eastern Kentucky
Shepard Little, Eastern Illinois
TE - Jeff LePak, Eastern Illinois
RB/RS - Shepard Little, Eastern Illinois
OL - Jimmy Lowery, Eastern Illinois
WR - Devin Borders, Eastern Kentucky
WR - Josh Barge, Jacksonville State
QB - Max Shortell, Jacksonville State
DE - Chris Landrum, Jacksonville State
QB - Maikhail Miller, Murray State
DT - Austin Black, Southeast Missouri
CB/RS - De'Ante Saunders, Tennessee State
QB - Ronald Butler, Tennessee State
QB - Dylan Favre, UT Martin


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Safety and Service - June 3rd 2013
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 7:15 p.m.
Mayfield Village Conference Room
The Safety and Service Committee met on Monday, June 3, 2013 in the Mayfield Village Conference Room at the Mayfield Village Civic Center. Mrs. Cinco called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m.
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Present: Mrs. Cinco and Mr. Marrie
Also Present: Mr. Wynne, Chief Edelman, Interim Chief Carcioppolo, Mr. Metzung, Mr. Marrelli, Mr. Cappello, Mr. Thomas, Ms. Wolgamuth, and Mrs. Betsa
Community Room - Repair Update
Ms. Wolgamuth reported, everyone should have the Minutes from the Citizen's Advisory Committee meeting. I have to say I think there was really no consensus about everything except that the survey is a good idea and that it should be mailed to everyone. There was a lot of discussion about, should we put numbers to what we expect the costs to be for each of the levels of refurbishing or replacing and I don't think there was a lot of agreement about it.
Mr. Marrie agreed. They thought that would just get people more confused. The one thing that did come out though was that most people felt, keep it in the center of town, not hypothetically by the Library.
Mr. Marrelli asked, who has been talking about it? Have you guys been trying to discuss it?
Mr. Marrie replied, we had a meeting and threw it on the table. As Diane said, they all have their own opinions of what should be done with it. It was kind of split that way. There was no real big consensus on, yes, it has to be new, none of that. The only thing I heard was that it should stay in the center of town. They are strong on that. The other thing too, if it does stay in that building and we refurbish it, they have to do something with the kitchen.
Mr. Marrelli replied, we know that.
Mr. Marrie added, we told them that. Everyone is aware of that. Other than that, there were a couple of people who suggested we dress up the outside if we can do that.
Mr. Marrelli stated, that's the kind of input we are looking for.
Mrs. Cinco stated, they were concerned about the structure.
Mr. Marrie stated, we told them it's an old building and has had a lot of wear, but size-wise, no one argued about it and said it has to be twice that big. No one asked for a Taj Mahal.
Mr. Marrelli stated, that's good to know.
Ms. Wolgamuth stated, if you look at the survey, one of the questions is do you think the facility needs to be upgraded? Mr. Delguyd suggested just removing that question completely because he said, why ask for an answer on that? We know we are upgrading it. I said if a lot of people say no, maybe we just do the repairs and don't do an upgrade.
Mr. Marrie stated, I would leave that question in. Mrs. Cinco agreed. Mr. Marrie stated, if you get 9 out of 10 no's, I would take another look at it.
Ms. Wolgamuth stated, the other thing he suggested, on the question that says, if rebuilt at the same or a new location, I suggest that the new building include and I just left a blank there. He thought maybe putting in suggestions, like I would like to see a deck.
Mr. Marrie stated, there was quite a bit of conversation about adding a room here.
Mr. Marrelli stated, there was some idea about putting an addition on this building off to the side.
Mr. Marrie stated that came up from two or three people. Or, would you just use the existing Council room as the Community Room and build on a new room that would be just exclusively for Council Chambers.
Mr. Marrelli stated, that's an option too
Ms. Wolgamuth stated, that's kind of covered. There is a question that says, I would suggest alternate locations and we have Civic Center site across the street, near the pool, other Village recreational facilities and then other if anyone has any other ideas.
Mr. Marrie stated, one of the most universal things was to keep it in the center of town.
Mr. Marrelli agreed, close to this building probably.
Ms. Wolgamuth stated, I guess the question is is the survey pretty close to done enough that we send it out and see what we get?
Mr. Marrie replied, let it fly. See what happens.
Mr. Marrelli asked, you are asking the question about upgrades. Maybe we should throw a question in there about do you feel we should just make minimal repairs? In other words, should we just fix what we have, or should we upgrade what we have?
Mr. Metzung stated, that's the upgrade question.
Ms. Wolgamuth asked, do they know what that is what I am talking about and just say, do you think the facility needs to be upgraded? And then they say, no, it's fine the way it is.
Mr. Metzung stated, then you would make the repairs. You would have to put the roof on.
Mr. Marrelli added, and the siding.
FIRE DEPARTMENT: Fire Station Mold Issue
Mr. Wynne reported, we have had issues with the employees over there with respiratory problems. We had a company come in in February and do a study on the building. It ends up that the roof was not properly ventilated when the building was constructed. We reported it to our insurance company and looked to see if we had any rights to go back at the company that did the construction. In the meantime, it's a pretty extensive mold issue that's impacting the health of the employees. We took the results of the study and went out and got four quotes. One is for a company to come in and remediate the mold. One is going to wrap the duct work. One is going to install vents in the roof. The fourth one was for the ceiling tiles. John's looked at all the quotes. He has checked out the companies. Some he has worked with before.
Mr. Marrelli replied, they are reasonable.
Mr. Wynne stated because it's a health issue, we want to get moving on it.
Mrs. Cinco stated, you have to get going on that. Mr. Marrie stated, just do it. Mrs. Cinco agreed. Just do what you have to do.
Mr. Wynne stated, that's why it's on Special Meeting tonight to improve the expenditures.
Mrs. Cinco stated, I don't think our Committee has a problem with that, do we Tom?
Mr. Marrie replied, God no.
Mr. Marrelli stated, you can't ignore that.
Parks & Recreation Department: Sports Field Restrooms
In regards to programmatic use, Mr. Thomas stated, I know that between our Fall and Spring programs we have over 20,000 individuals that visit that facility during that season.
Mr. Marrie asked, the soccer field?
Mr. Thomas replied, that is correct. We have two port-a-potties. I strongly recommend we look at putting in flush toilets for our users.
Mrs. Cinco stated, the bid results are in. It came close to the estimate.
Mr. Wynne stated, also figure in about $10,000-15,000 for engineering.
Mr. Marrelli stated, you are looking at about $335,000-340,000 by the time it's all done. But it's going to be there forever.
Mr. Thomas replied, that is correct.
Mr. Marrie stated, I have been speaking about this since day 1 that we need it. I want to see it done.
Mr. Marrelli stated, I agree.
Mr. Marrie stated, let's just do it.
Mrs. Cinco stated, this will move on to Finance. Go for it.
Mrs. Cinco asked, any other comments or questions? There were none.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 7:25 p.m. The next Safety and Service meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 1, 2013 at 7:15 p.m. in the Main Conference Room of the Mayfield Village Civic Center.
Respectfully submitted,
Mary E. Betsa, Clerk of Council

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Via ABC... the opposition a no brainer. No one knows what the 100 committees chartered by the bill will do. The implementing regulations yet to be written. No one has a clue how this bill will pan out. More expensive care and less of it the almost certain outcome though. Bet on that...
With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats' health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration has "a lot of reeducation to do" heading into the midterms.
While some surveys – namely the Kaiser Family Foundation monthly tracking poll – have suggested an uptick in support for the reforms, most other surveys continue to show a steady level of opposition to the new law that remains higher than the favorable opinions of it.
"Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn't," Sebelius told ABC News Radio in an interview Monday.
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Netflix has named the winner of its three-year, $1 million contest to improve its movie recommendation system by at least 10 percent.
It was a close call, but the winner is BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos, a seven-member group of researchers, scientists and engineers from around the world. The group was awarded the Netflix Prize Monday in New York, narrowly beating out a rival group called the Ensemble.
For those more excited by algorithms than touchdowns, following the Netflix Prize has been like Super Bowl. And the winning method could have implications well beyond Netflix recommendations; any business that uses people's preferences to sell products could learn from the exercise.
Tens of thousands of people have pored over the problem since the contest began in October 2006.
Netflix is now planning a second contest -- a sequel, if you will. While the first contest required contestants to improve predictions for subscribers who regularly provide ratings on movies they've watched, the second will involve those who don't rate movies often or at all.


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This Article examines the history of judge-made law in the federal courts through the lens of the early-nineteenth-century federal courts' equity powers. In a series of equity cases, and in the Federal Equity Rules promulgated by the Court in 1822 and 1842, the Supreme Court vehemently insisted that lower federal courts employ a uniform corpus of nonstate equity principles with respect to procedure, remedies, and - in certain instances - primary rights and liabilities. Careful attention to the historical sources suggests that the uniform equity doctrine was not simply the product of an overreaching, consolidationist Supreme Court, but is best understood in the context of important and surprisingly underappreciated early-nineteenth-century debates concerning judicial reform. During this period, both Congress and the Court were preoccupied with the disuniformity in the administration of the federal judicial system, especially in the farther reaches of the republic. When reform was not forthcoming through legislation, the Supreme Court achieved a modicum of uniformity in the federal courts through the application of a single body of equity principles drawn from federal and English sources. But the Court did not act unilaterally. Congress's repeated acquiescence to, and extension of, the Court's uniform equity doctrine reveals a complex, interbranch dynamic at work. Retelling the story of nonstate, judge-made law in the federal courts through the lens of equity is not intended to demonstrate that such a formulation of federal judicial power was (or is) correct. Rather, by recuperating the history of federal equity power, this Article illuminates the significant metamorphosis of the meaning of Article III's grant of judicial power. This change has been elided in modern accounts of federal judge-made law in an effort to bolster the legitimacy of a modern vision of federal judicial power.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Collins on Judge-Made Federal Equity Law in Antebellum US
Kristin A. Collins, Boston University School of Law, has posted "A Considerable Surgical Operation": Article III, Equity, and Judge-Made Law in the Federal Courts, which appeared in the Duke Law Journal 60 (November 2010). Here is the abstract:
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Phoenix, AZ (Thursday, October 10, 2013) -- Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is today announcing the unsealing of an indictment of Gary Husk and his company Husk Partners, Inc. for Conspiracy to Make Prohibited Political Contributions and seven counts of Prohibited Contributions. Of the seven counts of Prohibited Contributions, six are directed at Gary Husk and Husk Partners, Inc. and one is directed solely at Gary Husk.
In the course of a separate high-profile investigation, prosecutors discovered that over more than four years Gary Husk and his company directed its employees and in some cases, their spouses, to make contributions to various political campaigns with the promise of reimbursement. Once the contributions were made, the employees were reimbursed from Husk Partners, Inc. or directly from Gary Husk, which often coded the reimbursements under the firm's account as an "office expense."
Contributions made by Husk Partners Inc. employees included several state and local campaigns. It is important to note that there is no indication any of the campaigns that received donations knew what was happening.
Gary Husk was served with a summons to appear in Maricopa County Superior Court on Thursday, October 17, 2013.
A copy of the indictment is attached.


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URBES for cities and biodiversity
In Europe around 75% of the population lives in urban areas. In some countries this figure is estimated to grow to 80% by 2020 (European Environment Agency, 2009). With increasing population densities and mounting development pressures, large tracks of land in the immediate surroundings of urban areas are undergoing a process of urbanisation. IUCN believes that investing in ecosystem management and natural infrastructure can play an important role in making our economies and societies more resilient.
Since January 2012, IUCN is a member of the research project URBES (Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) which aims at bridging the knowledge gap on urbanisation processes and the ecosystem services sustaining them.
The continuous increase in the number and size of urban regions, and the ensuing transformation of landscapes, pose great challenges for reducing the loss of biodiversity and for ensuring human welfare. Residents of urban communities depend heavily on rural biodiversity, notably for food, clean air, drinking water, climate regulation and recreation to name a few. They have a vested interest in the protection of biodiversity well beyond urban boundaries.
The project will:
- Address significant scientific knowledge gaps on the role of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services for human well-being;
- Contribute to building capacity of European cities to adapt to climate change and reduce ecological footprints;
- Create innovative ways of integrating monetary and non-monetary valuation techniques in urban landscapes by pioneering the development of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)-approach;
- Develop a professional communication and training program for cities;
- Actively contribute to international policy mechanisms and global partnerships like the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), TEEB, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), as well as to the EU 2020 EU Biodiversity Strategy and the Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment.
The role of IUCN in this project is to influence the local, regional and international policy arenas through an extensive communication and capacity building programme developed together with ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability). This will firstly focus on translating the outcomes of the project in accessible messages which will be disseminated to several audiences in Europe. Secondly, ICLEI and IUCN will present examples of ecosystems services for cities to a variety of stakeholders in Europe and will build capacities in a selected group of local authorities in Europe on the sustainable management of ecosystems services and natural resources.
IUCN considers this project as an excellent partnership for cities and local governments to become better informed on the value of natural capital for sustainable urban life and increasingly contribute to biodiversity conservation and improved management of ecosystems services in Europe.
URBES is a transdisciplinary collaboration between nine European research institutes and partners: Stockholm Resilience Centre, The Humboldt-University, Technical University of Munich, University of Salzburg , Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Mistra Urban Futures, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Helsinki, ICLEI and IUCN. The project will run until 2014.
This project is by BiodivERsA, a network of 21 research-funding agencies across 15 European countries promoting pan-European research that generates new knowledge for the conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity.
For more information, please consult the project website http://cbc.iclei.org/About-URBES or contact: Chantal van Ham, European Programme Officer.
Did you know?
- Approximately 3 percent of Earth's surface is urban, yet cities account for 75 percent of global resource consumption
- Urban infrastructure within the next 40 years will cover an area roughly the size of Mongolia, with obvious impacts on natural habitat and the wildlife that depends on it
- Four out of five European citizens live in urban areas and their quality of life is directly influenced by the state of the urban environment
- The urban population in Europe accounts for 69 % of European energy use and thus most greenhouse gas emissions
- The 2001–2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment—the world's largest assessment of ecosystems—covered almost every ecosystem in the world but barely mentioned urban systems
- In her 741-square-meter suburban garden in Leicestershire, England, Jennifer Owen spent 30 years studying species richness and in the process recorded 1,782 species of animals and 422 species of plants
- A healthy tree offers an estimated cooling capacity comparable to around 10 airco's
- There are approximately 200,000 trees in Amsterdam's open spaces, and the collage of interconnected landscapes provides a home to many wild animals, including 140 species of birds, 34 mammal species, 60 fish species, 6 species of frog and salamanders
- It has been estimated that implementing a forest protection strategy in the water catchment area of New York will be seven times cheaper than building and operating a treatment plant.
Sources: UNEP.org, globalbusinessofbiodiversity.com, Europa.eu, robertmcdonald.info, dailymail.co.uk, bioenergywiki.net, ICLEI.org.


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The BIG lead: Shawn Andrews says he isn't crazy. Brian Westbrook is back practicing. And Michael Vick is ... well Michael Vick -- and that's OK with Kevin Kolb.
Amazingly, on the day of Vick's first practice as an Eagle and Westbrook's return, Andrews managed to steal a little of the spotlight. The tackle, who hasn't practice all of camp because of a sore back, sorta, kinda, in that Shawn Andrews way, went off on the media.
"A lot of you guys with the ink pens have questioned my mental toughness," Andrews said. "A lot of guys with ink pens who never put on a jock strap and never played any football don't really understand."
A google search did not produce a story that supported Andrews' claim -- except for maybe a blogger or two (and they don't count ... hey, wait, I'm blogging).
Andrews went on.
"Yeah, a lot of you guys with the ink pens question my mental toughness," Andrews said. "I know a lot of people are trying to keep their jobs and do good for their paper, so I guess it's OK. It's tough when a guy can't defend himself. People just kind of make me out to be a nut case. It's all right. I'm content with myself and where God wants me to be."
Enough of me. Let's just let Andrews' words speak for themselves:
"I've already made that clear. There is a reason why my brother [Stacy] is here, there is a reason why my college teammate [Jason Peters] who I used to dominate with is here and this year I've been more excited to play football than I have in my life. I'm playing a new position [right tackle] and just knowing I did everything in my power this offseason to get back. People are just being humans – very unforgiving humans – they look at people with depression as craziness. That's OK, I'm all right with Shawn Andrews."
"That's what everybody is making it out to be. I'm really over it and all the outside pressures, I don't feel it because I'm content and I know that I'm doing and have done everything in my power to get back. It's the world we live in."
"I don't want to be all philosophical, but I'm leaning on the Lord right now. It's really funny how people sit back and criticize when they can't even hold one of my shoes – size 17 shoes. It's OK. I'm at peace with myself.
"For the record, Shawn Andrews is not crazy. Shawn Andrews is mentally strong now and Shawn Andrews is helping other people with their depression."
"People hit me up on social sites and they know it's the real me and just when I see people, 'Hey, I'm going through this, what do you think about this?' I have a couple close friends from back in college out in the real world now going through things: 'I'm depressed, can you help me?' Yes, I'll help."
As for his injury, Andrews said he doesn't know exactly when he'll be back, but that when he comes back he's going to "kick some butt."
Meanwhile, there's been a drum beat for the Eagles to bring back Jon Runyan. The former Birds tackle, who had off-season knee surgery, was recently cleared to run and could practice in a week or so. The Eagles kept Runyan's old locker stall up during OTAs in the spring, but his space next to Andrews' stall has been removed now that the team is back from Lehigh.
As for Westbrook, coach Andy Reid said that the running back would jump back into limited individual drills, but will not partake in team functions. Reid intimated that Westbrook, who is recovering from off-season ankle surgery, could play today if warranted, but that the Eagles plan on easing him into a full return. He didn't rule out Westbrook playing in a preseason game, although that is highly unlikely.
"If he could play, that would be great," Reid said.
Westbrook had said that he would talk as soon as he returned to practice, but he declined to speak today. "We'll do something soon," he said. "I'm feeling good."
A few quick notes on Vick, who had his introduction yesterday.
-- Reid said that Vick participated in walk-throughs this morning and did some lifting. The quarterback -- yes, he's a quarterback, Reid said -- will practice as an Eagle in a few moments here.
-- Kolb is still the No. 2 QB -- for now. Reid said Vick's conditioning wasn't so bad considering he hasn't played in over two years. "I think [Vick] would tell you that he needs to lose two pounds," Reid said.
-- The more advanced Wildcat package that the Eagles ran during camp wasn't done in anticipation of Vick's arrival. DeSean Jackson was most often used in that role pre-Vick. But Reid did say Vick could be used in that package (Duh). "I think it's a good wrinkle," he said. Just don't call it the "Wildcat" around Donovan McNabb.
-- Reid didn't think the addition of Vick had caused any distraction on the team. "I felt a little bit of energy [from the players]," he said.
Kolb said that he welcomes Vick aboard. Reid took Kolb aside before the news broke and told him his place as the No. 2 QB wouldn't change. (Let's see how the reps are split.) Reid wouldn't concede that former third stringer A.J. Feeley was the odd man out.
"I trust Andy and know that he's doing the best thing for our team and trust what he's told me in my position," Kolb said. "The biggest thing, personally for me, is to get back out on the field."
Kolb is recovering from an MCL sprain in his knee. Reid said he worked out a little this morning and should be back soon.
Aside from Westbrook, defensive end Victor Abiamiri (pectoral muscle) and defensive tackle Trevor Laws (hamstring) will return to this afternoon's practice after missing all of training camp plus the first preseason game. The following players won't practice, but are progressing, according to Reid: tight end Brent Celek (AC shoulder sprain), defensive end Trent Cole (AC shoulder sprain), guard Todd Herremans (foot stress reaction), tackle Jason Peters (quadriceps sprain) and defensive end Brian Smith (concussion).
Reid said that Celek and Cole are day-to-day. He said that Herremans won't play in Thursday's preseason game at the Colts. And he said that Peters' reaggravating his quad wasn't as bad as they had thought.


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Street artist Jetsonorama tries a new kind of healing in Navajoland
In 1991, a young doctor delivered a baby Navajo girl in his backseat. A man had pounded on his door earlier that evening, his girlfriend in labor and his truck too slow for the 50-mile trip to the Tuba City, Ariz., hospital. The doctor loaded the woman into his own car, thinking they could make it. The baby, whom we'll call Emily, had other ideas.
Sixteen years later, Emily was in treatment for meth abuse. In 2009, the doctor visited the girl in jail, where she was serving time for drunk driving. Her drinking had worsened after her mother's death, she told him. But she looked hopeful: In nine days she'd be out. Then, she promised, she'd stay clean.
The doctor was at a turning point of his own. He told the girl that he had started moonlighting as a street artist under the pseudonym Jetsonorama, which he prefers we use in print. It was a different sort of healing project.
"(Emily's) story is very typical here on the Rez," Jetsonorama says now from his home in Inscription House, in northeastern Arizona, where he's the only permanent physician at the Indian Health Service's clinic. "The recidivism rate is quite high, the teen pregnancy rate is quite high. There's an epidemic of methamphetamine use. In some ways, there's not a lot of hope. I'm trying to present especially positive images of the Navajo on the reservation -- to inject an element of beauty, an element of surprise and an element, hopefully, of pride."
He draws photos from his portfolio, enlarges them in two-by-two-foot sections at a print shop, cuts them out on his kitchen floor, and uses wheatpaste -- a mixture of Bluebird flour (favored by Navajo grandmas), sugar and water -- to attach them, piece by piece, to ruined buildings, roadside jewelry kiosks, market walls, water tanks. Any surface will do, as long as it's big enough for his subjects to stand out against the vast stretch of desert between Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon, where tourists race through at 70 miles per hour. The images are monolithic, visually arresting and biodegradable -- echoes of human life on the landscape, almost as fleeting in the wind and weather as the moments captured in the photos themselves.
A black man originally from Raleigh, N.C., Jetsonorama sports a trim, frosty beard and often a jaunty fedora and sunglasses, looking unassailably hip for his 55 years. He traces his artistic inclinations back to a seventh-grade stint at a progressive, hippie-run Quaker school. Later, during his family practice residency, he dabbled in graffiti and hip-hop.
Jetsonorama settled permanently on the Rez in 1987. There, a neighbor helped him assemble a darkroom, and he began documenting Navajo life. In the early '90s, he took to posting small prints around Flagstaff. That idea evolved into the wheatpasting project after a 2009 sabbatical to Brazil, where he spent time with a community of street artists and dug more deeply into that world -- finding particular inspiration in the pasting work of the renowned street artist JR. The doctor's own handle is a mashup of his initials, the name of a family dog, an email address, and the 1960s-era space-age cartoon.
The response to Jetsonorama's "hits" -- both sanctioned and unsanctioned -- over the last two and a half years has been largely positive. The pieces spark a sort of spontaneous community-building: Passersby stop to investigate, trade stories about the people pictured, share thoughts about the images with others later. Last fall, Jetsonorama decided to push these off-the-cuff conversations to a new level with more provocative pieces, such as an image of a baby underneath a large chunk of coal -- a metaphorical black cloud referencing the tribe's complex relationship with the fuel.
The work can be tricky. Last year, he learned to be more careful after some tribal members read a lurking coyote in one of his pieces as a skinwalker -- a Navajo witch. He tries to be respectful, saving his edgier and more magical-realist proclivities for his urban pieces. "Who am I as an outsider to use images from the culture and give them back to the people?" he observes. "But I think it's important that I'm here. I'm trying to facilitate understanding and growth and exchange."
"He's earned that right, especially in his capacity as a medical doctor," says longtime friend Shonto Begay, a Navajo artist. "What he's done with the people -- it's really special. He's like a latter-day medicine man."
It's fitting that Jetsonorama calls many of his pastings "Love Letters to the Navajo Nation," for they seem to celebrate the grace, strength, and myriad ephemeral beauties that arise even in the most difficult places. Just six hours after Emily's birth back in 1991, Jetsonorama attended a healing ceremony for another patient -- a toddler who had suffered febrile seizures. A healer and his daughter spent all night composing a meticulous, multicolored sand painting, then sang a prayer and placed the child at its center to swirl her hands and feet as she wished. "The painting ... was being erased as (she) began her journey to wholeness," Jetsonorama later recounted on his blog. Wheatpasting is like that, too, the images fading once their purpose is served. "The healing," he wrote, "is in the letting go."


text: Horiken Tattoo Artist Magazine Article Preview for Issue #27 Interview by Nicki Kasper Nicki Kasper: Do you explore other mediums, like paint? If so, how do you approach that? Do you market and sell them? Horiken: Yes, I like to paint very much. I usually paint with acrylics on paper. I like wooden panels as well. I do try to do different things from my tattooing, I may use the same motifs, but I lay paintings out differently. And, I guess I use different shading and coloring techniques; some that may not work in a tattoo. And… yeah, I do sell paintings, I don't really make a huge effort to sell them, but if someone wants one, I do sell them. When I was in art school, I studied art history. I am trying to study this more and I have the thought that maybe I can paint and draw, a bit separate from tattooing and make something new... NK: Tell me about tebori, how is it different from machine work? HK: I learned tebori from studying with Horiyoshi III. Up till then it was all machine. I figured that if I wanted to do traditional tattooing it was an inseparable part of it. It was very difficult at first. Like with hon-bokashi (solid black shading) I think tebori comes out looking much cleaner. It has more depth. I think the look of tebori has a strength to it. And there is a roughness to it. I guess a machine is better for precision and "neat" tattooing but I think tebori has more soul and flavor to it. The pain is different depending on where you get it- some places hurt more by machine, some places hurt more with tebori. I do think color looks better with tebori, like I said, more depth. When I do tebori, I always use sumi for black. Ink just looks different and I guess using sumi just fits in with the tebori tradition. NK: Do you feel a responsibility to upholding the tradition? HK: I do not think I am there yet. I still have much to study. NK: What makes the traditional Japanese tattoo a traditional Japanese tattoo? HK: There are a lot of things, like for example; you can't put too much shadow. This is very difficult to explain. You have to bring out dimension with the lines, much like woodblock prints. If you look at Hokusai, he brings out dimension with the kimono patterns. Also the stories, meanings and seasons are important. You have to take into account the era of the story as well. This is very difficult to convey, but this is something I learned from Horitomo: the meanings and accuracy are important. Also the connection of the motifs… Consistency. And you really have to be careful with the addition of shading, as Horitomo says: you should only shade where it is necessary- not where dimension would dictate and also in most cases you do NOT put shading on faces- this alone makes it non-Japanese. NK: Do you tattoo different motifs based on the personality of the client? HK: I don't think so, not for me. Sometimes for me my ideas are different for men and women as well. Also, I think differently if someone has tattoos already or if they are just beginning to get tattooed. NK: What is the best reference for traditional Japanese tattooing? HK: There are lots of things to look at, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi but also Yamaguchi Shokichiro and Ito Hikozo. I like people from the Meiji Koki era (end of the Meiji era), it's a little modern but it is right when Japanese art was changing with outside influences. People were paying attention to European art so even the skilled Japanese artists weren't recognized. Even Kyosai, he has only become really popular recently. There are still many artists like that who are still unknown. (Horiken's full article can be seen in Tattoo Artist Magazine #27) Horiken can be found at State of Grace Tattoo in San Francisco, CA.


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