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The narrator opens with an elaborate hyperbole of a subtitle for the book, explaining that he is a veteran living in easy circumstances, who witnessed the bombing of Dresden, Germany as a prisoner of war and survived to tell the tale in the manner of the planet of Tralfamadore where the flying saucers come from. He went back to Dresden with a war buddy years later. He ends the first chapter saying that his war novel, his novel of looking back is over, since there is nothing intelligent one can say about a massacre.
He then tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, who is unstuck in time– he uncontrollably gets flung around the scenes of his life. He was a prisoner of war, became an optometrist, and married a rich girl who died of carbon monoxide poisoning. He was the only survivor of a plane crash. He was abducted and kept in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, where he was mated with movie star Montana Wildhack.
With every mention of death in the book, the narrator says, "So it goes," Tralfamadorians believe that time exists all at once and not moment-by-moment like beads on a string. So a person is never dead, because he is still alive in the past. Billy's daughter Barbara is furious at him for trying to tell people his crazy notions.
He wandered behind enemy lines with a fat, sadistic soldier named Roland Weary and two scouts, who ditched them. Weary got so mad at Billy for this that he beat him and when they were captured by German soldiers, he convinced many others that it was Billy's fault when he died. Pre-capture, Billy also traveled to, among other places, his mother's nursing home, where she asks him weakly how she got old, and to the YMCA where his father taught him to swim by throwing him into the deep end. He also goes back to the night of his abduction.
Everyone at the prison camp was shocked to see how weak the Americans were. Billy was delirious, and he flipped out and was hospitalized. Edgar Derby, an older soldier who would be shot for plundering a teapot, stayed with him. Paul Lazzaro, a weak, hateful man, told Billy he had sworn to avenge Roland Weary by shooting him. Billy was not worried; he had seen when he would die. He traveled in time to his second hospitalization during his last year of optometry school. There he met Eliot Rosewater, who introduced him to the science fiction works of Kilgore Trout.
While there, Billy traveled back to Tralfamadore. When he told the crowd at the zoo to fear the power of Earthlings, they thought he was stupid; they knew it would be them, experimenting with a new jet fuel, who would destroy the universe.
Billy and the other soldiers were transferred to Dresden, which was a beautiful city. Billy traveled to the airplane crash, where he mistook the people who rescued him for German soldiers. During surgery, he traveled back to Dresden. In Dresden, he worked at a factory that made malt syrup with vitamins, which everyone illegally spooned. They were kept in slaughterhouse number five. About a month later, the city was bombed, and the prisoners survived in an underground bunker.
At his eighteenth wedding anniversary party, to which he invited Trout after they met in an alley, Billy flipped out; the barbershop quartet reminded him of the Dresden guards.
Years later, in the hospital after the plane crash, Billy met Air Force Historian and war-hawk Bertram Copeland Rumfoord, who told him that the bombing of Dresden was necessary and had to be kept a secret because of all the American "bleeding hearts."
After the crash, Billy escaped to New York, where he snuck onto a radio show to preach his Tralfamadorian wisdom.
In the last chapter, the narrator tells of how he traveled back to Dresden, and how Billy and the other prisoners had been made to dig up corpses from the ruins.
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Dynamic tix: Could JPJ see Ticketmaster's demand-based pricing?
Live Nation Entertainment, the company whose Ticketmaster division drives customers to the tickets at the John Paul Jones Arena (and also the parent company of Crozet-based click-pack-ship division MusicToday), has announced that it intends to bolster revenues with an experiment in dynamic pricing, the strategy long used by airlines to tailor ticket prices to ever-changing demand.
The New York Times has the story of how Live Nation intends to utilize the strategy to regain some of the revenue it believes it loses to scalping firms such as StubHub.com and trim or reverse its losses, which were $228.4 million last year. Investors have seen the share price of the firm fall by one third in the past year.
Despite the bad financial news, the publicly-held company more than doubled its chief executive's pay last year. The firm purchased MusicToday from Charlottesville-area music mogul Coran Capshaw in two chunks: 51 percent in September 2006 and the remaining 49 percent in July 2007, according to company annual reports from those years. Terms of the purchase were never publicly revealed. Live Nation merged with Ticketmaster last year.
The Times notes that the company plans to launch the new pricing policy later this year for concerts and sporting events. In the Charlottesville area, Ticketmaster may drive customers, but the actual ticketing for the John Paul Jones Arena is handled by TicketsToday, part of MusicToday.
"I'm actually not that familiar with it because we're on TicketsToday," says Arena general manager Jason Pedone.
"I'm definitely watching to see if it helps or hurts," says Pedone. "For a fan, it could be interesting."
–story updated at 12:13pm Tuesday, April 26. (Corrects claim that Ticketmaster actively tickets at JPJ and adds quotations from GM)
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Amazing how these CEO's keep raking in the dough, as profits and share prices tumble.
Sounds like another way that they can charge more than the face value for a ticket. I'm sure that they will retain their practice of charging mysterious "processing fees" on top of the ticket price.
Details of the sale of Musictoday were never publicly released? Come on Spence? Did you ever pull the SEC filing? You call yourselves investigative journalists, sounds more like lazy journalism.
CEO pay plans are approved by a Board of Directors. The execs ask what they want and the board either approves or disapproves.
If they approve it is because they want them, not because an exec is asking for a better package. Shareholders are able to vote in/out the board yearly.
Don't blame it on the execs..................
Love Nation exposed everything- just have to look for it- just like anything else.
OK- LIVE Nation- although I am sure they sprea the love...........

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This blog was written in response to the opinion editorial "All that jazz isn't all that great" written by Justin Moyer.
Jazz is (not) boring.
Jazz is (not) overrated.
Jazz is (not) washed up.
Anytime I see these words, without the added parentheses, starting off an opinion editorial, immediately I am reminded that our forefathers/mothers fought for the freedom of speech. It is also my opinion that in there fighting, they would hope the generations that followed them would strive with even more ferver to have responsibility with this right. Alas, I read the words chosen by Mr. Moyers as he begins a diatribe against a genre of music drenched in self expression…and I drop my head in shame.
The first Jazz album I heard came by accident. While rummaging through some records at the home of my Grandparents, I stumbled upon a record that seemed different from the others. It was thicker, visibly older, worn, and on one side simply read, "Gut Bucket Blues" Little did I know, the sounds that I heard would evoke such emotion 70 years after it was first recorded, and leave such an impression on a 12 year old boy.
Since then my love of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Eubie Blake, Jack Teagrden has not only evolved, but aided me in my appreciation of musicians like Wynton Marsalis, Esperanza Spalding, Kris Bowers and Allyn Johnson. Each person represents a snapshot of an era, and through their individual expression, a timeless, ageless story is told that transcends words and in some moments, demands change.
- Jazz allows a story to be told in different forms
As a southerner, I appreciate a good story. Some of the greatest stories I remember hearing were told over the Sunday dinner table. Waiting in anticipation of a punch-line or a climax in a tale I had heard countless times from my Grandparents is still one of my fondest memories. With that said, some of my soberest memories come from hearing the same tales, told by a family friend, my mother, or even when passing on the tale to other family members and friends for the first time. Humans are unique, and even reading stories from a printed text, our voices, inflections, and tones differ adding a different flavor to the text. Thus is Jazz.
How awesome it is to have heard Louis Armstrong's version of "Stardust"! You hear as he takes his trumpet and paints a picture for you with only tones from his instrument. How equally touching is it to hear Mel Torme sing the lyrics of Stardust, in his twilight years, written by Hoagy Carmichael, some 60 years earlier. Jazz gave freedom to artists of all genres to not be afraid to add their "flavor" to a song, not taking away any substance or meaning from the composer/lyricist. If you don't believe me, ask Aretha Franklin about her cover of "Respect" or Nikki Minaj about the work she put into her mixtapes.
2. Improvisation encourages musicians to evolve
I am so thankful that the history of man did not stop with the discovery of fire. With each generation, this concept was built upon. Likewise it is with music. When improvisation is captured, it allows other musicians to take one persons' improvised expression, and to build upon it.
With improvisation, a new voice is given to the musician/composer to share his/her expression.
3. Jazz Continues to Evolve
In the legal definition of "evolve" one finds that it also includes "preserving the good characteristics" and that change can be "random, generationally slow, good, bad or deadly." Evolution takes on different tones, in different times, to different people.
The expression of Jazz at one time was only regulated to speakeasies, gin joints, and back rooms. Then, only in Dance Halls. Festivals captured Jazz for a while, and then it stayed in school auditoriums or during special performances by Jazz originators. Now you find Jazz, again, in small clubs and intimate venues, but this time with the invention of new instruments and tools to, again, express Jazz in a different or an "evolved" manor.
4. Jazz is Radical
There were 8 recorded lynchings, not sure if there were others undocumented, in 1937 when the poem "Strange Fruit" was written. When Billie Holiday recorded this with added music to the poem, the number of lynches had decreased to 3, but this terrible act was now introduced through the expression of Jazz to the world. The honesty of the pain, disappointment and fear Holiday felt towards her country due to its lack of inaction and the continuation of the practice of lynching was, and is, overwhelming. Her 1939 recording of this, in time, became her biggest selling record.
This courage has been adopted by other artists to use Jazz to speak up, out, and against injustice of people throughout the world. "Mushy" is not the first or last word that comes to mind when I, and many others, try to describe Jazz.
5. Jazz is Re-emerging and Local
When I moved to Washington DC in 2008 I was surprised at the classic venues located here in the district that offered Jazz. More venues have now opened their doors to Jazz. The Capitol Jazz Festival now offers "Jazz in the Hood" showcasing the hundreds of local Jazz musicians in the District of Columbia. You will find new festivals starting up every year across the country, and globe, to also showcase the growing number of jazz musicians, that bring with them the influence of their time along with new technology.
Trends have been adopted and thrown away. In the future we will view the fads and technology of today as we now view leisure suits, hoop-skirts, and the "View-Master". Jazz has not and shows no sign of being dead or on life support. To borrow from Mark Twain, Rumors of its demise has been greatly exaggerated!
If you do not believe me, walk into a local restaurant or small venue and ask for their live music schedule. You will be surprised just how "alive" Jazz is, and will continue to be!
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As part of the club's commitment to keep its closest stakeholders involved in every step of the constructionprocess, select season ticket holders were invited to take part in the momentous event. That list included: Virginia Gelczis, Mitch Diamond, Jennifer Echeverri, Nelson Celada Ned and Merryl Zuparko.
"One thing that is great about the Earthquakes is that we are such a community organization and team," Kaval said. "Having fans involved in every part of the construction of the stadium, including today, where a fan actually pulled the lever to have the concrete flow is another really unique part of our club and organization."
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The secret to reaching the century mark
Connie Rehberger spent her 100th birthday last Thursday like many others. Sure, she was planning to go out to dinner that night with family to celebrate her big day, but before that, she had things to do.
She spent part of the day carefully reading over the annual business report for IBM. (She is a stockholder.)
Rehberger is an avid reader. She also balances her checkbook to the penny, with a pencil. Rehberger has never owned a computer. And she doesn't plan to buy one.
"I don't have time to play with it," she said.
Rehberger, however, has a cell phone. But she does not text.
"I'm just lucky I am able to answer the cell phone," she said and grinned.
In addition to attending to her finances, Rehberger also took her 10 laps around Legacy Place on her birthday — a daily routine.
"People have said five laps make a mile. I don't know that for fact," she said.
Rehberger was born in Lebanon on Dec. 18, 1914. She graduated from Lebanon Community High School in 1932 and the University of Illinois in 1939. She said she would have graduated from college earlier, but she had to drop out a couple years to make money.
After graduating from college, Rehberger taught in a one-room school just outside of O'Fallon for four years.
"I was always good at math," she said. "I was pretty good at English, but that wasn't always my top concern. Math came so easy."
Rehberger then moved to Scotia, N.Y., where she took a clerical job with General Electric on July 1, 1941. She worked at G.E. for 39 years before she retired in 1980.
Rehberger was the oldest of five children. She had three brothers and one sister, who were all younger and have since passed away.
Rehberger never married or had any children, which she said may have contributed to her longevity.
"I would have probably had a few more headaches (if I had married)," she said and laughed.
Over the years, Rehberger has traveled extensively, including once to Africa.
She attended the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., where she volunteered as a temporary accountant.
While on vacation about 15 years ago, Rehberger also rode Space Mountain at Disney World. She thought the indoor roller coaster was initially a movie theater.
"I took the ride for what it was worth," she recalled.
Last summer, Rehberger took a helicopter ride with her nephew.
"That will be my first and only helicopter ride," she said. "I wasn't scared. But at my age, you don't have to do some things a second time."
Rehberger moved into Legacy Place in Highland on Jan. 1, 2011. Up until then, she lived on her own in New York. She stopped driving when she was 95.
"When I was in my 90s, I was talking to one of my nieces," Rehberger recalled. "She asked me if I am living to be 100? I told her I am not going to comment on anything. I am going to take it day by day."


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In the distance, you can almost hear the police motorcycles roaring to life. The beloved cop motorcycle show "CHiPs," could be making a return to television. We're just hoping this version doesn't wipe out.
Actor Topher Grace is looking to co-executive produce a possible reboot of the show which ran from 1977 to 1983 for Warner Brothers Television, according to Deadline.com.
Deals have not been finalized. And everyone knows that the motorcycle game is a deadly one. So we're just keeping our fingers-crossed.
Grace would not star in the new show. But, you gotta admit he would be pretty stunning in the part of clean-cut Jonathan "Jon" Baker, famously played by by Larry Wilcox in the original.
For those not overly familiar, "CHiPs" stands for "California Highway Patrol" and features the lives of motorcycle cops keeping the California highways safe.
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Anyone who loves shopping knows that Tokyo is one of the most renowned shopping cities in the world. It should come as no surprise that Japanese people love style and fashion as designers from around the globe know that Tokyo is a hot spot for their label to be featured. It is here that well-established Japanese shops and famous brand names like Gucci, Chanel, Armani, Louis Vuitton, and others stand side by side on the various blocks that make up the center of the Ginza shopping area. Tokyo also serves as a hub of artistic ingenuity as art galleries and purely Japanese modern architecture are visible throughout the entire city.
While the history of this region dates back to the Edo period, recent modernization efforts have made Ginza an even more desirable shopping destination with its high end stores, boutiques, and cafes. Exclusive, sophisticated brands and restaurants featuring delicacies from all over the world can be seen throughout the area. Several fashion labels have commissioned their own personal restaurants in Ginza, with locales such as the Gucci Café and the Armani restaurant attracting visitors looking for a gourmet break from a day of shopping. During the weekends, Ginza employs the use of hokosha tengoku, or closed-off pedestrian streets, so that weekend shoppers have a chance to browse many stores of the renowned shopping region without having to worry about traffic congestion.
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Roppongi has both aspects as an office town and an entertainment center that never sleeps. Since there are numerous embassies in the vicinity, many of the shops, bars and restaurants have international flavors and cater to people from other countries. Roppongi Hills, one of Japan's newest commercial developments, has over 200 shops and restaurants making it a great place to spend the day exploring local Japanese culture.http://www.roppongihills.com/en/guide/floor_guide/
This is one of the busiest towns in Japan, with its train station reportedly handling the largest number of passengers in the world. Department stores, electrical appliance megastores and huge book stores fan out around the station and are constantly filled with customers. In the underground mall, there are dozens of shops where you might find an unexpected bargain. The "Don Quixote" discount store is located along Yasukuni Dori (Ave.) at the east exit, and to the north of this store is the Kabuki-cho bright lights district, crowded with restaurants, adult entertainment spots, arcades and theaters. On the west exit side are the Tokyo Metropolitan Government buildings, super-high-rise buildings and first-class hotels. Enjoy the night view from the free observatory at the top of the Metropolitan Government building or from one of the skyscraper restaurants.
One of Japan's busiest towns, Shibuya is extremely popular with young people. There are department stores, restaurants and specialty shops; casual fashion shops in particular have a high profile as typified by the "SHIBUYA 109" fashion building. Each street has its own characteristic look; for example, Koen Dori (Ave.) has the "Seibu Department Store" and "Parco", Bunkamura Dori (Ave.) has the "Tokyu Department Store", and Spain Zaka (Hill Road) has small clothing boutiques and miscellaneous goods shops. On "Center Gai or Center Street", the street extending from the station, there is a constant stream of young people strolling past the fast food shops, shoe stores, and accessory and cosmetics shops. Fashion shops recently started opening up on Meiji Dori (Ave.), so you can enjoy window shopping while walking to Harajuku or Omotesando.
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Annette Magid writes to invite papers for her Wilde session at the 2010 NorthEast Modern Language Association meeting in Montreal:
I am seeking paper proposals for my 2010 panel for NeMLA in Montreal is "The Importance of Studying Oscar [Wilde]: Plays, Stories, Letters."
s panel offers an opportunity to analyze the role Oscar Wilde has played and continues to play in literature, theater and other aspects of culture. Focus can be on his influential wit and wisdom and/or techniques used to present Oscar in the classroom. This topic calls for a diversity of approaches. Please send 200-400 word abstracts to Annette Magid at a_magid@yahoo. com>.
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Foreclosed $6.2 Million Mansion Owned By Ex-NBA Player On The Market
Celebrity Cribs: Which Broke A$$ Ex-NBA Baller Lost This $6.2 Million Mansion After Blowing $70 Million???
We'll never understand how these athletes continue to go broke…
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$6.2 Million Foreclosed Home Of NBA Player On The Market For Sale
We've seen this story play out before: A promising young athlete amasses a fortune only to squander his wealth in a blaze of financial irresponsibility.
Former Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks baller became a cautionary tale of athlete financial woe when he lost his Burr Ridge, Ill. mansion to foreclosure last year. Despite earning an estimated $70 million in his basketball-playing career, he found himself nearly $220,000 behind on his $3.7 million mortgage in 2009. He was ultimately foreclosed on in March 2012 and the home was later sold at a sheriff's sale.
The Chicago Tribune reported that the custom-built mansion the hooper paid $6.2 million for in 2006 has been listed by its lender for $3.999 million.
The expansive manse offers seven bedrooms, nine fireplaces, 11 bathrooms and 9,340 square feet of living space. Handcrafted details such as millwork, built-ins and stately touches exude an air of "old world elegance," and high-end amenities include an elevator, a two-story foyer with a fireplace, a cherry-paneled library, and a family room with a wet bar. The master suite sits in its own dedicated wing and a completed lower level comes complete with a kitchen, a pub-style bar, a movie theater and a massive wine cellar.
He himself has admitted he doesn't know how he squandered his massive fortune. However, the New York Post painted a picture of how an athlete (and those he keeps around him) can burn through millions of dollars.
He appeared in two games for the Dallas Mavericks last season before being waived to open a roster spot for Troy Murphy. In 527 career NBA games, the 30-year-old holds lifetime averages of 12.9 points per game and 5.2 rebound per game. He is currently lacing it up for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Chinese Basketball Association.
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Oh God. The "fighting" third team?
William Shakespeare - "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" should really be rewritten for Guilin. World Race Productions pulled some shady deals in this episode.First is the 22 hour pit stop. Second is not showing some kind of hours of operation. The first 4 teams would all have arrived in Guilin airport by midnight, with the delay on CZ3303 not putting Jaime/Cara and Victor/Tammy and Margie/Luke in much after Kisha/Jen on Shenzhen 9637. OK, so they have at least until after sunrise at 656am to do something. Since nothing is shown, they has to have been an unshown hours of operation halt. If not, then all teams would have arrived at the first clue box at the beauty salon at its opening and they clearly did not.Third, the editors pulled their ususal stunts in attempting to make it look competitive for Mark/Michael. After being stradned overnight in Guanzhou airport they would not have left Guilin airport before 11am. I look to Chateau to provide some confirmation if possible, but I see no way(except really strange hours of operation) that Jaime/Cara would not have completed their ROADBLOCK and DETOURS before that.
I see TARA in the lurker tray below! Don't think we forgot about you and the spoilers that you brought us! Thank you TARA! You truly rock! All the spoilers were good!
Quote from: Neobie on April 20, 2009, 12:16:08 AMOh God. The "fighting" third team?Is it in Jaime and Cara's insider videos?? if so... else ...Oh yeah, the stress of the race de-beutifies Cara and Jaime though...
Quote from: Mooyou on April 20, 2009, 01:14:38 AMQuote from: Neobie on April 20, 2009, 12:16:08 AMOh God. The "fighting" third team?Is it in Jaime and Cara's insider videos?? if so... else ...Oh yeah, the stress of the race de-beutifies Cara and Jaime though... What are you talking about? It's clear, now that Mark & Michael are officially decoys, that Jaime & Cara are Margie & Luke are in the F3 together. The "fighting" third team is clearly either Tammy & Victor regressing, or Kisha & Jen going back to fighting again.
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Reality TV World: Based on the fact it was already daylight out when your flight arrived in Guilen, it looked like you had to say overnight in Guangzhou and arrived in Guilen quite a bit behind everyone else, is that correct? Mark: Yeah, well what happened was we missed our earlier flight so we ended up having to spend the night at the airport. So that definitely delayed us, we got in later that morning. The only way we actually picked up time was there was an obstacle... where [the contestants] had to wait for the park to open up. They actually didn't show that on the episode, they cut out a whole sequence of climbing 500 stairs to this temple in China. http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/exclusive-mark-and-michael-munoz-talk-about-the-amazing-race-8834.php
BTW, I would've done the Choreography Detour as well -- I'm not a great writer.
I signed a contract, can't reveal too much!Just a little bit: the teams' first destination out of the airport was actually the Folded Brocade Mountains; they spent a night camping on the hill, but it was cut!
The ladies and fishermen were paid for their appearance. The background crew work really hard for any show, especially this kind of reality show where nothing must go wrong! The production assistants arrived in Guilin a week beforehand to prepare. It's not easy. Of course the crew here in China must be credited too!I can see that everyone here is dedicated to the show. I'm moved and have since fallen in love with the show as well! Although the show has been aired, I can't reveal too much because of the contract. I seek your forgiveness.
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Way back in 2007 I took out a monthly subscription to Ancesty.com.au. I searched and downloaded feverishly for a month, then cancelled.
The collection I hit the hardest was the Australian Electoral Rolls. Now almost five years later I have finally made my way through all those pages I downloaded and entered them in my database.
My Family Historian plugin provided the final push I needed to get the job done. It made setting up the source records that little bit easier, so I could get on with concentrating on the information.
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We're counting up in the top 25. Today's preview of #16 Arizona State is from Mark Rafferty of Pitchfork Nation. In addition to his preview he takes an early run at breaking down the Arizona State-Georgia intersectional tussle. Enjoy. Much has been said of the Arizona State Sun Devils and their Sept. 20 match-up with the Puppy Dawgs from Georgia. The problem is that it is too early to give a full preview without knowing what players for Georgia will be on the field and which ones will be getting jazzed up for their booking photos. In the Tempe area, the buzz is that this game is going to mirror the '96 Nebraska game where the goalposts were carried down to Mill Avenue after a 19-0 victory over the #1 Huskers. There are some similarities to '96 (like a Summer Olympics preceding the game and an aging war veteran running for commander-in-chief). That's where the similarities end though. Taking down Nebraska in '96 was epic with the Sun Devils ended a potential dynasty that night behind Derrick Rodgers' monster performance, setting the course for their doomed national title run. A big win against Georgia will just heat up the debate of "which conference is better, the Pac-10 or the SEC", even though the Big 12 probably has the best talent this season. Don't get me wrong, I want us to beat Georgia. LSU came into our house in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in September of '05 and inexplicably came out with a victory, considering Early Doucet was out of bounds on that 4th down throw from Jamarcus Russell. Nothing would be sweeter than to see ASU beat the #1 team in the nation and notch a victory for the Pac-10. In the back of my mind though, I know Georgia IS returning 18 starters (well maybe 3 by gametime, stay tuned) including Mel Kiper's wet dream at QB and ESPN the Mag and Sporting News coverboy Knowshon Moreno in the backfield. The fans stormed the field rather prematurely in wins over Cal and Arizona (games we should have won anyways), so hopefully we can do it for a worthy cause on September 20th. Our 10-3 record was somewhat of a surprise last season. The 2007 Sun Devils were known to get off to late starts, including early deficits to Colorado and Oregon State only to come back and win big. But whenever ASU played a team with any real talent they floundered. They got it handed to them up at Autzen Stadium, where Omar Bolden tore Dennis Dixon's ACL about 2 quarters too late. USC came down on Thanksgiving and showed us what a real defense was (thanks Rey Maualuga). After another Territorial Cup victory, ASU had high hopes going into the Holiday Bowl against Texas, only to have our QB write checks his ass couldn't cash.
Georgia fits right into this mold of upper-tier teams that ASU thinks they have a shot at. Recent history is working against the Devils, and there's no guarantee that this season's offensive line (0 career starts) will be any better than last year's joke of a protection unit (55 sacks). Here's what to look for in the Sun Devils version 2008. What's a Given: - Mark May giving us the dreaded vote of confidence. - Capitalizing off mistakes. This is how they turned those deficits into big victories in 2007. Even though it wasn't in a winning cause, after Mack Brown's stepson touched that ball in the infamous Holiday Bowl incident, Chris McGaha scored his only TD of the season and the Sun Devils were momentarily back in business. - Keegan Herring turning nothing into something at least once a game - Rudy Carpenter talking too much, yelling at his wide receivers after they mess up on routes, and being praised by analysts as being "tough, gritty and resilient." He's an easy target in more ways than one, especially when you don pink instead of school colors at a home basketball game when it isn't benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation. - Backup QB Danny Sullivan's face to turning to ghostly white when Rudy Carpenter takes too long to get up. - Thomas Weber sealing up another Groza award. He won the award last season with the second worst offensive line in the country (thanks, Notre Dame) protecting him. - Willie Tuitama going 0-4 against ASU, taking his big arm to the wide open spaces of the CFL. What To Watch For: - The use of 5-wide formations, giving Rudy Carpenter the chance to break every major Pac-10 record while padding his stats for the next level. -Stanford in Week 2. With all eyes on September 20th, it wouldn't be much of a surprise to get a scare from the Cardinal, who are looking to avenge the beatdown we gave them in Palo Alto last season. - If we're down a score at USC with the clock winding down, Dennis Erickson will not punt. - Speed - after getting burned by USC, Oregon, and Texas a year ago - look for the Devils to up the tempo on both sides of the ball - Grades - almost everyone qualified academically! This is a new Dennis Erickson! - Teams looking to exploit our secondary with big targets. Considering our linebackers and line are actually pretty solid against the run, watch for Georgia to exploit our small and weak tackling secondary through the use of Mohamed Massaquoi, Kenneth Harris and 6'6 tight end Tripp Chandler. Fred Davis can attribute at least one extra 0 in his signing bonus to our inability to cover the big target. - Even though WR Mike Jones was a late pick in the MLB draft by the Yankees, you may hear Roger Goodell call his name come April. The guy is incredible to watch in person. - Chris McGaha is single-handedly making the White receiver matter again. His only TD was in the Holiday Bowl, but he usually set up most of ASU's goal line situations with big catches.
Key Players - Offense - Dmitri Nance - The thunder to Keegan Herring's lightning - Nance must produce in short yardage and red zone situations to keep defenses guessing at all times. Defense - Terrell Carr - Omar Bolden owns one side of the field - JUCO transfer Terrell Carr will be the CB opposite of Bolden and trying to mark his ownership on the other side of the field. If Carr can turn into a playmaker, he can seal up an ASU secondary that showed flashes of brilliance in 2007. Breakout Players - Offense - Kerry Taylor - A sure-handed sophomore, Taylor will reap the benefits of opponents double covering Mike Jones and Chris McGaha. Defense - Tank English - A massive human being and a brick wall on the D-Line, English can wreak havoc and stuff the run game by himself.


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Prince Harry did it in March. Katie Couric did it in May and the U.S. women's gymnastics team did it this week as the meme spread its tentacles through the internet.
Usain Bolt, Jamaica's showman sprinter, has turned his signature celebratory move—a deep lean to one side, one arm extended, the other bent with pointer fingers aimed slightly skyward—into the latest viral pose.
While it had already adorned T-shirts and other merchandise before Bolt's London debut, the pose has exploded and been copied in all the requisite ways since he arrived at the Games.
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Bolt copycats include a sash-wearing bachelorette party, a bar patron, a small child, and a woman who struck her lucky pose on a beach, earning a re-tweet from Bolt himself.
The Bolt comes on the heels of another Olympics-inspired internet trend that emerged after London Mayor Boris Johnson got stuck on a zipline during, what was supposed to be a rapid entrance into an Olympic park.
"Get me a ladder," he pleaded, still holding on to two small British flags as he awaited assistance.
The comic event spawned a number of photo-shopped images that placed the helmet-wearing mayor dangling above the jaws of a great white shark and descending into a Batman scene.
This summer's Johnson photos and "Bolt" imitations follow a winter of "Tebowing"—football star Tim Tebow's drop to one knee—which spawned tumblr and Twitter accounts and even led to the suspension of a group of Long Island high schoolers, who apparently blocked hallway traffic with their spontaneous acts of devotion.
It also follows planking's internet run, which had Facebook walls filled with images of face-down friends attemtping the stiff-bodied position in strange, and sometimes daring locations.
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MAYBE ANNIKA HAS THE RIGHT IDEA. She is leaving the game for her own reasons, but the surge of young talent in women's golf might have me thinking about hanging up my cleats.
Exhibit A: 20-year-old Ji-Yai Shin. The world No. 10, who plays the South Korean LPGA Tour, put on a clinic in the final round of the Women's British Open at Sunningdale Golf Club on Sunday. Shin shot a bogey-free 66 en route to a three-shot victory. She made it look easy. Fairways, greens, birdies, pars. It was a yawner.
Honestly, I'd never seen Shin play, so I suppose it could be that she just had a really good week. But she must have a lot of good weeks if she's won something like 10 of her last 19 starts.
−The Armchair Golfer
Sunday, August 3
Ji-Yai Shin Claims Women's British Open Title
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- Patricia Hannigan said...
I was thinking about that the other day, how during Annika's most dominant period the Korean's weren't a factor yet.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
There are definitely plenty of young players ready to step up and win in women's golf. It almost makes Lorena Ochoa seem old at 26.
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The Synergy of the Virtuous Economy
June 18, 2016 14:31 / 1 Comment on The Synergy of the Virtuous Economy
by John Brian Shannon | June 17, 2016
An economy that constantly grows and improves because it has enough virtuous circles (and cycles) is by design, a 'good economy'.
It's what every economy wants to be when it grows-up.
However, there are no generally accepted metrics to measure what constitutes a 'good economy' — but a definition by Edmund S. Phelps in his recent Project Syndicate essay is a definition that one can appreciate.
It is worth noting that the UN Happiness Index could be a way to grade the successful march towards a 'good' or 'virtuous' economy, as nations that rank highly on the UN Index also tend to have high productivity, high per capita income, low unemployment, a high degree of personal rights and freedoms, low crime rates (and related to that stat) generally high levels of education, and in other ways their citizens live fulfilling lives in a stable environment.
It's easy to 'work it back' from the end-user point-of-view.
Another way to grade the march toward a 'virtuous' economy would be the Social Progress Imperative's SPI Index.
If nations are ranking highly on SPI heuristics, it's obvious that everything needed to support those high grades are *already in place* and working. Ergo, a high-scoring SPI nation is one with a 'good' or 'virtuous' economy.
Perhaps nations (and economists!) should put more emphasis on UN Happiness Index and SPI heuristics and less emphasis on GDP growth.
After all, You Can't Feed a Family with GDP
The 1%'ers will always rate their country highly on the UN Happiness Index and on the SPI Index, as their incomes and security are guaranteed and their income growth meets or exceeds GDP growth. What matters in this case, is what 99% of the population thinks.
In developed countries, GDP growth has largely plateaued, and even in the United States of America the largest economy on the planet and the country with the strongest military, GDP growth is anemic at 2% annually.
There just isn't room to grow the U.S. (and other) developed economies more than 2% per year under the existing paradigm.
"If you keep on doing what you've been doing, you're going to keep on getting what you've been getting." — Jackie B. Cooper
Einstein said something similar — "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."
Therefore, to try to get more growth out of the U.S. economy by 'doubling-down' on everything that we're already doing, does nothing except prove the truth of such quotes.
But what the U.S. hasn't tried (enough) is to use heuristical analyses to plot a policy path towards high UN Happiness Index and high SPI scores. By doing so, I posit that the U.S. could unlock another 2% of GDP growth annually.
If that's true for the U.S. economy, it works double for China's economy.
Did anyone else notice the productivity increases in China during, and for a short time after, the Beijing Olympics?
Yes, a mini economic boom occurred as a result of hosting the Olympics — just as it does in any country that hosts the Olympics. But productivity isn't known to spike upwards when a country hosts the Olympics.
I guess after not seeing the sky for decades due to a permanent and thick blanket of industrial smog, Beijing residents finally got to see the sky — due to some very foresighted Chinese air pollution abatement policies that were implemented for the duration of the Olympics.
"Look everyone, The Sky!"
An improved quality of life picture for Beijing residents worked to improve overall productivity, improving the bottom line for Chinese companies.
Certain other perks were added — including never-before-seen-in-China freedoms to travel and to miss time from work in order to travel to the Olympics.
That's what I call a virtuous circle!
Imagine if that could be made permanent. It's an example of how improved lives for workers can positively affect productivity and the bottom line.
By employing end-user heuristical data, developing nations could double their GDP growth annually.
For the rest of us; Now that the standard economic tools to increase growth have largely 'topped-out' in developed nations, it's now time to look at improving the lives of citizens by using heuristical analyses — to increase the happiness of citizens, which will increase productivity, improving the bottom line, leading to higher GDP growth.
The proof that this works well is easily found by investigating the Norwegian, Danish, Swiss, Swedish, Liechtenstein, and UAE economies.
Ultimately, the question is a regional one; How can we improve the lives of workers and their families so that productivity can be enhanced, and thereby improve annual GDP growth?
Some nations have asked, and the results have been astonishing.
Soon, people will be saying things like; "The synergy of the 'Good Economy' is that the pursuit of happiness by individuals is directly related to the pursuit of worker productivity by corporations, which is directly related to the bottom line and GDP growth."
And when those words are commonly spoken by both the masses and the elites, for the first time in history, our civilization will be firing on all cylinders — courtesy of the 'Good Economy'.


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Introversion Humble Weekly Sale includes plenty of goodies
The latest Humble Weekly Sale is from Prison Architect developer Introversion. No, Prison Architect isn't in it – but buy in early to get a discount on the popular alpha.
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Humble Introversion Bundle on sale now
The latest Humble Indie Bundle packs in four award-winning games along with two bonuses for those who beat the average price.
Steam stopped us going bust, says Introversion
If ever one needed proof Steam was a good portal for independent developers, Introversion, of Defcon and Darwinia fame, is it: the company has credited the digital distribution service as actually saving the company.
Darwinia+ now on Live Arcade
Nelson's confirmed the Introversion strategy title Darwinia+ is now on Xbox Live Arcade.
Introversion claims PSN has "a much weaker negotiating position" than XBL
Independent developer Introversion Software has claimed that Sony's PlayStation Network has "a much weaker negotiating position" in place for small developers, when compared to Xbox Live Arcade.
Brink, Heavy Rain, Gravity Crash and other dev sessions confirmed for EG Expo
The split-stage Eurogamer Expo's confirmed a string of top-flight developer sessions, GI reports.Team 17 be talking Alien Breed in Leeds on October 27-28. Paul Wedgwood will also be doing a Brink presentation at the event.Introversion's Mark Morris will demo Darwinia+ in Leeds, as will Stewart Gilray from Just Add Water with the PSN-exclusive Gravity Crash.London […]
Introversion gives in-depth look at how Microsoft approves games
Defcon developer Introversion's posted up what looks to be a highly-detailed run through of how Microsoft greenlights XBLA games.Darwinia+ is the subject, obviously, a title that apparently had "unprecedented approval" from the platform holder.From Offworld, via Kotaku.
Multiwinia gets new demo, Steam special offer
Introversion's released a new demo for Multiwinia and announced a special offer for the game on Steam this weekend.Buy before tomorrow and your $10 purchase will include the original Darwinia for free.And why the new demo? The first one didn't include any multiplayer options, apparently.Go to the official site for the download.
Darwinia confirmed for XBLA release
Introversion's confirmed Darwinia for an autumn XBLA release with a proper announcement, following yesterday's revelation that the ERSB had rated the RTS for American retail.So now you know. Press release after the link.
Darwinia rated for Xbox 360 release
Says so here. The Introversion strategy game has been rated by the ERSB for 360 release, presumably via XBLA. This is a good thing. We'll give Introversion a prop this morning and see if we can get anything else.
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It was widely reported and never denied, leading most to assume that radio personalities Dave and Chuck 'the Freak' were indeed going to replace Drew Lane and Mike Clark at 101.1-FM, WRIF. Will you tune in?
The pair, Dave Hunter and Chuck Urquhart. whose show includes Lisa Way, who left 89X in November, announced this afternoon that they would be replacing the 'Drew and Mike Show.' Many fans of Drew and Mike vowed to stop listening to WRIF but just as many Detroit radio listeners sounded off on how happy they are to have the former 89x show back on the air.
Their show will start weekdays at 6 a.m.
Here is what they said on their Facebook page:
'It may not be the biggest surprise anymore, but we are now officially allowed to tell you about our new station.
Starting Tuesday May 28th at 6am, we'll be at our new home on 101.1 FM WRIF - Detroit's Rock Station.
We are so excited to talk to you all again and are so incredibly thankful for all your words of support & well wishes.
By the way, we have great respect for Drew & Mike and their 22 year legacy at the station and waited to share our news until they & their team could officially sign off.
Spread the word and make sure you're up bright and early to join us next Tuesday on 101 WRIF!'


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Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis is a writer and a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Fr. Emmanuel was born on the island of Crete and also studied in Greece. He has studied abroad in Rome and in the United States, completing an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in Classics. He has also done additional graduate coursework in this field at the University of Chicago. Fr. Emmanuel also earned a Masters of Divinity degree from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts. In 2001, Fr. Emmanuel founded Orthodox Witness, http://orthodoxwitness.org, a not-for-profit group dedicated to Orthodox Christian evangelism. Fr. Emmanuel is a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Fr. Emmanuel has also written several Christmas plays including: "Prophecies Announcing Christ", "The Three Wise Men", "Daniel and the Three Youths", "God is with Us", and "Christmas Eve." Each play is highlighted with original Orthodox Christmas songs and carols written or arranged in English by Fr. Emmanuel.
In 2008, Orthodox Witness published Fr. Emmanuel's first book entitled, The Heavenly Banquet: Understanding the Divine Liturgy.
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HEALTH-COP: Uniting with rural physicians to fight childhood obesity
A virtual learning and quality-improvement network to bolster rural physician patient care
Using telemedicine to unite primary-care providers at rural health clinics with specialists at UC Davis can help stem the rising tide of childhood obesity in remote, isolated California communities, where children and teens are at the greatest risk of becoming overweight or obese, because they lack access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity.
"Obesity prevention and management can be particularly challenging in rural areas," said Ulfat Shaikh, director of Healthcare Quality in the UC Davis School of Medicine. "Families don't have as much access to walking paths, play facilities and places to buy healthy food, putting kids at risk for diseases such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes and depression. There may be only one grocery store in town and that store may not include an array of healthy options."
Primary-care physicians who see patients in isolated areas often are isolated and lack the peer support that can lead to better patient care, such as the availability of continuing medical education — a high priority for doctors in rural communities.
A new approach: HEALTH-COP
To provide these and other resources to rural physicians, Shaikh and her collaborators created HEALTH-COP — Healthy Eating Active Living TeleHealth Community of Practice — to improve health in rural communities statewide.
HEALTH-COP was a pilot virtual learning and quality-improvement network that reached out to seven clinics throughout rural California that serve diverse patient populations. One is located in Imperial County on the California-Mexico border; another is in Humboldt County near California's border with Oregon.
Through live video conferencing and other methods, HEALTH-COP taught rural clinicians how to better assess patients' weight; provide counseling on nutrition and physical activity; reorganize clinics to provide better care; screen for risk factors and implement strategies to effectively discuss body weight.
"Sometimes families broach the issue, but other times they are in denial," Shaikh said. "We provided instruction on motivational interviewing to help change lifestyle behavior. Teams were taught to assess where the family is and help them with their decision making."
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The combination of clinical materials, education and peer support had a major impact on care, Shaikh and her colleagues found. The Davis team looked at clinical practices, both before and after the program was implemented, and scored clinicians on their abilities to document their patient's BMIs and other weight measures, counsel patients and families on healthy lifestyles and provide family-centered care. Over time, the clinicians' mean score increased from 3.5 to 4.6 on a 0-to-5 scale.
Shaikh and her colleagues also examined family perceptions, surveying parents during their children's clinic visits. The survey asked whether they had been counseled on a number of issues related to diet, screen time and physical activity. The results showed that clinicians increased the number of topics they covered. In particular, they expanded their counseling on watching television, drinking sugary drinks, sitting down to meals as a family and eating fruits and vegetables.
The clinics were given lists of community resources such as affordable foods, after-school programs and support services, to point families in the right direction. They also received charts, posters, BMI wheels and other materials. In addition, the network provided access to the latest care guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other resources.
Perhaps the most useful innovation was the connectivity between clinics, Shaikh said. Peer support amongst rural clinicians allowed them to share experiences and knowledge, customize materials such as parent-education handouts, and find creative ways to improve access for their patients.
"As an urban pediatrician, if I can't figure out a problem, all I have to do is find a colleague in the building where I work and ask their impressions," Shaikh said. "By setting up this network, we made it easier for rural clinicians to do the same. Regardless of where they are in California, they all face similar problems. Now, they can share solutions."


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TIR Handbook: New 10th revised edition available
23 January 2014
An updated version of the TIR Handbook just came out of press. The TIR Handbook contains the text of the Convention and its annexes, including the amendments to the Convention and Explanatory Notes, as well as all relevant comments adopted by the UNECE Working Party on Customs Questions affecting Transport (WP.30) and the TIR Administrative Committee. The tenth revised edition of the TIR Handbook is available in English, French and Russian and can be obtained in hard copy from the TIR Secretariat. It can also be downloaded electronically from the TIR website. At the forthcoming session of WP.30 (Geneva, 4-7 February 2014), a limited number of hard copies of the TIR Handbook will be distributed to the delegates free of charge.


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In Hawaii, Ron McBride learned to follow directions that never included addresses, only landmarks, such as the abandoned car, the dog tied to a tree and the guy selling cookies. He became acquainted with influential folks such as Maui Mike and the Seaweed Man. He immersed himself in the culture by taking off his shoes, sitting on the floor and eating everything he was offered.
"And you'd better like it," McBride said. "Most of it, I liked."
And the Hawaiians loved him, explaining how he made major in-roads in recruiting the islands for the University of Utah.
"The people there, they just opened their doors to this man," said Lauvale Sape, a former Ute player. "They think of him more as a family member."
McBride became familiar with Polynesian athletes a quarter century before becoming Utah's coach in 1990. While coaching at Gavilan Junior College in California, he arranged for four Hawaiian players to live next door while his neighbors were away.
Working for former Hawaii coach Dick Tomey at Arizona reinforced McBride's belief in the impact of Polynesian players. So when he took the Utah job, he was determined to take advantage of Salt Lake Valley's Polynesian community. Because so many recruits had relatives in Utah, "They've all got a reason to be here," McBride said.
McBride broke into BYU's stronghold on the North Shore of Oahu and established the Utes' presence throughout Hawaii. McBride credits Polynesian players with having "as much to do with changing the culture of Utah football as anybody," bringing toughness, enthusiasm and loyalty to the program. In 1995, Utah landed four coveted Hawaiian players: running back Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala, receiver Donny Utu and linebackers Talia Lauve and Kautai Olevao.
Those players were well-known. In other cases, McBride made his own discoveries. Driving around the North Shore, he once glimpsed brothers Ma'ake and Chris Kemoeatu walking near their high school and kept track of them. He found Sape lifting weights as a high school sophomore and said, "I want that kid."
Retelling the story, Sape marveled, "He knows nothing about me." Yet Sape came to Utah's youth football camp that summer, was offered a scholarship and stuck with his commitment to McBride, even while being widely pursued as a senior.
McBride sometimes needed a translator to help in recruiting because parents who had come to Hawaii from American Samoa or Tonga did not speak English. He bonded easily with all the families, relating well to them.
"He understood cultural things," said Vai Sikahema, a former BYU star.
"They can tell whether you're real," McBride said. "They'll have checked up on you before you ever come in."
At Utah and later at Weber State, where Hawaiian QBs Cameron Higgins and Mike Hoke thrived under McBride, the coach adopted a slogan of "MAFU" mental toughness, attitude, fanatical effort and unity. It's not just an acronym. It's also the Tongan word for "heart."


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Part of the charm of Baltimore's arts scene is that someone is always hitting the "refresh" button.
An art gallery or music club shuts down on one block, only to have another pop up a few streets over. Abandoned or underused venues might suddenly sprout a theater troupe one day, an artists' collective the next.
A lot of the refreshing can be traced to a thriving DIY culture in town, a culture that has been responsible for some of the most intriguing new enterprises over the years and that helps give the city its reputation as a place where artists of every genre can find — or create — an outlet.
Among the ventures that are adding character to the scene are places that provide outlets to more than one genre. Here's a look at just a few of these spots, where cool things happen — or will happen soon.
Charm City Art Space
In what was once the garage of a narrow townhouse on Maryland Avenue, Charm City Art Space celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. That's a significant milestone for a nonprofit spot where the punkiest of punk bands can perform before packed crowds that can also take a look at art hanging on the walls in between the head-banging.
A Maryland flag over the door and large-scale murals on the walls (a recently painted one promotes marriage equality) provide some color to this otherwise utilitarian space co-founded by Mike Wolf.
"We're loosely organized," Wolf said. "A lot of people filter in and keep it happening. It is a sociology project in a sense. The idea is 'Don't be a jerk to one another.' The space is wholly run off of donations. We just make enough to pay our rent."
Added Jesse Morgan: "No one is looking to make a profit off of this. Everyone has pulled money out of their own pocket to make sure the BGE bill is paid."
The space survives on memberships — $30 a year — and volunteers to staff the shows.
Membership comes with event-booking privileges, a perk that helped attract Melanie Losover, who started attending shows at Charm City Art Space about six years ago while still in high school. A member since 2009, she started booking musicians she felt were not getting enough exposure in town.
"It's easier here for people of all ages and backgrounds to do what they want," Losover said. "You can put on bands or art shows. And the art is usually on the walls for two months, so a lot of people will see it."
For those interested in displaying their art in the venue — a fair amount of the wall space is left free for exhibits — the process couldn't be simpler.
"Usually, you have to prove yourself to a gallery, which then takes a ridiculous cut," Wolf said. "Here, we're like, 'You want to have an art show? Cool.' Just ask. Email us. And a very small percentage [of art sales] goes to us."
The space has also been used for film screenings and comedy acts. But music is the primary draw, even though the venue has a rule that might seem antithetical — no drugs, no alcohol.
"Those of us in the punk scene saw that's what killed a lot of places," said Rob Sullivan, a punk band musician, successful cage fighter and active member of the Charm City Art Space. "We've never had any issues with the police."
Harvest and Pleasant Living are scheduled to perform during a show that begins at 7 p.m. Friday; Citizen, Here and Now, Invitational and Class Picture are on a lineup that begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Charm City Art Space is at 1731 Maryland Ave. Go to ccspace.org.
On a typically undernourished block of Greenmount Avenue sits an old building with a lot of new stuff happening inside. This venue for artists and artisans was founded by a couple of Maryland Institute College of Art grads, Ben Graham-Putter and Adam Farkas, who named the place BrickHaus — inspired by listening to the Commodores' 1970s hit "Brick House."
"Ben found the building through Craigslist," Farkas said. "When we saw it, it seemed blatantly apparent that we needed to claim it and turn it into an arts space."
A year and a half into an eight-year lease, the co-founders have made good on their vision. Bit by bit, walls have gone up to create artist studios — but not doors. "There is quite literally an open-door policy here," Farkas said. "Some artists are not comfortable with that."
The building, which housed an A&P grocery store in 1910, has been the site of about a dozen art exhibits over the past year. There is also a much-used performance space for music, lectures and more. And Bearings Bike Project, which calls itself "a women, transgender, and queer-run bicycle collective," is active on the first floor, offering sessions on bicycle repair and maintenance.
Much more is planned in the two-story structure, with its 15,000 square feet of space (heated, more or less, by three wood-burning stoves). A big project under way is the construction of a darkroom where the photography-minded can rediscover the original, pre-digital art form.
"VisArts in Rockville donated a whole lot of darkroom and other equipment — I'd guess between $40,000 and $60,000 worth," said Graham-Putter, who lives at BrickHaus and serves as director. "There are enough cameras to teach a class of 12. We hope to have the darkroom running in January."
Woodworking classes may start by the end of December. A metal shop is in the works for the basement. "Workshops will be our bread and butter," Graham-Putter said.
The intimate upstairs performance space, where a sofa is emblazoned with the world "revolution," has been used by a variety of musicians. More are likely to be drawn to the place when a recording studio is added to the features at BrickHaus.
"We want to reach out to Peabody and MICA students who are looking to record," Graham-Putter said.
Fundraising is always a challenge, but the co-founders sound upbeat about the future.
"We both spent our life savings on this," Farkas said. "It has definitely been a struggle, especially at the end of the first year as our savings dried up. But if you want something to happen, you have to be willing to do whatever needs to be done."
Bobby Lee and the Sympathizers present a 'Holiday Hoedown' at 9 p.m. Friday. Bearings Bike Project presents "A Crafty Winter Festival" on Saturday with a DIY craft fair from noon to 6 p.m., bonfires and live music by Neutron Bomb and others from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. BrickHaus Art Space is at 2602 Greenmount Ave. Go to brickhaus.org.
New York Fried Chicken
Coming soon to the corner of North Charles Street and North Avenue is a combination theater, gallery and office. When renovations are complete — the target date is late January — the last telltale whiffs left over from the previous occupant, New York Fried Chicken, should have dissipated.
You could say the venue is going from grease to greasepaint. Out front, in a room that will seat 30 to 50, the Baltimore Annex Theater will offer several productions each season.
In between plays, art exhibits will be held; the first two, featuring graduate students from MICA, are planned for early spring. (A kind of leftover artwork will always be in the space — the original wall-length menu promoting "Lake Trout Fish," "Burgers in Bun" and, of course, chicken.)
In the back, where a walk-in freezer is now being dismantled, will be the two-person office of Station North Arts & Entertainment Inc., said its executive director, Ben Stone.
"This corner has stalled. The city was OK with us coming in here and leased the space to us at no cost three months ago," Stone said. "We think the total renovation will cost $25,000 to $35,000. We gave ourselves a month to raise $10,000 on Kickstarter and raised it in a week."
The remaining money is expected to be covered by a grant.
A suggestion from Annex Theater supporter Doreen Bolger, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, led to the imaginative, DIY-ethic troupe teaming up with Station North Arts & Entertainment to make a new home in the former fast-food spot.
"We've been basically in warehouses that are hard to find," said artistic director Evan Moritz, "places that were not always up to code. We wanted to switch gears. This space will give us visibility and allow us to have longer runs."
Meanwhile, the company's staging of "Ubik," an adaptation of a novel by Philip K. Dick, opens this weekend across the street. If renovations at the chicken place go quickly, the first Annex production in the new space will be "Equus," opening Jan. 31.
By the time the theater company and Station North folks move into their new digs, the issue of a name for the storefront venue should be settled.
"We've been having internal discussions about that," Stone said. "For now, it's still New York Fried Chicken."
The as-yet-unnamed space is at 1 W. North Ave. Go to stationnorth.org. Annex Theater's production of "Ubik" runs this weekend through Dec. 30 at D Space, 16 W. North Ave. Go to baltimoreannextheater.org.
Part of the charm of Baltimore's arts scene is that someone is always hitting the "refresh" button.


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Richard Green: Reportage Artist, Race Car Driver and... Fashion Illustrator?
The title page suggests Green was both the artist of this feature and a race car driver, though it's not made clear if he drove at that actual event.
Green turned in some really lively drawings, beautifully executed. They were originally reproduced at an unfortunate small size...
... so I took the liberty of blowing them up individually for your viewing pleasure.
About a year later, Richard Green's work appeared again in Esquire - this time for a fashion feature.
So was Richard Green primarily a fashion illustrator? I must admit I didn't search far and wide for information on the artist. But this small sampling of Green's work raises an interesting thought: that fashion illustrators are, by the nature of their specialty, ideally suited to do reportage art as well. Consider, for instance, Francis Marshall another example of just such an artist.
Returning momentarily to yesterday's post, its also noteworthy that Al Parker and Richard Green used such dramatically different ways of interpreting very similar subject matter.
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Consider this another debatable editorial decision, on a completely different level from US News' publication of a factually deficient rant about Catholics in public office and debate. The Huffington Post acquired a manifesto written by 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed while at Guantanamo Bay, expressing his insights on jihad and the need for everyone to submit to Islam, and published it. The LA Times covers the essence of the manifesto:
The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has written a rambling, deeply religious manifesto that suggests Muslims should not use violence to spread Islam — a sharp departure from his earlier boasts of waging violent jihad against the U.S. and other non-Muslim nations.
The unclassified comments by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who will soon turn 50 and who has spent the last decade in U.S. custody, come a year and a half into the pretrial phase of his military commission trial. The writings suggest that he either believes he can convert his U.S. audience or, as he often has done, is playing a mind game to attract publicity, feign mental illness or spare himself the death penalty if convicted in the 2001 attacks, the worst terrorist strikes in American history.
There's another possibility too, which NRO's Andy McCarthy suggests. The call to non-violent conversion, McCarthy reminds us, is often a prelude to a violent attack — and the publication of the material may send a signal to AQ to do just that:
The HuffPo considers this newsworthy because it might signal AQ to drop its violent approach to jihad:
The mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks now says that the use of violence to spread Islam is forbidden by the Quran, a major shift away from the more militaristic view he had put forward previously.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's thinking is detailed in a first-of-its-kind 36-page manifesto obtained by The Huffington Post. In a departure from his previous stance, which led the Guantanamo Bay prisoner to tell a military commission, "it would have been the greatest religious duty to fight you over your infidelity," KSM, as he's known in intelligence circles, instead seeks to convert the court to Islam through persuasion and theological reflection, going so far as to argue that "The Holy Quran forbids us to use force as a means of converting" and that reaching "truth and reality never comes by muscles and force but by using the mind and wisdom."
"Don't believe the media that the Mujahedeen believe that Islam spread in the past and will prevail in the future with the sword," writes KSM, who has previously admitted to his role in the 9/11 attacks that killed thousands of Americans. He uses the bulk of the manifesto to put his newfound principle into practice, attempting to persuade his captors, prosecutors and lawyers that the path to true happiness lies in Islam.
There are a couple of points to consider in this editorial decision. One, KSM is undoubtedly a newsworthy subject, and his statements would make news whether from the courtroom or in his letters. Second, it's possibly noteworthy that the man who openly bragged about beheading Daniel Pearl has now discovered that violence is not conducive to conversion, if that's a credible conversion and it had any meaning for the war on terror. Given that AQ is at the moment attempting the terrorist takeover of both Iraq and Syria, the latter seems highly unlikely. However, the provocation of the manifesto may still give al-Qaeda an opening to declare that the West is still wallowing in its infidel status and therefore KSM's warnings need a little mass-murder oomph to get the point across.
Andy's point is better. KSM isn't someone under arrest for a crime; he's a terrorist who committed an act of war against the United States which killed nearly 3,000 people. Why would anyone want to broadcast his demented thoughts on anything? At least with the Unabomber, the publication of the manifesto was an attempt to identify and capture him before he could bomb again, which is not necessary with KSM.
Interestingly, Yahoo's Liz Goodwin asked why journalists aren't allowed to talk to Gitmo detainees just prior to this release:
It's been 12 years this week since the first terror suspects arrived at what was then a makeshift, open-air military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Since then, thousands of journalists have been allowed to visit the Cuban base and ask why the government is still holding most of these men without charges and to see what their detention conditions are like.
Most, if not all of these reporters, have asked the military if they could speak to a prisoner. They've all been denied. In 12 years, no reporter has ever been allowed to interview a prisoner at Gitmo, as the prison is often called, though some detainees have spoken to the media after they were released.
On a Guantanamo media tour last week with two other journalists, I took a shot and asked for an interview with a prisoner. The answer was an emphatic no. The military cited the Geneva Conventions to explain why. Article 13 of the third convention, adopted in 1949, says prisoners of war must be protected from "insults and public curiosity."
That's certainly one reason, although Goodwin argues that the Geneva convention doesn't actually prevent this if the prisoners request the meeting. Prisoners have access to their attorneys, who have access to media, and no one is entitled to media access in this system anyway. Preventing prisoners from sending messages to their compatriots back home is another good reason, as this incident demonstrates.