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To terminate the Indian Clams Commission, and for other purposes.
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Public Law 90-9 Indian Claims Commission.
Public Law 90-9 Termination date.
Sec. 2 60 Stat. 1050.
Sec. 2 Membership.
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Sec. 6 80 Stat. 464.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 23 of the Act entitled "An Act to create an Indian Claims Commission, to provide for the powers, duties, and functions thereof, and for other purposes", approved August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1049, 1055), as amended (75 Stat. 92; 25 U.S.C. 70v), is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 23. The existence of the Commission shall terminate at the end of ten years from and after April 10, 1962, or at such earlier time as the Commission shall have made its final report to the Congress on all claims filed with it. Upon its dissolution the records of the Commission shall be delivered to the Archivist of the United States."

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Subsection (a) of section 3 of said Act, as amended (25 U. S. C. 70b), is further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. (a) The Commission shall consist of five Commissioners who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The President shall designate one Commissioner as Chairman. At all times at least three Commissioners shall be members of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in good standing. No more than three Commissioners shall be of the same political party. Each Commissioner shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and to discharge faithfully the duties of his office.

"The persons holding the offices of Chief Commissioner and Associate Commissioner of the Indian Claims Commission on April 9, 1967, shall continue in office serving as Commissioners of the Indian Claims Commission until June 30, 1968, unless prior to that date the President shall appoint them pursuant to this section."

SEC. 3.

Subsection (d) of said section 3, as amended, is further amended by striking out "Two members" and inserting in lieu thereof "Three Commissioners" and by striking out "two members" and inserting in lieu thereof "three Commissioners."

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SEC. 4.

Sections 6 and 18 of said Act (25 U. S. C. 70e and 70q) are each amended by striking out "Chief Commissioner" and inserting in lieu thereof "Chairman".

SEC. 5.

The Act of August 13, 1946, as amended (25 U. S. C. 70-70v), is amended by adding at the end thereof a new section as follows:

"SEC. 27. (a) The Commission shall, not later than one year after the effective date of this section, prepare a trial calendar which will set a date, not later than December 31, 1970, for the trial of each claim pending before the Commission.

"(b) If a claimant fails to proceed with the trial of its claim on the date set for that purpose, the Commission shall enter an order dismissing the claim with prejudice unless for good cause the Commission grants a continuance, which continuance shall be for a period of not more than six months. No further continuances shall be granted upon motion of the same party except upon a showing that unforeseeable events beyond the control of the party have occurred which make it imperative that such further continuances be granted, and in no event shall such further continuances exceed an aggregate of six months. If, upon the expiration of the final period of continuance granted, the claimant fails to proceed with the trial of its claim, the Commission shall enter an order dismissing the claim with prejudice. The Commission may, however, stay the entry of any such order if it finds that a final compromise of the claim is being negotiated in good faith by the parties."

SEC. 6.

Section 5316 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking out paragraph (46) and by amending paragraph (47) to read as follows:

"(47) Commissioners, Indian Claims Commission (5).".

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After asking several questions about the format, scoring, the check-in procedure (which would be “impossible” for him because he works two jobs—blah-blah-blah—) he wanted to know about payout. “Now, I don’t mean to be modest (?), dear, but I noticed there’s nothing on your website about payout,” he said.

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Just simple venting....no biggie!
Sometimes the love of the game gets outweighed by the dislike of the attitudes of the competitors. Most TD's run the event for that love because there's not alot of money in it. They get to show up early, stay late, sell the sponsorships, handles the reporting amist a host of other duties throughtout the tournament. They get to do all this for disc golfers to show up and play and have fun and for the most part, the majority do but Terry posted an excellent example of why TD's quit directing.
"the payout was too small" "we had to wait two hours in between rounds" "there wasn't enough water on the course" "when are we gonna get started" "can you wait for me, I'm only five minutes away" etc etc etc
I guess what I'm saying is I fully empathize, and I can only ask everyone that reads this to thank your TD because it's a thankless job to begin with. And check your feelings and try to keep them to yourself or address them with the TD at the appropriate time and not in a public forum, it's called respect. In my opinion, this is one reason disc golf continues to have a hard time growing, the lack of gratitude for the people that make it happen so you can come out and not worry about anything but your game.
Oh and if your game is the source of your true frustration, please direct it accordingly.
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Sometimes the best way to deal with TDSS...is to talk about it! Get it out!! Vent a little!! One ahole shouldn't break a strong minded person like Michele.....just a bump in the road....eventually you move forward enough where that bump is no longer in the rear view. Hats off to Michele for all her efforts.
I totally agree with Dave and can empathize with Michelles' experience. Being a TD is an extremely thankless job. I assisted at the Feather River Open last weekend where we had about 75 participants.The local staff worked really hard to get the place in tip-top shape and make sure that everything was in order so that the players could just show up and play. The TD, Mr Neal Hoelwarth, worked really hard putting on the show and I cant remember anybody even saying thank you once! I made sure to get the players to applaud his efforts at the award ceremony, but that was about all he got out of it.
I guess that is what it means to be the TD. Lots of hard work with little gratitude in return. It reminds me of an old phrase about paying the cost to be the boss! I ALWAYS go out of my way to thank the TD in any tourney that I am in, or around.
It is all about appreciation and respect.
Thanks again Mr Neal!!!
Sounds like an Ex ball golfer that we have playing in our area. First of all he knows more about our sport after only a year of playing than someone who has been playing for 30 years. Second he does not believe in returning lost discs unless you pay him a $20 ransom per disc, because in his words"finders keepers". Third he refuses to join the PDGA because they all have their heads up their asses and need to be more like ball golf. Forth he's just a total douche! This is coming out of a 45 year old man who ought to have enough sense not to be this way, yet he is.
It just boils down to some people are TOTAL DOUCHES!!! Plain and simple!!!!
I think all she's saying is that she doesn't have time or patience for idiots. If that's what she's saying, she SHOULD go to Arizona during the tournament. Jon and I get those kinds of inquiries and we just wrap it up by saying, "Well, it's PDGA sanctioned so we'll be running it like any other PDGA tournament. We didn't invent the format." And then we call each other up and mock the doofus we just got done dealing with!

So either you develop an emotionally satisfying way of dealing with morons and jerks, or you let your husband run the tournaments and you go visit your mother for the weekend.
I totally agree with Dave and can empathize with Michelles' experience. Being a TD is an extremely thankless job.
This job would be great if it weren't for the customers. -Clerks
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funny ass movie and true. did you get the nun mobile back yet?
Anyone that has been a TD, understands exactly how she feels.
Everything that you do is scrutinized. When, where, how, and so on.
Hey I can do it better, but won't step up is the usual.

Know a bunch of ex-TD's including myself that have a bad taste for all the hard work that you put in for zero.
If it were not for the love of the sport...
It's a given. Until this sport is recognized like others we will be that way. And I think that it should stay that way.
We can choose to become a CBS event or keep it to our selves. We'd have to clean up our act for CBS but you get the picture. I'm in favor of keeping it on a "grass roots" level. Taking it too seriously will only detract from the origins of the sport.

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I had the opportunity to spend time with Huston Platt, his son Rocky, as well as Randall Davis and Randall’s wife Donna around seven months before Mr. Platt’s passing.  I found Huston Platt to be a gentleman and quiet spoken.  Surprisingly, the Yellow River incident, where the Dixie Twister was involved in a tragic accident, was a subject raised by Huston Platt himself.

We have often discussed how to address the subject of Yellow River in a manner that is sensitive to the victims of the accident, as well as the Platt family themselves.  Following is my essay on the subject, and I intend it to be the primary resource available on this website regarding the accident.

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The facts are well-established.  At approximately 2:20 p.m., on March 2, 1969, Huston Platt left the starting line in the Dixie Twister at Yellow River Dragstrip, in Covington, Georgia in a match race against Frank Ogelsby. What occurred next would alter many lives tragically. As Platt came down the track a spectator hopped over the fence to retrieve a beer (that had unfortunately landed right side up) and was instantly killed when Platt’s parachute opened into him.  The car lost control into the crowd, and ultimately twelve people perished in the accident.  Yellow River never re-opened as the owner of the track acknowledged after the accident that an “engine would never turn at Yellow River (again)”. Huston Platt’s career was effectively over. Most importantly, those twelve people died on a spring day and their families lives were changed forever.

The aftermath has persisted for over forty years.  We have the benefit of space and time to try to answer the questions surrounding “who” and “what”, and most difficult, “how come?”.  We who are not personally touched by the tragedy carry on, maybe shaking our heads slowly, saying “What a shame” under our breaths or to our neighbors, but for those involved, the tragedy has its own life, every day.  Having lost my mother to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), I understand this.

It is said that “time is a gentleman”, but sometimes I am not so sure.  For the driver, Huston Platt, and his family, the pain is fresh after forty years.  Nobody can really understand what it was to be Huston Platt after the accident.  We must acknowledge it as just that…an accident.  The media hounded Huston Platt for years, callously so. Some might say Yellow River was an accident waiting to happen, as cars became more powerful and safety regulations lagged behind.

Known as a consummate professional, Platt was a perfectionist and a careful driver. He dispatched Richard Petty in two of three match races. Rick Lynch, then director of AHRA’s professional racing, described Huston Platt as a “seasoned drag race driver” who has “competed at speeds in excess of 190 miles per hour at almost every major race track in the United States”. It is cruelly unfair to fault a driver piloting a top fuel funny car at g-forces comparable to a space shuttle launch for not being able to adjust at the end of run to a spectator appearing unexpectedly on the track.

The purpose here is not to assign blame or rehash events, as plenty of others have done that for almost a half century.  The purpose here is a journey towards compassion…and to communicate this:

Huston Platt carried the weight of loss for the rest of his life after that day in the Spring of 1969…as did his family. His wife Annalyn remembered that “Every year, we know the time is coming. I don’t say anything about it, but I know it is coming. We never discuss it, but it stays with us constantly.”

These are my thoughts on the subject, and I offer such.  My heart goes out to everyone who suffered on that terrible day and since, including Mr. Huston Platt and his family. Tragedy finds us because we live.

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I've got an old squeaky hardwood floor with access to from below. I can feel the hardwood boards moving under my feet when they squeak so I just plan to drill up through the subfloor into the hardwood. Would drywall screws do the job? I noticed they're cheap, which is good since I will need a lot of them!

  • The screws are #6 x 1 1/4" coarse thread (thickness of floor + subfloor is ~1 1/2")
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I prefer working from under the floor when possible. Although it is easier to screw loose flooring down from the top, it is often difficult to fill the holes and make the color and finish match. Using the top down method is a last resort, especially if you have a large area to secure. The Counter Snap screws mentioned in the previous answer are great devices, but commonly used to secure squeaky sub-floors under carpet. They will work on wood, but prefer a counter-sunk finish screw. With finish screws, you can control the counter sink depth and the head is about the same size as a finish nail.

Using blind screws from the bottom is a common way to attack your problem. The method of "pulling" the finish floor snug is important. I have used drywall screws many times with great success. You have to be very careful to calculate the thickness of the subfloor and finish hardwood, so the screw does not protrude through the floor. If in fact the subfloor is pine or soft wood, a drywall screw may be a bad choice as they can be aggressive and counter sink themselves too deep. Remember, the goal is to pull the finish floor down snug. This can be done by predrilling holes in the subfloor at the same or 1/32" larger than the diameter of the screws. That way, the screws are only threading into the finish floor, not the subfloor. When the screw head contacts the bottom of the subfloor, all force pulls the finish floor down to the subfloor. You can use a collet or a piece of tape on your drill bit to gauge the depth of your holes and not go into your finish flooring. Rather than a countersinking screw, like a drywall screw, use a #8 panhead screw sized to only penetrate the finish floor 1/2" (for 3/4" flooring). Just tighten the screws enough to make them snug, don't try to over-tighten them as that may cause them to strip out. Plan on using quite a few screws. I usually start by spacing them 8 to 10 inches apart. In stubborn areas where the squeak just wont go away, you may need to add a few more screws. Good Luck.

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Drywall screws are for drywall any other use and the heads tends to snap off. Wood screws are what you are after. Also, be careful, if you have an old floor it is NOT 3/4 anymore because of shrinkage due to drying out and from resurfacing. Same for the sub floor, it is not 3/4 anymore especially since they are probably pine. I would not go up through the sub floor as driving a screw up into the finished floor will pull the sub floor to the finished floor. The correct way of doing this is to go through the finished floor from the top INTO a floor joist and fill the holes. But wait my floor will have holes in it and I don't want that... Well they sell special screw just for this type of repair operation, it has a special thread and shank after you screw down the floor you use a special tool to snap off the shank and it leaves a tiny hole in the floor that you fill. Sorry forgot the name of the screws. But the only correct way of doing this type of repair is to go from the top down an to hit a joist.

Just looked up the screw name, they are called Counter-Snap screws and the hole they leave is 1/8 of an inch.

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If you sprinkle corn starch (Argo is one brand) or talcum powder over the floor and then sweep the floor the powder will get into any voids and act as a lubricant.

Don't vacuum the powder up, sweep the entire floor to allow the powder to fall into the voids. After a few days you can vacuum or mop the floors to remove any excess from the surface.

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In my experience, this would be a bit of a fool's errand.

Most older houses with the type of floor construction that you describe have a lot of loose squeaky boards.
First you have to consider the large number of hardwood floor boards that you would have to secure.
Then as you said, the floor is maple which is very hard and tends to crack very easily if you do not pre-drill to the appropriate size and depth.
Then to you have to think about the fact that many of the squeaks could be coming from the interface of the sub-floor boards against the floor joists.

And to top it all off, if you manage to secure everything tightly enough to eliminate the squeaks, chances are the floor will no longer be able to expand and contract with changes in temperature and humidity as it once did, which could lead to buckling, cracking, or worse yet, more squeaks...

If you have a few particularly bad spots you may try to fix those, but I would just consider the squeaks some of the character of an older home.

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The previous owner of my house planted plants and small bushes where the drain field is.

I have a feeling that the roots will eventually damage the drains.

Is this okay or should I remove them?

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It really depends on what you want to plant, but generally you do not want to have anything but grass or something that has shallow roots and does not block out the sun. Your leech field works in two ways, one is the water leeches through the soil, but the other way that it works is evaporation. Evaporation accounts from 30 to 70% of what goes in your leech field, depending on how it is designed.

So I would avoid putting to much around it or over it. Trees will love the water, but eventually clog up your field. The worst, ficus trees, they should be called ficus weeds.

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If they were called ficus weeds, nobody would want them in their office. I didn't know people planted those things outside, I thought they only grew under florescent lights. –  Tester101 Sep 22 '10 at 16:50

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The shade of a ceiling light in my apartment cracked and fell on the floor. I started looking around on the web to see if I can buy a replacement but I'm having difficulty finding anything. Can this be done, or does one normally have to replace the whole fixture? It's a circular fixture, about 8 1/4 diameter - three screws in the sides secure the shade to the fixture. If the fixture has to be replaced, I'll have the superintendent of our building do it, as the apartment is a rental.

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The type of shade you're looking for is fairly common, but it's not common for non-specialty shops to carry them. On top of that, the cost of a replacement shade, if you do manage to find one, can often approach or surpass the cost of a brand new fixture!

My suggestion would be to do a quick check at the big box hardware stores and the lighting specialty shops just on the off chance that they DO carry the replacement glass. Unless you don't put any value on your own time, going beyond that isn't going to be worth it. A replacement light fixture in the style you describe is going to be in the $10 to $20 dollar range. I've even seen twin packs with bulbs for under $20 on special.

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I wound up buying a replacement fixture for $14.95 and using the shade from that. –  vjones Aug 9 '11 at 1:01

For the kind of light fixtures that you typically get in apartments (i.e. not terribly nice), you could look in the big-box stores. If you're in the US, I know Lowe's has a selection of them (though admittedly not a huge one).

If you can't find one there, look for a specialty lighting store, where you should be able to find a much wider selection.

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Depending on your location (whereabouts in the world), either a "general" High Street DIY store will sell just shades in their light fitting department, eg in the USA

Or if the shade is more a non-standard affair, a specialist High Street Light shop might be your better option.

Either way, you can most definitely buy just a shade for a light fixture.

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To add to previous answers, you may be stuck with an old style depending on the age of your building. Try looking for a shade first, but you may have to go with plan B.

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  2. Some people say that their video was filmed on a private road, or another country to avoid problems with the law, that’s all.

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“There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.”
Washington Irving

“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.”
John Buchan

“If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”
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Clearly, spring has been tormenting us all with a wicked game of hide and seek.
One day it’s sunny and in the 70s, the next it’s rainy and cold.
I’ve had just enough glimpses of what spring ought to be to catch fishing fever. Symptoms include staring longingly at my rod and reel, cobweb-covered in the garage; making a list of the different friends who’ve offered a place to wet hook of said rod and reel; and reviving many memories made in years past fishing with my father, my grandparents, my niece, various friends or by myself.
When I was a little girl, barely big enough to pretend patience, my paternal grandfather, a fool for fishing, put me in the back of his boat, slowly left the docks behind and headed into the wide open waters of Grenada Lake, in search of some of the secret spots he’d selected over the years.
Of course, my grandmother, who also enjoyed fishing, came along mostly to make sure Granddaddy did not toss me into the muddy waters when I began to whine to end the fishing trip way too prematurely for Granddaddy.
“Give her some Nabs and a Co-cola,” he’d tell my grandmother. “And keep her quiet.”
As I grew older, however, and more appreciative of the lure of fishing, my patience improved and each visit to the lake, I lasted a little longer.
They were great teachers, my grandparents. And also one of their four sons, my father.
It was Dad who taught me, finally, the correct way to bait a hook.
We were fishing for catfish years ago in a Yalobusha County pond.
Wanting to exercise my angling independence, I walked to the other side of the pond from Dad. Each time I’d cast, I’d notice two splashes. And I puzzled at how I could go through so many minnows without getting a single bite.
It was my father who realized the first splash was my hook going into the water; the second was my minnow, flying off my hook and into the pond.
Without making me feel any more stupid than I already did, Dad corrected the error of my ways.
Now spring fever has led to fishing fever.
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JACKSON — Mississippi will likely switch to a different drug for its next execution due to a nationwide shortage of one of the chemicals it has used in the past, authorities said Tuesday.

Attorney General Jim Hood said Mississippi “most likely will” use pentobarbital in the state’s next execution. Hood asked the Mississippi Supreme Court this week to set an April 20 execution date for Robert Simon Jr. The court didn’t immediately act on the request. Hood also said he could ask the court in the coming weeks to set execution dates for two other condemned inmates.

Mississippi has used a three-drug mixture for its lethal injections in the past, but one of those chemicals, an anesthetic called sodium thiopental, is in short supply. Sodium thiopental is one of the most common execution drugs used in the U.S., but the nationwide shortage has forced states to consider other options.

Some states have already decided to use pentobarbital, a surgical sedative that is commonly used to euthanize animals.

Hood said Mississippi is still trying to get sodium thiopental from other states, but so far that hasn’t happened. He said Mississippi officials may have no choice but to switch to another drug, and that would be probably be pentobarbital.

“We’re still looking into using this other substance (sodium thiopental), but we aren’t really confident that we’re going to get some,” he said.

Texas and Oklahoma recently announced the switch to pentobarbital, and plan to use it along with two other drugs. Ohio became the first state to use pentobarbital alone when it executed an inmate with the drug March 10.

Hood said Mississippi would substitute pentobarbital for sodium thiopental in the three-drug cocktail that has been used in the past.

Mississippi statute calls for the use of “a lethal quantity of an ultra-short-acting barbiturate or other similar drug in combination with a chemical paralytic agent,” said Mississippi Department of Corrections spokeswoman Tara Booth.

“The final details have not been decided yet,” Booth said.

Hood said his staff is studying other states’ use of pentobarbital in hopes that Mississippi won’t get bogged down in legal challenges if it begins using the drug. Court rulings in favor of pentobarbital in other states could be used as the basis for legal arguments in Mississippi. Hood said the use of pentobarbital has been upheld in federal court when it was challenged by an Oklahoma inmate.

Hood filed a request Monday for an April 20 execution date for Simon, who was sentenced to death for the 1990 killing of a married couple and their 12-year-old son. The U.S. Supreme Court had denied Simon’s appeal earlier in the day.

Two other Mississippi death row inmates who have petitions pending before the U.S. Supreme Court could find out in the next few weeks if the justices will take up their cases. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides not to hear those appeals, Hood said he will seek an April 27 execution date for Rodney Gray and one for Benny Joe Stevens on May 4.

Stevens was convicted of killing a couple and two children in 1998. Gray was convicted of the 1994 kidnapping, rape and shooting death of a 79-year-old woman.

Mississippi isn’t the only state dealing with the fallout from the shortage of sodium thiopental since the main U.S. supplier stopped making it.

Attorneys in Kentucky, Georgia and Arizona want the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how those states got supplies of sodium thiopental. Drug Enforcement Administration officials said about a week ago they had seized Georgia’s supply of the drug. A public defender for a Kentucky death row inmate also wants the Justice Department to determine if the state’s contacts with a pharmaceutical company in India were handled properly.

Just weeks before Mississippi’s last executions — the first back-to-back executions in nearly 50 years — officials were scrambling to find enough sodium thiopental to carry out the sentences. The executions were carried out as scheduled after the state found a pharmacy willing to give it the drug.

Hood wrote a letter to Hospira Inc. last April, asking if he could do anything to help expedite a shipment of sodium thiopental because the state didn’t have enough for two executions, scheduled the following month.

The company declined, saying it doesn’t support the use of its products in capital punishment and that manufacturing had halted in 2009 because of “manufacturing difficulties.”

The Mississippi Department of Corrections eventually got the drug from a pharmacist who doesn’t want to be identified, officials said.

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RHETA GRIMSLEY JOHNSON: Phi Beta hot tub: War Eagle!

By Rheta Grimsley Johnson

No springtime ritual was better at Auburn than sitting on hard rocks at a nearby state park to let cold water rush over your feet. You wore cut-off blue jeans and Dr. Scholl’s sandals, the unofficial uniform for coeds in the 1970s, and when you left, you felt ready to tackle tests, term papers and blind dates.
The state park is still there. The water is still rushing. But evidently that’s not enough to relax today’s Auburn students.
This spring at Auburn a new 240,000-square-foot recreation and fitness center will open so students and faculty can stay well and fit.
The building will include a 50-foot rock-climbing wall “with an auto-belaying system,” whatever that is, “four bordering caves for lateral climbing, a 20-foot wet rock climbing wall in the 20,000 gallon leisure activity pool, a 45-person hot tub in the shape of a tiger paw and a third of a mile indoor track with a corkscrew formation and 10 feet of altitude change.”
The track reportedly will be the longest indoor track in the country. In the country.
There will be floors for dancing, cycling, “core training” and a five-floor tower with “a gorgeous view of Auburn” at the top. You can pump iron or dance the Zumba.
Did I mention that the new recreation and wellness center will be “green,” “a sustainable building that decreases Auburn’s carbon footprint”? You wouldn’t want wellness and recreation to be offset by a huge carbon footprint.
In my day you went to the rooftop of Haley Center if you wanted a gorgeous view of Auburn. I guess you could have walked the stairway up the nine floors if you wanted exercise. Everyone I knew rode the elevator because most of us didn’t have cars and were tired from walking all day.
We also rode bikes, but we didn’t call it “cycling.” Our brand of biking didn’t need its own floor in a building. We danced, but not in a wellness center, more often in a frat house with a beverage in our hand. If we wanted to climb rocks, they were the ones at the aforementioned state park. We sometimes jogged at the Coliseum, but more often just ran to and from classes.
From what I’ve noticed on recent visits to campus, in my day we were as fit as today’s students without benefit of all the recreational frills.
“You’ll forgive me,” an Auburn professor emailed his department colleagues, “when in future meetings I just blurt out ‘45-person hot tub in the shape of a tiger paw’ when the next round of budget cuts or library cancellations is announced.”
A campus marketing spokesman saw it differently. “The students voiced a major concern that they wanted to have a top-tier facility. They see their friends at other universities having that. They wanted the same amenities and features that are at other institutions.”
Well, by all means. You wouldn’t want some other Alabama university or Louisiana campus or Georgia college getting a bigger hot tub or longer track or better view than Auburn gets.
This way, when Auburn students leave campus, they will be fit to climb rocks, Zumba, cycle or run. And if Auburn graduates haven’t learned as much as, say, graduates of Princeton or Bucks County School of Beauty Culture, at least they’ll be well and rested up.
Syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson lives near Iuka. Contact her at Iuka, MS 38852. To find out more about Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www.rhetagrimsleyjohnsonbooks.com.


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Monday, August 2, 2010

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance @Guggenheim

JTF (just the facts): A large group show of photography, video and film, displayed in the entry space, on five levels of the darkened rotunda, and in two annex galleries off to the side. The exhibit includes work by 58 artists and photographers, spanning the period from roughly the 1960s to the present. The show was curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, and a hardback exhibition catalogue is available for $45 (here). No photography is ever allowed at the Guggenheim, so unfortunately, there are no installation shots for this show. Specific images have been taken from the Haunted exhibit website (linked from here). (Paul Chan, 6th Light, 2007, at right.)

The exhibit is divided into four loose thematic groups, following a generally chronological order. This is not however a rigid organizational structure; works listed under various themes are often intermixed and taken out of strict order, likely due to the vagaries of display constraints. Each of the sections is listed below, with the artists and photographers included and the number of works on view in parentheses:

Appropriation and the Archive
Bernd and Hilla Becher (grid of 9)
Sarah Charlesworth (26)
Thomas Demand (1 video)
Douglas Gordon (1 video)
Rachel Harrison (1 photograph, 1 sculpture)
Luis Jacob (set of 84)
Idris Khan (1)
Barbara Kruger (1)
Sherrie Levine (set of 12)
Christian Marclay (3 cyanotypes, 1 video)
Allan McCollum (1)
Richard Prince (1)
Robert Rauschenberg (1 painting, 3 lithographs)
Sara VanDerBeek (2)
Andy Warhol (1 painting)
Landscape, Architecture, and the Passage of Time
Walead Beshty (2)
James Casebere (1) (James Casebere, Garage, 2003, at right.)
Spencer Finch (set of 7)
Ori Gersht (1)
Roni Horn (grid of 64)
Luisa Lambri (2)
An-My (4)
Sally Mann (3)
Hiroshi Sugimoto (5)
Janaina Tschäpe (1 video)
Jeff Wall (4)
Documentation and Reiteration
Marina Abramović (1 four-channel video)
Christian Boltanski (1 installation)
Sophie Calle (set of 2)
Tacita Dean (1 six-channel film)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (set of 8)
Markus Hansen (1 drawing on glass)
Anthony Hernandez (2)
Joan Jonas (1)
Robert Mapplethorpe (1)
Ana Mendieta (1)
Annette Messager (1 installation)
Gina Pane (1 installation)
Susan Philipsz (1 sound recording)
Cindy Sherman (2)
Robert Smithson (set of 9)
Lawrence Weiner (1 installation of words)
Zhang Huan (1)
Trauma and the Uncanny
Paul Chan (1 video)
Anne Collier (2)
Stan Douglas (1 two-channel film)
Anthony Goicolea (1 video)
Karl Haendel (1 installation)
Adam Helms (1)
Sarah Anne Johnson (39 as 1 installation)
Zoe Leonard (1)
Miranda Lichtenstein (1)
Nate Lowman (3 paintings, 1 sculpture)
Adam McEwen (1)
Cady Noland (1 screenprint)
Rosângela Rennó (1)
Anri Sala (1 video)
Gillian Wearing (1)
Comments/Context: The Guggenheim's current exhibition of contemporary photography, video and film (which has been on display since early Spring) is best characterized as an expansive gathering of the museum's recent acquisitions in these related media, tied up under a broad, inclusive conceptual umbrella which can happily accommodate nearly anything pulled out of storage. As a theoretical construct, Haunted offers plenty of leeway to cover everything from appropriation and reuse to history and nostalgia, and from staging and myth making to memory and documentation, covering most of the usual bases in the contemporary photography debate. (Robert Smithson, Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1-9), 1969, at right.)
The story begins with Warhol and Rauschenberg (as background) and quickly segues to the Pictures Generation, with iconic but routine stops at Becher water towers, Prince cowboys, Charlesworth newspapers and Levine reproductions, and a few more modern day descendants (VanDerBeek, Jacob). Paul Chan's quietly disturbing falling silhouettes are out of place amongst these works (and annoyingly interrupted by people continually wandering through the projection); this is the first work on view that really woke me up and got my attention.
The next level of the rotunda moves on to time as thematic element, with shadowy Sally Mann landscapes, An-My Vietnam reenactments, Sugimoto seascapes, and a sparse black and white Casebere garage. I particularly enjoyed seeing Roni Horn's grid of women's changing rooms (somehow not included on the exhibit website), with its repetitions and layers of subway tile, numbered doors, mirrors, and peep holes. Continuing up the ramp, the works become more performance and installation oriented, filled with documents and relics. There are installations by Boltanski and Messager, and performance stills from Zhang Huan, Gina Pane and Ana Medieta. Robert Smithson's late 1960s images of arrays of mirrors placed on beaches, in jungles, and amid gravel were a discovery for me, and the Cindy Sherman of crime scene dirt, complete with teeth, hair, and random fingers and body parts was lovingly creepy. (Cindy Sherman, Untitled (#167), 1986, at right.)
The last thematic group is centered on memory and traumatic experiences, but is in many ways, more of a grab bag. Anthony Goicolea's video Nail Biter is a manic, disturbing, shock treatment, covered in drool and fingernail fragments. I always enjoy Christian Marclay's unspooled cassette tape cyanotpes, and there are three of these on view in a side gallery, paired with a Thomas Demand video; a group of Jeff Wall images and a Stan Douglas video inhabit the other annex area. The most memorable work in the entire show is Tacita Dean's six screen film of Merce Cunningham performing Stillness to John Cage's 4'33'', displayed on the entire top level of the rotunda. While the space does not lend itself well to the different vantage points of the film (and again, the crowds walk repeatedly walk through the projections), it is a triumph of subtlety and thought: Cunningham sits in a chair, from time to time shifting his arms, all in the noisy silence of his studio.
While the one-size-fits-all flexibility of the exhibit's curatorial approach allows for the incorporation of a wide assortment of working styles and artistic methods, it unfortunately leads to a show that suffers from being much too amorphous and unwieldy. Contemporary photography is of course a jumbled, chaotic melting pot of recursive and recombinant ideas, so charting a course through all the diversity is no easy task. But making sense of it all is why we come to museums; we seek to be educated, to be shown a path through the thicket, to be given a coherent point of view, especially in a survey show like this one. Instead, this exhibit feels like the list of accessions divided up into major conceptual buckets (a good start), but without the more important, driving sense of what the curators really think durably matters. I also felt like many of the specific selections weren't hugely inspiring; I saw far too many ho-hums or lesser examples in a row to generate much positive momentum or energy.
In my view, the Guggenheim has the exciting challenge of trying to create a distinct museum identity in a New York environment with many strong and capable rivals. But this show leaves me with the conclusion that at least in the realm of contemporary photography, the Guggenheim does not yet seem anxious to step into a leadership role, or is perhaps content to be more of a follower. Yes, there are many terrific works on display here, some well known and others a bit more adventurous. But I didn't discern a consistency of conception among these accessions that tells me someone is guiding the ship with a firm and deliberate hand or that risk taking and innovative thinking are a top priority. If the Guggenheim wants a reputation as a thought leader and taste maker in photography, we will need to see a more comprehensive and well-executed vision. Until then, this show is evidence that the museum is indeed very much active in contemporary photography, albeit without an easily readable point of view.
Collector's POV: I've already highlighted many of my favorites from this show in the comments above. None is a perfect fit for our specific collection; the Becher water towers would be the likely closest actual match.
Rating: * (one star) GOOD (rating system described here)
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f:lux said...

I find the idea of museums as 'taste makers' very troubling. I really don't think it's the place of museum curators to be kingmakers.

I think museums should be intelligently responding to and reflecting existing trends, with an awareness of their relevance to the past. This is not the same thing as trend setting.

J. Wesley Brown said...

I could not disagree more. Without museums as tastemakers, we wouldn't have Frank, Friedlander, Wall, Winogrand, Arbus etc.

f:lux said...

Maybe it's because I'm an English photographer that I'm bothered by the idea that museum curators might be taste makers?

All the photographers you cite are American and were championed by John Szarkowski at a particular time in the history of American photography. I can't think of an English equivalent to Szarkowski, and more generally the British art establishment have taken little more than a mild interest in photography until fairly recently - the Tate Modern in London, for example, only really began putting together shows of the sort DLK describes in this post in the early 2000s (like 'Cruel and Tender' in 2003).

But what about Szarkowski? Was he really a taste maker, in the sense of actively and consciously shaping trends, or was he an incredibly perceptive and intelligent bloke who, on arriving at MoMA, looked around at what photographers were doing at the time and ensured that the exhibitions he curated reflected the best of the work was being produced?

Taste makers are publishers, collectors, gallerists, art critics and, most importantly, photographers themselves. Museum curators should, in my opinion, be responding to these, sifting through the trends (which are varied and overlapping and rich) and presenting us with intelligent, incisive overviews. To anyone not aware of what's happening in photography, this might seem like trendsetting, but actually it is, or ought to be, insightful interpretation.

f:lux said...

...and contextualisation. In a way, Museum curators rejoin artists in the sense that they can interpret social and stylistic trends, draw attention to or underscore them - help us to make sense of them, even as they're happening. And this is an important role but, again, I don't think it's the same as taste making.

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The Strip is all right

A 2% decline in July revenues on the Strip may not seem like good news but the casinos were competing against the anniversary of a very Baccaratgood month for baccarat last year. By comparison, this July saw players drop 35% less money onto the felt, although the house was relatively lucky, its winnings only 21% down. Looking ahead, J.P. Morgan analyst Joseph Greff wrote, “we expect the market to continue to experience volatility in baccarat play given a likely slowdown in Chinese players.”

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SLS: Sinking less slowly

Judging by the looks of this going-out-of-business sale at SLS Las SLSVegas (and the exorcism of the Fred Segal name from the Web site), more rats are scurrying off Sam Nazarian‘s sinking ship. It makes me sorry my wife and I turned down a free-stay package this weekend (too busy): It may be our last chance to experience SLS before it’s gone.

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Maryland to players: Drop dead

If you suddenly find that you’re in a Free State casino and your gambling budget doesn’t go as far as it once did, you can thank the Maryland Lottery & Gaming Control Commission. It’s prepared to Great_Seal_of_Maryland_reversevote on a staff-recommended change that slot holds in the state be lowered from the 90%-95% range to 87%-95%. In a slight concession to players, holds are not being tightened to the 85% sought by casinos. Now I understand that casinos in Maryland are taxed to within an inch of their lives, but they’re big boys. They didn’t go into the state with their eyes shut. They knew the tax rate was (initially) 65% and they fought hard — and in the case of Penn National Gaming, dirty — to get a foothold just the same. They even got a tax break during the last election and they still want to sweat the percentages. It all adds up to a big “screw you” for the consumer.

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Atlantic City profits grow; Good and bad news for Caesars

Second-quarter operating profits in Atlantic City were up everywhere except for — you guessed it — Trump Taj Mahal. The Golden Nugget ACTaj swung from a $2 million profit in 2Q14 to a $900,000 loss, another testament to CEO Bob Griffin‘s inspiring leadership. Despite the drag exerted by the Taj, cash flow was up 28% in the market. The increased profitability is actually greater if defunct turkeys like Revel, the Atlantic Club, Trump Plaza and the martyred Showboat are added to the year/year splits. The Golden Nugget‘s ability to draw in refugee players from the closed casinos was reflected in a 902% increase (that’s not a typo) in profitability, nearly $8 million.

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Caesars, O’Malley flunk key tests

Caesars Entertainment got caught with its pants down by Howard Stutz, who wrote that the company “committed public
Loveman speaksrelations suicide” by lavishing a $200,000 bonus on General Counsel Tim Donovan. This is the same Caesars that is trying to stiff its junior creditors and the same Tim Donovan who — as Stutz pointed out — defended the company’s denial of pensions to 63 former employees. Moneybags Donovan isn’t exactly a Continue reading

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New Jersey loses again; From Russia with casinos

New Jersey‘s quest for sports betting came to a bitter, penultimate roadblock before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which deemed the Garden State’s repeal of its sports-betting ban to be a violation of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. The ruling was basically a rerun of prior Third Circuit edicts, with judges Maryanne Trump Barry and Marjorie Rendell frowning upon New Jersey’s law and Judge Julio Fuentes the lone voice of sanity, saying  Continue reading

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Quote of the Day

“Indian gaming, unfortunately, is the 800-pound gorilla in every room, in every discussion, on every Indian policy, including recognition. Mostly recognition.” — lobbyist Arlinda Locklear, on how tribal policymaking in Washington, D.C., is complicated by politicians and interest groups who have the heebie-jeebies about gambling.

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Back from vacation

My wife and I have just returned from four days’ vacation in Kanab, Utah. We spent our time there volunteering at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, where we washed dishes, folded laundry, picked up poop, fed the inhabitants and socialized with Continue reading

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Caesars’ pound of flesh; SLS plays the Red Bull card

Banks and other lending institutions aren’t going to simply forebear while Caesars Entertainment ownership absconds with all the assets. No, they want equity if they’re going to forgive debt and drop caesarscasino_1lawsuits. And if those lawsuits drag the parent company into Chapter 11, so be it. Caesars’ attitude toward creditors has been at times disdainful, with advisor James E. Millstein telling a lawyer, “You’re deluding yourselves in thinking you’re getting that money anytime soon.” Millstein added that Caesars could lose whatever creditor support it has if litigation over potentially fraudulent asset transfers is permitted to go forward. (And, let’s face it, when Total Rewards is “sold” for $0.00, there’s something fishy happening.)

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The Penn National effect strikes again

Penn National Gaming is “making it rain” in Plainview, where it has spent $1.5 million with local vendors since opening. The Plainridge5workforce at Plainridge Park has gone from 100 to 533, with a $14 million payroll. And the state has already collected $10 million in taxes. This would seem like success beyond Deval Patrick‘s wildest dreams but now the dreaded Penn National Effect kicks in, management having engaged in its habitual exaggeration of projected revenue, forecast at $248 million but likelier to come in around $220 million. (See also Baltimore, Horseshoe.)

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Those tight slots; A birthday for Horseshoe

When one reads that casino revenues were up in, say, Indiana, despite lower foot traffic, you’ve got to wonder how its done. Applied Analysis has the answer: Slot holds are at “all-time highs,” meaning that some of the economic recovery we’ve been seeing is artificially Parx slotsgenerated. The study was commissioned by the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers, who are to be commended for essentially blowing the whistle on themselves. Except for Florida‘s drop from 9.5% to 6% hold, most states have seen 6% increases in hold since 2007, even as actual slot play fell by double-digit amounts.

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Optimism at MGM; SLS: The Unhappy Blob

MGM Resorts International sent CFO Dan D’Arrigo to meet with J.P. Morgan analysts, who found MGM execs in an upbeat mood. “We’d characterize the tone of the meetings as positive and Crystals 4investor interest as high,” wrote analyst Joseph Greff. That’s partly because MGM’s bread and butter, convention-goers, have been coming to Vegas in force and October is on course to set a record for group bookings on the Las Vegas Strip. As for other strategic positioning, management is still working its way through the pros and cons of converting to a REIT. As for ongoing asset sales, Crystals (above) is still the property being most aggressively shopped, although the $1 billion price tag may explain why MGM hasn’t found a buyer yet.

MGM taketh away, planning to eradicate any remaining 3:2 blackjack from its Strip casinos, as well as trying to “capture” more resort fees. Thanks, guys. Greff projected that the company’s forthcoming Macao casino would make a “reasonable” Continue reading

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It’s Galaxy’s turn to take a hit; Tohono O’odham file suit

Add Galaxy Entertainment to the companies taking on the chin in the Macao economy. The casino firm just posted a 46% drop in cash flow Galaxy-Macau-e1352360709345-300x300for 2Q15. Leading by example, Chairman Lui Che Woo announced a freeze in executive salaries as the primary austerity measure. He also became the latest casino boss to say Macao has “almost hit bottom.” Hey, if enough CEOs keep saying it, somebody’s eventually bound to be right, no? Although China International Capital Corp. analyst Chris Kwai called Galaxy’s numbers “solid,” he’s not buying into the ‘build it and they will come scenario for 2016. “Individual new opening will not bring too much of an upside in the entire market,” he hedged. “But once it added up all the casinos next year, people will be more fond of going to Macao.”

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SLS: Closed by 2016?

That’s the stark implication of some remarks by owner Stockbridge Capital Partners about SLS Las Vegas, which continues to generate negative return on investment. Howard Stutz took a deep sls-picdive into the numbers and he must have required a bathysphere to find them. In 2Q15, SLS lost $49 million, for a grand total of $84 million year to date. Stockbridge made three cash infusions, for a total of $13 million, during the summer months, when one would expect SLS to be performing at its best.

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“It is now safe to say the American casino industry has recovered, and the new normal is growth again.” — Fantini’s Gaming Report CEO Frank Fantini, on revenue upticks at Midwestern and tribal casinos.

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Massachusetts: Penn has a hit; Arms race in New York

First-month numbers are in for Plainridge Park and the racino run by Penn National Gaming took in an average of $467/slot/day Penn logo(including a $6.15 million gross its first week). That’s an absolute blockbuster figure in an industry where $200/day is the desired average. So they’re metaphorically off and running at Plainridge. It has Massachusetts all to itself for as much as three years but already some doom-and-gloom remarks are being made. “What they need to do is build up some kind of loyalty to keep people coming back after MGM’s Springfield casino and Wynn Resorts’ $1.7 billion Everett casino open with all the bells and whistles,” said Boston College boffin Richard McGowan.

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So long, Las Vegas Club

The countdown has begun toward a Wednesday closing of the Las Vegas Club. It’s surprising that it took five years for new co-owner vegasclub-pic2Derek Stevens to persuade Tamares Group to part with the casino, considering how flummoxed Tamares was at what to do with it. “There will be some demolition and renovation,” Stevens says, “several months down the line.” Reopening the Club will be complicated by the fact that Stevens bought neither Continue reading

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wilmott“I joked with people a year ago no one wanted to be in regional gaming and everyone wanted to be in Macao. And a year later, it has really flipped.” — Penn National Gaming CEO Tim Wilmott, whose company’s stock price has risen 70% in the last year.

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Poker outlawed in Wisconsin; A new game in New York

Score one against private poker games and score one for tribal casinos, which are now the only places in Wisconsin where one can legally play poker. As Poker News put it, ” the fact remains even poker-cardplaying poker for pennies against grandma constitutes a crime.” A crowdfunded lawsuit by poker players challenging state law met with a not-unsympathetic but ultimately negative verdict from Judge Richard G. Niess. Saying his “hands are tied” by a 1964 legal precedent, Niess ruled, “I’ve got to say that poker is such a rich topic on so many levels. It’s as much a part of the American fabric, I think, as Continue reading

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Vegas Club rescued; Straight talk from Steve Wynn

Good news for fans of the Las Vegas Club (and you know who you are): Its long Tamares Group nightmare will soon be over. Tamares LV Clubhas sold the Vegas Club to the D owner Derek Stevens and his brother for a undisclosed $40 million pricc. Details are thin on the ground, particularly as to Stevens’ intentions. However, given the vast improvements he wrought at the D and Golden Gate, optimism is warranted. In a cover-your-ass announcement, Tamares tried to paint its retreat from the increasingly threadbare Vegas Club as the kind of Continue reading

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Snakehead Fishing in Southern MD

Type: Tidal
Region: Southern
Location: Nanjemoy Creek

Kayak fishing on Nanjemoy Creek yesterday with some friends. Caught these snakeheads on Yum Frog (weedless rig). Beautiful weekend to paddle. These are 1.9 lbs and 2.85 lbs.

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Driessen, Alfred and Dekker, Ronald and Diemeer, Mart B.J. and Geuzebroek, Douwe H. and Hoekstra, Hugo J.W.M. and Klein, Edwin J. and Leinse, Arne (2005) Microresonators as promising building blocks for VLSI photonics. In: Integrated Optics, 31 August - 2 September 2005, Warsaw, Poland (pp. 59560Q.1-59560Q.14).

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Abstract:In the last years much effort has been taken to arrive at optical integrated circuits with high complexity and advanced functionality. For this aim high index contrast structures are employed that allow for a large number of functional elements within a given chip area: VLSI photonics. It is shown that optical microresonators can be considered as promising basic building blocks for filtering, amplification, modulation, switching and sensing. Active functions can be obtained by monolithic integration or a hybrid approach using materials with thermo-, electro- and opto-optic properties and materials with optical gain. Examples are mainly taken from work at MESA'.
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:© 2005 SPIE
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
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Link to this item:http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/62272
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.627050
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