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Take in the beauty of San Luis Obispo on foot. Our walkable historic downtown features beautiful mission-style sidewalks, outdoor cafes, and the Court Street and Downtown Center pedestrian corridors. The City maintains over 230 miles of sidewalk throughout the city as well as over 6 miles of multi-use paths. Click here for more information on the City's sidewalk program.
San Luis Obispo has been designated a Bicycle Friendly Community since 2007. Our bicycle network is over 60 miles of bike paths, bike lanes, and on-street facilities. Locking and securing your bike is easy with over 150 bike parking spaces throughout the City. Whether you ride to the market, work, or just for fun, getting there by bicycle can be a healthy and enjoyable journey. Click here for more information on bicycling in SLO.
The bus offers an affordable yet convenient way to discover San Luis Obispo. SLO Transit is the City's bus and provides daily fixed-route transit services within the City Limits and to Cal Poly. It's easy to track your bus live by using our "Bus Tracker" App for your phone (iPhone and Android) or track-your-bus-live on your computer. Do you work in San Luis Obispo's downtown district? You may be eligible for a free SLO Transit bus pass! Check out our Downtown Access Pass program to learn more.
The Old SLO Trolley (operated by SLO Transit) offers loops around Downtown and upper Monterey Street depending on the time of year. What could be a more enjoyable way to explore our historic downtown?
The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) offers bus services within the County of San Luis Obispo connecting in to the City. For more information, contact RideShare.
Greyhound offers a stop in the City at 1460 Calle Joaquin Street.
The City's Public Works Department is continuously hard at work to get you to your destination safely—starting with the design of the roadways all the way to the pothole maintenance. While driving, keep an eye out for construction in the roadway. Click here for a listing of construction projects affecting traffic commutes in town. Remember to share the road with bicyclists, watch for pedestrians, and drive cautiously in construction zones.
Once you get to where you are going, you will need to know where to find parking. Visit our Parking Services page for parking locations, pre-pay meter keys and other parking programs.
For information regarding Transportation Planning, Engineering or Operations, see the Transportation Planning and Engineering page in the Public Works Department.
Amtrak provides service to the railroad station at 1011 Railroad Avenue in San Luis Obispo, just outside of downtown in the heart of the historic Railroad District between Santa Rosa and Osos Streets. The train makes regional transportation into and out of San Luis Obispo a convenient option.
The San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport is located just south of the City Limit off of Broad Street. Both short and long term parking are available as well as taxi service.


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(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ================================================================== Call for Papers ICDM '07: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society October 28 - 31, 2007 Embassy Suites Hotel, Omaha, NE, USA http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/icdm2007/ (Papers Due: Friday June 1st, 2007) (Submission of title/abstract a week in advance is encouraged; revision of submission is possible until the deadline.) =================================================================== The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) has established itself as the world's premier research conference in data mining. It provides an international forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the conference will feature workshops, tutorials, panels and, new for this year, the ICDM data mining contest. --------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------------------------------------------- Topics related to the design, analysis, and implementation of data mining applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to: Data mining foundations * Novel data mining algorithms in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and association analysis) * Algorithms for new, structured, data types, such as arising in chemistry, biology, environment, and other scientific domains * Developing a unifying theory of data mining * Mining sequences and sequential data * Mining spatial and temporal datasets * Mining textual and unstructured datasets * High performance implementations of data mining algorithms Mining in targeted application contexts * Mining high speed data streams * Mining sensor data * Distributed data mining and mining multi-agent data * Mining in networked settings: web, social and computer networks, and online communities * Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation, sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks Methodological aspects and the KDD process * Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature transformation * Quality assessment, interestingness analysis, and post-processing * Statistical foundations for robust and scalable data mining * Handling imbalanced data * Automating the mining process and other process related issues * Dealing with cost sensitive data and loss models * Human-machine interaction and visual data mining * Security, privacy, and data integrity Integrated KDD applications and systems * Bioinformatics, computational chemistry, geoinformatics, and other science & engineering disciplines * Computational finance, online trading, and analysis of markets * Intrusion detection, fraud prevention, and surveillance * Healthcare, epidemic modeling, and clinical research * Customer relationship management * Telecommunications, network and systems management --------------------------------------------------------------- Submission --------------------------------------------------------------- High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. 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All accepted papers will be published in the ICDM'07 proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 10 pages in the proceedings. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 6 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '07 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) published by Springer-Verlag. --------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM Best Paper Awards --------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Strong, foundational, results will be considered for the best research paper award and application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. --------------------------------------------------------------- Workshops --------------------------------------------------------------- As part of the main conference technical program, ICDM will continue its tradition of hosting workshops that focus on new research directions and initiatives. All accepted workshop papers will be included in a separate workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please see the ICDM'07 website for solicitations for workshop proposals. --------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorials --------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM will host tutorials covering topics in data mining of interest to the research community as well as application developers. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Please see the ICDM'07 website for solicitations for tutorial proposals. --------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------- May 25, 2007 : open for title and abstract submission June 1st, 2007: deadline for abstract and full paper submission July 30th, 2007: Notification of acceptance August 13th, 2007: Camera-ready copy and copyright release form deadline Workshop proposal submission: February 12, 2007 Tutorial proposal submission: July 13, 2007 All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference home page at http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/icdm2007/. Conference Co-Chairs: * Yong Shi, University of Nebraska at Omaha (USA) * Christopher W. 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Pence Feels The Passion
Hunter started in RF for Houston in Milwaukee on Friday night, was removed in the fifth inning because he was dealt to the Phillies, 24 hours later he started in right field for the Phillies and received a Citizens Bank Park goose-bump welcome. Quite a swing in emotions.
He was cheered when he walked on the field for BP on Saturday, cheered when he hit some bombs into the second deck in left field, cheered when he came out to stretch just before the game's start, cheered when the lineup was announced, received a standing-O when he went to right field and again for his first at-bat.
The night had the electricity of a postseason game and Hunter felt the fans' passion. There's nothing like the passion of Phillies fans. Nothing.
Frank Coppenbarger is the team's Director, Travel and Clubhouse Services. He's the one who assigns the uniform numbers, among a thousand other duties. "After the trade, I called him. I had looked up his college number, 8. With the Astros, 9. I told him 9 wasn't available. He asked about 8 and I said that's Shane's. I told him if he wanted a single digit number, 3 is available or I have some double-digit numbers. He said, 'Let's go with 3, new team, new number.''
So, Hunter is 3. The last impact player to wear that number for the Phillies was Dale Murphy, also a right fielder.
"After the game, I offered to drive him to his center city hotel," said Frank. "As we were pulling out of the parking area, about 50 fans were still there. He asked me to stop. You know, he signed for everyone and told them how happy he was to be here. I tell you, he couldn't have handled the entire night any better. The fans are going to love this guy."
Meanwhile, the Majestic Clubhouse Store began turning out Pence #3 jerseys as fast as they could. There wasn't time to have them mass produced so they had to put the letters and number on the back of the jersey which takes some time. They sold 65 of them. By Wednesday, a large shipment of Pence jerseys and red t-shirts will be available.
When Hunter took the field on Sunday, a little girl was standing in right field, a Sunday tradition (nine kids are selected to be on the field with the Phillies for the Anthem). He bent over and said something to the girl. Next thing you know, both were waving and acknowledging the standing-O he was receiving from the faithful in right field. That little girl has a memory that will last her lifetime.
He capped the day by scoring the winning run. Hollywood couldn't have written a better script.
Sweep gave the Phillies an 18-5 record over the Pirates at Citizens Bank Park. At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, the Pirates have a 22-13 edge . . . After Sunday's game, the Phillies boarded a Delta charter flight to Denver. They start a grueling 10-game road trip Monday night against the Rockies. After three in Denver, four in San Francisco and then three in Los Angeles. By the time they a return, the August calendar will have turned from the 1 to12. Time flies . . . Phillies have won 16 or more games six straight months, a club record . . . They are 36-17 on weekends this season, best in the NL . . . 26-11 day game record is also the league's best . . . Howard has 274 career home runs, half of Schmidt's club record.
Down On The Farm
First-place Lehigh Valley dropped 3. Domingo Brown started if LF Saturday night and stretched his LV hitting streak to a club-record 19 games (covering last season and two stints there earlier this season) . . . Reading dropped 2 of 3 in New Hampshire . . . Clearwater won 2 of 3 in Palm Beach as RHS Julio Rodriguez improved his record to 14-6 with his 6th straight win . . . Lakewood won 2 of 3 in West Virginia. RHS David Buchanan (11-5) was promoted to Clearwater . . . Williamsport won all 3 to move within 1 game of first place . . . Gulf Coast League Phillies lost a pair to the Yankees by a combined 25-10 score.
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My friends bought a great spanish style apartment and I made them this stationery set as a housewarming gift.
A half sheet with the kitchen tile stamped in blue.
The A2 envelope for the half sheet. The address is a rubber stamp too.
Folded cards for shorter notes.
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Local medical experts warn of possible emergence of flesh-eating drug
Krokodil can cause rotting, gangrene, loss of limbs
A flesh-eating drug known to be an epidemic in Russia is forcing medical experts to issue a warning to western Pennsylvanians.
Krokodil, or crocodile, is a home-made substitute for heroin and is 10 times more potent than morphine. One of the ingredients is codeine, which is readily available in Russia.
Users mix codeine with other ingredients like lighter fluid, gasoline and paint thinner. Users develop reptile-looking skin with lesions and scales.
According to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, there are no confirmed reports of krokodil in the United States, but side-effects similar to what the drug causes are reported in Arizona, Illinois and Oklahoma.
The DEA has refuted many claims of the drug being reported in the United States.
"We are vulnerable in Western Pennsylvania because of the epidemic here of opioid prescriptions and heroin," said Dr. Neil Capretto, medical director of Gateway Rehabilitation Center.
Capretto said the drug can cause rotting, gangrene, loss of limbs and is toxic on the brain. Life expectancy for users is one to two years.
RELATED: Krokodil Q&A with Capretto
Patients recently told him they're familiar with the drug's potency and have heard of it on the streets.
"I talked to a young person today who heard about it, and heard about the danger of the potency, and he said the crazy thing is my first thought is 'I wonder what it feels like. I'd like to try it.' And that's the insanity of addiction," said Capretto. He adds users aren't worried what will happen to them two years from now but rather where their next high will come from.
"What some of my patients are telling me is that the drug dealers are bringing in stronger heroin to the Pittsburgh area from Philadelphia and New Jersey to compete with it (krokodil)," said Capretto.
The Pittsburgh Poison Center issued a warning to residents of the area, knowing the drug is not confirmed in the United States, yet its presence is still possible.
Dr. Michael Lynch, medical director of Pittsburgh Poison Center, said many people and medical facilities have seen skin lesions on patients, but these are not confirmed krokodil reports.
"The skin lesions that we've all started to see on TV is very real, both from contamination and infection, with non-sterile injection use, as well as other solids that are mixed in and can cause problems in the blood vessels," said Lynch.
"I don't anticipate we will see it to any degree," said Lynch. "Having said that, I can't rule out that there is some sort of drug being sold that may be referred to as 'krokodil' without being specifically this drug that is krokodil in Russia."
RELATED: Krokodil Q&A with Dr. Michael Lynch
But Capretto said anytime a new opioid product is introduced that is potent and available at a reasonable price, it can find a market.
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Welcome, Dr. Emmert: Please Don't Mess Up…Posted by rtmsf on August 18th, 2010
Yesterday on Seattle radio station KJR, NCAA president-elect Mark Emmert gave an interview with host Mitch Levy where he discussed his thoughts on some of the hot-button topics impacting collegiate sports. Dr. Emmert, who will assume his post on November 1 of this year, is currently the president of the University of Washington and the former Fulbright winner is widely recognized as one of the savviest up-and-comers in the world of academic administration. His rise up the ranks from an assistant professor (Northern Illinois) to Vice-Chancellor (Colorado) to Provost (Montana State) to Chancellor (UConn and LSU) to President at UW is impressive on its face, and his skill at political maneuvering and fund-raising should be obvious. The concern we have, however, in all situations where administrators move from an academic to an athletic environment is whether such a transition will be seamless — in other words, will that person "get it?" The danger in the application of ivory tower customs and norms to the world of athletics is that you can find yourself in troublesome spots if you haven't gauged the environment correctly, such as when Emmert badly overreached in asking for public funding for a new Husky Stadium in the midst of a massive nationwide recession. While that example represents a single misstep in a career full of home runs, it gives us pause when taken in concert with the following quote he made on the KJR radio broadcast. In discussing the much-maligned one-and-done rule in college basketball, Emmert said:
I much prefer the baseball model, for example, that allows a young person if they want to go play professional baseball, they can do it right out of high school, but once they start college they've got to play for three years or until they're 21. I like that a good deal. But what you have to also recognize is that rule isn't an NCAA rule. That's a rule of the NBA. And it's not the NBA itself, but the NBA Players Association. So to change that rule will require me and others working with the NBA, working with the players association. We'll be having those conversations, because I think it would be good for young people and good for basketball.
Before we get to our argument against this idea, let's briefly touch on the reality of this proposition. You hear this frequently stated among coaches, fans and pundits, but what all of these folks fail to recognize is that the NBA wants nothing to do with this on either the management or the players' side. Commissioner David Stern and his owners do not want untested teenagers who are virtually complete unknowns coming into their league because they are unmarketable, while players do not want untested teenagers who are virtually complete unknowns coming into their league because they take away veterans' jobs. The NCAA acts as a veritable minor league for the NBA, providing a competitive environment to fully vet and scout players for at least a year before some 80-year old owner throws sixteen million dollars and the viable future of a franchise at them. Think of it this way — were Washington Wizards fans more excited about #1 pick Kwame Brown (who nobody outside of rural Georgia had ever seen play) or #1 pick John Wall (who was on national television about 4,000 times last year)? As a point of fact, the NBA powers-that-be seem more interested in extending the one-and-done rule by another year than rolling it back in any way. And why not? — it's better for business.
Now, as to Emmert's proposal itself, we're going to explain why this is not a preferred option without regard for what the NBA wants or will agree to. The remainder of this post represents pure advocacy for the college game and the college game only. We see three compelling reasons that the NCAA should not bother to explore this MLB model possibility, as tempting as it sounds to an educator/administrator such as Emmert.
The NCAA Needs Marketable Stars Nearly as Much as the NBA Does. This is the dirty little secret of college basketball in the 21st century. The hardcore fans of the elite programs at Duke, Kansas, UCLA, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, et al, aren't going anywhere. These folks would watch their teams play if they suited up four skinny 12-year olds and a rented donkey. But the casual fan won't. The casual fan wants to see star power, and he wants to learn who the next big basketball talents will be through the crucible of the best postseason in all of sports, the NCAA Tournament. When players like Derrick Rose, Kevin Durant, Kevin Love, John Wall and many others are on college campuses building considerable buzz throughout the season and heading into March, this collective must-see component to the game takes on a much different meaning than when the player names are instead Jameer Nelson, JJ Redick, Adam Morrison and Tayshaun Prince. All great collegians, but do you see the difference? Who does Mr. Office Drone/Bracketeer tune in to watch more readily? Furthermore, CBS/Turner Sports just signed a fourteen-year, $10.8B deal to broadcast the rights to the NCAA Tournament, in case you'd already forgotten, and there will be none-too-subtle pressure on the puppet-masters of the sport to ensure that the best possible product is placed on the floor. For the maximum amount of interest to take hold, that product without question must include the top 18- and 19-year old basketball players in the world.
When High School Seniors Make Their Decisions, Coaches Bear the Brunt of It. We talked about this back in June, and nothing has changed in the interim. We saw what happened to recruiting from 1995-2005 when coaches had to compete not only against rival schools for the talents of a player, but also the siren call of the NBA. Whether it was Kentucky and Tracy McGrady, Florida and Kwame Brown, Duke and Shaun Livingston, or North Carolina and JR Smith, the fans and (more directly) coaches of those programs where agonizingly forced to endure a late spring phone call to learn that, after many hours spent recruiting the player to their campuses, it was all for naught. And those were the elite players! Imagine the situations where the player was fully expected to go to college but still was lured away — Jackie Butler (Mississippi State), Ndubi Ebi (Arizona) and Louis Williams (Georgia) all come to mind. How does a coach go about finding a suitable replacement for a star recruit so late into the signing period? Short answer: he can't. We certainly understand that it's frustrating to a lot of people (coaches included) to have to lose a star player as a one-and-done, but to have spent the same amount of time recruiting him and not receive even a single season of his talents is far worse, isn't it? That's what would happen if the MLB model were implemented — recruiting would once again become a two-phase process.
For Better or Worse, NCAA Basketball is the NBA's Minor League. It's not the NBDL (although it has found a nice niche as a training ground for older players), and it's not Europe (similarly). Rather, college basketball remains the NBA's minor league, and where the MLB example fails is that college baseball is not. Each professional baseball franchise has several levels of minor league teams beneath it by which to develop its prospects, whether they come directly from high school or after three seasons of college. This is a HUGE difference. The reason is that, as Mark Stein notes in this article, the vast majority of prep-to-pros players during that ten-year period were nowhere near ready to impact the professional game on a regular basis, and there remains no true professional minor league in basketball available by which to develop them. NCAA hoops is it. The list of players who came right into the NBA and contributed immediately is much shorter (Dwight Howard, LeBron James) than the list of those who took a few years to develop (nearly everyone else, including superstars Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Jermaine O'Neal and Amare' Stoudemire). If Mark Emmert is worried about the players (and his quote above seems to imply that he is), then he needs to push for an environment that will foster player development for the next level, in much the same way as he would inspire any student with soaring dreams. This tact dovetails nicely with what we described above that college basketball should be selling — Watch the greatest sporting spectacle on earth — the NCAA Tournament — where the stars of tomorrow are on stage today.
We obviously recognize that there are no easy answers here. Any model implemented will have someone complaining. But beginning in November, it will be the obligation of Emmert to push the game of college basketball forward in popularity and interest. After all, NCAA Tournament dollars fund nearly the entire operation there in Indianapolis. The way to do this is not to push college hoops down a path that makes it even more like college baseball, a sport that nobody cares about in large part because there is no direct connection between those players and the pros; but instead, Emmert should work with the NBA to pursue a model more like college football, an incredibly popular sport where everyone knows that today's Heisman Trophy candidates are tomorrow's NFL all-Pros.


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Having racial, gender and experiential diversity in the American judicial system were one of Obama's top priorities when he was elected to the White House. Reports suggest that he may well have succeeded in portraying the true multi-ethnic rubric of the U.S. through the federal judicial benches, at both the SCOTUS and the Courts of Appeals.
Of the 97 successful nominations made by the Obama administration, almost half were women, a quarter of them were, several openly-gay judges and Asian-Americans too.
In India, although the Supreme Court has had a history of wide regional, albeit linguistic and cultural representation, gender diversity has been hard to come by. Till date, only four women (three retired: Justice Fathima Beevi, Justice Sujata V. Manohar, Justice Ruma Pal; and one sitting: Justice Gyan Sudha Misra) have donned the role of a judge of the Supreme Court of India. In wake of the increased representation of women in local municipal governments and the pending legislation on reservation for women in the State and Central Legislatures, the judicial system has to catch up with the true multicultural, multi-ethnic and egalitarian dynamic that India exemplifies.


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Best of Zimbabwe - 2010
September 2010 - Safari to Hwange N. P. and Matobo Hills N. P. (near Bulawayo). I traveled alone on this portion of the trip. I was interested to see how things were in Zimbabwe and was happy to see that the situation there is beginning to improve. Zimbabweans are optimistic about their future, always a good sign! There were elephants in abundance in Hwange N. P. I also saw rhinos - a mother and calf white rhino in Hwange and one each of black and white rhinos in Matobo Hills.Read More


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Another month, another ticket scandal.
I know I should be in high dungeon about Mother Jones' report that the oil giant BP, of "oops-we-ruined-the-Gulf-of-Mexico" fame, has long maintained a phone hotline so that state officials can call up and get tickets to games at Sacramento's Arco Arena.
But I can't summon the outrage.
Yes, giving legislators and other employees in the Capitol special access to events doesn't look good. Even if this can't be called outright corruption, it's wrong for people in power to get special privileges. And when you consider that California is the only oil-producing state without an oil severance tax, you should be suspicious of any oil company largesse.
So why won't this register on the outrage meter? Because powerful people getting access to great concert and sports tickets is a dog-bites-man kind of story. It happens all the time. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is under investigation for accepting tickets, and a quick check of news clips shows similar reports about high-profile elected officials all over the country.
The other problem is that the economics of the modern-sports arena practically guarantees it. Most individuals can't afford the luxury boxes that fill stadiums, and the few who do are too smart to pay for such luxuries themselves. That's what corporations are for. To fill those boxes, companies give tickets away. And in choosing who to give tickets to, they naturally choose people -- government officials and others -- with whom they need to maintain good relations. BP's giving away tickets isn't extraordinary; it's merely a business model working as it's designed to do.
OK, and I must admit that there's one reason I'm outraged: Los Angeles snobbery. Arco Arena is a pit. There's been talk for years of building a replacement. The only way this Angeleno would go to Arco is if someone else paid for the ticket. They don't even have a professional sports team there.
Oh, really. You mean the Sacramento Kings are still playing in the NBA?
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Sen. Daniel Inouye dead at 88
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during World War II, died Monday, his staff said. He was 88.
The Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, who also was third in line for the presidency as Senate president pro tem, had been hospitalized with respiratory problems since Dec. 6.
He died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was transferred Dec. 9 from George Washington University hospital, Roll Call reported.
Fox News said his wife Irene and his son Daniel Inouye Jr. were at his side when he passed. Last rites were performed by Senate Chaplain Barry Black, the network said.
Inouye served in the Senate since 1963, making him the longest-serving member of the body. He also served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
According to his office, Inouye's last word was "Aloha."
Sen. Warner urges new gun-control measures
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who earns top marks from the National Rifle Association, said Monday it's time for "rational gun control."
Warner told WTVR-TV, Richmond, Va., that after Friday's horrific school shooting in Newtown, Conn., when 20 children and six adults were killed by a young gunman who also killed his mother and himself, it's time to do something to stop the nation's gun violence.
"I believe every American has Second Amendment rights, the ability to hunt is part of our culture. I've had a NRA rating of an 'A' but, you know, enough is enough," said Warner, whose home state was the site of the nation's worst school shooting, when 32 died at Virginia Tech in 2007. "I think most of us realize that there are ways to get to rational gun control. There are ways to grapple with the obvious challenges of mental illness."
Warner told the TV station he believes the "overwhelming majority of Americans who are gun owners" want stricter gun-control laws.
"Now what those specifics ought to be, there will be time for that," he said. "There should not be a Democrat or Republican position on this. It is time for this kind of senseless violence to end. There won't be one perfect law to stop a crazy person from doing evil things. But when we have close to 30,000 killings a year from all types of gun violence, even if we save a few lives, we make progress."
Sanfords possible House candidates?
COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and his ex-wife, Jenny Sanford, are among the names being floated to run for Senate-bound U.S. Rep. Tim Scott's seat.
Roll Call reported Monday two sources said conservatives have approached Mark Sanford about running and he is considering it. He served in the House in the 1990s before his terms as governor.
Scott is giving up his seat in the heavily Republican 1st District after being appointed by Gov. Nikki Haley to take Sen. Jim DeMint's seat. DeMint resigned this month to run the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington.
Sanford served as governor from 2003 until his resignation in 2011 amid a scandal about an extramarital affair.
Roll Call and Politico both said Jenny Sanford, who ran her husband's campaigns for the 1st District House seat, also is being mentioned as a possible candidate.
Politico said other potential contenders include state House Majority Whip Jimmy Merrill, state Rep. Chip Limehouse, state Sens. Larry Grooms and Chip Campsen, and Carroll Campbell III, son of former Gov. Carroll Campbell Jr.
"It's going to be a free-for-all," Republican consultant Chip Felkel told Politico.
Under South Carolina law, a special primary election is to be held 11 weeks after a resignation, with a runoff election if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote. A general election is to be held 18 weeks after the vacancy occurs.
Egypt's prosecutor general offers to quit
CAIRO, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Talaat Ibrahim Abdallah submitted his resignation as Egypt's prosecutor general late Monday, just weeks after President Mohamed Morsi appointed him.
His resignation had not yet been accepted by the Supreme Judiciary Council, Ahram Online reported.
Abdallah's decision to step down came under mounting pressure from judges and prosecutors, including hundreds who protested at his office earlier in the day, the Egyptian news website said.
They talked to an aide but were denied the opportunity to talk with Abdallah directly. Security forces kept a group of protesters from entering his office.
Abdallah's deputy, Adel El-Said, later presented Abdallah's handwritten resignation to the protesters, Ahram Online said.
The judges and prosecutors were angered by the president's decision to replace Mubarak-era Prosecutor General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud with Abdallah, the website said.
Morsi appointed Abdallah after issuing his constitutional declaration, which was aimed at exempting his decisions from judicial challenge.
Mahmoud has since been appointed as head of Egypt's Court of Appeal.
After his appointment, Abdallah announced he would retry Mubarak-era Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and other former Mubarak officials on charges of killing protesters, al-Masry al-Youm reported at the time.


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I am a beloved child of Divine Love/Great Spirit, and so are you. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. My main interests in life include Nature, music, spirituality, inspiration, philosophy, sports, reading and photography.
"Great music opens doorways into eternal presence. It educates and refines your listening; you begin to sense your own eternity in the echoes of your soul. Music is the perfect sister of silence.'"
~ John O'Donohue
"In the house of lovers the walls are made of songs,
the floor dances and the music never stops."
"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."
― Rumi
"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
― Eckhart Tolle
"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."
― Albert Einstein


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The chipper, poignant and irksome imperatives launched from all corners of daily routine by competing companies permeate our commutes, grocery lists, and vernaculars. Current mantras like 'Laugh More. Cry More. Experience More.' (Blockbuster), 'Try Being More Of A Woman!' (Coty Perfume) and 'Get the Most Incredible Memory Ever.' (Dell) make big demands or promises to their targets! The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, based in and out of Boston, endeavors to compile authoritative research on this topic, comprising a project called The International Database of Corporate Commands. In the opinion that these commands function within society and public consciousness on a nano level that is virtual and powerful, the white-lab-coated Institute invites researchers from all over the world to upload documentation of corporate commands to their online database. By gathering them all in one place and enacting certain slogans in real spaces--a recent flash-mob-meets-teach-in 'microperformance' at a Cingular store produced 10 minutes of literal 'Roll(ing)over'--the institute hopes to produce a better understanding of the ramifications of constant commercial programming. If you'll be in Boston, come visit the Institute on Saturday and Sunday afternoons (2PM) at Space 200 (200 State Street). - Kevin McGarry
Rhizome Promotion: Hosting Bundle Pack
Multiple domains causing a headache? Projects, blogs, and e-commerce side jobs running here, there, and everywhere? Why not simplify your online livelihood by administering all your websites through one, single hosting plan? Through May 9, Broadspire Hosting has arranged a special Bundle Pack for Rhizome members that includes up to five separate accounts for one monthly payment. Each account may take its own domain name and includes an individualized email account and web traffic stats. A total of 500MB storage space is to be divided among the five, however you like, and there's a roomy 10GB limit to monthly transfers. Daily data backups and 24/7 technical support as well! All for a $50.00 setup fee and $29.95 per month, plus the peace of mind of having everything under one roof, not to mention of keeping Rhizome healthy, active and multivalent. - Rhizome.org
Catching The 'Media' Bug
How often do we hum along to a song that we are not currently listening to? Or recite jokes from ads we don't remember seeing? These types of media could be considered, 'contagious,' or so deeply entrenched in the culture and psyche of our daily lives that they seem as natural as our normal routines. This phenomenon is outlined in Malcolm Gladwell's book, 'The Tipping Point,' which outlines the conditions necessary for cultural contagion to grow. In the online world, 'contagious media' might take the form of forwarded emails, obscure websites, senseless animations, or re-mixed video and audio samples. These snippets or cultural artifacts are the focus of 'Contagious Media,' a show of works by siblings Jonah and Chelsea Peretti and curated by Rachel Greene. The show, now up at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City's Chelsea district, features installation and documentation of several contagious media projects by the duo (and their collaborators) including the infamous 'Nike Sweatshop' email forward and 'BlackPeopleLoveUs.com,' both of which have circulated through the inboxes and (dis)graced the browsers of millions worldwide. - Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Crisis or Opportunity?
CRISIS showcases the results of 6 micro-residencies by artists laurie halsey brown, Rob Kennedy, Manu Luksch, Sophia New, Miranda Whall, and Spencer Roberts & Anneke Pettican at Newcastle-based ISIS Arts. Embracing time-based formats such as evolving web archive, video, slide projection and news feed topography, much of the work derives its force from the instability of our media lifeworld--CCTV, 24-hour satellite news channels--and the teeming recombinations it affords. Manu Luksch's 'Faceless Online' is a video-in-process documenting a society populated by faceless humans. Their omni-surveilled reality is ruptured one day when a journalist finds that she does have a face, a cogent metaphor for the moment you realize you are on camera. halsey brown, meanwhile, takes on the built environment, in her Welkom to Rotterdam!, a website about the city with the densest concentration of architects of anywhere, and anywhere but Rotterdam is where these architects prefer to build. The projects all mine the subliminal slipstream of data overload with narrative schemas and affective logics that reveal it to be fragile--created and creative. - Marina Vishmidt
It's Human Nature
Before private ownership, all natural resources were open to everyone. But how open is nature today? Nature has always been a product of human perception, identified one day by our ancestors and continually discovered on macro and micro scales. Mechanisms such as DNA and ecosystems were named in the latter half of the 20th century; and now, we are simultaneously surrounded both by nature in its primal sense, as well as by its artificial and virtual derivations. The latter are becoming more and more real, and amalgamating with 'original nature.' The exhibition 'open nature' at InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, focuses on the technological, aesthetic and philosophical 'openness' of nature. Yukiko Shikata, ICC curator for the exhibition, says 'open nature presents several different approaches interpreting the new 'nature' that has emerged due to the development of digital information environments.' Artworks by visual and sound artists range from Robert Smithson's 'Spiral Jetty' (1970), to r a d i o q u a l i a's ongoing 'Radio Astronomy,' to Fukuhara Shiho and Georg Tremmel's (UK/Japan/Austria) new project 'Biopresence 2055,' for which they will embed human DNA in trees, transforming them into 'living memorials.' - Keisuke Oki
Loose Knit Jewels
'Fake is the New Real,' a website of homegrown miscellany coming from Chicago, is encyclopedic entertainment; in other words: just what the Internet is supposed to be, right? Goofy and clever, the collection traffics in random nuggets of processed information. Catalogues, hypotheses, and 'very low quality jpegs,' are presented alongside proposals for political re-districting. Each idea is simple and graphical, yet a collective complexity is evident in these numerous political maps, of the Electoral College, nuclear capable nations, world transit systems drawn to scale and Chicago, mile by mile. Reminiscent of Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz's December 10, 2001 'New Yorker' cover--aka New Yorkistan--in 'Electoral College Reform,' the U S of A is divided into 50 equally populated parcels. The page that would ordinarily be named 'Links' has been dubbed 'It's the Song I Hate,' among other monikers, and it is the real deal! - Sara Greenberger
11,000 Fahrenheit Degrees of Fun
The Rolling Stones may be burdening us with yet another worldwide tour, but they're far from the oldest ticket in town. Rose Marshack, bassist of perennial Champaign-Urbana, Illinois outfit The Poster Children, is trying her hand at promoting an act that's got billions of years on Mick 'n' Keith: the setting sun. Marshack has enlisted the considerable services of Ticketmaster's Ticketweb division to hawk "Tickets to the Sunset." That's right, for an unspecified charitable donation of two bucks (not including surcharge, of course), you can get your very own printed ticket to see Dryden's "glorious lamp of Heav'n" descend below the horizon ("Rain or shine, money-back guarantee if the sun does not set"). Marshack calls it a "time-based solar transaction," and wants you to know that t-shirts and posters are also available. Oh, and a Steve Albini-engineered field recording of the sun's March 16th setting in Chicago (on iTunes, Napster, Real, and all other non-analog mp3 outlets). Marshack hypothesizes that all of this entrepreneurialism will make people "feel justified or obligated to watch the sunset… The act of paying for something makes it seem more desirable, justifiable." Did I mention that t-shirts are available? - Andy Comer
T to the Oogle
Hot on the tails of art hacks that borrow the big G's latter five letters, such as Cory Arcangel's "Doogle" (which turns any search into a hunt for all things Doogie Howser) and Tsila Hassine's "Schmoogle" (which upturns PageRank and sorts the results of any Google search at random), the trouble-making UK collective C6 has released "Toogle." Billed on their homepage as "comprehensive image buggery on the web," "Toogle" (the T stands for text) is a search mechanism that matches a search string with an ASCII imitation of the corresponding top-ranked image by Google Image Search. Popular searches--such as "Bush," "Sex" and "Lindsay Lohan"--generate text-based likenesses composed of the words that have summoned them. This automatic dictionary of words defined by their Google-endorsed visual counterparts (and vice versa) imprints one (text) so deeply into the other (image) as to leave both only faintly recognizable. A nice foil to the authoritative master of logical answers that is Google. - Kevin McGarry
How to Succeed in the Arts (by Really Trying)
A New York gallerist once took the wind out of my sails by telling me "If you're not trying to make it to the top in this town, then GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Umm, what top? What way? ART*
@WORK, an exhibition organized by non-profit organization Ignivomous, offers a playful reproach to the sometimes grim, sometimes fruitful relationship between creative process and capitalist aspiration. Occupying an expanse of office space in Midtown Manhattan, ART*
@WORK includes fifteen artists--one per cubicle--whose installations are open to the public during official "office hours." Writer Tom Moody looks busy at work in his cubicle, but is really representing for the so-called "Bored at Work" network as he dreamily sketches portraits of celebrities and random faces with the Paintbrush.exe program. Cat Mazza recalls less luxurious working conditions with a knitting machine programmed with the web application knitPro to weave corporate logos of sweatshop offenders into clothing. Including new media, performance, sculpture and sound, ART*
@WORK presents artists whose innovative practices (not just products) prove that working in collaborative, lateral ways can be a more powerful expression of success than shooting solo to the proverbial top. - Lauren Cornell
Do Not Exist (by June 23rd)
In a move sure to rankle essentialist feminists and politically-minded humanists, Bremen, Germany's Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor has announced a call for contributions to a "transdisciplinary European project" premised on the following question: "Is it possible to speak of the non-existence of what is labeled 'Europe,' 'Woman,' or 'Digital Medium,' and does this open up a 'new' perspective in thinking and behavior?" Co-organized by Tallinn's Estonian Academy of Arts and Ljubljana, Slovenia's Institutum Studorium Humanitatis (ISH), the broadly deconstructionist project--called "Do Not Exist: Europe, Woman and the Digital Medium"--is inviting proposals from women artists, theorists, journalists, and activists for its symposia and exhibitions of film, video, and net art. The organizers hope to bring gender, politics, and media art into confrontation with each another, and to do so "in full recognition of a female perspective, allowing the querying of the non-existence of woman from a female point of view." How could a "female point of view" exist in a Woman-less world, you might ask? Put in your two cents, to email@example.com, by June 23rd. - Andy Comer


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Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
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All Preparing for Baby programs are held at the RMC Women's and Children's Pavilion. Call for available dates and more information: 256-235-5132, ext. 1.
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FITCHBURG - Step inside and the first thing a visitor sees will be two fire-blackened, headless torsos suspended in mid-air over a pit of charred books in the lobby of the Fitchburg Art Museum.
Are they falling from the 1982 arsonist�s fire that consumed the Clarendon Street Baptist Church in Boston or rising from the ashes of the AIDS epidemic that took millions of lives?
The evocative power and narrative complexity of Robert Lawson�s mixed media installation, "Memorial (ghost /embers),�� provides an intriguing introduction to the 79th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft at the reinvigorated museum in downtown Fitchburg.
At one of the oldest juried shows of its kind in New England, visitors will see 120 remarkably varied works by 101 regional artists using every imaginable kind of material from paint to photographs, from fabrics to blown glass, from bamboo to thorns.
While many museums offer such shows based on dues-paying memberships, this exhibit feels exciting and fun because jurors Randi Hopkins and Honee Hess chose � by taste and instinct � a challenging mix of high-quality traditional art and meticulously constructed crafts as well as striking works by artists like Lawson, Nicholas Kantarelis and Don Collette that defy conventional categories.
Hopkins is associate director of visual arts at the Boston Center for the Arts and Hess serves as executive director of Worcester Center for Crafts.
The only criteria for this show is artists must live within 30 miles of Fitchburg and submit work made within the last two years. So this exhibit showcases a charmed circle of artists from southern New Hampshire to Hudson, Westborough and Southborough, including about a dozen MetroWest residents.
Shrewsbury artist Maureen Hebert is showing soda-fired stoneware "Won�t Hold Water�� that suggests a porous vessel of coiled roots. One of a handful of artists who had two works accepted, Lincoln painter Steven Mitchell is showing two large equestrian scenes that might have been done at Downton Abbey.
Hudson artist Mark Spencer, who also had two works selected, paints stylized futuristic scenes that are both beautiful and menacing.
Once again, father and son Joseph and Walter Landry, of Southborough, both had distinctive works selected. Joseph Landry�s mixed-media sculpture, "The Orient Palace,�� recreates in exact detail the graffiti-scarred fa�ade of a vintage movie theater�s ticket booth, while his son, Walter, is showing two precisely-detailed drawings of curbstones.
A haunting untitled painting by Cynthia Frost, of Stow, portrays a young boy with staring eyes.
Prizewinners for the show�reflect an ecumenical mix of traditional and cutting-edge works that express the artist�s distinctive vision in varied styles.
An international traveler, Eleanor Briggs, of Hancock, New Hampshire, won first prize for the show for her straightforward but remarkably detailed photo of a sad-eyed young Burmese woman sitting amid colorful goods in her shop. In an innovation started by museum director Nick Capasso, Briggs will get a solo exhibit next year.
Far more fanciful, Lowell artist Robb Sandgata�s second place mixed media painting "My Heart Will Go On�� features a mournful, three-armed blue alien pouting like a teenager.
Taking a far different approach, Trisha Barry, of Gardner,�won third prize for her "Ceremonial Cloak,�� that was so meticulously made from handwoven paper that it could be easily mistaken for an African ritual garment.
Unlike many juried shows that select works based on digital submissions, Fitchburg required artists bring their actual works to be viewed by Hopkins and Hess, and it makes a noticeable difference.
Artists brought in more than 400 works that they viewed. To a degree that might explain why so many works display an engaging tactile element like Lisa Barthelson�s multi-dimensional assemblage, "Takeover � Overtake,�� or Kantarelis� "Disassembled Reassembled Tree�� that looks like it could be a stage prop in a Samuel Beckett play.
Associate curator Mary Tinti, who hung and organized�works the jurors chose, said she was impressed "by the variety and depth of the work'' in various�media.
For her imaginative "6th Generation Patchwork Portal,�� Worcester artist Elizabeth Brooks constructed a door from bedsprings strung with more than 50 doorknobs dating back more than 100 years that were taken from her family home.
Just after Lawson�s installation, visitors should stop by the first-floor Community Gallery to check out "Call and Response: Creatures Real and Imagined,�� an annual exhibit made in partnership with ArtsWorcester.
Organized by Tinti, curatorial intern Catherine Walker and Juliet Feibel of ArtsWorcester, this engaging show features 11 new ArtsWorcester works inspired by an equal number of pieces loaned from FAM�s permanent collection.
So, opposite James J. Audubon�s ink engraving of a Snowy Heron, Crystal Blanchflower is showing her mixed media piece, "Hatching Dreams,�� which features slimy, slug-like creatures emerging from cracked eggs like an ecological nightmare.
At the gallery�s end, a ram�s head mask from the Ivory Coast of Africa inspred Tyler Vance�s grimmer painting, "The High Priest Presides,�� of a painted skull that resembles road kill rather than a hand-crafted ceremonial object.
Together, these two exhibits provide original and thought-provoking works of great power and beauty.
Chris Bergeron is a Daily News staff writer. Contact him at email@example.com or 508-626-4448. Follow us on Twitter @WickedLocalArts and on Facebook.
"The 79th Regional Exhibition of Arts and Crafts��
WHEN: Through Aug. 31
WHERE: Fitchburg Art Museum, 25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg
INFO: 978-345-4207; www.fitchburgartmuseum.org
An ecumenical mix of art in regional show at Fitchburg Art Museum
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OK, we're all agreed that the world isn't ending Friday morning.
But, for a moment, let's entertain the fantasy that it actually will — that we actually knew that our world would "end" Friday morning at 5:11 a.m. Let's assume our world and everything on it would cease to exist at that time. And let's assume you found out tomorrow afternoon.
If so, what would you do?
I'll start.
I'd leave work immediately and tell my wife to do the same, and go to pick up our young kids from school. Then I'd assume the worst about society breaking down and hope the city didn't burn down before Friday morning. I'd call my parents and tell them I love them. I'd call my brother. Then it's pretty simple, I'd get our family together and play games. Read books. Make cookies. Laugh. Hug. Then late tonight we'd all sleep together in the same bedroom. The only place I'd want to be when the world ends is with them.


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A BILL to amend and reenact §19-1A-3 and §19-1A-3a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to digging, growing, collecting, gathering, possessing and selling ginseng; defining certain terms; authorizing Division of Forestry to regulate ginseng; providing rule-making authority; establishing ginseng harvest seasons; requiring permits to grow or dig ginseng, or to act as dealer; providing exceptions to the permit requirement; setting forth other permit requirements; requiring records be kept; authorizing certain inspections; requiring ginseng to be certified; providing for denial, suspension or revocation of permit; and establishing civil and criminal penalties.
§19-1A-3. Division of Forestry; Division Director; duties, powers, dedication of certain moneys; creation of a special revenue account.
§19-1A-3a. Providing criminal penalties for the illegal possession of uncertified ginseng.


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The Beaurepaire-Beaconsfield Historical Society meets for lectures each 3rd Thursday of the month. Everyone welcome. Free for members and $2 for non-member. Become a member for just $5 per year.
For 2014, our theme is The United Empire Loyalists
There will be a lecture entitled The United Empire Loyalists: an overview and it will be presented by Robert Wilkins.
A general overview of the United Empire Loyalists, what made them who they were, their diversity(religious, linguistic and racial), and their heritage in Canada today, with a couple of specific examples, just to illustrate what they lived through and experienced during the Revolutionary War and afterwards when getting re-established in what remained of British North America (now Canada).
Lecture in English, bilingual question period.
WHEN: Thursday, March 20, 2014, at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Centennial Hall, 288 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield, H9W 4A4
Information: 514-695-2502 or http://www.hist-beaurepaire-beaconsfield.com
They have a very interesting website which tells the history of the BEAUREPAIRE-BEACONSFIELD area of Quebec. There are many on-going projects, exhibits, and histories of people who use to live in the area.


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I got my first lesson in conservation as a boy, the age of four. Well, maybe not my first lesson, but the first I could remember. My grandfather would carry me atop his shoulders in the farmland woodlots of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, as we hunted squirrels with a .22 caliber rifle. And there was... Continue Reading →
Seven Years a Bird Dog Dad
I moved to the southeast Washington State in 2011 shortly after finishing graduate school. It was the first time I had lived in pheasant country. That fall, I harvested my first two roosters thanks to an old yellow lab who was flushing for hunters that happened to pull into the same parking spot at the... Continue Reading →
Time, Birds and Faith
New blog post up @uplander_lifestyle! ・・・ Training your own bird dog can be a daunting task - especially for the first time owner. Always remember though, a great bird dog takes 3 simple ingredients - Regardless of your training regime and techniques - Time, Birds and a little bit of Faith. In our latest Uplander... Continue Reading →
Anticipate the Flush
Every bird dog has its own style with nuances that tell a different story in a variety of hunting situations. In this post, I explain the subtleties in the posture and eyes of my oldest Llewellin setter, Finn. What has your pointing dog been telling you over the years? Give it a read at Uplander... Continue Reading →
Product Review: Ranger and Worker Vests by Hurtta
With the upland season far enough past that my office legs have caught up with me, my time for reflection on the recent upland bird season has brought to bear a review of two dog vests by Hurtta. For those not familiar with Hurtta, this Finnish company opened its doors in 2002 and is quite... Continue Reading →
Upland Review 2019
Upland Review is a magazine detailing the prior year accomplishments of the Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever chapter in Walla Walla, Washington, and includes a few short stories of hunting the 2018 upland bird season and conservation. Head to my "Contact" page to request a copy.
Just Follow the Dog
A hint of the long shadows of evening began to cast across the rolling wheat stubble and amber bunchgrass. A solid cloud of gray dust billowed from behind my old green Ford rolling down Weller Canyon, homebound from work. The bluebird afternoons of late October leave little to be desired on the southeastern Washington Palouse.... Continue Reading →
An Ounce of Prevention
The Backstory Yuba sat trembling atop my lap, peering out the back of the cabin as the 225 horsepower Yamaha outboard thrust the North River Seahawk onto plane. The night brought freezing rain and wet snow, but the morning was dawning beautifully; the Snake River meandering its way between fog banks under a pink cotton... Continue Reading →
Pheasant Hunting the Walla Walla Valley Uplands
Published in the Union Bulletin, September 23rd, 2018. I sat alone in the gray calm of dawn, gazing contently across my food plot. A few wary whitetails snagged a snack on their morning commute. Steam curled up from a hot cup of coffee, tickling the hairs on my face and nose as I sipped in... Continue Reading →


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A reality TV cast is accused of getting a little too real with a couple of Chicago men.
An officer with the University of Illinois at Chicago and his cousin are suing several members of the cast of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" following a brawl earlier this year in the Dominican Republic.
The officer, Adolfo Arreola, and his cousin, Jason A. Gomez, filed two lawsuits in Miami and New York, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The cousins claim they were at a Punta Cana resort nightclub on Feb. 23 when cast member Teresa Giudice sprayed Arreola's 53-year-old mother-in-law with champagne, according to the newspaper.
The lawsuit states that when he stepped in to confront Giudice, he was attacked by a several cast members including Giudice's husband, Joe, and Albert and Christopher Manzo, who are also featured on the show.
"They just started punching me and beating me up. They threw me on the floor and stepped on my face a couple of times and when I tried to cover my face they broke my wrist," Arreola says.
Arreola claims he suffered a broken arm, eye injuries and assorted cuts and bruises, the Tribune reports. Gomez's says his leg was broken and his MCL torn after he tried to help Arreola.
Arreola says the hotel's security force and local police were reluctant to help him and claims he was strong-armed into signing a release saying he would not sue, and threatened the "health and well-being" of his family.
"They told me that if I didn't sign the releases that me and my family weren't going to leave the country," Arreola says.
Arreola's lawyer believes there may be video of the incident and is trying to obtain it. The Hard Rock Hotel and Bravo, which airs the reality show, are also named in the lawsuit.
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Writing is often a lonely life, but this weekend, September 27-29, 800 plus writers gathered at the Hyatt Century City. They came from around the world including such far reaching places as Moscow, Poland and Turkey.
Two simultaneous conferences took place at the hotel -- The Writer's Digest Conference for novelists and non-fiction writers and the Screenwriters Conference. Being that I do both, it was a hard choice to make, but one can only be at one place at a time.
Early on Friday, script aficionados were treated to several boot camp sessions. Award winning Jacob Krueger talked about Fix Your Pitch. A crucial session since most of the writers would be pitching to producers on Saturday.
Jon James Miller followed up with Adapt A Script To A Novel. Because novel writing is so different than screenwriting, it requires a totally separate thought process to each, but it can be done. (In fact, The Writers' Store, one of the sponsors, is now having a contest to get your screenplay made into a novel.) Producers often like to see things from 'source' material - that is anything with a prior following. Having your script as a novel or visa versa, gives you a step up.
Pilar Alessandra from On The Page followed giving advice about The Craft. Her words, helpful even to the advanced writer, encouraged us to write our passions.
Laurie Scheer of Media Goddess and author Josie Brown gave us words of wisdom on what happens when a novel becomes a TV pilot. Too many authors have a false notion of the glory, fame and money it brings, but don't expect to control your story. It's an interesting process, nonetheless.
The official opening of the program was Oscar award winning producer Edward Saxon, who discussed some of the new genres and new platforms out there for writers. "US dominates the media and story telling is one of our best exports. China might have the money now, but they don't have the talent." At the same time as the keynote, Pilar Alessandra gave students keys on Pitching while script consultant and teacher Corey Mandell talked about Writing The Spec Screenplay. Agents, he says, don't want to read scripts of new writers, which is why you need a good manager or producer to go out on the limb for you and give you credibility. Most scripts, he told us, do not not authenticity behind them. He instructed us write what you most want to write about. You are not writing to sell, you are writing to blow people away.
The A-B-C's of Writing For TV , led by Andrew Guerdat, Erik Bork, Tim Meltreger and D. C. Fontana gave the low down on what it meant to do a pilot or a spec and how one broke in (usually from the ground up as an intern, writer's assistant and then a staff member in the writer's room.) It's very hard for a newbie to write a pilot and expect it to get produced. Even if it is, you probably will not be in control as the studio will hire a showrunner to do that. You'll be lucky to stay attached to the project. The goal, however, is not to just sell a script, but to develop a career.
Daniel Manus instructed the writers on how to do query letters, loglines and leave behinds while Erik Bork talked about writing the spec TV script. The tendency now is to want to see original pilots to determine if you can capture the essence and story engine. However, It's still important to do a spec script of an existing program to see if you can fit in with the character and voice of that show.
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman of Script Magazine, Robbie Fox, Doug Richardson and Tom Schulman gave us Tips and Tricks of the Trade, telling us that as writers, we can always reinvent ourselves and how important it is to make friends with the assistant or the secretary. Scripts lose momentum and often sit on the shelf for a while. You can change the title and pretend it's a new script.
Saturday was the day of pitching for many. Some of the companies represented were Zohar Films, Warner Brothers Television, Voltage Pictures, Thruline Entertainment, The Asylum, Suntar Entertainment, Stonelock Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Silvermine Entertainment, Samuari MK, Safehouse Pictures, Pterodactyl Productions, Pincipato-Young Entertainment, Pretty Bird Pictures, Poscimur Studio, Pop Art Film Factory, Phoenix Pictures, Paradigm Agency, Outlier, New Wave Entertainment, Motion Theory Films, Moniker Entertainment, Momentum Entertainment, Metamorphic Films and Management LLC, Masimedia, Marilyn Atlas Management, Manus Entertainment, Mandeville Films/Television, Longitude Entertainment, Kopelson Entertainment, Informant Media, Hays Media,LLC, Greenstem Productions, Empire Pictures, Electric City Entertainment, Eclectic Pictures, Echo Lake Management, Cross Creek Pictures, Cortez Brothers, Code Entertainment, Cindy Cowan Entertainment, Chicane Group, Chernin Entertainment, Caliber Media Co, Chaos Productions, Burn Pictures, Blackout Films, Beneficial Entertainment, Beachfront Films, Applause Network TV, Apothrosis Media Group, Angaelica, American Biograph Films/ Hankcranked Pictures, Amasia Entertainment, After Dark Films and 34th Street Films.
The day started for many with the Pitch Panel staring Kathie Fong Yoneda, a consultant, Richard Botto, the CEO of Stage 32 (an industry internet site), Pamela Jaye Smith, a mythologist and Mylo Carbia of Zohar Films. "Everyone makes mistakes," Yoneda said, "so don't beat yourself up." They stressed that pitching was selling yourself as much as selling your product. The producers want to see if they can work well with you or not.
Another panel simultaneous and led by Jeanne Veilette Bowerman was titled "What I Really Want Is An Agent." Daniel Manus, Timothy Hays of Hays Media, and Marilyn Atlas, a manager gave writers advice on the fact that the big agencies don't really want newbie writers. They want to take someone on that is already established and enhance their careers. You're better off finding a manager or entertainment attorney to send out your material or at worse go with a smaller agent. Often it is the writer's own networking that gets the jobs.
Also occurring that morning was the panel, "Develop & Pitch TV Shows." Paul Chitlik, whose great book on Rewriting was later talked about, joined William Rabkin, Andrew Guerdat, Wendy Willis of Mosaic, and Barney Cohen of Pterodactyl Productions. It's harder than ever to get shows on, but on the other hand, they cheered us with the fact that cable has made more stations available. However, if you want to remain boss on your show, the only way is to do an internet or web series yourself since you will not get to be the showrunner. (The showrunner, who, as the name says, runs the show, deals not only with the writing and stories, but must deal with hiring and firing actors, dealing with the studio and overseeing the budget among other things.) "If you do work on staff for a show," Chitlik says," make sure your showrunner is in a happy marriage because then you will have decent hours."
Two of my favorite classes were the Mini Boot Camp: Dialogue taught by Karl Iglesias and the class on character taught by Michael Hauge while Viki King ended the day with "The Inner Movie Inventory-A Smart Sheet For Writing Your Movie."
Some of the take aways from the dialogue class were that 80% of dialogue just sits there. It doesn't advance the plot, it's not active. Karl gave us excerpts from his popular book, "Writing For Emotional Impact" which has several ways a writer can spruce up his words According to David Mamet, "No one says anything unless they want something." Many writers get the note that their character isn't likeable. Karl's class on writing the emotional core, also gave us tidbits from the book, on how to make our characters more human and likeable. Comparing Finding Nemo to Shark Tale - one from Pixar and the other from Dreamworks - it was easy to see why one succeeded and the other failed. He also told us that the use and misuse of commas can really distract from the reading script and instructed us to read the article "13 Rules For Using Commas Without Looking Like An Idiot."
While Michael's class went to the heart of the character development as he talked about the layers each character must carry and the inner and outer wants and needs. He talks more in-depth on it in his recent DVD - "The Hero's Two Journeys" and how to unite the outer journey of the plot with the inner journey of the character arc.
Getting Past the Reader was another popular panel with Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, Kathie Fong Yoneda, Richard Botto, Karl Inglesias and Brian McDonald who reinforced that we writers are handing in a reading copy of the script. The reader should be so immersed in the story that they continue turning the pages. Page count - no longer than 110, plenty of white space, a balance of description and dialogue - without any excessively long paragraphs -- and smooth transitions were what they all wanted. Any spelling or grammar errors, any directions to the director, took them out of the story and caused them to stop reading. Marking the copy right sign or the WGA registration number on the cover page marked you as a amateur and caused them to look at your work with a different perspective.
Rob Edwards gave hints on "Writing for Animation", which isn't all that much different than writing for live features and Dinah Perez Esq of Dinah Perez Law gave us the low down on the law for writers.
Those interested in the video games were covered, as well, with the panel on Writing For The Video Game Industry with Haris Orkin, Sande Chen, Seth Hudson, Jeremy Bernstein, and Tom Abernathy.
And Breaking Into Hollywood featured Bari Evans, a consultant with Big Ideas, Lee Jessup, a career coach, Michael Tabb, Adam Finer and Chris Soth, who's Million Dollar Mini Story Method has broken many a story.
Because web series are becoming so popular, it was impossible to leave them out. Kathie Fong Yoneda, along with Ed Robinson, Courtney Zito, Julie Smith, Laurie Scheer and Leon Acord gave the advice that if you wanted to keep control of your story, the web series was the best way to start and to help you with breaking out.
Everything that is written is eventually rewritten. There's probably no such thing as the perfect script and even if there is, the executives will find a way to have it rewritten, says Paul Chitlik in the panel Writing Is Rewriting. He was accompanied by Daniel Manus, Pen Densham and Ruth Atkinson.
While these sessions were geared for screenwriting, nearly everything learned here applied to novels, as well because a good story is story.
Sponsors for the weekend included Final Draft, Michael Wiese Productions, Stage 32, Abbott Press, Ingram Spark, Jungle Software, Pubslush, Editorial Freelancers Association, WattPad, Comparison Reads, Wise Ink, Wave Cloud, Movie Magic Screenwriter, Greater Los Angeles Writers Society, With Pen and Paper and Script E.R as well as L. Ron Hubbard's Writer's of The Future Contest. Many of these assisted writers with self publishing and/or script work.
For more information about next year's conference, keep in tuned with reading Writer's Digest Magazine and books from the Writer's Digest Press. For taped copies of the this year's sessions, which are on special sale til the end of October, go to the Writer's Store. (use code VIDS1013 for the sale price)


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Photo by Misha Gravenor
Buffalo wings, all grown up.
- Yield
- Makes 30
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled, thinly sliced
- 1 cup bourbon, divided
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup hot pepper sauce (such as Crystal)
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 3 tablespoons (packed) golden brown sugar
- 30 chicken drumettes (about 4 pounds)
- Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce
- Melt butter in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; sauté until golden, about 5 minutes. Add 3/4 cup bourbon; boil until most of liquid is absorbed, 6 to 8 minutes. Whisk in 1/4 cup bourbon, ketchup, hot pepper sauce, tomato paste, and brown sugar. Bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer until sauce thickens slightly, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Season marinade with salt and pepper. Remove marinade from heat; cool to room temperature.
- Place chicken drumettes in 15 x 10 x 2-inch glass baking dish. Pour marinade over and turn drumettes to coat. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Line baking sheet with foil or parchment paper. Place cooling rack atop prepared baking sheet. Arrange drumettes on rack, spacing slightly apart. Spread any remaining marinade from dish over drumettes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake drumettes (still on cooling rack) until cooked through and brown in spots, about 45 minutes. Transfer drumettes to serving platter. Serve Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce alongside.
Ingredient Tip
A chicken drumette is the thick, meaty section of the chicken wing that resembles a drumstick.
Per serving: 240.9 kcal calories, 38.4 % calories from fat, 10.3 g fat, 4.7 g saturated fat, 101.3 mg cholesterol, 6.8 g carbohydrates, 0.3 g dietary fiber, 5.5 g total sugars, 6.5 g net carbohydrates, 28.2 g protein