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Editor's note: This is the first of three columns reviewing the year 2010 in local theater.
"'Fences'" is the linchpin in (August) Wilson's 10-play oeuvre, most of them set in Pittsburgh's ramshackle Hill District in each decade of the 20th century. This one plays out in 1957, with a brief fast-forward to 1965 as we see the consequences of the play's events.
This column described Wilson's masterpiece earlier this year when it was mounted at South Coast Repertory. This powerful drama was SCR's finest production of 2010.
Directed by Seret Scott, "Fences" also was praised here as "the sort of play South Coast Repertory excels at, and the current production should leave a lasting impression."
It certainly did.
Runner-up honors among productions goes to "Crimes of the Heart," about which we commented, "'Crimes' remains the cream of (playwright Beth) Henley's crop, and ... SCR has mounted a beautifully balanced dramatic comedy centered on three squabbling but loving Mississippi sisters dealing with their respective turmoils."
Warner Shook directed.
In third position was the Costa Mesa company's season opener, a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," directed by Martin Benson, followed by a pair of "sleepers" — dynamic productions of lesser-known entities. These would be "In the Next Room," directed by Casey Stangl, and "Doctor Cerberus," staged by Bart DeLorenzo.
As for individual performances, one in particular stood out — Charlie Robinson's embittered father in "Fences." This column commented that the actor "commands the stage with a vocal and physical authority that will grip and hold its audience."
Likewise, Juanita Jennings as Robinson's wife earned high praise: "Jennings injects a superb sense of balance into the production and excels in a backyard showdown with her husband."
A singular achievement in "In the Next Room," drew accolades such as this column's "It's the wife — magnificently rendered by Kathleen Early — who captures this production, her priceless facial reactions magnifying a memorable performance."
Three other portrayals drew an extra measure of attention at SCR during 2010 — Candy Buckley in "Dr. Cerberus," Dakin Matthews and Melanie Lora, both for "Misalliance."
Several other actors excelled on the SCR stage throughout the year. Among them were David Burnham and Deborah S. Craig, "Ordinary Days"; Matt Letcher and Mark Harelik, "In a Garden"; Leo Marks and Linda Gehringer, "The Language Archive"; Jamison Jones and Steven Culp, "Dr. Cerberus"'; Blair Sims, Jennifer Lyon and Kate Rylie, "Crimes of the Heart"' Rebecca Mozo and Ron Menzel, "In the Next Room," and Tessa Auberjonois and Brian Avers, "Becky Shaw."
That was the year that was for South Coast Repertory. Next week this column focus on the high points of 2010 in local community and college theater, concluding our year-end summary the morning of New Year's Eve with the 37th annual tribute to the Daily Pilot's man and woman of the year in theater.
TOM TITUS reviews local theater for the Daily Pilot.


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The service is currently free to use if you are reporting something lost in Greater Manchester.
Your lost item will be added to a police-approved, national database that can be viewed by police nationally and matched against found items from across the country.
Once you have completed the online form (which you can update or edit at any time), you will receive a lost property reference number which can be used for your insurance claim, should you choose to make one, and in the event of the item being recovered the owner will be notified of its whereabouts for collection.

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Battlefield 4's Commander Mode Revisited
Can you smell that in the air? It's the smell of legions of Battlefield fans getting ready to participate in the game's beta during the next few days. To help facilitate their need for all things Battlefield 4, here's another look at the game's Commander Mode.
Commander Mode will be a powerful tool in Battlefield 4, capable of giving players even more tactical advantages in combat. A post on the Battlefield blog gives us a bit more insight into exactly what Commander Mode can do for us.
For starters, the Mode gives the Commander the ability to spot High Value Targets on the field. If a player gets a six-kill streak, they'll appear on the Commander Screen as a selectable unit. The enemy team's Commander can then mark this player as a High Value Target, which starts a countdown and highlights the player on the mini map. If the HVT is killed within the time limit, the enemy team gets bonus points.
Right off the bat, it seems as if Commanders get some pretty powerful perks. But in order to become a Commander, you'll first have to reach Rank 10. Once you do, you'll be able to join matches on a first-come, first-served basis. Because of the Second Screen nature of Commander Mode, the Commander will need access to a tablet.
Another cool feature is the fact that you can start a Commander mutiny if you don't like how your current Commander's performance. Once the mutiny has been initiated, teammates will be able to vote on whether or not to boot the current Commander from their position. The Commander can use this time to sway votes by performing better. If not, they get kicked and a new Commander takes the spot.
Click the link above to see more of what Commander Mode can do for your Battlefield 4 experience. And look out for the game when it's released on Oct. 29 for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions will launch with their respective consoles.


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It's so hot. It's so hot and I can't stop talking or thinking about it, walking around sticking to everything I am in contact with.
Bit quiet around these parts, but soon we'll all be chirping up a storm! I have some outfits to share (went the film-route this time, but I still have to use up the roll!) and the blog's first giveaway coming up soon! In the meantime I've had a mini vacation from work, discovered more freckles and got an unfortunate sunburn.
But we'll be up and running again in no time!


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10 Celeb Mamas Who Really Love Their Muslin Blankets
10 Celeb Mamas Who Really Love Their Muslin Blankets
Wrap them up! The swaddling world was taken by storm when Raegan Moya-Jones brought her muslin blankets to the US in 2004. In a few short years, Aden and Anais's 100 percent cotton, stretchy, breathable wraps became the standard by which all blankets were compared. Their ability to maintain warmth without overheating a newborn (not to mention their large size) has made them a favorite of moms around the world — especially celebrity moms.
When Jessica Alba was spotted pushing baby Haven outside last week, she became the latest in a long line of Hollywood moms to use the versatile blankets to do everything from swaddle to protect their babies from the paparazzi's prying eyes. Take a look at 10 other celebs who have chosen the Australian brand to comfort their tots!


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5.1-Channel 3D Ready AV Receiver
- Industry's First AV Receiver Designed for iPad®
- Compatible with iPod, iPhone and iPad devices
- Bluetooth® Compatible with optional AS-BT200 Bluetooth Adapter
- HDMI (4 In / 1 Out) with 3D, ARC Deep Color, x.v.Color
For those looking for exceptional audio and video quality, your receiver is ready. Introducing the Pioneer VSX-821 AV Receiver
Streamlined and beautiful, the Pioneer VSX-821 delivers amazing home theater performance at an unrivaled value. And with Apple®-compatibility, not only will it enhance your home theater experience; it will expand the possibilities of where that experience can come from. Turn it on, and listen to the future of sound. A future that takes you exactly where you want to go: closer than ever before to what the artist intended.
A Comprehensive Apple® Solution
The VSX-821 is compatible with iPod®, iPhone® devices and are specifically designed to enhance the experience you get from them. It's also the industry's first ever AV receiver designed for iPad®. Right out of the box, your receiver comes with a USB/video cable - so there's no need to buy a separate dock to access all your music, videos, streaming content, and photos stored on your Apple devices.
Plus, since your iPod, iPhone, or iPad charges automatically when connected, it's the ultimate plug-and-play integration with your home theater. You can enjoy music, videos and movies, downloaded TV shows from iTunes®, photos, web content such as YouTube® and much more. And because the iPhone device's wireless and network features remain fully functional, music and movies will mute when you receive an incoming call. And you've got lots of control options--use the iPad or iPhone directly, or push a single button on the VSX-821's front panel to switch control to the included preset remote and an intuitive on-screen display complete with artist, track, play mode, and track time information.
Portable Device – Meet Home Theater
The VSX-821 is fully ready for wireless Bluetooth® audio from virtually any A2DP profile Bluetooth device, including smartphones, laptops, etc. With the Pioneer AS-BT200 Bluetooth adapter, you can untether yourself from headphones, cables and inputs. And you'll enjoy near cd-quality with Sound Retriever AIR technology, created specifically to enhance Bluetooth audio.
Ultimate Sound Control
Of course all the latest Pioneer receivers support the high-definition audio formats, Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD® Master Audio to give your Blu-ray Disc® soundtracks unsurpassed audio quality. But Pioneer also includes all of the Dolby and DTS surround formats best suited for the wide variety of entertainment sources, including the newest Dolby Pro Logic IIz height channel.
Pioneer's exclusive Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration system (MCACC) provides a near studio-quality, multi-channel listening experience customized specifically to your listening environment. An included microphone measures every speaker's connection, and notes its size, distance from the listening point, sound levels and timbre to calibrate and maximize performance. All you have to do is sit back and let it happen.
Even compressed audio such as WMA, MP3 and AAC is enhanced with another Pioneer exclusive, Advanced Sound Retriever, by filling in areas where minute details were left out during the compression process.
And since the only thing that should shock you is how good it sounds, there's also an Auto Level Control that eliminates jarring volume changes between your favorite songs, albums and audio sources by equalizing volume differences between portable audio tracks or television programming.
Ready for 3D? You are with the Latest HDMI® Technology
All of Pioneer's newest receivers support the latest HDMI 1.4a specification. So not only do you get the most out of your existing movies and music, with the VSX-821 you're prepared for the next generation of 3D video content. With 4 HDMI inputs, you've got plenty of connectivity options for the growing number of high-definition sources available. All Pioneer receivers also offer advanced HDMI conveniences like Audio Return Channel and HDMI Standby Through.
On-Screen Display
The VSX-821 features an intuitive on-screen menu for use with the included preset remote, so you can make guided adjustments to your home theater sound.
The Pioneer VSX-821. Exceptional technology that not only complements your home theater system, but your lifestyle as well.
iPod Compatibility: http://pioneer.jp/homeav/support/ios/na/
- Direct Energy
- 5.1
- 80
- 110
- 125
Handheld and Internet
- iPad 2, iPad, iPhone 4S, 4, 3GS, 3G / iPod touch 4G, 3G, 2G, 1G / iPod classic / iPod nano 6G, 5G, 4G, 3G
Decoders & Formats
- Texas Instruments Aureus
- 192kHz / 24-Bit
- 48kHz / 16-Bit MP3, WMA, AAC Via USB
- Yes
- 2 Channel
Soundfield Calibration
- Yes
- Auto
- 5-Band
- 1
- 0.1 Feet
Listening Modes
- Yes (Direct, Pure Direct)
- 9+1 Mode DSP
- Yes
Audio Features
- 2 Channel
- 2 Channel
- 2 Channel
- 2 Channel
- Yes (9 Frames)
- Yes
Video Processing
- 4 In (Rear) / 1 Out
- Optional AS-BT200
- 2 In (Assignable)
- 5 In / 1 Out
- Yes (USB+V)
- 1 (Front)
- No
- 2 In / 1 Out
- 1 Coax / 2 Optical (Assignable)
- 2.1 Ch (SW, SB/FH)
- USB / AV Inputs
- 30 Preset AM / FM Tunner
- Composite Video Only
- Included
- Preset Remote Control
- 30, 60, 90 min.
- Glossy Black
- 7 Large
- 17.16 x 6.6 x 14.27
- 20.24 lbs
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Worried that your gift of money stored on plastic is too impersonal? Fret not. If you can master two things -- the gift card you choose and the way you package it -- it can end up being the most fun gift your recipient gets!
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Since it's likely that someone on your list will be getting a gift card from you (last holiday season, more than $28 billion was spent on gift cards, according to the National Retail Federation), you might as well have fun with it.
"The way you package and deliver the gift card can make it more personal and creative," says Andrea Woroch, a consumer savings expert and spokeswoman for GiftCardGranny.com, a site for buying and selling discount gift cards.
A good strategy is to look for something inexpensive to package along with the gift card that goes with its theme. "I like to believe that you can create a big wow present on a small budget," says Leah Ingram, author and frugal living expert for Family Dollar, a chain of discount stores.
Here are some unique and memorable gift card presentation ideas (and check out CreditCards.com's gift card wrapping video for even more ideas).
1. A good case for gift card giving. You may have given or received a wallet or photo frame with a gift card in it in the past, but this idea puts a modern spin on that idea -- slipping a gift card into a functional and funky mobile phone case like this one.
2. DIY snow globe. If you're a crafty DIY type, you'll warm up to this snow globe gift card holder you can make yourself. All it takes is a mason jar, some glitter, small sparkly ornaments, water and a glue gun. Affix the gift card, standing on its edge, to the lid's underside. Add water, glitter and decorations to the jar, and then screw it together. (The gift card obviously has to be plastic or laminated to survive being submerged in the water). Of course, if you're artistically inclined, the ideas you'll find on Pinterest (where this one was originally spotted) are endless.
3. Tie it with a pretty bow (or something better!). Packaging cards with related items is always fun, such as a movie theater gift card with some boxed candy, so here's a musical take on that idea: Tie up an iTunes card with a colorful pair of ear buds (and because you're so thoughtful, they will be in your recipient's favorite color, of course). "My teenagers are always losing or breaking their headphones, so we can never have enough of them," says Ingram.
4. Send them on a coffee tour. Put those cardboard coffee cup trays to good use the next time you do an office java run. Save one to stuff with clear, empty plastic coffee cups that you can fill with gift cards to four different local coffee shops. Or, for a variation, place a gift card in one and beverage-related treats in the others (think tea bags, mini marshmallows for hot chocolate; etc.). Put the whole thing in clear cellophane, and finish off with a pretty bow.
5. Crush the holiday craze. Odds are someone on your holiday shopping list is a Candy Crush player. What better way to enable his or her pastime (ahem, addiction) than with a gift card for Facebook game credits? You can wrap it up in the center of a bag of mixed candies (not the exploding kind, of course!).
6. Build a house.
7. A spin on Hanukkah gift giving. A handmade Dreidel gift card holder from Etsy will light up someone's Hanukkah. Or, another option is to pick up a large dreidel and tape the gift card to the "gimel" symbol (which represents the best spin you can make in the game, of course!). Pair it with some chocolate gelt for an extra sweet treat.
8. Coupons that really add up. Pick up a coupon organizer or coupon wallet, and load it with handwritten offers that can be redeemed by your recipient along with an appropriate gift card. "You can give new parents the gift of a night out by adding a restaurant gift card along with a coupon for free babysitting," says Ingram. Another variation: A tween boy might appreciate a couple of coupons for extra "plugged in" time to go with a gift card to his favorite video game store or an Xbox Live points card.
No matter how you package your gift card, the main goal is to be sure that it's appropriate for the person receiving it. It's the thought that counts, so even when you're giving a gift card, when there's real thought behind it, it'll be a hit.
See related:
6 ways you can still enjoy unwanted gift cards


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Little Green Cars
Contact Agent : Paul Sloan
Few of us make much out of the endless weekend hours we spend together when we're young. Draping ourselves throughout our friends' houses and airing out the angst and dreams and heartbreaks that will shape us before they fade away with time, we may make mixtapes, or weave friendship bracelets, or simply craft inside jokes and rosy memories to cherish in years down the line. But for Dublin folk rock quintet Little Green Cars, those Sunday afternoons may have built the most important adventure they'll ever take.
The band - now a quintet of 20-year-olds with a habit of waxing deadly serious about their ever-expanding ambitions - convened in 2008 in a bungalow in Stevie Appleby's parents' backyard for as ordinary a reason as any: as the frontman admits sheepishly, they wanted to win a battle of the bands competition. With guitarist Adam O'Regan and bassist Donagh O'Leary friends since primary school, and the rest having met in secondary, the five rehearsed for the gig, at which they promptly lost out to another local band.
The defeat, however, was surprisingly fuel enough. It inspired them to work harder, to work through their remaining two years of school, during which they produced a massive catalog of demo recordings, blending acoustic and electronic, classical and punk, djembe drums and synth strings.
Then, in 2010, not long before graduation, then-rising manager Daniel Ryan found them at one of their sparse live gigs. With just one client already under his wing, he approached the quintet with a terrifying yet exhilarating ultimatum: Do you want to go to university, or do you want to really be in a band?
"That was the first time we considered looking that far ahead," says guitarist/vocalist/primary songwriter Faye O'Rourke. "We were trying to avoid thinking about the future because of the prospect of college, but..."
The choice became obvious.
"Stevie and I never did anything in school. Ever, ever, ever," says O'Regan, only half-joking. "Certainly, we put all our eggs in one basket. People always teach you that you've got to have something to fall back on, but we figured, by that logic, if we put everything into music, it can't fail. So, that's what we did."
And like that, they dove in. For two years they redoubled their efforts, crafting a wide-eyed musical narrative that mirrored their evolution as an ensemble until, inevitably, label suitors began to knock. In 2011, they signed to Glassnote, where they've been quietly boiling down those demos into an album - the first they've ever recorded.
"The main thing I want to hear out of an artist I admire is the truth," says Appleby. "How they really felt. If I'm going to say something, it may as well be the truth."
The lengths to which Appleby, O'Rourke and the rest of the band will go to tell that truth have yet to reveal their depth, but a full-steam-ahead debut record is a good place to start: finally, five years' worth of backyard Garage Band tracks have a name: Absolute Zero.
The songs of Absolute Zero have only begun to see the light of day, because, as Appleby puts it, "we've always been more interested in recording and writing and experimenting with everything than in touring. The past five years was time spent finding our sound, finding ourselves. We've gone through everything, from acoustic guitars to electronic music. We needed the time to grow up as people and as musicians."
In other words, this is a debut that is a sum total of its creators' ascent to this moment. It is a desperate, under-pillow diary; a painstakingly lettered love note dropped in a locker; a collective, yet very personal, dissertation. On the record's debut single "The John Wayne," a fierce paean to the ones who so easily break our hearts, the lot of them proclaim, "It's easy to fall in love with you/It's easy to be alone/It's easy to hate yourself when all your love is inside someone else." On "My Love Took Me Down To The River To Silence Me," O'Rourke is torn between the heartbreak and the healing that comes from being heartbroken, "But my heart burned out til it was no more/still I wait on the ground, I don't know what for/There is a heart in you/where is the heart in me?/This love's killing me, but I want it to." And by its early-morning close, when Appleby asks, "And who will write and who will fight for this man/I know I am?/And if you're running out of space/Please don't erase your time with me," it becomes clear that it's not just love Little Green Cars are grasping at: even amidst an ex-lover's plea for acknowledgement, the search has grown far beyond that.
Absolute Zero's 48 minutes, crafted in unabashed earnestness with the aid of seasoned epic-producer Markus Dravs (Mumford and Sons' Sigh No More and Babel, Arcade Fire'sNeon Bible and The Suburbs, Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto), act as a soul-bearing report, as guileless as the young quintet themselves, on the act of simply growing up: a process that requires, at once, so little and so much effort it could explode you from the inside at any moment.
"This record constantly jumps between two contrasting perspectives: the beauty of a reckless youth and the fear and confusion caused by our ever-pending adulthood," Appleby explains. "It's a hopeful and nave look at love and life in general, which gives the album its bright days - but also deals with isolation, unrequited love and madness, which give the album its long nights, its nightmares. We wanted to express both a feeling of strength and vulnerability, so the work had to encompass both the light and dark."
Most of all, they're hoping to find they're not alone in their search.
"These are all feelings we've had, as a group or as individuals. We hope this is something people can relate to. That's always been why music has been written: it's a voice for people who don't have a voice. Hopefully someone can find some sort of comfort or solace in this. "
Fresh off a whirlwind month of touring that included several CMJ showcases - ones that caught the attention of outlets like NPR and the New York Times - the band will be spending the next few months leading up to Absolute Zero's release preparing themselves for whatever comes next. Because once it drops, all they'll be able to do is to keep their hands outstretched and wait patiently for listeners to reach back.


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Wyoming Forage Field Day Thursday [AUDIO]
Wyoming House Speaker Tom Lubnau is recommending that the chamber form a special committee to investigate how the State Education Department was run under Superintendent Cindy Hill. Doug Randall reports. The Wyoming Forage Field Day is set for this Thursday. Joy Greenwald has the details. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.


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In the heart of Denali National Park and Preserve, six million acres of protected wilderness surround the Eielson Visitor Center, the most visited site deep within the park boundaries. The project site commands a view of the Alaska Range featuring Mt. McKinley (Denali), North America's highest peak. Located 60 miles from the park entrance, the visitor center is operated seasonally, June through September, and is off the power grid. All visitors traveling to Eielson Visitor Center ride on one of Denali's Alternative Transportation shuttle buses for four hours. Visitors experience firsthand how vast Denali's wilderness is as they view the sub-arctic environment and protected wildlife of Alaska en route to the visitor center. The existing visitor facility was too small (3,500 square foot) and had serious maintenance needs. For two years, a team of architects, engineers, and park staff worked together to design a new 8,900 square foot facility that would better meet the needs of the users. As one of the leaders in sustainable design, the National Park Service (NPS) made it a priority to make the new visitor center a model of sustainability. The team applied and evaluated various design options with green energy at the heart of its decisions.
One of the main goals for the project was to design a low-profile building that blends into the landscape and minimizes the visual intrusion of a manmade structure in that environment. The steep slope enabled the designers to partially bury the building, which will visually screen the structure from the road. The design of the new visitor center called for a green roof. To achieve this, tundra mats salvaged from the construction site were relocated to planters dispersed on the roof terrace to camouflage the roof deck, helping the building blend into the landscape. The green roof also assists in storm water run-off reduction and thermal energy conservation. Other high priority strategies used in the design of the visitor center include maximizing natural daylighting by optimally locating a series of clerestory windows, selecting energy-efficient heating and venting systems, use of renewable energies, and thoughtful selection of materials including recycled and locally produced material. Remote site concerns and construction costs led the team to analyze ways to re-use portions of the existing visitor center by grinding up the concrete block and using it as fill in the parking area as well as an attempt to design the site such that the cut and fill were mostly balanced.
In the past, the remote location spurred the park to implement award-winning renewable energy strategies at the site, including the implementation of a hybrid generator system with photovoltaic panels and a battery bank. The Department of Energy's HOMER Analysis program was applied to the project to evaluate the best mix of renewable energy options and helped determine the optimal mix of renewable energies. With the information gained from the HOMER program the building design will include the following alternative renewable energy systems: expanding the solar photovoltaic panels and battery bank that was already in use at the existing visitor center, installing a solar hot water heating system for the public restrooms, and constructing a small hydroelectric system in a nearby stream.
Denali National Park and Preserve is a National Park System Center for Environmental Innovation. The park has committed to showcase new technologies, motivate and educate the public and NPS employees about environmentally friendly practices, install systems and alter behaviors to reduce energy needs and adverse environmental impacts. The design effort for the replacement Eielson Visitor Center embraces that challenge and exemplifies these goals.
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The Eielson Visitor Center is located 67 miles inside Denali National Park and Preserve, one of the largest parks in the United States. The National Park Service desired that the project become a direct reflection of their mission and aspirations for sustainable development, and intends this project to be a visible demonstration of sustainable principals; this includes a national and international audience.
The design team aspired to create a sustainable, remotely-accessible, off-grid visitor center deep within the park wilderness. In addition to the positive attributes such as various self sufficient energy sources, material reuse, and native materials, no visual impact was to be made on the natural environment.
A scheme of no impact was particularly challenging, though completely appropriate for delivering an effective hierarchy of "wilderness first." Several schemes were explored, ultimately resulting in an earth-sheltered building with a spectacular panorama of the Alaska Range. The design process, through the use of working models, revisited first principals in understanding the specifics of sunlight and latitudes. In turn, successfully integrated skylights and ventilation portholes became a major working component of the project.
All power is generated on-site, either through an array of photovoltaic panels (integrated into the facia system), or a micro-hydroelectric generation system.
Access to the site is restricted to mass-transit visitor buses.
Water is collected and disposed of on-site, being carefully directed to water-saving fixtures with limited treatment.
In addition to new building construction, the designers tackled issues related to demolition / reuse of the existing facility, and of the impacts to the construction contractor. This facility is situated 100 miles from the nearest landfill with much of that travel occurring through a wilderness corridor. Reuse of construction materials was an important aspect to limiting disturbance to both landfills and to the natural setting.
The end result is a stunning collaboration between architecture and engineering, experienced mostly from the interior. Some facilities shout their message; the intent of this facility is to quietly articulate an important message within a context that allows that quiet delivery to be absorbed in a meaningful manner to a diverse collection of individuals.
2008 Citation Award
American Institute of Architects, Alaska Chapter
2008 Members' Choice Awards [Most Alaskan; Liked the Best; Most Original Design]
American Institute of Architects - Alaska Chapter
from TreeHugger
Sixty miles down a dirt road in the Alaskan Wilderness, sits a cutting-edge green building nestled in the mountains.
An educational landmark for visitors and a starting point and shelter for backcountry hikers, the Eielson Center in Alaska's Denali National Park sports some of the greenest features yet produced by federal funds.
The building was completed late this summer -- based on the designs of RIM Architects and RMI's Built Environment Team -- and sustains itself without an electricity grid lifeline.
How exactly does the building supply its own energy?
First, passive design measures and energy efficient technologies help cut the building's energy use by half.
Some of these passive design features include:
• South-facing, high-performance windows that maximize solar gain and are well insulated to accommodate for the extreme climate.
• The building is constructed partially underground, which allows the advantage of ambient earth temperatures and protects the building's walls from strong winds.
• Apertures in the side of the building and skylights, which provide the majority of daytime light. Daylight sensors monitor light levels to reduce the use of electric lighting during the long summer days.
• The ability to "go cold." In the extreme Alaskan winters, temperatures reach -40 degrees Fahrenheit and Denali becomes impassable for six to seven months. This could have resulted in the expenditure of large amounts of energy. Instead, when the visitors stop coming, the building "goes cold." Exhibits, plumbings, and other elements were designed to endure extremely cold temperatures without incurring any damage.
• Heat recovery ventilators that recover heat from exhausted air to warm the cold incoming air. This is especially useful when waves of visitors create large volumes of stale air.
Renewable, distributed technologies like integrated photovoltaic and small-scale water turbine systems supply the center's remaining energy needs.
While the design, architecture, technologies, and remote location are fascinating in themselves, the Eielson Visitor's Center is notable for a more practical issue -- its low cost.
Operating costs are 84.7 percent lower than the average building its size (15,000 square feet), and Eielson was the first National Park Service building to receive a LEED Platinum rating within a federal budget.
Proving that integrated design and cutting edge technologies can indeed be cost effective, Eielson is set to be a model for future National Park Visitor Center designs.
Already, the new Visitor's Center in Lassen Volcanic National Park is expected to become the second center to earn a LEED Platinum rating within the limits of a tight federal budget.
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Sustainable features of Eielson Visitor Center
As one of the leaders in sustainable design, the National Park Service made a priority of re-modeling Eielson Visitor Center using sustainable building methods and materials.
Building into the tundra
A main goal of the project was to design a low-profile building that blends into the landscape. The steep slope enabled the designers to partially bury the building, which visually screens the structure from the Park Road. The roof is literally "green," as tundra mats salvaged from the construction of the site were relocated to planters dispersed on the roof terrace. These camouflage the roof deck, helping it blend into the landscape. The green roof also assists in storm water run-off reduction and thermal energy conservation.
Other sustainable building techniques
The planning and construction of Eielson included strategies such as maximizing natural daylighting, selecting energy-efficient heating / venting systems, the use of renewable energies to power the building and thoughtful selection of recycled and locally produced.
Renewable energy
In the past, the remote location of the center spurred the park to implement various renewable energy strategies at the site, including a hybrid generator system with photo-voltaic panels and a battery bank. Information gained from analysis of this and other strategies led to expanding the solar panels and battery bank, installing a solar hot-water heating system for the restrooms, and constructing a small hydroelectric system in a nearby stream.
Commitment to environmental sustainability
Denali National Park and Preserve is a National Park System Center for Environmental Innovation. The park has committed to showcase new technologies, motivate and educate the public and park service employees about environmentally friendly practices, and install systems and alter behaviors to reduce energy needs and adverse environmental impacts. The design effort for the replacement Eielson Visitor Center embraces that challenge and exemplifies these goals.
Relevant book:
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Detective Katherine Frank also said he found drug bottles and a duffel bag that contained more than $8,000 in cash in the room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Fla.
Frank was the first witness to take the stand in the trial of Smith's lawyer-boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and two doctors who have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to supply Smith with vast amounts of powerful opiates and sedatives.
Frank testified that after finding Smith's body, Stern "was visibly shaken with reddened eyes, tears and trembling."
The account was elicited by Stern's lawyer, Steve Sadow, who has said Stern was in love with Smith and all his actions were directed at trying to help her.
Smith's bodyguard Maurice Brighthaupt told police he was owed the money and demanded they hand it over, but they refused, Frank testified.
Brighthaupt was expected to testify Friday.
Under prosecution questioning, pharmacist Olga Kopetman identified multiple prescriptions written by defendant Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, a psychiatrist, to Anna Nicole Smith, Vicky Marshall, which is Smith's real name, and three other names including Stearn, a misspelling of Stern, from 2003 to 2006. They were filled at a pharmacy in Studio City.
Some were for the painkiller Vicodin and anti-anxiety drugs Xanax and Zoloft. Others were for sleep and anti-seizure medications, the pharmacist said.
Stern paid for the drugs, Kopetman testified, with one bill totaling $4,474.
Kopetman and another pharmacist, Emma Avakian, testified that Stern frequently picked up drugs prescribed by Eroshovich, and that they never saw Anna Nicole Smith pick up her own prescriptions, which often included large quantities of drugs with refills available.
Avakian said one prescription for Valium provided 240 pills and was refilled after just three weeks.
Avakian said she was concerned about the amount of narcotics because "a patient can overdose and too much of it can kill them."
On cross-examination, Sadow asked if a patient taking many of the drugs over a long period would build a tolerance. Kopetman said that was possible, and the patient would have to receive larger doses for the drugs to be effective.
Superior Court Judge Robert Perry has said Smith's cause of death is not an issue in the trial of Stern, Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor. The defendants are not accused of causing Smith's death.


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The COM Implementation Browser allows prototype code for COM implementation classes to be viewed and created. This is useful when writing COM methods because it provides a template for the method names and arguments. To start the tool, choose Tools > Com Implementation Browser from the LispWorks podium.
At the top of the window is a drop down list a class names. Choosing an item from this list will set the contents of the Description panel to show that class at the root of the tree, with subitems for each COM interface that it implements. The COM interfaces have subitems for their uuids and methods. The icon used for a method in the tree indicates the status of its implementation: red means not implemented (see Unimplemented methods), yellow means inherited from a superclass (see Inheritance), red and yellow means an inherited unimplemented method and cyan means a method implemented directly in the named class.
Selecting an item in the Description pane will display a prototype implementation for that part of the class, using the appropriate macros for COM and Automation classes.
The New and Edit buttons allow prototype classes to be constructed and modified. Such classes are shown in the list of class names as Example class... and are not actually defined, but the prototype code can be copied into a file and evaluated to provide a starting point for an implementation. Clicking New or Edit displays a dialog as shown below.
The class name is displayed at the top and can be edited. For COM object classes, the list at the bottom of the dialog shows the COM interfaces that the class will implement. For Automation interfaces, a type library must be chosen from the drop-down list and one of the Coclass or Interfaces options selected to show the list of coclasses or interfaces that the class will implement. Click OK to confirm your choice or Cancel to discard it.
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They'd also be epic - full-on Warhammer 40k-style pods crashing into the ground at high speed, the occupants escaping a splattering only by a combination of anti-shock tech and grav-based acceleration neutralizers - and they're one use: the insides are rigged to melt three minutes after landing to keep enemies from reverse-engineering the technology. Fortunately, they're restocked after each mission.I'm sure you guys wished you could abandon those cheap hunks of scrap and just blast onto the surface paratrooper-style in special drop pods, right? No? Tough luck for you, then. Sometimes an immediate ground presence is beneficial. The Droppod Ship is pretty simple in its functionality and design: it has an autopilot, droppods for each person in a five-member squad, and carries your ships, too. You just tell the autopilot where to go, it drops you off and floats around out of sight. You smash into the ground inside controlled-grav pods, and burst out with guns blazing. I'm sure even idiots like you could figure it out. Later, if you're standing somewhere open and flat, the Droppod Ship can land and pick you up, or remote-pilot your ships to you.
- Drop pods are one-use only.
- All misfires and poor aims are considered the product of your immeasurable stupidity.
- No refunds, but we'll restock your pods before your next mission.
- Pods are well-armored and the landing can be weaponized.
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Sage Hill School graduate Courtney Conlogue has advanced to the quarterfinals of the Women's Pro division at the Nike U.S. Open of Surfing near the Huntington Beach Pier.
Newport Harbor High product Kaleigh Gilchrist is in the semifinals of the Women's Junior Pro event, while Newport Beach resident Andrew Doheny has advanced to the quarterfinals of the Men's Junior Pro.
Conlogue, 19, ranked No. 5 on the Assn. of Surfing Professionals women's World Championship Tour ratings, won two heats on Wednesday to advance. Her lopsided victory in round 2 gave her an automatic berth in the quarterfinals. It also produced the day's biggest women's score of 17.27 points out of a possible 20. That heat also included a score of 9.10 on one wave.
"I think having that early morning heat today allowed me to shake the nerves out," Conlogue said afterward. "I think I was on the wrong equipment [Tuesday] and [Wednesday] my board was going perfectly through those flat sections. I'm glad I had that morning heat to work things out."
Conlogue, a Santa Ana resident competing in her home break, is receiving plenty of crowd support.
"I was pretty nervous before this event for some reason," Conlogue said. "I think I was trying to aim too much for perfection and not focusing on the basics, which is what I've been training so hard for and working on. [Wednesday], I just calmed down and realized it's just another World Tour event and [I need to] do what I've been practicing. It feels so good getting another fifth here already [guaranteed minimum placing], so I'm glad I don't have to do another sudden-death round because Sage [Erickson] and Tyler [Wright] have been surfing amazing."
Conlogue will meet the winner of the round 4 heat between Wright of Australia and Malia Manuel in the quarterfinals.
Gilchrist, 20, a sophomore on the 2012 USC women's water polo team, will compete in the semifinals on Saturday. In her semifinal heat will also be Americans Frankie Harrer and Bailey Nagy, as well as Australian Nikki Van Dijk. The women's junior pro finals are also scheduled Saturday.
Doheny topped his four-man heat on Wednesday, setting up a quarterfinal clash Thursday against Americans Taylor Thome and Derek Peters, as well as Australian Cooper Chapman.
— From staff reports
Korber takes second
Sage Hill School incoming senior Liana Korber made the finals of the Michael Chang Tennis Classic high school tournament over the weekend.
Korber won each of her first four girls' 18 singles matches by 8-0 pro-set scores, including a victory over top-seeded Magdalena Chau. Korber fell in the championship match of the tournament, 6-2, 7-6 (6), to Justine Huang on Sunday at Newport Beach Tennis Club.
Korber, who has played at No. 1 singles the last two years for the Lightning, won a $100 scholarship for the Sage Hill tennis program by making the championship match.
— From staff reports
Locals in final
Local standouts Elizabeth Eddy and Camille Levin helped the Pali Blues reach the championship game of the W League, in which it lost on penalty kicks to the Ottawa Fury at the Algonquin College Soccer Complex in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Eddy, a Newport Harbor High product who was a second-team All-Pacific-12 Conference performer as a USC sophomore in 2011, sparked some offensive opportunities for the Blues, who scored in the second minute, only to see the Fury get the equalizer in the in the final moments of regulation.
Eddy played in 11 games and posted one goal and three assists for the Blues, who finished 15-0-2 and outscored opponents, 40-4, with 13 shutouts. The Blues, who played most of their home games at Palisades High, won the league's Western Division crown. They defeated Quebec City, 2-0, in the semifinals on July 27 at the Algonquin College Soccer Complex.
Levin, who signed professionally recently with Goteborg FC in Sweden, played in eight games for the Blues. Levin, a Newport Coast resident who graduated from Stanford last spring, was a first-team All-American for the Cardinal. She helped Stanford earn the school's first NCAA title in 2011, when she had four goals and seven assists. She assisted on the game-winning goal in a 1-0 NCAA title-game triumph over Duke.
Levin, a product of the Newport Beach-based Slammers club program who played three positions at Stanford, had 12 goals and 22 assists during her career there. She was a first-round draft pick of the Women's Professional League, but the league folded soon thereafter.
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The sight of a wild landscape covered with heathers in full bloom is breathtaking, so it is little surprise that people have found ways of introducing these rewarding plants into their gardens. Here they excel, offering color in the drabbest months and a huge diversity of height, habit, and other valuable characteristics in return for modest cultural demands.
This comprehensive and highly informative account encompasses the heaths and heathers of the closely related genera Calluna, Daboecia, and Erica, whose shared characteristics and similar cultural requirements make them broadly compatible in a variety of garden situations. These plants have enhanced people's lives for millennia and a full discussion of their naming, uses and other interactions with humans is explored in detail. A fascinating account of the unique ecological niche they occupy – including their remarkable adaptation to make use of the nitrogen and phosphorus unavailable to most other plants – provides a fitting context for discussion of their specific cultural needs. With more than 700 cultivated varieties of Calluna alone, selecting the right heather for the right place can be daunting. The detailed selection of cultivated hardy heathers conveniently provides gardeners with the best garden performers while further lists allow them to search for heathers for specific qualities, such as heat tolerance, ground cover, or early summer blooming. Design options for displaying heathers at their best in the garden are provided along with advice on spacing, pruning, propagation, pests, and diseases.
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In 1992 Karen Liljenberg decided to look into Tibetan Buddhism, and began learning Tibetan. Attracted right away to Dzogchen, she soon became a student of Sogyal Rinpoche founder of Rigpa who she accompanied on a group pilgrimage to India and Sikkim in 1994.
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Advice to Kunzang Chögyal
This succinct and down-to-earth piece of advice was written by Dza Patrul Rinpoche (1808-1887) for a student and friend who had asked him how he should practise. It sums up what real Dharma practice means - training our own minds, so that we can experience its results for ourselves, not to impress others.
The Cuckoo of Awareness
The Small Hidden Grain (sBas pa'i rGum Chung) by Buddhagupta is one of the very early Dzogchen texts among the Dunhuang documents at the British Library. The main theme of the text is the Enlightened Mind. It is composed of three elements: an introduction, the main text (written in red ink in the Tibetan) and interlinear notes.
Nine Considerations and Criteria for Benefiting Beings
Practical advice on how a Bodhisattva should decide on the best course of action, in a succinct and memorable piece written by the famous Dzogchen Master Dza Patrul Rinpoche, never before translated into English
The Chöd Practice, entitled "The Loud Laugh of the Dakini", is from the Longchen Nyingthig cycle of terma teachings revealed by the master Jigme Lingpa (1729-1798). Chöd means "cutting", and is a powerful, dramatic practice of cutting through ego-attachment and delusion by visualising offering up one's body to malevolent spirits and karmic creditors. Machig Labdrön, who lived in the eleventh century AD, is probably Tibet's most famous female practitioner of Chöd.
A Yearning Song of Faith
This is a reverential petition (gsol 'debs) to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal, pleading for aid in facing dark times. It was written (I believe) by Jigme Trinle Öser, the first Dodrupchen Rinpoche, a close disciple of Jigme Lingpa. It often accompanies the practice of Yumka Dechen Gyalmo, the Longchen Nyingthig Dakini sadhana, in which Yeshe Tsogyal is the principal meditational "deity".
Bardo Prayers
These prayers were written down by the fourteenth century tertön Karma Lingpa, and are traditionally recited as guidance to the dead and dying. The "Prayer Requesting Assistance from the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas," requests all enlightened beings to comfort those who are dying or who are suffering in the intermediate states after death
The Queen of Great Bliss
[NOTE: Traditionally, empowerment, reading transmission, and explanatory teaching from a qualified teacher are necessary in order for such a sadhana to be fully understood and practised.]
This is the Dakini practice from the famous Longchen Nyingthig Cycle, written down by Jigme Lingpa. Although as a sadhana it is a Tantric practice, it is imbued throughout with the Dzogchen perspective.
Two prayers by Dza Patrul Rinpoche
Two short prayers written by the great Dzogchen master Dza Patrul Rinpoche.
Dakini cave, Sikkim The Dakini Prayer which spontaneously accomplishes the two goals
Written by Jigme Trinle Oser, the first Dodrupchen Rinpoche, a close disciple of Jigme Lingpa. This prayer invokes the dakinis and the masters of the Longchen Nyingthig lineage, to grant the practitioner supreme and ordinary accomplishments ("supreme accomplishment" being a synonym for enlightenment).
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In 2010, it won't just be the savory smell of McDonald's French fries drawing people into its 14,000 US locations. McDonald's announced today its 11,000 restaurants featuring Wi-Fi service at a rate of $2.95 for two hours will stop charging customers for internet access. McDonald's charged for its AT&T run network for about five years, but this January, Mickey-D's will be joining the ranks of Barnes & Noble and Borders with free Wi-Fi all the time and with no limitations.
That's right, in a couple of days you will be able to sit yourself down at a 24 hour McDonald's, have breakfast, lunch and dinner—with McCafe drinks in between of course—and work on your laptop for as long as you like. We know where college kids will be writing papers in 2010.


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Pop star Justin Bieber pleaded no contest Wednesday to misdemeanor vandalism for throwing eggs at his neighbor's Calabasas home in January. He was sentenced to two years' probation.
Bieber, who was not in court for the hearing, was ordered to perform five days of community service and pay $80,900 in restitution. He must also complete an anger-management program.
The 20-year-old singer no longer lives in Calabasas, having recently sold the house to reality-TV star Khloe Kardashian for $7.2 million. He is now believed to stay primarily in the Beverly Hills area when he is in town.
As part of the plea deal, which was entered on Bieber's behalf by attorney Shawn Holley, the singer was ordered not to have any contact with the victim or his family.
Prosecutors considered felony charges because the damage from the nine eggs supposedly thrown was more than $400 — the legal standard for a felony. Cleanup, replastering and repainting was estimated to have cost about $20,000.
District Attorney Alan Yochelson said he was "satisfied" with the misdemeanor charge.
He called the egg throwing "extremely immature and a silly act," noting the house that was struck was a dream home for the victim's family and a large amount of work went into its construction.
A progress report hearing was scheduled for Aug. 12.
The Jan. 9 egging — part of which was recorded on video — in the 25000 block of Prado Del Grandioso triggered a Jan. 14 raid on the pop star's home, in which Bieber's pal Lil Za, real name Xavier Smith, was arrested on suspicion of drug possession.


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30th April 2015 Celebrations
Revered Babuji Maharaj
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 10:00 a.m.
"In our Mission, anniversaries serve to focus the thoughts of all onto their Master in a more intense way than usual, and to increase this energy of love, specific to its cosmic identity. May all our brothers be blessed and become increasingly vigilant to develop in themselves love, this ultimate vibration."
Let us take the time to ready ourselves for offering our Beloved Babuji Maharaj the most beautiful birthday gift: hearts open, loving and eager to receive what he wants to give us in his immense love.
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This is not a life changing post by any means but just in case you needed a quick and easy and meaningful idea for this month of giving thanks I thought I would show you these:
I bought these in a 3 pack at the Dollar store. I added some paper to the cover and tied on a few ribbons. These are for my husband and I. I have them on our pillows. Every day for the entire month we will write something we are thankful for about the other person in their book and then tuck it under their pillow. It is just a fun and simple way to let your spouse know about all the things they do for which you are thankful (we can never say them enough). These would be fun to do for your kids too.


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text: Dear Perfect Masters of Grid Computing: Economics is preparing to set up a small pilot cluster at Duke and the following question has come up. Primary tasks: matlab and stata jobs, run either interactively/remote or (more likely) in batch mode. Jobs include both "short" jobs that might take 10-30 minutes run by e.g. 1-2nd year graduate students as part of their coursework and "long" jobs that might take hours to days run by more advanced students, postdocs, faculty. Constraint: matlab requires a license managed by a license manager. There are a finite number of licenses (currently less than the number of CPUs) spread out across the pool of CPUs. Concern: That long running jobs will get into the queue (probably SGE managed queue) and starve the short running jobs for either licenses or CPUs or both. Students won't be able to finish their homework in a timely way because long running jobs de facto hog the resource once they are given a license/CPU. I am NOT an SGE expert, although I've played with it a bit and read a fair bit of the documention. SGE appears to run in FIFO mode, which of course would lead to precisely the sort of resource starvation feared or equal share mode. Equal share mode appears to solve a different resource starvation problem -- that produced by a single user or group saturating the queue with lots of jobs, little or big, so that others submitting after they've loaded the queue have to wait days or weeks to get on. However, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with job >>control<< according to a policy -- stopping a long running job so that a short running job can pass through. It seems like this would be a common problem in shared environments with a highly mixed workload and lots of users (and indeed is the problem addressed by e.g. the kernel scheduler in almost precisely the same context on SMP or UP machines). Recognizing that the license management problem will almost certainly be beyond the scope of any solution without some hacking and human-level policy, are there any well known solutions to this well known problem? Can SGE actually automagically control jobs (stopping and starting jobs as a sort of coarse-grained scheduler to permit high priority jobs to pass through long running low priority jobs)? Is there a way to solve this with job classes or wrapper scripts that is in common use? At your feet, your humble student waits, oh masters of SGE and Grids... rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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text: Tom Elken wrote: > From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org > [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Tom Pierce > > > ... It is a cost effective solution, and Dell clusters keep > popping up at US Universities as well. > > Tom > > The same is true at UK Universities. > > -Tom I think these trends have more to do with the cheap cost of Dell Hardware and Dell's sales force and marketing to upper management than they do with any technical advantages Dell has over the competition. I have no problem with Dell Hardware. There's nothing wrong with it, and Beowulf clusters are *supposed* to be based on affordable commodity hardware. I didn't see much basis for the earlier post disparaging Dell hardware. However, If you're buying a "turn-key" cluster solution based on advertised "clustering services", I'd be cautious with *any* of the big vendors, where you're known mostly as a customer ID in their CRM database, and you're dealing with salespeople and not technical people. Especially if they offer any kind of "customization" -- more than likely, any customization will be at additional costs, and you'll still have to do some reconfiguration to get it set up the way yo want (and is therefore no longer a turn-key system). I've got a few stories, but the guilty shall remain nameless. Getting back to hardware, I've always been impressed with the robustness of HP Proliant hardware -- Prentice


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