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Only a sophomore, he went to college wanting to study communications, but soon found out it wasn't for him. "I've always been really into cop work and homeland security," he said. "When I found out St. John's had a major in it I decided to go for it."
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Appel was playing baseball when he was first discovered at age 16. "A company called New Faces had a booth there and they approached me," he said. "I thought it was a scam at first."
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"I'm just a normal guy, I dress in Converse all year round – well, not now because it's winter," he said with a chuckle.
Appel recently participated in a Facebook contest hosted by designer Perry Ellis. As part of their initiative to include the public in their fashion shows, they let fans into the process of casting models. Appel, along with eight other relatively young, new male models participated in the contest where fans looked at their pictures and short video to decide who would walk Perry Ellis' runway at New York Fashion Week.
"I didn't win, but I feel honored just to be part of the competition," he said.
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It's the diagnosis that no one ever wants to receive, but one that an estimated 1.3 million people must face every year.
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in the world, striking women and men of every age and race. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and each year Arizona Spotlight and Susan G. Komen for the Cure Southern Arizona bring you Voices for the Cure, an opportunity for some of the countless people whose lives and loved ones have been touched by breast cancer to share their stories of courage, love, and hope.
Voices for the Cure producer Mark McLemore said that the answer to one question told him a lot about the kind of relationship that Norma and Tim York share. When the couple was asked how Norma's breast cancer had affected their marriage, they both said the same thing - at the same time: "It made it stronger".
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MCA DAY NYC – May 4, 2013
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Heather LeFevre has just published her annual survey of planners and strategists. It's most definitely worth a read. And not just if you regard yourself as a planner or strategist.
Of course, we're particularly honored to see BBH named joint top as one of two agencies with the 'strongest planning group' (& congratulations to W&K).
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The moment at least some of us have been waiting for! The results have been tabulated, analyzed and even designed this year. I've posted them on both SlideShare and Scribd so you can download them from whichever you prefer. All of my commentary is in the report, but please comment here after you've had a chance to read it. Would love to know what you think.


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Boo! Happy Halloween and happy Monday! It's time for another challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut!
Halloween is my second favorite holiday--it's so much fun! And when the new CTMH Idea Book came out in August, I fell in LOVE with the delightful witch's hat. My project today is my version of that hat.
Most of the cuts are from CTMH Artiste. The cone part of the hat is on p. 68. I used my Gypsy (but you could also use Cricut Craft Room) to hide the stars and make it as big as I could on the mat. I cut the circle using CTMH Art Philosophy and used my G to cut a second circle in the center. I used Cricut markers to draw a circle about 1/2 inch out from the inner circle, then used scissors to cut little flaps between the two circles. Then I glued them inside the cone. Now the fun part--decorating the hat!!
I stuck pretty close to the picture. The spider webs around the brim are the cupcake wrapper on p. 77 (you need 4 of each size). The flowers and leaves are on p. 54, and the spider web is on p. 76. The label is also on p. 77 and coordinates with the CTMH set Halloween Greetings--I am in love with that set! The paper is all from the CTMH Scaredy Cat Paper Pack. I stamped the bats from Halloween Greetings around the brim and sponged the cobwebs.
I taught a class on making this hat and people loved it. It really is so fun to make, and the Cricut makes it really easy.
Do you love Halloween? Why not play along with us this week? Just make a Halloween project using at least one Cricut cut and upload it to Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog. That's all there is to it! You could win a fabulous prize!
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Based in California, Cypress SC also has manufacturing operations in Ireland and the Philippines and its main competition in the market comes from the likes of Micron, Renesas, NXP and Microchip Technology.
Joint Founding
Along with the joint collaboration of Steven H Kaplan, Fred Jenne, Fritz Beyerlein, Lowell Turriff and Michael Starnes, Cypress SC was founded in 1982 with T J Rodgers as the leading party. All involved members were former employees of Advanced Micro Devices and were back by Sevin Rosen (a venture capital firm).
The company launched onto the market 4 years later, in the summer of 1986 and concerned itself with designing and developing newer, better, faster SRAM modules, TTL logic devices, PAL devices and EEPROMs. By 1988, the enterprise's operations had grown significantly and it moved over to the NY stock exchange from the NASDAQ, switching back at the end of 2009.
Speculate to Accumulate
With an expected boom in the Internet Of Things (IoT) market, with consumers able to automate more and more parts of their life, Cypress SC made a move to capitalise with their purchase of the Wireless IoT division of Broadcom in 2016.
The company has a subsidiary named AgigaTech Incorporated which produces Random Access Memory (RAM) from its California base. The arm was added to Cypress SC when it bought out Simtek in the Summer of 2008, joining Anchor Chips as stablemates, with both companies interestingly being started from scratch by the same man, Ron Sartore.
Packaging company Deca Technologies would also be added at the end of 2011.
Moving forward three more years, Cypress SC completed a merger with US company Spansion for a reported $9bn and it was a key moment for both, as it happened at a time when both were leaders of their respective fields. A move that proved successful as embedded processing became the vogue.
There was an attempted acquisition of Integrated Silicon Solution Incorporated in 2015, but it ultimately proved unsuccessful, as it was gazumped by a Chinese conglomerate that offered $731m (more than Cypress) at the eleventh hour. An offer that was accepted, leaving Cypress SC out in the cold.
Despite this disappointment, the future looks bright from Cypress SC, as the computerised world gets more expansive with every passing year. IoT looks set to take over more and more of the things we don't want to do ourselves and that can only be mean a big market for the company to provide technology to.
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Officials respond after string of Bosque incidents,
AFD says they're increasing patrols
Land that's closed to the public is still open to a lot of danger.
Albuquerque police said a mother was recently sexually assaulted in the Bosque, and a naked runner continues to evade police there. Also, two brush fires, possibly both man-made, sparked in another part of the forest closed to pedestrians.
Action 7 News asked officials if they are stepping up patrols.
"We have several trucks out; at least one truck out from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (every day)," Albuquerque Fire Department Fire Management Officer Jeremiah Hansen said.
He adds that on high-risk, high-wind days, even more firefighters are out to prevent fires.
"We double the trucks that are out (on those days)," Hansen said.
The Bosque is one of the most patrolled areas in Albuquerque, but it's also one of the largest. That's why officials said people need to have common sense.
"Pay attention to your surroundings, (and to the) restrictions in place," Hansen said.
As far as the sexual assault, police said in that case, the woman was helped by Open Space officers on patrol.
Still, locals told Action 7 News they want to see more police and firefighters during the day.
"In relation to what's been happening, I'd like to see more," Bosque visitor, Kevin O'Leary said.
In the case of the sexual assault, the suspect is still on the loose. He was last seen on a bike and is described as having a medium to dark complexion and being between 16 and 19 years old.


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"Mom, can I color my hair pink?" She held up the package with the hot pink comb and the hair crayon that promised to add colorful streaks that wash out in one shampoo.
"Yes," I answered. There was no hesitation. It spilled out effortlessly—with a smile. No analyzing what kind of mess it would make, if it was age appropriate, if it would set her up for more image-altering wants. Just "yes."
She smiled her satisfaction, reminding me, "Don't worry, it washes out," diffusing any possibility that I might change my mind. I pulled out six wrinkled one dollar bills from the bottom of my purse and handed them to her—my ticket price for the show of childhood delight that followed. Sheer happiness—the quick wave of pride that accompanied the independence from a parent-free transaction with the cashier and the ten-minute countdown on the ride home for the transformation that was to come.
No sooner had the garage door opened, and the comb was out of the package, scraping blond strands and depositing thick hot pink greasy wax that weighed down her hair, turning feather light cornsilk into heavy icicles the color of a Bubble Yum wrapper.
A three-minute mirror gaze followed with facial expressions that could be easily matched to candy conversation heart sayings: OMG. 2 Cool 4 School. Awesome. She was thrilled.
"Can we do Nella's hair?" she added.
"Yes." Again, it rolled off my tongue with ease, and another smile followed.
Soon, two hot pink-headed girls were dancing in the hallway to our summer anthems, stopping periodically to catch a glimpse of their new dos in the mirror.
A "yes" to pink hair ignited a full wild card day—yes to cushions off the couch, yes to Slip n' Slide, yes to that clearance best friends necklace at Target—the one with two halves of a rainbow, one she'll give to her friend and one she'll most likely lose next week.
Yes to S'mores at lunch and burning old mail in the firepit out back to roast our marshmallows. Yes to glow sticks. Yes to Katy Perry turned up to an annoying volume in our driveway while they rode scooters one-handed, holding popsicles with the other. Yes to the beach and dragging that giant stinkin' inner tube with us. Yes to all of it at once and admittedly just as much for me as it was for them.
We were having fun. I loved how happy all these yeses made them, and for all the "Not Today"s and "I Said No"s that accompany parenthood, it felt good for one day (ahem–or two) to say yes to everything—especially considering that at this age it simply means temporary color combs and a second popsicle; not permanent dye, a dragon tattoo or hopping on that motorcycle with that guy.
I remember yes days from my own childhood—we knew they were special, and we didn't push the limits. Like the time my dad told me I had to wait to get my ears pierced until I was ten but then pulled a fast one on me at Oakland Mall three years early when he looked at me all wild card starry-eyed and asked, "Hey, want to get your ears pierced?" Pierced ears were followed with a new skirt. And a soft pretzel. And a cherry icee. And staying up past my bedtime.
These crazy days don't necessarily set a course in parenthood or seal a fate. They're just fun. Random. And everybody knows it. Maybe they subliminally represent something—some parental need to overcompensate, be the fun one, fill in the gaps for where their childhood might be lacking. Maybe they're simply a response to our overwhelming love for them and fulfilment in seeing them overjoyed. Whatever the case, it smooths out, and kids come out just fine—I'm sure of it.
And, hey. At least we're a wild card united front right now. Call it summer spontaneity.
"What do you think about getting some neighbors together to rent a bounce house for the weekend?" Brett asked this morning. "You know, to celebrate summer."
"Yes," I answered. With no hesitation. Because I'm on a roll with the yeses, and it feels good.
Happy Weekend!
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Toxic carbon monoxide emitted from engine exhausts, inhaled in low levels by city dwellers, has a narcotic effect which helps people to resist various other stresses of urban life such as noise – that's the controversial claim made by an Israeli professor investigating conditions in Tel Aviv.
According to a press release issued yesterday highlighting research by Professor Itzhak Schnell of Tel Aviv University:
Prof Schnell and his fellow researchers wanted to measure how people living in an urban environment confronted stressors in their daily lives. They asked 36 healthy individuals between the ages of 20 to 40 to spend two days in Tel Aviv, Israel's busiest city ... Researchers monitored the impact of four different environmental stressors: thermal load (heat and cold), noise pollution, carbon monoxide levels, and social load (the impact of crowds) ...
The most surprising find of the study, says Prof Schnell, was in looking at levels of CO that the participants inhaled during their time in the city. Not only were the levels much lower than the researchers predicted — approximately 1-15 parts per million every half hour — but the presence of the gas appeared to have a narcotic effect on the participants, counteracting the stress caused by noise and crowd density.
According to the prof and his colleagues, the thing which actually has the worst effect on a city dweller's health is noise: not temperature, not crowding, and certainly not carbon monoxide, which actually helps a person to cope with stress (anyway it does if breathed in the concentrations found in Tel Aviv – it's definitely poisonous at higher levels).
Schnell suggests therefore that the most urgent priority in making cities healthier to live in is not dealing with extreme temperatures or air pollution or crowding, but plainly and simply trying to make them quieter.
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The London Stock Exchange is in exclusive talks to buy Project Turquoise, the rival trading platform set up by nine banks in order to push down transaction fees.
A formal statement was issued yesterday confirming talks. Turquoise launched its electronic share dealing platform in late 2008. It gives access to 15 European exchanges.
The deal would be the second big buy for LSE's new chief exec Xavier Rolet - in September the exchange bought MilleniumIT, the Sri Lankan development firm, for £18m.
Project Turquoise had a difficult birth and was nicknamed Project Tortoise thanks to its delayed arrival.
It aimed to exploit changes to European regulation to allow multi-national trading platforms. It failed to secure quite as large a share of trading as expected but was hitting five per cent of UK trading.
One question for any would-be buyer is how to guarantee the nine banks continue to use the platform when they are no longer shareholders in the business.
If LSE does manage to buy Turquoise it will have secured a new platform, and a new offshore partner to develop it, within just a few weeks. ®


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Yeah, it would probably be easier to do that if it was a home made hammock, using fabric from the dollar bin<G>.
I think the SPE works great but occasionally I would have one of the wings flop over as I tossed & turned through the night.
No big deal to put it back in place, but if it were the same width as the hammock & sewed in place, that should never be an issue.


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The debate as to whether to let cats roam freely outside or not is hotly debated, with strong views both for and against. It is of course a decision that all cat owners have to make, not just Bengal owners, though we think Bengal cats have some unique characteristics which need to be considered as part of the decision-making process.
What are the reasons in favour of letting your cat go outside?
Cats are free-spirited and agile creatures who need space to run and hunt and do what comes naturally to them. They're independent and intelligent and can look after themselves. They're not human slaves like dogs, and are not meant to be cooped up inside a home all day. They will get bored. When Bengals get bored, this can lead to behavioural problems such as aggression, naughtiness or inappropriate spraying.
Sounds reasonable… so why should you not let your cat do all that?
On average, cats who are left to roam freely outdoors live much fewer years than indoor kitties. There's two main reasons for that (1) Road traffic accidents and (2) Fighting with or being attacked by other cats or even wild animals. Although cats are intelligent, there are many hazards outside that a little furry member of the family should not be exposed to. On top of these risks, there is an additional one with Bengals and other pedigree cats: the risk of theft. There are unfortunately unscrupulous humans out there who are quick to take advantage if they see an opportunity to take a valuable or beautiful cat.
There's also potentially the issue of your neighbours… A lot of cats don't like to use their own back garden as a toilet, and may decide to use your neighbours' prized flower beds instead. Most people, perhaps understandably, don't like this, and a minority will take their own cruel actions by deliberately harming or poisoning cats that do this 😯
What you need to know about Bengals in particular
When you're making your decision, you need to be aware of the fact that Bengals are a lot more adventurous than many other cats and are also a lot more confident or, some might say, nosey! 🙂 They will wander much further than most domestic cats so their territory will be much larger, and it may include things like roads or other hazards that you may think are too far away to be an issue.
As well as that, Bengals don't understand the meaning of "private property" and think that any open door is an invitation to go in and take a look around! This could be a shed, garage or outbuilding or even someone's house! So depending on whose property it is, and whether or not they're noticed, there is the risk of either getting trapped inside or annoying your neighbours when they're constantly finding your cat in their house!
We're speaking from experience here… at the top of this article you can see we live in a very rural area – that's the view from the bottom of our garden. What you can't see is that there's a busy road, though it's quite some distance away and none of our non-Bengal cats have ever wandered that far… but Lula did! Also both Spot and Lula were consistently in and out of our neighbour's house during warmer weather when doors and windows were left open – we know they would never harm them, but they didn't like it and it was an inconvenience to them.
So what should you decide?
At the end of the day, only you can make the decision yourself and each individual will have their own unique circumstances to take into account based on the personality of your cat and the area where you live. If you live near a main road or some other hazards, we would say you perhaps shouldn't let your cat roam free… if you live in a very rural area, you may wish to let them.
Things to consider if you decide to let your cat free roam
Don't let them roam until they're old enough – at least 6 months
Make sure they're neutered – males are less likely to get in fights and will not add to the growing population of unwanted cats and females of course won't get pregnant and add to the same population.
Ensure they are fully vaccinated.
Get them microchipped – some people also put collars on their cats, though we personally don't like them – we've heard lots of cases of them getting caught in branches etc and strangling cats, even some of the so-called "quick release" ones.
We advise that cats are kept in during the hours of darkness – they're more likely to get into difficulties if allowed outside at night (greater risk of road accidents and fights with other animals).
If you want to install a cat flap, get one that reads your cats' microchips. Cats don't need to wear a collar for these and they will prevent the problem of neighbourhood felines coming into your house and all the resulting problems with territory marking and stress to your own cats that can bring.
The alternatives to free roaming
There are of course other ways of letting your cat go outside without giving them the complete freedom of the great outdoors – building an outdoor enclosure, cat proofing your garden, or harness-training them and letting them take you for a walk! We cover all of these topics in other articles in our advice pages!


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Ben Stiller invaded the zeitgeist like few have with 2001's Zoolander, and fans have been clamoring to see the dimwitted male model character make his triumphant return ever since. Movement on the follow-up finally began in 2010, with Tropic Thunder scribe Justin Theroux set to co-write the script and direct. All seemed well and good until Paramount decided it had budgetary issues with the script, and the project has been in a state of limbo for the past couple of years.
Steve recently got the chance to talk with Stiller at the press day for the sci-fi comedy The Watch, and the actor gave a minor—yet slightly optimistic—update on Zoolander 2. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
Steve asked Stiller for an update on the Zoolander sequel, to which the actor replied:
"We have a script, as we've had for a little while, and it's not quite coming together right now but I hope it does. I would like to do it at some point in the future."
In other words, it sounds like Paramount is still dragging its feet. Zoolander was stalled around the same time that the studio also passed on the Anchorman sequel due to similar budgetary concerns, but director Adam McKay threw a hail mary pass a few months ago in approaching Paramount once more about the Anchorman follow-up and that film is now geared up to start filming early next year.
Zoolander and Anchorman were in no way box office juggernauts, but both films gained a massive following once they hit DVD. Stiller appeared on the most recent season of SNL as Zoolander to a wild reception, and I sincerely hope that the studio can come to the realization that there is enormous interest in seeing the character return to the big screen. As Stiller told Steve, Zoolander 2 is still something that the actor would like to do in the future, so fingers crossed the project will finally see the light of day sometime soon.
Watch the portion of Steve's interview where Stiller talks about the Zoolander sequel below, and look for the full interview later this week.


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Aykroyd explains, "Brought together, the Crystal Heads are said to contain vast knowledge and enlightenment capable of unlocking our most enigmatic ancient mysteries. … Read more


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Wonderful vistas from Cupola
Cupola has proved itself to be an excellent viewing platform since it was attached to the International Space Station in February. The latest photos taken from this heavenly observatory are stunning.
How about doing a spacewalk wearing a t-shirt, without donning a complex spacesuit, with superb views back to Earth and up to the stars?
Cupola, ESA's latest contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), is in many ways a better place for observations than being out in space. Not only is it easier to access, but also the view is wider than through a helmet visor.
The 80-cm diameter of Cupola's circular top window makes it the largest window ever in space, while the six side windows open the view to all directions.
Cupola houses a workstation for the astronauts to control the Station's robotic arm. It also serves as a control centre for crewmembers to support other astronauts, either in another part of the Station or outside during spacewalks.
With its panoramic sweep, Cupola is also a perfect place for observing visiting spacecraft and external areas of the Station.
Room with a view
The main role of Cupola is to serve as an observatory: it has a clear view of Earth and celestial bodies, and there is enough space to accommodate two astronauts holding cameras with telephoto lenses.
Whether targeted Earth observations and scientific measurements or aesthetic and relaxing views, the scenery outside Cupola is impressive. From oil spills, desertification, melting icebergs and glaciers, dust storms, hurricanes and pollution to atmospheric phenomena and auroras – it is a lengthy list of targets.
Even now, when Earth can be studied all the time by many satellites with a variety of sensors, observations from the ISS are important, because there the observer is human. Astronauts not only adapt to changing situations, but also take photos spontaneously, when something interesting is happening.
In fact, the best photos from Cupola are good examples, like the photo on the right. Taken by the Expedition 25 commander Doug Wheelock, it shows night view of our home planet from 350 km above.
One of the most active astronauts observing Earth has been Japan's Soichi Noguchi, who sent his pictures via Twitter. See them at twitter.com/astro_soichi.
ESA's Paolo Nespoli, the next European to spend six months on the ISS, starting in December, will also send photos taken from Cupola. And many will be in 3D.


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DENVER (AP) – Democratic state Sen. Morgan Carroll became the second woman in Colorado history Wednesday to be selected Senate president, a position that became available with the recall ouster last month of former Sen. John Morse over new gun restrictions.
Carroll, who represents Aurora, was chosen unanimously by her colleagues during a brief meeting at the state Capitol. The other woman to hold the position was Democrat Joan Fitz-Gerald in 2007.
Republicans gained two lawmakers in the Senate with the recalls, but Democrats still control the chamber by one vote, meaning they get to select the chamber president.
Morse, of Colorado Springs, and Pueblo Democratic Sen. Angela Giron were voted out of office last month. They joined other Democrats this year in passing limits on the size of ammunition magazines and expanding background checks to private and online firearm sales. Both were responses to mass shootings last year at a suburban Denver movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school.
"We're all disappointed of course about the loss of two very good statespeople in the Senate going forward," Carroll said. "Personally I don't think a recall mechanism is the best way for us to resolve policy differences. But that said, our job is to move forward."
Carroll is an attorney who previously served in the Colorado House. She held the position of Senate majority leader last session, so Democrats needed to choose a lawmaker to fill that post with Carroll's promotion. They selected Boulder Sen. Rollie Heath, an Army veteran and former Colorado gubernatorial candidate.
Their appointments will become official in January when the Colorado Legislature convenes.
Carroll and Heath said they will focus on addressing any needs from the aftermath of natural disasters that have ravaged the state this year: Wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes in El Paso County and floods that damaged thousands of homes.
"This is a really somber time for the state," Heath said. "The district that I represent in Jamestown, Lyons, and Longmont and the city of Boulder has taken some great hits. And of course we had the fires this summer and we still have issues around getting people back to work."
"All of the things that I just mentioned are not partisan, they're all bipartisan issues," he added.
Carroll said she still believes the gun restrictions Democrats passed have widespread support in the state – a point Republicans dispute. She said overturning the laws "would be a clear step backwards."
– By Ivan Moreno, AP Writer
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- Paul D. Miller, known as DJ Spooky, mixes genres, styles to create something new
- Spooky's creativity establishes links between seemingly unrelated things
- Ideas are built on the work of predecessors -- "standing on the shoulders of giants"
- Good ideas are communicated between networks, creating more ideas and discoveries
As a living space, Paul D. Miller's Lower Manhattan studio apartment is fairly sparse: futon on the floor, tiny kitchen, couch and a couple chairs, all crammed into a single elongated room overlooking the street.
As a repository of information, however, it's something else again.
Along the walls there are shelves and shelves of CDs and DVDs and books, a laptop, audiovisual equipment. Media dominates every free space, whether old-school rap CDs or 1970s foreign films or books about art and philosophy. It is the living space as laboratory, the lair of a multimedia scientist, a place for cutting and shaping and retooling bits and bytes and ideas in an effort to bring forth something new.
Miller goes by the nom de technologie DJ Spooky, aka That Subliminal Kid -- the latter a moniker borrowed from a William S. Burroughs character. When he isn't in his apartment, he's traveling -- performing in far-flung locales such as Beijing or Ottawa or Weimar (and, sometimes, the East Village or Brooklyn). On a recent autumn evening, he was across town doing a "beta-test party" in The Stone, a bare-bones room just off Houston Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Armed with a pair of iPads and a mixing board, accompanied by a cellist and a fellow composer, Miller was offering an informal class in how to merge art and technology. He ran John Coltrane's "Naima" through his own iPad DJ app, adding echo, bells and percussion until the composition took on a tone of dreaminess and flight; he displayed images from "The Book of Ice," his recent chronicle of a trip to Antarctica and the ideas it inspired; and sampled reggae, rap and Led Zeppelin's "Good Times, Bad Times." What emerged was a musical conversation between eras and genres.
Technology was not always Miller's friend on this informal evening. There sometimes didn't seem to be enough connections between the iPads, mixer and A/V equipment, leaving a projector screen displaying "no signal" warnings while Miller groped with the machines. Other times the electronics needed to be recalibrated so as to prevent feedback or, worse, silence.
But when it worked -- when he played the iPad like Paganini, or when the cello blended with a Moog synthesizer app just so -- the result was otherworldly, awakening not just connections between sounds, but connections in the minds of the audience members.
Which, Miller says, is precisely the point.
"The beautiful thing about our era is we live in the Information Age. That is absolutely a crucial component if you think about culture as information," he says. "The good news ... is that everyone has access. But at the same time it doesn't mean they're actually going to access and use it."
In such an instant epoch, he points out, it's easy to forget about connections to other arts, other disciplines, other histories.
"I'm seeing a lot of selective amnesia, where people are unaware of basic currents of history and how culture evolves, because they're caught up in the moment."
"That can be an issue if you're thinking about how people think about the long term -- and it's crucial right now to think of the long term."
'I really don't think of music, film and art as separate'
Establishing those links -- and building on them -- is an inescapable part of the creative process. Even people who seem to come up with new ideas out of thin air are building on the discoveries and advances of others -- whether they're aware of the influences or not. Isaac Newton probably put it best in his much-repeated quotation, from a 1676 letter to fellow scientist Robert Hooke: "If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." (Newton also quoted from giants: similar expressions of thought have been traced back at least as far as the 12th-century philosopher Bernard of Chartres, reaching back to the story of the blind, mythological Greek figure Orion carrying his servant on his shoulders.)
"Creativity isn't magic," says Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker who's produced a series of videos called "Everything is a Remix."
"It starts out simply enough -- you're copying and then you're fiddling with whatever you've copied, and then you're merging whatever you copied with something else."
"It's only over time, with years of practice, that you start to get results that are breakthrough."
Miller, 41, grew up in Washington. His father was the dean of Howard University Law School and his mother owned a popular boutique, Toast and Strawberries. He remembers being surrounded by a rich record collection, one that included The Police and Prince as well as jazz, hip-hop and reggae. (He shunned that classic mix of yesterday and today, commercial radio: "I couldn't stand normal radio," he says.)
He began his career as a writer and artist -- he got his degrees from Bowdoin College in Maine in both photography and French literature -- and primarily spent the '90s exploring visual styles such as collage.
Eventually, his focus turned to music -- but it wasn't just about the lyrics and melody.
"Music wasn't music -- it was information," he says. "It was about sampling, about a kind of tool to pull information into different perspectives."
In recent years, his focus has shifted to environmental issues, with "environment" defined broadly -- including the way we live and interact with the planet and each other. His most recent work, "The Book of Ice" -- along with his multimedia work "Terra Nova" (which draws on composer Ralph Vaughn Williams' "Sinfonia Antarctica") and his graphic art project "Manifesto for a People's Republic of Antarctica" -- observes that both the word and concept of "ice" have powerful overtones: water, hardness, cold, riffs on black culture (Ice-T, Ice Cube) -- even age.
The ice in Earth's polar regions can be drilled to determine changes in the planet's climate over millennia -- and the graphical patterns found in those ice samples can be used as "data landscapes" that Miller expresses in other forms. He traveled to the lonely continent to research the works, recording sounds, taking pictures and seeking out connections between it all.
"You have to think of Antarctica as a terrain of possibility," he says in an interview included in "The Book of Ice." We see what we want to see: "It's a surface we project onto, but it doesn't reflect back." The cold, icy mirror of the continent lends itself to a host of possibilities, including the posters from "Manifesto," which owe a design debt to the commanding, brusque propaganda art of 1930s Russia.
"I really don't think of music, film and art as separate," he says. "There's a seamless connection -- it's the creative mind at work."
The movement of ideas
What Miller is doing is nothing new. Sometimes the idea can be conceptual, as with novelist John Dos Passos' use of newsreels, journalism and stream-of-consciousness to capture the hurly-burly of early-20th century America for his "U.S.A." trilogy, published in the 1930s. Other times -- particularly in recent years -- the cycle is commercial: the sampling of a familiar riff in hip-hop songs, the churn of cultural references in the TV show "Community," the making of bestselling books into movies into musicals and back around again, all a way of squeezing golden eggs out of the same goose. (Consider, for example, John Waters' "Hairspray": Originally a movie focusing on the fans of a TV music dance show, it then became a Broadway musical, which was in turn brought back to the screen.)
Miller himself talks about such forbears as James Joyce, whose layered, punning "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake" densely pack references to countless other works within their pages; Jack Kerouac, who wrote "On the Road" as a single paragraph on a taped-together 120-foot scroll, evoking the open highway he traveled; and Public Enemy's Chuck D, who once called rap "black America's CNN."
Good ideas don't stay in their place, either. In the 1970s and '80s, the British TV writer and personality James Burke created the shows "Connections" and "The Day the Universe Changed," showing how one person's innovation or fresh take percolated through the ages, with math influencing the visual arts, the visual arts affecting music, music touching social movements, social movements providing fodder for science, up and down and around and around.
Connections don't always follow one after another in orderly fashion. In his 2010 book, "Where Good Ideas Come From," author Steven Johnson shows that some concepts are fostered by tightly webbed environments that allow for speedy exchange, alteration and expansion of thought. Think of a densely packed city, or even the Internet.
Other times it's a critical mass of developments coming together, often by contemporaries working independently, that makes innovation seem inevitable: Among Johnson's examples are the discovery of sunspots (by four scientists in different countries in 1611) and oxygen (by Joseph Priestley and Carl Wilhelm Scheele in the 1770s).
And then there are ideas that take years, even decades, to come to fruition, built by painstaking accumulation of research and study, a process Johnson calls "the slow hunch." It's more often the norm, not the exception. "The Vaseline-daubed lens of hindsight tends to blur slow hunches into eureka moments," he writes. Charles Darwin, he points out, may have painted his realization about evolution as an epiphany, but the idea had been brewing for months in his notebook.
"It is not merely that Darwin possesses the puzzle pieces but fails to put them together in the right configuration," Johnson writes. Even after a key insight, the great naturalist took another several weeks before he finally wrote down the rules of natural selection in November 1838 -- which was, it should be noted, 21 years before he published "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. (And -- in another example of contemporaries arriving at the same point -- Alfred Russel Wallace was conceiving of similar ideas at the same time. Today, the Linnean Society, an organization that promotes the study of the biological sciences, honors advances with the Darwin-Wallace Medal.)
'There's no end to it'
Filmmaker Ferguson, who is in postproduction on his fourth "Everything Is a Remix" (the first three parts focused on music, movies and the elements of creativity; part four, due out soon, will concern legal and ownership issues), finds that nuggets that trace influences backwards and forwards are a continuing source of inspiration. "There's no end to it," he says.
And by being able to show such cross-pollination through his own remixing -- clever editing, informative graphics (Ferguson trained as a graphic designer) and dissemination on the Web -- he hopes he's enlightened a few viewers who believe the world began with the invention of the personal computer.
"Seeing the examples make it hit home for people," he says. Take "Star Wars": Many people may realize George Lucas was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's films, World War II dogfight footage and Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." But actually seeing clips from Lucas' film mixed in with 1954's "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" and Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" bring Ferguson's point home in a way that a textbook never could.
For Miller, it's all part of a package. He's already put D.W. Griffith's 1915 classic "The Birth of a Nation" through the remixing wringer, adding a new, pointed film score -- among other concepts -- and retitling it "Rebirth of a Nation." Griffith's film, he observes, still influences culture today, its then-innovative cuts and composition now mainstays of cinematic language, its sympathetic view of the Confederacy (and coarse portrayals of African-Americans) reverberating in our politics.
With everything he does, he recombines information so that he can make new points, get across new ideas. He hopes his work entertains -- and instructs.
"I'm an artist, but art can teach and music can educate. It's not like one is separate from the other.
"There's a connection to everything," he says. "The world is my archive."


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A LEED project for 2011-2012
Introduction / Objectives / A Six-Stage approach / Methods / Participation
Gathering evidence is an essential requirement for local development organisations to design sound economic development strategies, demonstrate delivery against objectives, and prepare a path for future policy action. The new project of the OECD LEED Programme on building local economic intelligence (BLEI) aims to support national and local governments with sourcing and using information to design development strategies that are informed by evidence on current economic performance, drivers and enablers of change, existing barriers to development, and policy gaps. The BLEI project intends to provide a tailored template into which appropriate information is collected and used.
This new project builds on past recent work of the OECD LEED Programme, including the publication Making Local Strategies Work: Building the Evidence Base and the Project FIELD – Framework for Information Exchange and Local Development.
The overarching objective of the BLEI project is to increase the local capacity to collect and use appropriate economic information and evaluation evidence in a structured way so as to feed the strategy-making process. More specific objectives will consist in helping local development organisations to:
Identify "drivers", "enablers", and "barriers" to local economic development in such a way as to support an informed strategy-making process.
Improve local approaches to gathering information and evaluation evidence, as well as to using such information to feed the strategy making process.
Introduce and explain the implementation of knowledge-management tools such as horizon scanning and technology foresight to build forward-looking strategies.
Create a dashboard of indicators to monitor the progress of the strategy and to eventually compare the performance of the locality as against others equally involved in the project.
Evaluate the impact of local strategies on drivers, enablers and barriers to development, and use the evaluation evidence to fine-tune existing strategies and inform new ones.
A six-stage approach
The BLEI project adopts a six-stage approach, and its contribution will consist in introducing and strengthening each of these stages in local development organisations. The approach will adjust to the concrete needs and goals of the partner organisation, as each stage of the process will also depend on the final goal of the development strategy.
Figure 1. The BLEI Approach
Baseline analysis and benchmarking
At the outset of a local development strategy process, current economic performance and social conditions need to be carefully reviewed in order to produce an accurate understanding of the state of affairs. It is important to properly understand problems and challenges which sets constraints to local development. The baseline information plays an essential role in evidence-based strategy making since it provides the essential point of comparison for observing any policy-induced changes.
Future scan and foresight
Effective local economic development does not concern only mitigating social and economic problems, but it is also about taking advantage of available economic opportunities. A foresight activity casts light on expected changes and potential opportunities for economic renewal. It builds on an information base and on a participatory process.
Strategy formulation
From the perspective of an evidence-based local strategy, it is important that drivers, enablers, and barriers to economic development are correctly identified, so that policy can address the three of them. Drivers and enablers are the levers that a locality needs to focus on in order to create a high-impact development plan, whereas barriers to development need clearly be removed.
The logic model
The logic model is an analytical project-planning approach to specify the logical structure of planned activities, based on their consequences and impacts. The rationale behind its use is clarifying the causal relations that typically remain fuzzy in the complex socio-economic settings in which local development takes place. Logic models can be used at two related levels of aggregation. First, a logic model can be used to specify broad strategic goals into more operational chain of activities, their immediate results, and subsequent impacts. Second, the logic model approach can be applied at the project level.
Dashboard of indicators
In the promotion of local economic development one may tap into a large variety of potential statistical sources of information. The diversity of these sources is a constant challenge, as they provide somewhat inconsistent collections of knowledge with varying timeframes and updating practices. A commonly applied solution to this challenge is to compile key indicators in a dashboard. A dashboard of indicators is a tool to monitor and communicate policy performance against targets and other comparator areas (e.g. the national or regional average or still a similar locality).
The ultimate purpose of evaluation is to generate evidence about impacts of local development policy. Conceptually, this task requires comparing the observed outcomes with a counterfactual situation – i.e. a situation in the absence of policy – and demonstrating that the outcomes can be attributed to the policy intervention. In other words, an evaluation needs to compare the outcomes (policy-on) with the counterfactual condition where there was no local development policy in place at all (policy-off). Different methodologies exist, and within this project the evaluation exercise builds on the logic model approach and the dashboard of indicators.
The following methodological steps can be envisaged for this project:
i) start-up meeting;
ii) preparation of a background paper by a local expert;
iii) desk research by the local expert and the OECD secretariat;
iv) study visit by a review panel consisting of international experts and OECD secretariat;
v) report drafting;
vi) workshop to deliver results and capacity-building; vii) delivery of the final report.
Both local and national governments can participate in this project by signing up for: a) a full-fledged review of the strategy making process of one (local government) or more localities (national government); or b) a thematic workshop that focuses either on a specific topic or on a stage of the BLEI process to evidence-based strategy making.
Comprehensive review:
The review will analyse each of the six steps of the BLEI approach to strategy making, with a view to improving the information channel leading to the elaboration and evaluation of the development strategy. The study will also result in the creation of a dashboard of indicators and will be followed by a workshop discussing how to implement the findings and recommendations of the analysis in the current strategy making process and evaluation system. The results will be presented in a full-fledged report.
Focused workshop:
Alternatively, a national or local actor can decide to organise a workshop with a narrower focus either on a specific theme (e.g. entrepreneurship, skills, social inclusion, etc.) or on a specific phase of the BLEI six-stage approach that is of particular concern to him. The workshop will be geared towards policy makers engaged in strategy-making and monitoring and evaluation, and will result in a paper presenting the results of the workshop and suggestions for improvement in the practices of the partner organisation/s.
Jonathan Potter, Senior economist
Marco Marchese, Policy analyst


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HTC Next-Gen Smartphone – HTC had a pretty dismal 2011. The company's profit fell throughout the year, and none of the handsets from the company could make an impact on the sale of Galaxy S II. HTC has promised to bounce back in 2012, and will go back to its strategy of releasing a Hero device – which will represent the best of what the company can do technologically.
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About Bagan
Ancient City of Devotion
One of the most remarkable sights in Southeast Asia, Bagan has inspired visitors to Myanmar for nearly 1000 years. The kingdom of Bagan took root in the 8th century but only rose to glory as capital of the First Kingdom of Myanmar in the early 11th century. Ancient chronicles say that there were once 4446 temples over its wide plains but today only 2230 remain, as recorded by UNESCO in 1988.
King Anawrahta, who ruled from 1044 to 1077, initiated the building of temples on this vast plain. The decline of the kingdom in the late 13th century is popularly believed to have resulted from an invasion of Mongols led by Kublai Khan. The capital was shifted from Bagan to Pinya and then to Inwa near modern-day Mandalay, where it remained for centuries.
Many of the temples were architectural wonders of their time and still inspire awe among visitors. There is hardly a trace of cement in the fine masonry work. The massive roofs were held up by clever use of arches and barrel vaults. The windows were arranged to throw rays of sunlight directly onto the faces of massive Buddha images within the vaulted chambers.
Today Bagan offers luxurious riverside accommodation, where after a busy day of touring the temples, guests can relax with cocktails and watch the sunset over the Ayeyarwady River. There are also many clean, family-run guesthouses that offer a more intimate taste of local life. For an unrivalled view of Bagan, hot air balloons can take visitors over the ancient kingdom in the soft light of dawn or dusk. Bagan is also famous as the centre of Myanmar's thriving lacquerware industry. Today tourists can watch the skilled artisans as they work on the various stages of the six-month process. Much of this lacquerware is destined for souvenir shops in Yangon, and from there to the world markets.
Bagan is also famous as the centre of Myanmar's thriving lacquerware industry. Today tourists can watch the skilled artisans as they work on the various stages of the six-month process.
Visitors with extra time on their hands can take half-day excursions from Bagan to Mount Popa to the east or Salay to the south. Mount Popa is the centre of nat (spirit) worship in Myanmar. A shrine at the base of the mountain holds images of the major spirits and attracts devotees from all over the country. The mountain itself is protected by a national park where visitors can hike and ride horses through the forest while on the lookout for rare birds and butterflies.
Salay is an attractive, leafy village that is home to a number of Bagan-era pagodas and old wooden monasteries, the most spectacular of which is Youqson Kyaung, dating back to the 19th century and featuring detailed carvings of scenes from the Buddha's past lives.
Mount Popa is the centre of nat (spirit) worship in Myanmar.
Explore the famous landmarks of Bagan such as Shwezigon Pagoda and Ananda Temple by foot, horse cart, bicycle or hired car.
Get a bird's-eye view of the ancient plain as the early morning mist rises from the Ayeyarwady or as the sun goes down over the river, either by indulging in a hot-air balloon ride or simply climbing to the upper terraces of a well-positioned temple.
Visit a local lacquerware factory to see how skilled artisans create the beautiful objects seen in souvenir shops throughout Myanmar.
Set aside an extra day for a trip to Mt Popa to commune with the nats (spirits) and climb to the top of the mountain through forested parkland.