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Based on the broad acceptance of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), of which smart lighting is a part, NanoMarkets has considerably upgraded its long-term forecasts for smart lighting compared with a previous report we issued in 2013.
Glen Allen, Virginia (June 24, 2014) — The market for LED drivers, MCUs, sensors and other chips used in smart lighting will grow from around $67 million in 2014 to $1.05 billion in 2019. This is according to a new report from industry analyst firm NanoMarkets titled, "The Markets for Smart Lighting Drivers, Controllers and Sensor Chips – 2014." Based on the broad acceptance of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), of which smart lighting is a part, NanoMarkets has considerably upgraded its long-term forecasts for smart lighting compared with a previous report we issued in 2013.
For more details about the report: http://www.nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/the-markets-for-smart-lighting-drivers-controllers-and-sensor-chips-2014.
The firm recently issued two separate reports on smart lighting markets in a two volume series. See http://www.nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/smart-lighting-markets-2014-v1-v2 for details.
About the report:
The report, "The Markets for Smart Lighting Drivers, Controllers and Sensor Chips – 2014," provides insight into the market opportunities available to the semiconductor industry as the result of the current boom in smart lighting, which itself is part of the transition to an IoT. Smart lighting provides users high levels of energy efficiency, color tuning (mood enhancement) capabilities and/or visible light communications.
The report contains detailed eight-year market projections of seven major smart lighting chip types in both revenue and volume terms. Additional breakouts are provided by (1) the part of the lighting system in which the chips are used and (2) the technology generation of the system itself and (3) the type of building, vehicle or location in which the smart lighting systems will be used.
Firms mentioned in the report include: Acuity Brands, ARM, Atmel, Broadcom, California Eastern Labs, Casio, Cavet, Cypress Semiconductor, Daintree Networks, Digi, Dresden elektronik, Eastfield, Easylite, Echoflex, Energy Automation Systems, EnOcean, Fifth Light, FlexiPanel, Freescale, Leviton, IBSEN, Infineon, Intel, Leedarson, Libellium, Lumenergi, Lumetric, Lutron, Luxim, Marvell, Masco, Microchip Technology, MK Electric, MMB Research, Nivis, NXP, OLEDCOMM, Omnio, Osram, Panasonic, Philips, Radiocrafts, Radios Inc., Renesas, RF Monolithics, Schneider Electric, Sena, Sharp, Siemens, Silicon Labs, STMicroelectronics, Supreme Architecture, Sylvania, Telegesis, Texas Instruments, Universal Lighting, and Zonoff.
From the report:
The LED lighting market is expected to expand rapidly and much of the next-generation of LED lighting being deployed will be "smart." We are seeing a growing interest in smart lighting by the chipmakers as part of their refocusing on Internet-of-Things opportunities. New types of intelligent LED drivers with embedded sensors and MCUs are expected to emerge as a result. Sales of LED drivers for smart lighting systems are expected to reach $525 million by 2019.
Despite such growth, LED driver chips for energy efficient lighting will commoditize quickly. It will become increasingly hard to make the case for smart lighting on just efficiency grounds anymore. As a result, NanoMarkets believes that chipmakers will then turn their attention to color-tunable lighting for improved mood, health and job performance. Here there is still considerable opportunity to designing innovative chips enabling cool-to-warm adjustment and the ability to cycle through a range of colors. Chips consumed by color tuning smart lighting systems will reach almost $260 million by 2019. Future light tuning chips for lighting systems will also be built around a new generation of LED microarrays.
Standards development for smart lighting-related wireless networking has accelerated in the past year. Important new developments in this area include the evolution of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to control lighting using QR codes and the emergence of a Google protocol for smart lighting networking that incorporates Ipv6. Meanwhile, ZigBee light bulbs getting cheaper thanks to recent "smart lamp" introductions from GE and possibly others. By 2019, the revenues generated by smart lighting sensors are expected to exceed $220 million.
About NanoMarkets:
NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in solid-state lighting, energy, electronics and other markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind and has been covering the smart lighting space for more than four years.
Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.
Media Contact:
Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets, LC
Glen Allen, VA 23058
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PR WINNER OF THE WEEK: "A" (PR PERFECT) to the teams in the World Cup. Whether they won, lost, or bit opposing team members, they created drama, last-seconds goal tension, and must-see games. Gone was the bad PR facing Brazil in the weeks leading up to the games, all of it replaced by football frenzy the world over—even in the US, where it's still called soccer.
PR LOSER OF THE WEEK: "F" (FULL FIASCO) to United States Speaker of the House John Boehner and Congress, who tied this week for new lows in partisanship. House Speaker Boehner confirmed this week that he intends to sue President Barack Obama for unlawful use of executive order. The announcement was made soon after Congress nearly came to a brawl over an IRS scandal involving missing emails with sensitive information—a perfect opportunity to point fingers and cry "J'accuse!" at the other side. At a time of historically low levels of trust in government, these elected officials should think twice about their choice of focus.
THE PRV "THERE'S NO 'THERE' THERE" AWARD to Chen Guanbiao, the Chinese millionaire who took out an ad in The New York Times to tell the world he would treat 300 homeless New Yorkers to a fancy luncheon and give each of them $300 in cash. Chen, a recycling businessman with a penchant for publicity stunts, was asked by his charity liaison for a donation of $90,000 instead, to protect the homeless from using the money for drugs. At the lunch, Chen had homeless people pose for photos of him giving them cash—that they had to return—so he could maintain his business card statement, "Most Charismatic Philanthropist of China."

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African American Resource Center
Mission of the Center
The African American Resource Center promotes the study of the history, culture, and society of Africa and the African Diaspora. The Center is a resource, community space, and forum for colloquy, presentations and discussion. The Center is available to faculty, students and community groups in service of this AARC mission.
The African American Resource Center is located at 3B-04, in the Academic Core building at York College, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd in Jamaica, Queens.
The offers a quiet space for study of Black history, culture, society and politics. In addition to a library containing over 2000 volumes, we have four computers linked to the internet and shelves of primary source materials from the 1970s and 1980s as well as the complete works of W.E.B. Du Bois.
The Center is staffed by York College students and is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays.
The AARC sponsors a diverse range of programs within the Center and, when too large for hosting, the College. We also sponsor field trips to cultural sites within the City of New York.
- Africana Colloquium Series
- African Diaspora Film Series
- Current Events in Black Studies
- African American Studies Club
- Link to podcast of AARC events
Advisory Committee
The Resource Center is led by an interdisciplinary Advisory Committee with a wide range of expertise and community experience.
Chair of the Board: Dr. Margaret Vendryes
Director of the Center: Dr. Lindamichelle Baron


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North Korean Mass Games: Why this year they're different
By Kate Whitehead, for CNN • Updated 9th August 2013
Up next
North Koreans
know how to put on a show and this year -- the 60th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the Korean War -- they've gone all out for the
Mass Games
If you've toyed with the idea of going, this is the summer to do it.
It's a lot easier to get into the Hermit Kingdom than you probably expect and the incredible spectacle that is the Mass Games officially runs until September 8, though it is often extended.
You go in knowing there will be 100,000 performers -- gymnasts, dancers, acrobats -- that the music will be loud and there will be fireworks and strobe lights, but nothing prepares you for the sheer scale of the production.
It's the Beijing Olympics opening night a dozen times over with a camp director and an unlimited budget.
Half the people on the tour I went with opted to go a second night, hoping to catch some of the bits they missed the first time around.
Why now is the time to go
Why go now?
Because this could well be the last year that Arirang will be staged.
Arirang is not the Mass Games -- it's the name of the theme the Games have followed for the last 10 years or so -- a Romeo and Juliet-like folk tale.
So while there will almost certainly be a Mass Games next year, it may not follow this theme.
What's more, without any anniversaries or significant dates to celebrate next year, it's expected to be far more low-key than the great pomp and ceremony that defines this year's show.
Ethical debates persist over whether tourists should visit North Korea, a country with a poor human rights record. Critics say tourist dollars help the repressive government, but others say the tourism money generated in North Korea is minimal.
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice -- what North Koreans call the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War -- no expense has been spared.
New at the Mass Games
Regulars at the world's largest choreographed gymnastics performance say this year's show has plenty of new material, with familiar acts given a new twist.
"I've been about 50 times and 50% of it was different this year," says Simon Cockerell of Beijing-based Koryo Tours. "There are whole new acts and there's a lot more technology -- the digital screens, the arches on top of the stadium, all that's new."
That new technology had a major hiccup the night I visited, July 27 -- Victory Day. Five minutes into the 90-minute show there was a total blackout.
Power outages are everyday occurrences in Pyongyang, but to have one at such a high-profile event was unusual.
The spectacle was just kicking off -- a wall of students on the far side of the stadium, the "human pixels," were flipping through books of colored cards to flash up messages and images, giant strobe lights rolled across the arena, the music was pounding, thousands of performers surged across the stadium -- and we were plunged into darkness.
That backdrop is a huge crowd of "human pixels" holding up colored boards.
Kate Whitehead/CNN
Only the night before North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had sat in the stadium watching the very same performance with Chinese Vice-President Li Yuanchao.
Fortunately for show managers, the blackout didn't happen then.
We sat in silence. No one booed, no one jeered and five minutes later when the power came on and the show began again -- from the beginning -- there was a round of applause.
"People live with blackouts all the time," says Cockerell. "It's a sign that someone has been in North Korea a while when the lights go out and they just keep talking or doing whatever they were doing."
Military messaging dominate
North Koreans are big on military motifs and this year they've gone to town. Even a flower show we visited had scores of missiles and tanks tucked in among the red "Kimjongilia" blossoms.
At the Mass Games, a large gold medal -- to celebrate War Victory -- floats above the May Day Stadium and massive video screens show footage from the Korean War and a video of the long-range rocket launched earlier this year.
Given the massive show of military might and boys toys it's no surprise our tour attracted a fair few of 20-something men, but there's something for everyone at the Mass Games -- anyone who loves musicals will be on Cloud Nine, there's plenty of kitsch for the Camp Brigade and it's a photographer's dream shoot.
Foreigner reactions
New Zealander Will Seal, 24, went to the Games two nights running: "It was amazing, but I did get slightly concerned about all those kids spending time out of school, it's a massive undertaking."
He wasn't the only one in our group who was left wondering about the 20,000 children who spend months training intensively for the Mass Games. Briton Matthew Durling mused: "Where else in the world could you martial thousands of school children, without paying them, and have them do something like that?"
The regulars in our group were quick to notice another new element this year -- at the end of the Arirang performance there is a five-minute segment dedicated to international friendship, especially between China and North Korea and Russia.
While the "human pixels" flashed up messages of peace and friendship, as well as a rainbow between Pyongyang's Arch of Triumph and Beijing's Tiananmen Square Gate, Lion Dancers, Pandas and Russian Dancers strutted about on stage.
Messages of peace combine with tools of war in the Mass Games.
Kate Whitehead/CNN
The message of friendship with China came at the end of last year's games, too.
But the grand gesture towards Russia this year is new. What does it mean?
One of our guides said it was "about politics." Another said it was "more about economics."
No doubt they're both right -- politics and economics make for cozy bedfellows and North Korea is waking up to the reality that if it wants to get on, to progress, it needs to start pulling in some hard currency.
That's no doubt why visitors are made to feel so welcome, particularly at the country's best known tourist attraction.
Currency matter
Foreigners aren't allowed to use the local currency -- the won -- and must bring cash in with them in either U.S. dollars, euros or renminbi.
Renminbi, I discovered however, offers by far the worst conversion rate. First-class tickets go for €150 ($159), but this was conveniently rounded to 1,500 RMB ($195) making it a good 20% more expensive.
Second-class tickets cost €100 and third-class tickets are €80. If you go a second night, you get a free upgrade.
The only way to see the Mass Games is by joining a tour.
Most tours leave from Beijing and the tour company will arrange your North Korean visa, travel to Pyongyang, hotels, meals and Mass Games tickets.
There's still plenty of time to go this summer -- decide today and you could be there in 10 days.
The best-established outfit is Beijing-based
Koryo Tours
, which has been taking groups since 1993 and has good relationships in North Korea. Koryo Tours offers a host of itineraries from a two-day Mini Break Mass Games Tour, which includes a Pyongyang city guide and Mass Games entry for €790 ($1,048) to a seven-night Ultimate
our that takes in the Games as well as trip to the DMZ, Mt. Myohyamg and more for €1,690 ($2,242).
New Korea Tours
is a U.S.-based travel agency specializing in travel to North Korea -- available tours include a seven-night trip that takes in the Mass Games for $2,690.
Remote Lands
is another U.S.-based tour operator that offers trips to North Korea and other Asian destinations.
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Sunday September 22nd, 2013
Rich Limacher
"Trails from The Dark Side" (forgive the pun, please? but do look at the map :) really and truly ought to be written this way: "Trails on The Bright Side." For, yes indeed, the weather for this past fourth Sunday of September in NW Indiana was PERFECT. Bright, sunshiny (mostly), not windy, and the lawn was even mowed. That's right, as you can see by the pictures, the Start/Finish area was like in those mythical Elysian Fields that probably surrounded Mt. Olympus where the gods and goddesses all played. Nah, these were soccer fields... but we got in-and-out of there before THE THRONGS started arriving. All in all, a perfect place to hold a race!
What you don't see in the pics, of course, are "the woods" that everybody ran through--practically immediately after leaving these sweet fields. Having run (OK, sometimes walked :) through those myself in The Ancient Days (I used to shake hands with Zeus and schmooze Venus ;-) I *know* those woods! And they're fabulous. A trailrunner's dream and a day hiker's vacation. It's all good.
Paul Stofko picks a GREAT venue for a trail half-mary, despite it being way... off the beaten path so that it's kinda hard to find--but well worth the effort!! Next year we'll all know better and won't be fooled by what Google et al all claims IS Imagination Glen Park--which is NOT where this was. This is Imagination Glen EAST, or "the dark side." That other place where I did my imaginary schmoozing is "the west side," and that of course (West Side Story) is a tale of a trail for another day. :-)
Meanwhile, I've added a bunch more photos--also "reduced to fit" but, hey, if any of 'em strike your fancy that you're in and want a bigger better copy of, just ask. And if you can figure out who to ask and what to ask for, then you too are a trailrunner par excellence, and truly do deserve to come back next year and bring all your friends!
It's a fun time! Just LOOK... at all these way-happy near-Olympic gods and goddesses!!!
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Comics History
Since the early 1990s the growth of the World Wide Web has had its impact on comics. Not only has it proved an infinite platform for comic artists to show their work, it also provided a whole new canvas for comic artists to draw their comics on, using new computer techniques such as 3D and animation. One of the first to signal this development was Scott McCloud, whose 'Understanding Comics' and 'Reinventing Comics' have become standard works. He has opened the eyes of many comic artists to the possibilities technology provides for the comics medium.
One of the comic artists who has created comics especially suited to the Internet is the Swiss Demian5, who created 'When I am King' between 1999 and 2001. It has become a classic for its inventive use of modern technologies, in combination with an entertaining storyline. Another artist who has experimented succesfully with Internet's possibilities is Patrick Farley, whose work can be seen on www.e-sheep.com.
Mainly though, comic artists use the Internet for displaying their work. Instead of putting energy and money into self-publishing and distributing, they invest a relatively low amount of money in their own site, by which they can reach a vast audience of comic lovers and colleagues. The first comic to appear online was 'Where the Buffalo Roam', by Hans Bjordahl in 1991, and it has been followed by countless comics all over the world.
As soon as Internet caught on, artists started making comics with the sole purpose of displaying them digitally. These are the so-called "webcomics", and early examples are 'Netboy' by Stafford Huyler and 'Argon Zark!' by Charley Parker. Many artists use this format to display their ability to produce a consistent, regularly appearing comic strip (which might interest syndicats in taking them on board for distribution to newspapers). Apart from the individual sites, there are also sites which provide a collection of webcomics, such as www.moderntales.com.


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In-N-Out confirms first S.A. site
SAN ANTONIO — Burger fans in San Antonio may prefer sliced jalapeños with their Whataburger or a thick milkshake on the side of their steakburger from Steak 'n Shake.
But soon they can try the "not-so-secret menu" at In-N-Out Burger, which features a famous "animal style" burger with extra spread, grilled onions and a mustard-fried meat patty.
After months of speculation, the popular fast-food chain confirmed it selected a site on the far West Side for its first location in San Antonio.
"We really like the site and hope to be able to get it under construction in the not-too-distant future," Carl Van Fleet, vice president of planning and development for In-N-Out, said in an email.
Architectural records filed with the state Wednesday show In-N-Out plans to spend $1.5 million on a freestanding restaurant with a drive-thru at 10918 Culebra Road near Loop 1604.
Construction should start in May and finish about November, according to the filing with the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation.
Van Fleet, however, said he couldn't release an opening date.
"It is still a bit early in the process ... as we have yet to obtain building permits," he added. "We should know more about our timing in a month or so."
Since its Texas debut three years ago, In-N-Out has quickly expanded across the state. Its website currently lists 21 restaurants here, with a third Austin-area location opening soon in Cedar Park.
In January, the San Antonio Express-News reported a shell corporation tied to In-N-Out purchased a plot of land at Loop 410 and McCullough Avenue. And Windcrest officials in February confirmed that the Irvine, Calif.-based company would open shop at a site off Interstate 35 and Walzem Road.
Van Fleet did not answer questions about those locations, but previously he'd hinted that In-N-Out is pursuing "a few projects" in San Antonio.
"It is still a bit premature to comment on the timing of any of those projects," he said.
When In-N-Out opens on Culebra Road, it will join a long list of fast-food chains populating that highly-trafficked intersection.
Del Taco, also from California, opened its first San Antonio restaurant there in September, and Steak 'n Shake welcomed long lines of customers in July when it opened for business nearby.
Bush's Chicken, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers also took over space in the area recently.
"The Culebra and 1604 area is really what I would call a hotbed of fast-food-type restaurants," said Chuck Siegel, who specializes in retail as president of Rohde, Ottmers & Siegel Realty Services.
He highlighted the "tremendous" commercial and residential growth on the far West Side and expected to see long lines of cars waiting to sample In-N-Out on opening day.
"It's just a hub there for the West Side of town," Siegel said, "and there couldn't be a better site, in my opinion, for (In-N-Out's) first restaurant. We've had a lot of people who moved here from the West and California and know who they are."
Kim Gatley, senior vice president and director of research for REOC San Antonio, also said residential growth on the West Side probably factored into In-N-Out's decision to open near so many other fast-food chains.
"Another thing, just perspective-wise, that may play into it is the tremendous amount of employment that we see in Westover Hills," Gatley said. "Many of those large campuses have their own internal cafeteria or food service."
Nevertheless, she added, fast-food restaurants could benefit while sit-down restaurants would suffer.
For several months, the area's real estate and commercial development community has buzzed with rumors of In-N-Out's plans for San Antonio.
Siegel confirmed he heard the chain would open a cluster of restaurants here, as it has done in other Texas cities.
"They've looked at a lot of locations, and they're certainly not coming to town just building one," he said.
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Ky. teen goes missing while hunting
Search teams working to find missing 15-year-old
Police in northeastern Kentucky are searching for a teenager who disappeared over the weekend while hunting deer with his father.
Fleming County Emergency Management Director Dwayne Price says 15-year-old Ricky Dean Hamilton Jr. was last seen Saturday in the Tilton area of Fleming County.
Price told The Ledger Independent the teen and his father, Ricky Hamilton, were dropped off around 4:30 p.m. at a wooded area and separated with plans to meet up later at a designated area.
Price says the boy never arrived to meet his father at a field and Kentucky State Police were called. The elder Hamilton said he heard a gunshot while he was hunting, but nothing after.
Price says in addition to ground searches which were aided by four-wheelers and those on horseback, aerial searches were also conducted. Price says more search and rescue dogs were brought in Monday to assist.
"He's in camouflage. Unless you're pretty close to him, you're not going to find this young man. So, we're just going to keep checking the sink holes and the quarries again and hope to find him," Price told WKYT-TV in Lexington.
Nearly 400 students, staff and community members attended a vigil at Fleming County High School on Sunday night to pray for the missing sophomore.
Counselors were at the high school Monday morning to help students dealing with the disappearance of their classmate.


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Pinterest Is Now The Fastest Growing Content-Sharing Platform
Pinterest Is Now The Fastest Growing Content-Sharing Platform
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/pinterest-is-fastest-growing-content-sharing-platform-2013-11#ixzz2jxRe8Hfa
The new data offers a reminder that businesses should look beyond Facebook and Twitter when managing their social media outreach, says ShareThis CEO Kurt Abrahamson in a release.
Small businesses can capitalize on the Pinterest and LinkedIn surge to market their products and grow their consumer base. Pinterest, a highly visual medium, gives businesses a chance to catch the eye of consumers with compelling images and colorful infographics that promote deals and new products. Pinning pictures of employees could also help customers identify with the people who work at the company, putting a face to a name. Meanwhile, LinkedIn can provide a more professional forum for blogging and sharing posts to a targeted audience, as well as collecting positive recommendations and reviews of your company.
LRS can help students, faculty and staff:
– identify objects and services by posting pictures
– identify people who work at the library and how they can help students, faculty and staff
just few of the analogies drawn from the article…


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This month The Download features American Cypher by Mendi + Keith Obadike.
Still from American Cypher (2012)
American Cypher is a suite of projects that respond to American stories about race and DNA. The first module of the project was a sound installation inspired by the relationship between U.S. Presedent Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, his slave and mother to his children. The instantiation of American Cypher offered this month through The Download, takes the form of a score for performance; combining poetry and video recorded in the basement of Jefferson's plantation, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia. In the following excerpt from an interview Rhizome contributing writer Jason Huff conducted last September, Mendi and Ketih discuss the role of race and history in their multi-disciplinary practice.
Many of your pieces are concerned with race and identity and confront those issues through technology. In your 2001 piece "Blackness for Sale" you were asked to remove the auction from eBay because of its inappropriateness. Thinking about growth of identity and social networks on the internet over the last decade, do you feel that it is important for artists to continue to make political work that engages the internet and other new media?
While our early sound art works like Sexmachines, Automatic, or the Uli Suite were not about race/identity, certainly many of the early Internet works were. We would say that race itself is a technology, and so making work that looks at how issues of race or identity play out online is a way to highlight this fact. The Internet is by nature a contested space, so any work that engages with this terrain is of course political. Many of the questions we started asking in the late 90s around narrative structures, technology, and identity seem to remain relevant today, although the ways in which we engage with the networks seem significantly different. When we made "Blackness for Sale" and other "net.art" over a decade ago, many people saw the web as a place to try on masks and to play with other identities. Today, through social networking sites, people are flooding the web with personal info and living with what might be best described as a bloated databody. So we do find that social interactions on the web create a territory for which commentary is as necessary and as fruitful today as it has ever been.
Your collaborative projects frequently mine narratives and characters from history and transform them using sound, performance, and new technologies. In your recent piece "Four Electric Ghosts: an pera-masquerade" you even blend a 1954 novel by Amos Tutuola with Pac Man. What do you find inspiring about mixing what might seem like disparate pieces of culture and history together? And do you feel that engaging history with new technology through your art helps the public gain a new understanding of their own position in culture?
Our work is not so much about new technologies as it is about finding personal ways to examine persistent questions in our culture, and then making that process accessible. We do strive to make work that invites audiences to reconsider their / our positions in culture. Many of our projects combine elements from two "root texts" and we've sometimes referred to the idea of mixing with two turntables when working with the two sources. When we engage the video game as an element in our work, it is because narratives in that medium resonate with us, not just the technology. For example, when we started workshopping Four Electric Ghosts, our second opera-masquerade, we were moving away from the online work. We wanted to reimagine "downtown New York opera" and to create a piece that responded to intersections in some old texts that we found particularly compelling. As we were looking for a place to develop these ideas, our friend, composer and, computer music pioneer Paul Lansky introduced us to Toni Morrison, and we were thrilled when she invited us to come work on our project there in her Atelier program at Princeton.
While basing this project in pop songs and prose, we wanted to look at the video game as a kind of folklore and the novel as a game system. During our research phase we interviewed a number of interesting thinkers, including Laurie Anderson and Cornel West, about hauntings and invited students to think with us about the narratives in video games and what it would mean to flip to perspective of both the Amos Tutuola narrative and the video game from the people to the ghosts. After that workshop we ended up writing a completely new story and working with a great group of artists including dancers (from Angela's Pulse & Urban Bushwomen), musicians, and designers in realizing a production at The Kitchen. (The project is now touring and the book, DVD, and album will be out this fall). The notion that both old media and new inform our sense of storytelling was there at the beginning, but the audience for the stage performance (or the album or the book) doesn't have to use new media or necessarily care about media theory.
You've experimented with a wide variety of mediums over the past 13 years. Have you developed a preference for any specific medium or mode of presenting work? In your process of ideation, does the content dictate the medium or do the the form and idea inspire each other?
It's pretty organic. We usually begin each work with some sense of the needed tools for the work, but as the idea unfolds, the approach will often shift, and over the years patterns emerge. We come from making music and poetry and later came to study and make art. Right now our work is divided into three overlapping categories: media-specific works, intermedia suites, & opera-masquerades. The media-specific works might appear as an isolated series of media art works, poems, or songs. Our Black.Net.Art actions is one example. This includes Blackness for Sale (2001), The Interaction of Coloreds (2002) and The Pink of Stealth (2003). Another example is African Metropole / Sonic City -- a series of sound art works based on multiple sites on the continent. Our intermedia suites are meditative, non-narrative projects made up of multiple intersecting modules -- usually poems, music, a sound installation, and video works centered on one theme. Examples of this kind of work are Big House / Disclosure (2007) and a new work American Cypher, which is being commissioned by The Samek Gallery and the Griot Institute at Bucknell University. The last category are our "opera-masquerades". These projects are narrative & song-based works which have at the core a new music theater performance, but include related gallery and book modules. Four Electric Ghosts and The Sour Thunder are examples of this kind of work. Because we have these different ways we produce work, we of course consider our ways of inviting an audience to engage whenever we embark on a new project, but the form for each project ultimately depends on what that project demands.
"Big House / Disclosure" takes an interesting approach at uncovering the ties that link contemporary culture to important moments in history. Reflecting on the "big house/disclosure" project, do you feel that engaging a project in the dynamics of social space changes your original ideas about the content of the project?
Big House / Disclosure is the kind of project that we hope will provide some surprises by design. It may help to describe the project. The piece included performance scores, graphics scores for musicians, and poems. But the largest part of that work was a 200 hour public sound installation, the sound for which depended on the words of the unpredictable public. While the work is broadly about the architecture of slavery, at the center of the work was a 2002 Chicago city ordinance - the Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance. This ordinance states that any company (banks, agricultural companies, textile manufacturers, etc) wishing to do business with the city must disclose any historic ties to the slave trade. And while the law requires compliance, there is no penalty for any company admitting to ties to the slave trade. So the audio for the house song was made up of original house music (software synths and drum machines) and oral interviews with Chicago area residents, who answered questions about the recent ordinance, images associated with slavery, and house music. The sound installation played for eight days in the halls of Northwestern Art History building (and streamed online); it was programmed so that elements of the music changed in response to the rise and fall of the stock prices of companies involved in this disclosure. It was certainly surprising to hear how few people knew about the ordinance. We were fascinated by the range of responses from local citizens, specifically in regards to questions about who holds responsibility for the legacy of slavery. We were also shocked to hear many of the Northwestern students defend the rights of corporations. But the point of asking questions is to hear the answers. So while we wouldn't say that our original ideas about the content of the project necessarily change when our projects are interactive in this way, we have found that artworks that invite an engagement with the public necessarily broaden our sense of that public. We are, in fact, reaching for that kind of experience.
Some of your new projects take place in theaters or larger spaces. Given your interest in multi-character narratives and skill in generating your own sounds and scores do you see yourself performing in even larger spaces? What would be your ideal performance space?
We plan to continue to continue developing our opera-masquerades. The size of the venue must directly relate to the piece and the scale of each work will vary, but to answer your question: the ideal performance space -- large or small -- is one in which we have an opportunity to create a sense of communion with the audience while expanding all of our horizons. We've spent the last year writing and workshopping a new work as resident artists at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and we hope to show that piece in New York sometime next year.


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This appendix provides a recommended format for the preparation
and submission of the response plans required by 49 CFR Part 194.
Operators are referenced to the most current version of the
guidance documents listed below. Although these documents contain
guidance to assist in preparing response plans, their use is not
(1) The "National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program
(PREP) Guidelines" (PREP), which can be found using the search
function on the USCG's PREP Web page,
(2) The National Response Team's "Integrated Contingency Plan
Guidance," which can be found using the search function at the
National Response Center's Web site, http://www.nrt.org
(3) 33 CFR Part 154, Appendix C, "Guidelines for Determining and
Evaluating Required Response Resources for Facility Response
Section 1 would include the following:
(a) For the core plan:
(1) The name and address of the operator; and
(2) For each response zone which contains one or more line
sections that meet the criteria for determining significant and
substantial harm as described in § 194.103, a listing and
description of the response zones, including county(s) and
(b) For each response zone appendix:
(1) The information summary for the core plan;
(2) The name and telephone number of the qualified individual,
available on a 24-hour basis;
(3) A description of the response zone, including county(s) and
state(s) in which a worst case discharge could cause substantial
harm to the environment;
(4) A list of line sections contained in the response zone,
identified by milepost or survey station number or other operator
(5) The basis for the operator's determination of significant
and substantial harm; and
(6) The type of oil and volume of the worst case discharge.
(c) The certification that the operator has obtained, through
contract or other approved means, the necessary private personnel
and equipment to respond, to the maximum extent practicable, to a
worst case discharge or a substantial threat of such a
Section 2 would include the following:
(a) Notification requirements that apply in each area of
operation of pipelines covered by the plan, including applicable
State or local requirements;
(b) A checklist of notifications the operator or qualified
individual is required to make under the response plan, listed in
the order of priority;
(c) Names of persons (individuals or organizations) to be
notified of a discharge, indicating whether notification is to be
performed by operating personnel or other personnel;
(d) Procedures for notifying qualified individuals;
(e) The primary and secondary communication methods by which
notifications can be made; and
(f) The information to be provided in the initial and each
follow-up notification, including the following:
(1) Name of pipeline;
(2) Time of discharge;
(3) Location of discharge;
(4) Name of oil involved;
(5) Reason for discharge (e.g., material failure, excavation
damage, corrosion);
(6) Estimated volume of oil discharged;
(7) Weather conditions on scene; and
(8) Actions taken or planned by persons on scene.
Section 3 would include the following:
(a) Methods of initial discharge detection;
(b) Procedures, listed in the order of priority, that personnel
are required to follow in responding to a pipeline emergency to
mitigate or prevent any discharge from the pipeline;
(c) A list of equipment that may be needed in response
activities on land and navigable waters, including -
(1) Transfer hoses and connection equipment;
(2) Portable pumps and ancillary equipment; and
(3) Facilities available to transport and receive oil from a
leaking pipeline;
(d) Identification of the availability, location, and contact
telephone numbers to obtain equipment for response activities on a
24-hour basis; and
(e) Identification of personnel and their location, telephone
numbers, and responsibilities for use of equipment in response
activities on a 24-hour basis.
Section 4 would include the following:
(a) Responsibilities of, and actions to be taken by, operating
personnel to initiate and supervise response actions pending the
arrival of the qualified individual or other response resources
identified in the response plan;
(b) The qualified individual's responsibilities and authority,
including notification of the response resources identified in the
(c) Procedures for coordinating the actions of the operator or
qualified individual with the action of the OSC responsible for
monitoring or directing those actions;
(d) Oil spill response organizations available, through contract
or other approved means, to respond to a worst case discharge to
the maximum extent practicable; and
(e) For each organization identified under paragraph (d) of this
section, a listing of:
(1) Equipment and supplies available; and
(2) Trained personnel necessary to continue operation of the
equipment and staff the oil spill removal organization for the
first 7 days of the response.
Section 5 would include the names and addresses of the following
individuals or organizations, with telephone numbers at which they
can be contacted on a 24-hour basis:
(a) A list of persons the plan requires the operator to
(b) Qualified individuals for the operator's areas of
(c) Applicable insurance representatives or surveyors for the
operator's areas of operation; and
(d) Persons or organizations to notify for activation of
response resources.
Section 6 would include a description of the training procedures
and programs of the operator.
Section 7 would include a description of the drill procedures
and programs the operator uses to assess whether its response plan
will function as planned. It would include:
(a) Announced and unannounced drills;
(b) The types of drills and their frequencies. For example,
drills could be described as follows:
(1) Manned pipeline emergency procedures and qualified
individual notification drills conducted quarterly.
(2) Drills involving emergency actions by assigned operating or
maintenance personnel and notification of the qualified individual
on pipeline facilities which are normally unmanned, conducted
(3) Shore-based spill management team tabletop drills conducted
(4) Oil spill removal organization field equipment deployment
drills conducted yearly.
(5) A drill that exercises the entire response plan for each
response zone, would be conducted at least once every 3 years.
Section 8 would include the following:
(a) Procedures to meet § 194.121; and
(b) Procedures to review the plan after a worst case discharge
and to evaluate and record the plan's effectiveness.
Each response zone appendix would provide the following
(a) The name and telephone number of the qualified
(b) Notification procedures;
(c) Spill detection and mitigation procedures;
(d) Name, address, and telephone number of oil spill response
(e) Response activities and response resources including -
(1) Equipment and supplies necessary to meet § 194.115, and
(2) The trained personnel necessary to sustain operation of the
equipment and to staff the oil spill removal organization and spill
management team for the first 7 days of the response;
(f) Names and telephone numbers of Federal, state and local
agencies which the operator expects to assume pollution response
(g) The worst case discharge volume;
(h) The method used to determine the worst case discharge
volume, with calculations;
(i) A map that clearly shows -
(1) The location of the worst case discharge, and
(2) The distance between each line section in the response zone
and -
(i) Each potentially affected public drinking water intake,
lake, river, and stream within a radius of 5 miles (8 kilometers)
of the line section, and
(ii) Each potentially affected environmentally sensitive area
within a radius of 1 mile (1.6 kilometer) of the line section;
(j) A piping diagram and plan-profile drawing of each line
section, which may be kept separate from the response plan if the
location is identified; and
(k) For every oil transported by each pipeline in the response
zone, emergency response data that -
(1) Include the name, description, physical and chemical
characteristics, health and safety hazards, and initial
spill-handling and firefighting methods; and
(2) Meet 29 CFR 1910.1200 or 49 CFR 172.602.


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Am Law Daily has posted more 2009 financial information from California firms:
O'Melveny & Myers continues to have problems generating revenue and profits. Revenue declined almost 9% in 2009, and profits per partner were down just over 1%. Chairman Arthur Culvahouse, Jr. called 2009 "the most challenging year" that he could recall.
Paul, Hastings suffered a near-10% drop in revenue, after a mere 1% increase in 2008. Revenue per lawyer, however, actually jumped 1.4% due to cuts in associate ranks.
You can read more about the Am Law 100 results nationwide here.


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U.S. farmers should be required to control soil erosion and fertilizer runoff from all land eligible for crop subsidies -- which would be a major expansion of "conservation compliance" rules now in place, an environmental group said on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. farmers should be required to control soil erosion and fertilizer runoff from all land eligible for crop subsidies -- which would be a major expansion of "conservation compliance" rules now in place, an environmental group said on Monday.
In the report, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) also advocated stricter enforcement of conservation compliance. Created in 1985, the rule requires farmers to control erosion on highly erodible land in exchange for crop supports and other federal farm benefits.
Soil erosion is down 40 percent since 1985, due partly to conservation compliance, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates.
But EWG, which wants more funds for federal land stewardship programs, said 1.76 billion tons of soil is lost to erosion each year and "since 1985, mounting scientific evidence has identified runoff of fertilizer and animal manure from cropland as a major source of water nutrient pollution."
In light of the boom in fuel ethanol, EWG said conservation compliance should be expanded to cover all land eligible for federal crop subsidies and to cover nutrient runoff "associated with the increase in agricultural biofuels production."
"Conservation compliance is a broad-brush policy instrument and should be seen as requiring a basic measure of pollution prevention on all acres getting subsidies," said EWG. "Conservation compliance will not solve the nation's agricultural water quality problem but it can reduce the likelihood of pollution and improve water quality."
Along with crop subsidies, crop insurance eligibility should hinge on a farmer taking steps to control runoff, said
To make the program work better, the group recommended:
--USDA develop a more comprehensive definition of preventing soil loss at unsustainable rates. The new definition could include gauges of organic matter in soil or soil compaction as well.
-Erosion control should aim to hold losses at levels that do not harm soil productivity. USDA has more flexible standards now.
--USDA should conduct annual compliance reviews of at least 1 percent of fields subject to conservation compliance, and Congress should provide enough money to carry out the reviews.
To satisfy conservation compliance, farmers are required to obtain USDA approval of plans to control erosion through steps such as crop rotation, minimizing tillage, leaving crop residue on the surface to slow water flow and creating grassy buffer strips to capture erosion between fields and waterways.


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Today the Chicago Blackhawks announced identical eight-year contract extensions for forwards Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. They will run through the 2022-23 season, and each will carry an annual cap hit of $10.5 million a year. This is a lot of money, and it's also almost painfully reasonable.
Let's establish this first: there was no way the Blackhawks were going to let them go. They are franchise saviors, two of the 10 best hockey players in the world, and still early in their primes. Nothing Chicago could pay them now could come close to matching what they've done to raise the value of that franchise. But every deal still has to be looked at in the context of a salary cap league. And some smart folks have been quick to point out that Toews's and Kane's new contracts are right in line with those of their peers.
The problem with just looking at the raw numbers is the same one when looking at historic Hollywood box office numbers without factoring in inflation—they need to be adjusted for the era. This is the salary cap era, when a player's value needs to be weighed against the flexibility his deal leaves you to fill out a full roster.
The Blackhawks are doing these deals at a good time. The cap is $69 million this year, and is projected to rise to $75 million next year. Business appears to be good, so expect Toews and Kane to be downright bargains by the end of this decade, so long as they maintain their productivity.
Of course that means things look pretty grim for the Blackhawks at this moment. They're already pushing the cap for 2015-16 with just 15 players under contract. It'll likely mean parting ways with Marian Hossa or Patrick Sharp, or—crap—both. But that's the reality of building a team these days. There are tough choices every team has to make, and locking up two superduperstars doesn't absolve you of that. Stanley Cups aren't won or lost with the megacontracts, but with the scouting, drafting, and spending for the complementary pieces, the identifying and retaining talent for value. It's something Chicago's managed to do well so far, while teams like Pittsburgh has struggled. So while locking up Toews and Kane through 2023 is nice, it's just setting the parameters for the real hard work to come.


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Oracle Looks to Conquer the Cloud as OpenWorld Conference Gets Under Way
As conferences go, Oracle's OpenWorld is pretty big. It literally stops traffic. It's one of a handful of events that not only fills San Francisco's Moscone convention center but actually spills into the streets, blocking downtown's Howard Street and earning the ire of local drivers.
The company says it expects to see 50,000 attendees this year, and is featuring more than 2,500 sessions presented by more than 3,500 speakers across 14 individual venues. And forget about booking a hotel room in San Francisco this week: People attending OpenWorld have booked nearly 98,000 hotel nights.
So what's on the agenda? Expect to hear a lot about the cloud. Oracle's latest update to its core database software, known as 12c, will be unveiled. It's the first major revision to Oracle's database software in about five years. The "c" naturally stands for cloud, which Oracle is going to be embracing in a significant way at this event.
The speeches kick off Sunday night with the first of two keynotes from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Co-President and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is speaking twice as well, once on Monday and again on Thursday.
Oracle is likely to continue to challenge the notion that it's on the defensive from companies like Salesforce.com. Ellison has publicly disparagedSalesforce and another cloud-based software company Workday, both of which compete directly with Oracle.
Salesforce (whose recent Dreamforce conference also blocked traffic) has built what's forecast to be a $3 billion annual business selling customer relationship software that runs in the cloud, and its CEO Marc Benioff is a former Oracle exec and Ellison protégé. Workday, due for a $400 million initial public offering soon, is run by Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield, the founders of PeopleSoft, a company Oracle acquired in a hostile takeover. It offers a breed of software known as human capital management software used by HR departments at big companies.
Ellison and Benioff have feuded — sometimes publicly — over their competing visions of the cloud and how software should be delivered to large companies. Benioff is fond of saying that if a company ever takes delivery of a server at a loading dock, they're not running the "true cloud." Ellison — who also has a significant hardware business to consider — argues that big customers need a mixed approach: Where some will be happy farming out the work of managing the hardware to someone else, others will want to own it outright, while still others will want to mix and match. He's also fond of pointing out that Salesforce is a big customer of Oracle's database.
Oracle isn't the only company arguing for the mixed cloud approach. IBM and Hewlett-Packard and Dell — hardware vendors all — tend to see the cloud in this way, as does Microsoft, which offers its products in both hosted and on-premise varieties.
Still, there's no mistaking Oracle has come to embrace the "software-as-a-service" model long personified by Benioff and Bhusri as well as Netsuite, a cloud software player run by former Oracle exec Zach Nelson and in which Ellison is an investor. (Nelson is speaking at Openworld, too.) Oracle is pivoting toward delivering all of its software as a service, allowing customers to choose which approach best suits them. On Oracle's last earnings call, Hurd made a point of calling out a long list of customer wins for cloud-based CRM and HCM offerings: Accenture, Adobe, Cisco Systems — where Benioff is a new director — Colgate-Palmolive and Proctor & Gamble are all running Oracle applications in the cloud.
Indeed, Oracle has said it is now the second-largest company offering software-as-a-service behind Salesforce itself. It reported $1 billion in bookings for cloud software in June. Expect an update on the size of that business in Ellison's remarks.
Much of that growth has come from Oracle's aggressive pace of acquisitions. It has been gobbling up cloud-based software companies such as RightNow and Taleo.
And Oracle's service offerings don't stop at software: They extend to hardware, too. Customers can purchase ExaData and ExaLogic hardware and then run them inside an Oracle-owned and -maintained data center. The point is to get the hardware up and running quickly without having to bear the time and expense associated with setting it up.
So, if you care about the cloud — and nearly everyone in enterprise IT does these days — it's going to be an interesting week.


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Faces of the Future, a unique after-school program in Oakland and Hayward, Calif., exposes students from low-income communities to careers in health care. NBC's Nancy Snyderman reports.
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Pediatrician Tomás Magaña has treated it all -- gunshot wounds, drug overdoses and domestic abuse injuries.
"I've seen too many kids die. I've lost 10 kids in my practice, five in the past year alone," he said.
The doctor's voice cracks when he talks about his patients. One teen committed suicide while others died in shootings. Some belonged to gangs but a few were killed in the crossfire.
"I'm trained to treat disease but our kids are dying from homicide, suicide, trauma -- the three leading causes of death for teens. All preventable yet all on the rise in certain communities," he said.
Living in fear
Magaña works at Children's Hospital in Oakland, Calif. -- one of America's most violent cities and part of Alameda County, ranked first in the state and third in the nation for violent crime.
Children live in fear, said Magaña, and no one is immune.
"Kids hear a popping sound and they run for cover," he said.
The Oakland Tribune recently reported that stray bullets kill about one person a month here. While murders and assaults nationwide are declining, according to FBI statistics, violent crime in Oakland in 2012 climbed 25 percent -- about four and a half times the national average.
Nancy O'Malley, Alameda County district attorney, has called crime in Oakland "a cancer" and the city newspaper "a police blotter."
She attributes 70 percent of all shootings in the city to gangs.
This year, the city has also seen a surge in domestic violence that includes the death of four teenage girls as well as a disturbing rise in the number of minors forced into sex slavery.
"Some of the stories these kids tell us are horrendous," said O'Malley.
They're stories Dr. Magaña hears every day.
"The boys talk about their fear of the future, how they expect to end up dead or in jail," Magaña said. "Many of the girls talk about abuse in their lives."
Statistically, these are the kids who never finish school. In some Oakland communities, the high school dropout rate runs as high as every six out of 10 kids.
Dr. Tomas Magana expands on why he went into medicine and why he is helping prepare the next generation.
And many get in trouble once they leave school.
Something Magaña knows all about. A native of East Los Angeles, Magaña was raised by a teenage mom.
"She did the best she could. We grew up together and we struggled a hell of a lot." Magaña believes he too was headed for trouble until other adults, namely his grandparents, interceded and "reframed" his destiny.
Using that as a prescription for success, Magaña and a colleague started a program designed to inspire at-risk teens to stay in school.
And it's working.
Building self-esteem, and a passion for health care
Their program, FACES for the Future, helps teens explore careers in health care. The students get academic credit for volunteering in local hospitals where they shadow medical professionals doing their jobs. The kids rotate through specialties like surgery, anesthesia, pediatrics and neo-natal care. During the two-year program, the kids clock 600 hours of volunteer time at community hospitals like St. Rose in Hayward, Calif.
"This builds self-esteem and also looks great on a college application," explained Magaña.
Felicity Harris, 25, now attends a master's program in public health at San Francisco State. Her ultimate goal is to become a physician assistant.
"I didn't have a very sturdy family life so I kind of raised myself. A lot of times in high school I felt alone. It would have been easy to have just given up," said Harris.
FACES "grounded and motivated" her, she said. "Here I knew people were happy to see me, who wanted me to flourish and grow."
'Life is just so overwhelming'
In addition to the hospital experience, each student is assigned a mentor -- an adult to rely on when life gets tough.
For Angela Kath, 17, who is raising her daughter alone, that person is Brooke Briggance, the program director and a fiercely protective substitute mother many of these kids seem to need in their lives.
"Life is just so overwhelming. Sometimes I just need a shoulder to cry on," admitted Angela, who balances high school, working two part-time jobs and caring for 4-year-old Kamiya. "Mrs. Brooke is the person I turn to so I can be strong for my daughter."
Before FACES, Angela was on the verge of dropping out of school. Now she dreams of one day working with teenage mothers.
"Mrs. Brooke tells me I'm smart," she said. "She helps me stay focused, keep my mind on my goals."
Since FACES started 13 years ago, about 500 kids have passed through both the two-year program and the summer program. Almost all have graduated high school. Many went on to college.
An impressive feat when you consider that initial acceptance is not based on grades. In fact, lots have poor academic track records.
What they possess is the motivation to change their lives.
"Even with so much trauma, poverty and hopelessness, many children still dream of a better life -- a life full of opportunities," said Magaña.
Just like he did as a kid.


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hey guys,
i find out something good...
thats how you an set the brush (for painting etc.):
and get the brush:
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ETerrainEditor.setBrushPos(getWord(%curPos, 0) + %x, getWord(%curPos, 1) + %y);
now i just need to "paint" on the brush position... - maybe you can help me?
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%curPos = ETerrainEditor.getBrushPos();
Thank you very much!
Sorry that im disturbing you :/
but i know how to set the position of the brush... i tried to paint through the command Azaezel shows ... but maybe someone could tell me how i get this right?
i tried to make the player position to the brush one - thats working ...
i hope you could help me a last time ... would be nice - THANKS!


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The Spousal Unit came home from work the other day to find Overlord Mok'Morokk hanging out in Orgrimmar. He joined the fray for a couple minutes and then started the night's raiding schedule. Hours later, he found the ogre from Dustwallow Marsh still there. Though the battle had been kept up the entire time, the Overlord just couldn't be brought down. All of the bank alts in the AH were subjected to periodic AOE stuns and the constant sounds of battle while trying to conduct business.
Of course, this isn't the first time someone has been kited into a major city for the sake of mayhem. Players have been doing this since the beginning of MMO time. It can be annoying but also breaks up the monotony of the atmosphere. Some, however, view it only as griefing.
What is the most unusual NPC or creature that you've seen kited to a major city? Do you think this kind of activity is fun or annoying? Have you ever had the patience to kite something this far yourself?
Edited to add: Link to a reunion of Jaina and Thrall.


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The Foxcroft neighborhood of Charlotte, NC is located in the SouthPark area of town. It is one of Charlotte's most desirable subdivisions with its tree lined streets and gentle rolling hills. The streets are set up in pattern that prevents through traffic keeping the streets quiet and an excellent place to walk, run or bike ride. An elaborate 5-mile trail system connects the northern and southern sections of the Foxcroft neighborhood. Architectural style in Foxcroft runs the gamut from stately Georgian, to Tudor, or French Provencial homes. Most lots are at least .5 acres or larger and several of the homes have been completely remodeled and even re-imagined, torn down, and rebuilt to suit more luxurious tastes as the area has prospered.
Foxcroft is just minutes from fantastic shopping at SouthPark Mall and Phillip's Place (the area's finest shopping centers) and only a short drive to Uptown Charlotte. Some of the most highly ranked schools in the system are nearby, namely: Sharon Road Elementary, Alexander Graham Middle, or Myers Park High School. A variety of private schools are convenient to the neighborhood as well. Morrison Regional Library serves the Foxcroft community.
Foxcroft East, which is adjacent to Foxcroft, offers two playgrounds and a Swim & Racquet Club. Membership in the Club is held at no more than 275 families. The facility was remodeled in 2012 and offers a 6-lane swimming pool with diving boards and a slide, a separate splash pool with fountain, and five tennis courts.


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I have found that ReadWriteThink (RWT) is an excellent resource for me and my preservice students, and we refer to it often in my courses. For several of the courses I teach, my students must write lesson plans to be used in demonstration lessons and during practicum placements. In the past, I found that they do not always include as much detail in the plans as I would like. Consequently, I include the URL of one of my RWT-published lesson plans in the text of my syllabus, so that they can see the amount of detail that should be included in their lesson plans. Not only does this help convey my expectations, but it also helps them view me as a teacher who models expectations.
The result is that many of my students incorporate RWT in their practicum and student teaching placements and, ultimately, in their future classrooms. I recently asked my current students about their viewpoints toward RWT, and Karens comment is indicative of the value they gain from its use:
I have learned as a teacher candidate that an important characteristic in a profession is the sharing of ideas and information to help ensure the overall success of that profession. ReadWriteThink.org is a wonderful resource that allows teachers and prospective teachers to access information that will improve classroom instruction.
Nancy Kolodziej has been a member of the International Reading Association (IRA) since 1988 and is a member of its special interest group Professors of Reading Teacher Educators. She taught grades K-8 for 12 years in California and Pennsylvania and holds a doctoral degree in elementary education from Lehigh University. Currently, Nancy is a faculty member at Tennessee Technological University where she teaches literacy and elementary methods courses.


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On July 18th, 1978, The Rolling Stones made a stop at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas as part of its tour in support of its album, Some Girls. Over three decades have passed since that iconic performance. Last year, Eagle Rock Entertainment, Eagle Vision, and Eagle Records released that performance on CD, DVD and Blu-ray. Now, the companies have followed up the success of those releases with a double disc vinyl/DVD combo pack for true hardcore Stones fans. This new set includes the entire performance of that show on two double sided vinyl discs along with a full length performance of the show on DVD. It goes without saying that this is another outstanding performance from an outstanding band that helps to celebrate the band's fiftieth anniversary.
The first thing that will hit audiences in taking in this performance is the quality of the recording. Nearly thirty-five years have passed since this performance was originally recorded. But as evidenced both on the DVD and the vinyl release, the recording has stood the test of time. The audio portion on the vinyl will impress any audiophile. The companion DVD is just as impressive. Considering the technology that was available in 1978, the quality of the video footage is outstanding. It's obvious painstaking efforts were taken to preserve this concert. And those responsible for maintaining and restoring it for its latest release are to be commended for their efforts. Those efforts paid off in a large way. It's great to be able to see the band's performance not just from the stage, but also from the vantage point of the audience. The wide shots of the show from the back of the auditorium give an even more incredible view of the audience numbers and the audience's reaction to the band from one song to the next. There's no let up from either the band or its fans throughout the concert.
The audio and video go a long way towards making Some Girls Live in Texas '78 enjoyable for any Rolling Stones fan. They're just part of the overall experience, though. The set list has its own hand in the success of this release. Presented here are standout performance of hits including: 'Star Star', 'Honky Tonk Women', 'Beast of Burden', 'Brown Sugar', and 'Jumpin' Jack Flash.' Long time audiences that haven't gotten to see last year's DVD and BD release of this show will be taken aback by the band's you and energy here. There's hardly a wrinkle to be seen on any of the band members. Though, Mick Jagger has that signature swagger that has made him such a rock icon throughout the Stones' career together. And the guitar solos courtesy of Keith Richards and Ron Wood will get even the newest Stones' fans moving in their own living rooms, bedrooms, etc. Drummer Charlie Watts keeps the whole band together behind his kit, adding his own flair where necessary, too. The band's performance and the equally impressive recording come together to make a release that is a fitting addition to any Stones' fan's celebration of the band's anniversary. Some Girls Live in Texas '78 is available now in stores and online. It can be ordered online at http://www.eagle-rock.com.
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Pet Owners Talk To Me
Once again, here are some of your comments on recent columns, even comments relating to issues I've discussed on my national radio Steve Dale's Pet World. Thanks for listening, and for writing. I enjoy hearing from you!
COMMENT: In love with a cat? In love, really? I'd like to tell that person to marry the cat if the cat is so loved. Obviously, the feeling isn't mutual, since the cat couldn't care less about shredding the owner's furniture. Cats, like dogs and all other pets, see us as nothing more than walking can openers. — G.R., Cyberspace
STEVE DALE: Thanks for the opportunity to state what I believe is the obvious. Call it what you want, but I call it love when I hear about a pet risking his or her life for the owner. Sure, such cases may be exceptional, but they're real and happen all the time. Evidence of a genuine human/animal connection is also obvious when a pet awakens an owner who's about go into a diabetic crash, or warns the owner of an impending seizure. If they were only walking can openers, why would pets be so motivated to help us?
As for our feelings toward pets, yours are the exception. According to all pet owner surveys I'm aware of, pets overwhelmingly are considered beloved members of the family. Some senior citizens have indicate that with family no longer living, or residing far away, their pets keep them going, providing a reason to get up in the morning. We know that pets positively influence the health of the people they live with.
Not long ago, some scientists were convinced that human emotions were just that, and not found among animals. Today, we know that's not true. The neurochemistry in dogs and cats is nearly identical to our own.
COMMENT: I thought you might like to know how much you touched someone's life many years ago. I was recently contacted by Lisa Ramsey Jorgensen, the sister of a long-time client. Lisa told me about her cat, Sabrina, who passed away in August 2002 from HCM (feline hyperthrophic cardiomyopathy), a commonly fatal heart disease in cats).
She wrote a letter to Cats Magazine referring to an article they'd done on HCM — and you were mentioned in the piece. Her letter was printed, she subsequently she got in touch with you, and said you were very kind to her. Every year, on Sabrina's birthday and on the anniversary of Sabrina's passing, Lisa makes a donation to the Winn Feline Foundation, specifying that it go to the Ricky Fund, which you began to raise money for research on HCM.
Lisa gave me permission to send this note to you and asked if you were happy with the research Winn has done through the Ricky Fund. She also wonders if you have cats now. I'm so glad you were there for Lisa all those years ago. You're a very special person. — C.D., Portland, OR
STEVE DALE: Thank you for your kind words. The Winn Feline Foundation raises money to fund cat health and welfare related studies, and I'm proud to serve on their board of directors. The Ricky Fund dollars have, indeed, made a difference. There's now a genetic test (a simple cheek swab) for Ragdoll and Maine Coon cats to determine if the defect for HCM exists in individual cats. As a result, breeding programs have begun to see less HCM. The test isn't perfect, however, and we need a solution for all cats. I'm grateful for your friend's contributions, but more donors are needed. Truth is that research doesn't happen without funding, and for reasons, I don't quite get, that's harder to come for cats than for dogs.
As for me personally, my wife and I share our home with two mixed-breed dogs, a northern-blue tongue skink (a type of lizard) and a Devon Rex cat named Roxy.
Remember radio icon Paul Harvey. He featured Ricky the cat twice on The Rest of the Story. Check it out.
COMMENT: A neighbor gave us a dwarf hamster. With cats and dogs at home, I was reluctant to take him, but my granddaughter begged and I finally relented. The next day, as she tried to take the hamster out of his cage, he jumped from her hands and got loose in the bedroom.
Unfortunately, we couldn't find him and after several minutes of searching, decided he must have escaped from the room. We walked to the living room, looked out toward our pool, and a feeling of dread came over us.
As I lifted the top of the skimmer, there was Hammy, belly up, going around in circles inside the skimmer. I quickly grabbed him and took him inside, placed him on his back on a towel, and began cardiac compressions with one finger. I continued for about a minute, and just as I was about to give up, I saw his little foot begin to twitch. I picked him up in the towel, rubbed his back vigorously for quite a while until I could feel him come back to life. Then I put him in his cage and put a heat lamp nearby to warm him up.
A week later, Hammy is perfectly fine. I thought this might be an unusual story and might even help save another animal's life one day. — K.R., via cyberspace
STEVE DALE: Indeed, I love those happy tails, and receive so few stories involving CPR for hamsters. Good for you!
COMMENT: I was listening to your radio show when a guy called in wanting to date other pet lovers. I couldn't believe you weren't aware that there are already many dating services catered to pet owners. If you Google "dating services for cat lovers," you'll quite a list. — J.R., Cyberspace
STEVE DALE: Who knew? Thank you for the information.
COMMENT: I was a friend of Dr. R.K. Anderson. My mother was a special friend of Dr. Anderson's, as they lived in the same condo building. I appreciated your recent comments about his contributions to veterinary medicine. — R.G., via cyberspace
STEVE DALE: While Anderson's name may not familiar to the public, his contributions to understanding dog behavior and training are well known to veterinary professionals. Anderson (with Ruth Foster) invented the Gentle Leader, a halter for dogs; and he was among the first to use science-based positive training techniques. He died last October at age 90. Arguably, few veterinarians touched as many dog trainers, veterinarians and veterinary technicians as Anderson; he never stopped teaching or learning.
©Steve Dale, Tribune Media Services


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Dec. 13, 2012
Head coach Brian Kelly received the 2012 FWAA/Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 in Miami, Fla. Photos from the event can be found in the above photo gallery.
DALLAS – Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly, who has taken the Fighting Irish to their first unbeaten regular season since 1988, has been named the recipient of the 2012 FWAA/Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award, which is sponsored by the Fiesta Bowl.
Kelly, in his third season at Notre Dame, won the award over eight other coaching finalists after a vote of the 1,200-member Football Writers Association of America. He is the fourth Notre Dame coach to receive the award following Ara Parseghian (1964), Lou Holtz (1988) and Charlie Weis(2005).
The Fighting Irish capped a perfect regular season (12-0) with a victory over arch-rival USC at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Notre Dame is the top-ranked team in college football in all the polls and will face Alabama in the Discover BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 7, 2013 in South Florida.
The 51-year-old Kelly will be presented the Eddie Robinson Trophy the previous evening during a reception at the Marriott Harbor Beach Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Officials from Notre Dame, the Fiesta Bowl, the FWAA and the namesake coach's son, Eddie Robinson Jr., will be in attendance.
"It is with great pleasure the FWAA presents the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award to Brian Kelly," said 2012 FWAA President Lenn Robbins. "Notre Dame, under Coach Kelly, has returned to national prominence in the college football ranks. This award recognizes that accomplishment for the 2012 season, a season that began with 124 teams vying for an elusive undefeated campaign. Notre Dame was the only bowl-eligible school to accomplish that impressive feat."
"Brian Kellyis a deserving recipient for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award," added Fiesta Bowl Executive Director Robert Shelton. "He led Notre Dame to an undefeated record, earning the top spot in the BCS. Equally as impressive is the fact that his team boasts a 97 percent graduation rate, which is tied for best NCAA APR rate among all Bowl Subdivision schools. He inspires excellence in his players on both the field and in the classroom."
Notre Dame's 2012 season has been highlighted by victories over ranked teams at the time the Fighting Irish played them: Michigan, Michigan State, Stanford and Oklahoma. Senior linebacker Manti Te'owon the FWAA's Bronko Nagurski Trophy as the nation's best defensive player, anchoring one of college football's top defensive front sevens.
Kelly, Notre Dame's 29th head football coach, began his head coaching career at Division II Grand Valley State in 1991. After winning back-to-back NCAA Division II titles there in 2002 and '03, he moved on to Central Michigan for three seasons before a highly successful four-year stint at Cincinnati. He guided the Bearcats to back-to-back BCS bowl games (Orange and Sugar) in 2008 and '09 before taking over at Notre Dame in 2010.
The FWAA has given out a Coach of the Year Award since 1957 when Ohio State coach Woody Hayes first claimed the honor. Robinson, a coaching legend at Grambling State University, has been the FWAA's coaching namesake since 1997.
The late Robinson, the winningest coach in Division I history (408 games), passed away on April 3, 2007. Robinson's teams won or tied for 17 Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) championships after joining the league in 1959. His Tigers claimed nine Black College Football Championships during his career spent all at the same school.
Robinson, who was named by the FWAA in 1966 as "The Coach Who Made the Biggest Contribution to College Football in the Past 25 Years," often took his show on the road to places such as the Louisiana Superdome, the Cotton Bowl, the Astrodome, Tiger Stadium and Yankee Stadium. And with his star-studded array of players Robinson helped integrate professional football.
In 1949, Grambling standout Tank Younger was the first player from a Historically Black College to sign with an NFL Team (Los Angeles Rams). By 1963, Buck Buchanan became the first player from a Historically Black College to be selected first overall in the professional draft (American Football League by the Kansas City Chiefs). Over the years, Robinson produced a Who's Who of professional football players, with more than 200 of his former players dotting professional rosters.
In 1975, with one of his greatest teams quarterbacked by eventual All-Pro Doug Williams, Robinson's Grambling team and Alcorn State became the first college teams to play a game in the Louisiana Superdome. The next season, Robinson's Tigers, along with Morgan State, became the first American college football teams to play in Japan.
A member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Robinson has the keys to cities all over the planet, has been awarded in every form and fashion and has honorary degrees from many schools. The Eddie Robinson Museum has opened in his honor in Grambling, La., where numerous memorabilia now reside, including a bust of the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award.
The Football Writers Association of America, a non-profit organization founded in 1941, consists of more than 1,200 men and women who cover college football for a living. The membership includes journalists, broadcasters and publicists, as well as key executives in all the areas that involve the game. The FWAA works to govern areas that include gameday operations, major awards and its annual All-America team. For more information about the FWAA and its award programs, contact Steve Richardson at email@example.com or 972-713-6198.
The Fiesta Bowl is committed to fostering a culture of community involvement and giving. Through elite bowl games and related events, we serve as welcoming hosts, create lifelong memories, promote Arizona and enable meaningful contributions to society.
The Eddie Robinson Award is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game's predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients. For more information, visit the association's official Web site, ncfaa.org.


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Roadside assistant
SpareOne is a backup mobile phone that can manage a 15-year charge from one AA battery. The phone is intended to be there when people need to make an emergency call but discover they've exhausted their regular cellphone via game playing, texting and taking pictures of themselves with pouty faces and posting the results to Instagram. The SpareOne has a SIM card slot, so users merely take the SIM card out of their existing dead-battery phone and insert it into the SpareOne so they can begin making calls that their regular phone can no longer make due to ill-advised overuse from novelty diversions. Slim and lightweight, the phone can access 911 services whether or not there's a SIM card inserted, which is good because some new phones arrive with micro-SIMs that are not supported by SpareOne. A 2013 Consumer Electronics Show Innovations Award winner, the device unfortunately is a sad commentary about the human condition in that we need backup safety devices for existing safety devices we have co-opted in the name of fun. $100; visit spareone.com.
Car chargers for iPhone 5
When the history books are written, Belkin International will be correctly identified as the first accessory manufacturer to release a car charger for the iPhone 5's new lightning charging port. But it is Griffin Technology's new PowerJolt SE with Lightning Connector that gets the first nod here because the manufacturer was wise enough to release much nicer product imagery. While not first to market, the PowerJolt SE has the distinction of being Griffin's first lightning charger, offering a cigarette lighter adapter plug-in with an attached cord that plugs into the iPhone 5 and features a 10-watt charging circuit and built-in self-resetting fuse that ensures there will be no power fluctuations during charging. This is a bit of a paper tiger feature in that we don't know anybody who's been impacted by fluctuating power while charging with any adapter. Aside from the notable fact that this is among the first batch of car adapters for the iPhone 5, there isn't much else to report except that Belkin's Car Charger for Lighting ($30, belkin.com) is remarkably similar and did hit the street earlier. $25; visit firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Shelters will be at Beat Kitchen in April and at Lollapalooza in August.
The full lineup of 170 music acts for this year's Lollapalooza was announced earlier this week. The event takes place August 3 – 6 in Grant Park. Chance the Rapper, who's been in the news lately for his efforts to stop gun violence in Chicago, is one of the headline acts, along with Lorde, The Killers, and Arcade Fire. The Shelters (whose self-titled album came in at number two on the Broken Hearted Toy Favorite Releases of 2016 list), Cage The Elephant, Liam Gallagher, Spoon, Tegan and Sara, Warpaint, and The Shins will also be performing. Tickets for Lollapalooza are already sold out.
Tickets went on sale today for Juliana Hatfield at Lincoln Hall on May 1; The Shelters at Beat Kitchen on April12; Robyn Hitchcock at The Old Town School Of Folk Music on June 17; and Alison Moyet at Park West on September 19.
The Factory Theater, a major force in Chicago for decades, has a new play called Born Ready opening tonight at its space on the far north side. Stacie Barra's play about an aging actress and a young dancer who join forces as a comedy duo is directed by W. Bullion and stars Eleanor Katz and and Clara Byczkowski.
Wild Honey's benefit for The Autism Think Tank takes place tomorrow night, March 25 at the Alex Theatre in Glendale California. Jackson Browne, Peter Case, Victoria Williams, Syd Straw, David Baerwald, Continental Drifters, Plainsong, and Cait O'Riordan are among the musicians who'll be performing The Band's Music From Big Pink album. Founding Band member Garth Hudson will also be on hand.
Singer-guitarist James Moeller will be getting a workout tomorrow night at Phyllis Musical Inn when whitewolfsonicprincess, the mysterious alt rock band he leads with vocalist Carla Hayden, shares the stage with his more garage rock oriented outfit The Telepaths. Music starts at 10:00 p.m.
The Refugee Theatre's production of the High Fidelity Musical wraps up tomorrow night.
The Experience Hendrix all-star tribute to the legendary guitarist comes to the Chicago Theatre tomorrow night, March 25. Performers include Billy Cox, Buddy Guy, Zakk Wylde, Johnny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Dweezil Zappa, and others.
The Smithereens will be back in the Chicago area next Saturday, April 1 when they play the Prairie Arts Center in Schaumburg. The Smithereens' ESP3PECIALLY F0R YOU 30th Anniversary of their debut album Especially For You, came in at number three on my Favorite Releases Of 2016 list.
The Heroes And Villains Fan Fest returns to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center tomorrow and Sunday, March 25 and 26, with special guests from several popular TV shows. Two-day passes for general admission are $90, Saturday only is $55, and Sunday is $45. Various forms of VIP packages are also available.
The 20th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival is currently taking place at the Gene Siskel Film Center, and by the time it's finished on March 30, 62 films from 28 countries will have been screened
The Regrettes, the Los Angeles-based quartet whose full length debut Feel Your Feelings Fool is an irresistible blend of punk and the 1960s girl group sound, will be at Schubas next Sunday night. Brooklyn-based indie rock band Active Bird Community, which released its latest album Stick Around earlier this year, will be the opening act.
Little Steven and The Disciples Of Soul will be summering in Europe this year, with concerts scheduled in Ireland, Sweden, Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, and Norway. Musician/actor/radio host Steven Van Zandt first recorded with The Disciples Of Soul in 1982 with the release of the Men Without Women album. Musically, of course, Van Zandt is best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen
The ambitious psychedelic rock fest Tim Ferguson, Gregory Curvey, and Lee Klawans are going to stage at the LiveWire Lounge in Chicago this September has been officially dubbed Kaleidoscope Eye. The bands involved are The Red Plastic Buddha, The Luck Of Eden Hall, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor, Friends of Dennis Wilson, Warhorses, Heaven's Gateway Drugs, Magic Castles, The Orange Drop, White Shape, Constantine, Aethereal, Junkee Girl, Diagonal, and Lucille Furs.


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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
New clouded leopard identified from Tabin!
10:30 PM | Posted by Andy Hearn | Edit Post
The latest cloudie to be identified at Tabin - Clouded leopard Male 4.
Although the photograph is a little blurry it is good enough to enable
unequivocal identifiaction.
We're delighted to announce that our hard work at Tabin appears to be paying off, with the exciting discovery of some new clouded leopard photographs. The latest check of cameras has revealed a new, previously unknown, clouded leopard male, and yet more photographs of our far from camera shy Male 3. The new photographs come as somewhat of a relief to our team as not only is it a pleasure to see these spectacular animals but it is also essential to get as many photographs as possible during our survey period in order for us
to do some real conservation science and to generate a robust estimate of the density of these little known cats.
Male 3 posing for the camera.
The new male was photographed along 'Jalan Raya Bagus', the old abandoned logging road, which, as mentioned in an earlier post, was one of our most promising camera locations. We now know that at least three different clouded leopard males are using this trail.
We've also obtained photographs of Male 3, who is proving to be a bit of a star and has now been photographed at 5 different locations over a range of approximately 25 square kilometres. Male 3 must have been in a particularly curious mood as he decided to hang around the camera station for about two minutes and was snapped a total of eight times
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The fifth season of Live From The Artists Den premieres this Sunday, Oct. 5, but the television series has also just made episodes from its first season available for download. Those are available now at the Artists Den store, and this is the first time fans have been able to check out the episodes—which feature acts like Aimee Mann, Ani DiFranco, The Hold Steady, and Patty Griffin—since they aired back in 2008. As an exclusive, check out a video of The Hold Steady performing "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" at New York's Old Emigrant Savings Bank on one of those episodes below.
Season five of Live From The Artists Den kicks off with a performance from Norah Jones. Check out air times and stations on the Artists Den site.


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Dementia and end-of-life care
Tips for talking about end of life
Talking about end of life can be difficult for everyone but you may even find some relief in having the subject out in the open. Talking about it early on can help you face your worries together.
You don't have to talk about everything at once and there is no right or wrong way to approach this subject. Here are some suggestions that might help:
- Choose a time and place where you both feel safe and comfortable.
- Feel free to acknowledge the difficulty of talking about end of life. Using humour, when appropriate, may relieve pressure.
- If the other person refuses to talk or changes the subject, try saying "That is okay, we don't have to talk about it right now but it is something I would like to talk about soon. I want to be sure I know your wishes so I can act on them when the time comes."
- It is okay to express your emotions, including your sadness. Talking about a person's end of life can be upsetting.
- If you find the discussion overwhelming, suggest continuing the conversation at another time. You do not have to talk about everything all at once.
- This is a conversation about you and the person you support, so encourage the person with dementia to be involved in it as much as they are able.
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I don't know about the weather where you are, but here in London, it's taken a decidedly autumnal turn early. Waaaaay early. So early I wasn't ready. And I'm ALWAYS ready. Maybe this was the trigger to feeling totally off-kilter this last week.
I spent the week at work plugged into my headphones and working away, working through the blahs (or just ignoring them). It was enough to concern a few colleagues. I've earned the reputation of being somewhat of a cheerful soul (say what?) and they sensed I was not myself. Friday, I had the office all to myself and when you're in a small open-plan office, this is a real luxury. So I revelled in my aloneness and decided I was not going to push it over the weekend. I was going to just relax, and read, and remember all the reasons why I love autumn so much.
Jumpers. The colour orange. New boots. Mulled drinks. Stews. The smell of wood fires. Toffee apples. Pumpkin anything. Onion soup. Braised red cabbage & apple. Knitting projects. Crunchy leaves.
(My favourite memory of crunchy leaves is the boxful I was sent from a friend at Smith College in Massachusetts. It was my first autumn in New Orleans and let me tell ya, autumn really isn't a season there. There are lots of things I love about NOLA but autumn isn't one of them, so that boxful of leaves was the best care package this freshman could have received.)
I spent the weekend reading recipes, spiking my coffee with nutmeg, and mulling over what I should knit next. I've got a full-blown case of the warm and fuzzies now. The niggling grayness is hovering at the edges of my vision, but for now, I'm going to smother it in pumpkin spice.


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NASHVILLE, TENN. - A Rachel Allen free throw with 17 seconds left proved to be the difference Saturday night at the Gentry Center as the Tennessee State Lady Tigers won their third straight game, 54-53.
It is the first three game winning streak for TSU since winning five in a row from Feb. 7-26, 2009, a span of 117 games.
TSU (11-12, 7-5 OVC) had two players in double figures as Simone Hopes had 11 points, while Kesi Hess added 10. Jasmin Shuler and Allen contributed eight points each.
The Lady Tigers led nearly the entire game as the Bruins never held more than a one possession lead.
Midway through the first half, TSU clamped down defensively as they turned a one point deficit (14-15) into an eight point halftime advantage, 31-23.
Belmont (15-11, 9-4 OVC) made one shot during an 11 minute, 43 second stretch between the first and second half going 1-for-11 for a total of six points.
Just when it seemed that Tennessee State had the game well in hand with their largest lead of the game, 50-39 with five minutes remaining, TSU went cold from the floor making only one field goal the rest of the contest. On the other hand, Belmont went 5-of-10 from the floor, forcing four Lady Tiger turnovers.
The Bruins completed the comeback with a three pointer from Katie Carroll, the only three that Belmont made in eight attempts, to tie the game at 53 with 39 seconds remaining.
After a missed jumper by Hopes, TSU regained possession on a jump ball. Before the Lady Tigers could inbound the ball, Adrienne Tarrence of Belmont fouled Rachel Allen to send her to the line where she made the first of her two free throws.
Katie Brooks missed a mid-range jumper on the left side on the Bruins final possession to send the Big Blue crowd home happy.
Belmont had won nine of the past 10 meetings against TSU dating back to the 2001-02 season.
The Lady Tigers look to get back to .500 when they return to the Gentry Center on Monday to take on UT-Martin (12-14, 7-5 OVC) at 7 p.m.
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The Morenci Town & Country Festival committee is hoping to bring a rodeo back to this summer's event in June.
Committee member Kori Christle told city council Feb. 8 about a contract the committee was considering with a Hudson-based rodeo organizer.
A $3,500 deposit would be refundable through June 1. The total cost of the rodeo is $6,500.
There's no other major event planned for this year's festival, Christle said, and in the past a rodeo attracted many spectators.
Christle said the group is seeking council's approval before signing the contract.
"I don't think we'll have any problem coming up with the deposit," she said.
In other years, the rodeo brought in about $3,000 at the gate.
Councilors voted 6-0 to support the effort.
GRANT—The Morenci Fire Department received a FEMA grant of $92,500 to buy 18 new SCBA air packs (self-contained breathing apparatus) and 30 new face masks, along with some spare air bottles.
The grant covers 95 percent of the cost, leaving the city's match at $4,500.
"We've worked really hard to get this and we're excited," said fire chief Chad Schisler.
MUSTER—Council approved a request for an alcohol permit for the Northwest Ohio Antique Firemen's Association Muster, scheduled at Wakefield Park in Morenci July 24 and 25.
Department member Steve Meller told councilors last month that alcohol is not served at the event, but participants might bring some containers. He wanted to obtain council's approval before moving forward with planning.
Meller met with council's parks committee to discuss where the event would be located and a designated alcohol area was defined, the same as with softball tournaments.
Council approved the permit with a 5-1 vote. Tracy Schell was absent from the meeting and mayor Keith Pennington voted against the motion. Pennington explained that he is not opposed to the event at the park, but he votes against the permits because he would like to see entertainment planned without the need for alcohol.