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MILWAUKEE (WSAU) Former Milwaukee Alderman Michael McGee Junior goes back behind bars today, after he had his first two days of freedom since 2007 when he was arrested for corruption. McGee completed a nearly four-year federal prison term on Wednesday. He was convicted of using his power to grant liquor licenses to extort thousands-of-dollars in cash and other items from business owners.
McGee's federal sentence was shortened by 10 months for good behavior. Now he'll begin a one-year term in the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility in Franklin on state convictions. Those include lying to an elections official in a vote-buying scheme, and violating a court order in connection with a John Doe investigation. Ten other charges were dropped in a plea deal – including allegations that he plotted with a friend to have a man beaten up.
During his county jail time, McGee will be eligible for temporary releases for work, and to help take care of his kids. But McGee was rejected this week in his effort to get a driver's license, because he previously had licenses under two names. He was born as Michael Jackson, but had used the McGee name his entire life. In 2006, prosecutors said he made up a Social Security number to get a license under the Jackson name, after his license under the McGee name was suspended.


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Century Aluminum issued a conditional notice to its Hawesville, Ky., employees April 16 that 100 percent of its plant operations would be stopped Aug. 20 "if the plant cannot secure a competitively priced power contract," according to a statement from the company.
The announcement was made because of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN Act.
Century also gave conditional notice that its supply contract with its largest customer, the Southwire Company, also could be terminated because of the potential Aug. 20 plant closure.
Century's current power contract with Big Rivers Electric Corporation expires Aug. 20.
"Hawesville is an excellent plant, with a dedicated and highly skilled work force and a world class customer base," Century President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Bless said in a prepared statement. "We deeply regret the need to issue these notices at this time, and understand the uncertainty this action will cause our valued employees, our local communities and our longstanding partners at Southwire.
"We remain resolved to finding a solution that will support the plant's continuing operations, and are discussing with the power provider an arrangement that we firmly believe will have no impact on any other ratepayer in the state – today, or in the future."
Bless said Century would ask Kentucky's leaders to intervene with a solution "to avoid the catastrophic economic impact a plant closure would have on countless communities in western Kentucky."
"These efforts, coupled with a market-based power price, will provide the basis for Hawesville to operate for many years to come," Bless said.
The Kentucky General Assembly worked on two bills that would have given aluminum smelters the ability to get power on the open market – measures the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Kentucky Association of Manufacturers and Kentucky Resource Council all said they did not support.
Both bills died when Kentucky's legislature adjourned March 26.
The WARN notice specifies that the plant will be curtailed unless the company can gain access to competitively priced electric power.
The Hawesville smelter is located in Hancock County and employs about 750 people.
Big Rivers Electric Spokesman Marty Littrell said April 16 his company is still in negotiations with Century, and even met that day.
"I'm limited on what I can say about the meeting due to confidentiality agreements, but we plan to continue meeting with Century officials to work out a condition that keeps the smelter open within reason," Littrell said.
Century also has struggled with settling on an agreeable power rate to reopen its Ravenswood smelter in West Virginia, which closed in 2009 and put about 650 people out of work.
Littrell said Century's electric rate from Big Rivers last year was about 36 percent below the U.S. industrial average, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Bless said during a Feb. 21 earnings call that Century was "working hard in Kentucky." The next earnings call is scheduled for April 25.

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Along with the previously detailed "Lost in Nightmares" prequel mission, a second new episode will be released, as will new constumes and a new "Mercenaries Reunion" mode that packs "8 new playable characters and weapon load outs."
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"What I've Learned" or "A Chump at Twitter"
Youthful relations!
I've been on this blasted Twitter for three years now and though you'd think I'd know it all, that's not anything like the case. But I have learned a few things. If you'd like to know what they are, read on. If you wouldn't, well MOVE ALONG MISTER JUICYFRUIT! WE ALL KNOW YOU'VE GOT A LOT ON YOUR PLATE! OoooooOOOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOooooooooohhhhHHHHhhhhh!
But I digress.
The first thing is: It doesn't cost anything to be nice. Yes, there are a lot of narcissists here, but there are a lot of nice narcissists. Weed out the jerks. And don't be one. People remember when you're nice and you remember when they're nice. Do someone a niceness, not to get one back but to show that you've got a shed full of nicenesses from which to give. That'll drive them crazy with envy.
I used to respond to every single response or query, but then it got to be too much, so I'm selective. But if the person reaching out to me me isn't trolling and isn't the type to respond to every one of my tweets and gives some thought to his response, I'll favorite it to let him know I appreciate it. I'm not 100% successful, but I try.
If you're not having much luck communicating your humor, you CAN get better at tweeting jokes. I've gone back and deleted my first year's worth of efforts because they weren't the right speed or proper tangent of what works here. There's nothing to be proud of there, but they were a kind of working out or training for what was to come. So, if your jokes don't seem to resonate, study Twitter a bit more and figure out how the place appreciates humor bent to fit the 140-character limitation.
I'm grateful to everyone who has taken the time to read a single tweet of mine, to think about it, to wonder about it, to research its meaning, to ask me about it, to favorite it, to retweet it, to smile or laugh or sigh. I'm grateful to every follower who ever took a chance on following me, even if only for a short time, and I'm most grateful to followers who forgive, whether it be overtweeting, questionable subject matter, envelope pushing, you name it. I realize how taxing I can be. Your forbearance has brought tears to my eyes.
While Twitter is fast becoming a breaking news site, it's an even better reaction site, and by reaction I mean humorous reaction, whether it be a congressional hearing or a live Oscars broadcast. The best of the best now know enough to take out their phones and whale away at events live and it's sometimes breathtaking to be part of.
The niceness part of me wants to follow everyone back, but I know if I did I'd just make a list of who I want to read and only read the list. That's not doing anyone a favor. I follow based on merit and, now that I follow over 700, I'm not inclined to go digging too deep to test people's quality any more. I think following any more than 500 shortchanges everyone on your following list. There are people I follow whose tweets I literally never see anymore because I don't have the time to go back to their while-I was-sleeping time zone.
I do make an effort to evaluate new followers, however, and I'll let you in on my methods. First I check the following/follower ratio. If you, my new follower, follow more people than follow you, I tend not to look any further. It's not a guarantee, but it is a leading indicator that you're a reader & not a writer. If the notification email tells me that people I trust follow you, that works in your favor. But if you follow me and have any hope of getting followed back, I want your page to look good and be funny enough for me to want to read more.
That's an instantaneous judgement. Few make the cut. Some probably should have made the cut but because of one thing or another (time, mood, style of jokes, page housekeeping, etc.) didn't. I don't follow every funny person on Twitter and I never will get around to it. And I prefer to follow a certain esoteric kind of funny.
Unfortunately, too many followers expect to be followed back and unfollow 48 hours later. They're somehow insulted. In many cases, I've gone back to look at their pages and…they're not good. How can they expect it? How are they "owed" it?
The heart sinks when someone who follows 45,000 people and is followed by 45,000 people follows. That's Team Followback and that's not happening. They'll be gone before the cock crows. Or when they follow 45,000 and are followed by 65,000. That's just depressing. I'm not following that one back either. She would never see a single one of my tweets. That's called follower-accumulation. I've made a follower goal in the past, mainly to have something to shoot for, but it's a dead end and I'm not making another one. What's the ideal number to shoot for? The accumulating heart always says "More" but your head should be telling you that ten excellent followers (who write, who read, who respond, who engage) are worth more than ten thousand do-nothing followers. And most really do nothing but sign on every two months, say something about killing someone over something to do with coffee and then sink back beneath the digital ooze. They are a meaningless aggregate. All fine people, I'm sure, but for your purposes useless.
To recap: be good, be tidy, follow fewer than follow you and I'm likely to give you a look-over. And that's just to get a shot at getting me, a terrible follower, and a nobody into the bargain to look at your stuff.
When people star your tweets, it feels good. It's like saying something funny in your shower, only there are people. I have zero-star jokes I'd put up against any other joke in the world. The fact that they didn't get love on Twitter has no bearing on their worth to me. Sometimes someone whose sense of humor I respect will star a tweet of mine and it'll stop dead at six stars. That's far better than a 500-star tweet. I'll put my hand on a Bible and say that again for you, if you like.
Favstar, the star-accumulation site, takes its knocks but at bottom it's a reflection of its users and a mirror into their psyches. A lot of people who think themselves funny but are only marginally so learned long ago how to game the system. They give out 100,000 stars a year, they put a pair of tits in the avi, they make all their tweets about blow-jobs and they eventually rule the site. Lowest common denominator. It exists in stand-up, it exists everywhere, and it ain't for me.
I use Favstar, but I don't let it use me. That should be every psychologically healthy person's mantra on Twitter.
I touched on followers before, but there's a bit more to say on the subject. I have far more followers than I ever dreamed of having three years ago. When I first followed Kelly Oxford, she had something like 1900 followers and even that was too many to dream of. There are a lot of variables to attracting followers. The things I notice that bring them are quality/effort, celebrity, connections, fizz and luck. Luck plays a huge part, so does fizz. We want to hoist Rob Delaney & Kelly Oxford on our shoulders and run them to the top of a mountain. But others, quality-producing others even, not so much. Why? No fizz, no luck, no connections.
Something else I've noticed: Follow Friday can be the slowest day of the week. I might get some excellent people recommending me and nothing happens. Why? I've given it some thought and here are the working theories: 1. Follow Friday as a concept is burned out. 2. There are so many recommendations that people just retreat into their shells until it's over. 3. Many recommendations are 140-character blocks full of names. It's a lot to take in and your followers retreat.
Josh Hara (@yoyoha) opened my eyes a year or so ago. He pounced on a tweet of mine he particularly liked, retweeted it and then said why he liked following me and recommended me to his followers on a Monday, when nothing ever happens. I think 100 people followed me immediately. I'd gotten 20 great recommendations the previous Friday but only 20 new followers, so you can imagine how this caught my attention. Yes, off-Friday recommending works. But also waiting until someone you want to recommend drops a great tweet so you can showcase it and praise the person to your followers seems to be a far more effective way to do good for a deserving person. I've been purposefully recommending people early in the week and I've tracked the results and they're mostly excellent provided the intended beneficiary is a joke-writer.
I recently hit my second of the two goals I set for myself here and now I suddenly find myself rudderless on Twitter. I still enjoy it. But as a thing it's not turning out to be anything other than what it is. So I think I'll take some of my Twitter-assisted confidence and turn it back to my writing.
I hope this was useful!
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I am commenting on the review form the parent posting on June 21. I am the principal of St. Brigid and I feel that we are responsible as a school to notify parents in advance that their child is not meeting standards. At the March report card, if the child continues ot struggle this is a sign they may not be meeting the requiremnts for the next grade. We offer a summer program here but in no way is it mandatory and many of our children take summer classes eslewehere even free at the local public school. So in no way are we putting money first. This parent was with us only one year, and he is not up to speed in math. It is sad that she wrote this about our school because of her frustration. We beieve in havign al our students be successful and work very hard to supply them with the skills necessary for high shcool and college.
After being in the school for one year this is my observation...Some of the teachers are very involved with the kids, however, this pales when it appears that the main focus of the school is money. Many parents were told 3 months before the end of the school year that their kids were failing math or english(1st-7th grade) and that summer school was recommended...for a hefty fee of course. I am so disappointed, that an institution that is founded on the principles of Christ is lying to trusting parents...and making the kids feel dumb. Deceitful strategies like this are sinful and preys upon parents that want the best education for their kids, so they become oblivious to such deception. Again, I was impressed with some of the teachers and the principals knowledge of all the kids, but I will not be fooled but surface behavior. For these reasons I am departing from St. Brigid.
It offers a wonderful education in an area that ofetn doesn't have great opportunities for children. The teachers are warma dn friendly; and they immediately make you and your child fell a part of the family.
I love St. Brigid School. The principal and the teachers are always concern about the students. The teachers know every child by their first name and that makes the transition from one grade to the next a great experience for the students. They welcome new students with open arms. The are always new activities and events that the students love and enjoy. It is a great school.
I am also a former student & St. Brigid was a great experience. I attended from 3rd to 8th grade. When I have children I want them to attend a school just as good.
this school has had a great impact on me and I really enjoyed my stay
I am a former student and all the time that I attended at St. Brigid, the teachers are very strict but all of my graduating class moved on and went to great expectations!!
I am a graduate of this school. St. brigid is a wonderful learnning institution! As a student, I thought it as rough and unfair. As a graduate, I can say this school molds its students to be ready for the future. I take great pride that my daughter will be starting 2nd grade there this year.
This school highly encourages parental involvement and strict compliance with it's rules. This sets the stage for fine learning within stringent guidelines. The principal is involved in every stage and knows each child by first name. At first, I thought they were too strict (after all, they're just children), but after seeing the results on my own children compared to others, I thank the school for the wonderful job they've done. Highly recommended!
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Cotignac, Provence is probably most famous for the twin towers which stand guard over the town at the bottom of the dramatic cliffs on which they stand. Situated in the Var department of Provence, Cotignac is a town rife with character and majesty. It is repeatedly touted as the nicest village in Provence, and I am certainly not going to argue with that!
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Nearby, the Lac Sainte-Croix is a large natural lake which draws visitors from many miles away to relax on the shores and absorb the scenery of take to the calm waters in a boat. Sailing, windsurfing and canoeing are very popular, and the rivers which drain into the lake are filled with fish. The Gorges de Verdon at the far end of the lake are particular favourites with climbers too.
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Madonna reportedly did not drop the "s" in "Girls" from the title of her second "MDNA" single, "Girl Gone Wild," because of a legal threat from "Girls Gone Wild" franchise creator Joe Francis. And she apparently has no idea who Joe Francis is. TMZ says Madge's manager, Guy Oseary, relayed to the site that it's "laughable" that Francis felt triumphant after sending a cease-and-desist letter to keep the singer from performing the song at the Super Bowl. A rep for Madonna confirmed the TMZ report to Eonline.
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"As for Madonna changing the name of the song to 'Girl Gone Wild,' Oseary says they've been tweaking the album for weeks, and decided to make the word 'Girl' singular because that's the way Madonna sings it in the song."
The site also says Oseary pointed out that there are various other songs out there with the title "Girls Gone Wild" (as a quick search on iTunes confirms), one of the more prominent being a Ludacris track from 2006's "Release Therapy," which arrived nine years after Francis' first "Girls Gone Wild" film.
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Those speeding fines that are doubled on Interstate 80 between Delaware Water Gap and Stroud Township?
They may be doubled even farther along the road.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, at the urging of the state police, is in the initial phases of a plan to extend the I-80 Safety Corridor from Stroud Township another 11 miles to Interstate 380.
The plan needs approval from the state before it can go into effect.
"There is a positive effect when the corridor is established," said Sgt. Martin Ritsick, special projects coordinator at the Swiftwater barracks of the state police. "People don't want to pay those fines."
In the safety corridor, fines for speeding are doubled. Only the fine is doubled, not the associated costs with a speeding ticket.
Fines range from about $40 to $100, depending on how fast a driver is going when caught.
The current safety corridor, established in 2002, runs from Stroud Township's mile marker 304 to Delaware Water Gap (Exit 310), a span of six miles.
Under the police proposal, it would run an extra 11 miles to Exit 293 in Jackson Township.
Ritsick said there won't be a reduction in the speed limit, which in that area is 55 mph in both the east and westbound lanes.
According to PennDOT figures, the current safety corridor had 259 crashes between 2007 and 2011 — about 43 crashes per mile over that time. The stretch of road eyed for the extension had 516 crashes over that time, almost 47 per mile.
The current corridor had 12 crashes involving major injuries or a fatality, while there were 32 in the proposed extension.
PennDOT spokesman Sean Brown said there is a four-step criteria the area must meet before it can get safety corridor designation:
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Art as Exhibition, Conference, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Secession Gallery Vienna
26 June 2014
I will present essay and presentation titled Breathing Data: thoughts on curatorial systems at the conference Art as Exhibition organised by Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Friends of Secession. The conference seeks to investigate how exhibition formats may be inherent in specific modes of artistic production and subsequently in an artwork itself. Significantly an interweaving of both artistic and curatorial practice is involved, which on the one hand documents a development toward formats of presentation, and on the other hand coincides with the rediscovery of the object as an independent agent. The interlocking of exhibition, mediation, collection and archive conflates aesthetic and education policy agendas in occasionally indistinguishable ways. Thus it becomes clear that those fields of education, knowledge and information regarded as "common goods" introduce a dynamic into the work-as-exhibition event in the sense of a medial information process. To explore what this implies for the perception of the increasingly reevaluated physical object will be one of the common threads of the panel and the subsequent artist talks at the Secession.
Cultural Transformation, Technology and Urban Development, Roundtable Symposium, Aarhus University
27 March 2014
In my paper presented during this roundtable symposium, and titled Common Practice: what art worlds are created? I locate my curatorial practice within the many dimensional situation created by intersections of technology, public institutions, artistic practices, audience participation, language, and the self. The task is to think of material arrangements created as the result of practices that bring together all these elements, and the desire behind it to rethink the relations created together with others – human and non-human participants.
Common practice is a curatorial research project that brings together practice of curating and commons/commoning to perform non-representational manipulations of text, language, people, and other things. The investigation looks at what is materialized as result of common practice beyond the systems, organisms, communities and resources. In other words: what art worlds are created?
Perpetrator: the Human in the Machine at the u s e r u n f r i e n d l y
The first UK solo exhibition for Ubermorgen 'u s e r u n f r i e n d l y' opens on 11 October in Caroll/Fletcher gallery in London. In the accompanying catalogue my essay 'Perpetrator: human in the machine'. The publication can be downloaded here U S E R U N F R I E N D L Y
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u s e r u n f r i e n d l y is the first solo exhibition in the UK for UBERMORGEN - the Swiss-Austrian-American duo founded in 1999 by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. The exhibition features installations, videos, websites, actions, pixellated prints, digital-oil paintings and photographs in a hyper-active, super-enhanced exploration of censorship, surveillance, torture, democracy, e-commerce, and newspeak. The works seek to destabilise our understanding of the influence of technology, corporations and governments on our everyday lives and subvert the dominant networks of power that structure our world.
(...) The exhibition will be accompanied by a 32pp publication featuring an essay by curator Magda Ty?lik-Carver and conversations between UBERMORGEN and Austrian quantum physicist Dr. Tobias Noebauer and between UBERMORGEN and Edward Snowden.
exhibition and series of linked events (co-curated with Janet McEwan)
14-21 June, CMR, Redruth, Cornwall, UK
Gaslighting opens on 14 June in CMR in Redruth. Among artists: Dom Allen, Chris Anthem, Ismet J Khawaja, Moe Satt, Tim Shaw, K K Stone, Systaime, Ubermorgen, Kate Walters, Ian Whitford, Tintin Wulia and others.
For more information visit the Gaslighting website
Ghost Factory
exhibition of Ghost Machine (work by Andrew Prior and Magda Tyzlik-Carver)
22 -23 March, CMR, Redruth, Cornwall, UK
Documentation of this short work-in-progress exhibition is now available on the Ghost Machine website here
from the invitation to the Ghost Factory:
"This is a voluntary work experience and there is considerable doubt it will be of any use in this life or thereafter.
Ghost Machine is an application [*] for instant remediation. It translates pdf files and quicktime movies into sound and video format. It is built with MaxMSP and can be downloaded on the Ghost Machine website."
To find out more about the project go to Ghost Machine
Local Colour: Ghosts, Variations
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I colaborated with Andy Prior on a project Ghost Machine which is our response to the invitation to contribute work to LOCAL COLOUR: Ghosts, variations
LOCAL COLOUR : Ghosts, variations is a collaboration between In Edit Mode Press and Canadian poet Derek Beaulieu. The publication takes as its point of departure, Paul Auster's novella Ghosts, and, in particular, Derek Beaulieu's reworking of Auster's text, Local Colour. The publication collects and counterposes a wide array of strategies and approaches. It features both textual and aural contributions and contributions that combine text and sound. We hope it will prove an ambitious, vigorous collection that oscillates and moves between textual narrative, graphical mark, and aural impression, exploring these different realms whilst rendering uncertain any easy distinction between them.
Derek Beaulieu, Local Colour (printed book)
Steve Giasson, Couleur Locale (printed book)
Cia Rinne, Securiousity (printed booklet)
Peder Alexis Olsson, Title TBA (print)
Jörgen Gassilewski, After Image (print)
Craig Dworkin, Unseen Colour (print)
Elisabeth Tonnard, Monochromatic Bits (print)
Martin Glaz Serup, Title TBA (printed book)
Eric Zboya, Untitled # 1 & 2 (Local Colour) (prints)
Ola Ståhl, Colour's Gravity (printed book and prints)
Magda Tyzlik-Carver & Andy Prior, Ghost Machine (printed booklet)
Pär Thörn, Sound Interpretation of Derek Beaulieu's 'Local Colour'(sound piece)
Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, First of all there is Blue, Brown and I got ham, White and Blue (this section includes education) (sound pieces)
Ola Lindefelt, Title TBA (sound piece)
Andreas Kurtsson, Voice Range, Dialect Genre (sound piece)
Helen White, Local Ghosts (sound piece)
Ola Ståhl, Colour's Gravity (recorded speech)
Gary Barwin, Local Colour (sound piece)
Ola Ståhl & Carl Lindh, Music Box (sound piece)
Magda Ty?lik-Carver & Andy Prior, Ghost Machine (software and videos)
Curatorial Ego, Conference and Workshop
9-11 December, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus (DK)
As part of the annual curatorial programme EGO? Århus Kunstbygning hosts a research workshop and a public conference with the theme of the curatorial ego. Contributors include: Paul O'Neil, Joasia Krysa, Livia Paldi, Lars Bang Larsen.
I will present my research on curating.
Researching BWPWAP, International Research Conference and PhD Workshop
22-24 November, Leuphana University of Lüneburg (DE)
organised by Digital Aesthetics/Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University, reSource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale, Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, it was meeting of people and ideas.
and i was there ;) presenting 'Solar system as it realy is and curating in/as common(s)', more to come at the transmediale 13. Fragment of my contribution is available here
Workshop Erkki Kurenniemi: Online Archive
14 September, dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel (DE)
As part of dOCUMENTA (13) I moderated a workshop with members of Constant group Michael Murtaugh and Nicolas Malevé, Joasia Krysa, Geoff Cox and Tarek Atoui. The seminar and the workshop introduced the project commissioned by Kurator and dOCUMENTA (13) in partnership with Central Art Archive of the Finnish National Gallery and Contemporary Art Museum KIASMA, and supported by Arts Council England.
These Will Attend You May, arting and research meetup
21/22 June, Falmouth/Cornwall (UK)
This seminar is upcoming in June and co-organised together with Helen Pritchard (HighWire/Lancaster University) and Gillian Wylde (University College Falmouth).
empyre soft skinned space
February 2012,
currently participating in a discussion on empyre list on the subject of in/compatible research, following on from the reSource Methods event at transmediale.
Moderated by Gabriel Menotti
in/compatible research, reSource Methods, transmediale festival
31January - 5 February, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin( DE)
transmediale 2012 is an in/compatible being. Incompatibility is the condition that arises when things are not working together. With transmediale 2012, we are investigating the productive and destructive sides of incompatibility as a fundamental condition for cultural production in times of crisis. In this context transmediale 2012 calls for a transversal approach. With our theme in/compatible we are acknowledging that there is equally the need for creative hacks and modifications, as there is a need for a refusal of the quick re-integration into business as usual.
I will have a pleasure to take part in the reSource Methods symposium, part of the transmediale festival programme, discussing in/compatible research practices with Robert Jackson, Andrew Prior, Morten Riis, Carolin Wiedemann, Marie Thompson, Nina Wenhart, Magnus Lawrie, Christian Ulrik Andersen, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Geoff Cox, Thomas Bjoernsten Kristensen, Rosa Menkman, Gabriel Menotti, Lasse Scherffing, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Baruch Gottlieb, Morten Breinbjerg, Zach Blas.
Independent School of Art (Penryn)
5 January 2012, 7.30 - 9pm, Penryn, UK
I gave this talk at the Independent School of Art in Penryn last week. It was a 12th talk, which means that ISA is already one year!
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text: Nkwali, located just outside the park on the eastern banks of the Luangwa River, is a 12-bedded lodge comprising six wooden chalets with ensuite bathrooms that overlook the Luangwa River. Activities include walks, and day and night game drives. An optional "banana boat" ride may be taken across the river into the park to enjoy a game activity.


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Clinical staff members complete ACLS training
|Author: Terri F.
Date: Monday, April 29th, 2013
Dr. Patricia Blewett, Donna Brosche, RN and Melissa Johnson, RN recently completed Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support ACLS training.
ACLS is an advanced, instructor-led classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac-arrest care. It also covers airway management and related pharmacology. In this course, skills are taught in large, group sessions and small, group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented. ACLS is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest and other cardiovascular emergencies. Course content :
• Key changes in advanced cardiovascular life support, reflecting the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
• Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device and use of an (AED)
• Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
• Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia
• Airway management
• Related pharmacology
• Management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and stroke
• Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
• Effective Resuscitation Team Dynamics
Upon successful course completion, including demonstration of skills competency in all learning stations and passing the CPR and AED skills test, bag-mask ventilation skills test, a Megacode test and a written test, students receive an ACLS course completion card, valid for two years.
Click here to learn more about Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS).
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A D.C. police office has been found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder in the deaths of his former mistress and their child.
Richmond Phillips faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole in the killing for Wynetta Wright, 20, and Jaylin Wright, 11 months.
Prosecutors said Phillips, 40, fatally shot Wright and then left Jaylin to cook in a car that had its windows rolled up in May 2011.
Police said Phillips shot Wynetta in the head the night before the estranged couple were to go to court for a hearing in a paternity case. He then dragged her body to a nearby wooded area in Oxon Run Stream Valley Park, they said.
Phillips then drove Wright's car with their daughter inside and allegedly parked the car, leaving Jaylin to "bake and cook until she was dead," prosecutors said.
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Publication: The Day
East Lyme - As the town begins the process of determining the future of the town's elementary schools, the Board of Education last week outlined a path to making a decision.
The board stressed, in a draft presentation last Monday, that doing the "best thing for our kids and our community" should determine the steps.
Analyzing the needs for the elementary school buildings began in 2010 when the board commissioned a study of the schools' facilities. The town's five-year capital plan included many "repairs and upgrades" to the elementary schools. The last facilities' assessment had occurred more than two decades earlier, according to board Chairman Timothy Hagen in a slideshow presentation titled "Selecting a Path Forward for Our Elementary School Facilities."
In presenting the new study's findings in 2011, the architectural firm Kaestle Boos Associates projected that renovating the three elementary schools, the buildings most in need of repairs, would cost about $17.8 million that the state would not reimburse.
The district's facilities vision committee formed in the fall of 2011 to form a "vision" for the district's elementary schools based on reasons, such as educational and maintenance benefits and the impact on students, families and the annual general fund.
In April, the task force presented to the school board its "findings report," which included survey data from teachers and students among other information. Its top recommendation was renovating "as new" Flanders Elementary School and Lillie B. Haynes and closing Niantic Center School. The second preferred option was closing all three schools and building a new complex. The third option was renovating all three schools as new.
The process of renovating as new or building as new - or a combination of the two - could consist of four phases, according to the draft presentation. The first step, which could last about six months, would entail hiring a design firm and holding public forums. The district and community would consider the number of students in each classroom and if redistricting would occur, among other factors.
The second phase, about six months to a year, would consist of designing the building or buildings, obtaining cost estimates, seeking town approval for bonding and submitting documents to the state for reimbursement.
The third phase, about eight months to a year, would include going out to bid for the project and determining logistics, such as where students would attend classes during construction.
Construction, the final phase, could last between about 18 months and two years.
What: Public Forum on elementary school facilities.
When: 6:30 p.m. June 24
Where: High School Auditorium
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CROWN POINT | A Lake County commissioner said she is livid a fugitive wanted on child molestation charges was set free by Texas authorities after Lake County courts declined to extradite him.
Commissioner Fran DuPey, D-Hammond, said she could barely sleep Sunday night after learning a man wanted on a Lake County warrant on charges of molesting an 11-year-old Highland girl in 2009 was recently set free in Texas after a Lake judge declined to extradite him. A memo in the court file cited "budget restraints" for the reason behind declining to extradite the defendant.
"Some poor kid has to go through this, and we're just saying that it's all right?" DuPey said, noting her office would be looking into the matter and pushing for extradition. "Something is just not right here."
At issue is a practice Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said the Lake Criminal Court uses pertaining to extradition of wanted suspects.
In the Highland molestation case, Enrique Marks Jr., of Brownsville, Texas, is wanted in Lake County on a Class C felony.
Brownsville police arrested Marks on the warrant last month, but later set him free when Lake Criminal Court Judge Diane Boswell declined to extradite him.
Carter said a local court practice generally holds that fugitives wanted on Class C felony warrants will be extradited only if they are arrested within 500 miles of Lake County. It's a matter of cost, Carter said.
Brownsville is about 1,400 miles away.
Carter told The Times last week that a private firm charges $80 per mile to extradite such felons. However, he said Tuesday that the $80 figure was a miscommunication.
Lake County records provided to The Times on Tuesday indicate the cost is actually $1 per mile to extradite fugitives who are arrested out of state. Under those rates, it would cost about $1,400 to transport Marks back through the Arizona-based firm Inmate Services Corp.
The county uses that firm on an as-needed basis for transportation of fugitives arrested from out of state, Lake County Attorney John Dull said. Wanted suspects arrested on warrants within Indiana are transported back to Lake County by the Sheriff's Department.
Senior Lake Criminal Court Judge Clarence Murray acknowledged Tuesday the court takes into account the class of crime, distance and prosecutors' recommendations when determining whether to extradite a felon.
But he said the decision is made on a case-by-case basis. He also said the court could change its mind and later choose to extradite a suspect.
Murray said he also understands the desire of parents to extradite people accused of hurting their children, regardless of costs. In the case of Marks, the victim's mother has told The Times and prosecutors she would pay for the extradition costs.
Regardless of cost, Carter said he believes the county should be extraditing anyone who is charged with a prosecutable offense.
"If it's a prosecutable offense, I don't care where they are," he said. "They should be picked up."
DuPey agreed and vowed Tuesday to push for a change between now and the end of the year, when her term of commissioner will end.
"Especially when you're only talking about $1 per mile, why are we not bringing this man back to face justice?" said DuPey, noting she believes fugitives wanted on any felony warrants should be extradited to Lake County if arrested.


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The idea was to pick up any old turbo DSM - front-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, it wasn't a big deal - use it as a test bench for products every once in awhile, and carry on with business as usual. We have other project cars, other cars to drive. Somewhere along the line, the idea changed. Shortly after purchasing Project Laser, we realized we actually liked the car and got the idea in our heads to perform all-wheel-drive surgery. After all, if we really were going to spend some time driving this thing, it needed to be all-wheel drive. It's one thing to make due with front-wheel drive when concerning the Yaris, tC or Integra, but it's not as big a deal with those since FWD is the only option there. But with other AWD DSM's right in front of us, we couldn't help ourselves. Granted, it isn't a common or easy conversion when concerning first-generation DSM's and most smart people would reconsider. But nobody's accusing us of being smart. Luckily what we lack in common sense we make up for with decent fabrication skills and mechanical know-how, so the changeover didn't seem so intimidating. But common sense got the best of us. The cost involved just never made sense; no matter how we added it up, starting from scratch with an AWD chassis is just smarter in every way, even for us.
After months of searching, we stumbled across a decent find: a '91 Eclipse GSX. It has less than 100,000 miles on it, a drivetrain that shifts like butter and an interior so pristine you'd have to see it to believe it. It'll be a damn shame to get rid of those seats. Unfortunately we had to rape Project Laser to replace the GSX's locked-up bottom end among a few other things. We ended up swapping in the Laser's entire longblock since the head has just recently been freshened up. And a headlight, a windshield, a couple of interior bits, more than a few electrical connectors and that's not all. As such, it's off to the scrap yard for our faithful front-wheel-drive DSM. No matter, the GSX is better in every way and we're excited about its potential. It could use a paint job though.
We receive a lot of e-mails in regards to Project Laser. Most Turbo readers were happy to see a DSM in the pages of the magazine once again. Even those that came off a bit sour as far as our choice in the wrong-wheel-drive drivetrain was concerned were still, for the most part, happy to see something with a 4G63 in it that wasn't an EVO (no disrespect to the EVO). We have even better expectations for our GSX as it's arguably got the superior drivetrain of the two. About the only negative thing we've come across so far is the GSX's inferior rate of acceleration when compared to the Laser - a few hundred extra pounds of all-wheel-drive goodness will do that to a car. Understandable. There's no denying though which of the two will be able to better hold its own once we generate some real Zhorsepower out of this thing though.