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Definition of the Results to Be Achieved in Improving Terrorism-Related Information Sharing Is Needed to Guide Implementation and Assess Progress
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The attacks on 9/11 underscored the federal government's need to facilitate terrorism-related information sharing among government, private sector, and foreign stakeholders. In response, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 mandated the creation of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), which is described as an approach for the sharing of terrorism-related information. A presidentially appointed Program Manager oversees ISE development with assistance from the Information Sharing Council (ISC), a forum for 16 information sharing officials from federal agencies and departments. GAO was asked to report on (1) what actions have been taken to guide the design and implementation of the ISE and (2) what efforts have been made to report on progress in implementing the ISE. To perform this work, GAO reviewed related laws, directives, guidance, and ISE planning and reporting documents and interviewed officials from the Program Manager's office and key agencies who serve on the ISC.
To guide ISE design and implementation, the Program Manager has issued an implementation plan, completed a number of tasks therein, and included other information sharing initiatives in the ISE, but the plan does not include some important elements to implement the ISE. The plan provides an initial structure and approach for ISE design and implementation. For example, the plan includes steps toward protecting information privacy and describes a two-phased approach for implementing the ISE by June 2009 consisting of 89 action items. Completed activities include, among others, development of proposed common terrorism information sharing standards. In addition, other federal, state, and local initiatives to enhance information sharing across the government are being incorporated in the ISE. These initiatives include partnering with state and local area fusion centers--created primarily to improve information sharing within a state or local area--to develop a national network of these centers. Nevertheless, Office of the Program Manager officials said that the 89 action items do not address all the activities that must be completed to implement the ISE. Work remains, including defining and communicating the ISE's scope, such as determining all terrorism-related information that should be part of the ISE, and communicating that information to stakeholders involved in the development of the ISE. In addition, the desired results to be achieved by the ISE, that is, how information sharing is to be improved, the specific milestones, and the individual projects--or initiatives--to achieve these results have not yet been determined. Defining the scope of a program, desired results, milestones, and projects are essential in providing a road map to effectively implement a program. Without such a road map, the Program Manager and stakeholders risk not being able to effectively manage implementation of the ISE. To report on progress in implementing the ISE, the Program Manager issued an annual report in September 2007, which highlighted individual accomplishments and included several annual performance goals, and has since begun to develop performance measures, but neither effort provides for an assessment of overall progress in ISE implementation and of how much work remains. Some individual accomplishments contributing to the ISE occurred under the implementation plan; others, prior to and separate from ISE creation efforts. In keeping with federal guidance, GAO's work, and the work of others in strategic planning, performance measurement, and program management, the implementation plan contained six strategic goals and the annual report four performance goals for 2008. Also, the Program Manager has begun to develop some performance measures, but they focus on counting activities accomplished rather than results achieved. For example, the measures include the number of ISE organizations with a procedure in place for suspicious activity reports, but not how the reports are used and what difference they are making in sharing to help prevent terrorist attacks. GAO acknowledges that creating such measures is difficult, particularly since the program is still being designed, but until these measures are refined, future attempts to measure and report on progress will be hampered.
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Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In 2008, we reported that to guide the design and implementation of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), the Program Manager for the ISE had issued an implementation plan, completed a number of tasks therein, and identified related information sharing initiatives, but the plan did not include some important elements to implement the ISE. Since then, the Program Manager and other stakeholders have taken steps to more fully define the scope and specific results to be achieved by the ISE along with the key milestones and individual projects or initiatives needed to achieve these results. Specifically, the Program Manager has defined the vision, mission, and priorities for the ISE within the ISE 2012 and 2013 annual reports to Congress. In addition, the Program Manager has defined milestones within the ISE Implementation Guidance, which outlines the actions and initiatives assigned to specific federal agencies that are needed to improve information sharing. Based on these actions, we consider this recommendation to be closed as implemented.
Recommendation: To help ensure that the ISE is on a measurable track to success, the Program Manager, with full participation of relevant stakeholders (e.g., agencies and departments on the ISC), should more fully define the scope and specific results to be achieved by the ISE along with the key milestones and individual projects or initiatives needed to achieve these results.
Agency Affected: Office of the Director of National Intelligence: Office of the Program Manager--Information Sharing Environment
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: The Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE) released the 2012 ISE Annual Report to Congress in July 2012. The report provides ISE Performance Data that assesses ISE agency performance within the areas of community, process, and technology. Twenty agencies participated in the ISE Performance Assessment Questionnaire, including the five key ISE agencies. The performance data illustrates the maturity level of several key ISE priority areas, including what areas are meeting expectations and what areas are below expectations. In addition, the performance data provides a maturity score to indicate what percent of agencies are participating in the ISE, complying with ISE processes during agency planning, and complying with ISE technical guidance during agency acquisitions. The percentages provided gives the PM-ISE and other stakeholders an understanding of the extent to which the ISE is being implemented across ISE agencies and how much remains to be done. Based on these actions, we consider this recommendation to be closed as implemented.
Recommendation: To help ensure that the ISE is on a measurable track to success, the Program Manager, with full participation of relevant stakeholders (e.g., agencies and departments on the ISC), should develop a set of performance measures that show the extent to which the ISE has been implemented and sharing improved--including, at a minimum, what has been and remains to be accomplished--so as to more effectively account for and communicate progress and results.
Agency Affected: Office of the Director of National Intelligence: Office of the Program Manager--Information Sharing Environment
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DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him--his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what--a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.
Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.
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The 2013 legislative session is scheduled to end on April 29, and leaders are hoping to be able to wrap things up by April 26. A largely positive revenue-collection forecast released April 16 precipitated a spate of comments from the key players in the budget process suggesting that compromise will not be difficult to achieve on the session's focal point, and will allow lawmakers to focus on a handful of other vexing matters.
Just a few short weeks ago, the list of issues long on controversy left participants wondering if common ground could be found on many of them. But prodding by leaders and an epidemic of Hoosier common sense seems to have led lawmakers on their own to solutions that appear to be on their respective paths to adoption.
Let's review some:
• A relatively innocuous school-safety-resource officer proposal in the Senate advocated by Republican Attorney General Greg Zoeller morphed into a House mandate to arm an individual in each school building—before being recast as a summer study committee agenda item after intervention from House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis.
• The highly emotional "ag-gag" bill penalizing the taking of unauthorized images on farm and industrial property was scaled back to a trespass measure.
• The legal grandfathering of "high fence" penned-in hunting preserves is expected to be blocked by Republican Senate President Pro Tem David Long.
• The central Indiana mass transit system proposal was a lightning rod. With local legislative delegations split evenly on a referendum, it also heads to a study panel.
Left for serious deliberation in conference committee are measures that will present tough tests for legislators. But, oddly enough, none is likely to be decided on overtly partisan grounds. You might think that was likely with the Republican super-majority and GOP governor, but the key remaining issues simply don't shake out along partisan lines.
The Leucadia coal gasification plant bill was amended on the House floor largely with Republican backing against the will and judgment of Bosma and House Committee on Utilities Chairman Eric Koch, R-Bedford.
After a Republican amendment effectively stripping any easy way to stop the plant, Rep. Suzanne Crouch, R-Evansville, simply opted not to call her bill for a final vote—meaning a home will have to be found for provisions that can be made acceptable to both sides. Plant advocates must worry about overreaching, lest a skeptical Gov. Mike Pence exercise his veto power.
Financial help for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was tied to the racinos and the gambling bill, confusing many lawmakers and seemingly angering those who understood its implications.
As approved by the House, the package tied racino payments to a Speedway loan and financial assistance fund for tracks and the motorsports industry across the state. Republican resistance arose among those not pleased with forcing one private business to subsidize another, and—in the case of the money headed to places other than IMS—to businesses that hadn't even sought state help. Many Democrats were not pleased with diverting funds from the racinos that are just emerging from bankruptcy.
The IMS bill almost failed on Third Reading (it took a second vote to pass it). Look for this Gordian knot to be untied, with the final form to be determined.
The gambling bill itself will center on live table games for racinos—legislation that's being pushed as "the" jobs bill this session—and the final amount of tax deductions and credits for promotional play and capital investment.
The level of tax help will be straightened out quickly (and a change in admissions taxes could be part of a deal), but finding the sweet spot for live table games will be difficult given opposition from Pence and Bosma.
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The budget seems closest to resolution. As the governor continues to lobby lawmakers and the public for his 10-percent individual income tax rate cut, fiscal leaders appear to be moving toward a $500 million total tax cut centered on elimination of the inheritance tax, and a smaller individual income tax cut than the governor has sought. Still unresolved is the Medicaid component.
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Q&A: How Many Schools Should Your Student Apply To?
By Sean Brian Dermody
March 06, 2009
High school students generally refer to their second or third-choice colleges as "safety schools." They apply to them because they feel assured of admission in case they are not admitted to their first-choice college.
There are a lot of misconceptions about "safety schools" that need to be addressed. To begin with, the only true "safety school," in which admission is guaranteed, is a college with open admissions, like a community college.
Unfortunately, I often hear the term "safety school" used by high school students in reference to four-year institutions. This is problematic for a couple of reasons. First, a student's perception of whether a college qualifies as a "safety school" is based upon his or her perception of friends, family members or acquaintances who were admitted.
Yet seldom are two applicants exactly the same. One may have come for an interview or submitted an essay that makes them stand out in the mind of the admissions committee, while another does not. Don't let your student assume that they are safe for admission just because his or her friends were admitted!
The other problem rests on the assumption that admissions requirements to particular colleges are static. This is not necessarily the case. If a college receives more applications or decides that it wishes to become more selective over a period of years, it may change its admissions requirements to become more stringent.
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Op-Ed: Who is Doing the Classroom Observations?
Master teachers should be helping their colleagues to improve
On December 8, 2012, an arbitrator made a very important decision under the new TEACHNJ law.
As the author of the article points out, the significance of this case is that it is the first contested case under the new law that involves a teacher's classroom performance. And the arbitrator ruled in favor of the teacher over the district.
in essence, the arbitrator ruled that the evidence presented by the district contradicted itself. Here is what he said:
"With reference to TEACHNJ . . . I find that the employee's evaluation failed to adhere substantially to the evaluation process . . . much of the Board's best evidence is internally and irreparably contradictory when it comes to the heart of the work of a teacher -- actual classroom instruction."
The heart of this contradiction was the fact that the principal gave the teacher a numerical ranking of zero in four of five subcategories of actual classroom instruction -- while giving him a "glowing narrative supervisory commentary regarding Respondent's [teacher's] actual classroom instruction."
The arbitrator said: "In light of the Principal's narrative, there is no dispute on the salient facts – namely, the Respondent is much more than a four out of five zeroed unsatisfactory classroom teacher."
As I read the facts in this case, two very significant thoughts struck me:
The arbitrator is absolutely correct in stating that actual classroom instruction is the heart of the work of a teacher.
Why on earth is the principal (an administrator) doing the classroom observation?
Regarding No.1: it is good to see that this arbitrator recognizes that a teacher must be judged essentially on his/her actual classroom instruction.
In an article on NJ Spotlight, I wrote that classroom observation must be the essential element at the heart of any "teacher evaluation system" and must be at the core of any attempt to "improve teaching" in the state of NJ.
In that article, I wrote: "If anyone tries to convince you that you can judge a teacher's effectiveness or you can help a teacher improve her teaching without observing that teacher in a normal classroom situation -- that person knows little or nothing about teaching."
"And the single, most effective way to help a teacher improve through classroom observation is videotaping an entire classroom period under the care and guidance of a master teacher."
But item No. 2 is the one I wish to focus on here. Who is it that decided that a principal (an administrator) should be doing classroom observations? That is like asking a plumber to evaluate the work of an electrician.
Teaching in a classroom and administering a school are two very different skills. It is a grave mistake to assume that any administrator can be a good judge of effective classroom instruction.
Of course, some school administrators may have been effective classroom teachers. But to assume that this is the case would be an error. I have known some very effective principals who quite frankly admitted to leaving the classroom because they "disliked teaching."
And is there not an inherent conflict of interest when the person (the principal) charged with doing the entire annual evaluation is also the one doing the classroom observation? This model is deeply flawed.
So who is going to do the classroom observations?
I would think that the answer would be somewhat obvious. Clearly, the best and most respected classroom teachers in the district should be the ones observing and helping the other teachers to improve their classroom instruction.
Every school district in the state of New Jersey needs to establish a classroom observation team (COT) made up of "master teachers" -- that is, teachers who are recognized as being really good. And these are the people who should be doing the actual classroom observations after some appropriate training, so that all observations are carried out in a uniform manner. Ideally, videotaping of the instruction and a supportive conference between the observer and the teacher would be an integral part of this process.
Of course, I am not advocating that these teachers should be removed from the classroom for this purpose. It would be truly ironic if we were to take some of our best classroom teachers out of the classroom entirely in order to "improve education."
Rather, depending on the size of the district, the COT would have to have sufficient members so that each individual could do his/her observations with some "released time" from their teaching duties.
In closing, there are four basic assumptions which I feel should be incorporated into any successful district-wide teacher evaluation system (TES):
The primary goal of a successful TES must be "teacher improvement" and not some form of punitive action.
The primary element of a successful TES must be "classroom observations," which should count for at least 65 percent of the total evaluation of the teacher.
The primary element of a successful classroom observation should be the videotaping of an entire segment of the learning experience (at least 45 to 60 minutes).
Classroom observations should be conducted by district-wide designated "master teachers," who have at least seven years of actual "comparable" classroom teaching experience.
Clearly, "results" must also form a part of a teacher's evaluation. But "test results" (unless they are truly "value-added results") tell you very little about how good a particular teacher is. Observing a teacher tells you a great deal more.
And, obviously, the follow-up meeting between the teacher and the observer to review the videotape is the most important aspect of the entire process in terms of really helping the teacher.
I would hope that we could all agree that improvement of teaching must be the essential goal of any teacher evaluation system.
Anyone who knows anything about teachers and teaching understands that a system that does not try to help teachers improve their teaching is doomed to failure. Why would any group of educated people support a system which seems designed more to punish them than to help them?


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Only one indicator, for debt relief, "had a statistically significant acceleration in progress in 2001 or after." Four—GDP per person employed, infant mortality rate, under-five mortality rate, and HIV prevalence—had statistically significant accelerations before 2000.
Friedman allowed the possibility that the announcement of MDGs could have reflected previous efforts which generated the latter four good results. Nevertheless, substantially increasing MDG-related activities still should have generated a boost. After all, as Friedman explained, "there was a demonstrable increase in the amount of donor funding for development following the MDG Declaration." He noted that real outlays for population programs alone jumped nearly five times.
Yet, concluded Friedman: "The data show clearly that the activities following the MDG Declaration did not provide an acceleration in most of the development goals. For the subset of MDG indicators that experienced an acceleration, the accelerations tended to occur before the MDG Declaration." Which means there is no evidence that the MDGs and the money behind them helped the world's poor.
If they served any purpose, it was as a political tool to loosen purse strings in industrialized states. In fact, Friedman observed that "The Millennium Development Goals succeeded at raising the global awareness of investing in development," and were followed by "a demonstrable increase in the amount of donor funding." The Heritage Foundation's Brett Schaefer was blunter: "the most useful aspect of the MDGs for the organization is not their impact on development, but rather the public-relations benefits of being able to claim a central role in the progress made in developing countries."
Lest that seem overly cynical, the U.N. refused to publish Dr. Friedman's analysis. Spokeswoman Vannina Maestracci said that the study "does not represent the United Nations or UNFPA's position."
Yet what to make of the fact that poor nations are doing better? Even Africa, which for many decades was racing in reverse, has been making significant progress. For this we can thank the marketplace, not structural economists, central planning, aid bureaucracies, government-to-government transfers, and the MDGs.
Dirigiste economics died amidst persistent Third World poverty, the collapse of communism, and exploding globalization. Socialism lost its allure as African and Asian nations could not feed their peoples. The India known for Gandhi and Nehru embraced the market. Communist China and Vietnam tossed Marxist nostrums overboard.
Nations entered an ever wider global circle of exchange, empowered by domestic economic reform and fueled by trade and foreign direct investment. For instance, developing states collected more than $700 billion in FDI last year. These funds fuel growth which gives poor peoples new and better economic options. The reform path was not always straight and simple, but it offers hope of a better life to those once seemingly trapped in a world of enduring poverty.
Of course, grave injustices persist in many of these lands. Those with influence continue to manipulate political systems to win economic favors. However, more often than not foreign aid turns into yet another resource for the well-connected to exploit. Aid encourages a further concentration of already dangerously centralized power.
Rather than hope more international communiqués and funds will eliminate poverty, Western states should reconsider policies which hinder developing countries from taking full advantage of the global marketplace. For example, protectionism, especially in agriculture, is a costly barrier. Trade agreements which attempt to impose unrealistically expensive environmental and labor standards on what remain poor societies is another. Political "aid" which strengthens regimes that, like Egypt, actively hinder economic and political reform also impedes development.
This doesn't mean that no assistance program can ever work. But even the most appealing of these initiatives—health care, for instance—will be most effective if the economy is growing and country is developing the ability to sustain new endeavors. Indeed, Friedman found that the MDGs did not accelerate even HIV treatment.
It long has been obvious that foreign aid is no panacea. Friedman's study reminds us that it is rarely possible even with the best intentions to reach into other nations and "fix" them.
Nevertheless, the cup again will be passed to cash-strapped governments to fund the MDGs, and whatever replaces them in 2015. Western peoples are generous when they believe their money is well spent. But their governments should stop wasting people's hard-earned cash when the only result will be to add to the fiscal tsunami threatening their children's future.


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Experts are often asked what kind of entrance and exit wounds are produced by ammunition. The rounds (bullets) in the photograph below are hollow point bullets similar to the rounds fired from the Thompson sub-machine gun I'm holding in the top photo.
The .45 caliber rounds are about the diameter of the Sharpie pens authors use to sign books. That's pretty close to the size of most entrance wounds—the size of the bullet.
9mm bullet wound to the chest—close range
Next is one of the .45 rounds after it was fired from the Thompson machine gun.
The round passed through the paper target, through several feet of thick foam rubber, through the self-healing wall tiles of the firing range, and then struck the concrete and steel wall behind the foam. The deformed bullet finally came to rest on the floor. Remember, though, that this all occurred in the blink of an eye, or quicker.
.45 round after striking concrete and steel
Hitting the hard solid surface head-on caused the bullet to expand and fracture which creates the often larger exit wounds we see in shooting victims.
Many times, those bullet slivers break off inside the body causing further internal damage.
The size of an exit wound depends on what the bullet hits inside the body. If the bullet only hits soft tissue the wound will be less traumatic. If it hits bone, expect much more damage. Easy rule of thumb—the larger the caliber (bullet size), the bigger the hole.
Bullets that hit something other than their intended target, such as a brick wall or metal lamp post, can break apart sending pieces of flying copper and lead fragments (shrapnel) into crowds of innocent bystanders. Those flying fragments are just as lethal as as any intact, full-sized bullet.
FYI – Bullets don't always stop people. I've seen shooting victims get up and run after they've been shot several times. And for goodness sake, people don't fly twenty feet backward after they've been struck by a bullet. They just fall down and bleed. They may even moan a lot, or curse. That's if they don't get back up and start shooting again. And that, writers, is why police officers are taught to shoot until the threat is over.
Simply because a suspect has been shot once or twice does not mean his ability, or desire, to kill the officer is over.


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Morrissey and/or Prince
Those are big adds.
the busy bee has no time for sorrow.
im thinking the smiths, while were naming things that won't happen.
Morrissey and Prince are possible adds.
U2? Absolutely not haha. Im pretty sure that was a joke though.
Asobi Seksu
You want a realistic one? Mute Math is going to be added, mark my words.
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In the slang of some of our overseas friends. Primus would be 'class'!!!
the Hold Steady
Audioslave, even though they just broke up.
Primus would be sweet. I'd put money on QOTSA being added if I hadn't spent all my cash on this damn festival!
311- If they were gonna tour this year!
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The Lemonheads and Of Montreal were recently added.
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Does this douchebag really have 311 on the back of his head? They are quite possibly one of the worst bands of the last 30 years. Quick...someone tell him.
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Every generation of game consoles produces its share of disasters. Big games fail to find an audience and studios close every year, but there is a special sort of attrition that happens during console transitions, when popular developers emboldened by a legacy of success take bigger risks on new game machines. The transition to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 claimed Factor 5, Free Radical, Silicon Knights, FASA, Pandemic, and many others, each of which struggled to find financial stability in a time when creative standards and consumer expectations were shifting. When Activision admitted it had invested $500 million in Bungie's forthcoming spacegun odyssey Destiny earlier this month, it was hard not to wonder about how the current transition to Playstation 4 and Xbox One will treat some of last generation's most beloved developers.
Speaking to Reuters, an unnamed financial analyst guessed Destiny would have to sell between 15 and 16 million copies just to break even, a figure that none of Bungie's previous games have matched. It's also possible that collectively the PS4 and Xbox One won't have sold 15-16 million consoles by the time Destiny is released, or will only just barely have done so. Though Activision didn't specify how the $500 million will be apportioned, it's likely that a large part of it is dedicated to work creating new development tools and network structures that will be carried across multiple games. Still, that sum is almost double the cost of Grand Theft Auto V, which according to a report in The Scotsman cost $265 million to make, earning it the distinction of the most expensive videogame ever made.
It may seem unfair to evaluate Bungie's work based on how much is being spent on it, but the concept and scope of any work can never be fully separable from the financial conditions supporting it. Game studios are delimited by what they perceive as possible, and that is always determined by financiers. Very often the ideas that encourage the biggest bets from financiers are redundant forms of wish fulfillment from a past that is increasingly less relevant to the present. Accordingly, Destiny is a fantastical dream of an old game design, the no-expense-spared version of what existed in the gap between suspended disbelief and polygonal actuality in the original Halo games, whose cosmological mysteries matched with an enemy AI just unpredictable enough to scan as real.
This alive-seeming computer behavior drove players into a perpetual fixation, running through the game's majestically open spaces marveling at how different each run-through could be. The game never made its computerized rails fully clear, and so the joy in playing was largely derived from the compulsion to glimpse it here and there, like a conspiracy theorist chasing the computerized equivalent of Sasquatch footprints through a forest. The multiplayer mode only deepened the marvel for the game's other half, showing how fundamentally different actual human behavior was within the game world, and yet how mysteriously stressful and dramatic encounters with both human and AI could be.
That marvel easily merged with a starry backdrop of undiscovered worlds waiting to be found and fired on. A huge part of Halo's magic came from its strict guarantee that gunfire would be the measure of all encounters, ensuring all behavior, human or computerized, would be seen relative to the point of a gun. In the same way that everything seems more dramatically portentous when viewed through a keyhole, everything seemed full of life when the only thing players could do was shoot.
Part of generational transitions is the expectation that expensive new machines will produce genuinely new kinds of interactions. From the Wii to the iPad to Oculus Rift, a great deal of experimentation with the fundamentals of interaction and the organization of content around it, has taken place since Bungie's last Halo game. These efforts don't automatically invalidate older forms of play, but they do put pressure on how a blockbuster should be defined, while justifying the massive flow of capital necessary to finance one. And in many ways, generational blockbusters that redefine interactive experiences are more bottlenecked at the conceptual level than the financial one, and are least likely to come from massive financial gambles.
In many ways, huge expenditures like Activision's bet Destiny become necessary only in the absence of new thinking or new ideas. A huge part of what one pays for in massive spectacles like Destiny is a visual bombast that props up a fantasy that is paradoxically losing its affect of spectacle the bigger and more bombastic it becomes. It's precisely these sorts of escalations that put familiar developers in the most vulnerable position, forcing what a relatively small and overfamiliar concepts to bear the burden of a groundbreaking sensation that they can't actually deliver. Those expectations beget overwrought financial structures that draw established developers the wrong way down a path of outdated wish-fulfillment, over-investing in yesterday's dreams that have an ever-diminishing place in today's world.


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While Nas hasn't quite built a Twitter profile like social networking savants Kanye West, Fabolous or Drake, the Queens rap legend opened himself up to questions via the platform Wednesday, addressing his relationship with Foxy Brown, the recent death of Amy Winehouse and his history of beef with former rivals Jay-Z and Cormega.
"Ask me something raw!!!" the typically private MC tweeted on Wednesday (August 3), with the hash tag #AskNas, which he has used in the past, inviting a barrage of questions about his personal life. While his answers were not particularly long-winded, Nas revealed that he never had sex with former collaborator Foxy Brown, and has yet to cover up the tattoo of his ex-wife Kelis, writing, "Not fully. I changed it a lil bit."
Waxing nostalgic on the subject of the tragic death of singer Amy Winehouse, Nas wrote, "Amy was my sister. Genuine person who spoke her mind & didn't give a F—! We shared the same bday! We was planning a party this Sept 14th! I gotta celebrate for her!"
The 'Ether' rapper also confirmed that he and Jay-Z are "still cool," and that his previous beef with fellow Queensbridge MC Cormega is done. "Beef is some corny s—. We grown. That was my guy from way back. Shouts to Mega."
Amidst his answers regarding beef, death, sex and the dissolution of his marriage, Nas found time for a couple of wisecracks, quipping that he would simply "smile" if he ran into hip-hop critic Bill O'Reilly on the street, and sidestepping a request to weigh in on hip-hop heavies Rick Ross and Fat Joe, responding "Them some big n&ggaz. Shouts to them."
Nas is currently hard at work on his highly-anticipated 10th album, 'Life Is Good.'
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Ronald Loomis, 51, of 603 Boswell Ave., Apt. 3, was charged Sunday with violating the conditions of his release and disorderly conduct.
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This free event will feature a "Skate of the Union" address on the present and future of the Nashville Predators by President of Hockey Operations David Poile, President of Business Operations Ed Lang, Head Coach Barry Trotz, and Chairman Tom Cigarran. Also included in the panel will be recent free agency signee Matthew Lombardi. The address will highlight the Predators 2010 draft picks, NHL free agency signings and an overview of the 2010-11 team and season schedule. Poile, Lang, Trotz and Cigarran will speak with fans, answer questions and address issues on everything from hockey operations to business initiatives. The panel will be hosted by Nashville Predators Play-by-Play Announcer Pete Weber and fans may submit questions for the panel upon entering Bridgestone Arena.
The event boasts autograph opportunities with Predators defenseman Ryan Parent, forward Joel Ward and recent Predators first-round draft picks. A photo opportunity will be available with Predators prospect and Brentwood, Tenn. native Blake Geoffrion along with his 2010 Hobey Baker Award – given to the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ice hockey player.
The event also features a used-equipment sale, where fans will have the opportunity to purchase game and practice-worn equipment, as well as opportunities to purchase season tickets. Fans will be treated with free popcorn and sodas courtesy of DNC Sportservice. The Nashville Predators pro shop will also be open.
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(food hits the floor)
Germs: get it get it!
King Germ : No... we must wait five seconds ... its the rule
5 second rule for sex. If I'm not done if 5 seconds you're not hot enough. Personal best.
Germs: King King ... Sir it's wet ...
King Germ: Hurry my children!!
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This is the best thing I've seen on this site in weeks
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I fucking love your picture. absotively fucing love it.
Yea, funny, but at least give credit if youre going to post unoriginal shit
ive never seen this before either but this shit if fucking hilarious! i havent laughed this much in years!
I litterally had the same thing go through my head the other day!! I dropped a cookie and I pictured all these germs swarming around it waiting for the five seconds to pass and my friend and I did commentary for the germs after I picked the cookie up at four seconds :)
Fuck Will Ferrel ! I've seen him tweet shit from here ! Dudes a bitchnigga not giving credit to the people he took it from.
read this sober laughed hard, Read this high laughed even harder. kudos bro
I work at a restaurant and this is the king of all rules. Although it is unwritten, all cooks abide by it........
as long as our boss isn't in the room.
Research shows there is no difference if your food item has touched the floor 2 seconds compared to 6 seconds. Excluding the variables of how dirty the floor is, temperature, or if it is dry or wet. Regardless on the length of contact, you will get a transfer of bacteria. =/
So germs live under a monarchy? Inneresting *strokes beard*
Who just read the King's voice in an extremely deep godly voice? Like Morgan Freemans??!
did anyone else read the germs' phrase in a squeaky voice, then read the king germs part in a deep voice ?
I read the king germ part with a very low, indian accent voice and the regular germs with high pitched annoying voices
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Lot 1013290: A Group of Chinese Rose Medallion Porcelain
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CloseDescription: Comprising: two large plates, two platters, one dish with open handles, five plates, two small cups and one small circular dish. Mid 19th century to 20th century.
Condition Report: One large plate has a significant repair, the other has several small rim chips, two of the smaller plates are in poor condition with several old repairs, otherwise very good.
Notes: Various. The largest plate is 9 3/4" in diameter. The smallest plate is 6" in diameter. The teacups are 2 1/4" tall.
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This story has been updated to correct earnings and quarter figures for Tidewater Inc.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Oil service firm Tidewater Inc. jumped on Thursday while shares of Royal Dutch Shell fell back as investors digested a slew of profit updates.
Tidewater TDW, -4.18% moved up nearly 6% after its adjusted third-quarter profit of 51 cents a share beat the Wall Street target of 44 cents a share.
"The beat was primarily due to better-than expected revenues in the Asia/Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa/Europe businesses, as well as lower-than-expected vessel operating costs," Barclays Capital analyst James West said in a note to clients.
Shell warns of economic volatility
Royal Dutch Shell generates fourth-quarter adjusted earnings growth of 18%, but the results are below expectations and come as the Anglo-Dutch oil giant warns of economic volatility. (Photo: Getty Images.)
Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A, -0.76% moved down by 0.8% after its results failed to inspire Wall Street. See video.
Checking the major benchmarks in the energy sector, the NYSE Arca Oil Index (XOI) rose 0.3%. The NYSE Arca Natural Gas Index (XNG) moved up by 0.4%. The Philadelphia Oil Service Index OSX, -0.53% rose 1.5%.
On the deal radar, SandRidge Energy SD, -0.63% dropped 8.6% after the company set plans to buy Dynamic Offshore Resources LLC for about $1.28 billion in cash and stock.
Also on the move in the energy sector, Alpha Natural Resources ANR, -8.22% rose 7.6%, Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK, +2.55% advanced 5.5%, Consol Energy CNX, +0.06% moved up 5.6%, Peabody Energy BTU, +0.00% jumped 5.9% and First Solar Inc. FSLR, -0.94% rose 4.8%.
FirstEnergy corp. FE, +0.45% advanced 3.3% and Pioneer Natural Resources PXD, -0.35% rose 3.8%.
In the minus column, Spectra Energy SE, -3.25% dropped 2%, Cameron International Corp. CAM, +5.23% moved down by 1.7% and Denbury Resources DNR, +2.71% lost 2%.


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This is the last of my sweet potatoes from my garden this year. I thought it only fitting to finish them off by making baked sweet potato fries with a little homemade ketchup from a friend.
Human kindness has no bounds
Little did I know that I'd be writing this post the very next day after launching a campaign to buy a home. I published the launch post at 12:06 p.m. and managed to hit the target goal of $5,000 in just over 24 hours. I thought I'd be fortunate to reach half that in the […]
Help me get a house for Christmas
Get in the mood for Christmas
Homemade sweet potato fries
My housemate helped me clean today. He even scrubbed the tub and dusted. I have no choice but to accept this as divine intervention on a scale never before witnessed by man; there must be some higher power in this universe. Henceforth, I will dedicate the remainder of my life to finding and learning more about this higher power. ∞
Big buns
These were just awesome. I made two batches in the course of about three days. This is a modified version of the King Author Flour recipe.
So worth every calorie
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Dell is accused of providing altered and incomplete emails from among its top execs, the latest turn in a lawsuit that alleges the computer maker of selling and then covering up 11.8 defective PCs.
Thursday plaintiff A.I.T. said Dell was withholding evidence, giving up only a "talking points memo" that was sent to founder Mr. Dell and then chief exec Kevin Rollins. Other emails they turned over in discovery appeared to have been cut and pasted, according to an affidavit filed by a digital forensics expert.
Dell disputed the claims and planned to file their response soon. "We take all court orders and our obligations to comply with them very seriously," a Dell spokesman told NYT.
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Now that is some quick turnaround. Last night at about 1:30am I received a press release announcing Global FC 3, then just hours later they announced their full line-up for their tournament. It turns out that Peter Aerts is not participating in the tournament, instead he will be featured on the card, as will American Dewey Cooper. So the question arises of who is in this tournament?
Right now the names are Badr Hari, Peter Graham, Arnold Oborotov and Stefan Leko. Definitely an eclectic mix here, with Peter Graham fighting MMA of late in Bellator, Oborotov has been relatively quiet after getting his hype train derailed by Jarrell Miller and Andrei Stoica and Stefan Leko is, well, Stefan Leko. Leko's career has had a few interesting twists and turns, but it is safe to say that Stefan Leko's time at the top has come and gone.
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Posted by Sandy on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 6:58pm.
How does the outer energy level(period)relate to the atomic radius?
Chemistry - Tyler, Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 7:11pm
Well definately the more levels you have, the bigger the radius will be. However, also, the more electrons you have in that level, the smaller the radius will become. This is because the force of attraction will become greater between the electrons and the protons. Thus, if you have two atoms with three energy levels each, one has 2 electrons in the outer shell, and the other has 6, then the one with 6 will have a smaller radius. Sorry if this wasn't precise or what you were looking for, it's all I know.


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YVONNA PAGE, Plaintiff,v.BYRIDER FRANCHISING, LLC, d/b/a CNAC, Defendant.
ORDER SETTING RULE 16(b) SCHEDULING CONFERENCE AND RULE 26(f) PLANNING MEETING
KATHLEEN M. TAFOYA, District Judge.
This case has been referred to Magistrate Judge Kathleen M. Tafoya by Chief District Judge Marcia S. Krieger, pursuant to the Order of Reference filed December 4, 2013. See 28 U.S.C. §636(b)(1)(A) and (B) and Fed.R.Civ.P. 72(a) and (b).
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The conference shall be held in Courtroom C-201, Second Floor, of the Byron Rogers U.S. Courthouse, 1929 Stout Street, Denver, Colorado. If this date is not convenient for any party[1], he or she shall file a motion to reschedule the conference to a more convenient time. Please remember that anyone seeking entry into the Byron Rogers United States Courthouse will be required to show valid photo identification. See D.C.COLO.LCivR 83.2B.
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Wednesday 9th April 2014
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Castleford Tigers Head Coach Daryl Powell has named the 19-man squad to face St Helens at The Mend-A-Hose Jungle in the First Utility Super League on Friday, kick off 8pm.
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Allan Kaprow (19272006)
by Robert C. Morgan, Wolf Kahn, and Irving SandlerAllan Kaprow, the Happener
In the late Fifties, the spirit of Dada was revived in Post-World War II American Art. For Allan Kaprow, the artist who led this revival was Jackson Pollock. In a famous article, written in 1956 (the year of Pollock's death) and published two years later in Art News by the distinguished editor Thomas Hess, Kaprow claimed that Pollock was less important for his paintings as material objects than for the kind of choreographic approach to painting that the artist instigated. This led Kaprow to explore a concept, close to Dada, in which intermedia performances involving groups of participants—which came to be known as "Happenings"—became a new art form. By 1959 Kaprow was exploring a direction in art where idea and process were considered more important than the object. Others, like Jim Dine, Robert Whitman, Claes Oldenburg, and Red Grooms, eventually joined in with their own versions of this phenomenon. In many ways, Kaprow was as much a link between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art as Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, or even the sculptor George Segal.
As the Happenings moved from its association with Neo-Dada in the late Fifties to Fluxus in the early Sixties, it became clear that Kaprow's idea was also shifting between avant-garde aesthetics on one hand and popular culture on the other. By the late Sixties, his work had indirectly spurred various countercultural phenomena—such as the "be-ins" and "love-ins"—as well as the massive outdoor rock festivals of that era. This kind of popularization was not particularly welcomed by Kaprow, who believed his ideas were being distorted by the commercial media and, at a certain point, refused to allow journalists and press photographers admittance to his events. In retrospect, Kaprow's Happenings were less "anti-art" than many claimed and were never entirely devoid of aesthetic interest. As much as he tried to integrate the art-and-life paradigm by giving his "activities" in the Seventies a purposefully bland and reductive appearance, Kaprow's rarefied, somewhat overdetermined aesthetic became even more pronounced. As much as he tried to reduce the formal ingredients by which a Happening could be identified as "art," its cultural framework somehow managed to remain indelible. Its spontaneous element was always guided by the structure of the piece, regardless of its openness.
Having curated a Kaprow retrospective at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Kansas in 1979, and then later, in 1987, giving a keynote talk at another in Texas (curated by Jeff Kelley), I grew increasingly to admire the importance of this deeply singular artist's work. Allan never wanted to be part of a movement nor did he believe that the market had any real relevance to the future of art. He was forever committed to art as a medium that could feed and nourish our understanding of human psychology, sociology, aesthetics, and politics. Initially influenced by the philosophy of John Dewey and later by the teachings of Meyer Shapiro, John Cage, and Hans Hofmann, Kaprow believed in an expanded idea of art—prior to the conceptualists and long before the advent of postmodernism—that was inextricably bound to aesthetics and could encompass actions and ideas as much as objects. Allan Kaprow was always in advance of his time and, in many ways, he still is.
—Robert C. Morgan
First Nam June Paik. Now Allan Kaprow. Two great innovators, gone.
In 1957, I wrote a review for Art News in which I praised Allan's wall-size collage-action-paintings. Raw, raucous, and frenetic, they introduced a fresh note of urban realism into Abstract Expressionist painting. I met Allan shortly after, and we became friends.
Allan's soft-spoken reasonableness belied his iconoclasm. I recall him taking the floor at the end of a panel at The Club, the Abstract Expressionist hangout, in 1958 and quietly challenging in the audience, which consisted primarily of painters. He said: "I am convinced that painting is a bore. So is music and literature. What doesn't bore me is the total destruction of ideas that have any discipline. Instead of painting, move your arms; instead of music, make noise. I'm giving up painting and all the arts by doing everything and anything." Like his mentor, John Cage, Allan was calling for artists to break down all barriers between art and non-art. There was a shocked silence in the room before the painters turned in fury on Allan. He had anticipated what to expect and remained calm. The avant-garde art world would never be the same.
In a seminal article, titled "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock," published in the October 1958 issue of Art News, Allan predicted that in the future he and like-minded artists would "become preoccupied with and even dazzled by the space and objects of everyday life…Not satisfied with the suggestion through paint of our other senses, we shall utilize the specific substances of sight, sound, movements, people, odors, touch. [We shall show] as if for the first time, the world we have always had about us, but ignored." The upshot would be a new kind of visual art theater.
If Allan's thinking was influenced by Cage, it was also rooted in Harold Rosenberg's conception of Action Painting. However, as Allan said, he had kept the action and jettisoned the painting. He put down all post-Pollock painting as passé. As a partisan of Abstract Expressionism, I disagreed strongly with Allan and rebutted his statements in a letter to Art News. Nonetheless, I recognized the importance and timeliness of his ideas and invited him to participate on Club panels. And in 1963, recognizing that he had become the primary spokesperson for Environments and Happenings, I introduced his ideas to the general public readership of The New York Post by publishing a lengthy interview with him in the newspaper.
Statements like the one Allan made at the The Club got him labeled as a Neo-Dada, but he was not anti-art. In the Post interview, he acknowledged the importance of Dada for its "healthy hatred for clichés and smug esthetics," but he did not "count it as a major influence on [his] art, either in attitude, subject or method." He only rejected what he believed was dead in contemporary art. And his nay-saying led him to innovate what he would label Environments and Happenings. As he said, the purpose of these works, like "that of any art [is] to come to grips with the world, to do something revelatory which in turn could make things about us more meaningful…This, I think, is central to the best art, no matter what else it may superficially be about."
As I write this appreciation, memories of Allan's Happenings come back to mind: happily clambering over a mountain of used tires in the yard of the Martha Jackson Gallery, or lost in an Environment of words painted and collaged on the walls of a gallery and three-dimensional constructions that Allan built within it. The mise-en-scene enveloped the viewer, calling to the mind the mesh of words—newspaper, magazine, radio, T.V., etc.—that clutters up our minds. It was a hyper slice of reality. In 1962, I helped arrange Allan's most ambitious Happening. It took place in the nine-story high courtyard of the disused Mills Hotel on Bleecker Street. As its climax, a huge inverted mountain descended from the roof onto an upright mountain, the two peaks figuratively kissing.
I asked Allan if the transience of his works concerned him. He answered: "No. If the work is of value it will stimulate the creation of related works later on and thus the tradition will stay alive that way." The trail-blazer of Environments and Happenings, Allan influenced Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine, among others in the late 1950s. He was also a formative influence on subsequent Installation Art and Performance Art, which is to be seen everywhere in today's art world. Allan's incisive polemics and the documentation of his work have been very much alive for almost half a century, and if current art is any indication, will surely live on.
—Irving Sandler
I met Allan Kaprow at the High School of Music and Art in 1942. (Because of his asthma, his family had moved him from Arizona to New York.) I remember the first few weeks Allan used to come to school wearing cowboy hat and boots, talking about horses and all us New York kids thought he was strange, but we became friends anyway. After graduation in 1945, while I was away in the navy for a year, Allan had developed a hemorrhaged ulcer (a result of having argued with his father over his fate. Mr. Kaprow, the senior, was a self-made lawyer who wanted his son to follow his footstep instead of being an artist) which was so severe that they had to take him to the hospital in order to clean different part of his organs separately. At which point, the doctor told his father "you've got to let that boy do what he wants." That was how Allan came to the Hofmann School with me.
Art school was where he wanted to be, but the environment didn't quite fit his temperament. Allan wasn't exactly the most natural painter. He used to say to me," Every time I made a brush stroke it was taken from Kandinsky, Miro or Picasso", which I responded," That's silly. You're a student you can afford to be influenced". But by nature Allan was too much of a rebel to do anything that has a look of tradition.
One weekend in the summer 1950, I had a job working on a farm in Hopewell Junction, New Jersey, Allan came by to visit me—he was staying with Stefan Wolpe, who besides John Cage, I think had an equally great impact on Allan's thinking about the avant-garde—and he said to me, " Painting is dead ". That was the summer that marked the beginning of Allan's new thinking about art, which he wrote eight years later in an article, "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock." In the interval Allan went to study art history with Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University and later with John Cage at the New School for Social Research. One of Allan's first memorable show, Penny Arcade, was at Hansa gallery in 1956, with objects and things hanging from the ceiling and all kind of noises including a telephone ringing at unpredictable time, which would get Dick Bellamy, who was at the time the gallery director, running to the telephone for nothing. A few years later Allan became a member of the Reuben gallery where he installed his landmark, 18 Happening in 6 Parts. After that, through George Segal, Allan got a teaching job at Rutgers University and a few other institutions before heading to California. In spite of the long distance, we still managed to talk on the telephone quite regularly when he was at the University of California in San Diego, where he taught the rest of his professional life.
To my greatest surprise, Allan agreed to give a lecture on my work when I had a show at the San Diego Museum in 1981. Everyone said it was highly intelligent and praising of my work, and so I call Allan up and said: "Gee whiz, I thought you said painting was dead." He said "Well you know that was a public statement. Privately, I might think something else." Allan kept amazing me. We grew up with the idea that artists were marginal types who didn't shake hands with the world at large. If anybody got popular or started to sell, it was the kiss of death. But Allan thought that was sophomorically romantic, and he wrote an article in repudiation," Should the Artist Be a Man of the World." Perhaps Allan's vision was prophetic because I'm still struggling to be a man in the world. In the meanwhile I hope that Allan is doing good Household on Cloud Nine, spreading strawberry jam over an old Volkswagen and having the angels lick it off.
—Wolf Kahn
Robert C. MorganRobert C. Morgan is a writer, international art critic, curator, poet, lecturer, and artist. His most recent book is Clement Greenberg: Late Writings (2003). He holds both an MFA in Sculpture and a Ph.D. in Art History. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute.
Wolf KahnIrving Sandler
IRVING SANDLER is an art critic, art historian, and writer. The second volume of his memoirs, Swept Up By Art: An Art Critic in the Post-Avant-Garde Era, was published by Rail Editions in 2015.
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On my recent trip to Marfa, Texas I was reminded of my first travels to Italy in 1987. I was profoundly moved by seeing works of art in the flesh, especially those in the site-specific contexts of apses or chapels. And I was thrilled to commune with their physical and material presences that were inseparable from the auras endowed by the artists who made them.
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The painter Larry Poons once described Dick Bellamy as the wrong man at the right time. Best remembered, if remembered at all, as the founding director of the Green Gallery in the early 1960s, Bellamy responded intuitively to the art that flared up after Abstract Expressionisms moment passed.
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It was a summer filled with music, art, poetry, and violence. May, June, July saw such an upsurge in the latterwhat was one to do but submerge oneself in the former? Here's a taste as I sit in my overcrowded mess, indulging in some Andrew Hill solo piano.


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Jessamyn's clients encompass the whole spectrum of lovers … worldwide. In her photos , you won't just see the love between two people. You will see the realness of the day … the respect, the awe, the wonder, the sheer joy … an amazing sense of real life. An unpretentious, sincerity that represents the whole of the occasion. Not just images of dear friends and beloved family, but the innate sense of peace surrounding them all. Maybe it's Jessamyn. Maybe it's her gift to them for this one, very special day in their lives.
The rich bold colors and composition of these first photos from Erica and Chris' wedding are way up there on my list of all-time favorites…
A little from Jessamyn about Erica and Chris' wedding …
They got married at The Holly Farm in Carmel Valley, California. This venue was amazing – they took care of everything, including some of the guests' accommodations and the food. The site did all of the coordination, and were so friendly, organized, and cool. I can't rave enough about them! The Holly Farm has a funny little micro-climate – not too far from the ocean, but warm and sunny enough to have orchids, lilies, and a million tropical flowers everywhere… you feel like you're in Hawaii, and they keep the party flowing throughout their meandering, beautiful grounds, which have lots of nooks and crannies and places to play (especially with photos!). You'll see from the pictures that they have funky decorations like old surfboards, instruments, etc, and games like bocce ball, darts, ping pong, and more. The bride and groom and family or bridal party have these cool little cabanas to stay in, and the grounds are theirs for the whole weekend. The family who owns and runs the Holly Farm is great – and they only do a select amount of weddings per year, so they really know what they're doing. You'll see in the photos to come that it is just the best place for a wedding…
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