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Brian Cass is on the cutting edge of music production technology. Founder of Overclock Inc., sound designer for Puremagnetik and MPV Trainer/Expert are just a few of the hats he wears. We sat down with him between his busy schedule to talk about his musical background, working for Native Instruments and Ableton, his brand new Reaktor tutorial-video for macProVideo as well as his friendship with the late Richard Lainhart.
Rounik Sethi: Hi Brian. Tell us about your music-making background.
Brian Cass: My father played guitar, did some surf rocking in the 1960s. He taught me to play Pipeline and House of The Rising Sun when I was 7 or 8. But I also spent a lot of time playing with a synthesizer on a Commodore 64 music program. I didn't know what a filter or envelope was, but I was learning from experimentation and all the while loving all the bizarre music in the other C64 games. Somewhere in between the two, I became really interested in making music both with guitars and computers, especially in combination with each other.
RS: You've been involved in some important projects (API & Native Instruments) can you tell us more about these and what was involved?
BC: I ended up working for API when they were just about to step into the digital world. They needed someone that specialized in studio computers and DAWs, but also knew their way around an API console and had real studio experience. There I was involved with the SmartAV console that came to them by way of an Australian manufacturer and also the A2D pre-amp that they were working on. I didn't do any technical work under the hood of the A2D, but I was able to provide a lot of guidance from a user perspective.
After API, I worked for NI just as they were getting into hardware products. They already had the original Guitar Rig, but they were finishing up the Rig Kontrol and the first Kore controller. I was a good match due to my obsession with guitars and computers. Not to mention I had already been really into Reaktor by that time. I ended up as the NYC regional product specialist for several years.
RS: So, talking about API and analog goodness: I believe you worked with the late and great Richard Lainhart in some capacity. Can you tell us about that?
BC: Yes, Richard was a great synthesist, musician and human being. I met him when I was working with his neighbor Jordan Rudess. We would go out for sushi with Richard whenever I was out there. After a while, Richard and I got to talking about his Buchla synth and we decided to make a Puremagnetik series based on his synth and his patches. While I was working with him I noticed that his room was also full of marimbas, vibraphones, mallet Kats, etc... So we got to talking about percussion instruments and I learned that he had spent some time as a jazz vibraphonist! From there we went on to do several mallet samples together.
The week after Richard's unexpected passing, I spent several days editing these long sustained loop samples that we had recorded of Richard playing his Vibraphone with a violin bow. This sort of editing is always meditative and somewhat soothing as you listen through long sustained chromatic scales, paying attention to every detail. But in this case it was especially therapeutic for me. It was almost like I was able to have one last conversation with him, even if I was only listening.
RS: You've worked with Puremagnetik since the beginning. How did that come about?
BC: Micah Frank and I knew each other from the first few Warper Parties in NYC, which we helped to get going with Moldover and DJ Shakey. We then worked together at NI, we travelled together doing product demos at conventions, music stores and studios. At some point we both started contributing sound design. I believe it started with FM8.
After that we started doing more sound design content for NI and also Ableton. In 2006, he launched Puremagnetik. The idea was to provide small monthly sample packs, on a subscription basis. They were small enough that you could learn it before the next one came out. In the beginning I just helped casually by giving him an idea or two, but before long he was having me record source material. Slowly, I became more and more involved and eventually was building my own packs start to finish. The past two years I've contributed almost half of the new packs for Puremagnetik.
RS: What do you have planned for the future on Puremagnetik?
BC: Well, we've just finished the B-System series, based on Richard's Buchla. We've got a few more MalletPaks to release that also feature Richard. We also just released GuitarMachine, which is a set of recordings I made using my custom-built live guitar rig.
And I've starting stocking up on some other interesting instruments for this year's Puremagnetik catalog. I don't want to spoil any surprises, but there are some classic analog and digital synthesizers in the mix, as well as some really out-there stuff I had never even heard of before I started researching for new instruments to sample... As of this month we started something new: EXS Universal. The idea is that it allows users to download our samples and import them into whatever sampler they want. Most software will import EXS these days, so hopefully it works out well for anyone that isn't using one of our 3 regular formats: Kontakt, Logic and Ableton.
RS: So, how did you get involved with macProVideo.com?
BC: Jordan Rudess recommended me to Steve H, as a guy that knew a lot about a lot of things. I think it helps that I've done a lot of teaching, although never in an online format before. To be honest, I had been approached by a few online tutorial websites and never really had much faith in them. But with Jordan's recommendation, and a quick call to Richard to see what he had to say about MPV, I was convinced this was the place to get involved.
RS: Great! And after the success of your Ableton TNT series, your new Reaktor tutorial for MPV is highly anticipated! For those who aren't familiar with it, can you break down what Reaktor is and why Reaktor is useful for digital musicians?
BC: Reaktor is amazing. I've been using it as a studio and performance toolbox for many years now. Sometimes it's something simple, like a phase inverter, a stereo width reducer, a MIDI converter. Sometimes it's a complicated performance ensemble that takes months or years to perfect.
There are a lot programs out there these days for the braver electronic musicians: Csound, Max/MSP, PureData, etc. For me, Reaktor is the best solution. Mostly because the existing modules sound so good, but the flexibility is still wide open. I love that I can bring up any one of the filters with a quick key command and it sounds good immediately. In some of the other programs, you really have to spend time doing the math to get a good musical filter, but in Reaktor everything is very musical already. I think that NI has done the right thing by providing a TON of factory content with Reaktor. There are many users who will never need to look under the hood, because the factory content is so varied and usable. But for those that do go under the hood, there is virtually no limit to what you can do.
RS: What will your audience expect to have learned after following your Reaktor tutorial?
BC: The new Reaktor tutorial skips over the factory content and gets directly into the structure and signal flow within Reaktor. Whomever watches it will learn to make a basic signal generator and then build it into a musical synthesizer, piece by piece. Along the way, they will also learn a bunch of shortcuts and tricks of the trade. I wasn't able to go all the way down to the Core Cell level in this tutorial nor was I able to cover everything in the module spectrum, but I do hope that this tutorial is well received and we are able to continue with some more advanced Reaktor tutorials. I have plans outlined for at least two more tutorials after this one!
RS: What music software do you use on a regular basis?
BC: My usual workflow goes like this:
1. Track demos in Ableton, do some tempo adjustments, arrangements, experiments.
2. Bring polished demos into Nuendo on the studio PC.
3. Track keeper parts in Nuendo, running Ableton, Komplete, Puremagnetik goodies on a sidecar Macbook for additional programmed parts.
4. Mix in Nuendo, mostly using plug-ins from UAD (the tape emulators really are amazing), Sound Toys, Izotope.
5. Bounce out stems and elements from Nuendo.
6. Load all the bounced bits back into Ableton to perform live with my Ableton/Reaktor template.
RS: And, I know you're a big fan of hardware for live performance. With 'Controllerism' on the rise, what do you use in your studio and live to control Ableton?
BC: I have been building my own basic MIDI controllers for a while. It's always nice to have just the controls you need; no more, no less. But some of the newer controllers are pretty amazing. I have a Novation Launchpad and an Akai APC40. Both of them blew me away when I first got them hooked up to Ableton. One of my biggest pet peeves is having to look at the computer screen on stage. I'd much rather be focused on something tangible when I'm performing, and both these controllers are perfect for giving you visual feedback.
In the studio I always have my trusty Axiom 25 hooked up to the Ableton machine. I have some templates setup where the drums are set to trigger from the drum pads and an assortment of keyboard sounds are available on the keys. I use it constantly to flesh out an idea or to communicate musically to a band I'm working with.
RS: What tips would you share for budding up-and-coming sound designers?
BC: A good painter's talent is not just in their steady hand or ability to mix paint, it's in their ability to see the world in a special way and break it down so that they can recreate it on canvas. The metaphor should be obvious but the sound designer, like the musician, needs to be a champion listener.
RS: Thanks Brian! Can't wait to check out your new Reaktor tutorial-video.


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Artist ABOVE's Latest: Blood Diamondposted by Moderator
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Africa has had a devastating history of blood diamond wars. Blood diamond refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and then sold to finance an invading army's war efforts, usually in Africa where more than two-thirds of the worlds diamonds are extracted. This site specific social / political word play was painted on the exterior wall of Johannesburg's largest diamond trader Jewel City. Jewel City is a six-block mega-precinct that serves as a base for some 300 diamond traders as well as South Africa"™s Diamond Board and State Traders Association. Jewel City is the largest diamond exporter in the southern hemisphere with over R7-Billion worth of Diamonds being exported every year.
I was able to get away with this diamond wall heist because I told the owners I would paint in big letters "Diamonds are a woman's best friend" on the exterior of their building.
The owners loved the idea and all quickly agreed. The next day I had started painting but what the owners didn't know is that I lied to them and was hijacking their wall. Like any premeditated robbery, situations are not what they seem and shit can flip from best friends to worst enemies in a few moments.
I assume the owners were too busy trading diamonds inside the mega centre they never took the time to come out and see I was painting a controversial word play about the diamond trade and how it's fueled so much bloodshed in wars making it one of man's worst enemies.

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The Palestinian Grinch Who Stole Pesach
With the advent of the Jewish holiday of Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) this week, we are witness to another astonishingly brazen attempt by the Palestinian Authority to hijack one more obviously Jewish holiday and claim its narrative as its own.
Now anyone with a semblance of Jewish knowledge understands that the story of the Exodus from Egypt, the Splitting of the Reed Sea, receiving the Tablets with the Ten Commandments (and the rest of the Torah) at Mount Sinai, the 40 years of wandering in the desert culminating with the conquest/liberation of the Holy Land by the Children of Israel, is one of the key elements not only in the Jewish faith, but also in the formation of the Jewish People into a Nation. Apparently however, the Palestinian Arab leadership believes that enough people are sufficiently ignorant and intellectually lazy that they, the Palestinian Arabs, can lay claim even on the Passover story as part of their negation of the Jewish claims to the Land, and the filling in of their own "invented" historical national narrative.
In the April 3, 2012, Palestinian Media Watch report we learn that "A Palestinian university lecturer taught during a recent Palestinian Authority TV program on religion that Moses, a Muslim, brought 'the Muslims of the Children of Israel out of Egypt.'"
Accordingly, "While some of this," PMW report explains, "is retelling of Islamic tradition, some of it is a distortion of even the Koran for political purposes." It is true that the Koran refers to the "Children of Israel" in their land in many chapters (e.g.: Sura 5), but it never refers to them or anyone else as "Palestinians," nor does the Koran ever refer to Israel's conquest as a "Palestinian" conquest." As one more proof that the Palestinian Arabs have at least successfully taken over "chutzpah" as a their own foremost national trait, university lecturer, Dr. Omar Ja'ara, on PA TV's religion program, even deviates from Islamic tradition, and reinvents the Jewish People's conquest of the Land of Israel as "the first Palestinian liberation through armed struggle to liberate Palestine."
Dr. Ja'ara, who lectures at Al-Najah University in Nablus/Shechem and is considered by his fellow Arab academics as a specialist in Israeli affairs, declared:
"We must make clear to the world that David in the Hebrew Bible is not connected to David in the Koran, Solomon in the Hebrew Bible is not connected to Solomon in the Koran, and neither is Saul or Joshua son of Nun [of the Bible]."
"We have a great leader, Saul, [in the Koran] who defeated the nation of giants and killed Goliath," explained Dr. Ja'ara. "This is a great Muslim victory. The Muslims of the Children of Israel went out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses, and unfortunately, many researchers deny the Exodus of those oppressed people who were liberated by a great leader, like Moses the Muslim, the believing leader, the great Muslim, who was succeeded by Saul [not Joshua], the leader of these Muslims in liberating Palestine."
"This was the first Palestinian liberation through armed struggle to liberate Palestine from the nation of giants led by Goliath. This is our logic and this is our culture."
(PA TV – Fatah, February, 15, 2012)
Last week, a well-meaning but head in the clouds American academic wrote the following sentence: "There is no objective truth in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — each side makes its historical and moral claims to the best of its abilities." The Pollyannaish politically correct point being is that everyone has equally valid claims; history is somehow amorphous; the past isn't important so let's ignore it and concentrate on making everybody happy today.
While well-meaning perhaps, it arrogantly assumes the past is meaningless in determining fact from fiction. If historical fact was not important in deciding right from wrong in this conflict, the Palestinian Arabs would not be so involved in the development and promotion of the "Palestinian Big Lie" about their "deep roots in the Land", and in classic Muslim fashion, to incessantly negate documented Jewish history and tradition and attempt to destroy any vestige of Jewish artifacts that provides hard evidence to challenge their lies. We see this also in the on-going campaign to de-judaize Jerusalem, and we see this by the Wakf's constant destruction of Jewish artifacts found on the Temple Mount. For the Arabs, the past is the most important thing.
Interestingly, since "Palestine" and "Palestinian" appear nowhere in either the Bible or the Koran, and the fact that no one can name the last or any "Palestinian" King or political ruler, because there never was one, it is still amazing – even in the multi-cultural ultra-liberal academic world – that normally intelligent people still give credence to Palestinian Arab claims no matter how fantastic.
Speaking of whom, one wonders what President Obama will do at his next White House Passover Seder. Will he turn in his regular Maxwell House Haggadot which brings the old standard Jewish version of the Exodus from Egypt, and replace them with a Palestinian Arab narrative – as Moses the Muslim led the Muslim Children of Israel AKA "the Palestinians" out of Egypt? True, it is quite a feat for Moses to be a Muslim more than two thousand years before the birth of Mohammad, but apparently Islam is very flexible. And if it's not, the Palestinian Arab spin-doctors are. The important thing is the Jews are wrong and anyway they never existed. While it may sound silly to you, most mainstream media people will push it nonetheless, and liberal-left academics will argue that everything is subjective anyway, so let's not automatically reject a Palestinian Pesach story…….
I say we get even. If the Palestinian Arabs want to usurp Pesach, fine, let them clean their houses for a month before the holiday to make sure no pita crumbs are hiding behind the couch; eat Matza with the consistency of stale Styrofoam and have to swallow Matza balls that taste like lead tennis balls for a week. Then we'll talk.


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What is the gift that makes any relationship work? We think the process can be summed up as being "tough on yourself" and "tender-hearted toward your spouse." Tough and tender: Remember those two words.
The natural tendency in our human nature is to excuse our behavior while we judge others for not living up to our expectations. We can be tough on the other person, demanding a pound of flesh when they make a mistake or make our life harder, but when we make an error, we want grace and tenderness. Instead, own your issues and be tough on yourself and grow. Then give tenderness, grace, mercy and compassion on your spouse, children and friends.
The Path Less Traveled
Powerful, lasting love does not happen by accident. It is reserved for couples who are willing to venture onto the scarcely traveled path of Ephesians 5. In verse 21, Paul charged couples to: "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ." The term used here for "submit" comes from the Greek and is a military term for "to line one's self up under" to help fulfill the mission. Paul repeated the command to wives to "submit to your husbands as to the Lord" (v. 22) because a wife's submission helps meet a man's deep need to succeed. A man is drawn to the areas of life in which he senses proficiency and he loses interest in the areas of life in which he feels incapable or inefficient. When a wife chooses to give of herself to help her husband fulfill his dreams and responsibilities, she becomes extremely valuable to him. His motivation increases, his interest in her grows, and his impact on those in his life grows more positive.
As a newlywed, I (Pam) came to a crisis point one day when I read, "Wives, honor your husband." I was in a place where I was angry at life's circumstances so I shouted at God, "So what does honor really mean anyway?" What surprised me is that the more I studied the word "honor" the more I wanted to do it!
God broke down the "honor" code in a way I could easily see why I'd want to "submit":
1. See your husband as a gift from God's heart to yours
2. Talk to your husband like he is a gift to you
3. Treat him with actions of a gift that you cherish
When you see your husband as a gift, it is easier to want to do and say things to him and about him that will help him be his best.
Shifting into Selflessness
Paul had a lot more to say to a man who wants to be in love with a woman than he ever said to his wife. Husbands are called to love their wives in three different ways: "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless" (Eph. 5:25–27).
1. A Husband is to Sacrificially Love His Wife
Just as Christ gave himself so that the church could have eternal life, a husband is to selflessly give of himself so that his wife can reach her potential. This certainly includes the commitment to die for her, if necessary. Most men would admit that the heroic act of dying for their wives is easier than the day-to-day sacrifices that make wives feel valued.
2. A Husband is to Give His Wife Secure Attention
Paul used two pictures to get his thoughts across. A loving husband is to do all he can to "make her holy," which means she is set apart for special purposes. The idea is that your wife is to be set apart in your heart and your life decisions as the most valuable person in your life who engages in the most important activities. The second picture is that of "cleansing her by the washing with water through the word." "Word" here denotes the spoken word and carries the idea of preparing her for the special purposes she holds in your life through words you speak that make her realize the supreme place she holds. In other words, God calls husbands to sincerely, consistently, and abundantly compliment their wives!
3. A Husband is to Give His Wife Synchronized Affection
The idea here is that a husband ought to take the same care with his wife as he takes with himself. A man who truly loves his wife will "feed" her, which means he will do whatever it takes to bring the nourishment to her that she needs to fully develop. As we've mentioned, a man will also "care" for his wife, which indicates he will carry out his responsibility to her with tender love and affection. In other words, he will work as hard to take care of her as he does to take care of himself.
God knew we needed a system to help us practice this "tough on me, tender on you" concept so he gave us the keys in Ephesians 5. This passage models how a husband ought to be tender and lay his life down for his wife and how a wife can be tender by honoring and respecting her husband. Both are tough calls to maintain, but will produce a marriage full of tender moments.
Bill and Pam Farrel are relationship specialists, international speakers and authors of over 25 books including best selling Men are like Waffles, Women are like Spaghetti, and Red Hot Monogamy. They have recently released a new marriage DVD series for Lifeway, and will be guest speakers for Festivals of Marriage this fall. To order Red Hot Monogamy, discover more about their DVD for couples or learn about their speaking schedule, go t http://www.farrelcommunications.com/.


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AES Los Angeles 2014 Presenter or Author
Mark J. Indelicato
Primary Affiliation: Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, NY, USA
Mark J. Indelicato is an associate professor in the Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department. He has been at RIT since 1990. Previously, he was a Business Systems Communications Engineer for NEC America. Currently, Indelicato is researching Real Time Audio Collaboration (RTAC) and the feasibility, logistics and implementation of live recording sessions carried and delivered over IP networks. Recording engineers and musicians would be in disparate locations anywhere in the world where they have access the commodity or Internet 2. It is the expectation that the commodity internet would not be the best choice for this application at this point. Research would begin using Internet 2.
Anomaly Detection for Music
Using the D-Transform Anomaly Detection/Classification (ADC) algorithm to profile sections of popular music, Indelicato will be studying consistencies and inconsistencies in digital music to determine if common traits that can be identified. Various parameters will be changed in order to determine statistical, repeatable factors that separate average and exceptional music.
He plans to show if there exists consistently observable characteristics of popular songs. The "hook" or clearly identifiable piece of hits songs will be analyzed using the D-Transform Anomaly/ Detection/Classification (ADC) algorithm of Chance Glenn, Ph.D. It will be determined if these characteristics are consistent within genres of music or across genres. The Top 10 songs in specific categories, according to Billboard, will be the source of our sample pool of music for this initial investigation. Once a robust set of profiles are developed, we will use Prof. Warren Koontz's clustering algorithm to determine if these profiles tend to "group." This will lead to a method to predict if music will be popular based on the proximity to established profiles of already accepted popular music.
Indelicato is an active member of IEEE, ASEE, ITERA, and AES.
Session List
Oct 10:
P10: Spatial Audio
Multichannel-Reproduced Music with Height Ambiences: Investigating Physical and Perceptual Factors for Comprehensive 3D Experience (Author)
Oct 11: P16: Applications in Audio: Part 2
How Critical Listening Exercises Complement Technical Courses to Effectively Provide Audio Education for Engineering Technology Students (Author)


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Download 夢王国と眠れる100人の王子様 Mod Apk
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"Your opponent is 100 people of the Prince of your love!"
If a girl everyone longs, multilateral to draw a "love of the Prince",
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Is downy Eating a dream by appearing in the kingdom "Yumekui", prince who has fallen asleep.
Advance the adventure while awaken them, also let's open the sweet story of a prince.
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Every day to collect the fairy stone, will awaken from sleep a lot of the Prince!
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■ BGM to be immersive in a dream kingdom of fantasy world ■
Composed the BGM is Masashi Takada maker of many of the game music.
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Work orchestrator. Keyboard player. Sound Prestige LLC. Representative
It has a wide range of music, providing the music of various genres game, to animation and the like.
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– Nice handsome is your favorite person / pampered is you want people
· If you have a yearning to Prince and Princess
Of – for women love game / maiden game / person app you like
– If you read the romance novels / comic
– For the first time play towards the love game
Fantasy motif better game likes of
· Handsome love those who like to delusion of the
· Wall Don, who comes with Kyun to chin piles.
– Voice actor game (full voice, with voice) If you like
Alternative Name: 100 Sleeping Princes & the Kingdom of Dreams Mod Apk
■ Notes ■
• In the off-line it will not operate. Please start the Internet is in a possible connection state always.
(There is a case where data may be damaged)
When the app is uninstalled, purchased fairy stone, items, will be deleted data in the play all.
– Since you can not respond to the purchased refund of fairy stone, please understand.
And other details, please be sure to check the "Terms and Conditions" in the app.
And search word in such introduction article, I hope in a "Dream 100". Please refrain from "Dream hundred," "Yumehyaku" is.


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Vanessa Van Edwards delivers the keynote address.
Emily Evans, executive director of the Women's Foundation of Oregon, speaks about the newly-formed foundation's work.
Shilpa Vepakomma, right, a construction manager with Intel, speaks during a panel discussion. Also pictured, from left, are panelists Bart Eberwein of Hoffman Construction, Megan Neill of Multnomah County, and Larry Gescher of HP Civil Inc.
Larry Gescher, third from left, speaks during the event's panel discussion. Also pictured, from left, are co-panelists Bart Eberwein, Megan Neill, and Shilpa Vepakomma.
Lois Cohen, president of Lois D. Cohen Associates, moderates the event's panel discussion.


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Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is celebrating the opening of its new Mills River, N.C., brewery by bringing revered craft brewers to North Carolina via a cross-country festival path in 2014. A dozen craft breweries across the U.S., both up-and-comers and noted names, will join Sierra Nevada in the creation of a variety 12-pack — one partner brewery per beer — to be released in summer 2014. A multi-weekend, west-to-east tour of regional festivals will culminate with the Mills River doors opening.
"We want to highlight the success of craft beer, not just our own next step," said Ken Grossman, Sierra Nevada's founder. "Craft brewers are a close bunch, and we've all helped each other get to this point. This is a fun way to showcase even just a fraction of the talent that's out there, and somehow 12 beers doesn't feel like enough. If this weren't already a logistical mammoth, we'd brew with even more of our great peers."
The specific travel path for festivals is a work in progress, but in spring 2014, these breweries will visit Chico to develop recipes and begin brewing:
- Allagash Brewing Co., Portland, Maine
- Ballast Point Brewing Co., San Diego, Calif.
- Bell's Brewery, Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich.
- Cigar City Brewing LLC, Tampa, Fla.
- Firestone Walker Brewing Co., Paso Robles, Calif.
- New Glarus Brewing Co., New Glarus, Wisc.
- Ninkasi Brewing Co., Eugene, Ore.
- Oskar Blues Brewing Co., Longmont, Colo.
- Russian River Brewing Co., Santa Rosa, Calif.
- Three Floyds Brewing LLC, Munster, Ind.
- Victory Brewing Co., Downingtown, Pa.
- Local brewing community in Asheville, N.C.
The collaboration will also champion advances in the industry and the greater craft beer communities surrounding the partner breweries.
"We've long supported ingredients research, and we hope these beers see success that allows us to further help malt and hops evolve," Grossman said. "We also aim to highlight the state brewers guilds our partners belong to. It's a small but important nudge to keep our industry's momentum strong."
The idea of collaborative brews is nothing new to Sierra Nevada. Its Beer Camp program started in 2008 when a group of distributors wanted to visit Chico and learn how to brew beer. It evolved into a national consumer contest where winners from all over the country head to Chico for a two-day, hands-on brewing session. Sierra Nevada recently reached Beer Camp number 100.
"There are no reins in Beer Camp," Grossman said. "We typically bring a dozen folks in who don't know a ton about beer and let them have at it. This time we'll be brewing 12 beers with as many pros. It has the potential to be epic."


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Now that the elections are over, and I am, for the moment, not receiving any annoying emails begging me for donations–thank goodness! I can focus on the stuff I love. Makeup. Food. Clothes. Travel. And, naturally, pro-aging!
Ye Ye! Guess where I'm gonna be shopping next week?
Tonight, I'm going to focus on something that's been bothering me since I received a beauty set of a double-ended eye brush and an eyeshadow palette from QVC. Through no fault of "The Q", I purchased what could, quite possibly be, the worst eye shadow palette ever made!
Be prepared for what you are about to read in connection with this palette!
Always in love with the iT Cosmetics brand's brushes, I've started a decent collection. I've written about the brands brushes in the past and they are nothing short of great.
Three of my newest brushes from iT cosmetics. I have many more but these were the only ones that are clean!
It's a different story when it comes to their makeup products. I've a few iT cosmetics that I love—the Je Ne Sais Quoi Lip and Cheek colors are wonderful—it's part of the brand's lip vitality line.
The Je Ne Sais Quoi products look colorless in the tube but turn into such a gorgeous shade of pink. I'm a fan!
Their skincare line is awful for me. The products dry my already-dehydrated skin out more than it is. And this, I find surprising since the brand touts itself as anti aging.
This is the brand's Celebration foundation. I tried it and it was DE-hydrating. And with that anti-aging term, they certainly ain't celebrating the aging process.
And the brand insists on using the vulgar and mature woman insulting term anti-aging! Yet, despite this, the brushes are so absolutely amazing that I can't stop using them.
Any who…. I was perusing through QVC two weeks ago catching up on some online stress shopping –because I have my lady-parts exam and my skin check coming up and I'm also stress-eating and the husband isn't too happy with my bad habits.
I've been stress eating up a storm. My pants are tight. My tummy is expanding and I'm beyond the pregnancy years. This photo is from my office potluck luncheon last week and I swept through this like a Hoover vacuum cleaner!
And during this time, I saw an eyeshadow brush with eyeshadow palette by iT cosmetics and I clicked to purchase.
Yeah–this was the palette and brush set. Take a good look because it appears to be an excellent buy!
The palette seemed like a good one. The shadows neutral with two highlighters—it could be a decent palette to use if I want a soft look or if I'm just out and about. A good weekend eye look, if you will.
And when the mail was delivered, and my husband gave me the Larry David suspicious face because another package arrived, I gleefully ran upstairs to open the goods.
This is how Bonaparte looked at me when I told him I had no more makeup arriving in the mail!
The brush was all I expected. Here's a look:
This is the brush. A four-in-one. The top end of the brush has an element that you can pull down or up to change the shape of the shadow brush–making it a great travel tool!
The brush was well-worth the money!
Here's a better look. I love the pragmatic use of the larger brush.
Overall, the brush gets an A from me!
Now to the eyeshadow palette.
First of all, I have a thing about packaging and I have a "thing" about eyeshadow palette cases. I like plastic or a similar hard composition. I'm not a fan of the cardboard case. Exception to the rule is the Anastasia Subculture Palette I wrote about last week—My Subculture Review.
The Superhero By Day Palette is encased in the cheapest, flimsiest cardboard ever. Chippy got hold of it for two seconds and ate clear through the corner.
Chippy got hold of this and snacked on the edges. But look at all the scratches and marks on this cheap cardboard case!
So, what does the low quality of the cardboard case tell me? It says this is a disaster waiting to happen. This is so flimsy that if you have it in your purse and it starts banging around—you're gonna have a huge mess.
Chippy was basically telling me "I told you so…."
The other thing about the case is that it won't stay open. It's so poorly constructed that I needed to use my cushion foundation as a palette weight.
My Korean Cushion Foundation is now multitasking as a cosmetic paperweight on this cheap palette that won't stay opened!
On to the actual product. The shadows. They are absolutely awful.
In the palette the colors look beautiful. Slightly shimmery. Slightly satin. They are, in fact, in appearance, the perfect neutrals with that pop of the University of Texas Burnt Orange shade. There are also two highlighters.
Close up, the shadows really are nice looking and with the exception of the burnt-orange Empower, it's a cool-toned palette-just what I was looking for!
I also had very high hopes for Brilliance and Visionary–the highlighters/base shadows.
Look at how they swatched on my fingers. Can you find the color? Where's the pigment?
Although Empower has the most pigmentation, it was incredibly patchy. The rest of the shadows–where' the color?
The highlighters have more pigment but wait—they are ashy as all get out.
While these swatched with pigment on the fingers, they were ashy and on the lid just disappeared!
When I did apply the shadow on my lids, I saw that the shadows went on very chalky—and this is the irony of the "anti-aging" that iT cosmetics pontificates. The chalkiness of the shadows actually aged the look of my eyes.
Sorry the chalky consistency didn't show up in this photo but I DO have the shadows from this palette on my eye. You just can't see them because there's no pigmentation!
I also put a dent in one of the shadows from pressing too hard to try to get some lift-off of color.
Follow the yellow arrow to see where I dented the shadow! I tried to get more color but it didn't work!
All was not lost after I took out my trusty Tartlette in Bloom palette. A better neutral collection of shadows. Tartelette in Bloom came to my rescue with the pigmentation and satiny finish I was hoping to achieve with Superhero by Day.
Tartelette in Bloom to the rescue! I ended up going over the entire iT eye with shadows from this palette. I used Charmer, top left as a wash, Funny Girl on my lid and in the crease a light application of both Smokeshow and Activist.
Thanks to Tartelette in Bloom, I was able to get a nice neutral eye look!
As a consumer, I don't want to be had. The only reason I didn't return the palette was because Chippy snacked on it. But how can a company that makes stellar brushes be so inconsistent with their makeup? The brand makes products that I love–their concealer. And I use the bronzer almost every day as a contour! I just don't get it!
But this eyeshadow palette is atrocious and iT Cosmetics should be ashamed by selling this garbage. I've purchased better in Dollar Tree and Five Below.
Cheaply constructed, won't even stay opened and horrible shadows. It's a complete fail!
Overall how would I rate this? An F. Honest to God, I've never given such a bad review on a product and I've never had an F-rated product. There's always another way to use a product. I've used bronzers as contours and contours as shadows. I've used concealers that were too yellow as eye shadow bases and too-dark lip colors as blush. But this palette—there's no hope.
iT Superhero by Day on the left and Tartelette in Bloom in the right. Which do YOU prefer? I thought so!
And the other thing is, when you wear eyeglasses you NEED a shadow that's well-pigmented! I'm glad a have many darker shadows in my possession! Another Tartelette look!
Look—this may be a harsh review but you know I don't lie. If I love a product—you know it. If I'm on the fence—you know it. If I don't care for something—you know it.
I just don't like iT!!
And I love you too much to allow you to make the same mistake I did. I'm telling you, do not buy this palette. You will waste over $30 and for that kind of money, you can go to MAC cosmetics and create your own palette with four high-quality shadows! Or buy the Tartelette in Bloom palette for a few dollars more!
I created all three of these palettes at MAC–and the middle palette, I already hit pan on all four shadows!
So that's it. If you want to see more of my thoughts on this palette—here's my YouTube review! And I'll have more reviews coming up (one really good one too)!


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NEW YORK – The Carolina Panthers selected Florida State wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin with the 28th overall pick in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft late Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall.
Benjamin becomes the fifth first-round pick of the of the Jimbo Fisher era (since 2011) and is the 40th Florida State first-round pick all-time.
"I was nervous, at the same time I just put my trust in God," Benjamin said. "Whatever team falls in love with me, I'm just going to come put my heart into that organization. I'm ready to get up to (Charlotte) and meet the fans and see the city. I think for the most part it will be a (smooth transition). We ran a pro-style offense and (Carolina) runs a pro-style offense. I just have to get in there and learn and put the work in. That's what I plan on doing. I guess you can say I've been a fan (of the Panthers) since Cam (Newton) came. I always dreamed of coming and playing with Cam and contributing to the organization. (I admire) his will to compete and win. That's something Jameis (Winston) had. That's something I love with a quarterback and I will go and do anything for him.
Benjamin is the first Seminole wide receiver drafted since 2007 (Chris Davis, fourth round, Titans) and the highest since Javon Walker was drafted No. 20 overall by the Green Bay Packers in 2002.
"I'm extremely proud and happy for (Benjamin)," Fisher said. "He has worked extremely hard to get to where he has gotten today. He's extremely talented, but I truly believe his best football is ahead of him. We are very fortunate to have had him at Florida State. He was a critical part of our National Championship team. He was one of the great players in Florida State history and he is going to be a great pro."
Benjamin was the Seminoles' breakout star in 2013. The 6-5, 240-pound receiver led the ACC and tied the FSU record with 15 touchdown receptions, including the game-winning 2-yard score with 13 seconds remaining in BCS National Championship. His signature performance came against rival Florida in the Swamp when he caught nine balls for 212 yards and three touchdowns. The Belle Glade, Fla., finished the season with 54 receptions for 1,011 yards. He averaged 18.7 yards per catch and one touchdown every 3.6 catches – the second-best mark in the country among wide receivers. He captured All-ACC Second Team honors and Sports Illustrated tabbed Benjamin a First Team All-American.
Benjamin joins former Seminole Graham Gano on the Panthers current roster. He is the first Seminole drafted by the Panthers since Everette Brown in 2009 (second round, no. 43).
Several Seminoles are projected to be drafted during Friday's second and third rounds. Fisher will be part of the NFL Network's Pre-Draft Show at 5:30 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on NFL.com. Friday's broadcast begins at 7 p.m.


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First Nations and volunteer fire departments around B.C. will get $5 million from the province for equipment and training, Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced Friday.
Farnworth, who was in the Peachland along with Parliamentary Secretary for Emergency Preparedness Jennifer Rice, said the money was part of the province's Community Emergency Preparedness Fund.
The $5 million is in addition to the $33.5 million the province has already allocated for disaster response and recovery in the province.
Farnworth said he wanted to "level the playing field" for smaller fire departments. Both fully and partially volunteer fire departments, along with ones in First Nations communities, will be eligible for funding.
"The smaller a department's budget, the higher the priority in the allocation of these funds, so we can make sure these funds get to the communities that need them most," Farnworth said.
The Fire Chiefs Association of British Columbia applauded the move.
"We are encouraged by this provincial initiative that will assist departments to better protect their communities," said president Phil Lemire.


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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency (SBPRA) is the tip of a fee-charging agenting/editing/publishing iceberg created by Robert M. Fletcher of Boca Raton, Florida. Since 2001, it has employed a veritable carousel of changing names (more than 40 to date), and Writer Beware has received hundreds, if not thousands, of complaints from authors who've cited abuses such as fees for literary agency services, fees for publishing, fees for editing, fees for marketing services, referrals to other branches of the business without revealing the connection, and more.
Fletcher's operation has long been the subject of an Alert at Writer Beware.*
In 2009, as a result of a public consumer-related investigation, the Florida Attorney General filed suit against Fletcher, his businesses, and several staff members under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. Delays and legal maneuverings drew the case out for several years–but now, at last, there's a resolution.
According to documents obtained by Writer Beware via a public records request, Fletcher and his co-defendants (Leslie Williams, Lynn Eddy, and Mark Bredt, plus various corporate defendants**) have signed a Stipulated Settlement Agreement with the Florida Attorney General that, if certain provisions are fulfilled, will result in dismissal of the lawsuit. (The Settlement Agreement can be seen here.)
Via hate blog The Write Agenda (which over the past few years has been attempting–without much success–to discredit Writer Beware and other anti-scam activists), Fletcher has issued a triumphal-sounding statement declaring the Settlement "a victory."
"Anytime a business settles litigation with a government agency with no admission of guilt and no violation of the law, it can be considered a victory," said Robert Fletcher, the CEO of a group of companies that have been dealing with government litigation for over six years.
"Unfortunately, most consumers believe that litigation equals guilt, but that simply isn't true. This suit should never have been filed," Mr. Fletcher continued. "If the litigation had any merit, they would have pushed it harder and not taken six years to deal with it.["]
Well…it's a bit more complicated than that.
It's true that Fletcher et al. have entered into the Settlement Agreement "without any admission either of guilt or that [they] have violated the law" (though if a court later finds that any of them have breached the Settlement's non-monetary provisions, the breach "shall constitute prima facie evidence of a violation of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act"). However, the Settlement does impose a number of conditions directly relating to Fletcher's alleged business practices at the time the suit was filed (for a look at some of those practices, see this article by a former Fletcher employee). And it requires him to pay a substantial sum in restitution to authors.
Among other conditions, Fletcher et al. must:
- Agree to the permanent dissolution of the Corporate Defendants as well as "any related fictitious names".
- Use their real names when communicating with clients. (In the course of the investigation, Fletcher admitted to employing multiple aliases.***)
- Disclose their relationship with other entities when making referrals. (At the time of the lawsuit, authors were led to believe that the editing branch of the company–to which they were referred for critiques–was an unrelated enterprise, and that Strategic Book Publishing and Eloquent Books, Fletcher's vanity imprints, were also separate.)
- Create and maintain clear royalty reporting and payment systems. (For instance, authors shouldn't have to request their royalties in order to be paid.)
- Disclose in contracts "the exact services which are to be provided," and provide "a separate statement" to inform authors that "there may be additional fees which are not included…and to direct them to a price list of standard, more common fees which are associated with additional services."
- Disclose in any documents relating to purported mergers and acquisitions whether the merger or acquisition was made by a corporate entity associated with Fletcher or other defendants. (Historically, one of Fletcher's strategies for evading bad press online has been to claim that a new company name had just acquired the old company name[s].)
- Make available to the Attorney General records and documents pertaining to the implementation of the Settlement, for a period of two years.
- Hire–and pay for–an Independent Compliance Monitor, who for a period of one year will monitor and report on their compliance with the Settlement conditions.
- Pay $10,000 in court costs and attorneys' fees, and provide author restitution of $125,000 (and they cannot file for bankruptcy prior to payment). Only when payment is fully made will the Attorney General close the investigation and file for dismissal of the original lawsuit.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with this final stipulation.
The terms of the Settlement Agreement require payment of the full monetary amount on signing. But while the $10,000 in court costs was paid timely–on February 14, 2014, when the final signature was obtained–the $125,000 in author restitution was not provided, nor did it appear after March 7, when the Attorney General's Office sent a courtesy reminder to Fletcher's lawyer.
Accordingly, on March 20, the Attorney General filed a motion for enforcement of the Settlement Agreement, and for entry of a final default judgment against Fletcher and the other defendants, including a $10,000 penalty. The motion was granted by the court on April 15 (the signed order can be seen here).
Information I've obtained indicates that as of Friday, May 9, the money was still outstanding.
Over the six years of the suit, Fletcher has phased out most of the corporate names included in the original complaint (though some remain, and there are a few legacy URLs–such as www.theliteraryagencygroup.com–that default to current websites, although their interior pages haven't been removed). At the moment, he's doing business (and charging fees) primarily as Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Agency [SBPRA] and Publish On Demand Global [PODG].
He hasn't lost his penchant for multiple business names, however. Other corporate names in use as of this writing include Best Selling Book Rights Agency, Literary & Rights Agency, Professional Publishing Press, ePubCo, Rapid Illustrations, Author Services International, Author Marketing Ideas, and Author Success Stories.
I have a hunch that the story isn't over yet. Stay tuned.
* In 2008, Fletcher filed a retaliatory lawsuit against Ann Crispin, James D. Macdonald, and myself, alleging defamation, loss of business, and emotional distress, and claiming that he was losing $25,000 per month due to our warnings about his business practices.
In March 2009, Fletcher's suit against Ann and myself was dismissed with prejudice by the Massachussetts Superior Court, due to Fletcher's failure to respond to discovery or otherwise prosecute the lawsuit. Subsequently, through counsel, we filed a motion seeking recovery of our legal fees and expenses.That motion was granted in July 2009. The full ruling can be seen here, but here's the salient portion:
The plaintiffs have exhibited extreme bad faith in bringing this frivolous lawsuit for the sole purpose of causing great expense and harassment to Crispin and Strauss. Fletcher expressly states that it was his purpose in his emails. The Court concludes and finds that this case was brought in bad faith by the plaintiffs for the mere purpose of causing great inconvenience and financial costs to Crispin and Strauss (as set out in Fletcher's pre-lawsuit emails to the defendants). This case is frivolous and this Court finds so, finds that the two plaintiffs and their lawyer, Jerrold G. Neeff, knew it was frivolous before it was even commenced. This Court rules that the defendants, Ann Crispin and Victoria Strauss, are entitled to have all their legal fees and expenses incurred paid to them by the plaintiffs, Robert Fletcher and The Literary Agency Group.
This Court finds the claims asserted by the plaintiffs to be wholly insubstantial, frivolous, and not advanced in good faith.
** Corporate Defendants included in the suit: The Literary Agency Group Inc., Writers Literary & Publishing Services, New York Literary Agency, The Children's Literary Agency, Poets' Literary Agency, The Christian Literary Agency, Writers Literary Screenplay Agency, Rapid Publishing-Screenwriter911 Inc., Rapid Publishing Inc., The Global Book Agency, American Enterprises Group LLC, The Writer's Literary & Publishing Company, American Enterprises Group Inc., AEG Publishing Group, Eloquent Books, Strategic Book Publishing, Strategic Book Marketing, Group AEG, and ST Literary Agency.
*** Fletcher aliases mentioned in the suit: Robert West, Robert Williams, Bill Williams, Beth Stormes, Georgina Orr, Mary Bluestone, and Hil Mallory. There are many more. In a 2009 sworn statement (obtained by Writer Beware via a public records request), Fletcher admitted to using as many as 75 different email addresses.


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Oh, Windows. If there's one aspect of this operating system that's been a constant disappointment, it has to be its complete and utter inability to "remember" window settings. You know the drill: You go into, say, the Documents folder and customize the windows size, position, and the icon style used to display its contents. Then, when you revisit that folder later—bam!—everything you previously configured was blown away. It's been a problem for years, over many, many versions of Windows. It's still a problem in Windows Vista.
Searching around the Web, you'll see two types of solutions to this problem. These are:
Ridiculous simple. Annoyances.org tells you to hold the Ctrl key when closing a folder window. Aside from the fact that you may actually have to hold the Shift key to make this work (reports differ), the reason we're even discussing this issue is that Vista (like previous Windows versions) simply forgets this customization data.
Ridiculous hard. The Vista Forums has what has to be the most complicated set of instructions I've ever seen for something that, quite frankly, should be simpler than this.
If you're having problems with window customizations, you should try both of these solutions. Truth be told: I've made it work before using the second, more complicated, instructions listed above.
However, very recently, my main desktop (running Windows Vista Ultimate x64) has refused to remember my window customizations. It was driving me batty. And though everything else was working just fine, I was honestly getting ready to blow away the PC and reinstall from scratch because of this one issue. It's really annoying.
In the process of preparing the PC for this reinstall, I deleted an unused partition on its only PC and—using another great new Vista feature, by the way—non-destructively added the space freed by this partition to the Vista x64 system partition. (This functionality, essentially live partition resizing, is part of the Disk Management tool if you're curious.) And once the amount of free space on that partition jumped from about 9 GB of free space to over 70 GB of free space ... my window customization issues completely disappeared. And now, over a week later, I'm happy to report that the issue has indeed completely disappeared. I have no explanation for this. But I'm throwing it out there in case you're experiencing something similar.
You never know.


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Auckland real estate firm Barfoot & Thompson's new listings more than doubled in January from December while the average sale price fell, suggesting the city's overheated property market is luring more sellers.
Auckland's biggest real estate firm listed 1,440 properties in January, the highest for that month in five years and up 40 percent from January 2012. The firm had 697 listings in December.
The average sale price last month was $600,754, the first time it has exceeded $600,000 for January. That's up 13 percent from a year earlier and down from $624,015 in December. The average price hit a record $627,721 in November.
New listings in January outpaced the 820 properties sold by Barfoot in the month, which was a six-year high and up 20 percent from a year earlier.
Of the total properties sold, 47 percent were under $500,000 and about 16 percent below $300,000. There were 68 homes sold for more than $1 million.


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The office of the Supervisor of Assessments administers the property assessment cycle for the local real estate tax.
Office responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Working with elected township assessors.
- Making name and address changes for tax billing.
- Calculating farmland assessments from values which are certified from the Illinois Department of Revenue.
- Applying equalization factors.
- Assisting the Board of Review by providing needed information. For an explanation of its duties see Board of Review.
- Assisting taxpayers in preparation of the Senior Homestead Exemption and the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Application. (Click here for link to list of exemptions)
- Processing other types of exemptions (Click here for link to list of exemptions)
- Maintaining mapping of aerial photography.
- Compiling abstract information for the Illinois Department of Revenue.
The Supervisor of Assessments is appointed by the County Board for a four-year term. In Illinois the level of assessment is to be 33 1/3 percent of market value. The assessed value of the property, minus any exemptions if applicable, is the base on which tax levies are calculated. The tax rate is determined by the property tax dollars each local taxing body needs to operate. That rate multiplied by the equalized assessed value results in the tax dollar amount on your tax statement.
Tax Bill questions are answered by the Treasurer's Office.
Rate questions are answered by the County Clerk's Office.
The office of Supervisor of Assessments Ray Durston is located on the second floor of the Historic Courthouse in Hillsboro.
Hours are 8:00 AM-4:00 PM Monday –Friday.
Phone:( 217) 532-9595
Mailing address:
Supervisor of Assessments
1 Courthouse Square Room 201
Hillsboro, IL 62049


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Keeping things simple and showcasing my love for birds. Almost a one layer card. I ended up framing the sentiment to make it a bit more stands out. Hm... looking at the soft colors, makes me want to meditate. :)
Have a fab Thursday, peeps. :)
|Laurel finally get to meet Eli.
|My favorite pic. No, I wasn't being camera shy, but the camera was
about an inch away from my face and that's just way too close. :)
|Stamps from Hero Arts & Papertrey Ink.
|Trinh, me, Lisa, & Martha.
|Shopping time!!!
|Stamp: Some Odd Girl Gwen In Bloom set
|Jeff & Gina... happy 17th anniversary!!
|Lawn Fawn Lunar Light set
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#SpotLAX2020 Has Been Cancelled. Heres Why:
Over the past several months, I have wrestled with a difficult decision: whether or not we could safely hold #SpotLAX2020 in September. With different parts of the country experiencing the crisis brought on by COVID-19 differently and at different times, it was not an easy decision to make. Initially, I was hopeful that we could […]
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EPOCH. Review
- Publisher: Uppercut Games Pty Limited
- Genre: Action
- Released: 10 Nov, 2011
- Size: 254.2 MB
- Price: $0.99
- Intuitive touch and swipe interface.
- Genuinely tactical shooting packed with action.
- Simple and effective visual style; easy to track enemies amongst the rubble.
- A great twist on gallery shooting and games like Infinity Blade.
- Rock, paper, scissors approach to situations can defuse the challenge greatly.
- Limited variety of weapons/accessories; no upgrades or longevity once you have the 'next best' version.
EPOCH. stands alongside a rare handful of games that combine not only beautiful graphics for a handheld device, but gameplay perfectly suited to the iOS platform while also invoking shades of far more complex titles like Infinity Blade; an easy must have for action gamers with minutes to kill each day.
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When small indie game studios boast about their prior professional experience it's generally a PR move to inspire confidence in what they're presenting. What really counts is the final product and in the case of Uppercut Games and their release of EPOCH., the experience and polish that comes from their years in the industry really shows in almost every aspect of the game.
You play as an AI controlled robot (think slightly less horrifying than a Terminator, but no less deadly) with a mission of rescuing the Princess while fighting off other robots that...
Wait what? Robot vs. robot warfare and you're saving a human princess? Strangely enough the premise works as you uncover snippets of news and other pieces of information while decimating enemies in what can only be called a hybrid of chest-high wall covers with agile Infinity Blade style controls all set in a gallery shooter much like Virtua Cop.
I may have lost you somewhere along the line there, but have no fear - it really does work.
Players control their robot through intuitive gestures such as swiping to the sides to roll to new cover in that direction; swiping up or down once or twice to take/leave cover or to reload or perform aerial flips to dodge incoming fire; tapping enemies targets them with auto-fire once you step out of cover or aims various weapons such as grenades or special abilities at them.
It's an action-packed setup that requires players to assess their enemies, determine major threats and dodge incoming attacks based on the enemy type and the weapons they use. Players can pick up armor and weapons of varying types, adding special effects such as stunning enemies, creating a sort of rock, paper, scissors situation where items bought or found in combat can be equipped to counter incoming fire and the enemies defenses.
Unfortunately EPOCH. quite literally falls short with a campaign that takes very little time to complete and only provides replay incentives through the lure of harder challenges in the additional difficulty levels. More of the story is unlocked as well, but the variety of weapons dries up early on making it feel repetitive instead of compelling you to reach for that new shiny item.
Those who loved Infinity Blade and are after something more futuristic should have no trouble enjoying EPOCH. and even with the current version's longevity in question it's worth playing your way to the end of each difficulty at least once.
DescriptionEPOCH - Post-apocalyptic Robot Combat
Featured as "Game of the Week" on the App Store!
Trailer http://youtu.be/I8zc-QxFF38
* IGN.COM - "iOS cover shooting done right".
* TOUCHARCADE.COM - "Cover never felt so awesome"
* SLIDETOPLAY.COM - "Combine the gorgeous look with the superbly tuned touch-screen controls and high level of replayability, and result is a great and unique iOS action game ..."
* GIZMODO.CO.UK - "EPOCH is the new cover-shooter king by several circuit-boards."
* POCKETGAMER.CO.UK - "re-imagining the genre completely for the touchscreen"
* APPOLICIOUS.COM - "It's an absolutely gorgeous game with fast paced visceral combat that keeps you on your toes, and it even has an interesting story thrown in the mix."
* GAMEPRO.COM - "...the game is an Unreal Engine-powered visual tour-de-force that is sure to impress both you and your friends."
Follow the echoes of a lost civilization in a visually-stunning post-apocalyptic world where only robots survive to fight a never-ending war. Fight towards your goal and piece together the fragments to reveal exactly what happened when the old world ended. Is this the dawn of a new Epoch? And how can you find the one person you were originally assigned to protect?
Control your character with intuitive finger swipes. Make split-second tactical decisions, take cover, select targets, dodge incoming fire, utilize special abilities, and launch countermeasures!
Battle escalating waves of robots in arena-style combat, and upgrade yourself with pieces torn from your fallen enemies! Configure your robot with dozens of weapons, armors, boosters and counters.
Fight in multiple locations across a vast and ravaged city, and gather fragments of the past with logs from a cast of characters, each with their own perspective on the apocalyptic events that destroyed a once-proud civilization.
Utilize the enhanced visual capabilities of the iPhone4S and iPad 2 with high-resolution graphics powered by the UnrealEngine, the same engine used to create the visuals of the award winning Infinity Blade.
About Uppercut Games
Uppercut Games is an independent game studio whose founders have a long development history, working on award winning games such as Bioshock, Tribes: Vengeance, Freedom Force and Fallout: Tactics.
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The Revolutionary Optimists Premieres on Independent Lens on Monday, June 17, 2013, on PBS
Inspiring Look at Children Working for Change in the Slums of India
(San Francisco, CA) – The Revolutionary Optimists reveals the work of Bengali visionary, Amlan Ganguly, a passionate former attorney who doesn't just rescue slum children — he empowers them to become change agents, battling poverty and transforming their neighborhoods with dramatic results. Filmed over the course of three years, the film follows Amlan and three of the children he works with on an intimate journey through adolescence, as they challenge the idea that marginalization is written into their destiny. A film by Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen, The Revolutionary Optimists premieres on the award-winning series Independent Lens, hosted by Stanley Tucci, on Monday, June 17, 2013, at 10pm ET on PBS (check local listings).
Using theater, dance, and data, the children have cut malaria rates and turned garbage dumps into playing fields. Now, Amlan and the children have set their sights on goals that push the limits of optimism: trying to bring clean water to a Kolkata slum long denied it, and bringing education and hope to the migrant children working in brick-making fields on the outskirts of the booming city.
Twelve-year old Kajal lives inside gate of a massive brick-making operation, and spends her days washing dishes, carrying bricks, and dreaming of becoming a tailor. After Amlan sets up a makeshift school inside the compound, Kajal suddenly has the chance to get an education. But when her mother falls ill, she must balance her desire to learn and make change with her need to survive.
Priyanka is the teenaged leader of a dance group founded by Amlan to keep slum girls in school and dissuade them from early marriage. But Priyanka's parents are abusing her and she sees only one way out — to marry her young boyfriend. Amlan fights to encourage Priyanka and the rest of the girls to stay in school and keep their eyes on her future. Priyanka's eventual decision to elope breaks Amlan's heart, but he resolves to keep fighting — hoping that one day Priyanka's children will know a better life.
Shika and Salim are fiery 12-year old best friends living in a neighborhood where each morning everyone must walk almost two miles before dawn to get water from a neighboring slum. The film explores the toll not having clean water takes on their families as it follows their heroic efforts to take action. By mapping their community and collecting data, Salim and Shika hope to convince the Colony Committee to give them a drinking water tap. Then fate intervenes, and they are chosen to speak in Delhi in front of Parliament on behalf of their group. Can these children bring about desperately needed change for the whole community?
To learn more about the film, visit the The Revolutionary Optimists companion website http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/revolutionary-optimists which features information about the film, including an interview with the filmmaker and links and resources pertaining to the film's subject matter. The site also features a Talkback section where viewers can share their ideas and opinions, preview clips of the film, and more.
There are more than 5,500 slum communities in Kolkata, India.
12% of Indian children age 5-14 are currently engaged in child labor.
Less than half of all girls in India enroll in secondary school.
47% of Indian girls are married by the time they reach 18.
Today, almost 1 billion people — one in seven of us — live in an urban slum.
The world's slum population grows by 6 million every year.
Today 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking water.
3.4 million people die each year from a water-related disease.
About Amlan Ganguly
A lawyer, Amlan began his career as an apprentice to the most reputed criminal lawyer in Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta). He was soon disillusioned with a legal system that provided little justice to the poor unable to pay fees and withstand the long legal process.
In 1996, Amlan decided to make a complete switch and joined Lutheran World Service India. In 1999, Amlan registered Prayasam with a few friends with the intention of enabling children to participate in the decisions that affect their lives. Under Amlan's leadership, Prayasam has emerged as a regional expert and trailblazer in child rights programming and workshops. Amlan is best known for his use of popular media to engage and educate children in an interactive, problem-posing approach. A self-taught choreographer and fashion designer, Amlan incorporates both contemporary and traditional art forms into Prayasam's alternative education models, which range from song, dance, and comics to puppetry and storytelling. Amlan has made mentorship a hallmark at Prayasam, which has become a platform for introducing young people of diverse backgrounds to the social sector.
Amlan's ideas about education have been recognized worldwide as both timely and important. In 2006, he became an Ashoka Fellow, part of an association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. In July 2007, Amlan was invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to attend the Global Urban Summit on Innovations for an Urban World in Bellagio, Italy. In 2011 Amlan was awarded the Ford Fellowship by the Ford Motor Company Fund and the Picker Center for Executive Education at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Prayasam continues to introduce its peer education and child empowerment concepts to impoverished sectors of society. Notably, Prayasam is working with the West Bengal government to uplift brick kiln migrant worker communities — the first such collaboration between government and an NGO in India — through its signature Multiple Activity Centres. In addition to his work in West Bengal, Amlan facilitates leadership, soft skills, and gender trainings across India, most recently with World Vision India in West Bengal and under the aegis of the Xavier Institute of Social Sciences in Bangalore, India.
About the Filmmakers
Nicole Newnham (Co-Director/Producer) Nicole Newnham is a documentary filmmaker who co-produced and directed the critically acclaimed The Rape of Europa, about the fate of Europe's art treasures during WWII. The Rape of Europa played theatrically in 80 cities across the country, was broadcast on PBS, earned nominations for two national Emmys® and a WGA award, and was shortlisted for the 2007 Documentary Oscar®.
Newnham was also nominated for a national Emmy® Award for co-producing and directing the documentary Sentenced Home (2006), broadcast on Independent Lens, which follows three Cambodian refugees in Seattle who are deported back to Cambodia after 9/11. With Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Brian Lanker, she co-produced They Drew Fire (2000), a widely-acclaimed special for PBS about the combat artists of World War II, and wrote the companion book distributed by Harper Collins. She lives in Oakland with her husband Tom Malarkey and sons Finn and Blaine.
Maren Grainger-Monsen (Co-Director/Producer) Maren Grainger-Monsen is a physician, filmmaker-in-residence, and director of the Program in Bioethics in Film at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics. Grainger-Monsen directed Hold Your Breath (2005) and Worlds Apart (2003), a large-scale project on cross-cultural conflicts in medicine, which was broadcast on national public television and is currently being used in over 70 percent of US medical schools.
Grainger-Monsen's previous films include The Vanishing Line (2000), her journey toward understanding the art and issues of dying, which was broadcast on the PBS series POV; Where the Highway Ends: Rural Healthcare in Crisis (1989), which won a regional Emmy® Award; and Grave Words, which was awarded first place in the American Medical Association Film Festival. She studied film at the London International Film School, received her medical doctorate from the University of Washington, and emergency medicine and palliative care training at Stanford University School of Medicine. She founded the Program in Bioethics and Film at Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics in 1998. Grainger-Monsen lives near Stanford with her husband, medical device entrepreneur and mandolin player Jeff Grainger, her two children Solenn and Tilson, and eight chickens.
About Independent Lens
Independent Lens is an Emmy® Award winning weekly series airing on PBS. The acclaimed anthology series features documentaries united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement, and unflinching visions of independent filmmakers. Presented by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), the series is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private corporation funded by the American people, with additional funding provided by PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the MacArthur Foundation. The senior series producer is Lois Vossen. More information at http://www.pbs.org/independentlens. Join Independent Lens on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/independentlens.
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One of the great mysteries of our faith is the incarnation, our core belief that the eternal and almighty God became a human being, a man who could and did suffer just as we do.
During his ministry on earth, Jesus had a particular concern for sick people; he healed them not just with a word of power, but also with a human and compassionate touch.
The anointing of the sick, like all sacraments, is one way that the church continues the ministry of Jesus. Through it, Christ continues to touch, heal, and comfort. The Letter of James attests that this practice has always been part of ministry: "Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the presbyters of the church, and they should pray over him and anoint [him] with oil in the name of the church" (5:14).
While the sacrament is often administered individually, the church encourages celebrating it within Mass. Many parishes celebrate it on one or more Sundays each year. The sacrament may be received by a baptized person who "begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age," according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1514)—seriously ill, but not necessarily near death—so it may not be apparent that someone receiving the sacrament is ill. The communal celebration reminds us that suffering is part of our human condition and may move us to look on each other with the compassion of Christ the healer. Celebrating this sacrament during Mass also helps us unite our sufferings with Christ's as we recall his body broken and his blood poured out for us.
This sacrament was once called extreme unction (meaning final anointing) because it had, over time, come to be reserved for the dying. The Second Vatican Council renamed it "anointing of the sick" to describe its appropriate place in the life of the Christian faithful: to offer strength and healing in time of serious illness. In the case of anointing a person near death, it is often accompanied by the sacraments of reconciliation (if possible) and viaticum (holy communion for the dying).
Does the sacrament heal? Yes. Is the healing physical? It is certainly what we hope for when we celebrate this sacrament, but we cannot approach it with this expectation. We pray that the Holy Spirit may give strength, peace, and courage to the sick to help them face the difficulties of illness and age with faith and hope.
Sometimes such inner healing results in a physical cure; sometimes it allows medical treatment to be more effective; and sometimes it helps someone face death calmly and hopefully. In each case we are grateful for the compassion of our God.
This article appeared in the November 2011 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 76, No. 11, page 44-46).
Image: Roger van der Weyden (c.1400-1464) Extreme Unction (1445)


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Demented surgeons who know no bounds, crazed doctors keeping brains alive, abductions and decapitations — you can tell Steve Seid had an enormous amount of fun putting together the program for this year's Summer Cinema on Center Street, a free outdoor movie series which kicks off on Saturday August 4.
"I wanted something different from common currency films. I wanted to pull out some of our more disgraceful examples," he says, laughing.
Seid, Video Curator at Pacific Film Archive, delved into the museum's 18,000-strong collection of films to come up with his selection of 16-mm prints for the series, which takes place over three weekends in August and is organized jointly by Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and the Downtown Berkeley Association. The event was launched last year and proved immensely popular, drawing up to 400 people to the Bank of America parking lot for each screening.
The films, which will be shown on the wall of the future Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, are all in the classic B-movie "mad scientist" genre.
In The Atomic Brain on August 4, an aging spinster finances the brain transplant experiments of a deranged scientist in the hope that her brain can be transplanted into the body of a younger woman. Nancy Davis (aka the future Mrs Reagan) stars in Donovan's Brain on August 11 in which a crazed surgeon extracts the brains of monkeys, keeping them alive outside their bodies. And, on August 18, a demented doctor grafts his decapitated fiancées's brain onto the body of a disfigured model in The Brain That Wouldn't Die. Needless to say, mayhem ensues.
Each of the movies, which are on average 80 minutes long, will be screened at around 9pm at twilight, and they will preceded by a program of pre-movie mania, also orchestrated by Seid. This includes a music, some brief and lively lectures and readings, short films, and "freaky performances."
"What can you say: outdoors and off-the-wall. Cerebral cinema is a no-brainer," says Seid.
Berkeleyside is proud to sponsor the Summer Cinema on Center Street for the second year.
Programs on August 4, 11 and 18 begin at 7:30pm. Everyone is encouraged to bring their own chairs and/or blankets. For full information, visit the BAM/PFA website.
To find out about more events in Berkeley and nearby, check out Berkeleyside's Events Calendar. We also encourage you to submit your own events.


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After a lifetime of hard work, UTU rail, bus and airline members look forward to a secure retirement.
In an ideal world, it would be that simple. In the real world, careful planning and attention to detail are essential.
Topping the list of retirement concerns are money and health-care insurance; but you also must present certain documentation prior to receiving benefits.
Sources of income
As a rule of thumb, between 70 and 80 percent of pre-retirement income is needed to enjoy a comfortable retirement, says the Social Security Administration.
Neither Railroad Retirement (covering career railroad workers), Social Security nor CalPERS (covering certain California public transit agency workers) was intended to be a retirees' sole source of income, and thus will replace only about 40 percent of pre-retirement income, says the Social Security Administration.
Railroad Retirement, Social Security and CalPERS retirement benefits should be thought of as part of a three-legged financial security stool — the other two legs to include other investments, such as your home equity, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), a 401(k) savings plan and whole life insurance.
Those taking early retirement, or retiring on a disability, may be eligible for certain supplemental benefits until they reach full retirement age. If you are retiring early, you should determine from your employer, Medicare and/or Railroad Retirement, Social Security or CalPERS, what supplemental benefits may be available to you.
Monthly benefits
Railroad Retirement and Social Security annuitants and their spouses will receive monthly benefit checks directly from the federal government.
It is wise to arrange, when applying for retirement benefits, to have the checks deposited electronically into your bank account.
Whether it's Railroad Retirement, Social Security or CalPERS, those agencies will respond to your request for estimates of monthly retirement benefits available to you and your spouse. One of your first pre-retirement chores should be to obtain this estimate, because those benefits will be the foundation of your post-retirement income. You may also wish to speak with a certified financial planner, and/or a UTUIA field representative, about post-retirement financial issues.
Time to retire
Filing for retirement benefits — and investigating Medicare health care options – should begin at least three months prior to your planned retirement date.
Filing for benefits generally is accomplished by visiting a Railroad Retirement, Social Security or CalPERS field office, where you will be asked to provide various documents necessary for the processing of retirement benefits payable to you and your spouse. Information on the location of field offices may be obtained by calling the toll-free telephone numbers listed on this page.
During the pre-retirement interview, you may determine that there is an advantage to you or your spouse waiting a little longer to draw retirement benefits. Be sure to enquire about limitations on post-retirement earnings, and how such earnings may reduce Railroad Retirement, Social Security or CalPERS benefits.
With some advance planning and attention to detail, the transition from employment to retirement should be smooth sailing. The best time to begin the process is now!
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Rep. Cohen reveals secret daughter
The young woman with whom Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen was exchanging bizarre tweets during the State of the Union address is, in fact, his daughter, POLITICO has learned.
Today, Cohen (D-Tenn.), gave a private news conference in his office with NBC and CBS, letting reporters there know that the woman who identified herself on Twitter as Victoria Brink is his daughter, whose existence he discovered three years ago, a spokesman from Cohen's office told POLITICO on Thursday.
( PHOTOS: Scenes from the SOTU)
"I Googled her mother, found out she had a child and the math looked pretty accurate," Cohen told NBC News. "The mom told me we had a lot of catching up to do."
Some of Cohen's constituents were, at first, concerned about the tweets, believing that the politician should have been more focused on the president's speech, Action News 5 reported. Cohen, however, couldn't contain his excitement in hearing from his daughter.
"When she let me know she was watching the State of the Union address, I was thrilled that she wanted Steve Cohen to be part of her. I had such joy, that I couldn't hold back from tweeting her," he told NBC news.
When initially asked about the tweets, Cohen's office said that Brink was a daughter of a longtime friend, according to Action News 5 of Memphis, Tenn.
The politician's deleted tweets, which were archived by Politwoops, were subject to scrutiny when the young college student let him know that she saw him at the State of the Union. The politician tweeted back to the young woman: "nice to know you were watchin SOTU(state of the union).Happy Valentines beautiful girl. ilu".
"Cohen was emotional while telling the story about his daughter, fought back tears, could feel genuine fatherly emotion," tweetedNBC News reporter Luke Russert, who co-wrote the story, on Thursday.


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Qualcomm Atheros is rolling out StreamBoost, a technology that will be used in Wi-Fi routers and gateways to improve the performance of movies and games streamed over wireless home networks.
While the new 802.11ac standard was designed to address increasingly crowded wireless networks, StreamBoost combined with 802.11ac will improve performance further by managing and shaping traffic, Qualcomm said on Friday.
High-performance PC vendor Alienware and D-Link Systems will demonstrate routers based on 802.11ac and StreamBoost at next week's International CES trade show in Las Vegas.
Network management
To improve performance over time, StreamBoost-compatible products incorporate an opt-in, cloud-based service that allows new applications and devices to be identified and optimally managed as they are added to a network, according to Qualcomm.
StreamBoost-compatible products will also come with an interface that allows users to see all the devices connected to their home network, the applications they are using and the real-time bandwidth usage of each application and device.
This year's CES will be special for Qualcomm since CEO Paul Jacobs is the pre-show keynote speaker for the first time. On Thursday, the company posted a video sneak peek, and promised it will demonstrate a few firsts. The keynote will take place on January 7, and CES will officially open its doors on January 8.
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