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Aside from Mayan temples and Emiliano Zapata's mustachioed visage, perhaps nothing is more emblematic of Mexico's mysterious grandeur than the films of Gabriel Figueroa.
In a career that consisted of more than 200 movies in multiple genres, made in Mexico and Hollywood with some of the leading directors and actors of his time, Figueroa crafted a lasting national iconography. The cinematographer's monumental shots of burnished landscapes and close-ups of campesinos' weathered, earnest faces are as instantly recognizable to his countrymen as the great murals of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco.
Rivera, in fact, referred to Figueroa as "the fourth muralist," distinguished by his epic-sized, dramatically lighted compositions in such cinematic masterpieces as "Flor Silvestre" (Wild Flower, 1943), "Maria Candelaria" (1944) and "Enamorada" (A Woman in Love, 1946). In a country shattered by a revolution that claimed 1 million lives, Figueroa and his artistic contemporaries hammered out a heroically idealized yet sympathetically perceptive vision of nationhood and selfhood, what Figueroa called "una imágen méxicana."
"All of them [were] engaged in that same project, of picturing Mexican history and Mexican identity, on a scale and for the populace," says Britt Salvesen, curator of the photography and prints and drawings departments at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She and Rita Gonzalez, LACMA associate curator of contemporary art, of the co-curated LACMA's exhibition "Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa — Art and Film," which opens Sept. 22 and runs through Feb. 2.
Yet the popular perception of Figueroa as a patriotic mythmaker obscures the virtuosity of his craftsmanship and the variety of his influences: Renaissance forced perspectives, German Expressionist cinema, Goya's prints and the euphoric landscape paintings of José María Velasco.
Born in 1907 in Mexico City, Figueroa had something of a Dickensian upbringing. His mother died soon after giving birth to him. His father then fled to Paris, where he eventually succumbed to alcohol and despair. Figueroa was raised by relatives; at age 16, he landed a job in a commercial photography studio before finding his way into Mexico's expanding film industry.
Later, working with directors as disparate as Emilio "El Indio" Fernández, Luis Buñuel, Roberto Gavaldón, John Ford, Don Siegel and John Huston, Figueroa repeatedly modified his highly controlled, choreographic style to fit various genres, from folkloric melodramas and historical epics to telenovelas and film noir.
But as the LACMA exhibition demonstrates with video clips, still photos and an accompanying film series, he always retained certain visual signatures: startling collisions of light and darkness, mainly captured in black and white imagery; unfurling clouds shot through infrared filters to enhance their surreal majesty; sculptural silhouettes and symmetrical rows of plants, people and inanimate objects; moody panoramas of deserts or a chaotically modernizing Mexico City, notably in Buñuel's "Los Olvidados" (The Young and the Damned, 1950).
Gonzalez says the exhibition's contrasting views of Figueroa's prolific output "challenge the visitor to really think about, 'OK, he was a master at these Mexican skies and naturalismand realism.' But he also really did some amazing work that showed the influence of film noir, showed the influence of a great cinematographer like Gregg Toland, his mentor."
It was Toland, director of photography for "Citizen Kane," who referred Figueroa to Ford, another great mythologizer of monumental landscapes and manifest destinies. That helped Figueroa land the job as cinematographer on Ford's "The Fugitive" (1947), based on Grahame Greene's novel "The Power and the Glory," about a whiskey priest fleeing the anticlerical Mexican regime, and starring Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio and Pedro Armendáriz.
During the golden age of Mexican cinema and the Hollywood studio system, Figueroa kept company with big-screen royalty: Del Rio, Armendáriz, María Félix, Ninón Sevilla. He trained his camera on Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr romping on the Pacific Coast in Huston's 1964 adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the Iguana."
A previous version of the exhibition was shown in 2008 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Once again, the show's main source of materials is the Televisa Foundation, a sibling organization of Mexico's gargantuan Televisa film and television production empire.
But LACMA's exhibition, being co-presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has been significantly re-worked for a predominantly U.S. viewership. In keeping with a strategy employed for its massive recent Stanley Kubrick retrospective, LACMA is using other art works, including some from its permanent collection, to flesh out various themes in "Under the Mexican Sky."
For example, to help interpret the folkloric and nationalistic motifs in movies such as "Maria Candelaria," starring Del Rio as a self-sacrificing indigenous woman, LACMA is displaying Rivera's painting "Flower Day" (1925), a beatific and ennobling depiction of Indian peasants.
The exhibition also looks at how works by non-Mexican artists, such as photographers Edward Weston and Tina Modotti and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, contributed to notions of Mexican identity that Figueroa and his contemporaries built on. A future LACMA film series will explore the influence of Figueroa, who died in 1997, on such contemporary filmmakers as Mexico's Carlos Reygadas and Nicolás Pereda.
The exhibition also includes works examining Figueroa's effect on contemporary Mexican and Chicano visual artists. Among them are performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña's investigations of the charro, a traditional Mexican horseman, as a masculine archetype. Toward the end of the show, there's a video piece by Melanie Smith and Rafael Ortega, "Aztec Stadium. Malleable Deed." It depicts 3,000 students, seated at Mexico City's massive soccer arena, struggling to form gigantic graphic images from their individually hand-held placards.
"It is this notion about the kind of failure when the nation is putting so much effort into producing this unified vision of itself through images," Gonzalez says. "So it's sort of a postmodern coda to Figueroa."
If Figueroa's unswerving enshrinement of Mexico's postrevolutionary ideals opens him to charges of being a highly skilled propagandist, his technical mastery has led some to view him as a cinematic auteur — a director in all but title. Particularly in his fruitful collaborations with "Indio" Fernández, Figueroa's contributions went well beyond those of camera placement.
"Fernández directed the actors. Figueroa did everything else," says Bernardo Rondeau, LACMA's assistant curator of film.
Spurred by Figueroa's singular example, a museum-convened panel of directors and cinematographers will delve into issues about film authorship in a related program that will take place at LACMA this year or early in 2014.
"Figueroa in a way sits at the center of that tension: to what extent he was directing a film, to what extent he was just in charge of the technical aspect of a film," says Jose Luis Blondet, LACMA's associate curator of special initiatives.
It's a complex question that helped make Figueroa an appealing subject both for LACMA, which has expanded its film-related programming in recent years, and the motion picture academy, which is planning to open a museum in the LACMA-owned May Co. building in 2017.
Michael Govan, LACMA's director, says focusing an exhibition on a cinematographer such as Figueroa is a great way of "messaging to the world a point of view that the academy has long struggled to convey, that the making of a film is not just the director.
"In Hollywood," Govan adds with a laugh, "if I've learned anything in seven years, it's 'Don't become too auteur-centric.'"


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DENVER — Brittany Moore sobbed as she told a crowd of 200 dog lovers gathered Wednesday afternoon on the west steps of the State Capitol about the day in May 2011 when an Erie police officer shot and killed her 4-year-old German shepherd, Ava.
"Imagine watching your best friend get shot to death in front of you," Moore said in front of a crowd holding up signs professing their love of canines, large and small. "Ava lay back on the ground and died slowly. I will never forget the sounds of my daughters' tortured cries that night."
Moore, 30, of Erie, has become the face of a growing movement in Colorado and is one of the sources of inspiration for a bipartisan bill — which was unanimously approved Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee — designed to ensure law enforcement officers are better trained and equipped to deal with dogs.
The committee sent the bill, SB 226, or the "Dog Protection Act," on to the full Senate for a vote.
Moore was one of several dog owners who spoke to committee members about the death of a beloved pet at the hands of police. She tearfully testified that a bullet officer Jamie Chester fired severed Ava's spinal cord, disabling the dog's legs. She said she wasn't permitted to be with Ava as the dog slowly died.
She said her three daughters used to trust police officers but after the shooting no longer could.
"They have nightmares, they are angry and they still cry," Moore said. "And they don't understand why a police officer would kill their dog. How, as a mother, do I explain that?"
Chester was cleared by the Boulder County District Attorney's Office after the shooting, but Moore has sued the town and the officer in federal court, claiming that Ava never acted aggressively toward Chester during the encounter. The officer reported that the dog bared its teeth and lunged at him.
Erie spokesman Fred Diehl said Wednesday that the town couldn't comment on pending litigation.
Rash of dog shootings
The Dog Protection Act was introduced to the Senate by David Balmer, R-Centennial, and Lucia Guzman, D-Denver.
The death of Moore's German shepherd was one of about 40 dog shootings by law enforcement in the past five years, said Balmer, a self-professed dog lover. Several recent cases have made headlines and prompted residents in Colorado to call on lawmakers to put in place better training protocols for officers, he said.
Gary Branson, whose pitbull Chloe was Tasered and then fatally shot by a Commerce City police officer in November, told the committee the officer most likely responded the way he did because he wasn't properly trained to deal with dogs.
"It's a shame that a dog could be lost out of someone's ignorance about how dogs act," he said. "It's like losing a family member; there's no difference to me."
The incident was captured on video and widely broadcast on television and the Internet. The 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office charged the officer who shot the dog, Robert Price, with aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony.
Balmer said the bill is not an attempt to embarrass or pick fights with police. He helped craft the bill with the input of many law enforcement agencies and sheriffs, including Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle.
He said the law enforcement community is largely behind the bill because it brings a common-sense approach to a growing problem. The bill doesn't include penalties for officers who fail to follow the protocols that are eventually put into place, leaving that up to individual departments.
"We think the more officers become comfortable with dogs, the more that they will know how to handle dogs in a nonviolent way," he said. "And the ultimate goal is to reduce dog shootings."
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson appeared before the committee Wednesday and pushed for the act, calling it a "well-considered" bill.
Training central to bill
The Dog Protection Act would require municipal police departments and sheriff's offices to develop training programs to prepare officers and deputies for encounters with dogs.
It would also establish a task force made up of animal welfare experts that would be charged with developing a training curriculum and producing a web- or video-based program to teach officers and deputies how to interpret dog behavior and assess whether an animal is truly a threat.
"All this bill requires is three hours of training for these officers," Jennifer Edwards, founder and attorney with Wheat Ridge-based The Animal Law Center, told the committee. Edwards helped draft the bill.
Central to the legislation, Balmer said, is a provision that would require officers to allow dog owners to remove or control their dogs before police take action against the animals. He said that provision could help prevent many shootings from occurring in the first place.
"It creates an affirmative duty for the officer on a nonviolent call to give dog owners the opportunity to get their dogs under control," the senator said.
He said there are exceptions in the bill, such as entering a drug house or responding to a violent call, where officers can use their discretion to protect themselves and others.

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If LeBron James played third base or centerfield and was as dominant in baseball as he is in basketball, he would take home a bigger paycheck twice a month from the team fortunate enough to have him in the lineup.
He also would be expected to play 162 games, take the field in frigid Minneapolis or sweltering St. Louis and give up some of those marvelous endorsement deals around the globe, which doesn't fully embrace the national pastime. Oh, and he might not have a ring yet.
Some things presumably are worth more even than dollars, which James at least seemed to get when he spoke with reporters at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis Friday after the Miami Heat's shootaround. The subject turned to his value, to the (ahem) sacrifices some star players make and, inevitably, to money.
"It doesn't matter to me to be the highest-paid player in the league," James continued. "What I do on the floor shows my value. At the end of the day, I don't think my value of what I do on the floor can be compensated anyways because of the [collective bargaining agreement].
"If we had the truth, if this was baseball, I'd be up there – real up there. But it's not. You play by the rules."
In the big leagues, James' $17.5 million contract for 2012-13 would rank no higher than 24th, well behind the likes of the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez ($30 million in 2012), the Dodgers' Vernon Wells ($24.2 million) and Johan Santana of the New York Mets, who gets paid $23.1 million for participating in about 34 games in a healthy year. As it is, James is tied with teammate Chris Bosh for 13th on the NBA pay scale, which is topped by Kobe Bryant's $27.8 million from the Lakers (Bryant was "grandfathered" in before current maximum-salary restrictions) .
No one is going to, or at least ever should, hold a telethon for any of these guys. But every so often, the constraints of the NBA's salary-cap and max salary structures bubble up as fodder for discussion. Sometimes it is unmoored from reality.
Yes, in a purely free-market industry, superstars like James, his Miami cohorts Bosh and Dwyane Wade and maybe two dozen others would break through the artificial ceiling of a maximum salary. Michael Jordan wasn't bound by max rules in his final season with the Chicago Bulls and pocketed $33.1 million – way back in 1997-98. James himself wondered a couple years ago if his value might soar to $50 million a season. Some have suggested that it would push well beyond that.
And it's true that MLB has no salary cap, which permits player contracts to settle where the market dictates. But baseball has the aforementioned 162 revenue opportunities and ballparks for 40,000 customers or more.
Also, it is a different sport – one superstar player can't shift the balance of power in baseball the way he can in basketball, and competitive balance is part of the rationale at least for salary caps. Maybe in theory a team could pay James or Bryant $50 million per season and divvy up the other $8 million and change to 11 other guys. But that probably wouldn't be the smartest distribution of compensation, in terms of generating the greatest efficiency, morale and results.
It's true that James, Bosh and Wade all accepted less than top dollar to hook up with the Heat in the summer of 2010 and so far their plan has more than made up the difference in dollars forfeited – an NBA title last June, two trips to The Finals and marketing opportunities that surely trump the amounts they left on the table in Miami's front office.
It also is true and kind of interesting that James, the heavy favorite to win his fourth MVP award this spring, never has been the NBA's highest-paid player.
"I have not had a full max deal yet in my career — that's a story untold," James said.
"I don't get (the credit) for it. That doesn't matter to me; playing the game is what matters to me. Financially, I'll sacrifice for the team. It shows for some of the top guys, it isn't all about money. That's the genuine side of this, it's about winning. I understand that."
Reports had Wade, within earshot of the conversation, reminding them all that James does just fine on at the pay window. Which is a good thing, because that sort of talk can get unseemly fast. It bears no resemblance to the sort of "sacrifice" many NBA fans feel – and make, if they happen to buy tickets to actually attend a game or three – on a daily basis.
NBA money seems to flow in a pretty familiar pattern now: Star players, coming off their rookie deals, most often stay put for their second contracts because their current teams can pay them the most. Then with the freedom of free agency after that, they either re-up for top dollar or go elsewhere, either for the best financial deal available or for something squishier like lifestyle, personal preferences or the best chance to chase a ring.
One last bit of business here: It's bad form for the person who's unpaid to talk much about it. Same as it is for active athletes who pronounce their own Hall of Fame-worthiness.


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WORCESTER, Mass. – The Yale heavyweight crew team had its best finish in five years at the Eastern Sprints on Sunday. Yale's varsity eight locked in a grand final berth with a solid second-place finish in the heat and came back in the afternoon to finish fifth in the grand final. This marks the best finish for the crew since 2008 where the varsity eight finished fourth. Yale's other crews raced well all around, with the JV leading both the heat and petite final for the first thousand meters, the 3V making a big turnaround from its heat to the petite final and the four finishing third in its straight final. The Bulldogs were in the hunt in each and every race, and will look to build on these solid performances in two weeks at the IRA.
In the first race of the day for the Bulldogs, Yale fielded a four with coxswain that raced in a straight final against BU, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Northeastern and Syracuse. Here Yale finished third behind Syracuse and BU.
Order Entry Result
1 Syracuse 6:46.849
3 Yale 6:54.165
4 Northeastern 6:57.560
5 Dartmouth 7:19.956
The first eights race of the morning for the Bulldogs was the third varsity eight. Yale finished the heat in fourth place with a time of 6:19.058, about ten seconds off the pace of the lead pack that included Navy, Northeastern and Columbia in third.
In the petite final the Bulldogs turned it around, getting their bow ball in front off the start. Columbia pushed back into the Bulldogs around the 1000-meter mark and overstroked the field with several hundred meters left to go. The Lions were able to hold on to this high rating and crossed the line first, followed by Cornell, and then Yale in third for a ninth-place finish overall. The Bulldogs closed the 10-second gap behind Columbia from the heats to just 2.5 seconds, and likewise held Cornell to roughly the same margin that that separated them from the Big Red at the Carnegie Cup back in April.
Order Entry Result
1 Columbia 6:25.278
2 Cornell 6:26.511
3 Yale 6:27.948
4 Harvard 6:31.696
5 Syracuse 6:33.139
6 Dartmouth 6:35.410
Yale's second varsity eight had a great start to its first race of the day. In the second of three second varsity eight heats, the Bulldogs had an inspired first thousand meters, jumping off the line to lead BU, Harvard, Holy Cross, MIT and Navy after about 40 strokes. Yale had a few seats over Harvard and nearly a length on BU heading into the halfway point of the race, at which point the Crimson and the Terriers started to press back. The Bulldogs tried to hold off BU in the last 750 meters but could not keep their bow ball in front. At the finish line it was Harvard followed by BU and Yale in third headed to the petite final.
In the afternoon's petite final the Yale second varsity again put its bow ball out front after the start. The Bulldogs held on to the lead up to the 1000-meter mark but Cornell started to come back. Yale responded with a sprint but could not close the gap all the way. At the finish line it was Cornell by 1.4 seconds over Yale, again a big improvement over the six seconds that separated the Bulldogs from the Big Red three weeks ago.
Order Entry Result
1 Cornell 6:25.136
2 Yale 6:26.527
3 Syracuse 6:30.909
4 Penn 6:36.606
5 Navy 6:38.367
6 Columbia 6:44.263
The last race of the morning for Yale was the varsity eight. In a heat with No. 2-seeded Northeastern, the Yale varsity would need to do as the 3V and JV did and close the gap on Cornell that had lingered since the Carnegie Cup in order to get a spot in the finals. The Bulldogs rose to the challenge with great endeavor, pulling ahead of the Big Red early on and putting nearly six seconds between them by the finish line. Northeastern won the heat, but Yale would also go through to the grand final.
Order Entry Result
1 Northeastern 6:11.233
2 Yale 6:14.799
3 Cornell 6:20.600
4 Georgetown 6:28.719
5 Columbia 6:36.696
The varsity eight grand final went off at 5:00 p.m. as scheduled, by which point a headwind had picked up and a light rain had started to fall over Lake Quinsigamond. The Bulldogs handled the conditions well from lane five and locked into a race with Princeton in lane six off the start. Brown, Harvard and Northeastern all got out quick as well, and through the body of the race it looked like Harvard and Brown were carving out a lead with Northeastern in the mix and Yale and Princeton not far off. At the finish Harvard sprinted to the line for the win, followed by Brown and Northeastern, but Yale sprinted as well to close on Princeton and cross the line for a close fifth-place finish.
Order Entry Result
1 Harvard 5:56.721
2 Brown 6:01.925
3 Northeastern 6:03.746
4 Princeton 6:08.917
5 Yale 6:09.432
The Bulldogs now have about a week and half before their next race, the IRA National Championships. This year's regatta will be held in Sacramento, Calif., from May 31 to June 2.
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Hearts ... to Bluffton's new police chief who has been on the job for a couple of months now and is settling in nicely.
Chief Joey Reynolds has the experience and knows what he is doing.
His tenure is one that we're sure everyone will be watching. One thing is for sure, the growth Bluffton has experienced during the past 10 years has made the area attractive to vacationers, retirees and young professionals.
Reynolds has spent a good bit of time getting to know the community and we think that is important. He's approachable, likable and thoughtful.
As our community continues to grow and also be challenged with increased crime, we feel sure Chief Reynolds and his team will take the right approach about protecting the quality of life we have all come to enjoy in the greater Bluffton area.
We look forward to seeing Reynolds out and about and watching his progress.
Darts ... to the political signs that are still in ditches and on the side of the road after the Nov. 6 election has come and gone and the challenges to those races also have come and gone.
We don't do this very often, but we are singling out Dan Duryea for his signs that can be found throughout Beaufort County Council District 7.
The races are over. Let's get in the holiday spirit and recruit some campaign volunteers to pick up the signs. They can probably be recycled.
There could be a really good reason for not picking up the signs, but we aren't sure what it is. The signs we want to see are of the holiday season that is upon us; not remnants of a local County Council race.
Hearts ... to the events happening all over the Lowcountry to help us get into the holiday spirit. From churches, to neighborhoods, to clubs, to workplaces and just about any organized group, people are taking time to celebrate the season.
Just good fellowship and spending time with people is important.
We all work hard and enjoy a little break from the hustle and bustle of the workday. Getting out and spending time with people during the holidays is a good way spread some holiday cheer. It also helps us take our minds off the usual stresses of our lives.
Get out and enjoy the camaraderie.
Darts ... to a decision to lower the speed limit on the Bluffton Parkway at the entrance of Pinecrest.
It may seem like a quick solution to a bigger problem with residents trying to get in and out of the development.
Beaufort County is wrestling with how to pay for a traffic signal and residents have attended meetings and started being more vocal about their safety and a petition drive to get the attention of County Council.
The speed reduction seems like a Band-Aid.
The county is still considering its options and county staff plans to make a recommendation this month.
Statistics cited by a traffic engineer report that just two wrecks in the last three and a half years were related to crossing the intersection, with most resulting from rear-end collisions.
Last time we checked, the parkway was created as way for motorists to avoid U.S. 278 and still get to their destination within a reasonable amount of time.
This issue is probably just heating up. Stay tuned
Hearts ... to the winners of the seventh annual Bluffton Today holiday cookie contest.
We received a lot of entries this year and some repeat winners include a few Sun City residents.
Sharing those recipes and allowing us to put them into a special section in time for the holidays was another great bit of content for Bluffton Today.
If you missed the special edition, it published Nov. 14 and recipes can be found on our website, blufftontoday.com.
Special thanks to food columnist Sue Ade for managing the project, making the cookies, using the recipes and then allowing the Bluffton Today staff to taste the goodness.
Staff favorite: Bourbon balls.


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KDE 4.1 is scheduled for release at the end of July 2008. This is a significant milestone for the KDE 4 series and for KDE in general, but as an early release in the KDE 4 cycle, it does have some known issues which will not be fixed in KDE 4.1. Huge progress has been made in KDE 4.1 which is listed in the KDE 4.1 Feature Plan.
Some of the more obvious issues are listed below. If these issues are important to you, you should stay with KDE 3.5 or KDE 4.0 until KDE 4.2 when most of these issues are scheduled to be resolved.
It is possible that distributions will work around some of these issues before distributing to users. KDE 4.2 is currently scheduled for release in February 2009.
The desktop in KDE 4.1 will mark the start of some significant user interface changes. This is a step away from the way the KDE 3 desktop was designed, but everything possible on your KDE 3.5.9 desktop will also be possible on your KDE 4 desktop. For KDE 4.1, however, some features are not yet complete, but should be ready for KDE 4.2.
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FolderView is a new technology on the KDE 4 desktop which allows more than one collection of icons on your "desktop" and discourages using it as dumping ground for miscellaneous files. However, it can still be configured to behave just like KDE 3 did. See this blog entry by Lydia Pintscher for some more information on FolderView.
The following issues are known are scheduled to be resolved in KDE 4.2 next February:
Some KDE 3 applications have not yet been ported to KDE 4. Most distributions still package KDE 3 versions of these applications with their KDE 4 desktops. Some notable applications which will not be included in KDE 4.1 are listed below:


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As a former Montrealer this is the Hi-Fi show for me, it has been a around in one guise or another for a very long time and always enjoyed going to it. The other shows are relative newcomers and while some may stumble and disappear (I hope not) I do have a soft spot for this one and hope it survives and thrives as it is a favourite of mine. Hello NYC show in a few weeks.
Too Many Shows?
The number of exhibitors at the 2013 SSI was down significantly from last year (from 85 to 70, according to the report by Jason Serinus. There is a Toronto show, which has had two successful years, and their next show is being held November 13, 2013. The Toronto show provides additional competition for the Montreal show, at least for exhibitors. The Montreal show gets some attendees from Toronto, but my sense is that this is not a major effect. Most of the people attending the Montreal show are from the Montreal area.
In any case, although I have no figures on this, attendance at the Montreal show seems to be holding. Friday was a bit on the quiet side, but the corridors on Saturday were teeming with people, and many rooms were difficult to get into. Show organizers Michel Plante and Sarah Tremblay keep coming up with new ideas to make the show interesting, eg, this year's headphone exhibit, and the designated "Under $5000" systems. And, as a group, exhibitors are at least as intent to share their love of music as they are to "move product." As a result, and with the cheerful, highly competent contribution of the SSI stafflike Claudia L'Ecuyer at the registration desk, shown in the pictureattending SSI is simply fun. Look at the faces of the people in the picture and see if you don't agree.
... these shows are partly the result of failed brick and mortar stores. They serve a similar function, where the public and go and see, smell, and hear (hopefully.)
So it's a shift in financial expenditure back to the manufacturer. And to the customer, who must pay just to window shop.
- the under $5K systems
- the headphones grouped at the tables
Those are obvious ideas but very good ones.
The next step, and I'll be surprised if no one is able to make it come to pass, will be relatively large displays where attendees can glance at a wide selection of grouped gear such as amplifiers or turntables. These would be static displays with information as to which room(s) had them displayed with staff playing DJ.
Way too many shows. Even for a modest exhibit effort, a small company that typically exhibits at these shows is going to be paying a minimum of $5000 in exhibiting and shipping expenses alone for the smallest space available. Add to that the cost of transportation, hotel rooms, meals, and cost of staff, and it isn't hard to top 5 figures for a 3 day effort with a limited number of attendees. Now, multiply that number by the shows that one can potentially select:
RMAF, Axpona Chicago, THE Show Newport, Northern California, NYC audio show, Capitol Audio Fest, Toronto, Montreal, and don't forget CES. Plus, now many US companies also feel compelled to exhibit at Munich in order to reach international customers. And that one's a big chunk of change.
What small niche company, as most high end audio companies are, can afford all that? It's unsustainable. The loss of exhibitors in Montreal is no doubt in large part due to the new Axpona show in Chicago 2 weeks ago, which was both less expensive and more convenient to do, with more perceived "bang for the buck" in terms of attendees, and no need to deal with cross border issues of shipping and other problems. Too bad for SSI which indeed is a well organized and fun show.
I think it's inevitable that there will be winners and losers in this game, and ultimately some of these shows will have to go away. At least I hope so, because what's going on now isn't really healthy for anybody. They're clearly starting to cannibalize on each other.
No law that says you have to go to every one. Small companies will do what small companies do: pick and choose how to spend limited resources.
For consumers there is no better way to sample a variety of audio products. And so I can think of no better investment of marketing dollars for the audio company. Don't do them all, just as many as you can.
cannibalize is indeed the key word.
Audio shows are like a two edged sword. On the one hand, it is informative to see a lot of gear in one place and to talk to manufacturers and dealers about their products. No other arena is available to the high end consumer that provides such a learning experience. On the other hand, yes there seems to be a lot of them to attend.
I visited Axpona, RMAF, and the Capitol Audio Fest and I had a great time at all of them. I enjoyed talking to a lot of people and had fun visiting the cities in which they were held. But I probably also spent about $5000.00 on all three considering air fare, hotels, rental cars, meals and what ever else. And of course time away from work.
Clearly, these shows are very expensive for manufacturers and dealers. But again, where will they have the opportunity to talk to so many potential customers?
In my business life, a growing trend in trade shows is a larger number of smaller, more regional shows as opposed to large mega shows. Most are put on by the same companies only in different cities. This allows visitation, in large part, by automobile. And usually done in one day. This is a formula that is far easier to accommodate participation.
Maybe this is not the recipe for high end audio but I do know that I would have rather taken one day driving to and from a smaller local show and spent the $5000.00 on new gear.
Seems pretty clear that no one answer is the correct one. Audio shows will most likely continue to thrive for the immediate future. Everyone will complain about the associated costs and difficulties attending them. As with so much else in high end audio, you just have to live with it.
Great way get tax deductions for vacations for the remaining purported "dealers" and some "manufacturers." Also preparing, attending, and returning for can be cited as reasons not to attend to any needs of those awful, pesky "customers" that Mike Kay in NYC conditioned every sociopath in the industry to hate and despise. Put everybody off so well that they will go away, never to bother the lordly masters of their own little unrealities again.
I'm looking forward to the NY show. The last 'hifi' show I attended was also in NY at the Pennsylvania Hotel. That was the year Philips introed the audio cassette..So it's been awhile!
Here in the Northwest far reaches we are show starved. We had a DYI show visit us about 4 or 5 years ago. That one was a lot of fun but went by the wayside from what I can tell. Closest shows now are 1,000 or so miles (Vegas, Newport, Denver). So if y'all are tired of 'em send one are way.
There are currently WAY too many shows in No. America.
Vendors who support real hifi stores are straining to afford participation. Vendors who sell direct to the public are THRILLED!
The (perhaps) unintended consequence will be the failure of brick & mortar retailers, the vendors who currently market through them, the audio magazines and the high end itself (in that order)!
The remedy is for traditional vendors to wake up and discontinue supporting ALL these unneccessary shows.
Yes, there seems to be more audio show now than before. Bad for Stereophile's staffs because you guys have to cover them all and I can understand the effect of smaller companies... but they can choose war show they want to exhibit.
But I'm in NYC so it is good for me since there will a show in NYC again this year. Otherwise I can't afford to travel elsewtooth for other shows.
AXPONA was the first of the new wave of Shows and we feel it has a signaficant advantage over other events. The only other shows, when AXPONA was founded, were RMAF and Montreal. The principals of AXPONA have a 40 year background in the industry as retailers, distributors and consultants. This experience actually translates to real advantages for those attending an AXPONA show as a exhibitor or attendee. If you read the reviews from both of these groups you will find the rooms sounded better, the prices for display space were more resonable and the results much greater as a means to educate those looking to really be able to hear and see the differences in equipment.
As a distributor displaying at over 12 years worth of events including RMAF Montreal, Stereophile and CES as well as traveling to Europe and South America to visit shows, a greater understanding of the needs of the exhibitors and attendees was learned in a real world fashion. This translates to a heightened experience for those attending AXPONA Events.
AXPONA was originally set as the only spring show in the US and picked April as its target month. We will now return to April with a annual event in Chicago. This years show set a great standard for not only AXPONA but for others to strive to reach.
See you next year in The Windy City
I'm not sure if there are too many, but as someone who exhibits at every single one, I can tell you we've reached a limit. What makes it worse is the serious clumping around certain times and the seasonal head scratchers.
SSI came just two weeks after AXPONA this year. As a result, my demo system only made it back to CT the night before I needed to leave for Montreal. Worse yet, Calif. Audio comes the weekend following Capital Audiofest. In practical terms, that means shipping many hundreds of pounds of large boxes 2nd Day Air coast to coast on top of all the other show expenses.
I imagine some shows are timed the way they are to get good pricing from the hotels, but Chicago and Montreal in March, D.C. at the end of July and Toronto now the first weekend in November are HORRIBLE times for shows. Three of the four risk missing exhibitors or extremely low attendance at the hands of extreme weather.
It would be nice if someone not connected to the shows could referee the timing and spacing. . . I know - dream on.
AXPONA will be 24-27 of April 2014. We will maintain this date for all AXPONA future events. When we first strted AXPONA we choose April for our show. The Atlanta Event in 2011 was April 15th. When the so called NY Audio show intruded on the April date we took a step back and decided to do one March Show. Now that we have confirmation that Chicago is a must city for our event we choose to return to late April and plan to stay with this date for the future.
There's not too many shows , it's just that these shows are always in the same handful of cities . There's never been one within a 1000 miles of my area , and I'd love to go to one . If these folks are really interested in promoting high end audio and keeping it alive they need to open there doors to the other 99% of the continent . It's a no brainer , but I guess the show promoters and people involved would rather sit back and complain about the death of high end audio than help it out .
It seems nobody has explained why this is bad to the point I believe them. I am a high end consumer that recently HUGLY appreciated the AXPONA show in Chicago...... Who does it hurt again????
- Companies trying to attend them all? Seems it is great PR for the compaines that can afford that. They get the free write ups in all the audio mags. This is a marketing expense to those companies and they can choose where to spend their budget.
- Companies that can't afford more than one or two? For those companies, again, cheap way to get noticed and be visited by active, interested, and hungry consumers. Additionally, the audio shows are not the only way for companies to compete in the highish end.
- Brick and mortar? They benefit as well. There are brick an mortar shops at all the shows. Also, I have seen that brick and mortar shops carry lines, but do not have them on display for hearing in most cases. This is a chance to hear the components and then buy them from the brick and mortar shops.
- The poor reviewers that have to travel to other cities to do their jobs?
- Seems like only a few select cities in the US have the retailers that can afford to have nice components on display. 10 years ago this was different. These shows allow people to travel to these shows and sample many, many components within hours.
- People in NYC, LA, and a few others are not allowed to comment because they have the retailers that make these show redundant in those cities. Consumers also have different concerns in those cities with all the options.
- I am in Chicago and there has been no audio show there in recent history. Audio retailers in Chicago are few and far between. I don't know why. But, even in Chicago, you cannot make educated decisions except in only the most popular lower to mid priced brands. Many smaller local outfits, such as http://www.vanlspeakerworks.com were there and received world wide exposure for the cost of a single pair of speakers.
Seems like the critics here are focused on the "plight" of the popular high end retailers rather that getting products in front of people that keep this whole thing afloat.
Having gone to Montreal show for years, it's great, but it seems to be slowed down considerably last 3 years running. Your photos are selective and telling. There was a table of used vinyl and 1 retailer for music. That's pretty much it and there used to be a lot more. The biggest record store in Montreal didn't show up last year (they advertized and drove people to their store instead) and this year they did NEITHER. The other Canadian retailers for music have stayed away. The Montreal stores were well represented (Son Ideal, Filtronique, CoupdeFoudre, etc..), as were Bryston, MBL. But the attendance seemed way down. They had photo lenses and stuff having little to do with the show. Home theatre was an afterthought, with small exhibits by Sony, Samsung even though there's movement with 4K coming). Big brands were just shown like Ayre, AudioResearch, Pass Labs (not set up at all that I saw).
I plan to go to Rocky Mtn or elsewhere for a a year or two to listen to different brands and hopefully find more records and SACDs and may give Montreal a skip for a while. I hope it's just the lull in the economy and that they will come back strong.


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — It's a couple of months late, of course, but Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose is apparently back to being, well … Derrick Rose.
So says Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau, who recently worked Rose out and had rave reviews for the former MVP and All-Star point guard who missed the entire season recovering from ACL surgery.
Granted, this is the news that Bulls fans were hoping for in February, March and even early April, as they sweated out whether or not Rose would return in time to help the Bulls in their playoff push that ended at the hands of the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Mid-June is obviously a little late for the Bulls to do anything but crank up the expectations for next season, what with the news that Rose is back to his old explosive self again. More from Jon Greenberg of ESPNChicago.com:
Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said Rose's speed and explosiveness are back to where the former MVP feels like himself again.
"I worked him out about a week ago," Thibodeau said in a phone conversation Thursday. "It was great."
Rose missed the entire season rehabbing from a torn ACL in his left knee suffered during last year's playoffs. His longer-than-expected absence, and the ensuing debate about it, was the overwhelming storyline during a challenging Bulls season that ended in a second-round loss to the Miami Heat.
Last season is over, and Thibodeau is looking to the future.
"Watching the way he's moving now, there's a confidence," Thibodeau said. "[Reporters] may not have been able to see the total work he was putting in. But he was putting in an enormous amount of work each and every day. He just never got to the explosiveness he was comfortable with. I think he's there now. He feels great, and that's the most important thing."
He said Rose is "running, lifting, playing and shooting. His day is full."
Thibodeau also cleared up one bit of information that bothered me throughout the Rose playoffs/comeback drama. We kept hearing about how Rose was dominating in practice after being cleared by the Bulls' medical staff to resume normal activity. I couldn't imagine him being that impressive and not returning to action. Thibodeau confirmed my suspicion:
"The kid was being totally honest," Thibodeau said. "At the end of the day, you have to respect that. He wanted to be out there very badly. But no one knew when he would be ready, including him. It was a smart decision to wait. If you're not quite sure, and you're going to err, err on the side of caution. That's what he did. And now he feels great."
While reports speculated that Rose was dominating his teammates in the gym, Thibodeau says now that wasn't the case.
"He was practicing and he was good sometimes, but he also wasn't able to make the kinds of plays he likes to make," Thibodeau said. "No one is more explosive and can change direction like him. He had to be capable of doing that.
"That's what makes him so unique, how quick and explosive he is," Thibodeau continued. "He can jump sideways to avoid contact. He's always hopping around. That's a lot on your knee. You have to be comfortable doing that. He takes off and he doesn't take long to go from securing the ball to exploding and blowing by somebody."
The criticism of Rose seemed overblown at the time, a point that Joakim Noah, Nate Robinson and the rest of his teammates made clear during the firestorm. And all of this latest news only reinforces the point that we should have taken Rose at his word when he said he was not ready to return in a fashion he saw fit.


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Results: In companion papers published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, a team of U.S., Swiss, and Swedish scientists is revealing new insights about tiny atmospheric particles in the Arctic region, where temperatures are increasing at twice the rate of the rest of the world.
Their most striking discovery: Most of the aerosol particles were likely transported to the Arctic from other places around the world. The research team concluded that the size, number, and chemical composition of Arctic aerosols were similar to those found about a mile high in the mid-latitude troposphere.
Why it matters: The Arctic region represents one of the major uncertainties in the current understanding of climate change, because of its complex interaction of aerosols, clouds, and climate. Until this study, there were few single-particle data on aerosol in the Arctic. This is because of the difficulty in accessing the Arctic and Antarctic regions and the scarcity of organized field missions at high northern and southern latitudes. This study has increased the understanding of the properties of Arctic aerosol and atmospheric chemistry in the Arctic and, as a result, will help reduce the uncertain nature of climate change in the region.
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The team operated an instrument known the aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer at the Abisko Scientific Research Station Stordalen site, administered by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in northern Sweden. The spectrometer was operated for long periods of time in 2007 from air masses coming from the south, northeast, and west, each having different particle characteristics. Periodically, it was connected to an instrument known as a hygroscopicity tandem differential mobility analyzer to measure aerosol chemical composition as a function of hygroscopic growth. Using this analyzer, the researchers found that sea salt aerosols had the highest hygroscopic growth, meaning the amount of water a particle takes up, and particles from biomass combustion, such as burning wood for domestic heating, had the lowest hygroscopic growth. The more water a particle takes up, the larger it grows, affecting its chemistry and potential to form clouds. The scientists also used a scanning mobility particle sizer, to determine the number and distribution of smaller particles; a condensation particle counter, to determine total number of particles; and a cloud condensation nuclei counter, to determine the number of cloud forming particles. The wind speed, wind direction, and temperature were monitored and back trajectories were determined to differentiate and characterize the air masses.
According to the team, this was the first time that an aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer was used at Arctic latitudes. The instrument determines the size, chemical composition, and mixing state of individual particles both in situ and in real time. Those properties play significant roles in atmospheric chemistry, visibility, and climate.
What's next: Data from this study are available for incorporating into climate models. Future studies may be conducted during the winter to look at the yearly variability in the Arctic. This is a unique location where there is complete daylight in summer and darkness in the winter, and it is not known how this affects the particles.
Acknowledgments: PNNL is transforming the nation's ability to transform climate change and its impacts. This work was supported by PNNL's Aerosol Climate Initiative with Laboratory-Directed Research and Development funds, the University of Washington, ETH internal research funding, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Carleton College, a European Commission/Marie Curie Excellence grant, and the European Union FP6 infrastructure project known as European Supersites for Atmospheric Aerosol Research.
Research Team: The research team included Daniel Cziczo, PNNL and ETH Zurich; Hanna Herich, Ulrike Lohmann, and Peter Spichtinger, ETH Zurich; Lukas Kammermann, Ernest Weingartner, Martin Gysel, and Urs Baltensperger, Paul Scherre Institut, Switzerland; Beth Friedman, University of Washington and Carleton College; Deborah S. Gross, Carleton College; Almut Arneth and Thomas Holst, Lund University, Sweden.
References: Friedman, B., H. Herich, L. Kammermann, D. S. Gross, A. Arneth, T. Holst, and D. J. Cziczo. July 2009. "Subarctic atmospheric aerosol composition: 1. Ambient aerosol characterization." J. Geophys. Res., 114, D13203, doi:10.1029/2009JD011772.
Herich, H., L. Kammermann, B. Friedman, D. S. Gross, E. Weingartner, U. Lohmann, P. Spichtinger, M. Gysel, U. Baltensperger, and D. J. Cziczo. July 2009. "Subarctic atmospheric aerosol composition: 2. Hygroscopic growth properties." J. Geophys. Res., 114, D13204, doi:10.1029/2008JD011574.


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*Notes on creating a plant list:
- The field Hide Taxon, added July 2016, accepts the values Y and N for 'hidden' and 'not hidden' for each taxon record. The location of 'hidden' taxa will not be visible to any other user, but the location of 'not hidden' taxa will be visible to BGCI members only. Please note that if no value is specified at upload, the default is 'not hidden'.
- Your plant list may include all or a portion of the plants maintained at your institution (including accessioned specimens as well as known taxa maintained in natural areas). Viable seeds in long-term seed storage can also be included, but please contact BGCI to upload a seed list separately.
- PlantSearch can sometimes accommodate plant names that do not fit the required eight-field scheme (i.e., multi-generic or multi-specific hybrid names, or names with more than one infraspecific rank). Here are some examples which might be useful: [1] [2] [3]
- Abbreviated and non-abbreviated Infraspecific Ranks with or without punctuation are acceptable for upload.
- Cultivars, hybrids, and similar taxa uploaded have a low acceptance rate. Cultivar (or Grex) Epithets with or without quotation marks are acceptable for upload.
- Names submitted without a specific epithet will be automatically rejected. Adding 'sp.' to the Specific Epithet field can increase the acceptance rate, but is generally nomenclaturally unacceptable.
BG-BASE Users: Click here (PDF) or here (TXT) for recommended instructions on how to create a .CSV list of your living collection.
Check 'CSV' Format: Open your plant list with Notepad, or similar text editor program, to confirm the .CSV format of the file. If correct, your names should appear in the eight-field 'genhyb,gen,sphyb,sp,isprk,isp,cul,hidetaxon' scheme, where all fields are distinguished by commas and any blank field will be indicated with a comma (ex: if a name has only a genus and specific epithet, the record will appear as: ,gen,,sp,,,,). Correct formatting will resemble (note commas and separate lines):
If desired, open your plant list with Microsoft Excel or similar, to check that each epithet corresponds to the appropriate field/column heading as shown in Step 3. To confirm or establish the required .CSV format, select 'File - Save As', enter a preferred file name, and select 'CSV (comma delimited)' as the file type option under 'Save as Type'. TO CLOSE AFTER SAVING, click 'Close' and then 'Don't Save' (yes, DON'T SAVE). Remember the location of your .CSV file, as you will need to locate it shortly. (Click image at right to enlarge)
Upload Your Plant List: In the navigation bar at the left, select 'Plant Upload', and you will see options to 'view' or 'download' your plant list, and the date of your institution's last Plant Upload. You can either paste your plant list into the text box (paste from NotePad or similar to INCLUDE commas and separate lines for each plant name), or preferably, select your .CSV file on your computer by clicking "Browse...". (Click image at right to enlarge)
Replace Current List: After selecting your .CSV file, check the 'Replace current
plants list' box if your new list includes all taxa you wish to represent your collection, and then click 'Upload Plants'.
*Notes on adding to your plant list:
You can also ADD TO a preexisting list by UN-CHECKING the 'Replace current plants list' box, and any unique names will be added to your existing list. Alternatively, you can click on 'Download your full current list' as a CSV file, edit it as needed, and then upload that file.
Receive the Feedback: Once submitted, your list will be automatically cross-referenced with the International Plant Names Index and the PlantSearch database of plant names. Within 24 hours, an Upload Report will be sent to your Garden Editor contact email, which will include a list of any submitted plant names that did not correspond to the IPNI or PlantSearch databases, and were subsequently rejected. This can be an easy way to identify questionable taxa or misspelled names in your database. You can review, edit, and re-upload any names that were rejected - or contact BGCI directly if you have a data source for any rejected names and we would be happy to add the name to PlantSearch.
Reap the Benefits: All accepted names in your plant list will be included in online PlantSearch queries and requests (locations of plants are not made publicly available, however), and your collection could support broader efforts all over the world. You can also download the list from the 'Plant Upload' page in your institution's GardenSearch profile. The plant names on this list will be cross-referenced with conservation-relevant information, including the 1997 and 2006 IUCN Red Lists of Threatened Plant Species, NatureServe Global Ranks for North America, CITES Appendices, a list of Crop Wild Relative Genera, the GLORIA alpine species list, Tropicos, Google images, and more.
The following video was recorded before the addition of the Hide Taxon field to the spreadsheet shown at 4:52mins.
GardenSearch and PlantSearch video (08:41)
Please contact BGCI with any questions or comments, and thank you for contributing your plant list!


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Saturday, March 9, 2013 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
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osCommerce is a free open-source for creating an online store. There are two ways to install this program into your hosting account, either manually, or via the softaculous installation tool. This article will guide you on the method of installing osCommerce with the Softaculous tool.
Installing osCommerce via Softaculous
- Log into your cPanel interface.
- From the main cPanel screen, look for the Softaware/Services and click on the Softaculous icon.
- Once on the Softaculous main screen, do a search for oscommerce. The osCommerce overview page will appear. Click the blue Install button to begin.
- A settings screen will appear for you to customize your installation. Below is a table of the different options and their descriptions:
Setting Description Choose Protocol Select the protocol for the domain. If you do not have an SSL certificate installed for this domain on your hosting account, choose one of the http:// protocols. It is usually best to leave this as it is. Choose Domain Select the domain name to which you are wanting to install the program. The Primary domain, subdomains, and any addon and parked domains on the account will be listed in the dropdown. In Directory If you want to install the program into a subfolder for the chosen domain, enter it here. Leaving it blank will allow the program to install at the root folder for your chosen domain. Database Name A random database name is entered here. You may change it if you wish. Store Name Give your store a name. This can be changed later at any time. Store Owner Assign a store owner to your program. This can be changed later at any time. Store Address Give a physical address for your store. This can be changed later at any time. Admin Username Give your admin account a name. It is HIGHLY recommended that you do not use the default name admin or another variation such as administrator. Choose something unique. Admin Password Give the admin account a password. As with the admin name, It is HIGHLY recommended that you do not use the default password password or any variation (pass,pass123,password123,p@55w0rd,etc). Admin email Assign an email address for the admin account, this can be changed at a later date. Email installation details to If you wish to have installation details emailed to you, enter a valid email address here.
- Once you have entered your desired data into the fields, click on the Install button located at the bottom of the page.
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You might be familiar with the "Minecraft" phenomena - a game where you build structures with everything from basic blocks to complex logic circuits. We have been running a Minecraft server which has become one of the more popular ones with huge worlds of structures.
Here is an album of screen shots from our worlds: http://greenviewdata.imgur.com/
And a couple of YouTube videos created by our users:
Our Minecraft server became popular after our Minecraft office prank video hit Youtube: (Over 100,000 views so far)
If you are a Minecraft gamer, I hope you will join our server at: mc.greenviewdata.com
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VANCOUVER — The National Hockey League lockout would surely seem absurd and trivial to Igor Larionov were it not for the damage it is causing the sport.
Larionov lived through profound reform — on the ice and in the streets — as the Cold War began to thaw, leading the fight in the 1980s Soviet Union for player rights at a time when the Berlin Wall was still like a prison boundary.
Larionov earned his own freedom and joined the Vancouver Canucks in 1989, cutting a trail that would be followed by hundreds of Russian players in ensuing decades.
He was 29 when he finally played a National Hockey League game. He went on to play another 920, plus 150 playoff games that included three Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings.
Larionov finally retired at age 43 in 2004, the year Russians Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin, who could barely remember a time before democracy, were chosen first and second in the NHL draft.
With Olympic, world championship, world junior and Canada Cup gold medals, Larionov is one of the most decorated players in hockey history. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008 and remains, at 51, universally respected for his integrity and accomplishments.
He is a revered statesman for hockey.
Compared to Larionov breaking through cracks in the Iron Curtain, to standing up to tyrannical Russian coach Viktor Tikhonov and fighting for a fair salary and the freedom to earn it where he chooses, the current squabble between owners and players unable to divide $3.3 billion is, well, as petty and embarrassing at it seems.
"It bothers me," Larionov said Tuesday in Vancouver. "I spoke yesterday to the union and I spoke to (NHL senior vice-president) Colin Campbell yesterday a little bit. The issues, I think they're going to be resolved in a couple of weeks. They should be playing hockey by December.
"Obviously, (the lockout) is bad for everybody. We can't afford to lose another season. You're going to lose a lot of fans and lot of people who are watching the games and making this game better."
Larionov is helping make it better this week by supporting the Subway Super Series between junior teams from Canada and Russia.
He flew to Vancouver from Toronto, where Larionov attended Hall-of-Fame ceremonies that included Monday's induction of former linemate and Canuck teammate Pavel Bure, to help promote Wednesday's game at the Pacific Coliseum between Russia and a team of Western Hockey League all-stars.
"At some point, the sunshine is going to come out in Vancouver," Larionov promised, referring to the NHL lockout as well as the weather. "We'll see the light at the end of the tunnel. (Union boss) Donald Fehr and his group, the players, and (NHL commissioner) Gary Bettman and his group will make the final decision to play hockey.
"Watching the hockey the last three years, I've become more of a fan of the NHL now because it's fun to watch every game. The game is in very good shape, financially, plus the level of hockey became better. It's a mix of style between European and North American style. There's a lot of young players coming up."
Larionov is helping a few of them, including last June's first-overall draft pick, the Edmonton Oilers' Nail Yakupov.
After resigning as a director from the Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League and returning to his home in the Detroit area, Larionov is putting his experience and contacts to use as a player agent. He said he wants to help teenagers from Russia transition to North America and plan for the NHL, while also preparing some players from this continent for the KHL.
"When I was young and struggling, I wanted someone to help me," Larionov said. "If you're not scoring goals and having a difficult time, you need someone to tell you what to do. It's a big challenge for young guys coming to North America, as well as for young Canadian players going to Russia.
"I'm trying to pass my knowledge and my experience to the young Russian guys and teach them how to be like a pro and have a good life. I'm (working) with 14-16-year-old guys because that's the time to take them under my wing and teach them and prepare them for the big life. I'm trying to teach the boys to be patient and work hard. And not just to be a good hockey player, but a good human being."
He preaches the same philosophy to players migrating the other way. That, too, was unthinkable back in the 1980s. Imagine a Canadian player, perhaps not good enough for the NHL, choosing to play professionally in Russia.
"I ask them are you ready for KHL?" Larionov smiled. "They go: 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' They go to training camp and the first week they say: 'I want to go home and see my mom and dad.' After two days. And they're not in Russia yet; they're only in Switzerland at training camp. They want to go home. It's not easy."
It never has been. But it's much easier than it was when Larionov was young and driven by ideals. He still has those.
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Lots of free jazz love to be had as a result of the aforementioned meeting of minds a few days ago at the radio station. Not that you can participate in the foodie love which happened afterwards, and I'm seriously sorry that's sort of over, but you CAN 'download da lub' in full and listen to it as many times as you'd like, DRM free. Lord knows I do enough 'real-time composing' by myself with my trusty dusty laptop, but it's been awhile since I've done the same with three others, let alone three who I'd never really met. Credits for all these gents are in the post right below. Great musicians with fabulous histories and stories to tell and recorded histories to beat the band. Twas an honor, a pleasure, a wonderful time and I'm proud and happy to share the results.
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Posted 10/09/13 (Wed)
By Kate Ruggles
Farmer Staff Writer
"Rural communities are worth saving," stated an application submitted by the Watford City Economic Development Corporation (EDC). This is not only the belief and the mantra that keeps them going in these booming times, it is the reasoning behind which they have chosen to compete against nearly 300 other applicants for the Bush Prize for Community Innovation.
According to Jessie Veeder, she, Kristin Bolken and Katie Walters, collaborated on the Bush Prize application. Though they felt that a variety of different organizations within McKenzie County were qualified to apply for the Bush Prize, they chose to apply as the Watford City EDC. Because, should the EDC win, the prize money will be able to benefit the Watford City community, as well as various organizations.
The Bush Prize for Community Innovation states that it is looking for a culture of innovation, a track record of innovative solutions and a commitment to community-powered problem-solving. And according to Veeder, that is Watford City.
"What historically stands out for our community is that we are unique," states Veeder. "We are a community of people that work to solve problems on a local level. We are group that, from the beginning, has dug in alongside our neighbors to make things happen on our own. And we continue to do that in the face of this tremendous growth."
Veeder, Bolken and Walters argued that what makes Watford City stand out, and the EDC worth considering, is not that it is a boomtown. It is not the billions of barrels of yet-to-be-recovered oil, or the fact that people from around the nation have been flocking to its city limits to start a business or simply start over.
They argue that what makes Watford City great is what has always made Watford City great - that this is a community of people that saw a vision and strove toward a goal long before the oil boom even started.
"It is part of our DNA," states Veeder. "We see it not as a role of one person or an accomplishment of one person, but this is something we have all done. And we are proud of what we have done."
"This is neighbors sitting around the table drinking coffee and coming up with community solutions," states Bolken. "And the neighbors are bankers, cowboys, business owners and oilfield workers. And we are constantly coming up with solutions."
In the Bush Foundation application, Veeder, Walters and Bolken outlined the city's renovation of its Main Street district during the time in which the city was declining in population. They talked about how even before the boom, the EDC and city leaders made the dwindling city an appealing place for people to live and settle and do business. And how, in just five years, the town has become a place of tremendous growth, with estimates of anywhere from 8,000 to 10,000 people who now call Watford City their home.
According to the Bush Foundation, nearly 300 organizations from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and the 23 Native Nations in these three geographic regions submitted an application for the Bush Prize. Of the nearly 300 applicants, the Watford City EDC was one of 30 recently selected to move on to the next round.
"This is pretty huge for us," states Bolken. "We have not won anything yet. But the fact that a member of the Bush Foundation looked at our application and chose to come for a visit against the hundreds of other applicants says a lot about us."
As part of being selected for the next round of applicants, a member of the Bush Foundation visited Watford City on Tuesday, Oct. 8. It is unknown when the EDC will find out if it has made it to the next round of applicants.
Should the EDC be selected to win the Bush Prize, the award could total as much as $500,000.


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I recently wrote a blurb about Jaimie Sirovich's WordPress Firewall script. I've had a chance to review it and I must say that it is a real handy piece of work!
It caught five nearly simultaneous attacks last night. Here is a screenshot of the email it sent me:
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The plugin is easy to use and the default configuration was perfect for me.
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Brown, who has been in jail since the end of last week, was denied bail on Monday and ordered to remain behind bars until at least an April 23, his next scheduled court hearing.
Brown's ejection from rehab is a potential violation of the court-ordered treatment for his conviction in 2009 for beating singer Rihanna, his girlfriend at the time.
He was arrested at the Malibu facility on Friday.
L.A. County Superior Court Judge James Brandlin ordered Brown arrested after he was ejected from the program for allegedly violating internal rules by making a threatening comment, failing to submit to a drug test and touching a female also undergoing treatment at the facility.
"It is clear from reading the incident report from the program, the program was concerned about the defendant's noncompliance and inability to follow the program's rules," Brandlin said in court.
This is not the first time Brown has been kicked out of rehab. During family counseling in November, Brown walked out and threw a rock through his mother's car window.
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MONTGOMERY — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley isn't getting support from key Republicans or Democrats for his proposal to delay private school tax credits for budgetary reasons for two years.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley isn't getting support from key Republicans or Democrats for his proposal to delay private school tax credits for budgetary reasons for two years.
But Bentley is not giving up on his efforts to try and get the Legislature to pass his proposal on its last meeting day Monday. The Republican governor said he sent letters to all legislators Friday, and public school officials were helping out by encouraging legislators to support a delay.
The architect of the tax credits, Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, said a delay isn't needed, and top Democrats said a delay isn't enough. They are insisting on a repeal of the tax credits.
The dispute adds one more big issue for a final legislative day that already includes major legislation on gun regulations, several bond issues and welfare drug testing.
Bentley said the state can't afford to offer the tax credits with the new school year that starts in August. "If we have a downturn in the economy next year and a lot of people take advantage of the tax credits, we are going to have a difficult time," he said in an interview Friday.
The tax credits are part of the Alabama Accountability Act, which the Republican majority in the Legislature pushed through Feb. 28 and Bentley then signed into law.
The new law provides school systems with flexibility in complying with state education laws, and it provides tax breaks of about $3,500 a year for parents who decide to send a child to a private or non-failing public school rather than a public school rated as failing.
Bentley is seeking to delay the tax credits until 2015 because he said that would give failing schools time to use the new flexibility provisions to improve. Also, the state must repay $423 million by 2015 — money that was borrowed from a state trust fund in previous years to prevent widespread cutbacks in education spending.
The fiscal year 2014 education budget that Bentley proposed at the start of the legislative session included $100 million to help repay the loan, but the Legislature reduced it to $35 million. The state expects to pay back $200 million in the budget for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, but that would leave $188 million to be repaid in fiscal year 2015. Bentley said that financial obligation prompted him to change his mind about the tax credits and seek a two-year delay.
Marsh said he intends to block the governor's proposal either by getting the Legislature to reject it or by not bringing it up for a vote on the last day.
"We've worked too hard between both chambers of this Legislature to make school choice a reality and I refuse to kick the can down the road," Marsh, R-Anniston, said.
Another supporter of the new law ,House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, is still talking to House members and hasn't announced what he will do Monday, his spokeswoman, Rachel Adams, said Friday.
The Senate Democratic Caucus and House Minority Leader Craig Ford, D-Gasden, said they won't accept anything short of a repeal of the tax credits because the loss of tax revenue would damage public education.
"The governor already realized what the people are thinking and saying — that this is a bad bill," Democratic Sen. Billy Beasley of Clayton said at a news conference Friday.
Bentley was in a similar position a year ago after signing a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature to crack down on illegal immigration. In May 2012, he tried get the Legislature to remove a portion of the law that required schools to determine upon enrollment whether a child and his parents had legal residence in the country. Bentley couldn't find legislative support for his proposal, but the federal courts later blocked that portion of the law, he recalled.
He said a loss Monday in the Legislature won't change his mind about the need for a delay. "I may lose this battle, but if you listen to the people of Alabama we are going to win the war," he said.