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Old imaging card problems: IM1280/IM ASD/AT
Not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but I've tried talking to Matrox directly and although they are trying to be helpful, they don't support the cards in question any more.
I have an old piece of industrial hardware that uses the IM1280 imaging card and the IM ASD/AT image capture card as part of the system. Due to various constraints, we have to run Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (don't laugh.) The cards have been failing; first symptom was "shredding" in the image (like a horizontal sync failure) and then just going black for a second or two every once in a while. Matrox told me to run diagnostics, which I did, and the system froze in the middle of running the diagnostics. After a power cycle, I get no video output. Period. There is a VGA card on the system, the output of which is passed through the IM1280. Now even if I bypass that and go direct to the monitor from the VGA card, I can't get video if the Matrox cards are plugged into the EISA bus. We have a backup set of Matrox cards which behave the same way, even though they were marginally functional before.
Any ideas about what might have happened to the base system that is causing this? It's been a long time since I've had to debug a WfW3.11 system....
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BRISTOL — For Andrew Lafleur, Justin Stone and Blair Stone, the giant American flag draped over Bristol's Main Street between two fully extended fire ladders on July 4 acted like the Arc de Triomphe does in Paris for the Tour de France winner.
The flag — donated and lofted for Bristol's Independence Day celebration by the Addison County Firefighters Association — served as the backdrop for their victory in a famous athletic event, the 37th annual Great Bristol Outhouse Race.
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On July 4, Bristol held its 33rd annual Great Outhouse Race. The winners of four preliminary heats faced off in a final race that saw Team Snap's — representing Snap's Restaurant in Bristol — win their third straight Outhouse Race. They received stiff competition this year, however, and had to come from behind in the final race to snatch victory from newcomers team Camp Kookamunga of Middlebury.
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Two photo contest giveaways to tell you about from two magazines I like. Theme Magazine is giving away a Rome women's snowboard! Just send them your best photo from this snowboard season and they'll pick their favourite submission! You only have until January 31st to get it in so hurry! Send photos to: [email protected]
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Here are the slides from my recent talk at Creamcake's 3hd festival in Berlin. This one was a bit more freeform, so apologies if the discussion threads are a bit unclear from them. It was a great festival altogether, with a great line-up of performances too - there was a write-up about it on AQNB.
Friday, 18 December 2015
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Interview with Elysia Crampton
'Three generations of Aymara-Bolivian-American women under one roof'
For years now, I've found Elysia Crampton's music has some of the most beautiful and fascinating out there. This year she maintained that by releasing American Drift on Blueberry Recordings. She was kind enough to share some thoughts, images and videos with me recently as part of an interview:
1. Where are you today? What is it like?
1. Where are you today? What is it like?
1. i just landed in Sacramento, CA this morning. im visiting my mom, my grandmother, and my dog in sacramento. three generations of Aymara-Bolivian-American women under one roof. my dog is a teacup pomeranian that i bought several heads ago when i lived as a sex worker in Los Angeles. i hustled hard back then, and i remember paying for my puppy with cash at a "kennel for the stars" (every puppy was named after a celebrity). i remember the garage was lined with cribs, full of poms. these days, my parents help take care of him. i'm grateful i get to spend time together with my family before going back to La Paz.
2. now that my relationship to the US has changed (I no longer live here), i've started thinking about realms of language as worldings themselves-- worldings that allow or negate the birth of certain identities, ideas, expressions, laws. thinking of this prenatal weight within language that gives rise to possibility spaces while preventing and/or destroying others-- a sort of necro-linguistic dimension on one end. the way reality is even processed/encountered changes with each language space. for example, in aymara, instead of implying a gaze directed forward, moving through time (with tomorrow coming sequentially "ahead" of today which came "ahead" of yesterday), speakers instead face the past and have their backs to the future (q"ipa, the word for "future" translates as behind or back-- q"ipüru, the word for "tomorrow" translates to "some day behind one's back").
when i think of geography, i think of all the things that cling to/ define a body as it moves through space or manifests a locality, toward/ away from something else, where and what it was or couldn't be. we carry whatever was thrown onto us at birth-- things clutter, signalling divergent, sometimes contradictory messages, changing with each new environment we find ourselves in. i live as the embodiment of a continued dreaming by my ancestors-- progenitors of stone, chemical, single-celled and zooidic forebearers, to my native family under the enslavement of the inca and then the spanish, to my mother arriving in the US as a child, unable to speak english at a school in Barstow, California. my desires quantize into the detrital unmooring that is Americanness. negotiating this scattering, this shift, is an act of de/recolonization, a continuous motion. pushed into waves, molecular vibrations recoordinate/realign with those nucleotidic impulses braided through me. musically, i use everything-- recycle myself, regurgitating bowels and entrails-- chance and haphazard divinations that would or might lead me back to certain lost rhythms and cadences; light shattering on the face of a river, the bob of a pigeon's head in a city i have become homeless in, the syncopation of a human heart as it metabolizes an injection of tar and coke. this is my gait, the cascade of my dismemberment, seismic pulse of my re-formation, my American drift.
3. Although you have moved from more sample-based productions to more freely-composed ones, your work remains a rich and provocative conglomeration of sources and ideas both musical and 'extramusical.' How do these sources and ideas find a new context and a new life in your work?
3. this is where movement filters into something like my own language-- monstrosity of the embodied dream of an erased family, a lost history that i re-build, scraping utopias, a minimal place of freedom.
i constantly forget that the ways i touch/encounter the real or relate concepts like pop-ness, luxury, extravagance and suffering to one another through music, are somewhat isolated, discrete. for me, writing music has crossed into the elaboration of a specific language that sustains the tension of my being, eases the inherent trauma of existing. this language-world is dialetheic, pluripotent, sensuous in that its hapticality forms its own varied dialects-- destroyed/transmutated/
by strokes of appropriation, love, simple bonds, the violence of
commerce. this voice, this language-world bends, equilibrates-- altered
when friends, comrades introduce said dialects into their own music and
writing-- a kind of morphological leveling.
4. You have talked of the 'continued dialogue in my work with the prefix "trans."' Can you tell me more about that? How does the pursuit of change and transcendence drive you as a trans woman and as a musician?
4. trans is always already in becoming. trans is movement. transness signals something across and beyond humanness as it has been defined. as trans, i've come to know my own beyondness-- this selfhood, this selfness that walks alongside and through this space this isn't quite a space-- between thinglyness and subjectivity, object and phenomenon, fold and vortex, etc. trans is trans-thing, trans-animal, trans-human.this "withness" of trans-locality recalls the power of self-determination. for this reason, even when a trans person takes a selfie, it's a transgressive act. when i walk down the street, when i use a fucking public bathroom, as a trans woman, it all becomes political. that can be tough sometimes. sometimes i just want to go pee! on occasion, however, i own that political/ jurisgenerative burden, and i'm filled with the bravery of my sisters that have gone before me. still, we need to remember that trans bravery, or transness does not only manifest via visibility or passability. any trans or queer person that lives another day, as living negation of binaries, regardless of access to controlled surgeries/medications/documents etc., is an activist.
today, trans advocacy and the topic of trans rights in general exist crucially in contrast/opposition to the fast-enclosing, restrictive, highly-policed ideas of trans legitimacy currently circulating the public/media sphere under the catch-all "trans visibility"(alongside economies of radical transparency, false ideas of queer authenticity/ totalizing essentialisms). the murders of trans women of color, particularly black trans women, are being reported at a much higher rate than previous years in the United States-- definitely more so than in La Paz, where trans deaths often go unreported (where police regularly assault sex workers and a trans campesina was stoned to death by a mob in El Alto just a few years ago). we trans and gender non-conforming people from Bolivia and across South America must stand together with those in the US. in Bolivia, we use the acronym TLBG instead of LGBT, putting the T for trans first, as trans women in particular have been vital to the entire movement as a whole since the beginning. and this is how it was in the United States, at so-callled watersheds like Stonewall, with figures like Marsha P Johnson, Miss Major, and Sylvia Rivera. these were trans women of color leading the movement in a patriarchal carceral state, in a queer community still largely governed by misogyny and racism. it's sad to see the continued white/cis-washing of not only the LGBTQI movement but also the disappearance of the real history of that movement. this is why i maintain the significance of putting the names of our influencers and collaborators back into our work, restoring these dimensions of past, understanding how linked they are with futurity, and how preservation of this past forms the maintenance of alternate realties-- (histories made alternate by paradigms that de facto vacuum them into oblivion), spaces of fantasy where new worlds can be envisioned, enacted/performed, analyzed, brought into being, etc.
as salinas once said: "el futuro se llama ayer."
5. At a time when, more than ever, we cannot step twice into the same musical river, what does it mean for a person and a musician to find and have roots?5. of course, we have always already been in the river. i am always already beyond, outside of myself. this "without" this "not yet here" is what grounds me, assembles the aggregate rhythm of my being.
one thing i find disturbing (brought up when the current/future "fluid" state of music is similarly questioned) is the quick dismissal of any critique on something like appropriation, by musicians themselves, as though criticizing appropriation
is merely a knee-jerk reaction to the so-called natural blending of genres, as though such blending were a neutral desiring/action of the music in and of itself, and not something deliberately related to the same old settler colonialist paradigm/logic/horizon that has narrowed the limits of possibility for all people (not just those of color), the same old-ass/always-assumed/
unquestioned sense of entitlement/
sovereignty as enclosure disguising itself as some kind of
open/egalitarian/limitless artistic possibility. i live for the blending
of genres, categories, the creation of new forms, breaking boundaries--
but im not going to pretend that the playing field is flat/level when
it comes to something like appropriation. different outcomes result when
different people appropriate different things. white men are often
criticized for appropriating the cultures of those of color because
white histories are thoroughly prioritized and preserved within
patriarchal/colonial modernity (a universalized able-bodied white male
subject as always-already default). through such ongoing acts of
appropriation by those with hegemonic privilege, people of color are
often severed from their own histories (and realities) which become
co-opted, denied, excluded, and historically erased. this is why it is
critical for all of us, especially those of color, indigenous, and/or
queer, to speak up about our familial collaborators, our kindred
influencers, putting those names and histories back into our work,
sustaining them in the face of systemic obliteration. and, along these
lines, we must consider cross-thingly/interspecies solidarity as well,
because our collaborators, our influencers aren't always human, yet they
shape our culture and heritage. it was Geoffrey Burbidge that proved
(most of) our chemical make-up is formed in the cores of massive stars.
that means that on the most basic, atomic level-- as humans, as things,
vortices, etc-- we are all deeply connected to the universe. all of
these collaborations form our roots.
is merely a knee-jerk reaction to the so-called natural blending of genres, as though such blending were a neutral desiring/action of the music in and of itself, and not something deliberately related to the same old settler colonialist paradigm/logic/horizon that has narrowed the limits of possibility for all people (not just those of color), the same old-ass/always-assumed/
6. What do you think are the challenges of decolonisation in the present day, musically and in general?
6. decolonization begins with educating yourself. it begins by interrogating the ways in which you obtain and resource that education and the ways in which you retain and disseminate the information you receive; it doesn't all just go in one direction. the horizon of coloniality involves the colonization of attention. we must always uncover what it is that is holding that attention, what is actually occupying our mental, emotional, sensual spacing, so that we may recover some understanding, some control over our own becoming. of course, each of us will arrive at our own conclusions, ultimately doing what makes sense to us. it becomes important to continually question our motives as well as the apparatuses that disclose the data we take in, as education is a life-long event.
unfortunately, the resources and capacity to ask such questions, to check facts, to live in such a way, are not accessible to all people. ideas are thoroughly interrelated/connected to systems of power and structural oppression in this manner. some cannot afford certain ways of thinking, certain ideas, and therefor are unable to benefit from such modes of thinking. so for those that do have the privilege of obtaining and utilizing the method of self-education and inquiry i mentioned, the act of service becomes pivotal. when we educate ourselves, it becomes our responsibility to be of service to others, always aware that certain access to information and ideas is privileged, always in hope that such service might alter the grounds by which new ideas can be born, sustained, made beneficial. i can't help but wonder though, if the circulation of those ideas that were generated and allowed to come into being (however radical they may seem to be) within oppressive systems, can only lead back to reproducing the very structural foundations that have maintained such systems, as they come out of said systems (were allowed to generate from them in the first place). this is why transnational solidarity is important, and one of many reasons why i support abolition/ oppose the prison industrial complex. we will never find freedom within a system that still relies on a penal form of bound servitude preserved by the very amendment that was purportedly enacted for its eradication. we must not forget that American law and culture were founded on slavery and are tied to its conceptions of personhood, agency, criminality, contract, ownership, and sovereignty-- among so many others.
7. Is there such a thing as folk music? Is it important? Similarly, is there such a thing as the folk, or the people, or the proletariat?
folk music is important because it is knotted to the past, ideas of community, and the dimension of oblivion, the lost.
in Bolivia, a national musical identity was formalized in the mid 20th century by upper-class intellectual progressives. this amalgamated, Spaniardized take on the country's indigenous music was taught in schools, taken on tours and performed in other countries-- basically coined everything we understand today as "Bolivian music." this might have added to the country's culturally rich heritage had it not actually sustained the ongoing erasure/obscuration of real indigenous and particularly Aymara musical personae that, until then, had suffered long to survive-- not only against the physical and ideological violence of the spanish, through the rule of the white racist creole class system and white-washing by indigenista intellectuals, but even centuries before, through the harsh terrain of the altiplano and enslavement by the Inca. when friends that know me consider my indigeneity, my Bolivianness-- when they ask Google what a Bolivian worlding sounds like, they will hear the melodies of this colonial/upper-class accretion of stylings that was never quite folk music (one should recall that in the old class system, Aymara and black African bodies were at the very bottom).
folk is about the construction of a common identity, says "these people exist(ed)," emanates histories by its having-been, yet it is a thing of nascence, as its life hinges on the constant regeneration of all the parts that maintain what it is or allow it to evolve along certain lines, jurisgeneratively reshape its own laws of becoming, undergo mutagenesis. the etymology of the word folk is interesting in that it relates to a "host of warriors" in Old Norse context, and both "dwelling-place" and "battlefield" through its Old English form folcstede. The music i write today is an extension of that eclipsed Aymara legacy, as well as a queer refraction of the upper-class mestizo formations, with a tendency to blend many genres and musical styles. my native family's legacy of survival and solidarity is one of several things that unites me with the greater black and indigenous folk music/histories of America (yungas to altiplano to appalachia), and with my own sense of queer belonging-- always in search of a voice that could carry the timbrous resonations of its own suffering, supported (brought into being) by a historical body of people/things/places that have communally resisted forms of systemic, racial, and ecological violence.
folk music is always already related to the future and its sonic resonances, because folk music recovers what was lost.
8. What music and/or art would you make if any and all material and political limitations were removed tomorrow?
8. i dont tend to ask myself questions like this because i'm aware my limitations are constantly shaping me into what i am, determining the coordinates of my being, not unlike the way negative space defines an object. without this distinction, wouldn't all matter be undifferentiated whiteness, holding all colors like a blaring light? obviously, if there were no material or political limitations i would probably do what Motoko Kusanagi did at the end of Oshii's version of Ghost In The Shell or perhaps something similar to the Basset Hound's de/re-dimensionalization in Oshii's other film, Avalon. part of why i make art, make music is because of the pain of corporeality, the suffering of being bodied, materialized in such a local, confined way. but one grows into it, owns it, utilizes it. if there were no limitation to that felt experience, that embodied angst, maybe i would implode like a supernovae, sucking the universe, folding into my vortex. i guess that would be the sound of my music.
8. i dont tend to ask myself questions like this because i'm aware my limitations are constantly shaping me into what i am, determining the coordinates of my being, not unlike the way negative space defines an object. without this distinction, wouldn't all matter be undifferentiated whiteness, holding all colors like a blaring light? obviously, if there were no material or political limitations i would probably do what Motoko Kusanagi did at the end of Oshii's version of Ghost In The Shell or perhaps something similar to the Basset Hound's de/re-dimensionalization in Oshii's other film, Avalon. part of why i make art, make music is because of the pain of corporeality, the suffering of being bodied, materialized in such a local, confined way. but one grows into it, owns it, utilizes it. if there were no limitation to that felt experience, that embodied angst, maybe i would implode like a supernovae, sucking the universe, folding into my vortex. i guess that would be the sound of my music.
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Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Blogpost for Verso: On Music and Folk Politics
When, in Inventing the Future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams critique the collection of tendencies within the contemporary left they call 'folk politics,' they could also be lamenting the aesthetics that now dominates those areas of popular music that were once progressive. Whether it's underground, or 'indie,' or even happens to be in the charts, contemporary popular music routinely 'chooses the familiarities of the past over the unknowns of the future;... habitually chooses the small over the large' and 'value[s] withdrawal or exit rather than building a broad counter-hegemony'. For independent music as in folk politics, 'organisations and communities are to be transparent, rejecting in advance any conceptual mediation, or even modest amounts of complexity' and both 'emphasis[e] the local and the authentic, the temporary and the spontaneous, the autonomous and the particular'. Srnicek and Williams show that these strategies arose and achieved much in the special political circumstances of the mid-twentieth century, and again, as aesthetic strategies in popular music, they arose during the same period in the countercultural atmosphere of jazz, rock, punk and, indeed, folk musics. And for both folk politics and folk-political music, the time has come to invent what happens next...
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Saturday, 17 October 2015
Slides from my talk at Unsound, 'Is Accelerationism Good for the Underground?'
Yesterday I gave a talk on the history, nature, and pros and cons of accelerationism at the Unsound festival. These slights might not give you the full picture of what was said, but since they're full of quotes and references, people have asked that I upload them.
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Who doesn't love killing Nazis?
Any good gamer knows Wolfenstein 3D is the daddy of all first-person shooters. Its smooth, violent gameplay and ensuing popularity set many of the basic tenets of the first-person shooter genre all the way back in 1992.
So when Swedish developer MachineGames decided to update the decades-old Nazi-fighting franchise, which tenets did it keep — and which did it innovate?
Being that Wolfenstein 3D was responsible for so many FPS tropes, it was a no-brainer that they hold onto the best of them. Think run-and-gun action, constantly ramping-up weapons, hidden treasure caches and challenge stats at the end of the level.
But we live in a world of Xbox Ones and PlayStation 4s, so simply updating the graphics won't do.


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November 2012 Plant Profile: Miscanthus sinensis 'Little Kitten'
Ornamental grasses begin to put on a show in autumn as striking blades of silvery light greens transition to deep yellows and tans adding structure and textures during a time of year perennial beds are cut back and put to rest. The genus Miscanthus is a staple of ornamental grasses. Native to Japan and China, they are tough and easy to care for.
Once established, they are drought tolerant, easily maintained, and typically possess year round interest. Some selections, however, have had a reputation for being too large of an ornamental grass for small urban gardens. They may be overly vigorous, and in some occasions, relentlessly self seeding. There's a remarkable array to choose from, but there was a cultivar two years ago that caught my eye and has continually impressed me.
'Little Kitten' has been a pleasant and manageable ornamental grass that stays tidy and it has a soft, demure elegance to it when used singly as a specimen and it adds a wonderful foil to bold foliage late in the season in containers massed as a small group.
Common Name: Dwarf Maiden Hair Grass
Location: Soest Garden Bed 4 (Rear)
Origin: Garden Origin
Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
Height and spread: 3-4ft. tall x 3ft. wide
Bloom Time: mid-late Autumn


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With two Oscars (and 16 nominations!), seven Golden Globes (25 nominations), two Emmys and way, way more accolades, there's seemingly not much that Meryl Streep hasn't yet accomplished.
And yet perhaps the most acclaimed and celebrated actress of the modern era had one major milestone to reach: Gracing the cover of Vogue!
And now, finally, at age 62, Streep gets the honor for the January 2012 issue of the ultimate fashion bible.
"I was joking with the ladies earlier," Streep, promoting her predictably acclaimed turn as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, tells the magazine. "And I told them I was probably the oldest person ever to be on the cover of Vogue."
Indeed, Streep (who played a thinly veiled version of Vogue editrix Anna Wintour in The Devil Wears Prada) knows she defied the odds and outdated limitations for women in Hollywood, with her roles getting even better as she enters senior citizen-dom.
She admits that, in 1989, when she turned 40, "I remember turning to my husband [sculptor Don Gummer] and saying, 'Well, what should we do? Because it's over.'"
And, soon after reaching the big 4-0, Streep reveals that she received three offers to play witches in films. "Once women passed childbearing age they could only be seen as grotesque on some level," she surmises, and then portrayed older, or terminally ill, woman in films like One True Thing — "women whose usefulness had passed."
But richer roles followed — like the recent middle-aged, post-divorce sex comedy It's Complicated. "In the period of Silkwood [1983], [It's Complicated] could never have been made, with a 60-year-old actress deciding between her ex-husband and another man. With a 40-year-old actress it would never have been made!" she says.
She was thrilled to play British prime minister Thatcher, despite her significant political differences with the leader "With any character I play, where she is me is where I meet her. It's very easy to set people at arm's length and judge them," she explains. "Yes, you can judge the policies and the actions and the shortcomings-—but to live inside that body is another thing entirely. And it's humbling on a certain level and infuriating, just like it is to live in your own body. Because you recognize your own failings, and I have no doubt that she recognized hers."
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The primary objective of this study is to determine whether working at night is associated with decreased levels of the nocturnal urinary concentration of 6-sulphatoxymelatonin, and increased levels of luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and estradiol in a sample of healthy women of reproductive age. Secondarily, this study is designed to investigate whether urinary levels of melatonin are lower and levels of reproductive hormones are higher during daytime sleep relative to nighttime sleep among women who work at night. Approximately 200 nurses and health care workers who work the night shift exclusively and 150 who work the day shift exclusively will be recruited as volunteers in the Seattle metropolitan area. Eligible participants must be between the ages of 20 and 40, employed for at least 20 hours/week, resident of King or Snohomish County, do not take oral contraceptives or other hormone preparations, and have no personal history of breast cancer. In addition, the night shift nurses must normally sleep at night during off days. This study employs a design which allows for both between-subject comparisons of night shift v. day shift workers, and within-subject comparisons during day sleep v. night sleep among the night shift workers. Participation will span two months. In the first month the study will evaluate menstrual cycle regularity, determine the day of ovulation using a commercial kit, conduct a personal interview regarding employment and reproductive history, the participant's ability to adjust to shift work, and will collect a buccal (saliva) sample. In the second month urine sample collections will be scheduled during both work and sleep periods, and will take place in the early to mid-luteal phase of each participant's cycle. Sleep patterns will be measured via actigraphy during the sleep periods corresponding to urine collection. Oral temperature data will be collected during wake-time in the night shift workers to determine temperature amplitude. Information will be collected on factors which may be related to the hormones under study, such as alcohol consumption, medication use, and hours of daylight during sample collection. Urine samples will be assayed for the primary urinary metabolite of melatonin, 6-sulphatoxymelatonin, and levels of LH, FSH, and estradiol.


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I'm looking to pick up my tennis racket after a bit of a hiatus. I'm currently working on an overall fitness routine and would like to add tennis back into regular rotation. I'm looking for some regular hitting partners as well as game play. I haven't played doubles in years but I would love to pick that up again as well. I'm at a 2.5 playing level at this time.
Prefer to play in the evenings (anytime between 5-10) although my schedule is flexible. Currently live in North Naples and have courts in our community. Will gladly meet at local parks as well!
If you are interested, reply to this post or contact me via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Look forward to getting back on the court!
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I can play on evenings Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday Mornings. My level is 2.0 I believe. I have been going to Veterans park to practice lately.
Hey Erin,
I'm in the Palm River area of north Naples and looking for someone to get a good rally going with for fun and exercise. I usually play at the Veterans park courts. Let me know if you'd like to hit a few. Best! Marci email@example.com
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SAN DIEGO (AP) � Gerrit Cole looked upset when he walked off the mound after the sixth inning with his Pittsburgh Pirates trailing the San Diego Padres 2-0.
Although Cole was hard on himself, manager Clint Hurdle liked that his pitcher showed emotion.
"I just think he's an emotional guy. I don't read anything into that," Hurdle said after the Pirates lost 2-1 to Ian Kennedy and the Padres on Wednesday. "I think that's one thing that fuels him. It fueled him through his career, through college, now. I don't want to take that away from him.
"He's got the power of emotion. We'll let it play. I think it will find its settling point sometime. But right now, he likes to compete."
Kennedy pitched seven strong innings, combining with two relievers on a four-hitter, and Yonder Alonso drove in two runs as the Padres avoided a three-game sweep by the NL Central-leading Pirates.
Kennedy, who played at Southern Cal, outpitched Cole, who pitched at UCLA before the Pirates made him the first pick overall in the June 2011 draft.
Cole (6-6) allowed two runs and 10 hits in six innings, struck out five and walked none.
"I just felt like I let a pretty good opportunity slip away because we had an opportunity to come in here and sweep and set the tone for the San Francisco series," Cole said. "I was just disappointed that I wasn't better able to help the team."
"I put myself in a position to go deep if we didn't have an opportunity to score in the sixth. I'm just disappointed that I let that opportunity slip away for the team."
Cole has allowed three earned runs or less in 12 of 13 career starts.
Kennedy (5-9) won for the second time in four starts since being obtained from the NL West-rival Arizona Diamondbacks on July 31. He held Pittsburgh to four hits, struck out eight and walked three.
In his previous start, Kennedy allowed three home runs in 4 2-3 innings in a 5-2 loss to the New York Mets on Friday.
Luke Gregerson pitched the eighth, walking Felix Pie and allowing Andrew McCutcheon's sacrifice fly, and Huston Street worked the ninth for his 24th save in 25 chances.
The Pirates' lead in the NL Central was reduced to one game over the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat Milwaukee 8-6.
Kennedy got into and out of trouble in the first, when the Pirates had two singles and two walks in the first inning, and didn't score. Pie, who was promoted from Triple-A Indianapolis earlier Wednesday, beat out an infield single before being thrown out trying to steal second. With two outs, McCutcheon singled and Pedro Alvarez and Russell Martin walked to load the bases. Kennedy got out of the jam by striking out Garrett Jones.
Alonso's sacrifice fly in the third brought in Will Venable, who hit a leadoff double and advanced on Chris Denorfia's groundout. In the fifth, Alonso singled in Denorfia, who singled with two outs and stole second.
"Just a few pitches that I could have executed better and picked my spots," Cole said. "The pitch to Yonder just got too much of the plate."
NOTES: To make room for Pie, the Pirates optioned RHP Ryan Reid to Triple A. To make room on the 40-man roster for Pie, Wandy Ramirez was transferred to the 60-day disabled list. ... The Pirates open a four-game series at San Francisco on Thursday night, when LHP Jeff Locke (9-4, 2.90 ERA) is scheduled to start against RHP Matt Cain (8-8, 4.35). ... The Padres are off Thursday before opening a three-game series against the Chicago Cubs. RHP Edinson Volquez (9-10, 5.72 ERA) is scheduled to start opposite RHP Edwin Jackson (7-13, 4.89).


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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
9-11, Eleven Years Later - A Personal Perspective
I tend to keep most real life events off of this blog. It's a gaming blog, not a news blog, political blog or life recap blog. 9-11 is one of the few exceptions to my unwritten rule.
That day literally redefined my life. I lost a close friend. I witnessed with my own eyes and ears both towers coming down. I heard screams over my police radio that I will take to my grave. I thought I was going to die that morning, and I was at peace with that. Years later, when I was diagnosed with cancer and thought it was possible I might only have six months or a year to live, I curled up in a ball on the floor and cried like a baby. Cured now.
When I came on the Job back in 1996, we were told the only heroes were those that made the ultimate sacrifice. We were told not to be heroes - be brave, but not foolhardy. 9-11 redefined that definition for me. The heroes that day were not only those we lost, but the common man that shouldered a burden that wasn't his, but decided it was the right thing to do.
The homeless man and the Wall St. banker directing traffic on Houston Street and 2nd Ave as I raced the police van from the South Bronx to Lower Manhattan. Shopping cart full of one man's total belongings propping up another man's suit jacket and brief case.
Local grocery stores emptying their shelves of food and water to feed the now gray colored police and firemen after the towers fell.
Watching the long lines of people walking over the Brooklyn Bridge to the far side, and other masses of people heading north up the middle of the streets. Seas of people supporting each other. Color, race, creed, orientation - it mattered not at all as folks came together for the common good. The worst of times brought out the best in people.
There are lessons in that day. In our communal loss we still have much to gain and learn.
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Everyone in the room noticed this smirk, of course. Beat reporters aren't dummies.
When asked what was up, Moore declined to answer -- of course. All he said was this cryptic phrase: "It's a nuclear bomb."
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I thought of this when reading the following Associated Press report, which is (in my opinion wisely) the story that is running in many of the nation's major newspapers:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The Rev. Billy Graham urged North Carolina voters Wednesday to support an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage, a move that an observer said was highly unusual but another said was in keeping with the minister's moral beliefs.
"Watching the moral decline of our country causes me great concern," said Graham, 93, who lives near Asheville. "I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected."
His complete statement about Amendment One will be part of full-page ads slated to appear in 14 North Carolina newspapers throughout the weekend. ...
"At 93, I never thought we would have to debate the definition of marriage," Billy Graham's statement said. "The Bible is clear -- God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. I want to urge my fellow North Carolinians to vote for the marriage amendment" Tuesday.
Now, my point here is not to start a debate about Graham's statement or even the wisdom of the world's most famous Protestant making that statement. Don't click "comment" to talk about that.
The purpose of this post is to praise two specific journalism points in this ticklish, "nuclear" story.
First of all, note the balancing act in the second half of the lede. It notes, accurately, two crucial points about Graham's history in public life, especially in the second, post-Watergate part of his life. Graham rarely enters politics and, when it does so, it's when he believes a Christian doctrine demands that he do so. His stance on nuclear weapons, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, is a perfect example.
Second, the AP team (Godbeat veteran Rachel Zoll was involved) got the right source to nail this down.
William Martin, who wrote the authorized Graham biography "A Prophet With Honor," couldn't recall another effort by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association like the one the ministry plans in support of Amendment One. The elderly evangelist preached often on the need for sexual purity, but rarely spoke about same-sex marriage, Martin said.
"I am somewhat surprised that he would take that strong a stand," said Martin, professor emeritus of religion and public policy at Rice University. "In the past, I have heard him say with respect to homosexuality, there are greater sins. ... (It) sounds as if this is Mr. Graham expressing his own will."
Martin, of course, is a mainstream, if not progressive, scholar who is the author of one of the essential studies of Graham's career -- "A Prophet With Honor." While he is not part of the evangelical world, he speaks the language fluently. Martin is also accurate in his statement that Graham never spoke about sexuality issues without stressing that all of American culture been reaping what it has sown, when it comes to sexual ethics. I have never heard of the elder Graham address sexual issues without framing the discussion in terms of the moral status of all sexual acts outside of marriage -- period.
In other words, the Associated Press got the right source in terms of giving information that added another layer of complexity to this report. Everyone knows what conservatives are going to say on this matter and the story, as it should, quotes one or two, including Graham's daughter (and in many ways, his heir in terms of pulpit talent) Anne Graham Lotz.
Getting Martin's voice into the story was crucial for mainstream and progressive readers. Kudos.
NOTE: Once again, we are here to talk about the content of the AP story, not the North Carolina amendment and the arguments for or against it. Take your political comments elsewhere.


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ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 Plan
John G. Johnson ......................................................................... Executive Director
Transportation & Planning Services
Douglas Rex ................................................................................. Division Director
Holly Massie ...................................................................... Special Programs Officer
John Sharp ....................................................... Principal Author - Program Coordinator
Andrea Weckmueller-Behringer .................................................... Program Coordinator
Pong Wu .................................................................................... Associate Planner
Darla Hugaboom .......................................................................... Associate Planner
Kara Chiodo ............................................................................... Associate Planner
Beverly Garner .................................................................... Administrative Assistant
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 Table of Contents
Figure 1: OCARTS Environmental Justice Areas (BGs) ................................................... 2
Figure 2: OCARTS Planned Street and Highway Improvements ........................................ 4
Figure 3: OCARTS Transit Service .......................................................................... 6
Figure 4: OCARTS Planned and Existing Bike Facilities ................................................. 7
Figure 5: OCARTS Sidewalk Facilities ...................................................................... 9
Table 1: Environmental Justice Area Population ........................................................ 3
Table 2: Street and Highway Lane Miles Added .......................................................... 3
Table 3: Transit Route Miles ................................................................................ 5
Table 4: Total Bicycle Facilities Mileage .................................................................. 5
Table 5: Total Sidewalk Mileage ........................................................................... 8
Table 6: Comparative Table ............................................................................... 10
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 1
In August 2005, Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users (SAFETEA-LU) was signed into law. SAFETEA-LU placed additional emphasis on
environmental stewardship and the consideration of environmental issues as a part of
metropolitan and statewide transportation planning. Each of these aspects strengthens the
linkages between planning and environment which creates opportunities to examine the
potential for environmental justice (EJ) issues early on and throughout the project delivery
There are three fundamental environmental justice principles:
1. To avoid, minimize, or mitigate disproportionately high and adverse human health and
environmental effects, including social and economic effects, on minority populations
and low-income populations.
2. To ensure the full and fair participation by all potentially affected communities in the
transportation decision-making process.
3. To prevent the denial of, reduction in, or significant delay in the receipt of benefits by
low-income and minority populations.
The Encompass 2035 Plan is guided by these principles. The following report documents the
methodology used to review the environmental justice considerations of the Encompass 2035
Plan and analyzes the data gathered for the review. Further information on the participation of
various groups in the development of the Plan is included in the FY 2011 UPWP Report,
Task 3.01(8a) Documentation of FY 2010 Public Involvement Activities. Another report,
FY 2011 UPWP Report, Task 1.01(6) Evaluation of Impacts of Encompass 2035, explores a
broader array of potential Plan impacts.
In the previous regional transportation plan (2030 OCARTS Plan), traffic analysis zones (TAZs)
were used as the level of geography to analyze environmental justice issues. However,
between 2000 and 2005, the number of TAZs in the region was increased from 848 to 2,450 in
an effort to refine the ACOG's travel demand model. The increase in TAZs created a large
discrepancy in zonal size between the downtown area (i.e. one block) and those zones on the
periphery of the study area, which may be six square miles or greater. As a result, census block
groups were chosen as the level of geography for the Encompass 2035 Plan EJ analysis, as they
are more consistent in size and conform to something similar to a neighborhood.
In order to assess the effects of the proposed Encompass 2035 plan, staff created a map of
environmental justice areas and non-environmental justice areas utilizing data gathered on
traditionally underserved populations within the OCARTS region (Figure 1). Block groups were
identified that had over a 50% minority population1 and/or income 80% or less of the State Per
Capita average2. Staff then analyzed how the proposed Encompass 2035 transportation
improvements were to be allocated throughout the OCARTS area in regards to the EJ areas and
the non-EJ areas. Specifically, staff analyzed the following modal improvements: street and
highway, transit, bike, and sidewalk.
1 The census definition of minority groups includes Black, Asian, American Indian, and Other (including individuals
of Hispanic origin or multi-racial groups).
2 Low income data was recently used in the call for projects in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009
(ARRA). The low income (80% of the State Per Capita average) for a family of four was calculated to be $17,029 by
the US Census Bureau (2000 Census).
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 2
Figure 1:
OCARTS Environmental Justice Areas (BGs)
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 3
There are 824 census block groups in the OCARTS area (2000 Census). When the minority/low
income definitions were applied to the block groups, 424 block groups were categorized as
either minority, low income, or both. Over 435,000 people, or 44% of the area's population,
are located within those block groups.
Table 1:
Environmental Justice Area Population
Data EJ Area Non-EJ Area Total
Population 435,298 555,266 990,564
% of Population 44% 56% 100%
Encompass 2035 suggests that between 2005 and 2035, approximately 1,023 lane miles will be
added to the region's street and highway network.
Figure 2 illustrates that while street and highway improvements will be added throughout the
OCARTS area, the majority will occur in the higher growth areas in the north and southwest
parts of the region. Table 2 reveals that only 35% of the lane miles will be added adjacent to or
within EJ areas. This suggests that minority/low income populations within EJ areas are being
underserved. However, it should be noted that a majority of the EJ population is located in
the urban built environment. As a result, there is less opportunity for street improvements
because most section line roads have already been widened to four lanes. Despite this fact, the
Encompass 2035 Plan does assume that EJ/non-EJ areas alike will receive three cycles of
maintenance over the course of the Plan (2015, 2025, and 2035).
Table 2:
Street and Highway Lane Miles Added
EJ Area Non-EJ Area Total
Lane Miles 356 667 1,023
% Lane Miles 35% 65% 100%
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 4
Figure 2:
OCARTS Planned Street and Highway Improvements
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 5
Determining the future transit changes for fixed routes over the 30 years of the Plan is a
difficult task. Unlike street and highway improvements, transit service projects, such as future
route changes are not typically submitted. The only fixed route project submitted for inclusion
in the Encompass 2035 Plan was Oklahoma City's proposed downtown streetcar project
included in Oklahoma City's Metropolitan Area Projects 3 (MAPS3) initiative. However, at the
time of 2035 Plan's development, the alignment and technology had not been determined.
As a result, the current service routes from the region's major transit service providers: METRO
Transit, CART and CityLink were used to analyze the level of service provided to the EJ areas
(Figure 3). Express routes from Norman and Edmond to Oklahoma City were also included. The
crosshatched box in Figure 3 depicts the service area for METRO Link, which is an on-demand
service provided in the Oklahoma City area.
Overall, 250 miles or 97% of the 258 miles of existing transit routes fall within or adjacent to EJ
areas. EJ areas located on the periphery of the OCARTS area receive little service, however.
Table 3:
Transit Route Miles
EJ Area Non-EJ Area Total
Route Miles 250 8 258
% Route Miles 97% 3% 100%
The bicycle mode of travel has received greater emphasis in Central Oklahoma in recent years.
That has led to communities developing bike plans and adding bike facilities. Also, the
Encompass 2035 Plan gives additional consideration to street projects that include a bike
element. As a result, nearly 400 miles of bicycle facilities are planned over the next 30 years.
These improvements will include: bike lanes (220 miles), bike routes (123 miles), and trails (56
miles). Figure 4 depicts the 1,126 mile bike system envisioned by the year 2035. Table 4
reveals that nearly 53% of the mileage of these facilities will be located in EJ areas.
Table 4:
Total Bicycle Facilities Mileage
EJ Area Non-EJ Area Total
Facility Miles 596 530 1,126
% Facility Miles 53% 47% 100%
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 6
Figure 3:
OCARTS Transit Service
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 7
Figure 4:
OCARTS Planned and Existing Bike Facilities
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 8
The Encompass 2035 Plan stresses the importance of sidewalks in Central Oklahoma. Indeed,
improving the pedestrian environment will enhance the quality of life and will provide an
important transportation option.
Sidewalk improvements have not been evaluated as part of the EJ analysis in past regional
transportation plans primarily due to the lack of sidewalk data available from OCARTS member
local governments. While a comprehensive sidewalk inventory is still not available, ACOG staff
did evaluate independent sidewalk projects submitted for inclusion in the Encompass 2035
Plan, as well as street and highway projects that incorporated a pedestrian element. Figure 5
reveals the approximately 1,211 miles of sidewalk projects proposed in the Plan.
48 percent or 584 miles of new sidewalk facilities are within or adjacent to EJ areas.
Table 5:
Total Sidewalk Mileage
EJ Area Non-EJ Area Total
Facility Miles 584 627 1,211
% Facility Miles 48% 52% 100%
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 9
Figure 5:
OCARTS Sidewalk Facilities
ACOG Environmental Justice Analysis of Encompass 2035 10
An evaluation of all improvements in the Encompass 2035 Plan reveals that only street and
highway improvements may be disproportionately located outside of EJ areas. However, as
explained earlier in this report, the reason for this discrepancy is due to the fact that most of
the EJ population is located within the urban built environment where many of the section line
roads have already been widened to four lanes. Table 6 demonstrates that transit, bike and
sidewalk improvements are all within the EJ percent population threshold.
Table 6:
Comparative Table
EJ Areas Non-EJ Areas Total
% Population 44% 56% 100%
Street and
34.8% 65.2% 100%
Transit 96.8% 3.2% 100%
Bike 52.9% 47.1% 100%
Sidewalk 48.3% 51.7% 100%
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Point Park University's cinema arts department hosted producers Chris Moore and Corey Moosa on Monday, Feb. 3, for "The Business of Filmmaking: Navigating Today's Entertainment Industry." Held in the GRW Theater, the event focused on how to be successful in today's film business.
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There was much apprehension and concern on Sunday evening as whistleblower website WikiLeaks began publishing nearly a quarter of a million classified US diplomatic cables. Washington had already phoned Israeli leaders to prepare them for any embarrassing information that would be revealed.
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Again and again I've seen IT organizations suffering from what I call the "Bureaucracy is Discipline" antipattern. For example, filling out forms and reviewing documents are both bureaucratic activities, neither of which require significant skill nor discipline to accomplish. However, agile practices such as developing potentially shippable software every iteration is easy to say but requires great discipline to accomplish. Respecting the decisions of your stakeholders, particularly those pertaining to requirements prioritization, is easy to talk about but proves to require great discipline in practice (particularly when you don't agree with a decision). It's easy to talk about taking a test-driven approach to development, but in practice it requires significant skill and discipline to actually do.
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The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is making U Street, Howard University, Shaw, and Logan Circle the focus of its free community engagement activities in January 2013. Between January 8 and 14, members of the NSO are breaking into small ensembles to perform chamber music and educational activities as requested by community organizations. The NSO has worked with approximately 20 partners in these communities, and has agreed to fulfill more than 30 activities requested by the neighborhoods. Venues include the Lincoln Theater, Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Howard University's Cramton Auditorium, Whole Foods and Dahlak Eritrean Restaurant.
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