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Buying an Apple iPad for school? You're not alone. Plenty of students are ditching their notebooks and binders of printed PDFs for Apple's groundbreaking tablet.
If you recently purchased an iPad and plan to use it for serious schoolwork this year for the first time, you'll want to make sure it's loaded with all the apps you need to get through the semester: apps for taking notes, reading books and PDFs, organizing files, and staying in touch with your friends and family.
In addition to apps, you might also want to pick up an accessory or two, like a cover or carrying case, to protect your device. Remember, the iPad ain't cheap, so don't skimp when it comes to protecting it from scratches, cracks, and other bruises.
While this article points to some great apps you'll want to snag from the App Store, don't neglect the apps that come preinstalled on the iPad as well. Make use of iCloud, for instance, to sync your calendar, contacts, and music between devices, or to just back up your data .
Living the university lifestyle usually means money's tight, so when possible, I recommend the best student-friendly apps that we've tested at PCMag, and when they're paid apps, free alternatives as well.
While many of the suggestions on this list point toward academic essentials, we've also included plenty of extras that we think college students will want for their leisure time, too.
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Calif. rescuers hope dolphin finds way back to sea
(AP) -- A wayward dolphin that has spent two days in a narrow wetlands channel along the southern California coast was on its way out to the ocean Saturday when it suddenly turned tail and swam back to shallow waters.
Wildlife experts on paddleboards managed to coax the animal towards the open sea Saturday but it was spooked by a pair of fellow dolphins.
"He freaked out for some reason," said Peter Wallerstein of Marine Animal Rescue. "He split almost full-speed back under the bridge where he had been."
Rescuers decided to let the healthy, strong and fast dolphin try to find its own way out, Wallerstein said. Any attempt to capture it could be dangerous to the animal and rescuers.
The six-foot-long, black-and-white common dolphin was spotted in a channel of the Bolsa Chica wetlands Friday, circling in shallow waters as crowds grew along the banks and TV helicopters flew overhead.
Wallerstein said the 400-pound dolphin doesn't need a high tide to escape.
"He's not stranded and he's not trapped," Wallerstein said. "He can make it out if he chooses to."
The wetlands are separated from the ocean by a wide beach and Pacific Coast Highway. Sea water flows in from Huntington Harbour on one end and an inlet cut through the beach on the opposite end.
The dolphin, part of a small pod seen in the harbor earlier in the week, entered the channel through a hole in a tidal gate that separates the harbor from the marsh, said Dean Gomersall, animal care supervisor at the nonprofit Pacific Marine Mammal Center.
The other five dolphins remained in the harbor and may have to be coaxed back out to sea, Gomersall said.
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Bechtel donation - largest in national parks history - to help transform space extending to Crissy Field marsh
(09-27) 08:54 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The largest cash gift in national parks history is intended to be the catalyst to create 10 acres of parkland connecting the heart of the Presidio to Crissy Field and the bay.
The $25 million from the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation will fund more than half the estimated budget for what is being called Tunnel Top Parkland. A new bluff will cover the rebuilt Doyle Drive, allowing for an unbroken landscape from Crissy Field's marsh inland to the Main Post of the former military base, which now is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
The Bechtel gift, announced Friday, will also be used for youth programs at the Crissy Field Center, which sits where the bluff and landscape will emerge in 2016 after the new Presidio Parkway opens.
"It's an amazing act of generosity that makes possible the completion of one of the most amazing park transformations in the world," said Craig Middleton, executive director of the Presidio Trust, which manages the forested historic military landscape where the Golden Gate Bridge touches down in San Francisco.
The recipient of the gift is the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, a nonprofit that has helped restore land within the GGNRA since 1981. The conservancy led the fundraising and planning efforts for the 100-acre restoration of Crissy Field that premiered in 2001 and has become a cherished part of the city. In recent years, the conservancy also has raised funds for an ambitious network of trails and overlooks within the 1,491-acre Presidio.
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Both of those projects were kicked off by eight-figure grants from the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, a local foundation, and then completed by donations of varying size from other donors rather than public money. This is likely to be the fundraising strategy for Tunnel Top Parkland as well.
"This gets us more than halfway there. ... All these projects have major donors, but also grassroots people who care about parks," said Greg Moore, the conservancy's executive director. One difference here, he said, is that money will be used to plan and design the new space as well as make it reality.
The basic concept has been set since the decision a decade or so ago to use the rebuilding of Doyle Drive as an opportunity to connect Crissy Field and the central parade ground of the Main Post. The $1.1 billion project replaces a seismically unsafe structure built in the 1930s with leaner viaducts and, in two spots, surface roadways that will pass through tunnels that then will be cloaked in re-created bluffs, bringing the Presidio down to the bay.
Uphill at the Main Post, several of the historic brick barracks have been restored in recent years. A spacious lawn has been added, replacing what was a parking lot.
The Bechtel gift is for changes that will occur east of the former commissary that now holds the retailer Sports Basement. That building has big changes in the works, with three teams competing for the right to turn its 8-acre site into a cultural center.
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While the conservancy leads one of the teams, the two projects are separate.
"They'll go forward in parallel," said Middleton, who expects a design process for the bluff to be mapped out beginning within the next few weeks.
"We hope this gift will help spur others to join us in realizing this bold vision for new parklands in the Presidio," said Lauren Dachs, president of the Bechtel Foundation.
The foundation has given other, smaller donations for park improvements in the past. It was established in 1957 by Stephen Bechtel, whose family founded the enormous Bechtel engineering firm that remains based in San Francisco.
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Target date mutual funds take the hard work out of building a diversified portfolio. And judging by their soaring popularity, investors appreciate the convenience.
Target date funds, also known as lifecycle funds, assemble different asset classes into a single portfolio with weights geared to a specific year in the future.
Target date funds, TDF, are most frequently used for retirement savings in 401(k) plans and IRAs with the target date being an investor's expected retirement year.
The TDF structure is also used for 529 college-savings plans with the target date being a student's college enrollment year. Fund managers handle asset allocation and rebalancing, shifting gradually from a growth objective to one focused on capital preservation and income.
TDF funds continue to attract new investors. Assets in such funds reached $334 billion in 2010, an increase of 82 percent over the last three years, according to Financial Research Corp. Among 401(k) participants, 33 percent now own a target date fund. And for college savers, 35 percent of 529 plans sold through financial advisors use target date or age-based portfolios.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The West Coast Conference announced its 2007-08 men and women's basketball preseason coaches poll this week with the Bronco men chosen to finish fourth and the Bronco women selected to finish seventh in the league, it was announced Wednesday.
In the men's poll, Gonzaga was chosen to capture their eighth consecutive regular season crown, as selected by the league coaches, with 61 points and five first place votes. The Gaels of Saint Mary's were just two points behind the Bulldogs, with 59 points and three first place votes. The University of San Diego ranks third in the poll with 43 points and is followed by SCU with 38 total points.
Santa Clara, coming off a 21-10 campaign, welcomes in new head coach Kerry Keating. The Broncos return eight letterwinners from last year's squad that finished in second place in the regular season standings with a 10-4 conference record.
In the women's poll, the Toreros of San Diego were chosen as the favorites in this year's poll with four first place votes and 58 overall points. Defending conference champion Gonzaga, who received three first place votes and 55 total points, were selected to finish second overall and is followed by Pepperdine in third place with 45 points and Loyola Marymount in fourth with 44 total points and one first place vote.
SCU women's basketball, voted seventh with 19 points, returns senior guard Chandice Cronk, who paced the WCC with 16.0 points per game last season and broke the conference's single-season record with 94 three-pointers as a junior.
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Yerevan (yĕrĕvän´), Rus. Erivan, city (1989 pop. 1,201,539), capital of Armenia, on the Razdan River. A leading industrial, cultural, and scientific center, Yerevan is also a rail junction and carries on a brisk trade in agricultural products. The city's industries produce metals, machine tools, electrical equipment, chemicals, textiles, and food products. Educational and cultural facilities include a university, the Armenian Academy of Sciences, a state museum, the Cafesjian Center for the Arts (2009), and several libraries. There are ruins of a 16th-century Ottoman fortress.
Archaeological evidence indicates that the fortress of Yerbuni stood on Yerevan's site in the 8th cent. BC The city, known in the 7th cent. AD, was the capital of Armenia under Persian rule and became historically and strategically important as a crossroads of the caravan routes between Transcaucasia and India. After the downfall (15th cent.) of Timur's empire, to which Yerevan belonged, the city passed back and forth between Persia and Turkey. In 1440 it became the center of East Armenia. During the 17th cent. Yerevan was a frontier fort and a caravan trading point. It became the capital of the Yerevan khanate of Persia in 1725. Taken by Russia in 1827, the city was formally ceded by the Treaty of Turkmanchai (1828). Yerevan was the center of independent Armenia from 1918 to 1920, when it became the capital of the newly formed Armenian SSR; in 1991 it once again became independent Armenia's capital. Yerevan was severely damaged by the Dec., 1988, Armenian earthquake.


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Many engineering disciplines rely on supercomputers to simulate complicated physical phenomena -- how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels. Now, researchers in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed software that can perform such simulations on an ordinary smart phone. Although the current version of the software is for demonstration purposes, the work could lead to applications that let engineers perform complicated calculations in the field, and even to better control systems for vehicles or robotic systems.
The "rbAPPmit" software works in cases where the general form of a problem is known in advance, but not the particulars. For instance, says Phuong Huynh, a postdoc who worked on the project, a computer simulation of fluid flow around an obstacle in a pipe could depend on a single parameter: the radius of the obstacle. But for a given value of the parameter, calculating the fluid flow could take an hour on a supercomputer with 500 processing units. The researchers' new software can provide a very good approximation of the same calculation in a matter of seconds.
"This is a very relevant situation," says David Knezevic, another postdoc in the department who helped lead the project. "Often in engineering contexts, you know a priori that your problem is parameterized, but you don't know until you get into the field what parameters you're interested in."
Each new problem rbAPPmit is called upon to solve requires its own mathematical model. The models, however, take up little space in memory: A cell phone could hold thousands of them. rbAPPmit is an open source implementation of the certified Reduced Basis method for Android smart phones. The principal software developers are Phuong Huynh, David Knezevic and Mark Wittels. The rbAPPmit client software, which can be downloaded here, links to the open source codes AChartEngine and Apache Math Commons for plotting functionality and linear algebra operations, respectively. rbAPPmit comes preloaded with models for nine problems, including heat propagation in objects of several different shapes, fluid flow around a spherical obstacle, and the effects of forces applied to a cracked pillar. As the researchers develop models for new classes of problems, they post them on a server, from which they can be downloaded.
But while the models are small, creating them is a complicated process that does in fact require a supercomputer. "We're not trying to replace a supercomputer," Knezevic says. "This is a model of computation that works in conjunction with supercomputing. And the supercomputer is indispensable."
Knezevic, his fellow postdoc Phuong Huynh, Ford Professor of Engineering Anthony T. Patera, and John Peterson of the Texas Advanced Computer Center describe their approach this way: Once they have identified a parameterized problem, they use a supercomputer to solve it for somewhere between 10 and 50 different sets of values. Those values, however, are carefully chosen to map out a large space of possible solutions to the problem. The model downloaded to a smart phone finds an approximate solution for a new set of parameters by reference to the precomputed solutions.
The key to the system, Knezevic says, is the ability to quantify the degree of error in an approximation of a supercomputing calculation, a subject that Patera has been researching for almost a decade. As the researchers build a problem model, they select parameters that will successively minimize error, according to analytic techniques Patera helped developed. The calculation of error bounds is also a feature of the phone application itself. For each approximate solution of a parameterized problem, the app also displays the margin of error. The user can opt to trade speed of computation for a higher margin of error, but the app can generally get the error under 1 percent in less than a second.
While rbAPPmit can calculate the behavior of a physical system on the basis of its parameters, it could prove even more useful by doing the opposite -- calculating the parameters of a physical system on the basis of its behavior. Instead of, say, calculating fluid flow around an obstacle based on the obstacle's size, the software could calculate the size of the obstacle based on measurements of the fluid flow at the end of a pipe. Ordinarily, that would require several different computations on a supercomputer, trying out several different sets of parameters. But if testing, say, 30 options on a supercomputer would take 30 hours, it might take 30 seconds on a phone. Indeed, the researchers have already developed a second application that calculates such "inverse problems."


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The Ibride design studio was originally conceived by Rachel and Benoit Convers, and became a reality with the close collaboration of Carine Jannin. Since 1996, the trio has created several small collections that can be qualified as "author design."
In its latest collection " Secrets..." Ibride teases our senses and plays with our judgements. The series of bookcases connect us to a make-believe world. Hidden beneath portraits of Dandy - Rastignac, Edmond Dantes and Bel Ami - are small shelves designed to store our favorite books.
In this collection inspired by the imaginary world of Balzac, Dumas, Maupassant, de Vigny and Flaubert, Rachel and Benoit Convers, the design team pay tribute to the theme of Secrecy. The Ibride design collection infuses a secret life to its objects, thus instilling a fairy tale atmosphere to our homes.
" Secrets " was previewed in January 2011 in Paris, and will also be presented at Salon Maison & Objet in September.
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It is not difficult to understand why Barack Obama has a fear of scarves.
In the 17 months he's been pursuing the presidency, the senator has faced a crude and shameless campaign from conservative pundits, GOP functionaries and assorted ignoramuses in the peanut gallery to prove him a secret Muslim -- a "Manchurian candidate, " as one put it -- trained from birth to subvert America from within and, I don't know, make us all eat falafels or something.
On about a half-second of intelligent reflection, the flaw in that theory is apparent: If unfriendly forces had indeed inserted a secret Muslim among us, said Muslim would have blond hair, blue eyes, flag pins out the wazoo and a name like Joe Smith. Too bad intelligent reflection is a stranger to the people in question. With a grim fanaticism, they seize upon every perceived crumb of Obama's "Muslim-ness" to press their case, using everything from his middle name to his disdain for the cheap patriotism of the American flag lapel pin to a photo of him wearing native dress on a trip to Somalia.
So it's easy to see why workers for his campaign barred two women wearing hijabs, Muslim head scarves, from sitting behind him, within range of TV cameras, at a June 16 rally in Detroit. When someone is throwing at you, you don't hand him rocks.
But that doesn't make what the workers did right.
Yes, Obama apologized profusely. Good for him. It would be easier to take the apology seriously, though, if: a) somewhere in the last year of manifold denials that he is a Muslim, Obama had found the time, space or guts to point out that there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim, particularly in a nation that enshrined religious freedom in its founding documents; b) he hadn't spent so much time treating the American Muslim community as one does the carrier of a contagious disease.
Indeed, as The New York Times reported last week, members of that community are feeling well and truly snubbed by Obama, who has visited a number of churches and synagogues, but has yet to find his way to a single mosque.
Again, the politics of this are no mystery. Obama has spent the last year and a half being pilloried as the Other, representative of something so alien and strange to American values that even greeting his wife with a simple fist bump is fodder for a week of commentary.
He is required to walk an unprecedented political tightrope, to be one part John F. Kennedy, one part Jackie Robinson. More, he is required to prove his American-ness like no other candidate before him. Pictures of him speaking in a mosque would not, putting it mildly, be helpful.
But see, the thing that has made Obama a phenomenon is this sense that he Gets It, that he won't play the same old games by the same old rules. He comes across as a man brave enough to reason and to expect that voters will do the same, a man brave enough to treat intelligent adults like intelligent adults.
His campaign, more than most, is an implicit promise to never put that which is politic above that which is right.
This standoffishness toward American Muslims is a denial of all those things.
Until Sept. 11, 2001, that community was poised for assimilation, poised to submerge itself in the American mainstream like the Jews, Irish and Italians before them. The actions of a handful of their co-religionists on that fateful day wrecked that trajectory beyond recognition and unleashed something base and ugly in the American character.
Muslims were snatched from the threshold of acceptance, painted once again as the alien and vaguely threatening Other. Can you imagine how that must feel? It is galling and painful to see yourself reduced to a caricature based on someone else's fears.
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Today, HIV is more preventable than ever. Prevention techniques include limiting the number of sexual partners, using clean needles and syringes, and using condoms correctly and consistently. You should also know your health status, as having gonorrhea or syphilis makes you more susceptible to HIV as well as more likely to pass on the disease.
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text: There's plenty of reasons the Stanley Cup playoffs are the best in sports, but the chance for extended, multiple-overtime games is certainly one of them. After Boston's physical 1-0 OT win over Washington, hockey fans were treated to two overtimes between San Jose and St. Louis, a game decided by Marty Havlat's goal in the 84th minute of action. It was Havlat's second goal of the game and a gorgeous one-timer that gave the #7 seed an invaluable Game One road win. [CNBC]


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The state's largest board-and-care center for the severely disabled lost its primary license to operate today, after repeatedly exposing patients to abuse and shoddy medical care.
State regulators cited the Sonoma Developmental Center, which houses more than 500 patients, for dozens of cases where patients were put at risk of injury or death. In issuing the citations, the state moved to shut down a major portion of the century-old institution.
The action comes after a series of stories this year from California Watch documenting failures by the Office of Protective Services, an internal police force established specifically to protect and serve patients at these board-and-care centers. The police force has failed to perform basic tasks associated with crime investigations. In particular, the Sonoma center had evidence of a dozen sexual assaults but police investigators failed to order a single hospital-supervised examination for the alleged victims. Those reported assaults represent a third of the 36 documented cases of sexual abuse and molestation in the past four years at the state's five developmental centers.
The loss of state certification in Sonoma means California taxpayers will lose tens of millions of dollars in federal funding that is dependent on assurances the facility is properly managed. Critically, it raises questions about how to care for hundreds of patients with cerebral palsy, mental retardation and severe autism if the center closes. Most of the patients at the Sonoma center are unable to live with their families or in group homes.
The state Department of Developmental Services is appealing the revocation, which was announced by state health officials who have regulatory control over the facility. The facility will remain operating during the appeal.
The state Department of Public Health moved to sanction the Sonoma center after it visited the facility in late November and early December and "documented incidents of abuse constituting immediate jeopardy, as well as actual serious threats to the physical safety of female clients in certain units."
Terri Delgadillo, director of the developmental services department, which has a budget of $4.5 billion, said state officials are acting to make changes.
"We are contacting our residents' families to assure them of our continued commitment to making improvements," Delgadillo said in a written statement. "We are moving quickly to fix this center and protect our residents."
The department announced it was putting Frank Parrish, assistant chief of the California Highway Patrol, temporarily in charge of the Office of Protective Services' unit at the Sonoma center. The highway patrol "is in the process of evaluating the issues to ensure the delivery of appropriate services," the department said in a release.
The move does not impact the detectives and patrol officers operating at the state's other four developmental centers.
For some critics of the Office of Protective Services, installing new leadership with a strong law enforcement background is a welcome change. For decades, state officials have hired police chiefs with little or no experience investigating crimes.
"It's a whole lot easier for someone who already knows how to do law enforcement, who knows how to be a good investigator, to learn the idiosyncrasies of working with that client base," said Thomas Simms, a retired police chief and former California Department of Justice consultant who audited the Office of Protective Services in 2002. "You can't take the in-house people ... and make them good investigators."
The state has already moved to make changes at the developmental centers, including hiring an outside monitor to help oversee retraining of officers. The Legislature ordered a thorough audit of the facilities, and Gov. Jerry Brown has signed two laws to strengthen oversight of the facilities. One requires the centers report alleged sex assaults against patients to outside law enforcement. The other requires that the Office of Protective Services chief have "extensive management experience directing uniformed peace officer and investigation operations," the law states.
The state is targeting the facility's apparent inability to properly care for about 300 patients who aren't bedridden – the so-called intermediate care patients. An additional 200 patients under skilled nursing supervision were not affected by the sanctions issued today.
For the Sonoma center, the penalty would cut off reimbursements that cover about half of its $160 million annual budget. Finance records show that the Medi-Cal program pays more than $6 million a month for patient care at the Sonoma center.
The 90-member Office of Protective Services force was created decades ago to patrol California's five developmental centers, which are in Los Angeles, Tulare, Riverside, Orange and Sonoma counties. The facilities house about 1,600 patients, many of them so severely disabled they cannot speak.
In a report issued in August, state regulators repeatedly faulted the Office of Protective Services for inadequate investigations in alleged crimes against patients.
Since 2009, patients at developmental centers have accused their caregivers of sexual abuse 36 times. Documents show that patients suffered molestation, forced oral sex and vaginal lacerations, but the Office of Protective Services moved so slowly and ineffectively that predators stayed ahead of law enforcement or abused new victims.
Many the complaints of sexual abuse at the facilities have occurred at Sonoma. Twelve of the 36 abuse cases since 2009 – all identified by patients rights advocates as needing thorough investigation – occurred at Sonoma. In every case, the Office of Protective Services failed to order a sexual assault examination known as a rape kit, often the only way to gather physical evidence in sexual assault cases.
Statewide, the Office of Protective Services referred just three sex crime cases to county district attorneys for prosecution since 2009, said Leslie Morrison with Disability Rights California. In those cases, officers did not collect any physical evidence to determine whether crimes occurred. Just one of those cases led to an arrest.
Records show the Office of Investigative Services has failed to thoroughly investigate sexual assault cases at Sonoma for years. One of the most disturbing assaults involved a former patient named Jennifer who suffered from bipolar disorder and severe mental retardation.
In 2006, caregivers at the Sonoma center found bruises shaped like handprints covering Jennifer's breasts, suggesting an assault. She accused a staff member of molestation, but the Office of Protective Services opened an investigation without ordering a rape kit examination.
A few months later, Jennifer was pregnant. By then, her alleged attacker had fled the country.
In another case from early 2000, a female patient at the Sonoma center accused a male caregiver of sexually assaulting her during a bath. The institution then assigned two men to bathe the patient, even though the facility employed many female caregivers. Both caregivers allegedly raped her during bathing. Police made no arrests in the case.
View this story on California Watch
This story was produced by California Watch, a part of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.californiawatch.org.


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In Thursday's post I explained how to freeze sweet corn; today, I'm going to share with you how to make corn cob jelly. Yes, you read that right, you can make jelly from corn cobs! Believe it or not, it tastes really good, the flavor is somewhat reminiscent of honey.
Corn Cob Jelly – adapted from CITR
1 gallon of water
2 dozen large corn cobs
1/4 cup lemon juice
5 tbsp flex-batch low-sugar pectin
4 cups sugar
Place water and cobs in a large pot and bring to a boil over high heat. (I had to cut some cobs to make them fit. I also had to divide the water and cobs into two pots to keep everything from overflowing!)
Boil hard for 30 minutes; the longer you boil it down the more concentrated flavor you will have. I ended up with 5 cups corn-liquid. Remove from heat and strain the liquid through a jelly bag or cheese cloth, or leave the corn bits in the liquid, that is what I did.
Return the liquid to a large pot, add lemon juice and pectin, bring to a boil. Add sugar and stir 'til dissolved; bring back to a rolling-boil and boil for one minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and ladle into hot, sterilized jars; wipe rims, adjust 2-piece lids and process in a boiling-water bath for 10 minutes. Yields 6 half pints
Corn cob jelly on warm cornbread.


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Thanks to NEEKNERAJ of MindLoveMisery's Menagerie for hosting this week's photo challenge prompt.
Enchanting child in slumber keep,
Red hair surrounds you as you sleep.
I wait for you to wake from your dreams,
No longer a porcelain doll preened.
A wedding gown white lace so frothy,
Mother hoped your match was lofty.
That you'd found your life partner,
Your prince, your man, for life to start.
But day by day you grew sad,
When pressed with his kisses ran.
Empty feeling inside you grew,
Like a butterfly away flew.
Mischievous child, pain grew,
His fist at your face straight-on flew.
Hiding the bruises with powder,
Not even concealer shrouds.
Pride vital to you, tiny doll,
Escaped; no one to catch your fall.
Fly in dreams with delicate wings,
Winter ends, it's soon your spring.
Gather your courage –call it off;
Don't marry him, don't be soft.
In front of the crowd, show each cut,
Let them see bruises, you must.
So they know an abuser,
Isn't good enough, he's a loser.
He broke your velvet wings,
Your sanity held by strings.
But it was too late even then,
The lake too close; so your end.
Now you float, butterfly who swims,
Eternity of light your win.
We tried to save a doll of glass,
But on death she shattered, passed.
Down below the water's dark depth,
She's tranquil, free; although, she leapt.
Mind too distorted, destroyed,
Lover's hands threw her like a toy.
World tough; his madness changed them both,
In Heaven she smiles free to float.
He mourns her death each day, each drink,
Pretty soon his rage him too sinks.
Accidents happen to the unaware,
She pulled him in, drowned his despair.
©Mandibelle16. (2017) All Rights Reserved.


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Gingersnap Cookies
12.15.09 by Jackie
Gingersnap cookies really symbolize the holiday season. They're flavored with a blend of spices, which give the cookies a really intense flavor. I make mine with cinnamon, clove, allspice, nutmeg, black pepper, and of course, ginger.
The texture is chewy on the inside with a "snappy" outer layer. Lulu loves eating them with a warm cup of tea. I've been making us ginger tea with soy milk every evening to ward off the cold, and these cookies go perfectly with it.
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Thank You from Neil Young.
Pono means righteous. It is a Hawaiian word, the one, the pureness. On behalf of Pono, we thank you for helping us give music a voice. You have helped to set the stage for a revolution in music listening. Finally, quality enters the listening space so that we can all hear and feel what the artists created, the way they heard and felt it.
This is done when the artist makes the best available, wanting to share it with you. It happens when the artist lets you hear and feel more than what is on your CD or MP3 of any song. CDs and MP3s are derived from the original masters, and now, with the PonoPlayer, you can finally feel the master in all its glory, in its native resolution, CD quality or higher, the way the artist made it, exactly. That's the beauty of Pono.
It's been a long time coming. It was not easy getting this far, but you made it happen by supporting Pono's vision for better listening. We have been working with the labels, with the artists and producers, and we will continue to do that. We go to the source to find the best and bring it to you. Pono wants to preserve the history of music, in all of its beauty and expression, for all time. Forever.
There is a way to do this right, and we are going to do it. We will be sharing how we will do this with you over the next few months, while we build your first ever PonoPlayers. We are going to do some revolutionary things. We will make music available in a way that has never been done, a way that allows for constantly attaining the best listening experience.
Thank you to the artists, the recording companies, big and small, and most of all, thanks to you music lovers for making this happen with your amazing support.
Thanks for listening,
Neil Young
& the PonoMusic Team
A message to Artists:
First, we say "thanks" to all of you artists who have been here with Pono since the beginning. We are deeply grateful for your encouragement and support.
When you and your recording team go into a studio or recording environment to create your latest music, there are many choices for you to make. Besides the studios, songs, players, singers, producers, engineers, microphones, and other equipment, you have the ability to choose from the numerous digital resolutions at your disposal to capture your sound. This is where Pono can make a giant difference.
Now, whatever resolution you choose to employ for your recording process, your masters can be heard by your listeners exactly as you created them. You no longer have to be satisfied with MP3 or CD being what your fans hear. Pono plays back anything you can create, just as you made it, in the digital domain.
Even if you record in analog, when you mix your songs and record them to an analog 2 track, you can copy that to the digital resolution you choose (preferably the highest) and have your listeners hear that exact recording.
If you are an artist who has been recording for years and this has been your life and always will be, your original creations in analog can be transferred to the highest quality digital and heard anew with Pono. No longer do your original recordings have to be the compressed sound of CDs and MP3s. It's all up to you. It is in your power to rescue your art and bring it into the 21st Century, preserved for generations to hear and enjoy. You can talk to your producer or record company and learn how to make that available to your listeners on Pono.
If you are a new artist, always released on MP3s and CDs, then your horizon has just been radically expanded. You can now record in whatever resolution you choose and your fans will hear the same quality you heard in the studio. You no longer have to lose part of your sound when it goes to the people. You probably know what I mean, having heard your creation when you mixed it, feeling that rush, only to be let down by the end product, the product your audience has had to accept. You probably know it was better when you first heard it than what they got. That is over. You are no longer limited by a format. Now your audience can hear what you hear.
Go back to your digital masters and see what they sounded like compared to what was released. Now, if you want to, they can all be released in their original glory. If you elect to, you can make the higher-resolution sources of your CDs and MP3s available to your listeners on Pono. It doesn't matter what resolution you originally employed; if it is higher than what was released, and you can hear the difference, your fans can hear it. They deserve the best and Pono delivers it for you. Pono plays anything back just as you made it.
In the studio, with your brand new creations, high resolution is a great option. Resolutions are all different in their depths and textures. These can be used, and mixed together. A hook can be recorded in a higher resolution than the track it sits on, further setting it apart in your creation. So can a vocal. Resolution is a new tool for you to use. As long as you mix in the highest resolution found in your creation, or higher, everything will be captured. Especially, real echo and acoustic instruments, like drums, benefit from higher resolutions. Don't take anyone's word for this. Listen for yourself. Make your own decision. It's an artistic right you have.
Doing this does not mean you cannot still make CDs and MP3s. They can be derived from your original masters.
Your choices matter now more than ever before because your fans will hear the difference. Thousands of documented Pono listens have proven that music lovers can tell the difference between what they had before with CDs and MP3s and what they can have now with Pono. Look at the videos on ponomusic.com and see the reactions. Those are your people. They feel more from the music with Pono.
High quality digital is wonderful to hear and sense. It is the sound of the 21st Century. Almost no one has heard it outside the studio. As artists, with Ponomusic, we have renewed opportunities for expression that have long been lost.
The Ponomusic player can bring new light to all of your creations through Ponomusic.
Record companies, this is an opportunity to rescue the art of recorded sound. Why should a Frank Sinatra recording or an Adele recording or a Nirvana, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Who, or classical recording be limited to the CD format for the future? This music is world cultural history. All of this cultural history should be preserved for enjoyment of the people in its highest possible form forever. In the 21st Century, people, and art, deserve this technology. Bring it on. Now, as never before, it is possible.
Our listeners should hear what we heard.
Thanks for listening,
Neil Young
What is PonoMusic?
"Pono" is Hawaiian for righteous. What righteous means to our founder Neil Young is honoring the artist's intention, and the soul of music. That's why he's been on a quest, for a few years now, to revive the magic that has been squeezed out of digital music. In the process of making music more convenient – easier to download, and more portable – we have sacrificed the emotional impact that only higher quality music can deliver. However, the world has changed in the last 10 years – technology has solved some of the underlying problems that forced that tradeoff. You no longer have to choose between quality and convenience when listening to music – you can have both. This is the fundamental idea behind PonoMusic.
Pono's mission is to provide the best possible listening experience of your favorite music. We want to be very clear that PonoMusic is not a new audio file format or standard. PonoMusic is an end-to-end ecosystem for music lovers to get access to and enjoy their favorite music exactly as the artist created it, at the recording resolution they chose in the studio. We offer PonoMusic customers the highest resolution digital music available. PonoMusic is more than just a high-resolution music store and player; it is a grassroots movement to keep the heart of music beating. PonoMusic aims to preserve the feeling, spirit, and emotion that the artists put in their original studio recordings.
We are pursuing this vision by building a system for the entire music listening experience – from the original master recordings to the PonoMusic.com Store to the portable PonoPlayer. So now you'll hear the nuances, the soft touches, and the ends on the echo – the texture and the emotion of the music the artist worked so hard to create.
Please see FAQ at the bottom of this page for answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Kind Words from the Press & Our Backers:
The Washington Post: "The Pono Kickstarter was funded because people wanted the Pono Player."
Maureen Jackson, Kickstarter backer: "Preserving the history of music. I like that!"
Forbes: "Pono Music's Kickstarter campaign is actually brilliant."
Mark Sterling, Kickstarter backer: "How long was that? 8 hours? People want this."
Slate: "They met that goal in under a day."
Dennis Lane, Kickstarter backer: "Pono, where music becomes real again."
Techcrunch: "Call it a Toblerone bar. Call it a relic of the past. But you also have to call it successful."
Stephen, Kickstarter backer: "For me, Pono isn't about fixing music. It's about returning artistic integrity to the process."
Scott Martin, Kickstarter backer: "It's a revolution Neil when people care and come together. It's special and rare."
SHOCKPROOF, Kickstarter backer: "The Next Generation in Digital Music! It's a REVOLUTION!"
Mashable: "The team argues that the Kickstarter campaign is validation that there is a market for high-quality music beyond just a handful of audiophiles."
Kyle French, Kickstarter backer: "Here's to continued success in furthering the music experience."
SPIN: "Neil Young's PonoMusic is all about the quality."
The Hollywood Reporter: "[The team has] been heavily involved with their Kickstarter audience, fielding questions, comments and concerns in order to share the full experience with their supporters."
Carlos, Kickstarter backer: "We here you and feel you the way you are intending... Make that Picasso...We are in the front row and we are watching."
Forbes: "[Neil Young's] raising money for Pono ... at a rate of about $700 per minute via Kickstarter."
DMN: "$6 Million Says People Care About Sound Quality."
Ute Conzendorf, Kickstarter backer: "As you see many many people believed in your wonderful idea. It turned to reality."
Mark A Smith, Kickstarter backer: "Music is such a part of the positive legacy of humankind. Never Stop Creating!"
Why should you support our Kickstarter?
PonoMusic is about a lot of things, but first and foremost it's about the connection between the artists and their fans – the music, and the people who can't live without it. We see Kickstarter as a way to strengthen those bonds by letting musicians and music fans get behind the thing that matters most to all of us – the music itself.
Our Kickstarter is about bringing creators and consumers together. It is about the formation of a community that values the experience of listening to music the way the artists made it, at the highest quality they can obtain.
We also wanted to allow music fans to connect with their favorite artists in a special way through the campaign - we are offering limited edition Signature Series PonoPlayers from artists such as:
Elton John, ZZ Top, Portugal the Man, Grateful Dead, Kings of Leon, The Eagles, Kenny Rogers, Neil Young With Crazy Horse, Tegan and Sara, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Crosby Stills & Nash, Foo Fighters, Willie Nelson, Metallica, Patti Smith, Arcade Fire, Beck, Dave Matthews, Herbie Hancock, Buffalo Springfield, Norah Jones, Lenny Kravitz, Pearl Jam, My Morning Jacket, and James Taylor.
The Artist Limited Edition PonoPlayers have a non-metal casing with a chrome finish. They will have laser-engraved artist signatures, including all band members in the case of groups. They ship to you pre-loaded with the artist's two favorite high resolution albums from their own body of work. We will be introducing additional Artist Limited Edition Series PonoPlayers throughout the campaign as more artists step forward - so keep watching our pledge levels & rewards on the right to see new artists as they become available.
More about the PonoPlayer...
The PonoPlayer is a purpose-built device, designed by world-renowned audio engineers, to do one thing and one thing exceedingly well - let you hear high quality PonoMusic as close to its original recorded resolution as possible, and therefore, the original musical experience.
Your PonoPlayer works in much the same way as most other portable music devices. The PonoMusic App (for Mac or Windows PC) provides you access to the PonoMusic.com Store, where you can browse, search, purchase and download high-resolution music to your computer. You then simply connect your PonoPlayer micro USB cable to your computer's USB port in order to sync your favorite music and playlists. Then you can enjoy your music on your PonoPlayer at the same quality level as the original recording. The touchscreen LCD allows for easy "swipe" navigation between songs, albums, artists, genres, and playlists. It also allows you to change the settings in the player to suit your personal taste.
The PonoPlayer has two output jacks. The first is a normal mini-stereo output specially designed for headphones and is meant for personal listening. The second is a stereo mini-plug analog output specifically designed for listening on your home audio system, in your car, or with your Sonos Connect – so you can share the PonoMusic experience with your friends and family.
The PonoPlayer ships with a total of 128GB. 64GB of memory is built into the player and another 64GB of memory on a removable microSD card. The expansion slot can accept microSD cards of up to 64GB or SDXC microSD cards of 128GB or higher. Unlike many other portable music players, the microSD cards are designed to be easily swappable. For example, you can build a library of various playlists or genres on different cards and simply swap them in and out, much like you'd swap game cards on a portable gaming console. So in reality you have infinite capacity on the PonoPlayer.
How many songs can it hold? That depends on the quality of your music files:
- CD lossless quality recordings (44.1 kHz/16 bit): About 5000 tracks.
- High-resolution recordings (48 kHz/24 bit): About 3200 tracks.
- Higher-resolution recordings (96 kHz/24 bit): About 1600 tracks.
- Ultra-high resolution recordings (192 kHz/24 bit): About 800 tracks.
This is a LOT of high-resolution music, and we say, "the more the better". You'll get hooked on how good this music sounds.
What do we consider to be high quality digital music?
- Generally speaking, mp3 files
have a bit rate of 192kbps or 256kbps. These are highly compressed
files and are much smaller in size than higher resolution music files. The
good news is that you can keep a lot of mp3 files in a small amount of storage
on a portable player or mobile device. The bad news is that they've lost
a lot of the musical information that often reveals the most pleasant and
satisfying aspects of the music. It is mostly that sense of realism, dynamic
range, and detail that higher resolution recordings typically capture in a way
that restores the emotion in the song.
On the "low end" of higher resolution music (CD lossless, 44.1kHz/16 bit), PonoMusic files have about 6 times more musical information than a typical mp3. With ultra-high resolution recordings (192kHz/24 bit), the difference between a PonoMusic digital file and an mp3 is about 30 times more data from which your player reconstructs the "song".
- CD lossless quality recordings: 1411 kbps (44.1 kHz/16 bit) FLAC files
- High-resolution recordings: 2304 kbps (48 kHz/24 bit) FLAC files
- Higher-resolution recordings: 4608 kbps (96 kHz/24 bit) FLAC files
- Ultra-high resolution recordings: 9216 kbps (192 kHz/24 bit) FLAC files
The Evolution of the PonoPlayer Design...
- Over the three years of PonoPlayer
development, we considered many different designs and concepts. One of the
early ideas was to make an accessory for a smartphone that contained storage
for the music tracks along with advanced audio electronics. The phone's
display would be used to navigate and play the songs, but with the songs would
be stored in the accessory's memory. A Bluetooth connection would communicate
between the phone and the accessory to select and play the desired song. This
design was dismissed, for now, because it was very complicated to use and
required two devices to play music.
- We talked a lot about making
the player thin, to snap onto the back of a phone so it could be carried as one
unit. But that meant you'd need a different player design for each phone model,
and we found that it was not possible to put some of the large audio
components – required for the best performance – into a
thin package. This led us to design the accessory in the shape of a triangular
"Toblerone" shaped chocolate bar. It allowed us to use larger audio
components and to separate them far enough apart to prevent electrical
interference between the various subsystems. It also allowed us to use a large
cylindrical battery that's much more efficient than a flat battery.
- Neil Young: The vision, force, energy, and voice of PonoMusic
- John Hamm: CEO and team leader – building the team and business
- Elliot Roberts: Our Artist Relations executive.
- Pedram Abrari: The PonoMusic.com consumer experience leader – software and technology
- Phil Baker: The PonoPlayer development leader – hardware and manufacturing
- Attractor Ventures: Gigi Brisson and Harvey Allison
- Buchalter Nemer (Legal support): Rick Cohen
- Semiphore Systems (Hardware, firmware, and electronics): Dave Gallatin, Dave Paulsen
- MX (Player app): Ole Lütjens, Joe Rice, and the MX team
- Ayre Acoustics (PonoPlayer audio technology): Charles Hansen
- Mike Nuttall Design (Industrial design): Mike Nuttall
- AudioQuest (Computer audio technology support): Joe Harley and Steve Silberman
- PCH International (Manufacturing partner): Liam Casey and the team
- Lime Lab (Manufacturing & mechanical engineering): Andre Yousefi, Simon Gatrall, and Phil Stob
- Upstream (Graphic design, audio & video): William Mitchell, Ben Johnson, Toshi Onuki, Kris Kunz, Mark Faulkner, and Hannah Johnson
- Hanft Projects (Marketing content & messaging): Adam Hanft and Lucas Hanft
- Pentagram (Website design & Kickstarter campaign)
- Hollywood Pixels (Photography & graphic design): Franz Krachtus
- Vann Alexandra Daly (Kickstarter producer)
- It then became obvious that if
we added a touch display, we could make the player completely self-contained.
It wouldn't need to be tied to your phone and there would be no
interruptions from an incoming call while you were enjoying your music. It would
be the best playback device ever for listening to high quality digital
music. We realized that music this good deserved a truly purpose built,
dedicated device to enjoy it. There was no "Swiss Army knife" good enough for
the music we wanted you to hear.
- This triangular shape also has
additional benefits: it can be held upright for one-hand operation or it can
sit flat on your desktop or home stereo system. The display automatically
rotates depending on the orientation of the device. But the best thing about
this shape is that we were able to include the best sounding audio components
with absolutely no compromises. The PonoPlayer will certainly be recognizable
on your desk as the unique product it is – the world's best sounding portable
digital music player.
Check out more rewards...
Meet the team:PonoMusic was founded by Neil Young in 2011 to create a movement to revive the soul of music, and to recreate the vinyl experience in the digital realm. Neil has assembled a fantastic team who are extremely passionate about music:
The core PonoMusic team:
Our extended team (with our thanks and gratitude):
Risks and challenges
PonoPlayer Production
The PonoPlayer will be built by PCH International (Cork, Ireland and San Francisco), with its production facilities in Shenzhen, China. PCH International understands every step from design to direct fulfillment, and supplies products to many of the world's leading consumer electronic companies.
The PonoMusic and PCH teams began collaborating at the design stage almost two years ago at a meeting with Neil Young and Liam Casey, the CEO and founder of PCH International. As the design progressed, we worked closely with the PCH team to ensure the product was designed for high quality, high volume production. The PCH team includes engineers, toolmakers, a project manager, procurement specialist, packaging designer, and production specialists.
To date we have completed our tooling for first samples of the final enclosure, which have been used in building 50 units for testing, including listening tests by artists and audio experts. For these units we designed and built the circuit boards and did final assembly in Silicon Valley.
Our next step is to do one more revision of our electronics board, implementing some specific additional audio technology from Ayre Acoustics. We plan to build 50 additional units for more testing. Once we are fully satisfied with our final design we will be moving from our current engineering build environment in California to a pre-production facility at PCH International in Shenzhen. We will then work with PCH to build out the final assembly line, install the test equipment, and do two more builds before beginning production.
After several generations of prototypes and successive improvements, the latest generation players have undergone extensive testing for over six months. We now need to complete the final iteration of the design, conduct extensive testing of the player, develop and test our online PonoMusic.com Store, and move into production.
PonoMusic.com Store
We are currently engaged with one of the world's best Content Delivery Networks to build out the backend of our PonoMusic.com Store. Furthermore, we are working with a fantastic desktop media center vendor to build out the PonoMusic App for Mac and Windows PC. This media management application will act as the hub of your Pono ecosystem. It will allow you to:
• Browse, sample, purchase, and download music from the PonoMusic.com Store
• Manage and organize your entire music library including building playlists
• Load your favorite music on to your PonoPlayer for enjoyment at home or on the go
We are also working diligently on our main website, PonoMusic.com, where music lovers will be able to explore the PonoMusic universe, provide us feedback, collaborate with each other, and be part of PonoMusic as a movement for the highest quality digital recordings. We are very excited about the community of music lovers that will form and grow on our site.
We will begin to populate our music library with a great collection of high-resolution music. This is an on-going, never-ending process that we are eager to begin and will be delighted to continue every day at PonoMusic.com.
We believe that the risks described above are manageable, assuming a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Rewards & Fulfillment
We plan to fulfill the product rewards directly from PCH International to our donors using 3-day delivery. We plan to start production in late Summer and deliver the rewards to our supporters in October, 2014. We will be keeping our supporters informed on our progress through the various phases of our development and production process. Delays, should they occur, typically will likely be due to supply chain lead times of some special audio components or any unexpected challenges in the ramping up of production. However, we have great confidence in the substantial experience of PCH. They are real pros. As they say, "This ain't our first rodeo".Learn about accountability on Kickstarter


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MARTINEZ — An Antioch man who worked as a parks attendant for the city of Oakland is facing sexual assault charges alleging that he raped and molested a 16-year-old girl on more than one occasion and videotaped some of the encounters.
Timothy Ray Hackett, 46, was arrested at his home on Aug. 1 and faces charges of contacting a minor with sexual intent, arranging to meet with a minor to engage in lewd and lascivious behavior, rape by force, sex with a minor and exhibiting a minor in child porn in connection to five incidents that took place in June and July. The incidents all involved a 16-year-old girl, prosecutors said.
Hackett, being held on $255,000 bail, was set to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in Contra Costa County Superior Court, but the hearing was postponed until next week, prosecutors said. He allegedly solicited the girl for sex and asked if he could videotape the activity.
The girl initially declined, but prosecutors say that when Hackett offered her money, she agreed to meet with him. Hackett allegedly videotaped some of the encounters, and at least one of the meetings at an undisclosed location involved rape, prosecutors said.
Neither police nor prosecutors would say how they learned about the incidents. They also would not say how Hackett knew the girl, but prosecutors did say the two are not related.
Police arrested Hackett at his Antioch home on Aug. 1, said Lt. Anthony Morefield.
City officials confirmed Thursday afternoon that Hackett was employed as a part-time park attendant from July 2013 through Thursday, although his last day of work was July 26. Hackett, who was assigned to Lakeside Park and also worked with roving city parks crews, performed tree trimming, garden maintenance, ballfield preparation and other duties.
Prosecutors said Hackett has a criminal history in Alameda County. He was convicted of possession of cocaine in 1989 and felony possession of a firearm in 1995.
In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Oakland city manager's office said that Hackett had disclosed his criminal history during the hiring process but that "it was determined that his response did not preclude him from being employed in the position for which he had applied."
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Senate voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of legislation that would require voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot.
The Republican-led Senate voted 21-12, along party lines, to override the veto. There was no debate beforehand.
The bill's sponsor, Republican state Sen. Bryan King, said he expects the GOP-controlled House to vote to override the veto on Thursday. Each chamber needs only a simple majority to override a veto in Arkansas.
Beebe vetoed the bill Monday, saying it amounts to "an expensive solution in search of a problem" and would unnecessarily infringe on voters' rights. Critics say in-person voter fraud is extremely rare and that voter ID laws, which Republicans have pushed for in many states, are really meant to disenfranchise groups that tend to favor Democrats.
King dismissed Beebe's concerns after Wednesday's vote.
"It's unfortunate that his attitude is just a continuation of the attitude by Democrats in Arkansas that voter fraud isn't happening and they won't do anything about it," King, R-Green Forest, told reporters.
The bill would require the state to provide free photo IDs to voters who don't have one at an estimated cost of $300,000. It wouldn't take effect until there is funding for the IDs or until January 2014, whichever occurs last.
Arkansas currently requires poll workers to ask for identification, but voters can still cast ballots if they don't have one. Among the forms of ID poll workers can ask for are non-photo options, including government checks and utility bills. If a voter doesn't show identification, poll workers indicate so on the precinct's voter registration list and the county election board can send the information to prosecutors after the election to investigate possible voter fraud.
Under the new legislation, voters unable to present a photo ID at polling stations would be allowed to cast provisional ballots. Voters would then have until noon on the following Monday to provide ID to county elections officials or sign an affidavit stating they are indigent or have a religious objection to being photographed. Otherwise, their provisional ballots wouldn't be counted.
Arkansas is among 19 states where proposals to enact voter ID laws or strengthen existing requirements have been introduced this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Republicans have been pushing for similar laws in other states, although the measures have faced court challenges. Voter ID laws in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have been blocked. Similar restrictions by Texas and South Carolina have been rejected by the federal government under the Voting Rights Act, and Mississippi is waiting for federal approval of its photo ID law.
Four states — Georgia, Indiana, Kansas and Tennessee — have similarly strict photo ID requirement laws in effect. Virginia will also have a strict photo ID requirement for voters in effect July 2014 under a measure signed into law this week by Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Arkansas Republicans had pushed for voter ID requirements for years, but the measure failed to reach the governor's desk under Democratic majorities. In November, Republicans won control of both legislative chambers for the first time in 138 years, and they have been busy advancing their conservative agenda, including passing more restrictive abortion laws and less restrictive gun laws.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas has called the requirement unconstitutional, and its executive director said Wednesday the group was prepared to go to court if it becomes law. Opponents of the measure say it would disenfranchise senior citizens, minorities and the poor.
"I think it sends a terrible message already in a society when we suffer from voter apathy in a very big way," said Sen. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, who voted against the override and has compared the measure to poll taxes used to disenfranchise black voters during the Jim Crow era.
The override attempt's fate is uncertain in the House, where it passed with 51 votes earlier this month. The only Democrat in that chamber to support the measure, Rep. Walls McCrary, later filed a letter with the chamber saying he intended to vote against it. Republicans hold 51 of the 100 seats in the House.
House Speaker Davy Carter, R-Cabot, didn't vote on the measure and declined Wednesday to say whether he'd support overriding Beebe's veto.
"I'm going to go back and read the (attorney general's) opinion and the governor's reasoning on why he vetoed the bill," he told reporters. "Fundamentally I think we're down to the reasoning behind the veto, so I'll look at that and see."
The bill would exempt voters who live in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
Beebe said Monday he was vetoing the bill because voter fraud hasn't been shown to be a problem.
"At a time when some argue for the reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy and for reduced government spending, I find it ironic to be presented with a bill that increases government bureaucracy and increases government expenditures, all to address a need that has not been demonstrated," Beebe wrote in his veto letter. "I cannot approve such an unnecessary measure that would negatively impact one of our most precious rights as citizens."
Associated Press Writer Michael Stratford contributed to this report
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Events Around the World
Japanorama: A new vision on art since 1970
Torn between a powerful cultural heritage and a national discourse on modernization, alternating between phases of openness and withdrawal, the cultural evolution of Japan in the early 1970s was marked by major social, political and natural events. Exhibition curator Yuko Hasegawa looks back on these turbulent decades during which Japan oscillated between globalisation and affirmation of its identity.
Grantee: Hasegawa Yuko
The Spirit of Painting. Cai Guo-Qiang at the Prado
Cai Guo-Qiang is the first contemporary artist to create on-site at the Prado. This is his first solo exhibition solely focused on painting in over 30 years.
This exhibition, which arises from Cai Guo-Qiang's ongoing dialogue with El Greco and in which he establishes a relationship with the great masters represented in the Prado, comprises nearly 30 paintings made with gunpowder; eight of them ignited on-site at the Salón de Reinos. Also on view are an oil and an acrylic created at the start of his activities as a painter; and various sketches and drawings on matchboxes by his father, Cai Ruiqin, who steered him towards painting.
Grantee: Cai Guo-Qiang
Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake (2009-2017)
"Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake, 2009-2017" presents a groundbreaking project by Chang, a uniquely important artist who emerged from New York's alternative art scene of the mid-1990s. From her tough-to-take, boundary-busting performance-video work that explored the complex psychic narrative behind often visceral solo performances, to more recent experimental films and lecture-performances, Chang has challenged the parameters of performance and its power as a storytelling vehicle. The Queens Museum will present her most ambitious work to date, "The Wandering Lake (2009-2017)", a project that redefines the role of artist, image, object and performance in the construction of narratives through an exhibition that integrates video projection, photography, sculpture, publication, and performance as one expansive body of work. This exhibition is part of Asia Contemporary Art Week, October 5-26 in New York City.
Patty Chang received an ACC Fellowship in 2010 to carry out research and creative work in Laos.
Grantee: Patty Chang
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Clouds⇄Forests is a proposition at a time of crisis to instigate the establishment of new relationships in our world. This proposition will be proposed by the artists and creators called "Creative Tribes", who gather in different sites all over the world, do not feel restricted to the notion of nation state and also surmount the dichotomy between globalism and localism.
Clouds⇄Forests focuses on artists as a creative tribe transitioning, expanding and dissipating, from forest to cloud, rebuilding the subjectivity of spectators and showing that creativity is vital to the creation of new environmental spheres. Taking into account perceptions on the generation of new subjective environmental spheres, the curatorial criteria for this exhibition includes giving life to new technologies as well as exploring ways to obtain animistic artistic languages and connect cultural roots, and leveraging the rhizome-based organic system to traverse history, genres, and media.
ACC grantee Yuko Hasegawa is curating the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary, and ACC grantees Nadim Abbas from Hong Kong and Nindityo Adipurnomo from Indonesia are participating artists.
Grantees: Abbas Nadim, Nindityo Adipurnomo, Hasegawa Yuko
A Doll's House, Part 2
The play A Doll's House, part 2, picks up after Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House concludes and explores, in uproarious fashion, the emotional chaos that results when Nora Helmer returns to the home from which she exited fifteen years earlier.
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, W Magazine and Time Out New York all call A Doll's House, Part 2 "the best play of the Broadway season."
A Doll's House, Part 2 is written by Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold with lighting design by Jennifer Tipton. Jesse Green of The New York Times raves, "The best play of the year. I love A Doll's House, Part 2. This is a great comedy." Peter Marks of The Washington Post cheers, "I want do nothing but talk about A Doll's House, Part 2 for the rest of my life."
Grantee: Jennifer Tipton
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
The largest showcase of contemporary Chinese art from 1989 – 2008 in North America, surveying the development of Chinese experimental art from the end of Cold War to the age of globalization and China's rise on the world stage. Works in the exhibition illustrate the role of artists as both agents and skeptics of China's global presence against the political, social, and cultural transitions in the past two decades.
This exhibition is part of Asia Contemporary Art Week, October 5-26 in New York City. The work of six ACC grantees are included in this exhibition.
Grantees: Song Dong, Cai Guo-Qiang, Wang Jianwei, Zhang Peili, Liu Wei, Yin Xiuzhen
Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs
"Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs" will situate Singh's photographic work at the intersection of Western modernism and traditional South Asian modes of picturing the world. It will feature 85 photographs by Singh in counterpoint with works by his contemporaries—friends, collaborators, fellow travelers—as well as examples of the Indian court painting styles that inspired him.
The exhibition will trace the full trajectory of Singh's career from his early work as a photojournalist in the late 1960s through his last unpublished projects of the late 1990s. Using a handheld camera and color slide film, he recorded India's dense milieu in complex frieze-like compositions teeming with incident, fractured by reflections, and pulsating with opulent color. This exhibition is part of Asia Contemporary Art Week, October 5-26 in New York City.
Raghubir Singh received an ACC Fellowship in 1990 to meet with photographers, curators, and critics, and to pursue creative work in photography in the United States.
This exhibition is part of Asia Contemporary Art Week, October 5-26 in New York City.
Grantee: Raghubir Singh
Enrico Isamu Ōyama represents a contemporary generation with a distinctly global perspective. Child of an Italian father and a Japanese mother, Ōyama was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, but also lived for extended periods in North Italy. In Tokyo, he immersed himself in an underground art scene infused with the street culture of the city and its global influences.
"Ubiquitous" surveys how Ōyama channeled his interests in the street cultures of Tokyo and American cities, Western abstract art, and Japanese calligraphy to create Quick Turn Structure (QTS), his signature expression. Through the QTS, Ōyama gives visual form to the mixed-race, multicultural, transnational experiences of people in today's world of fluid borders and interconnectivity.
Enrico Isamu Ōyama received an ACC Fellowship in 2011 to research contemporary art, meet artists and curators, and create new work while participating in an artist residency program in the United States.
Grantee: Enrico Isamu Oyama
Dinh Q. Lê - The Scrolls: Distortion
The Scrolls: Distortion is a new body of work and a cumulative exploration of Lê's oeuvre to date, putting his series such as Persistence of Memory, From Vietnam to Hollywood, A Quagmire This Time, and Remnants, Ruins, Civilization, and Empire in conversation with one another. Key to this body of work is Lê's attention to memory. Whereas previously Lê's work dealt with fragmented memory and processes of piecing together or reconciling painful and traumatic histories, here he is presenting memory as landscape.
Grantee: Le Dinh Q.
ACAW THINKING PROJECTS x Creative China Festival: Song Dong, Li Jun
Punctuating the ending of FIELD MEETING during ACAW, Song Dong invites the public to feast on his world-traveled Eating the City installation built from thousands of edible biscuits, crackers, and sweets. Alongside, Zi Jie at East Lake, a pop-up exhibition addressing issues of urbanization & gentrification in Central China by emerging artist Li Jun. Co-presented with Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation as part of Creative China Festival on the occasion of Mana Contemporary's Open House.Through December 15.
This exhibition is part of Asia Contemporary Art Week, October 5-26 in New York City.
Song Dong received an ACC Fellowship in 2005 to observe contemporary art activities, meet with artists and curators, and create new work in the United States.
Grantee: Song Dong
Cai Guo-Qiang: October
In September 2017, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will present leading international contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang's first solo exhibition in Russia: Cai Guo-Qiang: October. A reflection on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the ambitious body of work originally created for the exhibition will transform the main exhibition areas of the museum.
The exhibition is a comprehensive introduction of the artist's diverse yet distinctive practice to the Russian art world and local audiences. Artworks include large-scale outdoor and indoor installations, gunpowder paintings, a multi-media video installation, and small-scale sculptures and sketches.
Cai Guo-Qiang received an ACC Fellowship in 1995 for an artist residency at the International Studio Program at the Institute of Contemporary Art, P.S. 1, in New York.
Grantee: Cai Guo-Qiang
Perpetual Uncertainty
Perpetual Uncertainty / Contemporary Art in the Nuclear Anthropocene brings together artists from Europe, Japan, the US and Australia to investigate experiences of nuclear technology, radiation and the complex relationship between knowledge and the deep time.
Erika Kobayashi (ACC 2007) and Kota Takeuchi (ACC 2017) are participating artists in the exhbition and both received ACC fellowships for research in the United States.
Grantees: Kobayashi Erika, Takeuchi Kota
Bombay, an exhibition of street photography by Raghubir Singh, pulsates with dramatic compositions and Singh's characteristically controlled use of color. The exhibition focuses on one of the artist's most significant bodies of work which, made in the early 1990s, led to his book Bombay: Gateway of India.
Raghubir Singh received an ACC Fellowship in 1990 to travel to the U.S. from India for creative work.
Grantee: Raghubir Singh
The Serenity of Madness
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness is a traveling exhibition curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. This new solo exhibition uniquely presents a selected survey of rarely-seen experimental short films and video installations by Weerasethakul, alongside his photography, sketches, and archival materials that explore threads of socio-political commentary which has continually guided his practice. His passionate positions regarding class, labor, sexuality, and spirituality paint a portrait of an artist concerned with ethics, power, science, and liberation in equal measures.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Gridthiya Gaweewong both received ACC Fellowships, in 2004 and 2002 respectively, for creative research.
Grantees: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Gridthiya Gaweewong
The Given Order
ACC grantee Anton del Castillo opens "The Given Order" with Jason Dy, S.J. The exhibit, curated by Ricky Francisco, offers a visual exploration of the different tangents of faith and tradition in our past and present lives. Religion as agent of social order and transformation is looked into by Fr. Dy, who uses art in conjunction with the spiritual life of communities he is connected with. While del Castillo's works engage with the anxieties and violence in the perception and experience of the individual and collective faith.
Anton del Castillo received his ACC Philippine Fellowship in 2006 to observe contemporary art activities and undertake research on Byzantine icon paintings in American collections.
Grantee: Julius Anton del Castillo
Coming of Age
The libidinal flux of the teenager has left a permanent mark on culture, normalizing radical consumption in service of an endless will to change. With the end of earth's resources in sight, this paradigm needs revision. Coming of Age presents the work of seven artists from different parts of the world that subvert our material and cultural landscape with meditative gestures. Whether looking at Takahiro Iwasaki transforming a toothbrush into the site of an electric pylon, Aki Inomata's alternative housing for hermit crabs that recall a sense of itineracy, Essi Kausalainen's table top performance, or Ebony G. Patterson's coffin procession, these works acknowledge a predominant state of violence while calling for a greater optimism. Rebecca Beachy inserts a taxidermied bird into the gallery walls as a time capsule-cum-relic. Tsherin Sherpa uses traditional Thangka painting techniques to swirl subjects in a reflection of instability, and Rhonda Holberton presents a virtual desert, recalling the ambiguous possibilities of digital space and its impact on daily life. Coming of Age torques scale, technology, and location in search of sustainable agency and repair.
Visual artist Aki Inomata, from Japan, received an ACC Fellowship to observe contemporary art activities and participate in an artist residency program in the United States.
Grantee: Inomata Aki
Constellation: Contemporary Art in Today's China
This exhibition is a major symbolic event representative of the emergent Chinese avant-garde artists who influence the art scene in China today. This generation of artists no longer relies on the political history background and they have become the players of a larger scene, global in every sense. It shows an understanding of Chinese art as a vital and outstanding way of dealing with political, social and aesthetic issues. Curated by Ami Barak. Out of the 18 artists exhibiting, 4 are ACC grantees.
Grantees: Ma Qiusha, Li Shurui, Wang Sishun, Liu Wei


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China iPad Trademark Dispute Refuses to Stay Dead
Though Apple has agreed to pay the bankrupt monitor maker $60 million to settle the trademark dispute between them, it hasn't yet assumed ownership of the iPad mark. And now Grandall, the law firm that represented Proview in its spat with Apple, has asked a court to seize the mark until the company pays off its legal fees.
Earlier this week Grandall submitted an "asset protection application" to the Shenzhen Yantian District People's Court asking it to grab the iPad mark before its transfer to Apple. Its hope: That by holding up the transaction this way, it can recover the $2.4 million in fees it believes it is owed before Proview and its creditors get their hands on that $60 million. Grandall, which has been having a lot of trouble getting Proview to pay up, has already sued the company, alleging its repeated requests for payment have been rejected. With this latest move, it hopes to force the company's hand.
Not particularly bad news for Apple, which quickly brought the iPad to mainland China following the finalization of the settlement. But certainly another annoyance in a string of them.
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European Championship gold and European record for the Swiss rower Lucas Tramèr, Simon Niepmann, Mario Gyr and Simon Schürch
Simon Niepmann (Seeclub Zurich / Basel Rowing Club), Lucas Tramèr (Club d'Aviron Vésenaz / Basel Rowing Club), Mario Gyr (Seeclub Lucerne) and Simon Schürch (Seeclub Sursee) claimed Sunday's final as a great moment in the Swiss Rowing history. In a race which was noted by the rapid start of the French, the four Swiss rowed a consistent race in the inside lane in which they showed off their class in the second half of the course. At half way lying in second position, they took the lead and built on this constantly and crossed the finish line with almost a boat length ahead of France and Denmark. In the end, they even managed to set a new European best time. For Niepmann / Tramèr it is the third European gold medal in a row after winning the lightweight men's pair in 2012 and 2013.
SCHURTER AG extends its congratulations to the athletes and is delighted to continue supporting Swiss rowing in the future.
(f.l.t.r.) Simon Niepman, Lucas Tramèr, Mario Gyr and Simon Schürch after the award ceremony. ©Swiss Rowing/Detlev Seyb