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The overall tone of an image, can have three keys, namely: low key, middle key and high key. Usually we try to have adequate lighting in our images, with a balanced tone and this would be called 'middle key'. However, there are two lighting styles which deviate from the norm because they use the extremes of the tonal range to present the image. In this two part article, I will be expounding on high key and low key, two techniques which can make quite an impact in your shots.
Although there should be hardly any contrast or shadows, good high key images are those where the white areas still show detail instead of being blown out. The background and the subject itself are usually light colored or white. Since the exposure values are high, you have to be careful not to overexpose the shot. High key shots do not necessarily mean overexposed shots. In fact, careful consideration is taken when adjusting the exposure settings and the subject should be evenly lit.
A bright white background is ideal so for studio lighting, prop up a seamless white sheet of cloth or paper against the wall (unless your wall is already white). To make the background appear bright and remove shadows as well, you would need to light it up. Usually, two light sources aimed at the background, one on each side but behind the subject, will be enough to keep the background white, bright and shadow free. To light up the subject itself, you would need a key light (the main light source) placed off to one side (not straight on) and around 5 feet away. A fill light or a reflector would be found on the other side to keep the dark spots to a minimum.
High key shots do not have to be taken purely indoors. This shot of the flower was taken out in the garden, held up near a whitewashed wall and I just used sunlight as my light source. Just remember when taking shots in bright sunlight to use your camera's histogram to check on the exposure since your eyes might be affected by the sun's glare.
Aside from the bright, light colored tones, a high key image is known for the cheerful and joyous mood it can evoke. A bright, light colored image has the effect of making one feel happy and this is one great reason why we should all take high key images from time to time.
Now we'll focus on the other end of the spectrum which is low key. One can say low key lighting is the opposite of high key. Here the image is mostly in shadow, usually a dark colored subject set against a dark or black background. The mood is also very different. It is much more somber, mysterious, and dramatic.
A low key image may be easier to create than high key since usually only one light source is needed. The subject is easier to light and underexposure or too much contrast can easily be fixed with reflectors or just by adjusting the camera settings.
Sidelighting is one of the best ways to light up the subject in a low key shot. This position of the light allows one to capture the textures and fine details of the subject without blowing them out. It also prevents the subject from casting a shadow in the background, which is what would most likely happen if the light was directly in front. Another great way to light up the subject is by backlighting. By placing the light source directly behind your subject, the light can bleed and shine on the subject's edges, causing a rim light. This can appear very dramatic, especially when the edges are highly detailed or have an interesting shape.
As with high key images, low key lighting needs to have proper exposure. It is easy for a shot to become underexposed since both the subject and background are dark. Move your light source around, place it closer or further away from the subject, experiment with various light intensities and reflectors. A tripod would come in handy since this is a low light situation and there is a good risk of blurriness.
One thing to have in a low key shot is a dark or black background. In studio shots, such as for still life or portraiture, a black cloth will do. Now some cloths are reflective and shiny. If you can, invest in a few yards of black velvet since it seems to suck in the light instead of bouncing it back. There are times when you don't need a physical backdrop, just the convenient darkness of night. You can get a black background by lighting just the subject and making sure all other objects in the room are too far away to be illuminated.
Your low key image does not necessarily have to be indoors in a studio setting. An image of an empty bench at night time under a lone street lamp can be considered low key. To add to the dramatic atmosphere of the image, find a good choice of subject that matches the mood. Perhaps a dramatic pose from a human model, or an ominous scene, or an object with a strange and fascinating shape. There are lots of ways to be creative with low key lighting.
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Follow these "next steps" to make sure your veterinary team is prepared to promote preventive pet care and stress the importance of physical exams.
A thorough physical exam is easily one of the most important diagnostic tools at your disposal during an office visit—but clients might not appreciate the value of it unless you tell them. Follow these steps to make sure you and your veterinary team are emphasizing the importance of physical exams and promoting preventive healthcare in your practice today.
1. Give your team a heads-up. You know the importance of physical exams, but does your team? With the focus so often on vaccinations or diagnostic tests, it's easy for staff to forget to talk to pet owners about this critical component of the office visit. The article, Why the physical exam is still really necessary, is an excellent reminder about the necessity of physical exams—share it with your team!
2. Make it easy for clients. Whether it's a fear of transporting Fluffy in the car or a fear of Fido's office visit fee, clients may still be reluctant to bring their pets in, even if they know how important it is. So give them a solution! The video, Taking the scary out of cat carriers, shows how to make the carrier a more pleasant experience for cats and their owners. And use the wellness plan worksheet to start planning a program for your practice to put in place right away.
3. Spread the word. Once you and your team are prepped and ready to talk about annual exams and preventive care, you need to share your knowledge with pet owners. Start a direct snail mail or e-mail marketing campaign and send notices to clients reminding them to get their pets in for a yearly physical exam. And don't forget about the power of social media. Use these prewritten Facebook posts tweets to get started.

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Apple Agrees To Pay $113 Million To Settle Cases Over iPhone Slowdowns
By Bill Galluccio
November 20, 2020
Apple has agreed to pay $113 million to settle numerous fraud lawsuits filed in more than 30 states for intentionally slowing down older iPhone models.
When people first started complaining that Apple was intentionally slowing down iPhones, the company denied the reports. Apple then changed course and admitted it pushed software updates causing the phones to slow down, but claimed it was to prevent them from shutting down due to issues with the battery.
The slowdowns appeared to occur just as Apple was releasing a brand new iPhone. As a result, many customers felt they had no choice but to upgrade due to their phone's sluggish performance. Officials said that by slowing down the older model phones, Apple increased sales "potentially by millions of devices per year."
While Apple publicly claimed the issue only impacted a small number of devices, investigators found that Apple was trying to hide the full scope of the problem from the public.
"Many consumers decided that the only way to get improved performance was to purchase a newer-model iPhone from Apple," Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich wrote in a complaint. "Apple, of course, fully understood such effects on sales."
According to the terms of the settlement, the money will be distributed among the states and will be used to help cover attorneys' fees and fund future consumer protection investigations. Apple did not admit to any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
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LOS ANGELES – Jerry Buss built a glittering life at the intersection of sports and Hollywood.
After growing up in poverty in Wyoming, he earned success in academia, aerospace and real estate before discovering his favorite vocation when he bought the Los Angeles Lakers in 1979. While Buss wrote the checks and fostered partnerships with two generations of basketball greats, the Lakers won 10 NBA titles and became a glamorous global brand.
With a scientist's analytical skills, a playboy's flair, a businessman's money-making savvy and a die-hard hoops fan's heart, Buss fashioned the Lakers into a remarkable sports entity. They became a nightly happening, often defined by just one word coined by Buss: Showtime.
"His impact is felt worldwide," said Kobe Bryant, who has spent nearly half his life working for Buss.
Buss, who shepherded his NBA team from the Showtime dynasty of the 1980s to the current Bryant era while becoming one of the most important and successful owners in pro sports, died Monday. He was 80.
"Think about the impact that he's had on the game and the decisions he's made, and the brand of basketball he brought here with Showtime and the impact that had on the sport as a whole," Bryant said a few days ago. "Those vibrations were felt to a kid all the way in Italy who was 6 years old, before basketball was even global."
Under Buss' leadership, the star-studded, trophy-winning Lakers became Southern California's most beloved sports franchise and a signature cultural representation of Los Angeles. Buss acquired, nurtured and befriended a staggering array of talented players and basketball minds during his Hall of Fame tenure, from Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy to Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal and Dwight Howard.
Few owners in sports history can approach Buss' accomplishments with the Lakers, who made the NBA Finals 16 times during his nearly 34 years in charge, winning 10 titles between 1980 and 2010. Whatever the Lakers did under Buss' watch, they did it big -- with marquee players, eye-popping style and a relentless pursuit of success with little regard to its financial cost.
"His incredible commitment and desire to build a championship-caliber team that could sustain success over a long period of time has been unmatched," said Jerry West, Buss' longtime general manager and now a consultant with the Golden State Warriors. "With all of his achievements, Jerry was without a doubt one of the most humble men I've ever been around. His vision was second to none; he wanted an NBA franchise brand that represented the very best and went to every extreme to accomplish his goals."
Buss died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said Bob Steiner, his assistant and longtime friend. Buss had been hospitalized for most of the past 18 months while undergoing cancer treatment, but the cause of death was kidney failure, Steiner said.
"When someone as celebrated and charismatic as Jerry Buss dies, we are reminded of two things," said Abdul-Jabbar, the leading scorer in NBA history. "First, just how much one person with vision and strength of will can accomplish. Second, how fragile each of us is, regardless of how powerful we were. Those two things combine to inspire us to reach for the stars, but also to remain with our feet firmly on the ground among our loved ones. ... The man may be gone, but he has made us all better people for knowing him."
With his condition worsening in recent months, several prominent former Lakers visited Buss to say goodbye. Even rivals such as Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Clippers owner Donald Sterling hailed the passion and bonhomie of the former chemist and mathematician who lived his own Hollywood dream.
"He was a great man and an incredible friend," Johnson tweeted.
Buss always referred to the Lakers as his extended family, and his players rewarded his fanlike excitement with devotion, friendship and two hands full of championship rings. Working with front-office executives West, Bill Sharman and Mitch Kupchak, Buss spent lavishly to win his titles despite lacking a huge personal fortune, often running the NBA's highest payroll while also paying high-profile coaches Pat Riley and Phil Jackson.
"Jerry Buss was more than just an owner. He was one of the great innovators that any sport has ever encountered," Riley said. "He was a true visionary, and it was obvious with the Lakers in the 80's that `Showtime' was more than just Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It was really the vision of a man who saw something that connected with a community."
Ownership of the Lakers is now in a trust controlled by Buss' six children, who all have worked for the Lakers in various capacities for several years. With 1,786 victories, the Lakers easily are the NBA's winningest franchise since he bought the club, which is now run largely by Jim Buss and Jeanie Buss.
"We not only have lost our cherished father, but a beloved man of our community and a person respected by the world basketball community," the Buss family said in a statement issued by the Lakers.
"It was our father's often-stated desire and expectation that the Lakers remain in the Buss family. The Lakers have been our lives as well, and we will honor his wish and do everything in our power to continue his unparalleled legacy."
Johnson and fellow Hall of Famers Abdul-Jabbar and Worthy formed lifelong bonds with Buss during the Lakers' run to five titles in nine years in the 1980s, when the Lakers earned a reputation as basketball's most exciting team with their flamboyant Showtime repartee.
The buzz extended throughout the Forum, where Buss turned the Lakers' games into a must-see event. He used the Laker Girls, a brass band and promotions to keep Lakers fans interested during all four quarters. Courtside seats, priced at $15 when he bought the Lakers, became the hottest tickets in Hollywood -- and they still are, with fixture Jack Nicholson and many other celebrities attending every home game.
"Anybody associated with the NBA since 1980 benefited greatly from Jerry Buss' impact on the game," Steiner said. "He had a different way of looking at things than I did, and people who had been raised in basketball."
Buss paid the Lakers' bills through both their wild success and his groundbreaking moves to raise revenue. He co-founded a basic-cable sports television network and sold the naming rights to the Forum at times when both now-standard strategies were unusual, further justifying his induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
"The NBA has lost a visionary owner whose influence on our league is incalculable and will be felt for decades to come," NBA Commissioner David Stern said. "More importantly, we have lost a dear and valued friend."
Showtime couldn't last forever, but after a rough stretch in the 1990s, Buss rekindled the Lakers' mystique by paying top dollar to hire Jackson, who led O'Neal and Bryant to a three-peat from 2000-02. Bryant and Pau Gasol won two more titles under Jackson in 2009 and 2010.
The current Lakers (25-29) have struggled mightily despite adding Howard and Steve Nash in a couple of moves that were typical of Buss' big, brash style. Los Angeles could miss the playoffs this spring for just the third time since Buss bought the franchise.
"Today is a very sad day for all the Lakers and basketball," Gasol tweeted. "All my support and condolences to the Buss family. Rest in peace Dr. Buss."
Although Buss gained fame and another fortune with the Lakers, he also was a scholar, Renaissance man and bon vivant who epitomized California cool his entire public life.
Buss rarely appeared in public without at least one attractive, much younger woman on his arm -- at Southern California football games, high-stakes poker tournaments, hundreds of boxing matches promoted by Buss at the Forum -- and, of course, Lakers games from his private box at Staples Center, which was built under his watch. With his failing health, Buss hadn't attended a Lakers game in the past two seasons.
After a rough-and-tumble childhood that included stints as a ditch-digger and a bellhop in the frigid Wyoming winters, Buss earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from USC at age 24, and had careers in aerospace and real estate development before getting into sports. With money from his real-estate ventures and a good bit of creative accounting, Buss bought the then-struggling Lakers, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and both clubs' arena -- the Forum -- from Jack Kent Cooke in a $67.5 million deal that was the largest sports transaction in history at the time.
Last month, Forbes estimated the Lakers were worth $1 billion, second most in the NBA.
Buss also helped change televised sports by co-founding the Prime Ticket network in 1985, and he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 for his work in television. Breaking the contemporary model of subscription services for televised sports, Buss' Prime Ticket put beloved broadcaster Chick Hearn and the Lakers' home games on basic cable.
Buss also sold the naming rights to the Forum in 1988 to Great Western Savings & Loan -- another deal that was ahead of its time.
Born in Salt Lake City, Gerald Hatten Buss was raised in poverty in Wyoming before improving his life through education. He also grew to love basketball, describing himself as an "overly competitive but underly endowed player."
After graduating from the University of Wyoming, Buss attended USC for graduate school because he loved its sports teams. He also became a chemistry professor and worked in the missile division of defense contractor McDonnell Douglas before carving out a path to wealth and sports prominence.
His real-estate portfolio grew out of a $1,000 investment in a West Los Angeles apartment building with partner Frank Mariani, an aerospace engineer and co-worker.
Heavily leveraging his fortune and various real-estate holdings during two years of negotiations, Buss purchased Cooke's entire Los Angeles sports empire along with a 13,000-acre ranch in Kern County. Buss immediately worked to transform the Lakers -- who had won just one NBA title since moving west from Minneapolis in 1960 -- into a star-powered endeavor befitting Hollywood.
"One of the first things I tried to do when I bought the team was to make it an identification for this city, like Motown in Detroit," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2008. "I try to keep that identification alive. I'm a real Angeleno. I want us to be part of the community."
With showmanship, fearless spending and a little drafting luck, Buss quickly succeeded: Johnson, Abdul-Jabbar and coach Paul Westhead led the Lakers to the 1980 title. Johnson's ball-handling wizardry and Abdul-Jabbar's smooth inside game made for an attractive style of play, and the Lakers came to define West Coast sophistication.
Riley, the former broadcaster who fit the L.A. image perfectly with his slick-backed hair and good looks, was surprisingly promoted by Buss early in the 1981-82 season. He became one of the best coaches in NBA history, leading the Lakers to four straight NBA finals and four titles, with Worthy, Michael Cooper, Byron Scott and A.C. Green playing major roles.
"I was privileged to be part of that for 10 years and even more grateful for the friendship that has lasted all these many years," Riley said. "I have always come to realize that if it weren't for Dr. Buss, I wouldn't be where I am today."
Overall, the Lakers made the Finals nine times in Buss' first 12 seasons while rekindling the NBA's best rivalry with the Boston Celtics, and Buss basked in the worldwide celebrity he received from his team's achievements. His partying became the stuff of Los Angeles legends, with even his players struggling to keep up with Buss' lifestyle.
Johnson's HIV diagnosis and retirement in 1991 staggered Buss and the Lakers, the owner recalled in 2011. The Lakers went through seven coaches and made just one conference finals appearance in an eight-year stretch of the 1990s despite the 1996 arrivals of O'Neal, who signed with Los Angeles as a free agent, and Bryant, the 17-year-old high schooler acquired in a draft-week trade.
Shaq and Kobe didn't reach their potential until Buss persuaded Jackson, the Chicago Bulls' six-time NBA champion coach, to take over the Lakers in 1999. Los Angeles immediately won the next three NBA titles in brand-new Staples Center, AEG's state-of-the-art downtown arena built with the Lakers as the primary tenant.
After the Lakers traded O'Neal in 2004, they hovered in mediocrity again until acquiring Gasol in a heist of a trade with Memphis in early 2008. Los Angeles made the next three NBA Finals, winning two more titles.
Through the Lakers' frequent successes and occasional struggles, Buss never stopped living his Hollywood dream. He was an avid poker player and a fixture on the Los Angeles club scene well into his 70s, when a late-night drunk-driving arrest in 2007 -- with a 23-year-old woman in the passenger seat of his Mercedes-Benz -- prompted him to cut down on his partying.
Buss owned the NHL's Kings from 1979-87, and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks won two league titles under Buss' ownership. He also owned Los Angeles franchises in World Team Tennis and the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Buss' children have pledged to continue his commitment to the Lakers' distinctive success, although their efforts haven't been rewarded in the past three years while Jerry Buss ceded many decision-making responsibilities to Jim Buss, the Lakers' executive vice president of player personnel and the second-oldest child. While daughter Jeanie runs the franchise's business side, Jim Buss now has the final say on basketball decisions.
Jerry Buss still served two terms as president of the NBA's Board of Governors and was actively involved in the 2011 lockout negotiations, developing blood clots in his legs attributed to his extensive travel during that time.
"I am blessed with a wonderful family who have helped me and guided me every step of the way," Buss said in 2010 at his Hall of Fame induction ceremony. "This support is the best anybody could ever have."
Buss is survived by his six children: sons Johnny, Jim, Joey and Jesse, and daughters Jeanie Buss and Janie Drexel. He had eight grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending for a funeral and memorial service, likely at Staples Center or a nearby theatre in downtown Los Angeles.


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The camping and outdoor program committee (COPC) is a critical leadership group entrusted with safely delivering the outdoor adventure that youth and adults expect and that lead to self-discovery and character development. The committee plans and oversees the council outdoor program and the facilities that are needed to support the program. Under the COPC's leadership, all elements of the Scouting outdoor program collaborate to understand the market needs, develop relevant programs, and deploy facilities and resources to most effectively meet demands of increasingly diverse youth and adult populations.
The COPC is responsible for one of the most important and visible council operations. It oversees the success of the outdoor program, large property investments, significant annual operating expenditures and revenue opportunities, and quality components that attract youth and adult involvement.
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The accolades poured in after Dirt Farmer's release in the fall of 2007. "This album is nothing less than a return to form by one of the most soulful vocalists in rock history," raved the San Francisco Chronicle, reflecting the universal sentiment. Levon was named Artist of the Year by the Americana Music Association, and the album was awarded the 2008 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Recording. Meanwhile, Rolling Stone hailed Helm's Midnight Ramble, which takes place monthly at Levon Helm Studios—a.k.a. The Barn—in his longtime home of Woodstock, N.Y., as 2008's Best Jam Session.
"I'm not surprised that Levon wanted to do another record so quickly," says multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell, who, along with Amy Helm, produced Dirt Farmer and who, due to Ms. Helm's obligations as a new mother, was the sole producer of this project. "It turned out to be a promising relationship as far as he and I were concerned, and a promising situation overall. We all had the sense that Levon's reemergence was long overdue, and it was downright thrilling to hear him singing again at the Midnight Rambles and during the sessions for the last record, after the possibility of losing that voice forever. For people my age and a little bit older, it was as if the Beatles had gotten back together. That would have been a very important voice to have lost, and to get it back again was monumental."
The 11 tracks feature the same core crew of Midnight Ramble regulars that played on Dirt Farmer and subsequently hit the road: Helm behind the drum kit, Ollabelle's Byron Isaacs on bass, Brian Mitchell on keyboards, Campbell on various guitars, fiddle, mandolin, dulcimer and harmony vocals. Backing vocalists Amy Helm of Ollabelle, Levon's daughter, and Teresa Williams, Campbell's wife, deepen the album's "next of kin" vibe. The horn section of the Levon Helm Band appears on four tracks.
Two of the tracks were arranged by the legendary Allen Toussaint with the LHB horns and the other two tracks by trumpet-playing band member Steven Bernstein. Best known for his work with Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed and Rufus Wainwright, Bernstein is also leader of New York avant-jazz band Sex Mob. So this is a diverse group of skilled musicians united by their feel for and devotion to Helm's singular vision.
Electric Dirt again finds Levon steeped in tradition in his connection to the land and those who live by it, but this record goes deeper and wider, incorporating gospel, blues and soul elements in a bracing collection of originals and carefully chosen outside songs.
"We knew we couldn't just remake Dirt Farmer; it had to be something different," Campbell explains. "Because as great as that record was, as convincing as Levon was and as pure as his impulse was to make it, that's just one aspect of what he's about. I knew that we had to keep that vibe but build on it—get more expansive. We wanted to get closer to what we do in the live shows, but not depart too far from that organic thing. Given all that, it was difficult coming up with an actual concept, but as the tunes were collected, it started to present itself. We wanted to get a few tracks with the horns on them, but we didn't want to hit everybody over the head with that aspect, so it took a lot of thought to come up with tunes and arrangements that wouldn't alienate the audience that embraced Dirt Farmer. Which meant keeping away from overproduced, slick sounds—not that Levon could ever get close to that—but the idea was to keep it honest."
A pair of Muddy Waters tunes, "Stuff You Gotta Watch" and "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had," was actually cut during the Dirt Farmer sessions, although they perfectly fit the vibe of Electric Dirt. "Initially, there was some discussion about doing a straight-ahead blues record, but that ain't right because that's changing what the last record was, not expanding on it. There is a blues feel to some of the performances, and the blues is a part of what Levon is as well. But the objective was to just present more of his depth as an artist."
Electric Dirt's numerous high points start right at the top, with a rousing rendition of the Grateful Dead's "Tennessee Jed." Campbell and Williams spent a good part of 2008 on the road with Dead bassist Phil Lesh, including some shows on which Helm and Lesh appeared together. "There was some real comradeship going on," Campbell points out, "so we thought, wouldn't it be great if we could find a Grateful Dead tune that Levon could do? 'Tennessee Jed' was always one of my favorite Dead songs, and I thought Levon could actually be Tennessee Jed. And it fit like a glove."
Following a fervent take on the Staples Singers' "Move Along Train," which finds Levon breaking out his gospel roots, comes Helm and Campbell's "Growing Trade," which takes an empathetic look at the plight of a Southern small-farm owner. "My wife is from west Tennessee," says Campbell, "and there are cotton farmers down there about to lose their places. Most of them are just church-going farmers with deep, moral convictions, but they've realized that the most important thing for them is to save the land which has been in their families for generations. And Levon has a deep understanding of what all that means, so he brought a wonderful perspective to the song and performance."
The ancient-sounding mountain ballad "Golden Bird," on which Campbell's mournful fiddling deepens the melancholy of Helm's vocal, was actually written by seminal Woodstock folk artist Happy Traum. Along with Carter Stanley's "White Dove," the song forms a bridge between the rustic intimacy of Dirt Farmer and the amped-up urgency of Electric Dirt. "Heaven's Pearls," penned by Byron Isaacs for Ollabelle, originally appeared on the group's Campbell-produced 2006 album Riverside Battle Songs. "Amy had the idea that it would be a really good duet with Levon," says Campbell. "So we started messin' with that, and sure enough, it worked great."
"I Wish I Knew How It Feels to Be Free," whom Helm had been itching to tackle since hearing Nina Simone's 1967 version, is at once rousing and deeply poignant in his horn-fueled interpretation. It ends the album on a fittingly life-embracing note.
Levon, says Campbell, "is in great spirits as he gets more and more comfortable with his resurgence. And the next one will be even bigger." He's laughing, but that doesn't mean he or his legendary collaborator would settle for anything less. Campbell is speaking for himself and everyone involved when he adds, "This is very much a labor of love."
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1. Tennessee Jed (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) - 5:58
2. Move Along Train (Roebuck Staples) - 3:22
3. Growing Trade (Levon Helm, Larry Campbell) - 4.22
4. Golden Bird (Happy Traum) - 5:11
5. Stuff You Gotta Watch (Muddy Waters) - 3:38
6. White Dove (Carter Stanley) - 3:29
7. Kingfish (Randy Newman) - 4:24
8. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had (Muddy Waters) - 4:01
9. When I Go Away (Larry Campbell) - 4:32
10.Heaven's Pearls (Anthony Leone, Byron Isaacs, Fiona McBain, Amy Helm, Glenn Patscha) - 4:09
11.I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel To Be Free (Richard Carroll Lamp, Willy E. Taylor) - 3:25
*Levon Helm - Drums, Mandolin, Vocals
*Amy Helm - Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals
*Teresa Williams - Autoharp, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
*Larry Campbell - Dulcimer, Fiddle, Acoustic, Electric Guitar, Horn Arrangements, Mandolin, Vocals
*Jay Collins - Tenor Sax, Vocals
*Clark Gayton - Trombone, Tuba
*Byron Isaacs - Bass, Vocals
*Howard Johnson - Tuba
*Erik Lawrence - Soprano, Baritone Sax
*Brian Mitchell - Accordion, Harmonium, Organ, Piano
*George Recile - Vocals
*Catherine Russell - Vocals
*Allen Toussaint - Horn Arrangements
*Jimmy Vivino - Electric Guitar, Organ
*Steven Bernstein - Cornet, Horn, Horn Arrangements, Trumpet
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Every year at BYU-Idaho, the Academic Success and Tutoring Centers serve over 18,000 different students from all parts of the university's campus. These students spend an average of 12 hours per semester with individual tutors. The Academic Centers are designed to supplement classroom instruction and help students practice, sharpen, and master essential college skills. Students who come to the Centers begin to understand the difference one-on-one and group tutoring can make in their academic lives through their close contact with peer tutors. This one-on-one teaching and learning experience is part of the core essence of the "Spirit of Ricks."
Tutoring is free for BYU-Idaho students. The tutors and assistants in each of the Learning Centers (Reading, Writing, Math, Tutoring, and Study Skills) are trained and paid by BYU-Idaho. Because of this, all students have equal access and can be confident they will receive qualified, professional help in a relaxed atmosphere. Every semester, over 800 tutors are employed. In addition to the paid tutors, over 800 qualified students volunteer their services as tutors.
So, whether students want to improve their academic reading skills, revise an essay, get help with a specific class, advance their study skills, or ask a math question, they can get the help they need in the Academic Success and Tutoring Centers. We welcome all students and are ready to serve them as they move forward to achieve their academic goals.


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With influences going from jazz to hip-hop passing by soul, funk and many more, I make music to stop my craving for what I would want to hear on my playlist. Possibilities are limitless when it comes to creativity and genres are only there to direct the listener. Touches of my influences such as Tom Misch, Jordan Rakei, Loyle Carner, Hablot Brown, Zanski and many others can be found in all of my tracks so open your ears as much as your mind. Close to the Swiss music scene, artists like Makala, Pink Flamingo, Di-Meh and Slimka inspire us, smaller artists, to follow in their steps and show the world a touch of our Swiss vibes.
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The supply-side economists of the 1980s famously emphasized how government policies (especially taxes) affect incentives. They argued that taxes act as disincentives to work, saving, and investment. Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation repeat this, like a mantra, to the present day. The argument is basically that tax policy, by discouraging desirable economic activities, misaligns private incentives from the common good. In practice, of course, it has been used mainly to justify tax cuts for corporations and high-income individuals.
Today, it's clear that incentives are badly misaligned, but not because of excessive taxation. Corporations are making record profits while investment remains at historic lows. Nonfinancial corporations are stockpiling enormous sums of cash—totaling almost $1.5 trillion at the end of last year, according to Moody's. Apple alone has nearly $150 billion in cash reserves.
The investment shortfall is at the core of the sluggish "recovery" and chronically high unemployment.
There's an obvious response—a tax on this idle cash that would light a fire under corporations to spend it now. If focused on expanded production and new investment, such spending would help close the still-enormous gap between the economy's current production and its potential. And it could help boost employment, which has hardly grown (relative to the working-age population) during our current sluggish recovery.
Mihir Desai, a professor at Harvard Business School, proposed a tax on "excess cash reserves" in a 2010 Washington Post op-ed and alluded to it again in congressional testimony the following year. Recently, the Financial Times' Martin Wolf called for a "punitive tax on retained earnings" to spur investment. (He wrote this about Japan, but has suggested this policy more generally.) Overall, however, this idea has, so far, not made much of an impact on public debates.
Desai views a cash-reserves tax as a solution to a "coordination problem." This means a situation in which individuals act rationally (from their own vantage point), yet their decisions add up to an "irrational" (undesirable) overall outcome. Low investment in a depressed economy is a classic example: No single company can affect overall demand in the U.S. economy very much. As long as demand is weak, then, it makes no sense for any one company to expand its current production or future capacity. Therefore, low investment creates a vicious circle of low demand, low output, and high unemployment. A cash-reserves tax would increase the cost of not investing. By spurring new spending, it would create the demand needed to justify the new investment.
Despite record profits and rampant corporate tax avoidance, public debate has focused largely on yet more tax cuts for big corporations. In part, this is because big business speaks with a giant megaphone. In recent congressional testimony, Apple CEO Tim Cook blamed U.S. corporate taxes for Apple's huge offshore cash hoards. Economists, commentators, and politicians have echoed calls for a repatriation "tax holiday." This shows how thoroughly the bias in favor of corporate tax cuts has permeated the political mainstream.
To work right, a cash-reserves tax should come along with other changes to the corporate tax code. By itself, the tax would not necessarily distinguish between spending on new investment and cash disbursements to shareholders. From the standpoint of total demand, however, inducing companies to "disgorge" profits to shareholders—in the form or dividends or stock buybacks—would probably not help much. Corporate stock is overwhelmingly owned by wealthy individuals, who would surely save a large portion of the windfall. It would make sense, then, to impose a cash-disbursements tax high enough to prevent corporate cash stockpiles from just going into shareholders' bank accounts.
Meanwhile, the loophole in the tax code that allows corporations to exploit offshore tax havens also need to be addressed. The answer, though, is not to suspend the "repatriation" tax, but to close the loophole and tax corporate profits on a global basis.
The cash-reserves tax, if done right, would be an elegantly double-edged policy. If corporations still won't spend their cash hoards, the tax would boost government revenue—which could be used to address human needs, build infrastructure, etc. (If corporations won't invest, the government will.) On the other hand, the companies could avoid the tax by spending the idle cash, increasing output and employment.
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The mid-morning backlighting in the Valley Floor of Yosemite National Park, California, captured in this forrest landscape photo.
Lone Tree in the Fog, Northern California
Just south of Humboldt, California, this landscape photo taken with a telefoto lens saw this tree eerily emerge from the fog in a distant field.
In the Shadow of Giants, California Redwoods
This vertical landscape shot is an attempt at capturing the immensity and awe-inspiring massiveness of the coastal California redwoods.
Backlit Eucalyptus, San Francisco Presidio
Backlit Eucalyptus, San Francisco Presidio
Yosemite Falls - View Through The Forrest
Walking back to my campsite, not expecting to get anymore shots for the day, and I stumble past this opening in the forrest where you have a clear view of the lower part of Yosemite Falls. I set up the tripod, and captured the silky smooth water cascading down the face.
Fresh Powder Heaven, Lake Tahoe
Fresh powder landscape photograph in Lake Tahoe, California.
A Cold Snow-Covered Day
In the Tahoe Mountains, a beautiful forests of trees covered in snow.
Napa Fall Vinnyard Sunset
Napa Valley in the Fall, as the leaves are beginning to change color, right at sunset.
Yosemite Winter Mornings
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We highly recommend using configuration management tools to deploy Sensu in production and at scale.
- Pin versions of Sensu-related software to ensure repeatable Sensu deployments.
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- Ensure consistent configuration between Sensu Servers.
The following configuration management tools have well-defined Sensu modules to help you get started.
The Puppet Sensu module can be found on the Puppet Forge. Sensu has partnered with Tailored Automation to enhance the Puppet module with new features, bug fixes, and ensure Sensu 2.0 has a supported Puppet module.
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(Dulles, VA 8 February 2013) - Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), one of the world's leading space technology companies, today announced that the company-built Azerspace/Africasat-1a commercial communications satellite was successfully launched into orbit on February 7, 2013 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off took place at 4:36 p.m. (EST) and the satellite successfully separated from the rocket's final stage approximately 37 minutes into the mission.
"Today is an historic day for the people of Azerbaijan. We're proud to be the first among the South Caucus states to have a telecommunications satellite that will provide important communications services to Azerbaijan, Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa," said Elin Suleymanov, the Azerbaijani Ambassador to the United States.
Orbital designed, built and tested the Azerspace/Africasat-1a satellite for the Azercosmos Open Joint Stock Company of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
"This satellite illustrates the important commercial relationship between U.S. industry and the Azerbaijani government. We appreciate the cooperation between The Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the U.S. Import-Export Bank, and Orbital Sciences Corporation throughout this nearly three-year process. I would also like to thank the hundreds of Americans who worked to put this satellite in space. We look forward to working together on future projects as Azerbaijan continues to strengthen its communications infrastructure," Ambassador Suleymanov concluded.
Commenting on the early status of the mission, Mr. Christopher Richmond, Orbital's Senior Vice President of Communications Satellite Programs, said, "The launch of Azerspace/Africasat-1a was flawless, and so far, the mission is operating smoothly. This is one of ten GEOStar-2 satellites that we are building and delivering to customers around the world over a two-year period, and the 30th such satellite the company has produced for commercial operators in the last 15 years. Global satellite operators continue to recognize us for our excellent track record of superior reliability and outstanding customer service. It is an honor to support Azercosmos with this satellite, which will expand Azerbaijan's communications infrastructure and enhance its connectivity with other parts of the world."
Over the next few weeks, Orbital will work with the Azercosmos engineering team to conduct in-orbit testing to verify all subsystems are operating as planned. Once testing is complete and the spacecraft is positioned at its 46 East Longitude orbital location, Orbital will turn over day-to-day operations of Azerspace/Africasat-1a to Azercosmos.
Satellite command and control operations will be carried out at control centers in Baku and Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. These facilities were designed and built by Azercosmos to support the installation of the ground control systems provided by Orbital, including ground antennas, radio-frequency electronics, computer platforms, and the software used to command, monitor and control the satellite.
Orbital designed, built and tested the Azerspace/Africasat-1a satellite in Dulles, VA at its satellite manufacturing and test facility. With an anticipated service life of 15 years, Azerspace/Africasat-1a is based on Orbital's flight-proven GEOStar-2 platform. The hybrid C- and Ku-band satellite generates approximately five kilowatts of payload power and carries 36 active transponders, providing communications services to Azerbaijan, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. It will operate from 46 East Longitude through an arrangement between Azercosmos and MEASAT Satellite Systems of Malaysia, which owns the rights to the orbital slot.
About Azercosmos
Incorporated in 2010, the Azercosmos Open Joint Stock Company of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan is the premier satellite operator in both Azerbaijan and the Caucasus region. It will provide satellite-delivered communications services and highly reliable satellite platforms to broadcasting, broadband and government customers with the launch of Azerspace/Africasat-1a and other forthcoming satellite projects. More information can be found at http://www.azerbaijans.com/content_528_en.html
About Orbital
Orbital develops and manufactures small- and medium-class rockets and space systems for commercial, military and civil government customers. The company's primary products are satellites and launch vehicles, including low-Earth orbit, geosynchronous-Earth orbit and planetary spacecraft for communications, remote sensing, scientific and defense missions; human-rated space systems for Earth-orbit, lunar and other missions; ground- and air-launched rockets that deliver satellites into orbit; and missile defense systems that are used as interceptor and target vehicles. Orbital also provides satellite subsystems and space-related technical services to government agencies and laboratories. More information about Orbital can be found at http://www.orbital.com.
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A high-resolution photograph of the Azerspace/Africasat-1a satellite in Orbital's Dulles, VA manufacturing facility is available at: www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/ImagesMultimedia/Images/SatelliteSpaceSystems
Replays of the launch can be seen at http://www.arianespace.tv/


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A Wealth of New Species
An alien world lies just beyond the seashore. Only in the last century or so have technologies like SCUBA and submersibles allowed us to explore the oceans far below the surface. Until then, exploring underwater sea life was like trying to study a forest by dipping a bucket from a helicopter. The Census of Marine Life is now nearing its completion, but expeditions are still bringing up plenty of new finds. Like this purple variety of an enteropneust acorn worm, one of ten potentially new species found during a six-week expedition in the north Atlantic.
Using the remotely operated vehicle Isis, scientists explored areas to the north and south of the Gulf Stream and east and west of the mid-Atlantic ridge (the huge, active volcano range that is slowly pushing the Americas farther apart from Europe and Africa). In the northeast, the plains had an abundance of sea urchins, while plains in the northwest had plenty of enteropneust acorn worms, a type of animal that evolutionarily falls somewhere between invertebrates and creatures with backbones. Areas that were similar in terrain but separated by a few miles of mountainous terrain were inhabited by very different compositions of species. Some cliffs were nearly barren while others were covered in a colorful array of sponges and corals.
Discoveries of new species aren't limited to the remote depths of the unexplored oceans, though. For example, two kinds of fish that walk on the ocean floor were recently found in the Gulf of Mexico, one just below the BP oil spill. And scientists recently discovered a number of new species in a remote part of Indonesia, including the world's smallest wallaby. Richard Conniff writes this month in Smithsonian:
The truth is that big, colorful, even spectacular, new species seem to be turning up everywhere these days. We are living in what some naturalists have dubbed "a new age of discovery." The number of species being found today "compares favorably with any time since the mid-1700s"—that is, since the beginning of scientific classification—according to Michael Donoghue of Yale University and William Alverson of Chicago's Field Museum. These new species, they write, may be weird enough to induce the same "sense of awe, amusement, and even befuddlement that remarkable new organisms inspired during the last great age of discovery" from the 15th through the 19th centuries.
The irony, of course, is that we're also living in a time of numerous extinctions. But that's a subject for another day.
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ANNOUNCE: DDD 3.3.12-rc1 (Latrigg)
Item posted by Peter Wainwright <pwainwright> on Wed 03 Dec 2008 08:34:26 PM UTC.
The last official release of DDD, 3.3.11, was made on 16th March 2005, well over three years ago.
But, DDD developers have not been idle.
Rocky Bernstein in particular has done some great work in his "pydb" branch. DDD can now be used effectively in debugging Python programs (pydb), Bash scripts (bashdb) and Makefiles (remake)...
So, I'd like to announce the immediate availability of a release candidate, ddd-3.3.12-rc1. You can download it via ftp from alpha.gnu.org:
Please grab it, compile (./configure && make && make install) and test. We are ready to receive bug reports as always on our bug tracker at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=ddd
We'd like to hear about your experience with the new debugger facilities.
But, it's just as important to know of any regressions before we put out a new version. Is there anything that used to work in 3.3.11 which doesn't work now? With the extensive changes which have been made there's almost sure to be something, and now's the chance to get it fixed.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Rackspace doesn't fit Cisco's acquisition profile, CEO John Chambers told a room packed with reporters this week at the company's annual conference and exhibition.
The rumor mill has been rife for the past week with speculation on which company might acquire cloud provider Rackspace in order to fortify its own cloud strategy. In addition to Cisco, other companies mentioned include HP, Google, Amazon, EMC, VMware, Red Hat and Dell.
The speculation was fueled when Rackspace hired Morgan Stanley to explore strategic options for the cloud provider in the face of intensifying competition and eroding profits.
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"We don't move into a market unless we think we have a realistic chance of gaining 40% market share with sustainable differentiation," Chambers said at the Cisco Live conference when asked if the company needs to acquire an established cloud provider like Rackspace to succeed in cloud services. "And we try not to move into markets that don't have really good gross margins, unless they're unusually strategic for us. That's a market that is very, very price sensitive; that's taking on the big giants in Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. So those are the types of scenarios we look at as a partnership opportunity (rather) than we do acquisitions. I'm not going to comment on if we looked at them or not. It doesn't fit into our normal sweet spot and core competency area."
Cisco's InterCloud cloud services strategy seeks to build a "star alliance" of cloud providers, said Rob Lloyd, Cisco president of worldwide sales.
"Any one of those companies that are in that space today, whether they are competitive or not, should be part of our roadmap to build the InterCloud," he said. "If they embrace (InterCloud) constructs, we will expand the ecosystem and it could include any of the companies we think of today as major cloud providers."
Chambers also expanded on his communication last week with the Obama administration over allegations that the NSA was adding surveillance technology to Cisco routers during the shipment process. Photographs emerged last week allegedly showing an NSA official tampering with a Cisco router to add surveillance technology, ostensibly without Cisco's knowledge or approval, before the product was shipped to the customer.
"When I saw the picture, I didn't know how to interpret that," Chambers said. "That was probably, if it was true, it could have very likely been a training program. Within it, the issue is very simple: it is too important to the global supply chain for our customers to trust each of us in this environment. This isn't an issue about U.S. high tech; it's Europe, it's Asia, it's China, it's Latin America. And you've got to have a consistency of trust from your customers in the global supply chain when things begin to break down. So I made a decision that was hard for me because I do believe the country's been protected very well since 9/11. But this is so important to our industry and the future of the Internet that we've got to change. And I've asked a leader that I like very well in our president, and NSA is good people, they're a good customer for us. But things have changed and we have to change. It isn't so important to how we got to where we are now; it's what we must change as we go forward.
"If you don't trust the supply chain it breaks down what the Internet is all about, it becomes fragmented," Chambers said. "So you've got to say, regardless how we got there, we've got to move forward. I felt it was important enough for a president that I believe in to say, 'Mr. President, could you lead us?' Because I believe it does take that level of leading from the U.S. first. We've got to get a standard of conduct that we agree upon and say, 'How do we work through these issues together?' Because it's too interdependent on the economy for this not to work."
Jim Duffy has been covering technology for over 28 years, 23 at Network World. He also writes The Cisco Connection blog and can be reached on Twitter @Jim_Duffy.


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A couple of weeks before President Obama's big immigration dictate, his IRS issued a more quiet but no less outrageous edict that attempts to up-end the ability of states to opt out of his health care law's new entitlement.
When the law was written, its supporters assumed states would be eager to participate and get access to enormous subsidies from federal taxpayers. Instead, more than half the states challenged the constitutionality of the law in court, and at least that many are likely to refuse to set up the so-called exchanges through which the new entitlement subsidies flow.
So the Obama administration is trying to bribe states to participate by manipulating language in the law that is meant to authorize start-up grants to instead fund years of operating expenses. A recent announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) offered states six full years of funding.
Even that bribe isn't convincing many states that are flatly refusing to implement exchanges - which are subject to onerous regulatory control by HHS.
The statute does, under section 1321, authorize HHS to create federal exchanges in states that choose not to participate. But the law specifically denies taxpayers in those states "premium assistance credits," the subsidies at the heart of the new health care entitlement. This was supposed to be a way to coerce states into playing along - the Democrats who wrote the bill just couldn't imagine a state leaving billions in federal subsidies on the table. The author of the provisions, Senator Max Baucus, has reportedly stated that this was an intended feature of the law.
Now the IRS, likely at the direction of an Obama White House increasingly concerned that the whole law will crumble due to the number of states opting out, is scrambling to bureaucratically rewrite the law and allow subsidies to flow through federal exchanges.
The IRS, in a May 23 dictate, had the nerve to say: "The statutory language of section 36B and other provisions of the Affordable Care Act support the interpretation that credits are available to taxpayers who obtain coverage through a State Exchange, regional Exchange, subsidiary Exchange, and the Federally-facilitated Exchange."
Yet there is no mention of a "federally-facilitated Exchange" anywhere in 36B or in any section referenced in 36B. In fact, the definition of the new credit under 36B specifically requires enrollment "through an Exchange established by the State under 1311 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Identical language appears in the definition of a "coverage month" later in 36B.
Not only does 36B clearly state that eligibility for the subsidy requires enrollment in an exchange "established by the State," but it also specifically cites 1311, the section of the bill dealing with state exchanges. Federally-run exchanges are authorized by a different section that is never mentioned anywhere in 36B. There is zero basis in the law for the IRS's claim that section 36B authorizes credits in a federal exchange.
Moreover, because employers can be taxed $3000 per subsidy-eligible employee, the IRS is literally attempting taxation without representation. The new IRS Tax will whack companies in states that already opted out and therefore shouldn't lawfully be taxed.
It's an affront not just to principles of federalism but to the very first thing our founders put in the Constitution after the famous "We the People" preamble. Article I, Section 1 states: "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
It doesn't say the power to write and rewrite laws is vested in HHS and IRS, or that unelected bureaucrats can impose taxes on states that legitimately opted out of a federal program.
Fortunately, the Senate is expected to vote on overturning this outrageous IRS dictate and protecting the right of states to opt out of President Obama's new health care subsidies and employer taxes. The vote, under the Congressional Review Act, will be protected from filibuster and will therefore require just 51 votes to overturn the IRS dictate.
This Senate vote will tell us whether each U.S. senator supports the rule of law and our federalist system or believes IRS bureaucrats should be allowed to govern by dictate, even to impose their own taxes. Citizens whose senators are up for election this year should watch closely and consider whether senators who would outsource such power to the IRS deserve to stay in the Senate.


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New York Fashion Week would have been a dull place without young starlets and several designers and collections in particular. Fringing, beading, embroidery, puff-sleeved floral, a twinkling lame, with embellished neckline patchwork, draping, ribbons, bows, metallic threads – no detail is left out, and that is the glorious fusion of this great event. The clothes are beautifully made, and curiously designed.
This year, the collection is the essence of young. The models radiate a sassy, rock-chick charm in a layered mix of color and print with cut smock dresses over frilly skirts, curvy dresses in floral velvet, handkerchief-hems on trapeze-line smocks, crystal-encrusted tunics with baggy trousers tucked into boots, long, bedecked with lace bibs, and necklaces, embossed and cut-out leather jackets with washed georgette dresses, all styled, layered and accessorized with madcap, magpie charm and enthusiasm.
In fashion, there is no tomorrow. You have to make it perfect in that few minutes. That's the biggest and rewarding challenge. Backstage before the event there are celebrities, singers and television personalities queued for make-up, hairdressing and wardrobe. There is a fight going on behind the scenes of Fashion Week. However, you can shake your booty to the top DJ's rocking music or watch spectacular performances. And thats not all; you are escorted with beautiful girls, who are happy to engage in conversation with you. Attending a New York Fashion week means you are enjoying the exciting entertainment, gourmet buffets, mingling with dazzling super hot models, and famous personalities. However, it is quite possible there will be a land grab for seats.
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If you've visited Paris's chic Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood—and in particular either of the district's historic cafes, Les Deux Magots or Café Flore—you've undoubtedly at least seen the Eglise de Saint-Germain-des-Pres. It was this very church—originally founded in the mid-6th century as a Benedictine abbey—that gave the name to Paris's Saint-Germain-des-Pres district as the abbey for centuries owned all of the Left Bank land in the area. Sadly, though, few tourists do more than admire the scenery or perhaps take a photo or two. And that's a shame, because the church itself is well worth a visit if nothing other than for its rich history deeply intertwined with France's Merovingian kings who ruled the nation for 300 years beginning in the middle of the 5th century. Continue Reading →


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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.
The world body moved the crisis from the top step of a five-point scale — based on the death rate — to the fourth step, formally reducing it from a "famine" to a "humanitarian emergency".
However, the U.N. said that 2.3 million people remain in a food crisis situation in Somalia and still need assistance. That represents 31 percent of the country's population. Across the Horn of Africa region the total is 9.5 million who need help.
The international body declared famine in Somalia last July after successive failed rains. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis fled to refugee camps in Kenya, Ethiopia and the Somali capital Mogadishu in search of food.
The famine was exacerbated by the Somali militant group al-Shabab, which has let few aid agencies into the area it controls in south-central Mogadishu.
Jose Graziano da Silva, the director general of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, warned that without assistance in the region over the next three months "those people will not survive."
"The Horn of Africa will be for FAO the most important region and we'll be doing our best here to improve food security," he said. "We do believe it is possible to have a Horn of Africa free of hunger."
Mark Bowden, the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, said that a massive increase in assistance last year helped lift Somalia out of famine conditions. But he said the international community needed to keep helping.
"The gains are considerable but they are also very fragile and one of the things I want to highlight is we have a temporary respite in terms of addressing the crisis in Somalia," Bowden said.
He later added: "The years of conflict and poor rains have left millions of Somalis vulnerable. The mortality rates in southern Somalia are still among the highest in the world."
The militant group al-Shabab this week banned the international Red Cross from operating in southern Somalia. Bowden said any reduction in assistance "is of critical concern to us," and he urged all sides of the conflict not to impede humanitarian aid.
The U.N. does not have a death toll from Somalia's famine and will say only that it knows tens of thousands of people died, mostly between April and September last year. A study will be commissioned to look at the death toll in more detail, one U.N. official said Friday.
Senait Gebregziabher, the head of Oxfam in Somalia, lauded the gains against hunger but said that Somalia "is still in the throes of its worst humanitarian crisis in decades" and said that insecurity is disrupting aid supplies, warning the world not to turn its back on the crisis.
"We are seriously concerned that if people do not have the security to tend their crops and animals, or the freedom to access clean water and food in the markets, the humanitarian situation will deteriorate once again," Gebregziabher said.
After months without rainfall across the region, the U.N. on July 20 declared several parts of Somalia a famine zone. Exhausted, rail-thin women were stumbling into refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia with dead babies and bleeding feet.
The journeys sometimes took weeks, and weaker family members — children and the elderly — were left behind on the way to die alone. The U.N. expanded Somalia's famine zone a couple weeks later, defined as when two adults or four children per 10,000 people die of hunger each day and a third of children are acutely malnourished.
Aid groups quickly sent in planes and boats full of food, though a critical report written by two prominent aid agencies has found that government and aid groups were much too slow to respond despite early warnings of impending disaster. The crisis was the worse since 1991-92, when hundreds of thousands of Somalis starved to death.
This time, the British government estimates that between 50,000 and 100,000 people died, most of them children. Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti were all badly affected, but the famine hit hardest in areas of Somalia suffering from a toxic mixture of drought, war, high taxes levied by armed groups, and rising food prices.


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MOSCOW — Witnesses say a U.S. tanker airplane that crashed Friday in northern Kyrgyzstan caught fire and broke apart in the air, according to local officials.
Emergency response crews were dispatched to the scene, but the fate of the crew was not immediately known.
The U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker, which is used to refuel planes over Afghanistan, took off from Manas International Airport near Bishkek, the capital of the central Asian nation, U.S. and local officials said.
"At about (3:20 p.m. local time), we received information that a U.S. fueling plane disappeared off the radar," Azamat Mambetov, an official with Kyrgyzstan's Emergency Situations Ministry said by phone from Bishkek.
"Shortly after this news, we got a telephone call from a resident of an area about 40 miles west of Bishkek that a big explosion was heard in the local mountains."
Ministry officials initially reported that the plane was carrying five crew members, but later revised the figure to three.
A statement from the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing, the U.S. Air Force unit based at Manas, did not specify how many people were aboard. The cause of the crash was under investigation, the statement said.
A local official told a Russian news agency that residents were reporting that the crash site was engulfed in flames.
"According to eyewitnesses' accounts, the plane caught fire and broke in half while still up in the air," Bolot Shershenaliev, a senior emergency ministry official told the Rossiya 24 television channel. "They even said that they saw parachutes, but no parachutes have been found."
The United States has a base at the airport in Manas, which it uses for transit operations to and from Afghanistan. The lease expires in 2014 and will not be extended, Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev said last year.
Friday's crash was the third in less than a week involving aircraft used by the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. On Monday, seven civilians were killed when a U.S.-contracted cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Bagram air field, north of the Afghan capital, Kabul. On Saturday, four U.S. airmen were killed when a military turboprop plane crashed in southern Afghanistan.
(Staff writer Alexandra Zavis in Los Angeles contributed to this report.)
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US Military refueling plane crashes in Kyrgyzstan
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