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Employers in the United States added more people to their payrolls in July than they have in any single month February, but the nation's unemployment rate still went up.
The country added 163,000 jobs in July, but the unemployment rate ticked up from 8.2 to 8.3 percent. That's because 150,000 Americans left the labor force last month and the number of those unemployed increased by 45,000.
"We didn't create jobs fast enough to keep (the unemployment rate) from going up," said Alan Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego.
Still, the 163,000 jobs added comes after three-straight months of fewer than 100,000 jobs being added.
"It's relatively positive in the fact that it did show more jobs, and that's with the seasonal adjustment," said Kelly Cunningham, an economist at the National University System Institute for Policy Research. "But it's still not enough to really start to improve the overall employment situation as far as unemployment rates and what we need to regain or recapture the job losses over the last several years."
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics release the seasonally adjusted data Friday.
U.S. employment growth has slowed drastically since the first quarter of 2012, when employers added an average of 226,000 jobs in each of the months. The next quarter averaged 73,000 a month.
"Overall the number was encouraging, it was better than expected, but it certainly does not suggest that the economy is bouncing back quickly and is robust," said Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Point Loma Nazarene University.
It would take between 200,000 and 250,000 jobs created each month to put a dent in the unemployment rate, Cunningham said.
Some economists said an unseasonably warm winter around the nation contributed to artificial growth in jobs early in the year because malls didn't lay off seasonal workers after the Holidays and some construction jobs could continue.
The job growth then became so slow that the Federal Reserve indicated this week it could act again to stimulate the economy. The likely move would be a third round of bond buying, known as quantitative easing, as a way to inject money into the economy and lower mortgage rates. The Federal Open Market Committee next meets in September.
Reaser said the committee wouldn't focus too much on one month of data when it decides whether it will act. The next meeting will be after the August jobs numbers are released, so it will have two months to weigh.
"It does amplify the pressure on the August number," Reaser said, adding that the the FOMC may be less prone to act if the growth is higher.
Cunningham said he doesn't think more Fed stimulus is needed, but predicts that it will happen given the slow job growth.
"I don't think we're going to see a lot of hiring. I think these numbers are just weak enough that they're realizing that the economy needs another jolt," he said.
Dan Seiver, an economist at San Diego state University, said even if the Fed acted, there would be a delay before seeing any impact.
"Monetary policy acts with a lag," Seiver said. "You could argue that it's August now, anything they did now might not have an effect until after the election."
Wall Street reacted to the jobs numbers positively on Friday. The Dow Jones closed up 217.29 points and the Nasdaq was up 58.13.
Reaser said the stock market is focusing on three indicators: a strong jobs number, a solution to the European debt crisis, and action from the Federal Reserve.
They got one Friday: the 163,000 jobs added. Reaser said the market looks at the number of jobs, not the unemployment rate, which can go up even if the economy is improving because more people will enter the workforce and look for jobs.
Economic uncertainty is keeping employers in the U.S. from hiring at a fast pace, analysts say. The presidential election, the fiscal cliff, the European debt crisis are some of the events keeping them wary. Temporary help rose by 14,000 jobs in July.
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Professional and business services, which includes temp help, added 49,000 jobs in July. Food and service drinking places rose by 29,000.
Utilities employment declined by 8,000 jobs, but that's largely due to a labor dispute that put 8,500 workers off the pay rolls, according to the BLS.
Another measure of unemployment, called the U-6 rate, is a better indicator of the true job market, some economists say. The rate includes those who are unemployed, plus discouraged people who are not looking for work, and those who are working part-time due to economic reasons. That rate in July was a seasonally adjusted 15.0, slightly up from last month when it was 14.9, the BLS announced.
"I think that's the best measure of job distress," said Gin, the USD economist. "Not only is it the unemployed but also people who are not really where they want to be employment wise, they'd rather be working full time."


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shmenguin wrote:tfrizz wrote:3. The assistant GM quoted above said this kind of extension for Crosby and what it means for Malkin would absolutely result in a new address for Jordan Staal, although not necessarily this season. "You can't have $22 million invested in one position, especially if the cap gets tighter."
i guess this is different somehow than having $21.4 million in one position when the cap was already tighter. oooook?
this news has nothing to do with staal's future with the club
I would think if we got Sid and Geno on 9 million dollar contracts it would strenghten Staals address in Pittsburgh? Maybe this Gm was asked this befor the cap was set to go up to 70 million?? Either way, its up to Jordan how this plays out, we have the money to sign him, its a question if he wants a bigger role or an outragouse ammount of money.


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A month ago, he was rocking the no-look over-the-shoulder lob. Now, with this off-the-forehead alley-oop over the weekend, Rondo has cemented himself as the highlightiest player of the lockout.
Rondo found Rudy Gay at the Boston Charity Classic at Harvard, with some wizardry that's part Henrik Lundqvist headbutt, part trained seal. Someone explain to me again why there's no NBA on? We really like it and wish it were on. [Dime Mag]


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The first time it happens is often in the bathroom. You glimpse yourself in the mirror and unwillingly note the trespass of time. Wherever and whenever this realization happens, usually, and meaningfully, we change the way we lead our lives.
Clubs experience a similar epiphany, and clear awareness of your club's economic life cycle can have an equally sobering effect.
This type of realization about both yourself and your business is an opportunity. If you take advantage of opportunities, they can be transforming. If you shrug them off, you won't secure the gains that will make a difference to your business. Marginal improvements will not be enough to stay competitive. You have to do something fundamentally different; in the process, your business will be fundamentally transformed.
What can your club do that is fundamentally different? Embrace the Internet to power your business.
Overflowing Database
Teeming databases filled with the names of your members and prospects enable you to gather a wealth of information that allows you to establish lasting relationships of mutual value. Obtaining this kind of information is one of the best strategies you can initiate.
The Internet's speed and convenience permit clubs to be of better service to their members and themselves. You can mail to multitudes with the ease of mailing to one. Although we are in the Information Age, we are also in the time-saving age. With e-mail, we can meet the needs of both ages at the same time.
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People are learning to look to the Web for things they want to buy, making the Internet a natural means of marketing. As people learned to use the Yellow Pages in the past, they're now learning to use the Internet to search for the best values and services.
For club owners, this represents a tremendous opportunity to talk to targeted prospects, who single themselves out by visiting a club's Web site.
Even though the Internet seems to be about machines, it's really about people. The Internet allows you to maintain control of your relationships, saves time for you and your members, and increases your ability to satisfy them. The Internet enables you to lower the costs associated with pleasing (i.e., connecting with) members while increasing your productivity, so that members have more to be pleased about.
The Information Superlibrary
The Internet gives access to an unfathomable amount of data that gets bigger every minute, more valuable every hour, better every day and easier to navigate every week. The value of information is so high and the Internet makes it so easy to access, so businesses operating without this particular library card are at a huge disadvantage. Thanks to the Internet, you can learn from your industry, peek in on competitors, obtain up-to-the-minute information from around the world, and stay tuned to change as it happens.
Link, Link, Link
The minute you go online you should be looking for opportunities for fusion marketing. An example of fusion marketing is when an airline's frequent flyer program connects with a hotel chain, a car rental firm and a restaurant chain. Free links, traded links and small-fee links can make you marketing partners with businesses around the corner. You should have your Web address on every header and link with every merchant that is willing to do so. You may even be able to charge them a small fee.
— Jimmy Mack is a managing partner in healthclubexperts.com. Previously, Mack served the Q Club chain as national vice president of the company's lead generation and telemarketing division. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (864) 375-9596.
Healthclub.com Receives 4,000 New Listings
SAN DIEGO — Healthclub.com has added 4,000 new listings to its FindFitness Directory since the feature went live at its Web site in April. The FindFitness Directory is an online global resource that features fitness trainers, facilities, suppliers and organizations in one Web location. Currently, the directory has more than 29,000 listings.
According to Marti West, president and CEO of Healthclub.com, the new listings include both standard listings and upgraded Web page listings in all categories.
"We've had a very strong response from industry suppliers," she stated in a news release. "At a time when the fitness market is relatively soft, companies are taking a hard look at their marketing and advertising budgets. While some sites offer similar Web page listings, they require expenditures anywhere from $50 to $20,000, without providing the centralized visibility available at Healthclub.com. For $19.95 a month for suppliers and facilities, and just $9.95 a month for trainers, our Web page listings are a tremendous value."
In addition to the new listings from U.S.-based industry members, Healthclub.com has included international fitness companies. "Everyone likes the idea of a centralized directory," said Petra Robinson, Healthclub.com's executive vice president. "In the last 30 days we've added facility listings for more than 15 countries, and are currently in development of the technology that will allow us to offer internationally the multi-category listing and search capabilities that we now offer for the U.S."


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Les Horribles Cernettes got their photo published in an HTML page 20 years ago. It was the first photo in the history of the web, which makes them the first music band in the history of the web too. Here's how their song Collider sounds.
As it turns out, Les Horribles Cernettes—a band name that plays with CERN and the initials of the Large Hadron Collider—are not that bad... if you are a fan of the sound of girl groups from the 50s, that is. In any case, I like the tour of those old CERN's facilities. And the love/physics lyrics too. Kind of. A little. On the inside. [Thanks Angel!]


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A Houma-based oil and gas company owes three years worth of taxes to Terrebonne Parish because the former sheriff failed to collect the money, auditors said.
A Houma-based oil and gas company owes three years worth of taxes to Terrebonne Parish because the former sheriff failed to collect the money, auditors said.
Ex-sheriff Vernon Bourgeois failed to collect $315,000 in taxes from Baby Oil Inc., a Houma-based company, according to an audit.
Bourgeois, who left office June 30 after serving a single four-year term, also did not seize the company's property in lieu of the unpaid taxes, the audit says.
Jerry Larpenter, who was sheriff for decades, called for the audit after returning to the office in July following a four-year absence. The audit details more than a dozen "audit concerns" aside from the unpaid taxes, several of which could run afoul of the law.
Efforts to contact Bourgeois have been unsuccessful.
Larpenter has filed a lawsuit at the Terrebonne Parish Courthouse against Baby Oil seeking the unpaid taxes.
Baby Oil President Neil Suard asked Bourgeois for more time to pay the taxes owed, according to the lawsuit.
But Bourgeois does not have that authority, Sheriff's Office attorney Bill Dodd said.
"Despite the apparent extra time given to the defendant, Baby Oil Inc., said taxes were still not paid and remain outstanding and due under law," the lawsuit says.
Suard, owner of the failed indoor football team the Bayou Bucks, did not return multiple phone messages.
The audit, prepared by the certified public accounting firm Kolder, Champagne, Slaven & Co., said Bourgeois violated the state Constitution as it relates to tax collection.
"When taxes on moveables are delinquent, the tax collector shall seize and sell sufficient movable property ... to pay the tax, whether or not the property seized is the property which was assessed," the Constitution says. Moveables are taxable possessions other than land or buildings.
Taxes become delinquent several months after the Dec. 31 due date, and at that time the sheriff must put the property up for auction.
"Sale of the property shall be at public auction ... after 10 days advertisement, published within 10 days after date of seizure. It shall be absolute and without redemption," the constitution says.
When he was sheriff, Bourgeois hired the CPA firm and then fired it because he "didn't like the answers they gave him," Larpenter said.
The concerns cited in the audit are only suggestions, said Rafael Goyeneche III, president of the anti-corruption Metropolitan Crime Commission. However, the state Legislative Auditor can refer any allegations of wrongdoing over to the state Attorney General's Office.
Larpenter has said he plans to notify the AG's Office himself, and that the completed audit should reach the Legislative Auditor within a week.
The lawsuit against Baby Oil says the company owes:
$128,000 for 2009.
$97,000 for 2010.
$90,000 for 2011.
Interest, penalties and attorney's fees.
The company also owes about $66,000 in taxes for 2012, but that money is not due until Monday, according to Terrebonne Parish Assessor's Office records.
The lawsuit, filed last month, has been assigned to District Judge Johnny Walker. Suard asked for an extension to respond to the petition, according the legal papers.
Sheriffs, who also serve as tax collectors, file lawsuits when taxes go unpaid to ensure the government gets the taxes it's owed, Dodd said.
Under state law, if companies or homeowners disagree with the assessed value of their property, they can pay those taxes or a portion of those taxes under protest, Dodd said. The Sheriff's Office has to set up a special account for those who pay under protest.
"There's some every year, a few oil companies that do that," Larpenter said.
However, if the taxpayer fails to file a lawsuit within the required time frame — which was the case for Baby Oil — that taxpayer loses the right to pay taxes under protest, Dodd said.
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Hi Keith,
I got my copy of Untitled very promptly, kudos to the shipping department at Bob Goat Press!� ;)
The presentation is phenomenal. I even convinced my wife that I found it on the train, and she was all "That's paint right? Are you sure you should touch it? There's finger prints on it." Unfortunately I couldn't keep a straight face, and had to give her the truth.
It reads very well, I've read the thing twice by now. The audio CD is a fun bonus. The hard work put into it shows, and I just fucking love the binding of the journal! I'm pretty sure it's not for everyone, but to me it's worth the $45.
However, in my opinion it is a lot more of a novel - yeah a weird fucking experiement of a novel - than a game. It clearly plays with the whole "scentient PC" concept which can also be found in Lacuna Part I, and Over the Edge's Self-Referential Awareness plot. I can't help thinking of
Dark City
while reading Untitled, and watching
Cube Zero
during my first read-through was also very fitting.
I will be back with more questions (yes, I still have
more questions
). I'm glad that I read
Robin D. Laws' comments
on how you said the game features
One Player, Many GMs
. The rapsheet only alludes to this by referring to "player" in singular at all times.
Anyhow, I think you've succeeded quite well in making a game in the vein of Lacuna Part 1, where part of the fun is puzzling out what to make of it to begin with. I love how as I keep reading the text I pick up more references to the game itself. However, I only see references to the Red Face cards as Aspects, not the black ones, are the black ones not used, or should the black version of the chart just replace Hearts with Spades, and Diamonds with Clubs?
Real life calls, will post more later.
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Re: A Black Fucking Spiral!
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September 07, 2006, 07:10:26 AM »
Hey Yoki,
Glad to hear you dig it so much (and that you got it safe and sound). Your wife's response to it is awesome.
Part of me doesn't want to answer any questions about it, but that is the part is the part that wrote the crazy thing. I may have gone overboard in trying to be cryptic and turn the thing as much a puzzle as it is a story and a game...
The Red face cards are the only ones used for Aspects. Red for blood, fire, danger, lust, love, and finally wrath...
Conspiracy of Shadows: Revised Edition
Everything about the game, from the mechanics, to the artwork, to the layout just screams creepy, creepy, creepy at me. I love it.
~ Paul Tevis, Have Games, Will Travel
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Hi Keith,
Ah, I see about the red face cards.
You know what Keith, don't answer any more questions. In re-reading the material I pick up more clues each time. I think I read Lacuna Part 1 about half a dozen times, picking up more and more details each time, and Untitled follows that model beautifully. It is really quite cool. It's like a game within a game, and being provided with the answers does indeed spoil it a bit.
Part of me wish we could churn out something similar as a community, and start dropping those folders around in public places, just to see what kind of reaction it would garner, but then who knows what some fragile mind might do...
Another fun thing would be to order the game for a friend without telling them about it, just have that strange package show up in their mailbox. That's the sort of birthday present I'd like to get as a gamer. Holy shit would that blow me away. Hey, you should totally offer it this way, i.e.with a personally addressed cover page, ala "Hey Yoki, keep this fucking information to yourself, but you must read it. Please try to see through the haze. Oh, they're probably tracking the package by now, so you better haul ass..."
Kick ass entertainment Keith! I definitely give it a big fucking thumbs up.
Here's looking forward to your future experiements.
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Re: A Black Fucking Spiral!
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It would be cool to just drop folders and let people discover it. At one point I considered doing a sort of internet bread crumb thing for it along the lines of
The Dionaea House
(which I encourage everyone to look through), but was never satisfied with my game plan for it.
I can't imagine what someone receiving this thing in the mail when he didn't order it would think. However, I would be more than game to help someone fuck with a friend... ;)
As for other experiments, I hopping to get Russell to put together a companion audio CD for the piece. Other than that, the next crazy thing like this that I do might end up being a pop-up book for all I know. This shit just kinda comes to me in its own time...
Thanks for the kind words Yoki. I'm glad ya dig it.
Silent K
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Lately I have taken to purchasing cheap journals, jotting a couple pages worth of stuff in them, and leaving them various places or handing them off to friends.
Most recently I tore the first two pages out of one and started a narrative in media res on the third page, just on a whim.
Probably nothing will come of any of it, but just the idea that I'm increasing the ratio of Found curiosities in the universe amuses me.
It'd be interesting to fill the first chunk of one such journal with UNTITLEDness, and then leave it or send it... or even possibly give it to someone in the know to "start deciphering" a la
House of Leaves
' Johnny Truant, and THEN leave or send it.
The problem with putting that much work into this sort of thing, I have found, is that you must be willing to LET IT GO and expect NOTHING in return. Chances are good you will never hear anything about it, or have any idea what impact, if any, it had on anyone.
But if you're willing to do it, as I said, just for the sake of adding to the randomness of the cosmos, then it's great fun.
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You could always see your stuff end up
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Could happen. But it's gotta LIVE first, and that's the tough part.
I'm a big fan of Found Magazine, not the least because they are from my hometown. I saw their show with Postsecret a few months ago when it came through Chicago, and dropped some stuff off with Davy. It was a good time. Wish I'd known about it years back, I used to pick stuff up all the time but usually ended up throwing it out. I have Found some cool stuff though. Once I found some local band's demo cd on the roof of a Popeye's Chicken on Lincoln Avenue. I took it home, washed it off with a toothbrush, and ripped it to my hard drive. It's not bad, either, heh. I dropped an email to the band's myspace page but they never got back to me. *shrug*
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It's been a few years since E&P has recognized the Production All-Stars of the newspaper industry, so we were overdue for some tales of creative Bondo application and emergency missions to Home Depot. Luckily, this year's batch of nominees did not disappoint.
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His mechanical aptitude may be what got him in the door, but his skills in managing finances and human resources are what got him to the position of director nearly 14 years after being hired as maintenance manager at NOBMG's flagship Eagle-Tribune.
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Scott Lister
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"Ask Scott, he'll know what to do" is a common refrain at the Black Hills Pioneer, although publisher Letitia Lister admits that sometimes he's just called "MacGyver."
Scott and Letitia Lister have been married for 25 years and have worked together at the small daily in Spearfish, S.D., for 22 of those years, so she knows perhaps too well the challenges and tribulations of being a production manager.
"(Scott) has to be half mechanic, half computer engineer, half drill sergeant, and half mother hen — all of which add up to the two people he has to be so he can be in two places at the same time," she said.
Despite his hands-on resourcefulness, Scott Lister actually got his start in the circulation department and even held the position of circulation director for three years before he was promoted to production manager.
"I have always enjoyed working with mechanical equipment and getting my hands dirty, so being in production is a perfect fit," Scott said.
The Pioneer runs an in-line, eight-unit Goss Community press, vintage 1960s. "I enjoy the unique challenge an older press poses; it keeps you on your toes," he said. "The biggest challenge has been keeping up with the changes in technology on the front end of our operation, while still using older equipment to get the final product out."
Scott's skills range from troubleshooting software and welding broken parts, to coercing electricians to make late-night house calls and braving blizzards to pick up stranded employees. He takes the job seriously.
"I encourage our production staff to put out the best product possible every day and to keep finding ways to improve," he said. "That's how we keep customers coming back and how we attract new business for the future."
Clifa Richardson
Production mailroom manager, The Record (Stockton, Calif.)
Clifa Richardson is the only production manager who was nominated as a Production All-Star not by her boss or a peer, but by one of her customers.
"She tracks inserts for all these publications and is the first to call businesses inserting into the newspaper as well as the newspaper to see that advertising and marketing hit the publications they want, when they want, and how they want," said Jack Mitchell, publisher of the Amador Ledger Dispatch, which outsources all of its printing to The Record.
The Record handles its commercial printing business on a Brock Solutions TKS press, and as a 20-year employee, Richardson is the point person for customers large and small. "I love working with people, so that part of my job is easy to do," she said.
Richardson was working in the paper's advertising department, when her talents caught the attention of the mailroom manager.
"I started at the Record in advertising, making plates for the press and making up page boards to be shot to film, when I was handpicked by Howard Carter — who was the mailroom manager before he retired — to move over to the mailroom as a supervisor," Richardson said.
Mitchell thinks Carter made the right choice. "(She's) always making sure the mailroom staff is ready to handle what comes in and schedules the right number of people to keep costs down," Mitchell said. "She'll be the first to say it is a team effort. Every team needs a strong leader, and at the Stockton Record they have found one in Clifa Richardson."
Joe McKinnon
Vice president of fulfillment, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It should come as no surprise that the son of a Linotype operator and proofreader grew up to lead fulfillment at a national newspaper group. Since joining Cox Media Group in 1997, Joe McKinnon has become known for his depth of knowledge across all newspaper operations.
"He is directly responsible for helping the AJC achieve efficiencies necessary to build a sustainable business model," said Atlanta Journal-Constitution publisher Amy Glennon. "His customer-focused style, strategic approach to labor issues, and his ability to bring people together to not only solve problems but execute effectively makes him stand out above the rest."
The AJC prints on four TKS BW double-wide presses, and the paper has added shaftless towers to all of them to expand color capability.
McKinnon said the greatest challenge of his career was moving to a new operation and starting over. "The AJC is the fourth newspaper production operation that I have managed. Every operation that I have moved to has had procedures in place that no longer made sense and didn't contribute to improving efficiency or lowering cost. At each location I met outstanding, hard-working people. They just did not regularly look at their operation and question why they were doing something a certain way, or explore other ways to do the same thing," he said.
And that exploration for new efficiencies has paid off at the AJC.
"In addition to the many efficiency moves, Joe has added to the top line through new commercial printing business he has secured," Glennon said. "Joe and his team regularly find creative ways to get things done while having a positive impact on the bottom line."
"At the end of the day, we all get a newspaper produced and delivered to the customer, but there are a million ways to do that, and some are more efficient than others," McKinnon said. "It's tough to go into a new operation and challenge procedures that have been in place for decades, but it is necessary."


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Overview Detail Legend Zoom: ?? Overlay features legend For more map options click on any overview map area or any detail map feature. Detail Map Features Showing 2 items: Clashabeema 137m, Ballyscanlan Hill 132m, Find Suggested WalksOpen walks finder Find hill, mountain, island, coastal feature. Videos (none available) Recent Contributions 1 2 3 .. 18 Next page >> Get Notifications Loading tracks in Garmin Basecamp Forum: Suggestions chelman7 an hour ago When I download a track (.gpx file) from the site it does appear on my handheld gps device but will not load in Garmin Basecamp .Is there a fix for this? Binn Chorr: The Glencoaghan Horseshoe Summit Comment TommyV 5 hours ago This route starts and finishes at Benlettery Hostel and takes in a full circuit of the Glencoaghan Horseshoe. This horseshoe walk takes in six of the Bens and is a rite of passage for anybody hill... Laghtshanaquilla North-East Top: Rocky Top. Summit Comment sandman 3 days ago Access via the forest entrance on left at R9891428087 which although has a barrier is not locked according to locals this will allow you to drive up to the mast and just past it at R9690927255 a t... Pique d'Endron Track 4178 David-Guenot 2 days ago A walk completed with my friend Alexandre. We took the usual route up the Pique d'Endron (2472m) which requires a bit of walk, Len: 17.4km, Climb: 1288m, Area: France, Occitanie () || Meall Fuar-mhonaidh Track 4158 Peter Walker 3 days ago By Scottish standards Meall Fuar-mhonaidh has no great distinction in terms of height or form. But it is prominen... walk, Len: 9.5km, Climb: 520m, Area: Meall Fuar-mhonaidh, Glen Affric to Glen |... Curracahill: Not great Summit Comment chelman7 6 days ago Curracahill is the 633rd highest spot in Ireland. It would be about 633rd on my list of good walks. Knocknaskagh N Top: Summer Stroll Summit Comment magnumpig 2 days ago Taken from the summit looking north on 16/07/2019. Nicer views from this peak than from the main peak (which is crowned with a Cork flag currently). Myriad of paths on these mountains now due to l... MI Access News. Forum: General simon3 3 days ago Access updates July 2019Gleninagh, Twelve BensThe Bodkin family who own Gleninagh in the Twelve Bens have asked that climbers and hillwalkers not park along the access road to their farm, which is... Cuilcagh: A classy mountain Summit Comment hazyview a week ago I followed the directions (per scarecrow & others) to the second carpark & we commenced the awesome long boardwalk across the bog & up the mountain. A good challenging climb of stairs to the summi... Soum de l'Arraït, Montagne de Lège and Sommet de l'Oudérou from Binos Track 4160 David-Guenot a week ago walk, Len: 16.8km, Climb: 1272m, Area: France, Occitanie () || Hill of Allen: Pleasant and easy stroll Summit Comment TommyMc a week ago A pleasant and easy stroll from the lay-by on the Allen-Miltown road as referenced by Dessie1. Frustratingly a spacious car parking area at this spot is padlocked, meaning visitors must park in a ... Thor's Cave and the Manifold Valley Track 4155 Peter Walker a week ago walk, Len: 17.5km, Climb: 445m, Area: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Penni... Most Recent Monthly Newsletter. Conditions and Info Use of MountainViews is governed by conditions. and Privacy Policy General information about the site is here. Opinions in material here are not necessarily endorsed by MountainViews. Hillwalking is a risk sport. Information in comments, walks or shared GPS tracks may not be accurate for example as regards safety or access permission. 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Video display South Midlands Area More detail Place count in area: 31, OSI/LPS Maps: 53, 54, 55, 59, 60, 61, 66, 67, 68, 74 Highest place: Slievenamon, 720.2m Maximum height for area: 720.2 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 711 metres, Places in area South Midlands:Ballaghmore Hill 268mBallynalacken Hill 314mBallyscanlan Hill 132mCaponellan Hill 253mCarrigadoon Hill 296.9mClashabeema 137mCoolnahau Hill 265mCorbally Hill 285mCroghan 365mFaranaree Hill 283mFossy Mountain 332mHewson Hill 261mKill Hill 241mKillough 235mKnockmannon Hill 315mMonabrogue 284mMonaughrim 206mMount Alto 276mNewtown Hill 208mTory Hill 292mBrandon Hill: Brandon Hill 515mCoppanagh 365mSlieveardagh: Clomantagh Hill 349mKnocknamuck 340mSlievemargy: Clogrennan Hill 336mCullenagh Mountain 317mSlievenamon: Knockahunna 502.8mSheegouna 553.5mSlievenamon 720.2mSlievenamon North-West Top 564mWalsh Mountains: Carricktriss Gorse 314m Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such. Centre on map. Ballyscanlan Hill Hill Waterford County, in Local/Historical/Cultural List Height: 132m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 76 Grid Reference: S54629 02677 Place visited by 12 members. Recently by: Roen, Fergalh, thomas_g, conormcbandon, geohappy, Glanman2, jackill, eamonoc, bbarry2015, bryanjbarry, sandman, Pepe I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.) More detail Longitude: -7.202234, Latitude: 52.173706 , Easting: 254629, Northing: 102677 Prominence: 72m, Isolation: 2.8km ITM: 654566 602732, GPS IDs, 6 char: BlysHl, 10 char: BlyscnlHil Ballyscanlan Hill is the 1481th highest place in Ireland. Ballyscanlan Hill is the most southerly summit in the South Midlands area. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1494/ Rate Gallery COMMENTS for Ballyscanlan Hill 1 of 1 Follow this place's comments Picture from sandman : Clearing close to Summit. Picture: Clearing close to Summit. The Copper Coast. by sandman 2 Sep 2015 Parking beside forest entrance S5437702608 A walk in track keeping left at waterworks and after app 40m at S5459602442 B turn left uphill over a faint track which will bring you to the clearing shown in photo, the location of some late night raves. The summit is further on in the heavy foliage. I visited various spots just to be on the safe side, hopefully in the near future the experts with the proper equipment will verify same. Although this area has numerous walking trails the summit in its present state is not visitor friendly . Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1494/comment/18281/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average A pleasant road walk with one good view - and then no view at all by Pepe 11 Jul 2015 Parked the car at the Fenor Bog carpark and walked up a quiet winding road to the lesser of the two Ballyscanlan Hills - the one with the cross on it which can be seen from miles around. Here the views are excellent. Access to the cross is over some agricultural land but there isn't any obvious door to knock on to ask permission. The walk from road to cross is short, perhaps five minutes. After that, we returned to the road and continued uphill, taking the right-hand fork up to the taller of the two hills (the left-hand route will take you down by Ballyscanlan Lake). Turn right at the waterworks. There is a path here that leads down to Carrickavantry Reservoir. The trick here is to turn left into the trees and make your way to the highest point, which is not difficult to get to. However there are zero views because of tree growth! Return downhill to Fenor - the entire walk comes to maybe four miles, most of it on roads though traffic is minimal - and treat yourself to refreshments in Mother McHugh's, the only pub in Fenor and one of the best in the south-east. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1494/comment/18182/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average This hill had a haircut recently by Pepe 8 Sep 2018 Much tree felling has taken place this summer on Ballyscanlon Hill. It now looks as if there might even be a new experience up there: ie a view from the top! Saw it from a few miles distant and unfortunately hadn't time to take a photo, but it looks totally different now and much of it is minus the surfeit of trees mentioned in the other two comments. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1494/comment/20060/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average (End of comment section for Ballyscanlan Hill.) Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.) British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence) MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 11 Million Visitors Per Year. 1300 Contributors.


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Christmas at Saint Ben's
"O Tannenbaum": CSB celebrates with ceremony
By Elisabeth Leipholtz '15
The towering pine tree stood on the CSB campus mall, an unlit silhouette against the darkening sky. Soon pockets of staff began to gather, and students made their way in large groups from their residence halls.
And so began the inaugural "Christmas at Saint Ben's."
The event took place Tuesday, Nov. 27, and drew more than 300 CSB and SJU students, faculty and staff to observe the lighting of the 35-foot tree. It was donated by Joseph Styles, a St. Joseph dentist and owner of River Bluff Tree Farm, and adorned with 3,200 lights.
Organizers hope the tree lighting will become an annual event.
"It was very exciting to be the first to take part in a tradition that could last for years to come," said Danielle Quintana, a sophomore from Sandy, Utah.
In welcoming remarks, Mary Geller, vice president for student development at CSB, explained the college's motto, "Sic luceat lux vestra," meaning "let your light shine." As she spoke, a representative from each class at CSB made her way to the platform with a lit torch - symbolic of the theme of light.
Crowd members also were given tea lights to hold, and the CSB women's choir led the group in singing a few Christmas carols. S. Sharon Nohner, director of CSB Campus Ministry, blessed the tree, and CSB President MaryAnn Baenninger flipped a switch, instantly illuminating the dark sky.
"I'm so glad that I was able to be a part of this new Christmas tradition at CSB," said Julie Bode, a senior from New Ulm, Minn. "As a senior, it was amazing to come together to celebrate the beginning of a new holiday custom with my fellow Bennies. Hopefully my life after graduation will shine just as brightly and vividly as it did during my four years here."
After the ceremony, students were invited to the Benedicta Arts Center for refreshments, photos with holiday backdrops and music provided by DYNAMIX, a CSB student a cappella group.
"My friend and I loved it," said Sophia Nolan, a senior from Plymouth, Minn. "We felt that Christmas time officially felt close because of how cozy it made the campus feel."


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Etoile de Dakar featuring Youssou N'Dour
Once Upon a Time in Senegal: The Birth of Mbalax 1979-1981
Digging into Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's back catalogue is a fun exercise on two fronts. The recordings he made with the original Etoile de Dakar lineup between 1979-81 are a delight in their own right; and listening to them again in 2010 demonstrates how far N'Dour has travelled over the last 30 years. The punky, psychedelia-drenched proto-mbalax heard on Once Upon a Time in Senegal: The Birth of Mbalax 1979-1981 is in almost total contrast to the nuanced elegance of Egypt (Nonesuch, 2004) or the bland and over-polished vibe of Dakar-Kingston (Decca, 2010).
And yet there have been some constants over the decades. Etoile de Dakar's lead guitarist, Jimi Mbaye, and tama drummer, Assane Thiam, have remained at N'Dour's side since becoming founder members of his Super Etoile de Dakar, the breakaway group he founded in 1981. Bassist Kabou Gueye was another founder member of Super Etoile; now a freelance songwriter and producer based in Dakar, he and N'Dour co-wrote the material featured on Egypt (check the YouTube clip of that wonderful album's "Cheikh Ibra Fall" below). Then, of course, there is N'Dour's voice, no longer as raw as in the Etoile de Dakar years, but in its maturity, still every bit as spellbinding.
Etoile de Dakar had the good fortune to emerge shortly after the technology to mass produce cheap, cassette-only albums reached Senegal, enabling emerging artists to achieve some measure of independence from the old-time labels and their financiers. Etoile recorded six such albums between 1979-81: Absa Gueye, Thiapathioly, Tolou Badou N'Diaye, Lay Suma Lay, Khaley Etoile and Maleo, all self-produced and released on the Touba Auto Cassettes label. (Artists had to move fast though; official releases would be followed by even cheaper pirate versions within days).
Once Upon A Time In Senegal cherry picks all six albums, with the tracks programmed chronologically. A brash mélange of Senegambian melodies and folklore, Cuban percussion, the Senegalese tama drum (a small squeeze drum employed as a lead instrument), highlife and Latin-inspired horns, and distorted, acid rock-derived guitarsand the varied styles of lead singers N'Dour, El Hadji Faye, Eric M'Backe N'Doye and Mar SeckEtoile's early recordings outraged Senegal's conservative musical establishment as much as they electrified the country's youth. The word mbalax was yet to be coined to describe the music, but its signature elements are all in place in these recordings.
The Sterns label's admirable collections of archive recordings from West Africa always include informative liner notes, and Mark Hudson's notes for Once Upon A Time In Senegal are no exception, putting the music into the context of its time and charting in some detail the break-up of Etoile de Dakar and the formation of Super Etoile.
A word of warning, however: in basing itself on interviews with singer El Hadji Faye and guitarist Badou N'Diaye, neither of whom were invited by N'Dour to join Super Etoile, the story is inevitably unbalanced. N'Diaye left Etoile in early 1981 following a massive, dope-induced freak-out shortly before going onstage one day. He reemerged with Faye in the briefly successful rival band Etoile 2000. Both men have axes to grind, and the story would be more rounded if N'Dour and Kabou Gueye, or Jimi Mbaye and Assane Thiam, or some other combination of the four, were also heard. That said, Hudson and his fellow researcher, Katerina Loebeck, are to be congratulated on tracking down the largely forgotten Faye and N'Diaye and getting their versions of events.
Yaaba Funk
Like the intermittently brilliant Soothsayers, Yaaba Funk is part of the unique multi-cultural, multi-ethnic musical mix that has been coming out of south London in the waxing years of the 2000s. But while Soothsayers' focus has increasingly moved towards roots reggaea matter for some regret given the band's deft touch with Afrobeat when it chooses to go thereYaaba Funk's basic template is the Ghanaian roots music which is the heritage of its lead singer, Richmond Kessie.
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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: Why They Are Not Breaking Up
A source very close to the couple tells us that there's one big reason why they can't tell their fans that their relationship is over and you'll never believe it — read on to find out!
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are staying together, sort of. HollywoodLife.com can tell you that the Twilight couple are being forced to pretend that all is okay until their Breaking Dawn Part 2 DVDs have been out for a few weeks!
Why Rob & Kristen Have To Pretend They Are Doing Great
"Rob & Kristen were asked to not announce a break-up or any relationship trouble until the DVD has been out for a few weeks and everything has sold," an insider tells us. "Since the first couple weeks are the times when the DVD will sell like wildfire. The more DVD's sold, the more money for them. So they are abiding by the request."
Kristen Already Has Guys Lining Up To Date Her
We told you that one guy we never saw coming into Kristen's love life is Jared Leto. It turns out he is totally into her! A fan tweeted the question, "What do you think of Kristen Stewart? ? ?" and all he wrote back was: "Love."
But does Kristen even want to start dating? "She would totally date to get her mind off of him." A source goes on to tell us that Rob has been ignoring Kristen's texts and calls as to make their "trial separation" easier while he's shooting The Rover in Australia.
But do you think it makes sense that they can't announce their breakup yet?
WATCH: Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 Blu Ray Keeping Robsten Together
— Reporting by Russ Weakland and Written by Chloe Melas
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- Kristen Stewart's Valentine's Day Date Revealed
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- Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Will Have To Reunite


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday it was "deeply disappointed" by North Korea's decision to rescind an invitation to U.S. envoy Robert King to visit Pyongyang to discuss the release of imprisoned U.S. missionary Kenneth Bae.
The White House remains prepared to send King, the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, to North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea), White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
"We are deeply disappointed by the DPRK decision for a second time to rescind its invitation for Ambassador King to travel to Pyongyang to discuss Kenneth Bae's release," Carney told reporters at a briefing.
Bae, a 45-year-old Korean-American, has been held for more than a year in North Korea after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labor on charges of trying to overthrow the state.
North Korea's official KCNA news agency has not reported on the latest invitation to King or why it was rescinded.
A delegation including a retired U.S. diplomat now in North Korea is not visiting at Washington's behest, a U.S. official said on Monday.
The retired diplomat, Donald Gregg, who was U.S. ambassador to South Korea in the late 1980s and 1990s, arrived in Pyongyang for a visit with a group, North Korea's official new agency KCNA said on Sunday.
"This private delegation did not travel to North Korea on behalf of the U.S. government," said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and who referred all other questions to the delegation.
North Korea has previously called for the cancellation of annual U.S.-South Korean (Republic of Korea) military exercises, which North Korea opposes.
"We remind the DPRK that the U.S.-ROK military exercises are transparent, regularly scheduled, and defense-oriented. These exercises are in no way linked to Mr. Bae's case," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Sunday.
The United States and South Korea will hold their annual joint military drills from February 24 to April 18, the combined forces command set up by the allies said, adding it had notified Pyongyang of the plan.
The U.S. State Department said on Friday Bae was moved from a hospital back to a labor camp on January 20, the same day he made a public appeal for Washington to help get him home.
Bae made another plea for help in a video released by Choson Sinbo, a pro-North Korea newspaper published in Japan.
"I know if I continue for the next several months here, I will probably be sent back to the hospital again," Bae says in a video of a conversation with a Swedish diplomat recorded Friday and broadcast Monday morning on CNN.
Reporting by Arshad Mohammed, Doina Chiacu, Roberta Rampton; Editing by David Storey and Tom Brown


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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Postmortem: Who's the Mystery Man? Who Didn't Survive?
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Wheels calendar (June 1)
Saturday: 20th annual All Ford Powered & Mustang Car Show/Fairlane Club of America Mini Meet, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sedgwick County Park. Call Jeff at 316-721-0402.
Friday: 12th annual Vatterott College Car Show, 5-9 p.m., 8853 E. 37th St. Call 314-542-0400 for information.
June 8: Mulvane Marauders Showdown in the Valley Car Show, 2-8 p.m., downtown Mulvane. Call Chris at 316-655-7032.
June 8: KID/WACO Motorcycle/Car Show and Drag Race, gates open at 11 a.m. at Kansas International Dragway racing complex, 61st St. & Ridge Road. For more information, go to www.bartel-productions.com.
June 8: 15th annual Route 56 Classic Cruisers Car Show, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Memorial Park, Hillsboro. Call Kim at 620-947-2484.
June 8: Outward Bound Vets Benefit Car Show, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., 10665 W. 13th St. North. Call 316-722-4817 for information.
June 14: 27th annual Derby Classic Car Show, 6-9 p.m., Atwoods parking lot. Call John at 316-992-5002.
June 15: 28th annual Wichita Area MoPars Car Show, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sedgwick County Park. Call 316-291-0426 for information.
June 15: 6th annual Mennonite Heritage and Agricultrual Museum Antique, Classic Car & Truck Show, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 200 N. Poplar, Goessel. Call 620-367-8200 for information.
June 16: 12th annual Rolling Hills Zoo Car Show, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 6 miles west of Salina on I-70 at exit 244. Call 785-827-9488, ext. 114 for information.
June 16: 19th annual Cruzin' in the Jungle Fathers Day Car Show, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sedgwick County Zoo. Call Daryl at 316-686-5827.
June 22: 4th annual All-VW-Powered Bug-O-Rama, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sedgwick County Park. Call Brian at 316-993-1645.
June 22: Fun Day Special Kidz Car Show, St. Cecilia's School Gym, 1912 W. Grand Ave., Haysville, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call Dennis at 316-761-4043.
June 29: Jimmie's Diner Car Show, 3111 N. Rock Road, 4-7 p.m. Call Linda at 316-425-5565.
July 6: Inaugural Toronto Days Open Car & Bike Show, 11:30 a.m., South Broad Street, Toronto. Call Tabitha at 620-637-2376.
July 13: 19th annual Automobilia's Moonlight Car Show & Street Party, 6 p.m. to midnight, Old Town; moonlight cruise midnight to 1:30 a.m. Call Gary at 316-264-9986.
July 20: Jimmie's Diner Car Show, 3111 N. Rock Road, 4-7 p.m. Call Linda at 316-425-5565.
July 25-28: 33rd annual Leadsled Spectacular, Oakdale Park, Salina. For information, go to www.kustomkempsofamerica.com.
Aug. 3: 19th annual Brickstreet Nationals, downtown Augusta, 2-10 p.m. Call Corky at 316-775-1999.
Aug. 10: 14th annual Sunflower IH Show, Scout Park, Halstead. Call Richard at 316-835-2740.
Aug. 31: All Wheels Super Saturday, 8 a.m., Caldwell City Park. Call Tanya at 620-845-6726.
Sept. 21: El Dorado Chamber of Commerce Car, Truck & Bike Show, downtown El Dorado, noon to 6 p.m. Call Jill at 316-323-0566.
Sept. 27-29: Last Run Car Show, Arkansas City. Call Carl at 620-442-1745.
Oct. 4-6: 6th annual Downtown Hutchinson Rod Run & Classic Car Show. Go to www.hutchrodrun.com for info.
Oct. 6: All Ford Day, Hiawatha Camp & Retreat Center, 1601 W. 51st St., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call Gilbert at 316-838-8420.
Oct. 26-27: 14th annual Sedgwick Street Rodders Swap Meet, Kansas State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson. Call 316-832-0569 for information.


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The only thing that would make that better is if it had been done in a Camaro. My Camaro, possibly.
Oh, heck, and while I'm spamming you. Go buy the latest album by Fun., if you haven't yet. This is what they sound like live, and on the album, they are like that + Queen + summer + awesome. Just do it.


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The 2011 AAA Photo Contest is a showcase of anthropology at its best. Of the 93 photos submitted, AAA members selected their favorites in each of the four categories: Practice, People, Place and Process. You can view the top 20 photos in Anthropology News. Here on the AAA blog, we will feature several of the photos in a blog series, Photo Friday.
Title: Behind the Masks, Qoyllur Rit'i Pilgrimage
Photo Courtesy of Andrea M Heckman
Contest Category: Practice
Caption: Dancers spend a year preparing by sewing sequins and adornment on their costumes to catch the sun's light, and are judged by the quality, weight, and cost of their costumes as well as the symbolic significance of the designs. As these unmasked supporters walk side by side with the dancers, it is clear how the masked dancers take on another persona, an identity linked to myth and tradition. The stories are lived anew each year by the dancers and for that period of ritual time and space, they become the mythical beings by staying in costume and masked for the duration of the pilgrimage. Many dancers learn to dance when children and participate for long periods of their lives.
Find your best photos from the last two years…the 2012 AAA Photo Contest is now open. Winning photographs will be displayed at the 111th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. View contest details.
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Baby eels in casserole
Baby eels in casserole
400 g baby eels, 4 cloves garlic, 4 slices of guindilla (Spanish hot chilli peppers), 1.5 dl olive oil, and salt
Pour the oil into an earthenware casserole and heat. Then add the garlic in fine slices and theguindilla rings, and when the garlic begins to change colour, remove the casserole from the heat and allow to cool a little. Then add the baby eels, previously cooked, and return the casserole to the stove, stirring with a wooden fork over very high heat. Season.
To serve
Before the eels begin to bubble, remove from heat and serve immediately in individual earthenware casseroles.
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- Cooking time: 30 minutes
- Price: Average
- Difficulty: Average
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Reservations will soon be accepted for the June 14 public opening of the James Turrell "Twilight Epiphany" Skyspace at Rice University. Houstonians who want to experience the sunset light show that evening can request tickets online at skyspace.rice.edu. Tickets are free, but the limit is two per person.
The June 14 event will begin at 7:30 p.m. with brief remarks by Rice University Art Director Molly Hubbard; Jonathon Glus, CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance; Raymond Brochstein, chair of the Rice Art Committee; and Rice trustee and alumna Suzanne Deal Booth, whose gift made it possible for the university to commission acclaimed American artist James Turrell to design the skyspace and to build it. Parking will be free for the public opening.
The skyspace can seat up to 120 people, with 44 in the lower viewing area, which is wheelchair-accessible, and 76 in the upper viewing area. Houstonians who are unable to reserve tickets to view the June 14 sunset light show inside the skyspace have the option of sitting on chairs that will placed outside the structure just for this event, or they can reserve tickets for another date.
During the summer, the skyspace will be closed on Tuesdays for private events but will be open to the public throughout the rest of the week. Two light shows will be held daily. The morning light show begins 40 minutes before sunrise, and the evening light show begins at sunset. The skyspace is closed overnight. The calendar at skyspace.rice.edu shows the time of sunrise and sunset for each date and includes notices about when the skyspace will be closed to the public. Because a large demand is initially expected for the sunset light shows, tickets must be reserved for those times.
The pyramid-like Turrell Skyspace towers above a 12-foot-high grass berm just east of Rice's Shepherd School of Music. Visitors seated on the skyspace's lower and upper viewing areas can gaze up at the 72-by-72-foot white roof, which offers a view of the sky through a 14-by-14-foot opening. Lights projected on the ceiling will change colors as the sun rises and sets, and these will impact the color of the sky as seen by visitors. Although the color changes on the ceiling can be viewed from outside the skyspace, the magical color changes of the sky through the opening in the ceiling can be experienced only from inside the structure.
Thomas Phifer and Partners served as the architect for the skyspace, and Linbeck was the contractor. The roof is a composition of several specifically engineered materials with a carbon-steel knife edge. The seating area on the lower level is made of pink and gray Texas granite from Marble Falls; on the upper level, poured-concrete benches provide seating. A sequence of LED lights installed in the upper level is programmed to create the light show on the ceiling in sync with sunset and sunrise. The show lasts about 40 minutes, and the light program can operate in a variety of weather conditions.
Rice has the first Turrell skyspace to be engineered for acoustics. Twelve state-of-the-art speakers are "hidden" in the plaster walls. Although music will not be played during the sunset and sunrise light shows, Turrell is creating additional light shows for use by the Shepherd School for live performances as well as for use by students who participate in the Rice Electroacoustic Music Labs.
Over the past four decades, Turrell has created skyspaces in 25 countries. The skyspace at Rice is his 73rd and one of the largest. "Each is unique," he said. "I wanted this one to feel open because it's a very public space and at the same time it's an enclosure."
Turrell said the relation of inside to outside is very important. "This is one in which you will see the sky be almost any color you like, in fact, quite some surprising tones," he said. "If you take a photo of the sky in this skyspace, the color you see in the opening is not actually going to show up in your camera because in fact it is not there.
"This is a gentle reminder that because we give the sky its color and can then change the color of the sky, we create the reality in which we live. The light that we make is something that changes the reality of how we perceive the sky. We do create the world in which we live to a much larger extent than we are willing to take responsibility for."
For more information on public art at Rice, visit publicart.rice.edu.
For a map of the campus, visit http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html. The closest public parking lots to the skyspace are in the underground garage at McNair Hall and in the visitor lots west of Alice Pratt Brown Hall.