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The Wall Street Journal began as a late-nineteenth-century version of a Bloomberg terminal—a high-priced, custom-produced collection of timely data on the financial markets which was distributed to people who planned to trade on the information. Starting in 1882, Dow Jones & Co. published a financial newsletter that messenger boys would deliver to its customers on Wall Street. Not long after, the company came out with the Customer's Afternoon News Letter, an end-of-day summary, and in 1889 this publication changed its name to the Wall Street Journal. Seven years later, Adolph Ochs, the young owner of the Chattanooga Times, bought the listless New York Times for seventy-five thousand dollars, and the rise of the two great élite American newspapers had begun.
Back then, nobody would have picked the Times and the Wall Street Journal as the country's most important newspapers. That distinction belonged to two papers that have long since disappeared: Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. The papers, and their owners, were flamboyantly rich, Democratic, populist, and popular. Although they sometimes purveyed information and analysis, in the manner of the Times and the Wall Street Journal, their business was mainly telling stories—turning the life of the world's rising metropolitan, industrial superpower into captivating adventure and drama.
Because Pulitzer and Hearst were so irresistibly colorful, they have long been catnip for biographers. Kenneth Whyte, the editor and publisher of the Canadian news magazine Maclean's, has just produced a new partial, though lengthy, biography called "The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst" (Counterpoint; $30), which he evidently wrote more as a result of having fallen in love with his subject than of having come across new material to reveal. Occasionally, Whyte takes a swat at previous biographers for having got something wrong, or rises to proclaim Hearst's superiority to Pulitzer, especially as a person whom it was pleasant to work for. Mainly, though, he focusses on retelling the story of the brief period from 1895, when Hearst bought the Journal, to 1898, when its famous coverage of the Spanish-American War drew to a close—only because the war did, too.
Pulitzer, a cultivated but penniless Hungarian immigrant, bought the World in 1883, after having launched his career in St. Louis, first as a protégé of Carl Schurz, the German-American reformer, then as a state legislator, and, finally, as the owner of the Post-Dispatch. Although he established himself as a gentleman scholar, an art connoisseur, and a high liver, Pulitzer had an almost magical connection with the common man. He rose in journalism in the days when it was a branch of politics (as did Hearst, whose father was a U.S. senator, and who served two terms in Congress himself, while longing for the Presidency), but he figured out how to get the market, rather than the political parties, to support a newspaper.
Pulitzer's fortune was built on single-copy sales, at a penny a paper, on the streets of New York. His estimation of the reading appetites of immigrants was far higher than that of many of his reformist friends, and his readers proved him right. He served up a blend of investigative reporting, instruction about city life, comics (including "The Yellow Kid," the source of the derisive label "yellow journalism"), cheerleading for the Democratic Party, adventure, and true-life soap opera about tycoons and trusts, cops and crooks, Madonnas and whores. In Pulitzer's words, the World would become "a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic." (In 2005, the novelist Nicholson Baker and his wife, Margaret Brentano, published a book called "The World on Sunday," which, simply by reproducing a few dozen color spreads from the Sunday edition of the World, conveyed the Pulitzer formula beautifully.)
Hearst, a decade and a half younger than Pulitzer, first encountered the World when he was a student at Harvard. After dropping out, he went home to San Francisco and took over the management of the Examiner, a minor holding of his father's, successfully using the Pulitzer editorial formula. By the time Hearst bought the Journal, Pulitzer was ailing, and Hearst was prepared to go him one better (or, depending on one's perspective, worse). To promote the Journal, Hearst printed posters and sent brass bands through the streets of New York. He hired away many of Pulitzer's brightest stars, such as Morrill Goddard, whose scoops had included dressing as an undertaker and sneaking into Julia Dent Grant's carriage as she rode in the funeral procession of her husband, President Grant, and persuading a sixteen-year-old "artist's model" to reveal that she was hired to burst naked out of a papier-mâché pie at a dinner party for a group of prominent men. Other bylines that appeared in the Journal are Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, Richard Harding Davis, Julian Hawthorne (son of Nathaniel), and Frederick Remington, the artist who claimed (without proof, alas) to have received a telegram from Hearst that said, regarding Cuba, "You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war."
As a Westerner and the son of a self-made silver baron, Hearst understood better than Pulitzer the appeal of William Jennings Bryan and his attacks on the gold standard. He and two of his star journalists, the correspondent Alfred Lewis and the cartoonist Homer Davenport, also saw that Bryan's opponent in the 1896 Presidential election, William McKinley, was too stolid to play the villain in the pages of the Journal—but that Mark Hanna, his campaign mastermind and the Karl Rove of the day, would make an ideal substitute. The 1896 campaign became, in the Journal, a titanic, circulation-building battle of rural virtue against capitalist rapacity.
After the campaign, Hearst found his next monster story in Spain's brutal suppression of the uprising by liberation forces in Cuba. Nothing that appeared in the American press in 2002 and 2003 about the misdeeds and dangers of Saddam Hussein is in the same league of journalistic excess as Hearst's treatment of Spain between 1896 and 1898. Hearst was especially adept at finding melodramatic hooks that could help whip up martial sentiment (and Journal sales). One was the imprisonment, by the Spaniards, of seventeen-year-old Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, who was said to be the niece of the President of the Cuban revolutionary government, which the Journal played as a classic story of a beautiful virgin princess menaced by swarthy brutes. When she was freed, Hearst's headline was "EVANGELINA CISNEROS RESCUED BY THE JOURNAL." Another hook was the sinking of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in the Havana harbor in February, 1898. Whether the Spaniards deliberately sank the Maine, whose presence in Havana was itself partly testament to the influence of the Journal, is still the subject of historical dispute, but the Journal's coverage was untroubled by doubt. On the third day after the incident, its headline was "THE WHOLE COUNTRY THRILLS WITH THE WAR FEVER." (Whyte insists, not very persuasively, that this only appears "blatantly jingoistic when torn from context.") In May, after Congress had declared war, Hearst ran the slogan "How do you like the Journal's war?" on either side of the paper's nameplate.
Whyte ends his account with Hearst only in his mid-thirties (and more than half a century before his death), so he doesn't describe how Hearst acquired a series of newspapers and magazines and built them into a big media company that is still prominent today, decades after the demise of the New York Journal. (In 2006, the company completed a grand headquarters skyscraper, a project planned in the nineteen-twenties and halted during the Great Depression; Joseph Pulitzer's heirs sold their family's media business in 2005.) During Hearst's lifetime, his properties continued to make most of their money from sales on the street or on newsstands. But, as the twentieth century wore on, new media—national magazines, then radio, then television—took on the entertainment function that big-city newspapers had performed in Hearst's heyday, and newspapers shifted their economic base from street sales to subscriptions and advertising.
Say what you like about the sacred separation of a newspaper's editorial and business sides: the way a publication makes its money inevitably affects its tone and content. When political parties were primary supporters of newspapers, in the nineteenth century, the newspaper barons were editor-politicians, like Horace Greeley. The twentieth century eventually brought us a more respectable and authoritative kind of newspaper journalism that went down more smoothly with advertisers and subscribers than the raffish journalism that generated street sales. Along with this change, most of the people who ran newspapers became less like impresarios and more like burghers. One of these was Adolph Ochs; another, fifty years younger, was Barney Kilgore, who built the Wall Street Journal into the first national mass-circulation daily newspaper.
Kilgore, the son of a small-town schools superintendent turned insurance agent, grew up and went to college in Indiana, was promptly hired by the Wall Street Journal (in 1929, just a few weeks before the stock-market crash), and never worked anywhere else. Richard J. Tofel's new biography, "Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism" (St. Martin's; $25.95), makes it clear that the Journal, despite its name, is culturally a Midwestern institution, much of whose high command, during the years of its rise, had, like Kilgore, graduated from DePauw University, in Greencastle, Indiana.
Kilgore's children made available to Tofel a trove of letters that Kilgore wrote to his parents, the first in 1913, when Kilgore was five; the last in 1954, five years before his father died, at eighty-four. Never was there a more devoted son, a more attentive father and mother, or a more uncomplicated parent-child relationship. Kilgore matter-of-factly reported home on just about every grade in every class in college, every story for the Journal, every step up the ranks of management; and his father (his mother died in 1941) gave gruff encouragement, sometimes leavened with a plainspoken notation of how there might be room for improvement in his performance. For several periods during the Depression, Kilgore sent his parents a little money every week to help them get by, which they accepted gratefully, and without embarrassment, but returned if they didn't need it. We are inside a competent, unflashy, steady-on-the-tiller world here.
Tofel, who worked at the Wall Street Journal for many years, writes in clean, precise newspaperman's prose. Every time he mentions a sum of money, such as Kilgore's salary in 1936, he tells us what it would be in today's dollars. Every once in a while, he lets loose a string of superlatives meant to make the case for Kilgore's historical importance—Kilgore helped invent anecdotal leads, and journalism that explains technical topics to lay audiences, and the publication of strings of small news items that run down a column on a page—but these usually seem like reaching, in a salesman's voice that doesn't come naturally to Tofel.
Kilgore and his colleagues did figure out how to publish a home- and office-delivered daily newspaper nationally, something that was far more difficult to accomplish in the nineteen-forties and fifties than people who have grown up with the Internet can imagine. The Journal's circulation, which was thirty-two thousand when Kilgore became its managing editor, in 1941, rose to just above a hundred and fifty thousand in 1950, eight hundred and twenty-five thousand in 1962, and almost a million when Kilgore died, of cancer, at the age of fifty-nine, in 1967. When Kilgore started out at the Journal, reporters sometimes sold advertising, and Kilgore's own early work as a reporter entailed experimentation with forms carried over from the nineteenth century, such as articles written as letters to an imaginary friend. By the time the Journal had come to full maturity, it had helped establish the journalistic norms of reportorial nonpartisanship and of independence from advertiser pressure. As Tofel observes, it was less a standard newspaper than a news-and-business magazine published daily on newsprint, closer to Fortune and Business Week than to either Hearst's New York Journal or the Times, both of which were edited on the assumption that they would be their readers' sole source of news.
Still, Kilgore did much more than develop the manners and mores of modern élite journalism. The newspaper he built was full of idiosyncrasies and peculiarities, like the use of line drawings on the front page instead of photographs, the heavy use of peppy news briefs in lieu of stories, the not very funny daily cartoon cornily titled "Pepper . . . and Salt," the right-wing editorial page, and the goofy human-interest story in the middle of every day's front page. No less than Hearst's Journal and Pulitzer's World, the Wall Street Journal bore the stamp of Kilgore's personality, which turned out to be one that appealed to a large audience of phlegmatic businessmen like him.
When Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal, in 2007, it was as if somebody had hit the rewind button on the history of journalism. The paper still bore Kilgore's stamp—Peter Kann, who was the C.E.O. of Dow Jones until 2006, started out in journalism as a copy boy at the Princeton Packet, which Kilgore owned—but Murdoch represents a throwback to the pre-burgher age in newspapers. He is much closer to Hearst than to Kilgore; in fact, the similarities are striking. Murdoch, like Hearst, was the son of a prominent father who died when he was young, grew up in the distant frontier reaches of a great power, was raised to think of himself as an aristocrat and was educated at the finest schools of the establishment, took over a provincial newspaper that his father had acquired (in Murdoch's case, the Adelaide News), and conquered the world through a golden touch for mass-circulation journalistic populism. What Hearst created in the Journal, Murdoch created in the Sun, the popular down-market British tabloid that he acquired in 1969, best known for its bare-breasted "Page 3 girl" and its gossip about the Royal Family. Like Hearst, Murdoch flouts the rules decreeing strict separation of journalism and politics and of news and entertainment, is hated by the respectable classes, lives lavishly, and sits atop a great pile of media holdings—much greater, thanks to globalization and the advent of new technologies, than Hearst's ever was.
"Inside Rupert's Brain," by Paul R. La Monica (Portfolio; $24.95), is a short book that does not suggest extensive authorial labor. Aside from a few quotes from stock-market analysts and journalism-school professors, there is no evidence of original research, and certainly not of access to Murdoch or anybody who knows him. It is useful mainly as a précis of Murdoch's long and frenetic career, which involves machinations in Australia, Italy, Britain, the United States, China, and outer space (if you count his satellite businesses), and the endless buying and selling of newspapers, magazines, book publishers, television stations, cable systems, Web sites, and sports franchises. Most of Hearst's biographers (though not Kenneth Whyte) have portrayed him as a man who often did business in economically irrational ways; "I didn't care about making money," he supposedly once said. Murdoch can seem to be like that—he has stuck with the Times of London, the New York Post, and the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard through years of unprofitability—but he can also be unsentimental in unloading properties that disappoint him, like TV Guide, New York, the National Star, the Village Voice, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Congenitally incautious, he lives in a free-floating jurisdiction all his own, borrowing, buying, selling, influencing, negotiating, and manipulating according to no easily discernible plan.
Murdoch usually avoids the press, unless he's buying one, but over the years he has made a few characteristically unpredictable choices about which reporters to talk to. In the early nineteen-nineties, he gave access to the crusading British journalist William Shawcross, which resulted in an admiring biography; now Michael Wolff, the dyspeptic media columnist for Vanity Fair, has written a Murdoch book called "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch" (Broadway; $29.95). Wolff talked not only to Murdoch and to Murdoch's chief lieutenants at NewsCorp but also, on Murdoch's insistence, to his four adult children (most of whom have a complicated relationship with him), his wife, and his mother, who has just turned a hundred.
It's possible to guess at Murdoch's calculation here—though, as usual, he was taking a gamble. Unlike most journalists, Wolff finds media deal-making completely fascinating. He's clever and attention-commanding, partly because you know there's another nasty poke at somebody waiting around every turn in the story, and he can make asset acquisition, the stuff of Murdoch's career, come to life by endowing it with emotional significance. Wolff also identifies with Murdoch's sense of being an anti-establishment maverick. (Not long ago, he described me in his Vanity Fair column as "as stuffy a grandee as you're likely to find in this disintermediated age, a mandarin in his self-conceit, gray and indistinct in his affect.") He's on the side of the colorful guys, the outsiders and the risk-takers. He'd be the last one to get all huffy about Murdoch's departures from the norms and standards of the journalistic high priesthood.
So how did the arrangement work out for Murdoch? Not all that well. Wolff never subjects Murdoch to moralizing, and seems to admire his success, but he has learned a great deal and he uses that knowledge mercilessly. Wolff has a permanent case of what Dorothy Parker used to call "the frankies." He can't resist using the telling, belittling detail whenever he encounters it, which in this case is often. (There's a funny list of all the names that Murdoch's wife, Wendi, dropped during Wolff's interview with her.) The details accrete. To anyone who has been socialized to admire the bourgeois values, Murdoch seems repellent in his need to control and dominate every relationship and every situation, to find and exploit everybody's weakness. He is surrounded by yes-men. Two of his children have quit or been driven out of executive jobs at NewsCorp. Murdoch is at roughly the stage of his career that Hearst was when Orson Welles made "Citizen Kane"; historically speaking, not enough time has elapsed for him to come across as a colorful figure from the rough-hewn past, as Hearst does now.
"The Man Who Owns the News" is mainly the story of Murdoch's successful pursuit of Dow Jones, interwoven with a brisk recap of his life up to that point. Before Murdoch bought Dow Jones, the company was owned by the Bancroft family, comprising dozens of heirs, none of whom were working at the Wall Street Journal. It was not remotely for sale, but Murdoch picked the lock of the family's hold on the company, in one big way—publicly offering a price that was far higher than what Dow Jones stock was trading for—and many small ones. Murdoch, Wolff tells us, first had a fund manager named Andy Steginsky quietly approach sale-friendly family members and use the information he got from them to compile a detailed chart that explained the complicated factions and alliances within the family. Then, in one of the most chilling set pieces in the book, Murdoch expertly played Dow Jones's new chief executive, Richard Zannino, getting him to open up a back channel of communication without telling the company's board. (Soon after the sale, Murdoch tossed Zannino over the gunwales.) In the final stages, family members who favored the sale were transmitting to Murdoch's agent Steginsky, via concealed cell phone, the proceedings of a crucial private meeting. In the end, the family was so eager to sell that it failed to figure out that Murdoch was willing to increase his price.
It was a deal-making triumph—and a financial disaster. Murdoch overpaid, taking on debt to do so, just at the moment that both the newspaper business and the financial sector upon which the Journal depends for advertising were about to plummet. NewsCorp stock traded at twenty-one dollars a share on the day the Journal sale closed, and is under eight dollars today. That's thirty billion dollars of lost value. In February, Murdoch announced an $8.4-billion write-down, a good chunk of which is attributable to the Journal, and in the last quarter of 2008 his company lost $6.4 billion. But then, in Wolff's portrayal, Murdoch is a man in love with a probably bygone style of newspapering, and also with power but not with money. Since coming to America, in the nineteen-seventies, he has never really made a newspaper work economically; his billions have come from television and movies. His masterstroke as a businessman was assembling the Fox television network and then making it home to low-budget hits like "American Idol." But, according to Wolff, this part of his empire bores Murdoch: his true obsession is not the Journal but the New York Times, which he would like either to drive out of business or to buy, no matter what the cost.
Murdoch turned seventy-eight last month. The heir to NewsCorp appears to be his second son, James, whom Wolff presents as stylish and glib. Wendi Murdoch, his third wife and the mother of his two youngest children, comes across as a trendy, globalist liberal under whose influence Murdoch has come to regard Fox News and some of his other right-wing associations as embarrassing. It's easy to imagine NewsCorp suffering the same fate that he visited upon the Bancrofts' Dow Jones—a sale brought on by weak economic performance and family disharmony.
So far, Murdoch has followed the Times of London script with the Journal (and has brought someone over from the Times, Robert Thomson, to run it). Murdoch obviously means to transform it from a second read to a first read. Therefore many of the quirks are gone—there are big color photographs on the front page now, and headlines that aren't confined to a single column, and stories that are about the same subjects as the stories on other newspapers' front pages—but he certainly has not turned the Journal into a national edition of the New York Post. It's still a great paper, but in a more conventional way.
Media moguls—journalism moguls, anyway—need two sets of skills. They have to be able to select and package material from the world in a way that gives it order and narrative drive and swagger. They also have to forge, through creativity, cunning, and force, a set of arrangements with customers, competitors, governments, advertisers, production facilities, and distribution networks which can generate a lot of money. Even in an era of focus groups and marketing research, any news publication that attracts an audience has to have a personality, which means that it has to bear the stamp of a real person. (That person doesn't have to be glamorous or trendy; he or she just has to have an industrial-strength sensibility—think of DeWitt Wallace, of Reader's Digest, or Michael Bloomberg.) Often, the personality remains, preserved by successors, long after the original mogul is gone.
These days, there is an unspoken longing, at least among journalists, for media moguls. Even Murdoch is accorded a sneaking gratitude for his willingness to make heavy investments in the newspaper business, at a time when everybody else seems to be disinvesting. Who cares if he's not being rational? We now may see the history of journalism rewinding even farther, back to the time before the burghers and before the impresarios, when there wasn't much of a market for news and there was a seamless connection between journalism and politics. Substantial realms of journalism, especially in newer media like the blogosphere and cable television, are already hard to distinguish from political activity. As government gets bigger and more consequential, the worry is not that there will be no one to purvey the news but that the news will no longer remain an independent and countervailing power.
Of course, politicians and press barons have a lot in common: they both build a constituency by representing reality in a particular way, and they are both perpetually trying to gain advantage. Most media moguls, as they have built up their empires, have tried to exercise political power. Sometimes, they've wanted political influence in order to help themselves economically—think of William Paley, of the heavily regulated CBS television network—and sometimes they've wanted to expand their business in order to have more political power, as in the case of Henry Luce, of Time Inc., who was perhaps the most politically influential media mogul in American history. Even the publishers who think of themselves as straitlaced holders of a "public trust" are not entirely uninterested in political power—why else let politicians woo their endorsements?
Still, the owners of media empires seldom have direct access to the levers of state power. Indeed, all the qualities that make them appear menacing when they're alive, and admirably larger than life when they're dead, contribute to their ability to constitute a genuine Fourth Estate. A power-hungry media mogul is an independent social force—more independent, of course, when politicians he disapproves of are in power. That ought to count for something. And if, in the bargain, we get news, or entertainment, or even higher blood pressure from being infuriated, that's another benefit. These days, we seem to be drifting toward the world that media reformers have dreamed about for half a century, where the press is made up entirely of small players. If we get there, we may find ourselves missing the dinosaurs who once roamed the earth. ♦


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Chr. Hansen Introduces Probiotics And Fiber Concept For Improved Digestive Health
In a move to support dietary supplements producers who wish to help people tackle constipation, Danish bioscience company Chr. Hansen launched a concept combining efficacious probiotics and beneficial fibers.
According to a 2006 global omnibus study involving 13,900 individuals, constipation is a widespread health concern globally. 12 percent of people worldwide suffer from self-defined constipation.
The company has documented effect on constipation with some of its premium probiotic strains. They have developed a combination, with carefully select fibers, to tackle constipation. The ingredients combination represents an "2 in 1" or "double action" product.
The supplement format is a 6 g stick with powder to be sifted over breakfast cereals or poured into a glass of water daily or twice a day.

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Let's talk intellectual property and the U.S. Postal Service for a moment. IP, as it's commonly called, refers to intangible assets involving creativity and invention. Things like movies, books, computer software, engine design, and even the ZIP Code.
The Postal Service introduced the ZIP Code in 1963, but never patented it. Too late now, but imagine if someone or a business other than the Postal Service had. Odds are you would be paying – directly or indirectly – a fee to the patent holder every time you put a ZIP Code onto a letter or package, in addition to the postage or shipping cost. Moreover, the Postal Service as well as private couriers and shippers would likely be paying, too, as would the many other businesses that use and benefit from ZIP Codes, such as real estate and insurance companies.
In short, all stakeholders in the ZIP Code system, from everyday citizens to global logistics companies, would be at the mercy of a patent holder's legal rights – and potential licensing fees.
While the ZIP Code is safely in the public domain, the same can't be said of other mailing-related IP. And as our recently released white paper shows, while the Postal Service has patented some technologies, the agency lacks a fully developed, organization-wide strategy for managing and protecting its substantial IP assets. Such a strategy would help secure Postal Service and postal stakeholder access to useful innovations.
At the request of the OIG, experts at ipCapital evaluated the Postal Service's current IP strategy. In addition to examining the Postal Service's intellectual asset management processes, the experts performed a data-driven analysis of the agency's patent portfolio and explored strategic models for IP development. The results led the OIG to outline the critical points and considerations of building a formal, scalable, and organization-wide IP strategy for the Postal Service.
Towards A Postal Service Intellectual Property Strategy could not be more timely. Patent claimants have alleged infringement and for the past year been pursuing legal action against mailers and other businesses for using bar codes and QR codes. Bar codes are a central part of operations not just for the Postal Service but the industry at large. The outcome of the cases, which are still pending, could have profound impact. If claimants prevail, will bar code users have to pay fees? What about mailpieces enhanced with some type of augmented reality – would they be subject to fees, too?
Tell us what you think: What is the right IP strategy for the Postal Service? Do you or does your business benefit from postal innovations? Would you be affected if access to them were blocked?


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Power Explorer
Por Leigh D., publicado el 31 de octubre de 2013
This article, sample code and whitepaper were produced by Leigh Davies (Intel) who examines how to optimize your graphics applications such that they self adjust their workload on CPU/GPU to prolong a system's battery life while maintaining an acceptable visual quality for the user.
Today any review of a new processor whether it's used in a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet or a phone will contain lots of information about how efficient it is and the new technologies that have been used to achieve this performance. Operating system developers spend large amounts of time optimizing improve efficiency and extend battery life, but what can be done by someone who is designing an application and wants to ensure it runs as efficiently as possible? The aim of this sample is to provide insight into how features in a game can affect the power efficiency of the hardware it's running on including the importance of frame rate capping, the effect of bandwidth on power and the cost of running asynchronous CPU work. The sample also demonstrates a way an application can adjust its workload to prolong a system's battery life when it detects a change from AC power to battery, how aggressive the change is can be adjusted based on the currently active windows power scheme.
Figure 1: Power Explorer with onscreen power information from Intel Power Gadget 2.7
The core of the sample was designed around the idea used in Codemasters GRID2* that an application can and should adapt its behavior based on whether it's running on battery or AC power. We also wanted to show a way of adapting this behavior changed to reflect how the user had their system configured so the decision was taken to tie the amount of adaption into the currently active windows power scheme. As well as extending the system's battery life when not running on AC power that also allows the application to adapt to the fact the hardware's performance will change based on the power scheme. As the sample was created it became clear that to tell the complete story of how and why a game needs to adapt based on the power source we would need the ability to accurately display power information in real time and allow the user to experiment with a wide range of graphics options to see how they affect power as not all optimizations will be applicable to all titles. The result the sample can be split into 3 main areas.
- Windows Power API's for measuring battery life, capturing system notifications on power changes and information on the current Windows Power Scheme.
- Integration of Intel Power Gadget 2.7 and the information this allows to be displayed on screen.
- A sandbox showing the effect the various graphics options have on power draw and the interaction between each other. The main effects that can be adjusted are:
- VSync Rate Backbuffer Format ( a choice of 32 Bit and 64Bit formats and MSAA)
- HDR pipeline ( Tone mapping and bloom)
- Resolution ( Using a simple upscale post process)
- CPU workload and thread usage
- Shader workload.
- Tessellation level.
More details can be found in the accompanying article that can be found below. As a final example of the effect that adjusting settings can have running the sample on a 47Watt 4950HQ system (See Table 1) gave the following results with over a 3 fold reduction in power draw between maximum visual quality and power saving options
Figure 2: Power comparison of different settings
The main things that significantly affected the power draw of the same can be summarized as:
* Frame rate, limiting the maximum frame rate is the single most important optimization regarding power.
* Bandwidth, back buffer formats and MSAA affect almost every rendering call, the less bandwidth the better.
* Limit CPU work that doesn't provide tangible benefits on modern systems to allow more power for the GPU, avoid spin locks and unnecessary polling, optimize time consuming functions even on none critical threads, just because the CPU is fast enough to do the work without stalling another part of the code doesn't mean it's an efficient use of the power budget.
* Balance shader cost against visual quality, excessive tessellation or highly complex pixel shaders that provide only minimal visual benefits can significantly impact on power draw.
Table 1: Hardware Spec used in testing


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It has been a hair-raising week for Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
First there were reports that a former royal hair stylist thought that Kate's blowout was "overdone."
Now there is speculation that Kate is being urged to cut off her famous, glossy locks. Adding insult to injury, the person behind the Kate-Should-Cut-Her-Hair campaign is reported to be Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall — Kate's step-mother-in-law.
According to the Daily Star, Camilla seems to think it's "high time" Kate went in for a trim.
"Camilla believes Kate was letting the royal side down last week when strong winds made a mess of her long flowing tresses as she opened a new art room at Northolt School in north London," the Star reported, citing a royal source who says "the royals always want to look smart and Kate is letting the side down. She has looked bedraggled recently and it's not a good image."
This is not the first time that Camilla has reportedly told Kate what to do with her hair. The Daily Mail reported in 2011 that "Camilla loves Kate's long thick hair but thinks she should cut it or colour it and do something a bit different."
Poor Kate is ever the target of advice about her hair. Last fall she was criticized about the appearance of a few gray hairs that were visible at an event she attended in November — some speculated she had given up hair dyes while she was breastfeeding Prince George. A few weeks later, though, she was praised for going a few shades darker and having a trim.
Here are some of Kate's most memorable hairstyles.


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Directly Observed Therapy in HIV Infected Adolescent Focus Groups
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00079729
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The rate of HIV infection among adolescents is increasing at an alarming rate. Adherence to antiretroviral therapy has been a major challenge in achieving and maintaining adequate control of the disease in this population. DOT has been shown effective in individuals with tuberculosis (TB), but DOT in HIV infected populations has not been thoroughly examined. This study will collect information from HIV infected adolescents in order to establish a DOT program that will increase successful adherence to HIV treatment and will benefit the public by preventing development of viral resistance and reducing the risk of transmission.
Adolescent participants in this study will be assigned to one of three 2-hour focus group sessions, each at a different site. The participants will complete a questionnaire and will give input about designing a DOT intervention model that will be accepted by adolescents. The model will then be used in a pilot study to determine the feasibility of implementing DOT programs in the community to help HIV infected adolescents.
|Study Type :
|Enrollment :
|30 participants
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|Official Title:
|Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) in HIV-Infected Adolescents: Part A-Focus Groups
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|April 2004
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2004
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years to 21 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV infected due to high-risk behavior
- Regular attendee of local adolescent HIV support group
- Current use of antiretrovirals or history of antiretroviral therapy
- Permission of parent or legal guardian if participant is less than the legal age of consent. Assent of the minor participant should be obtained where required.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Perinatal HIV infection
- Visibly distraught or emotionally unstable
- Pregnancy or breast-feeding
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00079729
|United States, California
|Los Angeles County Medical Center/USC
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|United States, Florida
|University of Miami (Pediatric)
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|United States, Tennessee
|St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Memphis
|Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38105-2794
|Study Chair:
|Patricia Flynn, MD
|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Publications of Results:
Other Publications:
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00079729 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
10193 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES Registry Number )
|First Posted:
|March 12, 2004 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 29, 2012
|Last Verified:
|October 2012
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HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: M.H. Gordon's Vodka vs. Gordon's Vodka
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
If I could change anything about my past, I'd change everything about my past; I have a hard time trusting anyone who would do otherwise. It seems so natural to want to correct your mistakes, to undo your failures and uneat your baloney sandwiches. Even if you are one of those strange cases with positive memories of triumph and lamb, wouldn't you want to at least tweak your happy past? Why not wish for a world in which you hadn't looked all gross and sweaty on the Olympic medal stand, or your lamb sandwich had been a lamb and gorgonzola sandwich?
When it comes to my own past-fixing fantasies, right after I give my 9-year-old self braces and my 16-year-old self a savage beating, I attend a public university. I went to a private one and had a fine time and learned plenty, maybe even more than I would have at UMass, though of course maybe even less. Who knows? Bottom Shelf research coordinator Emily has been to college a hundred times and figures to go back at least a hundred more, but the rest of us normal people really don't have any frame of reference in evaluating our own school choices.
I went to one of those midlevel private colleges that exist only in the Northeast. In the rest of the country they're rational enough to send the geniuses to elite schools and everyone else to whatever perfectly good school their state happens to underfund, but up here we've created several barely distinct layers of private college to accommodate Long Island's endless supply of average students with above-average means.
So if I had it to do over again, I'd either be a genius or go to public school, because then my hatred for private college students would have a less bitter and hypocritical leg to stand on. The college I went to was just as expensive as the big ones in Cambridge; the chief distinction among them is that the ones here are actually worth the money. This frustrates me. So, with that confession out of the way, let's get on with the rich-kid bashing!
The not-quite-dive bar where I check IDs on the weekend isn't a college bar, but it is a cheap bar in metro Boston and therefore yes, it is a college bar. And most of the colleges in the area are stuffed with spoiled brats. I should note here that MIT students aren't nearly as irritating as the rest (they're just weird), which is nice because tolerating them makes me seem less jealous, right? I like some of the smart, rich kids. Just not the majority of them, whose sense of entitlement is every bit as powerful as you'd imagine.
These are kids who are not used to confronting misfortune. Take the guy who got puked on a couple weeks ago. There was a line out the door at midnight, so one thoughtful young man decided to leave and make more space for others. Decision made and beer chugged, he sprint-staggered to the door, pushed it open, and threw up. This was distressing, because I didn't want to have to mop vomit off the sidewalk. But when I went outside I saw that I wouldn't have to, because this pukey mensch had done me the favor of throwing up all over the pants of the guy at the front of the line.
The victim stood there stunned while the perpetrator wobbled away, and then he demanded that I give him $100 to compensate him for his pain, suffering, and dry cleaning. I declined. He said, "You're lucky I didn't kick that guy's ass!" I said, "Why am I lucky that you're a slow processor of information? You should have knocked him down, taken his pants, and bought yourself as many drinks as his wallet would bear. But alas, you did not. So now you're screwed, and your pants smell."
He continued to yell and gesticulate and I stopped listening, but the general gist of his ravings was that he was a very special person and bad things aren't allowed to happen to very special people. In all seriousness, of course I sympathized with this kid...until he opened his mouth. The fates had done him some dirt and I was willing to commiserate and even buy him a drink, but I was turned off by his refusal to accept that it isn't the universe's job to solve all of his problems.
There's one thing kind of endearing about these kids, though: They drink cheap vodka. With all the cocktail snobbery one encounters these days, it's easy to forget that tons of people still love lowly, uncrafty neutral grain spirits mixed with whatever's handy. I don't subscribe to this line of drinking myself, but I admire its forthrightness. And I find myself doing a lot of Bloody Mary research these days, so I figured it was time to revisit the question of whether all vodka's the same. I'm certain that the high-end stuff is all marketing and bottle design, but I wondered if the ultracheap plastic-jugged crap was any worse than the medium-cheap plastic-jugged crap.
I biked to Gordon's Liquors, a very good store a couple suburbs away, and bought a bottle of the widely distributed Gordon's vodka that you've heard of and a bottle of the house label M.H. Gordon's vodka that you haven't. The higher born stuff was $20 per 1.75 liters, the other was half that.
Good golly, is there a difference. The bottom-rung brand is nearly undrinkable. It smells very strongly of alcohol, and not delicious edible alcohol but more the sort of alcohol people use to remove stains and disinfect wounds and power efficient little cars. Local Gordon's isn't fit for a Bloody Mary, which means it isn't fit for your liquor cabinet. Whereas national Gordon's disappears meekly into the Bloody, as it should, the local disaster makes your breakfast taste like butane.
Of course this is just one generic brand, but it's not as if this liquor store has a still out back. One has to assume that the house label vodka at your local store comes from the same vat and therefore is to be avoided at all costs. Splurging on the national Gordon's costs you an extra 20 cents a drink; you're worth it, even if you went to state school.
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The thick calloused soles of the feet of the women with whom I sat in the tiny village of Maijanjaré in Niger, seven hours by road away from the capital Niamey, tell their own story. It is a story of many hardships, of back-breaking labor to dig a bit of land in extremely rocky, hard and dry soil in order to plant and hopefully harvest a bit of millet. It is a story of having to walk two hours each day to collect water. It is a story of women who have lost their husbands many years ago either to migration, working in another country where they have found new families, or to early death. It is a story of women who are widows and who tell us that without CARE's cash-for-work project, they would be beggars now and are vastly relieved that for at least these few months, they do not need to beg.
These women are referred to as the elderly, and while they cannot tell us their age given that they don't know it, they are probably in their late 40s. The life expectancy for women in Niger is 45 years of age, an indicator of how tough life is in this part of the world. The women eagerly tell us the cash-for-work project, where they are paid a small sum of money to dig half-crescent shaped basins that will form natural reservoirs for the millet to be planted, has helped them to buy a small amount of grain that the government of Niger stores and sells at a subsidized price to community members during this very lean season. Without food assistance and other support, more than 5 million women, children and men in Niger are at risk of not having enough food in the coming months.
Already we are being told that people are reducing their food intake to one meal a day, and that the seeds that they have saved for the next planting season are being eaten to supplement their diets.The severe droughts of 2005 and 2010 are in very recent memory, with many people having gone into debt to survive those crises - yet people did not have enough time, productivity and stability to regain their livelihoods. The "elderly women" of Maijanjaré will be amongst the first to suffer from this impending crisis if they do not receive help. But they do not want to beg for help. They are eager to work. They want to feel that they are helping themselves during this extremely difficult time.
The situation in the Sahel is a complex one and the small village that we visited is only a small microcosm of what many millions are living today in Niger. In times of hardship such as those, people used to migrate and find work as daily laborers in other countries. However, the conflict situation in Mali, the tenuous situation in Nigeria and the uncertainty and volatility of Libya does exhaust this strategy. Those in Niger are concerned, and wonder what the future holds for them.
Halima, one of the village widows shares with me, "We continue to be strong with CARE's help and we hope that the rains will come on time." Hope is a wonderful emotion and can carry one far, but it is not enough for the women of Niger. They must have the continuous support of CARE and others to help them through this very critical time.
It is important for us all to remember that during the food crisis in Niger in 2005, it would have cost us $1.00 a day to prevent malnutrition among children if the world had responded immediately. By July 2005, it was costing $80.00 to save a malnourished child's life. Now is the time to help Niger – not when it is too late to prevent what we know can be prevented.
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Welcome fellow puppeteers! For many years now we have been serving up puppet related content for puppet lovers, makers and enthusiast. The design of the site has undergone many transformations but the initial intent of the site has always been to serve up puppet related information. Many of the users here at Puppets and Stuff have their own sites, blogs or forums and we love to hear about them. There are many here that are puppet makers and you can find puppets for sale either on their own sites or on e-bay auctions they hold.
The heart of the puppet community here is the Forum where you can find tons of information from the history of puppetry to how to market your own puppet company. We discuss just about everything that is related to puppets and puppet theater. You can see the last five topics that where posted in the left hand column. You might be able to tell by the listing that puppetry often involves other abilities other then just how to build or manipulate a puppet. You can find areas to talk about staging, sound, lighting and even other forms of childrens entertainment like story telling, clowning or magic. We feel it is all relative and can enhance your puppeteering skills. There are even members here that are not exclusively puppeteers but deal in such connected art forms as doll making, animation, movie making and other crafts that seem to fit right in. That in part is "Stuff" part of the site.
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Over in Bootle, Lancashire the Stockport family one half of the manor with the Beetham family. "The Stockport family held the other half, and appear to have secured a share of the plough-lands. In 1275 Ellen, widow of Robert de Stockport, claimed against Roger de Stockport dower in a messuage, six oxgangs of land, 60 acres of meadow, in Bootle. However, this holding was short lived as The Stockport share was transferred before 1292 to Robert de Byron." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
'Townships: Scarisbrick', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 265-276. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp265-276 [accessed 21 January 2017].
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OCONEE COUNTY , Fla., July 7 (UPI) -- A Georgia man who appeared to be "highly intoxicated" was arrested after allegedly telling an Oconee County officer that his dog drove him to the store so that he could purchase corn.
According to the Oconee County Sheriff's Office Facebook page, Sgt. Partain responded to a call about a dog in a hot car. When Partain arrived on the scene, he encountered a canine in a locked vehicle that had a temperature which clocked in at 123 degrees when measured with a handheld thermometer.
Partain also saw a can of gasoline inside the vehicle and said the smell was stifling.
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WASHINGTON — I LOVE my monsters, sacred or straight up.
I'm not as fond of zombies as I am of vampires. Vampires are urbane shape-shifters, sophisticated, seductive and nattily dressed.
Unlike vampires, their undead brethren, zombies don't age well. Their muscle tone is shot. The rotting ghouls just groan and lumber about, except for the most highly evolved, who precede a meal with a succinct request: "Brains!"
But this weekend, zombies were kicking off the summer movie season. So naturally, I was at the first showing of "World War Z," where Brad Pitt fights an army of crepuscular demons to save the world — and without even having Angie's help.
One minute Pitt's character, a former United Nations investigator, is making pancakes for his family, and the next, twitching zombies are dropping out of the sky onto his car. After decades of zombies who lurched like Frankenstein's monster, Hollywood has finally realized the monsters are scarier if they are fast enough to actually catch someone. The ones in "World War Z" dart about like velociraptors, and they love sinking their teeth into humans, as one soldier puts it, "like fat kids love Twix."
Vampires have always been rich fodder for metaphors, standing in for everything from bloodthirsty capitalism to AIDS to teenage desire.
Max Brooks, the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, who wrote the book the movie is based on, told The Times that his zombies were proxies for everything scary that has happened since 2001: 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu and SARS.
The anxiety that we may have doomed ourselves and our planet through our own heedlessness pervades the culture.
But the metaphor about the broken global system is less vivid than the metaphor about the broken Hollywood system.
Before Pitt could save the planet, he had to save his movie, a feat on which a fortune was spent. People always want monsters to have a larger meaning, but in this case, the larger meaning is about the monstrous waste of money and the dearth of creativity in Hollywood.
The last 40 minutes of the movie had to be rewritten and reshot, and the ending still isn't fixed. The $190 million 3-D, C.G.I.-enhanced spectacle is kind of fun, but it isn't a classic of the genre, like George Romero's 1968 "Night of the Living Dead," Val Lewton's 1943 "I Walked With a Zombie," and the 1932 "White Zombie," the first full-length zombie feature, with Bela Lugosi playing the evil voodoo master of Haiti, Murder Legendre.
Pitt just seems happy that the blockbuster is not as dreadful as it was when he saw the first cut. "It was pretty rank," he told USA Today.
In the movie, Washington gets wiped out quickly, of course, because the politicians can't even come to an agreement on survival. The zombies seem to enjoy chowing down on the creaky joints of the Joint Chiefs.
It seemed that no one had read the real-life Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blog called "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse."
"You may laugh now," wrote Dr. Ali S. Khan, the director of the C.D.C. Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, "but when it happens you'll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you'll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency."
The C.D.C. recommended a kit including water (one does get dehydrated from running away from these speedy zombies), nonperishable food, medications, knives, duct tape, a battery-powered radio and first-aid supplies. "Although you're a goner if a zombie bites you," Khan noted, "you can use these supplies to treat basic cuts and lacerations that you might get during a tornado or hurricane."
In the movie, the two smartest countries turn out to be Israel and, less predictably, North Korea. The Israelis erect a Great Wall that protects them until the zombies learn teamwork and make a nonhuman pyramid to scale the wall.
In a crisis, tyranny has its benefits. The North Korean dictator orders that all 24 million citizens have their teeth pulled within 24 hours so that humans who turn into zombies can't infect anyone by biting.
A French military pilot, no doubt trying to abide by his country's 35-hour workweek, flies off, leaving Pitt stranded with Israeli zombies.
If the movie scares you, you can always calm down with a zombie, the paralyzing rum concoction invented at Don the Beachcomber's bar in Hollywood. With the recipe a deep, dark secret, the drink was so popular that the tiki bar got nicknamed "the Zombie Palace."
Ava Gardner, who had many nightcaps at the bar when she was a teenager dating Mickey Rooney, revealed the ingredients to the British journalist Peter Evans: "Bacardi, dark rum, light rum, pineapple juice, lime juice, apricot brandy, orange juice, a sprig of mint and a cherry."
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This page features local Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania zinesters and those from other parts of the Eastern United states with a few words about what they do and who they are. All of the artists/writers featured here will be in attendance at the Zine Fair this year.
Name: Unicorn Mountain
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: www.unicornmountain.com
Founded in 2004, Unicorn Mountain is a loose collective of multi-disciplinary artists dedicated to the creation and promotion of Pittsburgh-based DIY art. Hailed by USA Today, Giant Robot magazine and BoingBoing.net, Unicorn Mountain has self-published three nationally recognized anthologies of comics, fiction, essays and music, as well as several handmade comics and art books by the collective's individual creators. "Regardless of what [some people] say about Pittsburgh, do not be fooled by fools: this town rules. Case in point has to be Unicorn Mountain. A hep chunk of book with lotsa local art, music and writing with a healthy handshake to outlying neighbors from New York and Easthampton, MA. Wicked!" - Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth (Bull Tongue)
Name: O'Ryan McGowan Arrowroot
Lives In: Buckhannon, WV
Residing on a small cat farm in central West Virginia, O'Ryan creates short, strange, often quiet comics when he is not changing diapers or herding tabbies.
Name: Ed Piskor
Lives In: Munhall, PA
Web Thing: http://www.edpiskor.com
Ed drew a few graphic novels with underground comics legend, Harvey Pekar, of American Splendor fame. He designed an Adult Swim cartoon, Mongo Wrestling Alliance, which aired a 10 episode season in 2011. His newest comic is Wizzywig, highlighted in Rolling Stone as being "The next big graphic novel of 2012". Ed's currently working on a comprehensive history of rap music called The Hip Hop Family Tree, on Boingboing.net
Name: Frank and Sarah Cunniff
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.abrushwithfameabrushwithdeath.com
"Atomic Samaritan #0: A Brush With Fame, A Brush With Death" is a watercolor, retro-sci-fi teaser for our longer upcoming work, Atomic Samaritan. Where Atomic Samaritan draws its inspiration from Silver Age comic books and the steel-wrought, strange history of industrial Pittsburgh in the 1950s; A Brush With Fame, A Brush With Death rides shotgun with aging makeup artist Sherman Fleischman through the American Southwest in 1968. Fortunately reminiscing is the order of the afternoon, because unfortunately for Sherman, by the finale he won't have a chance to watch his peculiar life pass before his eyes.
Name: Matt Mihalko
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
I make things that look cool. I make comics about nothing. Simple robot kid who creates.
Name: Gabe Felice
Lives In: Greensburg, PA
Web Thing: http://www.ornithica.blogspot.com
My Name is Gabe Felice - the Magical Psychic T - Shirt is an interactive installation which unites the participants energy with the creative process.
Name: Dean Cercone
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://deancercone.com
Visionary visual artist with many colors bleeding from my tears coming from my eyes.
Name: M. Young
Lives In: Summersville, WV
Web Thing: http://www.kindlinquarterly.com
The Kindlin' Quarterly is a high-quality, eclectic mix of underground comics.
Wild Child is a psychological coming-of-age story about a girl raised by wolves.
Angela Runge is a student at Carnegie Mellon University, and her first zine/comic "Twin Paradox" is about her experiences with finding her potential long lost twin. "Twin Paradox" is the culmination of Angela's experiments with different types of black pens, past time of making cat collages, and tendency to come up with absurd theories (and believe them)."
Name: Elizabeth Brophy
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://remve.tumblr.com
A small collaborative art zine. Color, texture, fall. My work is illustrative, playful, and wondering. Years to go.
Name: Maggie Negrete
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://mgglntcreates.tumblr.com
Maggie Lynn Negrete is a native of SW PA and a Vassar College alum. She is dedicated to nurturing the creativity of children and adults as well as furthering her family heritage of printers, illustrators and civic custodians. Her major influences include transcendental shamanism, Precolombian cultures, Art Nouveau and classic sci-fi, horror and fantasy. Currently, Maggie is working on a serial fairytale comic, Adventuring Princesses.
Name: Emily Wobb
Lives In: Gibsonia, PA
Web Thing: http://www.emilywobb.com
Absurd and irrational things/situations get me excited about what life can be made into. I am a senior at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Art and I enjoy juxtaposing seemingly random content. I like to make people laugh. Bright colors, animals, patterns and machinery are important to the images and sculptures I create. Meeting people who aren't necessarily tied to art-making, due to problem-solving within my work, is one of my favorite collaborations. Additionally, I run long distance and I obsess over cooking new and exotic foods.
Name: Anna Bender
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.annabender.com/art.html
I am a visual artist who utilizes illustration, photography, and performance art to capture the beauty and the strangeness of the world around me. My artwork is often community inspired or integrated, from my photography of local performers, to stepping onto the stage as a professional modern belly dancer or drag king at several venues, to bringing my sketchbook everywhere with me and drawing the friends and strangers around me. I also run the Queer Arts Collective, a group of artists who draw with crayons, convey our ideas onto canvas, and put together art shows and (soon!) zines.
In regard to illustration and comics, I value the whole range of stylized childish imagery to more detail-oriented drawings of daily scenes and people. I work in mediums ranging from pen and ink pieces, to screen prints on paper and shirts, to doodling caricatures in crayon to sell at craft fairs. I aspire to continue drawing and screen printing small comic books, individual prints, and wearable art.
Name: Jeremy Baum
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.madbaumer37.deviantart.com
Illustrator of the surreal and erotic. Comic book artist.
Name: Jim Rugg
Lives In: Glenshaw, PA
Web Thing: http://jimrugg.com
I make comics and drawings out of the trash culture that I grew up with – superhero comic books, cartoons, straight-to-video genre movies, pro wrestling, and MTV. Like most marketing, that escapist fare usually promised more than it delivered. But those lurid video covers and melodramatic comic books fueled my imagination. As a result, the tone of my work vacillates between celebration and satire, love and hate.
Name: Jessica Heberle
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://jessicaheberle.tumblr.com/
Currently living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. I spend the majority of my time drawing and working on design projects. I'm fascinated by going outside my comfort zone. Some themes of my work are vulnerability, trauma, nature, and small moments of 'liminality' where the lines of reality are blurred.
Lives In: Penn Hills, PA
Web Thing: http://poopsheetfoundation.com/member-galleries/193-lestat1045
In the time of Ago (1979 - 1981), I self-published a series of newave mini-comix featuring the character of Major Mishap. These can be found listed in Jay Kennedy's Underground Price Guide. I wrote and a series of artists supplied the art. Artists included Brad W. Foster (7 times winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist). Jim Valentino (Image Comix), Tom Brinkmann (writer of BadMags guide), Alex Tamsula, Dan W. Taylor, Dave Miller, Ben Adams, Clark Dissmeyer et al.
I also had the honor of doing QUARK 2: DREAM ME A WORLD for the legendary Clay Geerdes.
In 2010 I started doing mini-comix again featuring artists from Ago and many new current artists. New series include HANNAH : THE BLOOD JOURNALS, TOO BLUE COMIC (cover your eyes kiddos !!), WALRUS FILES and VAMPIRE HANNAH : THE FANZINES. THE BLOOD JOURNALS at 16 pp. @ $2, the rest are 8 pp. @ only $1.
Name: Laura Lane
Lives In: Doylestown, PA
Web Thing: http://www.etsy.com/shop/wishfulstitching
Hey there my name is Laura Lane and I create the zine Staircase Wit. Staircase Wit could be your cup of tea(or coffee, cause that's what I'm a fiend of) if you like zombies (SW#2), Bill Murray (SW#2.5), or punk/alt. rock/college radio (SW#3) cause that's what my zines are on. Topics are all over the place. I like to experiment with layout design and include many of my own doodles. By the time this fest swings by, I'll have Staircase Wit #5 printed and ready to go! Rad. See ya there!
Name: Uncle Skin Press//John Puglia
Lives In: Akron, OH
Sweat, grease, lamp black, Banbury mixers, Pabst, broken pallets, arc welders, mercury, boxing, pickled eggs, High Life, whores, chili-mac, Friday night games, rubber knives, overalls, poker, Lake Erie perch, pot, Barberton Chicken, factory, muscle cars, corn roasts, 8mm porn, Evel Knievel, salted draughts, racing pigeons, Blue Oyster Cult, graveyard shift, Union picnics, rubber, Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Luckys, steel-toed shoes, breaks, pepperoni pizza, black iron oxide, Lava Soap, overtime, Marilyn Chambers, Kessler's, steam, leather gloves, vacation, piss, collage…
Name: Thom Delair
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.thomdelair.com
I mostly make single frame black and white comics probably most similar to Glen Baxter's work. I have also made seventeen graphic-short stories about a variety of topics. My work usually meant to be humorous.
At this year's fair plan on seeing new The Development Committee booklets, a few new issues of PLAW, a comic staring my younger brother and sister I started in my childhood, and The Star Story.
Name: Conrad Ennis
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://nokontent.tumblr.com/
A student who seeks to distance himself from the systematic approach of design by creating compilations of photography, found imagery, surreal collages, semi-autobiographical comics and by embracing the lo-fidelity and magical quality of the photocopier. Conrad likes to bike, photograph things, and talk about himself in third person. He's from Boston, and currently lives in Pittsburgh.
Name: Georgi Johnston
Lives In: Chicago, IL
fiction and non fiction about failing to transition from childhood to adulthood. comics about animals and ghosts and the thoughts of inanimate objects.
Name: Encyclopedia Destructica
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.encyclopediadestructica.com
Encyclopedia Destructica is a community-based artist book publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Encyclopedia Destructica publishes hand-bound artist books and zines. Additionally, Encyclopedia Destructica produces and hosts cultural events including readings, binding parties, screenings and book releases. We are inspired by the need to explore, create and distribute contemporary art and culture in an accessible way that encourages community participation and involvement.
**note - the Pittsburgh Release Party for our new book - Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities will be the night before (Sept. 21) at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. http://encyclopediadestructica.com/StrangeAttractors
Name: Erin Oh
Lives In: Toronto, Ontario
Web Thing: http://erinohsays.wordpress.com
Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, my dear home and forever keeper of my heart. Co-founder of the first-ever (and hopefully annual!) Pittsburgh Zine Fair. As of Spring 2012, I'm living in Toronto, Ontario pursuing graduate studies at the University of Toronto in the Sociology of Education.
Name: Skeleton Balls Comics
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.skeletonballs.com
Nils Balls draws comics in a crooked, old house on the Northside of Pittsburgh. He makes books and other comics can be found at www.skeletonballs.com
Name: The Big Idea Bookstore
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://thebigideapgh.org
The Big Idea is a cooperative radical bookstore since 2001 that utilizes a directly democratic, anarchist model. We strive to provide literature that is multicultural, women-positive, queer-positive, class-conscious, anti-militaristic, and that promotes a sustainable world and community. We also hope to serve our community by providing a safe space for all individuals to explore radical and alternative ideas. We are a cooperatively owned and operated, not-for-profit, non-capitalist establishment.
The Big Idea carries hundreds of new books, hundreds of used books, and more pins, patches, stickers, notebooks, greeting cards, and zines than you can shake a stick at. We also offer café seating and free Wi-Fi.
Name: Pat Kain
Lives In: Columbus, OH
Web Thing: http://pbkain.com
I make comics when I can. But I spend most of my time drawing and animating.
Name: Bill Volk
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://billvolk.com
Bill Volk is a Pittsburgh native who went to the University of Chicago and the Center for Cartoon Studies. In addition to self-publishing comics, he acts at Stage 62 in Carnegie.
Name: Little Tired Press
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.littletired.wordpress.com
Little Tired Press is a collaborative and community minded independent publisher that focuses on inspiring and promoting the talent that is discovered daily in Pittsburgh, PA and beyond. The flagship publication that drives the success of Little Tired is a monthly comics anthology called Andromeda that collects comic and comic related art from various artists throughout Pittsburgh and neighboring areas. In addition to sparking artistic expression, Little Tired also seeks to organize events and happenings that further promote the arts and culture in our community. Illustration and design services are available for purchase through all artists associated with our merchandise and Little Tired acts as a connection between the client and artist. We are currently considering a physical location to facilitate sales, collaboration and events.
Name: Joshua Sager
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://secondblockstudio.com
Monster Haiku Vol 1. is an illustration and haiku project by Rachel Arnold Sager and Will Rutherford published by Second Block Studio. It's a 52 page illustrated book featuring artwork by Rachel and Haiku poetry by Will. You can see samples of the book at http://monsterhaiku.org/book/. Sales from the book and related merchandise have helped raise over $3,000 for March of Dimes.
So, what's not to love? Monster, Haiku and babies. Everybody wins!
The project also features original watercolor, greeting cards, buttons, and selected prints from the book. Learn more about the project at http://monsterhaiku.org
Name: Nita Duangjumpa
Lives In: Stow, OH
Web Thing: http://fluxxii.com
Fluxxii: A Mental Health Distro is an effort to support community-based, radical mental health by distributing zines with a variety of resources and perspectives on mental health, illness, medication, therapy, and more. Our zines present a multitude of viewpoints and personal attitudes about mental health, from mainstream psychology-based approaches to more holistic and interconnected approaches.
Name: Jenny Cavallero
Lives In: Mt. Rainier, MD
Web Thing: http://jennyandthelibrarians.tumblr.com
I'm a public librarian who recently moved to the DC area. My zine is about growing up with arthritis and the experiences that go along with figuring out one's abilities and limitations. I focus on past surgical experiences, gaining mobility with my adult-sized tricycle, and employment/relationship issues.
Name: The Toonseum
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.toonseum.org
The ToonSeum is Pittsburgh's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art The mission of the ToonSeum is to celebrate the art of cartooning. Our goal is to promote a deeper appreciation of the cartoonists and their work through hands-on workshops, community outreach, cartoon-oriented educational programming, and exhibitions of original cartoon art.
Name: ACAB Legal Collective
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.facebook.com/acablegal
ACAB Legal Collective is a loose association of legal workers and activists in Allegheny County. Our collective's primary focus is empowering individuals through knowledge of their rights by translating the law and legal concepts into plain language in an easily digestible format. To accomplish this, we author, produce, and distribute legal 'zines, flyers, buttons, and patches and conduct know your rights trainings and workshops. A website is forthcoming, but for now we can be contacted at acablegal [at] riseup [dot] net.
Name: Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.justseeds.org
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized network of 26 artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance. We produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheatpaste on the streets. Three of our members run a distribution center out of Pittsburgh.
Name: Lizzee Solomon
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: www.lizzeesolomon.com
Lizzee is a ceramicist and illustrator based in Pittsburgh. Her comic is called 'Mutual Paradise' and the stories therein seek to capture instances of symbiotic pleasure. The stories and characters range from obscene to even more obscene, but somehow manage to imitate the banality of our everyday lives. Lizzee will be premiering a very special comic about fat fetishism that will make you loathe the persistent jabbing of your lover's pelvic bone against your crotch during sex.
Name: Joe Mochove
Lives In: Brentwood, MD
Web Thing: www.fullsanction.com
Joe Mochove and Rusty Rowley publish the stick figure comic, Full Sanction, and the zine, Dirt Worst. Titans of whatever industry it is that manufacturers awesomeness and vagabonds on the mean streets of ridiculousness, they are not content to just waste their potential in print. They also star in a number of outlandish Youtube videos, they cannot be recommended with a clear conscious. Veterans of the Small Press Expo, the Richmond Zine Fest and many outdoor art markets where their tent may or may not have been destroyed by wind, they are super excited for the Pittsburgh Zine Fair!
Name: Cyberpunk Apocalypse
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://cyberpunkapocalypse.com
The Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers' Collective--- located on the historic North Side--- hosts local and touring literary events, maintains a lending library, and operates a visiting writer residency every month.
Representing the collective at this event will be its long-term residents: Art Noose - letterpress printer and publisher of the long-running zine Ker-bloom! Daniel McCloskey - comic book illustrator with his new novel A Film About Billy Max Wheeler - printmaker and publisher of Embarrazine, an illustrated zine about family stories Nate McDonough - creator of the comic zine Grixly and the graphic novel Don't Come Back
Name: Sam Thorp
Lives In: Brackenridge, PA
Web Thing: http://graphicanatomy.com
A collection of exciting and talented artists, hand- picked to pour their heart and soul on to a 4 x5" space.
Name: Cassie Staub
Lives In: Braddock, PA
Web Thing: http://outofthisrecords.tumblr.com
Submission based Zine dealing with gender struggle.
Name: Bree Chumley
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: http://www.etsy.com/shop/xbreesuzannex
I make zines sometimes. I've been writing and making them for 14 years - half my life.
Name: Thomas Dewing
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: www.zombiesoybot.com
Attack of the Zombie Soy Bot! is a comic per zine that started in 2004. Every issue is a collection of comics from everyday life that go on between friends, family, strangers, pets..etc. I like to take typical dialog and point out the humor within it.
Name: Virginia Shields
Lives In: Pittsburgh, PA
Web Thing: www.shieldsink.com
I have been drawing cartoons for as long as I can remember, starting with little comic strips and working up to graphic novels. I am self taught and draw everything on paper.
Name: Andy Gabrysiak
Lives In: Livonia, MI
Web Thing: www.andygabrysiak.com
Andy Gabrysiak (b.1987, Chicago, Il) is a Detroit based illustrator and designer, graduating from the College for Creative Studies. He has been publishing zines and mini-comics since 2007 and has recently been featured in Corpus Corpus 4 (Edited by Paul Nudd,) Pork (Edited by Sean Äaberg,) BLACK EYE no.1 and Morose Delectation (published by Rotland Press + Comic Works.) He currently works as a gallery assistant for the University of Michigan at work•detroit exhibition space.


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The US Army private charged in the biggest security breach in US history and accused of sending documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was expected to testify today that he's been punished enough after being locked up alone in a small cell for months and forced to sleep naked for several nights.
Pfc Bradley Manning's pretrial hearing was set to run through Sunday in a military court.
His lawyers contend Manning was illegally punished by being locked up alone in a small cell for nearly nine months at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, and having to sleep naked for several nights.
Military judges can dismiss all charges if pretrial punishment is particularly egregious, but that rarely happens.
The usual remedy is credit at sentencing for time served, said Lisa M Windsor, a retired Army colonel and former Army judge advocate.
Manning is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks while he was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010.
The 24-year-old faces possible life imprisonment if convicted of aiding the enemy, the most serious of the 22 charges.
Manning has offered to take responsibility for the leak by pleading guilty to reduced charges. The military judge hasn't ruled on the offer, and prosecutors have not said whether they would still pursue the charges against him.
He was kept at the Marine Corps brig from July 2010 to April 2011, and the military says the treatment at Quantico was proper, given Manning's classification as a maximum-security detainee who posed a risk of injury to himself or others.
A United Nations investigator called the conditions of Manning's time at Quantico cruel, inhuman and degrading but stopped short of calling it torture.
Manning was later moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was re-evaluated and given a medium-security classification.


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US Air Force
Nov '87 - Dec '07
Structural Craftsman, mostly in RED HORSE, building the bases in the places nobody wanted bases built. (Lots of time spent in deserts and jungles).
US Air Force
Nov '87 - Dec '07
Structural Craftsman, mostly in RED HORSE, building the bases in the places nobody wanted bases built. (Lots of time spent in deserts and jungles).
CH-53 A, D and E models, sheetmetal mechanic, aircrew.
Stationed in Tustin CA with HMH-361 1989-1991.
Stationed with HMX-1, Marine Presidential Helicopter Squadron, Quantico VA 1991-1993 changed MOS to full time CH53E Naval Aircrewman, Crewchief. Probably the best enlisted Marine Corps job a person could want. I still miss it, best time of my life.
Army National Guard 1970-1976. Before the 6 years were up, I wish I had been drafted. Made buck sargent, discharged spec 4. Guess I wasn't NCO material.
Ralph Sims
No service for me . Was sole surviving son.
Thanks to all who have served and continue to serve!
I did have many friends , past and current ,who died or at minimum were affected for life.
Mike & Robin Fifer http://www.n-scale-model-trains.com/ 2002 R1150RT Current
1995 K75S Sold
1996 R1100RT sold
U.S. Navy 1971-1975 then 1980-1984 I didn't get enough the first time. LOL
USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16)
USS Holland (AS-32)
Shore duty, NAS North Island,
USS Peterson (DD-969)
i served in the "gentleman's" branch of the military, USAF from 1978 to 1983. was a law enforcement drug/patrol dog handler. man it was great! started at Langley VA, barely got broken in and was sent to Spangdahlem Germany for two years. that is where i learned to love beemers. only got to ride a stinkin MOPED on the german highways though. lusted after many euro bikes while i walked or bicycled nearly everywhere... last base was eglin fla, wonderful duty, beach patrol w/the dog! had it not been for the possibility of going to korea, i'd still be in probably. now i still serve as a police officer in williamsburg va. been a great ride, literally. my one great wish before the dirt-nap is to ride in europe...
US Army, 1976-2003. Counter-intelligence agent, Area Intelligence Officer for Middle East & Latin America. Shhh don't tell.
Dave H
San Antonio, TX
U.S. Navy - 1961 > 1970 ASW aircrew SH-3A helos - USS Intrepid, USS Wasp, USS Yorktown
Virginia Army National Guard - 1 year - electronics maint. UH-1 "Hueys"
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve - electronics tech. CGAS Elizabeth City NC, TraCen Yorktown VA
Finally retired from the military in 2003 after 42 years.
Oh, and before all that I was in the Civil Air Patrol. That makes four out of the five services . . . . I did go drinking with some Marine buddies. That sort of counts.
Served from 1955 to 1975. One tour in Viet Nam '67-'68. Retired.
Bob Schrader
Wentzville, Mo.
Canadian Forces 1977-95 wearing a nice sky blue Air Force uniform. Communication Research (USN equivalent CTR, CTO, CTI, CTT) . Spent last 2 years of service doing radiation safety and NBC stuff.
2010 Suzuki GSX1250SEA
ÔÇ£If you get in too far over your head, remember - full throttle and make it spectacular!ÔÇØ http://www.yearroundriders.com
USN - Sept. 65 - Jan. 70 Served aboard USS Saratoga in Fighter Squadron 31 (F4 Phantoms) as a mechanic. I was an AME which included working on ejection seats, canopies, air conditioning, pressurization, liquid oxygen systems, and bleed air systems. I believe this picture was taken somewhere in Malta.
Does ROTC count??
I served bravely at Michigan Sate College from 1953 to 1955. Narrowly escaped serious injury by a speeding bicycle who was illegally riding on sidewalk!
I was an M.P. and directed traffic during weekly parades down Grand River St. in East Lansing on Thursdays. I was never shot at but I didn't go to West Virginia Tech.
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)
U.S. Army - June 11, 1970 to February 24, 1972, MP, 4th USASA Field Station.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office - February 1973 to April 1993, numerous assignments, retired a Lieutenant. Very political. On very rare occasions you get to make a difference in someone's life.
Most of the time neither was enjoyable. But it was worth it. I learned a lot about people.
When I was 33 years old my oldest son told me that I was very old. He was 5.
The happiest day of my life was the day first son was born. The day my second son was born tied that.
USS Nathan Hale SSB(N)623 Gold
I was on a submarine; the rest of you were on targets!
Ride Safe,
Phil Marvin - El Paso, TX
US Navy 78-84 OT (Argentia NFLD, Keflavik Iceland, Centerville Beach, CA)
US Army 86-00 Signal (Ft Hood TX, Darmstadt GE, Ft Gordon, GA)
DOD Contractor since 2000


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Tuesday, Oct 8, 2019 at 10:00am
In Lost in Paradise, artist Carlos Rolón examines regrowth. In the early 20th century, both Florida and Puerto Rico saw rapid spikes in industrialization, migrations, and tourism. Both saw the rise and fall of commercial sugarcane production, tourism, industrialized agriculture, military bases, and testing exercises, with the natural landscape taking the brunt of abuses. Deteriorating beaches, draining wetlands, and clearing wooded areas made both locations more susceptible to flooding and coastline erosion.
In September 2017, two catastrophic hurricanes (Irma and Maria) made landfall, leaving trails of devastation in their wakes, and forever linking these two areas. Rolón's new works draw inspiration from the architecture and natural landscapes that both Florida and Puerto Rico share and bring attention to nature's unbridled ability to change its own landscape and humankind's ability to rebuild. Rolón's "losa isleño" (island tile) pieces break from traditional repetitive decorative design, to create new sculptural paintings that reference homes in Puerto Rico. His mirrored mosaic floral works create indestructible plant life to memorialize the native plants of Florida and Puerto Rico. This exhibition is curated by guest curator Aaron Levi Garvey and is courtesy of the Artist and Salon 94, NY.
Exhibition Date: November 3 - October 21, 2019.
Adults $10
Seniors $6
Military $6
Students $6
Children 5 & Under Free
Museum Members Free
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Wednesday, Oct 23, 2019 at 10:00am
St.johns County Public Library - Bartram Trail Branch
St Johns, FL
Thursday, Oct 24, 2019 at 1:00pm
River Garden Senior Services
Thursday, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:00pm
Regal Avenues
Jacksonville, FL