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I have taken off in Antonov An-2 biplanes more than 100 times, but never landed in one. Since the late 1950s, the big Russian biplanes have carted skydivers like me aloft from jump bases all over the world—but not in the United States.
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Although almost 19,000 An-2s were produced in the Soviet Union, China, and Poland, and the airplane has been certified in more than 20 countries (including Germany, Brazil, and Iraq), the An-2s that made it to the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union will not haul jumpers or any other passengers to earn money. They won't spray crops, as they do in other countries, carry cargo, or fight fires. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration restricts An-2s to pleasure flights and airshow flybys, a limitation akin to turning a draft horse into a house pet.
I learned to skydive in February 1990, at a Soviet military base in Volosova, an hour south of Moscow. Back then, the U.S.S.R. was edging toward disintegration, and An-2s had alreadybegun. The base was home to a fleet of Antonovs and more than a dozen helicopters. At first, the base commander decided to sell several airplanes in order to keep buying fuel and food. Then a bigger idea caught hold: Within a couple of years, he had divested the place of a few more An-2s and a couple of helos and built a pretty snazzy hotel, which he ran as a resort for skydivers from around the world.
When chaos descended on the U.S.S.R., Iouri Kharitonov, a compact, energetic, convivial fellow with more than 9,500 hours in An-2s, was flying for a small regional air service in the Soviet far east, part of the gargantuan national Aeroflot conglomerate. "It was wild," says Kharitonov of the Soviet breakup. "There were no laws. Nobody knows what rules to follow."
At first, Kharitonov attempted to set up his own company, continuing to fly passengers and supplies to remote villages around Magadan, a port on the Okhotsk Sea, north of Japan, as he had done as an Aeroflot employee. The Antonov can carry 12 passengers or up to 3,500 pounds of cargo. "But the airplanes were junk," says Kharitonov, and the business failed.
Steve Thomson, who reports on Russian aviation from Scotland for Concise Aerospace, a Web site that has covered the industry for business execs since 1992, traveled in Russia in the mid-1990s. "It's hard to express how completely uncontrolled the situation was," he says. "It was massively corrupt. I could have bought anything—airplanes, tanks. Airplanes just disappeared from registers and went to private individuals."
These liberated aircraft went cheap, and about 100 made their way to the United States, crossing the north Pacific and Bering Sea from places like Khabarovsk and Petropavlovsk, in eastern Russia.
Al Stix, a part owner in the Creve Coeur airport near St. Louis, Missouri, and collector of vintage airplanes, bought an Antonov in 1989, which came by a different route. His is the penultimate airplane built at a factory in Mielec, Poland, which produced almost 12,000 An-2s under license, beginning in 1959.
"Mine was a legit deal," says Stix, "but a lot of them got winkled out of Soviet Russia about the time that country fell apart. It's pointless to ask about where exactly they came from because no one kept any paper trail, if one ever existed."
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Winter solstice in the suburbs: How, why and where to celebrate
Solstice actually means "sun stands still," and is a phenomenon observed twice a year, in the winter and summer.
During these periods, the sun is at its farthest point from the tilting earth's equator in the northern hemisphere.
Where to celebrate the winter solsticeWinter Solstice Campfire
When: 4-5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21
Where: LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve, 37W370 Dean St., St. Charles
How much? Free, but reservations requested
Reservations: (847) 741-8350, or email email@example.com.
A Solstice Party!
When: 5-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21
Where: Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 S. Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst
How much? Free
Details: (630) 843-0202; www.elmhurstartmuseum.org
Winter Solstice Walk
When: 6-7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21
Where: Morton Arboretum, 4100 Lincoln Ave., Lisle
How much? Entrance fee: $12 adults; $11 seniors; $9 youth (ages 2-17); children 1 and younger, free.
Details: (630) 968-0074; www.mortonarb.org
Ancient Cultural Traditions and the Solstice
When: 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21
Where: Elgin Public Museum, Lords Park, 225 Grand Blvd., Elgin
How much? $5 for public; $3 for members
Details: (847) 741-6655; www.elginpublicmuseum.org
A Contemporary, Contemplative Winter Solstice Celebration
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21
Where: Prairie Circle Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Byron Colby Barn, 1561 Jones Point Road, Grayslake.
How much? Freewill offerings accepted
Details: (847) 604-1908; www.prairiecircleuuc.org
"Not the End of the World" solar observing event
When: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22
Where: Harper College's Karl G. Heinze Observatory, 1200 W. Algonquin Road, Building O, Palatine
How much? Free
Details: (847) 925-6707; goforward.harpercollege.edu. Note, if cloudy, event will be canceled.
The winter solstice, on Dec. 21, is a date of celebration, when people of different religions and walks of life come together to observe the shortest day of sunlight and welcome back the sun. This day also marks the first day of winter.
And if you've been wondering about the so-called Mayan apocalypse, predicted to befall us on this same date, here are some great ways to celebrate the earth's continued existence. All take place Friday, Dec. 21, unless otherwise noted.
Oak King and Holly Queen
Celebrate the season outdoors with a procession around Morton Arboretum's Meadow Lake, led by the Solstice King and Queen.
Visitors will be greeted by these luminaries, who will lead them on an easy 0.6-mile stroll around the lake behind the Visitor's Center. Along the way, noblemen and women will share their solstice stories and lead a variety of fun activities.
The "court" will comprise "the arboretum docents, who know how to tell good stories," said Mary Samerdyke, manager of interpretation at the arboretum.
"There are many solstice traditions: the Oak King and the Holly Queen represent the season and help us craft a story," she said.
In addition to celebrating winter solstice, the arboretum also holds special events for the spring and autumn equinoxes, as well as the summer solstice.
Don your warm winter finery (gloves, hats, boots) and join this royal court on a celebration of the sun. All are welcome, and the paved path around the lake is wheelchair and stroller-friendly.
Campfire tales
Gather 'round the campfire at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles, and listen to tales from different cultures about the traditions and ecological events inherent to this pivotal day.
Forest Preserve District of Kane County naturalists Ben Katzen and Barb McKittrick will share stories "interpreting different cultures' celebrating of the solstice and the importance of astrological events, and the cycles in ecology with the daylight change," said Valerie Blaine, nature programs director for the district.
Blaine said she personally celebrates winter solstice each year, "because it's important to recognize the natural cycles and seasons of the earth, and to be in tune with them instead of working against them. I recognize there's beauty in darkness as well as in the return of the sun."
"With the changes in daylight, there are changes currently happening in ecology, in both animal behavior and plant behavior," Blaine said. "If you start to observe around the solstice, you really will observe changes: courtship signals among waterfowl on the river, parallel sets of tracks in the snow as critters start running together."
Although the forest preserve district holds this event annually, this is the inaugural event at district's newest facility, the Creek Bend Nature Center at LeRoy Oakes. Dress for the weather, as this is an outdoor event.
Yule log and folk tales
Learn about the Druid Oak King, the Holly Queen, and other winter solstice lore when the Elgin Public Museum in Elgin presents "Ancient Cultural Traditions and the Solstice."
Visitors will get to watch the yule log burn while they listen to tales of why this seasonal turning point has carried such significance throughout the ages.
Warm cider and treats will be provided.
Readings, songs, drumming
If spiritual contemplation is more your style, attend "A Contemporary, Contemplative Winter Solstice Celebration" at the Prairie Circle Unitarian Universalist Congregation's Bryon Colby Barn in Grayslake.
A service of readings, songs, dance, community drumming and a candle-lighting ritual will transport you right to the heart of this solstice celebration.
Feel free to bring treats to share as well as your own drums (oatmeal boxes and coffee cans work nicely).
Seasonal drinks, treats
For the revelers out there, winter solstice is certainly a time of celebration, and the public is invited to do so at the Elmhurst Art Museum's Solstice Party. This gathering is for adults only, and will include seasonal drinks and treats.
"This is our first year for the party," said Josie Kean, coordinator of museum services. "It's to acknowledge the solstice and celebrate the season."
As an extra treat, guests will be able to have their photographs taken by the 1950s Christmas tree inside the McCormick House, one of only three homes in the United States designed and built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The museum is built around this unique structure, which it purchased in 1991.
While at the party, feel free to stroll through the gallery and enjoy the beautiful pieces on display during the museum's current exhibit, "No Rules: Contemporary Clay."
A look at the sun
See the sun, up close and personal, at Harper College's observatory, in Palatine.
"Astronomy instructors planned this get-together because the world hasn't ended," said Harper astronomy teacher Bhasker Moorthy.
Held Dec. 22, one day after winter solstice, this event will offer glimpses of sunspots and other solar prominences.
The public is welcome to bundle up and gaze at the sun through telescopes that will be located just outside the observatory. These will be used as they have solar filters. College astronomy teachers Kelly Page and Joe Kabbes will be on hand, along with students from Harper's Astronomy Club.
This is a special opportunity for this time of year, as the observatory is only open to the public every other weekend, March through November.
The observatory is in Building O, on the northeast side of the Harper campus, with parking available in Lot 8.
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Permit me, as the English say, to declare an interest. I was first told the story of the death of Yvonne Hitchens by her oldest son on the weekend of April 8, 1989. Christopher and his wife, Eleni, put us up at their house in Washington on our way to an abortion rights march. Abortion was a touchy subject with the Hitchenses, and not just because Eleni was pregnant with their second child. There had been a party in the afternoon, but the atmosphere was hardly festive. Our hosts seemed to be attempting, with limited success, to suppress a long-running quarrel. (It can't have been much more than a month later that Christopher left Eleni for Carol Blue, whom he eventually married.) As the house slowly emptied I found myself alone with Christopher, who, either because he noticed my distracted air or wanted to change the subject, soon elicited the fact that I'd spent an earlier part of the day visiting my mother in the hospital where she was undergoing treatment for cancer.
I was feeling both anxious and guilty. Christopher's response was to sit me down, fill our glasses and tell me about being summoned to Athens too late to talk his mother out of taking her life. I wasn't making notes—his apotheosis as a world-historical figure and scourge of the believers was many years in the future—so I can't recall exactly how he introduced the topic. Nor can I recall all the sordid details, though I did come away knowing that his mother's suicide in 1973 had marked him in ways he generally preferred not to consider. What I can recall was my sense of a man whose life seemed, on many levels, to be a kind of performance, allowing himself to be "off," and to offer the only consolation he could: not cheerfulness, not competitive misery, but an acknowledgment that sometimes life just sucks. If any more evidence on that question were needed, in recent weeks the Internet has buzzed with the news that Hitchens is undergoing treatment for cancer of the esophagus, a disease, as ABC announced with barely restrained glee, "associated with smoking and drinking, habits Hitchens extolled as virtues."
The pathetic circumstances of Yvonne Hitchens's last days have been told many times, and to many journalists. After a long, passionless marriage to a midranking officer in the Royal Navy, himself forcibly retired and working as a bookkeeper in a boys' boarding school, Yvonne fell in love with a former Anglican priest, only to have both their lives end in a suicide pact far from home. When I say that those last days have never been told so movingly, or with such filial tenderness, as in the pages of Hitch-22, you may think I am hardly an impartial witness. Fair enough. But where Hitchens is concerned, neutrality is liable to be in short supply.
Described as "a memoir," this book is a full-frontal self-portrait, not an apologia; as the author would doubtless want us to note, "Never Apologize, Never Explain" was the title of Edmund Wilson's 1944 New Yorker tribute to Evelyn Waugh. By turns beguiling, annoying, fascinating and infuriating, Hitch-22 catches the tone, if not the totality, of the man. We learn that the object of his earliest amorous attentions was a classmate named Guy, "a sort of strawberry blond, very slightly bow-legged, with a wicked smile that seemed to promise both innocence and experience." Later on, after his tastes turned more conventional, Hitchens allowed himself a "mildly enjoyable relapse" with "two young men who later became members of Margaret Thatcher's government." Of his two wives, however, he says almost nothing. Readers expecting a full account of our hero's life and loves—or even of how he went about earning his trench coat—will be disappointed. So too will anyone expecting the kind of tough-minded dissection Hitchens practiced with such panache on the self-serving delusions of Henry Kissinger, Isaiah Berlin, Norman Podhoretz and Conor Cruise O'Brien.


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Louis Curtiss: Kansas City Architect - Keith Eggener
Architectural historian Keith Eggener looks at the heritage of architect Louis Curtiss (1865-1924), often described as "the Frank Lloyd Wright of Kansas City" and a pioneer of the "curtain wall" design featured in his 1909 Boley Building at 11th and Walnut.
Featuring internal skeletons of steel or concrete and sheathed in lightweight glass, Curtiss' buildings paved the way for the modern skyscraper.
Eggener is a professor of American Art and Architecture and director of graduate studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia.


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NHL Game Night: 1-10-10 Lightning at Devils
Fortunately, all this bizarreness results in two important points for the Lightning.
Mike Smith allowed a total of 2 goals on 35 shots for the win.
First Period
TB 6:58, Downie 9 (Foster, Malone)(PP)
Second Period
TB 5:13, Bochenski 1 (Stamkos, Foster)(PP)
TB 10:04, Stamkos 22 (St. Louis, Lecavalier)
Third Period
NJ 8:36, Zajac 12 (Langenbrunner, Oduya)
TB 9:35, Stamkos 23 (St. Louis, Bochenski)
NJ 19:26, Parise 20, (Zajac, Langenbrunner)
It was frightening to see the Lightning have less shots on goal in the second half of this game than they had in the first half. Still, they made it stand up. No complaints. Just get out of New Jersey while the lights are still on.
Paul Szczechura ended up -1 with 1 shot and 1 blocked shot in 15:23. He was also 70% on draws.
Blair Jones had 3 shots and 2 hits in 12:33.
Victor Hedman played a total of 23:11 in this, his graduation game from prospect status on Bolt Prospects.
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Jabels wrote:
Umm, I suppose I should post a video of me playing.
Hey, you guys aren't bad; you had a good groove going there and you look really comfortable on stage which is a major obstacle for a lot of young, new bands. I've never been much of a Floyd fan post-Syd Barrett, but I do like that song, and that was a decent version.
Jabels wrote:
I'm not much of a singer
You're a long way from sucking though. You were in tune and on-beat, nothing wrong at all that a few months of regularly singing at high volume for a couple of hours at a time wouldn't fix. Singing is 90% confidence anyway, and it looks like you've already got that down. Everything else is just icing.
Jabels wrote:
I wish I had a video with me playing more complicated stuff, I only really have to play 6 notes in that song excluding fills.
Well, John Paul Jones is one of the best bassists of all time but even he wasn't above grooving on one note for almost the whole song once in a while.
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Also, I do a sweet Waters-esque pig squeal around the 3:50 mark.
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STOCKTON - The venerable Hole in the Wall sandwichery may have closed shop in 2009, but its owner couldn't stop slinging sandwiches.
STOCKTON - The venerable Hole in the Wall sandwichery may have closed shop in 2009, but its owner couldn't stop slinging sandwiches.
And the downtown lunch scene is so much the richer for it. Bunny's serves up a lot more than sandwiches, with burgers and pizza for lunch and a full breakfast menu. Named for proprietor Mary "Bunny" Leyva, the North Hunter Street eatery is around the corner from Channel Street, the last location for Hole in the Wall, which had been a Stockton tradition for 23 years.
Five of us ducked into Bunny's on a lunch break and found the old tradition reborn, with a broad and unique menu offering tasty meals at a good price. We all ate - and ate well - for less than $40, before tip.
The absolutely delicious pastrami sandwich ($4.80) is probably the best in town. The meat comes from an uncommon source, local food distributor Pre-Peeled Potato, and it's a find.
"I have looked and gone everywhere for every kind of pastrami and I finally found it," Bunny told us. "This was it. This was it."
Thinly sliced and heaped, Bunny super-heats the meat (and Swiss cheese, if you want it) in a steamer before ladling the gooey results onto marbled rye. It comes with the works, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, pickles and mustard if you want them, though purists may reject the tomato as pastrami heresy.
The hot turkey sandwich ($8) is more like a Thanksgiving dinner, with freshly baked turkey piled on top of white bread and covered in gravy with a side of peppery mashed potatoes. And Bunny knows how to cook a turkey - it's long been a staple in her sandwiches, and this was a generous mix of juicy white and dark meat.
With cranberry sauce and a cup of cooked corn, this will have you looking for a couch to watch some football instead of your desk back at work.
The grilled chicken signature sandwich and French fries ($8) came with thick slices of grilled chicken, accompanied by lettuce and tomato on a bread roll. The sandwich delivered a fresh and filling lunch, even as the chicken was a tad dry. The chicken wasn't bland, but for diners who prefer a little bit of spice on a chicken sandwich, this one is not for you. The wide-cut French fries were light and crisp.
The cheeseburger ($4.25) was well executed and well done. All the fixings - tomato, lettuce, pickles and onion - were nice and fresh, cool and crunchy. It gets an extra point for having a slice of raw red onion for that extra bit of sweetness and character.
Considering the size of the kitchen, the signature combo 10-inch pizza ($8.50) was surprisingly good.
It may have been a small pizza, but there's nothing small about the toppings piled high. Five kinds of meat, mushrooms and onions, bell peppers, and - adding a tangy twist - green olives and large chunks of pepperoncini.
The pizza lagged behind the sandwiches, but service was as quick as we needed it to be to get back to work.
Despite the lunch rush, there were plenty of seats free, both at tables and along a narrow counter lining the walls and the window looking out on Hunter Street. And there was still room for some style, with walls decorated with dark-red paint, corrugated metal, mirrors and shelves with a measured sampling of tchotchkes.
The old Hole in the Wall was enough of a fixture that it was featured when the PBS show "Road Trip with Huell Howser" came to town in 2007. There's a framed photograph of Bunny with the late Howser looking over the new restaurant carrying on the old tradition.
One we see ourselves taking part in again, soon.
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ATHERTON, Calif. - Dalton Ritchey accounted for five touchdowns, including four passing, to lead Pacific Lutheran to a 38-21 non-conference football victory over the host Menlo College Oaks on Saturday afternoon.
The win was Pacific Lutheran's sixth in a row and give the team a 7-2 regular season record. Now, the Lutes await an announcement from the Division III national tournment selection committee to see if they have done enough to receive one of seven "Pool C" at-large berths into postseason play.
Of the 32 tournament berths, 24 go to "Pool A" conference champions and one to "Pool B" independents. Linfield won the Northwest Conference title with PLU placing second, and thus the Lutes' only way into postseason play is through an at-large bid.
The 32-team playoff field will be announced during at 3 p.m. Sunday during the Division III Football Selection Show that will be available on a video stream. The video stream is available at http://www.ncaa.com/live/player?vid=2012/602&date=2012/11/11.
Ritchey opened the scoring with a 2-yard touchdown run that came with 4:09 remaining in the opening quarter, and he later added four touchdown passes that went to four different receivers.
After Nick Kaylor's 28-yard field goal put the Lutes on top 10-7, they added a short scoring pass from Ritchey to Kyle Warner to make it 17-7 with 4:28 left in the second period. The short drive was set up by a 47-yard punt return by Connor Cummings.
After a Menlo touchdown had cut the score to 17-14, PLU scored 21 consecutive points in the second half to put the game away. Ritchey and company responded right away to Menlo's touchdown by driving 75 yards and scoring on a 1-yard pass to Kellen Westering, that coming with 9:11 remaining in the third period.
PLU added another 75-yard drive, capped by Ritchey's 4-yard scoring toss to Lucas Sontra, which came 44 seconds into the final quarter. The last score was a 6-yard connection to Daniel Herr and was the first play from scrimmage following a fumble recovery by Stephen Hass on a Menlo punt return.
All of Menlo's touchdowns came on pass plays. Quarterback Matthias Pelasasa connected with Michael Alexander for 25 yards in the first quarter, with Alexander again for 12 yards in the third quarter, and with Robert Adan for 15 yards about four minutes from the end of the game.
The Lutes compiled 417 yards of total offense, including 348 through the air. Ritchey was 15-for-28 for 342 of those yards. His favorite receiver this game was Herr, who had six receptions for 186 yards. Warner added five catches for 95 yards.
Menlo, which came into the game averaging 222 rushing yards per contest, was limited to 17 yards on 23 carries by the Lutes defense. The stingy PLU defense forced the Oaks to the air, and their 41 passing plays were almost double the number of their runs. Pelasasa was 30-for-41 for 268 yards and the three touchdowns.
Sean McFadden was credited with 13 total tackles, nine of them unassisted, Tayler Angevine had 10 tackles, and Jordan Patterson was in on eight.


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Canadian Electronic Music Timeline
by Leonard J. Paul
Canadian electronic music history is full of important technical achievements, artistic innovations, and often-surprising facts. From the gramophone and the sackbut to electroacoustic music and video games, this timeline created by sound artist Leonard J. Paul documents essential moments in Canada's digital scene, illustrating academic and popular milestones that inspire further investigations into a fascinating century of sonic discovery.
The following is a text-only transcription of the Canadian
Electronic Music Timeline. The full interactive version of this audiovisual
media feature may be viewed on HorizonZero's Flash site.
Artist's Introduction
This interactive timeline presents a history of electronic music in Canada.
It covers a wide range of events in the nation's past, but it is by no means
exhaustive. It is my hope that it will inspire interest and further investigation
into the history of Canada's many contributions to electronic music.
Canada has a history of great invention. Unfortunately, it also has a history of being overly modest, which has resulted in many inventions gathering dust before being shared with the world. This project is meant to toot Canada's digital horn and show the world what we've been up to - time to kick some Sackbut!
(Viewers are invited to email feedback to email@example.com)
~ Leonard Paul
Timeline: 1874-2004
Alexander Graham Bell [www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=120]
maintained that he devised the telephone while in Brantford, Ontario in 1874.
However, in 2002, US Congress officially
stated that Italian immigrant Antonio Meucci, who had demonstrated a working
version fourteen years earlier in New York City, was the real inventor of the
Although Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi sent a wireless telegraph signal one-way across the Atlantic Ocean in 1895, Canadian Reginald Fessenden [http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/42-45.htm] was the first to achieve two-way voice transmission by radio from Brant Rock, Massachusetts to wireless operators along the Atlantic northeast coast. In this first radio broadcast, Fessenden played "Handel's Largo" from phonograph and performed "O Holy Night" on his violin. Thus, not only was he the "father of radio", but also the first radio DJ!
The Robb Wave Organ is designed by Morse Robb in Belleville, Ontario. He attempts to reproduce the sound of a cathedral pipe organ by amplifying sounds generated by a series of rotating metal cylinders.
The first movie film sound system [www.nortelnetworks.com/corporate/corptime/1920.html]
in the British Empire is installed in the Palace Theatre in Montréal.
During his spare time away from his research work in atomic physics at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Hugh Le Caine [http://hughlecaine.com/en/sackbut.html] (see Appendix 1) begins work on the Sackbut (see Appendix 2), the world's first voltage-controlled synthesizer.
National Film Board of Canada (NFB) filmmaker Norman McLaren [www.onf.ca/e/highlights/norman_mclaren]
produces his first animated sound film, Now is the Time. By drawing
on the audio track of the optical film directly by hand, he is able to create
specific tones that play along with his drawings on the visual frame of the
Osmond Kendall develops the "Composertron" [www.keyboardmuseum.org/pre60/1950/composertron] for the Canadian Marconi Company. It allows composers to draw images in grease pencil and hear their drawings translated into audio signals.
Hugh Le Caine begins to invent and design electronic musical instruments full-time at the National Research Council of Canada. [http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/Issues_in_ea/Le_Caine.html]
Le Caine builds the "Multi-Track Tape Recorder". [www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/music13.cfm] It uses a keyboard interface to dynamically change the playback of sounds recorded onto several magnetic recording tapes. Using the "Multi-Track", Le Caine composes "Dripsody", a piece of music entirely based upon the sound of water dropping into a pail.
Alberta-born Bruce Haack [www.brucehaack.com] begins creating highly inventive electronic music compositions - primarily for children, and often using modified synthesizers and self-created instruments such as the "Dermatron", which reacts to touch. Thanks to his pioneering work, a documentary about his life, entitled The King of Techno, is produced by Philip Anagnos in 2003.
Montréal-based composer István Anhalt [www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=519&by=A] and Hugh Le Caine begin a series of artistic collaborations.
University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio (UTEMS; see: www.utoronto.ca/icm/) is founded, being only the second electronic studio to open in North America. The first was the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City, founded a year earlier.
István Anhalt obtains a grant to spend a month working with the RCA Mark II synthesizer at RCA's Princeton Laboratories. After his time in New York, Anhalt spends a week with the "father of computer music" Max Mathews [www.csounds.com/mathews] and his Music V computer music system at Bell Labs. During this time, Anhalt produces forty five seconds of instrumental synthesis, which was likely the first computer music created by a Canadian.
Commodore Business Machines Canada [www.commodore.ca] goes commercial. It went on to produce the wildly popular Commodore 64 home computer in 1982, selling an estimated 22 million units worldwide, partly due to its advanced audio chip for the time, the SID, for which soundtracks are still composed.
István Anhalt opens the Electronic Music Studio [www.music.mcgill.ca/~gems/current_info/gems_history (link no longer active)] at McGill University in Montréal, becoming its director. There he utilizes many of Hugh Le Caine's electronic music inventions.
Hugh Le Caine begins work on the Serial Sound Structure Generator (SSSG) [www.hughlecaine.com/en/serialg.html], a machine regarded as a precursor to the sequencers later used in electronic and digital synthesizers.
Le Caine presents a modified version of the SSSG for Expo 67 in Montréal. It allows visitors to compose electronic music by changing notes, pitch, and timbre on an array of buttons.
Hugh Le Caine invents the Polyphone [www.hughlecaine.com/en/poly.html], a polyphonic synthesizer. This was the most extensive synthesizer built to date, and was probably the first analogue, voltage controlled, polyphonic synthesizer in the world, preceding the Moog and Buchla synthesizers by nearly a decade.
Canadian synthesizer player Ralph Dyck designs a digital sequencer that is developed into the Japanese-made Roland MC-8 in 1977.
The longest continuously-running live electronic group in the world, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE), [www3.sympatico.ca/larry_lake/cee.htm] is founded by David Jaeger, Larry Lake, James Montgomery, and David Grimes. The musicians devote themselves to promoting live electronic music in Canada. Sergio Barroso is a composer favoured by the CEE.
University of Toronto music researcher Bill Buxton begins the Structure Sound Synthesis Project (SSSP) [www.billbuxton.com/buxtonSSSPVideos.html] and develops it into one of the first real-time interactive digital synthesizers for live performance.
Experimental Toronto rock band FM, [www.collectionscanada.ca/4/17/m17-118-e.php?uid=5532&uidc=ID] pioneering in their use of synthesizers, release their first album Black Noise, which includes the FM classic "Phasors on Stun" written by electric mandolin/violinist Nash the Slash and keyboard player Cameron Hawkins.
American composer Larry Austin is commissioned by the CBC to produce Canadian Coastlines: Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band, [http://www.music.unt.edu/cemi/larry_austin/LApnotes.htm#canadian] a musical work based on data derived from maps of Canada and the mathematics of fractals.
Montréal pop group Men Without Hats [www.menwithouthats.com] release their international hit single "The Safety Dance", which makes extensive use of keyboard and drum synthesizers in an "electro-pop" style.
CBC radio begins broadcasting Brave New Waves (BNW)
from Montréal. This late night showcase features cutting edge music, much of
which is electronic. Hosts for the show have included Augusta LaPaix (1984-85),
Brent Bambury (1985-95), and Patti Schmidt (1995-today).
Vancouver electro-industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy [www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPagesS/skinnypuppy.html] release their influential debut full-length album Bites on Vancouver-based Nettwerk records.
The 11th annual International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) [www.computermusic.org] is hosted by electroacoustic composer and communication researcher Barry Truax at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University (SFU).
Barry Truax [www.sfu.ca/~truax] implements real-time granular synthesis and incorporates it within an interactive compositional environment, the PODX computer system, at SFU. He composes "Riverrun" with the PODX, and is awarded the prestigious Magesterium from the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France in 1991.
The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) [http://cec.concordia.ca] is founded to promote electroacoustic music in Canada.
Canadian Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman) [www.plastikman.com] starts DJing.
Soon afterward he begins to make his own music and becomes a pioneer in the
house music scene.
Francis Dhomont [www.electrocd.com/bio.e/dhomont_fr.html]
receives the highly coveted Magisterium prize from the International Electroacoustic
Music Competition in Bourges, France. Dhomont, who today is an Associate Composer
at the Canadian Music Centre, also conducted early experiments in what would
later be called music concrète (see Glossary) in France during
the late 1940s.
The record label empreintes DIGITALes [www.empreintesdigitales.com] is founded by Jean-François Denis and Claude Schryer in Montréal. It specializes in publishing electroacoustic music.
John Oswald releases Plunderphonics. [www.plunderphonics.com] The album features a sound collage of samples from popular recording artists such as Michael Jackson, James Brown, and The Beatles. All copies are later destroyed due to copyright violations prosecuted on behalf of the recording industry. In 2000, Oswald releases a new version entitled 69 Plunderphonics 96 containing remixes with titles such as "Anthrax Squeeze Factory" and "Beastie Shop Beach".
Electronic Arts purchases Distinctive Software, renames itself EA Canada, [www.eacanada.com] and becomes a highly successful video game development studio focused on sports games such as FIFA Soccer, NBA Live, NHL Hockey, and SSX Snowboarding. EA later becomes the first video game studio to implement the Digital Theater Surround sound system on the Sony PlayStation 2.
Radio Canada International (RCI) releases the 37th installment of its Anthology of Canadian Music [www.electrocd.com/cat.e/acm_37.html] series. The four cd set, subtitled Electroacoustic Music, presents a wonderful survey of contemporary practitioners of electroacoustic music in Canada, including works by Robert Normandeau, Paul Dolden, and Jean Piché.
Jean-François Denis of empreintes DIGITALes launches the Web site www.electrocd.com. By 2004 the site offers the largest selection of electroacoustic recordings available in North America.
The 21st annual International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) [www.computermusic.org] is hosted at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Alberta.
Kid Koala (aka Eric San) [www.kidkoala.com] releases ScratchHappyLand on Ninja Tune records. Legendary for his highly musical turntablist techniques, and mixtapes that sample commercials for Canada Dry ginger ale and Lotto Quebec, Kid Koala had already won the Montréal DMC title championship in 1996.
Fifteen-year-old DJ A-Trak [www.dmccanada.com/history_of_dmc_dj_championships.htm] becomes the first Canadian to win a DMC Technics World Championship, an accomplishment equivalent to being named the "best DJ in the world".
Vancouver-based Qdesign [www.qdesign.com] releases the Qdesign music codec (see Glossary) licensed by Apple's Quicktime multimedia format.
The company TacTex [www.tactex.com/STC.htm] is established in Victoria, British Columbia to commercialize pressure-sensing technologies, including touch controllers adapted for musical expression.
The Elektra Festival [www.elektrafestival.ca] is started in Montréal by composer Alain Thibault to showcase Canadian electronic arts and music worldwide.
The first edition of MUTEK [www.mutek.ca] takes place in Montréal. The event soon grows to become a world class electronic music festival.
CBC Radio 3 launches
a new suite of Web sites conceived to promote Canadian talent via the Internet.
The sites are: 120seconds.com [www.120seconds.com],
New Music Canada [www.newmusiccanada.com],
Roots Music Canada [www.rootsmusiccanada.ca],
Just Concerts [www.justconcerts.com],
and CBC Radio 3 [www.cbcradio3.com].
The first edition of the New Forms Festival, [www.newformsfestival.com] an event celebrating innovations in art and technology (and which incorporates a strong emphasis on music), takes place in Vancouver.
CBC Television launches ZeD TV, [www.zed.cbc.ca] a contributor-based television show and Web site which invites viewers to upload their DIY content (including hip music) onto the Internet and vie to have their work shown on TV.
One man electronica act Manitoba [http://justconcerts.ca/concerts/concert.cfm?Concert_Id=79] releases its debut Start Breaking My Heart, turning Dan Snaith into an overnight sensation combining microsound techniques with indie-pop influences. (See the Glossary for more about "microsound".)
Marc Leclair aka Akufen [http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?user_id=14999&page=content] releases his debut album My Way, a "micro-funk" project made up entirely of small edited recordings sampled from the radio.
DJ Dopey becomes the second Canadian-born DMC Technics World Champion.
The New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) [www.music.mcgill.ca/musictech/nime] conference is held at Montréal's McGill University. This three day event features demos, paper presentations, and performances utilizing new instruments. Canadian presenters include Philippe Depalle [www.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/listePublications/articlesDepalle], Sid Fels [www.ece.ubc.ca/~ssfels], and Ichiro Fujinaga [www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich].
Montréal musicians Plogue invite the world to download Bidule, their modular music creation software, for free at www.plogue.com.
The NFB [www.nfb.ca] launches CineRoute, a Web site that allows members to view 250 selected films for free on the Internet, including the work of early electronic music pioneers such as Norman McLaren. A new album is also due out by Warp Records artists Boards of Canada [www.boardsofcanada.com] who were inspired to create music by the soundtracks of NFB films they watched while growing up in rural Scotland. Their name is a reference to the films of the NFB.
Appendix 1: Hugh Le Caine
Canadian physicist and inventor Hugh Le Caine (1914-1977) [www.hughlecaine.com]
developed twenty-two new electronic music devices which were not only ground
breaking and technically ahead of their time, but also remarkably playable,
expressive, and responsive for the player. He gave up a promising career in
atomic physics to work full time on the development of musical devices at Canada's
National Research Council in 1954. His inventions included the Sackbut (1945),
the Multi-Track (1955), and the Polyphone (1970).
Every single one of Le Caine's inventions became obsolete before they became widely known, and none were ever commercially manufactured. Perhaps if his work had been better promoted, the history of electronic music would be a very different one.
Appendix 2: The Sackbut
Hugh Le Caine's Sackbut, [http://hughlecaine.com/en/sackbut.html] the inspiration behind the interactive design of this Canadian Electronic Music Timeline, was invented in 1945, and was the first voltage controlled synthesizer.
The keyboard was touch sensitive, allowing the volume to be controlled by the amount of finger pressure exerted. Pitch was controlled by moving the keys from side to side, allowing the creation of convincing vibrato effects. The right hand rested on top of the instrument where, by moving a touch sensitive disc, the player could dynamically change the waveform to simulate instruments from oboes to organs. The thumb accessed other controls used for shifting the resonant emphasis of the Sackbut, and the player's remaining fingers controlled the periodicity, enabling trills and other effects. Not only was the Sackbut incredible from a technical point of view, but it contained many musically expressive capabilities not available on instruments even today.
A compressor/decompressor algorithm that makes the digital representation of an audio signal smaller for greater ease of storage and transmission via computer.
Music fabricated with the aid of digital and electronic devices, often meant to explore new aesthetics or technology.
Granular Synthesis
A synthesis method in which a multitude or "cloud" of split-second "grains" of sound are produced, often using a real-world sound as the "seed" from which the grains are derived.
A form of music rooted in the production of split-second digital edits, samples, and syntheses using modern computer software.
Music Concrète
A type of music produced by editing together fragments of recorded acoustic sounds.
An art movement that investigates the role of copyright in opposition to the
artist's right to create new artwork from existing cultural products and media.
About the Artist: Leonard J. Paul
Leonard Paul attained his Honours degree in Computer Science
at Simon Fraser University with an Extended Minor in Music concentrating in
electroacoustics. He has a ten year history in video game audio coding and composing,
and has worked as a sound designer for games companies such as Electronic Arts
and Radical. As a professional musician and composer, he has also worked with
film, theatre, dance, and interactive media. He was the composer for the documentary
The Corporation (www.thecorporation.com)
by Mark Achbar, which won the Documentary Audience Award for World Cinema at
Sundance 2004. Paul is also the composer and sound designer for two upcoming
Web documentaries which examine the modern history of Africa: War Hospital
and Pax Warrior. He composed for the anti-war multimedia dance
project Painting Peace, which was was awarded entry into the 2003
Barcellona Video Dansa Festival. In theatre, he scored music for strings and
performed live multi-channel diffusion electroacoustics for the recent Tempest
in a Teacup production Revolutions. In March 2003, he toured Germany
with Urban Guerilla Records playing underground dance clubs in Hamburg, Munich,
and Berlin under the moniker Freaky DNA (see: www.freakydna.com).
His live music show IDUB (Interactive Digital Urban Ballet) has
been described as "a dance hall experience where audience and dancers mix in
a Dionysian blurring of lines between performer and observer" accompanied by
video projections and Paul's electroacoustic combination of ambient, dance,
jungle, drum and bass, and down tempo music. He also currently teaches Game
Audio and Interactive Music at the Art Institute, Vancouver, and Video Game
Audio in the Sound Design department at the Vancouver Film School. For more
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LEUVEN, Belgium – A century after German forces burned down the Leuven University library, Marie Legrand still has visions of the horrid scene. Even the scent of smoke she smelled as a 3-year-old stings in her mind to this day.
"When I close my eyes like I do now, I see the whole city in front of me, and the flames," she told The Associated Press at her home, fanning invisible flames with her frail hands.
"The old Leuven, the old town, the old history. In short: History itself all went up in flames," she said of the fire that invading German forces started on Aug. 25, 1914, targeting the university library in the heart of the Belgian town east of Brussels.
World War I had started weeks earlier and Belgium had slowed Germany's march on France much more than expected. German irritation turned to anger, then to atrocities.
The destruction of the university library served little strategic purpose beyond ruining what people held dear — a practice that continues to thrive today, especially in the Middle East and Africa, where roaming rebels and defiant dictators are robbing the world of some of the highlights of human history.
"The strategy is destroying the identity of a community," said Leuven University archivist Mark Derez.
The torching of the Leuven University library drew international condemnation and was widely used in propaganda to purport that Germany lacked any civilized standards. Still, as shocking as it was a century ago, its example appears to have done nothing to check the practice of cultural vandalism during wartime.
"It is getting worse," said Joris Kila, a heritage protection expert. "And strangely enough, the worse it gets, the less money and determination there is to do something about it."
The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict makes it mandatory for signatory nations to ensure that such destruction does not happen. But many of today's conflicts rage in states with weak central governments and rebel forces that answer only to themselves.
In March 2001, the Taliban in Afghanistan dynamited the huge Bamiyan Buddhas, deeming them idolatrous and anti-Muslim. It was one of the regime's most widely condemned acts.
Two years ago, Muslim extremists destroyed key parts of the heritage of the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, razing tombs and burning ancient documents, saying they acted on divine orders. Similar actions have happened in Somalia and continue in Iraq, where the Islamic State group is destroying the holy shrines of other religions.
"You try to demoralize a local population. It is an attack on the identity of the population. It is an attack on the collective memory," Kila said.
In today's Leuven, the rebuilt university library displays a few of the charred books, sealed in glass cases and "serving as a kind of evidence for the German burning of the library," Derez said.
The printed letters that once combined into sentences and books of wisdom are now blackened beyond recognition, gone at the edges, curled up at the center.
Among the library's 300,000 lost books and manuscripts was the 16th century "Atlas of the human anatomy" by Andreas Vesalius, the founding father of that branch of science, a gift to the university from Emperor Charles V.
Derez said much evidence suggests that German forces wilfully destroyed the library to demoralize the people of Leuven, at the time a town of 42,500. The fires ultimately razed 1,081 of its 8,920 buildings.
"That kind of terror has something to do with reducing, assuring a minimum of civilian resistance during the invasion and a maximum of civilian cooperation during the occupation," he said.
It certainly worked on Legrand.
"Just talking about 'Germans' scared the kids," she said. To this day, at 103 years of age, Legrand said that "some residue of worry always remains."
When someone says they are German, it still gives her a small shock, she said.
"It should not be. But that's how it is," Legrand said.
If it leaves such an impression a century later, it is hardly surprising that demolishing monuments and cultural venues remains such a popular strategy. Even though individuals may run the risk of being prosecuted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for such crimes, this rarely happens, Kila said.
"They all make promises, but at the end nobody puts their money where their mouth is by going out to arrest these people," he said.
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A man who was referred to in court documents as a danger to society has been convicted of the brutal murder of Brandi Mathews, a young woman whose partial remains were found in 2009 alongside a creek bed near Eldon, more than two years after she disappeared.
A man who was referred to in court documents as a danger to society has been convicted of the brutal murder of Brandi Mathews, a young woman whose partial remains were found in 2009 alongside a creek bed near Eldon, more than two years after she disappeared.
The discovery of Mathews' skull and a witness were key in the investigation that led to the arrest and conviction this week of Kelly Simino, 43, formerly of Eldon.
Simino and Mathews had been involved in an abusive and destructive relationship, court documents show. Simino was charged earlier this year with her murder after a lengthy investigation.
After several days of testimony in a Laclede County courtroom, the jury hearing the state's case returned a guilty verdict in the second-degree murder trial.
The case was heard in Laclede County on a change of venue from Miller County. Simino will return to court in January for sentencing.
The verdict is justice for Mathews' mother, her brother and the young son she left behind. The family was the driving force in convincing law enforcement that Mathews had been the victim of foul play.
At the time of her death, Mathews was an exotic dancer at a club in Osage Beach and was believed to be living in the Barnett area. Simino was well known to law enforcement in the lake area. He had a reputation for being rough and was associated with what investigators called the "drug culture."
In 2009, shortly after the partial remains were found, Deanna Roberts said in an interview with the Lake Sun that her daughter knew she was in a dangerous situation. She was saving money to try to leave. At one point, Roberts thought her daughter was ready to make the move. She had gone so far as to bring Matthews' son to stay in Arkansas.
"It had swallowed her up and she didn't know how to get out," Roberts said during the interview. "That's how she described it. It swallowed her up. Brandi was a smart girl, she loved her son, she loved to laugh, loved fishing and poetry and she had this smirky little smile, but she didn't always make good decisions or use her common sense. She got caught up in something that she couldn't get out of."
When Roberts learned that Mathews was still with Simino, a man she had no use for, she refused to let Mathews take the child. That was the last time Roberts saw her daughter. Shortly after that, Roberts said her daughter just seemed to vanish.
No one seemed to care, Roberts said.
Without any help from law enforcement, Roberts took it upon herself to try and find out what happened to her daughter.
She posed as a friend looking for Mathews, contacted people her daughter was known to associate with, tried to track her down using the Internet and went from one law enforcement agency to another looking for help.
Her attempts to locate Mathews were futile.
Roberts said no one would listen to her. They assumed because Mathews was a dancer and involved with Simino that she was a bad person.
"She was so much more than just a dancer; she wasn't a bad person, but that's what people thought," Roberts said in 2009. "She was my baby girl, she was my 'brainy smurf' and she was a mother who loved her little boy. She was in danger and she knew she had to start over, but she never got the chance."
The lack of interest from law enforcement changed when she contacted the Osage Beach Police Department. Although it wasn't in their jurisdiction, former Police Chief Dave Severson assigned two detectives to the case.
From that point forward, the detectives — Tracy Robinett and Kevin Friend — worked with Roberts, the Missouri Attorney General's office and the Miller County Sheriff's Department. The Osage Beach investigators were honored earlier this year for their work on the case that resulted in Simino's arrest.


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No issues with copyrights on geocoding information? --DenisYurkin 18:25, 26 March 2008 (EDT)
There are none that I can think of with one exception. Apparently, when a user clicks on the "edit" link for the listing editor, the user cannot edit the listing if there are additional values for which the the listing editor doesn't take into account. I'm pretty lazy to look up the bug I created a few days ago, but you can check my contributions. Otherwise, I might get around to linking later, but I'm a tad tired and +9 hours from Cali. Plunge forward with this, IB! -- Sapphire • (Talk) • 18:27, 30 April 2008 (EDT)
Using google, yahoo, etc to extract geodata in an automated manner is almost certainly against their TOS. --Inas 17:32, 22 February 2010 (EST)
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Tesla motors is reducing the number of workers on its Fremont assembly line as it gains experience building its new Model S more efficiently, says Tesla spokeswoman Shanna Hendriks.
"We hired them to get up through the ramp for Model S and as building the car becomes more efficient, contracts will be ending throughout the [financial] quarter," said Hendriks.
Most of the jobs - though not all - were temporary in nature she added. Hendriks declined to give specific numbers.
Tesla employs about 4,000 people nationwide, including administrative staff, retail sales, engineering and assembly. It does not break out the numbers for the assembly line specifically.
Historically, assembly line jobs are the most vulnerable as companies learn new ways of manufacturing or identify time and labor saving methods. Tesla has hired in other areas, particularly in engineering.
"Our current plan is to have more full-time people in the company at the end of [March] than at the end of last year. We will continue to hire in critical areas and our goal is to convert many temporary people to full-time employment," Hendriks said.
The company had said much the same in its letter to shareholders at the end of 2012. Tesla earlier this week delayed its 10k filing with the federal government - a separate document which also examines the past year's business.
The company blamed the delay on an accounting mistake but promised the error would not affect the overall bottom line.
Some investors and analysts have expressed concern over the company's overall cash flow. Tesla has completely tapped a federal loan and recently floated a secondary offering (sold more stock) in order to raise more money. In a separate matter, Tesla today lost a court case in Great Britain against the popular television show Top Gear.
The car company accused the BBC of faking a scene in which the Tesla Roadster sports car appears to run out of charge. Tesla said the show - known for its silliness and staged scenes - hurt sales.
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I'm so confused, in all the material I've read about breastfeeding and all the health professionals so far have always said 'you cannot overfeed a breast fed baby, make sure you feed on demand etc'. I have been doing this so it was quite a shock today to be told by the visitor that my baby seems to be one of the 'extremely rare' breastfed babies who overfeed and I should try and hold off a little with the feeding.
My baby is 5 and a half weeks old and went from 7.4 pounds at birth to 12.3 now (keeping in mind that I did feed her shortly before weighing although it won't make a huge different). At the last weigh-in they were so pleased with her weight gain (10.5) and saying how breastfeeding is obviously working and now she is on the 90th centile on the chart and is apparently eating too much somehow. I am so confused as to how this can happen when we are constantly told it can't. Surely they should say 'you can't overfeed a breastfed baby (except in extremely rare cases)' if it can happen. Does anyone have any tips on 'holding her off'? I have distracted her by dangling more stuff in front of her and given in and given her a dummy (which I didn't want to do) just so she would settle and sleep since she started crying a little but it hadn't been long since her last feed. I hate this feeling that when I was getting used to it all and both myself and baby were all content and getting into routine (except for the trapped wind problem she's had for a few days now) and now I have to relearn all her cues and what to do with her when she wakes up
Sorry for the huge rant but posting on here before really helped me feel better as I got great helpful friendly advice so I was hoping I could get some more for this problem. Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this and replies xx


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POINT LOOKOUT, Mo. (Box Score)- Monday's semifinal is set as Grace (Ind.) earns a 72-59 victory over Dakota State (S.D.) in the final quarterfinal game of the 2013 NAIA Division II Men's National Basketball Championship. The 2013 event is being held at the Keeter Gymnasium on the campus of College of the Ozarks.
Tannen Peters and Karl Columbus shared game-high honors with 18 points each to lead Grace offensively. Peters went 4-for-5 from beyond the arc and keyed an early second half run that put Grace over the top. Elliot Smith and Bruce Grimm, Jr. both scored 12 and Greg Miller added 10 points for the balanced Lancers offense.
The first 10 minutes went back and forth, with each team taking turns holding the lead. Tied at 16, Grace outscored Dakota State 11-3, holding Dakota State without a field goal for nearly nine minutes to open up a 31-22 advantage. The Trojans came back to cut it to one by the break, 35-34, with Yusaf Viinson scoring six points during the late half surge.
Another basket by Vinson gave Dakota State its only lead early in the second half but Grace went on a 9-0 run behind the shooting prowess of Peters, leading the Lancers to a double digit lead. With its season on the line, Dakota State made one final push and got within four but the Lancers defense took over, holding DSU to just two field goals over the final seven minutes.
Dakota State was held in check offensively, limited to 36% from the field. Vinson and John Lamb led the Trojans in scoring with 14 points and Marcus Smith added 12. Dakota State, playing in its first quarterfinal game since 1992, bows out with a 24-10 record.
Grace improves its record to 24-9 and will play top seed William Penn (Iowa) in the semifinals on Monday, March 11 at 6:00pm. The 32-team, single elimination tournament concludes Tuesday, March 12, with the championship game to tip-off at 8 pm.


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Leverkusen turned down Chelsea's offer for the Germany international as they felt they would not be able to find a suitable replacement.
"I don't think you would find any player in the Bundesliga who would say that they would not at all be interested," Schurrle said.
"Chelsea would have been very interesting for me. You don't get a chance like that very often in your life."
However, Schurrle, who only joined Leverkusen a year ago from Mainz, respects the club's decision.
"(Director of sport) Rudi Voller has explained the reasoning to me several times," he told Kicker magazine.
"They could not find a suitable replacement and I am too important to Bayer."
Chelsea were reported to have raised their initial bid to 25 million euros and Schurrle is disappointed that such figures were being mentioned in public.
"I can imagine the fans will see me with different eyes now," he said. "If I play two or three bad games, then it could be difficult for me."


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Hamburg starlet Heung-Min Son has stressed he is happy in Germany, amid reported interest from abroad.
The 20-year-old striker is believed to have played his way on to the radar of various European club's this season, with Tottenham Hotspur in England rumoured to be among those keen on luring the South Korea international away from Hamburg.
But the youngster has refuted the speculation linking him with a move away from Germany, and instead focused on his affinity for his current club.
"Why not extend my current deal? That would be a possibility. I feel very comfortable with life in Hamburg," he told ZDF.
"I still have a contract until 2014, we will talk about it when the time has come. We shouldn't worry it about it now."
Son's father also spoke on the subject, but stressed Hamburg's European aspirations take precedence before discussing his son's future.
"I don't care about his other plans. I want Heung-Min to work hard at Hamburg, and help his team so they can qualify for a European competition," he said.
Hueng-Min Son has netted nine times in 22 league appearances for Hamburg so far this season.


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Garry Rayno's State House Dome: Gionet calls his casinos proposal a 'jobs bill'By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
February 02. 2013 10:54PM
One of two casino gambling bills lawmakers will take up this session has been published.
Rep. Edmond Gionet, R-Lincoln, is the prime sponsor of House Bill 665, which would establish two casinos in New Hampshire, one in the White Mountains and one in a county bordering Massachusetts.
"This is not a budget bill, and I don't intend it to be one," Gionet said. "It's a jobs bill. We've got highways and bridges in really bad shape, and some folks want surcharges on registrations and a gas tax increase to fund that. I don't think so."
Gionet is not new to casino gambling bills, having introduced them as recently as last year. It was Gionet's bill that former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Stephen Stepanek used for his casino gambling plan that was killed by the House, even with the backing of much of the former House leadership.
Gionet said he used his experience with the gambling issue to develop the figures he used in the bill.
This time around, Gionet wants the winning bidders to invest at least $10 million in a casino, but said it would really be up to the winning bidder to decide how much to invest and how many machines and table games would be needed.
Under his proposal, a casino license would cost $10 million, with a yearly renewal fee of $1 million.
The state would receive 49 percent of the take for video lottery machines, with $75,000 of that money earmarked for gambling-addiction programs run through Health and Human Services and 3 percent going to the host community.
Under his bill, the state would receive 8 percent of the table game gross.
The state's share of the money generated by the casinos would go into the highway fund to fix the state's crumbling roads and bridges.
Gionet estimates that each of the casinos would produce about $100 million for the state.
"It's information I collected over the last 10 years, and I feel pretty comfortable with it," Gionet said.
The Legislative Budget Assistants Office was unable to determine how much money the two casinos would raise for the state.
"We have problems. We need jobs, and I have a formula here, if applied, is a win-win situation," Gionet said. "Until we have enabling legislation, we'll never know, and in the meantime, the monkey's on taxpayers' backs."
A public hearing has not been scheduled for Gionet's bill.
An expanded gambling proposal is also coming from the Senate, sponsored by Sens. Chuck Morse and Lou D'Allesandro, two longtime proponents of casino gambling.
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Reform Oversight: The state could be a step closer Monday to implementing one aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, working with the federal government on a health insurance exchange.
The Joint Health Care Reform Oversight Committee meets Monday, and the key item on the agenda is what the state will do about a health care exchange, a requirement of the act.
State law currently forbids the state to set up its own exchange, but there is room for the state to partner with the federal government. Gov. Maggie Hassan, however, has to request that arrangement in a letter to federal officials by Feb. 15. To date, that letter has not been sent, but could be soon, according to those in the know.
So the question is: What role will the oversight committee play in the exchange decisions?
Senate Republicans, who hold a slim majority in the upper chamber, are concerned Hassan may try to do an end run around the committee and set up the partnership by executive order.
The committee is split down the middle, with three Republicans and three Democrats. The three Senate members are Republicans Jeb Bradley and Andy Sanborn and Democrat Peggy Gilmour.
The three House members are Democrats Cindy Rosenwald and Ed Butler and Republican John Hunt.
According to Hunt, the question is whether Hassan will send the letter without the committee's blessing.
"The issue is how much involvement do we want to have," he said. "You have to assume we do have a role to play."
Bradley noted the Feb. 15 deadline is coming for the state to decide whether to have a partnership with the federal government or let the federal government run the exchange by itself. That's a decision the Health Care Reform Oversight Committee has to make, he said.
"Right now, I'm a little skeptical with a partnership," he said. "I do not want to see a partnership morphed into a quasi-exchange under some other name."
The first meeting of the committee since the new Legislature took over was scheduled for Thursday, but was canceled. Those reading the tea leaves assumed the letter from Hassan must be coming or some other arrangement was being negotiated, but the real problem was that the Senate was meeting at 10 a.m. and the meeting was scheduled for 9:30 a.m., leaving little time for discussion.
Also, the Senate members had not been named at that point. Senate President Peter Bragdon officially named the three members Friday.
Monday's meeting should be interesting.
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Almost Déjà vu: The state's domestic violence laws are considered some of the best in the country by victim advocates, but as was the case last year, some lawmakers want to significantly change them.
Rep. Daniel Itse, R-Fremont, is the prime sponsor of House Bills 502 and 503, which will have public hearings Tuesday before the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, beginning at 1 p.m.
House Bill 502 would prohibit a police officer from arresting a suspected abuser unless the police officer witnessed the abuse or the victim filed a criminal complaint in court.
House Bill 503 would prohibit a police officer from arresting a suspected abuser or stalker unless the victim filed, or had previously filed, a criminal complaint.
"These bills are direct attempts to dismantle New Hampshire's domestic violence laws," said Amanda Grady Sexton, director of public policy for the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. "They would turn back the clock to the '70s, when there was no protection for victims."
The bills are similar to one Itse introduced last year, which was killed
by the House, but even more dangerous, according to Grady Sexton.
She said HB 502 would change the state's presumptive arrest policy so that an officer who saw a beaten victim could not arrest the suspected abuser on the spot.
She said HB 503 would take away law enforcement's ability to arrest someone for violating a stalking or domestic violence protective order until the victim had filed a criminal complaint with the court.
Itse could not be reached for comment.
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Rail Again: The Executive Council will vote Wednesday on the Capitol Corridor Rail and Transit Study, which the last council refused to fund.
"The Capitol Corridor Rail project is back on track," said District 2 Executive Councilor Colin Van Ostern. "The potential from this project is huge: attracting new workers for growing New Hampshire businesses; speeding tourists, shoppers, and business visitors to our state; lessening traffic on I-93 and Route 3; easing commutes; and amplifying the growth of new Granite State bus routes and the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport."
The last council turned down the study on a 3-2 vote.
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John King Remembered: During last week's Senate session, District 18 Sen. Donna Soucy remembered the man who held her seat two decades ago: John King, who died last month.
King served five terms in the Senate, beginning in 1991. King, who grew up in Manchester, had spent most of his early working life in education, both as a teacher and as school principal in Manchester schools, and then headed the state's Probation Department for 20 years before serving in the state Senate.
King will long be remembered for his work to increase the amount of revenue sharing for cities and towns. His bill increased the amount of rooms and meals money that went into the revenue-sharing pot, and during the boom years of the mid- to late-90s, the money grew substantially.
Now, revenue sharing has been suspended for several biennial budgets and is not likely to return anytime soon.
In her speech honoring King, Soucy noted King always had a smile on his face and was always true to his word.
"I'm humbled to be following in his footsteps," Soucy said.


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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A team of international inspectors arrived in Iran on Saturday ahead of the Islamic Republic opening its nuclear program as part of a landmark deal struck with world powers to limit its uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions being eased.
Iranian state television reported that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a United Nations agency, landed in Tehran. It said nuclear engineer Massimo Aparo will lead the team, which will visit Natanz and Fordo, Iran's uranium enrichment facilities.
The inspectors will to monitor Iran's compliance with terms of a historic deal reached Nov. 24 in Geneva between the Islamic Republic and the so-called P5+1 world powers — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. The deal takes effect Monday.
Under the deal, Iran has agreed to halt production of 20 percent enriched uranium, which is just steps away from bomb-making material. Iran will be able to continue enrichment up to 5 percent. It also will eliminate its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium.
In return, some Western sanctions to be lifted against Iran. The deal will last for six months as Iran and the world powers negotiate a final deal.
Yet the deal has skeptics. Some U.S. lawmakers have pushed for more sanctions against Iran. Iranian hard-liners call the deal a "poisoned chalice" and lawmakers there have introduced a bill calling for even higher uranium enrichment.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran is committed to the deal and will fulfil its obligations Monday. Zarif told reporters Saturday that Tehran is ready to enter talks for a permanent accord as soon as the interim deal goes into force.
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Name: Corbin, 2
Location: San Diego, CA
Our son Corbin loves the color yellow- so a yellow birthday party in the backyard was brought together with lots of homemade decorations, treats, and quirky touches.
Little guests wore yellow in honor of the birthday boy and enjoyed playing with a bubble station and in their own kid-sized house decorated with yellow garlands and yellow flowers.
Food was mostly from a yellow palette- bratwursts, mac and cheese, bananas, lemonade. The desserts were also yellow-themed.
Decorations were mostly homemade garlands and flags. We also hung a 'present tent' that the kiddos loved piling into to 'help' the Birthday Boy open his gifts.
Corbin loved telling anyone willing to listen all about his 'lellow party' with 'lellow cake' and the 'lellow party hats' he and his friends wore!
Thanks, Anna!
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Quote Mopper:Quote Ordep:Quote Mopper:Quote mswadel: I feel sorry for Summer that she is getting a man old enogh to be her grandfather as her dad. Nick is so much better in age and hopefully it will be changed again when a 'legit' dna test is performed at the lab with all involved there. I don't believe in anything that someone just did at home and brought in, especially with someone like Sharon lurking around every damned place in GC.
I feel sorry for her too. Jack is old enough to be her grampa. Shabby exchange for her. I think Nick is her dad tho. I think Sharon messed with them tests.
Abby seems to be doing OK with Victor as her father, I would say the age difference is pretty much the same as Summer and Jack..Many men father a baby when in their early forties as Jack would have been when Summer was conceived. I don't see what the big deal is about that. 8)
I think having a younger dad when you are young is better..IMO
IMO, it doesn't matter at all..


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Here's another great recipe from Emily Luchetti (from her 1991 Stars Desserts cookbook). The custard filling keeps the apples nice and moist. I used Washington State granny smith apples.
Apple Custard Tart
(from "Stars Desserts" by Emily Luchetti)
1 egg white
1 pre-baked 9-inch tart shell (I used this sweet tart dough)
1 large egg
2 large egg yolks
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
pinch of salt
3 or 4 apples, juicy & not too firm variety, peeled & sliced 1/16 inch thick
Preheat oven to 325F.
Lightly beat egg white and brush a thin coat on the bottom of your pre-baked tart shell. Bake for 5 minutes. This helps to "seal" your tart crust which will keep it from getting overly soggy from the filling.
In a medium bowl, whisk egg, egg yolks, and sugar. Stir in cream, cinnamon and salt. Set aside custard filling.
Arrange apple slices in the tart shell in a circular pattern. Carefully pour custard over the apples until tart is full. (You may have extra custard depending on the depth of your shell.)
Bake at 325F for 15 minutes. Using a large spoon or spatula, very gently press down the apples so they remain covered in custard. Take care not to disturb the pattern of your apples. Bake the tart for an additional 15-20 minutes until the custard is set but still a bit wiggly in the center.
Let tart cool to room temperature before serving.
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Our trip to Seattle was wonderful. Luckily the aberrant snowstorm was long gone and we could see the city on foot. I'm a wimpy California girl so I found the Seattle weather a bit cold, but it's nothing I couldn't get used to (or that a steaming latte couldn't cure!). I don't do restaurant reviews so I'll just say that we had some great meals and some not so great. But I want to mention a few places.
My favorite treat was Top Pot doughnuts. Most people will judge a doughnut shop by their raised doughnuts but I prefer glazed old fashioned. I really liked it but my husband thought the glaze was a bit too sweet. I will definitely try other flavors the next time I visit Seattle.
Our favorite dinner was at Lark, a small plates restaurant in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. I wish we could've tried everything on the menu, but two people can only eat so much in one sitting. Our favorite dish was the vanilla salted Georgia prawns with citrus endive salad. For dessert we ordered the quince tarte tatin and the chocolate madeleines with chocolate sauce. I was expecting 3 or 4 regular sized madeleines, but instead we were presented with 24 freshly baked, still hot from the oven, miniature madeleines! What a delicious ending to a delicious meal!
And finally, we walked the 2 miles from our downtown hotel up to Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill. The view was truly amazing.


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I have been behind, behind and celebrating Mardi Gras with chocolate and poetry.
So it is not Confession Tuesday, but Confession Wednesday, Confession Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.
For those who aren't familiar with Lent, Lent is a timing of giving something up, the opposite of Rick Astley:
Over the years, instead of giving something up--like chocolate or sweets or Facebook or ________ (fill in what you love or abuse here)--there's been more of emphasis of being a better person and changing something in yourself.
There's a great article for Catholics and even non-Catholics called Beyond Giving Up Chocolate: Going Deeper in Lent.
Reading it, I thought here are some questions we can answer ourselves as artists and writers (and note, atheists as well as other religions can participate in Lent and read this. Just substitute the word "God" with "universe," "spirit," "my inner voice," "creativity," etc.)
But this year we might reflect and ask the deeper question: What is God inviting me to change this Lent? How do I know what God might be stirring in me? I begin by listening to the movements in my heart. Where am I feeling uncomfortable with the choices I am making? With the things I have done? With the habitual ways I respond?
So today's confession will deal with things I do to help create wellness in my own writer's life as well as what I'm doing for Lent.
To the confessional--
I confess I am NOT giving up chocolate for Lent this year.
I've done this every year (sometimes ALL sweets--those times I eat a lot of strawberry jam) with the exception of the year I turned 40 and this year.
This year, I decided to change something about myself, to do something to make the world a better place (me not eating chocolate *does not* make the world a better place).
So here's what I've come up with--
1) Do a kind (unexpected, random) act for someone every day (a friend or a stranger).
I hope I live my life like this anyway, but in these next 40-something days, I will do these kind acts more mindfully. Take time from my day to consider others, how I can help them, and what they need.
Some acts may be big, some small. Some they may know about, some may be something that helps them behind the scenes. Some will be anonymous, others not.
2) Find the good in everyone. Basically this comes down to criticize/judge less, praise/compliment more. Keep an open mind.
In our world, it's SO easy to look at something or someone and point out the negative-- she's too skinny, he has too many piercings, I don't like the color of car, these city streets are too narrow, etc.
So I am working on seeing the good in all and in everything.
I confess this can be a challenge for me when my mind wants to label someone or something as "annoying." Once someone/something becomes "annoying" in my head, it's hard to reset that switch. So this is my challenge. There aren't many people who annoy me, but when they do, it's hard for me to see anything else but the characteristic that earned that adjective.
I confess as writers I think it's important you don't make a lot of rules for yourself in living, but rules in your writer's life are good.
For example, don't make everything black or white. Don't say, "I hate television and tattoos" because one day you may have one of each. Don't say, "I'd never write a memoir/poems in first person/keep a blog/post on Facebook/share photos/etc, they are too personal" - you're shutting door on your self.
However rules for your writing can be beneficial.
For example:
1) Every day I'll write 2 pages or 500 hundred words.
2) Every day I'll write a poem.
3) Every weekend I'll revise a poem and submit work.
4) I write from 5 am - 7 am every morning.
5) I take a six hour block every weekend and work on my novel.
6) I make sure to paint at least once a month (or once a week).
I confess after a year or two absence, I've returned to yoga.
As writers (as much as I hate to say this) we need physical activity.
- Yoga is great for the mind and body.
- Going for a 20 minute walk each day clears the mind and reduces anxiety.
- Mountain biking helps you focus on the NOW, stay out of your head, and just be.
- Gardening connects you with something larger than yourself and allows your creativity to come out in other ways.
- Stand-Up Paddleboarding (SUP) gives you a view of the earth from a place of water and allows you to interact with nature in a way you don't normally do. Plus, Vitamin D from the summer sun.
- Running-- well, I'm not sure what's that good for, but the people who do it--LOVE it.
I know I am happier in my house, sitting, writing, reading. I am a sedentary person usually from October-May. And I love this lifestyle. But just going to yoga again reminds me that I have a body (and not just a brain) and to take care of it and stretch it out once in awhile.
I confess as writers we need honor what gives our writer's self joy and fulfillment...even if it doesn't make sense to others.
I have a love affair with books. I love old typewriters. I can spend hours in Goodwill. Sometimes I just sit on the beach for hours doing nothing. I like to be a passenger, but not drive. I get cranky when I don't get enough alone time.
I love museums and if they sold apartments in museums, I would buy one. I love art that people do just because--like paint peace signs on rocks and leave them around town.
Sometimes at night, I'll have a glass of red wine and write letters to people.
Sometimes I'll have seasalt chocolate and read a biography in bed.
Sometimes I won't leave the house all day and instead, listen to swing music and pretend I live in the 1940s.
Sometimes when my house is asleep, I'll go out in my writing shed (aka The House of Sea) and just sit and listen to the noises outside.
I confess many years ago I started a checking account that is ONLY for my writing.
Any money I earn from writing, I put in here. And any time I want to splurge on something for my writing, the money is (mostly) there.
This way I never have to feel I'm "taking" from the family account. This is my artistic money. If I want to buy something bizarre-- like a $50 portrait of Frida Kahlo from Habitat for Humanity, or pay for a writing class with a favorite poet, the money is there...
I recommend this for all writers.
And take care of yourself dear writers. For the next 40-some days, see what you can do to make the world and your writing life, a better place.
~ Kells
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