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Lieutenant Colonel J. W. SimpsonPrint Page
The tablet unveiled in 1918 by Mr. G.B.Wilson, Principal of the Grammar School commemorates Lieutenant-Colonel Simpson who was killed in France on the 21st January 1917 during World War One. Simpson was a former assistant teacher at the Grammar School and a popular local sportsman.
Amongst those whose names will for ever be kept green in the memory of the people of Albury for his manly qualities and his valiant conduct in the great war is the late Lieut.-Colonel J. W. Simpson, M.C., who was killed in action in France in January, 1917. Prior to enlisting this officer was a capable and popular teacher on the staff of the Albury Grammar School, and was at the same time one of the most popular sportsmen in the town. It may be truly said of him that he was as deeply loved by the general public as he was by the principal and staff of the Grammar School and the students of that establishment. The late Lieut.-Colonel Simpson, who had taken an interest in military matters prior to the war and was an officer of the local infantry, displayed conspicuous ability in the field, and it was on that account that at the time of his death he was one of the youngest men in the Australian army holding the responsible post of lieut. -colonel. For gallantry and initiative at Gallipoli, when he held the rank of captain, he was awarded the Military Cross.
After passing through a series of heavy engagements on the peninsula he was found to be suffering from shell shock, and he was invalided to Australia. When he returned to Albury his health was far from satisfactory, and he was in the town some time before he could attend a welcome home arranged by his many admirers, when he was presented with a valuable piece of plate in recognition of his services to the Empire. The function was a notable one. He subsequently signed on again with the New England battalion, and sailed for France, where he was killed, leaving behind him a record of which Albury is proud.
It was felt that his memory should be perpetuated, and steps to that end were taken by Mr. G. B. Wilson, M.A., principal of the Grammar School. The tribute took the form of a memorial tablet in St. David's Presbyterian Church, Albury, and the unveiling ceremony was performed on Sunday morning last in the presence of a large gathering of townspeople, including the mayor and mayoress (Ald. Woods and Mrs. Woods), Colonel Wilkinson, V.D. ; Major T. H. Butcher, Major Harry Griffith, A.M.G. ; and Captain Maynard Wilkinson, recently returned from the front.
The tablet, which is placed on the north wall of the church adjacent to the seat which the late Lieutenant-Colonel Simpson was wont to occupy, is a fine sample of sculptor's art. Its preparation had been entrusted to Mr. Thomas Greenfield the well-known monumental mason of Albury, and reflects great credit on that gentleman's artistic ability and skill. The tablet is of the early English style of Gothic architecture, and is executed in white Sicilian marble.
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (NSW), 31 May 1918.
|Olive & Wilson Streets, St David`s Church, Albury, 2640
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|Lat: -36.077086
Long: 146.918797
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|Thomas Greenfield (Albury, N.S.W.)
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|Sunday 26th May, 1918
To the glory of God
And in loving memory of Lieut. Colonel J. W. Simpson M.C. who was killed in action in France, 21st Jany. 1917.
This tablet was erected by the Principal, present, and past pupils of the Albury Grammar School.
In affectionate remembrance of his faithful work, and untiring zeal for the welfare of the school.
"Well Done Good And Faithful Servant."


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Hidden somewhere on the referee's map are the treasures, the gold, the magic ring, the laser cannon... Perhaps an ancient magic race created a city or a temple which subsequent ages have buried. The original inhabitants have all died or migrated off, although their magic spells remain in full force. Bands of wandering orcs move into the upper chambers. Giant rats infest the corridors, feeding on the bodies of unlucky adventurers. An evil wizard finds new magic powers in the ancient city, and he sets up his own guards and traps... Dragons and giants loot the surrounding countryside, and over the ages they accumulate fabulous wealth.
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How to choose the best tour for your group:
1) Wine drinker or Country beer lover; maybe a little of both?
2) Love Rum, Whiskey, Vodka, Moonshine Or Burbon?
3) Wine expert or need an Education?
A few packages we offer
True Texan
For Texas Wine Lovers
You can pick from the list below or any of our wonderful hill country Wineries.
Texas wineries: Hye Meadow, William Chris, Lewis, Pedernales, 4.0 Cellars, Zero 815, Hilmy, Texas Hills
A D'Vine Wine Education
For those that love wine but, just not sure about why you swirl, sip, sniff and aerate.
This includes 2 private tastings, 1 food pairing and a fun stop.
Education wineries: Barons Creek, 290 Vinery, Hayne, Lewis, Kuhlman, Hye Meadow,
For those that enjoy having a glass of wine and listening to some wonderful music.
Pick 3 & a bonus stop
This tour is for those that want to taste and then purchase wine and sit and look at the beautiful Hill Country views.
Fun Wineries: Fat Ass, Fiesta, Hilmy, Lost Draw, Wedding Oak @ wildseed farms, Six shooter, Vinovium, Zero 815, Pedernales
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A wonderful visit to the historic town of Comfort Texas
This includes a tasting at the wonderful Hill Country Distillers Moonshine Distillery,
Wine tasting at Bending Branch, Newsome Vineyards, and lunch at the High Cafe.
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The Wineries listed above are just a few we visit. If you have your own choices please call us @ 830-456-7682
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text: nicolas monti Posted January 7, 2014 Hi Doomers! This is an Alpha Doom themed episode, it runs on E4 due to special tag availabilities, not being the original E4 episode planned for the favillesco series though. This episode takes place on the moon Amalthea, the biggest moon of jupiter after the 4 galilean moons, keeping the favillesco Jupiter's moons rule as well ;) and the original name was going to be "roots of evil" reflecting the alpha connection but I desided to keep the moon name where the apisode is set in the episode title, I had to turn "Apostasy on Amalthea" into "Amalthea's Apostasy due to graphic constrains. After working with some alpha-doom texutes on reticula episode 1 I felt the need of making an episode themed on the alpha doom, giving some chance to those textures and playing with them. I used circa 95% of the textures because some of them looked really crappy and in addition I edited some of them using some original patches contained in the alphas which wheren't used at all or "missused" like the tech ones which in the available textures are cut at some point. About 2/3 of these textures are used in Doom and Doom2 as well, some with minor modifications so the levels will look like E1 and E2 melted, with emphasis on the alpha look but not being extremely poor. I didn't rely on teleport ambushes this time, just as original Doom was, but monster closets are numerous, keeping the gameplay fluid. Dedication was put on the layouts as always do because I hate levels with only square rooms in Doom and I tried to use more lighting features than in my previous releases, so you might notice that this mapset is very far from most of modern releases regarding to feel and atmosphere because I constantly try to recreate that 90's aspect in Doom. PD: This wad was made in Buenos Aires, Argentina during summer, in a room with 35°C everyday XD, hence some possible undesirable results :P. Idgames Link: http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/?file=levels/doom/d-f/faviae10.zip Mediafire Link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/8zv1za4h4lh6jja/faviae10.wad walkthrough video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTkRPHjDk3w&list=PLYvmcWeAvQQvcnBAWNeu4tYxE3k4iq-gJ last updates: E4M1: 3 zombieman turned into imps *_*. E4M2: Secret rocket launcher reachable on Prboom fixed, 1 shells box. replaced by an ammo box for ammo balance and 1 texture realigned E4M3: Some monsters relocated to add danger, 1 shells box replaced by an ammo box for ammo balance and 1 medikit replaced by a Stimpack. E4M4: One HOM fixed during lowering lift and 2 textures realigned. --------- E4M1: sector 141 has tag 1 (the same tag used by the donut <--- there is a donut action in this wad! spoiler alert!!) this causes an invalid memory access with vanilla doom. E4M3: side 968 has middle texture '-3'. All monster overlapping DM starts. --------- E4M7: fixed wrong linedef action making a secret area inaccesible. The new levels: E4M1: Enter the Gray E4M2: MS-Dos Station E4M3: Amalthea Lab E4M4: Communications E4M5: Warp Base E4M6: Main Engineering E4M7: Sigma Quadrant E4M8: Vanilla Warriors E4M9: Vestige The Pics (the cameraman cheats) If you find stupid bugs like stuck monsters, floating items, a HOM or some really crappy texture alignment don't hesitate in pointing it out, gameplay criticism and any advice to make this wad better is welcome as well! 0 Share this post Link to post


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Khoj: For art, by art
The work of art is rooted, while its industry deals in cuttings and transplants. The idea of 'Khoj' is to resist falling into that trap
Zachary Bushnell Delhi
Khoj's proposition: 'a space for artists, run by artists'. Nestled in the cheek of Khirki Village's Sai Baba Mandir mouth, next to Gati Dance Forum, the exhibition space-cum-residency houses local and international artists for projects that tend to inflect an aspect of community involvement. As a gallery and studio, it is an attractive space—a white, multi-storey haveli sporting a cobblestone atrium (with tree), an auditorium, the Three Windows Café and a dormitory—especially in contrast to the demolished apartment building across the lane, with its innards completely exposed and floors hanging from rebar in grotesque squares, far inner walls painted with pastel graffiti. On event evenings, the wreck is lit from below with floodlights, aestheticising the abject destruction of living space, making the view from the terrace cause for pause and reflection upon political and socio-economic implications, as well as the way of matter. In that very interlude, standing on the roof, with maybe a beer or a glass of wine, worlds away from those opposite rooms, one gets struck with complicity.
This is the conjugation that both sustains and complicates Khoj. It is a tautology to say that Art (capital 'A', i.e. the industry) proper is the peculiar domain of the leisure classes; that it is exclusive and excessive, and above all, unnecessary. It is equally aphoristic to claim that the work of art—its motivating spirit as well as its execution—is revolutionary, liberating, one true act of rebellion. At a gallery opening in Gurgaon last year, pins were distributed that read, 'The artist will be defeated by the art world'—a line Khoj self-reflexively treads, to varying effect.
Its location alone is suspicious. Is it a gentrifying element or a respite from heterogeneous expression? Khirki Village has been a site of some contest over the past several years, with tensions erupting last January through night raids on the homes and kitchens of immigrant populations — immediately following which, the main Sai Baba Mandir lane was paved with concrete. Smaller raids preceded and succeeded these, and recently earth movers cleared the maidan across the street from the Saket District Centre mall complex of its livestock, unlicensed merchants and tenants. In an effort to remain embedded, Khoj hosts break evenings with local b-boys, theatre workshops, urban farming initiatives, urban planning symposia and documentaries depicting Delhi's marginalised existences.
Zones of resistance may easily lapse into delusion and ignorance if they remain disengaged from their context. Situated in a low-income neighbourhood struggling with the friction between natives and immigrants, as well as between classes, an art gallery risks becoming inconsequential or, at worst, antithetic. We find here a paradox: it is these real antagonisms, these uncomfortable actualities that art is, in part, intended to reveal, insofar as it is an effort of disillusionment; the antagonisms themselves. Art draws on difficulties; the unscrupulous gallery feeds. The work of art brings to light sites of conflict so as to eradicate them through maintained awareness. The gallery, however, as a shopfront for the Art/Culture Industry, requires the maintenance of these sites of conflict for its capital. The work of art is rooted, while business deals in cuttings and transplants. In 'a space for artists, run by artists', are the practice and business of art commensurable? So as not to grow remote, a zone of resistance must resist even its own zoning.


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A drone camera has captured stunning footage of two huge whales as they swam alongside a paddle boarder in the crystal-clear ocean.
Jaimen Hudson wasted no time in heading down to the beach with his drone after realising the magnificent creatures had been spotted off shore, close to his house in Esperance, Western Australia.
Upon his arrival, Jaimen immediately powered up the drone and set it on a flight path right above the whales' location.
Jaimen told ABC News: "I set up my equipment on the footpath and flew the drone out.
"Dave Price who lives close by, was just making his way over to the whales on his stand-up paddle board and they were really inquisitive and came over to meet him."
And the resulting drone footage is truly magnificent.
In the video, Dave is dwarfed by the two whales as he floats precariously on the water's surface as the creatures swim within metres of his board.
Jaimen added: "There was one time when the whales lifted their heads up and looked over Pricey's board, they were so inquisitive and wanted to know what he was."
But despite their close proximity to the paddle boarder, Jaimen believes the whales were not dangerous and described them as "slow moving and peaceful."


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There is a thread where someone had a complaint about Bacon is the startup tread.
Well, thanks to Nick and the Devs there is a way to customize the text.
It can be found in ...\Spiceworks\pkg\gems\spiceworks_public-5.1.71170\splash.html (numbers are current version yours may differ)
Open in a text editor that shows line numbers.
Just in case
At about line 119 is the list of messages. this is how I changed mine:
var messages = ['Initializing Spiceworks', 'Scovilleizing pepper services', 'Contacting SpiceRex on G+', 'Preparing Bacon', 'Initializing Pauls best answer module', 'Opening connection with Maxim Lighting', 'Spicing IT up will take a moment'];
Note: don't use a contraction it will mess up the quotes.
You can run the html in a browser it's not as pretty but you can see the lines change
Launch Spiceworks
Note I Changed text slightly in 5.2 Beta so it doesn't match the test.
Note that since this html file is for a particular version, an update to new version will not contain your changes so you will need to do it again.
Kind of fun, But no one will see it unless they startup SpiceWorks.
This changes everything.... Can't wait to see the screen shots.
i think i see a startup competition beginning
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Tue, Oct 22 | Wed, Oct 23 | Thu, Oct 24 | Fri, Oct 25
|Tuesday, October 22
|10:30am - 5pm
Djerassi Site Visit + Artists' Feast
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Registration + Check-In | Sainte Claire Hotel, 302 South Market Street
|Pick up your registration packet, sign up for tours, and gather general information. (You will also be able to check in and pick up your registration packet during regular conference sessions at MACLA, 510 South First Street.)
|6pm - 8pm
|Opening Night Reception | ZERO1, 439 South First Street
|Connect with old friends and make new ones during our opening reception! Hosted at the ZERO1 Garage, a dynamic open format arts center in the heart of San Jose, the celebration features musical performances by San Jose-based Brazilian folk singer Cado, beer/wine and light hors d'oeuvres. Free for all attendees!
|Wednesday, October 23
8:30am - 5pm
|Registration + Check-In | MACLA, 510 South First Street
|Pick up your registration packet, sign up for tours, and gather general information. Coffee/tea will be at the registration desk.
9am - 5pm
Board Track
Join us for the Board Track - a day of workshops and discussions designed for board members and staff of arts-based organizations addressing strategies for shaping a healthy, passionate board; embracing governance responsibilities; and building fundraising expertise. See Board Track for more information. Presented in partnership with Silicon Valley Creates.
9am - 10:15am
|Welcome + Keynote | San Jose Stage, 490 South First Street
Welcome Address: Wayne Lawson, Board Chair, Alliance of Artists Communities; and Caitlin Strokosch, Executive Director, Alliance of Artists Communities
Keynote speaker: Teri Rofkar with introduction by Jayson Smart
10:30am - 12pm
Breakout Sessions
(1) Cultivating Ecological Themes: What Can Residencies Do?
(2) International Exchange: To Understand Each Other is to Respect Each Other
(3) Creative Conversation: Arts in Silicon Valley
12pm - 1pm
Lunch | Cafe Stritch, 374 South First Street
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Breakout Sessions
(1) A Seat at the Table: Artists + Food + Community
(2) Stranded on that Fruitful Island: Cultivating Community Beyond Diversity
Many have approached diversity through the lens of striving towards cultural equity, but why is advancing difference within an artist community so important to the creative process? How can outreach or selection processes align to foster vibrant collaborations and dynamic internal communities? This discussion will focus on the conditions created within an environment that offer artists new challenges, provokes new ideas and ways of thinking, and ultimately speak to the positive energy created by having the right mix of people in fellowship together.
(3) Residency Commissions: Inspiring New Work with Time, Space, and Money
Has your residency considered commissioning new work? Commissioning not only dictates some of the structure of your residency, but may curate the content of it as well. Artists may be commissioned to create work specific to a community, or they may be commissioned to develop more open-ended work, but commissioning at the very least guarantees the artist some financial return for his/her work. Commissioning residencies can also be used to develop new audiences and to educate audiences on the new directions artists are exploring - through open rehearsals, talks, or workshops for local artists inspired by the work. This session explores the various opportunities commissioning offers to residencies, including the commissioning of performance-based work.
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Breakout Sessions
(1) Trends in Philanthropy
(2) When a Leader Leaves: Succession Planning
Succession can take place in many ways - from planned transitions of leadership to unexpected and sudden changes. Based on the case study of San Jose Taiko, this panel discussion will focus on how organizations can work through outgoing senior leadership and other disruptive staff changes and ways to anticipate and plan for change. It will also look at what is next for those who are leaving, especially founders who helped create an organization.
(3) Fighting Entropy: Facilities Maintenance and Planning
7pm - 10pm
a NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM party | San Jose Museum of Art, 110 South Market Street
Celebrate with the Alliance during a night of music, art, and friends at the San Jose Museum of Art! Catch up with colleagues, meet arts and community leaders from San Jose, enjoy nocturnal tours of the museum's galleries, and catch a jaw-dropping performance by the internationally renowned drummers of San Jose Taiko. Don't miss this special Alliance event - join us for a NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM!
Local hors d'oeuvres and refreshing drinks served throughout (cash bar). Free for attendees!
|Thursday, October 24
8:30am - 1pm
|Registration + Check-In | MACLA, 510 South First Street
|Pick up your registration packet, sign up for tours, and gather general information. Coffee/tea will be at the registration desk.
|9am - 9:45am
|Keynote | San Jose Stage, 490 South First Street
Keynote speakers: Fallen Fruit - David Burns + Austin Young with introduction by Caitlin Strokosch
What began as creating maps of public fruit trees in Los Angeles has grown into an international art happening. Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world. Using photography, video, performance, and installation, Fallen Fruit's work focuses on urban space, neighborhood, located citizenship and community in relation to fruit.
10am - 10:45am
(1) 1+1 = Infinity
For ages, the most common explanation for creativity has been the story of the lone genius. Yet others have emphasized the power of networks, cultures, and communities, as a critique of the lone-genius myth. A third possibility exists between these two: the power of pairs as one of the most essential forces for creativity. Joshua Wolf Shenk has spent the last 5 years studying the nature of relational exchange, drawing on science and psychology, and the stories of creative pairs ranging from John Lennon/Paul McCartney to Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Susan B. Anthony to South Park's Matt Stone/Trey Parker. In this session, he'll share the essential themes he has unearthed about what these pairs have in common and their relevance to artist communities.
(2) The Hatchery Project: Creating Partnerships to Support Performing Artists
In 2011 the Alliance of Artists Communities released a report entitled Mind the Gap: Artist Residencies in Dance that revealed a critical lack of creative support for live performance artists in the United States. In response to this report four organizations - Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (Tallahassee, FL), Vermont Performance Lab (Guilford, VT), The Chocolate Factory (Long Island City, NY), and RED Arts Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA) - launched a pilot called The Hatchery Project, an innovative and evolving collaborative residency partnership with a focus on audience/artist engagement throughout the various stages of the creative process. In this session Craig Peterson, one of the founding partners, will discuss the evolution of the project from its origin and will share about its progress to date. What are some challenges to extending creative support to dance and theater artists? Can organizations work with artists to find strategic points of engagement that can simultaneously serve audiences AND creative processes? How can organizations that support performing artists work together more effectively through collaboration?
(3) To C3 or not C3? That is the Question
Most arts organizations fit into a standard 501c3 nonprofit model. But should they? The nature of charitable giving is evolving, along with the climate of nonprofit revenue in general. Different models of ownership, governance, and management structure are possible and potentially more efficient. With collectively over 25 years' experience working with hundreds of arts groups, Andy Fife and Monika Proffitt will discuss the standard nonprofit model, new and different options, and examples of the good, bad, and ugly that they've encountered.
(4) To Fail and Fail Big: The Importance of Failure for Creative Success
"We need to embrace failure and understand how important flawed, unsuccessful work can be to the development of an artist and to the development of the field as a whole. We are just simply too afraid to fail and fail big. Twenty-five years from now that will bite us in the ass, big time." - Brian Rogers, Artistic Director, The Chocolate Factory
Are you afraid to fail? Failure is vital to innovation but most of us are failing to offer real opportunities for failure. The Field offers a lively presentation and discussion of the importance of failure to artistic innovation and practical tips for how we can all – as residency providers, funders, and presenters – increase artists' success by increasing the opportunities for failure. Based on our 2013 ground-breaking study "to fail and fail big: a study of mid-career artists, success and failure," The Field will share success stories born from the seeds of artists' risks and failures. "to fail and fail big" features nuanced portraits of "successful" artists like Miguel Gutierrez and Young Jean Lee and advice from presenters like Georgiana Pickett and Sam Miller.
11am - 12:30pm
Breakout Sessions
(1) The Art of Dancing: Life as an Artist and an Administrator
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing." - Marcus Aurelius
Has your artistic life become more like a wrestling match than a dance? Is your brain duking it out with the challenges of an organization more than your own personal artistic ideas? This conversation for administrators who are also working artists will explore strategies for keeping your art-making alive, including changing your mindset, learning how to carve out time, and developing fruitful partnerships and collaborations.
(2) Balancing Act: Retreating + Engaging at Artist Residencies
The push-and-pull between maintaining a retreat setting for artists and engaging with the local community is a critical issue for the field of artist residencies. Moderated by Susan Page Tillett, the new Executive Director of the Mesa Refuge (and former Director of Ragdale), join in conversation with colleagues working to balance the needs of residents, expectations of the surrounding community, and an organization's own vision, capacity, and stakeholders. Providing an artist's perspective, Lauren DiCioccio will share her experience with a variety of residencies - from those offering solitary retreat to those steeped in community engagement. This session is designed to be a true conversation, so please come with your own experiences, frustrations, and suggestions on this vital question for the field of artists communities.
(3) Beyond Time and Space: Connecting Artists to Resources
Are you trying to find new ways to support the artists you serve? Do you want to connect artists to a wider network of support for all aspects of their practice? Artists are in need of assistance with fundraising, marketing, legal issues, and more, but no single organization can respond to all artists' needs. Panelists will discuss resources they directly offer as well as how they recommend artists to other service-providers to support the evolving needs of artists, including crowdfunding, fiscal sponsorship, insurance, connecting to new audiences, legal resources, finding space, and professional development workshops.
|12:30pm - 2pm
Lunch | Cafe Stritch, 374 South First Street
|2:15pm - 5pm
Off-site tours, workshops, and adventures (space limited; registration required)
Enjoy an evening on your own! We will provide some suggestions for dining and events nearby.
Optional Partner Event: Who Pays for Art in the 21st Century? | Fundraising + Audience Engagement for a New Era. A Creative Conversation with GenARTS Silicon Valley. Location ZERO1
|Friday, October 25
8:30am - 1pm
|Registration + Check-In | MACLA, 510 South First Street
|Pick up your registration packet, sign up for tours, and gather general information. Coffee/tea will be at the registration desk.
9:00am - 9:45am
(1) Social Practice in Residence: Dispatches from New Smyrna Beach
How can residency programs best serve social practice artists? Hear from Ren Morrison, director of the Atlantic Center for the Arts' new Community Artists in Residence program, on designing and initiating an art-as-social practice/community engaged art residency. Current Community Artist in Residence, Lexa Walsh, shares her experiences participating in artist residencies around the world as a social practice artist.
(2) In the Collection: Musicians in Residence at the National Music Centre
The National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, houses a growing collection of unique and iconic musical instruments and sound equipment - from Elton John's songwriting piano, to harpsichords dating from 1679, early synthesizers, the Rolling Stones' legendary mobile recording studio, and many more unique and rare artifacts. As a catalyst for discovery, innovation, and renewal through music, the National Music Centre is also home to a new Artist in Residence program - devoted to giving artists time and space to create new work and connecting them with the Centre's renowned collection of living instruments, recording equipment, and technical expertise. NMC's AiR program has attracted diverse artists from across Canada and around the world, including Brian Eno, Kid Koala, Money Mark, Kinnie Starr, Timber Timbre, and Gotye, and has set a foundation for cross-cultural collaborations. Join Program Manager Candace Elder for a discussion on serving musicians and artists from around the world through a new model of residency program.
(3) Connecting Communities: The Sheboygan Project
Explore the relationship of artists-in-residence to a city and how all partners can collaborate together to have lasting impact, enhance constituencies' lives and understanding of the arts, and further artists' careers and work. Learn how the John Michael Kohler Arts Center has collaborated with the Wooster Collective and City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to bring world renowned street artists to the city to develop community-based public works. This snapshot of the Arts Center's community residency will include a brief history of the program and lessons learned - from approaching other organizations to serve as community partners, to identifying needs within a city, to finding creative collaborative solutions.
(4) Creative Access: Integrating Artists with Disabilities
Learn about one inspiring and effective model for integrating artists with disabilities into a creative community. Chalk Hill Artist Residency will share the story of their Studio Program, where artists from local nonprofits develop a reciprocal creative relationship with artist-in-residence, focusing on sharing rather than teaching to create an atmosphere of peer-to-peer exchange that leads to impromptu collaborations and new work. Hear from Chalk Hill and one of their partners, Becoming Independent, about how the Studio Program establishes personal connections, fosters creative interplay, and welcomes possibilities.
10:00am - 11:30am
Breakout Sessions
(1) Creative Conversation: Art from the Outposts
Craig Watson, Director of the California Arts Council, and two regional artists host a creative conversation on making art in remote towns and rural communities. At a time when more of the population lives in cities than ever before, artists share on the decision to build their creative practice away from urban centers - and hubs like Los Angeles and San Francisco - and what it means to be an artist working from the outposts.
(2) It Takes Two: Creative Partnerships for Residency Programs
Join residency leaders for a discussion on cultivating nontraditional partnerships. In 2012, McColl Center for Visual Art launched a major project with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership to create an art-and-ecology campus and bring 8 environmental artists from around the world to Charlotte, North Carolina, each year. The project resulted in a $400,000 grant from ArtPlace America and vastly expanded McColl's residency program. ZERO1, an arts and technology think tank based in San Jose, connects their Artist Fellows to leading tech companies, cultural institutions, and academic research centers to address current innovation challenges. An open format discussion on looking beyond the usual suspects when developing organizational partnerships, and balancing the needs of artists, partner organizations, and one's own programs.
(3) OPEN EXCHANGE: Roundtable Discussions
With three packed days we can't always fit all the conversations we want within the regular conference schedule. OPEN EXCHANGE is a time to connect with other attendees around shared areas of interest through proposed-topic roundtable discussions. Topics can be submitted at anytime during or leading up to the conference and will be announced Friday morning. Propose your own roundtable or sign up for a table during the conference! Pre-approved topics listed below.
(3A) The Artist in 2040: Progressive Community Engagement
(3B) Residency Abroad
|12pm - 1pm
Keynote | San Jose Stage, 490 South First Street
Keynote speaker: Guillermo Gómez-Peña with introduction by Craig Watson
"Our collaborative model functions both as an act of citizen diplomacy and as a means to create ephemeral communities of like-minded rebels. We are more of a conceptual 'laboratory' of live art - an association of rebel artists thinking together, exchanging ideas and aspirations. The basic premise of these collaborations is founded on an ideal: If we learn to cross borders on stage, in the gallery or museum, we may learn how to do so in larger social spheres and transgress what it keep us apart."
1pm - 2pm
Lunch | Cafe Stritch, 374 South First Street
2:15pm - 4:30pm
Off-site tours, workshops, and adventures
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Closing Reception | Anno Domini Gallery, 366 South First Street
Wrap up the conference and begin your evening with a closing party at Anno Domini Gallery. This former downtown cinema now serves as a 4,100 sq. ft. arts mecca celebrating street art and counterculture.


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Milbauer Scholars
Since 2007, the Milbauer Program has hosted visited from 3-4 scholars, usually in the spring semester. The visit coincide with a research seminar, and involve intensive, one-on-one interactions with graduate students. The visit culminates with a seminar involving presentation of research by a graduate student, comment by the visiting scholar. It also involves the presentation of research in the seminar by the scholar.
The Milbauer Seminar has been a part of the program since 2007.
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Discussion in 'Proxies' started by SERPHunter, Oct 19, 2008.
Anyone that could tell me more about SEOProxies.com - Good or bad?
Good service!
Maybe because me and my partner own it... but we provide password protected broadband proxies. I use them myself and don't see a difference between the speed of the proxy and speed of my home broadband.
Haha, i would say the same thing if i where in your place.
I hope more people could chime in if they've used your service.
Glad to see the owner is a forum member though.
Yeah me and my partner are both members here. We jointly own and run quite a few different services... this is one of them.
There are currently over 60 members of this service, and haven't more than a peep out of them (besides the normal password reset issues, suggestions to improve use, etc).
my only complain is the updating of the proxy list
it doesnt update until after 2-3 days
why is that so?
I'm a member. Couple of days ago when I signed up none of the proxies worked (there were zero notifications about it though...I had to spend a couple of hours to find it out on my own) This seems to have been fixed for now. I have some questions though:
1) Are the proxies replaced with the fresh ones every 24h or do some of them stay in the list longer? (if they are not replaced every 24h or faster, they will become unusable for P*Bay & M*nova submissions fast)
2) What proxy checker can I use to test password protected proxies (ProxyFirewall/Charon doesn't seem to have an option to test private proxies)?
The proxy updates only happen when the proxies need to be updated. If none come up as bad, why do we need to update them?
We ran into an issue with our checking system, which is why they came up as bad. That has since been fixed.
1 - Some stay longer if they are still good. Remember, these are OUR proxies, no public ones. Ones you get, may be ones you use for months. Exclusivity is key!
2 - Use ProxyShell - works very well.
Perhaps you can explain then why, after paying $49.95 you have issued 500 proxies to me that I am already in posession of having purchased them previously from Unique Internet Services, the authors of Proxy Firewall?
We are suppliers of proxies. We don't just supply end users.
So you are the owners of the proxies. Therefore you have given rights to UIS to sell your proxies, right? Don't you think it would have vbeen a good idea to advise UIS NOT to resell your proxies, as they could be selling to YOUR customers?
Look mate, i'm a paying customer, YOUR paying customer, I expect more than a terse answer when I have paid for a service that I have not received. (i.e. EXCLUSIVE). Sort it out or refund please.
AJ, we will get everything sorted out. I'll pull from another pool and hopefully there won't be any overlap. You can expect an email shortly with a new set.
Thank you, although I don't know what you mean by "hopefully". Surely you know which companies are reselling your proxies and exactly which proxies they are reselling?
By the way, I couldn't for the life of me get Proxyshell to work. If you load up a list, it loads two proxies fom the list (the first and the last), fails them both and then loads up a load of public proxies from apparently nowhere.
I had the program running perfectly myself, and for some reason it started doing the exact same thing today.
AJ - We are in the process of putting together your new list.
New list of proxies received. Many entries on the list are duplicates, and some are even triplicates, thus reducing the actual number supplied to 281, 19 of which are dead. I'll give the benefit of the doubt in terms of whether that was deliberate or not, but please rectify immediately.
are your proxies part of some botnet?
Apparently the script that controls proxy cleaning, checking, etc stopped working early yesterday. The issue has been fixed.
How many proxies do you have total? Are they US based?
We have about 20,000 proxies total. About 70% of them are US based. The rest are spread out over canada and Europe/Asia.
are the proxies labeled so you know if there us or europe proxy?
Separate names with a comma.


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Balletomania-Energy Transition
Sheila Styles offers coaching for groups of one to four people in a studio in South East London.
The classes are designed to the individual in order to assist an efficient use of ballet technique without tension & to enhance subtle use of energy.
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The cost is £50 per session.
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We are pleased to announce that major work on the Redmire Conservation Project will begin in mid-September 2018 (in addition to measures to combat ground water issues that are already under way). In February, we will begin sharing more details about the project, which will be led by Mark Walsingham, owner and manager of the famous Ashmead Fishery in Somerset and chief architect of the conservation plan.
Because no fishing can take place after work begins, no bookings will be taken for dates AFTER Monday 17th September 2018.
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Saw this on the lita list. I don't think it has made the rounds here - v. sorry if it has.
I was interested in the lack of the word *copyright* in this opportunity. None the less, I'd attend if I could.
The following workshop is an in-person presentation that will be held at BCR's Aurora offices, May 12, 2009, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.
Analog-to-Digital Video Migration and All That Goes With It: Who does What, When, Where and How?
Whether you're the custodian of an enormous moving image library, a few shelves of videotapes or something in between, digitization is probably on your horizon if not already on your plate. Technology matters of course, but so does workflow and your role in it. This workshop condenses the lifecycle of a typical analog-to-digital conversion project into one workshop day so that you can get a feel for the workflows involved, ask technology questions along the way, and consider a migration project plan that will work for you and your stakeholders. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Draft a migration's workflow with corresponding staffing plan and job descriptions
Define a migration's technical requirements for Preservation, Mezzanine/Work, and Access copies
Estimate the technical resources required including storage and IT/networking
Draft a migration's project schedule including your role(s) and dependencies among stakeholders
Two subject matter experts will role-play as the Archivist and the Technologist to perform a migration project and simultaneously plan their next one. The Technologist will be played by Josef Marc, and the Archivist will be played by Steve Kwartek, both of Front Porch Digital (a.k.a. SAMMA). Josef is a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and has been a senior technology and operations architect for DirecTV, Verizon FiOS, Sony Broadcast Electronics and Ascent Media. Steve is a longtime AMIA member and associate of SAMMA-founder Jim Lindner, and worked for years in a videotape-restoration facility.
This workshop is designed to introduce library, museum and archive staff to the issues involved with an analog-to-digital conversion project. Everyone who is contemplating a project of this nature is welcome to attend.
BCR members -- $50.00 / Nonmembers -- $75.00
*1 BCR training voucher accepted as payment
Register for all BCR workshops: http://www.bcr.org/training/workshops/register.html
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
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Dizziness - How To Prevent This?
Labels:The dizziness that comes with deep breathing is usually caused by breathing out carbon dioxide faster than the body produces it. This makes the blood less acidic, which apparently causes a chemical alteration in nerve function that makes you feel light-headed. The cure is to breathe more slowly and/or less deeply.
Holding the breath during asana practice is not a good idea. Asanas require free circulation of the blood and plenty of oxygen to the muscles and organs. Holding the breath lowers oxygen levels. Although it raises carbon dioxide levels, it can increase pressure in the chest so much that it is difficult for blood to return from the body to the heart. Too little blood goes in, so the heart pumps too little blood out. Dizziness may result when blood pressure sensors in the heart, upper chest, and neck detect too little blood volume within the heart, or too little pressure being pumped up toward the head.
Similarly, standing up suddenly from Uttanasana (Standing Forward Bend) can cause so much blood to flow downhill into the legs and abdomen that too little blood fills the heart. Normally, reflexes quickly compensate for this by raising the heart rate and constricting blood vessels to raise pressure. However, if the reflexes are too sluggish, pressure will fall in the heart, chest, neck, and head, and you will feel dizzy.
To prevent this, do three things when coming out of Uttanasana. (1) Contract the calf and thigh muscles strongly to squeeze blood from leg veins toward the heart. Start this action before you start to come up and continue it while coming up and after you are upright. (2) Come up slowly to give reflexes time to respond. (3) Inhale while coming up. This lowers pressure in the chest, thereby helping blood flow into the heart.
The breathing pattern you describe probably contributes to your dizziness in backbends, but excess back bending of the neck might also cause this. Blood flows to your brain by four arteries: two carotid arteries in your frontal neck and two vertebral arteries that are threaded through holes in the vertebrae of the neck. Extreme back bending of the neck might theoretically constrict the vertebral arteries. If this occurred, and the carotid arteries were unable to compensate for any reason (for example, if they suffered from narrowing, or stenosis), you would experience reduced blood flow to your head. You can often avoid excess bending of the neck in backbends by learning to lift your chest more, so you bend more from the uppermost part of your back instead of your neck.
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I'm looking for a good shop in London that sells chocolate (bars especially) from the best chocolate makers. Specifically, a place that sells Amedei, Domori, etc. is what I'm looking for. I've found plenty of information on chocolatiers in London, but none on stores that sell a selection of high quality chocolate from different makers.
The store wouldn't have to be dedicated solely to chocolate-I'm fine with a larger store (for food or even more) that happens to sell products from Amedei and the like. I'd also like to avoid getting completely ripped off.


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Beholding His power and beauty this week....
"Behold, God is exalted in his power;
who is a teacher like him?
Who has prescribed for him his way,
or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?
Remember to extol his work,
of which men have sung.
All mankind has looked on it;
man beholds it from afar.
Behold, God is great, and we know him not;
the number of his years is unsearchable.
For he draws up the drops of water;
they distill his mist in rain,
which the skies pour down
and drop on mankind abundantly.
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds,
the thunderings of his pavilion?
Behold, he scatters his lightning about him
and covers the roots of the sea."
Job 36:22-30
Job 36:22-30
The heavens declare and our praises rise to Him!


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Remember back when Hayley showed us how to make a dessert pizza for breakfast? Well, today's she's tackling another morning meal idea by sharing how to make a vegetarian breakfast sandwich! Hayley is here to show that with just a few ingredients – some vegetables, some eggs and a bagel – you can put together a delicious breakfast sandwich to kick off your day. Yum!
Watch the video now to find out how Hayley makes her favorite vegetarian breakfast sandwich. We'll then see you back here tomorrow for another new episode of What's Up With Hayley!
What ingredients would you put on a breakfast sandwich? What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Tell us in the comments!
Hayley's Crush: YouTuber Beautybaby44 a.k.a. Lindsey Hughes


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<<MyRead Home List of Guides
Monitoring and Assessment
First Steps Reading Developmental Continuum
Analysis of Reading Strategies
Classroom Organisation
Engagement: Empowering Teachers with Successful Strategies
Guided Reading is a strategy that supports students to discover the meaning of a text for themselves. The amount of guidance given by you, the teacher, varies according to the ability and confidence of the students.
In Guided Reading students with similar reading abilities or students who need to acquire similar skills to be successful readers are grouped together. Groups can also consist of students with common interests or experiences. The groups are flexible and are kept small to encourage interaction among the students and to allow you to observe individual reading behaviour.
You may find familiarisation with Guided Reading useful as an introduction to Cooperative Reading. In Guided Reading the teacher leads the questioning of texts. In Cooperative Reading students are empowered to ask their own questions of the texts using the Four Roles of the Reader to scaffold their questioning.
Engagement: Engaging Students in Purposeful Social Practices
Four Roles/Resources of the Reader
Based on the Four Roles/Resources of the Reader developed by Freebody and Luke (1990), Guided Reading involves students in the following repertoire of purposeful social practices:
Four Resources Guideposts
Guided Reading Guideposts provide a useful assessment tool.
Implementing the Strategy
Guided Reading using a range of texts and genre
Before Reading
Information gathering
The first step in Guided Reading is gathering information about the students that will enable you to group the students effectively and to identify the learning needs of the students. This information can be gathered from the First Steps Reading Developmental Continuum, an Analysis of Reading Strategies on a known text, or from classroom observations of student reading behaviour.
Grouping students
Guided Reading groups should be small, 2-8 students. From the information collected the teacher makes decisions about the composition of the group. This can be based on the student's reading ability, skills to be developed or common interests. The groups are temporary and should be reviewed regularly.
Selection of text
Select the text with a particular teaching focus in mind. The text may be chosen for its text features, language features or understandings it may develop. The text should support students by having sufficient familiar features that they feel successful while being challenged to develop new skills. The aim in Guided Reading is that all students be able to read the text successfully with teacher support. There should be enough copies of the text for each student to have their own copy.
Teaching focus
The teaching focus is determined by the needs of the particular group of students. The focus may be one or more aspects from one or more Roles/Resources of the Reader, eg Code breaker – develops knowledge of various literary devices such as similes and metaphors; Text analyst – constructs an alternative position to the one taken in the text.
The Guided Reading Lesson
Introduce the text
Allow the students to have a quick look at the text. Discuss the title and any predictions the students can make about the genre and possible content of the text. Encourage the students to discuss what they already know about this topic or genre. Identify any words or features you feel may cause problems for the students and assist them to problem solve.
Reading the text
The reading of the text is done silently, allowing the students to check their predictions. While the students are reading silently, move around the group assisting where necessary. Encourage the students to use known strategies to problem solve on the text.
Revisiting the text
When all the students have had an opportunity to read the text the group can now explore the language, discuss the features, mood, style, etc, and reread to make sense of the text or to find evidence to support their opinion. Direct the students' attention to specific features of the text to build their knowledge or to allow them to apply strategies they already have. During this time the teacher is facilitating a discussion with open-ended questions.
Responding to the text
Don't expect that students will respond to every text they read. You may like to invite students to respond to the text orally or through an activity. The response may be individual, paired or a group response. Record observations of student reading behaviours on the Checklist. The Checklist observations may include the current teaching focus and/or specific reading behaviours identified for review.
After Reading
After the Guided Reading Lesson students should have the opportunity to revisit the text over the next couple of weeks.
Reflect on the lesson and think about the effectiveness of the teaching and how well the group worked together. Make notes on strategies you observed the students using and things you think they need to know next.
Classroom Protocols for Guided Reading
Guided Reading Checklist
Click here to download the checklist below in Microsft Word format (31K).
Guided Reading
Student Reading Behaviour Checklist
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Producer Karen Montgomery Dies at 66
She shepherded 'Diary of a Hit Man' as well as a documentary about that film's director, the late acting coach Roy London.
Karen Montgomery, an actress, producer and film executive, died Friday at her home in Los Angeles after a decade-long struggle with breast cancer, her husband, director Christopher Monger, said. She was 66.
Montgomery worked in development at several independent film companies and was an associate producer on the Forest Whitaker-starrer Diary of a Hit Man (1991), directed by Roy London, her former acting coach.
London also guided the careers of Brad Pitt, Jeff Goldblum, Patricia Arquette and many others. After his death at age 50 from AIDS complications, Montgomery teamed with Monger to make the documentary Special Thanks to Roy London, which premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival.
Earlier, Montgomery served as an assistant to screenwriter Waldo Salt, director Hal Ashby and producer Bruce Gilbert on Coming Home (1978) and worked at Gilbert's American Filmworks as the supervising exec on Sydney Lumet's The Morning After (1986).
She also was a producer on 'Til There Was You (1987), starring Jeanne Tripplehorn and Dylan McDermott; Row Your Boat (1999), with Jon Bon Jovi; and A Sense of Wonder (2008), a re-imagining of Kaiulani Lee's play about environmentalist Rachel Carson.
A Chicago native who was raised in Southern California and graduated from UC Berkeley, Montgomery played Princess Beata, the leader of a planet, in a 1988 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She also appeared on such series as Kojak, Nero Wolfe and L.A. Law and in the movie Amazon Women on the Moon (1987).
In addition to her husband, survivors include her mother Susan, brother Carl and nieces Madison and Paulina. Donations can be made to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Save the Children and NKLA.
A memorial is planned for 2016.
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JP Gosselin is a cartoonist and visual artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec. He has a BA in Fine Art from the University of Waterloo, writes and draws comics and zines, and freelances as an illustrator and storyboard artist for film and corporate videos. In addition to this work, he has also done extensive volunteering within the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario art community with local galleries and art organizations, as well as an installer and studio assistant for many local and regional artists.
JP loves science fiction, contemporary art, architecture and design, drawing, and other people's pets.
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text: The optical network market is less welcoming than it once was, which means widely tunable lasers emerging as commercial products have extra pressure to deliver cost, performance, reliability and an acceptable footprint. In the '90s, visions of the all-optical network danced merrily in the heads of the world's telecommunications service and equipmentproviders. Now the optical components necessary to transform that all-optical fantasy into a reality are emerging. One of the most critical components — the widely tunable laser — enables network elements to convert one wavelength into another on the fly. A host of component manufacturers have products that are nearly ready for prime time. The trouble is that prime time has been pushed back indefinitely. The economic downturn has all but stopped telecommunications service providers from purchasing next-generation optical transport and switching systems in which widely tunable lasers would debut. "The market is dead right now," said Jake Weise, vice president of marketing for Bandwidth9 Inc. of Fremont, Calif. "However, I, like most of the colleagues I have, believe that the telecom market is just taking a breather." While the market catches its breath, interest in and activity surrounding widely tunable lasers remain keen. Approximately 10 component makers are offering or developing products. Each company has a unique approach to making them as cost-effective, reliable and easy to use as the fixed-wavelength distributed feedback lasers that they aim to replace. Several large companies, including ADC Telecommunications Inc., Bookham Technology plc, Intel Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp., have offered up widely tunable lasers, but it's the 1- to 3-year-old start-ups that are creating most of the buzz. Several, such as Agility Communications Inc., Bandwidth9, Iolon Inc. and Santur Corp., are shipping or sampling products. Picarro in Sunnyvale, Calif., is among those that remain in stealth mode. Although carriers are not spending money on new switching or transport gear, their interest in tunables remains high. "We are deploying narrowly tuned lasers with great success," said Allen Shipman, senior manager of network planning for Broadwing Communications Inc. in Cincinnati. "And we are very interested in having a wider band of tunability." If the market recovers slowly, use of widely tunable lasers may reach parity with narrowly tuned devices. All things being equal, Shipman said he would rather just deploy widely tunable lasers. Based on discussions with system vendors, he said he does not expect Broadwing to begin lab tests of widely tunable laser-equipped transport and switching systems until later this year or early next year. In the meantime, the company has worked out what he refers to as a "manual" tunable laser program with its vendors. "We pull a card out and send it back to the system vendor to get a laser with the frequency we need, and they send it back to us in 24 to 48 hours," he explained. Shipman thinks that widely tunable lasers will find their initial niche in ultralong-haul systems, where demand for bandwidth on routes varies more — and more often — than it does on long-haul or metropolitan routes. Broadwing's announced ultralong-haul vendors, including Corvis Corp. of Columbia, Md., are all interested in widely tunable lasers, he said. Decisions, decisions, decisions Just as tunable lasers provide carriers with the ability to choose a new transport wavelength, laser suppliers are providing system manufacturers with a variety of technologies. The choices fall into four broad categories: distributed feedback, distributed Bragg grating and external-cavity lasers and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). The distributed Bragg grating laser, formed here by metallorganic chemical vapor deposition, is a more mature and common tunable technology. But cheaper, more easily manufactured vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers appear to be gaining market share. Courtesy of Agility Communications. The base technology of tunable lasers is important to system makers and carriers. However, it is not the only factor that determines which laser they select for their switches, add/drop multiplexers or transport systems. "From our perspective, our package size and drive requirements don't change. It's the tunability functionality that we are after. You could use a variety of different technologies to get that," said Jeff Livas, vice president of systems technology for Ciena Corp. in Linthicum, Md. "At this point in time, the most important criteria to measure widely tunable lasers against fixed-wavelength lasers are cost, performance, reliability and footprint." Although the cost and performance in C-band tunables are close to that of fixed-wavelength distributed feedback lasers, there is a wider gap in their reliability and footprint, he added. In the near term, Ciena plans to release systems with 8- and 16-channel narrowly tuned lasers at the beginning of 2003. "We would like to be able to take our standard products today, which have single-frequency distributed feedback lasers on their circuit boards, and pull them off and stick a widely tunable laser on it," Livas remarked. Shipman said that distributed Bragg gratings seem to have the lead right now, but that VCSELs, which are cheap and easy to manufacture, seem to be gaining market share in all areas of laser deployment. However, he added, VCSELs' low output power makes them an unlikely technology choice for ultralong-haul applications. Power/cost trade-off Atoga Systems of Fremont, for instance, selected a distributed Bragg grating laser from Agility for use in two transport platforms that deliver Ethernet or time-division multiplexing service to multiple customers via existing Sonet rings. The device uses an electroabsorption modulated laser that can transmit a 2.5-Gb/s signal up to 200 km, said Arlon Martin, vice president of marketing for Agility in Santa Barbara, Calif. When Atoga was developing its platform, Agility's distributed Bragg grating-based laser was more mature than external-cavity lasers or VCSELs, explained P.G. Menon, vice president of marketing for Atoga. However, the company is working with other component manufacturers that make VCSEL-based devices. "We are not particularly tied to distributed Bragg gratings. VCSELs can work as well. If you use a VCSEL, there is a power issue, but it's cheaper. Distributed Bragg gratings give you more power, but they are more expensive," Menon said. Where more power is needed, VCSELs could be used in conjunction with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. Although amplifiers are expensive, when combined with VCSEL-based widely tunable lasers in metro transport systems, the total system cost is "pretty much a wash," he said. n general, Menon said, widely tunable lasers provide system vendors and their service provider customers with three important advantages: • Less-expensive spares and less inventory. • The ability to add wavelengths and increase data rates on a link without having to roll a truck. • The ability to adapt the network to traffic patterns as they change throughout the day. For instance, a service provider could use tunable lasers to configure its network to carry data between multiple sites for a customer during the day and then reconfigure it to transport traffic from multiple locations to one or two storage sites at night. Testing 1, 2, 3 Although Atoga's customers were skeptical about tunable lasers a few years ago, they have grown more and more comfortable with widely tunable lasers after having seen them handling live traffic in the company's laboratory. Agility is promoting its widely tunable laser modules with the fact that they have met and have exceeded the reliability assurance requirements contained in Telcordia Technologies' GR-468-CORE document. This, Martin claims, enhances their chances of success with the regional Bell operating companies. Agility expects local carriers to start deploying these lasers in their networks by early 2004. Most other tunable-laser makers are beginning or completing Telcordia testing. Telcordia qualification increases customer comfort with the new technology, but it is not a "do or die" proposition. "Ideally, we try to make sure all of the equipment we deploy meets the highest industry standards, but certification of this type is not always a requirement," said Broadwing's Shipman. "For instance, we have seen fixed-wavelength lasers from two different vendors go through the same testing, and yet we still see different failure rates." San Jose, Calif.-based Iolon, which is in the final stages of applying Telcordia qualification testing to its Apollo family of external-cavity lasers, snagged customer Innovance Networks before testing was done. "Iolon is using well-established components put together in a new configuration," said Alan Solheim, chief technology officer for Innovance. The Piscataway, N.J., company is using Iolon's externally modulated laser in its Agilecore product portfolio for tuning across the L-band. He said that external-cavity lasers offer higher power and spectral purity. They have been more difficult to build than distributed Bragg gratings or VCSELs, but he said that Iolon has solved some of those issues by using a wavelength locker and the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) expertise borrowed from the disk-drive industry. Innovance has other sources for widely tunable lasers, which Solheim declined to name. However, he said that Picarro and Santur have offered some interesting solutions that have caught his eye. Santur, another Fremont company, made its debut at the Optical Fiber Conference in Long Beach, Calif., in March. It offers what is essentially an integrated array of distributed feedback narrowly tuned lasers, said Julian Osinski, vice president of product marketing. Its C-band device contains 12 integrated distributed feedback lasers, and its L-band product contains 14. Each laser tunes in 3-nm increments. A wavelength locker, a MEMS tuning mechanism and lenses are built into the externally modified devices. Using distributed feedback lasers reduces cost structure and improves reliability, he said. "Price is everything. No one is going to adopt technology unless the price points are there." Picarro proposes that widely tunable lasers must provide plug-and-play performance equal to or better than the distributed feedback lasers that system vendors are using today, and must do so at the same price. Before network engineers adopt widely tunable lasers, the technology must deliver plug-and-play performance and a price equal to or better than the distributed feedback lasers used today. Courtesy of Santur Corp. "The reason why widely tunable lasers are not taking off is not limited to the economic downturn," said David Hughes, vice president of marketing. "The current generation of tunable lasers does not meet all of the technical requirements that customers have." He said widely tunable lasers must meet all the criteria listed below: • 20 mW of output power to fit current system designs. • 40-dB side-mode suppression ratio. • 140-dB relative intensity noise. • Tunability across an entire band (40 nm). • 25-, 50- and 100-GHz channel-spacing options. • Small-form-factor laser, control electronics and modulator to avoid system redesign. • Cost parity with existing distributed feedbacks. "Most of all, you want to provide customers with products that are compatible with the way things are being done already," Hughes added. While suppliers seek to produce the perfect widely tunable laser, many are latching on to a more concrete trend — integration. Large layoffs at the big system houses have decimated in-house design teams that would ordinarily be charged with integrating discrete components into their systems. Today, widely tunable laser products include the diode and its control circuitry. In the future, these lasers will be incorporated into a transponder, said Hendrik van der Meer, product marketing manager for Intel. "If you can integrate the mux/ demux, transmitter/receiver — be it [avalanche photodiode] or pin — into one package, then you saved a Lucent or Nortel a huge amount of designing effort they normally would have had to put forth," he explained. Intel recently purchased New Focus Inc. of San Jose and is developing a temperature-tuned external-cavity laser for use in transponders. It plans to roll out a widely tunable module as well, van deer Meer said. Thanks to the economic downturn, optical switching and transport equipment manufacturers have had time to evaluate the offerings of several makers of widely tunable laser components. Although mature product has made its way into next-generation systems, service providers have yet to begin ordering and deploying those systems in volume. If and when the market regains its momentum, system makers will be looking for widely tunable lasers that will deliver cost, performance, reliability and an acceptable footprint. They do not want to redesign their existing systems just to realize the advantages these lasers have to offer. Meet the author Annie Lindstrom is a free-lance telecommunications writer based in Cape Coral, Fla. Standards Are Being Crafted When the development of widely tunable lasers for optical networking applications began, the end market was much more forgiving of "disruptive" technologies. In today's market, most components can benefit from standardization. Hence, for the past year, the Optical Internetworking Forum in Fremont, Calif., has been developing a standard communications control interface and form factor for widely tunable lasers. "We'd like tunable lasers to be fit-and-function replaceable," said Karl Gass, vice chairman of optical interfaces for the forum's physical and link layer working group. "That is not realistic today in that we have different capabilities based on different technologies." Approximately 15 to 20 companies are contributing to an implementation agreement defining the form factor for a standard device. The agreement specifies size, pin location and output power, and also defines how systems will communicate with widely tunable laser modules. "With a standard interface, setup is done once and carriers can talk to any device, regardless of its capabilities," Gass said. The group plans to have the document ready for formal ratification by the end of the year, although component manufacturers building devices now are following what has been defined to date. One of the biggest issues the group has tackled has been to narrow down the potential communications interfaces for modules. "We want the agreement to last several years, so we have tried to be very forward-thinking in how we specify that interface," Gass said, adding that power dissipation and size of the form factor have been the other major concerns.


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The dr. came in later, and we talked for a little while. We went over the things that he does say- fortunately, I had been compiling a list, and he was impressed with the fact that he identifies shapes, colors, letters, numbers, and even some words that he can read. He watched Jayden playing with the IPod Touch and commented on his fine motor skills. The doctor put my mind a little more at rest when he said that he was less concerned about Jayden's speech than I was. He did a quick check of Jayden(and Jayden showed him exactly how much he dislikes being messed with).
We will be going back in a few months to see if there has been more progress, but I have already enrolled Jayden in Headstart for the upcoming year. He will have access to a Speech Therapist there, and I'm hoping that having a little more interaction with peers his age will be helpful.
When we got home, I took his carseat out of the car. He has reached the 35 lb limit for rear-facing in his seat, so we'll be turning him around now. We have chosen to keep him rear-facing for an extended period because studies have shown it to be safer and more effective than forward-facing. I used this opportunity to wash the car seat cover(that thing was dang hard to remove), and now I will have to go re-install the seat so it will be ready for Mark to take the kids out tomorrow(I will be working crowd control for graduation all day). But here are a couple of obligatory pictures.


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In a past post, I told you about my husband and I taking a last minute trip. That was when our 'spontaneous getaway bag' started. Since then, we randomly decide we are taking off and heading to a hotel near Nashville. In fact, we just did that very thing a couple weekends ago. We really enjoy doing this. Because this has become a regular excursion, we have come across many little items to throw in said bag.
On this last trip, I was thrilled to see a shower cap. I'm a little strange but, hey, it wasn't just q-tips and lotion. I get excited about the small things.
I was checking out Pinterest yesterday and came across this great idea. It wasn't actually what I had in mind when my face lit up seeing the cute shower cap box, but a great idea, nonetheless.
This idea is going to be so handy when I'm packing for our 'mini vacations'. Also, I will be traveling for my sister's wedding soon. Who knows how many pair of shoes a girl will need for a week like that!


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ACPI is an acronym stands for Advance Configuration and Power Interface. It is an open standard specification and platform-independent interfaces for hardware discovery, device configuration, monitoring and power management by operating system. It puts unused components to sleep and do status monitoring for managing power.
ACPI was designed to replace Advanced Power Management (APM), the MultiProcessor Specification, and the Plug and Play BIOS (PnP) Specification. It was first released in December 1996. It brings the power management under the control of operating system as opposed to the previous BIOS centric system. It was originally developed and used by Intel, Microsoft and Toshiba, HP and Phoenix also participated later.
ACPI is responsible for the power distribution among the components of a computer system. It specifies how a computer's basic input/output system, operating system, and peripheral devices communicate with each other about power usage.
In its initial phase, it supports only 16 and 32-bit addressing spaces. In August 2000, ACPI received 64-bit address support as well as. Now it also supports for multiprocessor workstations and servers with revision 2.0.
ACPI has three main components:


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LANSING—State Sen. Phil Pavlov, R-St. Clair Township, announced that February office hours are scheduled for the 25th Senate District.
The senator will be available to meet with constituents at the following location:
Monday, February 9
8 – 9:30 a.m.
New Baltimore City Hall
36535 Green Street
New Baltimore, MI 48047
All residents are welcome to hear a legislative update and discuss topics of interest. Office hours are for one-on-one discussions with the senator. Those unable to attend can contact Sen. Pavlov by calling his office toll-free at (866) 305-2125 or by selecting the Contact Me link at his website, www.SenatorPhilPavlov.com. Make sure to check the website for the most up-to-date information.


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Hurricanes sign Boychuk to one-year contractNHL.com @NHLdotcom
The Carolina Hurricanes have agreed to terms with forward Zach Boychuk on a one-year, two-way contract, the team announced Tuesday. It will pay Boychuk $550,000 on the NHL level or $105,000 on the American Hockey League level.
Boychuk, 23, split last season between Carolina, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators in the NHL and the Charlotte Checkers in the AHL. The Airdrie, Alberta native had two points (one goal) in 13 NHL games and ranked second among Charlotte skaters in goals (23) and third in points (43).
Carolina?s first-round selection (No. 14) in the 2008 NHL Draft, Boychuk (5-foot-10, 185 pounds) has 20 points (eight goals) in 85 NHL games with Carolina, Pittsburgh and Nashville. He has 189 points (81 goals) in 227 AHL games with the Albany Devils and Charlotte and ranks second all-time among Checkers skaters in goals (66), assists (86) and points (152).
Boychuk has represented Canada in international competition, winning gold at the 2008 and 2009 World Junior Championships.