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Marijuana legalization votes this week in Colorado and Washington state don't just set up an epic state-federal showdown on drug law for residents. The measures also open the door for marijuana tourism.
Both measures make marijuana possession in small amounts OK for all adults over 21. The measures affect not just state residents but visitors, too. Tourists may not be able to pack their bowls along with their bags, but as long as out-of-state tourists purchase and use the drug while in Colorado or Washington, they wouldn't violate the marijuana measures.
That's assuming the recreational marijuana measures take effect at all. That was very much in doubt Friday as the states awaited word on possible marijuana lawsuits from the federal government.


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Family & Friendship is so precious!
Just fresh back from a whirlwind trip from rural Hampshire to rainy Sydney, and back, via 24 hours in Singapore for four days...crazy I know, but I so wanted to be there for my special brother's 60th birthday and I was then also able to take in another friend's 60th celebrations on the way home on a Singapore stop-over - very handily!
My arrival in a rather cold and very wet Sydney was a total surprise for my brother and was the most wonderful joy for us both. We spent the happiest of days together with his family and I was there for his fab party on the tall Sail Training ship The James Craig, with close family and old and dear friends, many of whom I have known for most of my life. Having the luxury of spending those hours together, we got talking about all the memories, the childhood stories, school days, university education, houses and countries we have lived in, cars we saved up for and holidays enjoyed - all the rich mosaic of memories which stitch together to form our shared past. All the family had managed to gather together a load of old photos covering all his sixty years and these brought back so many memories, many of which I had thought forgotten. Seeing photos which one hasn't looked at for thirty years jogs the old brain cells into activity again and the memories come flooding back.
I am incredibly lucky to enjoy an especially close bond with my family and milestone occasions such as these remind one of just how important these relationships are in anchoring one's life. The unconditional love of family and old friends really does support one through the topsy turvy twists and turns of life. Everyone needs a helping hand occasionally and the mutual support of a close family bond is of immeasurable importance.
Back home now with all the excitement settled and back to reality (sigh!) - I have my photos from the trip to keep those memories alive. So next time you've got a rainy Sunday and no plans, I would so recommend getting out those old shoe boxes and albums and having a good rifle through. You will have such fun and jog so many old memories. And if you've got a big birthday or anniversary coming up in the family, get those key photos out and send them to us and we will create a celebration collage with the most special memories which can go up on the wall to be enjoyed for years to come. What better gift can you give those you love? And if you haven't spoken to your brother, sister or cousin for a while, go on, pick up the 'phone...you won't regret it.
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Jake Pavelka's post-Bachelor: On the Wings of Love career in Hollywood hasn't exactly taken off — so the former airline pilot has hit the skies once again!
A tipster tells UsMagazine.com that Pavelka, 33, piloted an Oct. 24 Delta flight from Atlanta to Augusta, Ga. (Pavelka's rep confirms to Us that he is indeed flying planes again.)
"The flight attendant asked us not to tell anyone because he didn't want it to be known," the passenger says. "When they announced our captain they just said, 'Your captain today is Jake'."
One day before, another spy saw Pavelka hanging out in in the Delta crew lounge at Atlanta airport. "His 15 minutes must really be up," the source quips to Us. "Because he is not only working, but on the weekend! Most pilots don't want those shifts!"
Since Bachelor wrapped this past spring, Pavelka competed on Dancing with the Stars and played a reality star on an Aug. 22 episode of the Lifetime TV series Drop Dead Diva. After his bitter breakup with fiance Vienna Girardi over the summer, he stepped out with new girlfriend Meghan Jones at a Nov. 1 event in Hollywood.
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Ever wonder why Prince Charming never called you back? Don't worry, it wasn't you, it was your dog (or cat)! Peep this list of 8 relationship deal breakers according to him.
1. Dog Owners
"If you have a dog in NYC, you better have a dog walker and not live in a studio apartment. Dating someone with a dog is a huge burden. No dinners or happy hours directly after work: 'I have to let the dog out.' You can't go on spur of the moment trips. 'Who will watch the dog?' When you're dating someone with a dog you could be having the best date ever and decide to go back to their place for some romantic time only to realize the dog has thrown up all over the apartment!" – Stephen
2. Girls Who Only Talk About Themselves
"One of the biggest relationship deal breakers for me is when a woman cannot stop talking about herself. If you cannot carry a conversation that involves taking interest in what I have to say, then I have no interest in the relationship moving forward. Conversations are meant to be a two way street, not simply me listening to how amazing your life is." – AJ
3. No Career Prospects/Aspirations
"I think it's important to find someone who shares similar ambitions and wants the same things out of life as you do. At this point, my career is #1, and anyone I date has to understand that. I'd like to get married someday, of course, but I want to have established myself in my field first. At my age (27) I think it's a mistake not to plan for the future, and anyone who doesn't share that sentiment will probably not be a good match in the long run." – Matt
4. Girls Who Wear Crocs
"She could be a Victoria's Secret model for all I care, but if she's wearing Crocs, forget it! Whoever God put on earth to design those shoes clearly has no sense of style." – Alejandro
5. Smokers
"Nothing is more disgusting to me than smoker's breath. It doesn't matter how beautiful she is. If she lights up, she's out. A long time ago — and I mean a really long time ago — I kissed a girl who smoked. We actually ended up dating for a while, but I remember how unpleasant it was to kiss her, to smell her breath and to have to endure the smell of cigarettes in general. Never again." – Jim
6. Texting An Ex
"The biggest deal breaker for me is when a woman continues to receive texts and entertain phone calls from a recent ex, whether it's an ex-boyfriend or an ex-friend with benefits, but especially the latter." – Daniel
7. No College Education
"Every woman I've met in my life who hasn't gone to college, I haven't had a connection with. Whether it's immaturity or a lack of being interested in knowledge, this has just been my experience. I've also read many studies that indicate that divorce rates are lower when both partners are college educated, and even lower when attaining masters and post doctorates. When I get married, I only want to do it once. It seems so easy for people to check out of relationships and marriages in this day and age, it's a shame." – Anthony
8. Cat Lovers
"If a girl has cats, or even likes cats, that's a big deal breaker for me. Cats are kind of creepy, and the same can be said about girls who like cats. They tend to be needy and more difficult to deal with. I don't care about her cats, and I certainly don't want to change the kitty litter. Plus, I'm allergic, so it wouldn't really work out anyway." – Kenny
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For the first time, scientists have coaxed a damaged heart to regrow healthy tissues on its own. They applied living "patches" to a heart, in what is a major breakthrough for people recovering from heart attacks.
A group of engineers at Columbia University built on previous research into growing hearts using a "tissue scaffold," a piece of stripped-down heart muscle that's pure protein. They used a similar kind of tissue scaffold to grow human heart replacement parts. Delivering these pre-made parts to the heart is a far easier and less invasive process than similar cell infusion treatments.
In a release about the study, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science reports:
[The researchers] filled the scaffold with human mesenchymal progenitors (stem cells that can differentiate into many cell types) and then applied the patches to damaged heart tissue. The patches promoted the growth of new blood vessels and released proteins that stimulated the native tissue to repair itself. Moreover, the team also used this controllable platform to identify the signaling mechanisms involved in the repair process, and expand our knowledge about the role of cells and scaffold design on heart repair.
"It really is encouraging to make progress with 'instructing' cells to form human tissues by providing them with the right environments," noted Dr. Vunjak-Novakovic. "The cells are the real 'tissue engineers'-we only design the environments so they can do their work. Because these environments need to mimic the native developmental milieu, the progress in the field is really driven by the interdisciplinary work of bioengineers, stem cell biologists, and clinicians. By enabling regeneration and replacement of our damaged tissues, we can help people live longer and better."
We are closer than ever to growing our organs - and even organ parts - to repair the damage our bodies suffer. And one day, an engineer will rebuild you.
Read the full scientific paper via PNAS
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User Manual:Setting up HTTP Live Streaming Recorder
HTTP Live Streaming Recorder
With 0.26, a new feature was added allowing you to record various HTTP Live Streams (HLS).
It works in a similar fashion as the IPTV recorder, using a single playlist containing a list of HLS streams.
HLS Recorder Playlist
The playlist is an extension of a standard M3U playlist:
#EXTM3U #EXTINF:0,300 - NASA TV #EXTMYTHTV:xmltvid=hls.nasatv http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/NTV-Public-IPS.m3u8
The link provided must be to a HTTP Live Streaming playlist.
Such playlist can be found there: http://www.avenard.org/files/media/playlist-hls.m3u
Setting up the HTTP Live Streaming Recorder
Start mythtv-setup
And go into "Capture Card" and select "New Capture Card"
As card type, select "Network Recorder"
In "M3U URL" enter the link to the M3U playlist as described above, you can use http://www.avenard.org/files/media/playlist-hls.m3u.
As tuning can take quite a few seconds, set the timeout value to 60000ms (60s)
In the main menu, go into "Video Sources"
Select "New video source"
In "Video source name", enter HLS (or whatever you wish).
In Listing grabber: "No grabber"
Click on "Finish"
In the main menu, go to "Input connections"
And select the FREEBOX recorder you've just entered above.
In "Video source", select the video source you entered earlier, in our example "HLS"
Click on "Scan for channels"
Click on Next, and Finish. No channels will appear, but that's normal.
If you now go into the "Channel Editor" you will see the list of channels.
You can now exit mythtv-setup, and run mythbackend and mythfrontend
Going into Live TV will allow you to select one of the newly added channels.
Available HLS Channels
If using the http://www.avenard.org/files/media/playlist-hls.m3u playlist, the following channels are available:
- 301 - Al Jazeera
- 302 - France 24 (French)
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- 307 - Bloomberg
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- 312 - Al Jazeera Mubasher (Arabic)
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- 314 - Al Jazeera Sport (Arabic)
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Conducted by religious orders of women, have existed for centuries, the education of girls having been from the earliest days one of the chief works of cloistered women. In the 6th century, Caesarius, Bishop of Arles, drew up rules for the schools established by his sister, Caesaris. English nuns went with Saint Boniface to Germany in the 8th century and founded schools throughout Saxony that were especially well known. In 747, the Council of Clovesho enjoined abbesses as well as abbots to provide for the education of all their household. During the warring ages from the 6th to the 13th centuries convents offered a safe shelter for the daughters of noble families and others, and the names of brilliant women educated in such schools include the learned abbess, Saint Hilda of Whitby, and the 10th-century poet and dramatist, Roswitha or Hroswitha, educated at Gandersheim by the abbess Gerberg, niece of Otto I. The education ordinarily given in medieval convents comprised reading and writing, liturgical singing, spinning, weaving, and embroidery. The Reformation closed the convent schools of England and Germany, but in southern Europe they continued to be a refuge from the worldliness of court and society. After the French Revolution there was an increase in such schools, and during the last century many teaching orders were added to those already established. The first convent school in North America was founded by the Ursulines, in Quebec, in 1639. French members of the same order established the first convent in the United States, in 1727, in New Orleans. The aim of convent schools is to combine secular and religious education with the training of character through religious influences. They include elementary schools, academies or high schools, and colleges. Many orders conduct their own training-schools, and hundreds of religious take degrees each year in the larger colleges and universities.


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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Timor-Leste ended its operations at the end of 2012, in line with the expiration of its mandate and amidst significant progress made in establishing peace and security in the country.
"The Timorese people and its leaders have shown courage and unswerving resolve to overcome great challenges. Although there remains much work ahead, this is an historic moment in recognising the progress already made," the Secretary-General's Acting Special Representative and Head of the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), Finn Reske-Nielsen, said in a news release.
The south-east Asian nation has endured a long and often violent journey towards independence and democracy since it formally broke away from Indonesia in 2002, and since it first appeared on the agenda of the UN Security Council 37 years ago.
Following another outbreak of deadly fighting in 2006, the UN Security Council established UNMIT – it replaced earlier peacekeeping and political missions there, and provided interim law enforcement and public security until Timor-Leste's national police could be reconstituted and resume its roles.
Since then, the country has progressed on the path to democracy. This year, Timor-Leste celebrated the 10th anniversary of its independence, elected a new president and held parliamentary elections, which were largely peaceful and held in an orderly manner – and which prompted UNMIT's expected and definitive withdrawal.
At a recent meeting on Timor-Leste, the members of the Security Council applauded the "remarkable achievements" made by the small nation throughout its transition over the past decade.
"When I first came to Timor-Leste in 1999, the country was ravaged by fighting and political upheaval and shaken by displacement and suffering," Mr. Reske-Nielsen noted in his remarks. "It has been a privilege to follow Timor-Leste's path out of those difficult times, towards peace, stability and a brighter, safer future."
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First take: Apple boosts dividend, outlook murky
- Apple investors have been eagerly awaiting earnings
- Smartphones are increasingly a %22replacement%22 product like PCs%2C pressuring profits
- Apple faces intense competition from Samsung and Nokia in emerging nations
Apple narrowly beat quarterly earnings expectations, but the report is causing investors to wonder if the company can turn itself around despite the slowing growth in the smartphone market.
Slowing growth and falling profit margins underscore why analysts have turned so pessimistic on the gadget maker's longer-term future. The company's quarterly net income fell 18% to $9.5 billion, the first time the company has reported lower profit since 2003, says S&P Capital IQ.
Investors were initially relieved at the news, as they've been fearing something worse since pushing the stock down from its high of more than $700 a share. Shares gained initially in after-hours trading, but those gains evaporated. On Wednesday, the stock dropped $3.13 a share or 0.77%, to $403. It had been as low as $392.50.
Apple took some moves to quell the growing skepticism of the stock. It boosted its dividend by 15% to $3.05 a share and increased the stock buyback program to $60 billion from $10 billion. Apple is now the largest dividend payer today and of all time on a non-inflation adjusted basis, says Howard Silverblatt of S&P Dow Jones Indexes. Investors have been demanding to know what Apple plans to do with its stash of $144.7 billion in cash and investments.
But the company couldn't put away fears of the future. Sales in the current quarter will be $33.5 billion to $35.5 billion, well below the $38.4 billion estimate from analysts summarized by Bloomberg News.
Meanwhile, the maker of smartphones reported a gross margin, what's left of revenue after paying direct costs, of 37.5%. That came in below the 38.5% gross margin in the fourth quarter and 47.4% in the same year-ago period.
The continuing erosion of Apple's famed margins is more of a sign of how the tech giant, which built an empire on premium prices, is starting to succumb to competitive pressure. Intense pressure from tablets and laptops running Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows 8 threaten to push prices down of devices as the markets for tablets and smartphones mature.
The company said it shipped 37.4 million iPhones during the quarter, up 6.6% from the same year ago. Overall revenue, though, rose 11.2%, which is the latest of a string of quarters with dramatically slowing revenue growth. Revenue grew 17.7% in the fourth quarter and nearly 60% in the same year-ago period.
Shares of Apple, which was the fad stock to own in 2012, are down more than 40% from their more than $700 a share high. Investors have been increasingly skeptical the company could maintain its combination of high growth and high prices as consumers get more choice.
For years, Apple's stock has been powered by the fact the company could charge seemingly whatever price it wanted for smartphones, and wireless carriers would be forced to pay up or draw the ire of consumers.
But as competition in the smartphone area heats up, and Apple gets met or exceeded on technology or price by rivals such as Samsung and Nokia, the fear is that pricing power is eroding.
Furthermore, there had been a rising belief that consumers are increasingly opting for the lower-margin products Apple sells, bypassing the latest iPhone, and going for the previous model, says James Kelleher of Argus Research.
And that's why analysts and investors were keenly watching the company's gross margins, or what's left of sales after paying the direct costs to make products. The fear is that as consumers go for less profitable products, the company's margins will tumble.
A year ago, when Apple fever was running high, Apple commanded a 47.4% gross margin in the March 2012 quarter, says S&P Capital IQ. That margin has steadily eroded, falling to 43.8% in the June quarter, 40% in the September quarter and 38.6% in the December quarter.
Additionally, there are growing signs that the smartphone market in developed nations is increasingly maturing and becoming a "replacement market," where consumers only upgrade when their old model breaks, Kelleher says. The maturation of smartphones in developed nations is much like the one occurring in the PC market. U.S. carriers are also increasingly promoting plans that reward consumers for keeping their handsets longer. Additionally, there are signs that demand for Apple's Mac personal computers is waning, as IDC released a report showing shipments of those devices fell 8% in the first quarter.
This means that growth in the smartphone market is largely headed overseas, where handsets running Google's Android operating system are more popular. Additionally, for a company that is driving by pushing consumers to upgrade and buy new products, Apple needs to give the public something new, Kelleher says. He thinks that the latest smartphone from Apple could be a few quarters away, causing investors to have to suffer through falling gross margins in the meantime.


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Shank gets up in your face right away and stays there with huge helpings of profanity, violence, style, and dare I say it, loving craftsmanship. From Shank's public debut last year on, developers Klei have stressed that it was created and animated not by veteran game personnel but by traditional animators and artists, and, honestly, it shows. There's a visual unity and easy flair in Shank that you don't see in games with 20 times the development budget. There's nothing out of place, and it all conveys a great sense of place and character. You'll understand Shank's world right away, whether you're familiar with its influences or not.
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At its heart, Shank is a combination of Strider and Ninja Gaiden. Levels are pretty simple - you run from one side to the other, generally beating the holy hell out of anyone dumb enough to get in your way, using a combo system that surpasses those found in most 3D action titles at retail. This is probably one of Shank's biggest achievements. Generally, downloadable action titles use fairly simple mechanics; it's rare to see this kind of game give titles like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta a run for their money in the combat department. Combat is difficult, but immensely satisfying once you get the hang of it (and once you're racking up 160 hit combos).
PC gamers get the best version of Shank from a visual standpoint, with super high res assets and support for more bells and whistles visually than you'd expect from most 2D titles. It ran flawlessly at 2560 by 1600 on my Core i7 system with dual GTX260s.
It's not all roses though. While Shank will feel instantly familiar to fans of character-centric action titles for players using a gamepad, certain omissions are glaring, namely the lack of a dodge move. After playing Dante's Inferno and God of War 3 earlier this year, there were moments when I would subconsciously tap left or right on the right analog stick in an abortive effort to roll out of danger.
Shank's dodge move is a little... er, dodgy. You execute it by holding block and pushing left or right; it often behaves in unpredictable ways, leaving you as likely to get knocked on your ass as it is to get you out of trouble.
This is a PC review, I hear you saying, so why focus so much on a controller? Because the developers strongly urge you to play with one. Unfortunately, this is one of the areas where Shank's PC transition feels a bit lazy. While an Xbox 360 controller works perfectly well technically speaking, all of the tutorial text that was matched to buttons in the console versions lacks that context here. Last time I checked, my controller didn't have a button labeled "guns" or "tequila".
Shank's animation can also be a problem, as you wait agonizing fractions of moments for Shank the character to finish turning himself around with the shotgun, or to rev up his chainsaw. Watching Shank sort of wind up to perform the aforementioned wonky dodge is even more maddening, especially later in the game where you're suddenly forced to run instead of fight with little real explanation or warning. Meanwhile, platforming sections start out as fun palate cleansers between hectic brawls, but two-thirds of the way through the game, they become virtual crucibles of patience and occasional controller-throwing fits of rage - especially when there are semi-random rockets raining from the sky that can knock you off whatever thing you're climbing on or running along into a nebulous abyss below.
Bosses are also all over the place; while these encounters often make for some of the more enjoyable fights in the game (Cassandra in particular is intense and a lot of fun), they sometimes devolve into tedious games of patience as you wait to see what robotic weakness can be exploited to make the fights easy.
Multiplayer was heralded by interested parties as a great addition to Shank, and conceptually, it has its charms, but in execution it feels tacked on and poorly thought out. It's difficult to figure out what's happening thanks to two very similar characters with identical move-sets and a dozen enemies or more on-screen, and the boss battles are spectacularly punitive. I didn't finish the multiplayer campaign because I just couldn't find anyone in the office willing to put up with the frustration for long, and that's kind of a bummer.
Last year, I fell in love with Shank based on its promise and presentation, but after finishing the game, the honeymoon is over. I can appreciate the things Klei pulled off, and in many ways, they're achingly close to something magical. However, the fundamental level design issues later in the game, combined with the eventual tedium of the combat it relies on, makes Shank a good game for a particular audience rather than a great game worthy of everyone's attention. For PC players, the best looking version is plagued by an interface that feels a bit lazy in transition from the consoles. Fans of character action titles should pull out their virtual wallets without hesitation, but otherwise, Shank might just be too sharp to handle.
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The National Lacrosse League has implemented a new standardized concussion testing protocol for its players to be used by medical personnel at all NLL games. At any time during the season, any player suspected of having incurred a concussion in a game or practice will be given immediate concussion testing by appropriate personnel.
In addition to implementing these new standards during games and practices, all NLL players will undergo baseline testing for concussions prior to the start of each upcoming season. The new standardized testing was developed by the team physicians of the NLL clubs. The concussion protocol is part of the NLL's commitment to player health and safety.
The league has also taken further steps by stiffening the penalties assessed for incidents of high-sticking (Rule 62) and illegal cross-checking (Rule 63). Penalties for high-sticking will now be assessed by the game officials as either a major penalty (five minute penalty) or a match penalty. A match penalty ejects the offending player from the game AND a one-game suspension for the team's next game. The offending player's team is also assessed with a five-minute major penalty. The penalty assessed will be based on the severity of the incident as judged by the game officials. High-sticking infractions may no longer be assessed by officials as a major & game misconduct (five-minute penalty plus ejection of offending player for remainder of game).
"The Competition Committee felt that by removing the middle classification of major & game misconduct penalty for high-sticking, we will create a greater deterrent for players from making contact on opponents with a high stick", said Brian Lemon, NLL Vice President, Operations. "Player safety is of the utmost concern to us, and the NLL will remain at the forefront of protecting its players."
The league has also applied this change to the penalties that can be assessed for illegal cross-checking. The officials also have the option of selecting a minor penalty for illegal cross-checking for incidents deemed less severe. High-sticking penalties cannot be assessed as a minor.
Any player who is assessed a second match penalty for either of these infractions during the course of a year will receive a 2-game suspension. A third infraction would result in a three-game suspension. The year in this case begins on the date when the first infraction takes place and continues for twelve months from that date.
Rule changes have also been applied in terms of the penalties assessed by game officials for fighting. When a fight between two players leads to a stoppage of play, players who engage in a second fight during the stoppage (fighting after the original fight) will be assessed a match penalty (ejection from game plus a one-game suspension). This infraction was previously assessed as a game misconduct penalty. Officials will have the ability to rescind the penalty for one of the involved players if they determine that player was an 'Unwilling Combatant' who is defending themselves against the instigator as opposed to fully engaging in the fight.
Also during a fight, NLL rules dictate that all runners on the floor return to their team benches, or to their team's defensive end of the floor if the fight is happening in front of their team's bench. Any player failing to adhere to this rule during a fight will now be assessed a misconduct penalty. This infraction was previously assessed a bench minor penalty.
Players who fight after the 2nd and 4th quarters of a game (during halftime or after the end of regulation) will be subject to penalties under Rule 80.16, Fighting Other than During Periods of a Game, and subject to a game misconduct and a one-game suspension. This infraction was previously assessed as a major penalty.


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FY12 Art Works (part 2)
Announced April 25, 2012
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support Music Makes a Difference, an education program for school children. Plans include concerts for students in grades three through five where performances of Gustav Holst's The Planets will relate to science studies and a mentoring program for middle and high school students.
Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support Young People's Concerts. In an effort to encourage student participation in the school district's instrumental music program, the concerts will be designed for and presented to students in grades four through six.
Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, $25,000
To support national tour performances, educational activities, and a radio broadcast of Come to the River: An Early American Gathering. The program, featuring singer-actors, a baroque/folk fiddler, a period guitarist/banjo player, a virtuoso hammered dulcimer player, an Irish/baroque flutist, percussive dancers, and a narrator/harpsichordist, will explore the music and traditions of early America including shape-note singing, New England barn dances, and southern revival hymns.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, $15,000
To support ASO Around Georgia, a statewide touring and community partnership initiative of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The project will be led and conducted by Music Director Robert Spano and Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra conductor Jere Flint.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $65,000
To support the OrchKids program. In partnership with the Baltimore City Public School system, OrchKids provides free training to students in instrumental and choral music throughout the school year.
Boston Landmarks Orchestra, $10,000
To support a school residency, commission, and performances of a new work by composer Michael Gandolfi. The composer will work with students at the Conservatory Lab Charter School to create a new work for double orchestra that will be premiered by student and BLO musicians.
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (consortium), $50,000
To support performances of Mozart's The Magic Flute. In partnership with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 105 young instrumentalists of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra will benefit from the inclusion of opera repertoire incorporated into their orchestral training, culminating in the performance of a full, semi-staged opera with professional musicians and singers.
Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras, $10,000
To support the Friends in Music program. Plans include youth orchestra members serving as mentors during the school year, teaching free weekly after-school string instrumental lessons to children from low income families at two public schools.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, $15,000
To support free outdoor Concerts in the Park and related educational activities. Reaching venues in southwest Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeast Indiana, the five community concerts will include educational activities for children and families, such as hands-on artmaking activities for children and pre-concert lectures with the conductor and musicians.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, $23,000
To support the Young Strings program, a three-level string instruction program for African American and Latino students in 2nd through 12th grades in Dallas. The free program provides one-on-one and small group instruction at five partner schools and the Meyerson Symphony Center, as well as master classes with guest artists and Dallas Symphony Orchestra members.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, $25,000
To support Classical Connections, a series of adult educational concerts. Accompanied by a Listener's Guide, the first half of each concert will offer audiences an in-depth look into the music through discussion about and demonstration of important passages of a particular work and will be followed in the second half by a full performance of the work.
Delaware Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support a recording of new works by composer Michael Daugherty. Performed with soloists including flutist Amy Porter and English horn player Pedro R. Diaz, the three works to be recorded are Trail of Tears for flute and orchestra, Spaghetti Western for English horn and orchestra, and Lost Vegas for orchestra.
Des Moines Symphony, $12,500
To support the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park Commission Outreach Project. In celebration of the newly opened sculpture park containing 27 sculptures by mid-20th-century artists, composer Steve Heitzeg will create a new work for orchestra which will be premiered during the symphony's 75th-anniversary season and will feature outreach programs including free public lectures, college and community performances in outlying areas, and school performances for fourth and fifth grade students.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, $60,000
To support the Neighborhood Concert Series. As many as 24 orchestral concerts (half of them conducted by Music Director Leonard Slatkin) are planned in area churches and community centers featuring full symphonic works from the standard repertoire, arrangements for chamber orchestra, and contemporary works by American composers such as Cindy McTee.
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, $35,000
To support Growing Up Musical, a series of community music education programs. The project offers opportunities for community and school partners to receive a range of music learning experiences from professional musicians including in-class workshops, school-wide presentations, an instrument petting zoo, residencies, coaching, and classes in music theory and composition.
Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support Sound Discovery, a music education program. The project involves open rehearsals with Lido©, an illustrated conductor's baton, that will be presented to students and adults; the Library Pass Program of free tickets for families available at libraries; a student instrumental competition; master classes for local college and high school students; Music Discovery Performances; Instrument Petting Zoos; and an instrument lending program.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic, $10,000
To support a youth concert series. Plans include free educational concerts conducted by music director David Itkin, study guides and training sessions for teachers, and performances by a youth competition winner.
Lexington Symphony (MA), $10,000
To support Orchestrating Kids through Classics, a music education and outreach project. Plans include in-school presentations by small ensembles in 36 metropolitan Boston elementary schools and five full orchestral concerts in Lexington and Framingham, Massachusetts.
Madison Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $20,000
To support HeartStrings, an outreach project by an ensemble of the orchestra's string musicians that will provide residency programs and perform interactive recitals for underserved and special needs communities. In partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Health's Central Wisconsin Center, the Rhapsodie String Quartet, with training and the participation of certified therapists, will offer 90 residency programs reaching 20 to 25 participants during each session; more than 3,150 children and adults with special needs will participate in the project.
Monterey Symphony, $17,500
To support the semi-staged concert production of Amahl and the Night Visitors by composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti. Music Director Max Bragado-Darman and project partner Dona D. Vaughn (Artistic Director of Opera, Manhattan School of Music) will lead a production featuring mezzo-soprano Suzanne Mentzer, local performers and stagehands provided by the S.T.A.R. Foundation, and set designs produced in local community art programs.
Nashville Symphony, $40,000
To support a recording project featuring works by composer Stephen Paulus. Conducted by music director Giancarlo Guerrero, the orchestra's live performances of Paulus' Grand Concerto for Organ with organist Nathan Laube and Concerto for String Quartet (Three Places of Enlightenment) will be recorded in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center and the compact disc will be released on the Naxos label.
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, $25,000
To support an artist-in-residency project featuring composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain. The orchestra and Music Director William Boughton will collaborate with the composer during the five-week residency, titled From Haydn to Hip Hop, which will include two-day residencies at five New Haven high schools.
New York Philharmonic (consortium), $100,000
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, the program includes year-long, in-school music residencies, attendance at New York Philharmonic concerts, and professional development for teachers and school administrators.
Omaha Symphony, $65,000
To support education and outreach programs, including Carnegie Hall's Link Up, Music Mentors, Choral Collaborative, and Education & Engagement Tour. Students will study and perform instrumental and choral music and have the opportunity to attend symphony concerts.
Orchestra 2001, $10,000
To support America's Folk Music Transformed: Touring with George Crumb's American Songbook, a regional touring performance project in Appalachia and New England. Directed by Music Director James Freeman, the performances will feature soprano Ann Crumb, as well as appearances by George Crumb at performances in his home state of West Virginia.
Orchestra of St. Luke's, $20,000
To support Orchestra of St. Luke's OSL Subway Series of free chamber music concerts. The orchestra will present ensembles of its musicians in hour-long performances throughout the city, featuring repertoire of traditional and contemporary music by composers from Ludwig von Beethoven to John Adams.
Orchestra Iowa, $20,000
To support concerts, educational activities, and tour performances by Orchestra Iowa in celebration of the re-opening of the Paramount Theatre, which was destroyed by a flood in 2008. The program will include premiere performances of American Gothic, a previously commissioned new work by composer Michael Daugherty inspired by the painting of the same name by Grant Wood, who was from Iowa.
Oregon Symphony, $17,500
To support a performance and recording project, which will culminate in a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. Directed by Music Director Carlos Kalmar, programming will include the Carnegie Hall concert program titled Premonitions, and will include works by Narong Prangcharon, Kurt Weill, and Thomas Adès.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, $25,000
To support a touring project in multiple venues in Colorado, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The programming for the tour will include guest-artists mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, baritone Nathan Gunn, composer Tan Dun, the Wayne Shorter Quartet, pianist Richard Goode, and composer-in-residence Gabriel Kahane.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, $50,000
To support Neighborhood Concerts. The orchestra will perform free concerts and conduct ancillary activities in several Philadelphia locations, including City Hall and the Great Plaza on Penn's Landing, reaching underserved and non-traditional audiences.
The Philadelphia Orchestra (consortium), $60,000
To support a multi-tiered electronic media initiative designed to engage audiences of all ages. In partnership with Drexel University, programming will be delivered through a variety of platforms, such as iNotes, smartphone applications, iTunes, the orchestra's website www.philorch.org, television, and simulcasts.
Post-Classical Ensemble (consortium), $35,000
To support Mexican Revolution, a festival with multifaceted programming that explores the role of artists, particularly composer Silvestre Revueltas, as catalysts for change. In partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, the festival performances and events, conducted by Music Director Angel Gil-Ordoñez and directed by Artistic Director Joseph Horowitz, will highlight works by Mexican composer, violinist, and conductor Revueltas (1899-1940) and will include the participation of Mexican singer Eugenia Leon, scholar Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus, lecturer and historian Gregorio Luke, Director of Film Programs at the National Gallery of Art Margaret Parsons, and the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra.
San Diego Symphony, $10,000
To support Historical Notes, a concert program for students in grades 8 and 11. Programming using repertoire by American composers will be designed to coincide with Behold America!, a major museum exhibition by the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Timken Museum.
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the commissioning and performance of a new orchestral work by Native American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, featuring the Creekside Singers and a Lakota drumming ensemble. As part of the orchestra's Lakota Music Project -- an initiative developed between 2005-08 through collaboration between the orchestra and the United Sioux Tribes of South Dakota to build bridges between Native Americans and non-Native Americans -- the work will be performed in Sioux Falls and on a tour to six South Dakota Indian Reservations and the surrounding communities.
St. Louis Symphony, $12,500
To support rural orchestral residencies with performances and educational workshops. Full orchestral performances, conducted by Music Director David Robertson and resident conductor Ward Stare, will be preceded by teacher workshops engaging as many as 40 teachers from rural schools.
Stockton Symphony (consortium), $25,000
To support Harmony Stockton, a free, daily, after-school music program for third, fourth and fifth grade students at Marshall Elementary School. In partnership with Stockton Unified School District, students will participate in intensive music classes such as Fundamentals of Music, which emphasizes ear training, rhythm, singing, and listening, and String Instrument Instruction, which includes guided practice sessions on string instruments.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra, $12,500
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour of performances in underserved rural communities. The project will present orchestral programs and educational outreach activities and include a premiere of a commissioned work by native Vermont composer David Feurzeig.
Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, $25,000
To support Community Outreach and Engagement. The program includes professional development for school and studio music teachers, in-school performances by professional ensembles, music coaching for students, free instruments, master classes, and advanced music study for students.
Virginia Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the Harmony Project, a community partnership project with churches and historically Black colleges in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Activities will include ensemble performances, workshops, and educational programs in the region through collaborations with city councils, churches, and educational institutions in Hampton, Norfolk, and Newport News, Virginia.
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, $20,000
To support a statewide outreach tour to underserved rural communities. The orchestra, under the leadership of Artistic Director and conductor Grant Cooper, will introduce orchestral music to new audiences throughout West Virginia, as well as present educational programming in schools by its resident ensemble, the Montclaire String Quartet.
Ash Lawn Opera Festival, $10,000
To support performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors by composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti. The holiday production will feature Brandy Lynn Hawkins (Mother), members of the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra conducted by music director Kate Tamarkin, and members of the Virginia Consort.
ASCAP Foundation, $19,000
To support the Summer Music Camp. Developed in partnership with Manhattan School of Music, the four-week camp will provide free instrumental music training to public school students with an emphasis on increasing performance skills.
California State University Fullerton, $10,000
To support a master class series for university and high school students. Artists will include pianists Louis Lortie and Helene Grimaud, violinists Itzhak Perlman and Jennifer Koh, conductors Keith Lockhart and David Robertson, singers Charles Castronovo and Natalie Dessay, wind players from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Carolina Performing Arts, $40,000
To support the creation and presentation of Rite of Spring at 100. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, two new collaborative works will be created and presented by puppeteer Basil Twist with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and choreographer Bill T. Jones with theater director Anne Bogart.
Carnegie Hall (consortium), $75,000
To support performances and educational activities by Ensemble ACJW, the performance arm of The Academy, a competitive professional development program for young post-graduate musicians. A partnership with the Juilliard School, project plans include performances at Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and Skidmore College; professional development for 20 participating musicians in audience engagement skills; and educational activities in 20 public elementary, middle, and high schools where each musician will spend 25 days over the course of the school year working with music teachers and focusing on building students' musical skills.
Cedille Records, $15,000
To support a world premiere compact disc recording of works by composers Michael Abels, Benjamin Lees, and Randall Fleischer, performed by the Harlem Quartet and the Chicago Sinfonietta on Cedille Records. Conducted by Chicago Sinfonietta music director Mei-Ann Chung, the program will be recorded at Wentz Concert Hall on the campus of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
Charleston Academy of Music, $15,000
To support the Kidzymphony Program. Inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema education program, the after-school strings education program will take place five days a week and involve inner-city, five- to eight-year-old students taught by academy faculty, members of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and faculty of the College of Charleston.
Colburn School, $10,000
To support the Musical Encounter Program. The peer-to-peer program will introduce music programs (classical, jazz, and the vocal arts) to underserved elementary school students through concerts performed by honor students.
Curtis Institute of Music, $20,000
To support a national tour by the Curtis Chamber Orchestra. Repertoire will include a new double violin concerto commissioned by composer David Ludwig and performed by guest soloists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh.
Eastern Music Festival, $10,000
To support the Eastern Music Festival including artist fees, promotion, and salary expenses. The five-week summer festival of more than 100 performances of orchestral, chamber, and jazz will feature artists including pianists Vladimir Feltsman and Alexander Toradze, singers Nancy Maultsby and Anthony Dean Griffey, and violinists Elmar Oliveira and Tasmin Little.
From the Top, $25,000
To support educational outreach activities. Musicians that appear on From the Top, the weekly classical radio program, will take part in Arts Leadership workshops and perform concerts in school classrooms and community venues.
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA), $10,000
To support the local radio broadcast of Front Row Washington, featuring recordings of live classical concerts in metropolitan Washington, DC, on WETA-FM. Specific programming for the year-long weekly series of broadcasts will be designed in a similar fashion to past performances which have included pianist Menachem Pressler and the Auryn Quartet at Georgetown University, the Castleton Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival, Pro Musica Hebraica at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, and pianist Jenny Lin and the Shanghai Quartet at the Freer Gallery.
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, $40,000
To support the Sustainable Creativity Project. The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts will present a series of performances and ancillary activities in music, dance, and theater, including such artists as NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal, Australia's Circus Oz, National Circus of the People's Republic of China, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and Builders Association.
League of American Orchestras (consortium), $50,000
To support Advancing the Public Value of American Orchestras, a pilot project to map community involvement, engage governing boards in the issue, and develop messaging strategies. In partnership with the Pacific Symphony and nine other orchestras, the League will pilot a mapping project that will provide visual representation of orchestra connections to their community; equip orchestra governing boards to advance strategic conversations about deepening community engagement; and assist orchestras in the development of public communications that illuminate their public value.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, $60,000
To support Lincoln Center Institute's (LCI) school partnerships. In each partner school, students will experience and study art with their classroom teachers and teaching artists who guide students in discovering and interpreting art by asking questions and practicing art at LCI's studio theater and New York art institutions.
Lyric Opera Baltimore, $20,000
To support performances of Puccini's La Bohème. Led by director Bernard Uzan and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, performances will feature young artists and will be part of a five-year plan to re-institutionalize the art form across the region following the recent loss of Baltimore's resident opera company.
Mayerson Foundation, $45,000
To support Artistic Excellence Program, weekly, year-round music, dance, visual art, and electronic media classes for high school students in the School for Creative & Performing Arts in Cincinnati. The program will include private lessons, ensemble coaching, master classes with visiting artists, and artists in residence from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet, and the Contemporary Arts Center.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (consortium), $25,000
To support the educational outreach project Cultural Passport: Sounds of America, using music and storytelling to explore the history of America from the perspectives of Native Americans, the pioneers, war veterans, and immigrants. A partnership with the Cleveland Orchestra, the project will include activities and educational materials for teachers and students from elementary to high school grade levels.
Midori & Friends, $60,000
To support Adventures in Making Music, year-long, in-school residencies providing instrumental music instruction for public school students. Program components include twice-weekly classes in strings, brass, percussion, guitar, and voice.
Overture Center for the Arts, $25,000
To support professional development training for teachers and teaching artists in aesthetic education and arts integration. In addition, the Overture Center's resident companies—the Madison Ballet, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Madison Opera, Children's Theater of Madison, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and Kanopy Dance—will provide interdisciplinary in-school and after-school residencies in 10 Madison Metropolitan School District elementary and middle schools.
Ravinia Festival, $10,000
To support Reach*Teach* Play, community outreach and education programs for children and adults. The Ravinia Festival Association will continue its partnership with the Lawndale community to bring music performances and education to Chicago's West Side through free lawn passes for underserved residents; One Score, One Chicago, an initiative that introduces new audiences to classical masterworks; and Words and Music, which involves pre-concert lectures at public libraries throughout the city.
Sheldon Arts Foundation, $10,000
To support the commissioning and performance of a new work by composer and jazz pianist Peter Martin, celebrating the organization's 100th anniversary. Performances of the work, which sets the poem "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou, will feature soprano Christine Brewer, a jazz quartet (including NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis, saxophone; Peter Martin, piano; Christian McBride, bass; and Ulysses Owens, drums), vibraphonist Warren Wolf, and a string quartet (including violinist David Halen and string players from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra).
Sphinx Organization (consortium), $100,000
To support a national tour and community engagement project featuring the Sphinx Virtuosi and the Catalyst Quartet. In partnership with the National Guild for Community Arts Education, Inc. in New York City, a group of approximately 25 emerging young string players, laureates, and alumni of the national Sphinx Competition for mostly African American and Latino musicians, will tour and perform diverse repertoire by composers Heitor Villa-Lobos, George Walker, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Gabriela Lena Frank, Felix Mendelssohn, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
University Musical Society, $50,000
To support Landmarks: A Series of Return Engagements by Three Ensembles. The project will consist of residencies and performances in dance, music, and theater with ensembles including the Martha Graham Dance Company, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada).
Young Musicians Foundation, $15,000
To support the Music Mentors Program. Youth in the Debut Orchestra will serve as mentors in instrumental music to sixth graders at Lennox Middle School After-School Program (LEAP). The Debut Orchestra mentors will attend professional development workshops covering fundamentals of mentoring, principles of youth development, and teaching strategies and will provide music instruction to the middle school students weekly for 32 weeks.


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June 18, 2012
HCA Midwest Health System, Kansas City's largest healthcare network, has named Kelly Reno, RN, BSN, MBA, NEA-BC, as chief nursing officer (CNO) of Menorah Medical Center. Reno joins the leadership team of the award-winning, full-service, acute-care facility that is part of HCA Midwest. Menorah Medical Center has a medical staff with 600 physicians covering the spectrum of specialties and offers compassionate care and advanced technology for patients. The Commission on Cancer accredits Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah Medical Center as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Program. Menorah was also awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award, one of only 82 programs nationwide to receive this recognition, and the only hospital or cancer program in the state of Kansas.
Reno comes to Menorah Medical Center as a nursing executive with 25 years of experience in practice and clinical excellence in a myriad of departments, including oncology, cardiology and trauma. Most recently Reno served as CNO of a 190-bed acute-care hospital in Colorado where she was responsible for nursing, OT/PT, speech, RT, lab, pharmacy and case management. Her oversight included quality, performance improvement and patient safety initiatives. Reno also led a system initiative developing a CNO residency program, helped increase trauma level, added a wound care program and expanded a cath lab. Reno's efforts helped improve employee satisfaction for four consecutive years, and patient satisfaction went from 30 percent to an overall score of 75 percent.
"We are very fortunate and excited about the leadership Kelly will provide to our organization as we expand the services we provide to the community," says Menorah Medical Center Chief Executive Officer and President Steven D. Wilkinson, FACHE. "Her energy and passion for patient care has yielded superb clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. Kelly's leadership in this area will help advance Menorah's philosophy and mission of top-notch patient care."
Reno obtained her bachelor of science in nursing degree from St. Mary of the Plains in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1987. She attended Webster University and graduated with a master's of business administration in 2004 and is board certified by the American Nurses Association as a nurse executive, advanced.
"I believe nursing is a hospital's signature," says Reno. "As a nurse leader, I feel it is my responsibility to ensure the profession of nursing is practiced in an exemplary manner so patients and physicians experience competent staff and ultimately, high quality patient care. I look forward to contributing to Menorah Medical Center's future by providing the best patient care and services for the surrounding community. Menorah is expanding to better meet the needs of patients and families with progressive and innovative programs. I am excited to be a part of that."
Mel Lagarde, president of HCA Midwest Health System, says Reno's wealth of experience and commitment to excellent patient care emulates HCA Midwest's mission. "Our hospitals are dedicated to providing every patient with the highest level of care in an environment where people, compassion, community and integrity are valued," says Lagarde. "Kelly will help enhance what Menorah Medical Center offers to the community."


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Cities and shopping centers are apparently keen to attract shiny new Apple Stores to their areas. So keen, in fact, that Apple routinely gets special deals on leasing, taxes, and other incentives. Other retailers aren't jealous, however, because Apple Store customers add to the bottom line, according to The Next Web.
Among the deals Apple has received recently, The Next Web cites two prominent "sweet deals." One is the leasing deal Apple signed to move into New York's Grand Central Terminal. While New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli thought the deal was too sweet in Apple's favor, the Metropolitan Transit Authority defended the deal, noting that Apple brought in more rent than any other tenant in the space would have. The deal also included $2.5 million in infrastructure improvements paid for by Apple, and is driving notable increases in revenue for nearby stores and restaurants in the terminal.
The other recent deal is one recently closed to bring a second Apple Store to Salt Lake City, Utah. While the details of the lease aren't public, the local ABC News affiliate reported that City Creek Mall offered the company five years of free rent to bring the store in. A commercial real estate broker in the area called the deal "unprecedented."
But in reality, it's not quite so unprecedented when it comes to Apple. For instance, Apple made a deal with the Chicago Transit Authority when it located its Lincoln Park store right next to a CTA subway stop that had grown decidedly dilapidated. In exchange for $4 million to renovate the stop, Apple received a free 10-year lease on the old, disused bus turn-around to build an open plaza just outside the store. The company also claimed first dibs on all advertising space inside the stop and potential naming rights for the station if and when the CTA implements its plan to sell those rights "for market value."
Other retailers located near Apple Stores aren't likely to complain about such deals, either. Apple Stores draw an average of 22,000 well-heeled customers per store, per week. And those shoppers like to spend money elsewhere, too. According to the co-owner of Michael Jordan's The Steakhouse restaurant, sales went up seven percent immediately following the opening of Apple's Grand Central store in New York.


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10 Essential Design Tools for Social Media Pros
This series is supported by Wix.com, an online design tool that enables you to create your own Flash websites, social network layouts, and more, for free. Learn more about Wix here.
Good design is a critical part of any web or social media presence. Like the clothes you wear to a job interview or a business meeting, a sharp looking social profile or website is the first step toward being taken seriously online.
Whether you're a professional designer or an armchair artiste, tools abound that you can use to snazz up your web presence, and give it that polish that professionals, potential customers, and online friends have come to expect from a social media maven. We've talked to the experts about what they use for inspiration, collaboration, and getting down to the business of design in a social media world. Here are some of the suggestions they offered up.
1. Core Application Alternatives
In days of old, the software powerful enough to create and edit high quality graphics was expensive — and it still is, if you must have the name-brand products.
But if you're open to experimentation and perhaps a bit of digital quirkiness, there are free, open source alternatives to some of the staples of the digital design tool set.
"I use Photoshop for any image editing I need to do, but it comes at a price," says Alex Mathers, a freelance designer and illustrator who writes about design and social media promotion at Red Lemon Club. "I would recommend Gimp for those requiring similar functions, and Inkscape as an alternative for creating vector illustrations over Adobe Illustrator ... All of these programs are excellent."
We've mentioned Gimp before as a powerful free alternative to Photoshop, and Inkscape has a similar mission in the realm of scalable vector graphic (SVG) creation. Unlike bitmapped images (JPEGs, PNGs, which are the final products viewed on a website), vector graphics are mathematical representations of images, and can be scaled up indefinitely to meet any size requirement. This means that one file can be used in any medium (web, print, etc.) at any size. They are indispensable to the illustrating designer.
2. Design Communities
If you're a creative person, there's no better way to improve your craft than by getting social. You can start by following designers and design blogs on the major social networks, but if you're looking to really explore others' work and share your own, design communities are key.
"Society6 is an online community that allows artists to showcase their work, sell prints and find others to collaborate with," says Mathers. "Behance, This is Central Station, Creattica and Design Taxi are some other great creative communities that I have used that help designers connect and promote their work."
Like any social network, the value is in sharing. "I upload any recent work I have to Society6 and Behance and use both platforms to interact with other creatives, find people to collaborate with, send and receive feedback, and generally communicate with others in similar industries," says Mathers. "Both sites, particularly Behance, received a healthy amount of traffic ... [they] are an excellent way to gain exposure in front of the right people."
3. Design Element Resources
If you're not an illustrator or digital artist by trade, but you love "putting it all together" for blogs, social media profiles, and websites, you'll need a good resource base to draw from. There are many great blogs and sites that compile textures, fonts, vector illustrations, and other graphic elements that you can incorporate right into your projects for free.
"Dezignus is a good resource for free vector illustrations and textures, and they have a large selection of downloads that is constantly expanding," says Mathers. "Colourlovers.com is a fascinating resource for designers looking for color scheme inspiration and help."
Mathers added that for his typographical requirements, he regularly visits Dafont.com "for a huge selection of free fonts that are easily accessible and downloadable."
Jacob Gube, founder and chief editor of the design blog Six Revisions, adds that deviantART is also "a great resource for sharing and getting design assets (Photoshop brushes, textures, icons, and more)."
It can also be a source of design inspiration. "One of the first things I do to get a quick burst of creativity is to click around deviantArt. Seeing what your colleagues are doing can serve as a good motivational factor for getting your own work done," says Gube.
4. IconFinder
Linking out to social networks is a core element of social web design. Having a Twitter or Facebook icon front and center gives visitors a recognizable channel through which they can connect.
Wonderfully creative social media icon sets abound on the web, and many of them are free for commercial use. But finding the one that perfectly compliments your design (or perhaps inspires a theme in its own right) can be a tiresome process of searching and browsing resource blogs.
IconFinder makes the process a bit easier. It's a search engine for icons submitted by users, with detailed information on their graphic formats and licenses — nearly all of which are free and available for commercial use. The interface provides a convenient way to download icons right from the search results.
"I'm constantly going back to this site every time I need icons for a site that I'm working on," says Jad Limcaco, professional designer and editor of Design Informer. "Instead of bookmarking every site that offers free icons, Icon Finder does the work for you ... It makes life a lot easier."
If you're not hunting for something specific, the site also offers a browsable catalog of icon sets.
5. MockFlow
Building a socially-minded website from scratch requires quite a bit of planning.
"One step in the design process I rarely skip is wireframing," says Grace Smith, owner of Postscript5, a micro-design studio based in Northern Ireland. "It's perhaps one of the most important stages as it helps give an overview of usability, information architecture, layout, and site content."
For larger projects and applications, Smith uses Mockflow for this stage. She says the process is "an intermediary phase between initial sketches and the actual design phase."
MockFlow is a versatile tool that enables you to quickly render functional website prototypes without a big time investment. There are also real-time collaboration and note taking features built into the platform.
"[It] may sound like a waste of time when you can just move on to a full color comp, but it allows you to spot potential problems early, make adjustments quickly, and cuts down dramatically on revisions later in the design treatment stage."
A similar tool recommended by other designers is Mockingbird.
6. Notable
If you find yourself collaborating on a design project, whether with a colleague or client, the feedback process can get cumbersome via e-mail. It helps to be able to take visual notes on a visual product.
"I use Notable for feedback on projects," says Smith. "Notable is superb and is ultimately built to allow quick and easy collaboration. It's helped me streamline my feedback process and keeps all parts of a project organized using sets and workspaces."
Notable works on the web, so you can capture and notate web pages from any computer, as well as your iPhone. Image captures and their respective notes stay organized on your notable account dashboard, and can easily be shared out to your collaborators or team.
7. Campaign Monitor
Believe it or not, e-mail marketing is still very much a part of successful social media campaigns. Whether you're looking to up the design ante for your business's newsletter, or reach out creatively in search of new freelance projects, a design-focused e-mail marketing tool is worth investigating.
"Campaign Monitor is an intuitive e-mail marketing application created for designers. It has excellent tools for designing professional HTML e-mails, creating and managing e-mail campaigns, useful e-mail analytics, and more," says Jacob Gube.
In addition to the valuable features Gube notes above, Campaign Monitor can also be a viable source of income in itself. "For designers looking to expand their service offerings, you can re-brand, customize, and resell Campaign Monitor to your clients," says Gube.
8. Proposable
As part of a small team or as a lone freelancer, a designer must wear many hats. Because of the competitive market right now, Gube stresses the importance of salesmanship. "Designers can [have] great success by using online proposals to win over a project bid."
He recommends Proposable, an online tool that allows you to build highly customized, branded presentations. A Proposable account incorporates an asset library (which can include rich media like video), a variety of templates, and a comment management system for real-time feedback.
"Proposable makes generating professional-level proposals a cinch," says Gube, "and it has reporting features to analyze the performance of your proposals. It was created for salespeople, but as a designer, being a salesperson is a huge part of the gig, whether you're freelancing or pitching a design idea to your managers."
9. Freshbooks
Staying on the business side for a moment, getting paid can often be a struggle for freelancers. For the social web-minded designer, the idea of a cloud-based invoice management system is likely appealing. Enter Freshbooks, "an all-in-one web app for invoicing, tracking expenses, time-tracking, and more," according to Gube.
"I use it to keep track of my expenses, manage payments, and to generate professional invoices quickly and effortlessly," he adds. "There are many billing tools out there, but this one stands out because it caters to freelancers, is aimed towards creatives (designers, developers, writers, artists), and is one of the few web app start-ups that still values customer support." And the fact that it's all on the web allows you to "send someone a bill from your favorite WiFi-enabled coffee house."
10. 960 Grid System
Creatively, the sky's the limit when it comes to web design. But the interfaces of the social web generally follow certain patterns that users are accustomed to. If you're building blog templates or other interactive websites, the 960 Grid System is a good way to map out your page elements so they can achieve alignment harmony.
Many of the designers we spoke to stressed the importance of good old fashioned pen-and-paper sketching in their creative process. "Sketching enables me to break down ideas and fully explore UI options. I find putting it down on paper tends to raise questions and ideas and leads to changes," says Smith. "I use the Sketch Sheets supplied with the 960 Grid System which display a browser frame and grid lines."
960 Grid provides examples of how the system works with a number of sites, and also offers a wealth of other code-related resources for web designers.
What other tools and resources do you use to make your social web designs really pop? Share them in the comments below.
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Paul brilliant as Clippers beat Grizzlies in playoff opener
LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul led seven players in double figures with 23 points, Eric Bledsoe had 15 and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Memphis Grizzlies 112-91 on Saturday while getting just one dunk in their playoff opener.
Chauncey Billups scored 14 points, and Caron Butler and Jamal Crawford had 13 apiece on a night when Blake Griffin was held to 10 points and five rebounds before fouling out with 3:32 left as Lob City was grounded.
Reserve Jerryd Bayless led the Grizzlies with 19 points, Marc Gasol had 16 and Zach Randolph had 13 points and four rebounds while playing with five fouls in the rematch of last year's first-round series, won by the Clippers in seven games. Bayless was one of four Grizzlies with four fouls.
Griffin missed a dunk in the first quarter, when Tony Allen and Ed Davis had Memphis' only two. DeAndre Jordan's driving one-handed slam midway through the fourth was the Clippers' first, and the big man's first basket of the game.
Game 2 is Monday night at Staples Center.
The Grizzlies closed within a point early in the fourth on a 3-pointer by former Clipper Keyon Dooling. Los Angeles answered with a 15-3 run to go up 92-79, equaling the 13-point lead it had in the first half. Eric Bledsoe, who had seven points, opened and closed the spurt with layups as the reserves played an important role in the key stretch.
The high-flying Clippers kept their feet on the ground for most of a game dominated by the referees. Memphis was called for 29 fouls and the Clippers 28.
Memphis owned a 48-46 edge in scoring in the paint, while the Clippers dominated 25-5 in second-chance points and were better on the boards, 47-23.
The Grizzlies never led, and it didn't help that Randolph picked up two fouls and Mike Conley Jr. had three in the first half. Besides Griffin, Jordan had four fouls, while Matt Barnes, Lamar Odom and Ronny Turiaf had three apiece for the Clippers.
Paul scored his team's first seven points in the third, extending their lead to 64-53.
The Clippers led 57-51 at halftime after Barnes tipped in Paul's miss just before the buzzer. They led by 13 points early in the second before the Grizzlies cut it to two points twice in the final 1:24.
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Your Say: Can Obama gun plan work?
The highlights of President Obama's gun plan: institute criminal background checks for all gun sales, reinstate and strengthen the assault-weapons ban and restore the 10-round limit on ammunition magazines. He also wants to ensure that mental health services are more readily available for those who need it.
What's the National Rifle Association response? It wants to fight proposals for tighter gun regulations. Instead, it is pushing for increased police and guard protection at schools.
Which side of the argument are you on? Are there aspects of the president's plan that will work? Does the NRA have the right idea?
On this page, we want to add your voice to the conversation.
Take a look at the polls above that track opinions of some Americans on gun laws, fixes for school violence and how well the NRA represents their values. There's also an informal Twitter survey below. Cast your vote. The maps above show which states have tighter legislation regulating how old you have to be to buy a handgun.
Recent mass shootings and their aftermath
Jump in the conversation yourself. Click on the surveys to the right to tell us your view on some of these tough questions. You can also leave a comment using Facebook to the left.


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As with the preceding 308 GTB and 308 GTBi models there was a targa roof version available, which was called the 308 GTS quattrovalvole. This version is easily identifiable by the removable black roof section and the satin black triangular shaped louvres covering the glass in the sail panels.
Both QV models can also be identified by a revised radiator grille and bumper, an air outlet louvre in the front lid and new door mirrors featuring a small enamel shield on the casing. The 308 GTS Quattrovalvole, with a removable targa roof, succeeded the 308 GTSi, and was presented at the 1982 Paris Salon concurrently with the 308 GTB Quattrovalvole model. The Quattrovalvole part of the model name referred to the four valves per cylinder heads on the engine, which provided increased power over the preceding model.Read more
Visually the new model was very similar to the outgoing one, but could be recognised by the addition of a slim louvre panel in the front lid to aid radiator exhaust air exit, paired electrically operated door mirrors with a small enamel Ferrari badge on the shell, a revised radiator grille with rectangular driving lights at the extremities, and rectangular (instead of round) side repeater lights.
The interior also received some minor alterations, and cloth seat centres became available as an option to the standard full leather, whilst the leather rim satin black three spoke steering wheel featured a triangulated section around the horn push.
The removable grained satin black finished roof panel was stowed in a vinyl cover behind the seats when not in use. As with the preceding series' of 308 models, USA market cars could be identified by heavier bumper assemblies, and rectangular side marker lights on the wings.
Options available were metallic paint, a deep front spoiler, air conditioning, wider wheels, 16″ Speedline wheels with Pirelli P7 tyres, and a rear of roof satin black finished aerofoil (standard on Japanese market models).
The V8 engine was essentially of the same design as that used in the 308 GTSi model, apart from the four valves per cylinder heads. It was of a 90 degree configuration, with belt driven twin overhead camshafts per bank, having a total capacity of 2926cc, with a bore and stroke of 81mm x 71mm, with wet sump lubrication, bearing factory type reference F 105 AB 000 for European market cars. The claimed power output for main market European cars was 240bhp at 7000rpm, and 235bhp at 6800rpm for US market variants. The engine was transversely mounted in unit with the all synchromesh five speed transmission assembly, which was below, and to the rear of the engine's sump.
The gear and final drive ratios were altered to suit the revised characteristics of the four valves per cylinder engine. It was fitted with a Bosch K Jetronic fuel injection system, coupled to a Marelli MED 803A Digiplex electronic ignition system, incorporating a coil, distributor and ignition module to serve each bank of cylinders. All US market examples were fitted with catalytic convertors.
The main European market 308 GTS Quattrovalvole models had a tubular chassis with factory type reference F 105 GS 100, Disc brakes, with independent suspension via wishbones, coil springs, and hydraulic shock absorbers, were provided all round, with front and rear anti roll bars. All models were numbered in the Ferrari odd number road car chassis sequence of the time, with right and left hand drive available.
The model was produced in a total of 3042 examples, over four times as many as the concurrent fixed roof berlinetta, between 1982 and 1985 in the chassis number range 41701 to 59265.
Careful selection of the best shots of the 308 GTS Quattrovalvole in high definition. The photo gallery shows the distinctive features of this model Ferrari in 1982, focusing on the details and the most important parts.
|rear, transverse, 90° V8
|81 x 71 mm
|Unitary displacement
|365.86 cc
|Total displacement
|2926.90 cc
|Compression ratio
|9.2 : 1
|Maximum power
|176 kW (240 hp) at 7000 rpm
|Power per litre
|82 hp/l
|Maximum torque
|260 Nm (26.5 kgm) at 5000 rpm
|Valve actuation
|twin overhead camshafts per bank, four valves per cylinder
|Fuel feed
|Bosch K-Jetronic injection
|electronic, single spark plug per cylinder
|wet sump
|tubular steel
|Front suspension
|independent, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs over telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
|Rear suspension
|independent, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs over telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
|5-speed + reverse
|Fuel tank
|capacity 74 litres
|Front tyres
|Rear tyres
|two-seater targa-top
|4230 mm
|1720 mm
|1120 mm
|2340 mm
|Front track
|1460 mm
|Rear track
|1460 mm
|1286 kg (dry)
|Top speed
|255 km/h
|Acceleration 0-100 km/h
|0-400 m
|14.5 sec
|0-1000 m
|26.2 sec