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HDInsight makes Apache Hadoop available as a service in the cloud. It makes the MapReduce software framework available in a simpler, more scalable, and cost efficient Azure environment. HDInsight also provides a cost efficient approach to the managing and storing of data using Azure Blob storage.
In this tutorial, you will provision an HDInsight cluster using the Azure Management Portal, submit a Hadoop MapReduce job to count words in a text file using PowerShell, and then import the MapReduce job output data into Excel for examination.
This tutorial covers using Hadoop 1.2 clusters on HDInsight. For the tutorial using Hadoop 2.2 clusters on HDInsight, see Get started using Hadoop 2.2 clusters with HDInsight. For version information, see What's new in the cluster versions provided by HDInsight?
In conjunction with the general availability of Azure HDInsight, Microsoft has also released HDInsight Emulator for Azure, formerly known as Microsoft HDInsight Developer Preview. This product targets developer scenarios and as such only supports single-node deployments. For using HDInsight Emulator, see Get Started with the HDInsight Emulator.
Before you begin this tutorial, you must have the following:
Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes
There are several ways to submit MapReduce jobs to HDInsight. In this tutorial, you will use Azure PowerShell. To install Azure PowerShell, run the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Click Run when prompted, click Install, and then follow the instructions. For more information, see Install and configure Azure PowerShell.
The PowerShell cmdlets require your subscription information so that it can be used to manage your services.
To connect to your subscription using Azure AD
Run the following command:
In the window, type the email address and password associated with your account. Azure authenticates and saves the credential information, and then closes the window. The connection will expired in several hours.
The other method to connect to your subscription is using the certificate method. For instructions, see Install and configure Azure PowerShell.
To go back to the certificate method after using the Azure AD method with the Add-AzureAccount cmdlet, run the Remove-AzureAccount cmdlet.
HDInsight uses Azure Blob Storage for storing data. It is called WASB or Azure Storage - Blob. WASB is Microsoft's implementation of HDFS on Azure Blob storage. For more information see Use Azure Blob storage with HDInsight.
When provision an HDInsight cluster, an Azure Storage account and a specific Blob storage container from that account is designated as the default file system, just like in HDFS. The storage account must be located in the same data center as the HDInsight compute resources. Currently, you can only provision HDInsight clusters in the following data centers:
In addition to this storage account, you can add additional storage accounts from either the same Azure subscription or different Azure subscriptions. For instructions on adding additional storage accounts, see Provision HDInsight clusters.
To simply this tutorial, only the default storage account is used, and all of the files are stored in the default file system container, located at /tutorials/getstarted/.
To create an Azure Storage account
Click NEW on the lower left corner, point to DATA SERVICES, point to STORAGE, and then click QUICK CREATE.
Enter URL, LOCATION and REPLICATION, and then click CREATE STORAGE ACCOUNT. Affinity groups are not supported. You will see the new storage account in the storage list.
Wait until the STATUS of the new storage account is changed to Online.
Click the new storage account from the list to select it.
Click MANAGE ACCESS KEYS from the bottom of the page.
Make a note of the STORAGE ACCOUNT NAME and the PRIMARY ACCESS KEY (or the SECONDARY ACCESS KEY. Either of the keys works). You will need them later in the tutorial.
For more information, see How to Create a Storage Account and Use Azure Blob Storage with HDInsight.
To provision an HDInsight cluster
Sign in to the Azure Management Portal.
Click HDInsight on the left to list the status of the clusters in your account. In the following screenshot, there is no existing HDInsight cluster.
Click NEW on the lower left side, click Data Services, click HDInsight, and then click Quick Create.
Enter or select the following values:
Keep a copy of the cluster name. You will need it later in the tutorial.
The quick create method creates a HDInsight version 2.1 cluster. To create version 1.6 or 3.0 clusters, use the custom create method from the management portal, or use Azure PowerShell.
Click Create HDInsight Cluster on the lower right. When the provision process completes, the status column will show Running.
For information on using the CUSTOM CREATE option, see Provision HDInsight Clusters.
Now you have an HDInsight cluster provisioned. The next step is to run a MapReduce job to count word occurrences in a text file.
Running a MapReduce job requires the following elements:
A MapReduce program. In this tutorial, you will use the WordCount sample that comes with HDInsight clusters so you don't need to write your own. It is located on /example/jars/hadoop-examples.jar. For instructions on writing your own MapReduce job, see Develop Java MapReduce programs for HDInsight and Develop C# Hadoop streaming programs for HDInsight.
On the HDInsight version 3.0 clusters, the jar file name is /example/jars/hadoop-mapreduce-examples.jar.
An input file folder. In this tutorial, you will specify one file, /example/data/gutenberg/davinci.txt. For information on upload our own data files, see Upload Data to HDInsight.
An output file folder. You will use /tutorials/getstarted/WordCountOutput as the output file folder. This folder can't be an existing folder. Otherwise you will get an exception.
The URI scheme for accessing files in Blob storage is:
By default, the provision process creates the default Blob container with the same name as the HDInsight cluster name. If a container with the same name already exists, the provision process will name the default container as -x, x is a sequence number, for example, mycluster-1.
The URI scheme provides both unencrypted access with the wasb: prefix, and SSL encrypted access with WASBS. It is recommended using wasbs wherever possible, even when accessing data that lives inside the same Azure data center.
Because HDInsight uses a Blob Storage container as the default file system, you can refer to files and directories inside the default file system using relative or absolute paths.
For example, to access the hadoop-examples.jar, you can use one of the following options:
● wasb://<containername>@<storageaccountname>.blob.core.windows.net/example/jars/hadoop-examples.jar
● wasb:///example/jars/hadoop-examples.jar
● /example/jars/hadoop-examples.jar
For more information, see Use Azure Blob Storage with HDInsight.
To run the WordCount sample
Open Azure PowerShell or PowerShell ISE. For instructions of opening Azure PowerShell console window, see Install and configure Azure PowerShell.
If you haven't connected to your Azure subscription, run the following command:
For more information, see Set up local environment for running PowerShell in this article.
If you have multiple Azure subscriptions, you can use the following command to select the current subscription used in this PowerShell session:
$subscriptionName = "<SubscriptionName>"
Select-AzureSubscription $subscriptionName
To get the subscription name, sign in to the management portal. Click SETTINGS from the left pane.
Set the first variable in the following script, and run the script:
$clusterName = "<HDInsightClusterName>"
$jarFile = "wasb:///example/jars/hadoop-examples.jar"
$className = "wordcount"
$statusFolder = "wasb:///tutorials/getstarted/wordCountStatus"
$inputFolder = "wasb:///example/data/gutenberg/davinci.txt"
$outputFolder = "wasb:///tutorials/getstarted/WordCountOutput"
Run the following commands to create a MapReduce job definition:
# Define the MapReduce job
$wordCountJobDefinition = New-AzureHDInsightMapReduceJobDefinition -JarFile "wasb:///example/jars/hadoop-examples.jar" -ClassName "wordcount" -StatusFolder $statusFolder -Arguments "wasb:///example/data/gutenberg/davinci.txt", "wasb:///tutorials/getstarted/WordCountOutput"
The job definition uses the variables you defined in the last step.
Run the following command to submit the MapReduce job:
# Submit the job
$wordCountJob = Start-AzureHDInsightJob -Cluster $clusterName -JobDefinition $wordCountJobDefinition
In addition to the MapReduce job definition, you must also provide the HDInsight cluster name where you want to run the MapReduce job.
The Start-AzureHDInsightJob is an asynchroized call. To check the completion of the job, use the Wait-AzureHDInsightJob cmdlet.
Run the following command to check the completion of the MapReduce job:
Wait-AzureHDInsightJob -Job $wordCountJob -WaitTimeoutInSeconds 3600
Run the following command to check any errors with running the MapReduce job:
# Get the job output
Get-AzureHDInsightJobOutput -Cluster $clusterName -JobId $wordCountJob.JobId -StandardError
The following screenshot shows the output of a successful run. Otherwise, you will see some error messages.
Using the -StandardOuput switch with the cmdlet, you can also get the standard output log.
To retrieve the results of the MapReduce job
Run the following commands to create a C:\Tutorials folder, and change directory to the folder:
mkdir \Tutorials
cd \Tutorials
The default Azure Powershell directory is C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0. By default, you don't have the write permission on this folder. Later in the script, you will download a copy of the output file to the current directory. You must change directory to a folder where you have write permission.
Set the three variables in the following commands, and then run them:
$storageAccountName = "<StorageAccountName>"
$containerName = "<ContainerName>"
$blobName = "tutorials/getstarted/WordCountOutput/part-r-00000"
The Azure Storage account is the one you created earlier in the tutorial. The storage account is used to host the Blob container that is used as the default HDInsight cluster file system. The Blob storage container name usually share the same name as the HDInsight cluster unless you specify a different name when you provision the cluster.
Run the following commands to create an Azure storage context object:
# Create the storage account context object
$storageAccountKey = Get-AzureStorageKey $storageAccountName | %{ $_.Primary }
$storageContext = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $storageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $storageAccountKey
The Select-AzureSubscription is used to set the current subscription in case you have multiple subscriptions, and the default subscription is not the one to use.
Run the following command to download the MapReduce job output from the Blob container to the workstation:
# Download the job output to the workstation
Get-AzureStorageBlobContent -Container $ContainerName -Blob $blobName -Context $storageContext -Force
The example/data/WordCountOutput folder is the output folder specified when you run the MapReduce job. part-r-00000 is the default file name for MapReduce job output. The file will be download to the same folder structure on the local folder. For example, in the following screenshot, the current folder is the C root folder. The file will be downloaded to the C:\example\data\WordCountOutput\ folder.
Run the following command to print the MapReduce job output file:
cat ./example/data/WordCountOutput/part-r-00000 | findstr "there"
The MapReduce job produces a file named part-r-00000 with the words and the counts. The script uses the findstr command to list all of the words that contains "there".
If you open ./example/data/WordCountOutput/part-r-00000, a multi-line output from a MapReduce job, in Notepad, you will notice the line breaks are not renter correctly. This is expected.
The output folder can't be an existing folder. Otherwise MapReduce job will fail. If you want to run the MapReduce job again, you must delete the output folder and the output file. Here is a PowerShell script for doing the job:
# set the variables
$storageAccountName = "<StorageAccountName>"
$containerName = "<ContainerName>"
$blobName = "tutorials/getstarted/WordCountOutput/part-r-00000"
$blobFolderName = "tutorials/getstarted/WordCountOutput"
# Create the storage account context object
$storageAccountKey = Get-AzureStorageKey $storageAccountName | %{ $_.Primary }
$storageContext = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $storageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $storageAccountKey
# Download the output to local computer
Remove-AzureStorageBlob -Container $ContainerName -Blob $blobName -Context $storageContext -Force
Remove-AzureStorageBlob -Container $ContainerName -Blob $blobFolderName -Context $storageContext -Force
The Power Query add-in for Excel can be used to export output from HDInsight into Excel where Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) tools can be used to further process or display the results.
You must have Excel 2010 or 2013 installed to complete this part of the tutorial.
To download Microsoft Power Query for Excel
To import HDInsight data
Click the Power Query menu, click From Other Sources, and then click From Azure HDInsight.
Enter the Account Name of the Azure Blob Storage Account associated with your cluster, and then click OK. This is the storage account you created earlier in the tutorial.
Enter the Account Key for the Azure Blob Storage Account, and then click Save.
In the Navigator pane on the right, double-click the Blob storage container name. By default the container name is the same name as the cluster name.
Locate part-r-00000 in the Name column (the path is .../example/data/WordCountOutput), and then click Binary on the left of part-r-00000.
Right-click Column1.1, and then select Rename.
Change the name to Word.
Repeat the process to rename Column1.2 to Count.
Click Apply & Close in the upper left corner. The query then imports the word counting MapReduce job output into Excel.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to provision a cluster with HDInsight, run a MapReduce job on it, and import the results into Excel where they can be further processed and graphically displayed using BI tools. To learn more, see the following articles:
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I am a bit skeptic about using LED than the usual bulbs. I am not so sure about LED. I have tried it but I dont like the lighting quality.
I am definitely not a pro plumber, but I am a pro crastinator
As Bob said lots depends on the color of the light output. The Cree cr6's and Home Depot retrofits made by Cree have a 2700 deg Kelvin output. Look at my posted picture. This is real life usage and not a manufacture touched up photo.
They have a frosted lens cover and if you did not know you would swear they are incandescent bulbs. The BIG drawback is cost. Here in South Florida they cost $50 each. For me it was worth it as now I actually can turn the lights on full and not feel the radiant heat emitted from the old 65w flood lights.
mmmmm, so maybe they are no good after all! One failed last night totally. going to return it or both to HD for a refund, but not sure if I'll re-buy them at the lower price of 25.99 vs the 35.99 I paid in July.
So much for LED longevitynah:
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Let's see, somebody here has a sig that says:"Books tell how it should be, Experience tells how it really is..."
Maybe that's where I've heard that before
As Gorest Gump's mother said, "Life is like a box of Choklits........................"
And its 4 months to the day that they (it) failed, not even close to 3 years
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Rules and codes are good to know.
I hope the lights did not go out when you got to NEC-BR549.
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They look nice Chad.
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TELLURIDE – "There is just something about the inspiration you get from the mountains, and the inspiration you get from classical music," says Telluride Chamber Music Festival board president Warner Paige, who invites music lovers of every caliber to celebrate the commencement of Telluride's 35th annual Chamber Music Festival during Thursday night's Town Park Concert and Picnic.
Throughout the last three and a half decades, the Town Park Concert and Picnic has come to epitomize the spirit of the Telluride Chamber Music Festival. "It's nice and light, and offers the opportunity for the audience to get up close and personal with the performers," Paige says of the concert, which is free and open to the public. Set at the foot of Telluride's Box Canyon, Thursday night's concert provides an idyllic setting where the muses of chamber music share the stage with the majestic San Juans.
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Concert goers are encouraged to bring a picnic dinner to Thursday's concert; the picnic will begin at 5 p.m. and the music starts around 6 p.m. Chamber Music Festival sponsor Cindy Bread will create special to-go picnic meals for the free concert in Town Park; call the local bakery at 369-1116 for more details.
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Physical infrastructure is critical to the nation's economy and affects the daily life of virtually all Americans--from facilitating the movement of goods and people within and beyond U.S. borders to providing clean drinking water. However, this infrastructure--including aviation, highway, transit, rail, water, and dam infrastructure--is under strain. Estimates to repair, replace, or upgrade aging infrastructure as well as expand capacity to meet increased demand top hundreds of billions of dollars. Calls for increased investment in infrastructure come at a time when traditional funding for infrastructure projects is increasingly strained, and the federal government's fiscal outlook is worse than many may understand. This testimony discusses (1) challenges associated with the nation's surface transportation, aviation, water, and dam infrastructure, and the principles GAO has identified to help guide efforts to address these challenges and (2) existing and proposed options to fund investments in the nation's infrastructure. This statement is primarily based on a body of work GAO has completed for the Congress over the last several years. To supplement this existing work, GAO also interviewed Department of Transportation officials to obtain up-to-date information on the status of the Highway Trust Fund and various funding and financing options and reviewed published literature to obtain information on dam infrastructure issues.
The nation faces a host of serious infrastructure challenges. Demand has outpaced the capacity of our nation's surface transportation and aviation systems, resulting in decreased performance and reliability. In addition, water utilities are facing pressure to upgrade the nation's aging and deteriorating water infrastructure to improve security, serve growing demands, and meet new regulatory requirements. Given these types of challenges and the federal government's fiscal outlook, it is clear that the federal government cannot continue with business as usual. Rather, a fundamental reexamination of government programs, policies, and activities is needed. Through prior analyses of existing programs, GAO identified a number of principles that could guide a reexamination of federal infrastructure programs. These principles include: (1) creating well-defined goals based on identified areas of national interest, (2) establishing and clearly defining the federal role in achieving each goal, (3) incorporating performance and accountability into funding decisions, (4) employing the best tools and approaches to emphasize return on investment, and (5) ensuring fiscal sustainability. Various options are available to fund infrastructure investments. These options include altering existing or introducing new funding approaches and employing various financing mechanisms, such as bonds and loans. For example, a variety of taxes and user fees, such as tolling, can be used to help fund infrastructure projects. In addition, some have suggested including an infrastructure component in a future economic stimulus bill, which could provide a one-time infusion of funds for infrastructure projects. Each of these options has different merits and challenges, and choosing among them will likely involve trade-offs among different policy goals. Furthermore, the suitability of the various options depends on the level of federal involvement or control that policymakers desire. However, as GAO has reported, when infrastructure investment decisions are made based on sound evaluations, these options can lead to an appropriate blend of public and private funds to match public and private costs and benefits. To help policymakers make explicit decisions about how much overall federal spending should be devoted to investment, GAO has previously proposed establishing an investment component within the unified budget.
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In Valley City, Governor Quizzed About Proposed Devils Lake Gravity-fed OutletCity and county leaders in this flood-weary community peppered Gov. Jack Dalrymple with questions about a proposed third Devils Lake outlet today, while two groups opposed to new outlets said they've hired a law firm in response to the state's plans.
By: Mike Nowatzki, Forum Communications
VALLEY CITY, N.D. – City and county leaders in this flood-weary community peppered Gov. Jack Dalrymple with questions about a proposed third Devils Lake outlet today, while two groups opposed to new outlets said they've hired a law firm in response to the state's plans.
The governor acknowledged that pitching Devils Lake outlet projects in Valley City when the Sheyenne River here is experiencing a rare August flood was a tough sell.
"I should have my head examined," he joked during the standing-room-only meeting at City Hall.
More than 50 people packed the City Commission room to hear about the newly proposed gravity-flow outlet that would drain water from Stump Lake, which is connected to Devils Lake, into the Tolna Coulee and eventually the Sheyenne River.
Dalrymple promoted the gravity-flow outlet as a tool for downstream communities to deal with Devils Lake water in a manageable fashion, as opposed to an uncontrolled and potentially catastrophic release that could occur if the lake rises another 3.7 feet to its natural spillover elevation of 1,458 feet. Devils Lake has risen more than 30 feet and quadrupled in size since 1993.
"We have reached a point where we are so close to an overflow situation that pumps are almost irrelevant," Dalrymple said.
The prospect of additional water coming down the Sheyenne River didn't sit well with some city and county leaders.
Barnes County Commission Cindy Schwehr said flooding has inundated county roads, turned four sloughs into lakes and swallowed tens of thousands of acres of farmland.
"It's just as painful here as it is for the folks in Devils Lake," she said.
Others raised concerns about the high sulfate levels in Stump Lake water and whether the state would provide funds to cover the extra cost of treating the water.
State Water Engineer Todd Sando said the gravity-flow outlet would consist of a one-mile-long, 40-foot-wide channel connecting west Stump Lake to Tolna Coulee. The channel bottom would have an elevation of 1,452 feet, he said.
At the lake's current level of about 1,453 feet, the channel would drain 27 cubic feet of water per second from Stump Lake. Flows would increase to 90 cfs at 1,454 feet and 668 cfs at 1,458 feet, the natural spillover elevation.
An existing west-end outlet on Devils Lake can pump 250 cfs into the Sheyenne River. Construction bids will be let Friday for an east-end outlet capable of pumping 350 cfs, which state officials hope will be online by June.
Two grassroots groups, People to Save the Sheyenne and the Ad Hoc Downstream Group, announced today they have retained Minneapolis law firm Lindquist & Vennum to help them in their request for an independent environmental impact statement before any more outlet projects are built.
The Ad Hoc group also presented Dalrymple with a petition that it said was signed by more than 900 area residents. The petition asks that the Tolna Coulee be armored to 1,458 feet with no control structure, that no more outlets be built, that a moratorium be placed on future drainage in the upper basin of Devils Lake and that a mitigation plan for downstream damage be in place and funded before work begins on any new project.
Mary Ann Sheets-Hanson, a member of the Ad Hoc group, said members understand the difficulties faced by farmers losing land in the Devils Lake area, and they should be compensated for their losses.
"We cannot, however, agree that the Sheyenne should become the drainage ditch for the worst-quality water as the solution for the Devils Lake flooding," she said.
Nowatzki is a reporter at the Forum in Fargo
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Pagunsan eyes Singapore redemption
Reigning Asian Tour number one Juvic Pagunsan has 'unfinished business' to attend to when he returns to the US$6 million Barclays Singapore Open next month.
Pagunsan lost in a Monday play-off to Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano of Spain at Sentosa Golf Club last season but his runner-up result saw him become the first Filipino to win the coveted Order of Merit crown.
"I'm definitely looking forward to the Barclays Singapore Open and will be 100% focused. A second place finish last year was good but I felt I was a bit unlucky to lose in the play-off," said Pagunsan.
"I have a lot of good memories because I was fighting for my Asian Tour card before the event and suddenly I'm winning the Order of Merit. It was definitely a memorable achievement that I won't forget," he added.
The smooth-swinging Filipino will be joined by many of the world's top golfers including world number one Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, Adam Scott of Australia, a three-time winner, American Phil Mickelson and 2010 Open Championship winner Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa.
After struggling earlier in the season, Pagunsan has enjoyed some late-season form and made seven consecutive cuts in Japan including finishing tied fourth at the Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open and second place at the Japan Open.
Pagunsan is wary of the challenging Serapong course but is confident of shinning again and ending a five-year title drought on the Asian Tour.
"Honestly, I didn't expect to play so well at the Barclays Singapore Open last year. I wasn't playing well in the last couple of months so there were some nerves," said the Filipino.
"The golf course is tough because the rough is thick and the course is long. It will be windy and we normally have a lot of rain. It is always tough playing in Singapore. You need to hit it straight or you will find yourself in trouble. I've enjoyed some good finishes in Japan recently and hope I can continue in Singapore," added Pagunsan.
Fan favourite John Daly from America, Korea's Y. E. Yang, the first Asian to win a Major, and 2011 British Open champion Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland have also confirmed their participation.


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Though he was offered a scholarship to study architecture, he turned it down in order to study art. He studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1910s, graduating in 1918. During his training, he preferred to step outside the school's focus on classical art. While he was a student, in 1913, other students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago rioted against the Armory Show, a collection of the best new modern art. After graduation, he kept his modern, jazz-influenced paintings secret for some years thereafter.
In 1924, Motley married his high school sweetheart, Edith Granzo, the daughter of German immigrants who disowned her when she married Motley. He and Edith had one child, Archibald "Archie" J. Motley III.Motley experienced success early in his career. In 1927, his piece "Mending Socks" was voted the most popular exhibit at the Newark Museum in New Jersey.
In 1928, he was awarded the Harmon Foundation Award and, on February 25, 1928, he was the first artist to make the front page of The New York Times" and the first African-American to have a one-man exhibit in New York City. He sold twenty-two out of the twenty-six exhibited paintings. The Times headline read, "One-Man Show of Art by Negro, First of Kind Here, Opens Today." The article announced the opening of Archibald J. Motley, Jr's show at the New Gallery on Madison Avenue. This was the first time in history that an artist had made the front page of 'The New York Times' and it was the second one-person show by an African-American artist (the first being Henry O. Tanner) in the United States. African scenes, voodoo dances, and African-Americans at leisure were themes presented by the artist.
In 1929, he won the Guggenheim Fellowship (after being denied when he previously applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927). He studied in France for a year, and chose not to extend his fellowship another six months. While many contemporary artists looked back to Africa for inspiration, Motley was inspired by the great Renaissance masters available at the Louvre. He found in the artwork there a formal sophistication and maturity that could give depth to his own work, particularly in the Dutch painters and the genre images of Delacroix, Hals, and Rembrandt. Motley's portraits take the conventions of the Western tradition and update them—allowing for black bodies, specifically black female bodies, a space in a history that had traditionally excluded them.
He is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience during the 1920s and 1930s in a modernist-realist style. He is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, though unlike many other Harlem Renaissance artists, he never lived in Harlem. So, as one of the first to establish the social life of African-Americans in inner cities as "memorable subject matter," he portrayed the spirit of urban Black neighborhoods usually in twilight or an evening atmosphere.
He used the life that he knew best as subject matter, African-Americans as a dynamic people. The figures in Motley's work were always hurrying, gesturing, or going some place. Throughout his career, Motley showed interest in capturing natural light and producing artificial light, especially in night scenes. Motley was also distinguished from many of his contemporaries and successors, including Jacob Lawrence, by his rendering of his fascination with shades of skin color. "...I try to give each one of them character as individuals. And that's hard to do when you have so many figures to do, putting them all together and still have them have their characteristics." (Motley 1978) It could be interpreted that through this differentiating, Motley is asking white viewers not to lump all African Americans into the same category or stereotype, but to get to know each of them as individuals before making any judgments. It is important to note, however, that it was not his community he was representing—he was among the affluent and elite black community of Chicago. He married a white woman and lived in a white neighborhood, and was not a part of that urban experience in the same way his subjects were.
During the 1930s, Motley was employed by the Federal Works Progress Administration to depict scenes from African-American history in a series of murals, some of which can be found at Nichols Middle School in Evanston, Illinois.
His career held steady through the 1940s as he kept painting and winning acclaim, but following the death of his wife in 1948, he experienced financial problems and was forced to take a job designing shower curtains for the Styletone Corporation in Chicago.
In the 1950s, he made several visits to Mexico to visit his novelist nephew, Willard Motley, which inspired a fresh series of work, paintings of the Mexican landscape with a new infusion of bright colors.
In his paintings of jazz culture, Motley often depicted Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, which offered a safe haven for blacks migrating from the South. Like many of his other works, Motley's cross-section of Bronzeville lacks a central narrative. For example, a brooding man with his hands in his pockets gives a stern look. Behind the bus, a man throws his arms up ecstatically. In the center, a man exchanges words with a partner, his arm up and head titled as if to show that he is making a point. By displaying a balance between specificity and generalization, he allows "the viewer to identify with the figures and the places of the artist's compositions."
Archibald Motley Jr. died January 16, 1981, in Chicago.
While Archibald Motley fell into a period of obscurity through the decades before his death, his art and vision began to be rediscovered shortly after. His work can be seen at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago Historical Society and The Ackland Art Museum. Also, the Penguin Classics version of African-American author Nella Larsen's novel "Passing" – about 1920s New York and Chicago and how skin tone affects the fate of a mixed race woman – featured Motley's 1925 portrait "The Octoroon Girl" on the front cover.
Motley's only sister, Flossie, had a son, Willard, who became a writer of naturalistic novels during the 1940s and 1950s. Willard, raised essentially as his brother, spent a lot of time with Motley's family and wrote at least parts of his novels at the Motley kitchen table. Williard became an acclaimed writer known for his 1947 novel "Knock on Any Door."
Compiled from www.anothershadeofcolor.com, Wikipedia, and http://www.suite101.com/content/archibald-motley-a42163.


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That's when Alabama hosted a Pro Day for NFL scouts to work out Crimson Tide stars eligible for the draft. Williams was timed in the 40-yard dash at 4.9 seconds, which seems awfully swift for a 325-pound defensive tackle. In addition, he bench pressed 225 pounds 30 times in repetition.
But in the end, will that make any difference in where Williams goes in the draft? The action starts tonight with the first round, beginning at 7 p.m. The second and third rounds will be Friday at 5:30 p.m., and the fourth through seventh rounds will be Saturday at 11 a.m. ESPN will broadcast all seven rounds.
"In terms of where I have him slotted now, it's not just about workouts, it's about how they played, and all these teams have an idea where these kids deserve to go, and they'll be tweaked a little bit based on the numbers that come in from these workouts," ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. said in a teleconference with reporters. "Some care about it more, some don't. It's about production on the field."
So for Williams, that means he likely will go about where he was slotted before his Pro Day workout.
"A kid who played nose tackle in that 3-4 (defense), is incredibly strong, powerful kid, still raw, still learning the game," Kiper said. "I think you look at him as a second round pick."
Three of Williams' Alabama teammates appear to be locks for tonight's first round: cornerback Dee Milliner and offensive linemen Chance Warmack and D.J. Fluker. Eddie Lacy is generally regarded as the top running back available, and if he doesn't go in the first round, he should go in the second.
Most draft analysts agree with Kiper's assessment of Williams, although it's possible he could hear his name called tonight. NFL.com draft analyst Josh Norris has San Francisco taking Williams with the 31st pick in the opening round.
"It's been a long way, mentally and physically for me to make it all the way over here and do this," said Williams, a native Australian. "It's been good. It's a journey, and I'm looking forward to continuing in the NFL."
The funny thing is about the draft process is that Williams had to change his typical workout to be ready for that Pro Day. He doesn't typically do a lot of running and rarely does the 40-yard dash.
"Hopefully, those are the last ones I've got to run for time," he said.
Williams added, "Running's not the hard part for me. It's usually stopping without running into you media guys down here was the toughest part for me."
At his Pro Day, Williams got plenty of individual attention from the Detroit Lions scout. Detroit has the fifth pick of the first round and the 36th pick, which is the second round.
But Williams has heard from others.
"There's a whole bunch of teams," Williams said. "It's tough to name a bunch of them. I try to keep a pretty even contact with a lot of teams. I know there are a lot of players, and it's a pretty strong defensive tackle class."
In the end, Alabama coach Nick Saban said his players shouldn't get too caught up in the draft and when they get the phone call from a team: "It's not necessarily where you get drafted but what kind of career after you get drafted," he said.
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But I still think that military diplomacy, particularly in wartime, is markedly different from engaging in actual government-to-government foreign policy. Military diplomacy is a juggling act; foreign policy is a chess game. That doesn't meant that military diplomacy is a lesser thing than foreign policy, only that it's a different thing, in my view.
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1/18/2014 - STRESS - Stress may save your life if you're being chased by a tiger. But if you're stuck in traffic, it may be more likely to make you sick. This hour we take a long hard look at the body's system for getting out of trouble. Stanford University neurologist (and part-time "baboonologist") Dr. Robert Sapolsky takes us through what happens on our insides when we stand in the wrong line at the supermarket, and offers a few coping strategies. Plus: the story of a singer who lost her voice, and an author stick in a body that never grew up.


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7:00pm Thursday 19th December 2013 in Winchester By Lauren Howard, Reporter
ALRESFORD Rotary Club has been celebrating after a sell-out Christmas tree sale for the tenth year in a row.
On Saturday (December 14) residents from right across the town lined up to collect their trees before they'd even been unloaded from their lorries.
Children and their parents from Cherry Tree Pre-School gathered in front of the Spirit of the Andes shop on Broad Street to entertain the shoppers as they bought their Norway spruce and Noordman 'non-drop' trees.
The annual event saw few trees left by 11am from the 300 that had been brought in to help raise funds for the community.
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Adventure-based recreation continues to be the leading trend, both regionally and nationally, in outdoor recreation. Self-guided opportunities are available on Maryland's public lands for the novice to experienced enthusiast, as well as the family with young children.
We are intent on providing you with a great outdoor experience. Here are self-guided opportunities available near Rocky Gap State Park. Additional self-guided opportunities are available at most Maryland State Parks.
Canoeing and Kayaking
- Cycling, C&O Canal, Cumberland to Lock 74
- Cycling, C&O Canal, Lock 67 to Little Orleans
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HILLS residents have lost track of nearly $205 million of their superannuation.
Postcode 2153 — which covers Baulkham Hills, Bella Vista and Winston Hills — has lost $37.103 million alone, placing them 15th in the state for lost super.
Kellyville, which has lost $28 million, is in 30th position.
"SuperSeeker can help people to not only find lost super, but move money sitting in inactive accounts to one fund and save on fees and charges," Deputy Commissioner for Superannuation, Neil Olesen said.
As an Australian Taxation Office spokesman explained, lost super can occur when a person has changed their name or address and not let their super fund know, or where a person has not made contributions or a rollover to their super account in the past five years.
While lost, the money continues to be invested according to the rules of the superannuation fund where it's held.
"Therefore the [super fund] member continues to earn interest even when the account remains lost," the ATO spokesman said.
Asked how important it was to consolidate super accounts — to avoid going into negative figures due to administration costs that continue to becharged even after after a person stops contributing to their fund — he recommended seeking expert advice as there may be other considerations, including exit or withdrawal fees or the loss of insurance entitlements. If your super is sorted, there's also more than $16,000 of unclaimed money owed to Hills residents.
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Jeweller Beaverbrooks appoints BJL ahead of Christmas drive
High street jeweller Beaverbrooks has brought in BJL for comms help after a pitch process.
Starting immediately, BJL will take responsibility for all consumer product PR, brand awareness-raising initiatives and media engagement.
Having previously handled all comms activity in-house, Beaverbrooks' decision to bring BJL on board forms part of an effort to boost coverage levels within consumer lifestyle media.
BJL will initially focus on identifying product and brand-building opportunities in the run up to Christmas and the January sales period. It will also work on campaign plans for Valentine's Day next year.
Lee Robson, group PR account director at BJL, said: 'The client is very much focused on helping people find the right product. At this time of year there's a confusing array of choice so it's about conveying that Beaverbrooks offers product solutions. We want to open new doors for them, with a focus on women's weeklies, as well as media like the gift guides that are put together by national titles ahead of Christmas.'
Account director Jennie Madden will lead the account for BJL, reporting to Penny Langton, marketing manager at Beaverbrooks.
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That goes for whether it's a regular event or a major.
The former Auburn player couldn't have played much better Thursday, shooting a 3-under-par 69 in soft, scoreable conditions and is in a group of six players just two shots off Lee Westwood's first-round lead in the 76th Masters.
Westwood shot 67 and held a one shot lead over Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa and Peter Hanson of Sweden.
On a day where soft conditions helped jumble the leaderboard, 44 players shot par or better and 28 players are within four shots of the lead. The rain that fell just as Dufner was coming off the course and resumed overnight was expected to soften the course even more for today's round.
The two tournament favorites, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, shot 71 and 72, respectively. Defending champion Charl Schwartzel also shot 72 and fan favorite Phil Mickelson shot 74.
Dufner, 35, has flourished on the big stage, at least recently. In his last major, he held a share of the second- and third-round leads at the PGA Championship and had a five-shot lead in the final round before losing in a playoff to Keegan Bradley. He also finished tied for fifth in the 2010 PGA and was T-30 here last year.
His start couldn't have been better. He nearly holed a "pretty comfortable" 6-iron from 188 yards on No. 1 and started the day birdie-birdie. He birdied three of the four par-5s. It's not supposed to be that easy, especially in majors.
"I just don't see it that way," he said. "I'm not too nervous about it. Maybe someday it'll be a little bit more different. I've played in a good bit of these. I don't have as much experience as some players, but I'm getting to the point where I feel good.
"These golf courses are set up tough, obviously, for majors. It's a different challenge, and that's how I look at it. It's a good challenge for me, it's a good challenge for the field and it's a good challenge to see where mine game's going."
Henrik Stenson looked like he might run away with the first-round lead until his monumental collapse on the final hole.
The 36-year-old Swede took a record-tying 8 on the last and went from the lead to off the board – on his 36th birthday, no less.
Stenson had never broken 70 in 18 career rounds and made only three cuts in appearances, but was on a record pace through the front nine.
He eagled both par-5s on the front and turned in 5-under. A birdie at 10 got him to 6-under. He was at 5-under when he reached 18.
It was a McIlroy 2011 collapse in reverse. McIlroy came to the back nine of last year's final round holding a one-shot lead, then rifled his drive off the trees back toward the cabins. He was out of the hunt by 13.
On this day, Stenson bogeyed 14, hit a bad drive on 15 but chipped in for birdie, three-putted for a "clumsy" bogey on 16, missed a short birdie putt on 17 before reaching the fateful 18th.
"It was very wishy-washy on the back nine," he said.
He pulled his tee shot into the trees, didn't get it back out into the fairway, punched his third shot down the fairway and slammed his club in frustration. He hit his pitching wedge from 136 yards over the green, chipped short and three-putted to tie the highest score ever recorded on the hole.
"If you can't get the ball in play off the tee, you're going to drop shots," Stenson said. "Playing out of the forest most of the back nine it's going to cost a little bit sooner or later. … You make a little mistake and then you compound it with another one and it just keeps on snowballing and I got the snowman in the end."
As for the leaders, Westwood jumped into contention with four straight birdies on the front.
Second here two years ago after three rounds in the 60s, he birdied 5, 6, 7 and 8 to get to 4-under. He gave a shot back at 10, but got it back on 13, then took the outright lead with a birdie on 17.
Not unusual. He has been par or under in 11 of his last 13 rounds here.
"It's nice to get off to a good start and have a platform to build on," he said.
Oosthuizen, who has missed the cut in each of his three previous Masters appearances, birdied four of the last five holes to grab the lead until Westwood birdied 13 to tie him. He had never shot better than 73 in any previous Masters round.
His best friend, Charl Schwartzel, won last year's Masters by making birdie on each of the last four holes on Sunday.
"I tried to get the four, but I missed the one," he said. "I was disappointed with 13, hitting my second in the water, but I had an opportunity to save par and just missed an eight-footer. But from there on I still felt very confident. I knew I was hitting it well – especially my irons – and I made a few nice putts coming in."
Hanson also played a strong back nine. He birdied 11, 12 and 17.
The first potential controversy of the tournament was avoided when it was determined Luke Donald's 75 was improperly entered in the tournament scoring system as a 73 because a fax machine produced a smudged number. Had the world's No. 1 ranked player signed for a 73 when shooting a 75 he would have been disqualified.
The error occurred on the par-4 fifth where Donald three-putted for 5, which he acknowledged in post-round remarks, but the score was recorded as 3 in the system because officials read it that way. Augusta National officials described it as an "administrative error."
Al Muskewitz covers golf for The Star. He can be reached at 256-235-3577.


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The Shock Of The New
A group of powerful mutants helps a woman evade a secret intelligence service.
A group of powerful mutants helps a woman evade a secret intelligence service.
The team attempts to rescue Brennan and a group captured by Eckhart.
Mutant X match wits with a Russian duo who are hunting down New Mutants.
Shalimar falls for a scientist who has developed a serum to reverse mutations.
When a new mutant wreaks havoc in the city, Adam leads the team to stop him.
The team face their biggest challenge yet when a deadly virus spreads.
Adam leads the Mutant X team on a mission to protect a new mutant.
The Mutant X team embarks on a dangerous mission to save Jesse's girlfriend.
Adam and the Mutant X team set out to rescue a young boy who's been kidnapped.
The Mutant X team struggles to save the survivors of an anti-terrorist unit.
Adam's long lost lover steals his prototype Genetic Sequencer.
Emma is split in two by a synergetic energy blast.
Jesse is roped into a deadly mission when his estranged father shows up.
A young mutant from Adam's past shows up seeking revenge for her father's death.
Emma falls prey to a vampire, who must feed on mutants in order to survive.
Emma's past puts her in grave danger when she is reunited with an old friend.
Adam is framed for murder after encountering a mutant who steals memories.
A former boyfriend of Shalimar, the New Mutant Zack Lockhart, joins Mutant X.
Shalimar is infected and falls into a coma that shows her worst fears.
A New Mutant has infected Carl Ames with a pheromone that leaves him seduced.
Mutant X and The GSA are filmed using their powers and must now work together.
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|Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
|All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
|Travels in Constants, Volume 21: The Rescue
|Friday Night Lights: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
|The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
|Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
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Explosions in the Sky - No Armageddon Necessary -- Just A Truly Powerful Rock Band
The sky wasn't falling when a Texas quartet made up of Mark Smith and Munaf Rayani on guitars, Michael James on bass guitar, and Christopher Hrasky as the drummer exploded onto the music scene with a record deal from Temporary Residence Limited in 2001. The only explosions you heard weren't from the sky; but they might as well have been given their powerful rock sound.
Explosions in the Sky - Rock Bombs Dropping From Above
In the second half of 2001 was the implosive release of their first work, Those Who Tell the Truth. After that came the powerful 2003 full-length release The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place. They became relatively popular in the music community enough to garner the attention of soundtrack spots for the film and series Friday Night Lights. Even still in the year of 2011, the Explosions in the Sky came in for another titanic album entitled Take Care, Take Care, Take Care.
Explosions in the Sky - The Sound of the Explosion
You can't get any better indie rock than this, especially when the Explosions in the Sky merge a moody sound with some dynamic instrumentation to redefine the rock genre in a way that can only be described as a lyrical and satisfying explosion. Indie rock certainly has come a long way, and Explosions in the Sky heads the invasion of bands that are purely in it not for the commercialism of the music industry, but for the passion of the sound of true heavy metal, as it should be. Look for the Explosions in the Sky exploding in your area, and experience the Armageddon of music.
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Sasquatch Music Festival 4 Day Pass (May 25 - 28) featuring Beck, Bon Iver, The Shins, Beirut, Girl Talk, The Roots, The Head... Gorge Amphitheatre — George , WA
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Explosions in the Sky Tour Dates 2014
date city state venue 03/21/2014 New Orleans LA Mardi Gras World
Explosions in the Sky Tour Dates 2013
date city state venue 11/22/2013 Seattle WA Key Arena 11/21/2013 Vancouver BC Rogers Arena 11/19/2013 Spokane WA Spokane Arena 11/18/2013 Portland OR Moda Center at the Rose Quarter 11/16/2013 Las Vegas NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 11/15/2013 Las Vegas NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 11/13/2013 Broomfield CO 1stBank Center 11/11/2013 El Paso TX Don Haskins Center 11/09/2013 Phoenix AZ US Airways Center 11/08/2013 Los Angeles CA Staples Center 11/05/2013 San Antonio TX AT&T Center 10/08/2013 Pittsburgh PA Petersen Events Center 10/07/2013 Auburn Hills MI The Palace of Auburn Hills 10/05/2013 Cleveland OH Wolstein Center 10/04/2013 Toronto ON Air Canada Centre 10/03/2013 Montreal QC Bell Centre 10/01/2013 St. Louis MO Chaifetz Arena 09/30/2013 Kansas City MO Sprint Center 09/28/2013 Saint Paul MN Xcel Energy Center 09/27/2013 Lincoln NE Bourbon Theatre 09/21/2013 Frisco TX Toyota Stadium 08/10/2013 Devens MA Willard Field 08/10/2013 Devens MA West Stage - 9 of Diamonds 08/09/2013 New Haven CT Toad's Place 08/08/2013 Portland ME State Theatre 08/06/2013 Syracuse NY Westcott Theatre 08/05/2013 South Burlington VT Higher Ground 08/03/2013 Montreal QC Parc Jean-Drapeau 08/02/2013 Montreal QC Parc Jean-Drapeau 08/02/2013 Montreal QC Parc Jean-Drapeau 05/26/2013 Rio de Janeiro RJ Circo Voador 05/25/2013 Sao Paulo SP Arena Anhembi
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date city state venue 11/02/2012 Austin TX Auditorium Shores 08/11/2012 San Francisco CA Golden Gate Park 08/10/2012 San Francisco CA Golden Gate Park 06/27/2012 Nashville TN Ryman Auditorium 06/26/2012 Chicago IL Chicago Theatre 06/24/2012 New York NY Randalls Island 06/23/2012 New York NY Randalls Island 06/22/2012 Charlottesville VA Jefferson Theater 06/21/2012 Athens GA Georgia Theatre 06/20/2012 Miami FL Grand Central 06/19/2012 Tampa FL The Ritz Ybor 06/18/2012 Mobile AL Soul Kitchen 06/17/2012 Houston TX Warehouse Live 05/27/2012 George WA Gorge Amphitheatre 05/25/2012 George WA Gorge Amphitheatre 05/25/2012 George WA Gorge Amphitheatre 05/24/2012 George WA Gorge Amphitheatre 04/28/2012 Columbia MD Merriweather Post Pavilion 04/24/2012 San Antonio TX Backstage Live 04/18/2012 Pomona CA Glass House 04/17/2012 San Francisco CA Palace of Fine Arts 04/16/2012 San Francisco CA Palace of Fine Arts 04/12/2012 Reno NV Knitting Factory Concert House - Reno 04/08/2012 Missoula MT Wilma Theatre 04/06/2012 Grand Junction CO Mesa Theater and Club
Explosions in the Sky Tour Dates 2011
date city state venue 10/28/2011 Dallas TX Winspear Opera House 10/16/2011 San Francisco CA Treasure Island 10/13/2011 Oklahoma City OK Diamond Ballroom 10/12/2011 Kansas City MO Uptown Theater 10/11/2011 West Des Moines IA Val Air Ballroom 10/10/2011 Minneapolis MN First Avenue 10/08/2011 Royal Oak MI Royal Oak Music Theatre 10/07/2011 Toronto ON Sound Academy 10/06/2011 Montreal QC Metropolis 10/05/2011 Boston MA Orpheum Theatre 10/03/2011 Montclair NJ Wellmont Theatre 10/02/2011 Upper Darby PA Tower Theatre 10/01/2011 Baltimore MD Rams Head Live 09/30/2011 Asheville NC The Orange Peel 09/29/2011 Atlanta GA The Tabernacle 09/28/2011 New Orleans LA Tipitinas 09/16/2011 Dallas TX Annette Strauss Square 09/14/2011 Albuquerque NM Sunshine Theatre 09/13/2011 Denver CO Fillmore Auditorium 09/11/2011 Boise ID The Egyptian Theatre 09/09/2011 Vancouver BC Vogue Theatre 09/08/2011 Spokane WA Bing Crosby Theater 09/05/2011 Big Sur CA Henry Miller Library 09/03/2011 Los Angeles CA Los Angeles State Historic Park 09/02/2011 San Diego CA Soma 09/01/2011 Tucson AZ Rialto Theatre 06/17/2011 Austin TX Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater 06/09/2011 Manchester TN Manchester Farm 05/01/2011 Oakland CA Fox Theater - Oakland 04/30/2011 Los Angeles CA Hollywood Forever Cemetery 04/10/2011 Columbia MO The Blue Note 04/09/2011 Columbus OH Outland on Liberty 04/08/2011 Pittsburgh PA Stage AE 04/06/2011 New York NY Radio City Music Hall 04/04/2011 Richmond VA The National 04/03/2011 Charlotte NC Amos' Southend 04/01/2011 Oxford MS The Lyric Oxford
Explosions in the Sky Tour Dates 2010
date city state venue 09/02/2010 Baltimore MD 2640 Space 08/31/2010 Louisville KY Headliners Music Hall


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