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Don't be fooled. The density of theoretical underpinnings, art historical references, and sheer visual information in many of Wall's pictures is boggling. Erudition is not a requirement (or even necessarily an asset) for enjoying their richly detailed surfaces and hints of narrative. But the more you know, the more intellectually demanding they appear.
A confession: For years I found Wall's work brilliant but off-putting. As an artist, he seemed largely uninterested in himself, which I found strangely alienating. His chosen medium, the light box, carried the distinct chill of its origins in the realm of advertising. He hailed from afar (Vancouver), and his sensibility appeared disquietingly original, nurtured by the open air of an art world free of market considerations. His ambitions, in fact, were grandly impersonal. Marrying Caravaggio's emotional drama with Manet's taste for contemporary spectacle, filtering them through feminism, Marxist art history, and Frankfurt School philosophy, and presenting them in a format with the startling vibrancy of cinema, Wall aimed to be, in Baudelaire's phrase, "the painter of modern life"the artist to whom we turn to find our own times reflected.
Somehow he pulled it off. There are hits and misses here (Wall's landscapes, for one, leave me largely unmoved), but his best works seem at once new and uncannily reminiscent of incidents and personages glimpsed in peripheral vision or rising up from the depths of consciousness. Take Picture for Women (1979)rarely have the erotic components of an image been anatomized so succinctly. Wall, then 33, had turned to 19th-century painting to help himself through an artistic impasse, following a precocious youth spent in thrall to Conceptualism. Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergére provided the framework for this picture, a mirror reflection of the artist (lean and hungry as a perpetual graduate student) prowling around a pulchritudinous model, with his large-format camera a fulcrum for his desire, and ours.
Never mind my mild annoyance at finding a male artist "succeeding" at feminism so robustly. The progressive agenda of Wall's early workMimic (1982), for example, re-creates a fleeting, racist gesture Wall witnessed on the street; Milk (1984), condenses the rage of a dispossessed youth into a bit of flying liquidis joined by his constant interrogation of the photographic medium. This is Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment," rehearsed by the down-and-out characters Wall recruited from real life until it appears closer to memory than vision.
In The Storyteller (1986), a group of apparently homeless people belonging to British Columbia's indigenous population find respite under a highway embankment, as beside a makeshift fire they listen to the title character with rapt attention. These are the conditions for narrative in our time, Wall seems to suggestthe storyteller's art conjuring a sense of cultural identity from the tattered remnants of modernity.
Around 1990, Wall began exploiting digital photography, which allowed him to build up images from previously recorded bits. The deliriously grotesque Dead Troops Talk (1992)a vision of an ambushed Red Army Patrol, with each blood-soaked soldier reacting to the realization of his own demiseor the intensely lyrical A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai) (1993), based upon a Japanese woodblock print of a group of characters caught in blustery weather, are each responses to the new temporal possibilities of the medium.
There were further detours, into abstraction, through "period" pictures with elaborate sets, and back to almost classical black-and-white prints. One has to admire an artist's absolute commitment to follow, willy-nilly, his instincts. And there's an image for that as well. In Overpass (2001), four stragglers, plastic luggage in tow, makes their way across some featureless bridge, beneath a glowering sky, toward an unknown destination. We are all headed, Wall would have us realize, bearing our humble burdens, in that same direction.
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1.occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy
1.the social class between the lower and upper classes
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The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy. In Weberian socio-economic terms, the middle class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class. The common measures of what constitutes middle class vary significantly between cultures.
The term "middle class" is first attested in James Bradshaw's 1745 pamphlet Scheme to prevent running Irish Wools to France.[1][2] The term has had several, sometimes contradictory, meanings. It was once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry of Europe.[by whom?] While the nobility owned the countryside, and the peasantry worked the countryside, a new bourgeoisie (literally "town-dwellers") arose around mercantile functions in the city. Another definition equated the middle class to the original meaning of capitalist: someone with so much capital that they could rival nobles. By this definition, only millionaires and billionaires are middle class in modern times. In fact, to be a capital-owning millionaire was the essential criterion of the middle class in the industrial revolution. In France, the middle classes helped drive the French Revolution.[3]
The modern sociological usage of the term "middle class", however, dates to the 1911 UK Registrar-General's report, in which the statistician T.H.C. Stevenson identified the middle class as that falling between the upper class and the working class. Included as belonging to the middle class are professionals, managers, and senior civil servants. The chief defining characteristic of membership in the middle class is possession of significant human capital.
Within capitalism, middle class initially referred to the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie. However, with the immiserisation and proletarianisation of much of the petit bourgeois world, and the growth of finance capitalism, middle class came to refer to the combination of labour aristocracy, professionals and white collar workers.
The size of the middle class depends on how it is defined, whether by education, wealth, environment of upbringing, social network, manners or values, etc. These are all related, though far from deterministically dependent. The following factors are often ascribed in modern usage to a "middle class":[by whom?]
The second generation of new immigrants will often enthusiastically forsake their traditional folk culture as a sign of having arrived in the middle class.[citation needed]
In the United States by the end of the twentieth century, more people identified themselves as middle class than as lower or "working" class (with insignificant numbers identifying themselves as upper class).[8] The British Labour Party, which grew out of the organized labour movement and originally drew almost all of its support from the working class, reinvented itself under Tony Blair in the 1990s as "New Labour", a party competing with the Conservative Party for the votes of the middle class as well as the working class. By 2011, almost three quarters of British people were also found to identify themselves as Middle Class.[9]
In Marxism, which defines social classes according to their relationship with the means of production, the "middle class" is said to be the class below the ruling class and above the proletariat in the Marxist social schema. Marxist writers have used the term in two distinct but related ways.[10] In the first sense it is used for the bourgeoisie, the urban merchant and professional class that stood between the aristocracy and the proletariat in the Marxist model. However, in modern developed countries, the bourgeoisie is taken to be the class that owns and controls the means of production, and is thus considered the ruling class in capitalist societies. As such, some Marxist writers specify the petite bourgeoisie – owners of small property who may not employ wage labor – as the "middle class" between the ruling and working classes.[10] Marx himself regarded this version of the "middle class" as becoming merged with the working classes.[10] The fact that recent decades have seen a large section of small businessmen (shopkeepers, restaurants) replaced by wage-workers (in supermarkets or chains of restaurants) has led most marxists to theorize an expansion of the working class at the expense of the middle class.
In February 2009, The Economist announced that over half the world's population now belongs to the middle class, as a result of rapid growth in emerging countries. It characterized the middle class as having a reasonable amount of discretionary income, so that they do not live from hand to mouth as the poor do, and defined it as beginning at the point where people have roughly a third of their income left for discretionary spending after paying for basic food and shelter. This allows people to buy consumer goods, improve their health care, and provide for their children's education. Most of the emerging middle class consists of people who are middle-class by the standards of the developing world but not the rich one, since their money incomes do not match developed country levels, but the percentage of it which is discretionary does. By this definition, the number of middle class people in Asia exceeded that in the West sometime around 2007 or 2008.[11]
The Economist's article pointed out that in many emerging countries the middle class has not grown incrementally, but explosively. The rapid growth results from the fact that the majority of the people fall into the middle of a right-skewed bell-shaped curve, and when the peak of the population curve crosses the threshold into the middle class, the number of people in the middle class grows enormously. In addition, when the curve crosses the threshold, economic forces cause the bulge to become taller as incomes at that level grow faster than incomes in other ranges. The point at which the poor start entering the middle class by the millions is the time when poor countries get the maximum benefit from cheap labour through international trade, before they price themselves out of world markets for cheap goods. It is also a period of rapid urbanization, when subsistence farmers abandon marginal farms to work in factories, resulting in a several-fold increase in their economic productivity before their wages catch up to international levels. That stage was reached in China some time between 1990 and 2005, when the middle class grew from 15% to 62% of the population, and is just being reached in India now.
The Economist predicted that surge across the poverty line should continue for a couple of decades and the global middle class will grow enormously between now and 2030.
As the American middle class is estimated at approximately 45% of the population,[12][13][14] The Economist's article would put the size of the American middle class below the world average. This difference is due to the extreme difference in definitions between The Economist's and many other models.[discuss]
In 2010, a working paper by the OECD estimated that 1.8 billion people were now members of the global middle class.[15]
In 1977 Barbara Ehrenreich and her then husband John defined a new Marxist class in United States as "salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production and whose major function in the social division of labor...(is)...the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations"; the Ehrenreichs named this group the "professional-managerial class".[16] This group of middle-class professionals are distinguished from other social classes by their training and education (typically business qualifications and university degrees),[17] with example occupations including academics and teachers, social workers, engineers, managers, nurses, and middle-level administrators.[18] The Ehrenreichs developed their definition from studies by André Gorz, Serge Mallet, and others, of a "new working class", which, despite education and a perception of themselves as being middle class, were part of the working class because they did not own the means of production, and were wage earners paid to produce a piece of capital.[19] The professional-managerial class seeks higher rank status and salary,[20] and tend to have incomes above the average for their country.[21]
Compare the term "managerial caste".[22]
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Alex Turner was like everyone else in the Championship Flight of the McDonald Amateur late Sunday afternoon at the East Side course.
They wanted to finish the tournament after a second lightning delay because it was the only way anyone but Turner could win.
Instead, the Championship Flight was called after 27 holes, leaving Turner the runaway winner by five strokes.
"We were on the sixth green when they called it," Turner said. "I was four shots up on Jason Cox, so I would've liked to have finished it. I was playing well. But it's also nice to win a tournament like this. It's my first one."
Turner, who will be a freshman at the University of Evansville in the fall, opened the tournament by tying the course record with a 10-under 62, which was good for a five-shot lead over Cox and Logan Osborne.
He shot a 2-under 34 Sunday on his first nine holes that put him six shots up on Cox, Osborne and three others: Jeff Sigler, Larry Maxwell and Dirk Brinker.
"Then I bogeyed No. 1 on my second time around," Turner said. "It was my only bogey of the tournament. I had played really well before that. It was all about my wedges. I hit five inside five feet on Saturday when I shot 29. I was giving myself a lot of short birdie putts.
"It helped to have Matt (Ladd) caddie for me, too. I knew there would be a lot of delays, and I didn't want to sit around in a cart. So having Matt helped conserve my energy in the heat."
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Gasol appeared to be crying. His hair was even more of a frilly mess than usual, and his eyes were bulging, as they had been since the introductions.
The 83-79 Game 7 victory ended when Gasol got the final rebound, his 18th, and passed it to Lamar Odom in the corner, and Odom sailed it to the other end, where Kobe Bryant would chase it down. It might have been — must have been — the only time Bryant ever has seen a dunk up close and passed it up.
Or maybe his body was done, just like Paul Pierce's and Ray Allen's and just about everyone. The Lakers have played 313 games the past three years, the Celtics 299.
Instead, Bryant finally dropped his commando guard, laughing and shaking his fist at the arrival of his fifth championship.
Around him, the Lakers looked more like tornado survivors than champions. There was no magic here, not the way we expect it, but there couldn't be. It was far too contentious.
There were rebounds galore, and Gasol got 18, Bryant 15, and the Lakers had 23 offensive boards, 17 second-chance points, and had 12 more shots.
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So it was time again that a box contained the Jem'Hadar Attack ship and this time i was lucky and got one.
I think the damage i do is moderate so i need some advice on building up this little thing
My current setup:
Fore Weapons: 3x Polaron Dual Heavy Cannons MK XII Borg, 1x Quantum Torpedo Launcher MK XII Borg
Deflector: Jem'Hadar Deflector Dish MK XI
Impulse: Jem'Hadar Combat Impulse Engines MK XI
Shields: Jem'Hadar Resilent Shields MK XI
Aft Weapons: 2x Polaron Turret MK XII Borg, 1x Quantum Torpedo Launcher MK XII Borg
Engineering Consoles: 4x Plasma Distribution Manifold MK XI (Rare)
Science Consoles: Assimilated Module
Tactical Consoles: 5x Polaron Phase Modulator MK XI (Rare)
Cmdr. Tactical - Tactical Team I, Cannon Rapid Fire I, Cannon Scatter Volley II, Cannon Rapid Fire III
Lt. Cmdr. Tactical - Torpedo High Yield I, Torpedo Spread II, Torpedo High Yield III
Universal I Science - Polarize Hull I, Tractor Beam II
Universal II Engineer - Engineering Team I, Reverse Shield Polarity I
Ensign Engineer - Engineering Team I
First off, congrats on your new toy. I am a long time escort pilot, so take my suggestions with a grain of salt.
It really depends on what you want to do end game.
For PVE, i would recommend the following:
Fore Weapons: 3x Polaron Dual Heavy Cannons MK XII Borg, 1x Quantum Torpedo Launcher MK XII Borg
Deflector: Jem'Hadar Deflector Dish MK XI
Impulse: Jem'Hadar Combat Impulse Engines MK XI
Shields: Jem'Hadar Resilent Shields MK XI
Aft Weapons:
3x Polaron Turret MK XII Borg
Engineering Consoles:
Assimilated Console, 1x Neutronium Alloy MK XI/XII (HIGHEST), 1x Interchangable Armor console or extra Neutronium, 1x Monotanium Alloy MK XI/XII (HIGHEST)
Science Consoles:
Field Generator MK XI/XII (Rare or higher)
Tactical Consoles: 5x Polaron Phase Modulator MK XI (Rare)
or higher
* note: running armor consoles will give you increased survivability. With it's inherent power boost, the assimilated console, and boosts to warp core skills, your weapon power will be close to or exceed the 125 mark. I think the increased survivability will trump the excess in weapons power, imo.
Cmdr. Tactical - Tactical Team I, Attack Pattern Beta I, Cannon Scatter Volley II, Cannon Scatter Volley III
Lt. Cmdr. Tactical - Torpedo Spread I, Attack Pattern Beta I, Torpedo Spread III
Universal I Engineer - Emergency Power to Shields I, Aux to SIF I
Universal II Science - Polarize Hull I, Hazard Emitters II
Ensign Engineer - Emergency Power to Shields I
1. to chain the EPTS 1's to tray 3, spots 6 and 7: /bind (key) "+TrayExecByTray 2 7 $$ +TrayExecByTray 2 8"
2. to auto distribute shields while mashing fire key: /bind Numpad0 "+power_exec Distribute_Shields $$ FireAll"
I personally use the keypad for all my bindy goodness. Where, 0 is fire (you will have to unbind alt/ctrl 0 commands) and . for the tac team skill, keypad enter for brace for impact. You can use the keypad plus for the cycle EPTS keybind. that keybind would be: /bind add "+TrayExecByTray 2 7 $$ +TrayExecByTray 2 8"
2x V. Rare (purple) Conn officers that reduce the tactical team cooldown time
1x V. Rare Shield Distribution officer *optional
1x V. Rare Borg Warfare Specialist (Dlyrene) *optional
1x/2x V. Rare Projectile Officer *optional
1x V. Rare Warp Core Engineer *optional
Basically, the only manditory ones are the 2 purple conn officers. So you can cycle 1 TT1 with max efficiency. The rest is personal preference. The warfare specialist offers 10% damage increase against borg in STFs. Nice, but not necessary and thus optional. The shield distribution officer is a nice buff to shields. The warp core engineer is nice to have because it offers +25 to all systems, but only at a 20% chance. When rotating 2 copies of a EPTX power, it's nice to have, but again is optional.
This would be my PVE build, especially for STFs. AoE is very powerful and thus would be more beneficial over a dedicated CRF/HYT build. I'd prefer to cycle the shields, because having increased shield power = more shield dmg resist and increased shield regeneration.
So again, this is my PVE build. Take it with a grain of salt, but these are my suggestions to you. Again, congrats on your bug. I am very envious. Oh, and watch for the rare polaron mk xii consoles. They can be very cheap on the exchange sometimes. They are very, very nice to have.
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June 7 at 3:40 a.m. -- injury, US 27 North, Daniel L. Westfall, 24, Cynthiana, driving a 2006 KIA Sportage.
June 10 at 4:20 p.m. -- non-injury, US 62 East, Joseph W. Williams, 19, Cynthiana, driving a 2000 Acura Integra GSR.
June 11 at 12:30 p.m. -- non-injury, US 27 North, William J. Howe, 27, Ortonville, Mi. driving a semi-truck drove into the parking lot of bowling alley, tearing down telephone and cable lines.
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On May 28, my husband would have been 67 years old. My children and their families put balloons on his grave and a stepping stone under the tree near his grave. We only left them a few hours because of the cemetery's rules. I went back to take the balloons off and they had been stolen. The stepping stone stayed almost four days.
If you have a garden, chances are you appreciate nature in all its glory. But, sometimes nature gets in the way of our desires to cultivate. Deer browsing, rabbit munching, squirrel digging, mole trenching and resident vole feasting have all come up in the last two weeks. While I have no silver bullet for any of these problems I do have some practical approaches to offset the shared feasting on our gardens.
I would like to address a problem we are having in our Battle Grove Cemetery. No, it is not with the caretakers. I know that sometimes we don't agree with things, but there is no graveyard that I know of that looks as good as ours does all year round, even in the winter.
Chasteen calls state tourney
Local resident Steve Chasteen was tabbed to umpire in his third KHSAA Fast Pitch Softball State Tournament three weeks ago in Owensboro. This time, Chasteen was selected to be one of the four umpires given the task of calling the championship game(s).
He called five games through the course of the 16-team, double-elimination tournament, and was assigned second base in the first championship game between Owensboro Catholic and Louisville Mercy.
Arrests, citations, warnings
June 16 -- Kim Bussell, 24, was arrested on U.S. 27 South and charged with theft by unlawful taking, shoplifting.
June 16 -- Tyrone Wilson, 20l was arrested on Poplar Street on a warrant for failure to appear.
June 16 -- Misty L. Blackaby, 27, was arrested on Locust Street and charged with hindering prosecution or apprehension.
June 16 -- Bradley S. Walker, 26, was arrested on Court Street and charged with failure to appear.
Commonwealth Attorney Douglas R. Wright was a man of true compassion and strength. Working with Doug was both an honor and a privilege. Doug always searched for ways to ensure the protection of children and sought justice when kids had been victimized.
Early in his term he committed himself to utilizing the multidisciplinary approach of investigating child abuse. It was in this capacity that our team at the Northern Kentucky Children's Advocacy Center had the extraordinary experience of working alongside Doug Wright.
Judge Robert McGinnis
presiding June 2, 2009
Eric Laye Thomason, 1980, probation violation hearing; probation violation; admits violation, probation revoked.
Vernon Wilson Jr., 1963, probation violation hearing; probation violation; admits violation, probation revoked.
Tyler Sumpter, 1987, probation violation hearing; probation violation; admits violation, to remain on probation, remain in jail.
•Derrick Hall and Jamie Ayler, Aug. 15, 2009 at Carrollton Christian Church in Carrollton.
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TELL CITY - A teenage boy was detained last Monday after he allegedly forced a younger boy to perform a sex act on him in Zoercher-Bettinger Park.
Detective Alan Malone said the teen was detained and later released to his parents. He faces a possible charge of child molesting. A neighbor saw the sex act taking place and called police. Malone declined to give the ages of the juveniles but said there was a seven-year age difference between the alleged perpetrator and the victim.
TELL CITY—Tell City senior middle hitter Elizabeth Kohnert was named to the All-PAC volleyball team chosen by conference coaches Monday.
Kohnert led the Marksmen in kills with 301 and blocks with 112. "I would say probably 60 to 70 of those were solo blocks," said Tell City Coach Dalonda Hayes.
Added Hayes, "She's got a lot of natural athletic ability. Since I've been here she's probably my best blocker ever—her timing's great.
NASHVILLE—Eric Scheiber placed 13th to lead Perry Central to fourth place in the 20-team Brown County boys cross country semistate Saturday.
That qualified the Commodores for the state meet, to be held at noon Saturday at LaVern Gibson Championship course at Wabash Valley Sports Center in Terre Haute.
"We ran pretty well from a team perspective," said Perry Central Coach Jason Barnett. "We weren't that far out of third place (12 points behind Bloomington South).
LYNNVILLE—Cannelton made no kills or ace serves in a 25-3, 25-8, 25-9 loss to Tecumseh in the Class A volleyball sectional Saturday.
After Cannelton had a side out on its first serve, Teri Newmaster served nine consecutive points for the Braves to give them a 10-0 lead. The Bulldogs were unable to successfully return most of her serves.
Rebecca Brown added 11 consecutive points, including one ace, as Tecumseh increased its lead to 22-1.
Tecumseh also had big serving turns early in the next two games.
LEOPOLD—Perry Central will try to contain one of the state's leading rushers when two of the top five Class A football teams in the state meet in the sectional semifinals Friday at 6:30 p.m.
The Commodores, 9-1 and ranked fifth in the final Class A state coaches poll, will host North Daviess, 9-1 and ranked fourth in that poll.
The Cougars' offense is led by Ryan Webster, a 5-foot-9, 185-pound senior running back.
POSEYVILLE—Continued improvement on defense could be the key to Tell City's chances in its football sectional semifinal game at North Posey Friday at 7 p.m.
The Marksmen scored 22 points in a regular-season loss to North Posey Oct. 2, which was then their highest total of the season.
But they gave up 45 points that night. However they have not given up more than two touchdowns in regulation play in any of their three games since.
The 7-3 Vikings will test Tell City's defense with a strong running game.
TELL CITY—A trip to a jewelry store produced a jewel of an offensive coordinator for Tell City's football team.
Art Schlichter recalls, "I was in Roland's (on Main Street in Tell City) buying something for my daughter and Ken Roland said, 'Would you be interested in helping the high school team?' I said I might, and Don Hitz (Tell City's head coach) gave me a call a day or two later)."
LEOPOLD—Perry Central had some serve-reception problems in a 25-14, 25-20, 25-15 loss to Mater Dei in the first round of the Class 2A volleyball sectional Tuesday.
"We just had a hard time with serve-receive," said Perry Central Coach Becky Genet. "And they were a very strong team—we would have had to play our best game."
The Commodores made several errors on receiving serves and making return hits as they fell behind 7-2 and 14-5 at the start of the first game.
TELL CITY – Perry County's commissioners declined to act Wednesday on a rezoning request that would have led to a substance-abuse recovery home being opened near the Girl Scout camp outside Cannelton.
TELL CITY - A 2010 budget Mayor Barbara Ewing called one of the most challenging in her memory will mean no immediate pay raises for city workers in 2010. However, employees could receive 25-cent hourly increases later in the year, once the city's budget and tax rate receive final approval by the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance.
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Need some ideas for a misbehaving 5 yr old at WalMart.......help!
Touching everything even when told to keep his hands to himself. (knocking things down too)
Running down aisles instead of staying with us.
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Before we went to WalMart, we had gone into the library to pick up some books I had on reserve. The boys were not obedient in the library....running up the stairs, turning lights on and off..... (We were in the library less than five minutes.) When we got outside the library, I reminded them about parking lot safety. Well, they ran and climbed all over the benches on the library's gazebo. I told them, "It's time to go." They looked at me and ran back around the gazebo, so I sighed and walked toward my car. I started to put our toddler into his carseat.
An elderly gentlmen backed out his car, opened the window, and gently told me that he was concerned about how my kids were acting. He was not mean and I could tell he was genuinely concerned about me and them. He said he saw how they acted in the library, and in the parking lot, and was concerned that they didn't listen to me and would get hurt. I gently told him that it's difficult becaus their daddy doesn't make them obey and I was having a rought time with them. Then I got into my car and drove to Walmart.
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Everyone I spoke to who was involved with the MilwaukeeHome Stage — an unofficial showcase featuring 30 local acts in Austin, Texas, during the South by Southwest Music & Media Conference last week — told me it was a worthwhile experience.
But there's no denying there were major problems. Hastily assembled in just two months, MilwaukeeHome had low attendance and consistent sound troubles throughout the day.
Here are eight things to be worked on now for next time — and, hopefully, there is a next time.
1. Put music industry professionals in charge: The MilwaukeeHome organizers had never done this before and aren't as well-connected as, say, the operators of the Majestic Theatre in Madison and their partners, who in partnering with First Avenue in Minneapolis and Metro in Chicago attracted a sizable crowd of industry types to its showcase. MilwaukeeHome organizers should hand the keys over to Summerfest or Pursuit Live, the talent agency responsible for Summerfest bookings and the Yellow Phone Music Conference, or the Pabst Theater Group.
2. Offer a taste of home: When people think Milwaukee, they think beer, cheese and brats. So give the people what they want. In exchange for a major sponsorship, Miller or Johnsonville could give out free samples, and their marketing teams can get people to the event.
3. Work with a different club: Sound issues aside, the club, Cielo, has no web presence to speak of, so they were little help promoting the show. And no patio either — so no chance for the music to lure people from the street.
4. Get a music publicist: There are several in the area to choose from, like Sue Schrader with Blonde Ambition, or Tony Bonyata with Pavement PR — real pros with exceptional connections and experience.
5. Have a web strategy: Build a web page that features cool graphics, an exciting trailer and music videos and bios of the bands and more (go to chicagomade.us to be really inspired) .
6. Better on-site promotion: Fliers were handed out Tuesday, but none that I could find taped up at the Austin Convention Center. And street teams should really showcase their hometown pride: Let's see people in Packers gear or Brewers racing sausages.
7. Look into grant opportunities: The MilwaukeeHome showcase is promoting Milwaukee, not just Milwaukee music — and there are government organizations that share that same mission that can likely help.
8. Be selective with the lineup: No other showcase offered 30 bands in 15 hours. There should be an audition process, with each band's marketing savvy and following taken into account.
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On Tuesday night, the Glendale City Council will get a chance to prove whether it truly wants its hockey team to remain in Phoenix for the long haul.
Assuming it does, it will be up to the NHL to likewise make good on its promise to ensure hockey gets a fighting chance in the desert.
At the end of the day, there is only one clear choice for handing over ownership of the beleaguered franchise, and it isn't to the guy with the deep pockets and the big profile and his name on the letterhead of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls.
With all due respect to Jerry Reinsdorf -- and we're sure he has a good reason for getting back into the Coyotes' ownership game after walking away months ago -- his bid group is not the one that should be taking over this team, not if the goal is to keep the team in Arizona.
When the city council votes on two lease proposals Tuesday night, there is only one that ensures the team stays long term, and that's the one put forward by the Ice Edge Holdings group.
True, that group doesn't have the profile Reinsdorf does; it doesn't have his money. But there is nothing in the Reinsdorf proposal that suggests he's going to put down any more of his own money than he absolutely has to. Most significant, the Reinsdorf proposal is the only one that includes a clause that opens the door to see the team move after five years and at any point beyond that.
Some would call it an out clause. A legal source suggested to ESPN.com that a more accurate term is a "remedy." If the team does not perform to a certain level financially in the next five years, Reinsdorf's group would have a remedy for that -- either selling the team to another buyer in Phoenix (good luck with that) or relocation. If you have a good look at the memorandum of understanding put out by Ice Edge, there is not one word about leaving town. Not one. The group of investors -- some Canadian, some not -- continue to yell from the tallest buildings that they are in for the duration of the current lease -- 24 years -- and beyond.
"Ice Edge intends to honor the term of the original lease," senior executives of the group wrote in an open letter released Monday to the citizens of Glendale. "We would then intend to sign a new lease for an additional 30 years. We have not requested the ability to relocate the franchise."
Foolhardy? Perhaps. But Ice Edge says not opening up the possibility of leaving is the only chance it has to repair the relationship with the local fan base, a relationship that has been destroyed by a shoddy on-ice product and gross mismanagement from ownership.
It should be what the city of Glendale wants, if it really wants this hockey team in its community long term.
If Reinsdorf's group gains control of this team, even if it truly wants the team to succeed forever and a day, the mere fact that the group requires the "remedy" or out clause should be a red flag. From the moment Reinsdorf's group takes over, uncertainty over whether the clock has started to tick on the team's future will hang over the franchise like a cloud.
If, as some people believe, city officials are enamored with Reinsdorf's reputation and are thinking of voting only for Reinsdorf's bid (a move that would effectively kill the Ice Edge bid), the NHL is further ahead to wait until June 30 when its transitional lease with the city of Glendale ends and simply move the team to Winnipeg or wherever it wants. Why would the NHL agree to an ownership group that is already looking for a way out of a market the league has repeatedly said it is determined to remain in?
It is possible -- and some say probable -- that the city council could approve both lease agreements, which would make for what should be an easy decision for the NHL: Sell the team to the group that has pledged to keep the team in Arizona. Critics have suggested the Ice Edge group doesn't have the money, between $140 million and $160 million, to actually buy the team. But a source told ESPN.com that within moments of having its lease deal approved by the city of Glendale on Tuesday, Ice Edge will have access to monies in excess of the sale price ($165 million), the majority of which is guaranteed by a major international bank, with another $75 million line of credit also a possibility.
Will that money materialize? No one knows until the cash is in the till, but why not find out? The Ice Edge proposal also ultimately gives the NHL what it craves: separation from the day-to-day operation of a team it had to rescue from bankruptcy. Ice Edge buys the team, and the NHL walks away.
Multiple sources have told ESPN.com that the Reinsdorf group bid essentially puts the NHL in the position of being "a bank," providing bridge financing of up to $60 million while Reinsdorf raises revenue locally. Another source said it was incorrect to characterize the deal in that manner.
The bottom line is, the NHL's board of governors, the ones who must ultimately approve any ownership group and have become the reluctant trustees of this wayward team, will not stand for being on the hook for one penny one second longer than it needs to, even if the man on the other side of the table is Reinsdorf.
"While the pundits have consistently doubted us, we have continued to prevail at every turn," the Ice Edge letter read. "On Tuesday, we will face another test as your city council votes on our proposal for a new lease for Jobing.com Arena. We believe our proposal is, far and away, the superior choice for the citizens of Glendale."
Anyone who wants this team to stay in Phoenix ought to feel the same way.
Scott Burnside covers the NHL for ESPN.com.
Burnside: Reinsdorf's group is not the answer for Phoenix Coyotes
At the end of the day, there is only one clear choice for new ownership of the Phoenix Coyotes, and it isn't the guy with the deep pockets and the big profile and his name on the letterhead of the White Sox and Bulls.


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After cooking dinner for her bae on her last feature, Maryann already has this evening's entertainment planned. The video for her newest single, You and Me, follows the singer as she sets up her own venue for an exclusive, intimate show. The audience? The man that brought her back to the surface so she could breathe. There's no mistaking the first time you feel perfection. For Maryann, that moment happened when she met that special someone. Now she's found her proverbial "other half" and wants to share that gentle joy with listeners. But you won't find her performing in just any cafe. The talented producer of this laid-back track, N8 the Gr8 sits down in the the director's seat for this slow-motion, one-night-only experience. You will find You and Me on the singer's upcoming digital album, Futuristic Always, which will be available on iTunes on 4/28. If you need another reason to buy it, you'll be able to catch an exclusive stream of the LP here in The DJBooth on the release date. And don't forget, refreshments will be served after the show by the fire.
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MANILA, Philippines—Hong Kong's Immigration Department has rejected a bid for protection made by Myrna Reblando, widow of one of the journalists slain in the Maguindanao massacre, saying it did not believe she would be tortured should she return to the Philippines.
Reblando fled to Hong Kong in 2011 with her daughter, claiming inadequate security to protect her back home. She also criticized the slow grind of justice in the Philippines.
Mother and daughter had asked the Hong Kong Immigration Department to allow them to stay in the Special Administrative Region while awaiting the result of their pending application for asylum with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
They said they faced torture if they returned to the Philippines.
The Hong Kong government is prohibited from returning to their country of origin persons claiming risk of torture and other threats to their lives, according to Danilo Reyes, acting deputy director of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC).
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But with the Hong Kong Immigration Department's rejection of Reblando's torture claim, she and her daughter faced deportation to the Philippines, Reyes said.
He said Reblando would appeal the ruling.
In her torture claim, Reblando detailed several incidents she said highlighted the dangers she and her daughter faced should they return to the Philippines, including certain death after the Ampatuans reportedly offered her P3 million to stop talking about the case or, should she refuse the money, it would be paid to others to kill her.
Members of the Ampatuan family led by former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. are the main suspects in the 2009 massacre that included her husband, Alejandro Reblando, among the 32 media workers killed, and the 57 fatalities overall.
But the HK Immigration Department said the reasons Reblando cited were inadequate to support her case.
The Hong Kong-based AHRC provided the Inquirer a copy of the April 3 decision.
In it, the Immigration Department said the experiences Reblando and her daughter cited did not amount to torture.
It noted her affirmation that the Ampatuans had not physically harmed her, and that even if she had suffered emotionally from threats made by the Ampatuans, she was still able to perform her function as spokesperson of the Justice Now! Movement.
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It also said she was able to travel from her hometown to Manila many times to attend court hearings of the Maguindanao massacre case, and had also been able to travel abroad on holiday.
"Based on your elaborations, there is no evidence or indication that any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, has been inflicted on you or [your daughter]," the Immigration Department said.
As for the P3 million offer made by the Ampatuans, the department said there was no evidence it was made, or even if it was, that it had come from the Ampatuans.
"Any risk of torture from the Ampatuans, even if established, is localized and thus is avoidable if you and [your daughter] move to another place other than Maguindanao or at most Mindanao upon your return to the Philippines," it said.
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