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Is the design a done deal?
I thought Ellen Forney was doing the art for this station.
Sorry, I skimmed over the part about the "democratic process." Never mind.
I had exactly the same reaction: I was loving it, and loving it more and more and more, until I got to the freaking jet.
First of all, as you point out, it's uglier than shit. Even (especially?) the hardest-core military jet aficionado is going to hate the hell out of it.
But more importantly, it's STOOPID. Jets, military or otherwise, DO NOT REPRESENT CAPITOL HILL.
This asshole, and asshole is the perfect word for him, with the way he puts his name on there in giant letters, and the way he fucking GOOGLED "I love Seattle because", whatever his merits as an artist are, is fundamentally unequipped to perform the task he has been assigned. He's like a dog trying to build a clock; he's just out of it.
Represent Seattle? Why? The station is in Seattle, but so are several others. What's different about them? Why is a jet on Capitol Hill, and not the U District? He has no clue, because he doesn't know ANYTHING about any of the neighborhoods here and it hasn't even occurred to him to find out.
Couldn't it at least have been a commercial jet, which is at least the kind of plane they actually build in the region? Boeing makes military stuff, sure -- but mostly not around here. And Boeing is a Chicago company, not Seattle. Military jets represent "Seattle" in about the same way that "Barbecue" represents Brainerd, Massachusetts.
As for the other stuff: rain? Are you fucking serious, dude? You came up with RAIN? That is INCREDIBLY LAME.
God damn it. I'd rather see a bunch of representational statues of old white men with beards than this crap. If it gets built, I hope it gets vandalized beyond recognition within hours of opening.
Wow - talk about completely misreading your audience. That design is terrible, and I do hope that the fighter jet is removed. It's a big stretch to ask for an ironic reading of the art to say that it's got a Capitol Hill vibe.
OTOH, by 2016 Cap Hill will be completely different and it wouldn't surprise me if the future residents of this neighborhood would enjoy that kind of dreck.
I have always had a big problem with the 2030 date. I will be really old in 2030 and you want me to put up with major shit on Broadway for something that will reach its prime in 2030?
Why wasn't an artist from capitol hill chosen in the first place? That seems fucking stupid to begin with.
But fighter jets? Really? I don't care how deconstructed the end result is... it's just a pointless and weak concept in the first place.
That's hefty design research right there, googling "I love Seattle because."
Dominick, you did a good job of presenting the artist's point of view and I get it but even in pink broken jet fighters will tend to remind me of exploded jet fighters and thus: dead pilots, dead soldiers, dead civilians and bombed cities, not to mention those icons of divisiveness, The Blue Angels. I'm not sure I want to go through all that every morning on my way to work. I would use the train twice daily to get to my job at UW. I wonder if he considered dismembering a heron, that would go over just as well here in Seattle. I think there needs to be some rethinking. Public art is always problematic and some pieces really end up driving the public mad, Richard Serra's Leaning Wall at the jacob Javits building became one of the most hated pieces of public art ever simply due to its placement. In itelf it was a tremendous work but it irritated every harried worker who had to get around it to get to work. Thanks for bring this up, it will be an interesting discussion.
The image of a plane breaking up in mid air would most freak me out in an airport, but it doesn't take too much imagination to transfer the thought of the exploding tube shapes of the plane to the though of the train I'm about to ride into a tunnel exploding down there. Subway trips aren't that scary, but who wants to think about the destruction of machines when you're about to trust your life to a machine?
What about flying pink and blue dildos? Everyone likes the penis shape, and in Seattle we can be honest about that.
fnarf, boeing moved to chicago, but boeing is fucking seattle to the core.
Nothing says "welcome to capitol hill" like one of the blue angels exploding on impact with Seattle's official bird.
if he would have talked with any three people from capitol hill first, he wouldn't have made this mistake.
Not buying the hype. In fact, if you see an architect wearing chunky black eyeglassses I would say run far away very quickly.
Big huge beams looming overhead are claustrophobic and obscure that upper space anyway. This defeats the whole purpose of having an innovative space shape up there. Which is a worthless goal anyway, who gives a shit. It's a train station, something we go through, we don't wait there half an hour we get in and out in minutes. The standard semi cricular vaulted-ceiling subway stations (without huge beams looming over our heads) all over the world work just fine and I have never, ever heard someone say "gee that metro station in DC/PAris/London sucked -- it didn't have huge beams loooming over my head and I wasn't PROVOKED at all!"
Much less, "hey that Montreal system sucks -- did you know the architect 40 years ago didn't wear black?"
The fighter jet ugliness cost $550,000. How much is the station cost increased thru one-off design? Another $5 million? $10 million? $1.5 billion to add two stations is quite a lot normally you would get a whole rail line with multiple stations for that much. I'd rather see the money going toward putting in another station or another train or towards more trackage, or something of value.
You could make a giant dildo jammed into the Space Needle and title it "Boeing fucking Seattle to the core."
I agree with Fnarf, this smacks of a first-year art student who doesn't know the first thing about conceptualizing a piece.
For instance, if he wanted to show transformation from aggressive to gentle forms, how about actually transforming the form of the jet? Rather than just cutting it up and separating the pieces. That says more explosion/dismemberment/entropy than gentle transformation to me. Instead transform the jet wings into bird wings, and dur, you've got it. (But then, I am exceedingly literal in my artistic tastes.)
I do disagree with Fnarf that Boeing is a Chicago company. Visit the Museum of Flight sometime and learn about the local history, man.
BA - yes, but with several large caveats.
Boeing is not, and never has been, "Capitol Hill to the core". If anything, Capitol Hill is best traditionally associated with the automobile, not the jet, what with the Pike/Pine corridor being Seattle's first Auto Row. Not that I'm suggesting a car-themed artwork -- though a dismembered car would more substantially reflect the ethos of the Hill and of the subway itself.
In addition, as I mentioned before, the planes that Boeing builds in the Seattle area are commercial jets, not military ones, and have been since WWII ended. Is this artist trying to represent "Seattle" or "Wichita"?
wow...Mike Ross is an assmunch.
Capitol Hill is the LAST fucking place that would be represented by a motherfucking MILITARY jet.
Aviation/Boeing is the OLD Seattle. If you want something to represent CURRENT Seattle, it would be wiser to go the computer/ecommerce/coffee route or something watery or at least reference grunge music; it's dated but more relevant to Capitol Hill.
I'd take a stupid "Fraser" hommage over this tired shit.
The pictures aren't great, but the design for this thing isn't very good either. Cold and white and sterile. This is Seattle; it needs to be warm and have texture.
God, I hate idiotic design/architecture, (meaning design that refuses to take into consideration it's surroundings or place in a community) and the dumbass developers who commission it.
well, i'm not even fond of the way the parts are balanced. the breaks and the pillars do not work well together. not only that, but the angle of the rear compromises the strong image of the plane too much, making it look more like separate, unrelated pieces.
then again, i don't even like the cars suspended at sam.
I agree, Michael. Don't laugh, but I think they should go take a look at the flagship REI store for design ideas.
hahahaha! I really want to see a Frasier homage down there now.
Excellent recap - I was in the back and we were heckling the guy, artiste, because it became obvious he knew nothing about Seattle from his first few phrases.
Fighter jets are killing people all over the world as we post - not abstract, not artsy fartsy - only death and misery. Iraq, Darfur, Turkey vs. the Kurds, Palestine to name just a few...now...as we post in comfort and luxe... safe and academic.
Fighter Jets are simply gut twisting, the modern massive death machines of warfare. They are the high priced killing tools of the generals and political/corporate war mongers. Go away, oh go away with this concept.
Sound Transit needs to pay attention to the community/neighborhood.
By the way, no public bathrooms are planned in the giant station, teeming with people most hours of the day. "Expensive to maintain" - I was told after.
Does reality ever intrude among bureaucrats? Oh, I forgot, the pissoirs might be used for a random horn dog blow job - but killing machine are fine.
That is fucking hilarious. I don't think this guy could have come up with a more fucked up submission if he'd tried in purpose.
Maybe he's actually doubly clever and the piece isn't the sculpture at all--the piece is actually the presentation to the board--in which case he's hit a home run.
On a technical note, the model he's used is of a Northrup F-5. If he really wants a local angle, he needs to cut up a mutherfuckin B-52 (which WOULD be pretty cool!)
If he want's to reflect Capital Hill,
It needs to be a 100 foot long cock with a jizz fountain at the end, some lame AIDS memorial, and two dried up vaginas rubbing up against a rusted out subaru Forester.
Of course, you need a needle exchange, methadone dispensory, and a ventilation system that fills the air with the odor of piss, shit, and smugness.
Katlyn @9 got the other perspective.
Given Seafair and the Blue Angels that appear here every year, the installation of fighter jets broken into pieces is really very morbid and ominous. I hate the Blue Angels with a passion but don't wish them a firey, flesh dismembering, demise.
First time ever I've agreed with ecce. The meeting and people's reactions here are the worst liberal stereotypes I've ever heard. And here I thought I had sane neighbors.
People: The objection should be that it's fucking ugly, not that it has anything to do with war. Not everything fits one of your pet causes.
Dudes from San Francisco. To give him an idea of his folly of his research method, I googled I love San Francisco because.
Hit #3 was: A hooker for every Senator.
#26, death is a pet cause?
I do agree that ecco homo has a great idea though. Can we fire Mike Ross and have ecco homo design his project instead?
This would be a more appropriate instillation at a train station next to the museum of flight. I guess the artist thought painting them pink would make the display easier to swallow on the Hill.
@2 - Did anyone up above answer your question/comment? I don't think so.
I believe Ellen is doing the art for the "west entrance by SCCC under Broadway, to the station."
She put a mock-up on her site:
Too bad she's not doing the main stuff mentioned above.
That artist sounds awful, I send my apologies from SF.
Dismantle the Fun Forest. Present your favorite chunks of it at each station as art. Bronze some of the animatrons from Flight to Mars, put them on a granite base outside the station... viola. Better yet, paint the inside of the station to look like a human vein where we can imagine the car plunging itself deeply - an euphorically - into the side of The Hill, time and time again.
Not sure what else there is to say about letting design happen democratically - I suppose that NEEDS to be the way, but it rarely results in inspired design. Regardless, I'll add this: make sure those bike racks don't encourage cross traffic with the turnstiles, but keep them at least within a sight line of the booth attendant.
It should at least have been a Transformer jet ...
That said, your comment on the soil is true of much of Seattle, except there is an actual ridge of harder rock from the cut thru Capitol Hill - which makes this one of the few places where tunneling is a Good Choice.
@32: God, just shut up. Seriously. Shut. The fuck. Up. About. Shit. You don't. Understand.
Nothing says "Fremont" like a decommissioned nuclear missile.
This art is a classic swords-into-plowshares statement. Remember the Guess Who: "i don't need your war machines.". Right. Turn 'em into art instead.
Who would have thought that among everything else, Will is an expert in Geology and underground engineering?
You sir, are simply amazing.
Can you also perform a four way around the world AND make a lobster nuburg at the same time?
Good God. You people really ARE uptight! Whatever happened to being pro-art?
I agree with unPC. Let's question the entire budget for the art installation, not just what this would represent to people.
The 1% rule when the prices of these transit projects keep soaring is becoming a huge amount of coin that we could put to other more needy uses. If the point is to seed artists with public funds, then they should be local artists who will further contribute to the communities in other ways, but to blow huge sums of public money on questionable, political statements is obscene.
Whatever happened to commissioning something for these public spaces that was simply geometrically aesthetically pleasing to the eye? These ego trip pieces in public spaces are getting old and more often than not, insulting.
@18 - "This is Seattle; it needs to be warm and have texture."
Well, it is being built next to Broadway, so give it a few years and I'm sure it will accumulate plenty of "texture" in the form of shitty graffiti and discarded drug parapanelia.
Since when does pro-ANYTHING mean that you have to like ALL aspects of that thing?
F @26: none of my criticisms had anything to do with being anti-war.
It's not always about you.
Not everyone spends all of their waking life absorbed by your sparklingly annoying prolific posts.
Not everything is about you Fnarf...
I'm kinda surprised more people aren't showing support for the sculpture. To me it's more of an anti-war message about transforming the world from a place of war into a place of art and peace. That message is totally spot-on for Capitol Hill. Plus, I just like it because it looks cool.
I like the sculpture concept only because it pisses so many people off.
That said, 2016? That's dissapointing. 7 years from light rail starting service to add the next station. That suck.
Trouble @ 44, one way to speed up these projects is to eliminate bloat and excess, such as this public art project, and put those resources to work on the basics.
One day we might actually realize these things are expensive, resource and time consuming, and could be addressed after the station has been created and people can actually contemplate an art installation from the perspective of a finished, existing structure, rather than one that won't be completed for another 8 years.
#45 spending the art money now - when you can grab it
you would not make a good bureaucrat - they watch money and shuffle papers and pretend to work - all for bloated pay checks
of course - at the point you might need some art work - it is not like the Gates fortune will have dried up - or all the other private art billions in this town
@2 - Thanks for remembering me. I got an apology from Barbara Luecke, Sound Transit's (awesome) public art manager, for forgetting to mention at the meeting that I'm slated to do the artwork for tunnel from the west entrance (by SCCC) to the station.
Lots of people are upset about Mike Rosss deconstructed fighter planes, which makes sense: Capitol Hill = liberals and pacifists, history of peace marches, etc., and how do military planes fit in here? I frankly haven't figured out my opinion of his proposal either, which means his piece is thought-provoking, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I went out for beers with him (and his girlfriend and a pack of Sound Transit people) after the meeting and we talked about the project, and what he was thinking in putting that sculpture together.
FYI, there's some precedent for deconstructed war machinery in Seattle - Magnuson Park has those half-buried nuclear submarines that are arranged to suggest orcas (though yeah, in a different neighborhood).
His intention in breaking the planes into pieces, arranging them into a curvy shape, and painting them pink was described as emasculating and transformative, both by him and by David Hewitt, Sound Transits (also awesome) station architect. Mike hopes to suggest the fragility in strength, also an interesting concept. I asked him later about the color choice and he said its not new - he got the idea from a friend who paints military equipment in pink bubbles, and a group in London who painted a tank pink: http://www.aleksandramir.info/projects/pinktank/pinktank.html
Mike explained his thought process more eloquently over beers, I think. For his presentation at SCCC, he started with the organic and more touchy-feely aspects of the design (clouds, birds, brushstrokes) and so the finale - Theyll be fighter planes! was kind of a shock. It probably wouldve gone over better (for me, at least) if hed started out the other way around: Theyre fighter planes! Think Boeing and the Blue Angels. But Im dismembering them and changing their form and meaning.
I think he did a great job with the limitations of the space its so full of crossbeams and metal mesh that itd be pretty impossible to see the whole sculpture regardless of what he came up with. That it is intended to be seen in pieces was an interesting solution (one that hopefully will work in real life).
I havent come to a conclusion about what I think about his proposal, and I told him that and he was cool about it. I could go on about all we discussed (why there are two jets facing each other: aggression and non-aggression both entail more than one entity; how doing public art is a difficult task; about the documentary he saw recently about Eisenhower coining the term military-industrial complex in a speech in 1961, and how horrifying it is that that's what our country has become; how awesome Capitol Hill is) but itd take way more space than this lo-o-ong comment.
So: fighter planes
but at the very least, he came up with something thats not safe and totally public art-y, and it's worth thinking about beyond a knee-jerk reaction. Plus he seems like a good guy, for the record.
why don't they just make the wall one big led screen tied a web site where anyone under the sun can send a screed that will decorate the wall with their self-involved screeds?
imagine slog flame wars fading in and out on the wall while you wait for the train downtown.
not only would it cost less than 500k, it would be very capitol hill: narcissistic, smug, connected to the intarwebs, and ultimately totally a waste of time :p
...rather than one that won't be completed for another 8 years.
And I would add, so far in advance. Like genevieve @5 said, who knows what the Capitol Hill neighborhood will be like, or even whether the artist will still be alive by then to complete the work.
(ps - he's from Brooklyn.)
PS - nice guy or not, the idea sucks
and plenty of time to do better
Well, Ms Forney's further information on the artist was interesting but I still don't think this piece makes any sense for the space it's to occupy. What does a vague, hippy-dippy artsy political statement
have to do with Capitol Hill?
oh, wait, I get it...
never mind.
(I still vote for a waxworks montage involving Eddie Vedder, Eddie the Dog from Frasier and the poof from Greys Anatomy, whose name is unfortunately not Eddie or any derivative of it.)
#47, but most of the people looking at his art will see it twice a day, five times a week. I sure don't want to see war machinery (deconstructed or not) 10+ times a week. I'd rather take the bus.
PS your design is awesome! I was really impressed.
Ellen, love your giant prints, wish I had a bit more money - take charge here - tell them what C. Hill is all about, and it ain't war.
As I remember the ones I like the most, they were nicely suggestive of sexual themes ... talk to the guy from Brooklyn, Mr. Ross. It is OK in Seattle to talk about "potent" in direct sexual context art. No metaphors needed which intersect with war machines.
Whatever happened to being pro-art?
What happened is that supporting art in and of itself all too often means supporting incompetent artists and installing garbage in public places.
Do you actually live in Seattle?
Or do you enjoy just shooting your mouth off where it doesn't belong or is appreciated.
It's so depressing to see how SQUARE seattle has become. This is an opportunity to get a really really interesting piece of world-class super cool unique public art. With the construction of the horrible new SAM, you'd think that we would be desperate to get some cutting edge contemporary art in our public space. Regrettably, it would appear that Seattle is not yet world-class enough to understand world-class art. I think you're right about it not representing the neighborhood enough, it's much too cool for Capitol Hill.
"By the way, no public bathrooms are planned in the giant station, teeming with people most hours of the day. "Expensive to maintain" - I was told after."
Maybe the tops of the beams will serve as public bathrooms for pigeons that find their way into the station.
Wow. When I came up to Seattle, I was always wondering how a region that makes up the majority of the States population, and purports to be the most politically active could get bullied around by the conservative minority, but now that I'm here, I can see why.
There's an interesting overlap between the majority of conservatives and liberals, and that is that they're both prone to knee jerk reactions without thinking any further. They both seem prone to think only within the protocols of their "ideology" and never any further. Stop thinking off the cuff, and look at the sculpture for what it represents.
Yes, it WAS a fighter plane, but what is it now? It's going to be turned into a pink wave, broken apart below the feet of Seattle, going from flying in the sky as a gigantic symbol of American military might and force, and emasculated into a worm, living below the earth out of sight of most, no longer able to project american "dominance." I understand people are worried about the money going to the DoD, but I have to ask, do you pay income taxes? If you answered yes, you support the DoD. If you TRULY cared about not supporting the DoD, you wouldn't pay taxes. Anything else is just a cop-out.
It seems that if liberals in Seattle are good at one thing, it's being holier than each other. Honestly, so what if it was a fighter jet? We're tearing it apart, making it something benign, thought-provoking and in an odd way, optimistic. When, and if, the day comes that peace reigns upon this Earth, the weapons will be turned into plowshares, and what are we going to do? Not take those plowshares because they used to be weapons? If anything, we should support more efforts to tear apart and break these archaic symbols of war into art.
Honestly Seattle, you're disgusting at times. I can see why the conservatives beat you down every chance they get. They are concerned with getting things done while at the same time following their ideology. On the other hand, all you do is sit their and debate what's more "holy" and "PC" and lose sight of the fact that you are losing when you should be winning.
Look, maybe I'm just ranting because after seeing other cities, there's NO good reason that Seattle should be as it is. Our lack of vision, our obsession with being holier than thou has ultimately tied our feet and prevented us from being all we could be. This art sculpture is ultimately proof of this, as it's this debate from those who are reacting off the cuff (OMG ITS A TOOL OF WAR!!!!) and those who think further and see how neat this sculpture is.
"But to its credit, the pink sculpture is an emasculating gender fuck, provocative, ironic, co-opting, cynicalyou know, Capitol Hill."
God that's one boring and limited interpretation.
Yes, I live in Seattle.
You are the one no one wants to hear from. You are the one shooting your mouth off where you don't belong and where it's not appreciated. You are a fucking maggot. Eat shit and die.
Here's an idea for art for the station: paint every beam with a scene of Seattle citizens attending a different Capitol Hill Station Sound Transit meeting over the history of the agency. Very Seattle. Ross's piece would appear in one.
"what we can become" - give me a break. I have traveled all over the world - lived in a half dozen world centers, London, Paris, Geneva, Moscow ...
Seattle is the Best. This idea of art is juvenile and shallow, and a cliche above all. It stinks and we need to start over. Let Mr. Ross go back to the Nevada desert for another ten years or so. Someone can install it in the Down Town Library which really lacks inside drama.
Dude, keshmeshi, it's going to be OK.
@47: that's the whole problem. The Blue Angels AREN'T SEATTLE, and they certainly aren't Capitol Hill. They fly here once a year, but they are based in FUCKING FLORIDA.
Likewise, Boeing's military jets are not made here, so the "Boeing connection" is similarly illiterate and wrong.
Maybe the art doesn't have to evoke Capitol Hill or even Seattle. But, since that's what he SAYS HE SET OUT TO DO, it's disenheartening that he came up with such trite representations.
Anti-war? Pish. Pink tanks in London? Well, gee, London's a NATIONAL CAPITAL, now isn't it? And wouldn't it be more interesting to do something original?
Gah. You might as well paint leaping salmon on the wall. I'm still rooting for devastating vandalism if this gets approved.
Your stuff, on the other hand, is both local and awesome. I would make special trips just to see Big Fucking Hands there (it's one of my all-time favorite images).
Maybe she could borrow some of Roy's extra dots until she gets famous.
Really people, even Seattle isn't going to create a monument to fighter jets and pilots being destroyed in flight.
One person's 'emasculating and transformative,' is another person's glorification of US military personnel being shot out of the sky. Can the SLOG get more disassociated from the society around it? Might as well talk about having an S&M themed soft core porn exhibit as the center piece.
Plus, it looks fucking stupid.
Why not just put the fighter jet on the platform and have the cockpit be a planter? At least the DFHs had a sense of humanity.
Who are YOU again? A little fly trying desperately to be relevant.
The only time you post is to call me names.
At least Fnarf is funny about it. You just act like a child.
Shorter ecce:
I'm a pathetic, little bitch who accuses others of my own shortcomings. I don't know how to do anything but contradict myself and display my stupidity. I act like a child because I'm unlovable and unfuckable and I'm determined to make everyone suffer for it.
#61 Ease up a bit on your need for approval and conformity - life is a bit easier
You are up tight about nothing - opinions not like yours, framed as you would not frame them
Differences and a bit of wit are the only reasons to read most of these posts
the homo guy is a classic contrarian, a fairly rare species
you are an up tight anxiety queen, too common at the end of the week
lighten up - and just what do you think of the art, that is the issue isn't it?
I'm with you, kesh (can I call you kesh?). All the way.
I thought you would have taken your geritol and your sids bath already.
Oh, and Keshmeshi doesn't like me. I don't know how I will sleep tonight.
It looks like I have my own little internet stalker.
Oh and Kesh,
I just figured out why you got so much sand in your vagina:
You have a crush on Erica Barnett. But you have two huge problems. She isn't a lesbian, and you are too fat.
derailed! derailed! refocus on incredibly important topic at hand, people!
Shorter ecce at 73:
I'm a fat motherfucking bastard crouching in my mother's basement. Of course I sleep well at night after I pass out. A steady diet of Cheetos and Ding Dongs isn't good for the stamina you know.
Yes, of course you may.
And, on that note, I bid everyone, including ecce hobo, good night.
Please delete #75
It's offensive and off topic.
DOMINIC - Hewitt also designed the dog at the old Tower Records site. Don't let smooth talk mess up your sharp eye for meaningful architecture.
Why was he picked?
@ 14: "How much is the station cost increased thru one-off design?"
Only 1% is spent on art. Boring underground tunnels is expensive. You really want Montreal's dated Quebecois crap, DC's dimly lit prefab concrete (essence of existential angst), or NY's 100 year old 'skeleton could fall on you at any second' design?
I like it. It's colorful, it's wavy like our water and the logos that recall it (e.g. Sound Transit), and it kind of looks like a Chinese dragon which fits Seattle. This is based on the photos here; I came to the meeting too late to see the art part of the presentation. Alternatively, we could have a CapHill version of Hammering Man--the strapping lad jerking off on a Broadway sidewalk. The fountain idea is just icing on the cake.
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I received a Bachelor of the Arts from The Evergreen State College in '02 - with a focus in the studio arts, that is, painting, drawing and sculpture.
In the almost 10 years since I graduated, I've gotten deeply into web development and application design. I started in on Flash in 2003, and have been actively studying the fine art of programming since. I'm experienced mostly in AS3 and PHP CMS solutions, and have plenty of experience with html/ css/ javascript / js frameworks (as one would expect). Additionally I have done a bit of work with c# and am in the midst of learning java, with aims at Android development.
I find writing code to be a consistently challenging and ultimately rewarding experience. When a chunk of codes suddenly clicks into place and works... damn... you feel like a wizard. And when it serves the aims of a beautiful or artistically inspired project - the left and the right come together in a pretty sublime balance of form and function. Wonderful stuff!
My commercial projects as of late include plugin development for Wordpress, and I just started digging into a major project based on the Magento ecommerce platform at my day job. Additionally, I am currently working on personal projects at www.joshbosworth.com and www.bosworth99.com, and am aiming at a Master's Degree in Interaction Design from the Unverstiy of Washington in the fall of 2012.
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U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis
Electricity Monthly Update
With Data for May 2016 | Release Date: July 26, 2016 | Next Release Date: August 24, 2016
Previous Issues
Highlights: May 2016
- U.S. coal stockpiles are still at relatively high levels and only decreased 0.3% to 195 million tons from the previous month.
- Low natural gas prices helped keep wholesale electricity prices towards the bottom of the 12-month range in spite of some higher peak demand levels that occurred towards the end of the month.
- For the seventeenth consecutive month, the price of natural gas at Henry Hub was below the price of Central Appalachian coal on a $/MWh basis.
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Operating coal-fired generating capacity has declined 15% since 2011 in response to low natural gas prices and environmental regulatory complianceSource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report
EIA recently released preliminary data from its annual survey of electric generators (EIA-860), which provides the electric generating capacity of all units with a capacity of 1 megawatt (MW) or greater. The most important trends over the past few years have been large increases in natural gas, solar and wind generating capacities along with a significant decline in coal generating capacity.
Coal-fired generating capacity in the United States has fallen 15% over the past six years, dropping from 317 gigawatts (GW) at the end of 2010 to 276 GW in April 2016. This decrease is primarily attributable to the competitive pressure from low natural gas prices, which lowers the marginal cost of natural gas-fired generation, and the costs and technical challenges of environmental compliance measures.
Because the EIA-860 data also provide information on pollution control equipment at electric power plants, investments in these technologies can be assessed. For example, a significant amount of pollution control equipment was recently installed in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS). MATS establishes emissions limits for toxic air pollutants associated with coal combustion such as mercury, arsenic, and heavy metals. Between January 2015 and April 2016, about 87 GW of coal-fired power plants installed pollution control equipment, nearly 20 GW of coal capacity retired, and about 5.6 GW of coal capacity switched to natural gas as the main fuel source.
Of the 87 GW of coal capacity that installed pollution control equipment to comply with MATS, activated carbon injection (ACI) was the dominant compliance strategy. More than 73 GW of coal-fired capacity installed ACI systems in 2015 and 2016, effectively doubling the amount of coal capacity with ACI. According to EIA data, the average capital cost of an ACI system was $5.8 million over 2015 and 2016
Other compliance strategies reported on the 2015 EIA-860 include the modification of existing emissions control equipment, the addition of new equipment or capabilities, or some combination of operational changes and new investments to improve mercury capture or to achieve other environmental control objectives, such as reducing emissions of particulate matter or nitrogen oxide. Overall, the preliminary EIA-860 data indicate that operators of coal-fired power plants invested at least $6.1 billion between 2015 and April 2016 to comply with MATS or other environmental regulations.
Preliminary 2015 EIA-860 data can be useful in assessing changes to electric generating capacity such as growth in renewable and natural gas capacity along with decreases in coal capacity. These data can also indicate how power plants responded to market and regulatory pressures, which can be useful when looking at the causes behind the capacity changes.
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"How I Made It To Eighteen depicts the raw honest truth of a breakdown, told with great girl irony, fierceness and heart. I loved it." Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues
"How I Made it to Eighteen is part hug, part armor for anyone who battles gray days. The clarity of Tracy White's voice and graphic style transforms an intensely realized experience with wit, courage and grace. Her story pulled me in and held me deep." Adele Griffin, National Book Award finalist for Where I Want to Be
"White's "mostly true story" begins when seventeen-year-old Stacy Black enters Golden Meadows Hospital in an attempt to feel like herself againwhoever that is. Ostensibly Stacy works toward her goal of being happy again, earning privileges at the hospital and even becoming close friends with another patient. But she moves both forward and backward in her recovery, clinging to an unhealthy relationship with Eric, offering advice she cannot take, and refusing to be open and honest about her thoughts and actions.
"Stacy's story of anxiety, abuse, self-harm, addiction, and depression, is also a story of an interesting, creative young woman and her friends, a veritable chorus that adds perspective and insight into Stacy's struggles. White's images are as intense and telling as the written text. Comparisons to Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted (Random House, 1993) are unavoidable: both are stories of self-discovery, memoirs of the female authors' time in mental health facilities during their late adolescence. Both Kaysen's and White's stories are fascinating and frustrating. Most significantly, both memoirs stop short of offering easy solutions to complicated problems. White's perspective is honest, often unflinchingly and quite unsympathetic to her adolescent self. Still it is made clear why Stacy is likeable and loyal. More honest than Cut (Front Street, 2000/VOYA February 2001), more intriguing even than Girl, Interrupted, White's novel uses stark black-and-white imagery to construct her frank and honest story of a fraught adolescence." VOYA
"Tracy White's "mostly true" graphic novel, How I Made It to Eighteen (Roaring Brook, 2010), begins when the 17-year-old narrator checks herself into Golden Meadows Hospital after smashing a glass window with her fist. Struggling with depression, exhaustion, and drug addiction, Stacy Black just wants to feel like herself again ("I just don't know who 'me' is anymore"). Described with stark candor, her recovery is heart-wrenching and hard-won, as she wrestles with issues of self-esteem and body image, hangs on to an unhealthy relationship with her boyfriend, and refuses to admit to anyone–even herself–that she has an eating disorder. Meanwhile, her interactions with the other patients reveal her to be a caring, encouraging, and creative individual, and her desire to get better is both earnest and inspiring. White's artwork is as unflinchingly honest as her narrative, and the graphic-novel format keeps the pacing slow and deliberate, allowing the emotional content to truly sink in. Interview-style commentary from four of Stacy's friends appears throughout, rounding out the main character and illustrating that these girls struggle with many of the same issues. Words and pictures work flawlessly together to paint an unsentimental, poignant, and telling picture of an arduous experience, revealing that while there are no easy answers, there's a whole lot to work toward and hope for." School Library Journal


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Bergh is a surname of Scandinavian origin. Notable people with the surname include:
- Carl Martin Bergh (1849–1906), Norwegian-American immigrant associated with the settlement of Norge, Virginia
- Eva Bergh (1926–2013), Norwegian actress
- Gunnar Bergh (1909–1986) Swedish athlete
- Haagen Ludvig Bergh (1809–1852), Norwegian politician
- Henry Bergh (1811–1888), American businessman who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Ilja Bergh, Danish pianist and composer
- Karl Bergh (1883–1954) Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Larry Bergh, American former professional basketball player
- Odd Bergh, Norwegian athlete who specialized in the triple jump and long jump
- Richard Bergh (1858–1919), Swedish painter
- Rikard Bergh Swedish former professional tennis player
- Rudolph Bergh (1824–1909), Danish physician and malacologist
- Rudolph Sophus Bergh (1859–1924), Danish composer
- Sverre Bergh (1920–2006), Norwegian spy in Nazi Germany during World War II
- Trond Bergh, Norwegian economic historian
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His name was Aaron Hall. On April 12 he was beaten to death in Crothersville, Indiana, because, his accused killers say, he made a pass at them.
Thirty-five-year-old, 5-foot-4, 100-pound Aaron Hall was brutally beaten on April 12 for hours by two teens who have described the murder in chilling detail to police. Each says Hall precipitated the violence by making a homosexual suggestion.
The beatings included repeated pummelings with fists and boots and dragging Hall down a wooden staircase by his feet as "his head bounced down all of the steps," in one of the accused's words. He died naked and alone, in a field, where he had crawled after his killers dumped his body in a roadside ditch.
Police found Hall's body 10 days after his death wrapped in a tarp in the garage of Jackson County Deputy Coroner Terry Gray, whose son is one of the accused.
The Bloomington Alternative says this story is shouting for major media attention. Many in the blogosphere, including Towleroad and DailyKos, are saying the same. (Although, be sure to read the dissent in the Towleroad comments by "Bil Browning," who says this story isn't being picked up because Aaron Hall wasn't gay.)


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New pastor at Central Chapel A.M.E.
The Reverend Dwight Smith is the new pastor at Central Chapel A.M.E. Church.
Antioch College to host Black History Month events
Antioch College will host several upcoming events in honor of Black History Month, including artists talks and political action campaigns.
CMYS to present fundraiser screening
Chamber Music Yellow Springs, or CMYS, will hold a social fundraising event in Yellow Springs on Sunday, Jan. 25, 4 p.m., at the Little Art Theatre. The event will feature a screening of the film "Music of the Heart" and a reception at the Winds Cafe.
MLK Day march, events on Monday
The village will celebrate the birthday of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a march and series of events.
Glen Helen acquires Camp Greene
Glen Helen, with the help of several grants, purchased the former Camp Greene from the Girl Scouts last week.
New Year's 2015
Villagers filled the downtown with music, dancing and kissing on New Year's Eve 2014.
John Eastman memorial on Saturday
A memorial service for John Eastman will take place Saturday, Jan. 3, at 10:30 a.m. at the Glen Helen building.
Kindness and caring in Yellow Springs, 2014
For this holiday edition of the News, staffers asked readers to respond to the question, "What acts of kindness and caring have you witnessed in the village during 2014?" I am grateful for the kind acts of love and kindness shown to me from a very cool villager named Nick Cunningham. My family is sort […]
Kwanzaa marks African heritage in Yellow Springs
Basim Blunt wanted to make sure that the Kwanzaa celebration that the African American Cross-Cultural Works has sponsored in the village for nearly 10 years continues.
On the next day of Christmas, nature gave to us, 268 Carolina Chickadees
The 2014 Christmas Bird Count yielded about 57 species and nearly 5,000 birds in the 15-mile count circle around Yellow Springs.


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I was upgrading W3 Total Cache and when I was updating the Apache directives it uses, I noticed some issues on the BulletProof Security Custom Code and Edit/Upload/Download pages. The issue is the text boxes used to show the custom code entries and the htacess file contents are too wide and cause those pages to render poorly. I suspect this is the same issue as I reported in this thread:
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On this page, the buttons in the "File Downloads" column, on the right side of the page, are covered.
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I have seen a lot of soccer skills videos, but this one is definitely up there as one of the best. Some of the tricks are absolutely amazing and am still wondering how on earth they were able to do them. Check the video out below and let me know what you think.
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Scott Guthrie has just announced some new tools that have been released for Silverlight 2 at PDC. So go now and get the official RTW of Silverlight Tools.
you can view the keynote from PDC here....Keynote
Pleased to announce some subsidised training on Silverlight 2 from our friends at Xpertise
Xpertise do some great training on Silverlight 2.0 (with Expression Studio and Visual Studio). They have a course in December which has a special discount offer available for delegates. The course covers:
"Microsoft Expression Tools and Techniques for designing User Interfaces with Microsoft Silverlight 2" Course RRP = £1,400 (4 days)
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So, PDC starts today in LA at 8:30 am Pacific time-zone
It's going to be great event, with some big announcements. i think we will see a lot of the different jigsaw pieces slot together to show an amazing array of opportunities for Microsoft Partners and a vast amount of choice for Customers and Consumers.
If you are lucky enough to be there make sure that you keep the rest of us up to speed by participating in the social scene (Communities that is - we don't want to know about the fun you'll be having in LA - we are jealous enough already!) and don't forget to download your copy of the full session list. Take a look at the 14-page document here.
For those of you who aren't living large in LA. Make sure you catch all the sessions online. Bookmark www.microsoftpdc.com and at the very least make sure you watch Ray Ozzie in the opening Keynote
In fact, watch all the keynotes!....
And be sure to find all the sessions that you want to view from the session planner....https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx
Anyone in the UK?
follow this link at 3:30pm TODAY!
It seems like yesterday that i was sat in the lovely Venetian hotel in Las Vegas listening to some great banter between Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer and being wowed by the possibilities of Silverlight 2. Now, hot on the heels of Silverlight 2 RTW we have announced that the registration process has opened for Mix 09!
Looks like it is going to be as awesome as ever!
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The fourth Silverlight UK User Group will be hosted on Wednesday 5th November at Cardinal Place (Microsoft's London office) and looks set to be a good one!
Click here for the full agenda, we are lucky enough to have Tricky who will be giving a Silverlight design level talk and John Penrose from Graphico who will be talking about a recent Silverlight project and a few other insightful topics.
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Let's take a walk through the grove, or spend some time in the kitchen. I'm sharing my recipes and stories, and I hope to hear from you too!
Great picture of you M !
I love these pics… I love the warm feeling I get from "been there, felt that magic". 🙂
You are so lovely in this profile pic – your sweet nature comes right through!
I miss you!!!
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YAY!!! Congrats on getting your blog up and about!! It's awesome !!!
Mimi you clever girl. Your blog is awesome! Your ideas are inspiring and I can't wait to see what's next. Love the pictures of your ranch. Show more please. – Joy
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Loved your Christmas story, Mimi! Your writing is beautiful! I'm signing up for your blog ~ don't want to miss any unique recipes like the banana pancakes!
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Hi Mimi, enjoyed reading your blog and drive by your grove almost every day. Our trees are all gone now so I enjoy seeing the "green" on your property!
I live in Escondido, CA & our fuerte's didn't bare fruit last year. We aren't sure if the Santa Ana winds we had in May blew all of the blooms off. We found one lone avocado last week. It was actually tasty. When will we see blooms this year? Nothing yet. We had a bumper crop in 2013. Any suggestions?
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I am wondering whether Russo Construction is going to begin construction of their second building anytime soon. I noticed that their construction trailerdennis200dz July 26th, 2016, 09:37 PM
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Recently, I've noticed lonely third-grade (or possibly fourth-grade) style comments about what OTHER readers (ie; everyone BUT eastmillinocket) care aboutHof July 26th, 2016, 10:31 AM
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LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) - Police are investigating the shooting deaths of three people in East Texas.
The Longview News-Journal reports that police were first called Sunday evening about the body of a person found in a car parked outside a Denny's.
A local justice of the peace said two others were reported dead later Sunday.
Longview Police spokeswoman Kristie Brian said a shooting occurred at a home near the Denny's.
She did not immediately identify the victims or any potential suspects.
Longview is about 120 miles east of Dallas.
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Koch Industries thinks calling people ˜Hitler Youth is an ˜honest debate
After Greenpeace detailed the efforts of the Koch Industries' billionaire brothers to pollute energy policy and deny the threat of global warming, Koch Industries communications director Melissa Cohlmia attempted to greenwash their record:
Both a free society and the scientific method require an open and honest airing of all sides, not demonizing and silencing those with whom you disagree. We've strived to encourage an intellectually honest debate on the scientific basis for claims of harm from greenhouse gases.
Americans for Prosperity "" founded, funded, and overseen by David Koch "" claims to be trying to build that "free society" by "educating citizens about economic policy and mobilizing those citizens as advocates in the public policy process." So far, they're not doing a very good job of engaging in an "intellectually honest debate" without "demonizing and silencing those with whom you disagree":
'Hitler Youth.' At an Americans for Prosperity event in December 2009, guest speaker Christopher Monckton called youth climate activists "Hitler Youth." He told a Jewish youth climate activist whose grandparents escaped the Nazis that he was "Hitler Youth," and that "you people don't care" that "millions are dying in third world countries." Americans for Prosperity again featured Christopher Monckton at a regional summit in March 2010. [The Times, 12/11/09]
[JR: See Lord Monckton meltdown: "I'm not going to shake the hands of Hitler youth" and TVMOB hate speech shocker: Lord Monckton repeats and expands on his charge that those who embrace climate science are "Hitler youth" and fascists.]
'Radical Global Warming Agenda.' "President Obama is at again," the Americans for Prosperity Regulation Reality Tour warns, with a "radical global warming agenda" by "unelected bureaucrats regulating our life," "ignoring the entire democratic process all together." Supposed threats of "EPA's power grab" include "Grass Mileage Standards," "Government Control of your Thermostat," "Churches would need EPA Permits," and The tour features "EPA Carbon Cops" who want to punish you if you "opened your refrigerator" or "drove a car." [RegulationReality.com]
'Al Gore's Global Warming Alarmism.' The Americans for Prosperity Hot Air Tour told people to "rally against Al Gore's global warming alarmism" and "propaganda advanced by global warming alarmists," claiming "global warming alarmism" means "fewer jobs," "less freedom," and a "government that controls your home thermostat remotely." The Hot Air Tour flew a balloon over Al Gore's "energy-guzzling mansion" in Tennessee with the message "Global Warming Alarmism." [HotAirTour.org]
'We Might As Well Forget Freedom.' The Americans for Prosperity Hot Air Tour says that "far left environmentalists" are "radicals" with a "radical Global Warming ideology that claims people are the problem" who "want GOVERNMENT to force us to drive less and live in smaller homes while killing jobs that help grow our economy" and "want GOVERNMENT dictating our lives." [HotAirTour.org]
Cohlmia told the Wonk Room that "AFP is an independent organization and Koch companies do not in any way direct their activities." This is a remarkable claim, as Koch Industries executive vice presidents and directors Charles Koch and Richard Fink are also directors of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
This was a Wonk Room repost.
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- Must-see video: Polluter-funded Smithsonian exhibit whitewashes danger of human-caused climate change
- Report: Koch Industries outspends Exxon Mobil on climate and clean energy disinformation
- TVMOB shocker: Activists decried as "Hitler Youth" for crashing Americans For Prosperity's global warming event in Copenhagen
- From promoting acid rain to climate denial "" over 20 years of David Koch's polluter front groups
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I'm looking forward to the trials of Koch's dirty buisness.
Doesn't putting the Koch brothers' photos on a wanted posted also constitute "demonizing"?
[JR: You make an interesting moral equivalence between, on the one hand, those who are spending millions to engage in disinformation and character assassination aimed at stopping action on the greatest threat to the health and well-being of our children and grandchildren and countless future generations, and on the other hand, those who are trying to hold these serial disinformers accountable.]
Here is a better picture of the wanted
Expressing Your Values via Buying Choices
(As I commented before, but in case more/new people begin to read about Koch …)
Most people don't know whether they buy Koch products, because most of them are sold under various brand names and many of them are not consumer brands.
But, these products and brands are owned by Koch according to their website (you can check for yourself too) and according to my understanding:
Brawny paper towels
Angel Soft bath tissues
Quilted Northern bath tissues
Soft 'n Gentle bath tissues
Dixie cups, paper plates and bowls, and napkins
Mardi Gras paper towels and napkins
Sparkle paper towels
Vanity Fair and Zee napkins
These products/brands are owned and marketed by Georgia-Pacific, and Koch owns Georgia-Pacific. Check these brands out on the Koch website or, in more detail, on the Georgia-Pacific website.
So, if you want to do something (by not buying their products) about the Koch problem, you should definitely stop buying the products listed above, in my view. Companies pay the most attention when money is involved. One doesn't need to be an economist to realize that.
As for what Koch's spokespeople say, all I can say is this: "Give us a break!"
I like your idea of a product boycott, Jeff. As much as I would love to see the Kochs in prison, they've got too much juice and too many lawyers. It would take a really gutsy prosecutor, like Ronnie Earle, but those guys are a dying breed.
Michael Brune, who I know, is the new president of the Sierra Club. Michael executed some really effective boycotts when he was at Rainforest Action Network, including against Home Depot and Citibank. Maybe we should approach him about it.
I think Jeff left off the fibers division. Koch purchased a long list of fiber brands from Dupont. Spandex and many others are patented. I personnaly don't care to wear wool biking shorts.
Are there no europe companys in Koch's portfolio?
I would willingly contribute to a fund to raise a monument with the names of Monckton, Koch brothers, Lord Lawson and the rest of the denialist crew attached so that future generations can pay homage to the wisdom of those named for saving the world from climate change "fascists" and prolonged freedom and the American dream.
Of couse future generations (when they discover the monumnet buried as it will by then have been)may decide to rename the monument; In the age of stupid here are the giants.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair…
Regrading #2 and JR's response:
I made no such equivalence. I do claim that putting our ideological opponent's photo on a wanted poster is demonizing them. It is good that Green Peace exposed Koch Industries role in funding anti-science propaganda. But, we need to reach the people in the middle, those who are not sure who is right or who to trust. I think we will better reach these people by taking the high road.
This is a minor disagreement however. We are on the same side.
Should what they are doing be called KochGate?
I prefer Koch-choke.


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Nevada' six-game win snapped at USF.
April 15, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO – The University of Nevada (19-15) baseball team's six-game win streak was snapped after the Wolf Pack fell 7-0 to San Francisco (17-18) at Benedetti Diamond Tuesday afternoon. The Pack dropped to 19-15 while the Dons improved to 17-18 on the season.
USF scored single runs in the second, third and fourth innings and the Nevada offense was unable to respond with just five hits in the game. The Dons scored three runs in the sixth and one in the eighth to make the final score 7-0.
Pack starter Tyler Wells (1-4) suffered the loss allowing two runs on four hits in his three innings on the mound. USF starter Sheldon Lee (3-1) won his third game of the season pitching seven shutout innings and allowed four hits.
Five different Nevada batters had a hit in the game. USF shortstop Nico Giarratano (2-for-5) was one of three Dons hitters to collect two hits and drove in a game high two.
Nevada begins a three-game Mountain West series on Thursday at 6 p.m. versus Fresno State at Peccole Park. Friday's game is set for 6 p.m. and the final game of the series is at 1 p.m. Saturday. A free internet broadcast is available at NevadaWolfPack.tv. Listen to the game on 1060 AM with Don Marchand calling the action and free audio is available at NevadaWolfPack.com/audio.
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Mt. Gox, a major bitcoin exchange, retains nearly a quarter of the value of the bitcoin virtual currency it claimed to have lost in late February when it filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan, the exchange operator said Thursday.
Around 200,000 bitcoins were left in a "wallet" used previously, and it has been reported to a lawyer appointed by the Tokyo District Court to oversee court-backed procedures, according to the company.
The amount is roughly a quarter of the 850,000 bitcoins -- then worth around 48 billion yen -- the exchange said disappeared.
The company confirmed the existence of the bitcoins on March 7 and the currency has been moved to an offline wallet -- not linked to the Internet -- in order to ensure its safety. Bitcoin wallets are used for online transactions between currency holders.
The exchange filed for court protection on Feb. 28 under the Civil Rehabilitation Law. Exchange chief Mark Karpeles told a press conference that it lost 750,000 bitcoins owned by users and 100,000 bitcoins held by the company, citing the possibility of the "coins" withdrawn through unauthorized access.
It was also disclosed that around 2.8 billion yen in bank deposits has also been lost.
The exchange, one of the largest in the world, was shut down Feb. 25. The district court is charged with the task of whether or not to start rehabilitation process.


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This is a beautiful photograph and I love how the highlights and shadows come together so well. I think what I like most about this picture is the 'never ending' road that is shown through the snow covered ground and trees. I really don't see anything bad about the picture. I'm curious as to what time of day you took the photo, though. I would gather around mid-day? My only criticism would be that so many people take this kind of picture, not this exact picture but the same type of picture. Maybe an added bird or animal off to the side would have been interesting? Either way, it's a good picture and I'm glad you shared it.
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This is simply beautiful! The shot is simple (because you see a lot of people doing this kind of thing) but it's always different, ever time you do it. It's a fine example of leading lines, and the snow-covered trees and completely clean road is a fine example of contrast. Great job!
Beautiful. Very well done.
Its amazing! beautifull!
Amazing picture. I love the snow and the trees...the place looks so quiet,make me feel peacefull.
Love this...congratulations!!!
Love this...congratulations!!!
Looks very still and peaceful.
Really nice shot. But I think this fat black border disturbs this eautiful photo. Maybe you could remove it?!
What a wonderful photo! Lovely!
simplicity, elegance, style.
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Gather with friends and family at 'Whispering Willow' for a fun packed vacation located right on LAKE LANCER at Sugar Springs Recreation Community. It provides everything for everyone, whether you are 8 or 80.
This home sleeps 8:
3 bedrooms (1 on main level and 2 on 2nd level)
1 futon (twin size) located in finished walk out level
1 roll-away bed (twin size) located in finished walk out level
3 full baths (1 located on each level)
Fully stocked kitchen
Gas fireplace in the great room (which has lots of windows and a door wall that leads to deck and provide great views of the lake).
The fully furnished lower level walk-out provides access to the yard, fire pit and lake and dock.
Looking for some peace and quiet, rest and relaxation, Whispering Willow is located near the mouth of a cove and is ideal for this as well. Relax in the swing on the banks of the lake under the Willow tree and enjoy the view and what nature has to offer.
LAKE LANCER is an All Sports lake, great for any type of water sport you can think of... swimming, fishing, boating, tubing, canoeing/kayaking and jet-skiing, etc.
SUGAR SPRINGS is a private recreation community in Gladwin, MI which is located half-way between the towns of Gladwin and West Branch off of M-30 and Sugar River Road.
Sugar Springs offers; 2 All-Sports lakes…..Lake Lancelot (semi-private) and Lake Lancer (private),
private (gated) Beach Clubs, several of which have sandy beaches on shore, a roped off swimming areas (with sandy bottom and a shallow area that gradually becomes deeper), a PlayScape, swing sets. picnic tables and/or a pavilion, restrooms and a boat launch. One of the Beach Clubs has a sand volley ball area.
It is home to the Sugar Springs Championship Golf Course, with a Pro Shop, Golf Pro and Clubhouse. The Clubhouse contains The Hearth (restaurant and pub) a Fitness Center and an Indoor Swimming Pool.
During your stay with us, visit the Sugar Springs Campground which is the starting point for several hiking trails and in the summer, kids can enjoy the catch and release pond just outside of the Chalet. Inside the Chalet is equipped with picnic tables and fans (for summer) and heat and a fireplace… with wood provided (for winter). You may use it as a large game room or during the winter, a place to warm up, make some hot chocolate or roast hot dogs over the open fire after skating on the frozen catch & release pond or sledding down one of the 3 sledding hills.
Keep an eye out for wildlife that is often seen in this area.
SUGAR SPRINGS AMENITIES: As our guest, you will have access to all amenities. A few of the amenities require a fee for the activity. There is a fee schedule in our Welcome Book. Make sure that you have a guest pass with you. You will need to provide your own sports equipment.
-Two All-Sports Lakes (Lake Lancelot is private and Lake Lancer semi-private) great for swimming, fishing, boating, tubing and jet/water skiing.
-15 Beach Clubs. Sugar Springs has Beach Clubs scattered through out the community.
-Sugar Springs (18 hole) Championship Golf Course, Driving Range, Pro Shop and Golf Pro
**Remodeled Club House:
New indoor swimming pool (fee required-see SS Fee Schedule in our Welcome Book)
New Fitness Room (fee required-see SS Fee Schedule in our Welcome Book)
The Hearth Restaurant & Pub
-Tennis, basketball and bocce ball courts
-The Sugar Springs Campground has a Chalet with inside fireplace and picnic tables, outside fire pit, playground area, hiking trails, a catch & release pond for kids (ice skating pond in winter), sledding hills, and x-country ski trails (trail is not groomed).
Nice location, good amount of space, clean. Very outdated decor and televisions. Needs some additional "toys" like kayaks or tubes, maybe internet. Side door did not lock.
NORTHERN MICHIGAN is a year-round vacation destination filled with an abundance of things to do. It is our 'Pure' Michigan backyard. Whether you are visiting Northern Michigan to play or relax, there is something for everyone.
Discover scenic beauty, remote beaches, challenging golf, quaint shops, delightful restaurants and outdoor activities. From outdoor adventurers to history enthusiasts, there will be plenty to explore. Visit a local museum and learn about the legends and history of early settlers and the Great Lakes maritime. Explore haunts of Ernest Hemingway or attend local festivals and art shows. There is something for all ages, all interests and all seasons.
GLADWIN is located in the middle of the "mitten" and is a short drive from just about anywhere in the Lower Peninsula and is fairly close to surrounding states.
Distance From: Detroit-163 miles / Saginaw-65 miles / Traverse City-100 miles / Mackinac Island-120 miles / Chicago-340 miles / Indianapolis-380 miles / Toledo-240 miles.
Houghton and Higgins Lakes, Clare, Harrison, Roscommon, Prudenville, St. Helen, West Branch, Rose City, Grayling, Tawas, Oscoda
If you are looking for entertainment in addition to what you will find at this home...Gladwin County and the surrounding area has lots to do. There are lakes, beaches, rivers and marinas for swimming, boating/boat rentals, fishing, canoeing/kayaking /tubing, and jet & water skiing. Hiking, mountain biking, AVT/ORV & Motor Cross trails. Golf courses, scenic drives, light houses, wineries, Amish farms/crafts/fresh food & baked goods. National & State Forests, wild life preserves, bird watching, morel mushroom hunting, state recreation areas, restaurants, shopping, petting zoo's, etc.
Cider mills/apples/pumpkins, farm stands, autumn color drives, hunting and hiking. Snowmobile trails, snowmobile rentals, X-country ski/snowshoe trails, downhill skiing/tubing/Terrain Parks/ziplining, ice fishing, ice skating, sledding hills.
-Riverwalk Place-Gladwin (RW Oasis Spa and Salon / RW Grill / RW Threads (shopping) / River Rock Lounge
-Au Sable, Rifle, Tittabawassee, Tobacco, & Cedar Rivers for tubing, canoeing or kayaking, fishing and swimming.
-Secord Lake and Secord Lake Marina (boat rentals): swimming (2 public beaches) and public boat launches.
-Sugar Springs Marine (pontoon rentals)
*State & National Forests, Parks and Recreation Areas:
-Gladwin County Recreation Area: hiking, biking and cross country ski trails.
-Rifle River Recreation Area - Hunting, lakes, Au Sable River, fishing, scenic drive, observation tower and canoeing, picnic area, hiking/biking/cross country ski trails.
-Hartwick Pines State Forest - Visitors Center, Hunting, fishing, mountain bike/hiking/cross country ski trails, picnic area/playground, wildlife viewing.
-Huron National Forest: River Road Scenic Drive, Lumberman's Monument Visitors Center (HNF information area)/Dune Overlook (has breath taking views of the Au Sable River Valley, Iargo Springs (observation deck, beautiful scenery, Au Sable river, springs, waterfalls), hiking/x-country ski/snowmobile trails, sightseeing, fishing/boating/swimming/canoeing/kayaking.
-Tuttle Marsh Wildlife Area
*Golf Courses: Sugar Springs/Tamarack/The Dream/The Nightmare/Snowsnake Golf & Ski, Apple Mountain Golf & Ski and Snowsnake Golf and Ski (etc).
- Snowmobile/ORV Trails: Huron Trail, Alley Park Trail,
-Cross Country Ski/Snowshoe/Hiking Trails: Eagle Run, Ogemaw Hills Pathway (Au Sable Forest), Hartwick Pines, Rifle River Recreation Area, Corsair.
-Downhill Skiing/Tubing/Snowboarding/Terrain Parks: Snowsnake Golf & Ski (Harrison), Apple Mountain Golf & Ski (also has Zip Line), Hanson Hills Recreation Area (1000 acre Summer/Winter Sports Park)
-Cider Mills/Apple Orchards (Fruitful Orchard)/Farm Stands/Crafts/Amish Country
-Shopping: Antiques/Tangier Outlet Mall
-Restaurants: The Hearth Restaurant and Bar/Grill (Sugar Springs), The Camp, Lost Arrow, The Willow Tree.
-Casinos: Saganing/Soaring Eagle
-Wineries: Valley Mist, Moderncraft and Rose Valley
-Gladwin, Houghton Lake and West Branch have "kid" activities…..movie theater, putt-put golf, bowling, etc.
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While there is a lot of talk about concussions in sports, and rightfully so, there should be just as much attention paid to heat-related illnesses among athletes.
I've now seen it up close and it is a little frightening. And this was with just a little bit of exertion.
Romantic that I am, I took my wife to Six Flags Over Georgia recently for our anniversary.
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The long weekend for the CSRA Swim League came to a rousing end Monday night.
The league's five division meets began June 28 and once they were finished June 30, the league's 20 best in each event took to the pool at the Augusta Aquatic Center once more for the 2013 CSRA All-Star Meet.
Even with the best summer league swimmers going head-to-head, there were still 12 double winners by the end of the competition.
Though I was admittedly rooting for former Evans and Georgia Southern slugger Michael Holder to get the head coaching post at GRU (he was a finalist), it is hard to argue with the credentials of GRU's selection.
Jason Eller, 40, was introduced as the new coach of the Jaguar baseball program at a press conference last week. Eller, who played at Georgia State University, spent the last 11 years as an assistant at the University of Georgia. From 2007-12 he served as the Bulldog recruiting coordinator, and was pitching coach the last two seasons, as well.
• Grovetown High School Little Warriors Cheer Camp is Wednesday to Friday for those 4 to 12 years old. Cost is $65 and registration forms are available at www.edline.net/pages/Grovetown_High or from a Grovetown High School cheerleader. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
The CSRA Swim League division season ended with meets Friday through Sunday. In Division 4, Jones Creek was victorious with 1,196 points, besting National Hills (1,190). Springlakes (1,163) was third and Knob Hill (792) was fourth.
The pieces all fell into place for Brianna Jackson on Friday.
Not even considering running track in college when her senior year at Evans High School began, the 2013 alum signed her letter of intent to run for the Division I Jacksonville State University Gamecocks in Jacksonville, Ala.
Already accepted to Kennesaw State University, Jackson didn't think about running at the next level, but people kept telling her she could and finally she believed it was a possibility.
Backed by an explosive offensive attack, the Martinez Evans Little League 10-11 All-Stars slugged their way to the Georgia Little League District 6 championship.
While going undefeated in three games, the All-Stars outscored opponents by a 50-1 margin.
The All-Stars defeated Elbert County in a mercy-rule shortened four-inning game, 33-0. They then beat Masters City 7-1 and finished it off by blanking Masters City, 10-0, on June 24 in the district championship game.
North Greenville University football coach Jeff Farrington recently made a decision that will affect his life and team in a great way.
Farrington hired former Lakeside standout Brian Bratton as his wide receivers coach. Farrington probably knows he is getting a young, energetic coach with a great résumé as a player. After all, Bratton was an all-American at Furman University and helped lead the Paladins to a pair of Southern Conference titles.
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A.J. Dunlop Car Servicing have been servicing and repairing all makes and models of cars and motorcycles in the Buckinghamshire and Berkshire area for over 20 years. We offer a polite and friendly service at competitive rates.
At A. J. Dunlop we understand that your car or motorcycle is extremely important to you, so we always aim to service and repair your vehicle to the highest standards… everytime!
Although we can service all makes of vehicles, we are Independent Volvo Specialists and Bosch Car Service Centre. Our garage is situated in the old town of Beaconsfield. We are ideally situated next to Jct 2 of the M40 and A40.
We provide a free local pick up and delivery service, and also have a loan car facility (subject to availability).
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The most crucial pieces from Paris's finest museums and galleries.
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Perfume makers Fragonard dedicate a museum to the smelly stuff.
Musée de l'Homme
The reopened Trocadéro museum celebrates the sheer diversity of humankind.
Musée Picasso
Finally, after many years of building works, the Musée Picasso reopened its doors on October 25 2014.
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News Zombies Will Dance in Stafford
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Zombies are about to overrun North Stafford, and it's all for a good cause.
Mainstreet Bar and Grill will hold "zombie dance practice"
Sundays Wednesdays at 5 p.m. starting Sept. 5. It's part of a larger, global effort to "Thrill the World" where fans of the late Michael Jackson will hold impromptu dances on Oct. 27.
Our local zombie thrillers will pack the parking lot outside Mainstreet Grill and Bar once they've learned all their dance moves.
"Basically, there are seven sets of moves in the dance and I'll be breaking down and demonstrating one of the seven sets each time, then practicing the whole dance at a super-slow speed. Clearly, not everyone will know the full dance; it's just an opportunity to follow along and be silly," said Valerie Webber, who teaches swing dancing and has partnered with the restaurant in this event," said Valerie Webber, swing dance instructor at Lindy in the 'Burg."I have a small stereo system and a headset and we'll just be using the lower dance floor area of the restaurant."
It's free to come to the practice sessions and participate in the dance. The organizers of the event have asked participants bring a food donation to each dance practice to benefit the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank.Send news and photos to Potomac Local
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Range DescriptionThis species is known from the mountains of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon at 1,200-2,000m asl. In Nigeria, it has been recorded from the Obudu Plateau, and in Cameroon it is known from Mount Manenguba, the southern fringe of the Bamileke Plateau (at Foto and Mount Bana), Mount Nlonako, and the Bamenda Highlands (in the Bafut-Ngemba Forest Reserve). At Mwakoumel on Mount Manenguba, it co-exists with Cardioglossa pulchra and C. venusta.