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Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 12:29 PM #81
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Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 01:18 PM #82
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Now we have a map of the Flanaess right on this thread for everyone to see.
And your idea of coloring in factions is a great one, too!
Add a few names, if you can:
To the south of Ull, down where the Sulhauts branch off from the Hellfurnaces (south of the Sulhauts is the Sea of Dust) mark Istivar.
Above Istivar mark Spirit Empire of Garnak and a pointer pointing west off the map.
A little higher up, mark (but still south of Ull) Esmerin / Celestial Imperium, and put in a pointer pointing west off the map.
To the south of the Black Ice, north of the Burneal Forest, and east of the ocean, in the northwest part of the map, mark Heimmorj.
In the ocean east of the Dark League, mark The Sky League of the Isle of the Phoenix, and put in a pointer pointing east off the map.
In the ocean west of Hempmonaland and east of the Amedio, mark Varnaith, and put in a pointer pointing southwest off the map.
The area controlled by Acererak is not that big. Only about a 10th that size.
You have everything from the Great Swamp clear up into Southern Medegia colored in.
The Iron League is not a part of the Dark Alliance, nor is Sunndi.
Those areas should not be colored.
Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 01:41 PM #83
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Edena how do you calculate power levels of mighty inviduals?
And out of it the world was made. For Darkness alone is worshipful, and the Lord thereof (Melkor) may yet make other worlds to be gifts to those that serve him, so that the increase of their power shall find no end"
Sauron to Ar-Pharazon, Silmarillion.
Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 01:48 PM #84
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Yes, I am Riot Gear
So yeah, I'm him. I am the Solistarim and Anabstercorian.
((Ok. I am removing Riot Gear from the Lists, and replacing it with the name Anabstercorian.
I am doubling the Power Level of the Solistarim. I had originally conceived of them being much stronger than I gave them power for.
For balance, I lessened their power. But now there are a zillion powers on the board, and I am giving the Solistarim back their rightful strength.))
A few things:
I have no points in the Magical Arms Race because I have no ability to cast 10th+ level spells, despite the fact that I have an army of level 9th+ wizards. That makes sense, and it defines the Magical Arms Race nicely - I take it my massive army of wizards is factored in to my base power level?
((It is a mistake on my part. The Solistarim have been working on learning Arcane Age magic for a hundred years.
I will change the rule concerning the Magical Arms Race to factor this in, and the Solistarim will benefit.
Otherwise, yes, the great Host of Wizards of the Solistarim is a part of their Power Level.))
Also, my 'planars' - My salamanders, efreet, fire elementals - Those are also factored in to my base power level, right?
((Yes. But the Solistarim can join in the Planar Arms Race also.))
My technological know-how is nixed, due to the fact that all of my neato guns from Toril don't work here, right?
((What items you brought from Toril are pretty much useless. However, Anabstercorian's Strength Level is still a 4 ... his very high level makes up for the loss.))
In that case, I have to ask this: Edena, until Anabstercorian can lay his hands on weaponry of
AT LEAST American Civil War level technology, his Power Level is 2. It will then go up to three.
Once he can dual-wield SMG's again, his power level will go back up to 4 - Possibly even higher as he gets better, more powerful Technomagic weapons and armor.
((Hehe, don't worry. You'll be back up to Civil War levels in a real hurry. Take a look at how fast you can advance in the Technological Arms Race, if you can talk people into helping you!))
I'm assuming my character has been nixed in power a bit, as I made him a bit excessive in the last IR - Tell me if this is reasonable.
((It is not reasonable, for he earned his levels. So he stays at Power Level 4.))
Illithid Fighter20/Gundancer10/Psion(Nomad)10/Cleric(Ilsensine)5/Loremaster5, with all of his level boosts to abilities split between Intelligence, Charisma, and Dexterity. His feats are based around advanced gunplay and laying down the psychic smackdown of Ilsensine (I.E., Improved Mind Blast, Mind Blast Mastery, Psychic Smackdown of a Mind Blast, Mind Blast of Oblivion, Show-No-Mercy Mindblast, and Psychic Smackdown Mind Blast of Screaming Agony And Bloody Hemhorraging.)
((Heh, nice imagination. Nasty!))
(Edit: I added 15 levels to fighter and 5 levels to Nomad after Lord Melkos's anecdote. I just want to know - If I'M that level and power level 4, what level is Vecna? What level is Acererak?
((I don't know what level Acererak is, and - I suspect - nobody WANTS to know what level Acererak is.
Let's just say he's over 40th level in 2nd edition terms, and leave it at that.))
How many character levels equal a Power Level?
((I wish this question was not asked of me. However, since it has been asked, I will make a ruling on it.
A character of 30th level 2nd or 3rd edition would have a Power Level of 1.
A character of 60th level 2nd or 3rd edition would have a Power Level of 2.
A character of 90th level 2nd or 3rd edition would have a Power Level of 3.
A character of 120th level 2nd or 3rd edition would have a Power Level of 4.
A character of 160th level 2nd or 3rd edition would have a Power Level of 5.
If the character has innate magical powers, and huge numbers of high powered magical items (and/or artifacts) his power level can increase further.
Thus Anabstercorian, who is over 90th level 2nd Edition, and has a huge arsenal of magical items (that survived the crossover from Toril) has a PL of 4.
I hope you'all don't bring more than one Player Character apiece into this.
This is a situation where characters can get killed, and I DO NOT WISH to have the make rulings on whether a Player Character survives or not.
The above applies to NPCs.
It applies to the famous NPCs of Oerth.
An NPC who is a demipower, like Iuz, has inherently greater power than the norm, and this places him out of the above scheme.
Before you all tear into me, remember that someone asked me what the relationship between character levels and Power Level was.
I have been forced to make a ruling on this.))
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Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 01:51 PM #85
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Planar Arms Race
Edena I've got the MotP right in front of me and I found that formians live in LARGE numbers (as in SWAAAAAARRRRRMMMM!!!!!) on the plane of mechanus So I guess I'll be summoning some of my kind from that plane to Oerth to help bring more slaves and more lands for the Queen and the Hive. Does dis bring the formians up to 10 +1 per .......? According to the planar arms race I guess does :P
So my final claims are
- The Modrons (The Planars of Mechanus, lawful neutral)
- The Outerplane Formians (The Planars of Mechanus, lawful neutral)
The Formians of the Southern Hellfurnaces (Formian Giant Ants, lawful neutral) PL 7
The Kuo-Toa of the Hellfurnaces and Crystalmists (kuo-toa, slaves of all types, evil) PL 5
The Illithid of the Hellfurnaces and Crystalmists (illithid, slaves of all types, evil) PL 3
The Trogolodytes of the Hellfurnaces and Crystalmists (trogolodytes, slaves of all types, evil) PL 3
The rest of the Kuo-Toa of the Underdark (kuo-toa, slaves of all types, evil) PL 8
The Unseelie of the Flanaess (every type of Dark Faerie, evil) PL 13
It seems me and Kalanyr (him also speaking for his friend) have come to a agreement who plays which factions. I'll have it all relocated among the hellfurnaces and the crystalmist moutains and the rest of the west and south. They will divide the rest of the underdark. We will very likely have a alliance to combine the might of the whole underdark to bring darkness to the dispicable light world above!!!!!!!!
And Edena the savages in the jungle in the south, east of the hellfurnaces, do they have a name in the list, I didn't find them because I'll like to claim them other wise to complete my nice rulership over the southwest
And for the Isles of Woe and The Skyleage, hmmmm I'll have to think about those claims because they don't make any sense at all but just have a nice PL....... Ah while typing I get a the solution haha. Mr Draco, I'll accept your offer for releasing my claim for your offer that you mailed me.
As for the Skyleage I'll just need a good "reason" :P To retract that claim so William (i think). Mail my about what to do with them. And if a new person comes and wishes to only play the Skyleage he can have them no problem with that. But if someone who already has a big power wants them I'll contest for them.
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Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 02:03 PM #86
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Melkor wrote:
Edena you know about the fact that there are already undead( two Shadowlords are liches and command many of their kind) and evil outsiders( both native to The Plane of Shadow and renegade fiends from lower planes, these are commanded by Shadowlord Baelros, renegade Demon Lord{35th hit dice} High Captain of The Host of Shadow) in Shadow Empire and I consider them a part of our 77 power level, okay?
((Yes. These are already factored into your Power Level. Of course, the Shadow Empire will be getting into many Arms Races, but you haven't started yet!))
((Anabstercorian is over 90th level, 2nd edition. He is incredibly powerful, hence his PL of 4.))
Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 02:09 PM #87
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What is this? Looks interresting. Where do I go to join? Can I?
Please forgive me if I have been ignorant with my questions but I'm new and try so hard to understand
Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 02:17 PM #88
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Yay! New member! Welcome Bonedagger
Everyone can join, just look at the huge list of factions on the first page and pick one you'd like to play.
Edena, I've tried adding most other factions that make sense to my less-than-encyclopaedic knowledge of the Flanaess, along with the additions you suggested. I'm sure people will find issue with their territories (or the colour I've picked for them mostly at random ), if so maybe it's best to mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll do my best to sort it out. I should have it mostly figured out by the time we start. This is a stripped-down map showing mostly just geography, I'll try putting up the full-featured one too.
Updated faction map
Sorry about the Sunndi thing, I guess I had acre-envy with that huge purple blob above me They're toast in round 1 though
Edit: Sunndi, I mean, not the purple blob. Hello, friendly superpower neighbour! *waves nervously*
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Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 02:28 PM #89
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Yes, Bonedagger.
The IR will start on February 20th, here in In Character.
At that point, a being known as the Wanderer is sending everyone an important message, a worldwide telepathic broadcast to the world of Greyhawk.
Pick a power, any power.
The list of powers available is the now gigantic post on page one.
It is the 5th post on the page.
It lists each Power, what alignment and type they are, and what their Power Level is.
If you wish, you may choose a Power claimed by someone else.
If you do that, and you and the other person cannot agree as to who controls it before the 20th, that Power is considered to be in civil war, until the matter is resolved.
You may pick as many powers as you wish.
This is not a game as in a roleplaying game where we go to a chat room, and have an actual game.
This game is based upon what you post to the thread.
You state what you are going to do on the thread.
You can also roleplay, ask questions, threaten any and all of the other Powers, make deals, make alliances, betray people, and do anything else you wish.
The whole thing is going to be run in Turns of 200 posts each.
Each Turn represents one month of game time.
So, you may post as many action posts (statements of what your Power is doing) as you think you can get away with in one month.
At the end of 200 posts (maybe more), I will call Time Out, and that Turn ends.
Then, I will post the final results of the Turn's actions to that thread, for all to read.
And ask the Moderator to close that thread.
Shortly afterwards, I will start a new thread, and the next Turn will begin.
That is the IR, which stands for Industrial Revolution.
For indeed, it would appear that Oerth, the World of Greyhawk setting, is entering an industrial revolution.
Assuming, of course, that these maniacs don't blow up the world first!
Thursday, 7th February, 2002, 02:30 PM #90
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Maudlin, move Istivar off the mountains, and up right into the yellow patch just north of there.
Take the pointer off from underneath Spirit Empire of Garnak - that IS where it is.
Color in the Istivar and Garnak region as being a part of the Baklunish Confederation (all the color directly northward, over Zeif, Ekbir, Tusmit, etc.)
Put Solistarim on the map, to the right of the words Black Ice (but not in the ocean!)
Color in Heimmorj and Blackmoor to the color the Solistarim have chosen (if they haven't chosen, choose a color.)
Do not color in anything south of the Burneal Forest (that long green forest south of the Black Ice.)
Do not extend the color southeast into the Howling Hills, nor eastward into the Barrens ... stop at the eastern borders of Blackmoor.
Thanks for the map!!!
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rampancy: It seems to not allow characters (only numbers) in its saved versions, and also doesn't seem to handle multiple decimals in version numbers (e.g. ver220.127.116.11) well either.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- French coach Didier Deschamps tries to stay alert. Early in the World Cup, he halted a practice session and alerted FIFA officials when he suspected a drone plane was hovering over players' workout.
"We don't want an intrusion into our privacy," he said.
As this tournament was just beginning, the 45-year-old coach sat on a dais and seemed to know the question was coming. When a British journalist finally asked about France's recent troubled history on the field -- particularly its 2010 World Cup debacle -- Deschamps didn't even bother putting on headphones to hear an English-to-French translation of the question.
"I haven't understood everything ... but I heard 'South Africa,' " he said, "and you shouldn't mention South Africa. We are now in another World Cup. We are in Brazil. We are not going to be judged by what we did four years ago."
His team promptly spent the next two weeks making the same case. The result: Just two years removed from complete organizational chaos, France enters Friday's quarterfinal match against Germany with as much a shot at winning this tournament as anyone.
France is barely recognizable from just a few years ago. Only four players on this year's squad were in South Africa. The turnover has reached every corner of the program, with all new coaches, staff, players -- and very few lingering bad memories.
"As far as we are concerned, we live in the present, the present moment," said goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, one of the few holdovers. " ... We want to write our own history, obviously."
Deschamps knows a thing or two about rebounding programs. During his playing days, the French failed to even qualify for the 1990 or '94 World Cup tournaments. But in 1998, with Deschamps serving as team captain, France was not only in the field, it hoisted the championship trophy on its home turf.
Less than a decade later, Les Bleus began an embarrassing nose dive, one that kept finding new, unchartered depths. France lost the 2006 World Cup final after Zinedine Zidane, perhaps the most talented player the country has ever known, was red-carded for a foolish head butt.
In 2010, coach Raymond Domenech got in a confrontation with one of his players, sending Nicolas Anelka home. The rest of the team showed its displeasure with a mass revolt, skipping a training session. Days later, they were all ousted from the tournament, scoring just one goal in three games and failing to get out of group play.
Then with Laurent Blanc serving as coach, the team spiraled further out of control at the 2012 European championship, plagued by infighting. Blanc stepped down, and France turned to its former captain, Deschamps, to resuscitate the program. He had just two years to summon a near-miracle.
Deschamps boasted that he tried to assemble the best team, not necessarily the best collection of individual players. With a tough qualifying draw and players still learning to play together, France barely made the World Cup field.
On Thursday at the historic Maracana stadium, after his team's final practice session of the week, Deschamps was asked about his program's fast turnaround. "November 19 was the key," he said matter-of-factly.
Prodded to elaborate, Deschamps explained the stakes were laid bare last November in France's qualifier against Ukraine -- "To qualify or stay at home?" -- and his newly assembled squad answered the call, posting a 3-0 win.
"That's what changed everything," he said. "There were other major elements before and after that made it possible for us to reach this particular state, but the history of my players, the history of my staff and myself has changed totally since November 19."
They've played four friendly matches and four World Cup contests since that day. They haven't lost, outscoring opponents 25-3. Forward Karim Benzema, 26, has been one of this tournament's most outstanding players, notching three goals and two assists in four games, and Lloris has posted three shutouts in goal.
"Of course, France is a team on the very top," German midfielder Toni Kroos said. "We know what is coming our way. We know that they have top players. They have shown a performance of a team which perhaps wasn't the case before."
"History is what is has been," Deschamps said, "and tomorrow we'll write a new page in history maybe. We're try to make it as pleasant as possible."
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The University of North Dakota medical school is getting a $5 million grant to help train emergency responders in rural areas.
The money from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will be used for four mobile training vehicles. One each will be based in Grand Forks, Fargo, Minot and Bismarck. The vehicles will include a simulated emergency room, a simulated ambulance and a simulated control center.
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Tuesday will mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Although there is still more work to be done to repair the damage, the reconstructed World Trade Center and the National Sept. 11 Memorial are beginning to take shape.
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Bragging rights are earned; but for Henry Graves, Jr. you can buy it. A pedigree American banker behind railroad projects and other industrial investments that propelled the U.S. economy in the early part of the twentieth century, Henry challenged the automobile manufacturer, James Ward Packard, in owning the world's most complicated watch back in the 1930s. Some years earlier, James paraded the most complicated watch and the world was impressed, except Henry. He commissioned Patek Philippe to outdo James' feat. A few years and some 60,000 Swiss francs after, Patek Philippe produced the world's most complicated timepiece—a pocket watch—using state-of-the art horological techniques that many considered an engineering feat as it is a high form of art expression. Called the Patek Philippe Supercomplication, the watch has an 18-karat gold enclosure and 24 mechanical features that move in separate but precise coordination. It charts the positions of starts and the Milky Way, has a minute repeater playing the same melody as is in London's Big Ben, a chronological function per hour and, yes, it tells time. But its biggest feature is not mechanical. The Patek Philippe Supercomplication watch was auctioned at Sotheby's New York in 1999 for $11,002,500, a record high. Henry would not know this, of course; only that he bested his James Ward in his, well, time.
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But the sound sure wasn't samba. "You and I must make a pact," a high-pitched voice sang in English, soaring above the crowd. "We must bring salvation back."
The Michael Jackson themed "Thriller Eletrico" street party was one of a handful adding a dash of hard rock, Motown, Latin rhythms and other eclectic beats to the samba sounds associated with Brazil's wild Carnival celebrations, even if they include a season-appropriate jolt of percussion in their renditions.
Those who showed up for the Jackson "bloco," as the street bands and their followers are known, came prepared to celebrate their icon: There were white gloves in the crowd, along with sequined fedoras, wigs and get-ups representing the artist in various phases of his long career.
"I'm a huge MJ fan," said Marjorie Lopes, dancing near the stage as the band launched into "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough." "Now, mixing it up with samba, you can't ask for more!"
Tony Swaine, a flushed Irish visitor in a rather rumpled Bumble Bee outfit, was particularly appreciative of being able to sing along with the band.
The day before, he'd marched through a marathon of four blocos in which, as is typical, Brazilian partyers bellowed out the lyrics of decades-old Portuguese-language tunes they've known their whole lives while foreigners smiled and bobbed their heads, unable to join in.
"It was still fun," he said. "But here I can at least sing along."
Another rock-oriented group, "Sargento Pimenta," drew 60,000 revelers to a waterfront park last year for a Beatles homage, even if most of Rio is still dancing to the standard Carnival beat.
In a different city plaza earlier this week, other foreigners—the Uruguayans Maximiliano Duarte, who lives in Rio, and Luciana Vaccotti, who visits regularly—watched a new bloco group named for the Mexican classic "Besame Mucho" wind up its set with a bass-drum-heavy version of the Cuban anthem 'Guantanamera'.
Playing around with tradition is very much in the Carnival spirit, said Vaccotti.
"It's a re-appropriation of Carnival by people who come from other places and want do this in their own way," she said.
Mexican-born Osvaldo Jimenez Farias, who is completing his doctorate in physics in Rio de Janeiro, agreed.
Their set is just as diverse as the band, including classics familiar to anyone in Latin America, or with at least a few Spanish classes under their belt: the Mexican folk tunes "Cielito Lindo" and "La Bamba" and the Argentinian hit "El Matador" by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, among others.
"We're foreigners, but we're part of this city," he said. "The idea is to be part of this very Brazilian party, while recognizing that we also have something we can contribute."
The "carna-rock" band Bloco Cru also brings something new to the party. Lead singer Lu Baratz grew up in Rio but always had a rock-and-roll streak.
"I'd hear rock and roll with tambourines, 'Brazilianized,'" she said. "I also knew other people who identified more with rock and other rhythms. So I decided to take AC/DC out for Carnival."
She debuted that cocktail in Rio's streets five years ago, and found a home among the hordes of locals hungry for something less traditional.
"It attracts all kinds of tribes," she said. "It's what Carnival is about, isn't it?"


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Center Rep continues its Off Center series with Yussef El Guindi's "Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World," running April 25-May 12. Michael Butler directs this 2012 Steinberg Award winner for new plays.
With a topic many can relate to, the play poses an age-old question: Do you make a safe, sensible match?, or take a risk on an exciting someone who might -- just might -- be the one great romance of your life? Musa, an Egyptian immigrant and Sheri, a very quirky Caucasian waitress, must negotiate the twists and turns of not only love but also cultural expectations, as they become romantic pilgrims in this charming comedy with a delightful twist.
The cast features Carl Lumbly, Gabe Marin, Lena Hart, Dorian Lockett and Rebecca Schweitzer.
Spring must be in the air because love certainly is on the mind of local theater companies. Sam Shepard's gives his own take on the subject with "A Lie of the Mind," playing at Saint Mary's College April 24 — 27.
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award among others, the show follows two families who struggle to understand that mysterious, magical thing called love. Sad, funny and always very human, "A Lie of the Mind" shows Shepard's depth as a playwright. For further information and reservations, call 925-631-4670 or go to www.brownpapertickets.com.
Walnut Creek's Eric Inman, formerly the artistic director at the Willows Theatre, is directing 42nd Street Moon's production of "Little Me."
Neil Simon's outrageous musical highlights the rags-to-riches tale of belle Poitrine, who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to Hollywood fame and South Hampton luxury.
Broadway's Jason Graae stars as all seven men in Belle's life with Sharon Rietkerk as younger Belle and Teressa Byrne as the older-but-wiser Belle.
The show runs May 1 — 19 at the Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson Street in San Francisco. Call 415-255-8207 or go to www.42ndstmoon.org
Masks, puppetry, outrageous costumes and a full-scale storm at sea await audiences at Berkeley Rep's production of Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" playing through May 26.
But before you get to all the shock and awe, you have to sing for your supper, so to speak. The play begins with composer/music director Marc Gwinn leading the audience in a song -- partly made up based on the audience and partly including the usual plea to turn off your cell phones. This very clever bit ends with the audience singing in rounds, which puts everyone in just the right collaborative, silly spirit for this new adaptation of "Pericles."
Conceived by Mark Wing-Davey with Jim Calder and directed by Wing-Davey, this innovative version of Shakespeare's tale of assassination attempts and a family split asunder is a wild ride through a maze of technological wonders, extravagant costumes (even Batman and Robin make a brief appearance) and a host of unusual props (who knew that cabbages could be sculpted into heads, affixed to an actor's shoulders, and become additional party guests?)
While Peter Ksander and Douglas Stein's amazing set tends to overshadow the story at times, Wing-Davey has found a marvelous cast that can hold its own. David Barlow (Pericles), Anita Carey (narrator), Annapurna Sriram (Marina) James Carpenter, Jessica Kitchens, Rami Margron, James Patrick Nelson, and Evan Zes in multiple roles all bring such creativity to their many characters while also conveying the dramatic storyline.
Marc Gwinn and his musicians Jeff Holland and Jessica Ivry add another level to this exuberant production as they create myriad sound effects and original music.
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A busy campaign season is about to come to an end for many candidates looking to fill positions as a statewide leader.
From governor to commissioner of agriculture and commerce, the political match-ups going into the primaries are being watched with a close eye and could be the deciding elections for some.
"It literally is going to depend on how the voters decide at the last minute who they're going to vote for," said Jere Nash. "These are all going to be close races."
Political watchers like Nash and Andy Taggart say Republicans stand to gain the most representation in statewide elections.
"Democrats just failed to field candidates in statewide races and only have one statewide primary, the one for governor," Taggert said.
As candidates now make their last minute appeals to voters across the state, Nash says this political season has brought in less money and fewer candidates than in years past, but each campaign is still being hard fought.
"It is rare that a candidate at the start of a campaign is a shoe-in," said Nash.
When voters show up at the polls, one thing to keep in mind is that Mississippi has closed primaries. That means voters may only choose from candidates within the political party they declare.
"A closed primary is a little frustrating to people, because folks want to be able to go in and vote for whoever they want to vote for, regardless of what party they run in," said Taggert.
The legislature tried before to make Mississippi an open primary state, but the proposed law was struck down by the U.S. Department of Justice. Even with a majority of gubernatorial candidates open to the idea of an open primary, neither Nash nor Taggart think it'll happen any time soon.
"The closed primary system actually requires people to make a philosophical choice early on, am I going to vote for Republicans in general or Democrats in general?" said Taggert.
Whatever the choice of voters, the end of the primaries means more political fights to come.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - The National Brotherhood of Skiers has again chosen Snowmass Village as the location for its Summit, the largest gathering of skiers and riders in the country. Although this isn't the organization's first visit here, this year has special meaning.
This year marks the 40th anniversary for the Brotherhood's first organized meeting, which happened in Aspen.
"It's really important for us to be back," said Diana Starks, current president of the organization. "It was an amazing time in history. No one knew we existed as people of color with a passion for skiing."
The national club of black skiers was born from that historical gathering in 1973, and today has 60 clubs in 43 cities, according to its website. At 3,000 members, it is one of the largest ski organizations in the U.S. The primary mission of the club is to identify and support black athletes who will win Olympic and international winter sports competitions and to increase participation in winter sports, according to a statement.
The Summit, its biennial fundraiser, is held every odd year and supports the Olympic Scholarship Fund. The Summit moves around to different ski resorts and last came to Snowmass in 2009. One-thousand people have registered for this year's event, but because additional people like to follow the club on its trips, Starks said, even more than that could be descending on Snowmass Village from Feb. 23 to March 2. Most of them will be staying in the Village, according to Patsy Popejoy, of Snowmass Tourism.
In addition to Olympic scholarships, the club spends money on outreach, including camps and events to introduce young people to winter sports, racing and mountain safety.
"The goal is to facilitate introduction of 100,000 youth to winter sports," Starks said.
Although the club hasn't yet reached its goal of sending someone to the Olympics, it continues to invest in young athletes.
"We don't give up," Starks said. "It's like an investment. You wouldn't give up on an investment."
Many young people who go through the Brotherhood's camps have gone on to get jobs in ski areas or come back to the organization, Starks said.
Starks said a big highlight of the Summit for her will be the welcome ceremony that kicks off the week. The opening ceremony on Sunday will include a torchlight parade that the public is invited to join.
"I'm just looking forward to the feeling, the electricity of the participants," she said. "I hope it doesn't make me cry, but I think that's going to be a memorable day for me."
Some other highlights of the week are extended happy hours on the mountain, a picnic on the hill and the anniversary gala on Feb. 27 at the Westin, she said. The founders, Arthur Clay and Ben Finley, will be recognized then.
Another component of the event is the interclub races on Feb. 27. The Brotherhood has a national team, but this competition is between representatives of the individual clubs.
"This is more of an interclub rivalry," said Mark Jackson, president of the Jim Dandy Ski Club in Detroit and organizer of the racing during the Summit. "(It's a) friendly rivalry. We all have a good time after the races are over."
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TALLAHASSEE | Lawmakers want to change Florida's election laws in the hopes of improving the state's reputation among voters and comedians.
It took Florida four days to determine that President Barack Obama won the state during the November election, making the state that needed five weeks to declare a winner in the 2000 election a target for late night television.
Long lines also were a problem during the election, which Obama noted in his State of the Union address.
Republicans and Democrats appear to agree that early voting should be expanded to up to 14 days. That's the same number of days Florida had before Republicans and Gov. Rick Scott cut back early voting to eight days in 2011.
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WALWORTH � Ruben A. Cirillo High School students participated in Operation Gratitude, a national effort to recognize and thank U.S. troops deployed abroad with creative and timely care packages. The student congress-led project challenged classmates to donate unopened candy throughout the first week of November.
The student�s enthusiasm was apparent in this year�s first school-wide candy collection, with a final weigh-in of nearly 250 pounds. The candy will be packaged and sent to those defending our country as a �sweet� thank you for their service.
�The kids did a really great job collecting the candy and showing the appreciation for our local troops serving overseas,� says Amy Peterson, Student Congress Co-Advisor. �We hope to do it throughout the district next year.�
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MORAGA -- The next chapter in the captivating tale of Saint Mary's College, the little school in this bucolic East Bay suburb making a name for itself in college basketball, warming hearts around the bay and across the country, is a bittersweet fable.
Saint Mary's received a searing rebuke from NCAA enforcement operatives, who on Friday released a report detailing numerous recruiting violations resulting in penalties for the men's basketball program and respected coach Randy Bennett.
Since arriving in 2001 and inheriting a program so pitiful it won but two of 29 games the previous season, Bennett has turned Saint Mary's into a regional power and national presence, with four NCAA Tournament appearances and a current streak of six consecutive seasons with at least 25 victories.
And now Bennett and his accomplishments must bear the unsightly stain of this 35-page report issued by the imperious folks at the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions.
Though Saint Mary's was spared the dreaded ban from postseason play, it was severely bruised by a paddling that could have implications for the better part of the decade.
The report cites Bennett for failing to properly monitor his program and promote an atmosphere of compliance, penalizing the coach with a five-game suspension to be served at the start of the 2013-14 West Coast Conference season, as well as a ban on off-campus recruiting for the entire 2013-14 academic year.
Among the 12 punitive measures taken against Saint Mary's are public reprimand and censure, four years of probation beginning immediately and the loss of two scholarships for each of the next two years, during which there also will be no allowance for coach-supervised "skill instruction" workouts.
And, yes, this means curbing the development of current Saint Mary's basketball players, none of whom is involved.
"This isn't about them,'' Bennett said Friday afternoon. "This isn't on them. They didn't do anything wrong."
It's a high price indeed insofar as the man at the core of the investigation is former assistant coach Keith Moss, who spent less than two seasons at Saint Mary's before resigning in 2009.
Moss is believed to be the only person who had direct contact with the three recruits, all from France, at the center of the investigation and related to the primary violations. None of those players ever came to Saint Mary's, much less put on a Gaels jersey.
Such direct and conspicuous punishment serves as a piercing reminder to those coaches outside the protective bubble generally provided by a traditional powerhouse. The rules are different and, perhaps, always will be.
As a small school in a so-called mid-major conference, Saint Mary's is infinitely more vulnerable to severe punishment in the wake of relatively inconsequential infractions than such high majors as Kentucky and Duke and North Carolina -- schools that keep TV revenue rolling in.
This is another reason coaches climb all over each other chasing jobs at the highest possible levels of college basketball. Power and influence generally tend to provide a certain amount of insulation from receiving a punishment bigger than the crime.
Put simply, NCAA watchdogs would find violations in any program they'd care to devote eyesight and energy. Head coaches realize this. Assistants also know. Student-athletes quickly learn. Alumni often are involved.
That Saint Mary's imposed punishments upon itself was insufficient for the NCAA. The school proposed two years of probation and got four. The school's proposal to surrender one scholarship for one year and that was doubled to two and two.
Saint Mary's proposed that Bennett be restricted from off-campus recruiting for two specific periods, including next month. He instead was nailed for the academic year.
What troubles coaches and administrators at many institutions is the lack of consistency regarding both oversight and punishment. And what bothers many who care about big-time college sports are arbitrary applications of punishment, the timing of announcements and the inconsistencies among its member institutions.
The NCAA investigated both Baylor basketball teams and found violations by both. Men's coach Scott Drew and his assistant made hundreds of illegal phone calls and text messages. Women's coach Kim Mulkey and her staff did the same. During the recruitment of Brittney Griner, which began no later than 2007, Mulkey personally made an illegal personal recruiting pitch to Griner's father, as reported by ESPN.
Facts: Mulkey was named coach of the year in 2012, when Griner was named Player of the Year and the team went 40-0 to win the national championship.
Conclusion: The NCAA nailed Baylor with three years of probation, exactly what it had imposed upon itself. The announcement was made one week after the Lady Bears won the national championship game.
Saint Mary's may wonder about the timing, on the verge of March Madness. It surely believes the punishment excessive. Maybe that's why the school may file an appeal.
Good luck with that. The program that made Omar Samhan famous is going to need it.
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A Slashdot comment on notebooks in Japan led me to http://panasonic.jp/pc/products/r1m/index.html (960g, a bit heavier than my PCG-U1's 820g).
2. Text input methods --- wearable, input : 08:46
Could a Palm user please check out http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/atomik and see if it's any good? If so, I'd love an image or text file of the keyboard layout so that I can try it out on the iPAQ. =)
3. Tips for web development : 09:06
4. John Wiegley's new homepage: http://www.emacswiki.org/johnw/ : 10:28
John Wiegley, the author of planner.el, remember.el and emacs-wiki.el (the only reasons why I can maintain this kind of website with very little effort) has moved from http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/WelcomePage.html to http://www.emacswiki.org/johnw/ .
5. The Linux Documentation Project needs you! : 10:37
http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html is the list of unmaintained HOWTOs. Gain some free software karma by helping out! =)
6. Emacs-wiki and httpd problem : 12:51
yvonne on freenode#emacs reports a problem using emacs-wiki.el and httpd.el; I thought I had reproduced it earlier, but it disappeared. No idea what's wrong with yvonne's setup since mine works, and have been trying to figure out what's wrong. No clue.
7. Blogger code : 15:46
My blogger code, from http://www.leatheregg.com/cgi-local/bloggercode.cgi:
B5 d- t++ k- s+ u-- f+ i++ o+ x- e l c--
8. Annotations : 18:07
Cross-reference: PlannerMode#5
9. The (Mis)adventures of Catastrophix continue... --- cat : 18:11
She's developing quite an appetite, although she still persists in attempting to swim through her food. She's grooming herself now!
10. Aadisht Khanna (http://aadisht.net) and text summarization : 18:58
Aadisht Khanna is working on text summarization for a school project. Interesting area. You can drop him a line at [email protected] if you know anything that might be useful. =)
11. Sampizcat, canna and kinput2 : 20:44
I was tracking down a Redhat Japanese language support problem for someone on #linuxhelp. Sampizcat wanted to turn off the kana-kanji conversion, but it wasn't straightforward, so he or she is doing a reinstall. Wish I could have helped more.
12. I'll be teaching this summer! : 20:58
Marco Changho informs me of my schedule as a new faculty member.
Ok, Sacha. We'll have you aboard in the summer. You will teach CS 21a and the schedule is as I previously noted in my email Daily 9:00-10:30.
Which means I have to start preparing... fast!
13. Emacs strokes --- emacs : 22:32
You know, I really should check out stroke mode under Emacs for sheer coolness factor.
14. Okay, time for me to go to bed. : 22:39
Much Emacs hackery and learning. A fair amount of Googling for answers. And the confirmation of my summer class. Quite a day.
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Sandra "Sandy" Draeger, 73, of Montevideo, died Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, at Luther Haven. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, Aug. 31, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Montevideo. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 30, ending with a 7 p.m. public prayer service at the church. Friends may also pay their respects one hour prior to the funeral on Friday.
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Last night on Conan, a lucky audience member became the topic of choice for every guest. Joel McHale mocked Jesse's choice of clothes in a cruel way, prompting Tim Gunn to stick up for him when he came onstage.
It all started with Conan borrowing poor Jesse's hat, who sniffed it upon its return. From there, he's addressed by everyone that comes onto the stage. Here are all of the "Jesse" moments from last night, compiled into one video:
Simply because it was an entertaining interview, here's the full interview with Joel McHale in which they test the TBS standards by repeatedly saying the word "pussy." Also: Joel talks about his interview with Regis on Monday and Community's Claymation Christmas special.


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I have just setup PMS and can see the PS3 nicely from my iMAC. And the PS3 can see the Mac OK.
So far so good.
I have an external hard drive full of video files created on a VISTA Media Centre PC - hence all have .dvr-ms extensions
This hard drive is connected via USB to my iMac
The PS3 can see the external drive and the folders, but does not see the media files therein
I gather from reading around that the PS3 cannot read these file types - perhaps that is the problem.
My questions are:
Is my understanding about PS3 and .dvr-ms correct?
If so does PMS support any form of file conversion such that the PS3 can read them? And if so how can I configure it to do so - nothing seems obvious?
If it does not carry out the conversion then I suppose I will need to do it myself. Anyone able to recommend software that would do this?
What is a good file format to go for, if converting?
Apols if these are dumb questions - a bit new to all this. Any advice appreciated.


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Google+ is apparently a success, according to many tech reporters. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most people are using G+ to post inside Circles. Some 11,000 people have added me to G+ circles but, apparently, none of the ones they post to. Of the 150+ people I had in circles, precisely three of them posted content I could see. When I posted content, only a thin fraction of those 11000 people could see it, because at some point I got tuned out by the system. G+ is therefore useless to me, and I just nuked my circles.
Facebook Pages allow some 16% of the people who clicked Like on a Page to see the posts from that Page. Regardless of whether or not those people specifically requested those posts in their News Feed. If a Page owner wants to access the eyeballs of more of the people who clicked Like on a Page because they wanted to see that Pages posts, that Page owner has to pay to Promote those posts. I would currently have to pay USD $10 to ensure that all the people who Liked the official Warren Ellis Page on Facebook actually saw one single post. Facebook Pages are therefore useless to me.
(Of the 150+ people I had as Friends on my personal page, maybe five people were aware I was actually there, so Ive nuked my friends list there, too.)
None of this is important, you understand. But Ive not been paying a huge amount of attention to social media this year. Until it became time to start thinking about raising awareness of GUN MACHINE. So Ive had to dig into this a bit Ive been talking about this in the newsletter, too.
Facebook, in search of monetisation, has killed engagement unless your brand is so big that you are in fact desperate to pay for connection. Because small brands like me can move around, but big brands have to be seen in the big places. The Facebook Page is now completely broken unless you open your wallet.
And who the fuck even knows how Google+ works now. It is, in its way, the most service-y of the social network sites now the dust has settled, it really seems to be a souped-up version of Google Groups, with built-in discovery and significant tech enhancements like Hangouts. A service, not a network.
None of this is important, but it is interesting to me.
Facebook will have to rely on big companies for one of its revenue streams, driving the small-fry like me out of the Pages system and possibly off Facebook entirely. People like me will probably keep a FB account alive, though, and maybe even use it to log into things, thereby sending data back that they can sell in another revenue stream. FB wont care that Im not running a Page. In theory, by usurping the single sign-on role that things like OAuth were supposed to fill, Facebook gets data to sell without even having to run a social network.
Google doubtless gathers enough data about me in other ways that my non-use of G+ wont matter a whit. They felt that they had to have a social network, but they are not a social network company, and dont need to run a social network in order to do their business.
Perhaps you could add the death of the social network to the death of blogging in the media-headline scare list. Replace it with pervasive digital loyalty, maybe.
Whatever it is, its no bloody use for hearing from people, or talking to a crowd.
Captiv8 wrote: But with facebook gone how will I kill time between things I'm supposed to be doing?
Neuro wrote: i still havent created a twitter account
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Dreaming of a white December
|Many of the trails at the Bethel Inn in Bethel, Maine are laid out on a nice, smooth golf course which makes early opening easy. (Tim Jones/EasternSlopes.com photo)
Looking back on past Decembers, I can tell you that, however much we want them, great natural snow conditions are pretty rare. Even early January can be pretty iffy. Of course we do get some banner snow seasons, and those are the years we remember with great fondness, even as we try to forget the December rains (and ice storms), January thaws, snowless Februaries and March meltdowns.
We've really been on the December weather rollercoaster over much of New England recently. But some places got snow, lots of it. To see who has snow right now, go to www. erh.noaa.gov/nerfc/graphics/ snowmaps/sd1_today.jpg.
Life isn't a spectator sport. Get out and enjoy!
Where to XC
I've contacted a number of cross-country ski centers throughout New England, New York and Quebec to see who is going to have snow for sure this weekend, who is probably going to have some snow, and who has their fingers crossed. Trust me, it's NOT a case of "naughty or nice." All of these are great places to Nordic ski; some are just more fortunate than others.
Snowmaking need not save the day at Grafton Ponds Recreation Center (800- 843-1801; www.graftonponds.com) in Grafton, Vt., Mountain Top Inn (800-445-2100; www.mountaintopinn.com) in Chittenden, Vt., Waterville Valley Nordic Center (800-468-2553; www.waterville.com ) in Waterville Valley, N.H., and Weston Ski Track (781-891-6575; www.SkiBoston.com) just outside of Boston.
Looking in Vermont we find that Trapp Family Lodge (802-253-8511; www.trappfamily. com ) has some natural snow and some manmade and has been open for awhile. Even a few flurries will keep them going nicely. Nearby Stowe Cross Country Center (800-253-4754; www..stowe.com ) is open. Craftsbury NordicCenter (802-586-7767; www.craftsbury. com) in Craftsbury, also has both man-made and natural snow and is already open on 20 kilometers of trails. Ole's Cross Country Ski Center (877-863-3001; www.olesxc.com) in Warren, is sort-of open, but all they need has really got going. Jay Peak has been getting snow and they have a new Nordic Center with 12 miles of trails. A quick resource for all cross-country conditions in Vermont is www.xcountryski-vermont. com.
The higher-elevations have been getting more snow and that has paid off in New Hampshire. Jackson Ski Touring Foundation (603-383-9355; www.jacksonxc.org) in Jackson is open on 27 kilometers of trails while Great Glen Trails Outdoor Center (603-466-2333; www.greatglentrails.com) in Pinkham Notch is open. Bear Notch Ski Touring Center (603 374-2277; www.bearnotchskitouring.com) in Bartlett, N.H., opened on 10 inches of fresh snow recently. The Bretton Woods Nordic Center at the Mount Washington Resort (603-278-3322; www.mountwashingtonresort.com ) in Bretton Woods, N.H., is also skiing with trails open at the Nordic Center and at the Bretton Woods ski area.
All four of these areas will stay open through the holidays unless Mother Nature does some dirty deed. Check out www.xcskinh.com for the latest conditions.
But it's Maine that has really hit the snow jackpot recently. Carter's X-C Centers (www.cartersxcski.com) in Oxford (207-539-4848) and Bethel (207-824-3880) are open. The Bethel Inn Nordic Ski Center (207-824-2175; www.caribourecreation.com) in Bethel is open. Sugarloaf Outdoor Center (www.sugarloaf.com/OutdoorCenter) in Carrabasset Valley is reveling in 10-plus inches of new snow. Ditto for the Rangeley Lakes Trail Center (207-864-4309; www.xcskirangeley. com) at Saddleback in Rangeley.
Tim Jones writes about outdoor sports and travel. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Insistently earthy and mischievously atmospheric, keyboardist Erik Deutsch's music satisfies funk's primal imperative while offering all the pleasures of ear-tickling lyricism. Equal parts stargazer and spelunker, he's a jazz-steeped improviser who has found his voice in the borderlands between instrumental pop and groovecentric psychedelia.
After a three-year stint with guitar wizard Charlie Hunter and numerous West Coast appearances with various ensembles, the Brooklyn-based Deutsch is no stranger to the Bay Area music scene. But next week's spate of gigs marks his California debut with his muscular working band Demonio Teclado, featuring trumpeter-vocalist Jon Grey, bassist Jeff Hill and drummer Tony Mason.
"These are my guys," says Deutsch, 34. "They've played on my last couple of records and we've played a lot of gigs in the last two years. Not only my music. Last month Jon, Jeff and I played with Jim Campilongo at Yoshi's San Francisco, and we've recorded another five or 10 albums with other people, too."
Celebrating the release of Deutsch's third CD "Demonio Teclado" (Keyboard Demon), his quartet performs Wednesday at Café Du Nord as part of an interlaced triple bill with bassist Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors, and Mad Flux, featuring guitarists Adam Levy and João Erbetta. Deutsch and his quartet also play on their own bill at Santa Cruz's Kuumbwa next Thursday, and Berkeley's Jazzschool on Jan. 18.
For Deutsch, who's spent much of the past year on the road as a sideman with country music scion Shooter Jennings and bluesy singer/songwriter Citizen Cope, working with a steady band that focuses on his inviting originals has allowed him to take command of his own material.
"My strength was never improvising on my own music," Deutsch says. "I always like to have other people solo on my tunes, but with 'Demonio' I set myself up to blow, especially live.
"I can thank Charlie for that," Deutsch continues, referring to Berkeley-raised guitarist Charlie Hunter. "I spent most of my 20s learning how to play lyrically. Charlie showed me how to construct a solo rhythmically, that you don't have to be precious and try to tell the story of creation every time."
Since his parents settled in Half Moon Bay in the late 1990s, Deutsch has become a familiar face around Northern California. Regular family visits allowed him to forge ties with top-shelf Bay Area players like drummer Scott Amendola and bassist John Shifflett. He's also worked extensively with Danville-raised bassist Todd Sickafoose, who moved back to the East Bay last year after about a decade in Brooklyn.
Sharing a love of lapidary textures and buzzy cadences, Deutsch and Sickafoose draw on many of the same influences (though the bassist tends toward shimmering, elastic anthems where Deutsch builds on gritty, lowdown grooves).
They've collaborated extensively, and at Wednesday's Du Nord gig, Deutsch will also be playing piano and keyboards with Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors, a sextet featuring violinist Matthew Szemela, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, drummer Jordan Glenn, and Los Angeles guitarist Adam Levy (a former Bay Area resident who's recorded with singers Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman and Ani DiFranco, among many others).
For Sickafoose, what sets Deutsch apart from so many peers is his formidable range as an improviser coupled with forthright tunefulness and sophisticated funk.
"It seems really rare to have someone who's such a monstrous piano player, who's really gotten into how to make a piano sing, but then he's also really proficient in all the keyboard sounds," Sickafoose says. "He's spent years delving into that, and you can tell he's really in control of the all the sounds."
Deutsch came of age musically in Boulder while studying music at the University of Colorado, where he became an informal apprentice of Art Lande, the pianist, composer and educator whose crystalline sound and idiosyncratic improvisational approach found an early home on the German label ECM. Deutsch still performs occasionally in the piano trio Triangle with Lande on drums.
"Art played every Wednesday night with a different band or concept in the basement of a dive bar in Boulder throughout the '90s, and that's what I did every week," Deutsch says. "It was an amazing thing, and that was my schooling in creativity."
After years as a key member of the thriving Boulder scene, Deutsch made the move to New York City in 2005 and quickly found a new circle of collaborators. He documented the convergence of his longtime and newfound friends on his 2007 debut album "Fingerprint" featuring Sickafoose, Denver trumpeter Ron Miles, violinist Jenny Scheinman and drummer Allison Miller.
His new music reflects his continuing evolution as a bandleader committed to rhythmic essentials.
"I'm still searching," he says. "I haven't arrived there yet as a leader. After meeting Tony Mason in Charlie Hunter's band, I wanted to have a funkier feel than I had in the past.
"I'm trying to pay tribute to classic soul/jazz music, and find my compositional self within that."
When: 8 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Café Du Nord,
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Tickets: $10-$12, 415-861-5016, www.cafedunord.com
Also: 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz, $15-$18, 831-427-2227, www.kuumbwajazz.org; and 8 p.m. Jan. 18, Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St., Berkeley, $15, 510-845-5373,


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First-year FFA members and chapter officers from around the area gathered at the Region VI FFA Greenhand and Chapter Officer Workshop on Wednesday, Sept. 26 in Mountain Lake. The main purpose of the workshop was to educate first year members, known as Greenhands, about the opportunities in FFA.
The day camp was conducted by the Region VI Officer Team and this year's theme was "Navigate Your Way through FFA." The Minnesota State FFA President, Shawna Conrad of the Goodhue FFA Chapter, was the keynote speaker. Her speech centered on the importance of taking personal initiative in life decisions and opportunities. Conrad, with the help of State Vice President Marjorie Schleper, also conducted the Chapter Officer Workshop, where chapter officers participated in activities stressing the importance of working together, making connections and having every team member participate to the fullest.
Greenhand members attended different workshops throughout the day, where they learned about the basics of the National FFA Organization such as official dress, FFA history, camps, Career Development Events and Supervised Agricultural Experience projects.
Sleepy Eye brought 30 Greenhand members including Jasmin Alejandro, Miqueas Alvarez, Neici Barnes, Harley Braun, Alex Bruggeman, Austin Fischer, Kayln Haas, Alicia Ibarra, David Jasso, Kyle Kjelshus, Dylan Klein, Jenifer Kotten, Natalie Konopka, Lauren Laffen, Jackelyn Linan, CristalRose Longoria, Emily Mack, Yazmin Martinez, Jesus Montemayor, Kolten Nienhaus, Lindsey Perez, Eric Riederer, Jacob Rossbach, Jennifer Sanchez, Josie Schieffert, Natalie Stevens, Quinton Stoll, Dylan Wersal and Sabrina Portner.
Chapter officers who attended were Miranda McMullen, Samantha Krebsbach, Emily Kjelshus, Jamie Fischer, Bethany Seifert, Jenna Soukup, Ashley Johnson, Katelyn Johnson and Tiffany Ludewig as well as Region VI President Brandon Roiger.
Several advanced members also conducted two of the eight CDE presentations and assisted Region VI President, Brandon Roiger, with his Official Dress Presentation. These members included Sam Banken, Jordyn Domeier, Carly Jensen, Steph Hammerschmidt, John Mangen, Karrah Remus, Kacie Goblirsch and Kari Schumacher.
At the end of the day, the Greenhand members were fired up and ready to participate in activities the FFA has to offer for this upcoming year. The officers were ready to use their teamwork skills and work together throughout the school year to accomplish their goals.
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Viktor & Rolf Design Dresses For — And Of — The Red Carpet
PARIS – Viktor & Rolf may be the only designers to have sold items from their haute couture collection this season before even showing it on the runway this week.
That's what can happen when a collection veers so far beyond fashion that it becomes pure art. Either that, or it was the plushest bathrobe grouping ever.
"We were thinking about red carpet dressing," said Viktor Horsting of the deep crimson and very fuzzy collection of dresses. This suggests how these designers' minds twist and toy with things that obsesses modern culture. Dressing stars on red carpets leads to so much publicity for luxury brands that designers find themselves changing their design styles to meet the needs of actresses who want to wear sexy, flattering shapes.
Each look had the general shape of the shapely gowns and dresses that actresses tend to favor for red carpet appearances. Only in this collection, the dresses were literally made of plush red carpet.
"The studio told us we couldn't do it," said Rolf Snoeren. But a carpet manufacturer was located who could produce rug material without rubber backing. Each dress was tailored with a pattern to look as though it had been gracefully draped and tied, some with large bows. The shoes – chubby flats – were also made of red carpet. They more resembled bathroom slippers as the models padded by.
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I have an idea which will require a ton of work. And if the experts on this forum feel there is merit, I will gladly agree to help build the model.
In my 4 months of being involved (daily), I see each new person coming in with the same questions, fear, concern, etc. that we did. And I see the responses to each person being somewhat the same. What I have learned is those initial responses may be a good starting point, but they may not hit the target and then it is up to the person to ask more detailed questions.
And that is where I see a glitch. Like me, most people don't know what to ask next or how to traverse ALL the information to be able to boil it down to "What do I need to know and what do I need to do next". This is the scariest time for newbies and - accepted - the hardest time to provide a definitive answer to their question. But maybe we can get closer ?
I am an engineer by background and have been involved in process flow, process improvement my entire career. I coordinated global process improvement programs within my company. I am only using that as a basis for my next statement.....
Do you think we can build a process flowchart where a person can link in at any point - no matter what their personal situation is - and find the appropriate course(S) of action to go forward??
I see the work done by Percy and Bruce to collect information for each patient. I see the research done by ALL moderators, many senior members, and others, and I ask myself - how do we make sense of this all for the benefit of our entire community.
How would this get started? It may require a few personal meetings to get the core input. Those meetings could be in person, Skype or some other video forum, or other standard technologies like "Go To Meeting". At some point, there would be a 2+ day "Whiteboard" session where we would build a basic model, send it out for review, and then define it. Afterwards, we would be in a continual change process for quite some time as we 1) modify/expand the existing model while 2) continually adding to the process.
As one who has been involved in this process for 30 years, I want to caution you - this is hard work. But it is incredibly worthwhile if we believe we can help many people find a clearer path than they have today.
I await your response and understand that this may be outside the scope of this forum.
All the best,
Carl Scheitrum


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The city of Colorado Springs has lifted its ban on professionally produced, public fireworks displays. The personal use of fireworks in Colorado Springs is illegal. Unincorporated areas of El Paso County are still under stage 1 fire restrictions, which makes the use of fireworks illegal.
Numerous fire bans are in place across southern Colorado. Please check with your local fire department or county sheriff's office before using any fireworks.
The Fabulous Fourth event at Memorial Park will feature food, a performance by the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and fireworks. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. on July 4th.
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