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Paul, whose work has appeared in publications such the New York Times and National Geographic, shares insights into how he prepares for an assignment, how he engages his subject, and how he takes advantage of unpredictable and unforeseen situations. The course concludes with a look at how the final essay might be sequenced and distributed.
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So, I'm down here at Green Art People, a community arts space in Ventura. Where Kevin's got a relationship with some of the people that run this space. And he's already got one of his amazing jellyfish sculptures up. And we've already seen him with detail shots of his hands beating some of the tentacles. So, I'm super excited to get in there, and see him install one of these pieces. And for our photo essay, it's going to be really great, 'cause right now we have Kevin not really interacting with that many people. He's really just doing his art solo and for the first in our narrative here, we're actually going to get him interacting with people and doing something physical outside of just sculpting. So, we're going to head in there and hopefully get some really great shots. (CROSSTALK) So, in this amazing space, with all these amazing people and all this amazing artwork on the walls and it's really, you know, intriguing to look at all the stuff that's around here.
But unfortunately, for me as a photographer, it's actually more of a distraction visually from what I'm trying to photograph. (SOUND) I'm trying to isolate my image, so I'm really just looking at Kevin and his artwork. And around here I've got all these other cool shapes and designs going on. And so one of the things I was trying to do today, was actually bring out that longer lens that I was talking about and trying to flatten that image. Actually, eliminate some of the other elements in the space. (CROSSTALK) And the lighting in here was a bit of an issue, it's really dark. I'm actually shooting at like 2,000 ASA and I'm swapping out lenses as I go.
I've got one 1.8 F-stop lens, it's really great in low light. It wasn't necessarily the lens of choice. because it was an 85 millimeters, but I had to use it just because it was the tool that I had that would capture the light that I needed in this really dark space. >> (SOUND) Yeah, I think, and if it's over the middle it'll be out of everyone's way. (CROSSTALK) Cool, cool, cool.
Alright, alright, I'm going to to start bringing them in. >> So, we're still installing the tentacles and we're going to continue shooting, but I just took this shot from up there and I know I've got what I need. It's got everything I needed, him interacting with people and him actually doing the actual installing it. So, it's everything we needed for the photo essay. But we're going to stick around and see what else we get, because it's only going to get better. So, while I'm shooting today. I was looking down at Kevin from above on the ladder. And it was a great angle for what I wanted.
And all of a sudden, I had that uh-huh, moment that you always want during the day as a photographer. I said, whoa, that's, that's the shot. That's the shot I need to tell this story. And I was 99% sure that I got it. It won't be until I get home tonight, and I bring it up on a laptop, and I blow it up real big. And make sure his eyes are nice and sharp and in focus. But I think I nailed it, and you get that adrenaline rush of yeah I got it. But at the same time you've got to stay steady and continue to shoot, because if that was good and it was in the first five minutes, it's only going to get better, and that range true here. I get a little bit visually bored after shooting for about ten minutes.
But then I realized, you know, what? Well, let's switch out the lenses, walk around the scene, take a moment. sometimes the best thing I can do is actually put my cameras down, breathe, and just look at everything that's going on, and find a new position. And that's what I did, is I went all the way across the room, put on the long lens, and shot through one of the other sculptures that he's got here. Another jellyfish and he's got the tentacles, and I put that in the foreground and then put Kevin installing it in the background. We had a whole new image. And it's okay, it's like, use your feet, walk around, breathe, and take it all in, and you're going to come up with something great.
So Kevin is probably well over half way finish installing all the tentacles on his jellyfish sculpture, that we've been sort of documenting. it's a difficult lighting situation, and there's all sorts of other stuff going on here. I don't want to disturb, so you got to kind of respect the space. So we've got some good stuff. So, I'm definitely happy we're doing it. One thing that's really important for me when I'm making images in a space, is being completely familiar with it. And letting everybody else around me know that I'm familiar with it, and I'm not intimidated about what elements are here.
And so when I walk into that space, I'm already looking at like what chairs can I stand on? What ladders are there? What weird areas? Can I maybe crawl up on the beams, or what have you? You know, and just always be thinking, what are the advantage points I can get? And how can I get there? you know, always be safe, and always be completely respectful of your space, and ask permission beforehand. But also sort of own the environment there, and take advantage of it, because it's just going to help your images.
(SOUND) I just finished photographing the installation of Kevin's amazing jellyfish lights. And I'm excited to see what these look like, with the images that I shot yesterday, I think within our story we actually have a mini story of his creation of these lamps, and now he's installation of these lamps. And I think within three images, we have a small story arc that's going to fit into our bigger essay. And I'm excited to get home or back to the hotel, and check this out, and see if it actually plays right.


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Billings Sculptor's Work to Grace Minneapolis Greenspace
Monday, March 15, 2004
Jaci Webb The Billings Gazette.
This winter, he added another entry to his sculpture portfolio - the faces of his grandchildren in statues for a special memorial.
Two years ago Rains got the opportunity to create the memorial to honor Billings landscape architect Ted Wirth's grandfather, the late Theodore Wirth, who was a visionary in park design.
The elder Wirth loved children and fought to open parklands to them in the early 1900s in Minneapolis, when parks were off-limits and meant to be seen, not touched. To honor Wirth's achievements, the city's largest park, which is about the same size at New York City's Central Park, was renamed Theodore Wirth Park.
On June 19, the Theodore Wirth Sculpture Garden, graced with bronze statues of Wirth and a group of children frolicking at his side, will be dedicated.
Ted Wirth modeled for the statue of his grandfather so that Rains could use the lines and veins in Ted's hands to make the likeness of his grandfather more authentic. The statue, like Rains' other work, reveals Theodore's personality as he peers warmly down at the young girl whose hand he holds, beckoning her to join in the fun.
The story goes that Theodore Wirth ordered that the fences around the parks be torn down and that he directed park police to escort the children to the park to play.
Rains captured the faces of four of his grandchildren - Sidney, Braydon, Kaylee and Shalyn - for his statues of children for the Minneapolis park. Sidney and Braydon invited their classmates at Bitterroot Elementary School to visit their grandfather's studio today to see the pieces adorned with their faces.
Later this week, the first batch of children's statues will head to a Billings foundry where the bronze casting process will begin. When completed, the full-size bronze statues weigh between 1,000 and 1,500 pounds.
Sketches of clothing from the 1920s and 1930s, which he used in his statues of the children, are taped to Rains' studio walls next to replica guitars used in his Western sculptures.
Rains strives for authenticity in all he does. A baseball bat used at Theodore Wirth Park in the 1920s is carried by a young boy in one statue, and a sled from the same period was added to the statue of another youngster.
Since 1965, Rains, 67, has followed his dream of creating larger-than-life bronze sculptures that have become sentimental memorials to the musicians he grew up listening to. He's sculpted Hank Williams, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Buck Owens to name a few and has orders for several more.
Rains sculpts his bronze statues 15 percent larger than life because that's how their fans see them, he said Monday at his studio.
He spends hours poring over the faces of the musicians he sculpts and watches their videos over and over to capture just the right expressions on their faces as they perform.
His bronze sculptures of country-music stars Buck Owens and Johnny Cash are up at the Crystal Palace dinner club and museum in Bakersfield, Calif., and Rains is completing eight more statues for the series that will open in October.
The exhibit will include bronze statues of Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, George Jones, George Strait and Garth Brooks. Rains and his sons, Dustin and Mark, are working nights and weekends to complete the project. His son Randy creates custom-made hats for the sculptures.
Everywhere in Rains' studio are reminders of Rains' career and the effect he has had on the music world.
A sketch of Garth Brooks taped to one wall prompts a story about the four days Rains spent in Brooks' houseboat last year measuring the musician for his statue.
A large color photo stirs up another tale.
"We took the statue of Wild Bill to the front of the Irma Hotel in Cody at 3 a.m. to get this shot just as the sun was coming up,'' Rains said.
But perhaps the most compelling story of all emerges when Rains looks at the picture of Johnny Cash in front of his statue on display in Shreveport, La., in 2000.
"Johnny looked at the statue of him holding a Bible in one hand and his guitar in the other, and, with tears running down his cheeks he said, 'Bill, God, family and music are the most important things in life.' ''

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Morning Briefing: Czech Econ Cooling, Bond Auctions Eyed
- 0900/0700 Czech 2Q GDP final reading, details
- 0900/0700 Czech unemployment in August
- 0930/0730 French EdF's Hungarian unit holds press conference
- 0940/0740 Hungarian government advisor at a conference
- 1010/0810 Magyar Telekom CEO Mattheisen speaks at conference
- 1130/0930 Hungary three-year, five-year, 10-year bond auctions
- 1300/1100 Czech central bank comments on GDP
- 1300/1100 Poland switch auction for five-, 10-year bonds
Fresh indicators Thursday are likely to show the Czech economy tracking the euro-zone slowdown while regional fixed-income markets face investors who are increasingly risk-averse due to euro-zone debt concerns.
In Prague, the unemployment rate is expected to have remained at 8.2% in August, unchanged from July, while economic growth, supported by industrial output gains despite shrinking private consumption, likely slowed in the second quarter to 2.4% on the year from 2.8% in the first quarter.
"Given the worsened outlook on foreign demand and weaker confidence indicators, we expect the economy to decelerate. If this materializes, it would decelerate the GDP growth to 1.5% on year in the second half and we expect the
same growth rate in 2012," said Jaromir Sindel, economist at Citibank.
Poland's switch tender will be in focus Thursday, with the finance minister offering to sell an undisclosed amount of five- and 10-year paper in exchange for bonds maturing within six months. "There shouldn't be any threats to the
auction," said bond analyst Agnieszka Decewicz of Bank Pekao in Warsaw.
But auctions of treasury paper in Budapest will be watched carefully following Wednesday's Czech bond auction that saw "extremely poor" demand, said Dalimil Vyskovsky, a fixed-income trader at Komercni Banka in Prague.
Investors are growing wary of taking on additional risk in light of the situation in the euro zone, including widening spreads on debt of major countries such as Italy, Vyskovsky said.
However, Bartosz Pawlowski, CEE foreign exchange head at BNP Paribas in London, said low demand at the Czech auction may be a correction for recent increases in pricing of Czech paper.
"But I don't see [any correction] going very far because at the end of the day the Czech Republic is one of the safest countries in the region, it has very low rates, has low inflation and a very prudent fiscal policy," he said.
- EU Enlarged 15 1,972.62 gain 56.67 up 2.96%
- BUX 18486.05 gain 639.14 up 3.6%
- PX 994.7 gain 21.0 up 2.2%
- WIG 20 2,369.75 gain 79.67 up 3.48%
POLAND: Poland objects to any new treaties that would divide the European Union politically and economically, creating an "exclusive club" of nations, and instead will defend the defining milestones of EU integration, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday.
"We're standing in defense of Schengen, in defence of Masstricht, and in defense of the idea of a common Europe," Tusk said in Krynica-Zdroj, a mountain resort town which is hosting an annual regional economic forum.
POLAND: Poland's inflation outlook has changed due to a possible economic slowdown abroad, but it is still too early to talk about possible rate cuts, Central Bank Governor Marek Belka said Wednesday.
CZECH REPUBLIC: The Czech Finance Ministry's latest bond auction attracted a disappointingly low volume of bids as fears of spillover from the euro zone have been outweighing positive domestic news, including a recent ratings upgrade by Standard & Poor's Corp.
HUNGARY: The impact of Hungary's ambitious economic program and the contents of September's quarterly Inflation Report will steer the next move by the central bank's rate-setting committee, the bank said Wednesday.
BULGARIA: Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker here on Wednesday backed Bulgaria's bid to join Europe's border-free Schengen area. "Bulgaria has to become part of the Schengen as soon as possible," Juncker told a joint press conference with his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borissov.
– Clare Connaghan in London, Malgorzata Halaba in Warsaw and Gergo Racz in Budapest contributed to this briefing.


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Based on the pro-artist beauty essential and Kevyn Aucoin hero product, The Celestial Powder - Candlelight is now available in an innovative liquid. This unique illuminating emulsion multi-tasks as a wear-alone product, skin treatment primer and foundation developer.
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Use allover face over moisturized skin. Adds radiance and a delicate highlight wherever it is placed. The highlights created are never harsh; the look is as if you are glowing from within!
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More farms, Gov. Cuomo, not bigger farms
Instead of pushing 200-cow farms to 300 cows, wouldn't upstate New York's overall economy benefit far more from the revitalization of 900 or 1,000 of the many decommissioned dairy farms that stretch the length and breadth of upstate New York? These new farming operations could easily be peopled with the ambitious, skilled and able offspring of New York's sturdy dairy farm families. Smaller, family farms are noted for spending their milk checks close to home in their local communities, stimulating many other businesses necessary to the upstate economy. Likewise, they are noted for their effort and just pride in their outstanding tradition of environmental stewardship. Why not invest the $2 million per farm that the governor is willing to throw at large farms through NYSERDA and channel it instead into helping young farm families rebuild sustainable, family-size dairy farms that will benefit a far larger economic segment of upstate New York? This would be an economic stimulus that would last, not a year or two, but a lifetime.
[Nate Wilson, 65, lives in Sinclairville, NY and is retired from 40 years of dairying on a small grassland farm in Chautauqua County.]
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Ad clutter relates to the number and density of ads on a page. In assessing the value of an ad placement, clutter should always factor into the equation. How useful is an ad if it is surrounded by too many other ads?
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Delicious Cheesy Baked Potato & Bacon Soup
Total Time
Prep 25 mins
Cook 15 mins
This is a delicious creamy thick soup. I make it quite often, it's a family favorite, I also add in some cayenne pepper, if you are not a lover of garlic you may omit--- It is so filling that I usually just serve it as a main meal with crusty bread on the side, and a salad.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2⁄3 cup butter
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh garlic
- 2⁄3 cup flour
- 4 cups milk
- 3 cups half-and-half
- 4 large baking potatoes, baked, cooled, peeled and cubed
- 4 -6 green onions, chopped
- 12 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1 1⁄2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 cup sour cream
- salt and pepper (I use seasoned salt)
- In a large soup pot melt butter over medium-high heat.
- Add in garlic; cook stirring for about 2 minutes.
- Add in flour then stir until smooth (about 1 minute).
- Gradually add milk and half and half stirring constantly until thickened and smooth.
- Add potatoes and onions; bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Reduce heat; simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add remaining ingredients; stir until cheese is melted.
- Serve immediately.
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This was an easy to make soup and delicious. We made it last winter and was perfect for dinner on a cold evening. Tasted even better when reheated the next day. Looking forward to making it again soon.
OMG this is the best tasting potato soup! It is very easy to make, even for a novice cook like myself. (hehehee) You want to eat more of this soup than you actually can...3/4 of a bowl and you're stuffed. Thank you for posting this recipe...this is my new favorite Fall/Winter meal! : )
Really good! I took another reviewer's advice and used some cream cheese instead of the half and half because I didn't have any. Turned out nice, thick and creamy! Great comfort food!


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Starting in 2007, he appears to have made the shift to a full-time OFer. He hasn't played 2b with any regularity at all since 2008. Putting him back at 2b would likely yield some very nasty results on defense.
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To celebrate our current exhibition, Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, Hayward Gallery held an open competition challenging film-makers to produce the best 30-second video about the exhibition, conveying the spirit and look of the artist's ground-breaking work.
We are delighted to announce that Fiona Skinner's film, featuring words and music from former Smiths' guitarist Johnny Marr, is the winner of the Ed Ruscha Film Challenge, judged by artists Louise Wilson and Jeremy Deller alongside Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff. Along with top prizes of a Canon HDV Camcorder and a handy pocket-sized Flip Ultra camcorder, the winning entry will also be shown at Hayward Gallery.
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Paul Rodriguez and Nike SB have been in NYC for the past week skating the city and handling some demos, all in conjunction with the release of his fourth Nike SB shoe and signature clothing line. We sat down with Paul to get the scoop on what's up with the new shoe and also find out exactly what we can expect to see out of him in the next couple months, including a TransWorld interview and a Plan B video part. Watch the vid and check some photos below from the Paul Rodriguez IV shoe release party.
Dan Murphy flew in with Indy.
Daniel Lebron, the six-string master.
The new P-Rod, Nas inspired, offering on display inside.
Mad people were there.
All the SB homeys were in town. Theotis Beasley, Lewis Marnell, and Omar Salazar.
Then special guest Gucci Mane took the stage…
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — Marc DeBrozzo, 30, of Delray Beach is facing a DUI charge after his arrest by Boca Raton Police.
The self-proclaimed Sous Chef for Buckhead Restaurants, according to his social media profile, was taken into custody in the early hours of Wednesday morning. He was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail and released on his own recognizance just before noon.
Buckhead Restaurants includes the very popular "Chops" restaurant in East Boca — a BocaNewsNow.com favorite. It is unclear where in the company DeBrozzo is employed.
DeBrozzo was charged with "careless driving" earlier this year and his license was briefly suspended. He attended traffic school and adjudication was ultimately "withheld."
His arraignment on the DUI charge is pending.
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Take a sneak peek at the new NIST.gov and let us know what you think!
(Please note: some content may not be complete on the beta site.).
In 2011, the fire departments in the United States responded to more than 484,5001 structure fires. These fires resulted in approximately 2,640 civilian fatalities, 15,635 injuries and property losses of approximately $9.7 billion dollars. In addition, more than 30,0002 fire fighters were injured on the fire ground3. New opportunities to fuse emerging sensor and computing technologies with building control systems and fire fighting equipment and apparatus are emerging. The resulting cyber-physical systems will revolutionize fire fighting by collecting data globally, centrally processing the information, and distributing the results locally. Engineering, developing, and deploying these systems will require new measurement tools and standards. This project will focus on the needed tools and standards in three areas: smart building and robotic sensor technologies, smart fire fighter equipment and robotic mapping technologies, and smart fire department apparatus and equipment. The results of this project will (1) mitigate total social costs of fires at both the community and the building scales, and (2) integrate cyber-physical systems into innovative fire protection technologies.
[1] Karter, M.J., Jr., Fire Loss in the United States During 2011, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA 02169-7471, August 2012, www.nfpa.org
[2] Karter, M.J., Jr, and Molis, J.L., Firefighter Injuries in the United States, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA 02169-7471, October 2012, www.nfpa.org
[3] In 2011, fire fighter injuries totaled 70,090 of which 30,505 or 43.5% occurred on the fire ground.
Objective: By 2015, to develop the measurement science that enables fusion of cyber-physical systems from buildings, apparatus, personal protective equipment, and robotics that enhances situation awareness, operational effectiveness, and fire fighter safety.
What is the new technical idea? The new technical idea is to collect data globally across the fire ground and response area, centrally analyze the information, and distribute the results as decision tools to fire fighting teams and incident command as appropriate. Each year, unwanted fires result in more than $300B of costs to the U.S. economy, numerous civilian and fire fighter injuries and deaths, and significant property loss. Fire-related cyber-physical systems have the potential to reduce these impacts considerably. But, they are used only sparingly and sporadically in residential buildings and by the fire service. This project will demonstrate how to reverse this situation and help achieve that potential.
To do so, the project will implement a technical idea containing three parts. First, it will demonstrate how new sensor technologies can be used to augment existing building controls and fire equipment. Second, it will demonstrate how computer technologies can be used to augmentexisting fire models with real-time sensor data to provide powerful decision-making tools. Third, it will fuse these disparate cyber-physical capabilities into a multi-dimensional integrated system that enables smart fire fighting at three distinct levels: the individual fire fighter level, the fire fighting team level, and the incident commander level. A select number of technology developments will be demonstrated within and across these levels through the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Testbed being developed at NIST Gaithersburg.
The results of this project will (1) mitigate total social costs of fires at both the community and the building scales, and (2) realize an important part of NIST's strategic roadmap on innovative fire protection technologies.4
What is the research plan? The research plan will focus on three tasks: smart building technology and robotics, smart fire fighter equipment and robotics,5 and smart fire department apparatus and equipment. Successful implementation will require a coordinated systems approach with clear overarching objectives to ensure alignment across tasks. Each task will have a distinct impact on fire losses, but will be fully integrated with the other tasks. Each of the three tasks is briefly described below, with emphasis on both short-term and long-term objectives by FY15 and FY18, respectively.
Task 1: Smart building technology and robotics. Automated building sensors and controls are common in commercial buildings. They are just emerging, however, in residential buildings through home automation and energy conservation efforts, including smart grid. From a fire perspective, these residential buildings will have some environmental sensors and minimum controls that are associated with the fire alarm control panel, if one exists. This panel collects and analyzes fire-related information from the sensors and can actuate sprinklers if a fire is detected. That information is currently governed by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association standard (NEMA SB30). A short-term objective of this task is to extend the capability of the NEMA standard to enable integration with Tasks 2 and 3.
The main objective of this task is to augment existing environmental sensors with fixed and mobile robotic technologies that are capable of both autonomous sensing and actions. These capabilities have been demonstrated in multiple application domains including disaster response and domestic assistance, and in multiple technology competitions including RoboCup Rescue6 and email@example.com We intend to use the next RoboCup competition to promote innovation in the development of fixed and mobile robots that can sense and suppress incipient fires in residential buildings. Simultaneously, we will standardize test methods for sensing and suppression by 2015 through the ASTM, which has proven successful for similar applications. In a later phase of this project, we will ultimately incorporate emerging building sensors to enhance the capability and reliability of the robots and to communicate building information to fire fighters en-route and on-scene.8
Task 2: Smart fire fighter equipment and robotics. Operational effectiveness of the entire fire fighting team is hampered by poor situational awareness. Situational awareness includes (1) the status, location, and actions of all the fire fighters and (2) the current status and likely evolution of the fire and the structure. The short-term objective is to develop and test sensors and communications protocols that can provide real-time information on fire fighter location, fire fighter vital signs, and environmental conditions to the fire fighter, incident commander, and other fire fighters. The availability of such sensors and protocols would enable a transformational change in the use of information by the fire fighter and incident commander, enabling safer and more effective operations.
The long-term objective of this task (to be achieved in a later phase of this project) is to develop the technical capability to create building maps; detecting survivors; and, measuring temperature, heat flux, gases, and smoke concentrations. To provide these capabilities, we will equip mobile robots with a variety of sensors. Most of the required robots and sensors already exist; and they been used in numerous realistic environments with obstacles. However, they have not been demonstrated to perform in a fire fighting environment. A suite of standards will be developed to certify the technical capabilities of the robots, and to ensure that the robots and sensors can operate in structural fire environments (high temperatures, heat fluxes, smoke, and water), as well as realistic communication environments, which can be highly challenging.
This information and guidance on tactical decisions will be communicated in real time to the incident commander (IC) and fire fighters as appropriate. . .
Task 3: Smart fire fighting apparatus and equipment. Fire fighting apparatus such as engines or ladder trucks are expensive. Equipment carried on the apparatus and deployed during the incident, while not as expensive, is critical to a successful response. Neither has leveraged emerging cyber technologies to any significant degree. Yet, it is clear that the use of such technologies can reduce physical effort, increase incident awareness, and save peoples' lives. Consider, for example, fire hoses. Water pressure, water timing, and water quantity are all critical variables to ensure fire fighter safety, yet they are not measured. Automated collection of these and variables associated with other critical equipment can improve operational effectiveness and reduce injuries. In addition, the availability of such data will improve greatly the post-incident lessons learned.
In this task, the focus is on two types of data: on-board incident data and integrated sensor data. We will continue development9 of on-board, incident data systems that can display information about the building geometry, fixed fire systems (such as hydrant locations, and building access points), fire history, and current extent of fire severity. Much of this information is available today, but very little of it is in digital forms that can be communicated electronically. Additionally, none of it is standardized. We will begin to develop the tools and standards necessary to capture, transmit, and display this information.
Sensor networks deployed on fire department apparatus and equipment can substantially improve fireground situational awareness and provide automated records for after-action analysis or standardized incident reporting (such as NFIRS reports, e.g.). Performance of sensor networks will be improved with the development of guidance on sensor network design (required density of sensors, type, sampling frequency, synchronization, etc.) as well as sensor data is collected in raw or processed format.
[4] NIST Special Publication 1130, Reduced Risk of Fire in Buildings and Communities: A Strategic Roadmap to Prioritize and Guide Research, April 2012.
[5] This project is a direct continuation of the FY12 Exploratory Project entitled Enabling Robotic Fire Intervention Standards, led by Averill and Jacoff.
[6] http://www.robocuprescue.org/
[7] http://www.robocupathome.org/
[8] NIST has a decade of experience in this area through its work on the Virtual Cybernetic Buildings.
[9] Jones, W., Holmberg, D., Davis, W., Bushby, S., Reed, K. "Workshop to Define Information Needed by Emergency Responders During Building Emergencies." NISTIR 7193, Jan. 2005.
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High Temperature Performance of Fire Fighter Equipment Project
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Change student loan strategy
Reserve disbursements for studies critical to national development
There is a motion standing in the name of the member of parliament for North West St Ann, Dr Dayton Campbell, which calls on the Parliament to urgently debate ways to fund tertiary education.
Dr Campbell's motion says: "Whereas the country's development is directly linked to the educational qualification of its citizens; and whereas the cost of tertiary education has a direct bearing on national development: Be it resolved that, given the perilous trajectory on which the Students' Loan Bureau finds itself, which is one that raises the question of viability, the Human Resource and Social Development Committee be mandated to urgently examine the adequacy and affordability of funding tertiary education in Jamaica and report to this Honourable House on its findings and recommendations."
We urge Phillip Paulwell, the leader of government business in the Lower House, to give meaning to the word "urgently" in the motion and have it considered by the House within short order.
Not the first
It is not the first time such a motion has been brought to the Parliament for consideration. In the last Parliament, Ronald Thwaites, then an opposition member, brought a similar motion. It stayed on the table of the House until it got grey hair and started to wrinkle, and despite being eventually debated, not much came of it as the Parliament was dissolved shortly thereafter.
Dr Campbell's motion should not be allowed to suffer a similar fate; but we do not believe that it should be debated for debate sake. It is our hope that MPs who intend to participate in the debate would have already been doing the research and canvassing their constituents for creative ways to fund tertiary education. Dr Campbell has the responsibility to ensure that when he gets the chance to open such a debate, it is of such a high level that those coming after him would be hard pressed to follow.
In fact, The Gavel serves warning that intellectually deficient contributions will be frowned upon. Discussions on funding tertiary education should not sink to the level of Senator Robert Montague's populist and emotionally charged rant. Montague, speaking in the Senate last Friday, said the Government should fire its consultants and use the more than $255-million-plus savings to provide support for the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB).
The SLB has said it is facing a crisis of viability. In October, the SLB's executive director, Monica Brown, said only approximately $1.7 billion, or 41 per cent of the projected $4.2 billion to be disbursed, had been identified. We believe the SLB has found itself in this position because it is seeking to offer loan financing to everyone who comes knocking. Such a model is a recipe for perpetual crisis.
The SLB must stop concerning itself with trying to give loans to all students who have applied for tertiary education. Instead, we believe the SLB should first concern itself with making loans available to persons pursuing tertiary studies in areas critical to national development such as pharmacy and engineering.
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding, in 2009, said instructions were given to Ministry of Finance staff to come up with a list of disciplines the Government considered to be priority. We believe it is time for that list to be brought to the Parliament for consideration, and thereafter, communicated to all Jamaicans. With this, people will know they pursue certain disciplines with the great risk of not being able to access government funding, and if they did, it would be at a much higher cost when compared to disciplines considered critical to national development.
We are not suggesting that persons doing history, sociology, psychology, communications, and the other dime-a-dozen degrees should be denied tertiary education - far from it. We are merely suggesting that limited funds be directed to those areas which are of strategic importance to the country, and at lower interest rates.
Thwaites right
We are encouraged by the posture of Education Minister Ronald Thwaites on this issue, and we hope there is long-lasting truth to his recent statement: "There is no entitlement for the people of Jamaica to pay for everyone's tertiary education." The minister correctly pointed out that "those who receive financial assistance for education must be those who need it, first of all, and secondly, who are going to contribute to the upliftment of the nation and be able to fit with workforce needs."
We associate ourselves with that view.
The time has long come for the country to confront the many challenges of effectively funding tertiary education. We believe the answer partly lies in accelerating the pace at which credit bureaux are able to operate. Perhaps an urgent review of the playing field is needed at this point, especially when one considers that Parliament passed the legislation to enable credit bureaux in 2010.
Three licences have been issued by the Government, and one entity has indicated it will be on stream by next year. The Government must seek to offer all the support to enable the roll-out of these entities.
It is our view that these entities hold the key to people being able to access loan financing at a fair rate. If credit-rating companies operate in the way it is envisaged, and private financial institutions create student-loan packages, it would be a new day for funding tertiary education.
But of course, that's a big IF.
The challenge of funding tertiary education did not come upon us overnight, and we don't believe the problem will be solved by waving a magic wand. As such, we must take deliberate, long-term actions to ensure our children receive the best education. Certainly, responsible parenting is the place to start. Every parent should start saving for his or her child's education from birth. It is irresponsible and downright careless for parents to bring children into this world and leave their future to either chance of the generosity of the State, or some philanthropist.
NIS support
In the interim, however, we wonder whether the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) could be called upon to support the SLB over the next five years. We acknowledge that the NIS, too, is facing a crisis of viability, but if actuarial studies support it being able to assist, we believe it should be pursued. This, of course, is subject to the assistance being permitted within the legal framework of the laws governing the NIS.
If this proposal is workable, we further suggest that beneficiaries of NIS funds be required to give up an additional one per cent of their salaries when they make their statutory contribution to this pension scheme.
Another avenue that is worth considering is the setting up of a national tertiary education fund similar to the way the National Housing Trust is set up. The Gavel does not claim paternity for this idea, but we find it to be a worthy prospect. The gravamen of this proposal is that parents contribute money to this fund and would be able to draw down on it at the time their child reaches the age for university education.
This, however, will mean that the Government will have to be like Lot's wife in managing these funds. It should not be subject to any form of abuse.
We also need to seriously consider the cost of tertiary education. The Government is spending $11 billion of its $74-billion recurrent budget on recurrent bills in tertiary education. With this subvention from the State, students are required to pay 20 per cent of their tuition fees.
Even without evidence to support it, our anecdotal university experience has left us convinced that a huge portion of the 80 per cent subvention is the victim of inefficiency. A complete review of the operations of our tertiary institutions will either disabuse our minds that monies are being wasted, or will be the basis for the reduction of fees at these institutions.
In the same vein, we join Dr Kofi Nkrumah-Young, vice-president, planning and operations, at the University of Technology, who a few years ago called for the establishment of a tertiary commission to manage the allocation of the State's funds to all approved tertiary institutions in a transparent and equitable manner.
We do not hold ourselves out as having the answers to tertiary education. We are convinced, however, that notwithstanding this challenge, the answer lies in the collective wisdom of the Jamaican people. Somewhere out there are possible answers, and we need all the suggestions on the table.
It is for this reason we urge tertiary students, parent-teacher associations, and youth clubs to take the lead in discussing this issue of funding tertiary education. We expect that when Dr Campbell's motion is referred to the Human Resource and Social Development Committee of Parliament, its chairman, Rudyard Spencer, will do the right thing and invite submissions from the public.
It would be a travesty if our collective voices remained silent on this issue.
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Jessie Yang
Written by Daniel Stad
I didn't want to keep Jessie waiting to long for me to put this feature together since I learned that "waiting" is one of Jessie's pet peeves, and personally, it's my biggest pet peeves too. So this morning I made it a priority to get this story done and published :)
Jessie says she's always been a little impatient and stubborn, even since childhood. However, I found that strange because to me since she comes off as being really nice and very calm, and when I asked her if there was anything that she would change about herself, she said no. She likes the way she is and doesn't want to change anything.
I found out that Jessie is 100% Chinese and even spent the majority of her life growing up in China. She said "I grew up in a very traditional Chinese family where my parents valued discipline and education very much. When I was 5 years old, they sent me to piano lessons and when I was 10 I was already taking "extra academic" lessons outside of school. The competition is very intense over there; you just have to be constantly learning, so there is not much time for playing!"
To Jessie, modeling is just another form of acting, and her love for the arts has made acting something she has always wanted to do, even since her childhood. It was when she got to university though that she was able to grasp that love and desire and get in front of the camera. She says that her favorite styles are creative concepts; she always wants to get into pictures that convey strong emotions. "I want to be able to create images that will inspire others and generate a story in their minds." She explains.
Eyes are the most favorite part of her own body Jessie explains, because she says she can make them smile in photos and she has been proving that for the last 2 years now. :) When the opportunity arises though, she says she wants those eyes to smile in clothing by Alexander Wang. Why? She says "I've always wore pretty, feminine and dressy clothes before and it'd be pretty interesting to see myself in a slightly "manlier" design."
Even though Jessie loves Tyra Banks for being a great role model for young women, her personal role model has been her mom, saying "My mom is a beautiful woman and wonderful person. She has done so much for me and my sister and will forever be my role model! I look up to her in a lot of areas especially her strong will and independence as a woman."
When it comes to fame, I really liked her point of view; she said "Fame is like money, you can put it to good or bad uses. Some people abuse their fame, while others use their popularity for good causes like promoting a charity or education for an awareness issue. I'd like to be the latter."
When it comes to weight and living a healthy lifestyle, Jessie takes things seriously. In fact, she is currently graduating at the University of Toronto for Psychology and Nutrition and is working towards becoming a registered dietitian. She says keeping a healthy lifestyle and staying in shape should be everyone's goal, not just for models...but even she admits cookies, pizzas and all foods essentially are really hard for her to resist.
If Jessie could do one positive thing she says "I would change the way the media sees a woman's "ideal" weight and promote self confidence in adolescent girls struggling with weight issues or eating disorders."
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a1 Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmmunology, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA, USA
a2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Background Although basic research on neuroimmune interactions suggests that inflammatory processes may play a role in the development of fatigue, population-based evidence on this association is limited. This study examined whether plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6), biomarkers of systemic inflammation, predict fatigue onset.
Method The Whitehall II study is a large-scale cohort study conducted in 20 civil service departments in London. Plasma CRP and IL-6 were measured in 4847 non-fatigued participants at phase 3 (1991–1993, aged 39–63 years). Fatigue was assessed using the Vitality subscale of the 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) at phase 3 and phase 4 (1995–1996).
Results During a mean follow-up of 3.1 years, 957 new fatigue cases (19.7%) were identified using the pre-established cut-off score of ≤50 on the Vitality subscale. CRP values were dichotomized as low (<1.0 mg/l ) or high (≥1.0 mg/l) using the Centers for Disease Control/American Heart Association recommendations. Similarly, IL-6 values were also dichotomized as low (<1.5 pg/ml) or high (≥1.5 pg/ml). After full adjustment for sociodemographic and biobehavioral covariates, the odds ratios for new-onset fatigue were 1.28 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.09–1.49, p = 0.003] for high CRP and 1.24 (95% CI 1.06–1.45, p = 0.008) for high IL-6. Similar results were found when CRP and IL-6 were treated as continuous variables.
Conclusions Plasma CRP and IL-6 were prospectively associated with new-onset fatigue, supporting the hypothesis that low-grade inflammation has a role in the development of fatigue.
(Received February 22 2012)
(Revised September 27 2012)
(Accepted September 28 2012)
(Online publication November 14 2012)
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The Public Utilities Commission released a proposal Monday that would require the state's utilities, including Pacific Gas & Electric, to create a unified, long-term energy efficiency plan to meet the state's greenhouse-gas reduction goals.
But the plan is less a specific set of mandates than a call to arms for the utilities from the agency that regulates them.
"We have the most aggressive energy-efficiency goals in the country. We need to have our utilities thinking long-term and strategically," said Dian Grueneich, the commissioner who wrote the 148-page proposal along with Administrative Law Judge Kim Malcolm.
"This proposal seeks to make energy efficiency business as usual, a part of everyday life for California," Grueneich added.
The goal, according to the proposal, would be to achieve "market transformation" rather than short-term cuts in energy use.
The proposal will be presented at the PUC's Oct. 18 meeting. That starts a process which includes getting plans from utilities, a series of public hearings and an ultimate decision in September 2008.
Grueneich proposes that:
• All new homes built in California will be zero net energy by 2020; that is, produce as much energy as they use.
• All new commercial construction in the state be zero net energy by 2030.
• The design, installation and use of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units be improved.
Building new subdivisions in California often takes seven to 10 years, from the start of the planning process to when homes are occupied, Grueneich said. That requires equally long-term planning to assure they use the most energy-efficient features such as solar panels, she said.
Grueneich urged the state's big utilities to work with local governments to achieve these goals. They could better coordinate the wide variety of energy-efficiency programs in use, she said, including the state's million solar roof program, which provides incentives to install solar panels in homes.
"They need to come back and tell us how to integrate them and make them customer friendly," she said.
PG&E said it would study the proposal. "Energy efficiency has proven to be the surest and quickest way to achieving our state's long-term climate-change goals," said PG&E spokesman Keely Wachs.
These programs are funded through utility rates.
"California is spending about $1 billion on energy efficiency," Grueneich said. "I anticipate that funding level will continue."
Still, she said, cutting back on energy use saves money because "it's so much more expensive to build power plants or new transmission lines."
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Pearl Harbor Naval Station (NS) is one of seven Military Campus programs campuses of Hawai'i Pacific University (HPU), located near the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial and the U.S.S. Missouri Memorial. Undergraduate and graduate courses are offered in convenient formats during evenings and weekends in eight-week and five-week sessions. Students can earn the following degrees by taking courses at this location:
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Padre 0.47 was released a couple of days ago. Special thanks goes to all of our Padre developers and translators. This release includes a very long list of stability bug-fixes and feature upgrades.
How to install it?
- Download and install Padre Standalone 0.45 release to obtain the greatest and latest in Perl's CPAN world.
- In your command line, run the one-liner upgrade script to upgrade to it:
perl -MCPAN -e "CPAN->upgrade('/^Padre/')"
- Run "Padre" shortcut from your start menu.
What's new?
Here are some of the features that are in this release:
Improved Integration with Windows
Padre now features a native Padre executable launcher (padre.exe) that is installed by default in c:\strawberry\perl\bin. This launcher runs Padre using wperl.exe instead of perl.exe. So no more black command prompt windows while launching Padre. If still you need these screens (e.g. to debug a Padre bug), you can simply run "padre.bat". Perl's syntax checker now works every one second in the background which means faster and more predictable syntax checking behavior.
Better handling of line endings
Padre can now detect the document's line endings (i.e. newlines or end of lines). So mixed line endings are detected and displayed in the status bar as "Mixed". In addition to that, the auto-conversion of line endings is now officially removed.
Improved About box
While strictly not a feature on its own, we really like our new About box :) The info tab provides configuration information along with Padre's uptime and process size in Megabytes.


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SIKESTON - Kelly Barrett is now an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., taking the place left vacant when Garwood Sharp was recently promoted to assistant manager and transferred to the Poplar Bluff office.
SIKESTON - Bernard L. Kincy, teacher of science and math in the Sikeston Senior High School has been selected as a participant in the 1963 Summer Institute for physics, chemistry and mathematics teachers at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy. The institute is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
SIKESTON - The first in a series of fingerprinting sessions sponsored by Sikeston Elks Lodge 2319 was held Saturday. Parents of students attending the Matthews and Southeast elementary schools were invited to bring their children to the Elks Lodge and have them fingerprinted at no charge. If a child who has been fingerprinted should become a missing person, the fingerprints could be distributed to law enforcement agencies and entered i the FBI computer The Scott County Sheriff's Department helped the Elks fingerprint the children.
NEW MADRID - The Sikeston Bulldogs teed off the 1993 golf season with a 158-174 win over the New Madrid County Central Eagles at the New Madrid Country Club on Tuesday. "We had a pretty good day," said Sikeston head coach Wayne Wright. "Shooting a 158 is a pretty good score for our first match of the season." Sikeston's Aaron Gleason tied for medalist honors with a 37 on the par-35 curse. Brad Blanchard added a 39 for Sikeston. NMCC's Brad Medling carded a 37 for the Eagles. Sikeston also walked away with JV honors, as they dumped the Eagles 178-230.


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Modular Shelf
- Overview
Wall decor. Whether hung singly or in multiples, this Modular Shelf dresses up any wall. Use it to display books, vases and other small objects.
- 36"l x 8"d x 15"h.
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Well, let's review the defense scenario. Paul Ranger and Andrej Meszaros will be back from their shoulder injuries. The new players include first round pick Victor Hedman and free agents Mattias Ohlund, Matt Walker and Kurtis Foster. The Lightning also picked up David Hale from Phoenix in the Radim Vrbata trade. Then there are four guys who played regular minutes for the Lightning at different points over the previous two seasons: Lukas Krajicek, Matt Smaby, Matt Lashoff and Mike Lundin. Rounding out the list are players who enjoyed a cup of coffee with the club last year – guys like Vladimir Mihalik, Ty Wishart and Kevin Quick.
There's always a chance that a players with limited NHL experience such as Mihalik, Wishart, Quick or even another young D might propel themselves up the depth chart during training camp, but for the time being, let's limit the list to the other 11 players: Ranger, Meszaros, Hedman, Ohlund, Walker, Foster, Hale, Krajicek, Smaby, Lashoff and Lundin. Teams typically dress six defensemen per game, although sometimes teams use seven. An NHL roster cannot exceed 23 players, meaning that teams scratch up to three roster players each game. The Lightning could keep eight defensemen on the roster (meaning that they'd just scratch one forward each game). If that's the case, then only three of the aforementioned players wouldn't be on the NHL roster.
That, of course, is assuming that the roster doesn't change between now and the start of the regular season through a trade. It also doesn't take into account injuries. Remember – the Lightning used a league-record 22 defensemen last year. Many of those players were forced into duty because of injuries. Everyone in the organization hopes that the injury bug doesn't hit as hard this year, but one cannot plan on having a completely injury-free season.
So the bottom line is this: we don't know definitively which players will start the season on the Lightning's roster. Competition during camp and the preseason will help sort all of that out. But the Lightning have helped themselves by addressing the depth question. Now, they are better equipped to handle the loss of players due to injury.
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The new netbook processor from Intel is the N450, its I/O handled by the NM10 controller chipset. The CPU under the codename Pine Trail should be released in October 2009.
DigiTimes announced the Atom N450 launch June 10. As was previously announced, the netbook CPU is produced in the 45 nm format and, unlike many current desktop and server processors, single-core but with graphics capabilities. Together with the Tiger Point chip now named NM10, the duo comprises the new Pine Trail Atom platform. Digitimes reports that Intel will continue filling orders for the popular N270 until Q1 of 2010 and then phase it out soon after.
The N450 is only one in a series of new Atom CPUs. According to Taiwanese sources, as quoted in Netbook Choice, three new model series will emerge. The single-core processor series N400, to which tne N450 belongs, targets primarily netbooks. The single-core D400 and dual-core D500 series are mainly for nettops. All will have the new NM10 I/O chipset.
The D series will probably start off with the D410 that should appear along with the N450 in Q4 of 2009. Apart from a slightly faster graphics core and somewhat better performance, the D410 resembles the N450. The D510 that is likely to launch the D500 series has a 1 MByte L2 cache. All CPUs support hyperthreading and run at a 1.66 GHz clock rate.
Intel had already disclosed the Pine Trail platform the beginning of this year in a conference presentation. The move was from three chips to two: the memory controller and graphics core are now part of the Pineview CPU, with the second chip being the Tiger Point I/O. Thermal output was cut in half from 4 Watts down to 2. The N450 will also have a modest boost in graphics by replacing the external GMA950 integrated graphics card with the GMA500 IGP processor. Support for full 1080p HD video is still somewhat down the road, however, as LinuxDevices reports.
Intel will post prices and speed results when the products ship in Q4 of 2009.
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WAY TO PAY FOR IT. A REAL-LIFE LESSON IN THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISTRACTED OR DRUNKEN DRIVING. PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS MOVED FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE STREETS TO SIMULATE A CRASH. W-M-T-W NEWS 8'S JIM KEITHLEY IS LIVE IN THE STUDIO TO TELL US ABOUT HOW THEY DID IT. IMAGINE - THERE'S BEEN A HEAD ON CRASH - INVOLVING STUDENTS --- SOMEBODY WAS TEXTING BEHIND THE WHEEL. THE IMAGES ARE HORRIFYING, BUT THEY ARE "NOT" REAL..BUT THEY COULD BE AND THAT WAS MESSAGE BEHIND TODAY'S SIMULATED CAR ACCIDENT IN THE FRONT OF THE SCHOOL STEPS. PUT ON BY THE GROUP "S-A-D-D" - "STUDENTS AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE DECISIONS" ..THE GOAL WAS TO SHOW THE STUDENTS THE "REAL" CONSEQUENCES OF DRINKING AND DRIVING, TEXTING AND DRIVING.. BEING BEHIND THE WHEEL AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE AND THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDIES THAT CAN COME FROM IT. THE ORGANIZERS OF THE EVENT SAY THE SHOCK FACTOR REALLY HITS HOME. TAG "The last time we did it there was a lot of crying and the fact that they know the people involved really helps spread the message because they realize it could happen to them or their friends and that makes a difference." THESE MOCK ACCIDENTS ARE USUALLY HELD IN THE SPRING RIGHT BEFORE PROM AND GRADUATION SEASON IN AN EFFORT TO REACH AS MANY STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE. LIVE IN THE STUDIO, JIM KEITHLEY WMTW
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Esperanza Spalding on the Enduring Legacy of Jazz
Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Esperanza Spalding was among several trailblazers honored this week in New York City at a benefit by the Brotherhood Sister/ Sol, a nonprofit organization focused on youth development. The bassist became the first jazz artist to win a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2011.
Spalding talked with Speakeasy about how jazz is being embraced by younger generations and how the upright bass became her soul mate. An edited transcript of the interview follows.
What's your response to critics who say jazz is a dying genre?
Spalding: If you were born 40 years, 50 years after [Vaslav] Nijinsky died you might think that ballet was dead. Just seeing that level of mastery and creativity and passion for the way someone like that danced, I can understand where maybe as a lover of that kind of…genius, you can say "after him what's the point?"
If you ask any ballet dancer today that spends eight hours a day practicing …and they're willing to go all through that because they love it so much, ask them is ballet dead? They will look at you cross-eyed because in their life, it's not dead. It's bringing them the satisfaction, challenges and meaning every day that they live it, that they explore it, that they study it.
Are younger artists like yourself rebranding jazz for a new era?
Spalding: When people who were into dixieland heard swing, they thought it was crazy. And for people who were into swing heard bebop they thought it was crazy. If you've done your homework and are willing to continue to do the work and study honesty in the music, you're all right and you don't have to worry whether you're rebranding [jazz] or not. Just do what comes to you and study what comes to you and ask for things that haven't come to you.
It's not usual to see women mastering the upright bass. Why were you drawn to that instrument?
Spalding: I didn't know about the instrument at all. I actually picked it up one day just to see what it felt like. When I felt it and heard it and learned a little bit about its functioning in music, I fell in love. It's been my best partner, other than my family of course, since that day.


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(Port Angeles) - Stevens Middle School Principal Chuck Lisk has been elected chair of the Student Leadership Committee for the Association of Washington Middle Level Principals (AWMLP).
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