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Hi, I've had the Matrix chip D6 Bios and 120gig HDD for a year or two. (version 1.0 box)
My friend is selling his box ( Ver 1.4 w/ samsung sdg-605b DVD)
He said I can swap DVD drives with him before he sells it :-)
Should I swap my Thomson TGM600 (never had problems) for the sdg-605b ?
and if I should, I already tried to see if it works in my box, I get an error #16 on boot up.
What do I need to do to fix it ?
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Error 16 is a dashboard file error, it doesn't have anything to do w/the DVD drive.
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I am not sure, but my guess is that your matrix is not properly aligned anymore (You probably moved when tried to swap drives? and I guess your HD is not locked so that is why the MS dash is not booting).
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Does anyone know of an online service that offers 16" x 9" prints as an option? I don't have a high quality printer so I usually get my prints from Costco and they do a good job at very affordable prices. I have, however, a few images that I have cropped 16: 9 because that's the crop that works best and Costco doesn't offer that aspect ratio. I would have to crop 3:2 and that changes the whole look of the photos. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Scottie
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#1. "RE: 16 x 9 Prints" | In response to Reply # 0
You could just print to the closest size that fits your image and accept the white space top and bottom. Then trim to fit when you get home. I used to do this with 1 of the printers in my area.
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Thanks for responding, Scott. I don't think Costco gives you that option. After selecting a print size in the cart the site gives me a "crop warning." It's a good idea but not possible I think. At least I can't figure it out.Scottie
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Does Costco offer 16" x 20" print size? If so, then you can put two 16x9 images together, one above the other with a half inch gap inbetween, in a single file and then trim them by hand at home.
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Dave, I just looked and they do offer 16" x 20" prints. What's the best way to get two images in the same file for printing?Scottie
#5. "RE: 16 x 9 Prints" | In response to Reply # 4
What image editing programs are you using?In Photoshop I would...First prepare each shot for printing as you normally would.Then create a new blank document. Make it 16" x 20" and 300ppi - or whatever resolution your printer requires. Now you can go to - File > Place - and choose the first image and it will be placed in the middle of the page. You can then drag that image to the top of the page. Then do the same with the second image but drag it to the bottom. ** Instead of using the -Place- command you could open each image and select all and then copy and paste them one at a time into the new document.Then go to -Layer > Flatten Image- and then save the new document and send it out to be printed.
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I use Elements 9. Is the process similar?
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It should work in elements.Here is a quick tutorial for creating a new (blank) document:http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-create-a-new-document-in-photoshop-elements.htmlYou should be able to copy images and past them into the new document.
#7. "RE: 16 x 9 Prints" | In response to Reply # 4
Scottie, printing on a size of 16 x 20 is basiclly what I meant. Just send the image at the 16 x 9 size on a 16 x 20 standard costco print and you should get back your 16 x 9 with white space above and below your image. Then just trim to fit. Or Davids way works too and you will get two prints out of one.
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Thanks for the help, guys. Printing two images on one page is a great solution-and I get two for probably for less than I would have paid for one online.Scottie


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United States Patent Isaac June 6, 1972 54] LIGHTING CONTROL APPARATUS 58 Field of Search ..315/291, 292, 293, 295, 313, WITH A SIGNAL SWITCHING MATRIX I 315/316, 3 l9, 360 [72] Inventor: Anthony Leonard Isaac, London, England [56] References Cited 73 A Tho Elect nics L'rnited L nd 11, Enss'gnee z 0 UNITED STATES PATENTS [22] Filed: July 2, 1970 2,994,804 8/1961 Skirpan ..3 15/3 19 l' P .4 56,111 Primary Examiner-John Kominski Related US. Application Data Attorney-Laurence Bums [63] Continuation of Ser. No 677,215, Oct. 23, I967. [57] ABSTRACT [30] Foreign Application Priority Dam A light dimming system comprises: a plurality of lamps. a dimmer associated with each lamp, a controller for furnishing 1966 Great Britain signals for controlling the brightness or the rate of change of brightness of each lamp'and a signal switching matrix for [52] [1.8. CI 3 315/295, electing the proper ignal for each dimmer,
315/316, 315/360 [51] Int. Cl. ..H05b 37/02 5 Claims, 4 Drawing Figures I4 cokz MASTER CORE 05c. DRIVERS STORE BUFFER -18 STORE l6 D/A RA ISE/ CONI/- D/M U/V/T SCANNER 20 DIMMER DRIVES 23 \24 CHANNEL INPUT D/MMERS 35L SCANNER 22 TO LAMPS PAIENTEDJUN 6 I972 SHEET 10F 4 17 f MASTER com: 7 CORE I 050. DRIVERS 910 BUFFER MB A STORE I6 D/A RAISE/ CONV- D/M 0m SCANNER 2O DIMMER DRIVES 23- \24 10x CHANNEL INPUT N M SEL. SCANNER 22 9 T0 LAMPS g- INVENTOR Kym, ATTOR NEY PATENTED H 61912 SHEET 3 [IF 4 SEES:
Wu AW BY ATTORNEY PATENTEDJUH 6 I972 SHEET U BF 4 vm QWKUSQ El HER 38 LIGHTING CONTROL APPARATUS WITH A SIGNAL SWITCHING MATRIX number of controls.
One problem encountered in stage and studio lighting systems is the provision of a control panel which is not cumbersome. A large number of groups of lamps must be controlled but a separate control for each group, which might require 500 or more such controls, cannot be conveniently mounted on a control panel.
Another problem is that of setting, during production, a large number of controls to positions decided on in rehearsal.
According to the present invention there is provided lighting control apparatus, comprising a plurality of lamps, each lamp having dimmer means for setting the brightness thereof, a plurality of control means for supplying signals for controlling lamp brightness or the rate of change of lamp brightness, and a switch matrix, as hereinafter defined, for selecting one of the control means to control the dimmer means.
In this specification a switch matrix means an arrangement of switches and enabling terminals, in which the enabling terminals are arranged in at least two groups (each group being equivalent to one dimension of the matrix), and each switch requires a number of enabling signals equal to the number of groups of enabling terminals for operation and is so connected too a single enabling terminal in each group that the application of an enabling signal to one enabling terminal in each group selects and operates one switch only. If at least one group of enabling terminals contains more than one enabling terminal, then the other group or groups may consist of only one enabling terminal.
Selection of a control means for a given lamp by setting, for
example with push buttons, an input in each dimension of the matrix, allows a large number of lamps to be controlled by a comparatively small number of push buttons.
The switches may be AND gates, in which that input signal which is to be switched is always present and two or more further input signals are required to open the gate.
Each control means may include a fader which supplies signals representative of a desired brightness, or a desired rate of change of brightness of a selected lamp. It is advantageous to be able to store information representative of lamp brightness, and another form of each control means may therefore include a section of a file store for such information, the switch matrix being used to select sections of the store which contain information representative of different lamp brightnesses.
A number of complete lighting plots decided on in rehearsal can then be automatically set during production from information held in the file store.
A lighting system may thus have two switch matrices, and two groups of control means one including faders and one including a file store.
In one lighting system groups of lamps are allocated channels in a time divided system. In this arrangement the contents of a core store are read into a buffer store sequentially, and the buffer store is connected to control a different dimmer means each time it receives infonnation from the core store. Sections of a file store may be selectedto control groups of lamps, by a first switch matrix which connects a selected section of the file store to the buffer store. The information in this section is read sequentially into the bufier store and thus controls the dimmer means. In addition one of a group of faders may be selected to control a group of lamps. A second switch matrix is used to select the fader, but each switch of the matrix has additional timing inputs, which must be present before it operates, to ensure that the fader output signal appears only in the selected channel.
Certain embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawin in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a lighting system having lighting control apparatus according to the invention for selecting faders to control the brightness of lamps,
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a lighting control system of FIG. I extended to include lighting control apparatus according to the invention for selecting sections of a file store to control the brightness of lamps,
FIG. 3, shows part of the apparatus of FIGS. 1 and 2 in more detail, and
FIG. 4 shows part of the apparatus of FIG. 2 in more detail.
In the stage lighting system of FIG. 1 a bank 10 of dimmers controls groups of lamps (not shown). The intensity of light from any group of lamps can be changed by moving the control lever, or dolly, of one of 10 faders numbered 0 to 9, two of which 8 and 9 are shown in FIG. 1. If a dolly is moved in one direction the brightnes of a group of lamps selected by a channel selector 13 is continuously increased, at a rate depending on the position of the dolly, until the lamps are at maximum intensity. Movement of the dolly in the other direction dims the lamps continuously.
Each group of lamps is allocated a channel and eight cores in a core store 14. One of the cores registers a one-bit ON/OFF signal, and the other seven register a seven bit brightness count giving the required brightness for the group of lamps. The channels are time divided, or multiplexed, and for this purpose a 40 Kc/S master oscillator 15 supplies pulses to a divider circuit 16, having two cascaded divide-by-ten stages and two cascaded divide-by-two stages. The first divideby-ten stage gives a units output, the second divide-by-ten stage gives a tens output, and the two divide-by-two stages give a four state hundreds output. The channels are numbered from one to 400 and have a duration of 25 microseconds. The outputs from the divider circuit are passed to core drivers 17, which at the beginning of each 25 microsecond channel period, using the conventional half current pulses applied to X and Y axis wires of the matrix of the store 14, select the eight cores allocated to one of the channels and transfer their contents to a buffer store 18. The contents of the bufier store is then converted to an analogue voltage by a digital to analogue converter 19. The resultant voltage is passed to a selected dimmer drive unit 20, by an output scanner 21 comprising a sampling matrix of an AND gate controlled by the outputs of the divider circuit 16 feeding four hundred reservoir capacitors. The sampling matrix, timed from the main divider waveforms, decommutates the 400-channel time sequential signal from the digital-to-analogue convertor 19 into 400 parallel signals on the 400 reservoir capacitors. These signals, one per lighting channel, are shaped in the dimmer drive units 20 into signals controlling the 400 dimmers, one per lighting channel.
At the end of each 25 microsecond period the contents of the buffer store are read back into the core store, and the contents of the next eight cores corresponding to the next channel are read into the buffer store.
The 10 faders are used to enter the required brightness counts into the store 14 and to change them. Each fader is selected to control one channel by using the channel selector l3, and an input scanner 22.
Referring now to FIG. 3, the channel selector has a lOOs register 50 and a l0s register 51, both of which can be set by push buttons (not shown) to give an output corresponding to a selected stage and a selected 10 stage. The stages are connected to corresponding AND gates in matrices 52 and 53. Each AND gate also receives an input from the stage of the divider 16 corresponding to its input from the registers 50 or 51. Thus if push buttons two hundred and seven tens were operated inputs would appear on a common output wire 54 of matrix 52 during all channels numbered 200 to 299, and on a common output wire 55 during all channels who have as a second figure a seven. The wires 54 and 55 are connected to an AND gate 56 which opens for duration of 10 channels; in the example, channels 270 and 279.
The faders to 9, shown in FIG. 3 as block 57, are connected to a further AND gate matrix 58 in the input scanner 22. Each AND gate in this matrix receives an input from one fader, and enabling inputs from one unit register of the divider 16 and the output of the AND gate 56. In the above example therefore a common output wire 59 of matrix 58 would receive an output from the fader 0 in the channel period 270, from the fader 1 in the channel period 271 and so on, the fader 9 providing an output in the channel period 279.
Each fader provides an output on one wire when its dolly is moved from a central position in one direction and another wire when moved in the other direction. Thus two matrices such as matrix 58 must be used, and in FIG. 1 the wire 59 is replaced by two output wires 23 and 24 corresponding to raise" and dim lamp brightness respectively. The wires 23 and v 24 are connected to a voltage controlled oscillator (V.C.O.) 25 which receives pulses of amplitude depending on fader settings from the faders in selected channel periods. The V.C.O. also receives pulses from the divider 16 and provides cyclic series of pulses in each'channel on output wires 28 and 29 whose count in a V.C.O. cycle is proportional to the voltage supplied by the fader selected for that channel. The V.C.O. may have the form described in our application entitled Analogue to Digital Converter (application Ser. No. 677,217, filed Oct. 23, 1967, now US. Pat. No. 3,624,639, issued Nov. 30, 1971, and assigned to the assignee of the present application).
When the brightness count of a group of lamps, represented by the states of eight cores allocated to that group has been read into the buffer store 18, a raise/dim unit 31 raises or lowers the count at one unit per pulse received along wires 28 or 29 during the appropriate channel period. The number of these pulses received in one cycle of the V.C.O. depends on the position of the dolly of the fader selected for that group of lamps and the brightness count is altered accordingly.
In FIG. 2. the basic system of FIG. 1. is modified and facilities for fading lamps according to predetermined lighting plots are provided. The V.C.O., raise/dim unit, buffer store, core store and digital to analogue converter of FIG. 1. are designated in FIG. 2. as studio V.C.O., studio raise/dim unit, studio buffer store, studio core store and studio digital to analogue converter. Other units which have the same functions are given the same designations in FIGS. 1 and 2. A second and third series of units are provided and comprise a preset core store 14'', a preset buffer store 18, a preset V.C.O. 25., a preset digital to analogue converter 19, and a preset raise/dim unit 31', and a fader core store 14", a fader bufi'er store 18", and a fader digital to analogue converter 19". The input scanner 22 has alternative pairs of output leads so that the channel selector l3 and faders may all be switched together to control the contents of either the preset store 14 or studio store 14. The contents of either store may be filed, or recorded in file store 33, by push button operation. In filing, or recording the contents of studio or preset store are read-out channel by channel into the appropriate buffer store and thence are registered in a file buffer store 34. As the studio or preset buffer store contents are written back into the appropriate core store, the file bufier store contents are written into a file core store selected from, for example, a group of I00 such file stores by a file selector 35 operated by pushbuttons. Information may be transferred by push button between the studio and file buffer stores and between the preset and file buffer stores in either direction.
The file selector 35 in one arrangement consists of a matrix of AND gates which is shown in FIG. 4. In this arrangement the selector 35 is connected between the file buffer store 34 and the file store 33, instead of being connected in the way shown schematically in FIG. 2. Each AND gate of the matrix has two enabling inputs applied by push buttons (riot shown) from two series of x and y enabling input terminals. In practise the x terminals would be 's terminals and the y terminals units terminals so that one of a hundred gates in the matrix could be selected. Each gate is connected to a corresponding section of the file 33 and the file buffer store, so that when one of the AND gates of FIG. 4 is open information can pass in either direction through the matrix. Two such matrices may be used if it is required that each shall pass information in one direction only.
In operation therefore if it is required to file, or record a lighting plot, a section of the file store 33 is selected using push button x and y temiinals and information from the studio core store 14 representing the counts in all 400 channels is read into the selected section.
In rehearsal an arrangement of channel brightness counts that is, a lighting plot, is set up on selected lighting channels; this lighting plot is filed in a first file. A second lighting plot is set up and filed in a second file, and so on. In a production each lighting plot in the files may be read-out nondestructively into the studio store 14 to control the lighting channels. Channels for lighting plots may be preselected using either the studio or the preset store. Channels registered in a selected file may be indicated on an illuminated mimic diagram (not shown), the lamps being operated from the stored one-bit ON/OFF signal. Filed plots may be added to an existing plot set-up or registered in the studio or preset stores.
When a first lighting plot is to be gradually changed, that is faded to a second plot the first lighting plot is set up in rehearsal and filed, and the levels of some lighting channels in this plot are now raised to give second plot which is also filed. In a production the first plot is read into the studio store 14 and is also transferred into the fader store 14". The second plot is read into the preset store 14. A differential comparator 36 produces on one of two output leads an analogue output proportional in any channel period to the difference between the outputs of the preset and fader brightness counts that is the brightness counts registered in the preset and fader buffer stores. This analogue output appears on a Raise" lead 37 if the preset brightness count is greater than the fader brightness count and on a Dim lead 38 if it is less. A differential comparator 39 produces an enabling signal in the period of any channel for which the preset brightness count exceeds the Stu,- dio brightness count, which is passed together with the output of the differential comparator 36 to a Fade-Up" gate 40 with a push button control 41. Analogue Raise signals in the channel periods of channels having greater preset brightness counts than fader brightness counts, and substantially proportional in a given channel to the difference between these counts are passed to the studio V.C.O. 25 to produce Raise pulses at proportionate rates. On operation of the Fade Up control 41 the brightness counts in the studio store 14 change from their starting values (first plot, fader store) to their finishing values (second plot, preset store) at a rate substantially proportional in any channel to the difference in preset and fader brightness counts for that channel. When the studio brightness count for a channel becomes equal to its preset brightness count the enabling signal from comparator 31 disappears and Raise pulses in that channel period cease.
Since the Raise rates are substantially proportional to differences between initial and final brightness counts all channels transfer from initial to final brightness in substantially the same time regardless of the magnitude of brightness change in any channel. This maintains balance during fades.
A fade-down" is performed in a similar way by taking the Dim" output 38 of the differential comparator 36 to a fadedown gate 42, opened when a signal from a differential comparator 43 comparing studio and preset brightness counts, and a signal from a fade-down push button control 44 are both present. The differential comparator gives an output signal proportional to the difference between the studio and preset brightness counts so that when the studio brightness count is equal to the preset brightness count fade down ceases.
A cross-fade between two plots necessitating both raising and dimming is made similarly by a Cross Fade push button control 45 energizing both Fade-Up and Fade-Down gates 41 and 44 simultaneously. Raise" and Dim analogue control voltages appear at the outputs of the Fade-Up and Fade-Down gates as appropriate to the sense and magnitude of the change to be made in each channel.
Other ways of utilizing the invention will be apparent. For example, instead of faders there may be 100, numbered 0 to 99 respectively, and the channel selector may have four lO0s buttons marked 0,100,200 and 300 respectively. If the 300 button is operated faders 0 to 99 operate on channels 300 to 399 respectively, and so forth. Likewise four lOOs buttons, ten l0s buttons and 10 units buttons marked 0 to 9 respectively may be provided which operate on a l0 state units register, and only a single fader. The channel which this fader controls is selected by operating the appropriate lOOs, l0s and units buttons. The system may be extended for, say, 1,000 channels by replacing the four state l00s counter in the main divider chain and the four-state IOOs register in the channel selector by IO-state devices, by providing ten lOOs buttons marked 0 to 900 respectively and by increasing either the Master Oscillator frequency to 100 Kc/S or the main divider cycle to 25mS. Again, the system may be adapted for any convenient number of faders, say 20 or 50, the lOs buttons in these cases reducing to O, 20, 40, 60 and 80 or 0 and 50 respectively.
If the input scanner uses 100 faders and the channel selector has only a IOOs register the channel selector output pulse covers channel periods 200 to 299 of the main divider, the 200' button being operated. The input scanner now has gates matrixing the l0s outputs as well as the units outputs of the main divider with the l00s output of the channel selector and with the analogue voltages from faders 0 to 99 to produce sequential samples of these 100 fader outputs in channels 200 to 299 of the main divider cycle when the 200 button is operated.
If the input scanner is coupled to only one fader the channel selector has a lOOs, a l0s and a units register. The states of these are matrixed with the states of the 100s, l0s and units stages of the divider to give a pulse occuring only when the divider is in the one selected state. This pulse operates in the input scanner on the analogue voltage from the one fader to produce one sample of this analogue output in the chosen channel period of each complete cycle of the main divider, the sample occuring whenever the main divider is in the chosen state. In this case the input scanner has only one fader output to sample and degenerates into a simple sampler.
Thus it will be seen that, for example, for a four hundred channel lighting system a control panel can be provided which is compact and has the following controls;
14 push buttons to select one of 10 faders to control a group of lamps on a fade time, 10 fader controls; 20 file select buttons to select one of a hundred file sections for storing lighting plots and fade information; push buttons controlling reading into, and out of the file store; and push buttons controlling the preset store. The operation of a push button may be indicated by the illumination of a signal lamp in or adjacent to the button, and channels registered in a selected file may be indicated on an illuminated mimic diagram, the lamps of which are operated from the stored one bit ON/OFF signal.
What I claim is:
l. A lighting control circuit having dimmers for controlling the brightness of lamp groups, at least one fader for controlling the dimmers, selectors controlling switches to assign each fader to any one of a set of dimmers, and means for recording lighting plots representing brightness settings of all dimmers and for controlling the dimmers in accordance with the recorded lighting plots, characterized by a time multiplex system having a register, each state of which defines a channel corresponding to a difierent one of the dimmers, and by a matrix comprising an arrangement of the said switches and of groups of enabling terminals, one group being connected to the register and at least two other groups to separate sets of selectors and the connection of the switches to the enabling terminals being such that operation of one selector in each set selects a channel for connection to a fader.
2. Lighting control apparatus comprising a plurality of lamps, individual dimmer means for setting the brightness of each of said lamps, a plurality of control means generating lamp brightness control signals, and a switch matrix connected to the control means to select one of the control means to control the dimer means, said switch matrix comprising a plurality of switches, and at least two groups of enabling terminals, each switch being connected to a single enabling terminal in each group whereby each switch is operated only when an enabling signal is applied to each of the enabling terminals to which that switch is connected, wherein each said control means comprises a section of a file store for information representing lamp brightness, in which each control means comprises a fader which supplies signals representative of a desired brightness or a desired rate of change of brightness, and the switch matrix is connected to select one of the faders to control one of the dimmer means, wherein one group of enabling terminals of the switch matrix is connected to a timing circuit supplying a repeated sequence of pulses for operation of the switches in sequence to repeatedly scan the faders.
3. Apparatus as claimed in claim 2 in which another group of enabling terminals comprises a common terminal connected to a second switch matrix, the second matrix having a group of enabling tenninals connected individually to selector switches and a second group connected individually to the timing circuit whereby a pulse is passed to the common enabling terminal of the first switch matrix to select a group of time-divided channels corresponding to each operated selector switch.
4. Apparatus as claimed in claim 2 wherein the output of the first switch matrix is applied by way of an analogue to digital converter to a buffer store coupled to a core store, the core store holding brightness control information for the lamps and being driven by the timing circuit to read out the stored information into the buffer store sequentially, the output of the switch matrix then serving to change the brightness control information for each of the time-divided channels corresponding to a lamp or group of lamps as required by the fader settings, and the buffer store is connected by way of a digital to analogue converter and a scanner driven by the timing circuit to the dimmer means for the individual lamps.
5. Apparatus as claimed in claim 4 in which the analogue to digital converter comprises a counter driven by the timing circuit, a series of resistors each of which is coupled to a single stage of the counter, the most significant counter stage being coupled to the highest valued resistor and the less significant resistors to resistors of progressively lower values, and a comparator for comparing the analogue input from the first switch matrix with the discrete signal levels formed by the combined currents through the resistors for each state of the counter.
|Cited Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Jun 17, 1957
|Aug 1, 1961
|Lighting control system
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Jan 3, 1972
|Dec 19, 1972
|Buren George F Van
|Lighting control system
|Dec 23, 1971
|Jan 8, 1974
|Dynamic Technology Ltd
|Lighting control systems
|May 8, 1972
|Jan 8, 1974
|Rank Organisation Ltd
|Stage lighting control units
|Nov 27, 1974
|Jul 20, 1976
|Strand Century Incorporated
|Apparatus for controlling the intensity of lights
|Dec 6, 1978
|Jul 15, 1980
|General Electric Company
|Programmable energy load controller system and methods
|Nov 24, 1981
|Apr 16, 1985
|General Electric Company
|Method and apparatus for controlling distributed electrical loads
|Apr 17, 1985
|Mar 10, 1987
|Lightolier Incorporated
|Microcomputer-controlled light switch
|Sep 30, 1988
|May 8, 1990
|Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
|Multi-zone, multi-scene lighting control system
|May 7, 2001
|Aug 19, 2003
|Marc O. Hoffknecht
|Lighting control interface
|Apr 24, 1987
|Oct 10, 1989
|Position sensing and indicating device
|U.S. Classification
|315/292, 315/316, 315/295, 315/293, 315/360
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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Comprehensive Description
General: Grass Family (Poaceae). Deergrass is a perennial bunchgrass obtaining heights of 5 feet when in bloom. It is part of the largest genus of warm season grasses in North America. The bunchgrass is found in dense, large clumps, but can occur as a continuous cover, in areas that are subjected to light, frequent ground fires. The culms are slender, narrow spike-like panicles, 9 to 12 dm. in length and less than 1.2 cm. wide. The numerous, small spikelets each have one awnless floret, with a 3-nerved lemma. The ligules are firm and truncate, 2-3 mm long. The leaves are 1.5 to 6 mm wide. The seeds are small, requiring about 2.5 million to make one pound. The dense, basal foliage is tufted and these large tufts, up to six feet across, are a distinguishing feature of the grass, along with the whip-like flower stalks.
National Distribution
United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
For current distribution, please consult the Plant Profile page for this species on the PLANTS Web site. It is found in sandy or gravely well-drained soils in scattered colonies in dry or damp places below 2150 m elevation from Shasta County in northern California south, extending into New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico.
Physical Description
Physical Description
Type Information
Catalog Number: US 1647094
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. G. Marsh
Year Collected: 1936
Locality: Del Carmen Mts., Coahuila, Mexico, North America
- Isotype: Johnston, I. M. 1943. J. Arnold Arbor. 24: 392.
Catalog Number: US 999023
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. G. Pringle
Year Collected: 1885
Locality: Streams near Chihuahua., Chihuahua, Mexico, North America
- Isotype: Johnston, I. M. 1943. J. Arnold Arbor. 24: 392.
Catalog Number: US 998992
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. H. T. Townsend & C. Barber
Year Collected: 1899
Locality: Sierra Madres near Colonia Garcia., Chihuahua, Mexico, North America
Elevation (m): 2134 to 2134
- Isotype: Piper, C. V. 1905. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 18: 143.
Catalog Number: US 347144
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. H. T. Townsend & C. Barber
Year Collected: 1899
Locality: In Sierra Madres, near Colonial Garcia, Chihuahua, Mexico, North America
Elevation (m): 2134 to 2134
- Holotype: Piper, C. V. 1905. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 18: 143.
California Central Valley Grasslands Habitat
This taxon is found in the California Central Valley grasslands, which extend approximately 430 miles in central California, paralleling the Sierra Nevada Range to the east and the coastal ranges to the west (averaging 75 miles in longitudinal extent), and stopping abruptly at the Tehachapi Range in the south. Two rivers flow from opposite ends and join around the middle of the valley to form the extensive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that flows into San Francisco Bay.
Perennial grasses that were adapted to cool-season growth once dominated the ecoregion. The deep-rooted Purple Needle Grass (Nassella pulchra) was particularly important, although Nodding Needle Grass (Stipa cernua), Wild Ryes (Elymus spp.), Lassen County Bluegrass (Poa limosa), Aristida spp., Crested Hair-grass (Koeleria pyramidata), Deergrass (Muhlenbergia rigens,), and Coast Range Melicgrass (Melica imperfecta) occurred in varying proportions. Most grass growth occurred in the late spring after winter rains and the onset of warmer and sunnier days. Interspersed among the bunchgrasses were a rich array of annual and perennial grasses and forbs, the latter creating extraordinary flowering displays during certain years. Some extensive mass flowerings of the California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Lupines (Lupinus spp.), and Exserted Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja exserta) are found in this grassland ecoregion.
Prehistoric grasslands here supported several herbivores including Pronghorn Antelope (Antilocapra americana), elk (including a valley subspecies, the Tule Elk, (Cervus elaphus nannodes), Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus), California ground squirrels, gophers, mice, hare, rabbits, and kangaroo rats. Several rodents are endemics or near-endemics to southern valley habitats including the Fresno Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys nitratoides exilis), Tipton Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys nitratoides nitratoides), San Joaquin Pocket Mouse (Perognathus inornatus), and Giant Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ingens). Predators originally included grizzly bear, gray wolf, coyote, mountain lion, ringtail, bobcat, and the San Joaquin Valley Kit Fox (Vulpes velox), a near-endemic.
The valley and associated delta once supported enormous populations of wintering waterfowl in extensive freshwater marshes. Riparian woodlands acted as important migratory pathways and breeding areas for many neotropical migratory birds. Three species of bird are largely endemic to the Central Valley, surrounding foothills, and portions of the southern coast ranges, namely, the Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nuttalli), the Tri-colored Blackbird (Agelaius tricolor EN), and Nuttall's Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii).
The valley contains a number of reptile species including several endemic or near-endemic species or subspecies such as the San Joaquin Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum ruddocki), the Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia sila EN), Gilbert's Skink (Plestiodon gilberti) and the Sierra Garter Snake (Thamnophis couchii). Lizards present in the ecoregion include: Coast Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma coronatum NT); Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis); Southern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria multicarinata); and the Northern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria coerulea).
There are only a few amphibian species present in the California Central Valley grasslands ecoregion. Special status anuran taxa found here are: Foothill Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii NT); Pacific Chorus Frog (Pseudacris regilla); and Western Spadefoot Toad (Pelobates cultripes). The Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) occurs within this ecoregion.
Although many endemic plant species are recognized, especially those associated with vernal pools, e.g. Prickly Spiralgrass (Tuctoria mucronata). A number of invertebrates are known to be restricted to California Central Valley habitats. These include the Delta Green Ground Beetle (Elaphrus viridis CR) known only from a single vernal pool site, and the Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle (Desmocerus californicus dimorphus) found only in riparian woodlands of three California counties.
Vernal pool communities occur throughout the Central Valley in seasonally flooded depressions. Several types are recognized including valley pools in basin areas which are typically alkaline or saline, terrace pools on ancient flood terraces of higher ground, and pools on volcanic soils. Vernal pool vegetation is ancient and unique with many habitat and local endemic species. During wet springs, the rims of the pools are encircled by flowers that change in composition as the water recedes. Several aquatic invertebrates are restricted to these unique habitats including a species of fairy shrimp and tadpole shrimp.
Adaptation: Deergrass can withstand periodic flooding, but it cannot tolerate poorly-drained soils. The major plant communities it inhabits include valley grassland, streamsides, and meadow habitat. Additionally, deergrass is shade-intolerant and also occurs in grassland openings within chaparral, mixed conifer forests, and oak woodland plant communities, maintained with human-set or lightning fires. On most soil types, these grassland areas quickly revert to the surrounding dominant vegetation type without human or natural disturbance.
Broadcast Seeding: In California and the Southwest, deergrass can be broadcast seeded in the late spring or summer during the months of May, June, July, and August, with irrigation. The seeds are tiny and should be broadcast on top of the ground, and then run over with a ring roller or a culti-packer to compress the seeds slightly below the soil surface. For best results, sow at least four pounds of PLS (pure live seed) per acre, which amounts to 50 seeds per square foot. Deergrass is slow growing and germination rates can vary from two weeks up to two months. Fertilization of deergrass is not recommended, as it usually gives the alien weeds a competitive edge. Site preparation is extremely important for good establishment of deergrass. Both repetitive tillage and burning are recommended to drastically curtail weed competition. Repetitive tillage involves loosening the soil, irrigating, and cultivating the area with a disc harrow, following with a ring roller to kill the flush of annual weeds. This is done several times prior to seeding to exhaust the weed seed bank. Burning involves firing all residual dry matter prior to seeding.
Container Planting: Container planting is a more effective and less time consuming way of establishing deergrass, but it is more costly than seeding on a large scale. Deergrass seed can be sown into flats or, D-pots, stubby cells, or reforestation tubes in May. Plants can be planted out from containers in the fall of the same year in soil that has been moistened with the first rains, using standard planting procedures. Plants can also be sown in the fall in flats or containers and planted out the next summer or fall in the designated area. Plants should be spaced at a minimum width of 24 inches. Irrigating is not necessary if it is a normal rainfall year. Site preparation is the same as for a broadcast seeding. Larger bunchgrasses can also be divided in winter or early spring and transplanted. A good stand of deergrass can be established by container planting in one and one half years. It is thought that container planting with grown plugs is more effective than a seeding.
Conservation Status
National NatureServe Conservation Status
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked
NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Please consult the PLANTS Web site and your State Department of Natural Resources for this plant's current status, such as, state noxious status and wetland indicator values.
Cultivars, improved and selected materials (and area of origin)
If possible, gather the seed from local sources, to maintain genetic diversity of deergrass. The flower stalks can be cut, bundled, and then beat over a tarp or bucket to release the seeds. The seeds are usually highly viable, and do not need special treatment. This grass is available from nurseries handling native plants.
Contact your local Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly Soil Conservation Service) office for more information. Look in the phone book under "United States Government." The Natural Resources Conservation Service will be listed under the subheading "Department of Agriculture."
Once established, deergrass is quite drought-tolerant. To maintain its vigor and reduce accumulated dead material, deergrass can be mowed or burned every several years. Burning or mowing should be in the fall, after it has gone to seed. Many tribes historically and probably prehistorically enhanced deergrass populations through firing deergrass stands in the fall in California every two to five years. Indian-set fires increased flower stalk yields, recycled nutrients, cleared away detritus, and promoted seedling production in the midst of reduced competition from other plants. According to Native American elders, these fires maintained the bunchgrass in greater numbers than would have occurred under natural conditions. Knowledge of past indigenous fire management of deergrass has important implications for mountain meadow habitat management for wildlife and maintenance of grassland openings within shrublands, woodlands, and forests for preservation of indigenous cultural traditions. Some areas could be managed with the dual objectives of indigenous harvesting of flower stalks and grazing after culm harvest. There are several fungi that infect the leaves of deergrass, causing debilitation, but usually not death. A fire would eliminate these pathogens.
Relevance to Humans and Ecosystems
Ethnobotanic: Deergrass is a significant basketry material to central and southern California Native Americans who utilize the flower stalks in the foundations of coiled baskets. Frequently thousands of flower stalks are needed for completion of each basket. Culms are gathered in late spring while still green, or summer or early fall when golden brown depending upon the tribe, individual family preference and elevation of the deergrass site.
Wildlife: In California, dense patches of deergrass provide cover during the fawning period of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in mountain meadows and grassland openings. The younger palatable tufts are grazed by deer, horses, and cattle and can remain palatable if continually grazed. It is particularly sought for forage by animals when first resprouting after a burn. Older tufts are poor feed for livestock. The seeds provide food for songbirds and probably other birds as well. In sunny openings where deergrass occurs, it forms a larval food plant for one of the Satyrid butterflies, the California ringlet (Coenonympha california) and for the umber skipper (Poanes melane). Massive numbers of ladybugs overwinter in deergrass clumps.
Conservation: Deergrass is a valuable streambank stabilizer, as it has an extensive root system, and if grown in dense enough colonies, it can be an effective weed suppresser. In California, Pacific Gas and Electric is experimenting with growing dense colonies under powerline corridors. It's long, slender culms, and tall tufts making it an attractive plant for the garden.
Other Uses: Uses of deergrass include streambank stabilization, landscaping, forage, insectary, weed suppressant, and wildlife.
Muhlenbergia rigens
Muhlenbergia rigens, commonly known as Deergrass, is a warm season perennial bunchgrass found in sandy or well drained soils below 7,000 feet (2,100 m) in elevation in the Southwestern United States and parts of Mexico.
The plant Muhlenbergia rigens is characterized by dense, tufted basal foliage consisting of narrow pointed leaves that reach lengths of about 3 feet (0.91 m) and range in color from light silver-green to purple. The spikelike stems are less than half an inch wide and 3–4 feet (0.91–1.22 m) in length. During bloom, the numerous flowered panicles often reach heights of five feet and terminate in a single awnless floret with a 3-nerved lemma. Deergrass is characteristic of tallgrass prairie of much of the Western United States.
The native range of the grass extends north into Shasta County, California, and south into New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. There it inhabits a wide range of ecotypes including grassland, riparian, chaparral, mixed conifer, and oak woodland communities. Deergrass can grow in areas with periodic flooding, but cannot tolerate standing water and poorly drained soils. It prefers full sun but is shade-tolerant.[1]
The young shoots are browsed by a variety of animals,[2] but with age the plant becomes unpalatable and is useful in an exposed garden setting for its deer resistance.[3] It has also been used for erosion prevention and streambank stabilization because of extensive root systems. Restoration efforts currently use deergrass to displace exotic invasive annuals that dominate current grassland ecosystems as well as remediate overtilled and eroded agricultural land where they anchor loose soils and return lost organic matter. Phytoremediative studies have also been conducted to test deergrass's ability to remove chemicals from agricultural runoff. Deergrass's dense stands and extensive roots act as a biofilter effective for herbicide, pesticide and particulate removal and breakdown.
Among the Zuni people. the grass is attached to the sticks of plume offerings to anthropic gods.[4]
Cultivation and habitat restoration[edit]
Muhlenbergia rigens, Deergrass, can be established in late spring and early summer by broadcast seeding with irrigation. For best results, 50 seeds per square foot are planted then lightly incorporated just below the soil surface with a culti-packer. Establishment is most successful when steps are taken to mitigate weed growth. Burning, discing and reduced fertilization schemes to reduce the weed seed bank are recommended.
Container planting is a highly effective way of establishing Deergrass. The seed can be sown in flats in May and transplanted in the fall of the same year. In California, except in areas of heavy frost, Muhlenbegia rigens can be successfully planted out in winter and spring to take advantage of seasonal rainfall.[5] Stand preparation should be the same as when broadcast-seeded. During transplant, plants should be spaced with a minimum of two feet between them. After establishment little management is required. Irrigation is unnecessary in normal rainfall years and fertilization is not recommended as it may increase weed competition. Burning or mowing can be used every few years to reduce accumulated dead matter.
Because Muhlenbergia rigens uses C4 carbon fixation, it gains an advantage in conditions of drought and high temperature. This characteristic, along with its attractiveness, has gained the plant recent attention as an ornamental in xeriscapes in yards and parks. Studies have also demonstrated a high tolerance to salt suggesting possible irrigation using low quality reclaimed waste-water sources at very low cost.[6]
Muhlenbergia rigens is a cover for mule deer during fawning periods and studies have equated reduced deer populations with overgrazed deergrass stands in and near cattle pasture.[7] Young shoots and leaves are grazed by deer, horses and cattle. The tall grass is an overwintering host for many species of Lepidoptera and ladybug, which along with deergrass seed, provides food for many different bird species.
Deergrass was important to many Native American tribes who used its long seedstalks as the principal material in coiled baskets. Deergrass underwent an early form of cultivation by many California tribes who regularly burned areas to maintain stands of deergrass, and induce the production of long straight stalks for use in basketry. Each basket required over 3000 stalks, driving the need for cultivation[8] It is believed that much of deergrass's current distribution is due to propagation by Native Americans.
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- ^ Jordan, TA. (2003). Ecological and Cultural Contributions of Controlled Fire Use by Native Californians: A Survey of Literature. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 27:1 77-90.
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Jordan Hulls scored 20 points and grabbed four rebounds and Victor Oladipo added 14 points and seven boards as they teamed up to lead No. 5 Indiana to a 93-59 victory over Jacksonville on Friday at Assembly Hall in Bloomington. Indiana (12-1) shot 51 percent from the field (29-of-57).


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Recap: 'So You Think You Can Dance' - Top 20 Showcase
Things will get serious on Tuesday, but on Monday, the "SYTYCD" Top 20 showed what they can do
It's time for a closer look at our top 20, and, as usual, it's going to be THE MOST TALENTED SEASON EVER. Just once I'd like to hear Nigel or Cat or someone say, you know, the people who turned out this year kinda sucked, so it's going to be a pretty so-so season. You may want to try us next year. Just kidding. Kind of. But I will say, based on tonight's show, this is going to be one interesting, weird and definitely loud season. And for once, I have to agree that almost anyone could win it, because with a few exceptions, these kids look goooood.
[Full recap of Monday (Oct. 26) night's "So You Think You Can Dance" after the break...]
Anyway, let's get to it. Did you know this was the TOUGHEST set of auditions EVER? Wow! Shut up, Cat Deeley, you're starting to bug me. I know ratings are down from the summer, but you don't have to go all hella lot of telemarketer on us.
It's time to meet our new permanent judge Adam Shankman! Oh, and Mary Murphy and Nigel Lythgoe, they're here, too. And there's an empty chair. For Paula Abdul. You know, this may sound sacrilegious, but I think SYTYCD is a much better fit for Paula than "Idol." Remember, she was a choreographer who eventually moved into music, not the other way around. And I'd hazard to guess the cheesiest routine she choreographed for the Laker Girls blew crappy songs like "Rush, Rush" out of the water.
Oh, yay, we start with a group routine by Wade and Amanda Robson. It's 1930s sexy and smoky. And there's a turf war. And blood will be spilled. So why are the dance moves groovin' Mad Men era with music from the rejected soundtrack for "Casino Royale" (and I mean the one with David Niven, people, not Daniel Craig). Wade is a choreographer, not a history major, so I just need to get over it, I guess. Quite a rockin' routine, and the kids look good tonight. But they're still bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and Nigel hasn't fed them their livers yet.
First up, Russell the Krumper, Kevin the Hip-Hopper and B-Boy Legacy, otherwise known as the guys who are going to suck at ballroom.
Tabitha and Napoleon Dumo are super excited to choreograph for these guys, because they know the moves and speak, I guess, Krumpish. Of course, that's just until they try to teach them some actual choreography in rehearsal and the guys pretty much fall apart. I say just let them do their thing, because tonight is officially the last night they'll get to have any fun without Mary telling them to watch their arms and clean up their footwork. And, you know, people who can spin on their heads really deserve a break.
Nigel thinks they're so exciting he won't even mind losing the hearing in his left ear from Mary screaming in it. And he has a point, as it's a fun routine to watch. Maybe not mind blowing, but I got the impression it wasn't so easy to get these guys in synch.
Next, it's a Toasty Oreo routine, and I love me Toasty. It's a contemporary routine with Nathan from Los Angeles, Channing from Boston, Jakob from New Orleans and Ariana from Atlanta.
It's a routine about personalizing sadness, a phrase if used on another reality show would inspire me to say something scathing, but with "SYTYCD," they can actually deliver on the lame storylines. I mean, this was actually pretty good considering they're all dancing to a Roy Orbison cover. But with four dancers on stage, it makes you kind of look forward to the couples routines, because it's just impossible to know where to look when everyone looks so polished and, oh, I don't know, competent.
Mary is dizzy she's so excited. She didn't see any weaknesses. She thinks Channing knocked it out of the park. Ariana's body line was insane. Nathan's pirouette was incredible. Jakob flew. Then she starts shrieking. Sometimes, I would like Mary to be a little less enthusiastic.
Oh boy, it's time for the tappers! This is either going to be really cool or it's going to suck in about a minute. No matter what, it's going to be loud. Peter from Boston, Bianca from Los Angeles and Phillip from Los Angeles are determined to bring tap back, and they're doing it with a new choreographer, Derick K. Grant.
Alright, Bianca did a friggin' cartwheel, and it's impressive that they're tapping and everything, but I'm afraid I'm going with the suck after a minute option. Part of that has to do with the music (where the hell did they find that crusty old tune, Glenn Miller's otherwise empty grave?), another part with the hokey costumes and finally, the fact that tap just isn't that exciting to watch. You know they're working their asses off, but seriously, it's like clogging or something. I'm sure it's fun, but don't make me sit through it, Lord of the Dance.
Nigel is thrilled that tap is on the show, but he admits it's going to be tough. Damn straight. But I do agree with Nigel that this trio has the chops to move beyond tap, though the out-of-synch arm flapping, especially from Bianca, at the beginning of the routine is a big red flag for me.
Jazz dancers Molly from Los Angeles, Pauline from Los Angeles and Ellenore from Phoenix have Sonya Tayek put them through a sexy, flirtatious routine. Sonya says this is because these girls are "smoking hot," which seems sort of creepy to say about Molly, who looks like she's 12.
And, as expected, Molly is about as sexy as a coat hangar. Great leg extension, but she looked like she wanted to be anywhere but on that stage.
Adam is surprised that anyone considers tutus or jazz hands sexy, but he thinks the girls brought it. Well, I agree with the first part. He thinks Molly danced with more maturity. Uh, not really, but clearly, this episode is all about happy-happy love-in crap so the kids will be extra super crushed when Adam tells them they suck tomorrow.
Contemporary dancers Billy, Noelle and Victor from Atlanta and Kathy from Los Angeles are doing a routine choreographed by Mandy Moore, not the one who's married to Ryan Adams. Mandy doesn't screw around with a story, so there's no 1930s gang war or sexy time or personal sadness, it's just about showcasing everyone's talents. How Canadian of Mandy.
I guess other things happen in rehearsal, but all I see is Noelle's toenail is coming off. Gross, gross, gross.
The standout in this routine is definitely Billy. I think the guy's joints are made out of rubber. In a good way. He commands the stage, which is pretty amazing considering I think he weighs less than the girls.
Adam loves the routine. OMG, he's not going to cry, is he? Oh, no, I think we averted the waterworks. He says it was a work of art and he doesn't know how they can improve. I swear he's getting choked up. Adam, pull it together!
Finally, Jason Gilkison choreographs our Latin dancers, Karen from Boston and married couple Ashley and Ryan from Salt Lake. The girls are going to fight over Ryan. Ryan must be so in love with himself at this point.
This routine is hot. I know Ashley only got in because another girl dropped out, but she looks like she belongs in the top 20 to me. Mary thinks it's hot, hot, hot. She says there's something animalistic about Karen, which doesn't seem like a compliment but apparently it is.
So, for our introduction to the top 20, I have to say almost everyone looked pretty damn good (Molly, pack your bags, and tappers, don't get too comfortable). Granted, everyone was dancing their specialty, so it's only going to get tougher from here. But this might be the best season ever. Damn you, Cat Deeley, I hate when you're right!
[NOTE: On Monday afternoon, FOX announced that Billy Bell has left the show due to illness. On Tuesday's episode, he will be replaced by Brandon Dumlao.]
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"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."
"Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it!"
"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now."
"Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life."
"The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place."
"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned."
"When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called "success". But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a "failure"."


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Time Warner: Most customers restored after Internet outage
Posted August 27th, 2014 @ 8:53am by WTVN Newsroom
NEW YORK, New York (WTVN) --Time Warner Cable says a service outage that left milliions of its customers without Internet service is over.
The company says it happened during routine network maintenance early Wednesday morning.
Time Warner says cable TV and phone services were not affected by the outage.


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I created a new Page (vs Post, because I want to make it available via the main Nav Bar) and added the [liveblog] shortcode. I then ticked the "Enable Live Blog" check box and published the page.
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The man accused of killing a woman and her baby while driving under the influence has entered a not guilty plea.
Derrick Maxfield, 20, is charged with causing the February crash that killed Shandi Boetel and her 6-month-old baby girl.
His jury trial was set for January 25 after his appearance in court Tuesday morning.
According to court documents, Maxfield had been playing drinking games and taking shots before he got in the car and crashed into Boetel's truck.
He told investigators he didn't even remember driving.
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Carlyle Seeks Over $7 Billion in New Energy Funds by 2015
Carlyle Group said it plans to raise more than $7 billion in new capital for energy and power investments by 2015.
On Monday at Carlyle's first investor day since it went public last year, the Washington, D.C., firm said it had already started fundraising for two $1.5 billion vehicles: one for midmarket private equity energy transactions outside of North America and another for midmarket private equity power transactions in North America. Both funds target deals requiring roughly $150 million of equity.
The firm also said it plans to raise a $4 billion midmarket North American energy investment fund, with the bulk of assets expected to be in exploration and production.
In a presentation at the investor day, Kenneth Hersh, chief executive of NGP Energy Capital, cited the IEA World Energy Outlook for 2012 as saying international energy production is forecast to grow at 18% between 2011 and 2020, requiring significant capital investment. In the U.S., about $1 trillion is needed by 2020 for investments to help alleviate supply shortages in certain power markets, Mr. Hersh said.
Carlyle has been expanding its energy practice rapidly in recent years, including the acquisition in 2012 of North American power plant developer Cogentrix Energy LLC from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and commodities hedge fund manager Vermillion Asset Management.
The firm in May brought in a team of six people led by serial energy entrepreneur Marcel van Poecke. Mr. van Poecke, who previously ran Carlyle's European oil refining and marketing business Petroplus Holdings AG, will head the new non-North American energy fund.
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"Love Thing is track of the day! – Classic Rock Magazine
"One of our top 4 ones to watch in 2012" – Music Week Magazine
"If Axel's new album Crayon Factory were a novel, it would be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" – Mark Thorpe – Play Pause Rewind/Glastonbury Emerging Talent Judge
"I'm unable to compare him to anybody in the UK charts right now and if I was forced too, I'd feel as though I wouldn't be crediting his music enough. He's incomparable" – I Am Music TV
"Mind Blowing" – Caroline Beavon, Q radio & Kerrang Radio.
"A Room Without a View by Axel Loughrey is in my top 12 tracks of 2012" – Mark Thorpe – Play Pause Rewind/Glastonbury Emerging Talent Judge
"Axel has one of the best smooth yet sexy blues voices I've ever heard. Love Thing is an incredible statement of intent that had me instantly infatuated with Axel's musical wares" – Rhythm and booze – 10/10
"Axel Loughrey's songs remind me of the late 70s Pub-rock, from which emerged the likes of Dr. Feelgood, Rockpile, Graham Parker and Elvis Costello." – Power of Pop
"Cool name, sexy voice, raw songs, that just about sums up Axel Loughrey" Noize makes enemies
"Axel Loughrey isn't your typical singer-songwriter, he could be just the antidote our X Factor addled charts need right now." – Idol Magazine
"Raw and tough; perfect for our times" Bob Zoell
"With a voice to send shivers down your spine and a performance style impressive beyond all measure, Axel is a naturally fantastic musician with a great band behind him. This is one gig you don't want to miss!" urMUZIC.com
Its Pronounced "Lockrey"
Born and raised in Paris the artist known as Axel Loughrey picked up his first guitar at the tender age of 8, completed his first songs at 14 and hasn't looked back since. He eventually packed up his guitar with a head full of songs and ventured across the North Sea to arrive on these shores and try his luck in the demanding world of the UK music scene.
Championed by the likes of Ms Jo Whiley and interviews and live material aired on Channel 4 Music, Axel Loughrey has certainly raised the eyebrows of music royalty in more ways than one. From being the main man in the now defunct Ruby Red Lips to taking on the heavy traffic of the UK music scene head on with his own solo material, this has proved to be the right decision as he was picked from a staggering 70000 applicants to grace the stage at Orange Unsigned. Axel released his debut E.P 'love Thing' on All Sorted Sorted!?! Records in May 2011 to great acclaim, he secured air play on BBC, Kerrang, Q and recieved countless outstanding reviews. Axel also had the title track 'Love Thing' named as Classic Rock Magazine's song of the day in the summer of 2011. Whilst touring relentlessly, Axel secured slots at some of the UK's most famous venues such as The Camden Barfly, Liverpool's Cavern Club, The O2 Academy Islington. Axel also supported and shared bills with the likes of Frank Turner, The King Blues, Secret Sisters, The Future Heads, Louise & The Pins to name a few. Axel's new album 'Crayon Factory' is set to hit the shelves in January 2012. Having recorded at the infamous Leeders Farm it promises to keep up to its expectations.
With a voice and music style as velvet as Lou Reed's Underground, Axel certainly has the style, the look, and most importantly the songs ready to deliver to the wider audience. With two self released EP's and a label released E.P already in his kit bag, the beautiful 'Small Town, Small People', the invoking 'Galloway Hill' and the powerfull 'Love Thing E.P' Axel is already taking the acclaim and plaudits on the live scene and is now ready to step forth with his fourth and highly anticipated debut album release a darker side of the blues which makes 'Crayon Factory'.
With a myriad of high profile gigs and festival appearances already secured, and a wide range of music industry gurus biting at the bit, Axel could soon well be the next 21st century boy!!
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SUNY Potsdam Announces Return of Disciplined Inquiry In Education Seminar Series
Dr. Robyn Hosley, Interim Dean of SUNY Potsdam's School of Education and Professional Studies, to Speak at Series on Sept. 14
Dr. Robyn Hosley, Interim Dean of SUNY Potsdam's School of Education and Professional Studies, to Speak at Series on Sept. 14
SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music to Present Scenes from Four Finalists for Opera Composition Prize on Sept. 24
SUNY Potsdam Alumni Flock to Hear Superstar Soprano Renée Fleming Perform Alongside Philadelphia Orchestra at SPAC
2016 Crane Piano Pedagogy Conference Features Clinician Julie Knerr and Pianist Young-Ah Tak at The Crane School of Music
The SUNY Potsdam Athletic Department heads into 2016-17 with high expectations for a strong fall campaign. Seven teams will be in action this fall looking to build off of last season's experience.
SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will officially open the 2016-17 academic year with the annual Faculty Gala, on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall.
SUNY Potsdam Geology Professor Emeritus Dr. Frank Revetta will offer two free educational series again this fall—including his popular planetarium shows and a series of seismology workshops.
SUNY Potsdam is preparing to welcome its 200th class of new incoming students this fall, as the College's bicentennial continues. Founded as the St. Lawrence Academy, the College's first classes commenced in September 1816.
Sixteen faculty members and administrators from The State University of New York at Potsdam recently visited the Universidad de Cienfuegos in Cuba, as the two institutions build an educational partnership.
SUNY Potsdam Associate Professor of Chemistry Dr. Fadi Bou-Abdallah was recently selected as a recipient of the 2016 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
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Winter Haven Police Searching for Beating Suspect
Published: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 1:19 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 1:19 p.m.
WINTER HAVEN | Winter Haven police are looking for a Winter Haven man they say beat another man with a baseball bat and are asking for the public's helping finding him.
Police are looking for Anthony L. Butler, 24, whose last known address was 2749 Rochelle Drive in Winter Haven, after police say he fled the scene of the beating before police arrived. He was last seen wearing a white tank top and black gym shorts.
Police say Butler struck Timothy Heard, of Winter Haven, between five and seven times after the two men got into a shouting match around 6 p.m. Tuesday at 625 Ave. B S.W. in Winter Haven.
Heard was taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center for treatment of a fractured wrist and elbow.
Anyone with information is asked to call Heartland Crime Stoppers at 1-800-226-8477 or Sgt. David Castle at 863-291-5858. Callers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward.
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Police hunt vandals who dumped crocodiles in an Australian school
Video has been released showing three saltwater crocodiles dumped by masked intruders
Video has been released showing three saltwater crocodiles dumped by masked intruders
The man can be seen dragging the girl down an aisle as he attempts to abduct her
'There are reasons that museums ask folks not to touch things'
EXCLUSIVE: Tory-controlled Westminster Council says 'perpetrators may actually seek the publicity afforded by camera coverage and are certainly not deterred by its presence'
'Austerity is biting, there is no doubt,' surveillance camera commissioner says
Police have released footage of the incident after the suspect was jailed for 12 years
A man has been sentenced to nine years in prison
The off-duty police officer stopped Monique Tillman on her bike, choked her and grabbed her hair
Dashcam footage has been released by authorities showing the dramatic moment.
The officer engaged the woman with calm conversation but she refused his help.
"He was just red and gasping for air"
Surveillance cameras at a house in Houston caught a visiting energy contractor striking the homeowner's two dogs with a wrench
Croydon Council have released the footage in an attempt to find the individual
Stephen Charles Hammond was fined £500 for the incident
He was reported missing by his "extremely concerned" partner when he didn't return from work on Friday
The incident allegedly occurred in a London Tesco supermarket
CCTV footage has been released showing the terrifying moment a train collided with a double-decker bus at an unguarded railway crossing in central Thailand.


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Nike Air Foamposite One PRM "Oregon" Releasing 12/30/13
Nike is finally allowing people to get their hands on a pair of Oregon themed sneakers without having to go to the school or play for them. You can tell when it comes to the Oregon colorways Nike uses all their skilled team to bring out the cleanest colorways possible. The upper comes in a all black, the Oregon green laces and inner, the Oregon Ducks logo on both the heel and tongue, and to top it off icey soles. With just a few days left and a bunch of heat release so the question is, will you be copping the Nike Air Foamposite One PRM "Oregon" when it releases?
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San Joaquin County's unemployment rate rose slightly in June to 10.5 percent, up from a revised 10.2 percent in May, due to seasonal farm-related layoffs as spring harvest and planting activities declined, state employment officials reported today.
Employment in several nonfarm sectors rose month-to-month, however, with estimates showing a gain of 800 jobs in manufacturing, an additional 700 government workers, 600 new positions in trucking and warehousing and builders hired 500 additional construction workers.
The jobs market is even more improved from a June 2013 when county unemployment was pegged at 12.9 percent. June saw 7,000 more people on public and private payrolls in the county than a year ago.
The largest gains were 2,100 jobs in government, largely due to the opening of the state medical prison in Stockton; 1,200 positions in education and health services; 1,100 jobs in trade, transportation and utilities, most from trucking, warehousing and retail; and 1,000 additional leisure and hospitality employees, primarily in restaurants and bars.
The county's jobless rate, not adjusted for seasonal variation, compares to unadjusted rates for California of 7.3 percent in June and 6.3 percent for the nation.
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Tuesday, 6 Oct 2015
iPhone 6s early adopters having issues with burning hot TouchID button
It looks like the first major issue with the iPhone 6s are starting to make its rounds, with early users of the new Apple smartphone reporting that their Home button is too hot to handle.
Saturday, 3 Oct 2015
ASUS to preload Microsoft Office apps on its Android smartphones and tablets
ASUS and Microsoft announced the expansion of an earlier patent licensing agreement which will see the pre-installation of Microsoft Office productivity apps on Android smartphones and tablets by ASUS.
Tuesday, 29 Sep 2015
See how Apple improved the iPhone's camera over the years
The latest iPhones sport 12-megapixel cameras which capture markedly better photos than its predecessors. See how the iPhone's imaging capabilities have gotten better over the years. From the original iPhone right up to the latest iPhone 6s.
Friday, 25 Sep 2015
Queues form across Singapore as iPhone 6s and 6s Plus launch today
There's nothing quite like an iPhone launch. All across Singapore, determined customers braved the haze and queued up for hours (and in some cases overnight) just to be one of the first to get their hands on Apple's latest smartphones.
Rose gold models of new iPhones said to represent 40% of pre-orders
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, rose gold models of the new iPhones make up for a staggering 40% of pre-orders.
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2015
Sony Xperia Z5 smartphone lineup will begin retailing in October
If you want to know how much these Sony Xperia Z5 phones are going, find out here. Expect the 4.6-inch Z5 Compact, or the 4K display Z5 Premium, as well as the traditional flagship Z5.
Tuesday, 22 Sep 2015
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 available in Titanium Silver and Pearl White from 26 Sep
Samsung Mobile Singapore recently announced that the Galaxy Note 5 will be available in two new colors (titanium silver and pearl white) from 26th September. Pre-orders for the Gear S2 smartwatch will also begin on the same day at 11AM.
Snapdragon 820's latest modem promises faster, more reliable LTE speeds
Qualcomm announces new connectivity features for their upcoming Snapdragon 820 SoC, with better optimization for LTE and Wi-Fi networks, better battery efficiency, and support for LTE speeds of up to 600Mbps, as well as 802.11ad Wi-Fi support, all thanks to the new X12 LTE modem.
Monday, 14 Sep 2015
New Android ransomware takes your phone hostage with a PIN
ESET has discovered a new ransomware that locks up Android devices with a PIN, the first of its kind to do so. So far, the majority of affected users originate in the US, but it's probably wise to exercise due caution.
Thursday, 3 Sep 2015
Good vibes as Lenovo unveils smartphones at IFA 2015
Lenovo announces more upcoming VIBE phone models at IFA 2015, boasting interesting features like dual-selfie cameras and 5,000mAh battery capacity across different models.