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As the specter of water restrictions looms in California, professionals are trying to assess the economic impact such measures could have on the industry.
California has experienced one of its driest years on record, with northern areas particularly hard hit. While recent rains have helped a bit, some businesses are being affected.
Contractors report renovation has been hurt most. "The [consumer's] mind-set is, 'Well, I can just wait another year,'" said Rob Burkett, president of Burkett's Pool Plastering in Ripon, Calif., about an hour east of San Jose.
Burkett said this mentality has led to a decrease in leads. "The last four years, our leads have grown every month," he reported. "This year they're off 30 percent [from] last year."
In addition to reluctant consumers, the industry also is concerned about the effects of possible water restrictions, especially a ban on filling pools.
One builder has compiled data to show that the economic impact far outweighs any water savings.
Keith Harbeck, president of Premier Pools in Rancho Cordova, Calif., looked at permit numbers and estimated that his region (Sacramento) would build 1,200 pools this year. At an average cost of $50,000 per project, the industry would generate approximately $60 million in construction revenue, not including the service and retail business gained from the new pools.
The loss of those 1,200 pools would not only affect the private sector, but also would mean a $1.5 million reduction in revenue for local government in building permit fees, Harbeck estimated.
He then sought to demonstrate how much water would be saved by preventing the filling of those pools, and estimated the number to be 66.3 acre feet. Dividing $60 million by 66.3 shows that the pools would provide over $900,000 per acre foot of water for the economy.
By comparison, an acre foot of water used for wine production reportedly yielded about $1,500 in 2001, the latest year for which Harbeck found data.
To further make the point, Harbeck looked at inflow, or the rate at which water enters a reservoir in his locality. He wanted to see how long it would take for the reservoirs to fill the 1,200 pools. He found two rates — one based on the past 30 days and another taken during a set of storms in early February. Using the more conservative first number of 5.52 acre feet per minute, and factoring in the average pool capacity of 18,000 gallons, Harbeck estimated that all pools built in Sacramento metro this year could be filled by 12 minutes' worth of inflow. When he applied the second number, which showed that 33.26 acre feet of water flowed in during the heavy storms, he found that it would only take two minutes.
Next came the comparison of water usage between pools and lawns. With 1,200 pools per year holding an average of 18,000 gallons, plus 14,000 gallons per year in makeup water, Harbeck estimated each pool uses about 30,000 gallons in the year it's built, much less in subsequent years.
Finding out the water usage for lawns was difficult because there is little agreement on this figure. Harbeck used 37 gallons per square foot, a number reported in the Sacramento Bee, which fell in the midrange among estimates. He figured that the average pool with decking displaces 1,200 square feet of yard. That much lawn uses approximately 44,000 gallons, Harbeck calculated. That means, he said, that a pool and accompanying deck save 12,000 gallons the year it is filled, and 30,000 gallons each year after.
The 1,200 pools combined would save 14.4 million gallons the year they are filled, and 36 million every year thereafter.
Harbeck laid out his information in a Power Point presentation, which he shared with the California Pool & Spa Association and other pool professionals.
In presenting the data to water districts, Harbeck has found officials receptive and concerned, and he hopes this will convince them not to restrict pool filling.
"Sometimes we feel picked on because we're perceived as a luxury item, and that we could just be done away with and it wouldn't really hurt anybody," Harbeck said. "I don't think it is malicious. I think people just don't understand. If we can make the facts known so they'll understand the industry better, it'll go a long way toward solving this problem. But nobody's going to get that message out for us."

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Commercial Properties For Sale in Gloucester MA
Searched the DealStream database for Commercial Properties For Sale in Gloucester MA and found no matches. Expanded the search to nearby areas and found the following matches.
Landmark Italian Concept with Real Estate #464480 posted Mar 13, 2017
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- $2,999,000
This is a true Boston landmark restaurant with a very strong following. They have been featured on many TV shows, newspapers, magazines both locally and nationally. This business has a very strong online and social media presence and has won the certificate of excellence from TripAdvisor. They developed...
Federal Hill Gem - Providence #464479 posted Mar 13, 2017
- Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- $1,500,000
Awesome opportunity to take this Italian restaurant business to the next level. Established for many years with consistent growth and the fully equipped kitchen will support any menu concept. This charming restaurant also includes a full-service bar and basement storage. The property currently offers...
Elmwood Diner - Providence, RI - Must Sell #464472 posted Mar 13, 2017
- Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- $295,000
Historic breakfast lunch diner available with the rare opportunity to purchase the building and real estate. This amazing lunch car diner has been completely refurbished and is ready for an experienced owner operator to take over and start making money. Huge upside potential, great location, excellent...
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Popular property highlights
Located within a mile (2 km) of Reef Beach, All Inclusive Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort & Casino is within 2 miles (3 km) of The Reef Golf Course. This 180-room, 3.5-star resort has 3 restaurants along with conveniences like a casino and an outdoor pool. It's on the beach and also close to Buck Island Reef National Monument and Reef Golf Course.
Start your day off right with a free hot/cold buffet breakfast served from 7 AM to 11 AM. There are multiple options for onsite dining with 3 restaurants, including Starlite Grille, which has ocean views. Get a pick-me-up at the coffee shop/café.
All of All Inclusive Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort & Casino's 180 air-conditioned rooms provide patios, microwaves, and refrigerators. For entertainment, guests can expect to find satellite TV. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries. Coffee makers, free local calls, and safes are also standard.
Property features
Guests of All Inclusive Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort & Casino enjoy a casino, karaoke, and an outdoor pool. There's free parking and a free casino shuttle. Front-desk staff can answer questions 24/7, and assist with concierge services, luggage storage, and securing valuables. Other amenities at this all-inclusive resort include a children's pool, a fitness center, and an outdoor tennis court.
- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
All Inclusive Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort & Casino
Resort Amenities
All-Inclusive Details
Activities and facilities/equipment
All non-motorized water sports are included.
Water activities
- Kayaking
- Sailing
- Snorkeling
- Snorkeling excursions
Land activities
- Fitness facilities
- Miniature golf
- Tennis
- Volleyball
Food and beverages
- All meals, snacks, and beverages included
Gratuities and taxes
Gratuities and taxes are included.
- Onsite entertainment and activities
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
Not included
- Motorized water sports
- Scuba-diving certification
- Scuba-diving excursions
- Scuba-diving lessons
- Snorkeling excursions
- Tennis lessons
- Premium food items
- Premium and/or non-domestic beverages
- Bottled wine
- Bottled liquor
- Room service
- Airport transfers
- Childcare
- Laundry/dry cleaning services
- Spa/beauty facilities and services
- Wireless Internet access
- Activities and services offered by independent operators
- Offsite tours
- Transportation to offsite activities
Resort Amenities
This all-inclusive resort fronts a 1,000-foot beach, washed by the turquoise-and-blue Caribbean Sea, which offers ample room for quiet sunbathing. Small sailboats, pedal boats, kayaks, small surfboards, and snorkeling gear are available and included in the nightly rate. Guests snorkel among coral reefs just offshore. A dive shop arranges scuba excursions and offers instruction and certification. A pool complex above the beach comprises a family pool and children's pool.
All Inclusive Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort & Casino's 10,000-square-foot casino offers Caribbean stud poker, blackjack, craps, roulette, and slot machines. It is open noon to 4 AM daily, and around the clock from noon Friday to 4 AM Sunday (schedule subject to change). Complimentary golf-cart shuttle service is provided to the casino, which is 200 yards from the resort..
The Starlite Grille, located above the beach, provides 4 rooms featuring banquet and meeting space capable of accommodating 20 to 400 guests. Dining choices include the open-air Dockside Café and East End Pizza; both offer live entertainment. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available in public areas.
- Children's pool
- Poolside bar
- Concierge services
- Fitness facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Conference space
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 180
- Gift shops or newsstand
- ATM/banking
- Laundry facilities
- Arcade/game room
- Casino
- Elevator/lift
- Wedding services
- Karaoke
- Billiards or pool table
- Number of floors - 4
- Meeting rooms 4
- Free self parking
- Outdoor pool
- Coffee shop or café
- Free breakfast
- Free casino shuttle
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Free WiFi
- Designated smoking areas
- Computer station
- Beach bar
- Luggage storage
- Year Built 1999
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Number of meeting rooms - 4
- Conference center
- Outdoor tennis court
- Snack bar/deli
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor tennis court
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
- Miniature golf on site
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
All Inclusive Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort & Casino offers 180 air-conditioned accommodations with safes and coffee/tea makers. Rooms open to patios. Guests can make use of the in-room refrigerators and microwaves. Bathrooms include complimentary toiletries and hair dryers.
Televisions come with satellite channels. Business-friendly amenities include desks along with free local calls (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and blackout drapes/curtains. Housekeeping is offered daily and in-room massages can be requested.
- Patio
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Daily housekeeping
- Satellite TV service
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Dockside Café - This beachfront open-air spot with coral-stone walls, white-wood ceiling serves a la carte breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lunch and dinner choices include sandwiches, salads, wraps, burgers, fajitas, coconut shrimp, skirt steak. There's a Thursday beach barbecue with West Indian show (firewalking, glass dancing, steel band).
Big Al's Beach Bar - The bar section of Dockside Café is adjacent to the pool and has live entertainment 5 nights weekly, as well as crab races and karaoke weekly. It is open late morning to late night.
Starlite Grille - The lobby bar has a TV and is open early evening to late night.
Carina Café - This casino spot serves sandwiches, salads, burgers, pizza, and desserts from noon to 3 AM. Breakfast items are served after midnight.
Mongoose Lounge - This casino bar has TVs and live music nightly.
A supermarket 5 miles away accepts telephone orders and, for a surcharge, delivers groceries to guestrooms, which are equipped with microwaves and compact refrigerators.
The All Inclusive Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort & Casino offers a variety of locally based entertainment on each day of the week. Guests may contact the resort to learn more about current entertainment offers and reservations.
Nearby Things to Do
All Inclusive Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort & Casino is arrayed on a 1,000-foot beach furnished with lounge chairs and thatched shades and washed by the turquoise-and-blue Caribbean Sea. Coral reefs for snorkeling are just offshore. A water-sports center rents small sailboats, pedal boats, kayaks, small surfboards, and snorkeling gear. All non-motorized water sports listed in the summary are included in the all-inclusive package.
The water-sports center books kayak tours of Salt River National Park, 18 miles away. It also books trips from Christiansted, 12 miles away, to Buck Island Reef National Monument, with snorkeling gear included for exploring the island's underwater trail.
A dive shop arranges wall, cavern, and reef scuba-diving excursions, with boats departing from the resort's dock. Scuba instruction and certification are also available.
The pool complex, open around the clock, comprises an L-shaped pool measuring 60 feet on one side and 40 feet on the other, a children's pool, and a spa tub.
Complimentary recreational facilities include a lighted tennis court, 2 shuffleboard courts, and a beach-volleyball net. Hiking trails criss-cross the dry, green hills across the street from the resort.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Volleyball on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Sailing on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Ecotours nearby
- Tennis lessons on site
- Golf driving range on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Kayaking on site
Spa Services
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Sports massage
- Massages on beach
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Massages
- Body treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Resort Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for USD 25 per night.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Optional extras
Resort Name
- Divi Carina Bay All Inclusive Beach Resort Casino Christiansted
- All Inclusive Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort Casino Christiansted
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Cadillac Powertrain Control Module (PCM) Tuning Discussion, LT1 doesn't pick up well in Cadillac Engine Discussion; Hi! I have an LT1 in my 94 FWB [as we all do!] and the pick up from standstill isn't ...
LT1 doesn't pick up well
I have an LT1 in my 94 FWB [as we all do!] and the pick up from standstill isn't all it should be. Basically if you are too heavy with the gas it seems the traction control cuts in and custs the motor, holding it back for about 5 to 10 seconds or so.
Very dull
Is there anything that can be done to alleviate this or is it normal?
Re: LT1 doesn't pick up wellDon't mess with Binky Bear!
Re: LT1 doesn't pick up well
There's really no way around the traction control, at least permanently, aside from just flicking the switch in the glove box to turn it off when you get in.
People have been trying, tuning wise, to figure out how to change the operation of the TC, but to no avail yet.
It is an annoying thing, I know, especially when you just try to get going and all of a sudden the gas pedal is pushing back at you, and the light's on because it sensed slip, but in iffy weather, that's also turned out to be a good thing.
So for now, just turn it off whenever you get in the car (resets everytime the car is turned off/on), and be on your way.
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Oh well thanks a lot. I guess I'll just have to learn to live with it! een if it is a bit dull!
My old Corvette didn't have the problem. You could literally stamp on the pedal and it was off! I guess it had a locking rear axle and 285 wide tyres though which helped considerably.
Did they make the 93-6 FWB's with a LSD axle?
regards Nick
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Nope, If TC was part of the car, G80 Posi is not allowed. Stupid in my book....
Wish it was. But I just installed a posi in my mine, but it is an older axle and and has now wheelspeed sensors so I lost my TC and ABS, but the added traction with the posi is FANTASTIC, FAR better than the TC system. Even in the rain I can still get a bit agressive on launch and no have any issues, with the TC and open, it sucked all the time no matter what.
So my factory axle is going to be rebuilt with a tighter posi and the factory 3.42s (the axle in now is a 1980 with 3.08's and posi). So I will get ABS/TC AND Posi.... Can't get better than that. And if my gears are wiped, I might go with 3.73's or 3.90's..... WWWWWWWWHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
With the TC active, you can do fairly well, just need to find that threshold of traction to keep the TC system from kicking in.... I think the car is still slightly faster if the TC is off and you push it just a touch, as the small block likes to be revved.....
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Yes I know bad news this TC. Does it work on the front wheels as well with the ABS - sort of a stability control - or just the rears. If it's just the rears then not so great!
I guess a posi in the rear is the way to go. What size axle do they have and can you get a posi carrier only for the gears? It's a lot easier than changing axles!
I got one for my '65 Skylark project car [I'm stuffing a 425 dual quad Nailhead into it!]
Did yo get your posi done? If so how did it go?
cheers, Nick
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The TC applies the brake of the offending wheel spinner, knocks down engine timing, and yanks the throttle back. It is VERY agressive.
It compares the difference of front wheel speed to rear wheel speed, making the assumption that the front wheels aren't gonna spin....
LT1 cars all had 8.5" axles unless it came in a Limo, then it got the bullet proof 9.5 semi floater. (no, I don't recommend it as an upgrade, it is VERY heavy). Parts are common everywhere. I see them all over swapmeets, complete with 3.42 or 3.73 gears (used) that are half decent. But for carrier, look to Randy's ring and pinion, you can get a posi there, or Summit, or Jegs, and then you have to have it installed.
Do NOT look to get the PowerTrax unit or LockRight. They are quite dangerous, and should never be considered for on highway driving, they run locked all the time like a spool, and can cause very easy spinouts on slick roads (wet and icy/snowy). And they tend to fight you in slow gentle curves like highway turns, they want to fight you and stay locked up.
I would personally look at a Eaton posi (clutch posi, rebuildable), they are OEM type units for many. GM has also used Auburn (cone posi, not rebuildable). I like the Eaton design. They are solid and can be biased up to as high as 800# between the axles, stock GM is 300#, you can do 200# and 400# also.
In general the tighter the more it will fight you. My posi now is pretty tight, even in tight corners I have to give it more gas to keep the car moving, or goose it and light them up.... I like it!!!! I can really really get on it hard now where before I always had the feather the heck out of the one wheel wonder....
Given a choice, posi vs TC, posi wins by a LONG shot....
But swapping in a posi unit is not something the average backyard joe can do, it takes special tools (which aren't terribly expensive) and time and room and experience is really worth it. But don't be dicouraged, I am going to try it and maybe get my 3.42's setup with posi this weekend! We'll see how much time I have. I haven't done it, but plan for at least 8 hours to work.
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Hi - so it's an 8.5" axle. Don't they go way back to the late sixties?
I've got a 8.2" in my Skylark with the 3.05 gears. I remember now that if I wanted an Eaton posi for the Skylark [which at the time was a favourite choice] it only came for 3.55 gears and up in the 8.2" or for most gears in the 8.5" - or somehting like that. Basically to go the easy route sticking with my gears in my axle I had to use an Auburn unit. It's not rebuildable which actually isn't so bad since I can't see me trashing it and I later found out that is what the factory Skylark GS cars with the 401 motor came with - an 8.2" axle, 3.05 gears and an Auburn posi.
So putting a posi in the '94 FWB would be about the same as doing one in a Chevelle/ Monte Carlo/ 2nd Gen Camaro/ Firebird or similar - fine! It would be good to see how your's goes. Good luck for the weekend!
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Yup, the 8.5 (and 8.6) is just a grown up 8.2.... The 8.6 is also known as the 8 5/8". I believe 8.6" parts fit in a 8.5" case and vice versa. But a true 8.6" case is beefier than a 8.5".
Re: LT1 doesn't pick up wellDon't mess with Binky Bear!
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I still haven't figured out the diff (pun intended) in the Lock Rite to PowerTrax, but they seem to be nearly identical. I have read lots of people complaining about them when on slick surfaces with low traction causing many issues with spinning out, even driving very very careful. If it is a 4x4 Ranger then that is probably why you did ok, but a 2WD with both back tires LOCKED on ice would be quite dangerous. Even a really tight posi (like the 800# springs) would be pretty dangerous as well.
A snow packed road is probably relatively ok, but icy roads are a nightmare just about anytime. I have had my times on ice and don't relish it. Snow packed roads? Love em! I rather enjoy lots of snow. I hate the mess the salt does to them.....
Almost got stationed at a radar unit in the Army north of Fairbanks. Sorta wish I did, but I had a newborn and they changed my orders for Colorado Springs, CO....
Yes, I am the nut who thinks my 80 Trans AM is a good snow car, posi, V8 Turbo power and good tires and it was a ball!! Now I go for my 94 Fleetwood, but the ultimate is my 99 K2500 454 Burb.... G80 locker and all....
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The Ranger is 2WD. Lock-Rite is made by Powertrax. It works fine on glare ice or hard packed snow, you just have to know how to pedal the throttle. It's just like driving a stock car on a flat track; you have to let it roll through the corners and get on the throttle at the exit. The Army hasn't had radar sites in Alaska since Nike days. They were decomissioned in the 1970's. They're all Air Force. Most of those have been decomissioned as well.Don't mess with Binky Bear!
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They are the Firefinder radars, AN/TPQ-36 and AN/TPQ-37. They are still there.... Not long range, they are artillery tracking.
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Ah so! The old counter battery trackers. Still used for Cope Thunder exercises.Don't mess with Binky Bear!
Re: LT1 doesn't pick up well
How far north is that unit? I am curious just where I would have ended up.
Got any picts from the area?
I have been watching the show Deadiest Catch on Discovery and rather enjoy the glimpses of the Bering Sea. Talk about a brutal job, but the pay is good for the 2 weeks of torture....
We often camped out on old Nike/Hercules sites in Germany and other places, and even got a hold of the old Nike/Hercules power generators to give us 115v@400 Hz for the radars so we could save on running our 60KW 400 Hz Precise generators (8 gallons of diesel per hour....).
I miss working on the big radars, they were a blast.... most people can't imagine the enormous power out from them. They would fry you at close range, at 157m, they still had power levels of >10mW per cm^3. That is power boys and girls.... And 5000+ antennas that direct it.... Ahh things I did in my old Army life...


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ZNGA: Street Cheers Mattrick Hire; Can He Rebuild the Hit Factory?
Shares of online video game impresarios Zynga (ZNGA), inventors of legendary hits such as FarmVille, are up 19 cents, over 6%, at $3.26, after the company late yesterday confirmed speculation it would hire Microsoft (MSFT) entertainment division leader Don Mattrick as its new CEO.
The naming of the former Electronic Arts (EA) game guru as the company's chief is generally being very well received by both bulls and bears, who hope that he can re-invigorate game creation, stem employee defections, and bring the company from behind in mobile gaming and networked gaming.
Zynga shares are up 38% this year but off 42% in the last 12 months.
Sean McGowan, Needham & Co.: Reiterates a Buy rating, and a $4 price target. "Mr. Mattrick spent the last six years building Microsoft's X-Box business to an industry-leading video game behemoth. We believe that as CEO of Zynga, Mr. Mattrick will significantly help stem the talent drain that has seen dozens of executives leave over the last year. In addition, Mattrick has managed many aspects of the gaming business – games, franchises, hardware, mobile-integration, etc., and there are probably few executives with as broad a knowledge of the industry's many sub segments. The "fix" likely won't be immediate, but the benefit to the company's credibility should be."
Doug Anmuth, J.P. Morgan: Reiterates a Neutral rating. "We expect Zynga to outline its broad strategic direction over the coming months, though we think the new CEO is likely to take some time to dig into the business and determine Zynga's pipeline of games over the next several quarters. Zynga's transition to mobile has remained challenged, and the company has also been losing share to other publishers on Facebook. We think Don Mattrick is well respected within the gaming developer community, which should help Zynga recruit new talent to the company. We also think Mr. Mattrick's experience building the Xbox Live network to over 50M active members should be valuable as Zynga looks to create a network effect around its web and mobile franchises. Recent successes in mobile games have been driven in some part by seamless integration of experiences across web and mobile."
Arvind Bhatia, Sterne Agee: Reiterates a Neutral rating. "ZNGA's business is now dependent on new hits, which have been hard to come by. We believe this is a product issue and not so much a leadership issue. We think the culture at ZNGA is driven more by data-analytics and less by innovation. While this model served the company well when it was able to produce hits, it does not appear to be working that well anymore. Don Mattrick's background including as President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment business and prior to that as President of Worldwide Studios at Electronic Arts should serve him well in his new role. However, Don's primary focus so far has been in the console business. ZNGA will be looking for leadership from him as it transitions to the mobile platform."
Ken Sena, Evercore Partners: Reiterates an Underweight rating and a $3 price target. "For desktop (~75% of bookings), we see double-digit q/q user declines across nine of Zynga's top 10 desktop franchises with user declines accelerating (-33% y/y) in June. Meanwhile, mobile competition is intensifying. Therefore, while Mattrick's influence on Zynga is likely to be immediate, the challenges he will face in reviving its product pipeline are formidable. As example of the challenges the company faces in mobile, Zynga fell from a peak of 4.3% of total mobile time spent in the U.S. as of July 2012 to a low of 2% recently, while King, which develops the popular mobile game Candy Crush Saga, has moved from zero percent to the same 2% over just the last six months. For more detail, please see our June 17 note Trends without Friends."


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blaze-blaze is the new bling-bling
Just in case no one has noticed, blazers are coming back. Wear a blazer every Thursday if you go to school. If anyone asks why you're wearing a blazer, respond with "its a Thursday bitch. I pity da foo! Blaze-blaze!"
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Neighbors voice concerns over meth dump site
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. - Residents along Ryder Church Road in Sullivan County are concerned about their families' safety after the 'largest meth dumpsite ever found' in Sullivan County was discovered along their road.
We learned their concerns are for good reason; sites like this one could pose health problems for those around it.
"It really makes you sick, it really does, to think people are so irresponsible to do that with little kids around," said Sommer Tumbarello.
Tumbarello lives just a few hundred feet from where all of the materials were found. She has three small kids and we learned hearing the discovery of this dumpsite near her home has her worried. "You don't want your kids around that, especially when your kids ride the public school bus up and down the street. They hear things and it's really not a good feeling," she said.
Sullivan County District Attorney Barry Staubus says Tumbarello has a reason to be concerned because any materials used to make meth can be dangerous. "People that have no knowledge, no idea that they're near a manufacturing site of meth are put at risk," said Staubus.
We learned in this situation neighbors were lucky. "In this case there were not any other buildings or homes too close, so we're fortunate," said Leslie Earhart with the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department.
So why can sites like this be so dangerous? "Its explosive and even after it's used the by-products are very dangerous and hazardous. It could be very harmful to your health very harmful for children," said Staubus.
Tumbarello is making a plea to people in her neighborhood to stop putting themselves and others at risk. "If anybody is doing it around here please stop because it's not safe, it's not good for kids to be around, it's not good for anybody. It's not good for your health it's not a good thing. I hope it makes people stop," said Tumbarello.
The Sullivan County Sheriff's Department tells us they are following a few leads, but they're still looking for the people involved.
All the materials have been removed. The task force will now take the items to a secure location to be stored.
They will eventually be picked up by a hazardous material company to be destroyed.


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Colorado Rush stars Sabrina Macias (U16) and Danica Evans (U18) were named to the ECNL All Event Team from the San Diego Weekend earlier this year.
Both the U16 and U18 Colorado Rush Nike teams won the Mountain West Conference of ECNL and both have qualifyied for the ECNL Playoffs starting June 21 in Aurora, Colorado. The U18's are entered into the 16 team Championship divison who will crown a National Champion on Monday June 24th while the U16 team looks to defend their National Title from 2012 when they play in the National Playoff looking for a trip to Virginia in July. The draw for both teams will be available on Saturday, June 15th by clicking here. Good luck to both teams and Congratulations to Sabrina and Danica on a great showing in San Diego!


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Wireless technology makes it possible to transfer information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires". It includes computers, routers and devices such as mobile telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and global positioning systems (GPS). Wireless technology is credited with having a range of advantages: low cost for setting up and maintenance, its suitability for use in rural
areas, speed in deployment, cost-effectiveness in rural areas where population density is low, suitability for "last mile" services, suitability for low-teledensity situations (where there are few fixed-line connections), mobility of service, suitability for small-scale and community use and flexibility in use.
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Leadville - known for silver, gold and molybdenum
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We went from 10,200 feet to over 11,200 feet on the 11 mile ride.
Leadville is the highest incorporated municipality in the US.
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Bristol discusses future plans
BRISTOL, Tenn./Va. - New shopping centers and plans for the future were the topics of the first "State of the Cities." Bristol Virginia and Tennessee came together to discuss what each city is doing to bring more people into the area, and what they are doing to help those who are already here.
Construction sites aren't uncommon in Bristol, Virginia and Tennessee, and city leaders are hoping new shopping centers will bring more jobs and people to the area. "That's going to give us a platform to recruit some high-paying jobs, professional skilled jobs into the area," says Bristol, Tennessee Mayor Michelle Dolan.
"The money is there to spend you can see it in this area, but also it's going to give jobs to the local people," adds Bristol, Virginia Mayor Guy Odum.
Development and jobs were some of the topics discussed at the first State of the Cities. Both projects are moving along. At the Falls the new cell phone tower is going up. At the Pinnacle, "Bass Pro Shop is getting ready to take over their site pad Monday and start pouring concrete," says Dolan.
The growth doesn't stop with the shopping centers; both mayors say downtown is thriving. "The common goal is that we have to make downtown the place to be where shoppers come in," adds Odum.
Downtown business owners tell us they're encouraged by the growth, even if it isn't going on in downtown. Regardless, the growth is a positive impact for all. "We're even looking at expanding some hours with a lot of the merchants to stay open on Thursday evenings," says KP Duty owner Lisa Martin.
Another topic important to both cities is education. Both cities are dealing with aging schools and they are looking at the best solutions for the school systems and students. "What kind of education do students get, and what they want to know is if the schools doing what they need to be doing with their kids," adds Odum.
Meanwhile, Martin tells us she can't wait to see what's next for the cities. "I think there is a lot of excitement going on," says Martin.
Both mayors told us they think Bristol is seeing huge growth and they hope that continues. Right now the major focus is getting both shopping centers complete and open for business.


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All of these post-election Obama administration scandals really seem to be sliding out of control now that the election is complete.
We'll try to help you out here with a sexual scorecard. It's so confusing who was embedding whom when. And now new allegations this morning involving yet another high-ranking, horny general being promoted by the Democrat administration.
No wonder Defense Secy. Leon Panetta is out of the country and the president will be too this weekend. It all makes tomorrow's scheduled White House news conference seem more like an episode of Generals' Hospital. Obama had so wanted to make his rare news session about leveraging public opinion against House Republicans, in the interests of working together, of course.
If only Republicans had nominated a tee-totaling, congenital family man, we could have perhaps avoided four more years of this stuff and made the right choice in last week's presidential election. But it's probably just coincidence that all this crap is coming out after the voting.
The good news in this slimey international mess is that, now that we've got unfaithful wives and husbands, catfights over straying husbands and explicit emails from a war zone, the doilies in the D.C. media have to cover the far more serious Benghazi scandal involving the rejection of repeated SOS calls and unexplained abandonment of four Americans to die there in September. Hearings open Thursday on Capitol Hill.
First, the cast:
David Petraeus, the 60-year-old heretofore hero general of the Iraq and Afghan wars, who was named last year to direct the Central Intelligence Agency.
Holly Petraeus, his wife of four decades whose longtime mission was helping military families separated by deployments.
Paula Broadwell, an ambitious woman with a husband and two children who'd never written a book but convinced Petraeus she could do the job, if she could hang around with him in a war zone for much of a year researching her book titled, "All In."
Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old wealthy, married socialite in Tampa who made herself useful as an unpaid social coordinator for the military brass there of Central Command, which Petraeus headed before Obama demoted him to return to Afghanistan as NATO commander.
Marine Gen. John Allen, who was also assigned to Central Command and succeeded Petraeus 16 months ago as commander in Afghanistan. He has since been named top commander of NATO in Europe, but that ticket will likely now be canceled.
The mess began to unravel in May when Kelley naively told the FBI she had received email threats from someone. The FBI traced these communications back to the laptop of Broadwell, who apparently thought the married Kelley was moving in on the married Petraeus to compete with the married Broadwell.
The FBI, checking Petraeus' email, found a dummy account shared with Broadwell. Both eventually admitted an affair. Monday night FBI agents stopped by Broadwell's Charlotte home with a search warrant.
Be careful what you ask for. The Washington Post reports today that the diligent feds also checked Kelley's email, which lead to Gen. Allen's email and discovery of up to 30,000 pages of "potentially inappropriate" emails between the two. Which would be a lot of emails, even if appropriate.
Defense Secy. Leon Panetta, who learned of the huge email stash Sunday night, left Allen in command in Kabul, pending further investigation.
Although adultery is not illegal in civilian life, it is against military code. It is also the law that intelligence agencies are to keep congressional committees informed of important matters such as, oh, say, the possible compromise of national security by the director of Central Intelligence being investigated by the FBI.
Intelligence committee members were shocked to learn of Petraeus' resignation like the rest of us through news reports last Friday.
None of this has anything that we know of to do with recent complaints by several prostitutes in the Dominican Republic that Democrat Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey failed to pay full fare after their encounters. Nor with the Secret Service prostitution scandal before President Obama's most recent trip to Colombia.
Now, to the Libyan stuff: All year long, while Obama was skipping many daily intelligence briefings for fundraisers and campaigning, U.S. security experts in Libya had warned of growing terrorist activity, especially in lawless Benghazi. Amb. Chris Stevens and aides sought more security.
Not only was that denied, but the existing detail of 16-Special Forces troops was pulled out in August before a consulate report stated the Benghazi compound could not withstand a coordinated attack.
On the anniversary of Sept. 11 a coordinated attack did come, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, including Stevens.
For 10 days President Obama, Secy. of State Hillary Clinton, Obama press secretary Jay Carney and U.N. Amb. Susan Rice all blamed the attack on Arab revulsion over an obscure anti-Islam video on YouTube. Petraeus made the same declaration in closed congressional briefings.
Fox News has stood by its reporting, however, that within hours of the attack the CIA station chief in Tripoli cabled headquarters the assault was instead terrorism.
Now we learn that in a subsequent Denver speech last month, long after Petraeus has said he broke off the affair, Broadwell told her audience that not many people knew the CIA had been holding two Libyan militia members as prisoners in the Benghazi consulate. Freeing them may have been a reason for the attack.
That information was not public knowledge. The CIA has denied it. But if true, it would be a violation of a 2009 Obama executive order forbidding the agency from detaining people in secret jails. Petraeus was to testify Thursday, but said after his resignation he would not. Committee chairs have suggested he will, under subpoena if necessary.
Other than those few things, however, there's little for Congress to investigate starting Thursday.
Finally, the 2016 presidential race gets started
Obama: Our top priority now is jobs and growth
Boehner: Defense cuts threaten our national security
Really clever American voters stick with Obama's failed status quo


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Community Planning Project
Welcome to the Community Planning Project
We are a part of the Public Administration Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield. The Community Planning Project is new and strives to be is a diverse and networked community of public affairs students, practitioners, and scholars interested in community planning. We bring to bear the expertise of the public administration faculty and students to develop, share, and apply knowledge and to build the capacity of the community planners. We divide our work in to three areas: Education, Consulting and Research.
We are first and foremost committed to continuing to be a source of professional education and training for those interested in community planning. UIS is proud of its long tradition in public affairs education. We offer a Masters in Public Administration, a graduate certificate in nonprofit management and seek to provide relevant and meaningful training experineces for community planning leaders and staff. Read more..
Consulting is an important part of our work. Our primary goal here is to use the project's expertise to support, encourage and empower those interested in community planning. Sometimes we consult by using class projects to both educate and serve. Other times we may ask agencies or organizations to provide funds for us to secure the faculty time that is needed for more complex or time intensive consultations. In any case, our goal is the same. We hope to use what we have learned to help you do what you do better. See more..
Our research is just another way to empower the planning community. The reserach we do is both theoretical and applied. That balance keeps us focused on what is important to manager, but also what the scholarly community is saying how things really work.
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Love for All, Hatred for None.
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Whether entering as a freshman, or returning as a super-senior, if you're a young person in school, who knows some beekeeping, or know of someone who is, we'd like to hear from you.
Too many young beekeepers have to put their beekeeping on the side while off at school, and we're here to help you change that. Check out our website, and see how you can incorporate beekeeping into your college experience, while helping to teach fellow peers at the same time.
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Martin County Deputy Charged With DWI
MARTIN COUNTY - After getting into a wreck, an off-duty Martin County Sheriff's Deputy faces a drunken-driving charge and is now on paid leave pending an investigation.
Highway Patrol officials said Christopher Earl Moore, from Williamston, was pinned in his car for over an hour and had to be taken out by the jaws of life after he crashed his truck.
This happened 6 p.m. Tuesday on Jones Road, off U.S. Hwy 64. That's just east of Williamston.
Troopers said the Ford F-350 veered off the road to the right. Moore then over-corrected and then went off the road to the left hit a tree, then went airborne 30-40 feet and then smacked into another tree.
Queracus Rodgers said he thought it was thunder he heard outside his home. However, he was surprised to find out it was a truck that had crashed across the street.
"When I came around the curve my mother and them had just gotten home. I walked down there and he was basically pinned by his ankle inside the truck. There was smoke everywhere," he said.
Rodgers said he had no idea the man behind the wheel was a deputy.
"He was in a bad position," Rodgers said.
Gregory Harrell was in his garden when he heard the crash. He was the first person to rush over and check on Moore.
"He [wasn't] unconscious. He was conscious so I checked the truck to make sure he wasn't catching on fire or anything. I talked to him the whole time," he said.
The deputy was pinned in the truck for an hour but Harrell said he didn't leave his side.
"I'm just the type of person that if anyone needs help it could have been me or my wife in the same situation. I'm just glad I was there to help," Harrell said.
When crews arrived they had to use an ax to get him out of the truck.
After they got him out, Moore was flown by helicopter to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Troopers said he had non life-threatening injuries but had to have surgery overnight. He is now in fair condition.


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Appendix B: Resources
Charter Schools
The U.S. Charter Schools Web site provides a wide range of information and links to resources to guide charter schools in every phase of their development—from start-up to expansion, to renewal. The site includes a national calendar of events and a community-exchange feature.
The Education Commission of the States includes both charter schools and charter districts as issue topics on its Web site. The site includes a searchable database on high school research and high school policy topics, including closing the achievement gap.
Based at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, the National Charter School Research Project is developing a database of studies on charter school achievement and collecting charter school data from the states. This project is generating several research studies, focusing on student achievement in charter schools and on building capacity to scale-up charter schools.
Education/Evolving is a Minnesota organization working to help create and sustain an "open sector" in public education—a "space" in public education for new schools that are started from scratch by teachers, parents, community organizations, and multi-school networks. Change strategies including fiscal, organizational, and policy changes are highlighted on this Web site.
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Web site provides a variety of online publications related to charter school development, policies, and performance, a charter blog, and a database for comparing charter school policies.
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation provides links to major studies and to over 50 other organizations' Web sites in the area of charter schools and choice.
The Center for Education Reform provides up-to-date reports on charter schools and choice activity around the country. The Web site also links to "fast facts" and resources designed with parents in mind. A searchable database identifies resources and charter schools in each state.
The Office of Innovation and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education operates the Public Charter Schools Program, which supports the planning, development and initial implementation of charter schools. Other grants target support for charter school facilities.
Achievement Gap
The Education Trust Web site provides reports, resources, data, and policy information about the achievement gap.
SchoolMatters is a Web site by Standard & Poor's that provides national-, state-, district-, and school-level information about school demographics and student achievement. It includes a search tool to identify charter schools and another tool to compare their data to those of other district and state schools.
High School Reform
The National Conference of State Legislatures Web site contains links to information and a tool kit for legislators about high school reform policy, research, and recommendations to improve high schools.
The National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) provides information on high school improvement for states, districts, and regional comprehensive centers. Research on high school improvement is available from this site as well as a map of regional comprehensive centers and contact information for technical assistance liaisons.
Comprehensive School Reform
This Web site contains information and a clearinghouse of resources compiled by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory regarding comprehensive school reform.
The National High School Alliance is a partnership of nearly 50 organizations working on high school youth advancement issues. This Web site includes links to reports about high school reform.
Based at Stanford University, the School Redesign Network Web site provides resources and information about research on small schools and redesign of schools into small learning communities. The site also provides links to organizations that support school redesign.
EdVisions, an intermediary organization that emerged from the development of the Minnesota New Country School, works with communities to develop effective small schools that are teacher-led and that primarily use project-based learning to help students prepare for success in college and other postsecondary efforts.


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Fort Nelson closed on Wednesday 6 January-due to adverse weather conditions - Thursday, 11 March 2010
Due to adverse weather conditions and overnight heavy snow in Hampshire, the Royal Armouries Museum at Fort Nelson will be closed today (Wednesday). We will issue an update informing you when the museum will reopen.
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- The Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson houses the national collection of historic cannon and big guns. The museum houses one of the world's finest collections with over 350 cannon dating back over 600 years. The collection originated at HM Tower of London and has been on display in Hampshire since 1995.
- The Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson also tells the story of the Palmerston Forts, built to protect Portsmouth from a feared French invasion in the 1860's.
- Every day, visitors can see one of the big guns fired in salute, watch our resident actors bring to life characters from 1,000 years of history, explore secret underground tunnels and enjoy incredible views from the ramparts. An extensive programme of special event spectaculars takes place throughout the year.
- Fort Nelson is open every day except 24-26 December. April to October 10am –5pm (Wed 11am-5pm), November – March 10.30am – 4pm (Wed 11.30-4pm).
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- The Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour with sites at Fort Nelson, Leeds, HM Tower of London and Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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These limits include classes taken under the previous pass/fail option. The student may exceed the limits only with the following CR/NC classes:
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Students may not reverse their decision and request a letter grade after the deadline for adding classes unless they declare a new major after that deadline and the new major requires a letter grade for the class in question. Under this option, the change must be requested no later than the last day of instruction. The grading option may not be changed retroactively after the end of the semester.
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Heart-ache: Not Gadahn?
posted at 5:43 pm on March 7, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Whenever it comes to Adam Gadahn, appearances are always deceiving, it seems. First he's dead, then he's alive; then he's out of the Taliban leadership, then back in. Now it seems that despite earlier reports, the Taliban commander captured by the ISI is not Gadahn, at least according to CBS (via JWF):
An "important Taliban militant" was arrested today in Pakistan. But that is where the confusion started.
Earlier it was reported by Pakistani media that intelligence agents had arrested Adam Gadahn, the American-born spokesman for al Qaeda, in an operation in the southern city of Karachi.
It was further reported by the Associated Press and Reuters that Gadahn had been arrested, sourcing security officials.
CBS News was told by sources in the Pakistan government that it was Gadahn, even after U.S. officials refused to confirm it was the California native for whom a $1 million reward has been posted.
Now, CBS News' Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad writes that earlier reports the detained individual was Gadahn proved false. According to a Pakistan security official who spoke with CBS News on condition of anonymity, the arrested individual is in fact "a Taliban militant leader who is known as Abu Yahya."
Maybe we should have asked Radar Online?
However, don't lose hope. Apparently, this Abu Yahya is still a big enough figure to be an important capture, if it's not really Gadahn. CBS also warns that it still could be Gadahn, but that we won't know until Pakistan produces the detainee publicly. When might that be? I'm going to keep a close eye on Radar to find out.
Update: CNN at 6 pm ET reports that a "senior Pakistani government official" insists it's Gadahn.
Update II: So does McClatchy at around 7 pm ET, citing multiple Pakistani sources.
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Generally speaking I have no issue with anyone who openly carries a firearm. I would however like to add one word to that. "Responsible". I think the reason people tend to question or look at OC'ers in a different light is the fact that places like youtube are flooded with videos of people trying to get a rise out of the general public or LE and that is their main exposure to it. They do not see the hundreds of thousands of gun owner who carry everyday with whatever method who go on about their day without problem.
There is a difference in responsible open carry for a self defense purpose and parading into a steak house declaring it is my right to OC, go ahead and call the police I have a video camera. I CC as OC is not legal in my state. I do not carry a firearm to garner public attention or make a statement. I carry a firearm to protect myself and my family or whomever else I choose to.
Whether we like it or not many OC'ers openly admit that they are carrying a firearm and video camera to expose and educate the general public and law enforcement to the right to openly carry a firearm great but do it in the right way. Show the public and LE that you are the normal everyday person who is responsible enough to carry a firearm for self defense not bring an AR to the salad bar because you can.
You are absolutely correct in that we are all in this together but all it takes is one idiot to make us all look bad. The general public and lawmakers will not look at it as "Oh it is one of those OC guys making a statement" all they will see is guy with a gun doing something weird and then start a campaign against all gun owners. Think before you speak, speak before you act as it is a reflection of us all.


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Nexus II
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Diane UPRIGHT: Morris Louis, the complete paintings, New York, Harry N. Abrams 1985
274.3 (h) x 426.7 (w) cm
canvas 243.0 (h) x 340.0 (w) cm
frame 247.0 (h) x 343.0 (w) cm Bequest of Marcella Louis Brenner, the artist's widow 2010 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
NGA 2010.583 © 1959 Morris Louis
- the artist until his death in 1962;
- by descent to his widow, Marcella Brenner (1912-2007);
- on her death, to the Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust;
- bequest of the Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust to National Gallery of Australia, August 2010
- Abstract Expressionism: the National Gallery of Australia celebrates the centenaries of Jackson Pollock and Morris Louis
- 14 Jul 2012 – 24 Feb 2013
- Diane Upright, Morris Louis: The complete paintings, New York: Harry N. Abrams 1985, cat. 215, p. 211, illus. col., p. 152;
- Christine Dixon, 'Morris Louis, Nexus II', artonview no. 64, Summer 2010–2011, p. 46, illus. col.
Nexus II 1959, as indicated by the title, marks the transition between two major series, Veils and Unfurled, which are represented in the National Gallery of Australia's collection by Dalet zayin and Beta nu.[1] Nexus means connection or link, and Louis experimented with two canvases of this name. The earlier, multicoloured central waves of paint, seen for instance in Dalet zayin1959, are here divided into two plain fields of colour pushed to the sides. Or are they, rather, encroaching on the centre?
One extraordinary effect of encountering Louis's paintings in reality, as opposed to seeing small reproductions, is the bodily resonance set up by the large canvases. In Nexus II thin washes of denim blue on the left, and jade green on the right, are separated by a central panel of off-white. The painting's effect of pleasure, even bliss, is intensified by the purity of means employed by the artist. The dimensions of the work seem to emphasise this notion, providing an expanse of space to envelop the viewer. Despite the expanses of cream or white and the floods of beautiful colour, his paintings establish force fields. So, in Nexus II, colours push inwards from the sides, or the blank canvas pushes outwards. Or do these two effects occur simultaneously?
In the last five years of his short life, after destroying more than 300 unsatisfactory earlier works, Morris exercised an inexact geometry which seems to reject the organic forms of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists. It was in this brief period that Louis finally abjured the painterly, impasto style of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. He developed a distinctive style of staining unstretched canvases, which are sometimes unprimed. In the decades following his death, these blurred arcs and stripes would be transformed into rigorous angles by the artists of Minimalism.
Christine Dixon
[1] Dalet zayin 1959, synthetic polymer paint on unprimed canvas, 253.5 x 336.5 cm, NGA 1974.384 and Beta nu 1960, synthetic polymer paint on unprimed canvas, 259.10 x 701.0 cm, NGA 1972.317
The National Gallery of Australia holds three paintings by Louis: one of the Veils series, Dalet zayin 1959; Nexus II 1960, which marks the transition between the Veils and Unfurleds series; and Beta nu 1960 from the Unfurleds series;as well as two drawings, Untitled c. 1949 and Untitled 1950–53.


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Trip Start Nov 08, 2004
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For a capital city it`s ridiculously small and relaxed! Then again, Uruguay is the second smallest country in this continent. For a country so tiny it is actually reasonably affluent with wealthy coastal suburbs. Wheat and beef are the main industries (Fray Bentos is the name of a cow town here!)but still you cant miss the slum houses and horse and carts trotting past every so often. Apparently Uruguay has been dragged down with the Argentine economy crash as many rich Argentines banked their money here.
I liked the romantic air of faded 19th century grandeur in Montevideo. Gorgeous restored early 19th C buildings stand right next to crumbling ruins in the old town and next to ugly modern ones in the new town. It`s easy to imagine this is what Paris or Rome could be like without government money to restore the buildings. It has the feel of a place slightly stuck in a time warp, where even the most modern things are from the 70`s, but it has a real sense of community and small town feel.
We had lunch in the old port, a huge iron structure full of Asado (BBQ) stalls,where the locals sit around the stall and choose which hunk of meat they want off the BBQ. ( Not particularly my idea of fun but Jason loved it!)
The price-quality ratio is just stupid!That night we ate at an extremely posh restaurant, where we had about 5 waiters attending to our every whim, champagne, wine, beer and 2 exquisite courses all for under 10 quid each
Tango is as big here as in Argentina, infact the Uruguayans claim that the "father" of tango was infact from Uruguay not Argentina, the Argy�s claim otherwise, funny that...
The second night we went to another old iron market hall to listen to some live music. It was really atmospheric, with lots of little restaurants around a dance floor and a male/female duet crooning away in the background. Safe to say that we were again the only tourists there and also the youngest by about 30 years...(which makes a change from usually being the oldest in hostels!) but it was a great experience to see all the couples tangoing the night away. When we left at midnight the place was just getting crowded! I am sure we�ll see tango shows in Buenos Aires, but I am equally sure we won`t see one whose existence has nothing to do with tourism and that`s what I love about Uruguay.


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The ubiquity of worlds beyond our Solar System confounds us
Kevin Heng
Theorists studying core accretion use two approaches. The first is to isolate a piece of the puzzle—such as the meter- size problem—and study the microphysics involved. Such approaches shed light on important pieces of the puzzle of planet formation but lose the big picture. A complementary approach is to use population synthesis, which is an attempt to incorporate all of the physics and chemistry involved in core accretion, starting from dust grains and ending up with exoplanets. Gaps in our knowledge of the details currently prevent the population synthesis framework from being a complete theory, but its redeeming quality is that it provides some falsifiable predictions.
Another solution is to bypass the intermediate steps of growth between dust grains and planetesimals. Protoplanetary disks are usually massive enough that gravity may triumph over pressure support. The fragments that result from gravitational instability may be the size of planetesimals or even exoplanets. The issue then is not that one cannot form structures, but rather that the gravitational instability paradigm lacks predictive power. Again, the devil is in the details. A successful theory of gravitational instability should start from the initial properties of the protoplanetary disk and the conditions imposed upon it by the star—the strength of irradiation, the metallicity of the natal gas (the abundance of elements that are heavier than hydrogen and helium), the mass of the disk—and predict the number of exoplanets that ensue, including their masses and interior structures. In other words, theorists need to build a population synthesis framework for gravitational instability. A theory with such completeness currently eludes us.
The true answer may lie in between the two paradigms. Giant structures may form in the disk, which then collect dust grains within them to form larger particles. An intriguing possibility is the existence of vortices, essentially giant cyclones or hurricanes forming out of the gas in the disk. Vortices have the ability to trap particles within them, much like dust devils on Earth—an old concept with its roots spanning back to the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. An attractive feature of this idea is that vortices would arise naturally from the turbulent gas if it behaves like a two-dimensional fluid. A parcel of fluid "lives" in a two-dimensional world if it is sufficiently buoyant in the third dimension—as it is displaced from its plane of existence, it returns to its original position quickly. The gas swirling around a protoplanetary disk may be regarded as a fluid; the disk also has a finite thickness. Dust tends to collect mostly at the midplane of the disk. It turns out that the midplanes of protoplanetary disks behave like three-dimensional fluids, whereas locations farther away from the midplane, where the solid material needed to grow structure is found in less abundance, behave like two-dimensional fluids. A successful theory of planet formation involving vortices has to identify a mechanism for producing them, predict their lifetimes and elucidate the means by which they will be destroyed.
Perhaps an easier way to provide constraints on hypotheses of planet formation is simply to stare at the planets themselves. Gas giants appear to be more common around stars with higher metallicities, consistent with the notion that one needs more solid material to construct larger cores and trigger runaway accretion of the natal gas. No trend in stellar metallicity is found for the occurrence of rocky exoplanets. When they are found, they tend to be social creatures, located in systems with other rocky brethren. These exoplanetary systems also tend to be "flat," just like our Solar System— the orbits of the rocky exoplanets lie roughly within the same plane. We now know that "hot Jupiters"—gas giants found implausibly close to their host stars, such that their temperatures are a few thousand degrees—are oddballs (comprising less than one percent of the entire exoplanet population) and loners (without nearby exoplanets as companions), despite being the most common type of exoplanets initially found due to their brightness and large sizes. Furthermore, hot Jupiters are often found in orbital planes that are misaligned with the spin axes of their host stars—in stark contrast to the systems hosting multiple, rocky exoplanets—perhaps providing a clue that they were delivered to their present locations via some kind of scattering mechanism.
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Is Fright Zone next? Hmmm.
"My favorite Harry Potter movie is Troll."
Very cool. I love Snake Mountain.......
Great News!
In this case I will also get their Castle Grayskull.
Maybe Marzo as an archenemy was the biggest thing to happen to Mekaneck, but as far as Marzo was concerned...it was Tuesday.
Amazing!! Still anticipating CG. But this is great. Hope they continue this trend with FZ & Eternia.
Very cool! Funnily enough, I don't really remember what Filmation Snake Mountain looks like because it's usually so draped in shadow. The head seemed a little off at first, but I just realized that was because my memories of 200X are confusing things. I looked at a pic online and it looks very accurate! I hope they can do the waterfall in some sort of semi-transparent material!
Oh hell yeah!
Is this Filmation or the toy? It almost looks like Filmation.
I had an inside tip about that and I promised not to tell anyone. But now it's out he'll yea. That and the castle will look mint next to each other.
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Oh yeah, I'm getting the Castle, and eventually the bridge add on, and now Snake Mt....hell yeah. I know the Skull of the Castle would look better more Filmation, at least to me, but it still looks cool as is.
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Now that I may just get. I love the Castle they are doing but one Big Green joy in a year is enough. The Snake mountain though..they might have me there. I hope the lava is pouring out the mouth and they do it translucent. This would please me
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Pretty cool, but I can't afford it.
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Pretty exciting news... I don't even have Grayskull yet, and I'm psyched about this! Hope to see some of the classic toy elements included too... and that Mattel follows suit with the announcement of a Snake Mountain playset!
Very wise of them to reveal this now. Everyone on the fence about getting their Grayskull (because of Mattel's Grayskull) might be more inclined now that they know there's a Snake Mountain to go with it.
Give me the Mini Masters to put around these sets. Please......


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