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My name is Wendy Sommers, and at 25 years of age I was diagnosed with myxoliposarcoma in my upper left thigh. I underwent a biopsy, followed by wide resection and finally radiation therapy.
I never had a recurrence of that first cancer. However, when I was 28 years old I was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in the same leg, this time on my tibia behind my knee. At that time I lived in New York City and I was treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
My options were presented to me as:
- limb salvage surgery
- amputation
- knee fusion
I opted for limb salvage surgery. I was sure if I had an amputation at 28 years of age and single, no one would ever fall in love with me. Of course hindsight is a great thing. If I had it to do over, I would have an amputation.
You might be wondering why I have changed my mind.
Well, it's because I would have had more options to be athletic and I might have halted the disease once and for all. As it was, I suffered a local recurrence about 3 1/2 years later. Once again I was operated on at Memorial Sloan Kettering and I did not have any adjuvant therapy. They did a wide resection and grafted a vein from my right leg to save my left leg.
That was about six years ago and I have not had another local recurrence. However, about 3 1/2 years ago I suffered a relapse with metastatic disease to my right lung. I had a thoracotomy where they removed part of my right lung and I felt good. I still received no adjuvant therapy. A year and a half later I had more metastases in my right lung, chest wall, and pleural cavity. I once again underwent a thoracotomy to my right lung and surrounding area.
Seven months later more disease appeared and I was now a candidate for chemotherapy. This was now April of 1996 and I decided to go through an egg harvesting procedure over the summer, as well as get married before I started my chemotherapy.
In September of 1996, I started chemotherapy and I was given a high dose of cis-platinum and adriamycin in my oncologist's office. I had a very bad reaction to the cis-platinum and was home in bed with an IV for nine days. I was supposed to be receiving treatment every three weeks but mine was more like four to five weeks. The following three treatments were high level ifosfamide and adriamycin, which were given over the course of five days in the hospital.
As almost all people on adriamycin do, I lost my hair in the two weeks following my first treatment, as you can see from my picture at the beginning of this article.
Losing my hair while in the shower one morning was extremely depressing and I was very sad. My husband was golfing that day, so I was home alone. I had no one to cry with me and I felt very sorry for myself. The part that was even sadder was, that I hung onto the last few pieces of hair for a long time.
I looked kind of like the Pigpen character from Charlie Brown.
Finally, while in Amsterdam doing an alternative treatment, I shaved my head clean. I wished I had done it sooner. It felt great to massage my smooth bald head. I found that others liked touching it too. At any rate, I wasn't brave enough to go out into public without a wig. I really admire people who do, however. When my hair finally started growing back, in a different color and texture, I was thrilled to get rid of my wig.
In August right before I was to begin chemotherapy, they found more disease in my lung and surrounding area. The plan was to do the chemotherapy and see if it shrunk and or killed the tumors. When I had my third surgery to my lung that January, it showed that the chemo was having very little affect. They decided to remove the tumors and put me on a regimen of high dose Methotrexate. Methotrexate was much easier to tolerate than Ifosfamide and Adriamycin had been. The only downside was that I had to go into the hospital for a couple of days each time. I had only three rounds of Methotrexate when I was scanned and more tumors appeared. I was taken off the chemo and scheduled for another surgery.
On October 2, 1997, I had my fourth lung surgery. This time they removed the lower lobe of my right lung and six of my ribs. I am now the proud owner of a mesh and plaster custom built chest wall. This time it took me five weeks to recover at home in bed and on the couch. I now want to briefly mention the evils of daytime television and how that helped me to ultimately get well. If daytime television had been at all appealing, I would probably still be at home recovering. Following this last surgery, radiation therapy was recommended.
I began radiation therapy in February had 18 treatments, and was finished in March. I had had radiation therapy previously, but it didn't make me nearly as sick and tired as this treatment did. I was tired all the time and I still have to take naps frequently.
As of this writing (April 29, 1998), I am happy to report that it's been seven months and no recurrence. That may not sound like a long time, but to me it's the best thing that's happened to me since my Mom brought home a Volkswagon bug for me when I was a junior in high school. Of course with the new beetles out, I wish I still had my old one.
I hope my story gives some insight as to why I started the Sarcoma Foundation….
Don't ever give up!
Wendy passed away after her long struggle with sarcoma. Her spirit lives on in the work of the Sarcoma Alliance.


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Ok.. a bit confused..
Doc here,
I'm a bit confused here, but I'll try to wing it..
What car are we dealing with?
First, is this an internal or external regulator?
I think what you are saying is it is internal..And if so, you have reverse Biased the Regulator diodes with a mass of current (probably higher than the diode's PIV..) and damaged it..
Now it's drawing current in the forward bias direction under no load (leakage just sitting)
The 0.2 is NORMAL ..and a good thing..1.5 amps will net you a dead battery just sitting overnight..(as you probably found out..)
If your second alternator is drawing 2 amps , in addition to passably having a regulator on the way out..has an intermittent plug..Stay with the first..
You can test the alternator at the autoparts superstore for free, for a more definitive answer, but I would say the regulator is damaged..
For about $10 bucks you can buy an regulator pack and install it yourself, If , Otherwise the alternator has been good and reliable before..or you Can buy a "cheepie " rebuilt for about $30 and install it..but the fail rates are high on those , like 1 in 3 or 5...out of the box...it's up to you...
Voltage regulator plug drawing current
here's the deal. I was making a hold down for my battery and the box (trunk mounted). When i put the battery back in I hooked up the cables by which side of the box they were on like an idiot! I hooked it up backwards, blew fusible link. I replaced the fusible link and my battery keeps draining. I had about 2 amps at the negative with everything off. I unhooked the plug to the voltage regualtor and it went down to the normal .02. I hooked it up to a different alternator that I know the regulator is good in, and it did the same thing, 1.5-2 amps. Here's the thing, if i jiggle the plug it will go back to .02 amps but the alternator won't charge, basically like the plug isn't even hooked up. Is the plug bad or what?
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A four level road hierarchy for network planning and management
Eppell, V.A.T. (Tony), McClurg, Brett A., & Bunker, Jonathan M. (2001) A four level road hierarchy for network planning and management. In Jaeger, Vicki (Ed.) 20th ARRB Conference, 19-21 March 2001, Melbourne.
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A road hierarchy has, for some time, been accepted as one of the important tools used for road network and land use planning. It is a means of defining each roadway in terms of its function such that appropriate objectives for that roadway can be set and appropriate design criteria can be implemented. These objectives and design criteria are aimed at achieving an efficient road system whereby conflicts between the roadway and the adjacent land use are minimised and the appropriate level of interaction between the roadway and land use is permitted. The introduction of a four level road hierarchy, as presented herein, expands the use of the road hierarchy as a tool for a broad spread of uses ranging from network/land use planning to asset management.
This four level road hierarchy has been developed by Eppell Olsen & Partners and adopted by a number of planning agencies in Queensland. The paper outlines the road hierarchy framework, the desirable criteria to achieve the hierarchy objectives and the benefits of the four level system.
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|adjectives > possessive
Turkish Possessive Adjective my, your, his, our, their
Examples of the Suffixed Possessive Adjective -im -ım -üm my
The Possessive Adjective my, your, his, her ,our, their is a suffix which obeys vowel harmony rules.
It is called a Possessive Adjective because it shows possession and describes a noun.
Question: Which cat? the answer: my cat. The word my is a Possessive Adjective describing the noun cat.
In Turkish the suffix -ım -im -um -üm added to final consonants kolum [kol-um] my arm or just -m when added to a final vowel. arabam [araba-m] my car
- The E-Dotted Vowels Singular
- el becomes elim my hand
- diş becomes dişim my tooth
- göz becomes gözüm my eye
- gül becomes gülüm my rose
- The E-Dotted Vowels Plural
- eller becomes ellerim my hands
- dişler becomes dişlerim my teeth
- gözler becomes gözlerim my eyes
- güller becomes güllerim my roses
- The A-UnDotted Vowels Singular
- ay becomes ayım my month
- kız becomes kızım my daughter
- dost becomes dostum my pal
- sabun becomes sabunum my soap
- The A-UnDotted Vowels Plural
- aylar becomes aylarım my months
- kızlar becomes kızlarım my daughters
- dostlar becomes dostlarım my pals
- sabunlar becomes sabunlarım my soap(s
The Plural suffix is always added first. The Possessive Suffix follows the Plural Suffix.
ellerim [el-ler-im] my hands
odalarımız [oda-lar-ımız] our rooms
Adding the Possessive Adjective to words that end in a vowel
When the word ends in a vowel then the Possessive Suffix drops its own initial vowel.
kedi cat
kedim [kedi-m] my cat
The Possessive Suffix does not lose its vowel when attached to the plural of a noun as it follows the final consonant of -ler
kediler cats
kedilerim [kedi-ler-im] my cats
The Third Person Singular Possessive Suffix -i his, her, its becomes -si (uses Buffer Letter -s-) when added to a noun ending in a vowel.
oda room
odası [oda-s-ı] his room
Buffer letter -s- is used to keep two vowels apart.
Turkish Possessive Adjective Reference Summary
The suffixes for all the persons: my, your, his, our, your, their.
|Turkish Posseiessive Adjective Reference
|Suffixed to Consonants
|Suffixed to Vowels
|-ım -im -um -üm
|-ın -in -un -ün
|-ı -i -u -ü
|-sı -si -su- -sü
|-ımız -imiz -umuz -ümüz
|-mız- miz -muz -müz
|-ınız -iniz -unuz -ünüz
|-nız -niz -nuz -nüz
|-ları -leri
|-ları -leri
The single exception su water
The word su water is the single irregular noun in Turkish. It takes a buffer letter -y- with all its suffixes.
- su water
- suyum my water
- suyun your water
- suyu his water
- suyumuz our water
- suyunuz your water
- suları their water
Turkish Consonant Mutation when adding Suffixes
- kitap book Mutation: p ⇔ b
- kitabım my book
- kitaplarım my books
- sokak street Mutation: k ⇔ ğ
- sokağım my street
- sokaklarım my streets
- armut pear Mutation: t ⇔ d
- armudu his pear
- armutları his pears/their pear(s)
This example armutları his pears/their pear(s) can be construed three ways:
armutlar -ı his pears
armut -ları their pear OR their pears ["armutlarları"is wrong, the -lar suffix cannot be re-duplicated].
It seems that their pears should be
armutlarları, but suffixes ending in -lar are never doubled, the context usually makes clear the singularity or plurality of the noun.
However, to be explicit then onun his or onların their can be used:
onun armudu his pear [he has singular pear]
onun armutları his pears [he has plural pears]
onların armudu their pear [they have a singular pear]
onların armutları their pears [they have plural pears]
Turkish Possessive Adjectives showing difference of Singular and Plural Nouns
Vowel Harmony must be observed when suffixing singular or plural words.
- kapı door
- kapım my door
- kapılarım my doors
- bahçe garden
- bahçem my garden
- bahçelerim my gardens
- oda room
- odası his room
- odaları his rooms
- aile family
- ailesi his family
- aileleri their family/families
- araba car
- arabamız our car
- arabalarımız our cars
- otobüs bus
- otobüsümüz our bus
- otobüslerimiz our buses
- kulak ear
- kulağınız your ear
- kulaklarınız your ears
- şemsiye umbrella
- şemsiyeniz your umbrella
- şemsiyeleriniz your umbrellas
- domuz pig
- domuzu his pig
- domuzları his pigs domuzlar-ı
- domuzları their pig(s) domuz-ları
- göz eye
- gözü his eye
- gözleri his eyes [gözler-i]
- gözleri their eye(s) [göz-leri]
Turkish Possessed Nouns - Extended
A noun with the possessive suffix being a noun in its own right can be subject to further suffixes.
Buffer letter -n- is used when adding second suffixes to possessed items for third person singular his, her, its and third person plural their:
arabasına [araba-sı-n-a] to his/her car
elmalarından [elma-ları-n-dan] from their apple(s)
kedi cat. Singular kedi ends in a vowel so only suffix -m is added
kedim my cat [kedi-m]
kedimden from my cat [kedi-m-den]
kedime to my cat [kedi-m-e]
kediler cats. Plural kediler ends in a consonant so suffix -im is added
kedilerim my cats [kedi-ler-im]
kedilerimden from my cats [kedi-ler-im-den]
kedilerime to my cats [kedi-ler-im-e]
araba car. Singular araba ends in a vowel so only suffix -n is added
araban your car [araba-n]
arabana to your car [araba-n-a]
arabanda in your car [araba-n-da]
arabalar cars. Plural arabalar ends in a consonant so total suffix -ım is added
arabaların your cars [araba-lar-ın]
arabalarına to your cars [araba-lar-ın-a]
arabalarında in your cars [araba-lar-ın-da]
elma apple ends in a vowel so third person suffix using buffer letter -sı is added
onun elması his apple [elma-s-ı]
onun elmasında in his apple [elma-s-ı-n-da]
onun elmasından from his apple [elma-s-ı-n-dan]
Note: onun hisis used to show that this apple belongs to one person
elmalar apples
onun elmaları his apples [elma-lar-ı]
onun elmalarında in his apples [elma-lar-ı-n-da]
onların elmasında in their apple [elma-s-ı-n-da]
onların elmasından from their apple [elma-s-ı-n-da]
onların elmaları their apples [elma-ları]
onların elmalarında in their apples [elma-ları-n-da]
onların elmalarından from their apples [elma-ları-n-dan]
Note: onların their is used to show that this/these apple(s) belongs to more than one person
köy village
köyümüz our village [köy-ümüz]
köyümüzde in our village [köy-ümüz-de]
köyümüzden from our village [köy-ümüz-den]
köyler villages
köylerimiz our villages [köy-ler-imiz]
köylerimizde in our villages [köy-ler-imiz-de]
köylerimizden from our villages [köy-ler-imiz-den]
köpek dog
köpeğiniz your dog [köpeğ-iniz]
köpeğinizde on your dog [köpeğ-iniz-de]
köpeğinize to your dog [köpeğ-iniz-e]
The Rule of Consonant Mutation -k changes to -ğ is operating here when a vowel suffix is being added to a hard consonant.
köpekler dogs
köpekleri their dogs [köpek-leri]
köpeklerine to his dogs [köpek-ler-i-n-e] or to their dog(s) [köpek-leri-n-e]
köpeklerinden from their dogs [köpek-leri-n-den]
ev house
onların evi their house [ev-i]
onların evine to their house [ev-i-n-e]
onların evlerinde in their houses [ev-leri-n-de]
onların evlerinden from their houses [ev-leri-n-den]
evler houses
onun evleri his houses [ev-ler-i]
onun evlerinde in his houses [ev-ler-i-n-de]
onun evlerinden from his houses [ev-ler-i-n-den]
- A reminder about buffer letter -N-
- A noun with the possessive suffix can be subject to further suffixes.
- Buffer letter -n- is used when adding second suffixes to possessed noun.


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ROCK FALLS – Sherry Irene Gholson, 64, of Rock Falls, died Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.
She was born Jan. 25, 1948, in Sterling, the daughter of Marvin and Carmen (Bohms) Wallace.�She was united in marriage to Larry Gholson on Aug. 29, 1970, in Rock Falls. Sherry was a floral assistant at County Market in Sterling for 11 years.�She formerly worked at Admiral in Dixon, Family Hair Design as a receptionist and Young's Bakery in Rock Falls.�Sherry was a member of Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rock Falls.
Surviving are her husband, Larry Gholson; her father, Marvin Wallace of Rock Falls; a daughter, Sheryl (Tom) Wasylik of Crystal, Minn.; a son, Larry Gholson Jr. of Rock Falls; a stepdaughter, Lareen Bittourna of Brookfield; a brother, Dale (Linda) Wallace of Dixon; three grandchildren, Amanda, Tommy Jr. and Deanna;�two stepgrandchildren, Amber and Autumn; four great-grandchildren, Zackery, Owen, Drayden and Kamdyn; two nephews, Dale Wallace Jr. and Brandon Wallace;�a great-niece, Sydney; and a great-nephew J.T. Warren.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Carmen Wallace.
Visitation will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m., followed by the funeral at 10:30 a.m., Friday at McDonald Funeral Home, 1002 12th Ave., Rock Falls, with the Rev. Henrietta Milner officiating.�Burial will follow at Coloma Township Cemetery in Rock Falls.
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xenon interior lights kit for $40 i have same kit
Hey guys,
I got this set from Bimmian (it's the new improved set so don't worry). I personally don't like the whole changing out every bulb look. All I changed were the bulbs that turn on when you open the doors. So, I have the other half of the kit left. For all of you that have been interested in the xenon look but thought the price was too much, here is your chance. I really love mine.
So, $40 shipped.
i kept my reading lights normal b/c i want to be able to read with them, hence the keeping of the same color for those lights. i love the xenon look when i open the doors; everyone comments on it. well worth the $$$, especially at such a low discount. :thumbup:
I'm interested, but what bulbs are missing exactly?
the set comes with enough bulbs for you to change EVERY single bulb in the interior. however, i personally think it is silly to turn the reading lights and vanity mirror lights to a xenon color, because for reading or looking in a mirror, a hyperwhite color is not good. plus, the only ones that turn on when you open the door or hit the middle button on the overhead console (where the map lights are), only some of the lights actually turn on.
i only used enough bulbs for these lights, and there are more than enough bulbs to do an entire additional application with the bulbs i have left. you get all the cool xenon effect when the lights turn on, but also keep the functionality of the other lights when you need them (which dont turn on when you open the door, etc).
and yes, these bulbs use xenon gas :thumbup: just figured i would help out a fellow fanatic who was interested in the xenon interior bulbs but didnt want to pay a whopping $70 + shipping or whatever it is that they cost (i cant remember).
so, for $40 ($35 + $5 shipping), we split the cost and both get the xenon look :thumbup: first person to claim them can have them
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If you are Duck poor and havent found any good numbers I suggest you pack up your stuff and head to Mile Marker 81 on route 29 along the Big Mo. River near Modale, in fact get off at Modale west of the over pass about 100ft and watch the skies from the west, South West direction. You will see them all get up from about 4 to 5:20.
Don't move because they are coming to your parked location off the road just south of you about a 1/4 mile , maybe 1/2 mile. It is 1 hell of a mass of ducks folks and they are coming off of the river and the Desoto Refuge area and other water holes out in the flooded Flood plain.
Get out, do some door pounding and get some fields because you will kill a pile of them. No Joke. Have fun and Good luck.
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Kaskade's 'Summer Nights F. The Brocks' Debuts on iTunes' Top 10 Dance Chart; Video Released!
Renowned American DJ, Kaskade, released his latest single "Summer Nights" today, which debuts on iTunes' Top 10 Dance Chart.
Kaskade's "Summer Nights" featuring indie electronic band The Brocks, is a journey through the passing of summer. With a smooth vocal insisting "I wanna go back," this is the track that's poised to be the anthem of transition, easing its listeners through the transformation of the seasons.
The companion music video, which is also being released today by Vevo, combines Kaskade's unparalleled emotional connection with his fans with a narrative that could be any of their stories. A champion of kids that haven't always fit in, Kaskade wanted to walk through a coming-of-age story, in a way that was visually stunning and engaging.
A skateboarding enthusiast since his childhood, Kaskade took this opportunity to partner with the legendary pro-skater Brian Anderson to bring this story to life.
The union between Kaskade and Brian Anderson for the "Summer Nights" video promises to be something people will want to listen to and watch over and over again. Using New York City's Lower East Side as its backdrop, the story and skateboarding production are both inspirational and magnetic.
"Summer Nights" is available NOW for purchase on iTunes.com. Scroll down to watch the "Summer Nights" music video!
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In many European countries, Rainbow Families, that is families where parents are LGBTIQ*, are faced with unsuitable domestic laws, if not a total legal void.
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The news it out, the jig is up, we finally found it. The Renegade, they had it made, and now you can buy it!
That's right ladies and gentleman (and Styx fans all over the world), the 2015 Jeep Renegade has arrived at LaFontaine Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Saline, Michigan.
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I love cooking and I love cookbooks! So on Sundays, I will make a complete dinner from one cookbook (appetizers, sides, main, dessert, etc) and blog about the recipes and cookbook. Feel free to contribute your own through the comment section!
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Stanford Art Spaces is pleased to announce two May-June 2015 solo shows by eminent West Coast oil painters: We Will Never Not Have Been by Seattle painter and teacher Jamie Bollenbach; and Atmospherics, by Oakland painter Yari Ostovany. With the J.M.W. Turner Painting Set Free show coming to the de Young Museum on June 20, this is an ideal time to consider artists who share the English Romantic's interest in capturing mood and atmosphere with color and gesture freed from restrictive naturalism and realism, and aspiring to the shock and awe of the Sublime. The term Abstract Illusionism was used in the 1970s and 1980s to describe a kind of contemporary trompe-l'oeil, fool-the-eye paintings; realistic shading and pictorial space were employed for abstract expressionist paint blobs and drips, creating a kind of hybrid of abstract and realist art. I use the term here to suggest the dual nature of these works, hovering between abstraction and representation. Bollenbach's eighteen paintings—half of them never before exhibited— belong to a series that began in 2003 entitled The Amplitude of Time. He writes:
Many of these paintings look abstract, but they begin as portraits worked from life in my studio in Seattle: direct observation of a person blended later with the uncertain memory and re-imagination of that experience. This artwork can only come into its nature because of the real time spent with that person. Often the model saw the work in the making and moved or even danced, which also built some of the abstract forms lines of the composition. The paintings were often worked long after the first sessions, trying to locate, in William Blake's phrase, "eternity in an hour."
My review of his 2011 show at Noma Gallery in San Francisco:
Seattle painter Jamie Bollenbach exhibits sixteen paintings that began with that traditional cynosure of male artists, the female nude, and evolved during the painting process into abstract landscapes or skyscapes — swelling, undulating membranes or tissues composed of flickering, fluttering black and white brushstrokes in perfect balance: M.C. Escher meets Roberto Matta. The artist's multiple responses to the motif ("sound, scent, color, glimpses and memories of intense but uncertain emotions – fluid, eternally transforming, winking in and out of being") are recorded in works like "Population," "Forms of Man and Woman Against a Cyclic Landscape," and "Priscilla I." As a group they stand midway between figure-based abstraction (from cubism, futurism, and abstract expressionism) and ambiguous figuration (from surrealism). Bollenbach, who studied with the contemporary portraitist Ann Gale, takes her analytical, fragmentary approach — it's also that of Cézanne and Giacometti — and uses it to explore the "inscapes" of the psyche. A pair of World War II sky paintings ("The Bombers" and "Americans' Planes Are So Much Prettier Than the Germans'") featuring minute but deftly summarized B-17s (which veterans in Seattle and elsewhere are quick to decipher) summon historical memory. The title for the show derives from Walt Whitman's poem, "Song of Myself:"
"To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.... I laugh at what you call dissolution,
And I know the amplitude of time." (VisualArtSource.com)
Bollenbach's richly textured canvases contain thousands of discrete marks laid down over lengthy periods, "the visual traces of a living, breathing person," but venturing "beyond the surface of resemblance, [incorporating] abstraction as visual music, as tone and description and mood…. The ancient tools — the mud of paint, the hand and eye, the play with the flat space that looks infinitely deep — reveal aspects of our being and our relationships that cannot be approached any other way…. directly observed/imagined paintings- built over time, rather than taken mechanically all at once, have always folded the amplitude of time into their subjects."
Jamie Bollenbach began painting in the early 1990s in the Bay Area and received his MFA in Painting from the University of Washington in 2002, where he maintains his studio practice, and has taught contemporary painting, drawing and life-drawing, and color and design with the UW School of Art, and numerous Puget Sound institutions. His work is collected nationally and he has shown all along the West Coast, including SF-MOMA and Seattle Art Museum's artist galleries, as well as the solo show, The Amplitude of Time, at NOMA gallery in San Francisco. JamieBollenbach.com.
Jamie Bollenbach, "The Amplitude of Time," Noma Gallery 2011
"Those solemn
reports of the death of painting (or art) that seem to recur every
generation or so, prematurely, get no respect from Jamie Bollenbach. In
an increasingly electronic contemporary world, the Seattle artist
champions handicraft, the tradition of painting, and the creative
struggle with and against a chosen medium, loved ("I like the juicy.")
but refractory. Working with models, he isolates certain elements that
seem to extend themselves into surrounding space , perhaps like cubist
planes or futurist lines of force; gradually the process, memory,
imagination, and a host of other associations (history, politics, etc.)
enter the work, sometimes completely obliterating the nudes beneath, but
leaving a human presence in his tumultuous, semi-abstract landscapes.
Bollenbach: "My subject matter evolved from organic abstraction toward
the exploration of transitory human presence, represented temporally in
paintings as traces of light and color and gestural marks within a
specific shape of space. I begin frequently from a live model. Elements
of desolate, imagined landscape enter the work, pushing figuration to
the edge of winking out—my version of the traditional symbol of the soap
bubble as the fragility of life." Also: "...Just standing in a a room
is an amazingly complex system. And making art is a way to comprehend
and express the mystery and wonder of a person just standing in a room
probably better than other process."
Cosio-Delaunay, dealers associated with San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art and San Franscisco and Oakland Art Enthusiast, represent Jamie Bollenbach's work in California.
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Upon first meeting him, how often (and how quickly) will a woman ask a man what he does for a living? In fact, this question very frequently emerges prior to meeting and is likely a prerequisite for meeting. She needs to know whether or not she can feel respect for him; she needs to know whether or not it will even be possible for her to communicate love in a manner that he will recognize and receive and value.
It's too easy to assume that a woman's interest in a man's career is purely money motivated. While this idea might apply to certain women, it's inaccurate and sexist to apply this superficial mindset to all women. In most cases, a man's career reveals much about his personality, desires, and values — in other words, it tells her who he is. While many men might require little more than physical attractiveness in their mates — and this, too, is an unfair and inaccurate generalization — a woman must respect a man if she is to love him, and her respect for him is based on far more than his appearance. She knows that he will not be able to feel loved unless he also feels respected. If either person in a relationship feels unloved, the relationship is doomed to fail.
Consider the following all-too-familiar scenario: a couple has been together for several years. At the start of the relationship, he felt respected by her. She admired everything about him. Now, he feels as though she merely tolerates him. He can't figure out why he's lost her respect. Since they met, he hasn't changed careers, hasn't undergone any drastic changes in his personality, hasn't aggressively revamped his values or world view; he firmly believes that he's the exact person she first met. He finds himself on a virtual Easter-egg hunt, trying to locate the right gift, gesture, phrase, or action that will elicit the respect she once showed him, but no matter what he does, she treats him like he's lost his value. She's more likely to vocalize her displeasure over the socks he's left around than she is to compliment him or even express gratitude for what he provides. What can he do?
He can begin to pay closer attention to and reflect upon his behavior, the subtle and abstract realm of life that puzzles him precisely because he's a man and may feel far more at home with life's concrete concepts like horsepower, baseball stats, and the number of reps he achieved relative to the amount of weight, last time he hit the gym. If she no longer respects him, he definitely has changed since they met, or, over time, he's revealed respect-diminishing aspects of himself. Like any relationship-partner, she has watched and evaluated him. What has she seen? What are her conclusions? How have those conclusions impeded her ability to respect him?
At social gatherings, he failed to stand his ground and defend his opinions when debates arose. Instead, he acquiesced to his opponent in a misguided attempt to "keep the peace." In this manner, he has repeatedly publicly submitted to another man. Figuratively speaking, he's taken a knee in the boxing ring, thrown down his shield in the coliseum, hoisted a surrender flag prior to even engaging in battle. When a restaurant botched his reservation, he didn't calmly assert that he expected a compensatory response from the restaurant. Rather, he just accepted the situation, gratefully received the host's verbal apology, and scuttled away. In his presence, other guys have been overly and/or inappropriately friendly to her, and he has wrongly interpreted this as a compliment to him and his ability to attain an attractive mate. In reality, other guys sense his feeble hold on her.
It is definitely hard for today's man to know exactly how he should behave in order to command respect. He receives mixed messages that are usually general in nature and not broken down and fully explored and explained. He is told to be sensitive and kind and self-sacrificing in a world that punishes or grossly under-compensates altruistic types and rewards sociopaths. His gender-specific role is blurred by a society that no longer wants gender to determine anything about a person's life, lest it deny the individual the life he or she truly wants to lead. No one should want to return to the days when people's opportunities were limited by prejudicial thinking, but as the categories that have informed bigotry of all kinds thankfully dissolve, many men find themselves trying to play the social-identity game on an unmarked field ungoverned by an official or any definitive rules. If he's one kind of man, he's a misogynistic neanderthal; if he's another kind of man, he's an effeminate pushover. Exactly what kind of man should he be? Society just doesn't offer a clear answer.
Many hidden agendas inform societal manipulations on the part of the media as it plays its role of crafting a population that will support powerful interests. But nature is more powerful than any "OZ" behind the scenes, and her rules provide excellent guidelines for men who want to know how to keep a woman's respect. I often defer to Zen Buddhism when it comes to a discussion about universal truths and human nature.
In his dharma talk, "The Lover and the Warrior," Zen Buddhist Roshi Rich Hart says, "If you're going to be a warrior, you'd better have a lover somewhere around. Because a warrior without a lover turns into a gangster, and, eventually a dictator. But the other side of the coin is also present; a lover without a warrior turns into mush." Today's successful men and women are multidimensional people forced to play many roles at once. Insofar as both women and men seek partners with whom they can truly build a satisfying life, the man who can both nurture and conquer is the man who will succeed in his private and public life and receive the respect on which he thrives. Pay closer attention to the little ways in which you might be showing too much of "the lover" and not enough of "the warrior" in you or vice versa.
If you want her to respect you, you need to be for her what society and nature wants you to be for her. You can avail yourself to her emotionally, really listen when she speaks, even if she is being critical of you, and respond humbly — and you can resist compromise when you absolutely know that you are right about something. You can do the laundry and watch football with your pals. You can have cooked the dish that the two of you bring to her girlfriend's couples-only pot-luck party and tenaciously counter her husband's argument that the country is better now than it was under Reagan. While men were once characterized by the term, "meat and potatoes," which symbolized their simple nature, today's respect-worthy men are permitted to be — and must be — far more complex.
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Vincent Corvino's writing has appeared in several literary journals, among them The Quarterly, New Letters, The Crescent Review and The Blue Moon Review. He is currently the lead singer of the New York City hard rock band, Urbansnake. He is a former student of Zen Buddhist Roshi, Rich Hart, and has trained as a boxer under former WBO Middleweight Champion, Doug Dewitt. He possesses an MA in Education from Columbia University and a Post-Graduate Certificate in School Leadership. He has been an English teacher since 1996.


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Following six straight years of client and revenue growth for Digitaria Sports, its leader John Van Spyk has been promoted to executive vice president for the marketing and technology agency Digitaria, a JWT Company.
The promotion and broader brand stewardship for Van Spyk follows a 12-month period during which Digitaria Sports has nearly doubled in size, adding employees and multiple new accounts to its roster. Digitaria Sports partners with some the world's most prominent sports-related organizations, including the National Football League (NFL) and several of its franchises, IRONMAN, Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), US Soccer, Ladies Professional Golf (LPGA), US Triathlon, the San Diego Padres and Under Armour.
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Washington state prep lacrosse round-up for Sept. 30 – Oct. 6
SEATTLE — A Q & A with former Eastside Catholic standout Alex Foreman, who will be playing in next Sunday's NCAA Seatown Classic , and Skyline High School's hire of Maryland native Sam Hutson as its boys lacrosse coach were among the seven stories published in the past week on Washington state high school lacrosse programs.
To read Hutson's story in StudentSports.com and Foreman's story in the Sammamish reporter along with others in the Everett Herald and Maple Valley Reporter see the list below.
To see a comprehensive list of prep lacrosse stories published in Washington state and nationally visit the Washington State Prep Lacrosse Media Center.
|Skyline (Wash.) hires Maryland native
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|EC alum, USC women's lacrosse player Alex Foreman Q & A
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|Tahoma Bears lacrosse gearing up for 2014 season after summer tournament
About High School Lacrosse in Washington State
Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the US and in Washington state has experienced double-digit annual growth throughout the past decade. In its fourth decade of play, 4,000 student athletes attending over 200 schools across the state play high school lacrosse. Governed by the Washington High School Boys Lacrosse Association and the Washington Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association, the sport is played during the spring season and capped by annual boys and girls state championships in late May. To learn more about lacrosse in Washington or to receive daily high school results visit www.WashingtonHSLAX.com or follow us at Facebook.com/uslacrossewashington or Twitter.com/washingtonhslax To learn more about the history, traditions and values of lacrosse, college opportunities available to students and the 21 US states now sanctioning high school lacrosse visit USLacrosse.org.


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Apple is set to pull back the curtain on new products Tuesday, including what many expect will be a smaller version of the iPad. The Washington Post's Hayley Tsukayama and Caitlin Dewey will be on hand to provide commentary on the event as it happens.
Consumers skeptical of the iPad mini, irked about the iPad 4
The iPad Mini is new, light, thin — and, according to some disgruntled consumers, either poorly timed or way too expensive. The Mini starts at $329, higher than some consumers expected (and almost twice as expensive as some comparable tablets). Apple also unveiled a 4th-generation iPad today, only seven months after the company released the iPad 3, setting off an outcry from those who had purchased the earlier version.
Dennis Berman, the Wall Street Journal's Marketplace editor, sums up the loudest complaints about the Mini:
To summarize the new #iPadMini: You'll get half the performance for 65% of the price. $AAPL
— Dennis K. Berman (@dkberman) October 23, 2012
Other consumers, like this self-professed "Apple fanboy," echoed those gripes:
Not feeling the iPad mini yet. And the pricing not helping. We'll see. Looking real hard at the 13″ Retina MBP though.Tempting much. #apple
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iPad Mini is such a step back on multiple fronts. Once you have retina display, you can't go back. #smh #mini #apple
— mrPursuitofHappiness (@JonTeszlewicz) October 23, 2012
Oooh Apple, they said the smartest thing to do on Mini iPad was getting your pricing structure correct. You didn't #iPadMini #Apple
— dip (@dipsethi) October 23, 2012
In Apple fan forums such as MacRumors, the debate got hotter. A 10-year MacRumors veteran named Spock complained that his new iPad 3 is already outdated: "For shame, Apple, for shame." Ibuyufo writes only: "Screwed by Apple … again."
Over on Reddit, discussion revolved around iPad alternatives.
When users weren't complaining about the timing of the iPad 4 or the price of the iPad Mini, they had plenty to say about whether Apple is innovating enough and if the company stands to lose its market share.
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Was so tempted to buy the iPhone 5, knowing fully well I didn't really have much use for it. The iPad mini is just what I was looking for :)
— Maahir Zaveri (@z_maahir) October 23, 2012
So what's the general consensus on Apple's latest device? Only time — and holiday sales numbers — will tell.
Apple share price plummets during event
Apple's share price fell dramatically during the launch event, plunging more when the company announced the price of the iPad mini.
As of 2:30 p.m., Eastern, the company's stock is down nearly 2.5 percent — more than $15 — and falling.
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Apple event captures global audience
It may be too soon to tell how many people tuned into Apple's live-stream today, but the hash tags #appleevent and #keynote trended worldwide on Twitter — meaning that, in the narrow world of Twitter, at least, a whole lot of people were listening.
According to the Twitter analytics site Trendsmap.com, most #apple tweeters were, unsurprisingly, in the United States, Europe, South Africa and Central America. Another analytics site, Hashtag.org, estimates that 40,000 tweets were sent about Apple in the hour before the press conference even began.
Tim Cook back on stage
Tim Cook is back on the stage, highlighting all of the company's accomplishments for the year.
"We told you earlier this year that you'd see some incredible innovation from Apple across the year, innovation only Apple can deliver. We think we kept our promise and I hope you agree," he said. Now he's taking the audience back through the company's releases of the year: the iPhone 5, the new iPods, iOS 6, Mountain Lion, notebook refreshes, new iPads and a new iMac.
"It has been an incredible year, with all of these new products and all these applications and cloud services, this has been a truly prolific year for Apple," Cook said, before extending a big shout-out to his team.
Annnnnd that's a wrap! Thanks for reading!
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Apple's showing a TV spot for the iPad, and it's oh-too-sweet: a larger iPad is laying down the bass part for "Heart and Soul" while the iPad mini is sitting side-by-side and taking the treble line.
iPad mini is $329
The iPad mini will cost $329, which is far more than the competitors' price point of $199. Pre-orders start on Friday, and the WiFI versions will ship Nov. 2.
The cellular versions will ship two weeks later, first to the United States, then to international markets.
The iPad 2 will remain part of the company's line-up, and — as we mentioned before — the 4th-generation iPad is priced the same as the new iPad at $499 and up.
Thoughts on the iPad mini's design
In a promotional video, Apple is showing off colored cases for the iPad mini, putting it in the hands of everyday people, such as doctors, construction workers, etc.
They're making a lot of the fact that it's easy to hold in one hand, and talking up the company's book and magazine library — this product will be appealing to commuters.
"There is inherent loss in just reducing a product in size," said Apple's design guru Jony Ive in the promotional video. Apple purposely reduced the bezel around the display to make sure that users could use the device comfortably in one hand, Ive said.
The company has also designed new smart covers for the device that are made of one piece of material, not with an aluminum hinge.
More specs for the iPad mini
A quick rundown of specs:
- dual-core A5 processor
- FaceTime HD front-side camera
- 5 MP iSight camera on the back
- LTE (yes, LTE)
- Lightning connector
- 10-hour battery life
Taking a dig at Google
Others have tried to make tablets smaller than the iPad, Schiller said, "and they have failed miserably."
Comparing the iPad mini directly to Google's Nexus 7, Schiller said that Apple's mini screen is more than one-third larger than the 7-inch diagonal screen of the Nexus 7, making for better Web browsing.
"You can see a huge difference. The iPad mini is about 50 percent larger for surfing the Web" in the portrait orientation. It's "two-thirds" larger in landscape, he claims.
He also took a dig at the tablet apps on competitors' devices, saying that they've been simply scaled and stretched to fit those screens rather than built specifically for them.
iPad mini specs
The iPad mini is as "thin as a pencil," Schiller said, and is over 53 percent lighter than the full-size iPad. By comparison, he said, it's as "light as a pad of paper."
Same resolution as first- and second-generation iPad: 1,024 pixels by 768 pixels.
The screen is 7.9-inches, a size that Schiller said the company picked because it gives the smaller iPad the same dimensions as the iPad mini, which will be good for developers.
Schiller said that it works well in portrait and landscape orientations, and he plays up the ability to use Facetime, read magazines and use apps such as those in the iWork and iLife apps.
And here it is — the iPad mini
Apple just unveiled a smaller iPad, dubbed the iPad mini, which Schiller holds in one hand.
The iPad design is different from the current iPad, with rounded aluminum corners — very similar in form to the iPod Touch.
Photos of the iPad Mini
As expected, Apple just announced its much-anticipated fourth-generation iPad or iPad mini. Some photos:
Say Hello to the 4th generation #iPad ! #A6 GORGEOUS ! #keynote #Apple twitter.com/alexisfilipe/s…
— Alexis (@alexisfilipe) October 23, 2012
Incredible #iPadMini !!! #keynote #Apple twitter.com/alexisfilipe/s…
— Alexis (@alexisfilipe) October 23, 2012
New iPad will have Lightning connector
The New iPad will also have a Lightning connector. It comes in black and white and has the same configurations as the iPad released, oh, just six months ago.
The pricing remains the same, with the 16GB, WiFI version starting at $499.
Fourth-generation of the iPad
Phil Schiller back on stage to talk about the fourth-generation iPad.
It has a new processor, the A6X chip to bring faster performance, which Apple says will soundly whip the competition.
"I can't even see them in the rear-view mirror," Schiller quipped.
The new iPad will still have 10 hours of battery life, will update FaceTime to support HD video and global LTE, meaning that it will have LTE access in more countries around the world.
94 percent of Fortune 500 deploying iPad
Cook is also talking about the company's move into the enterprise space, saying that 94 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using iPads in their businesses.
Cook talks up the iPad as a learning tool
Tim Cook is on stage again, talking about how great the iPad has been for students.
Cook is citing a quote from a Texas superintendent who has said that the device has revolutionized the way that students work with textbooks, calling back to the company's January launch of the iBooks editor for textbooks.
Cook said there are currently 2500 U.S. classrooms with iBooks textbooks.
Apple has sold 100 million iPads
Yep. Tim Cook is back on stage, saying they sold more iPads in the June quarter than any PC manufacturer sold from their entire lineup.
In case you missed that, Apple's sold 100 million iPads.
More on the iMac
Apple is also unveiling a new technology known as the Fusion Drive, which is a hybrid hard drive that has 128 GB of flash memory and will let you plug in either a 1 TB HD or 3TB HDD. The computer will read this as a single volume, and should give you the "performance of Flash" without having to fuss with anything else.
If you want an optical drive, you can buy one to plug into your USB posts.
The new iMac will start at $1299, while the 27-inch Mac will cost $1799.
Photos of the new iMac
The new iMac is thin — a mere five millimeters wide. Tweets TechCrunch columnist MG Siegler:
I think this new iMac could be considered a weapon. People may cut themselves on it.
— MG Siegler (@parislemon) October 23, 2012
Here are some photos of the slimmed-down iMac:
Primera imagen del nuevo iMac 2012 #KeynoteLittleMore twitter.com/applesfera/sta…
— Applesfera (@applesfera) October 23, 2012
Et voila le prix du iMac 27″ #keynote twitter.com/GQ_France/stat…
— GQ France (@GQ_France) October 23, 2012
New iMac
Schiller is just whipping through these product announcements.
Apple's also unveiling a new iMac, which had needed an update for a while. And, boy, did Apple deliver. The new computer is unbelievably thin, something Apple achieved by laminating the display and making it 45 percent thinner. Overall, the computer itself is 80 percent thinner.
The company also eliminated thickness by getting rid of the optical drive — apologies to those who like discs.
The computer comes in 27-inch and 21.5-inch displays, which Schiller said are individually calibrated.
The computers aren't just thin, they also have a FaceTime camera, dual microphones and have an Intel quad-core Ivy Bridge processor,and the option to have a 3 TB hard drive.
On the back, the computer sports a headphone jack, SD card, four USB 3.0 ports and a Thunderbolt port plus a spot for Gigabyte ethernet.
Microsoft, Verizon vie for Apple's Twitter hype
Tim Cook isn't the only one expecting a sales bump from today's Apple mania. Several other technology firms have tried to get in on the action by sponsoring Twitter hashtags related to the event. Try searching #apple, and this tweet from Verizon shows up.
Gamers don't let other gamers suffer from lag time. Try #FiOS Quantum. vz.to/AD3VZN
— Verizon FiOS (@VerizonFiOS) October 17, 2012
On Monday, Microsoft also sponsored Apple-related tweets to advertise its new tablet, Surface.
Mac mini is here!
"You knew there was something with 'mini' in this presentation, right?"
Schiller revealed the Mac Mini at top speed, saying that it has a 2.5 Ghz dual-core i5 processor with 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive for $599. It also has USB 3 ports and an Intel HD Graphics 400 card.
You can upgrade to a 1 TB hard drive or a 256 GB solid-state drive.
There's also a server ediciton for $999 with two 1TB hard drives that ships today.
Prices for MacBooks
Just in case you were curious about how the MacBook 13-inch laptop measures up on price, here's a quick overview of the prices of Mac laptops right now:
- MacBook Air starts at $999, up to $1,499.
- MacBook Pros start at $1,199 and to through $2,199.
- The Pros with Retina display go from $1699 to $2,799.
More MacBook Pro
Schiller is showing off the inside of the MacBook Pro, as well. The computer packs an i5 or i7 Ivy Bridge processor and an Intel graphics card.
It also has the dictation features and iCloud features that came with the latest version of Mac OS X, as well as the Power Nap feature that will update your contacts, etc., through iCloud while the computer is asleep.
The computer starts at $1,699, for a 2.5Hz dual-core i5, 8GB of RAM and 128GB of flash memory. It ships today.
13-inch retina Macbook Pro
Schiller introduced the 13-inch retina display MacBook Pro, which he called an update to the company's most popular notebook.
At .75-inches thick, Schiller said that it's 20 percent thinner than its predecessor. The notebooks comes with a Mag-Safe 2 port, two Thunderbolt ports, a USB 3 port, headphone port and dual-microphones. It also packs an HDMI port and an SD card reader. it also has a Facetime camera and, Schiller said, better speakers.
But the true selling point of this computer is, of course, the screen, with over 4 million pixels.
"It's the *second* higest resolution notebook display," Schiller said, noting — of course — that the 15-inch MacBook Pro comes in ahead of this one.
"Surfing the Web can be like a fine-print magazine," he said.
Onto the Mac!
Phil Schiller, Apple's head of marketing, is on the stage, saying it's a very "big day for the Mac."
Before he left the stage, Cook was quick to point out that the Mac is outstripping the growth in the PC Market — up 15 percent from the previous year as compared to 2 percent for the general market.
A new version of iBooks
Cook is also taking this opportunity to give us a walkthrough of iBooks, essentially Apple's answer to the Kindle store.
Starting today, Apple is going to release an update to the iBooks app that will include fonts for Korean and Japanese, and has continuous scrolling. It's also integrated with iCloud, so you can mark your progress consistently between devices.
Moving on to the iTunes store
Apple has 275,000 iPad apps right now.
"There apps are not stretched-out smartphone apps," Cook said, but rather apps that have been built specifically for the tablet itself.
Consumers have now downloaded 35 billion apps to users, and the company has paid out $6.5 billion to its developers.
Apple's native tablet apps have been a major selling point for the iPad, as many of the apps on Google's Play store are converted smartphone apps that don't look as good on larger tablet screens.
125 million documents in iCloud, Cook says
Cook said that iCloud has been a big success for the company since its launch last year.
Not only have consumers stored 125 million documents in iCloud, they've also sent more than 300 billion iMessages. Cook said that works out to 28,000 messages per second — "maybe more right now," he quipped, prompting laughs from the audience.
Users have also shared 70 million photos through iOS 6 photo streams, he said.
CEO Tim Cook takes the stage
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has the stage and is talking up the company's last releases — the updated iPod Touch and the iPhone 5.
The company has already sold over 3 million iPod Touch units, Cook said. "We think they'll make incredible holiday gifts."
The company also already has 200 million devices running iOS 6, Apple's latest mobile operating system.
"This is the fastest upgrade rate" of any software upgrade in history, he said.
Large crowd outside the California Theatre
The crowd is thick outside San Jose's California Theatre, where reporters, bloggers and more than a few curious passerby have gathered for today's big Apple announcement. Thanks to Apple's live-stream, you can peak inside the theater yourself. But here are a few photos from outside the venue:
Apple is live-streaming, but…
Apple is live-streaming today's event on its own site — but only to people using Apple devices. You can head to Apple.com for the video as it happens, but stick around with Caitlin Dewey and me for context and analysis of what's happening on stage.
To view Apple's stream, you'll need to watch over Safari on a Mac running Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) or later version You can also tune in through an iOS device, if you're running iOS 4.2 or later. Apple TV users with software of 5.0.2 or later can tune in through a special Apple events channel.
This is the first time Apple's live-streamed a product event in two years — the last time was the Back to the Mac event in October 2010.
How Apple's iPad mini may stack up against the competition
Everything about Apple's expected iPad mini — from its price to whether it actually exists — is still mostly an unknown, but that hasn't stopped speculation for a minute.
What we think we know about the rumored smaller iPad is that it will have a 7.85-inch screen, will run on Apple's A5 chip and likely won't have a retina display. Fuzzier details have emerged on a price — somewhere between $250 and $329 — and whether the tablet will have the capability to connect to cellular networks.
So how does that mashup of rumors compare to the competition?
First, let's take a look at the field. There are plenty of 7-inch tablets out there, but Apple has a handful of rivals. There's the Kindle Fire, Amazon's heavyweight in this space that tore out of the gate last year and got a fresh update just a few weeks ago. There's also the Google Nexus 7, a smaller tablet that plugs straight into Google's ecosystem that the company released in June.
Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet, which has hooked readers and Samsung's two main tablets, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and Galaxy 7.7, are also in the mix for top iPad competitors.
On price, the rumors flying about the mini iPad don't come anywhere near the $199 low benchmark set by Amazon, Google and Barnes & Noble. If it makes the smaller iPad as expensive as $329, the company will have a harder time attracting any buyers on the fence about a tablet, though it does come in below the LTE versions of the Galaxy tablets.
If Apple does include the ability to connect to cellular networks, it will make it a more attractive buy than the Nook, Nexus or Fire, which are all WiFi only.
The iPad mini will also be slightly larger than the other small tablets, which gives users a bit more screen real estate for reading, watching video and running their favorite apps. It's also likely that Apple will have come up with a smart way to scale down the apps designed for the full iPad for the smaller tablet — similar to the way it handled scaling from the iPhone 4S's 3.5-inch screen to the iPhone 5's 4-inch screen.
Other factors that will be important to consider include the weight, thickness and battery life of the tablet, but it's hard to know what those will be until the "iPad mini" is official.
A look at what Apple's expected to unveil today
Apple, of course, is expected to announce a new iPad today that's smaller than its current 9.7-inch tablet.The tech press has nicknamed the device the "iPad mini," though blogger John Gruber from Daring Fireball has made his case for "iPad Air.".The smaller iPad is expected to have a 7.85-inch screen and to run on Apple's A5 chip. It's not expected to have the "retina display" that Apple has put on its other top-of-the-line products. Tech bloggers are also expecting the tablet to have the ability to connect o cellular networks, which would give it a leg up over low-priced competitors such as Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7.
Speaking of price, the iPad mini is expected to have a price somewhere between $250 and $329, which would put it way above Amazon and Google's $199 price points. Priced that high, Apple may have trouble enticing new consumers or convincing those with existing Apple devices to shell out the money for yet another one.
Apple is also expected to refresh at least some of its Mac lines, including the Mac Mini and and MacBook Pro. Rumor has it that the MacBook Pro's 13-inch model will get the retina display makeover it's 15-inch sibling had in June.