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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended fixing the price for 6.2 Mhz of pan-India start-up 2G spectrum at Rs10,972.45 crore and Rs4,571.87 crore for every Mhz of additional spectrum (on an all-India basis) beyond the contracted limit of 6.2 Mhz
New Delhi: Virtually in line with estimated loss pointed out by Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in second generation (2G) spectrum allocation, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today recommended Rs10,972.45 crore for a pan-India license with 6.2 Mhz spectrum, reports PTI.
Going by this valuation, six new pan-India licenses given in 2008 would have garnered Rs65,834.7 crore to the government along with additional revenue from other firms who were given licences in fewer circles.
The CAG had estimated loss of up to Rs1.76 lakh crore from 2G spectrum allocation.
This had included new licences, dual technology licences and revenues from additional spectrum beyond the contracted limit of 6.2 Mhz held by various operators especially BSNL, Bharti and Vodafone.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has also recommended 'one-time' entry fee for additional spectrum beyond 6.2 Mhz.
Most telecom firms, including Bharti, Vodafone, Idea and state-owned companies like Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL), hold extra spectrum beyond 6.2 Mhz and the new norms would put a huge financial burden on these telcos.
In addition, the licences of some of the operators, including Bharti, are due for renewal after completing 20 years periodicity in several circles. Such companies would have to pay to renew their licences as per the new norms recommended by TRAI.
When contacted, TRAI chairman JS Sarma told PTI, "Yes we have submitted the recommendations to the DoT on the revised norms for 2G spectrum pricing."
According to the report, the spectrum prices for both categories-up to 6.2 Mhz and beyond 6.2 Mhz -vary from circle to circle.
In the category of up to 6.2 Mhz of spectrum, the prices of one Mhz varies from Rs7.60 crore in the case of Jammu & Kashmir to Rs187.38 crore in the case of Tamil Nadu.
In the category of beyond 6.2 Mhz of spectrum, the price varies form between Rs22.89 crore per Mhz in Jammu & Kashmir to a maximum of Rs431.95 crore in Andhra Pradesh.
The revised prices should be made applicable with effect from 1 April 2010 on pro-rata basis depending upon the number of years left for licences to expire, TRAI said adding that any licence coming up for renewal would have to pay for spectrum based on new price.
These prices are for spectrum in 1800 Mhz band, the telecom regulator said.
Indraprastha Gas has enjoyed secular growth
In the 4 December 2008 issue, Moneylife had recommended a 'buy' for Indraprastha Gas (IGL) scrip (at around Rs92) and to hold it for steady long-term gains. The stock has reached around Rs328 on 21 January 2011. The stock has delivered great returns. The New Delhi-based company is in the retail gas distribution business—supplying compressed natural gas (CNG) to the transport sector, piped natural gas (PNG) to the domestic and commercial sectors and re-gassified liquid natural gas (R-LNG) to the industrial sector in the towns of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). Among the company's competitors are Gujarat Gas and Gujarat State Petroleum.
Incorporated in 1998, IGL took over the Delhi City Gas Distribution Project from GAIL (India) Ltd in 1999. With the backing of strong promoters—GAIL and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL)—IGL plans to provide natural gas to the entire NCR.
During FY09-10, IGL's gross turnover increased by 26% to Rs1,213.13 crore from Rs962.14 crore in FY08-09. Net profit also went up by 25% to Rs215.50 crore in FY09-10 from Rs172.47 crore in the previous year.
The company recommended dividend of 45% (Rs4.50 per share) as against 40% (Rs4 per share) in the previous year. Growth has been steady. The total number of CNG stations increased to 241 in March 2010 from 181 in March 2009. During FY09-10, the company added 44,000 PNG connections and 40 commercial customers.
The company is supplying R-LNG to around 21 industrial consumers in Delhi. It has also started supplying R-LNG to the industrial segment in Noida and Greater Noida. During FY09-10, the company started CNG supply to vehicles in Ghaziabad for the first time. The online CNG station was also set up during the year. The company has planned capital investment of Rs240 crore to expand its CNG and PNG networks in NCT and NCR towns of Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad.
During the December 2010 quarter, IGL's net profit rose 14.01% to Rs67.19 crore from Rs58.93 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. Its revenues grew 60% to Rs457 crore from Rs284.61 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The company's raw material cost more than doubled to Rs259.87 crore, bringing down the operating profit margin to 28% from 36% in the year-ago period.
GAIL is the sole gas supplier to the company and, since it is one of the promoters of the company, IGL does not foresee any risk in oversupply of natural gas. The company has agreements with GAIL, BPCL and Reliance Industries for additional gas supplies to meet its growing requirements. The outlook for the company is positive. The growth drivers for increased CNG demand are car makers coming up with CNG variants. IGL's average growth in revenues and operating profit over the past five quarters has been 45% and 31%, respectively. Its operating margin is a hefty 31% and return on net worth is 26%. Market-cap to revenues is 2.51, while its market-cap to operating profit is 8.87 times. The stock enjoys a P/E of 21.29 and a dividend yield of 1.37%. Buy at its current price.
Missing power targets could be the least of power generation companies' worries—managing to sell power and securing coal could be bigger issues
It is not new for India to miss its power capacity addition targets. Nor is it new for it to miss even targets that have been revised downwards. We began the current Five-Year Plan (2007-12) with an ambitious target of 78,577 megawatts (MW) which was scaled down to 62,374MW in the mid-term review.
The current consensus view is even dimmer-that India will end the five-year period with an actual generation of only about 50,000MW. Most of the shortfall is being blamed on the delay in commissioning of hydropower projects.
However, this year, not meeting targets may be the least of the power generation companies' worries. Bigger issues are likely to be securing fuel at reasonable prices and getting buyers for it at profitable prices.
In a report to its clients today, CLSA says that India has seen a generation growth of only 4.3% for the period from April-December 2010, despite good capacity addition (relatively) in this period.
It believes that while lower coal production had some impact, the major reason for cutting back production was that state utilities are simply not picking up enough power.
For example, between October and December 2010, availability levels at NTPC's coal plants were 93%, but actual generation was down 3.3 percentage points at 87.2% plant load factor (PLF).
The best illustration of how state utilities are not buying expensive power is the sharp fall in merchant tariffs. Even though they have bounced back in December and January, the fact is that merchant tariffs hit rock bottom before this-falling to just Rs3.40 per kWh (kilowatt-hour) in November 2011.
Recently, Coal India conveniently declared (after its initial public offering) that its production has been impacted by the environment ministry's stand on mining activities in critically-polluted areas, which would lead to a shortfall of around 16 million tonnes (MT).
Coal India has estimated that if there is no relaxation of norms on this front, production could fall short by as much as 39 million tonnes (MT). Most utility stocks have underperformed the market in the last six months and it is unlikely that this year is going to be an easy year for these companies.
Within the lot, utilities which have passed through charges (such as NTPC, even though pass-through does not insulate it from lower offtake) or those that have resources such as coal mines (such as Tata Power and JSPL), are better bets.
Power deficits in India also declined much faster than expected against prospects that due to the fast pace of development, requirements will always be a long way ahead of generation.
However, from a peak of 14% in April 2010, the deficit is now down to 6% and is expected to shrink rapidly.
The only explanation is that demand is not actually rising as rapidly as earlier anticipated. Some estimates say that India will meet all its power demand by 2012.
That is just one year away. Some believe that this is because of the way 'demand' is defined. Not every Indian will be able to afford power at going rates for quite some time. In metro cities, the average power bill ranges between Rs500 and Rs1,000-definitely in the expensive range. Even industries will not be able to afford expensive power and would prefer to generate captive power, whenever viable.
Almost half of the rural households do not have access to any kind of electricity even today and would not be able to afford it even if it were offered to them. Out of the people who can afford electricity, almost 40% are 'accustomed' to power cuts. Power theft and transmission & distribution losses still remain big issues in India and power distribution companies lose big money to these factors each year.
However, for now, power generation companies need to focus on securing their fuel supplies and ensuring that their PLFs don't dip below critical levels. NTPC's share price has gone virtually nowhere for the last two years. According to CLSA's calculations, NTPC trades at a price to book value (FY12) of 1.9 times. CESC is the cheapest utility with a ratio of 0.9 times and JSPL and Adani Power trade at a premium of 3.1 times and 3.4 times, respectively.


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i wanna watch it too..
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I just bought new Gaiman books. >w<
Good Omens and Sandman's Book of Dreams. xD (Haven't actually read all his books yet)
I liked the movie too. I went to see it some weeks ago with friends, and it really was a lot more than I expected. I haven't read this particular novel by Gaiman, but I was told to expect a movie that was very self-explanatory, wrapped up all its loose ends, and flowed well. I was very impressed to see that that particular comment about the movie was right. I want to watch it again, when it comes out on DVD.


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>From the docs of DrScheme, version 18.104.22.168-svn25jan2008 [3m]: "Evaluates val-expr and uses the result to select a case-clause. The selected clause is the first one with a datum whose quoted form is eqv? to the result of val-expr." And likewise in R6RS: "A case expression is evaluated as follows. <Key> is evaluated and its result is compared using eqv? " Jos Koot ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Rettke" <grettke at acm.org> To: "pltscheme" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:16 PM Subject: [plt-scheme] A question about external representation > Today I worked on a problem that involved converting a 'cond' > expression to 'case. > > I was checking for 'value in the cond expression, but in the case I > should have been checking for unquoted value. > > For example: > > (define test2 > (λ (arg) > (case arg > ([test2] "quote test2") > (['test2] "quote quote test2") > (else #f)))) > >> (test2 'test2) >> (test2 ''test2) > > Reading the documentation for case it says that each datum checked for > equality is "an external representation" of some object. > > My question is, when we type (quote value), is the external > representation whatever shows up in the repl when that is evaluated? > > What is external representation? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme >
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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 60,
October 2009 Abstract Supplement
The 2009 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting
Philadelphia October 16-21, 2009.
Relationship Between Self-Reported Comorbidity and Health Status in Early OA: The CHECK Study
Wesseling1, Janet, Bierma-Zeinstra2, Sita MA, Dekker3, Joost, Bijlsma4, Johannes WJ, on behalf of CHECK study group,
University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University Medical Center, Utrecht
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common diagnosis made in older patients with knee or hip pain in primary care. The prevalence of many other disabling conditions rises with age, and some chronic conditions can be found together with OA. An important question is to whether comorbidity and the presence of specific diseases impairs the clinical status of patients with early OA. The objective is to describe the relationship between comorbidity and the health status of participants with early osteoarthritis.
In the Netherlands a prospective 10-year follow-up study was initiated by the Dutch Arthritis Association with participants with early OA related complaints of hip and/or knee: CHECK. Inclusion criteria were pain and/or stiffness of knee and/or hip, age 45 65 years, and had never or not longer than 6 months ago visited the general practitioner for these symptoms for the first time. The WOMAC was utilized to measure pain, stiffness, and limitations in activities. Physical functioning and mental functioning were measured by SF-36, a generic measure of self-reported health related quality of life (HRQL). The presence of chronic disease was assessed with a standard consensus based list (self- reported health module of Statistics Netherlands), which consists of 24 diseases and disorders. It was investigated if the number of comorbidities influenced outcome and if specific conditions from this score had an effect beyond the comorbidity score.
In CHECK 1002 participants were included, a mean age of 56 years, mean BMI of 26 kg/m2 and 79% female. Over 64% of the included participants had comorbidity: severe disorders of neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist or hand (23%), hypertension (20%) and severe or persistent back disorder (18%) being most prevalent. After controlling for age, gender, and BMI, participants with more comorbidities had more pain (beta 0,5; p <= 0,001), limitation in activities (beta 2,2; p <= 0,001) and a worse health related quality of life (HRQL) (beta -2,2; p <= 0,001). Beyond the score, results (controlling for age, sex, BMI) show that back disorder has the most negative effect on pain and function. Disorders of elbow, shoulder, wrist, or hand have the most negative effects on HRQL (Physical function subscale). On the contrary, participants with hypertension reported less pain and disability when controlling for the number of diseases.
The number of comorbidities deteriorates the health status of participants with complaints of early OA. Next to this, specific disease, like severe back disorder, further increases pain and impairs function. Also disorders of neck, elbow, shoulder, wrist or hand decrease the physical function in HRQL.
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Wesseling, Janet, Bierma-Zeinstra, Sita MA, Dekker, Joost, Bijlsma, Johannes WJ, on behalf of CHECK study group, ; Relationship Between Self-Reported Comorbidity and Health Status in Early OA: The CHECK Study [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2009;60 Suppl 10 :222
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Even the strong sea breeze failed to rescue the day from its torpor yesterday as Australia's batsmen – for the second time in the match – failed to dominate a county missing a number of their senior players. The free-scoring Phillip Hughes spent two hours reaching his half-century, Simon Katich used 21 deliveries getting off the mark and for Marcus North the figure was 22. North received 50 balls for his rather world-weary 11 before he was lbw to Ollie Rayner.
None of this will worry Australia's management too much. Tim Neilsen, their most impressive coach, had said that he wanted his players to bat for two hours apiece. At the same time this Australia side does not appear to be bristling with weapons and England spies – Mushtaq Ahmed has been here and the spinning coach was not just looking up old friends – will not have seen anything to disturb their equanimity.
Australia, who declared for the second time at the end of the third day, look a well organised and solid enough bunch but not one to fear, though Mitchell Johnson has yet to play and he will be a key figure.
Katich had scored 40 when he skied an attempted pull off Robin Martin-Jenkins and was caught by the running Luke Wright at mid-on.
Hughes had played the best part of three hours when he lost his middle stump having another swish. Ricky Ponting was assertive without ever being at his dominant best and after he, too, was caught by Wright, the third wicket falling with the score on 214, Australia scored 11 runs from the next nine overs.
In the afterglow from the recent World Twenty20 it all felt a little pedestrian and the relatively inexperienced spinners, Rayner and Will Beer, enjoyed a degree of control over this vaunted batting line-up. North was fourth out at 254 and then Mike Hussey, who has struggled for runs in recent months, perished, bowled by a Beer leg-break that pushed back his leg stump. Brad Haddin was clearly in the mood to get on with it, getting off the mark with a six. But he had not added to that when he was well caught by Rory Hamilton-Brown at mid-wicket.
Gusts of nostalgia mixed with the sea winds. Older members remembered Sussex's victory over Australia here in 1972, when Geoff Greenidge scored 99 and 125 not out, though no one could recall their other win in 1888.
There was a sell-out crowd of 7,000 here yesterday and Sussex hope to top 25,000 for the four days making it their biggest earner of the season with the county estimating the fixture will bring them £400,000 in revenue.
Even this is down on the 15,000 that came along on the opening day of their match against the Australians in 1956, to watch Ken "Slasher" Mackay and Neil Harvey score fifties and Sussex's Robin Marlar create mayhem with 64 in 44 minutes, with five sixes and six fours. Matches between counties and touring sides have been devalued in recent years but this one, coming in the run-in to the Ashes series, has caught the imagination, even if the batting yesterday failed to do so.


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Serial Promiscuity - Poem by O Anna Niemus
married to another
is it a form of theft?
of breaking and entering?
Comments about Serial Promiscuity by O Anna Niemus
Reyvrex Questor Reyes (10/7/2012 4:47:00 AM)
Breaking and entering refers only to virgins. For married women, entering with consent is the case, if without consent it is rape.
Here's my own poem about virtue:
Virtue And The Beast
To run, we could from threats besetting us
But naught we do for demons from within
Their obstacles laid on the paths we pass
Dictate the rise and fall our lives contain
Virtue does to a woman bind desire
When dreams of wayward thrills it would suppress
As though alarm when hearts are set afire
It screams out loud should she unzips her dress
Monsters and ghouls are far removed in woods
If there be what the heart so truly dreads
In man is beast lurking in murky moods
Knows many arms and sleeps in many beds. (Report) Reply
Trade Martin (7/13/2008 5:04:00 PM)
Not if it's consensual. Raynette is correct, it's NOT a poem...., it's merely a question. (Report) Reply
Raynette Eitel (7/13/2008 4:23:00 PM)
Good question, Anna. Is it a poem? I'm not sure, but good satire, perhaps.
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- Introduction to Threads - basic synchronization mechanisms
- Synchronization Mechanisms - overview of various syncronization constructus -- from semaphors to path expressions
- Classic Synchronization Problems
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- Advanced Problems in Synchronization (from Berkeley CS162)
- "The Performance of Spinlock Alternatives for Shared Memory Multiprocessors", T. Anderson
- "Evaluating Synchronization Mechanisms", Toby Bloom
- "Algorithms for Scalable Synchronization on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors ", Mellor-Crummey, J. M. and Scott, M., ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Feb. 1991.
- "Read-Copy Update: Using Execution History to Solve Concurrency Problems", Paul E. Mckenney and John D. Slingwine, Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Oct 1998
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When it comes to daily-fee public golf courses, the gold standard in the city of Houston is Wildcat Golf Club. Originally opened in 2001, the course boasts rolling hills and swells that provide incredible views of the downtown skyline, the Galleria and Reliant Stadium from virtually anywhere on the 36-hole course. It's the official golf course for all the Houston professional sports franchises, so chances are that if you've played in a corporate or charity event, you've played at Wildcat. It's what they do best. In a fiercely competitive golf economy, owners Elmer Stephens and Tim Lolodice have managed to keep greens fees very affordable (including an enticing monthly membership fee of $300 that includes golf, cart and range fees) and customer service at a premium at Wildcat.
Houston is hot, this we all know. There are also a large number of talented basketball players in and around this city, both pros and street-ball kings, who on any given night rattle rims and drain three-pointers deep into the humid night. The big university in the heart of Third Ward offers a set of indoor basketball courts that feature clean nets, wide space and, of course, air-conditioning. The Campus Recreation and Wellness Center at the University of Houston is still a relatively brand-new facility, and the pick-up games held there are top-notch. Take the challenge against students during the week, or battle against visitors on the weekends — for a small fee, of course.
Midday sports radio hosting is a thankless gig. Anyone can take calls and do interviews in drive time when practically the entire city is stuck in traffic and the best athletes and coaches are available. But lunchtimers are usually subjected to annoying blowhards who sound like Rush Limbaugh in a football jersey. That's not Matt Thomas, who manages to combine a lifetime of Houston sports knowledge with the requisite patience and sense of humor needed to handle the tedium of midday sports talk. He strikes the perfect balance between hardcore sports talk and entertainment, all set to a '70s music soundtrack.
Sometimes, all you need is a good mud hole to cool yourself off. In the case of Huntsville State Park, the water may look murky thanks to the clay bottom, but the lake is far from a hole. The atmosphere is more that of a summer camp than a public park, and there's no danger from outboard motors or undertow. It's the perfect place for kids and a relaxing spot for adults as well.
There are many great vantage points from which the beauty of Houston can be seen, such as the Sabine Street bridge or the I-10 HOV lane that leads into downtown near Taylor Street. But after you experience the rooftop view from the Magnolia Hotel just before sunset, you will agree that it clearly deserves the top honor for best view of the city. Looking to the east, you'll see the new Harris County Courthouse, Minute Maid Park and BBVA Compass Stadium, the whole East End, all the way to the Houston Ship Channel. To the west, you'll notice the downtown skyline, Buffalo Bayou, Eleanor Tinsley Park, Fourth Ward, Montrose and River Oaks. The view to the north is equally fantastic. So book yourself a room or just stop in for a visit. The Magnolia staff are friendly enough to allow you a peek even without a reservation.
Most amusement centers are outdoors, and while this is great for the brief time of the year where being outdoors sounds awesome, it's pretty annoying when the heat hits. Track 21 would be great outdoors, but throw on a roof and some air-conditioning and you've got a location suitable for first dates that don't involve alcohol or for letting the kids burn off pent-up energy. Highlights include three go-kart tracks, a challenging but fun cosmic golf course and one of the best laser-tag battlegrounds in the city. All that, and you don't have to worry about anyone getting heatstroke.


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The normally level-headed Charles Crawford was sent into raptures by the performance of Mr Justice Sweeney as he sent Chris Huhne and Vicky (aka Vasiliki) Pryce down for eight months yesterday. "When a British judge is on top form," he writes, "the result is peerless: clarity, precision, nuance and above all a strong sense that, yes, a good and fair decision has been reached."
Hmm. What I saw is a judge indulging himself, as sentencing judges often seem to, in a crowd-pleasing display of moralistic finger-wagging that ultimately had little to do with the facts of the case before him. Whether or not the eight month sentences were justified as a deterrent (and to what? Not keeping shtum about a crime you committed years ago?) or as proper punishment for the acts committed is another matter. Had he confined himself to the offences and the appropriate penalty that they attracted, he would have completely discharged his obligations to the public interest.
He seemed to sense, though, that more was expected of him.
To the media, the Huhne/Pryce case has only ever been tangentially concerned with the crime of perverting the course of justice by exchanging speeding points with a spouse. Rather, it is somewhere between a soap opera and a Greek tragedy. Chris Huhne, a high-flyer brought low by his own arrogance and sense of invulnerability, his stellar political career wrecked not so much because of his manipulation of the criminal justice system but because of the way he left his wife. Vicky Pryce, herself a high-flying economist but now reduced to living out a misogynistic cliché: a modern-day Medea, deranged by jealousy and deformed by hate, wreaking her hysterical revenge on the man who rejected her; or else a cool, cynical manipulator, plotting with her neighbour Constance Briscoe, a publicity-hungry barrister and part-time judge, to bring her ex-husband down while escaping the consequences of her own actions.
All journalists like a neat narrative hook, of course. They're in the business of telling stories, and stories are easier to tell when they fit (or, more often, can be fitted) into a pre-established narrative framework. The wronged wife is such a stock character in fiction, and Vicky Pryce's ultimately self-destructive behaviour fits so comfortably into the time-honoured pattern, that it would be expecting too much for the media not to latch onto it. Especially as it takes attention away from the role of the newspapers themselves in the downfall of both partners, above all the inducements and implicit guarantees offered Pryce by Isabel Oakeshott of the Sunday Times under the guise of friendship, followed by a failure of both Oakeshott and her editors to go to the wire to uphold the once-sacred principle of journalistic confidentiality.
(Although a narrative template can be fitted to that, too: witness Sarah Ditum, who eschews any discussion of journalistic ethics by painting the Pryce/Oakeshott relationship as a "horrible parody" of female friendship.)
But however tempting it is for the media to frame the Pryce/Huhne implosion as a modern morality tale, as the two protagonists act out their hoary roles of fallen hero and vengeful wife, we should expect better of a high court judge. Yet Sweeney J was only to eager, it appears, to lard his judgment with the same narrative clichés and trite amateur psychology.
For him, the fate of Huhne touched on the tragic. The former Cabinet minister had "fallen from a great height", his ambition (originally, concern about possibly losing the Lib Dem nomination for Eastleigh) leading him to embark on the course of criminality and lying that ultimately ended in the dock. The judge expressed no sympathy for Huhne, indeed asserted that "to some extent" he was the more culpable of the two (they were his speeding points, after all). Nor did he seem very convinced by Huhne's expressions of remorse ("It's easy now to apologise"). Nevertheless it's possible to detect in the tenor of his remarks a certain sadness at the predicament in which Huhne now finds himself. Indeed, he gives Huhne a 10% discount for pleading guilty, even while detailing the lengthy and mendacious attempts he made right up to the day of the trial to frustrate justice, by lying to the police and then trying to have the case struck out, attempts that "will not add a day to your sentence."
The relish with which the judge lays into Vicky Pryce, by contrast, is evident in every twist of his rhetorical knife. Her behaviour, he has "no doubt", demonstrates a "controlling, manipulative and devious side to your nature." Having decided that she is motivated ("I have no doubt") by "an implacable desire to revenge", he admits that the circumstances under which Huhne dumped her must have been "horrendous" but is nevertheless unmoved. Pryce had "little consideration for the position of your wider family", he tuts (meaning, I suppose, that she was a bad mother, who let her vindictive desire to get one over on her ex override her duty as a woman to keep up a dignified façade for the sake of the children).
Armed with this interpretive framework, Sweeney then relates Pryce's dealings with the press in a manner that makes no allowance for the subtlety of her relationship with Isabel Oakeshott. While Pryce did indeed make the first move, Oakeshott's dogged pursuit of a story, her willingness to flatter and cajole a sometimes reluctant source are all too obvious from the leaked emails between them. As Janice Turner put it in Saturday's Times, "from the needy tone of her emails... it seems Pryce sought solace besides revenge. So much so that she didn't notice this consummate journalist expertly reeling her story in." Turner, though detecting "little sexual jealousy" (but much jealousy of Huhne's political career) thinks that Pryce lost both her cool and her common sense. Had she displayed more "propriety and grace", her warmth and expertise on the Greek economic problems would have seen her star rise as Huhne's set.
Well, maybe. Sweeney J, though, has Pryce down as a cold and devious manipulator, which makes the press the victim as well as the instrument of her calculating manipulations. Pity the poor journalists who became the puppets in Pryce's theatre of revenge:
Your weapon of choice was the revelation of his part in the offence in 2003. But it was a dangerous weapon because it had, in truth, been a joint offence. Thus you did not go to the police, because (as you admitted during your second trial) you appreciated the risk that you would both be prosecuted. Instead you went first to The Mail on Sunday then, when they didn't publish, to the Sunday Times and then, after they published, back to The Mail on Sunday. Hence it was that over the period of six months from November 2010 to May 2011 you, I have no doubt, sought to manipulate and control the Press so as to achieve that dual objective, hoping all the while to be able to hide behind their duty of source confidentiality, which you tried long and hard to do, as well as laying the ground, if that failed, for a false defence of marital coercion.
It's hard to square this simplistic notion of newspapers lamely doing Pryce's bidding with the language used by Oakeshott in her emails, which seems more calculated, devious and manipulating than anything attempted by Pryce (eg: "It's an entertaining thought, cornering him at a press conference - his expression would be a picture.")
Sweeney then goes on to attribute Pryce's attempt to use a defence of marital coercion as part of the same "controlling, manipulative and devious" character. Her original act of taking the points on her husband's behalf is impelled by nothing more than "shared ambition" (as if a woman of Pryce's professional standing, a senior economist who before Huhne became an MP was arguably in a more prominent public position than he was, cared only for her husband's career) and because she would find it inconvenient were he unable to use the car to ferry the children around.
It doesn't occur to the judge that, even without coercion, there are subtle pressures at work in a marriage, which while not excusing the crime perhaps render it less morally damning: the loyalty that exists between spouses, a sense of mutual obligation, of being a team. The fear, perhaps, of otherwise feeling guilty at having let her husband down, of letting him suffer the consequences of her own moral punctiliousness; the fear of the look in reproach in his eyes, of what would be the long-term effect on their relationship if she refused to back him up. She was doing him a favour, it should be remembered: lying to the authorities, committing a crime, at some considerable risk to herself.
Even Sweeney accepts that swapping the points was almost certainly Huhne's idea. It would have been quite open to him to deplore her action in placing marital loyalty (or even harmony) ahead of honesty and obedience to the law, to say something along the lines of "It is no excuse that you acted out of misplaced love and a sense of obligation to your husband." But such a conclusion would fit ill with his favoured interpretation of Pryce as a cold, calculating and manipulative woman: she couldn't possibly, on this view, have ever helped Huhne for his sake; she must have had selfish and devious reasons of her own, like not wanting to have to drive the kids to school.
Constructing a pat little narrative that draws on age-old misogynist stereotypes but which is pitched perfectly to appeal to modern newspaper readers (at least as journalists imagine their readers to be) does nothing to advance justice or understanding. It's a judge's job to pass sentence, not to carry out gratuitous acts of character assassination based on little more psychological insight than a daytime talk-show of the Jerry Springer or Jeremy Kyle variety.
Huhne and Pryce were only in court, of course, because of Pryce's desire to hurt her ex-husband and her resentment at his treatment of her led to an old offence being brought to light. The judge notes this in passing, and somewhat strangely: "To the extent that anything good has come out of this whole process, it is that now, finally, you have both been brought to justice for your joint offence." The phraseology implies that the conviction and jailing of Huhne and Pryce is merely a minor, if benign, side-effect of the disastrous train of events that has destroyed the careers of both of them. That certainly reflects the story as told by the press, and perhaps as experienced by the ex couple themselves. Legally, though, the exposure of the crime is the only thing that really matters: the collapse of the Huhne marriage was merely the mechanism that brought the crime to light. If there's little sense of that in Justice Sweeney's remarks it's probably because, like almost everyone else who isn't Chris Huhne or Vicky Pryce, this has been less a trial than a narrative event.
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Hubris and a Woman Scorn'd: Narrative cliché in the sentencing remarks of Mr Justice Sweeney
The normally level-headed Charles Crawford was sent into raptures by the performance of Mr Justice Sweeney as he sent Chris Huhne and Vicky (aka Vasiliki) Pryce down for eight months yesterday. "When a British judge is on top form," he writes, "the result is peerless: clarity, precision, nuance and above all a strong sense that, yes, a good and fair decision has been reached."


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Big fan of Grisham (Pelican Brief, The Last Juror, A Time to Kill), The Ambler Alert, Cobb, Angels and Demons
Boondock Saints, Out Cold, Major League I and II, For the Love of the Game, all of the Rocky movies, Tin Cup, Field of Dreams (a bit of a Costner fan), Charlie Wilson's War...a lot more but can't think of more right now...
How I Met Your Mother has to be at the top, Family Guy, Tosh.O, Ghost Adventures (fascinates me for some reason), big into wild life shows but cannot really think of many other specific ones.
I have been all around the country and tried a lot of different types of foods. I love anything that is extremely fresh (seafood, sushi), big fan of southern and creole food. Also enjoy making my own handmade fajitas, burgers and southern style ribs...could go on a lot longer but if you have read this far I'm sure your eyes are getting tired and you are getting bored...
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Jason Keller led Classic Lanes league play this week with an awesome 957 four game scratch series.
Keller, owner/operator of Classic Lawn Care, started the night just a bit off with a 193 during the first game, but was able to find his mark at the beginning of the second game and never looked back. Keller boosted his team into a three way tie for fourth place in the team standings on his games of 269, 256 and 239 to complete the night 145 pins above his average for series.
Sunday Night Mixed
David Strain moved his team, Hot For Teacher, to with-in one game of first place in the team standings after posting a 631 three game scratch set on lanes three and four. Strain rolled games of 215, 202 and 214 on his 197 individual average.
Strain's teammate, Greg Pullen, added games of 202 and 193 on his 186 individual average to help improve the team's overall record to 23 and 9 for the 2014 summer session, thus far.
Kelly Shields led his team, Mixed Nuts, to a three game victory on his 632 three game scratch performance. Shields, competing on a 216 individual average, nabbed games of 235 and 215 to catapult his team into first place in the team standings.
Harold Stone clinched two wins for his team, Railroaded, after charting an impressive 584 three game scratch set. Stone booked scores of 190 and 245 to complete the session 101 pins above his average for series.
Monday Night Trio
David Strain bagged the men's high series of the night, during Monday's mixed play, with a 576 three game scratch set. Strain unloaded games of 201, 182 and 193 on his 162 individual average.
Team M.V.A. crushed their competition Monday night in route to taking the crown for the second four week period of the Monday Night Sport League and in turn guarantying them a spot in the Tournament of Champions to be held at the conclusion of the league between all three crown winners.
M.V.A. anchorman, Sisco Zarco, paved the way to victory for the team on his 553 three game scratch set. Zarco stepped up to the proverbial plate this week, shooting games of 166, 163 and a whopping 224 enabling his team to take three of the four possible wins from Monday's bout.
Adrian Zarco chipped in on M.V.A.'s success Monday night with his scores of 136, 148 and 140 on his 135 individual average. Juan Peralta was present to record the scores on the recap sheet and fetch the occasional drink refill for his teammates.
Tuesday Night Doubles
Tarry Davison fired the men's high series of the night with his 711 three game scratch set, while competing on lanes one and two. Davison was on target all three games, shooting scores of 247, 229 and 235 to help his team, Teacher's Pet, take all four wins from the match.
Mike Gilliland booked the second high set of the evening with his 641 three game scratch set. Gilliland, competing on a 199 individual average, shot scores of 200 and 256 to help his team, Rookie Status, climb into a three way tie for fifth place in the team standings.
Thursday Men's Trio
Shayne Wilson finished a close second, behind Jason Keller, with his 928 four game scratch effort. Wilson, starting the night with a 224 individual average, bowled games of 238, 207, 237 and 246. Wilson led his team, Barney & Company, to take all five possible wins for the night while moving them into a two way tie for first place in the team standings.
Colby Pullen, competing on a 182 individual average, ensured the team's status by tossing games of 203 and 279 in an 867 four game scratch set.
Bobby Matthews grabbed three wins for his team, Matthews & Company, on his 826 four game scratch series. Matthews, who returned to Classic Lanes during the 2013-2014 Fall Season, charted scores of 203 and 245 enabling his team to remain tied for first place in the team standings.
Phillip Coleman, with a 170 individual average, was above par for the evening after rolling an 811 four game scratch series. Coleman, who has been struggling the past few weeks, shot notable scores of 195 and 194 after firing a pair of 211 games to start the set. Coleman clinched two much needed wins for his team, T.V. Man's Crew, after completing the session 131pins above his average for series.
Justin Parmer. general manager of Classic Lanes, submitted this report.
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Stillen is a company well known for hopping up Nissan cars, especially the 350Z, and they Costa Mesa, CA, based shop has built a strong reputation for modifying fullsize SUVs. When Nissan released the Titan, the company saw considerable potential in customizing the fullsize pickup. Their first result was so stunning that Nissan officials asked Stillen to duplicate a smaller brother out of the new Frontier for display at the 2004 SEMA Show.
Both vehicles showcase Stillen superchargers, although the Titan model—which will also fit the Armada and Infiniti QX56—won't be available until Spring 2005. The Titan supercharger is based on an Eaton twin-rotor unit and has undergone extensive testing on the dyno and track. Stillen hasn't released horsepower numbers as development continues, but the stock 305-horsepower V8 is already a stout performer and should do well with a little extra boost. Besides the supercharger, the engine is also fitted with a Stillen rear exhaust. For stopping power, Stillen uses its own 15-inch rotors clamped by AP Racing 6-piston calipers.
The Titan exterior features a Stillen front bumper cover with integrated driving lights and a rear roll. The chrome grille is from Street Scene. Stillen designers came up with the paint and graphics scheme, which was applied by Huckill Paint and finished with APE Wraps. Filling out the bed are KTM off-road bikes.
The tall stance is courtesy of an 8-inch lift from California Super Trucks but Stillen designed the front and rear sway bars. American Racing 20-inch wheels are surrounded by BFGoodrich 35-inch tires. The interior is spiced with Classic Soft Trim leather seating and a boomer sound system made up of MA and HK components.
The Frontier is set off by a trick Manik front bumper/push bar combo that integrates four off-road lights. The supercharger is based off the same unit that Stillen uses on the Z engines. Most of the other upgrades are similar to the Titan except for the 3-inch suspension lift and smaller wheels and tires.
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Craft felt is best used in projects such as: Children's crafts, seasonal holiday crafts, school, or camp crafting. Try these:
2. Eco Friendly Felts
There is now a popular felt on the market made using eco-fi. Eco-fi is a polyester fiber made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles. The look and feel of eco-fi felt is very similar to original polyester craft felt, however it is slightly stiffer. The felt is available with glitter, in rainbow colors, felt numbers, and a line of embossed patterns.
Eco-fi craft felt is widely available at major craft chains and on the internet. Buy thin, pre-cut sheets or buy it by the yard. Check the felt packaging for the eco-fi name to make sure you are buying felt made from recycled plastic bottles.
Another felt available is a bamboo/rayon blend. Bamboo is considered a sustainable fiber as it is a fast growing crop that can grow practically anywhere, releases more oxygen than trees, and does not need chemical fertilizers. There is some debate about how "green" the process is to turn the plant fibers into usable bamboo thread. However, it is certainly more eco friendly than 100% synthetic materials. Bamboo felt is available under the brand name Xotic felt.
Use Eco friendly felt for: all the same types of crafts as regular craft felt. Additionally, use the embossed patterns (alligator or decorative) for small home décor crafts. Try these:
3. Blended Wool Felt
Blended wool felt refers to felt that is actually made with real wool. There are two common types of blended wool felt used in home crafting, the 35% wool/65% rayon blend and the 20% wool/80% rayon blend.
One major difference between blended wool felt and craft felt is that wool is used in making the felt. The result is a soft, luxurious felt that actually has some of the characteristics of real wool. When comparing polyester craft felt to blended wool felt, the blended felt will have a nice, nubby texture. Some of the 35% wool/65% rayon felts also have heathered coloring. This is because the wool fibers are interwoven which results in a rich, two tone effect.
Although the 20% wool/80% rayon felt is less costly than the 35% wool/65% blend, many merchants sell them for the same price. The wool felt is available online and in major chain stores that carry fabric. Blended wool felt comes in over 100 colors. This felt may be purchased in sheets and by the yard. Blended felt is more expensive than craft felt, but still reasonably priced.
Recommended uses for blended felt include: Home décor crafting such as pillows, table runners and garlands, heirloom quality holiday ornaments, and patterned sewing crafts using wool felt. Try this:
4. 100% Wool Felt
Unlike blended wool felt, as the name suggests 100% wool felt is made from 100% wool. 100% wool felt comes in thicknesses of 1.2 mm, 2mm, 3mm, and 5mm. Real 100% wool felt is sold by the yard and is quite expensive. This felt has a luxurious feel and is used in professional apparel and home décor applications.
100% wool felt is available online and by the yard in some retail stores selling fabric.
Recommended uses for 100% wool felt include: 1.2 mm felt may be used for making hats, clothing, pillows, and other home décor items. 1.2-2 mm may be used for children's footwear and slippers. 2mm and 3mm felts are best used for fashion, fashion accessories, hats, tabletop décor, and computer accessories. 5mm felt is best for wall coverings, decorative hanging room dividers, and wall art. Try this:
5. Needle Punch Felting – 100% Wool Roving
Needle punch is a technique using wool roving and needles to create a decorative effect on clothing and home décor, as well as creating cute critters and dolls. Wool roving is a piece of wool which has been combed, formed into a clump, and twisted to hold the fibers together. There are many tutorials and kits for projects that can be made using the needle punch technique. Try this:
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596 static qcms_CIE_xyY white_point_from_temp(int temp_K) 599 double x, y; 609 if (T >= 4000. && T <= 7000.) { 611 } else { 613 if (T > 7000.0 && T <= 25000.0) { 615 } else { if we reach here, then we're fine in debug builds, because the app kills itself, but in release builds, we'll go past this point leaving x uninitialized: 616 assert(0 && "invalid temp"); and use it here: 622 y = -3.000*(x*x) + 2.870*x - 0.275; and return them: 630 white_point.x = x; 631 white_point.y = y; 634 return white_point;
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6 years ago
Willing to mentor this change: The problem is gfx/qcms/iccread.c. Qcms is our color management library that converts image color space. See this article for more information: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/color-space-conversion.htm The problem in this bug is that if the parameter temp_K is in an invalid range we will return undefined values. assert are omitted in release builds so we fall through and read uninitialized memory. We should set the white_point to D50 white-point after that assert (x = 0.3457, y = 0.3585). A sane default for an invalid parameter.
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6 years ago
I'd like to work on this.
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6 years ago
Thanks Yati. I've posted some information in Comment 1. The first step will be to get the source and compile it: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Simple_Firefox_build then take a look at gfx/qcms/iccread.c. Feel free to post any question you have here on the mean time or find me on IRC.
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Created attachment 566621 [details] [diff] [review] patch v1
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6 years ago
Comment on attachment 566621 [details] [diff] [review] patch v1 Patch looks good to me, passing the review to Jeff since he's the module owner for Color management.
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6 years ago
Comment on attachment 566621 [details] [diff] [review] patch v1 I originally thought returning the D50 white point made more sense but returning -1, -1, -1 will probably make the wrong input more noticeable to the caller. It's probably worth adding a comment about this rationale.
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I've added a comment at the top of the function. Please let me know if anything more needs to be added.
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https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4aa4a5905d1a Congratulations on your first patch in the tree! Hope to see you on IRC (http://irc.mozilla.org/) in #developers soon. If you'd like to fix another bug (we'd love it if you did!) but need some inspiration, pop on & say hi - and we'll find something for you :-)


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Aging Well: Theological Reflections on the Call and Retirement by Jack L. Stotts
Dr. Jack L. Stotts retired from Austin Theological Seminary in 1996 where he served as president and professor of Christian ethics for eleven years. He had served twenty-two years on the faculty and administration of McCormick Theological Seminary. Published by The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), January 1999, p. 25 . This information prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock.
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The tenth meeting of the special Israeli-Transjordan armistice commission on Jerusalem proved fruitless today. In a four-hour session the question of Israeli access to Mt. Scopus and through the Latrun area was not resolved.
The Transjordanian delegates refused to move from their demand that the Jews permit all Arabs who fled Jerusalem to return and to restore their property to them. The next meeting of the body has been set for May 29.
The transfer of United Nations headquarters and the central truce supervision committee from Haifa to Jerusalem began today. It is expected to be completed by the middle of next week.


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When the Los Angeles Dodgers had their game postponed against the Minnesota Twins due to inclement weather, they were afforded the opportunity to expand their roster by one, bringing the big league club's total to 26. As the 26th man, Red Patterson got the start in the first game of a day/night doubleheader, impressing a Dodger team in need of some momentum after a rough homestand.
Though Patterson did not ultimately factor in the decision, he more than kept the Dodgers in a game they were able to eventually win. Pitching four and two-thirds innings, Patterson gave up only two hits and three walks, while striking out one. He also only surrendered one run, enabling the Dodgers to take over the lead and earn the win in the later innings.
Patterson had a solid Spring Training, though it was very unlikely that he would earn a spot on the big league club with the glut of starting pitchers already in place. The right-hander has pitched well at Triple-A in a ballpark known to significantly benefit hitters, not pitchers. Even though he has pitched well, his impressive performance was not necessarily expected, especially on such short notice.
As the Dodgers travel to Miami for a series against the Marlins, Patterson will be rejoining his Triple-A teammates. He will be able to boast some very impressive big league numbers when he returns, as he currently has an ERA of 1.93, an opponent's batting average of .133, and a WHIP of 1.07. Of course, those numbers come in only 4.2 innings of work, but Patterson will still be able to boast about them nonetheless.
While the Dodgers will hope they will not face circumstances in which they again need a 26th man, it should be comforting to know that they have a number of young arms at their immediate disposal in case the need arises.
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Jul 2, 2013 - By Katie Roenigk, Staff WriterLocal fire officials said they weren't surprised by the one-acre fire they extinguished June 24 roughly 12 miles west of Lysite.
The blaze reportedly started June 22, when the National Weather Service warned of wind gusts combined with low humidity and high temperatures. Fremont County Fire Protection District deputy chief Dan Oakley said his agency is on the lookout for fires whenever the NWS issues a "red flag" warning.
"I can't say we get more prepared, (but there's) that heightened level of awareness," Oakley said. "We're going to sit there and wait and wonder."
Oakley said a thunderstorm rolled through Fremont County during a red flag warning June 22. It was lightning from that thunderstorm that reportedly caused the fire west of Lysite.
"That's typical with lightning," Oakley said. "It's two to four days later before the fire's actually discovered."
He said the tree likely smoldered until high winds June 24 blew sparks and ash through the surrounding sagebrush, igniting a fire that spread to cover about one acre of land. A railroad worker reported seeing smoke and flames in the area at about 3:20 p.m. June 24.
Four battalions responded to the fire with eight trucks and 14 firefighters. Oakley said their biggest challenge was accessing the blaze, which "had the potential to run."
"This was an access issue," Oakley said. "There were really no roads to this fire. We had to make roads, then walk to it."
They cleared the scene by 8:30 p.m. June 24, he said.
So far, this year's fire season is "nothing like it was last year at this point," Oakley said. But he still urged residents to use caution during the dry and windy summer months, especially with the Fourth of July coming up.
"They didn't ban fireworks this year and haven't issued all these warnings, (but) you still need to be careful," Oakley said. "Unfortunately, fireworks do get into light grass and do cause fires. ... Take some precautions and make sure you have a fire extinguisher close or a garden hose."
He also asked forest users to make sure campfires are fully extinguished so hot ashes won't spread in the wind. Oakley said a blaze that started at an abandoned campsite on South Pass recently grew to cover about 30 square feet before it was quickly extinguished by the U.S. Forest Service.
"It was a campfire that was not extinguished properly that escaped," Oakley said. "Somebody went and put the water on it (but) didn't do it enough."
The NWS issued another red flag warning June 25, but conditions were better on June 26, with temperatures at 55-60 degrees and winds from the west at 10-15 miles per hour.
"We know fire season has the potential to be bad," Oakley said. "We have a lot of fuels out there, so people just need to be careful. ... If you see smoke or fire someplace it shouldn't be, let somebody know."
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In 1960 music faculty member Wayne Nichols, with support from colleague Jack Sisson, notably formed the first extracurricular student jazz ensemble at the University of Central Oklahoma (Central State College at the time). A decade later Dr. Kent Kidwell formalized a student jazz ensemble as an accredited course in Central's Department of Music and founded our modern jazz program. Shortly thereafter Dr. Kidwell's band began receiving top honors at the Wichita Jazz Festival – at that time a prestigious international event hosting top bands from colleges nationwide. With the notable addition of faculty member Lee Rucker in 1980, jazz at UCO has grown to include eleven student jazz groups as of 2015. In 1986 one of these groups, the Civilized Tribe Dixieland Band, boarded a plane for California in hopes of doing what no other had before by capturing the title of Southern Comfort National Collegiate Dixieland Champions for a second time - three days later they did exactly that! Jeff Kidwell, Lee Rucker, Danny Vaughan, Brian Gorrell, and many other UCO alumni have been largely responsible for keeping traditional New Orleans Jazz going strong at Central and throughout the OKC Metro for well over 35 years. UCO big bands, combos, and individual students have since received numerous awards and honors for outstanding performances at events held literally around the world.
Current Director of Jazz Studies Brian Gorrell took over leadership of UCO Jazz Ensemble I from Professor Emeritus Lee Rucker in 2009. That same year the group was notably invited to perform at both the 50th anniversary of the Jazz a Juan Festival in France (Europe's oldest jazz festival) and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. These invitations, along with significant administrative support, culminated in a major European tour in 2010. After an invitation in Fall 2011, UCO Jazz Ensemble I performed as a featured guest at the Jazz Education Network (JEN) International Conference in Louisville, KY the following January. In March 2012, UCO Jazz Ensemble I was named the "outstanding large collegiate jazz ensemble" nationwide by Downbeat Magazine, the oldest and most prestigious jazz publication in the world. In Fall 2012, the Oklahoma Jazz Educators Association named Brian Gorrell "Collegiate Jazz Educator of the Year", and our UCO Jazz Composers Combo was invited to perform as a closing group at the JEN Conference in Atlanta, GA the following January. In Fall 2013 UCO faculty member Jeff Kidwell was named "Collegiate Jazz Educator of the Year", and on December 19, 2013, UCO Jazz Ensemble I was one of only two collegiate jazz groups nationwide selected to perform at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago – the oldest and largest band and orchestra conference in the world. Most recently, UCO Jazz Ensemble I was selected (for the third time in the past six years) to perform the honors jazz concert closing set at the Oklahoma Music Educators Annual Conference in Tulsa on January 22, 2015.
In addition to offering a Minor in Jazz Studies and Oklahoma's only Master of Music in Jazz Studies, plans are now being finalized to begin a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance next year.
All performance ensembles and most related coursework are open to every UCO student regardless of intended major.
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