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Sir Joshua Walmsley (Lib) rose to move that, "in the opinion of this House it would promote the intellectual improvement of the working classes of this metropolis if the collections of natural history and of art in the British Museum and the National Gallery were open to the public inspection after morning service on Sundays". He said that more than ordinary interest had been manifested upon this question out of doors, and many of the working classes were looking forward with anxiety for the decision to which the House would arrive at upon it.
In bringing this motion forward, he should endeavour to avoid all theological subjects and personalities calculated to wound the feelings of any hon. member. He did not desire, however, to shrink from any discussion calculated to elicit the truth, nor did he yield to any man in an earnest desire to keep the Sabbath as free from labour as was consistent with the necessities of the people, and to preserve it as a day of devotion, rest and innocent enjoyment.
The object of the motion was to afford to the working classes an opportunity of visiting the works of art in the British Museum and National Gallery, and that was in reality the sole extent of the motion, though it had been in a great degree mixed up by others with a proposition of a much different character.
The working classes themselves considered that their admission to these institutions would improve their social condition, tend to draw them away from more debasing and demoralising pursuits, and would not in any way interfere with the religious rites or devotional exercises of those who entertained the most rigorous views with regard to the proper observance of the Sabbath.
There was as earnest a desire to preserve the Sabbath as a day of devotion in this country as in any other, and it was his firm belief that the opening of these institutions would increase the reverence felt for that day, and tend ultimately to augment considerably the attendance upon public worship. Thousands and tens of thousands of those who at present seldom left the courts and alleys of the metropolis except for the public house, would be induced to visit the British Museum and National Gallery, and would in the end have their moral and social condition improved, and be led to attend also upon a place of worship.
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WRDA WARRIORS: Sens. Barbara Boxer and David Vitter are looking to create a strong coalition — a la surface transportation last year — to help them hold the lines on their Water Resources Development Act against potentially meddling lawmakers. The duo held a conference call that included more than a dozen representatives of prominent water and transportation groups yesterday, urging unity. Boxer and Vitter "are asking us to rally the troops and try to prevent any extraneous amendments from being attached to it — to keep it clean," said one participant who was on the call.
Appropriate dispute: There was little discussion by stakeholders on the call, though one asked the senators if they could provide details from their substitute amendment, a revised version of WRDA that seeks to address concerns from the industry and other lawmakers. Boxer promptly rebuffed that request. And staffers on the committee have been tight-lipped about showing their hand during the ongoing negotiations, which are expected lead to some changes in the form of a substitute bill when it hits the floor. Though the bill is expected to easily clear Monday's procedural hurdle, not everything is resolved. A beef between the Appropriations Committee and the EPW leaders is still being worked out, aides said. Scott and Burgess: http://politico.pro/17y29Wq
FOXX WATCH: Boxer released a statement yesterday praising the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt to lead the FHFA, but it's still been crickets on Mayor Anthony Foxx's nomination to lead DOT.
MT FIRST LOOK — Teen driving: We all know teenage children and their parents are constantly battling — but the two sides need to work together to improve teen driving habits. The Governors Highway Safety Association has a new study out today looking at state initiatives and parental involvement on teen safety. In short: Having states focus on the issue and having parents stay active in their child's driving habits are both good and needed things. While all 50 states have graduated driver licensing, "only a handful" are actively working with parents on the issue. The report, Promoting Parent Involvement in Teen Driving: An In-Depth Look at the Importance and Initiatives, goes online today: http://bit.ly/AoN6rD
BUILDING BRIDGES IN CONGRESS: The American Society of Civil Engineers has identified $76 billion in bridge needs and says an additional $8 billion a year needs to be spent on bridges to get them up to speed (America's bridges get a C-plus overall). That's an area where President Barack Obama's "fix-it-first agenda" could make a big difference, but the funding for the $40 billion initiative is not a crowd-pleaser on the Hill. We saw a messaging bill from Rep. Brian Higgins proposing more than $1 trillion in infrastructure spending last Congress, but Rep. Janice Hahn is going for something so modest it may be a conversation-starter on T&I. Hahn's legislation would create a $500 million grant program for states "to put money toward repairing the worst bridges in the country," she told MT. Hahn said she hoped it wouldn't take another startling bridge collapse to motivate Congress. "That would be so irresponsible. We need to start thinking ahead," Hahn said. "The president's idea is right. It puts people to work. Mine is a practical piece of that. Let's fix it bridge by bridge." Check out the bill for yourself: http://bit.ly/Zl9hD7
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OOPS: Maryland Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin lauded the FAA and DOT for "keeping all 149 federal air traffic control towers" open in a press release. Problem is, DOT hasn't publicly announced anything, leaving lingering questions about whether Secretary Ray LaHood has given private assurances about his willingness to use his new authority to keep open the contract towers currently slated for closure June 15. "Now that the legislation has been finalized, we are evaluating the details," a DOT spox told MT.
Tower mailbag: Rep. Richard Hudson wrote ( http://politico.pro/16r829V) LaHood, urging him to use the $21 million in extra transfer authority to keep the towers open. And the National Air Transportation Association gets in on the fun with a letter saying, "We believe the congressional intent to do so is clear in the legislation." Read it: http://politico.pro/10VDdJJ
DOTTING THE I's, T's and S's: Obama has signed the FAA flexibility bill that put an end to the agency's air traffic controller furloughs until at least October. Obama never hinted that he would veto the bill but has objected to the broader implications of pushing long-term investments to the wayside to weather short-term pain.
Poll position: A Gallup survey shows that despite MT's best efforts, even last week's furloughs and Congress's rushed FAA bill didn't elevate the sequester into the public consciousness. http://bit.ly/ZncGyk
ALSO IN THE WHITEHOUSE: That's Sheldon, not the president. The Rhode Island senator quietly dropped a bill that would make a $500 million fund to provide to states for projects of regional or national significance. A similar program was created in 2005's SAFETEA-LU law, but all the of $1.8 billion was earmarked, rendering it largely moot at the time. Text: http://bit.ly/103tidG
A BRIGHT IDEA: A new list of the government's most innovative programs includes DOT's IdeaHub, an online forum for DOT employees that aims to "build and develop ideas in a collaborative environment." The list, from the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, does not rank the programs. Four finalists and one winner will be picked this fall. Check out the full list: http://bit.ly/ZmTocD
TOLL TIME: A new HNTB survey finds that 63 percent of respondents "feel the nation can no longer build its way out of traffic congestion" and 71 percent would pay a higher toll for a quicker drive. When asked to pick from toll or gas tax funded new roads or no new roads, here's the breakdown: 46 percent for tolls, 25 percent for the gas tax and 28 percent for no new roads. Check it out: http://bit.ly/18ddsVe
MT POLL — Friend of Foxx? Are you optimistic about Anthony Foxx taking the reins at DOT? Will he be a good fit or hurt the agency's direction? Maybe you're ambivalent and think Congress is more important. Let us know before Sunday at noon: http://bit.ly/152wRtl
FINED: DOT has fined Southwest Airlines $150,000 for not quickly responding to passenger complaints. DOT's Aviation Enforcement Office found that Southwest did not respond "in a timely matter" to a number of complaints from disabled and other passengers between June 2011 and January 2012 because of a "problem with its website." Most responses were sent late and did not include information required by DOT regulations.
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i do some baseball swing analysis i typically pull clips from website for swings. live hd broadcast are much clearer and not as compressed as websites. is there a way to ( record thru dvr) then record off the dvr to playback on computer to get the high quality? i want to take a game take clips of swings from lets say a recorded espn game. how would i do that to get the highest quality?
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Of course you can record live tv to a dvr. What do you think a dvr is for ?
Of course you can, with the right equipment capture that recording from the dvd to your computer. That is the essence of 'Capturing'
This forum will tell you what equipment you need beit it a hdmi splitter, (possibly) a hdcp-stripper and a HD capture device.
Whether it is legal to re-use broadcast material in this way is an entirely different matter.
yes i understand what a dvr does just trying to capture what i record and convert to a file that i can play back. sorry that i did not make my self to clear
I do this all the time, but my DVR (provided by a cable company) has component video out and my Hauppauge Colossus card can record component video. If your DVR only supports HDMI output then you may have to spend even more money and get a device that can remove HDMI encryption. Such devices are technically illegal in the USA (because of the DMCA) so they are sometimes sold without any mention of this capability and sold as something like HDMI splitters. We've had threads on them. So what you propose is possible but it depends on your DVR, what kind of output it uses and what your video capture card or device can do.
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text: I'm pumped - the road trip is going to happen and it is fast approaching! I wrote a while back that I was thinking about a trip out west with my SO. At the time it was all just talk - now it's a reality! And now I need "to do" ideas! And I just want to share my excitement of course! We are flying into Phoenix and staying with my boyfriend's cousin before the three of us head to the Grand Canyon. We have two camping permits, so we'll be able to hike to the bottom of the canyon, stay overnight, hike halfway out, camp, and then the other half (provided we don't die somewhere along the way of heat stroke.... and I'm only half kidding :yikes The canyon is pretty much all planned out considering that hiking will be our main to do and I'm just praying that the running, biking, and hiking I've been doing to get in shape will keep me alive. From the Grand Canyon, we drive to Las Vegas. Here I need ideas! We're on a budget - but I know Vegas is known for having lots and lots of free attractions and deals. Any must do things while we're there!? From Vegas we part ways with SO's cousin and take my sister's car from Vegas (I know she won't read this, but I feel the need to give her a huge virtual thanks for her and her husband's kindness in loaning us a car) and drive to where my sister and brother-in-law live, near Joshua Tree National Park. We'll do Joshua Tree and definitely spend some time just visiting since I don't get to see either of them all that often. There's not much out there in the middle of the desert, but if you know of anything fun to do or see in the 29 Palms area, do let me know! From 29 Palms, we book it West to LA. Two nights in a LA hostel and no real plans as of yet... Ideas!? From LA, we head to Pismo Beach, CA and from Pismo Beach we drive North to Cambria, CA. Each is just an overnight. Ideas are welcome for these two locations as well. After Cambria is Yosemite, where we will be spending four nights and three full days, so we should hopefully have some good time to hike and explore. I already have a few ideas of hikes and such to do, but if you've been to Yosemite, I'm happy to hear input. Due to booking late, we have to switch campsites each night, but we're staying at Crane Flats and Hodgdon Meadow Campgrounds and a hostel for the last night. Ideas? After Yosemite is Sequoia for two nights where we meet back up with my sister and brother-in-law, but we'll probably just be doing some hikes with them there. Ideas are still welcome. My sister and BIL are hiking Mt. Whitney and need to get acclimated to the altitude before they embark on the 22 mile day hike (!!!)... my boyfriend and I will just be doing some of the prep hikes with them. That's pretty much the end of the trip - we then book it back to my sister's house and fly out the next day! Trip is about three weeks total and I'll be stoked if we can do it in less than $1,500 each. We shall see - I'm definitely being optimistic, but at the same time, knowing some family out there and having my sister be kind enough to let us borrow a car has made a huge huge difference. Anyhow, ideas are welcome. Regardless, I just wanted to share - I'm sure I'll be taking millions of photos while I'm out there, so be prepared for updates! YAYYYYYYYYYYY!


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Mayakovskaya (Russian: Маяковская), is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. Considered to be one of the most beautiful in the system, it is one of the finest examples of pre-World War II Stalinist Architecture making it one of the most famous Metro stations in the world. The name as well as the design is a reference to Futurism and its prominent Russian exponent Vladimir Mayakovsky.
The station was built as part of the second stage of the Moscow Metro expansion, and was opened on 11 September 1938. If the first stage was more focused on the building the system itself, both architecturally and engineeringly the stations appear modest in comparison to those that the second stage brought to the system. For the first time in the world, instead of having the traditional three-neath pylon station layout, the engineers were able to overlap the vault space and support it with two sets of colonnades on each side. This gave birth to a new column type design and Mayakovskaya was the first station to show this.
Located 33 meters beneath the surface, the station became famous during World War II when an air raid shelter was located in the station. On the anniversary of the October Revolution, on 7 November 1941 Stalin personally addressed a mass assembly of party leaders and ordinary Muscovites in the central hall of the station.
If the triumph in engineering was not enough, then Alexey Dushkin's brilliant Art Deco decoration design was truly amazing. Based on Soviet future as envisioned by the famous poet Mayakovsky the station features graceful columns faced with stainless steel and pink rhodonite, white Ufaley and grey Diorite marble walls, a brilliant flooring pattern of white and pink marble, and of course, most of all are the niches of each of the 35 niches of each vault. Surrounded by filament lights there are a total of 34 brilliant ceiling mosaics by Alexander Deyneka with the theme "24-Hour Soviet Sky." A passenger has but to look up and see the bright Soviet future in the heavens above him.
In 2005 a new second north exit was built along with a new vestibule in a unique style. Passengers leaving the station will first descend on a short escalator ride into an underground vestibule and only then climb the long one to the surface. The new exit also allowed access to the 25th mosaic, which was previously hidden behind the service section. Other mosaic works were designed from scratch, accompanied by ample use of marble and stainless steel sculpturing. The bust of the poet was moved to the new surface vestibule whose ceiling was also decorated with a mosaic composition from Mayakovski's poem "Moscow Sky".
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ciakgiak (30433) 2010-05-24 14:09
Hello Sasko,
I'm really honest... this one is really SUPERB!
What an impressive image, the perspective, the colors and the graphical effect are magnificent! Congratulations dear friend.
best regards
vasilpro (41699) 2010-05-24 14:16
Hello Sasko,
The metro stations in Moscow are a piece of art, I saw it and on your previous photo from there, excellent light management, lovely colors, beautiful architecture. TFS!
Greetings from Greece, Vasilis.
dip (23892) 2010-05-24 14:23
Hi Sasko,
What a perspective!!!!!!
really amazing view,good light management and framing as well,
Budapestman (82620) 2010-05-24 14:37
Hi Sasko,
a splendid interior photo with spectacular symmetrical composition, the details and lights are beautiful, great perspective and clarity, Tfs! Have a nice week! Kellemes hetet Kívánok!
George (György)
npecanhuk (79319) 2010-05-24 14:43
Hello Sasko!
With all those lights in the ceiling... man... that station is another magnificent one! Wow! I'd love to see them all one day in my life!
Your picture is so attractive with excellent sharpness, exposure, pov, dof, colors, horizontal & rectangular format, black & white borders and composition!
TFS - congratulations!
My warmest regards,
gilou530 (34) 2010-05-24 14:48
super gestion de la lumiére et profondeur beaucoup de graphisme dans ce cadrage
giorgimer (35017) 2010-05-24 15:35
Hi Sasko,
russian tube is unique. Excellent capture with spectacular perspective and DOF
PaulVDV (36744) 2010-05-24 15:41
Hello Sasko,
Another fantastic Moscow subway station.
Very beautiful with the different light yellow colours and great graphic effects created by the endless sequences of the arcs (arcs in the middle of the hall and others towards the platforms) and of the lamps placed in large circles in the ceiling.
Best regards, Paul
edge (7409) 2010-05-24 20:24
Hello Sasko, Another great picture from Moscow. This is outstanding. I have seen many photos of the subway there but I think this one tops most of them. Great composition and the color is excellent. So is the lighting. A real jewel here in the city. Thanks for posting. Roger
yeln (11516) 2010-05-24 21:13
hoj Sako
pogled je moram priznati super. kakor sem e enkrat dejal me te postaje spominjajo na koncertne dvorane.
verjetno so tudi tebe presenetile s svojo lepoto in barvitostjo.
lepo delo in zato moje čestitke!!!
lp Vojc
delpeoples (60236) 2010-05-24 21:15
Hi Sasko, you really do have a great eye for the symmetry and perspective of a scene. This composition is spectacularly good. The depth, colour rendering and sharpness are flawless. Congratulations and have a good day, Lisa
ikeharel (85022) 2010-05-24 21:41
Hi Sasko,
I had heared that Moskow Rail-stations are like museums, and this pic. you managed to show it very well.
Great POV, nice color's comp.
Hi Sasko,
beautiful shot, incredible d.o.f. Very good management of the light, fine colors and sharpness.
Fantastic these Moscow's metro station.
Sasko, the metro in Moscow is beautiful! and your shot very impressive with an excellent depth of field.
Have a nice day friend!
dkmurphys (69815) 2010-05-25 0:12
Hi Sasko,
Incredible architecture and good POV. I like the colors and lights. And I thought that Lisboa's metro stations are the most beautiful painted and decorated...seems not:P
romanaa (8022) 2010-05-25 2:34
Hello Sako,
again - surprisingly noble looking underground station, with great symmetry, depth and light management, only the stars, crescents and hammers on the ceiling remind the past period of USSR.
Best regards
sandpiper (6788) 2010-05-25 3:27
Hi Sasko
Great architecture in thi sunderground station. Good note. Excellent composition and light management.
Nicou (160033) 2010-05-25 3:29
grandisoe compo quel intérieur dans ce tons jaunes, ce rond, quelle perspective avec les personnages, sueprbe compo et maîtrise de lumières.
bravo et maitié
francio64 (39888) 2010-05-25 5:17
Ciao Sasko,
ottimo taglio stretto su questa bella metro station.
Grafismo e DOF sono al top.
Well done and TFS!
csabagaba (6636) 2010-05-27 4:09
Saski Hello!
You're all the churches and subway stations, and have finished in under a couple of days? :-)
I was not involved in the Moscow subway, just heard about it. This monumentality of the great Russian soul. It's like a palace. Because girls are more beautiful :-) Your picture is the same as the station ... monumental, sacred ... Cathedral of transport. Very beautiful light and games, a very narrow perspective adds to provide space.
But even ... the right girl was able to have more :-)
Have a nice day
macjake (77807) 2010-05-29 9:19
Hi Sasko
you certainly have an eye for composition.
love the depth, the symetry, the lines, curves, lighting, circles...all is there for the eye to see.
of course the face in the bottom right has to go, but hey, we're not all perfect! i've done that before as well :)
have a great day
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This is one of the reasons i would like to visit Moscow. It is for e difficult to understand how beautiful the metro stations are there when i look at the stations at Europe. Thanks for sharing
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Hello Sasko
a very fine architectural composition with strong rythmic pattern. The shiny reflections are a big plus.
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Those who emphasize process have said that the government of President Mohammed Morsi was freely elected and that its democratic support has been confirmed over and over. The most important thing, they say, is to protect the fragile democratic institutions and to oppose those who would destroy them through armed coup.
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by George Malik on 12/09/13 at 07:21 PM ET
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As the NHL prepares to move its ice-making truck from Toronto to Ann Arbor, Fox Sports Detroit's Art Regner's offered no less than eleven player profiles(!) and a chat with Keith Gave about the Russian 5, Sport-Express's Slava Malamud's tossing off quips and quotes about Datsyukian Q and A's, a likely bland 24/7 experience over the next three Saturdays and is trading Babcockian jabs, the Red Wings and their beleagured goalie headed to Florida for a 2-game swing through Miami and Tampa Bay...
Leaving behind a Comerica Park that's somewhere between halfway and two thirds of the way toward being ready for the Hockeytown Winter Festival's "open skates" and status as the home of this year's Great Lakes Invitational, a slate of high school games, a pair of OHL games, a game between the Red Wings and Maple Leafs' AHL teams (the Griffins and Marlies) and a pair of "Alumni Showdowns."
The Detroit News's David Goricki spoke with Rich Cubin, the man in charge of building and maintaining the Comerica Park rink, regarding the rink's status...
Cubin hopes to get on the ice Friday to break it in. He arrived in Detroit on Nov. 20 to begin construction.
"Right now we're sitting at probably about 30-to-40,000 gallons of water," said Cubin. "That's our base layer. It's on a grated surface with two inches of insulation and what we call a rink liner. It basically turns into a very shallow swimming pool. We started the process Friday afternoon and then just had continuous flooding to get to the three-inch thick surface. We went three days, about 10,000 gallons a day."
Cubin started the prep work Nov. 20, putting out 70,000 square feet of temporarily flooring, "to give us room for snow removal and access for vehicles so we're not driving all over the field."
"We're constantly monitoring where the sun is, what the forecast is, and that's what makes operating an outdoor ice surface completely different than a climate-controlled building," said Cubin. "What we're going to do to create a good ice surface is balance mother nature versus our refrigeration plant. We don't want the ice too cold to where when you drive on it with the Zamboni it cracks and shatters. If it's 10 degrees and we don't do something it would be just like a sheet of ice and explode."
Cubin said mini-Zambonis will be used at Comerica; they will arrive Wednesday. They weight 2,200 pounds and are about one-third the size of regular ones.
And Goricki notes that what the Wings threw something of a curveball into what I would delicately describe as a set of events that the NHL seems to be aiming toward those who really do make decisions about their stocks, mutual funds and 401K's based upon the advice of the financial companies that advertise their services during NHL games:
Red Wings fans should mark Dec. 18 on their calendars. The Red Wings will skate on the Comerica Park ice to get them acclimated to the outdoor conditions in preparation for their game against the Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium on New Year's Day. The noon practice is open to the public free of charge.
Otherwise, this evening's crop of Red Wings-related news involves a trio of power rankings, with ESPN handing the reins over to Katie Strang (Pierre LeBrun and Scott Burnside have traded the list-making duties thus far) for this week's Wings assessment...
17. Detroit 15-9-7 [down] 6Last Week: 11 Life without star forwards Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg isn't getting any easier in Motown.
TSN's Scott Cullen weighing in as follows...
This Week14 Last Week 12 Detroit Red Wings 15-9-7
The expected return of C Pavel Datsyuk can't come soon enough for the Wings, who have been battling without their two best players (Henrik Zetterberg also sidelined), getting contributions from the likes of Tomas Tatar and Drew Miller, who have combined for nine points in four games this month.
Key Injuries: LW Henrik Zetterberg (back), C Darren Helm (shoulder), D Danny DeKeyser (shoulder).
(and some Nyquist guy, too...And Franzen...And Kronwall...)
And Sportsline's Brian Stubits keeps things brief:
13. Red Wings: In the past 16 games, the Red Wings have played four teams in playoff position, with Boston the only clear-cut playoff team, and have gone 6-5-6. They might rue that later.
November + December thus far = Wings' margin for error is very small going forward. But it is an 82-game season.
Speaking of struggling, the Miami Herald's George Richards penned an article about Stephen Weiss's return to Miami as an underperforming member of the Red Wings...
"Confidence has been a struggle for him,'' Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. "I think when you go to a new place, just not being comfortable makes it hard on you. The reality is; hockey is hockey. He's been a good player his whole career. I don't imagine it's going to take him too much longer.''
If Weiss is feeling the pressure of playing under serious expectations, he won't admit it. It does seems like something he needs to get adjusted to as he has only two goals and two assists in 25 games with Detroit. Weiss didn't find the scorecard in Florida's 2-1 win at Joe Louis Arena on Saturday.
"Trying too hard sometimes can backfire on you,'' Weiss said. "I think that was the case early on. I came here to be a part of something, to win hockey games. We've been doing that. It's fun seeing your team at the top of the standings. That's been a lot of fun. Personally, I'll get that going soon.''
Said Henrik Zetterberg: "We play a little different system than they do down there and it takes time to adjust. But he's playing well, doing a lot of little things on the ice that he doesn't get credited for. He's going to be here for a long, long time. We're happy to have him.''
Weiss had become the face of the Panthers over his time here as his NHL career literally started in Sunrise when Florida made him the fourth overall pick of the 2001 draft held at what is now called the BB&T Center.
Over the next nine seasons, Weiss became the franchise's all-time leader in games played and one of its all-time leaders in various categories. Yet when it came time for a new contract, the Panthers didn't have any money. The team was for sale and Weiss had missed most of the previous season after opting for major wrist surgery. Florida let him walk away to Detroit without putting up any sort of fight to keep him.
On July 5, Weiss signed a five-year deal with the Red Wings worth an average of $4.9 million. Weiss averaged $3.1 million over his past six years in Florida. Weiss would have been the big news on the first day of free agency had the Red Wings not also lifted Daniel Alfredsson from Ottawa.
"It's been fun, but it's been an adjustment; the weather, getting settled, all those things,'' Weiss said. "It's something I'm not used to. But I played junior hockey in this area so I have friends here. I really enjoyed my time here so far. Being a part of this organization is something special.''
(for the record, I'm not with Herr Lambert regarding the concept that Weiss is on the fast track to a compliance buy-out just yet, but I have been surprised with the depth and breadth of Weiss's struggles, even accounting for the fact that he played in all of 17 games before having major reconstructive surgery on his left wrist last season. I think he's still got a couple of weeks before we see the "real Weiss," and in the interim, I'd tell him to change what he can change: his skates, his stick and his gloves, if only to try and break his scoring slump)
At the other end of the spectrum, the DetroitRedWings.com's Andrea Nelson asked Pavel Datsyuk's teammates about the gravity of #13's return to the lineup tomorrow...
"It's important to get him back losing the last two out of three or winning the last two out of three," center Stephen Weiss said. "That's a guy that you need in your lineup and you want in your lineup and he makes our team that much better, so we're certainly excited to see him back today in practice with the line and having him back tomorrow."
Datsyuk has 12 goals and 23 points in 24 games and still leads the league with 40 takeaways. Chicago's Marian Hossa is second with 38.
"Pav's a very special player," Wings goalie Jimmy Howard said. "He's highly respected in this room. He's one of our leaders. To have him come back in it'll give a boost to our lineup. Pav just makes everyone around him that much better. He's one of those unique players that can do that, no matter who's playing with him their play elevates."
The Red Wings were 5-2-0 with Datsyuk sidelined from an elbow he received from Ottawa's Jared Cowen on Nov. 23. Fortunately, the Wings have gotten an offensive boost from players like Johan Franzen, Tomas Tatar and Gustav Nyquist, who took advantage of the additional ice time. And coach Mike Babcock doesn't expect that production to change when No. 13 returns.
"For my two cents, I thought Franzen was a star when Pav was out," Babcock said. "Leadership-wise, determination-wise, how he played, and so now that's the benchmark. You don't go back to the other guy you continue to be what you've been and he should be proud of how he played and we need him to keep playing like that. I think the same with Tatar and Nyquist, Tatar in particular. They've got more ice time they've taken a step and now continue to earn that ice time. That's how you end up a better team, through guys getting opportunity and grabbing it and ideally in the end we will be."
And she offered something of an inadvertent Wings-Panthers, Take 2 preview over the course of a notebook which also disusses Darren Helm's status, Jimmy Howard's return to the net and, yes, Weiss's "homecoming":
"Well, we gotta skate a lot better," Babcock said of the rematch with the Panthers. "I thought we had spacing problems, and what I mean by that is when your forwards are a long way away from your D there's huge gaps and it's easy to come through you. That's two-fold, one we weren't skating and one I thought we let ourself off the hook, you know three games in four nights and they didn't play and we didn't, forget all that that let's just play."
The Wings' Facebook page wants you to know that tomorrow's Red Wings Viewing Party at the MotorCity Casino's SoundBoard will include one Larry Murphy...
And as I was writing this, MLive's Ansar Khan posted an evening notebook updating the status of one Darren Helm, who hopes to return to the ice Wednesday-ish after injuring his shoulder a week ago, and return to the ice somewhere between the 17th and 21st:
"I'm optimistic I won't be out that long," Helm said Monday. "I've made headway. The first couple of days were pretty bad. The last two have been pretty good. I'm hoping it continues in the same direction and I'll get back sooner rather than later."
Helm was injured midway through the third period of Wednesday's 6-3 loss to Philadelphia.
"It was one of those plays, a freak thing," Helm said. "I went down, landed on it and someone may have hit me as well when I was down. I went off for a bit and came back."
He said his range of motion "isn't great."
"It's picked up the last couple of days; started to do more strengthening stuff today and it felt pretty good," Helm said. "We'll see how it feels tomorrow and hopefully I can push it a little more."
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SPDR Barclays Capital Convertible Securities ETF (NYSE:CWB[1]) — This ETF invests at least 80% of its assets in the convertible securities of the Barclays U.S. Convertible Bond Index. Its holdings include Wells Fargo Convertible Preferred, General Motors Convertible, Intel Convertible 3.25% and Gilead Sciences Convertible bonds. It pays an annualized dividend of $1.62 for a current yield of 3.88%.
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After a breakout from an ascending triangle at just under $40, CWB continued the advance by executing a breakaway gap, which was followed by a continuation gap at $40.40. It has been consolidating for almost a month, but a break above $42 should result in a continuation of its bull market advance.
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Today (Dec. 2, 2011) is Britney Spears 30th birthday and in honor of the big day, a dedicated, diehard fan — who is also a dominoes enthusiast — created an elaborate domino maze honoring the singer. 6000 dominoes were set up and then fell in a 75-second chain reaction, all related to Brit Brit. That's love!


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" Brand: Asda / Type: Towel / Category: Cleaning Products & Utensils > Wipes, Towels, Tissues "
Whilst doing an online shop at www.asda.com recently, I was perusing the virtual supermarket 'aisle' which contained rolls of kitchen paper and kitchen towels as I knew I had to buy some for my household.
My preference has always been to buy a decorative kitchen towel as I think it looks nicer in my kitchen and it doubles up as paper napkins if I have a friend over for dinner or lunch and I think the printed or decorative kitchen towels are more attractive-looking than a generic white roll.
With this in mind, I was intrigued to notice what seemed to be quite a new item from the Asda own-branded range of such items. The 'Asda Paw Prints Kitchen Towel' stood out to me immediately as something that would appeal, given the cute little printed animals that I could see on the rolls of paper suiting my animal-daft personality down to a tee.
I was further impressed by the price of the item, noting that the pack of Asda Paw Prints towels contained four rolls of paper and would only cost me £2, which allows for a reasonable saving to be made when this purchase is compared to the item I would usually buy which is the "Asda Strong and Absorbent Patterned Kitchen Towels" which normally cost me £1.45 for a pack of two rolls.
With that, my purchasing decision was made, and when the pack of Paw Prints towels arrived with the rest of my groceries, first impressions were very good; I was quite delighted at the cute design of the little animals on the top and bottom of each roll, and the little green-coloured paw print design on the rolls just added to its charm and appeal, for me personally at least. I must confess that I am a huge fan of all things animal related, particularly if said animals are cute cartoons, and this paper towel didn't disappoint on this score.
The packaging is pretty basic, and consists of a see-through plastic wrapper, with a large yellow coloured 'Paw' design on the front of the product and the product name displayed neatly within. I can see that this product is exclusive to Asda Stores Limited, and there are more details given about the item on the reverse of the packaging, such as the average amount of 50 sheets per roll, the sheet size (215mm x 229mm), and the fact that these particular kitchen towels are 2 ply.
When it came to using the Paw Prints kitchen towels, I found that there were no problems with tearing or ripping a sheet of paper towel from the roll, as has been the case with many brands - particularly those at the cheaper end of the market - that I have bought in the past. In actual fact the perforated line separating each of the individual paper towels seems to be quite deep and I have had no problems at all with separating them.
The absorbency of the Asda Paw Prints kitchen towels is not the best I have ever come across it has to be said. It is true that the product is absorbent enough to deal with small spillages and it certainly copes well with my everyday needs, but when it comes to larger pools of water or liquid, I find that the Paw Prints towel is just not thick enough to cope. This fact however, is not something that would prevent me from buying the product again and I have come to expect results like this with a cheaper-branded kitchen towel. As I refuse to spend much money on products such as this it is not a huge problem for me personally and I am happy with the absorbency of the product for what I paid for it.
The Paw Prints kitchen rolls are not made of the softest materials I have ever come across, but again, for what I paid for the product I was not expecting the results to be over-whelming and so I do not feel let-down or disappointed by the results achieved. At the end of the day, I buy kitchen paper for a variety of reasons such as mopping up spills and cleaning mirrors, so the softness of the paper is not really an issue for yours truly.... I am not using it to wash my face after all! Certainly, when this kitchen towel has been used to dry my hands, it has not felt scratchy or abrasive, and that is good enough for me.
The charm and appeal of the cute design on the Paw Prints kitchen paper is what makes it a winning product in my opinion and for me personally, it is the main reason that I will continue to buy it. It copes well with mopping up small spills and enables me to do my domestic duties and chores without much fuss and this, coupled with the gorgeous, cute design make the product a winning one for me.
The Asda Paw Prints Kitchen Towel can be purchased online at www.asda.com or bought from Asda supermarkets where the pack of four kitchen paper rolls will cost you only £2.00.


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The hot streak in restaurant spending may cool in the coming summer months, according to Kurt Salmon's Restaurant Spending Trajectory.
"On the heels of rising consumer sentiment, spending has been steadily climbing for the past 10 months, so it makes sense that it would settle into a more sustainable pace," said restaurant strategist Todd Hooper. "In April, we saw the confidence levels of high- and low-income consumers diverge more than we've seen since before the recession. This means that value-focused restaurants may need to keep a tight lid on prices for the time being."
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Ocarina of Time & Majora's Mask - Does It Hold Up?
If you own a Wii and you're not playing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, I really don't know what's wrong with you. I mean, I guess there are a bunch of other awesome AAA titles currently out, but Skyward Sword is a grand masterpiece and a true testament to Nintendo's prowess as far as that legendary series is concerned. You don't have to be a biased gamer to see that Skyward Sword is a game worth experiencing.
After spending some time with Link's latest adventure, I decided to revisit his two glorious Nintendo 64 escapades. Would they stand the test of time? Of course they would! But how would they hold up after the recent release of Skyward Sword?
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
Link's jump to 3D was a practically flawless fantasy romp through a massive Hyrule that starred amazing characters, featured a lovely soundtrack, and looked absolutely stunning for its time. It's no longer 1998, though. Standards for games have increased dramatically, and the bar for what separates a good game from a great game has been raised exponentially. That said, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is one of those games that never gets old, and my recent run through this title proves it.
What's so remarkable about Ocarina of Time is that you can take elements that may not exactly hold up to today's standards and then argue why they do hold up or what aspects of those aged elements still hold up fairly well. The visuals, for example, are littered with plenty of blurry textures and polygons, which isn't exactly acceptable these days. Even then, there's a distinct art style that really stands out. Designs on walls, architecture, and character models all have a wonderful aesthetic charm. No, the game may not be beautiful like it once was, but it's still refreshingly artsy.
As for the music, yes, it's super MIDI-based, but the soundtrack in Ocarina of Time is still one of the best collections of music ever put together. Every song in the game is memorable, and whether you're listening to the serene music in Zora's Domain or the eerie theme in the Spirit Temple, each song hits the right notes. Simply put, the music in Ocarina of Time is some of the best of its era. Hell, it's some of the best of any generation.
It should be noted that the mechanics in the game have aged a bit. This is a game from 1998, after all, so it would be foolish to expect Ocarina of Time to flow as smoothly as other more modern titles. Still, though there are some distinct '90s quirks, the game is almost entirely solid by today's standards. If I were to nitpick, all I could really complain about are the slightly stiff animations and issues with switching Link's boots using the pause menu. Other than that, Ocarina of Time is still the grand adventure it once was.
This is the Zelda title that revolutionized the series and laid the groundwork for what we see in Zelda games today. It was practically perfect back in 1998, and in 2011--after having experienced what Skyward Sword has to offer--Ocarina of Time is still an incredible, amazing, and practically perfect journey through Hyrule. Its age shows ever so slightly, but that doesn't take away from the grand experience that this golden package has to offer.
The verdict: If for some reason you never played Ocarina of Time, please take the time to experience this wondrous journey. This is still a truly special game that should be seen, heard, and played.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64)
Following my quick look back at one of the most iconic games in the history of the medium, I decided to take its direct sequel for a spin. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is one of the most unique games in the series, but it's also one of the best. Featuring a much darker storyline than previous entries in the series, Majora's Mask was equally impressive and chilling.
The game runs on a slightly updated Ocarina of Time engine, which pretty much means its shortcomings are mostly the same as far as presentation goes. That said, Nintendo really managed to pump out a bit more juice with Majora's Mask, offering a greater draw distance, less fog, and improved animations. It's still not too advanced when compared to modern games, but Majora's Mask has the same strong points as Ocarina of Time, and those strong points are actually plenty richer as far as quality is concerned.
Majora's Mask is a unique Zelda game. It's much shorter than most other entries in the series. Its emphasis on time limits creates a hectic vibe, and it's arguably the darkest game in the series. Those qualities make Majora's Mask worth playing. If you have yet to experience this one-of-a-kind Zelda adventure, you'll be glad to know that it's still totally relevant and one hell of a ride from start to finish.
The verdict: Majora's Mask is easily one of the most risky entries in the Zelda series, but as a result of the risks taken, it's also one of the best. It holds up arguably better than all previous entries in the franchise to release before Skyward Sword.


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Some movie stars are svelte and angular like Ben Affleck, or deliciously round and curved like Halle Berry or parts of J.Lo. But it's hard to get top billing when you look like a striated brake drum. Yet the 1996 film Big Night starred exactly that: timpano, or timballo di maccheroni, a pastry crust jammed with layered pasta, ragu, meatballs, peas, chicken and mozzarella. So elaborate and symphonic is timpano that its creation requires at least a whole day of ingredient-gathering and another for preparation. It makes a lavish Thanksgiving feast seem as complicated as a Jiffy Pop-and-Colt 45 movie snack. And it has seductive star power. Then again, virtually every crumb in this epicurean epic that also stars nonculinary items such as Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini and Minnie Driver, has the seductive power of draped lace. Tucked in the final moments of the film is an unbroken shot of the meticulous preparation of a perfect omelette. Set in 1950s New York, Big Night is about a genius chef and his brother newly emigrated from Italy, a restaurant named Paradise, sexual intrigue and the ease with which passion for great food can slip one into pauperism. It's also about nefarious criminal acts--demanding a side of spaghetti and meatballs with a seafood risotto, for instance. "She is a philistine," screams the genius chef Primo when a Paradise dining guest wants to violate the risotto he spent all day preparing. The film concludes with a lavish feast wrought to save Paradise from ruin, with timpano arriving in the pivotal moment of supping. Timpano kicks off the Dallas Wine & Food Festival on April 23 in the West Village when chefs Kevin Ascolese and David Brawley will plunge into Big Night indulgences at Ferre Ristorante, preparing a lavish spread featuring the cuisine from the classic film beginning at 6 p.m. A private screening of Big Night at the Magnolia Theatre next door will follow at 8 p.m. with a question-and-answer session featuring the chefs after the conclusion of the film. Cost is $85 per person. Call 214-741-6888. --Mark Stuertz
Idol Worship
If frantically text-messaging your vote every Tuesday night isn't enough American Idol interaction for you, have we got a deal for you. The folks at Coca-Cola have teamed up with the show to bring even more festivities to shopping malls across the land. We're talking karaoke, prizes and the chance to visit with former show finalists. Yeah, it sounds lame to us, too, but the TV execs have to milk this cash cow till the cows come home...oh, sorry, we didn't mean to mix clichés. We'll leave that to American Idol. The tour comes to Northeast Mall in Hurst on Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., and to Irving Mall on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. --Rhonda Reinhart
Young and Jaded
If you've ever doubted the influence of the East on American society, look no further than our growing fascination with yoga, green tea and Hello Kitty. Feng shui is a lifestyle; ramen sustains life on college campuses. But for those who want to push past pop-culture trappings, JADE (Junior Associates Discovering the East) seeks "young professionals with the talent and energy to support The Crow Collection and its programs," says director Amy E. Lewis. The group's first event, a cocktail party catered by Liberty Noodles, features entertainment from the Indian Classical Music Circle at The Crow Collection of Asian Art, 2010 Flora St., 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. Admission is free. Call 214-979-6437. --Michelle Martinez
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We don't smoke. Not even weed, if you can believe that, simply because we don't like the feeling of smoke in our lungs. What about this makes people feel alive with pleasure? The lone exception is when we visit The Velvet Hookah, a bar/nightclub so laid-back and cool you expect Deano to saunter around the corner and take a puff of incredibly smooth tobacco filtered through your trippin' hookah. Great time to try this place out is Sunday during its 420 party (get it? April 20 and smoking?) with a night of jungle- and house-music DJs spinning from 9 p.m. till 4 a.m. Free hookahs until 10 p.m. 2712 Main St. in Deep Ellum. Call 214-747-6700. --Eric Celeste


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Build a seed AI seems like something that would translate into a religious proposal to me. Discover God perhaps? Might it work better if proposed by someone who didn't understand the implications of AGI? Would discussion of MNT translate ad the suggestion of miniaturizing Hiero's engine and the Antikythera mechanism, or scaling them up? The rules of this game really don't seem clear enough. We need to get feedback from Archimedes on what he's hearing. Personally, I strongly suspect that when it comes to ethical and political ideas the Ancient Greeks will understand us fairly well without much need for metaphorical translation, so long as we keep the discussion abstract. Women's suffrage = wise dictator? For people who's ancestors were inventing democracies of a sort and writing Lysistrata centuries earlier? Make the machine reversible and if you suggest women's suffrage and he responds about Hiero II, you will hear a sensible to modern ears argument for moving to Singapore.
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Thanks Diane, I would have used my real name if I'd realised how much fun joining Jigidi was going to bring, through the comments. However, I wasn't brave enough to join in and make comments for over a year!! If you are interested, I'm on the south coast of the UK!
Mandy, I like your design that you have your "name" on. I don't know how to do that,so that is why I am my real name.DIANE
Thank you Diane, I'm delighted you've visited and introduced yourself, I always love to know who people are, I'm happy you enjoyed the puzzle, I'm Mandy :~)
I didn't notice the star until I solved the puzzle. That was enjoy able.Thank you.DIANE FROM NEW JERSEY
Thanks Katie, I love your description of this!!
Wow! It's an explostion of bright colors! Just what I needed on a gray afternoon. Thanks Mandy!
Thay certainly did grab you whatnauts... and left you high and dry!!! Glad you enjoyed it :~)
Wow, the colours in this one just reach out and grab you. Nice one, monza :)))
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Sydney: Australian giant reptile Burt, a five-metre-long (16.4-foot-long) saltwater crocodile aged more than 80 years, took his time to choose between Turnbull and Labor opposition leader Bill Shorten. Images of the two leaders were hung off ropes above a pool where the croc was swimming, with a chunk of fish attached below each of the photos.
Shockingly, the reptile after thinking for 6 minutes leapt onto Turnbull's image predicting the winner aptly. Turnbull, who heads the ruling Liberal-National coalition, on Thursday told the local Northern Territory News voters should "side with Burt… and choose your Country Liberal candidate".
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Can Sacramento End Its Innovation Drought?
The Sacramento-Davis Corridor: Seeding an Innovation Cluster
Xconomy presents a two-part series on efforts to transform the Sacramento region into a major new innovation cluster. Part 1, today, looks at changes in Sacramento that could make the city more hospitable for technology entrepreneurs. Part 2, coming May 15, focuses on nearby Davis—home to the University of California's leading agricultural campus—and its role as an innovation engine for the region.
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more reliable ways to translate its faculty's science and engineering insights into commercial products. Off campus, too, business and government leaders in the city are working to make Davis a more hospitable place for entrepreneurs.
Because Davis and Sacramento are so economically interdependent—and because they're so physically close, separated only by a causeway across the Yolo Bypass floodplain—it isn't possible to understand the larger regional picture in Sacramento without looking at the story of Davis's own emergence as a startup-friendly city. And that's exactly what I'll do in Part 2 of this story tomorrow. But for today, I'm going to stay focused on Sacramento, and look more closely at the forms that high-tech entrepreneurship is taking in various corners of the city.
The Midtown Renaissance
Sacramento's historic center is a giant square nestled in a crook in the American River. The streets are laid out in an alphanumeric grid, running from A Street to X Street and from 1st Street to 30th Street, with the Capitol complex located more or less in the middle. The area east of 16th Street, with its tree-lined avenues, Victorian homes, and abundant upscale restaurants and bars, is known as Midtown.
If you trek to the corner of 17th and I Street in Midtown, you will see something interesting. On one corner is a 5,000-square-foot innovation lab called The Shop. It's operated by VSP Global, the giant vision-care benefits plan headquartered in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova; on the day I walked by, its lobby was filled with fantastical sculptures made from corrugated cardboard. On the opposite corner is Hacker Lab, a 10,000-square-foot co-working space that opened in November 2012. This propinquity isn't a complete accident: the three VSP employees behind The Shop started out renting a tiny one-room office at Hacker Lab.
Co-founder Eric Ullrich agreed to show me around the cavernous Hacker Lab building, which was probably an auto dealership in a former life, though no one is quite sure. There's a glassed-in showroom in front and a huge garage out back. Startups and freelancers rent desk and office space in the front area, and the garage is now a makers' playground full of donated equipment, with areas for metalworking, woodworking, textile work, electronics assembly, 3D printing, and the like. Upstairs, there's a meeting area where some 40 classes, meetups, and hacker events are held each month.
Ullrich formerly worked for SARTA and helped to put together its VentureStart program, a kind of finishing school for startups getting ready to seek funding. Back in 2011, he was trying to get his own technology startup off the ground when he volunteered to help his friend Gina Lujan run a hackathon event. "It had such a big turnout, and it was so much fun, that we realized, 'Okay, maybe solving the innovation ecosystem in the region and laying some groundwork for other types of businesses is more important'" than working on a startup, Ullrich says.
The first Hacker Lab was a tiny, 800-square-foot space outside the downtown grid, but in the summer of 2012 Lujan, Ullrich, and co-founder Charles Blas found the I Street space and began the move. By February 2013, all of the offices were rented out, and today the business is "on the way to being 100 percent member-funded," Ullrich says. It also takes in some money from corporate sponsors like Intel and VSP Global.
The big idea is to give early-stage companies a stepping stone on their way to commercial success—a place to work, a place to build prototypes, and a place to learn. It's not a new idea, or a unique one; the Bay Area has scores of co-working centers and maker spaces. But it seems there was a special thirst for it in Midtown. In its first full year of business, Hacker Lab graduated 14 companies, Ullrich says. The startups have created 36 new jobs in Sacramento and have combined annual revenue of $2.6 million. Ullrich and his co-founders are already in discussions to open two more Hacker Lab locations, in Roseville and Davis.
Hacker Lab is just one of the co-working businesses popping up in the area. There's also ThinkHouse Collective, at 18th and Q; Capsity, just south of the midtown grid; and The Urban Hive at 20th and H, which dates back to the very birth of the local co-working movement in 2009.
Urban Hive manager Brandon Weber formerly ran a real estate development firm out of the 7,000-square-foot space, but he says the recession killed all of the firm's projects. "We had the property, we wanted to do something cool with it, and we had the space and flexibility to try something," he says. Today all 125 membership slots inside the art-filled space are taken; its desks and offices are filled by Web designers, remote workers, small e-commerce firms, and non-profits. One member is an incubator called Public Innovation that supports civic programming efforts like the Sacramento Hashtag Project, designed to highlight activities around the city through social media.
In addition to managing the co-working business, Weber runs the TEDxSacramento series, which featured seven sold-out events last year, attracting crowds of up to 700 people. He's a veteran networker, a big Sacramento partisan, and a foodie who asserts that the city's restaurant scene is starting to rival that of San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, or Los Angeles. "I love to have friends from L.A. come up visit," Weber says. "Everybody is shocked after a few days of hanging out here, at the art galleries and the food scene and the great little bars and brew pubs."
Mind you, the changes are gradual—and the contrast between Sacramento and San Francisco is still dramatic. At certain times of day, Ullrich says, it's still possible to walk over to J Street, the main commercial drag through Midtown, and see no one else on the sidewalks for blocks and blocks. "You go to a festival like Launch [in San Francisco] and the place is just packed with energy," he says. "And you come back to Sacramento and it's like a ghost town, honestly."
But the density needed to put Sacramento into creative hyperdrive could come if people just get down to work, he says. "I really feel like we are in a renaissance area," Ullrich says. "The whole Midtown is being revitalized. What's Austin known for, or Portland? Having a bunch of people doing cool shit, in a fun place to live where you can find good work-life balance and diversity and culture. That's what I would want to see here."
Different Planets
There's some disagreement in Sacramento about whether it's a good thing, or a bad thing, that San Francisco is just a 90-minute drive away. Thanks to the relative convenience of jet travel today, "Traveling 70 miles is just as big a pain in the ass as traveling 700 miles," says Rob White, chief innovation officer for the City of Davis. That means Silicon Valley venture investors often put Sacramento in the same mental category as places that are much farther away, like Salt Lake City, UT, or Bozeman, MT.
"There is this big perceptual wall that exists," says Bob Adams, director of the Sustainable AgTech Innovation Center at the UC Davis Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. It can be difficult just getting people in the Bay Area to drive to the Central Valley for startup events, he says. "It's not very far, but you might as well be on different planets."
Dushyant Pathak, associate vice chancellor at UC Davis, is a little more sanguine. He thinks Davis and Sacramento are actually in what astronomers would call the Goldilocks zone: not too close to Silicon Valley and not too distant. "The in-laws shouldn't live right next door or … Next Page »
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Purple and teal lights splash against the facade of the Audrey Jones Beck Building, drawing scenesters like mosquitoes to a backyard zapper. I'm trudging behind a couple of cute girls, and in crossing the intersection of Binz and Main, we're halting cars, causing the traffic cop to lose his shit and mutter something about "all these damn kids." Yeah, the kids are definitely out tonight for the Mixed Media Series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Word about this party has been buzzing for weeks. Everyone knows that the pairing of the MFAH and Starbucks created the kickin' Beats of Basquiat music series. We all remember the hype of the first one with DJ Spooky, and the congested, pretty-people-packed pandemonium for the last show, which boasted the almighty Grand Master Flash. It was off the chain. It was a security guard's nightmare. It was, in short, hard to follow.
"Well, this ain't Beats," says a media pal, strolling out as I'm walking in. But the minute I'm through the doors, an emo couple who're aggressively making out nearly plow me over. The music's loud and the club kids are everywhere; I can't see for all the hairdos. At the museum gift shop, kids flip through art books while others dance. Heck, sure seems like Beats to me.
The party is more intimate, split among several areas. Some people are packed in a main room; others are checking out the exhibit "Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt." My friends and I visit the downstairs VIP room, where people stare at each other blankly while noshing free food and cocktails. Where Beats was one large mass of people, this joint has a lot more circulation. But we definitely need the circulation, since there's a rogue farter who seems to be following us (my friends swear it's not them).
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Not a killer scene -- yet. So far, it feels like a chill house party. Just after 11 p.m., after Zin, Joe B. and Ceeplus drop their sets, headliner Breakestra take the outside stage. The minute the band goes into a rendition of Jurassic 5's "The Influence," folks inside start charging for the doors. The L.A. funk group is the consummate party band, dropping riffs from the DOC's "It's Funky Enough" ("It's getting funk-ay, it's getting funk-ay!") and the Roots' "Hot Hot Music." Now that people are tipsy and sweaty, it's starting to feel like the kind of big summer house party that you remember all week. As bandleader Miles Tackett leads us in "Fuck Bush!" and Busta Rhymes-inspired "Yaw-yaw-yaw, yah-yah!" chants, I realize that this may not be Beats, but I'll most def be back.