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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Muslims in Myanmar's second-largest city said early morning prayers in peace Friday after an overnight curfew restored calm following two nights of violent rampages by extremist Buddhists.
Authorities imposed the curfew in Mandalay late Thursday after attacks on minority Muslims left two people dead and 14 injured, raising fears that ethnic violence that has plagued the country for two years may escalate again.
The Mandalay regional government posted details of the attacks on its website Friday, identifying the fatalities for the first time and noting that a group of 50 people including 20 Buddhist monks took part. Mandalay Chief Minister Ye Myint said four people were arrested.
Muslim-owned shops reopened in areas where Buddhist mobs on motorbikes had driven through the streets wielding sticks and hurling stones.
"We were able to say our prayers peacefully, and we all had a good night sleep," said resident Tin Aung.
He and others questioned, however, why the government waited two days to clamp down on the mobs who damaged at least one mosque, shops and torched cars.
"If authorities had taken prompt and immediate action, deaths and damage could have been prevented," said A Mar Ni, a member of a citizens' conflict prevention committee.
Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation, has been grappling with violence since 2012 that has left up to 280 people dead and 140,000 others homeless, most of them Muslims attacked by Buddhist militants. Most of it has taken place in western Rakhine state.
This week's unrest was the first in Mandalay, an important center of Buddhist culture and learning where Muslims and Buddhists have traditionally lived peacefully together.
The government's website identified the dead as Soe Min Htway, a Muslim who was attacked by a Buddhist mob while on his way to mosque before dawn Thursday, and Tun Tun, a 30-year-old Buddhist who was attacked by a group of Muslims earlier in the night.
In an interview with Radio Free Asia broadcast Thursday night, Aung San Suu Kyi, the head of the opposition National League for Democracy, said the violence in Mandalay could escalate if authorities did not take strong measures.
"Unless the authorities seriously maintain the rule of law, violence will grow," she said. Inflammatory material posted on social media had contributed to the instability, she said, a viewpoint shared by Mandalay police chief Col. Zaw Win Aung.
In a radio address Thursday, President Thein Sein called for stability as the country transitions to democracy from a half-century of military rule, but did not mention Mandalay specifically.
"For reforms to be successful, I would like to urge all to avoid instigation and behavior that incites hatred in our fellow citizens," Thein Sein said.
The latest unrest, which started Tuesday night, followed rumors that the Muslim owner of a teashop had raped a Buddhist woman, said Khin Maung Oo, secretary of the city's Myanmar Muslim Youth Religious Convention Center. An Information Ministry statement on Wednesday said the owner had been charged with rape.
Authorities deployed hundreds of police on Tuesday after a crowd of more than 300 Buddhists marched to the teashop, singing the national anthem. Police fired rubber bullets to try to disperse the crowd but failed to control groups that scattered into the streets, throwing stones at a mosque that caused minor damage to its exterior, while others ransacked Muslim-owned shops. Several cars were set on fire or had windows shattered by stones and bricks.
Muslims account for about 4 percent of Myanmar's roughly 60 million people.


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The Seattle Seahawks have released FB Dorson Boyce, WR Chris Carter, RB Thomas Clayton, DT Colin Cole, CB Kennard Cox, G Paul Fanaika, DE Maurice Fountain, C Michael Gibson, DT David Howard, LB Michael Y. Johnson, DE Jameson Konz, S Mark LeGree, WR Ricardo Lockett, LB Mike Morgan, S Josh Pinkard, T William Robinson, DE A.J. Schable, WR Owen Spencer, RB Vai Taua and WR Patrick Williams. DE Pierre Allen (undisclosed) was waived/injured.
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MiamiDolphins.com reports the Miami Dolphins have waived CB Will Billingsley, LB Titus Brown, OL Mike Byrne, WR Jayson Foster, LB Maurice Fountain, LB Junior Glymph, OT Daren Heerspink, RB Lex Hilliard, FB Reagan Mauia, LB Edmond Miles, TE Matthew Mulligan, LB Kelly Poppinga, OL Pedro Sosa, C Matt Spanos and DT Anthony Toribio.
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Harvey Fialkov and Omar Kelly, of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, report the Miami Dolphins have signed street free-agent LB Maurice Fountain. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. Fountain played for the Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League last season.
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Great Composers, Lousy Reviews
When music critics attack.
In the history of music, the glorious and benevolent Kaiser Joseph II is known for one transcendently stupid line. After the Vienna premiere of the comic opera The Abduction From the Seraglio, Joseph observed to its composer: "Too many notes, my dear Mozart!" With that, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire became an enduring symbol of philistine reaction to genius. Mozart's comeback was not as snappy: "Only as many notes as necessary, Your Majesty." In the coming years, he would hear more of the same from the press: "impenetrable labyrinths," "bizarre flights of the soul," "overloaded and overstuffed." The guy has too much imagination, connoisseurs agreed; he doesn't know when to turn it off. In other words: too many notes.
Toward the end of the 18th century, young Beethoven read in the paper that his first published violin and piano pieces were "[s]trange sonatas, overladen with difficulties. … Herr Beethoven goes at his own gait; but what a bizarre and singular gait it is! Learned, learned and always learned and nothing natural, no song." Beethoven would have read those words with blood boiling. It was fortunate that he did not inhabit the later 19th century, when the art of incendiary reviews reached its golden age.
Those mal mots were gathered by conductor, theorist, and scholar Nicholas Slonimsky in his classic Lexicon of Musical Invective. First published in 1953, the book is still in print. The author himself had caught his share of slings and arrows as a young conductor who was determined to promote what the time called "ultra-modern" music. Now Slonimsky is remembered for premiering important pieces by Edgard Varese and Charles Ives, among others. After too many strange chords scuttled his conducting career, Slonimsky spent decades as a freelance writer, scholar, and theorist. His book on scale forms inspired a generation of jazz musicians, including John Coltrane. In his 90s, he was squired by Frank Zappa. But Slonimsky's most enduring achievement is the Lexicon, his encyclopedia of umbrage.
Critics got into full cry in the middle of the 19th century, with the advent of Richard Wagner. No composer before or since has inspired so many fanatics, pro and con. People wrote whole books vilifying him. We can give only a short abstract of one example, the rabid fury of one J.L. Klein in his 1871 History of the Drama. His parade of epithets—racist, classist, sexist, species-ist, satanic, and medical—is symptomatic of the time's wordsmiths when they really, really didn't like your stuff:
This din of brasses, tin pans and kettles, this Chinese or Caribbean clatter with wood sticks and ear-cutting scalping knives … [t]his reveling in the destruction of all tonal essence, raging satanic fury in the orchestra, this demoniacal lewd caterwauling, scandal-mongering, gun-toting music … the darling of feeble-minded royalty, …of the court flunkeys covered with reptilian slime, and of the blasé hysterical female court parasites … inflated, in an insanely destructive self-aggrandizement, by Mephistopheles' mephitic and most venomous hellish miasma, into Beelzebub's Court Composer and General Director of Hell's Music—Wagner!
These days, people tend to feel that Wagner's contemporary Chopin wrote nice tunes, but that was not the opinion of one Berlin critic: "In search of ear-rending dissonances, torturous transitions, sharp modulations, repugnant contortions of melody and rhythm, Chopin is altogether indefatigable." It's a marvel that Tchaikovsky, given his general self-loathing and neurasthenia, survived the animus that came his way. The most noxious page came from celebrated Wagner-bashing critic Eduard Hanslick, who climaxed one top-to-bottom mauling with, "We see plainly the savage vulgar faces, we hear curses, we smell vodka. … Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear." Tchaikovsky could recite that review word for word.
Well, everybody liked Brahms, right? In Boston they didn't. In 1885, the Evening Transcript reported, "It must be admitted that to the larger part of our public, Brahms is still an incomprehensible terror." Another critic suggested that egresses in the new Boston Symphony Hall should be labeled "Exit In Case of Brahms." By 1905, Boston seemed to be resigned to him, maybe because now they had Debussy to kick around: "Poor Debussy, sandwiched in between Brahms and Beethoven, seemed weaker than usual. We cannot feel that all this extreme ecstasy is natural; it seems forced and hysterical; it is musical absinthe."
Wagner survived his critics because 1) he actually was the towering genius he believed himself to be, and 2) he was a tougher and meaner son of a bitch than any of his enemies. With the coming of Wagner disciple Richard Strauss, the nausea of critics reached an almost ecstatic climax, after which, with the arrival of Modernism, the profession gradually lost its edge. I mean, what composer today could boast of anything like this: "Strauss has hitherto reveled in the more or less harmonious exploitation of the charnel house, the grave, and the gnawing worm." As for his opera after Oscar Wilde, "There is not a whiff of fresh and healthy air blowing through Salome except that which exhales from the cistern. … The orchestra shrieked its final horror and left the listeners staring at each other with smarting eyeballs and wrecked nerves."
If Slonimsky's book is any indication, by the time Schoenberg and Stravinsky and their compatriots got Modernism into high gear, the critical profession was beating a weary retreat to sniping distance. The art of invective entered a sad decline. Of Stravinsky's most shattering work: "He who could write the Rite of Spring,/ If I be right, by right should swing!" He means Stravinsky should be hanged, but never mind. Hardly anybody could do better than that, though regarding Schoenberg there were moments of the old ferocity: "Schoenberg is the cruelest of all composers, for he mingles with his music sharp daggers at white heat, with which he pares away tiny slices of his victim's flesh. Anon he twists the knife in the fresh wound." Even Gershwin managed to get a rise once in a while: "An American in Paris is nauseous claptrap, so dull, patchy, thin, vulgar, long-winded and inane, that the average movie audience would be bored by it."
True, in their early years Schoenberg and Stravinsky inspired the bloodiest riots ever seen in the concert hall. But I think as the 20th century went on, critics' hearts weren't really in the grand abuse anymore. I also have a hunch that after Slonimsky published The Lexicon of Musical Invective, critics acquired a collective anxiety about appearing in the next edition. You don't want, like Joseph II re: Mozart, to be in print as a philistine for the ages.
In the prelude to his Lexicon, Slonimsky arranges his kitchen full of pans into themes: gastrointestinal, animal, anti-Semitic, and so on. And he proposes a general theory of acceptance of the unfamiliar: "It takes approximately twenty years to make an artistic curiosity out of a modernistic monstrosity; and another twenty to elevate it to a masterpiece."
Therein lies a fundamental shortcoming of the Lexicon. Reading it, one absorbs an impression that actually isn't the case: that great composers get only bad reviews and are appreciated only after they're dead. Stepping back from the melee, one discovers that while some splendid composers do take decades to sink in (and Schoenberg never entirely has), more often the true revolutionists of the past were hailed for their imagination, and their most radical pieces were quick to find an audience. Everybody knows about the pandemonium The Rite of Spring provoked at its Paris premiere. Few notice that the screaming had as much to do with Nijinsky's choreography as the music, and that after a concert performance of the Rite a year later, Stravinsky was carried through the streets of Paris on the shoulders of a cheering crowd. An earlier epochal work, Beethoven's Eroica symphony of 1803, was greeted by a chorus of incomprehension. But only two years after its premiere, the leading German musical journal declared Eroica "one of the most original, most sublime, and most profound products the entire genre of music has exhibited." Meanwhile, Slonimsky's Lexicon encouraged composers in their delusion that scabrous reviews are a badge of honor, that if you aren't denounced you aren't any good. When all is said and done, I'd wager that through history the majority of lousy reviews have been bestowed on lousy pieces, but nobody collects the notices of forgotten composers.
Still, Emperor Joseph was a dope, right? Not at all. Joseph was a capable amateur pianist and intimately knowledgeable about music. What he said to Mozart was what everybody said: too effusive, too many notes. The thing is, they were not entirely wrong. Mozart's operas are full of stunning throwaways. There's a heart-stopping orchestral eruption in the middle of The Marriage of Figaro that is evoked by nothing but a woman's name, Marcellina; in the story, there's no reason for anything nearly that glorious. It drove other composers of the time crazy that Mozart could toss off bits that were more beautiful than anything they ever wrote. (It was the arrival of Beethoven that made Mozart's notes seem frugal by comparison.)
On the whole, Mozart's critics viewed him about the same way we do, as an incomparable genius, though not an infallible one. One critic lambasted Don Giovanni for a story that "insults morality, and treads wickedly upon virtue and feeling." But let's face it, the opera is on the amoral side. (It's just that these days, unlike the 18th century, we like amoral.) As for the music, the critic went on, "If ever a nation could take pride in one of her sons, so Germany must be proud of Mozart. … Never before was the greatness of the human spirit so tangible, and never has the art of composition been raised to such heights!" Even some of Mozart's bad reviews called him the greatest composer who ever lived.
Really, this is a lament for a lost era. The great lousy reviews arose because critics and audiences truly cared about music and its future. Critics were sometimes reactionary, boneheaded, and cockamamie, but music mattered to them. If we no longer enjoy the uproars and the withering screeds of yesteryear, it's mainly because people no longer care passionately enough about what they hear in the concert hall to want to murder somebody over it.


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Airport owners must examine the effects of any proposed restriction within an "airport noise study area." That includes at least all property within the 65 decibel (dB) Day-Night Average Sound Level (DNL) contour, which is equivalent to the 65 dB Community Noise Equivalent Level (CNEL) contour used in California. (These metrics are described in greater detail here.)
Part 161 directs airports to follow FAR Part 150 methodologies for measurement, modeling, and description of noise, and for determining whether land uses are compatible with a given noise exposure level. The FAA states that the Part 150 procedures give airport owners flexibility but also help ensure a uniform national standard for measuring airport noise impacts. Part 150 supplies guidelines regarding noise levels (measured using DNL or CNEL) that are generally considered compatible with specified land uses. LAWA adopted the Part 150 guidelines when conducting the VNY Part 150 study.
The FAA adopted a broad definition of the term "noise or access restriction," to include any restriction – including airport lease provisions – that affects the operation of aircraft and has the effect of controlling noise. A "noise or access restriction" does not include, however, noise abatement operational procedures (such as displaced thresholds, preferential runway systems, noise abatement flight tracks and the like) because they are not expected to limit the total number or hours of aircraft operations.
It also should be noted that Part 161 does not apply to Stage 2 restrictions proposed before October 2, 1990, Stage 3 restrictions that became effective before that date, or to a number of exempted situations. These so–called "grandfathered" conditions are significant at VNY, because in a parallel effort to the Part 161, LAWA pursed a phase out of noisier aircraft that it proposed in June, 1990. This regulation was enacted by City Council in 2010 and is in effect now. The parallel effort LAWA used to enact the regulation is described in greater detail here.
The rules considered at VNY largely involve restrictions on Stage 2 operations, although it is possible that some Stage 3 operations will be affected. Different requirements apply to restrictions affecting Stage 2 and 3 aircraft.
An airport proprietor can restrict Stage 2 operations without FAA approval so long as it analyzes the effects of the proposal and publishes notice of the restriction.
Airport proprietors are required to publish notice of a proposed restriction in a general circulation newspaper and certain parties must be notified directly. The FAA also will publish the notice in the Federal Register. The notice must:
The most important requirement with respect to Stage 2 restrictions is the preparation of analysis on the costs and benefits of the proposed restriction, that includes:
Although it will not review or approve local Stage 2 restrictions, the FAA has indicated its view that the analytical requirements are intended to be similar for Stage 2 or Stage 3 restrictions. The regulations recommend that airport proprietors prepare the same analysis for Stage 2 as for Stage 3 restrictions. A copy of the FAA's Part 161 Stage 2 application format is available by clicking here.
Part 161 imposes more substantial impediments to Stage 3 restrictions. The process has three principal elements:
Unlike Stage 2 restrictions, an airport must demonstrate that the benefits of a proposed Stage 3 restriction has a reasonable chance to exceed the costs, and must submit evidence to the FAA proving that:
The requirement that FAA must review and approve a Stage 3 restriction increases the agency´s role significantly above review of procedural requirements.


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Well, we can say that every year can't we? Eventually we are going to have to roll with them. Let them get some hours in, gain that valuable experience in which in the end we are the benefactors. The Arnott route is just the same old safe route that really doesn't make your team better. There is something to be said about having a presence of youthful enthusiasm in the line-up, like when Bieksa, Kesler and Burrows were buzzsawing around the ice when Naslund and Bertuzzi were running the show here.CaptainTrev wrote: And it's not like we've got a bunch of prospects kicking in the door. Whose path, exactly, would Arnott/Doan be blocking at this point?
But according to you guys, ya don't mind Gillis continuing on after 5 drafts and having zero representation from kids he has drafted in the starting roster come next season. Worst in the league in this category, btw.
But hey lets play it safe....what I don't get, with Vancouver having the worst travel schedule in the league and a team who notoriously battles the injury bug which is most likely due to hours spent cramped up on planes and in airports and hotels...why are we filling the team with old guys who take away valuable time away from the kids? Ya know there will be a lot of times where you will be saying "where is Doan, where is Arnott". It's because they are coasting/resting due to body maintenance from the Canuck grind. Why did Boston beat us? we were beaten down, and they were young and healthy not to mention having a nice geographical location when it comes to travel. The Canucks don't have that luxury so why are we filling the team with old guys, ass backwards if you ask me.
Anyhow, we can say that every year regarding the kids, "they are not ready"? When are they ever ready? Never. We have to throw them to the wolves otherwise why bother drafting? Teams have to evolve every year, signing weathered journeyman every year has been the Calgary Flames model since forever, another not so friendly rookie environment, in the end it gets ya nowhere.


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Newmark Theatre
The 870-seat Newmark Theatre is designed to emulate the Edwardian-era theaters of Europe, with no seat further than 65 feet from the stage. We stage most of our baroque, early classical era, and contemporary operas here, providing audience members with an intimate and intense performance experience.
Address1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97205
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Getting Here
There are multiple City of Portland parking lots surrounding the Newmark Theatre and on-street parking is also available.
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The Newmark Theatre is accessible by the TriMet MAX, Portland Streetcar, and a number of bus routes. Click here for the closest stops and stations
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Wheelchair Seating
Wheelchair seating is available in the Newmark Theatre. Patrons requiring this service are asked to contact the Portland Opera Box Office in advance at 503-241-1802 or the Portland5′ Box Office at 503-248-4335
Special Hearing Devices
Free headsets for the wireless listening system are available at the Coat Room.
Audio Described Performances
For sight-impaired patrons, we provide audio description services for Sunday matinee performances. Contact the Portland Opera Box Office at 503-241-1802 for more information.
Food & Beverages
For those wanting dinner or drinks before a show at the Newmark Theatre, Dolores Winningstad Theatre, Brunish Theatre, or Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, try the ArtBar & Bistro, serving convivial NW cuisine. The affordably chic menu centers around Northwest ingredients punctuated with international flavors. Appetizers, soups, salads and desserts bring drama to each plate nightly. The ArtBar offers classic hand-crafted cocktails, wines, and beers that will quench even the heartiest thirst. Stop in at the bar or make reservations for dinner.
The ArtBar is open for most evening events at the Newmark, Winningstad, and Brunish Theatres, and Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.


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The fault for the collapse of MF Global rests in one man's hands: Jon Corzine. Mistakes and decisions made by the former chairman and CEO directly led to the firm's collapse last year, according to a summary of findings from a probe led by U.S. House Republicans.
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, chaired by Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), will release the full results of its year-long staff investigation into the collapse of MF Global on Thursday.
"Decisions by Jon Corzine to chart a radically different course for MF global and try to turn the 230-year-old commodities broker into a full-service investment bank were the cause of the firm's bankruptcy and failure to protect customer funds," the summary says.
Corzine was named CEO at MF Global in March 2010 to great fanfare that he would transform the futures commission merchant into a Goldman Sachs-like investment bank. "By expanding MF Global into new business lines without first returning its core commodities business to profitability, Corzine ensured that the company would face enormous resource demands and exposed it to new risks that it was ill-equipped to handle," the subcommittee report states.
According to the summary, Corzine invested heavily into the sovereign debt of struggling European countries to generate the revenue needed to fund MF Global's transformation. These investments carried enormous risk, and the positions weren't revealed to regulators or the investing public until October 2011 — which by that point amounted to about 14% of MF Global's total assets.
Authoritarian atmosphere
Additionally, the summary shows that Corzine created "an authoritarian atmosphere" at MF Global where "no one could challenge his decisions." This was particularly evident when Corzine denied the firm's chief risk officer access to the board of directors after he raised concerns about the size of the position Corzine was amassing.
After the positions were revealed to regulators and the public, the company's credit rating was downgraded to junk following a poor earnings report. This effectively set off a "run on the bank" that created a liquidity crisis. The report details that because Corzine had failed to integrate systems and controls for managing the company's liquidity and protecting customer funds, it could not assess and anticipate its liquidity needs during the crisis.
"As the company struggled to find additional liquidity," the subcommittee reports, "company employees identified excess company funds held in customer accounts. However, because they did not have an accurate accounting of the amount of customer funds the company held, they withdrew customer funds as well as company funds."
Ultimately, responsibility rests on Corzine, the report finds. "Choices made by Jon Corzine during his tenure as chairman and CEO sealed MF Global's fate," Neugebauer stated. "Farmers, ranchers and other customers may never get back [more than] $1 billion of their money as a result of his decisions."
The subcommittee notes that it will be the responsibility of prosecutors and regulators to determine whether MF Global or its employees violated laws or regulations when these withdrawals of customer funds were made.


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Event Request Form: This form is for large meetings for departments, clubs, UA affiliated organizations, and outside groups. Anything more complex than a meeting will fall into this category. A detailed list of AV and setup needs will be required no later than 1 week prior to the event/meeting.
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We work directly with customers selecting pre-approved layouts or designing new layouts.
Offices, groups, and individuals who are UA affiliates are not charged rental fees but are always responsible for setup and teardown for events in Wood Center.
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What space and services are free?:Conference Rooms A & B, having a booth in Wood Center, using Conference Rooms CD or EF in standard setup with the following stipulations.
Weekdays 7:30AM-4:30PM standard setups are provided free of charge. Meetings or usage on weekends or evenings may be subject to additional setup and teardown charges.
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For clubs, classrooms may be requested the start of the month prior to semester start. For instance fall classes starting in September may not be requested prior to August 1st. Any request received outside that time frame will not be honored. Requests will then be scheduled on a first come first serve basis. Within the first 2 to 3 weeks of a semester classrooms are subject to academic override and any club/org/department may be displaced if a class is moved there. You are warned of this when scheduling for the semester and we will work with any group to reschedule or relocate if possible.
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The authorized use of university space by an organization does not imply endorsement by the university of the organization, or its views, goals or objectives. Rather, it reflects the university's commitment to a campus environment supportive of free expression through reasoned discourse, or, in some cases, merely a rental of space at standard rates.


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British pilots ramp up opposition to ID cards
'Unfair' plan could prompt strike action
The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) is meeting this weekend to decide what action to take over the government's decision to force airside staff at two airports to carry ID cards.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced the downsized trial at City of London and Manchester airports earlier this year.
The UK's major airlines said at the time their industry was being used for "political purposes on a project which has questionable public support." They also said the scheme would add nothing to existing security.
Now pilots themselves - who presumably have to pack plenty of ID already, as well as a shiny hat - have voiced their opposition to the plan.
A spokesman for Balpa said: "The government should think again on this. We're talking to other airside unions and many agree with us that it is unfair, especially because Parliament originally passed this legislation on the basis that it would be voluntary but now it is compulsory for some groups to carry a card."
He said Balpa would talk to its members before suggesting a vote on possible industrial action. Balpa represents 10,000 UK pilots.
The Tory party and the LibDems have pledged to abandon the embattled ID card scheme.
Wacky Jacqui meanwhile continues to claim that she can hardly leave the house without being pestered by people desperate to get their hands on an ID card all of their own.
Her faith in biometrics does not appear to have been shaken by lobby group No2ID which claimed to have borrowed a set of her fingerprints earlier this month.
An Identity Passport Service spokesperson sent us the following:
"The Government remains committed to working in close partnership with the aviation industry and trade unions to introduce identity cards for airside workers.
"Identity cards will directly benefit airside workers — not just by improving personnel security, but also by speeding up pre-employment checks and increasing the efficiency of pass issuing arrangements, making it easier for these workers to take up their posts and move from one airside job to another."
And the workers will get to enjoy the benefit whether they want to or not: "Identity cards will be mandatory for all airside workers, just as other pre-employment checks are today, so that the benefits from the Scheme can be realised across the aviation sector."®


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Fighting for Prison Health Care Above the Norm
By Rusti Miller-Hill
August 10, 2010
On June 10, 1993, I was released from Albion State Correctional Facility for Women. "91G1505," as I had been called for the last three years of my life, was no longer property of the State of New York. The road, while hard and painful, was getting ready to take a new turn.
My name is Rusti Miller-Hill. I was diagnosed with HIV on January 1, 1991. At the time I had just entered drug treatment and was trying to put the pieces of my life back together after five years of substance abuse. Nowadays, as an advocate living in the community for the last 20 years, I most recently served as the co-chair of the Conditions on the Inside and Re-Entry Committee of the Correctional Association's Coalition for Women Prisoners.
During my incarceration, I was a victim of medical neglect due to policy and procedures. The procedure required you to place your name on a sheet of paper, commonly known as the "call out sheet," at 5 a.m. in the hopes of being called to the infirmary later on that morning, but even that was not a guarantee. As a woman living with AIDS while incarcerated, this was the regular routine. Many never signed that sheet of paper, instead choosing to remain silent about their status; while others prayed that their named would be called and there would be a doctor available to see them once they arrived at the infirmary. I chose the latter, letting go of denial and sharing my own status.
While I was full of fear due to possible stigma and discrimination, the support I received from the other women in my housing unit saved my life. I eventually became a peer educator in the AIDS Resource Room, and found what would become my life's work upon my release. Nearly 20 years later, I am still disclosing my status and advocating to advance the state of health for women living with HIV/AIDS in my own community.
In September 2009, New York State Governor David Paterson signed into law the Department of Health (DOH) Oversight of HIV/HCV [Hepatitis C] Bill. The law gives governance to DOH to oversee HIV and HCV care for the state of New York's correctional facilities and jails. Finally, thousands of incarcerated people living with HIV/AIDS and HCV would be given the same quality of care provided in communities. People who receive quality health services in prison are more likely to continue treatment after release, and to encourage family and friends to seek testing and care. I was ecstatic when this bill we'd been working and rallying so hard to have passed was signed into law.
However, this victory was bittersweet. Currently there is little funding available to implement the law to the fullest. Incarcerated women, who are our mothers, sisters and daughters, are continuing to serve two sentences: one imposed by the judge; the other either imposed by themselves (due to denial) or by inappropriate medical care due to the lack of access to HIV specialists and medications available to people living with HIV/AIDS in the community.
With the support of the Correctional Association's Women in Prison Project, the members of the Conditions on the Inside and Re-Entry Committee have monitored the progress of the bill, which is now a law. The Department of Corrections (DOC)'s recent response to the oversight law has resulted in the DOH conducting a review of state correctional facilities' policies and practices in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C. The public -- including formerly incarcerated individuals, their families, and advocates across New York State -- were invited to share their experiences in order to provide DOH with relevant information regarding medical care, or the lack of adequate care and treatment, while incarcerated.
The announcement was placed in the DOC's TODAY newspaper. My concern is, who has access to that??? And why wasn't the request placed in the Daily News, the Amsterdam News and/or the Post -- newspapers that are read by the same individuals that are currently housed in prisons throughout New York State?
Senator Thomas Duane, one of the supporters of the bill, assisted in getting an extension of the submission of testimonies from the community (the original date of June 16, 2010, was extended to June 30, 2010). I applaud the hard work of all parties involved and urge anyone who cares to share the experiences to forward their written comments to Darcy L. Hirsh at the address provided below. Despite the deadline's passing, we'll be gathering even more testimonies in the coming months.
June 10th marked the anniversary of my release date. This might seem like a long time coming to some, but 17 years later, I am glad I and many other women living with HIV/AIDS who are or have been incarcerated can now share our experiences.
For all the women who are not here to be a part of this process, please know that you are not forgotten. Your courage is what gives strength to my fight, in turn bringing voice to our lives. It is in your spirit that I continue to live another day to fight for the rights of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women living with HIV/AIDS.
To date, I continue to educate the community regarding this law and encourage you to continue to submit documentation regarding your experience. I will keep you posted.
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Rusti Miller-Hill
Russelle Miller-Hill, affectionately known in the community as Rusti, is a longtime advocate and HIV survivor. Her philosophy is simple: "I found that in order to help myself, I need to help other women." She's been doing so since she learned she was HIV positive in 1991. A strong advocate for formerly incarcerated women, Rusti has dedicated the past 10 years to putting a face on women's issues ranging from childbirth and housing to correctional health. Rusti is employed at Cicatelli Associates, Inc., as a trainer with the People With AIDS Leadership Training Institute. Among other positions, Rusti serves as co-chair of The Positive Women's Network, New York City Chapter, and is a member of WORTH (Woman on the Rise Telling Her Story). She continues to garner her strength from her husband and two children, grandchildren, family and the women she serves.
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Kansas City Board of trade July wheat contract price fell below $3 per bushel. This indicated that KCBT July contract prices would likely fall to $2.80. At this writing, the price has held between $2.95 and $3.
Lack of rain and potential lower world wheat stocks are the main reasons prices have not continued to fall.
In late April, wheat industry leaders toured and surveyed some states' wheat crops. Oklahoma's wheat production was projected to be 173 million bushels (98 million bushels last year), and Kansas's wheat production was projected to be 364 million bushels (297 million bushels last year).
At this writing, some market analysts predict that U.S. wheat production will be about 2.2 billion bushels. With wheat use projected to be 2.1 billion, U.S. wheat ending stocks are expected to increase during the 2003/04 wheat-marketing year.
Before the crop tours, weather conditions were favorable for wheat development. There was adequate moisture (some areas were getting dry) and cool temperatures. Since the tours, temperatures have been above normal and the wind has been 20 miles per hour and higher. If it does not rain in the Great Plains, 2003/04 wheat production may not be more than projected U.S. consumption.
The International Grains Council (IGC) projected the 2003/04-world wheat crop to be 21.7 billion bushels compared to 20.8 billion bushels last year. IGC projected larger crops in the United States, Canada, Argentina and Australia. Significantly lower production was projected in Russia and Ukraine and slightly lower in China, India and the European Union.
World 2002/03 wheat ending stocks are projected to be 6.2 billion bushels compared to 7.3 billion bushels for 2001/02. This implies that the IGC projects total world wheat supply to be 27.9 billion bushels compared to 28.1 billion bushels last year.
The IGC projected world wheat consumption to be 22.1 billion bushels. This implies that world wheat ending stocks will decline from about 6.2 billion bushels to 5.8 billion bushels.
Expectations are for world foreign stocks to decline about 400 million bushels and U.S. stocks to increase 100 million to 150 million bushels. One problem is that lower ending stocks are expected in importing countries and higher ending stocks are expected in the major exporting countries.
Here are some thoughts. First, the U.S. winter wheat crop is only about 7.4 percent of the world wheat crop. Total U.S. 2003 wheat production is projected to be about 10 percent of world wheat production. Foreign wheat production will have a major impact on U.S. wheat prices.
Second, between now and when the U.S. winter wheat crop is harvested in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas, hot dry winds could significantly lower production. Temperature and rain are the keys.
A 100 million to 150 million-bushel reduction in U.S. wheat production or slightly higher exports in 2003/04 would result in about 500 million bushel ending stocks and $3.50 prices.
Third, world wheat stocks are projected to decline for the sixth year in a row. Lower world stocks and low U.S. ending stocks imply that lower-than-expected foreign wheat production could result in higher U.S. wheat exports and higher wheat prices.
Fourth, cash prices for 2003-harvested wheat are already below the loan rate. This means that for wheat eligible for the loan, there is no downside price risk. The loan deficiency payment will make up the difference between the cash price and the loan.
The stage is set for higher prices. However, higher prices require lower production than currently expected. Weather is the key and who knows what the weather will do.
A strategy is to watch the KCBT December $3.30 call option contract premium. If the premium gets below 10 cents (it's about 16 cents now), consider selling the wheat and buying the KCBT $3.30 call option contract.
Dr. Anderson is an economist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Readers may call 405-744-6082, or e-mail [email protected]


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Information on water resistance
All Breitling products have a degree of waterproofing (or "water resistance"), described either in meters, or in bars (1 bar = 10 m = approx. 33 ft). Note: the indication of the degree of water resistance in meters is a technical norm which does not correspond to an exact depth. The note "Water-resistant to XX m" does not mean that the watch can be worn to this depth. It simply indicates that the watch will resist pressure equivalent to a static immersion up to XX m deep. The wearer's movements (diving, jumping, swimming, etc) as well as the force of the water (shower jets, river currents, waterfalls, etc) can considerably increase the pressure. The table below will indicate what activities are possible and what should be avoided in terms of the degree of waterproofing of your watch.
|3 bars / 30 m (100 ft)
|5 bars / 50 m (165 ft)
|10 bars / 100 m (330 ft)
|≥ 30 bars / ≥ 300 m (≥ 1000 ft)
|Shower, swimming, surface water sports
|Water-skiing, dives, snorkeling
|Shower, swimming, surface water sports
|Water-skiing, dives, snorkeling
Water resistance checks/Replacement of seals
The water resistance of the case is ensured by a sophisticated seal system. These seals undergo the ravages of a number of external factors (perspiration, heat, temperature changes, ultraviolet rays, chlorine or salt water, chemicals, cosmetics, dust, etc.). So that they can be as effective as possible, they need to be replaced regularly. In the event of intensive use in water, we recommend that all the gaskets be changed annually during the maintenance service. In other cases, this operation can must be done every two years (and imperatively when the battery is changed for electronic models). Generally speaking, it is advisable to have water resistance checks performed once a year (ideally before the swimming season) by a maintenance center/authorized Breitling retailer.
Five essential precautions in the realm of water resistance
- Never activate the chronograph pushpieces under water or when the watch is wet (apart from Breitling models equipped with a patented magnetic pushpiece system that is water-resistant and works in water down to a depth of 2,000 meters). The same criteria apply to the rotating bezels (slide rules) of the Navitimer and Montbrillant models.
- Never pull out and activate a crown under water or if the watch is wet (this applies to both standard and screw-lock crowns).
- If your watch is equipped with a screw-lock crown, ensure that this is locked before any use in water. This also applies to screw-lock pushpieces.
- Never try and open the case yourself.
- In the event of water or condensation appearing under the glass, take the watch as quickly as possible to a Breitling retailer or authorized service center.
- Never use bracelets other than metal bracelets and rubber straps in water.
Helium valve
Models designed to be water-resistant to great depths (1000 m to 3000 m) are equipped with helium valves. This ultra-professional element serves to balance out pressure differences between the exterior and interior. From an internal pressure of about 3 bars, the valve automatically vents the helium accumulated by time spent at great depth, thus preventing the case from exploding.
Screw-lock crowns/pushpieces
Models intended for use in water are generally equipped with "screw-lock crowns" – a guarantee of optimal water resistance. Prior to any intervention on the crown, it must be unlocked by unscrewing it and subsequently screwed in again to lock it. The same principle applies to "screw-lock pushpieces" which cannot be activated before the ring holding them in place has been unscrewed.


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May 8, 2012
BOSTON — The Latino population has grown 43 percent in the U.S. in the past 11 years. In Massachusetts, the increase is even greater: 48 percent. They've become the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the country — and a pivotal one for Obama and likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race.
Opinions from Boston's neighborhoods
Merengue music wafted through the bodega in Dorchester where Patricia Delmo works as a cashier. She said the best part of her job is talking with the locals. Delmo is still undecided about the presidential election but said immigration is a big concern to her. A close friend was recently deported, torn from her 4-year-old son.
"Her son is a citizen so he doesn't have to go nowhere, but she has to live in Honduras because of the laws. I think it's not fair because she didn't kill no one. The only thing that she was doing was working and taking care of an old lady," Delmo said.
Across town, Luis Maza and his friend Carlos Lopez gathered at a Cuban restaurant in Jamaica Plain to talk politics and sports. They both lost their construction jobs last year. They are voting for Obama, as they did last election.
"Obama's administration inherited a disaster," said Lopez. "It's like the Twin Towers — it took a lot of years to build the Twin Towers, and in one day, they were gone, but to build it back up, it's very difficult."
As for why they won't vote for a Republican, they said they just don't trust them.
"The Republicans only look for the Hispanic vote only when election times come. Otherwise, they leave us in limbo and I don't see that they care about us," said Maza.
The larger picture
While Maza and Lopez know who they are voting for, 17 percent of Latino voters remain undecided. Democrats have traditionally won the majority of the Latino vote, but this time the Republicans are looking to get a larger stake — maybe by selecting a Latino running mate like Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.
Maza agreed that might make a difference.
"You see a Latino running with him, of course that's gonna happen. If I see a Venezuelan playing for the New York Yankees, I am going to vote for the New York Yankees," he said.
But others weren't so sure that common ethnicity means meeting common goals. Local GOP activist Alex Veras said it's a typical mistake to bunch Latinos in one group.
"We're not all of one mindset. What unites us is language," he said.
What also unites them, he said, are the same things that unite the rest of the country.
"When the party talks about hope, about economic empowerment, and the do-goodness and the graciousness of this country — those are the things that anyone can relate to. Those are the things that need to be emphasized," he said.
And even though polls show Obama leading Romney 2-to-1 with Latino voters, Veras believed Hispanics will choose the next president — and he said it could very well be a Republican.
"When you look at the swing states, when you look at the states Republicans win, the fastest-growing segments of those populations are Hispanics. I think we're definitely going to have a say," Veras said.
Veras and over 12 million Latino voters will have their say this November.
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Book I: Getting Started.
Chapter 1: Getting Started Programming a Computer.
Chapter 2: Different Methods for Writing Programs.
Chapter 3: Types of Programming Languages.
Chapter 4: Programming Tools.
Chapter 5: Managing Large Projects with Software Engineering.
Book II: Programming Basics.
Chapter 1: How Programs Work.
Chapter 2: Variables, Data Types, and Constants.
Chapter 3: Manipulating Data.
Chapter 4: Making Decisions by Branching.
Chapter 5: Repeating Commands by Looping.
Chapter 6: Breaking a Large Program into Subprograms.
Chapter 7: Breaking a Large Program into Objects.
Chapter 8: Reading and Saving Files.
Chapter 9: Documenting Your Program.
Chapter 10: Principles of User Interface Design.
Book III: Data Structures.
Chapter 1: Structures and Arrays.
Chapter 2: Sets and Linked Lists.
Chapter 3: Collections and Dictionaries.
Chapter 4: Stacks, Queues, and Deques.
Chapter 5: Graphs and Trees.
Book IV: Algorithms.
Chapter 1: Sorting Algorithms.
Chapter 2: Searching Algorithms.
Chapter 3: String Searching.
Chapter 4: Data Compression Algorithms.
Chapter 5: Encryption Algorithms.
Book V: Web Programming.
Chapter 1: HyperText Markup Language.
Chapter 2: CSS.
Chapter 3: JavaScript.
Chapter 4: PHP.
Chapter 5: Ruby.
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Chapter 1: C and C++.
Chapter 2: Java and C#.
Chapter 3: Perl and Python.
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Chapter 5: Visual Basic and REALbasic.
Book VII: Applications.
Chapter 1: Database Management.
Chapter 2: Bioinformatics.
Chapter 3: Computer Security.
Chapter 4: Artificial Intelligence.
Chapter 5: The Future of Computer Programming.


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This edition of Inside the Vault features programmer, Orin Tresnjak. Orin is one of the awesome programmers who work on multiple systems. He's worked on a variety of interfaces and shaders, and even made tools for creating DLC and PC installers (Orin even pitched in and made the installer for Star Trek: Legacy). In short, we drop Orin in and cool stuff results.
What's your job at Bethesda?
I'm a graphics programmer (also known as one of Scott Franke's background threads). My main responsibilities at the moment are LOD rendering and the various old-computer and old-TV effects associated with the Pipboy, other displays, and VATS mode in Fallout. Additionally, I've done lots of miscellaneous graphics stuff and occasionally get roped into doing installers, because I'm in the unfortunate position of being the only person around here who knows Installshield inside out.
What other games have you worked on?
Just Oblivion so far.
What is the best part about bring a programmer? The worst part?
The ABSOLUTE best part for me as a graphics guy is when I get some effect or other complex system I've been working on finally showing up on screen. Then I can commence the real fun–tweaking and perfecting it. It can also be very rewarding tracking down obscure, difficult bugs. Maddening, but rewarding. You feel like a million bucks once you've figured it out.
On the other hand, the worst part is when I spend ten hours tracking down some hard-to-find bug, only to discover that it's traceable to some minor typo I made a year ago.
How did you get into the industry? Do you have any tips for breaking in?
I got lucky–this was the first game industry job I applied for. I had a friend get hired in the QA department a year or so before, so he kindly put in a good word for me. (He's now a QA Lead and the famed Ninja Tester, who won a pie for beating Todd at his own game.)
The best advice I can give is to have a good portfolio. Show that you can do cool stuff, and that you love making games so much that you'd do it in your spare time even if you didn't work in the industry.
What would you say is your personal favorite game of all time?
There are so, so many games I love that it's really hard to choose. The first to come to mind is Out of This World (known outside the US as Another World), an odd, hyper-stylized little platformer from Delphine Software circa 1991. One of the unique things about it is that, with its simple, clean vector graphics, it still holds up visually even today. Its creator, Eric Chahi, currently sells a high-res Windows XP version of the game on his website, so you can check it out pretty easily. (And oh, for the days when one person could make an entire game!)
The remarkable thing about the game is the way it tells its story–you play a physicist whose experiment goes horrible wrong, stranding him on an alien planet. However, there's no dialogue in the game, no text past the brief intro movie, no intelligible speech. There's no HUD or other on-screen information, and no tutorial. Nothing but the game's stark, angular world. It's purely visual, and it forces you to figure everything out completely on your own. (Not coincidentally, it's also a brutally hard game, but very rewarding.)
What games are you looking forward to?
At the moment, Super Mario Galaxy, Crysis, and Assassin's Creed are the big ones. Assassin's Creed in particular is extraordinarily compelling in theory, if they can pull off the gameplay side.
Any other hobbies and interests? What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
Amateur photography is the big one. (Check out my flickr page.) Incomplete, unordered list of other spare-time activities: Warhammer Fantasy Battles, making sushi, building RC cars, Dungeons & Dragons, origami, traveling….
Pitch your dream game.
Well, I'd like to see games that are dark, not just by virtue of gore and violence, but because they touch on dark moments in human history and dark things about the human soul. I'd like to see games that tackle the horrors of war without glorifying it, for example–gaming's Platoon or Apocalypse Now. I've always wanted to see a war FPS where you play an African-American soldier in the Philippines war of the turn of the 20th century (which was really a precursor to Vietnam in a lot of ways). So on the one hand, you've got the indiscrimate slaughter of civilians in an extremely one-sided conflict, and on the other hand, you see the same racial epithets being flung by white soldiers at the dark-skinned natives that the Black soldiers have also been at the receiving end of. Many deserted, some even enlisted with the insurgent army. Now there's a tough choice to be faced with in a game!
Or, maybe an adventure game where you play a Japanese orphan trying to scrape out a life after the Allied firebombing of WW2. (Blatantly inspired by the Ghibli film "Grave of the Fireflies" here.) Or an open-ended sandbox game where you're a homeless person trying to survive in Washinton DC (let's subvert the whole GTA concept). Or…
The thing is, this sort of setting doesn't preclude compelling gameplay at all (all these examples are based on types of games that are well-proven), and it deepens the player's emotional connection to the game–giving them something real and human to care about, instead of the typical one-man-vs.-the-invading-alien-army cliche we see so much of. I don't think games have to shy away from dealing with real-word issues in order to be fun.


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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Jeff Pearlman: Luhnow has "no remote clue"
We should take a moment to note that Luhnow has a duel degree in business and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Northwestern. He is an intelligent person with, no doubt, good intentions and a big heart and...
No remote clue.
Read the whole thing for yourself, and then remember that Pearlman wrote a book about Roger Clemens where the description of the book is as follows:
In The Rocket That Fell to Earth, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman reconstructs the pitcher's life—from his Ohio childhood to the mounds of Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium—to reveal a flawed and troubled man whose rage for baseball immortality took him to superhuman heights before he crashed down to earth.
So we can guess that Pearlman isn't going to agree with any thoughts regarding the Astros - or anybody else - employing Clemens further.
Of course, Pearlman claimed that no team had a wider connection to PEDs than the Rangers and Astros. And also said that "if Bagwell didn't use (steroids), then the world is flat."
So there you have it.
4 comments:
- street said...
I can't believe you posted a link to a Pearlman article on this subject (or on any subject for that matter). Seriously, what were y'all thinking?!? Pearlman has made a 'career' of Tabloid'esque sensationalistic journalism, and is unabashed when it comes to promotion of whatever rhetoric of the day he is selling. He floats rumor and innuendo as if it was gospel. Giving him links on the subject merely translates into hits/readership for him, which in the internet readership world translates to credibility. Color me disappointed that Astros County did ANYTHING that could even remotely translate to credibility on his behalf...
- June 21, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Sounds like he's right most of the time.
- June 21, 2012 at 5:25 PM
Jeff Pearlman can eat a duck. duck was an intentional typo.
- June 21, 2012 at 8:03 PM
"Quack Quack" - inside Drayton's pants
- June 21, 2012 at 10:28 PM


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Tate Curator José Roca Spotlights Eight Up-and-Coming Latin American Artists
Artsy Editorial
Five-Color Lithograph
Publisher: Tamarind Institute
With an anthropologist's eye, Nicola López draws upon cartography and uses printmaking, drawing, collage, and installation to create maps of the physical and psychological experience of contemporary cityscapes. López sees these landscapes as saturated with signs of contemporary life: speed, mobility, technology. "My work incorporates these signs," she explains, "exaggerating and reconfiguring them in order to build maps that convey the sense of wonder and vertigo that is inevitable as we face the landscape of today's world." López's compositions pulse with energy, as delicately rendered, jumbled masses of chords, armatures, pipes, wires, construction fencing, beams, and concrete columns fill her works on paper, bursting off the page. Her site-specific installations, like Landscape X: Under Construction (2011) for the Guggenheim, New York, enclose viewers in an industrial dreamscape, a reference both ethereal and literal to the world outside the museum's doors.
American, b. 1975, Santa Fe, New Mexico, based in Brooklyn, New York