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Simulating Chutes & Ladders in Python
This weekend I found myself in a particularly drawn-out game of Chutes and Ladders with my four-year-old. If you've not had the pleasure of playing it, Chutes and Ladders (also sometimes known as Snakes and Ladders) is a classic kids board game wherein players roll a six-sided die to advance forward through 100 squares, using "ladders" to jump ahead, and avoiding "chutes" that send you backward. It's basically a glorified random walk with visual aids to help you build a narrative. Thrilling. But she's having fun practicing counting, learning to win and lose gracefully, and developing the requisite skills to be a passionate sports fan, so I play along.
On the approximately twenty third game of the morning, as we found ourselves in a near endless cycle of climbing ladders and sliding down chutes, never quite reaching that final square to end the game, I started wondering how much longer the game could last: what is the expected length of a game? How heavy are the tails of the game length distribution? How succinctly could I answer those questions in Python? And then, at some point, it clicked: Chutes and Ladders is memoryless — the effect of a roll depends only on where you are, not where you've been — and so it can be modeled as a Markov process! By the time we (finally) hit square 100, I basically had this blog post written, at least in my head.
When I tweeted about this, people pointed me to a number of similar treatments of Chutes & Ladders, so I'm under no illusion that this idea is original. Think of this as a blog post version of a dad joke: my primary goal is not originality, but self-entertainment, and if anyone else finds it entertaining that's just an added bonus.


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As Gray Plant Mooty previously reported, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is poised to allow companies to operate new Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) (URL extensions to the right of the "dot") in the coming months. ICANN currently anticipates that the first group of new gTLDs should be operational by the end of July 2013. Effective March 26, 2013, and continuing thereafter, trademark owners can register their marks for inclusion in the Trademark Clearinghouse, a global repository for validated trademark data intended to enhance trademark protection and facilitate dispute resolution in every new gTLD. Trademark rights holders should familiarize themselves with the benefits and requirements of a Clearinghouse registration, and consider registering at least their primary brands. Other important developments in the gTLD program are also discussed below.
It is important to emphasize that, while early registration in the Trademark Clearinghouse could be beneficial, traditional remedies against infringing domain names, such as UDRP arbitration proceedings and court action, will continue to be available if a brand owner chooses to forego Clearinghouse registration at this time.
Key Information Regarding the Clearinghouse
The Trademark Clearinghouse will allow brand owners to deposit their trademark data into a centralized database. The Clearinghouse will then authenticate and store the information and, eventually, disseminate it to all new gTLD registries for use in connection with the "Sunrise Service" and the "Trademark Claims Service," described below. Brand owners will be required to submit their trademark information (such as US or other country registration data) to the Clearinghouse in order to participate in these rights protection mechanisms.
There is no stated deadline by which brand owners need to register with the Clearinghouse, and the verification system will be available on an ongoing basis as new gTLDs are approved. ICANN has announced that it may finalize contracts with some of the new gTLD operators by April 23, 2013 (and some observers have been incorrectly putting out that date as a deadline for Clearinghouse registrations), but the actual launch of the first new gTLDs will not occur until at least July 2013, after the operators go through a testing period. That being said, it is not clear exactly how long it will take the Clearinghouse to complete the validation process. Accordingly, brand owners are encouraged to begin reviewing their trademark portfolios soon to determine which marks may be appropriate for registration, and it may be advisable to file Clearinghouse applications by early July 2013, if possible, if one desires to take advantage of Sunrise registrations in the first new gTLDs (where the Sunrise Service is expected to become operational in July).
Trademark holders can submit their registration applications directly to the Clearinghouse or through authorized agents, and Gray Plant Mooty is assisting clients with these registrations. The filing fees associated with registration will vary, depending on the registration method and fee structure a brand owner selects but, in most cases, registration with the Clearinghouse will carry a filing fee of $150 per mark for a one-year period, $435 for a three-year period, and $725 for a five-year period. Clearinghouse registrations must be revalidated once per year.
Sunrise Registration Periods and Trademark Claims Notifications
The Clearinghouse will support two programs designed to help trademark owners protect their marks in the new top-level domains: Sunrise registration periods and Trademark Claims notifications. A trademark owner must register its mark in the Clearinghouse in order to take advantage of these programs.
Sunrise Registration
Upon thirty-days' advance notice, a new gTLD operator will open a Sunrise registration period that will last at least thirty days. During that time, registrants with the Clearinghouse will have the opportunity to register their trademarks as second-level domain names in advance of the general public. For many companies, this will be a defensive registration, to prevent cybersquatters, competitors, or innocent parties from obtaining domain names that infringe or cause other problems. For example, a restaurant franchise may want to register its primary mark in the .restaurant or .food gTLD, and a wide variety of companies, especially those that have been targeted by abusive derogatory websites, may want to register defensively in the .sucks gTLD.
Trademark Claims Service
The Trademark Claims Service will operate in all new gTLDs, for the first ninety days of open registration (as opposed to Sunrise registration) after the launch of a new gTLD, as follows: If a third party applies to register a domain name that matches a trademark registered in the Clearinghouse, the gTLD operator must notify the applicant of the potential conflict. If the applicant nevertheless proceeds to register the domain name, the gTLD operator will then inform the trademark holder of the potentially infringing registration, who can oppose the domain name via established ICANN arbitration procedures or in court.
Brand owners can register for both the Sunrise and Trademark Claims Services when submitting a trademark to the Clearinghouse. In order to qualify for Sunrise Service registrations, the brand owner must include a signed declaration of use and proof of use of the mark (such as labels, tags, or containers, for trademarks, or advertising materials, for service marks).
During the Clearinghouse registration process, software will automatically generate a list of variations (e.g., hyphenation, underscoring) on the mark being registered, as matching potential domain names that will be linked to the mark's record. These are the domain names to which the Sunrise and Trademark Claims mechanisms will be tied. Brand owners who have acquired infringing domain names through a UDRP or court proceeding will be able to add those domain names to their Clearinghouse trademark records as well.
Additional Developments
Although the Trademark Claims Service will alert brand owners to the registration of potentially infringing domain names, the Clearinghouse will not block such registrations from proceeding. Accordingly, brand owners will still need to utilize other enforcement mechanisms in order to challenge second-level domain names registered under new gTLDs, including the new Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS). The URS complements the existing Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) by offering a cost-effective, expedited procedure for rights holders experiencing clear cases of infringement. A URS complainant must assert and prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that a registered domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a word mark owned by the complainant. When filing a URS complaint, the complainant's obligation to prove that its mark is in use can be satisfied by demonstrating that evidence of use was submitted to and validated by the Trademark Clearinghouse. The sole remedy available to a complainant in a URS proceeding will be limited to suspension of the infringing domain name for the remainder of the registration period. This is unlike a UDRP proceeding, where an infringing domain name is either cancelled or assigned to the complainant.
Initial gTLD Evaluation Results
Evaluation panels hired by ICANN have been processing the more than 1900 gTLD applications since July 2012. ICANN is releasing initial evaluation results on a weekly basis, in increments of 30 per week, and may later begin publishing as many as 100 results per week. ICANN anticipates having initial evaluation results for all applications published by the end of August 2013. Applications that pass their initial evaluation and do not face any objections will be eligible to proceed to contracting.
Objection Filing Period
The period for filing formal objections against newly applied-for gTLDs began on June 13, 2012 and ended on March 13, 2013. ICANN is supposed to publish a list of objections that require applicant responses in mid-April 2013. All objections received will now move through a dispute resolution process that will take approximately five months to resolve in most circumstances.
Next Steps
As the gTLD program progresses, brand owners need to remain aware of the mechanisms that are available to help them defend their trademarks against potential infringers. Recordation with the Trademark Clearinghouse will be an important first step for many brand owners in protecting their marks and, if desired, in registering their own second-level domain names under new gTLDs. Brand owners should strategically analyze their trademark portfolios to determine which marks may benefit from the services the Clearinghouse offers. In particular, brand owners should plan to submit any trademark for which they desire a Sunrise registration. Rights holders may also wish to monitor the gTLDs once they go live and consider utilizing the URS or other dispute resolution procedures to bring claims against domain name registrants or abusive registry operators.
Please consult a Gray Plant Mooty IP/trademark attorney if you have any questions about the gTLD program or would like to discuss filing your trademarks with the Clearinghouse. Attorneys in the firm's Intellectual Property, Technology & Privacy practice group are available to assist you in selecting which of your brands are most appropriate for registration and to effect that registration at competitive rates.
This article is provided for general informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. You are urged to consult a lawyer concerning any specific legal questions you may have.
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I wish that my great enthusiasm for the art of Irish traditional singing were matched my by an ability to talk knowledgably about the genre and its practitioners. If it were, then I'd still not be waiting to see in print a considered obituary for the great Irish singer Rita Keane who died in the early hours of Monday morning. I'd be writing it myself.
In the meantime, and until something better comes along here is how The Irish Times has marked the passing of this remarkable singer.
RITA KEANE, an internationally acclaimed traditional singer and member of one of Galway's best-known musical families, has died. She was 86.
Ms Keane, an aunt of singers Seán and Dolores Keane, was regarded as one of the most influential traditional singers of the past half century or more.
Three years ago Rita, along with her older sister Sarah, were awarded the TG4 Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their outstanding contribution to traditional music and song.
Sarah Keane continues to live in Galway.
Their careers began more than 60 years ago in a céilí band which involved the wider Keane family.
The pair came to national and, later, international prominence through their highly acclaimed album, Once I Loved, a collection of songs in Irish and English recorded in 1968.
It took almost 20 years before their second collection of songs was released in the mid-1980s, At the Setting of the Sun.
Several well-known musicians and singers have paid tribute to the Keane sisters for having a major influence on them, including Paddy Maloney of the Chieftains.


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The 22nd of February the publication named 'Sustainable intensification in smallholder agriculture: An integrated systems research approach', edited by Ingrid Oborn, Bernard Vanlauwe, Michael Phillips, Richard Thomas, Willemien Brooijmans and Kwesi Atta-Krah, became available. Just check the publisher's website:
Much of the work represents outputs of the three CGIAR Research Programs on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics, Aquatic Agricultural Systems and Dryland Systems. The chapters are based on the four themes of the international conference on integrated systems research held at IITA in Ibadan in March 2015: the conceptual underpinnings of systems research; sustainable intensification in practice; integrating nutrition, gender and equity in research for improved livelihoods; and systems and institutional innovation.


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GreenPort Cruise and Congress 2016 – Venice Port Authority to host.
The 4th GreenPort Cruise Conference and 11th GreenPort Congress will be hosted by Venice Port Authority (VPA) from 11-14 October 2016 at the Marittima Passenger Terminal. Over the last 15 years
VPA has been carrying out a series of concrete green actions such as the restoration of the Venetian
port waterfront, a massive remediation campaign of more than 110 hectares of land and water, the use of alternative energies and LNG. This makes Venice not only a beautiful setting for the Autumn
Conference, but also a very fitting one.
Prof. Paolo Costa, President of Venice Port Authority has written an open letter to port professionals in which he looks forward to welcoming delegates to Venice in October. You can read the full letter here.
GreenPort Cruise, now in its 4
environmental aspects of the cruise ship industry. The one-day conference will look at the Port-City working together to promote environmental benefits to cruise lines and cruise tourism, plus suggest
solutions from around the world as to how to deal with it cruise ship waste. Topics will include:
- Operators' feedback on using LNG vs Scrubbers vs OPS and the safety implications for ports serving LNG fuelled ships
- Port-City connections, what are the most environmentally friendly options – buses, water taxis/buses
- Port-City working together to promote environmental benefits to cruise lines/tourism th year, will take place on 11 October and is aimed at anyone involved in
- Dealing with larger ships in the port and with waste
- Sharing best practices in the Cruise Port, e.g. for passenger flow influx
- Renewable energy in ports: solutions adopted by ports around the world for example covering car parking lots with solar panels
The 11th GreenPort Congress will then take place between the 12-14 October. The emphasis of the Congress will be on bringing the port community together to discuss the environmental issues and
practical solutions surrounding the global logistics chain. This is a must attend event for anyone
involved in environmental aspects of maritime ports and terminal in particular: environmental
managers and planners, harbour masters, logistics managers, energy managers, sustainability and
corporate social responsibility executives from ports, terminal operators, shipping lines, shippers and logistics companies. Topics will include:
- Alternative fuels for port infrastructure and maritime transport
- Reducing the carbon footprint of the logistics chain through joint ventures between ports, terminal operators and members of the port community
- Port Expansion to deal with Ultra Large Container Vessels and Mega Cargoes: dredging and alternatives
- Port Reception Facilities/Dust/Noise/Air emissions
- The Circular Economy
- Industrial symbiosis
- Remediation in the port area
- Alternative and renewable energy in ports
A Welcome Reception, Gala Dinner and Port Tour, all hosted by Venice Port Authority, will be included in the GreenPort Congress delegate fee, whilst Cruise attendees will be invited to the
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There's good reason why Traverse City was recently ranked as a top city for book lovers. Not only does this lakeshore city hum a little literary tune all its own, but it also falls in line with a mighty band of independent booksellers strung in solidarity along Michigan's stunning northern shores.
These indies, each offering their respective knowledge and charms, compliment rather than compete through their pure, unmitigated passion for the literary arts. Such cumulative verve for the book is palpable, and has many readers road-tripping North for more than cherry pie.
One of the key draws of the much-talked-about Traverse City lit scene, however, is undoubtedly the National Writers Series. "Some observers believe that Traverse City's growing reputation as a city of book lovers can also be attributed to the National Writers Series," asserts Publisher's Weekly in Traverse City is for Book Lovers. Brainchild of TC native and author Doug Stanton, the National Writers Series was founded in 2009 and continues to flourish with each new season.
The Detroit News recently featured the man behind the NWS magic, noting Stanton's dedication not only to the art of writing, but to its future voices as well. "You don't often get a chance to water your own roots, but that's what he's doing with every session," states the Detroit News. "The events raise money for scholarships and the Front Street Writers Program, a workshop for talented high school students."
The NWS brings at least one celebrity author each month to Traverse City for a reading and discussion of their work. The ticketed event is usually held in TC's 19th-century opera house. This year's lineup includes authors Jodi Picoult, Anna Quindlen, and Geraldine Brooks among others. Also, the incredibly popular Harvard professor Michael Sandel will appear to discuss What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets.
For book lovers like myself who live in the Detroit metro area, Traverse City can feel like a world away. However, with the flavorful Writers Series and an incredible string of informed independents both in and outside the city, I can assure you that the drive Up North is definitely a trip worth taking.
*Support your local bookstores, libraries, and universities. It matters.
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For this Things Thursday, some really interesting IoT news the past few weeks. Farmers are hacking their tractors and IKEA enters the fray in the smart home market.
- American farmers are hacking their tractors with Ukrainian firmware (via Motherboard)
What's causing farmers to hack their smart tractors? Manufacturers are locking the tractors down with specialized software and farmers are fighting back. If you thought Apple's walled garden was bad, read on to see what's happening to the modern farmer. Great read and amazing ingenuity on the parts of the farmers.
- How I let Disney track my every move (via Gizmodo)
Have you been to a Disney park lately? They are doing some amazing things with proximity sensing. You can pay, check in to a hotel and rides and make reservations all with the Magic Band. Disney can see how people move about the park with anonymized data and improve services. This type of trade off of our personal data is similar to what we do with services like Facebook. The author hacked his Magic Band to see what smart devices he could control with it.Turns out, he could control a lot. Check it out.
- IKEA launches its own low-cost smart lighting range (via Wareable)
Some pretty interesting work from IKEA to bring smart home prices down. From motion-sensing lights to lighted doors for your IKEA furniture, they've got some really interesting and diverse items. You can dim the lights with an unattached knob device which uses an accelerometer. It will be interesting to see how much they start to incorporate into their furniture.
That's all for Things Thursday this week. Have questions? Want us to cover something? Let us know. You can follow us on Twitter @crtlabs or Facebook.


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The All Blacks haven't been perfect in their first two tests, but they have won and the spoils of victory include the right to ask questions about England's likely state of mind leading into the final clash.
This week, more than last, will provide bigger clues to England's longer-term future. How they play will provide some insight into their level of conviction about their own ability and also, more intriguingly, it will give some clues as to their assessment of the All Blacks' ability.
Since their record victory at Twickenham in 2012, England have thrown everything at the All Blacks and lost. Three times they have tried to repeat the magic of that day two years ago and three times they haven't managed it. Self doubt must be becoming an issue.
Uncertainty could be England's undoing in Hamilton.
They tried to slow things down and grind out a win in Auckland with set-piece excellence and an accurate kick-chase game. Didn't net them a win.
They went to Dunedin and opened things right up. They were willing to go wide, attack the space and play at pace. Didn't net them a win.
So what to do in Hamilton? How wedded are they to this idea they can play high-tempo rugby against the best sides in the world?
"They are in a bit of a quandary really because they took us on in Dunedin at playing a game at real pace and worked out they couldn't," said All Black coach Steve Hansen.
"So what are they going to do now? I have heard Stu [England coach Lancaster] say in the paper that they shouldn't play too much rugby down their end. So are they going to kick it a wee bit more? They will have a good plan because they are good coaches."
The selection of Kyle Eastmond and Manu Tuilagi in the midfield hints that England will persevere with the fast and furious stuff. Eastmond was a revelation at Eden Park where his tricky feet, elusive running and eye for space caused the vaunted All Black midfield problems.
He is the ball player to Tuilagi's ball runner and with Malakai Fekitoa making his first start, it would make sense if England fancy the youngster could be vulnerable.
Just as clearly the All Blacks will be happy enough for England to think that. Fekitoa has been one of Super Rugby's most destructive tacklers - his explosive power has seen him flatten some big men this year.
England can target him - they may end up regretting it, though. And that's why Hansen was happy to throw a little jab in England's direction: the All Blacks haven't yet fired the way they want to, but they have a level of comfort and confidence in their ability to play any style of rugby.
That's what Hansen has been building these past two years - a "Swiss Army knife" rugby side.
When they lost at Twickenham - still the only defeat under Hansen - the All Blacks didn't have the same breadth of tactical weaponry. That year they were still predominantly a single-threat side - their speed of running game too much for most teams to handle.
Last year was about variety - of creating a triple threat where the All Blacks could run, pass and kick.
This is why Hansen can goad England to run because he feels his side can play that style of rugby better. The arrival of Kieran Read at No 8, who is not expected to play 80 minutes, will give the All Blacks more running threat again. As well as Jerome Kaino has played at No 8, Read is a different beast with his ability to pop out wide and offload to his wings.
Hansen would be happy enough for England to kick because the All Blacks have a back three who can deal with the high ball and either kick or run back. If the game is slow, the tight five have shown they are as good at set-piece as any other pack in the world game.
"Our focus this week has been about trying to lift our performance to a level that we really can be proud of and that is about getting our skill-sets across the park right and having the energy to play the game at high speed and high intensity for 80-odd minutes," he said.


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Using sea salt instead of pickling salt in your canning recipes./
A few people have asked me about swapping out pickling salt with sea salt. I'm no expert canner, but I do consider myself a search engine wizard, so here's the low down from the internets.
Fine grain pure (no additives) sea salt can be used instead of pickling salt. Some people say it has a slightly different taste and some say there is no difference. The main thing that I noted was if you use coarse grain sea salt you should add a little more then the recipe calls for to compensate for the difference in grain size.
Chrysti (http://chrystidoeslife.tumblr.com) shared that if you use regular sea salt you might notice some discolouration in your canned veggies. I also read that it can make your brine cloudy.


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Well, here we are, at the end of autumn, and so much has happened (new artists, a new baseball champion, a new congress) that I hope I can remember all of it. Let's see…
The Brightest Lights have finished their debut CD, and the reviews thus far have Bren fantastic! The official release is December 22 at church,, so if you're in Boston come on out!
Sarah Blacker second release, entitled "Come What May" is mixed and being mastered by the incomparable Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering on December 6th. There are a few guests on this one, as noted in previous posts, and we're all thrilled with how the CD has come out! The CD release party is February 18 at Club Passim, so don't miss it!
Vary Lumar is onto tracking vocals for their third release, and it's shaping up to be their best effort yet! I can't recommend them enough!
I mixed a project for Rob Loyot of Noise in the Attic in September. The very young (16 years old!) and talented Garrett Brown is someone for whom you all need to keep your ears open.
Bone Dry System is returning to 37′ in December. The plan is to record a 5-song, and these guys move quickly, so expect an early 2011 release!
Also returning in January are old friends . Seventh RoomThere's a slight change in direction in store, although I prefer to think of it as a natural evolution, so this should be a fun and very cool one!
A few releases of note recently:
Tony Savarino's solo debut, "Guitaring" has been getting rave reviews even before its official release!, check out this one, and this one!
Totem has also been getting a boatload of praise for their self-titled return to local prominence. Check out their reviews in Hear Now Live Boston Band Crush and the RSL!
That's all for now. Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, and enjoy all the great new music from 37′ and everywhere!


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- 31OCT2013Kaniva Rail Overpass Upgrade Complete
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- 31OCT2013Pacific Motorway Upgrade on Track for Early Finish
Motorists will be able to enjoy the upgraded section of the Pacific Motorway between Worongary and Mudgeeraba six months earlier than expected, thanks to the completion date being brought forward to mid-2014.
- 29OCT2013Tenders Called to Complete the Moree Town Centre Bypass
The $30 million second stage of the Moree town centre bypass is one step closer, with tenders now called for its construction.
- 28OCT2013Bruce Highway Upgrade Gets Underway
The Bruce Highway is set for a major makeover south of Townsville as construction on the $137.5 million Vantassel Street to Cluden Duplication project gets underway.
- 25OCT2013Reducing Coal Train Congestion at Newcastle Port
A project designed to get coal to Newcastle Port more efficiently by easing rail congestion has been given the green light to start construction next month.
- 23OCT2013Coalition Government's $100M-plus Commitment to Tasmania
The Australian Government has reaffirmed its commitment to a strong and prosperous Tasmania.
- 23OCT2013Rail Infrastructure Expansion for Fremantle Port
Fremantle Port is set to expand its rail infrastructure, reducing the growth of port-related truck traffic.
- 23OCT2013New Works on Cooroy to Curra
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- 18OCT2013The Big Picture: Australia's infrastructure statistics
The latest figures on infrastructure spending and usage in Australia show the important role that infrastructure plays to support Australia's economy and productivity.
- 16OCT2013Second stage of Melbourne's M80 Ring Road now complete
The $2.25 billion M80 Ring Road Upgrade today reached another major milestone with the opening of all traffic lanes between the Western Highway in Sunshine West and Sunshine Avenue in St Albans last night.
- 14OCT2013Tenders Called for Princes Highway Upgrade in Winchelsea
Construction companies interested in upgrading the Princes Highway in Winchelsea are encouraged to submit their bids under the VicRoads tender process, which is now open.
- 04OCT2013Work Starts on Roys and Bells Creek Road Interchange
Work has now started on a grade-separated interchange for Roys and Bells Creek roads on the Bruce Highway.
- 03OCT2013Bridge works beaming with progress at Horsham
Works on the Wimmera River Bridges Upgrade has seen an impressive milestone with five large concrete beams being hoisted into place.
- 01OCT2013Gateway Upgrade North—Release of Preferred Plan
Work on the Gateway Upgrade North project has been fast tracked, with designs now available online and early works due to begin in late 2014.


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I actually love to smell this scent because it reminds me of an early spring with sweet aromas of that Jasmine that I love to experience. The sweet flowers of joy and desire seem to resonate everywhere when this is worn. It is perfect for any occasion that beckons intimacy and enchantment! Not a bad fragrance and the bottle even looks nice. The bottle kind of reminds me of Hypnose for women which is another great fragrance that I would recommend.
Maria Sharapova Perfume includes hints of Jasmine, Gardenia, Magnolia, Musk, Vanilla and White Amber. The experience almost seems too good to be true!
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Fifteen Tips for Attending a Wine Tasting In Fun Of Course, with a serious side to it...
by contributing author Thomas Pellechia
2. Do not wear white.
3. If you must wear white, and you spill red wine on it, immediately splash the stain with white wine. And don't forget to get out of the way, preferably in the method described above.
4. Do not wear perfume or anything else that smells up the room.
5. Talk, don't holler, but keep your travel stories to a minimum; we are there to taste the wine in front of us not the one you had in Europe, the name of which you cannot remember but you seem to have all night trying to recall.
6. If you know nothing about wine, don't use this forum to dump a pile of questions onto the table for the pourer to answer, who may know less than you and will give you a bad answer anyway. Taste the wine (and get out of the way). If you like what you taste resolve to take a wine course later.
7. A common complaint heard at wine tastings: "this wine tastes metallic." Leave your tongue ring at home.
8. Forego the lipstick too.
9. Most wine tastings include a buffet of some sort. The food is there to eat, but don't be a hog. Also keep in mind there are hundreds of people behind you. This is not the time for indecision. Fill your plate and get out of the way see number one for instructions.
10. It is common knowledge among wine professionals that one should drink a glass of water for every glass of wine consumed. This practice prevents you from becoming dehydrated and maybe from getting drunk. The water cure has an added advantage: it helps to thin the crowd every so often, shifting the bulk from the tasting floor to the waiting line at the toilet.
11. Leave the wineglass and the buffet dish on the counter/s provided for them do not leave them in the toilet.
12. If you reject the water treatment but want to prevent yourself from getting drunk learn to spit, preferably in the spittoon provided. Under no circumstances should you spit in someone's face, intentionally or not. In fact, if you must talk to your neighbor, stand a few feet apart; people at wine tastings who do drink a lot of water tend to release the water between toilet trips by spraying droplets when they speak.
13. If you attend a wine tasting for the sole purpose of putting on a free drunk, make an appointment with your counselor to talk about it. But if you are unsuccessful at reaching your counselor and so you attend the wine tasting instead, do not leave your coat at the coat-check counter. What with the increase in crowds at these events, it is quite difficult to get your coat back under the best of circumstances.
14. If the wine tasting is a consumer event leave your business cards home. People who engage in business discussions rarely remember their etiquette and so they take up valuable floor space. If you must give out a business card, be discreet and be quick about it, and be sure the recipient wants the thing.
15. If you are in the wine business and at a business-oriented wine tasting, you are likely impervious to the requirements of proper etiquette, so do whatever you want, but do get out of the way.
About the Author
Thomas Pellechia is a contributing author to Vivis Wine Journal and has 21 years in the wine business. Thomas was formerly co-proprietor of is-wine and is the author of Garlic, Wine, and Olive Oil Historical Anecdotes and Recipes with another wine book in the works.
Thomas served as a wine maker at a prominent Finger Lakes vineyard for many years and has been writing about wine and food for 15 years. You can find his work published in Wine Enthusiast, Decanter, SlowFood Intl., Brandweek, Wines and Vines, Practical Winery, American Wine Society Journal and, of course, Vivis Wine Journal. He also writes two weekly newspaper columns in upstate NY and can be found chatting about wine at WineTalk.com.
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Councillor George Turnbull has been accused of misleading the public at an Area Forum meeting in the Town Hall on Tuesday night.
And former councillor Andrew Farquhar has called on the Mr Turnbull to consider his position, and he is claiming that the misleading information "could have a serious effect on the forthcoming public consultation process".
In a letter this week to Councillor Turnbull, who also chairs the Teviot and Liddesdale Area Forum, Mr Farquhar, a former independent Scottish Borders Councillor and the man behind the High Street regeneration initiative, wrote: "Having attended the two most recent Area Forums I find that you as chair have misinformed the public on a very important point regarding the electoral boundary Fifth Review process by stating that certain decisions had already been made regarding councillor numbers."
"This is not the case and such misleading information could have a serious effect on the forthcoming public consultation process if not corrected.
"In their brief guide you can learn from the commissioners in Section 6 about " What happens after we make our recommendations?". I advise you to read this then you may wish to consider your position.
"This is a serious issue and it will most certainly require some form of public statement to clarify the confusion and misunderstanding this has caused."
During a meeting which was stormy at times, Councillors Turnbull, Smith and Paterson defended their positions on the Boundary Commission's plans to cut Hawick's quota of councillors from six to four with both Mr Turnbull and Mr Paterson claiming the decision has already been made.
This has angered several members of the public as well as representatives from local Community Councils with Gwen Crew from Denholm, who was clearly furious at the prospect of her village forming part of a Jedburgh super-ward, saying: "We just can't sit back and accept this."
Councillor Turnbull hit back at claims he'd misled the public, saying that the Boundary Commission has agreed the reduction of councillors in "principle" and "while it is potentially an option for the commission to change its recommendation in respect of Councillor numbers" he claims that Mr Farquhar's assertion that there is a chance of challenging this is giving members of the public "false hope".
In a letter to Mr Farquhar, he said: "At the meeting I thought you were conveying misinformation regarding Hawick being the most deprived area of the Borders and that no account had been taken of deprivation in the Boundary Commission plans."


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Actor Gael Garcia Bernal announced that girlfriend Delores Fonzi gave birth to a little girl earlier this week:
"We share with you that our daughter was born," Bernal wrote on Twitter, according to People. "Libertad, her name. Libertad!"
"After the greatest week of my life, it's getting even better, I thank you infinitely for your congratulations," the actor later added.
The couple also has a 2-year-old son, Lázaro, which is great news for Libertad, as she won't be the only one spending a majority of her life getting grossed out by comments about how hot her dad is.
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Big Sean talks about what he does and does not fuck with on "Fashion Bros."
Big Sean was a guest on Complex's video series "Fashion Bros," and spoke to the fashion bros for a good ten minutes about a bunch of random stuff.
The rapper talks about his upcoming untitled album, his "Trilogy" mansion, as well as his love for Netflix (and titties), naming some of his favorite things to watch. They also get some fashion talk in there, with Sean Don being one of the first purveyors of the snapback. Big Sean also goes through a list of things he does/does not fuck with, including spa days (yes).
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New Delhi, Nov 20 (PTI) The alleged absence of 100 per cent CCTV coverage at different police stations of the city, today prompted the Delhi High Court to ask the AAP government why close circuit televisions have not been installed so far.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar observed that there was an order to install CCTVs at all police stations.
"You (Delhi government) have not installed CCTVs since 2012-13. We (another bench of high court) ordered installation of CCTVs. There are lot of allegations against you (police). ... There should be recording facilities for CCTV footage also. Five years is long enough to do this," the bench noted.
Delhi governments additional standing counsel Sanjoy Ghose said "it will be done."
The bench, however, transferred the matter before a bench which is already hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) initiated by the high court on the issue of womens safety after the December 16, 2012 gangrape of a young woman in a moving bus in the national capital.
The petitioner has alleged that there have been several deaths inside police stations in the city this year and the presence of functional CCTVs could act as a deterrent.
At an earlier hearing of the PIL, the court had ordered installation of CCTVs at police stations and vulnerable areas of the city.
The bench listed the hearing on the PIL on December 11.
One aspect being considered by the other bench is the installation of CCTV cameras at all police stations and chowkis (posts) in the capital city.
Social activist Ajay Gautam has claimed that even the CCTV cameras installed at a few police stations were obsolete as they did not have the recording feature.
Seeking direction to the authorities to put 192 police stations and 42 chowkis completely under CCTV surveillance with recording facilities, the plea said that these recordings should be saved for three months.
Gautam contended that CCTVs were required in the police stations "to ensure transparency" in their functioning.
He alleged that the conduct of the police on the issue highlights its "unplanned and casual approach", apart from "wastage of public money" by installing CCTVs without the recording feature. PTI PPS SKV HMP ARC


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Boating Adventures | "Skipper: The Aspiring Boat Cat" | Article and Photos by Vicki Totten
|Skipper may still need to grow into his harness.
When our elderly cat died last December, I knew that if we got another cat, it needed to be able to travel with us to the boat, since so much of our time is spent there. Even so, when the fuzzy little black kitty darted under our car, it was not our intention to take him to the boat with us. We hadn't been actively looking for another cat and it only occasionally came up in conversation. But sometimes it is the kitty that picks the person.
We were stopped at a Valero Gas Station in Cuero, headed to the boat, when Stan heard the tiny kitten meowing under the car. If it is possible for a meow to sound sad, this kitty's pitiful meow let us know he was in distress. You could barely even hear it, I suspect because he simply didn't have the energy to meow very loudly. Before Stan could reach for him however, the small black kitten with the white paws managed to dart under a metal cage used to store propane tanks. It was obvious from the way the sharp line of his spine could be seen above his fur that he was starving. We began digging for food to put out for him, starting with some bread and then ham from our ice chest, all which he immediately inhaled.
And then one thing naturally led to another. It's funny how some decisions can take so long to come to - but others, such as this one, can come in an instant. The kitty had somehow managed to squeeze himself into the actual metal cage, hiding next to the tanks. But by the time Stan reached inside and picked him up, we were both goners.
|Skipper was so tiny he fit into the palm of Stan's hand.
The kitten's little body immediately collapsed into Stan, trembling, but totally surrendering into the arms of his rescuer. When Stan handed him to me, the pint sized kitty did the same thing, hugging his unbelievably thin body next to mine while looking up at me with these huge green eyes, immediately melting my heart. Stan and I looked at each other and both knew that the kitten was going with us.
Kitty spent the entire trip cuddled in my lap, purring loudly when I would rub his white furred tummy and then cuddling up around my neck, totally unconcerned about the moving scenery passing by the windows of the car. Once we got to the boat, we quickly went about bathing him in the laundry room sink at the boat harbor. He didn't fight being bathed, but instead seemed to relax his tiny body while being washed in the warm water. Since it was Labor Day, we knew we couldn't get him to a vet to be checked out until the next day, so a quick trip to the store provided us with the provisions needed to have him stay on the boat with us that night.
|Still looking pitiful, Skipper's arrival on the boat.
|Getting to know the boat.
|Checking out the water surrounding us.
The next 24 hours convinced us that we had found our boat cat - or he had found us. Our new kitten, who we optimistically named Skipper, was not in the least freaked out by the moving water around us. He was just curious to explore every part of the boat and would find the smallest, darkest places to sleep, accustomed as he was to protecting himself from harm by hiding as best he could. At one point, he was nowhere to be found and we were just sure he had somehow gotten off the boat. Finally, armed with powerful flashlights, we found him huddled behind the couch cushion for protection.
|Like any kitty, Skipper needs his toys.
After getting him checked out and treated by the vet for various kitty critters, we finally brought him to our house, where he is adjusting to our older cat who stays home when we go on the boat. The older cat has become that "big black monster" to kitty, who shakes like a leaf when he comes near him.
|Everywhere I look, Stan has devised toys for Skipper.
It will be awhile before we discover if Skipper is really meant for boat life, but in the mean time, we have a kitty harness to get him used to using a leash, since if he is on the boat with us, there will be times we will need to keep him from falling overboard.
|The standoff.
|Cisco, aka "big black monster cat."
Even the "big black monster cat" also known as Cisco, seems to be coming around, since he no longer hisses every time he spots the little one in the same room with him. Only time will tell if they become friends, just as only time will tell if Skipper lives up to his name and takes to boat life. In the meantime, the little two pound ball of fur has fully captured the hearts of all the humans in the family. And if the loud purring sounds coming from him are any indication, the love flows both ways.
Vicki and husband, ceramic artist Stan Irvin, are both retired professors who have discovered the joys of Rockport and living part-time on their 33' sailboat, while exploring new sailing destinations and adventures.
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Here are the next six things that I opened in my advent calendar! I have been spoiled rotten again!
Day 7: Buttons
I have some more buttons to add to my collection! I think these are really cute! Trying to thing of the ideal project for them…
Day 8: Alice in Wonderland Notebook
I think that this little notebook is stunning! It uses typed pages of the text to create these original illustrations on the cover! I think it is really pretty and I am going to find the ideal use for it.
Day 9: DIY Christmas Decoration
I think that this penguin decoration is adorable! James is a penguin person so there are always penguin themed presents! He picked the photo for the middle and then we spent the evening colouring him in:
Ta da! He is now hanging proudly on the tree! I just need some cotton wool to stick onto the hat trimmings to make them fluffy!
Day 9: Tatty Teddy Embellishments
Eeeee I love Tatty Teddy!!! These embellishments are really cute! I think James is hinting that I am making his Valentines card…
Day 11: Owl Stickers
I love all of the stickers that they sell at Paperchase (actually, I just love ANYTHING that they sell at Paperchase!) but these stickers are adorable! I love owls and these are so cute! I don't know what to use them on yet!
Day 12: Perry!
I have a slight addiction to Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb… This Perry even has sweets in him! Amazing!
That is everything that I have unwrapped so far! You can see my first six gifts here if you missed them.
Our Christmas trees went up this week too so out house is looking very Christmassy in time for my birthday today! Here is my tree:
Starting to feel very excited for Christmas now!!!


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[William S Burroughs (1914-1997)]
Continuing from last week's William Burroughs June 12, 1975 Naropa class, we continue with the Q & A session, Burroughs covers a wide variety of topics.
Student: … It isn't a question but, it was Lev Kuleshov who made the (cinematic) experiments
WSB: Oh was it.. Let me write that down,
Student: Kuleshov
WSB: Who?
Student: Kuleshov
WSB: How do you spell it?
Student: K-U-L-E-S-H-O-V
Student: O-V
Student: The actor was (Ivan) Muzzhukhin
WSB: Did you see it?
Student: No
Student; What was the Roeg film? What was the Nicolas Roeg film?
WSB: Performance. With Mick Jagger. It was a good film. I don't think it did very well at the box office. You didn't see it? - Yeah.. good film… Pardon?
Student: Bruce Conner.. Bruce Conner is said to have invented the compilation film..
WSB: Yeah, well...
Student: …which is a cut-up...
WSB: I don't understand...
Student: Historians see Bruce Connor as the inventor of the compilation film.
WSB: What do you mean exactly by a "compilation film"?
Student: Well, the same.. same thing
WSB: You mean..
Student: A cut-up.
WSB: You mean an actual random cut-up?
Student; Well, er, no, it's not that random, right..
WSB: Yeah. Of course, well, that's another thing you can do with films. You can take a number of filmed scenes.. Is that what you mean by "compilation"?
Student: Well, it's all very different scenes
WSB: Yes. Or you could.. Say, you could take all riot scenes and string them together, you could go through any number of Western movies and just pick out the gunfights and run a whole sequence of those. Those are very interesting because you have an accumulating effect - Yes?
Student: Someone mentioned to me once that the sound of screeching brakes is like the collective unconsciousness memory of dinosaurs trying to get into their caves, or when they're small mammals, and it's quite disturbing - and I've had some unpleasant dreams - and also the smell of gas, as coming in your windows when you're having sex, or when you're sleeping, has some strange affects on your consciousness - usually I'm frightened (of)..
WSB: The smell of what?
Student: Pollution.
WSB: Oh, you mean the thought of whatever, yes..
Student: And, the combinations working on possible.. Well, they know that the sounds, high-level sound levels, unnerve people prone to violent irritability. And there's always a shoot-out at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel because people are freaked out from the carbon monoxide outside in New York. But, (as) Anne (Waldman) said, in the other comments about these things, you know, (it's) more in terms of alternating.. altered consciousness, actually. In other words, New York heads, you know..
WSB: Well, you're speaking about….
Student: In other words, just like your tape-recorder (experiment) going down the street.. This.. these things, which are part of the environment of the city alter consciousness.
WSB: Yes. They do. And… but, of course, screeching breaks has a meaning for city people, that it wouldn't have for someone who hadn't been around cars that much. I mean..
screeching brakes, and everyone, of course, turns around. That's one thing you could hardly get away with on a tape-recorder without people knowing that it was a recording.
Student: Is this the idea of "The Whisperer" in (The Last Words of) Dutch Schultz ?
WSB: Pardon?
Student: You know, "The Whisperer" in Dutch Schultz?
WSB: Yes
Student: Is the idea that we're behind him, maybe?
WSB: Well the principle there is what is known as "waking suggestion", which means that if someone's attention is concentrated on something else, and someone comes up beside you and whispers "Coca Cola"or something (or whatever they're whispering), that that will affect their unconscious. But it's not the same thing as subliminal. It is not subliminal, That is, you would hear it if your attention was not focused on something else. Now, if you take a tape-recorder and take a walk and then listen to it, you'll often find things that are said in quite a loud voice that you don't remember, because your attention was somewhere else.
Student: I used to stand a lot when I was sleeping, say, on cross-country drives, they'd be times when I would hear conversations that would just pop into my head, that weren't significant, they were just totally insignificant voices that, like, I'd never heard (before) - and it didn't affect me anyway, so.. there were these conversations that would just come and go. Is that kind of the same thing as….?
WSB: Now, wait a minute.These were..these were conversations in your mind?
Student; Yeah, like (tentative), Just (stumbling) off a sentence, or a phrase, or a thought.
WSB: However, you were in a..
Student: (…like typical) situation and..
WSB: Okay, and you were in a car?
Student: In a car, yeah.
WSB: Yeah. Well, of course, there have been cases of people who were actually turning on radio broadcasts, sometimes with the gold metal in their teeth.
Student: This thing was more like what you're talking about, (communication) between a brother and a sister, or something like that..
WSB: Well, it's hard to say just what the source of that would be. It seemed to have nothing to do with you, and no..?
Student: No, it didn't affect my life in anyway.
WSB: Well, where had you… Had you been without sleep?
Student: I'd say maybe for two days.
WSB: Oh, yeah, well, that would probably.. that probably would account for it. I mean, not really account for it, because.. but we know that does happen - that people will hear conversations like that with people that appear to be separate, in their heads, after a certain length of time without sleep. But just why that occurs? That doesn't explain, in fact, why that occurs.
Student Like in the street when you make a connection but you don't consciously record it?
WSB: Yeah, your attention was obviously on something else, but it wasn't… You could've heard it, you would have heard it, if the…if your attention had been there. Yes?
Student: Are you familiar with (Sergei) Eisenstein? who was more (well-known than) the experiments of Kuleshov. He did a lot of things with environmental montages. Like, he did theater - he'd take people into factories and act a performance out, using smells, and.finally he found that film was much more manipulative, so he got into that. He wrote a lot of essays on montage, and did cut-ups, but he controlled them..
Student (2): No organization whatever
Student: No
WSB: No?
Student: No
WSB: They were arranged probably?
StudentL It was editing
WSB: Yeah, yeah.. Well, I haven't seen too much of his work. I saw Thunder Over Mexico years ago, a very fine film.
Student: He didn't edit that
WSB: Huh?
Student: He didn't edit that
WSB: He didn't?
Student: No - And I was told that it was made by the director who had made Tarzan? [Sol Lesser]
WSB: Really? You mean Thunder Over Mexico!, was… - I didn't know that,
Student: Is the technique that you talk about for cutting up word images completely random? - I get a little confused as to like….when I went.. after the talk you gave the other day, I was thinking further, like the next day, about the piece that you cut up into quarters, and it came to my mind that I didn't really understand what you did with those four pieces.
WSB: Oh, well, I'll show you. Suppose you have a… Well, I'll take a page here. If you had this page [Burroughs demonstrates] ..so you cut it (it has text on). Then you fold it over this way, and then fold it that way. Now you cut it. Now you've got now four pieces, right?. So, one-two-three-four. Now this is one very simple cut-up. So you put number one with number four (that is, this section.. you see what I mean? - this section here, is now.. this section here is now with this section...
Student: Yeah
WSB : …and this section's with that section)
Student: Okay, yes
WSB: That's just a.. one very simple way of cutting up a page, There are any number of ways you can do it. You can cut it up into confetti if you want to, and take it out of a hat.
Student: I cut up pages into.. the way I cut it.. the way I cut them up.. It was after I first read Brion Gysin's work, (like five years ago, or something), and I remember that there was quite a lot of arrangement on my part, in terms of, like, not only selecting the phrases (not a lot of times, just various.. spontaneous.. but there was some..) . In other words, what I'm trying to think about was - this was probably random what I was doing, and I was trying to get a notion of the process that you were talking about. Is it totally random? - or is it playing back and forth between editing and random and changing in and out?
WSB: It's definitely playing back and forth. Sometimes I'll cut up a page and only get one sentence.There's no reason why you can't edit in the arrangement. All you have done is you' have introduced at some point a random factor, where you shuffle the image around. So I'd say just how random it is is another question. That is, you could do it in your mind, presumably (and) you could see how it would come out. It's difficult. It's something sort of like playing chess in your head or something like that. And, of course, the variations that you could get on one page, from one page, are practically infinite. But, generally speaking, it is a matter of editing as you choose what's what, and you can change it around any way, There's no obligation to have it.. to just leave it the way it comes when you cut it.
Student: It seems like in a film there's a much more striking kind of effect - that you do it totally random, that you don't see what you're putting together. Is that the technique of using cut-up?
WSB: Yeah. Sure, Because you've got all the images there. Well, the point is, you can cut a film and rearrange it and you don't know exactly where those cuts are going to come in and what it's going to look like, right?
Student: Yeah
WSB: And then you look at it, and you might select the ones that work best. You wouldn't have to use it all, (unless you wanted to). In this film, we did. We did use it just as it fell.
(for one thing, we didn't have time to do anymore rearranging) - Yes?
Student: I was wondering (if you could speak on the Surrealist work) appearing in the 1930's with Andre Breton. It seems that they were fooling around with some ideas that were related. I don't know if you have time to describe the things that were similar to the what you were (working on)?
WSB: Oh sure. I've got something on that here. As a method, the method pre-dates the explicit statement of Brion Gysin's. There was Tristan Tzara, the man from nowhere, who proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat (which is more or less the same idea - but he didn't really make it explicit and carry it further than that).
Anne Waldman: He said cut up a newspaper
WSB: Uh?
Anne Waldman: He said cut up a newspaper and put those together
WSB: Oh, is that what he says
Anne Waldman; And pull out lines.
WSB: And pull out lines. Well that was very very similar to what happened in Minutes To Go, what Brion did in Minutes To Go. And Anatole France used scissors and paste in very much the same way a film is cut in the cutting room. Well that may not be right. I think he just, like he took a sentence, a whole sentence here and pasted it over there (and that's what happens in the cutting-room - they say, "well, this scene, we can take this scene out and put it over here" - but that's quite a conscious and contrived process, it's not completely random, although it could readily become so. I mean, if he…) - Yeah?
Student: I just wanted to say something about the effectiveness of The Wild Boys on a friend of mine. He's a painter and his thought processes are very visual, and he.. and I gave it to him as a book to read, and he didn't read that much and (you know, he was a very) straight, normal, ordinary kid. After reading (especially the sequences in the arcade show) he just…his whole sexual code was rearranged….
WSB: What book was that?
Student: The Wild Boys
WSB: Oh, The Wild Boys.. There were some types in The Wild Boys, not that many, but some - Yeah?
Student: Can you talk more about this technique of Mozhukhin and the montage and...
WSB: Yeah, I talked about that in the last class. You see Brion said that writing was fifty years behind painting. That this is something from the old montage method that had been used since the turn of the century, actually, in painting , which is really closer to the facts of perception than sequential painting - that if you walk, particularly (in an) urban.., particularly in a city, if you walk down a street (and) put what you've just seen on canvas, well, you've seen fragments - you've seen half a person cut in two by a car, and scraps of street signs, and reflections, and so on. So this is just the application of that method to writing. That is, you're doing the same with words, you're just fracturing them and rearranging the fragments into a montage - Yeah?
Student: When you say a montage in painting, I assume you mean, like, the collages of Max Ernst?
WSB: Yeah, yeah, there were.. collages and montage, yeah
Student: Your experiment with taking the recorder down the street, you know and actually taping before, and the one with the tv, with playing a different soundtrack with the visual image, (noticing) that the audience pays more attention to the soundtrack than to the visual image. Does that explain anything?
WSB: It would seem to me, yes. In other words, I think the soundtrack determines, to some extent, what they see (that is, if they.. if they're watching a tv program, if the soundtrack is in anyway applicable to what's on the image, the image-track, then they will accept that.
Student You think, turning down the soundtrack. it's more indistinct than the visual track, and then people will.. they will then rearrange to hear what they see?
WSB: Yeah, you could do that, sure. There are any number of variations on that. You can.. It can be a similar program (it doesn't necessarily have to be, you can have a completely inappropriate soundtrack and see whether that.. how far that will.. you know, how long it will take people to realize that there's something wrong with it - Yeah?
Student: In terms of the experiment of the tape recorder, walking down the street, how can we be sure that somebody hasn't already don't that to us?
WSB: Well, I think we'd be pretty sure if they have - because.. I know there was some kind of a government experiment in Paris years ago, and that I heard about, in 1959, they blocked out.. there were whole sections of Paris, and made recordings of whole sections (and whether they played them back or not, I don't know, but it's quite likely that they did).
There again, if you've got a message on your tape-recorder, what you're dealing with is "waking suggestion" - that is, the people's attention is focused on crossing the street, etcetera, and therefore they don't consciously hear what you are… what you have recorded, but it affects their unconscious mind. - Yes?
Q: Do you know anything about the effect of, like, the double-bind technique on audiences?.. Are audiences capable of making a kind of synthesis of these..
WSB: Are audiences capable of what?
Q: ...making some kind of synthesis of these direct contradictions, like - what was that one you quote? - "Listen very closely. This is not important". Do you know what kind of affect that kind of assertion can have on an audience?
WSB: No, I've not seen any experiments that could strictly be called, you know, deliberately trying to apply the double-bind. - Yeah?
Q (2): In children it causes schizophrenia (so I would bet it causes schizophrenia in adults)
WSB: It causes what?
Q (2): It causes schizophrenia (being subjected to) the double-bind.
WSB: Well, the double-bind, of course, is only disorienting in so far as the people accept the person that is expressing it as an authority figure. That is, a mature audience is not going to be upset by someone saying, "Pay close attention. This is not important". It is when this is done consistently over a period of time, (particularly to children by their parents), that it results in schizophrenia.
Q (2): So when you say you think it would be disorienting…
WSB: Yes..yeah, I think it would be disorienting, I don't think it would cause schizophrenia…
Q (2): I don't think the double-bind can be resolved so (people need to be) protecting themselves (from it)
WSB: Yes?
Q: In comedy routines it's used a lot, for comedy fashion, throwing in double-binds just to get an audience reaction of laughter.
WSB: Sure.
Q: In the case of painting, I think every attempt that I've ever seen where an artist was involved in using random procedures, the effect always wound up being extremely aesthetic..anyway
WSB: Extremely what?
Q: Aesthetic..extremely.. you know, almost fit in with everything else being done.And I don't know if that's because people are trained to integrate material, particularly the XXX nothing can look radical anymore, in a certain way..
WSB: In painting, you mean?
Q: Yeah, but I wonder if the same is true in just about everything
WSB: Yes, of course it's a question of people getting used to things, like I say they had very strong reactions to the first non-representational paintings (which, by our standards, are not all that non-representational. I mean, like Cezanne…
Q: I was thinking of it more from the artist's point of view, that the artist always manages to make something aesthetic out of it.. doesn't really ever leave it really raw.
WSB: Well, yeah, if that is his intention - although I think a lot of modern art doesn't… is deliberately non-aesthetic. I mean the (Andy Warhol) soup cans and stuff like that
Q: That's already become extremely aesthetic, by now - even the soup cans.
WSB: Yes.
Q: In the physical random cut of a film, how did you decide where?… Did you do it by numbers? - by edge-numbers? - or.. ? how did you.. like, in longer pieces of film?
WSB: Frankly, I wasn't there when he did it. But, no, you have to.. you have to cut them in to sections of a certain length and rearrange them according to some very definite sort of mathematical plan - this one goes here and that one goes there. There are, of course, any number of ways you can do it. And I see very little use in that one-frame fragmentation, which is.. it's very strange to watch (though I haven't seen it used as a device). I mean, of course, you do have to have one-frame shots, right?, that only a person that's pretty experienced will catch, only someone who's seen a lot of films is going to catch a one-frame shot. But I meant taking one frame and.. and scrambling them, so that you have a variation in the image, a cut of the image, every twenty-fourth-of-a-second.
Q: Supposedly, the average viewer needs about three frames to perceive an image...
WSB: That's right, yeah
Q: ..but if you montage, like if you have a series of one-frames for, say, ten minutes, then the eye picks up one image that it holds..
WSB: You mean if it recurs enough times?
Q: ...but if there's ten images in a row that go by in a second, then the eye will pick up one image and retain it and the rest will just go into the subconscious.
WSB: I'd like to see more experiments with the one-frame variations, because I only saw this one we made and, as I say, it fell to pieces after this particular view, being run through a few times - Questions?
Q: Do you have all.. If you have each page, and then cut it up, how do you cement chapters, longer pieces..?
WSB: Oh. No, I don't do that. I will often write a chapter, just a straight narrative, and.. (I don't do this all the time at all - see, I only use it in certain instances). Now I may get a page, say an image page of prose with a lot of pictures in, and so I say, "Well, I'll cut that up and see if I get anything worth using". In other words, cut-up seems to work well - it's a technique and it works well on some occasions and not on others. It's good for delirium (for instance), depicting states of confusion and delirium - Yeah?
Q: Was cut-up used extensively in Naked Lunch?
WSB; They weren't used at all in Naked Lunch. I didn't really hear about it.. I mean..as a real procedure until Brion (Gysin) showed it to me in 1959, but that was after the publication of Naked Lunch. There were no cut-ups as such in Naked Lunch.
Q: Which of your books does the cut-up method begin appearing in?
WSB: Well, of course, the first statement was in Minutes To Go, and then The Exterminator, which was…those were.. just two pamphlets about cut-ups, with examples of cut-ups. Then I used it quite a lot in Nova Express and The Soft Machine, and The Ticket That Exploded (I think, in hindsight, rather too much, because now I use it rather sparingly) - Questions?
Q: What's the status of your novel [Queer] that's your unpublished novel?
WSB: No, it hasn't been published yet. There's a copy in the archives of it, but it hasn't been published and I have no intention of publishing it. I think it's rather amateurish, I mean it's like picking up something you wrote in high school. [Editorial note - Queer was subsequently published in 1985, (and again, in a revised edition, in 2010) with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg]
Q: What archive is that?
WSB: Huh?
Q: What archive?
WSB: That is..manuscripts, all my manuscripts, etcetera, and in it's in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Something called the "International Center of Arts and Communications", which is not functioning yet, but, presumably, will be. Yes. Further questions? [Editorial note - The William S Burroughs "Vaduz" Archive was organized and shipped off , in 1972, (in sealed cartons) to the Liechtenstein financiar Roberto Altman. It was subsequently sold to Robert and Carol Jackson of Cleveland, Ohio, who in turn, in 2004, sold it to the NewYork Public Library, where it now resides as a part of the Berg collection]
Q: What about Akbar del Piombo?
WSB: What?
Q: Akbar del Piombo
WSB: It's Norman Rubington. I don't know how that rumor ever started that I was Akbar del Piombo, I'm not. It's... Norman Rubington wrote those books. Fuzz Against Junk, and, I don't know, a couple of others.
Q: I'm not sure if I heard you correctly (saying) that either Anatole France or Andre Gide cut up pages but did not use them randomly?
WSB: I don't know if he did or not. He said he used scissors to write with.
Q: Anatole France?
WSB: Anatole France, yeah - and Anatole France, incidentally, is how the Surrrealists got their start, if you will remember.
Q: That seems very logical, doesn't it?
WSB: huh?
Q: That seems (a) very logical reason to...
WSB: Sure. Well what I think he did. He'd take a.. He just was rearranging sentences - that he cut out a sentence and said, "Well, I'll put it over here, and this sentence belongs there". I mean.. but he was beginning to sort of touch and handle his material, and he did this with scissors and paste. Now whether he got to the point of cutting through a sentence and then trying to make new sentences and new words that way, I don't know. I rather doubt it from reading what he's written, which seems pretty old-fashioned, very sequential writing
Student: Years ago, I was reading that you wrote, (or) brought out an edition called "Pataphysics"? - Were there really a lot of French writers who were Surrealists and that were later associated with an organization of Pataphysics, or is that just a… [Editorial note - questioner is confused here - Burroughs, though in the tradition of Alfred Jarry and the Pataphysicians was not involved with the movement per se]
WSB: What's the organization?
Student: Pataphysical Society, or something like that [Editorial note - Jarry died in 1907, The Collège de 'Pataphysique was founded in Paris in 1948]
Anne Waldman: [correcting him] - This was a feature in the Evergreen Review [Evergreen Review 13, (1960) - "What is Pataphysics?" - (Burroughs does not appear in this issue) - and it was sort of invented, but it was an actual group of people ...I don't think it continues, though..
WSB: Yeah, I've heard of them.
Anne Waldman: Post-Dada stuff
WSB: Post-Dada - Yes -
Student: (Eugene) Ionesco did that.
WSB: What's that?
Anne Waldman: Pataphysics
WSB: Pataphysics, yeah.
Student: Whatever it was
WSB: They got out of a magazine, I think, a couple of issues anyway.. One of those French movements. Any further questions?
to be continued
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Members of the Gahanna Lincoln High School softball team know that the gaudy offensive stats they put together during the first two weeks of the season should have resulted in a slew of victories and a strong start in the OCC-Ohio Division.
Members of the Gahanna Lincoln High School softball team know that the gaudy offensive stats they put together during the first two weeks of the season should have resulted in a slew of victories and a strong start in the OCC-Ohio Division.
So why is the Lions' record sitting so close to .500 at the regular season's midpoint?
"I feel like we have all of the talent," senior shortstop Sarah Seidel said. "It's a matter of coming together as a team. I think we're just in a slump right now, and defense I think is where our slump is."
Gahanna, which was 7-6 overall and 3-3 in the league after beating Reynoldsburg 18-0 on April 16, has several players among the area's offensive leaders in multiple statistical categories and was averaging nearly seven runs through 12 games.
Through 10 games, Seidel was 19-for-33 for a .576 batting average and had a team-leading 15 RBI. Senior second baseman Tanya Busby was batting .526 and Olivia Schumacher and Brittany Oldaker both were hitting .444.
Despite being a freshman, Oldaker was among the area leaders with four home runs and 14 RBI.
On April 6, the Lions lost to Casstown Miami East 12-7 and Liberty Township Lakota East 5-4, but they bounced back the next day to beat West Chester Lakota West 6-1 and Cincinnati Glen Este 5-3.
"Those two (doubleheaders) were kind of the story of our season," said coach Jim Campolo, whose team defeated Lakota West 9-6 in a Division I state semifinal last season. "We had opportunities against Lakota East, but we obviously didn't play well enough to win. We've had a lot of opportunities, but we just haven't gotten it done. We haven't come through when we needed to."
Although his pitching staff led by Emmalee Harding and Hannah Smith had allowed an average of 6.5 runs in the Lions' first six losses, Campolo places much of the blame on the team's defense.
"If you look at our team batting average, you'd think we were undefeated," Campolo said. "We got beat by Pickerington Central (11-2 on April 9) and they're good, but obviously most of the teams we've played are good. I just didn't plan on us making a lot of defensive errors. I think our pitchers have thrown well, but when you make a lot of mistakes, they get frustrated and try to do more than they're capable of. We work on defense more than anything else, but again, when you have a veteran team like we do, they do take it to heart and it's tough mentally on them."
•ON THE DOTTED LINE - On April 12 in a ceremony at the school, Busby signed with Cedarville University, Seidel signed with Muskingum and senior Montana Fishel signed with Ohio Dominican.
Busby and Seidel have been starters since their sophomore years and Fishel has been on varsity since she was a freshman.
Seidel will join 2009 graduate Jendy Weppler at Muskingum next season. Seidel succeeded Weppler as the Lions' shortstop in 2010.
Brandis Fishel, Montana's sister and a 2011 graduate, plays for Ohio Dominican.


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A lot of couples, both pre-marriage and post-marriage, are entering into Financial Agreements to deal with the distribution of their property and assets in the event of a separation. Similarly, separating couples are using Financial Agreements as a way to distribute property and assets post-separation too.
So what is a financial agreement? What makes it binding? When do they come into effect? And are they worth the paper they are written on?
In this blog, we provide some basic information on Financial Agreements and how to ensure that they are binding on both parties.
What is a Financial Agreement?
A Financial Agreement is essentially a contract between two parties in a relationship (both before or after being in a de facto relationship or married) or between two parties who have separated and are looking to divide their assets and property post-separation.
The elements of a Financial Agreement, as with any standard contract, are an offer, an acceptance, and a consideration. In addition, a Financial Agreement must also contain equitable remedies that can be accessed in the event of a breach of the Agreement.
Parties that enter into a Financial Agreement can be in a de-facto relationship, a same-sex couple, they can be married, or they can be separated.
By entering into a Financial Agreement, both parties are agreeing to preclude the Family Court 's jurisdiction from making a decision in relation to the division of their property and assets if they separate or have separated (for those parties who are no longer together).
What makes a financial agreement binding?
Both parties require independent legal advice from a different lawyer before they can sign the Financial Agreement and it becomes binding.
In addition, both parties must receive advice on the advantages and disadvantages of entering into the Financial Agreement from their independent lawyers. There must also be full and frank disclosure between the parties in relation to their property and assets at the time the Financial Agreement is being entered into.
Further, the independent legal advice must be from lawyers who are registered as practitioners of the High Court of Australia. Both parties must sign the Financial Agreement and then one party retains the original and the other must be provided with a certified copy of the signed Financial Agreement. The final step is for the signed statement of legal advice to be exchanged between the two parties and their lawyers.
When do binding financial agreements come into effect?
Financial Agreements can come into effect at different times depending on the circumstances of the parties including upon signing or when a couple separate.
Important Tip
It's important to note that if one party to the Financial Agreement passes away, this is not considered a separation. Therefore the financial agreement could still be binding on the surviving party's legal representative. It is important to have a Will which also reflects the terms of the Financial Agreement.
Another important note is that if a couple have entered into a Financial Agreement as a de-facto couple, if they then subsequently marry, the Financial Agreement becomes invalid. This is different to a Financial Agreement that is entered into as a 'pre-nuptial' arrangement (also known as a pre-nup), as in this insistence the Financial Agreement is made on the basis that the couple are intending to enter into marriage, so their nuptials would not invalidate the Agreement.
So are Financial Agreements worth the paper they're written on?
The short answer is yes, but only if the Financial Agreement complies with the strict drafting and executing conditions as set out above. If these have not been complied with, then you may find that the Financial Agreement is not legally binding and therefore the Family Court's jurisdiction to make a division of property could be enforced.
So if you are thinking of entering into a Financial Agreement it is extremely important you consult with a family law specialist who can ensure that the Financial Agreement is legally binding and worth the paper it is written on.
Important Tip
If you already have a Financial Agreement in place, it is always a good idea to review your Agreement when circumstances change. This might be after the birth of a child, or if one party receives an inheritance. It may mean that your Financial Agreement will need to be amended to reflect these new circumstances.
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Beta Byte: 180Q
Beta Byte is a series underwritten by Bust Out Solutions for that early stage tech found somewhere between idea and traction. Equally exciting as it is raw. Are you in this phase?
What is the name of the company and/or product? Where is it found online?
180Q is both the company and product and we're in the Apple App Store.
What problem does this solve?
We provide an easy to use, cross platform solution for teachers to build and deploy short, flash card style quizzes to iPads (and Android/Windows tablets). Classrooms are getting iPads at an amazing clip and we see a big shortage of software that lets teachers create content that matches their curriculum for the devices, particularly in the K-6 age range.
What is the full launch/release date planned?
We are working with two local districts to build out the platform to suit their needs, and we plan to roll out to more area districts and teachers later this summer.
Who is on the team?
The technical side is handled by Scott Olson; heading up the business and sales end is Andy Stadheim.
What technologies are being used?
Our mobile app is HTML5 / Javascript, wrapped in Phonegap, using Knockout.js. On the server side, we use Asp.Net MVC3 and SQL Server, cloud hosted by AppHarbor. We have a team of part time teachers building up content to Minnesota educational standards, with professionally designed graphics to support it.
How big is the market and how will you scale? Is there a revenue model?
We will offer the application to individual teachers for free, and plan to offer districts a license to link up all of the data from their teachers using it and unlock access to premium content and graphics built by our professional content designers. U.S. Ed Tech software is a $7.7 billion dollar market, and we plan to scale by incentivizing teachers to sign up other teachers in their area.
Currently we are planning to monetize exclusively on a subscription basis.
What is your greatest strength?
Our greatest strength is our passion for solving problems with technology and our experience doing exactly that.
What is your biggest weakness?
We have a current lack of connections in school districts beyond the twin cities metro area, which we need to fix before we can expand.
What is one resource you could use that would take this to the next level?
A couple of really motivated school districts to help us refine the product and give feedback to make the application meet the needs of their teachers and students.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Thanks to Tech.mn and the Entrepreneurs' Organization for helping foster an amazing community at the intersection of technology and entrepreneurship in the twin cities!