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This bridge is one of several surviving stone arch bridges dating to the first half of the 1800s that were built to carry one of the most important transportation routes in American history, the National Road, also called the Cumberland Road. This bridge is the oldest engineered structure in Washington County. The exact date is not known, but the National Road was through Washington County by 1818 and it is assumed that this bridge dates to that general time.
A portion of the bridge's western approach was removed when US-40 (the modern equivalent of the National Road) was built next to the bridge, but most of the structure remains and is in good condition. A roadside park has been created around the bridge and a brief informative plaque is posted as the site relating the significance of the bridge and road.
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BRUNSWICK COUNTY -- It's the little things that can make a difference. And a little act from a little person will make a big difference for someone soon.
One young girl cut and donated her hair to an organization that helps kids in a very special way: one that will hopefully help one kid that's near and dear to her heart.
Kayla Finnerty is a second-grader at Jessie Mae Monroe Elementary in Brunswick County. Each year Kayla has participated in the St. Jude Children's Hospital math-a-thon, a program that helps raise money for seriously ill children.
Through that program Kayla learned about Locks of Love -- another program that gives back to kids by providing hairpieces to those who have lost hair from a diagnosis, like cancer.
Her mother says Kayla recently cut 13 inches off to help the cause.
Lorena Finnerty said, "In the mornings, brushing long hair, as any parent would know, it's hard. That long hair and the knots -- she didn't have too many knots -- but it'd just get all tangled up and everything. That first day after her haircut, it was wonderful."
Kayla's 19-year-old cousin was recently diagnosed with cancer. The day Kayla found out about his disease was the same day she decided to cut her long locks.
Kayla's not the only young student at Monroe Elementary who's decided to give back.
Administrators say a fifth-grader also decided to cut her hair over the weekend. She donated six inches.


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A brief summary of what I've been up to. I have been working - a lot. Smith has two reunion weekends in May, and I've been spending the majority of my time at work doing reunion-related fund-raising activities.
In the down time, I have worked on the blanket for Seth's mother. It's almost done, as you can see from the pictures.
I've also done some more spinning with the roving seen spun in my last post. Most of it is plied and ready to go.
I've also spent time with Lily and Seth. Lily gets into things.
I need to go get some ice cream now but a quick note - we saw the movie Repo! The Genetic Opera last night - best thing ever! Check it out; It's truly and wonderfully bizarre.


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December 7, 2006
Getting kicked out of shul
The unpleasant underside of synagogue life raises questions about the power of rabbis and boards to keep some Jews out
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"We're likely to attract the good and the bad," added Rohatiner, a past president and a lawyer who was also present during the meeting.Does Beth Jacob attract more undesirable characters than most synagogues? "I think [because of our size] it's much more likely you can blend in here," Rohatiner said.
Weil added: "On a typical Shabbat there are six different prayer services, another five different youth services. It's very easy for someone to slip though the cracks. We view as our responsibility to make it a safe place for anyone who walks into the synagogue."
As a result of the public airing of the ejection of Biston and others, Rohatiner said that one change will be made: The executive board will deal with these cases.
"It's beneath the rabbi's position to ask these people to leave," Rohatiner said. "That's not what we're about."
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In Under the Dog Star, veterinarian Rachel Goddard confronts issues that she and I are both passionate about: mistreatment of animals and child neglect. I have tried to present real-world problems in the context of a gripping story—and without including graphic scenes of abuse.
Rachel can't stand by while animals suffer–and she feels equally driven to act if she believes a child is mistreated. In Under the Dog Star, she makes enemies as she scrambles to save feral dogs wrongly accused of killing a prominent doctor, and at the same time becomes entangled in the sad, loveless lives of the doctor's young adopted children.
Under the Dog Star is a fast-paced mystery, praised by Kirkus Reviews for "spine-chilling tension from cover to cover," but it is also a story about the meaning of family, the power of compassion, and the duty people have to the animals that share our lives.
Please let me know what you think of it! I always enjoy hearing from readers.
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Under the Dog Star
Pets in the mountain community of Mason County, Virginia, are vanishing mysteriously and "Missing Dog" posters cover the waiting room walls at Dr. Rachel Goddard's veterinary clinic. A pack of feral canines roams at night, attacking livestock. Now a prominent physician, Gordon Hall, lies dead in his yard, his throat torn open. Sheriff's Department investigator Tom Bridger, the man Rachel loves, believes the killing was premeditated murder, with a trained attack dog as the weapon.
Tom also suspects these seemingly coincidental events are connected to the resurgence of an old plague: illegal dogfighting. But Dr. Hall's son insists the feral dogs killed his father, and he organizes men to find and shoot the animals. Rachel makes enemies by trying to rescue the dogs and move them to a sanctuary.
Does one of Hall's five children hold the key to his murder? Why is the youngest Hall daughter so frightened that she begs Rachel, a stranger, for help?
Tom and Rachel must face two killers, one human and one canine, and uncover a more complex web of lies and brutality than they ever imagined.
Chapter 1
In the silver moonlight, the dogs appeared as a dark mass moving down the hill and across the pasture. They headed straight toward three dozen sheep huddled on a carpet of autumn leaves under an oak.
Tom Bridger aimed his shotgun at the sky and fired.
The blast stopped the dogs for a second. The startled sheep jerked apart, turned and ran.
The largest dog broke from the pack and streaked after the sheep. The rest followed, yelping and baying.
Tom fired into the air again, and again. The dogs didn't stop until his fourth shot. They milled about in the pasture as if trying to make up their minds whether to stay or go.
Another shotgun blast decided the issue for them. They wheeled around and took off over the hill.
Lying in the dark, with Tom's space in the bed growing cold beside her, Rachel tensed at the sound of gunshots in the distance. She clutched the blanket, bunching it in both fists. She knew Tom wouldn't shoot to kill, but she also knew he was losing patience after going out night after night to protect his sheep from the feral dog pack.
At the third shot, Rachel's cat Frank stirred from his spot against her legs and dropped off the bed to hide underneath. From his bed near the door, Tom's bulldog Billy Bob gave a low growl.
Rachel sat up, hugging her knees. A fourth, then a fifth shot rang out. She waited, but heard no more.
The feral dogs weren't Rachel's problem, weren't her responsibility, but she was a veterinarian and couldn't be indifferent to their fate. Mason County, in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, had become a dumping ground for pet dogs as unemployment soared in the state and many people lost their homes. They probably thought they'd done the dogs a favor by turning them loose in a rural area, but the animals were hungry and desperate. Struggling to survive, they had formed a pack, and for the last few months they'd roamed the county, stealing eggs and killing chickens in farmyards. Lately they'd attacked a couple of lambs and a calf. If left on their own, they would starve or the farmers would exterminate them.
The ringing telephone jolted Rachel. For a moment she hesitated. She'd moved into Tom's house a month ago, but the situation still felt tentative, and she was reluctant to answer his home telephone. She had no choice, though. A call at midnight was an emergency, usually a summons from the Sheriff's Department. As chief deputy and second in command, Tom had to respond. Nobody ever summoned the aging, frail sheriff anymore when trouble arose.
Stretching across the bed, Rachel switched on the lamp and grabbed the receiver.
"Hi, is this Dr. Goddard?" a young female voice asked. "I'm sorry if I woke you up. This is Gail, the dispatcher, calling for Captain Bridger."
Rachel knew she shouldn't be surprised that every employee at the department knew she and Tom were living together, but it still made her feel as if she were doing something disreputable in this small, conservative community. "Captain Bridger's outside right now." She caught sight of Tom's cell phone on the bedside table. "And he doesn't have his phone with him. I can run out and get him, but it'll take a few minutes. Can I tell him what it's about?"
"Well, I don't have a lot of information and I'm not real sure what happened, but Dr. Hall—you know, from the hospital?—he's dead. Somebody attacked him."
Rachel gasped when she heard the name. Dr. Gordon Hall, one of Mason County's most prominent citizens, owned Tri-County General Hospital. The family's German shepherd was one of Rachel's patients. "Dr. Hall was attacked? You're sure he's dead?"
"Oh, yes, ma'am, he's definitely dead. His wife called it in, and she doesn't know how it happened. Their kids went looking for him and found him laying in the yard. She's just about going crazy, screaming and crying. I already sent a couple of deputies to secure the scene, but Captain Bridger needs to get out there."
"I'll find him and tell him right away." Rachel hung up and rushed to get dressed, yanking on jeans, sweater, shoes, raking her thick auburn hair out of her eyes with her fingers. She could imagine Dr. Hall's wife waiting for the police, probably with her children around her yet feeling suddenly alone in the world.
Billy Bob trotted after Rachel down the stairs and along the hallway. "Sorry, boy," she said at the back door. "You can't go this time. Stay."
She snatched a flashlight from a hook by the door and ran out in search of Tom.


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SportsJosh Jackson makes a big impression in the sand of the long jump pit. Photo by Ralph Stewart
Vineyard romps over Tri-CountyTri-County brought its boys and girls track and field teams to the Vineyard for a meet last Thursday. Scores were not close. Tri-County won only a single event, the 800, but it was the Vineyard's only home meet and drew a goodly number of spectators. Loren Gibson hands the baton to Ainsley Clancy.
Other boys winning their events were: Ryan Gorman, shot put 38' 11.5", Terrell Johnson, high jump, 5' 8", Connor Rasmussen, long jump, 19' 11" and triple jump, 38' 3.75". Emma Lee Iversen flew over the hurdles first and in best form.
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The Control Freaks' Squeeze Play
That $30 million downtown assessment isn't for building a new ballpark; it's for giving a few connected individuals absolute control over the land around it
I'm about to tell you a story that made me seethe when I first heard it. If you care about Tulsa, if you want our city, and particularly our downtown, to be a place where resourceful people are welcome to invest their energy, creativity, and money, if cronyism and insider deals make you see red, then this will make you as angry as it made me.
As we reported last week, in a recent survey by Collective Strength, seven out of 10 Tulsans said they were concerned that the City's new Comprehensive Plan will be too influenced by those who have a lot of money.
That same survey revealed concern about a "well intentioned 'oligarchy' [that] is out of touch," a city where "inclusivity is a significant problem," and a "fatalism... about special favors for the wealthy" in the realm of development.
This is a story of how our city officials--specifically Mayor Kathy Taylor and the Tulsa Development Authority (TDA)--handles a situation when a small developer's project gets in the way of the grand plans of the city's biggest business people.
You've been told that $60 million is needed to build a new downtown ballpark. The truth is that nearly half that money will be used by a public trust, controlled by the major donors to the ballpark, to buy up and control the land around the ballpark, using the City's power of condemnation if necessary. That control includes shoving aside developers that were already working with the TDA to develop nearby land.
Let's begin the story by introducing the key players.
Tulsa Development Authority
Like most cities of a certain size, Tulsa has an urban renewal agency, a public trust, supported by city staff, governed by a board appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council. It was born as the Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority. When "urban renewal" deservedly became a curse word, it was rechristened the Tulsa Development Authority.
TDA acquires distressed and unwanted properties in designated urban renewal zones with the intent of encouraging new and better development. As a public trust, the City's power of eminent domain is available to accomplish TDA's aims.
The Williams Center, Central Park Condominiums, the downtown Doubletree Hotel, the Renaissance Uptown apartments, the Village at Central Park, the University of Tulsa's Reynolds Center and Case Tennis Center, and the OSU-Tulsa campus were all developed on land acquired with the help of TDA.
The Wilkinses
Cecilia Wilkins and her son Will Wilkins are developers and real estate brokers. They have a positive track record of partnering with TDA. Through Will's company, Novus Homes LLC, they have purchased vacant residential lots from TDA, building new homes that fit in with the existing development.
This is what's known as "sensitive infill"--the good kind of infill that reinforces a neighborhood's character rather than undermining it. You can see some of their work in Brady Heights.
Will Wilkins told me, "We want to respect the neighborhood and the characteristics of the surroundings." He says Leon Davis, the City of Tulsa's Director of Real Estate and Economic Development and a key player in this story, drives people by their projects as an example of how to do good infill.
Cecilia Wilkins was also the broker who, through her W3 Development LLC, put together the $1.7 million deal for SJS Hospitality to buy the Atlas Life Building from Kanbar Properties and convert it to a Courtyard by Marriott hotel. The $15 million renovation will keep the building's distinctive architecture and neon intact and add mid-range business hotel rooms to downtown's inventory.
What follows is the Wilkinses account of what happened in their pursuit to develop a piece of TDA property at Archer and Elgin. Their account is backed up by E-mails and TDA meeting minutes and resolutions.
The Timeline
Last year, the Wilkinses were looking for an opportunity to do downtown mixed-use development. TDA had been focused on trying to make a large-scale development happen on the eastern edge of downtown, first with Global Development Partners and later with [the Wal-Mart developer]. The Wilkinses believe that the way to build toward critical mass downtown is to facilitate small, high-quality development projects.
On Dec. 5, they met with Davis, TDA's real estate director. They had been discussing a variety of possible locations, but at that meeting Davis suggested a half-block parcel (42,000 sq. ft.) of TDA land along the west side of Elgin Ave. between Archer and Brady Streets.
It was just across Elgin from a much larger TDA parcel that the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce proposed to develop as a mix of office, retail, brownstone residences, and a hotel. It was a strategic location for an infill project, connecting the Brady Arts District, the Blue Dome District, Greenwood, and the OSU-Tulsa campus.
Later that month, Davis provided the Wilkinses with an appraised value of $460,000 for the property. Armed with that information, the Wilkinses began talking to potential retail tenants and residential buyers and put together a proposal to the TDA.
The Proposal
On Jan. 2, the Wilkinses proposed a four-story building with parking and retail on the first floor and 48 New York-style lofts on the upper three stories. The building would be handled as a co-op with individual ownership interests for sale "to satisfy the published need for affordable residential living downtown, private ownership and much needed development on the East End of Downtown."
On Jan. 10, the TDA board approved a 90-day exclusive negotiation period with Novus Homes LLC and W3 Development LLC, the first step toward a contract to develop the land.
As the Wilkinses began to work with architects on their concept, they were asked by Davis and by Jack Crowley, the adviser to Mayor Kathy Taylor on downtown development, to work with neighboring property owners on some adjustments to their concept.
In a Jan. 23 E-mail, Davis asked them to speak with Perimeter Technology. The data center on the south side of Archer at Elgin was looking to expand.
In an April 4 E-mail, Crowley asked Will Wilkins to work with the owners of the PPG Building on the west half of the same block which had "a very good tenant prospect which will need 35 to 40 spaces. I think that we can jointly work something out which will strengthen both projects."
The Wilkinses were open to both possibilities, but the added complications in accommodating the needs of these other developments meant that 90 days would not be enough time to finish their due diligence.
They alerted TDA staff to their need for a 90-day extension. No problem, they were told.
At the TDA's April 17 meeting, according to the official minutes, Davis stated that the TDA "would not be accepting any other contracts at this time" for the property.
Will Wilkins made a presentation including site information, conceptual floor plans, renderings, and cost estimates. He informed the board that BOK and ONB had expressed interest in financing the project.
Bank of Oklahoma had already asked the Federal Government for a tax credit for participating in the project. A March 25 letter to Cecilia Wilkins from Lisa Albers, Vice President of BOK's Community Development Banking Group said, "The Bank of Oklahoma, N. A., would like to express our interest in your project."
"We would like to continue to work with you as your project unfolds. As you are aware, this particular project was included in the Bank's application to the [U. S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions] Fund for an allocation of New Market Tax Credits (NMTC)....
"Thank you for the opportunity to be involved in such an impressive project."
TDA board member George Shahadi proposed an amendment to the requested 90-day extension, and the board granted them even more time, an extension of the exclusive negotiating agreement to Sept. 4.
The resolution approved by the board included this statement:
"The staff of the Tulsa Development Authority is hereby directed to advise Novus Homes, LLC of this action and to proceed with the negotiation of a definitive contract for purchase and redevelopment of the subject property provided the proposed redeveloper can supply satisfactory evidence of an acceptable commercial site plan and the availability of financial resources necessary to said development."
Through the remainder of April and into mid-May, the Wilkinses worked on wrapping up their due diligence. When the banks expressed concern about underground tanks at the old Fuelman station on the south end of the site, the Wilkinses requested information, and on May 16 TDA staffer Hurst Swiggart provided documentation that the tanks had been removed in 2004.
Everything seemed to be coming together for a contract with the TDA to develop the property.
Lucy Pulls the Football Away
On May 21, as the May 30 deadline neared for the City of Tulsa's negotiations with the Drillers for a downtown ballpark location, Cecilia Wilkins got word that the ballpark would be across the street from their loft project and that the ballpark's donors wanted control of all the surrounding land, including the parcel they were trying to develop.
The Wilkinses requested a meeting with Leon Davis, at which they learn that the parcel east of the property they'd been working on, the TDA land under contract to the Greenwood Chamber, was one of three possible locations for the ballpark.
Davis tells them that he has been pushed to cancel the TDA's exclusive negotiating agreement with the Wilkinses by any means necessary, that Mayor Taylor was involved in these discussions, and that it appeared the TDA could not cancel the agreement unilaterally.
On May 30, Will Wilkins called Jack Crowley, who was at his home in Georgia. Crowley said Mayor Taylor was aware of the situation, that there was no need to get upset, and that he was meeting with all the players after his return to Tulsa.
At a June 4 lunch, Crowley told the Wilkinses that their proposed lofts location wasn't needed for the ballpark, but the donors wanted to control everything around the ballpark. Crowley said he was working with the Greenwood Chamber on a land swap, since it was their development site that would be used for the ballpark.
Crowley said he had asked the donors to allow the Wilkinses to proceed. He asked the Wilkinses if they would be interested in another TDA property, such as the half-block across Denver from the arena, a site that had so far attracted no takers. Will told him that they wanted to develop this project, and that no other TDA-owned property was comparable in value.
Crowley emphasized that he was only a messenger and that he would relay their response to Mayor Taylor. He promised to get back with them with a list of other properties.
He never did.
The Squeeze Play
Now six months into pursuing this project, the Wilkinses continued to try to pull it all together. On June 4, they were successful in getting on the June 17 TDA agenda, but on June 14 they learned they had been dropped.
They also requested and were granted a June 17 meeting with Mayor Taylor, which was cancelled on June 16. In acknowledging the cancellation, they said they would press ahead with the project and make a public announcement of their plans, which they did on June 18.
Things came to a head at a July 7 TDA work session. Some members of the TDA board and staff, which had been unanimously supportive and enthusiastic about the project, turned hostile. The Wilkinses were told that they hadn't provided a proposal or a site plan, even though they had presented the information prior to the board's Jan. 10 approval of exclusive negotiating rights and Apr. 17 extension.
One TDA board member, Melvin Gilliam, was perplexed, asking why the board didn't move into a contract with the Wilkinses as they had done for similar developments.
TDA staffer Hurst Swiggart listed the standard set requirements that the board had used for the last 10 years, but his words seemed to go unheard.
Will Wilkins says that board member George Shahadi angrily accused him of demanding special treatment: "Mr. Wilkins, are you expecting us to create another process for you?"
In fact, the board majority seemed to be creating a brand new process on the fly, to the Wilkinses' disadvantage.
Two days later, Leon Davis E-mailed Will Wilkins with a list of 20 items that they must provide to TDA attorney Darven Brown by the Sept. 4 deadline.
The list includes a number of items that they had never seen the TDA request prior to a development contract: "Proposed construction sequencing/phasing.... Preliminary engineering study.... Letter(s) of commitment [from financiers].... Operating pro forma for first 5 years."
Most of these items would be dependent on the completion of construction documents for the project, a process that would involve spending about $400,000 with architects and engineers, too much money to put at risk with no assurance of a contract.
The Wilkinses believe that the TDA board hoped that they would become discouraged and just go away. Instead, they continued to improve their plans, working with their hotel partner on the Atlas Life Building to add a 120-unit suite-style, mid-service hotel to the project.
Council Caves
On July 10, Mayor Taylor used her private jet to fly Councilor David Patrick back from eastern Colorado to vote at that night's City Council meeting on the proposed Ballpark Improvement District, a mandatory assessment that would raise a projected $30 million.
Despite requests by Councilors Bill Martinson, Rick Westcott, and John Eagleton for an additional week to scrutinize the plan and address concerns of downtown property owners, the Council approved the plan by a 6-3 vote.
The Council doesn't seem to have understood what they approved. The total funding for the ballpark totaled $60 million, including $25 million in private donations and $5 million in lease revenues from the Drillers.
But the most recent AA stadium in our region, completed earlier this year, cost only $32 million to build. The 6,500-seat Arvest Ballpark, home to the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, was designed by HOK, the same firm that is slated to design the Drillers' new home.
Evidently the extra $28 million and the trust that was created to manage it will be acquiring all the property around the ballpark. BOK board member Pete Boylan, speaking on behalf of the donors, told a Brady Village property owners meeting that they would use eminent domain if necessary to acquire the property.
By its approval of the ballpark assessment and the trust, the City Council has given a group of individuals which already has immense economic leverage the added superpower of eminent domain.
Last week, the Wilkinses' attorney received a letter from TDA chairman Carl Bracy:
"After further review and conferring with our attorney, Darven Brown, it is my personal feeling that the Tulsa Development Authority should proceed no further in connection with the marketing activities of any of the property in the vicinity of the baseball site location until we have full information concerning the finalized plans adopted by the city. While the Tulsa Development Authority is a separate entity from the city we have always conducted our business in a manner that we consider to be in the city's best interest. That being the case, it would seem to be unwise for the Tulsa Development Authority to proceed further with any negotiations with your client at this time. After all, the city has the right of eminent domain and can take whatever properties become necessary for its municipal purposes.
"Because of the foregoing, I feel that it would be in the best interest of the public and the City of Tulsa to terminate any negotiations and cancel the Resolution now in place. I have asked that this item be placed on the agenda for the regular meeting of the Tulsa Development Authority to be held at 8:30 o'clock a.m., on August 7, at which time you may wish to appear."
The Final Act?
At deadline, the Wilkinses were scheduled to have their twice-cancelled meeting with the Mayor on Monday, Aug. 4. Councilor Westcott has placed them on the Urban and Economic Development Committee agenda for Tuesday, Aug. 5.
Of the five members of the TDA board, at least three have direct ties to the ballpark donors and therefore the appearance of a conflict of interest. Paula Bryant-Ellis, just appointed by Mayor Taylor, is BOK's Senior Vice President of Community Development. George Shahadi is Director of Corporate Real Estate for the Williams Companies. John Clayman is an attorney with Frederic Dorwart's law firm. Dorwart is BOK's attorney and was active in putting together the Drillers downtown ballpark deal.
If all three recuse themselves, as they should, there won't be a quorum to try to shove the Wilkinses aside.
It's understandable that the donors would want to be sure that surrounding development is compatible with the ballpark. The wrong way to do that is to bully and exclude other developers from participating in the process.
The right way is to write an ordinance establishing design standards and a design review process for the Brady Village/Greenwood area--the sort of thing Oklahoma City has done to protect public investment in Bricktown.
Instead of controlling who, we can control what, with a set of rules to be fairly applied to anyone wanting to develop in the area.
Rolling Up the Welcome Mat
We talk about wanting to attract the "Creative Class" to Tulsa. This power-play by the donors tells creative people to get lost: "If you're not one of us, your energy, your money, and your ideas aren't welcome here."
We've seen this before. A group of entrepreneurs created a young professionals organization, ypTULSA, to fill a void in the city's economic development strategy. When the group resisted the Tulsa Metro Chamber's overtures, the Chamber threatened to set up a rival group and to spread the word that it would be unwise to join ypTULSA.
The Chamber carried out its threat, and the overworked small business owners who founded ypTULSA couldn't keep up with corporate giants who could let their salaried employees work on TYPros projects during their working hours.
On Friday, TulsaNow will release its DowntownLive map and guide to entertainment, shopping, and dining in downtown. This grassroots effort, prepared by volunteer canvassers and artists, will help demystify downtown, helping perplexed suburbanites find their way to all that downtown has to offer.
DTU and the Chamber got wind of the DowntownLive activity and began planning to announce their own comprehensive guide to downtown in mid-August, hoping to squelch any speculation that city taxpayers and downtown property owners aren't getting much for their annual public subsidy. It looks like DowntownLive beat them to the punch anyway.
Just as water seeks its own level, creativity moves toward freedom. Around the world, creative and energetic people move away from cultures with rigid social hierarchies and countries with oppressive levels of taxation and regulation. They leave places where their life's work can be seized or destroyed at a bureaucrat's whim. They abandon cities where success is more about your connection to the ruling faction than the quality of your ideas.
When the creative people leave, the toadies, sycophants, and social climbers stay behind, promoting groupthink and stifling innovation.
In the midst of all this turmoil an involved, civic-minded friend asked Will Wilkins if Tulsa was worth it.
We are in big trouble if creative and energetic people like the Wilkinses decide that it isn't.
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Y'wanna know how I still have sticky fingers?
Cause I think y'know how I got these scars.
@alt text: "well, I've felt sort of torn since the Harki thing. Part of me feels a bit cut up about Byron, but…"
She was a little shorthanded there for a while.
to be fair, he did treat her rather sharply
Well I'm sure they'll be able to cut through the awkward tension given enough time. But it'll come down to how the two of them feel about it anyway you slice it.
Way to make a long story short, after making a short person shorter.
Bandit: A small grain of hope in a tall mug of unstrained mead.
I'm sure they can cut to the chase over the trifurcation.
"Split, even. I had a lot on my shoulders back then."
"The Harki incident left me beside myself."
"No bard feelings, though."
"However, I would like to axe Byron why he lashed out at me."
"It definitely caused a split in the party.
Still a chance they can bury the hatchet
Preferably somewhere other than Bandit this time.
"It's my fault, really. I should have been keeping a sharp eye on the berserker."
I love this community so much! ^^
This exchange, the way Bandit is walking, suggests to me the character of the assistant… What was her name again?
Carol. Been calling it for along time now.
Carol! Yes, that was it. Thanks.
That's a very good observation… now I see it, too.
When Bandit turns out to be Skynet, won't you all be surprised?
Bandit's a thief, right? She probably mugs their enemies to fund the operation.
Points for the inadvertant pun… being that Bandit is playing with a mug….
Are you positive it was inadvertent?
She wants to merge guildes! Get free guild perks!
So? SO?! SOOOOOOO?! D:
why does the good general hate beef and pork, anyway. jeez.
They're women. Of course they're into sewing.
funny you should mention "a needle pulling thread"…
Great lighting in this :w
A note to preceed 'la'
If a Payet Best falls in the forest, will a Bandit materialise behind the next tree?
They're playing an MMO. Bandits materialize; that's how it works.
Your forgetting we fist saw Bandit picking pockets during one of Best's little shows at a tavern. So they can be in the same room at once, it's not like one is a spare ;)
Okay – Bandit's gotta be either a ringer, an AI-controlled NPC, or a second character played by whoever plays Best.
Except that, as people have linked to, Bandit and Best have been seen in the same strips, so tat's probably out.
Looking here, there are five figures floating in bottles – two female, three male.
And, beginning here, we see interviews with five shadowy figures – again, two female, three male, who appear to match to Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Sy'rnj and Best.
Bandit appears to be the odd one out of the party – the one who doesn't seem to be solidly-linked to a "real world" controller immersed in the game.
yes, but Bandits main colour of purple matched the tie that Dedalus wears, which is how most of the other characters were also matched to the tubes. Most thought that she was a "plant" played by Dedalus.
She's not wearing purple now.
Also, the cultists wore a lot of purple.
She was when she showed up.
Syr'nj isn't wearing green right now.
I think we'll see everyone in different sets of clothes that don't match their known color scheme. You can only wear the same clothes for so many weeks in a row before they start to stink a bit.
Syr'nj IS green.
Considering the looming specter of their relatively recent unpleasant deaths it's quite natural for their social interactions to be a bit stiff.
But once they talk out these grave matters I'm confident they'll be able to bury all this tension and resurrect their easy camaraderie.
Their Esprit De Corpse if you will.
You shouldn't have made such a dead giveaway for what is still to come in the story.
Now, the scenario writer(s) is (are) in a dead-end.
And thus was an internets won.
Still trying to figure out how she isn't dead.
They're trapped inside of an MMO right? How long have You ever stayed dead in one of those?
Well, when I managed to get my corpse wedged between Teldrassil and Bloodmyst Isle I was dead for a good long time.
Oh. Wait. Yeah. Carry on.
Self-rez came in two patches ago.
She took longer to walk to her corpse.
Only because her legs were detached from each other.
Now there's a gruesome image: left and right side hopping all out-of-kilter, while they hold the bleeding middle…
I think I just creeped myself out.
Is the mug tip an Inception-style reality test? Just checking how things work in the game world?
Someone might have left a coin under there.
LOVE the fork and knife crest above the entrance to the dinner hall in panel 3.
Nice catch.
That boar must've been bigger than the moose! Get me a rasher off that guy.
Dire Moose?
First the so'ing, then the scissoring
BAM – Fan service and we take this strip in an awkward direction for all concerned
Bandit's face in the last panel does leave very little room to imagine anything else. Either that, or it leaves way too much room.
You be the judge.
Possibilities for where this scene is headed:
Bandit is trying to figure out how to politely ask Syr to buy a hat so she can steal it.
Syr'nj has recognized that the real Bandit – the one they just re-met in the bar – has been replaced by a non-purple-wearing doppelganger and they're both about to pull weapons.
Sound of Music soundtrack.
Bandit is about to show Syr'nj to the lab featured on the title page, where she intends to have her make all the guild's meals.
Nazis attack!
gnome jodhpurs?? I'm not sure how i feel about that.
I like how her first request was "Give me a tour of the place" instead of "Whoa, before we go anywhere, how are you still alive?"
Have you ever asked the question "Oh by the way, you were dead. What the hell?" Probably a little more awkward to broach that topic than one would think.
Indeed. There are some things you just don't bring up in polite conversation. Though I can't fathom how she escaped the pub area without Frigg blurting out the question.
Did Syr feel a need to be polite with Bandit?
This does explain why the nun had such a fangasm over Frigg, though. If Bandit's been recruiting for the Guild, she probably exaggerated their deeds a bit.
.. Frigg still pretty awesome
To be fair… Frigg DID get the Holy Smite. And THAT was awesome. Exaggerated? Maybe not. Maaaaybeee noooot…. -scrutinizing glare-
Bandit never saw the Holy Bash… no one did.
Stealth. Bandit saw everything.
Bandit has been a massive frigg fangirl all along.
Arkerra, where most herding herbivores are larger than bears.
You mean the mega-fauna isn't real? LIES!
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Everyone hides behind a mask. Consciously or not, everyone does. The gangster hides behind a pair of silver tinted aviator sunglasses and a ton of bling as his favorite rap artist does. The cheerleader hides under shiny lip gloss, a layer of makeup, fake laughter and contempt for everyone else. Why do they do it? Don't they realize that all they highlight is their lack of self confidence, that they have the need to be perceived as "cool"?
Gone are the days when a mask used to lend an air of mystery, for today's masks deliver conformity to social norms. Gone are the days when masks used to cover the face, for today's masks conceal nothing yet hide everything.
We all desire to find the perfect companion, someone with whom we can share all our thoughts, ideas, and most importantly someone to take away this inherent feeling of loneliness which is ever present in our minds. But how can we find that companion when all we do is hide our true selves from each other. While we hide beneath these masks of our choosing, others perceive our false selves and any relationships thus formed would not long lived as it is based on a lie. The most important question in this context would be "Are these masks in place to deceive others, to hide our scars from others or to hide from a cruel world?"
While viewing the various masked strangers around me going on with their lives, I feel this strong sense of loneliness descend upon me. While putting on my own mask to join the throng, I shiver inside as I ask myself
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THE Black Business Council has revealed that Eskom has agreed to consider setting aside 50% of its procurement budget in favour of black business.
Should this materialise, black business will be in a good position to cash in on the parastatal's multibillion-rand infrastructure development project.
BBC president Ndaba Ntsele said: "Such a deal will give us an opportunity to hunt in packs as black business."
The financial report of the parastatal shows that Eskom's total procurement budget stood at R90-billion.
Ntsele commended Eskom, the Public Investment Corporation and the Industrial Development Corporation as the state entities that have shown willingness to empower black businesses.
No mention, however, was made of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), which has been at loggerheads with black business on how it aims to implement empowerment for the rolling stock fleet programme, which is worth R120-billion.
Prasa is expected to announce details on Wednesday.
Ntsele called for a rethink on how empowerment is conducted, saying the council no longer wants to see black businesses partnering with established corporates when vying for state tenders, and proposed a ministry of small business.
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November 26, 2009 Will Obama stick with Hillary's Thanksgiving present to Bibi?
The Obama administration, following Netanyahu's unilateral announcement of a temporary settlement freeze, has agreed on a quid-pro-quo that builds on a similar precedent set by Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush in 2004. In exchange for Bibi's unprecedented move, the administration for the first time acknowledged specifically that Israel will be entitled to retain lands captured in 1967 as part of any final peace agreement.
Five years ago, Israel's decision to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza in hopes of advancing the peace process was rewarded by a reciprocal Bush assurance to Sharon that the U.S. would, as part of any final peace deal, support "secure and recognized" borders for Israel and, that "in light of new realities on the ground, including existing major population centers, it is unrealistic to expect a full and complete return to the 1949 armistice line." Bush's letter also noted that "all previous efforts toward a two-state solution have reached the same conclusion," including the generous Clinton Barak initiative at Camp David in 2000. Translated from diplomatic jargon, this meant that Israel could be expected to retain major population centers beyond the pre-1967 line like Maale Adumim and Gutsh Etzion. Significantly, Bush's assurances put the U.S. on Israel's side in rejecting insistence by the Palestinian Authority and Arab leaders on a complete Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 line, also known as the Green Line, also known, as spelled out by Bush, as the 1949 armistice line. Now, five years later, Netanyahu takes a leaf from Sharon and unilaterally decides on a temporary 10-month construction freeze in West Bank settlements in hopes of reactivating peace negotiations. And, at the same time, Hillary Clinton takes a leaf from George W. Bush and states on the record that the United States expects the Palestinians to agree to "land swaps" to modify the pre-1967 line and, even more importantly, expects Israel to end up with "secure and recognized borders that reflect subsequent developments and meet Israeli security security requirements." This may not be an exact word-for-word replica of the 2004 Bush letter to Sharon, but it's diplomatic plagiarism nonetheless. Where Bush pointed to "new realities on the ground," Hillary points to "subsequent developments" since the 1967 war. Whichever way you cut it, Bibi got quite a bit of quo for his quid from Team Obama. Note also that Hillary's parameters for a final peace deal are totally silent about East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians demand as the capital of their future state, and fail to mention any "right of return" for Palestinian refugees -- even as they provide for the first time specific security commitments to Israel with regard to final borders. Under Hillary's formulation, the Obama administration, at last, has formally recognized that any eventual peace deal must be based on U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, which call on Israel to withdraw from some -- but not all -- lands captured in the Six-Day War. While Arab leaders demanded then -- and still do -- that Israel cede all lands captured in 1967, the U.S. prevailed in shaping these U.N. resolutions so as to leave ample room for Israel to retain some of the captured lands. So where do we go from here? Hillary's pledges are bound to trigger a new wave of angry responses from Palestinian leaders and the Arab world, which already were seething after her earlier praise of Bibi's willingness to freeze settlement construction without any reciprocal moves by the Palestinian side. Hillary's description of Bibi's settlement initiative as "unprecedented" stuck in their craw. In this recent episode, the Obama administration backtracked a bit and tried to assuage Palestinian/Arab fury by insisting on a pre-negotiation freeze of construction in East Jerusalem as well. But the specificity of Hillary's new statement about Israel's security requirements and final borders will not bend easily to any White House attempts to dilute the clear message from its secretary of state binding the U.S. to Israel's retention of built-up population centers beyond the Green Line. Call it Hillary's Thanksgiving present to Bibi.
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We are studying the sporulation process in Bacillus subtilis. Sporulation is a simple model of morphological development, involving sequential expression of hundreds of genes in response to nutrient starvation. Two identical chromosomes are segregated into two unequal compartments generated by a polar division. The smaller compartment is engulfed by the larger one, the mother cell, within which it becomes an organelle, the forespore. Specific genes are expressed by the two genomes in coordinate fashion. Consecutive morphological steps lead to the acquisition by the forespore of various resistance properties until a free mature spore is released in the external medium.
The successive steps of sporulation are controlled by a cascade of transcriptional factors that allow RNA polymerase to recognize new sets of promoters. Four sigma factors have been identified that are synthesized only during sporulation. In each case these sigma factors appear in inactive form and complex regulatory mechanisms allow their activation at a specific developmental stage in one of the two compartments. The whole sporulation process after the unequal division step appears as a dialogue between the two cells present in the sporulating bacterium, each cell sending to the other a signal inducing the switch to the next developmental stage at a specic time. This crisscross regulation ensures coordination of gene expression between the two cells. Our current work focuses on the apparition of the late sigma factor sigmaG in the forespore. sigmaG is encoded by a gene controlled by the early forespore sigma factor, sigmaF. However, sigmaG synthesis is delayed as compared to other genes induced by sigmaF. The molecular mechanisms leading to this delay are still mysterious and the trans-acting macromolecules involved have not been identified. We have discovered that one of the genes induced by sigmaF encodes a protein which is a potent inhibitor of sigmaG-mediated transcription. This small protein, Gin, which is present in many endospore formers, acts as an oligomer containing a zinc ion presumably coordinated by cysteine pairs conserved in all Gin orthologues. We have shown that Gin acts directly on sigmaG, without any intermediary partner, and that sigmaG inhibition requires an additional step beyond the initial interaction between the two proteins. sigmaG appears at the end of engulfment, indicating that the inhibitory controls acting on synthesis and activity of sigmaG are both lifted at that stage. Several genes are known to be involved in that activatory step, most of them being under the control of sigmaE, the early sigma factor in the mother cell. Our goal is to understand the function of their products and to unravel the molecular mechanisms of the dialogue between the mother cell and the forespore at that developmental stage.
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Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
~St. Bartholomew
I wanted to write this month's column on a topic we've been discussing a lot of late, the reason why the muse, inspiration, what have you, shows up at the most inconvenient times and places to tempt you with a song. How many of you have been in bed, almost asleep and the perfect tune with perfect words appears? You hum it over and over in your head, certain you'll remember it. What happens...you guessed itģit's gone by morning. Or you have that one inspirational line that is so right on but you've nothing to write it down with. You're sure you'll remember itģ.guess what, it's gone in a moment. It's so terribly frustrating and so wonderful all at the same time. At least it keeps coming back to you.
I ran across this great article about "Heeding the Muse" http://www.jimlesses.com/Songwriting/Courting_The_Muse.htmģ. and I've included some of it here. It's so true.
"Songs have come to me while I've been driving; standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes; on the toilet; and even while I've been in bed asleep. Of this last location, I have yet to perfect the skill of writing while sleeping. Alas, this has resulted in my losing several songs because I refused to wake up and write them down. I thought I would remember them and write them down in the morning, but by the time I was ready to commit words to paper, the songs had moved on - probably to someone else!
The lesson here is to seize the moment, and put yourself through the discomfort of lost sleep, or whatever else you happen to be engaged in at the time, to at least get the initial ideas and themes on paper while they are still fresh in your mind. Clearly I still have a few things left to learn."
I'm reminded of a time I woke up from an afternoon nap with all the chords and words to a love song for Gordie. In my dream, a famous songwriter taught me the chords at his kitchen table and gave me the words to sing. I remember getting my guitar and literally playing the song cold exactly as it was in my dream. It was amazing. That hasn't happened since but I keep hoping it will. You just have to keep open to the possibility.
My advice? Keep a journal or tape recorder by your bed, in your bag, in your desk, carģ. anywhere you are. Take the time, write things downģ. make an effort to stop what you're doing and focus on the muse. It will reward you. I guarantee it!! And remember to feed the muse, stimulate her with live music, travel, books, plays, opera, good conversation, food, wine...good friends.
Until next month, keep writing!!!
Jane Eamon is a prolific performing songwriter in the Okanagan Valley. Veteran of many songwriting workshops, she's currently one of the hosts of the popular Songwriters in the Round series in Kelowna. Email her at: email@example.com.
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October 29, 2007 Happy Cyrus Day
October 29th has been designated as the international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world, also known as the Cyrus Cylinder. In 539 BC, Persian troops entered the city of Babylon, without encountering any resistance. On October 29th, Cyrus himself entered the city, assuming the titles of "King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the four corners of the world." The Cyrus Cylinder was placed under the walls of Babylon as a foundation deposit, following a long Babylonian tradition.
Cyrus the Great proclaimed more than 2500 years ago: "Today, I announce that everyone is free to choose a religion. People are free to live in all regions and take up a job provided that they never violate other's rights." Cyrus the Great declared himself not a conqueror, but a liberator and the rightful successor to the crown. Iranians are proud spiritual descendants of King Cyrus the Great, the author of the first charter of human rights. Some of Cyrus' children live in the patch of land, called Iran. The overwhelming majority-free humans with human beliefs-live in every country, city, and village of the earth. Those world-wide people, one and all, irrespective of nationality, color, or creed are "Iranians" because they all adhere to the Cyrus Charter; they practice and defend its lofty tenets and transfer this humanity's precious treasure to the next generation. The ancient world held universal admiration for the beliefs and practices of the Persians as enshrined in the Cyrus Charter of Human Rights. Even the Greeks, the traditional adversaries of the Persians, called Cyrus "The Lawgiver." History has recorded that Cyrus did accomplish the task for which he was foreordained. Alexander the Great plundered Persia. He destroyed and burned Persepolis, the magnificent palace complex of the Achaemenid kings in the province of Pars. Yet, Alexander paid tribute to Cyrus the Great at his tomb. This shows how much Cyrus the Great was respected, even in the eyes of his fierce enemies. Cyrus the Great was an adherent to the faith of Zoroaster, which was based on the triad of Good Thoughts, Good Speech and Good Deeds and constituted the standard of life for the Persians. Other teachings of the faith of Zoroaster, arguably the most ancient divine religion, have inspired the teachings of other faiths. Cyrus the Great has been given many names: Cyrus the enlightened liberator, Cyrus the benevolent, Cyrus the Law-giver, Cyrus the righteous, Cyrus the heroic conqueror, Cyrus the tolerant King, and many more. No other man so far back in ancient history had been showered with such accolades by kings and emperors who knew of him only by reputation. Cyrus the Great is the founding father of Persia and the mighty Persian Empire- perhaps the most exemplary, magnificent and just king the world has ever seen. An illustration of the benevolent beliefs and practices launched by this unsurpassed historical figure goes back to the landmark action of King Cyrus the Great of Persia. In 539 B.C., having conquered Babylon, the benevolent King Cyrus freed the Jews from captivity and empowered them to return to the Promised Land and build their temple. For his acts of kindness, Cyrus the Great is immortalized in the Bible in several passages and called "the anointed of the Lord." The Jews, throughout recorded history, looked to Cyrus' people, the Iranians, as their friends and protectors against oppressors such as the Seleucids and the Romans. In the book of Isaiah, Cyrus, the King of Persia, a non-Jew was called the "mash'aka" by God, according to Isaiah when he wrote: "Thus said the Lord to his 'mash'aka (anointed), to Cyrus" (Isaiah 45:1). Jeremiah also told that Cyrus was commissioned by God to go to Jerusalem and build the Second Temple. "Who carry the vessels of the Lord" (v. 11b). Ezra tells the story of the departure of the exiles from Babylonia: "King Cyrus himself brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods" (Ezra 1:7). "This says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom I have seized by the right, to subdue nations before him. Yes, I will open the loins of kings, to open the two-leaved doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut. I will go before you and make hills level; I will tear apart the bronze doors and cut the iron bars in two. And I will give you the treasures of darkness, even treasures in secret places, that you may know that I am the Lord who calls you by your name, I the God of Israel" (vs.1-3 Para.)." To Cyrus the Great, humanity was one widely dispersed family. He believed in this tenet long before unequivocal genetic findings clearly established that biologically there is only one human race; that the genetic variation within a single troop of chimpanzees, for instance, is greater than that of any two human groupings, no matter how different they may appear physically. What makes people different is not their biology, but the "software" that runs them. People are as good as their software - their beliefs. Regrettably, the Islamic Republic despotic rulers have occupied the Iranian nation and have set out to defeat the Iranian spirit inside Iran and extinguish Cyrus' spirit around the world through brainwashing, coercion, and terrorist acts beyond the borders of Iran. But once again, human decency is rising to the challenge, this time in the voice and actions of billions of free people who proclaim: we are also children of Cyrus the Great; we meet any challenge and pay any price to defeat tyranny; and we will not rest until humanity is completely free of the despotic rule of Islamofascism. Amil Imani is an Iranian-born American citizen and pro-democracy activist residing in the United States of America. He maintains a website at Amil Imani.
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Can anyone recommend any cheap places to stay (Hostels or whatever) in Palma and Puerto Soller/Soller?
Thanks, for next April.
Hotel Florida. Nice hotel. We stayed here towards the end of our trip when we started to run out of cash. We book only a few days ahead. They have nightly entertainment and its a short walk to the bars, restaurants, etc. Great hilly running around there too.
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Society's Child
Janis Ian
384 pages; Tarcher/Penguin
At 15 she was already breaking all the rules. In an era—the mid-1960s—when people of her parents' generation didn't speak about "ugly things" like interracial romance, prostitution, and war, Janis Ian was opening her big mouth and getting hounded offstage for singing her taboo-busting lyrics.
Society's Child
(Tarcher/Penguin) is the hugely readable autobiography of an artist who has lived through success and crushing hardship but knows that "you can't sing and cry at the same time." Sing on!
— Cathleen Medwick
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In 2005, King's group conducted a survey of lower-income adults in college. Men, it turned out, had a harder time committing to school, even when they desperately needed to retool. They tended to start out behind academically, and many felt intimidated by the schoolwork. They reported feeling isolated and were much worse at seeking out fellow students, study groups, or counselors to help them adjust. Mothers going back to school described themselves as good role models for their children. Fathers worried that they were abrogating their responsibilities as breadwinner.
Now I have some question to all of NT.
1. Do you see a gap between the men and women that attend you college? And a gap between those who graduate and don't?
2. Why do you think women are graduating at an higher rate compare to men year to year?
3. Is it possible that men face different problems than women in college? And how big of an impact can those problems effect someone from not graduating?
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You and that FSM_Minister getting your pink Tu-Tu's ready for your trip down the aisle at the National Cathedral? Or maybe yours will be down the trail at the local zoo...
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The Role of Predictable and Unpredictable Reward in the Control of Attention43.524, Monday, May 13, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm, Vista Ballroom Anthony W. Sali1, Brian A. Anderson1, Steven Yantis1; 1Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Stimuli previously associated with reward involuntarily capture attention (Anderson, Laurent, & Yantis, 2011, PNAS; Anderson & Yantis, in press, AP&P). One possibility is that this value-driven increase in attentional priority reflects the learned association between prior targets and the receipt of reward. Another possibility is that motivating visual search with reward enhances perceptual learning for former targets. To adjudicate between these two accounts, we measured the degree to which previous-target-colored stimuli capture attention following differing target‒reward contingencies. Each of three experiments began with a training phase in which participants received monetary rewards for correctly reporting a color-defined target in visual search. In Experiment 1, the target color remained constant across trials during training, although the magnitude of reward received for a correct response varied unpredictably. In Experiment 2, target color varied unpredictably between red and green, but the reward for a correct response remained constant. In Experiment 3, target color again varied unpredictably, but one color was associated with a greater reward than the other when correctly reported. Thus, participants received rewards for locating color-defined targets in all experiments, but only in Experiment 3 did the target color accurately predict the amount of reward. Following training, participants in all experiments completed a test phase in which stimuli carrying the color of a previously rewarded target occasionally appeared as a task-irrelevant distractor. Former-target-colored stimuli captured attention only in Experiment 3, when target color predicted reward. This finding argues against a motivated perceptual learning account of value-driven attentional capture: merely rewarding the performance of visual search was not associated with a persistent involuntary orienting of attention toward the previous target feature. Instead, our data suggest that value-driven attentional capture is mediated by mechanisms of reward learning, such that attention is involuntarily drawn to stimuli that have been learned to predict available reward. < Back |