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March 23 Board of Supervisors Meeting Features 8 Presentations
March 22, 2010
News Highlights
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on Tuesday, March 23, scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., will make the following presentations to residents and county staff. For more information, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711. More information on the March 23 meeting, including an agenda, can be found online.
Sully District Boy Scout Council
The Board of Supervisors will recognize the Sully District Boy Scout Council for collecting more than 44,000 pounds of food in the local area during its annual Scouting for Food program for the benefit of Western Christian Ministries.
Laurie and Jack Corkey
The Board of Supervisors will recognize Laurie and Jack Corkey of Reston for their contributions to improve the quality of life in Fairfax County, the 20th anniversary of their Great Harvest Bread Co. stores in Herndon and Vienna and their retirement. The Corkeys have participated in special occasions for Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops; the Fairfax County Council of the Arts; the Juvenile and Diabetes Research Foundation; the Giving Circle of Hope; and the Elden Street Players.
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
The Board of Supervisors will designate March 30, as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day in Fairfax County for those who served honorably, bravely and faithfully in the Vietnam War. More than 38,000 Vietnam veterans live in Fairfax County and participate in business, the arts, civic affairs and government service.
Holocaust Day of Remembrance
The Board of Supervisors will designate April 21, as Holocaust Day of Remembrance in Fairfax County to remember the tragedies of the Holocaust, honor the lives of those living or deceased who were affected and call to mind their courage, forbearance and strength.
Public Health Week
The Board of Supervisors will designate April 5-11, as Public Health Week in Fairfax County. Members of the community can take a proactive approach to public health by washing hands and covering coughs and sneezes properly, increasing physical activity, healthy eating, keeping vaccinations up-to-date and staying tobacco-free.
Childhood Immunization Month
The Board of Supervisors will designate April as Childhood Immunization Month in Fairfax County. The Fairfax County Health Department works proactively with schools, health care providers and other community partners to implement a strategy for increasing the compliance rate of childhood immunizations. Raising awareness of the importance of immunizations helps protect the health and well-being of the community. Kindercare at Sully Station and Children's Medical Associates of Northern Virginia, P.C., will be recognized for their efforts in immunization and disease prevention.
Child Abuse Prevention Month
The Board of Supervisors will designate April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Fairfax County. Fairfax County's Child Protective Services 24-hour hotline received more than 25,000 calls in fiscal year 2009 seeking help, guidance and referrals to parenting programs and support services. Residents are encouraged to wear a blue ribbon to show support for efforts to keep all children in the community safe.
Grace Starbird
Grace Starbird will be recognized for more than 22 years of service to Fairfax County, the last nine as director of the Fairfax Area Agency on Aging. Working with the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Starbird has led the development of a 50+ Action Plan and sponsored Reinventing Your Neighborhood and Reinventing Your Home community learning events. In addition to numerous outstanding performance awards and recognitions from the county and community groups, she is the recipient of a National Association of Counties Distinguished Service Award.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
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Their regular season record on Saturday was the exact same as it was on Friday -- a CFL-worst 3-10 -- but there was a renewed enthusiasm to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers team that took the practice field at Canad Inns Stadium Saturday morning.
Maybe it was the weather, which finally turned warm and sunny on Saturday after a week of bitterly cold and blustery practices.
Or maybe it was the urging of their head coach on Friday to look within themselves and try to recapture the enthusiasm that prompted them all to be football players in the first place.
But whatever it was, there was laughing, joking, play fighting and even some impromptu wrestling on the field as the Bombers held their last full practice before they travel to Montreal, where they will face the East Division-leading Alouettes Monday afternoon.
Mission accomplished, said head coach Tim Burke.
"Our enthusiasm has actually been good all week, it's just that when it's cold they're enthusiastic in a lower key manner, I guess," Burke laughed.
"I want the pressure to be off of them. I think they will play better if we don't have that pressure on us all the time."
On the contrary, Burke is hopeful that it will be his defence that will be putting pressure on Montreal quarterback Anthony Calvillo on Monday.
For all the trials and tribulations of this Bombers team this season, one of the few things that has been working well has been the pass rush the club has gotten from an all-import defensive line.
The Bombers led the CFL in sacks with 31 and Burke says he's been very pleased with his front-four's performance.
"I'm pretty happy with the D-line and where they're at," Burke said. "The reason we decided to have all imports on the defensive line is we wanted to generate a good pass rush. And it's really hard to find Canadian D-linemen like (retired Bombers tackle) Doug Brown who can generate a pass rush. There just haven't been that many of them lately."
The trade-off with the decision to go with an all-American defensive line was the Bombers had to start a Canadian in Henoc Muamba at middle linebacker -- a position more commonly the domain of Americans. But that hasn't been much a trade-off at all lately as Muamba's play has blossomed, culminating a couple weeks ago with a player of the week selection.
"Thankfully, Henoc's starting to play really well," said Burke. "I mean, he's playing like an import."
There is still room for improvement, however, on the defensive line. While they're getting an impressive pass rush, they've also been yielding an average of 119 rushing yards per game.
That's fifth in the CFL and tackle Bryant Turner is the first to admit that they have to get stingier against the run if the Bombers are going to beat a team like Montreal, who even without injured marquee tailback Brandon Whitaker can still hurt a team on the ground.
The Als are 5-1 in 2012 when they gain over 100 yards rushing, something they did in both their wins over Winnipeg earlier in the season.
"We can do a lot better on the run," said Turner. "And I think we will do better."
FIELD NOTES --Injured QB Buck Pierce will make the trip to Montreal but will not dress on Monday. Burke said Pierce will assist offensive co-ordinator Gary Crowton on game day... The only changes to the Bombers 46-man roster this week will see Pierce come off and receiver Isaac Anderson go on. Anderson will start at slotback in place of Clarence Denmark, who returned home this week following the death of his father.


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The Optimizer page is a candidate for deletion. I was not aware that Code Optimization Ware was already in existence, and it fulfills the exact same purpose.
FarmerBob12 01:57, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- Gotcha, Bob. Thanks for the awesome edits you're writing! -- Mr. Sinistar 02:47, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
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File:034_DataWraith_Training_transcript.png WITHOUT parentheses is a duplicate of File:034_DataWraith_Training_(transcript).png. The one WITH parentheses is the correct image that I want to use, but I had trouble viewing it initially. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FarmerBob12 (talk • contribs)
Alternate AbraxasEdit
Alternate Abraxas may be real. A friend of mine has a security job at disney, and he hears things. Most are general adult banter, but one was about Tron: Legacy's sequel. And EVERYONE in the world should know... Clu-2's epic! GO CASTOR! CRAY-DAIMON CRAY 20:44, February 15, 2011 (UTC)
Tron: Animated Edit
Tron Animated has been proven in existance for I have met the sound editor and he assures me it will be on Disney XD by the year 2012 at latest. He is not legally able to tell me what its about, but he says a preview will come soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shotgungx (talk • contribs)
- We're already aware of it. I've redirected the page accordingly. -- WarBlade 01:49, February 25, 2011 (UTC)
Fate Unknown Edit
Sam transferred all the data of the TRON system onto a portal USB. Therefore the fate of the Tron system and everything inside it, their fate remains unknown. Tron's fate is unknown- because we saw him falling into the digital sea. But he could possibly make a return in TRON 3. AznPride112 03:17, March 12, 2011 (UTC)
- The "Fate Unknown" category is pretty much pointless, because everything that was still in existence at the end of TRON can be considered "fate unknown", and everything still on the TRON system at the end of TRON: Legacy can likewise be considered "fate unknown". Basically, you've created a filter that covers about 80% of all articles on digital characters and locations on the Tron Wiki. I have a counter suggestion: Abandon this one and think of a snappy title for "Characters with ambiguous demise." -- WarBlade 11:01, March 12, 2011 (UTC)
Paige FlynnEdit
Dear friends,
When I publish my book, I will make a new Paige Flynn page. If I don't, I'll delete the page myself.
Stephanie "FL" NicholsSannpuppies 03:47, April 15, 2011 (UTC)
- The purpose of the Tron Wiki is to document the TRON franchise. Because your fan fiction fall outside of this goal, we cannot leave it in the main namespace. What I have done instead is to migrate it to the user namespace under your username. That turns control of it over to you, rather than the community. -- WarBlade 12:01, April 15, 2011 (UTC)
Light GunsEdit
I created the Light Gun page, and please do not delete it. Light Jets have Light Guns. Check the page out. And I remember in Tron Legacy how CLUE 2 along with his army attack the end of line pub. I saw Light Guns shooting around from batons. Watch the scene yourself.
- The words "light guns" were thrown into those vehicle articles, by me, to account for the vehicles' ability to shoot bolts energy. There currently isn't a named item in the TRON universe referred to as "Light Gun". As for the End of Line Club, see Castor's cane. -- WarBlade 19:08, June 19, 2012 (UTC)


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Pharmacy Site ManagerThe Pharmacy Site Manager to supervise and direct the pharmacy processes, and activities of personnel, to ensure the efficient and timely dispensing of medications to the clients of the mental health facility, while ensuring compliance with all relevant laws of the State Board of Pharmacy.
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Senior Staff AccountantSeeks out potential areas of improvement and supports continuous improvement projects for other business functions; reconciles general ledger accounts and generates closing entries.
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Nurse - Unit Mgr Director Wkd RNThis position has 24-hour accountability and is responsible for the delivery of high-quality and cost-effective health care while achieving positive clinical outcomes, and patient/family and employee satisfaction.
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insulin resistance, and high levels of insulin cause
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can improve with good control of blood sugar levels.
Regular exercise and weight loss can improve your cholesterol levels. Lack of exercise is linked with higher triglycerides and lower HDL cholesterol. Taking
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About the show
In 2015, hit psychological thriller THE FOLLOWING pulls back the curtain on its most stunning season yet. The heart-stopping twists and startling revelations of Season Three will turn everything you thought you knew about THE FOLLOWING upside down.
It's been a year since the climatic events of Season Two – a year that has made a lifetime of difference for FBI agent RYAN HARDY (Kevin Bacon). We see Ryan as we've never seen him before. He's involved with GWEN (Zuleikha Robinson, "Homeland," "Rome"), an ER doctor and the mother of a seven-year-old girl. But a peaceful life is not in the cards for Ryan as a series of horrific murders rocks New York, sending its residents into a state of fear and paranoia, and the entire city into lockdown. Ryan struggles to balance his desire to be a good partner to the woman he loves and saving the city from one of the worst threats it's ever faced. With Ryan's arch-nemesis, manipulative serial killer JOE CARROLL (James Purefoy), on death row, and familiar faces – including psychopath MARK (Sam Underwood) – appearing in the most unexpected ways, Ryan is forced to ask: What if this is not Joe Carroll's work, but something much bigger? What if Joe Carroll was just the beginning?
Season One found Ryan dragged back into a world of horror, when the FBI reached out to him in the wake of Joe's escape from death row. Challenged with an ever-growing web of murders, Ryan and the FBI soon discovered they were up against not one killer, but a cult of killers directed by Joe, who appeared to die in a fiery explosion at season's end.
As Season Two unfolded, Ryan, FBI Agent MIKE WESTON (Shawn Ashmore) and Ryan's niece, NYPD officer MAX HARDY (Jessica Stroup), led an off-the-books investigation into Joe's presumed death and the whereabouts of his cult's remaining members.
But now, Ryan, for the first time ever, begins to suspect that his greatest enemy, the man responsible for an endless list of atrocities, may not be the biggest foe he'll face – in fact, Joe just might be a prelude to horror he's never imagined.


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FT Alphaville today has a nice chart suggesting London house prices are down by more than a quarter in real terms.
Here's an alternative thought: the quality of measurement of London house prices has collapsed. This chart shows London house prices after inflation as measured by LSL/Acadametrics, the Office for National Statistics, Nationwide, and the Halifax index Alphaville used. I used CPI, rather than the discredited RPI, for most of them, but showed the effects of both RPI and CPI for the Acadametrics series.
Halifax down at the bottom there is clearly out of line with the rest, although Nationwide's index still shows a hefty real terms loss, of 9 per cent. Read more


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By Tom Burgis and Esther Bintliff on the news desk in London with contributions from our correspondents around the world. All times GMT.
Another big day for "Super" Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president. 800 banks borrowed a total of €529bn under the ECB's liquidity programme — more than last time. We were watching too for ripples from Dublin's decision to hold a referendum on the eurozone fiscal pact.
19.20: We're going to wrap up the live blog for today, so here's a final round-up of today's events:
- In round two of the European Central Bank's Long-Term Refinancing Operation (or LTRO), 800 European banks borrowed €529.5bn
- A larger number of banks borrowed money than last time (when 523 banks borrowed €489bn)
- About €310bn of net new liquidity was added to the system
- More than two thirds of the volume was taken up by banks in three countries, thought to be Spain, Italy and France. Among the biggest takers of funds was Italy's Intesa SanPaolo, with €24bn, double the amount it took in the December operation. UK bank Lloyds is believed to have been the biggest non-eurozone taker of funds, receiving €11.4bn.
- In the markets, risk assets were initially firm on the back of the LTRO figures, but later fell back as Fed chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to Congress and dampened speculation that further monetary easing was on its way
- On the plus side, US growth data for the fourth quarter was revised upwards, from 2.8 per cent to 3 per cent
- The FT's Brussels bureau chief Peter Spiegel got a copy of the draft conclusions from the EU council summit that begins tomorrow
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If Minato sealed the half chakra "Nine-Tailed Fox" inside him and the other half is sealed in Naruto. Does not that make him an equally Jinchuriki as Naruto? I always had this doubt --Leodix/My Talk/Contributions 08:26, January 15, 2011 (UTC)
- No, because all he did with the chakra is shove it in the death god and die. ZeroSD (talk) 08:57, January 15, 2011 (UTC)
- That's a weird way of putting it, but yes, after using the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, the user seals the soul (or chakra in this case) of the opponent in the death god, not the actual user. When the ritual is done, a seal appears on the user's stomach. ~ Fmakck - Talk - Contributions 00:36, January 16, 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the answer :) --Leodix/My Talk/Contributions 03:19, January 16, 2011 (UTC)
Minato is not a jinchuriki. Reaper death seal is just a leathal move to get rid of someon or something. It's not a jinchuriki sealing move but the reaper mark does look similar to the old jinchuriki seal on Naruto. Is there some connection there. On a side note because the nine tail is the one beast that can automatical resurrect itself after its dead for a while, would it get the part it lost to the reaper death seal or is his yin chakra forever. —This unsigned comment was made by 184.108.40.206 (talk • contribs) .
Who said it resurrects itself? ~ Fmakck© → Talk → Contributions ~ 13:27, March 3, 2011 (UTC)
It was siad in one of the chapters with nine tail in it, that the nine tail can return after it's host dies. That is most likely due to it being the most like the ten tail beast, also the beast are based off of creathers from old Japanese stories and Kyubi(nine tail) in said stories had the ablity to be reborn (return from the dead) a after an unknown amount of time from death. —This unsigned comment was made by 126.96.36.199 (talk • contribs) .


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A father has climbed Britain's highest mountain as part of a fundraising challenge in memory of his baby daughter.
Rob Field, from Arthington, was joined by seven of his closest friends on the gruelling Ben Nevis Charity Challenge last weekend.
The fundraiser involved the team, competing against more than 100 other groups, having to climb the mountain, cycle for 25 miles and canoe across a loch.
Rob and his friends undertook the challenge as a tribute to his daughter Erin, who died last year aged just 14 months after being diagnosed with an extremely rare lung condition, Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease.
And they have smashed the £5,000 target they hoped to hit for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK (PHA), with £5,500 already donated and £2,000 more still to come.
Rob, who with his wife Sarah and son, Bailey, has been raising money for the charity since Erin's death in December, said: "We entered this challenge to raise as much money and awareness as we could but, more importantly to
us, it was to keep the memory of Erin in all our hearts.
"The weather conditions were perfect, although the temperature completely dropped at the Ben Nevis summit where there was still a considerable amount of snow.
"It was physically the hardest thing any of us has ever undertaken but, as Tom Armitage stated half way up the ascent: 'if anyone struggles just look at Erin's picture on our T-shirts'.
"The descent was just as difficult, followed by another four mile walk back to the start line to begin the first of two cycling sections. After 15 miles of riding some tough hills to Loch Lochy for a 3km canoe, it was then back on the
bikes for the 10 miles back to the finish line.
"The sense of achievement was fantastic. It was a very hard challenge and to find out we finished tenth out of 116 teams gave us great satisfaction."
The other members of Team Erin were: Ian Dawson, Tom Armitage, Scott Richmond, Andrew Jackson, Jarrod Best, Shane Houldsworth and Steve Cockerham. They are already planning next year's challenge and would welcome any
sponsorship from local businesses.
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Navman Pilot 3380
Simply putting normal grayscale autopilot data onto a bright 3.8-inch color screen would have made the 3380 unique and easier to understand, but Navman's interface designers went much further. The Dodge screen, for instance, clearly animates where the function is taking your boat and possible follow-up commands. Other screens range from the conventionally numeric to the info-rich, aeronautics-style graphics seen on the unit, and even to "wizards" that lead you through complexities like swinging the pilot's fluxgate compass. Let's hope that all electronics manufacturers study this innovative man/machine interface. The 3380 system includes a rate gyro in the $1,900 base price, with drive kits available for most any size vessel. Besides the color screen, it's also the first pilot to offer an optional SmartCraft gateway able to display gauge and diagnostic info from Mercury and MerCruiser engines.
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HOUSTON - A new trial going on in the Texas Medical Center could potentially lead to a better quality and longer life for hundreds of thousands of people.
Eighty-seven-year-old Arthur Craig of Southwest Houston said he feels at least 10 years younger just one day after heart surgery.
He told Local 2, "I can't believe it that 24 hours ago, I was on the operating table. I feel good. I really feel like I got more energy."
Weeks before, Craig was taken to Memorial Hermann's Heart and Vascular Institute for congestive heart failure.
He has aortic valve stenosis, the narrowing of the valve that carries blood to the heart.
About 1.5 million people have it and nearly 300,000 of those are considered severe cases, like Craig's.
Craig said that prior to surgery, "Walking from my room my apartment up to the mess hall where we have all of our meals, and that's a distance of 200 yards, maybe more, and I was out of breath when I arrived. I said that's wrong."
Craig's interventional cardiologist, Dr. Ali Denktas with UTHealth and Memorial Hermann, thought he would be a good candidate for a new, smaller valve.
The Heart and Vascular Institute is one of only three sites in Texas doing transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVR) on patients like Craig, who are not ideal candidates for open heart surgery.
Denktas explained, "It is less invasive. Obviously, we don't crack the chest open, we go through the groin, in this case, and he can be up the following day."
Craig was randomly selected in a clinical trial to get the new valve.
He recalled, "Gee, one of the best phone calls I ever got in my life."
He is the 100th patient in a year to do so at Memorial Hermann.
Denktas explained that during the procedure, "You push the faulty valve aside with the balloon and the stent, so yes it takes over the faulty valve."
The benefits are felt immediately: rapid recovery, improved circulation and more years with loved ones.
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This has been a pretty amazing week for Android. The demonstration of the new tablet optimized OS named Honeycomb and the launch of the new online Marketplace were very cool.
Honeycomb is incorporating some really nice elements such as an Action Bar. It will change depending on what application your in and then specific application settings will appear. The new Honeycomb multitasking looks amazing where instead of getting an icon for recent application, you are also given a visual state of the application you left in. The redesigned keyboard and and text editing look great as well. There is a new animation framework as well as hardware acceleration and new connectivity options.
The initial release of Honeycomb will be for tablets only and unlike iOS looks like will require maintenance of a separate code base much like Flex developers do now for AIR. Of course, we all know all kinds of tricks in Eclipse that make this easier.
In terms of the online experience, Google definitely has leapfrogged over Apple; I love the way I can pick an application and have it delivered over the air to any of my myriad of Android devices without having to connect via a USB cable. I also think they have done a nice job of organizing the marketplace which goes a long way towards reducing some of the chaos inherent in the marketplace.
It seems clear that open will win. This week also saw the news that Android has become the #1 smart phone operating system and that Android has grabbed 22% of the Tablet market from Apple. This last statistic is amazing considering that the current crop of Android Tablets, which is really only the Galaxy Tab, run Froyo which Google itself has stated is not optimized for tablets. There is some question on whether that 22% number is accurate, concerning how many tablets Samsung actually sold versus shipped but even if the number is half that, I am pretty impressed. Remember 85 new Android tablets were announced at CES and almost none are currently available.
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In this course, students explore the musical concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony and form as applied to the principles and techniques of writing and arranging for the rhythm section (drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, basic percussion) and a lead-line in a solo instrument, two horns (trumpet, alto or tenor sax) or voice. Students learn about the conceptualization process of combining individual components to create a musically satisfying arrangement. Students also learn various contemporary musical styles and the musical concepts that comprise them, including writing from the bottom up (groove-driven) and top down (working with a melody in a lead instrument or voice). Students will complete writing assignments that incorporate combinations of acoustic, electronic, and/or MIDI instruments.
The first of a three-course series within the Berklee Popular Music Institute, this experiential course provides students with the practical and analytical skills needed to develop a successful touring act chosen from among their fellow students. Students start with a&r, listening to submissions and evaluating both the artist's virtual presence and live performance. They then create an artist development plan, taking into account recording and production, web presence, visual identify, merchandise, brand partnerships, media relations, and touring. In addition to booking and planning a summer semester tour for their acts, students will attend industry conferences to network with professionals and hone their music business and management skills.
The second of the three-course series within the Berklee Popular Music Institute. This experiential course provides students with the practical and analytical skills needed to develop a successful touring act chosen from among their fellow students. Student groups of three people will be working with the artists chosen in the fall semester (BPMI-P401). They will rehearse the artists as they prepare them to perform on festival stages during the summer semester. Students will continue to book and plan the summer semester for their acts, and will also review contracts, as well as promotion and production requests from their respective festivals. Students will continue to work on the artist's development plan as they update and further build their web presence, visual identity, merchandise, and social media accounts. Students will also be organizing and producing the BPMI/Heavy Rotation Records release concert at an off campus venue.
The third and final course of the three-course series within the Berklee Popular Music Institute. This experiential course provides students with the practical and analytical skills needed to develop a successful touring act chosen from among their fellow students. Each group of students and their respective acts will embark on a one to two week tour to their festival. During the tour, students will be documenting the entire experience with cameras, and continue to update artist social media accounts. Students not on tour will be in class on campus supporting the groups on tour. Once the groups return from their tour, they will edit captured film footage, creating mini films for each artist. When all artists and groups are back, students will will debrief and start listening to submissions for the next year.
Functional tonal harmony analyzed and composed in various musical textures. Emphasis on voice leading, melodic writing, and figured bass.
Continuation of CM-211. Advanced tonal harmony and intermediate compositional procedures. Emphasis on harmonies with sevenths, other upper extensions, chromatic alterations as well as modulation.
Specific techniques of traditional tonal composition. Conclusive and nonconclusive phrases; antecedent-consequent phrase relationships; open-ended phrase relationships; sequencing; modulation; large-scale tonal relationships; thematic variation and development. Application of these techniques in writing, using models from the classical period.
During this course the students will explore and master the technique of modulation to the keys both closely related and distant. Using the concepts of three degrees of kinship between keys and the major-minor (minor-major) systems, the students will acquire the skill of gradual modulation as well as sudden modulation, as it was taught in Russia. This practical/theoretical approach will both contrast and complement current methods of handling this more advanced area of harmony, and will thus bring about for the student additional practical applications of these concepts.
The technical aspects involved in creating finished, professional scores. Score layout; instrumental/vocal ranges and performance characteristics; special playing techniques and limitations; breath and bowing considerations; choice of key, meter, beat, and subdivision values; use of slurs, articulation marks, dynamics, tempo variation, and other devices for indicating expressive nuance; proper underlaying of vocal text; calligraphy; creating a practical piano reduction; and extracting parts.
This course introduces students to diatonic harmonic analysis in various musical textures, melody writing, and harmonization of melodies in various musical textures.
This course is a continuation of CM-251. Students explore more in-depth concepts, including advanced traditional harmony and intermediate compositional procedures, as well as seventh chords, altered chords, and modulation.
Specific techniques of traditional 20th-century composition. Technical devices such as quartal harmony, serial writing, polytonality, and contrapuntal techniques. Assignments are directly related to each of these aspects of composition and are performed in class.


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FrameMaker for Word: How to use the FM vs Word Savings Calculator
Go to our microsite at www.douwriteright.com and try out the savings calculator. This brief video walks you through a hypothetical workload that one Word user may have, when contemplating upgrading to FrameMaker. Product Evangelist Maxwell Hoffmann discusses the logic behind each categories, and even attempts to lower the savings by reducing hourly rates or the scope of the project. You'll soon discover that no matter how modest your project scope is, if it is real technical documentation, FrameMaker will save you a substantial amount of money. You can certainly save enough to cover the cost of your FrameMaker licenses.


text: CHICAGO ( TheStreet) -- When Groupon ( GRPN) was launched four years ago, it created an entirely new model for marketing small businesses. Although the site was ostensibly a discount service aimed at saving its users money and exposing them to new experiences, it also gave independent businesses a chance to reach a wider base of potential customers. And that customer base grew exponentially, along with Groupon itself. But such a dazzling rise was impossible to sustain long term. Groupon has had to fend off competition from copycat sites such as LivingSocial and Amazon Local ( AMZN), and its stock price has tumbled 90% since the company's IPO last year, reflecting general uncertainty about the long-term success of the daily-deal business model. The business press has been filled with big-picture analysis of Groupon's travails and delivered less recent analysis of the small picture: whether Groupon and its rivals deliver for the businesses that offer the deals. Are daily deals a great marketing opportunity? Or a risky bet that often doesn't pay off? One of the few researchers examining the daily deal market from that perspective is Utpal Dholakia, a professor of management at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business. His latest study, How Businesses Fare With Daily Deals As They Gain Experience, surveyed more than 600 small businesses across the country about their experiences. The paper is a must-read for any business owner considering signing up with a deal site, offering a wealth of specific details: how likely they are to make a profit from a deal; the percentage of people who redeem a deal and become repeat customers; and which types of businesses see the best return on their investment. "Many small-business owners don't think through the reasoning and implications of offering daily deals, and then they get hurt," Dholakia says. "I want to help them increase their chances of success." The study breaks down the key metrics small businesses need to know before signing up. Overall, about 60% of the deals offered were profitable for the business that offered them (roughly 20% of the businesses broke even on their deals; the rest lost money). About 80% of the people who redeemed the deals were new customers, and about 20% ended up patronizing the business again. About one-third spent more than the deal value (often a key factor in whether the offer was profitable). Remarkably, a company's marketing budget (or lack thereof) made no difference: Companies that spent nothing on marketing were just as likely to have a successful promotion as those that spent a lot of money advertising. The size and age of the business also had little to no impact on overall profitability.


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So your child wants bunk beds, but you think they are all ugly. Well, not anymore. Now with Argington's Uffizi bunk beds available in several woods and color combinations, you can proudly show poff your child's room. details: argington uffizi bunk bed Click photo to enlarge Tiny Tiny Tiny Tiny Tiny Tiny Tiny Tiny Tiny Tiny Tiny 3487 argington uffizi bunk bed by argington * description * specs * designer Introducing the newest wonder to Argington's collection, the UFFIZI bunk bed. This bed offers a straight forward solution to making the most of your children's room. More importantly, it provides a resting place your children will love to call their own. Designed by the artisan duo Jenny Argie and Andrew Thornton, the Uffizi can be considered as an architectural work given the interesting spaces it provides. Kids will love the cantilevers, semi-enclosed lower bunk, and window like openings. You may select different finishes for different parts of the bed giving you the opportunity to suit your own style. The Argington Fuji toy box would also be an excellent addition at the foot of the bed to provide additional storage needs.


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I'm looking at getting this card, can you verify that packet injection works etc...?
newest from alfa taiwan. best of the best. works in backtrack 5 gnome
I'm looking at getting this card, can you verify that packet injection works etc...?
i didnt got the awus036nhr working in backtrack 5 r1 but in ubuntu 11.04.
as you can see on the alfa website: ALFA NETWORK: Alfa AWUS036NHR / BackTrack5 Installation Guide
linux is supported but you cant get the card in monitor mode with the delivered drivers.
you need urtwn drivers to get the card in monitor mode.
anyone has an idea how to do this?
I got it running with the latest compat-wireless drivers. The only issue I'm now having is that airodump-ng is not showing associated clients...
@Shrap could you describe how to get it running with compat-wireless. i already installed the delivered drivers is this a problem?
or is there an howto already on the internet. do i have to apply the changes described earlier in this thread?
does anyone know yet how to install this card with injection working?
works fine using Beini but i want to use it with backtrack.....
How did you manage to have it working under BT5R1? I tried... but it would simply ignore the plugged device..
Any hint?
it is not working I tried ti install the driver on genome and kde but both failed
I got two errors
make2: * [/root/Desktop/RTL8192CU_8188CUS_8188CE-VAU_linux_v3.0.2164.20110715/driver/rtl8192_8188CU_linux_v3.0.2164.20110715/core/rtw_cmd.o] Error 1
make1: * module_/root/Desktop/RTL8192CU_8188CUS_8188CE-VAU_linux_v3.0.2164.20110715/driver/rtl8192_8188CU_linuxv3.0.2164.20110715] Error 2
make1: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-184.108.40.206
make: * [modules] Error 2
Compile make driver error: 2, Please check error Mesg
I tried to prepare kernel header but I got the same errorHTML Code:4. If you receive a makefile error about no rule to make target modules, you may need to prepare kernel headers. As root, at the command line run these commands (you will need to have Internet access on the computer already): prepare-kernel-sources cd /usr/src/linux cp -rf include/generated/* include/linux/
please help me I am going to be crazy after awhile
I'm having the same problem as mohab1220. I bought this card because I thought it would work otb with bt5, but I geuss not...
Try the last compat-wireless driver, i managed to get it work with it in monitor mode, but i had problems do connect on secured station (wpa2/wpa) it gives me every time bad password, and i don't know how to resolve it!
and the driver don't work probperly, it doesn't show connected client on airodump and there are other problems!
go here and take a look
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=compat-wireless and
ps. kernel headers must be installed to get it work and u need to select rtl8192cu as driver!
good luck
@Shrap: and u can connect to secured Ap?!


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ALUN Rossiter may have won the battle, but Swindon captain Troy Batchelor is still confident of winning the World Cup against his Robins team manager.
Rossiter steered Great Britain to victory in Event One on Saturday night as Batchelor's Australia team finished third, meaning they will have to negotiate Thursday's Race-Off if they are to make Saturday's final in Bydgoszcz.
While Batchelor was happy for Rossiter as the Brits took victory in their home event in King's Lynn, the Aussie has insisted he has yet to fully secure the World Cup bragging rights given the two teams could meet again in the final.
"Rosco takes a lot of stick all the time but he's done very well and picked a good team," he said.
"There are some options of riders and he put together a very good team out of what he's got and he did a good job.
"Of course it's disappointing but we have another chance now and hopefully we can make the most of it.
"Rosco was able to lead them to victory and well done to him but you have to be a good loser to be a good winner. Let's see how he takes losing because we will get him back."
Batchelor, who himself scored 14, admitted his side endured something of a nightmare evening in Norfolk with Cam Woodward, in for injured former world champion Chris Holder managed just a single point. Darcy Ward also endured an uncharacteristic off night as he scored only six, with a bizarre incident seeing him retire from heat 18 after confusing a red light in the crowd for the signal to stop the race.
"We were confident of getting the win at King's Lynn but what could go wrong pretty much did," Batchelor said.
"We had bike breakdowns, crashes and we didn't finish races which really isn't on. Doyley (Jason Doyle) had a good night and I scored enough but it's a team event and you need all the guys to score.
"Darcy had one of the worst nights of his career over the last few years and this wasn't the night to do it, but you'd rather have it now than on Saturday.
"I've seen the light in heat 19 with Greg and I think even Greg might have shut it off a bit. After the right he asked me if I saw the red light and I said "yeah" but unless you see a red flag you really shouldn't be shutting off and I always go until everyone else stops and the flags are out."


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Small Talk
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
"In Soviet Russia,small talk, talks about you"
"I love
Small Talkstuff"
Small Talk (ST) is a language using small words and stuff. This language is the most unusual OO (Obliquely Opaque) language ever made. ST is still in circulation, with only 3 primary users; the creator, and two anonymous Muslims. ST was destined to be the greatest language on the planet, however, the binary code language was infinitely more useful. To date, ST has only one main advantage over any other mainstream programming language, only 3 people know it.
edit Small Talk Missile Crisis
The 80's brought the earth a new disturbance in the force. During 1982, a new crisis, now known as the Small Talk Missile Crisis, occurred. On Christmas Eve, 10 Cuban commandoes attacked a farm house in Alaska. During the raid, the commandoes had planted potatoes, cigars, and missiles in the soil. Using high-tech 1337 hacking skillz, the villians encripted their location with a captured German Enigma machine. Without a means to find the degenerate invaders, the USA, Canada, and Congo established the Useless Maker League (UML). UML was set out to make totally obsolete language that were capable of confusing the Cubans until they left. The only other language UML made was Ruby. The Small Talk Missile crisis was never resolved, and somewhere in Alaska is a bunch of missiles, cigars, potatoes, and Cubans.
edit Development
UML's goals were quite complicated. They didn't know what they wanted, nor did they care. They received all necessary funding and resources, but they were lazy. The languages being manufactured were amazing and made perfect sense. Their first product was C++, but was later discarded, as it was too perfect. Firing their old Commander in Chief, Alan Kay, They hired a new team of specialists, including the OO guru, . Under his command, the staff were soon chanting "Unary, Binary, Keyword", until they came up with Small Talk. It is because of this, that ST is executed in the order unary, binary, keyword. Up until now, no new releases of ST have surfaced, most likely because the creators are still looking in Alaska for commandoes. To keep the rest of the UML team working, ST had another unique feature. While the creators were away from the main office, they utilized a giant eye icon to watch the office. This "eyecon" greatly demoralized the other co-workers so much and over 90% of them jumped out of the 13th floor window. The combination of a poor language, degenerate implementation, and tight monitoring led the other 10% of the crew insane.
edit Style of Language
As mentioned before, ST is a purely OO language. Being Obliquely-Opaque, the language is so confusing, only the creators write code. Everyone else just nods their head until one of the three people who know ST can help them. The code is separated into many sections.
edit Class
Something entirely unknown, and unique to all OO languages. The inventors conceived the concept of having all code thrown into "blocks" called classes to avoid other programmers from reading their code. Classes must have a minimum of one million lines and a maximum of one million and one, although the Doctor frowns on large classes with the extra "one". Classes contain desks, white boards, chairs, chalkboards, markers, books, and of course slaves. A class must start with the keyword, "Extra-lopple-Kettle", and must end with, "eltteK-elppol-artxE". Classes may NOT contain any variables, methods, or numeric values. all such code must be put into other sections of code.
edit Methods
Where most useful code goes. "useful" refers to the program doing anything, rather than something. Methods may not contain any text, relying only on number values. The methods may not communicate with the classes. They may only communicate to junk methods.
edit Junk Methods
A method type that is full of garbage numbers, like 3, 8, and 15. They may also be filled with Classes, but may not communicate with them. The junk methods are quarantined from the rest of the code, and may not be visible while the programmer is watching the screen. This idea gave birth to the ghost "Boo" in Mario.
edit Instance Methods/Variables
Instance methods and variables are one-and-the-same, and refers to on-demand local cheese values. Useless in normal coding, but is almost always present in the code to discourage copying. During the ST Missile Crisis, instance methods made up 600,000 lines of the code. The other 400,000 lines were junk methods.
edit Private Reception
To the twenty or so people that actually heard of Small Talk, around 2 people like it. One of the co-founders was reported saying "It started off as Pac-Man, but i forgot the blue ghost's name". Although no one knows what he meant by this statement, one may deduce this co-founder went insane. To this day, only the OO guru himself understands ST, and is the most skilled in programming, partly because he changes the language when someone else masters it.
edit Public Reception
Released by IBM software on 1983. The package included Small Talk 1.0, a leg warmer, and a small hammer to break the computer if need be. The pack cost $20, and was also sold in another bundle with Atari Jaguar for $22. Only 1 person bought the commercial software package. His name is held anonymous, but resides in . No one else likes Small Talk. Even Jesus cries when he needs to program in ST.
edit Other Uses
edit Controversy
Many have argued that Small Talk is not a programming language. By "Many" this article refers to the 20 or so people who know about Small Talk. The reasons for this claims are a prgramming language needs:
- a purpose
- more than 50 people who know it
- to be useful
- to run on normal computers
- technical support
Because of the lack of these criteria, one can only assume that ST is the worst language ever, if in fact, it is a language.
edit Updates
ST has not been updated since 1986. When most of the designers went to Alaska, they never returned. IBM thought it was a joke, so they pulled the product off the shelf.
edit Legacy and "Return?"
ST has influenced OO designing around the world. That is why no one else uses OO languages. Experience has shown that ST had taken too long to perform any task, had horrible complicated code, and hi-jacked the user's computer to perform Go-Bus schedule gathering. Rumours surrounding have surfaced claiming a Small Talk comeback. No jokes. True (??????) story. Small Talk 1.000000000001 is stating to increase the productivity of the language by 2%. The new functions heard to be added were:
- pointers - so people could point at stuff
- lists - so people could list stuff
- linked lists so people could connect their newly created lists
- separate classes - so classes didn't need to be 1,000,000 lines long
- new "eyecon" featuring mascara on eylashes
- technical support from the OO guru himself
- Vim style unix GUI interface
- function to calculate the square root of an integral
- new garbage collection handler
- can divide by Zero
This product is expected to be released late 2012, for a bargain price of $25 for PC and $2000 for Mac.


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- Contemporary Art at the Gardner
- ExhibitionsCurrent ExhibitionsForthcoming ExhibitionsPast Exhibitions
- Ambreen Butt: I Need a Hero
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- Rachel Perry: What Do You Really Want
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- Bharti Kher: Not All Who Wander Are Lost
- Jean-Michel Othoniel: Secret Flower Sculptures
- Nari Ward: Divination X
- Luisa Rabbia: Waterfall
- Carla Fernández: The Barefoot Designer: A Passion for Radical Design and Community
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- Adam Pendleton: Untitled
- Raqs Media Collective: The Great Bare Mat & Constellation
- Stefano Arienti: Wild Carrot
- Luisa Lambri: Portrait
- Magic Moments: The Screen and the Eye–9 Artists 9 Projections
- (TAPESTRY) RADIO ON: New Work by Victoria Morton at the Gardner
- Points of View: 20 Years Artists-in-Residence at the Gardner
- Stefano Arienti: Ailanthus
- Danijel Zezelj: Once
- Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections
- Su-Mei Tse: Floating Memories
- Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008
- Cliff Evans: Empyrean
- Stefano Arienti: The Asian Shore
- Sculpture and Memory: Works from the Gardner and by Luigi Ontani
- Henrik Håkansson: Cyanopsitta spixii Case Study #001
- Michele Iodice: A Pagan Feast
- Variations On a Theme by Sol Lewitt and Paula Robison
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- Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections (gallery view), Taro Shinoda, 2009. Photo: Clements/Howcroft Photography.
- Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections (gallery view), Taro Shinoda, 2009. Photo: Clements/Howcroft Photography.
- Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections (gallery view), Taro Shinoda, 2009. Photo: Clements/Howcroft Photography.
- Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections (gallery view), Taro Shinoda, 2009. Photo: Clements/Howcroft Photography.
- Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections (gallery view), Taro Shinoda, 2009. Photo: Clements/Howcroft Photography.
- Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections (gallery view), Taro Shinoda, 2009. Photo: Clements/Howcroft Photography.
- Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections (gallery view), Taro Shinoda, 2009. Photo: Clements/Howcroft Photography.
- Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections (gallery view), Taro Shinoda, 2009. Photo: Clements/Howcroft Photography.
- Taro Shinoda, Drawing for Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique (#1), 2007.
- Taro Shinoda, Drawing for Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique (#2), 2007.
- Taro Shinoda, Drawing for Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique (#3), 2007.
Taro Shinoda: Lunar Reflections
The art of Taro Shinoda engages themes of science, philosophy, desire, and investigates our place in the universe. During his month-long residency in Boston in the spring of 2007, Shinoda was inspired by the moonlight in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum courtyard to develop the new body of work, Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique. For this piece, Shinoda constructed an astronomical telescope out of corrugated cardboard and attached a video camera to it; with this instrument he films the moon and cityscapes from different parts of the world. Shinoda described his endeavor as: "the first step toward having a sense of us all sharing this planet together. I look at the moon and, a few hours later, you look at it in some different country. Observing the way the moon travels allows me to make an image of the whole world."
The exhibition included film shot from Tokyo, Istanbul, Limerick, and Boston, a sound installation – a live feed from the running fountain in the courtyard to the gallery - and an engawa - a Japanese viewing platform that traditionally separates the domestic space from the garden. From this vantage point, visitors sat and could meditate on their place in the universe as they watched Shinoda's extraordinary films of the moon and mysterious night landscapes. The entire gallery, which was lined with silver paper, reflected the twinkling city lights and glow of the moon as it navigated across the floating screen.
Taro Shinoda was an Artist-in-Residence in 2007. He was born in Tokyo, where he continues to live and work.
In the summer of 2007 Emma Steinkraus, a Steamboat Foundation intern from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, interviewed Taro Shinoda about his residency and exhibition at the Gardner Museum. Following is a transcript of their conversation that has been edited for this publication.
ES: You began your work studying traditional Japanese gardens. How did you make the transition to become an artist? Or, why did you make this switch?
TS: For me, the basic concept is the same, I just changed the materials. The late 1980s in Japan was a bubble economy. Land was very expensive and there was little chance to design a garden, especially for a young person. So, I became an ordinary gardener, just cutting the trees. I really wanted to design and make my own garden, so I just started thinking about it in a different way. Once I made something, it became my artwork; but, for me, that first idea really was a garden, not art.
ES: What was that first piece?
TS: It was called Milk. I made some kind of pool, like 7 meters by 7 meters (that's approximately 30 by 30 feet) and then added 12 tons of milk. In this work there are fluorescent lights, there's like a monorail, and each machine carries fluorescent light by moving around back and forth, back and forth, bumping each other, really slowly, so you see the reflection from the fluorescent light. It was just really beautiful. It's moving around and it's steel, and there's low tech engineering, but still, for me, it was like a garden.
ES: It seems like you're really interested in science or engineering.
TS: I'm interested in nature, but I don't make a border between nature and human, science and art. I don't have any border.
ES: When you were young did you imagine that you would become a gardener or an artist?
TS: I decided to become a gardener when I was a teenager, that's why I went to the garden high school. I decided to become a gardener when I was 15 years old, but when I was a really little kid my dream was to become inventor, so when I was like four or five years old my notebook was always filled with something for inventions.
ES: What sort of things were you inventing?
TS: At that moment, I didn't know, but later my ideas became reality. For example, I designed a sailboat. And this sailboat, at the nighttime, it stays in the middle of the ocean. And the waves are always waving and inside the boat there's some sort of weight and it's moving around because of the waves and this is going to be the energy for the motors, to collect electricity for the battery. So the next day you can run the boat with this electricity.
ES: Do you know where you want to take the boat? Are you going to go on a trip?
TS: At that moment I just saw this energy-less boat, so you can travel forever. But that kind of thing I was always thinking about when I was a child.
ES: You built your own telescope for the moon piece. How did you learn to build something like that?
TS: Well, that is something I always have to do. If I want to do something, first of all I have to learn it. Like with my first pieces, there's lots of welding and cutting of metal, so I went to the factory and after that I made something with fiberglass, but I didn't know how to take care of this material, so then I went to a boat company and worked for free and they taught me how to do this.
ES: So, you just sort of apprentice yourself.
TS: With this telescope, first I went to the bookstore to buy some books about telescopes, then after I figured out the mechanism and started to build. So always, first an idea comes up, then after I have to learn, to study something. When I'm done with the studying, I start to build. It's always something like that.
ES: I read somewhere that you're interested in telepathic communication.
TS: Yeah, yeah. It's related a little bit to this moon project. I was thinking about maybe we have already lost some kinds of abilities. For example, now we always use computers – even for really simple math, like adding or subtracting -- you don't have to use your brain. Using this kind of technology or machine or tools can make you weak. So, maybe it's the same with telepathy: we used to have it, but we just lost it. There is also a kind of synchronicity that I'm interested in.
ES: Do you see the moon as being an icon for that sort of connection?
TS: No, no, this story is from my own experience. Now I'm speaking in English because I spent two years in the United States when I was a child. And that time my parents divorced and I came here with my father and my mother stayed in Japan. Back then, an international telephone call was really expensive, so my father did not allow me to call my mother, I only had permission to call my mother on my birthday. The rest of the time I just talked to the moon and I realized this moon was spinning around the earth, so at nighttime I told my message to the moon and the moon would come to Japan and bring my message to my mother. I really believed this system; so maybe this is some type of telepathy. Also, for this moon project the title I gave it is Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique, which means it's that technique,telling my message to the moon.
ES: When you were filming the moon in various locations, were you giving it messages?
TS: No, I just took the video of the moon while I was there. I live in Tokyo, so first I shot the moon in Tokyo. Then I got an offer from the Istanbul Biennial, so I went to Istanbul with my telescope and shoot the moon in Istanbul. Next I got an invitation from Ireland, so I went there with my telescope and shot the moon. Then I returned to the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston and I came with my telescope.
ES:I was reading in your travel logs for the Engawa Site Project piece that you frequently mentioned eating or laughing, or wrote about all these small rituals, like drinking coffee or telling stories. There seems to be a real focus on the poetics of the mundane and I wondered how that relates to the work you make, or if you feel as if that's something that is just entrenched in Japanese tradition…
TS: I really don't understand what you're saying. Are you asking what does engawa mean? The Japanese traditional garden, especially the Zen garden, always has a platform, what we call engawa. In English it's the word for balcony or veranda, but the meaning and concept is totally different, so I don't want to call this work "balcony." And, if it's a Zen garden, you never can go into the garden; you have to stay on this engawa.
ES: So, you can only view it.
TS: Yeah, you can only view it because it's like a God place. In some ways this engawa is related with the house, it is like a border between the human world and God's world. So, when I take it outside (it was driven to a desert), and then when we sit down on the engawa with a 360-degree total view, it is really in the God place. I started thinking about how we can relate this to the environment in the 21st century and I wanted to make some sort of platform for thinking. It is a place for thinking about the future, how we can relate to everything, how we think about ourselves, think about others, think about how we're going to live. I wanted to create some kind of thinking ground.
Always we divide humans and nature. If you go to Manhattan in New York no one's going to say, "Oh, this is great nature!" But even a machine gun is apart of nature, so why don't you say,"This is really good nature"? I really want to think that way. Everything we do, even the pollution, is a part of nature. And if you're standing on that point of view, maybe you can think about another relationship, using that starting point. I just wanted to build a platform to think about it, and that was my idea for the trip.
I went out in the desert with Native Americans, and, this is nothing mean about the politics, but when I first talked about this idea with the curator, the curator say, "Oh, Taro, you are foreign people, and doing this is really going to touch with sensitive issues in the States…"
ES: What sensitive issues would you be touching?
TS: Issues with Native Americans…
ES: Like their rights?
TS: Yeah yeah, and that really wasn't the point. I really want to go with somebody related with this land for a long time and I know this is Native Americans, so that was the only point. And then we talked a lot about this, and finally the curator said okay. I got a company of people together. It was a really beautiful trip, and I learned a lot from the Native American people. We just shared, maybe it is too much to say we shared ideas, but we shared a sense, an attitude. It was great.
ES: Sounds great. Was that also while you were visiting utopias out West?
TS: We just threw a branch from a tree, and the branch told us the direction we should go. It was something like that.
ES: Is that a Native American ritual?
TS: No, just sometimes we hit the road and say, "Which way do you want to go? I want to go right, I want to go left (rock, paper scissor)… alright, I win, let's go right." There's no destination. It doesn't mean we need to find a utopia because everywhere is utopia.
One day after the trip I went under the Hollywood sign with the curator, and we're just sitting down and looking at the Hollywood sign, and it was really beautiful. And if you see it that way, it looks different than a normal Hollywood sign. So, for me, that kind of experience is really important. If you drive in the desert on the highway you see lots of things passing, but when you're sitting down and looking really carefully at a small rock or small plants, then you feel much more like a part of the earth, like you're alive. And then you can figure out somehow, like how you should relate with others. That was my idea.
ES: How do you feel about the collection at the Gardner Museum? Do you relate to what Isabella Gardner was trying to do?
TS: That's a difficult question. First of all, I didn't have any art education at all, so I don't know which painting is valuable and which painting is not. Also, I don't know which painting is really important to history, so for me everything looks equal. But this atmosphere is really interesting, especially because the first time I arrived it was at night.
ES: Did you do a flash light tour?
TS: After a couple of weeks I did the flashlight tour and it was really fantastic. The first night when I was here, though, I didn't know that I needed permission to walk around, so at midnight I just walked around myself. It felt really spooky, like a spooky movie, but then I felt like some type of Holy Ghost was everywhere. I walked around with my music, my music was Rachmaninoff, and it really fit with this museum; it was really beautiful. I almost cried. And that day I came up with my idea for the moon project. This museum gives me lots of good emotions. I don't know how to say it in English.
ES: It makes you happy?
TS: Not happy, but I can really focus carefully, and just feel very calm, not angry or rushed. I can really concentrate. In this museum, it's like looking for the mirror or something. I'm looking at the museum and paintings, but I'm looking for myself.
ES: You do seem very calm. I can hardly imagine you getting angry. Do you get angry?
TS: Yes, of course.
ES: Are there certain things you get really angry about.
TS: Of course, if I'm driving… but normally I'm really calm, I think. I hope.
ES: Do you meditate? Is that something you consciously cultivate or are you just a calm person?
TS: Not in daily life, but sometimes. I really like to see the waterfall. I love waterfalls.
ES: Is this the waterfall you can bike to from your house?
TS: Yeah. I don't go very often, but sometimes I just go there to see the waterfall. I really love to go somewhere to see water and to look at the stars. For me, that's something like meditation. I'm living in Tokyo now, but even in Tokyo there's a big outside, there's countryside, so it's really easy to get to a nice place.
ES: I think when I first met you were talking about how you felt people in Japan had a really different relationship with the environment than people in the United States. Could explain what you meant?
TS:Yeah, I'm researching for that. Right now, we're living in the same kind of culture. There are thousands of bottles in Tokyo, and we use computers, everything is nearly the same. Of course, we are different tribes, so the cultures are slightly different, but from the point of view of aliens, they would think we're all the same. So I was talking about hundreds of years ago, two hundred or three hundred years ago. For example, starting with the Edo period until one hundred years ago. At that time Tokyo was a really packed city. Tokyo is the new name, the old name is Edo, and in that period everything, almost everything, was one hundred percent recycled. Nothing was wasted. There were lots of jobs that existed, too. There was no electricity, no gas, no running water, not like today. So, if you wanted to cook something, you needed to burn wood, and after that, the wood turned to ashes. Some people came to you to collect the ashes, and you could sell ashes to them. They collected the ashes for different uses, such as helping to make something or to grow vegetables.
ES: Like compost.
TS: Yeah, and this ash can also be used for silver.
ES: To polish?
TS: Yes. That kind of example existed in everything; it was a totally recycled system. Everything became some kind of job, so there were lots of jobs. This Edo period continued for 300 years and was the most peaceful period in the history. There was no war, everybody was educated, everybody could read and write. I'm really proud of this period. And I think we have to learn a little more from this period.
ES: Are there other artists, or not necessarily other artists, but thinkers whose work you think is inspiring or interesting?
TS: Of course, like David Wilson, lots of scientists, artists, composers.
ES: Do you listen to a lot of music?
TS: Yeah.
ES: Do you play music?
TS: No, I wish I could, but I'm really bad.
ES: Maybe that's what you're going to have to learn how to do next?
TS: Well, that takes longer than to learn welding or something, much longer. It's too late for me.
ES: Are there particular artist or scientists whose names come to mind?
TS: Well, one: Mirei Shigemori. He's a gardener who was born around the 1920s or so. I read a lot of books from him and watched a documentary movie. I went to his garden. He's like my teacher.
ES: What was it about his work that inspired you?
TS: The garden? Well, like he said, the Japanese garden is not a copy of nature. It is also not a model of nature. It is totally abstract from nature, he said, and I really think that way too. It's not a fake nature, and it's also not a model of the universe, world, or nature. It's abstract. The human mind can create something abstract and this part, for me, is very interesting and important. All of my work is some kind of abstraction from something, so even when it doesn't look abstract, I'm picking out one essence from something.
ES: Do you have a piece you enjoyed working on the most?
TS: For the work, it begins with an idea that comes in probably one second and then I have to study for a few months, then work for a few months as a slave [laughs]. So, one second takes me into this yearlong process. I don't know if it's going to be enjoyable or not, but I really like to work this way. Many people say, "Why, Taro, don't you just order it, fabricate it?" And, yeah, sometimes I'm thinking about that, but when an idea comes up I know, for me, it's an interesting idea. I don't know what it is, I don't know what it means to me, and I don't know what it's going to mean to the others. If I order it for fabrication maybe I never will get the meaning. But to build it up it takes 3 or 4 months, sometimes half a year, and everyday I'm working and working and working and also the hand is moving and thinking in a different way. In some part of the brain I always ask, "What am I doing? What does this mean? What is this for?" And three months later everything fits together like a puzzle, and then I figure out what this was for. So, for me, it's really important to work by myself.
ES: Just as a way of clarifying.
TS: Yeah, you can say that, and I'm enjoying this process.
ES: Do you just go up to these companies and knock on the door? How do you get access to different facilities? How do you get these companies to let you come work for them?
TS: Well, of course I don't just knock on the door, I phone first and say, "Maybe I can work here for three months or something, you don't have to pay for it." Of course they want to have me.
ES: Okay, free labor, pretty desirable.
TS: It's a give-and-take: they give me technology and I give them my labor. It's like free school.
ES: Do you have a project you're thinking about or working on now?
TS: Yeah. It's maybe a little bit related with this moon video. I'm shooting a video and I'm already done with part one and I'm going to continue until part three. Part one is about my neighborhood. I'm shooting around the neighborhood as beautifully as I can. In the part one video, I want to know what kind of environment we're living in. I photograph things that you might think are a mess, but if I shoot it at the right angle, maybe a bunch of wires becomes beautiful. So, I'm shooting very carefully and deciding about the light, for example. Is a rainy day best or a sunny day? I'm choosing really carefully how I shoot. Each shot looks like a picture.
The second video I'll start to shoot when I go back. It is going to be about how we change the natural environment by adding lots of artificial things. In Tokyo, for example, we have a river. Before it was a natural river, but now it is concrete with lots of color and on top there is a freeway. I am going to shoot this from a boat in Tokyo and other small towns.
The third video is also going to be about how we change nature. One hundred years ago we had a gold mine, maybe it was more like 300 or 400 years ago. There were lots of people picking out the gold. They cut a lot of trees and when it rains, the sand comes down. Normally, the sand is held by the trees, but they chop off the trees, so lots of sand comes down.
ES: Like erosion.
TS: Yeah, and this becomes like a beach, and now there's lots of pine trees growing up, so people believe this is really beautiful nature and we can buy lots of postcards from this area. But in truth, it's not really nature; it's a kind of artificial thing. I want to shoot this, what we believe is nature and what is artificial nature. I want to try to shoot a video about these kinds of places. Secondly, in the desert, on the Native American trip, I found a really beautiful salt flat, and it looks like snow, but it's salt, so I want to go there again with Native Americans. They will make a camp and collect the salt, boil it and purify it, making a giant crystal from the salt.
ES: I didn't realize that was something one can do. How do you do that?
TS: Uh… you can research it for me[laughs]. It's difficult to explain in English. First of all, I have to purify the salt. Sometimes I boil it, there are lots of different processes to do, and after, if I get pure CO2, then I put long strings with the small sands. This sand becomes a crystal and starts to grow.
ES: Similar to the way you can put sand in a clam and it will produce a pearl.
TS: Yeah, yeah, exactly like that. If I wait one month, then gradually, slowly, it begins to grow. When it reaches a certain size (it grows really slowly) then I start to polish it and I make a lens. Afterwards, I make a camera and then I shoot the moon. After I shoot the moon, I give back my lens to the soil and come back with the one picture from the moon. That was important, and I really want to do that in the future. It's also about some sort of relationship. For me, going back to look at the moon is equal to going to the moon.
Artist Talk
Saturday, November 7, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
Taro Shinoda and Curator of Contemporary Art Pieranna Cavalchini discuss Lunar Reflections and the artist's work.
Room Views: The Courtyard
Thursday, November 12, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
In the first of a new series of conversations about the Gardner Museum, artist Taro Shinoda, Museum Director Anne Hawley, and Curator of the Collection Alan Chong consider the special magic of the courtyard.
Gallery Talks at Gardner After Hours
Gallery talks at 7pm in the Special Exhibition Gallery during Gardner After Hours events from November 2009 through January 1010. Guest speakers included Eungie Joo, the Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at The New Museum in New York City.
Lunar Reflections: A New Year's Eve Event
Thursday, December 31, 2009
In celebration of New Year's Eve and the full moon, Artist-in-Residence Taro Shinoda presented a new projection project in the Courtyard. The evening included a special performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, featuring Paula Robison, Sooyun Kim, Alexis Lanz, David Fulmer, Eric Jacobsen, and Steven Beck in the Tapestry Room.


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OTTAWA — Approximately 150 students from all nine schools faced off
on March 20 at the Putnam County Educational Service Center for the
annual Putnam County Scholastic League Tournament. The teams began
regular season matches on Jan. 8 and every Wednesday after that through
Thursday's all-county event. Beginning at 9 a.m. until the tournament's 2
p.m. finish, all nine teams competed in a round-robin format so that
each school could compete against all others.
For those not
familiar, Scholastic League teams compete head-to-head to answer
questions from all areas of knowledge, including history, literature,
science, fine arts, current events, sports and popular culture. It is
the high school version of Quiz Bowl.
Although Gary Herman has
worked with the PCESC for a few years, this is the first year that this
curriculum coordinator has coordinated the league. While a student at
Ottoville High School, Herman himself participated. When asked how his
team did, he laughed. "We weren't really that competitive. Our advisor
didn't take it that seriously."
That didn't seem to be the case
for any of the county's schools on Thursday. Three different matches
were held simultaneously, with students checking their team's ranking
every half hour between each round of competition. The competition was
tight going into the tournament.
"Today, there've been a lot of
close matches," said Herman. "At one point, there was actually a tie
between Ottawa-Glandorf and Ottoville so they had to go to a
sudden-death question. It shows how all the teams have been very
competitive. It's not just one team blowing all the other teams out."
said that, despite the weather playing havoc with the calendar of
matches, it was a very competitive year. Kalida High School won the
regular season of competition, but it was only by half a game over
Pandora-Gilboa High School.
"Kalida was 13 wins—one loss and two
ties," he said. "Pandora-Gilboa was 13 wins—two losses and one tie. And
Continental and Ottawa-Glandorf were only one game behind them."
to Herman, at one point on Thursday Kalida High School had no losses
and Ottawa-Glandorf had one. Then Kalida lost a match to O-G by one
point. Kalida had to beat P-G by at least 12 points to take home the
championship. First through fourth placements were all very close, but
in the end O-G took home the gold.
Both the winner of the regular
Scholastic League season and the annual tournament winner may move on to
regional competition in April. This spring, the teams from Kalida and
O-G have the opportunity to represent Putnam County at Tiffin Calvert
High School, Tiffin.
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I was wondering if anyone could help?
I have been tasked at work to authenticate my "rails 3 app" with our Active Directory(Windows 2003), before accessing certain pages.
I have decided to use "devise_ldap_authenticatable", but can't seem to get it to work properly.
I keep getting redirected to the login page with the following error message showing in the logs:
"Completed 401 Unauthorized in 3ms"
Do I have to change the devise email field to a user-name in order for it to connect successfully?
Has anyone got a working config I could can look at?
My ldap.yml consists of the following:development: host: myip port: 389 attribute: sAMAccountName base: cn=Users,dc="mydomain",dc=uk,dc=com admin_user: user admin_password: password ssl: false
my devise.rb consists of the following:config.ldap_logger = trueconfig.ldap_config = "#{Rails.root}/config/ldap.yml"config.ldap_use_admin_to_bind = trueconfig.ldap_ad_group_check = falserequire 'devise/orm/active_record'config.authentication_keys = [ :email ]config.case_insensitive_keys = [ :email ]config.strip_whitespace_keys = [ :email ]config.skip_session_storage = [:http_auth]config.stretches = Rails.env.test? ? 1 : 10config.reconfirmable = true
my routes.rb consists of the following:
resources :postsdevise_for :usersroot :to => 'posts#index'match ':controller(/:action(/:id))(.:format)'
Any help would be much appreciated!
Hi Iain,
Sorry, I don't have experience using AD authentication.You won't find that many people doing it because Rails dev's tend to avoid Windows like the plague
I'd be trying to debug and see what's causing the 401, do some digging.
Hi Mark.
I am not a big Windows fan, myself. But, the company I work for have stated that it must authenticate with their AD.
When I check the logs all I can see is that 401 error and that it's hitting "Active Record."
It looks to be binding with the AD, but accessing credentials locally. If that makes sense?
Is there anything I can do to further debug?
I also found this, but not too sure how to intergrate that with my project...
Are you running under Apache or IIS? You need [NTLM or [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)"]Kerberos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM).
Thanks for the response. No I am currently using NGINX with passenger. Will this be an issue or is there a module NGINX will need?
Looks like someone was working on a Kerberos authication module for NGINX but it hasn't been completed.
Do you know if it really is a requisite to have these modules enabled? Any tutorial related to AD authentication with Rails I have read(and there isn't many) hasn't stated that the web-server requires any specific modules?
The first thing I would do is open the code with "bundle show devise_ldap_authenticatable" and open the directory.
ruby-debug is the most popular tool for debugging though, you can set breakpoints in your code with the 'debugger' trigger and then step through the code in a console, output variables etc.
I also found this, but not too sure how to integrate that with my project...https://github.com/Arcath/Adauth
It doesn't have great docs, but it may still work.http://adauth.arcath.net/
Thanks Mark. I had a look at the docs. But, I am unsure as to where I place the following:
"You can now authenticate users against the domain by calling:
Adauth.authenticate("Username", "Password")"
Would that be in my controller or view?
I am relatively new to rails, so, still a bit new to the MVC framework.
That type of site wide authentication could go in a before_filter in ApplicationController


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Wilson, Indians no-hit struggling Bulls
Pirates prospect fans nine in 7 1/3 innings, gets help from 'pen
By Sam Dykstra / Special to MLB.com | April 29, 2012 5:48 PM ET
The left-hander pitched his way into the history books again on Sunday.
Wilson struck out nine over 7 1/3 innings and combined with Jose Diaz and Doug Slaten on Triple-A Indianapolis' first no-hitter in nearly seven years as the Indians blanked the Durham Bulls, 2-0.
Between walks to Kyle Hudson in the third and Jeff Salazar in the eighth, the Pirates' No. 10 prospect retired 14 consecutive batters. It was the first no-hitter in which he'd ever participated, going back to his days on Little League fields.
"I'm excited," said Wilson, who improved to 2-3. "It's pretty awesome to go the 7 1/3 innings without a hit. And then it was great to have the bullpen shut the door after me. Jose [Diaz] and Doug [Slaten] pitched great there in the eighth and ninth, so I'm glad we could all do it together."
Wilson, who threw 72 of 107 pitches for strikes, began to feel the pressure associated with a no-hitter in the sixth. When Indians manager Dean Treanor pulled him after walking Salazar in the eighth, the move was greeted by boos from fans at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
"I think [shortstop Jordy Mercer] said, 'Don't even think about walking off,' and I said, 'I'm not going anywhere," Wilson said. "Then Treanor came out and I said, 'I'm not coming out.' And he said, 'Yeah, you are.' He was pretty serious about it and he said, 'This isn't about today, it's about years from now. We have to protect you and your arm.' I didn't know I had that many pitches at that point, so it's totally understandable."
Diaz retired both batters he faced to end the eighth on five pitches, all strikes. Slaten set down all three Bulls in the ninth on ground balls, including Reid Brignac, who couldn't quite beat out a slow roller to second base to end the wrap up the no-hitter.
It was the second-longest outing of Wilson's career and marked the deepest he'd gone into a game since fanning 11 over eight shutout innings for Double-A Altoona on Aug. 14, 2010. The 24-year-old had struggled with his control earlier this season, issuing at least five walks in two of his first four starts. He shaved more than a run off his ERA on Sunday, lowering it to 3.00.
Wilson explained that a change in his throwing motion may have been the reason for his increased command.
"I just started going over my head instead of to the side," he said. "I threw a couple like that in my last bullpen [session], and it just felt more natural to me. So it's something I wanted to use today in the game."
The California native made nine relief appearances for Indianapolis last season, and the belief was that his future with the Pirates may be in the bullpen. But he's was hopeful that the organization may continue to project him as a starter.
"I'm more comfortable starting," he said. "I know I can do both, but the routine that I've developed is as a starter. ... But everyone here knows that it's whatever the big team needs."
The no-hitter was the Indians' first since Ian Snell went the distance in a 4-0 win over Norfolk on May 15, 2005. It was the first time Durham was no-hit since Charlotte's Tetsu Yofu blanked the Bulls, 5-0, on Aug. 1, 2004.
The Indians' gem was the second no-hitter of the Minor League season after Jose Fernandez, Greg Nappo and Kevin Cravey combined on one for Class A Greensboro on Tuesday.
Pirates' No. 3 prospect Starling Marte hit a solo homer, his second of the season, in the third inning to give Wilson all the support he needed.
Starter Alex Cobb (0-3) gave up two runs on eight hits over 6 1/3 innings for Durham, which tied a franchise record with its 13th straight loss.
Sam Dykstra is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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A case of good karma in New Jersey, where a man who helped Sandy victims is rewarded in return.
John Turner, a 38-year-old Newark native, drove 17 hours from Chicago to the storm-ravaged Garden State last week.
READ:Red Cross donations top $130 million for Sandy relief
Turner didn't think it was real, but state lottery officials confirmed the win.
"We are very grateful that John has given his time and skills to help the people dealing with the challenges brought on by Sandy," New Jersey's lottery director said in a statement as reported by Yahoo! News, "and that New Jersey is giving a memorable thank you back to him."
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Taste of Home Cooking School
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The Taste of Home Cooking School, presented by Fresh by Brookshire's, attended by nearly 5 million people over the last 20 years, is coming to Tyler on Thursday, Sept. 26.
Grab your friends, your family, your neighbor and your spatula, and join us for a fun-filled cooking experience. With cooking demonstrations by the Taste of Home team, you will learn seasonal recipes that are perfect for every holiday, occasion and skill level. You'll also have the opportunity meet outside vendors and shop for items perfect for your kitchen.
These recipes can all be made with readily available ingredients to create memorable meal moments in your own home. Find out for yourself, why people keep coming back to the Taste of Home Cooking School, year after year.
This year's Taste of Home Cooking School will be Thursday, Sept. 26 at the Holiday Inn Tyler-South Broadway (behind Shogun). Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and the show starts at 6:30 p.m.
General admission tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. VIP tickets are $35, which includes a Taste of Home hardback cook book signed by culinary specialist Jamie Dunn, seating in the first six rows and early admission into the show.
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