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Music in the Parks steps it up
Erik LeDuc/Ruidoso News
Posted: 09/28/2012 11:52:40 AM MDT
Click photo to enlarge Carrizozo's Music in the Parks, known for bringing world-renowned and local musicians to the small town on the plains, will kick off another classical concert on Sunday, this time with a bit of extra help.
Elaine Brannen, chairwoman of the committee, said the group had just acquired its first business sponsor in Zia Natural Gas Company, allowing for an additional day of music, just for the youth.
The company, along with several others in the county, frequently donated money to the group, but this was the first time she had approached any business about sponsoring a concert directly, she said.
"(Aaron Dunn, business development manager) said (Zia Natural Gas) loved to sponsor communities, especially when it involved children," she said.
While the main concert is paid for by funds the group has collected over the months with fundraisers and donations, Zia would be sponsoring the entirety of the youth concert, she said.
"We went ahead and made sure (the committee) didn't have to worry about covering Monday's (concert)," Dunn said. "We support them every year. We spend more money on donations and sponsorships than we do on advertising every year, that's one of the things we have a big focus in - making sure the community is being well represented."
Zia sponsors many other events, such as the Mountain High Fly-In last weekend, within Lincoln County, he said "Everybody knows we're good about helping out."
Brannen said that she hopes to bring more companies
Advertisementon board in the future, as the sponsorship is tax-deductible and goes to a good cause. "I don't know if I have the energy to try and organize it," she said with a laugh. "I never thought about this before, we always sent (companies) a donation letter for our general fund. Otero Electric and Zia Gas have always been really generous, but I never thought about approaching them and actually sponsoring a specific concert."
On stage
Lisa Van Winkle, assistant professor of flute and coordinator of the music business program at the University of New Mexico, and Esequiel Meza, pianist and former teacher, will be in town at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Trinity Methodist Church, Brannen said.
"(Van Winkle) has been wanting to come up for quite a while and play a concert," she said. "I was really happy we could work her in. We're thrilled to have them play together. (Meza) is going to do a solo. It's going to be some really fun music, things that aren't normally heard."
The concert will be preceded by a dinner put on by the Carrizozo Women's Club at 5 p.m., which will feature a raspberry-chipotle chicken dinner, accompanied by scalloped potatoes, a broccoli-walnut salad and dessert, all for $8 per person, she said.
"They're such good cooks," she said. "People go to the Women's Club because they know they'll have a classy meal."
Other groups that frequently step up to feed visitors to the concerts include New Horizons Developmental Center, the Carrizozo Food Bank, Carrizozo Little League and possibly the Carrizozo Volunteer Fire Department's Youth Committee, which is "clamoring" to grill up a meal in the coming summer concert series, she said.
Each group uses the funds to enrich the community in some way, be it sports equipment for youth, improved amenities at the center or scholarships for local students, which would be the case for the Women's Club dinner, she added.
Attendance at the concerts varies with each venue, but typically ranges from about 100 to 200 people, she said.
The music goes on through all weather, featured outdoors when the sky is agreeable but moving indoors when rain or colder temperatures roll in.
The show had gone on even during the explosion of the Little Bear Fire, when Taxi Dancer played for free to a crowd of locals and displaced fire victims, she said. "We decided to keep it going, it was a healing thing."
Second performance
After the concert finishes Sunday night, performers will wake up bright and early to head to Carrizozo schools for a 10 a.m. concert in the old gym, where Carrizozo students will be joined by Hondo schools' third-, fourth- and fifth-grade classes, Brannen said,
Hondo students had been able to attend another concert after teachers Michelle Thurston, Yvonne Montes-Rich and Justine Ortiz went the extra mile to ensure their students would be able to attend, she added.
Thurston, third-grade teacher at Hondo schools, said that she, Montes-Rich and Ortiz had decided to put up their own money for gas to bus students over, as the expense was not in the schools' budget.
"I think it's an experience (students) don't always get exposed to, that classical music," she said. "They seem to very much enjoy it."
She added that the school never had any trouble filling a bus whenever the school got together to bring students over for a concert.
"I think it's really nice they care," Brannen said. "Hondo loves culture, they've come before. New Horizons always brings their residents over to the concerts as well."
Music of many genres pass through the town throughout the year, ranging from the sounds of the town's local son, Paul Piño and the Tone Daddies, bluegrass, a saxaphone quartet of retired 44th Army Band members, fiddler Russell Burris and world-class classical performers, usually brought through the Piatigorsky Foundation, which sponsors classical music performances in underserved communities.
"We're doing good, we're starting to get a reputation as a little center for music," Brannen chirped, enthused with the organizations' continued success and expansion. "I've got more (musicians) lined up than I can stage."
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Touchpad Synaptics
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installation
- 3 Configurations using GUI applications
- 4 Advanced Configuration
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 6 Links
synaptics is a driver for the Synaptics TouchPad which is manufactured in most laptops. This article will help install and configure the driver according to your needs.
You can install the synaptics modules via pacman from the extra repository:
# pacman -S synaptics
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf as root and add InputDevice "Touchpad" "AlwaysCore" to the ServerLayout:
Section "ServerLayout" ... InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection
Add Load "synaptics" to the Module section, for example:
Section "Module" ... Load "freetype" Load "record" Load "synaptics" ... EndSection
Lastly, add a new InputDevice section for the touchpad itself:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "LeftEdge" "1700" Option "RightEdge" "5300" Option "TopEdge" "1700" Option "BottomEdge" "4200" Option "FingerLow" "25" Option "FingerHigh" "30" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "MinSpeed" "0.06" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.12" Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010" Option "SHMConfig" "on" EndSection
Save, exit and restart X. The touchpad should now have working scroll zones. You can further tweak the InputDevice settings if desired. See Advanced Configuration for more information.
Note that your newly modified Xorg config will automatically load the evdev and psmouse kernel modules required by synaptics, however if desired you may add them explicitly to the MODULES array in the /etc/rc.conf file:
MODULES=( ... evdev psmouse ... )
Configurations using GUI applications
Once the synaptics driver has been installed, GNOME users can also install the gsynaptics package to enable a GUI-based control panel:
# pacman -S gsynaptics
To save and load the settings from gsynaptics automatically, add gsynaptics-init to the list of Startup Programs found in System -> Preferences -> Sessions.
Note: Non-GNOME users can also use gsynaptics by instead adding gsynaptics-init to their .xinitrc or .xsession startup scripts.
Advanced Configuration
The synaptics driver offers a number of options that can be customized. The following list describes the InputDevice options we declared in the Xorg config:
Identifier is the name of this input device you've specified in the server layout section above.
Device defines where your synaptic device is located. See Troubleshooting to find your device handler if it isn't /dev/input/mouse0 for you.
LeftEdge, RightEdge, TopEdge and BottomEdge are integer values which indicate the dimensions of your touchpad as x or y coordinates.
FingerLow and FingerHigh are integer value which indicate the 'pressure value' at which the driver counts a touch (pressure value goes above FingerHigh) or a release (pressure value drops below FingerLow).
MaxTapTime is an integer value that defines the maximum time for detecting a tap (in milliseconds).
MaxTapMove is an integer value which defines the maximum movement of your finger for detecting a tap.
MinSpeed and MaxSpeed are set to determine the minimum and maximum speed factor. An floating point value is expected.
AccelFactor is the acceleration factor as well defined as a floating point value.
SHMConfig is a boolean value (on/off) for activating or deactivating shared memory. This needs to be enabled if you want to monitor or configure your synaptics device with clients as synclient, which will be using in this article.
More options are explained in the synaptics' manpage, accessible with:
man 5 synaptics
Fine tuning with synclient
The synclient monitor can display pressure and placement on the touchpad in real-time, allowing further refinement of the default synaptics settings. In order for synclient to work properly, the SHMConfig option must be set to on or true.
You can start the synaptics monitor with the following command:
$ synclient -m 100
Where -m activates the monitor and the following number specifies the update interval in milliseconds.
This monitor provides information about the current state of your touchpad. For example, if you move the mouse with the touchpad, the x and y values in the monitor will change. Therewith you can easy figure out your touchpad's dimension which is defined in the LeftEdge-, RightEdge-, BottomEdge- and TopEdge-Options.
The abbreviations are explained as following:
- Time in seconds since the logging was started.
x, y
- The x/y coordinates of the finger on the touchpad. The origin is in the upper left corner.
- The pressure value. It represents the pressure you are using to navigate on your touchpad.
- Number of fingers currently touching the touchpad.
- Value that represents the finger width.
- Those values represent the state of the left, right, up, down, middle and multi buttons pressed where zero means not pressed and one means pressed.
- For touchpads which have a guest device, this are the associated button states for guest left, guest middle and guest right pressed (1) and not pressed (0).
gdx, gdy
- x/y coordinates of the guest device.
If a value constantly is zero, it means that this option is not supported by your device.
With this in mind you should be able to figure the proper values out for you.
Circular scrolling
Circular scrolling is a feature that synaptics offers which you probably know from the iPod. Instead of (or additional to) scrolling horizontally or vertically, you can scroll circularly. Some users find this faster and more precise. To enable circular scrolling, you have to add the following options to your input device section as defined above:
Section "InputDevice" ... Option "CircularScrolling" "on" Option "CircScrollTrigger" "0" ... EndSection
As you've might guessed CircularScrolling enables or disables circular scrolling. The option CircScrollTrigger may be one of the following values, determining on which edge circular scrolling should start:
0 All Edges 1 Top Edge 2 Top Right Corner 3 Right Edge 4 Bottom Right Corner 5 Bottom Edge 6 Bottom Left Corner 7 Left Edge 8 Top Left Corner
Specifying something different from zero may be useful if you want to use circular scrolling in conjunction with horizontal and / or vertical scrolling. If you do so, the type of scrolling is determined by the edge you're starting.
To scroll fast, draw small circles in the center of your touchpad. To scroll slow and more precise, draw large circles.
Disabling touchpad on plugged in mouse
In assistance to udev, it is possible to automatically disable the touchpad if an external mouse has been plugged in.
To achieve this, you just have to add the following udev rule:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ID_CLASS="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1" ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ID_CLASS="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=0"
Place this into /etc/udev/rules.d/01-touchpad.rules and make sure SharedMemory has been enabled and you should be fine.
My touchpad device isn't located at /dev/input/mouse0
If that's the case, you can use this command to display information about your all input devices:
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
Search for an input device which has the name "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad". The Handler in this section will tell you which Device you have to specify in your xorg.conf.
Example output:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000 N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1 H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 B: EV=b B: KEY=6420 0 7000f 0
As your Handlers are mouse0 and event1, you use /dev/input/mouse0.
Stopping the mouse from clicking while typing
This is a neat little trick incorporated with the synaptics driver, you can actually make sure that the touchpad is disabled while typing. It is a very simple procedure, so here is how it is done.
Just add the following line to your .xinitrc before you run your window manager:
syndaemon -i 2 &
The -i 2 switch sets the idle time to 2 seconds. The idle time specifies how many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad again.
Additionally you can add the -t switch that tells the daemon not to disable mouse movement when typing and only disable tapping and scrolling:
syndaemon -t -i 2 &
As usual you may find further information in the manpage:
$ man syndaemon
Firefox misinterprets horizontal scrolling
Even though this problem isn't concerning the synaptics drivers, you will probably look up here for a solution anyway. To prevent firefox from scrolling through the history and make it scroll the site, you have to set the following settings:
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action = 1 mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines = true
You can edit them by opening about:config. (Tip taken from gentoo wiki.)
Synaptics TouchPad driver for XOrg/XFree86 : [1]


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Chris Magee, a professor at MIT in the Engineering Systems Division, has measured these changes. Together with his postdoctoral fellow, Heebyung Koh, he compiled a vast data set of all the different instances of information transformation that have occurred throughout history. By lining up one technology after another – from calculations done by hand in 1892 that clocked in at a little under one calculation a minute to today's machines – a pattern emerged. Despite the differences among all of these technologies, human brains, punch cards, vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, the overall increase in humanity's ability to perform calculations has progressed quite smoothly and extremely quickly. Put together, there has been a roughly exponential increase in our information transformation abilities over time.
But how does this happen? How can all of these combined technologies yield such a smooth and regular curve? When someone develops a new innovation, it is often largely untested. As its developers improve and refine it, they begin to realise the potential of this new innovation. Its capabilities begin to grow exponentially, but then a limit is reached. And when that limit is reached there is the opportunity to bring in a new technology, even if it's still tentative, untested and buggy. Combine all these successions of technologies together and what you get is a smooth curve of progresss.
Giant's shoulders
So technological knowledge exhibits rapid growth just like scientific knowledge. But the relationship between the progression of technological facts and that of science is tightly intertwined.
Take the periodic table of chemical elements. We know that the number of known elements has steadily increased over time. However, while the number appears to have grown relatively smoothly over the centuries, if you look at the data more closely, a different picture emerges. As science historian Derek de Solla Price found, the periodic table has grown by a series of logistic curves. He argued that each of these was due to a successive technological advance or approach. For example, from the beginnings of the scientific revolution in the late 17th Century until the late 19th Century, more than sixty elements were discovered, using various chemical techniques, including electrical shocks, to separate compounds into their constituent parts.
However, these approaches soon reached their limits, and the discoveries slowed. But, following a Moore's Law-like trajectory, a new technology arose. The particle accelerator was created, and its atom-smashing ability enabled further discoveries. As particle accelerators of increasing energies have been developed, we have discovered heavier and larger chemical elements. In a very real way, these advances have allowed for new facts.
Technological growth facilitates changes in facts, sometimes rapidly, in many areas: sequencing new genomes (nearly two hundred distinct species were sequenced as of late 2011); finding new asteroids (often done using sophisticated computer algorithms that can detect objects moving in space); even proving new mathematical theorems through increasing computer power.
The question is why everything adheres to these exponential curves and grows so rapidly. A likely answer is related to the idea of cumulative knowledge. Anything new – an idea, discovery, or technological breakthrough – must be built upon what is known already. This is generally how the world works. Scientific ideas build upon one another to allow for new scientific knowledge and technologies, and are the basis for new breakthroughs. When it comes to technological and scientific growth, we can bootstrap what we have learned towards the creation of new facts. We must gain a certain amount of knowledge in order to learn something new.
So, while exponential growth is not a self-fulfilling proposition, there is feedback, which leads to a sort of technological imperative: as there is more technological or scientific knowledge on which to grow, new technologies increase the speed at which they grow. But why does this continue to happen? Technological or scientific change doesn't happen automatically; people are needed to create new ideas and concepts. The answer is that in addition to knowledge accumulation, we need to understand another factor that's important to knowledge progression: population growth.
Rapid spread
In an incredibly sweeping and magnificent article, entitled Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million BC to 1990, economist Michael Kremer argues that the growth of human population over the history of the world is consistent with how technological change happens.
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Travel and communication must also play a significant role in the spread of facts and knowledge. For instance, David Bradley, a British epidemiologist, discovered the extent to which populations have spread in an elegant way.
He plotted the lifetime distances travelled by the men in his family over four generations. His great grandfather only travelled around the village of Kettering, north of London – which could be encompassed in a square that is about 25 miles (40 kilometres) on each side. His grandfather, however, travelled as far as London, defined by a square that is about 250 miles (400 km) on each side. Bradley's father was even more cosmopolitan and travelled throughout Europe; his lifetime movements could be spread throughout a space around 2,500 miles (4,000 km) on each side. Bradley himself, a world-famous scientist, travelled across the globe. While the Earth is not a square grid, he travelled in a range that is around 25,000 miles (40,000 km) on a side, about the circumference of the Earth. A Bradley man moved ten times farther throughout the course of his life with each successive generation, an exponential increase of an order of magnitude more extensive in each direction than his father.
Bradley was concerned with the effect that this increase in travel would have on the spread of disease. But the Bradley family's exponentially increasing travel distances illustrates not only advances in technology; it is indicative of how technology's march can itself allow for the greater dispersal of other knowledge.
The speed at which individuals, information and ideas can spread has greatly increased in the past several hundred years. And, unsurprisingly, it has done so according to mathematical rules. The upper limit of travel distances made by people in France in a single day has exponentially increased over a 200-year period, for example, mirroring Bradley's anecdotal evidence. Similar trends hold for air and sea transportation. The curves for sea transport begin a bit earlier (around 1750), and air transit of course starts later (from the 1920s onwards), but like movement over land, these other modes of transportation obey clear mathematical regularities.
These transportation speeds have clear implications for how the world around us changes. For instance, Cesare Marchetti, an Italian physicist and systems analyst, examined the city of Berlin in great detail and showed that the city has grown in tandem with technological developments. From its early dimensions, when it was hemmed in by the limits of pedestrians and coaches, to later times, when its size ballooned alongside the electric trams and subways, Berlin's general shape was dictated by the development of ever more powerful technologies.
Marchetti showed that Berlin's expanse grew according to a simple rule of thumb: the distance reachable by current technologies in thirty minutes or less. As travel speeds increased, so too did the distance traversable and the size of the city.
So we arrive at the foundations of a variety of ever-changing facts based on the development of travel technologies: the natural size of a city; how long information takes to wing its way around the world; and how distant a commute a reasonable person might be expected to endure. And from communication and urban growth to information processing and medical developments, the facts of our everyday lives are governed by technological progress.
While the details of each technological development might be unknown – what I can download, or how many more transistors can be crammed into a square inch, for instance – there are mathematically defined, predictable regularities to how these changes occur. All of these facts, ever changing, are subject to the rules of technological change. And more often than not these ultimately follow a defined pattern: their own mini-Moore's Law.
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The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product, in meal form. There is a further meat meal ingredient (fish meal) 4th on the ingredient list, giving us reasonable confidence in the meat content of the food. We note that the manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative added to fish meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic.
The next ingredients in this food are low quality grains. The use of wheat is a significant negative: wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. This is an ingredient we prefer not to see used at all, and certainly not as the main ingredient in the food. Corn is a problematic grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. We prefer not to see this used in dog food.
Corn appears a second time as corn gluten meal. The AAFCO definition of corn gluten meal is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that which remains after all the nutritious bits have been removed.
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To whom it may concern,
I would like to confirm that there are qualitative as well as quantitative differences in items endorsed by the respective classes in a LCA of PTSD symptoms in traumatised people, ie. that the classes not only differ along a gradient of severity, but that the different items are endorsed to different extents in the different classes.
For instance, in an article addressing a similar question, it was argued that the groups identified in the 3 class solution were qualitatively different, as the prevalence of symptoms differed substantialy between groups on one of the constructs identified in previous factor analytic work in PTSD samples ("numbing" symptoms). I was wondering whether Mplus provides a more rigorous means of confirming that groups differ qualitatively? (ques. 1)
I would like to conduct a confirmatory factor analysis to help interpret differences in symptom prevalence. Specifically, I was hoping to construct equivalent confirmatory factor analytic models for the symptomatic groups that are derived, and then compare the models for dimensional, configural, metric, strong factorial and strict factorial invariance. Is this easily accomplished in Mplus (ques. 2) and, more importantly, would this be a viable strategy in determining whether, and in identifying how, different classes differ with respect to different symptom clusters? (ques. 3)
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It sounds like your questions can be answered by using factor mixture analysis. An introduction to this topic can be found in the following paper which can be downloaded from our website:
Muthén, B. (2006). Latent variable hybrids: Overview of old and new models. Forthcoming in Hancock, G. R., & Samuelsen, K. M. (Eds.). (2007). Advances in latent variable mixture models. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
If measurement invariance holds across classes (thresholds and factor loadings the same for all classes), then factor mean differences would be a quantitative difference. If not, the classes would differ qualitatively in your terms.
Jonathan Ipser
posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 7:59 am
Thank you for your rapid response. FMA does sound like it is what I need. I was wondering whether you could help me with something else.
I would like to use FMA on one sample, and then allocate participants from another sample in a post-hoc fashion to the classes detected in step one (without performing LSA or FMA on the second sample). Is there any agreed upon method of doing this? Can one perhaps use the conditional probability scores for this purpose?
Thank you
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 3:53 pm
You could analyze the second sample with all parameters fixed at the estimated parameter values from the first sample - you would then request posterior probabilities for this second sample analysis and use them for classification.
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(CNN) -- Hollywood's stars may have moved on from the red carpets of Cannes, but the real "jet set" -- the CEOs and executives who decide how, when and what we fly -- are heading back to France.
The A-listers of global aviation will be at Le Bourget from June 17 to 23 for the 50th Paris Airshow -- the biggest and most important event in the industry's calendar, where billion-dollar deals are done at the edge of the runway as stunt pilots swoop through the skies overhead.
More than 2,100 companies from 44 countries around the world will fly in to showcase their wares at Le Bourget; from jumbo-sized jets and massive manufacturing tools to the tiniest springs, cogs and other components, as well as high-tech concepts which may not see the light of day for decades.
In years gone by, the show, held at the airfield where Charles Lindbergh landed after his pioneering transatlantic flight in 1927, has seen the debuts of some of aviation's key developments -- from Concorde to the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380.
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This time around, those hoping to spot aerospace's next big thing may be out of luck. With just days to go before the visitors arrive, it is still unclear whether the industry's two most eagerly-awaited new planes, Airbus' A350 and Bombardier's C-Series, will be at the show.
Both companies have warned the planes will be too busy carrying out flight tests to attend -- but industry experts say there's an outside chance they may still be spotted in the skies above Paris.
"We're still waiting to find out whether the A350 will put in an appearance," said Murdo Morrison, editor of aerospace industry magazine Flight International. "That certainly would be a highlight -- it's one of the newest and most exciting aircraft, but it and Bombardier's C-Series are at a critical point in their development.
"It becomes a bit of a fight between the marketing people, the publicists, who want the company to get all the best headlines, and the engineers who are working to critical deadlines to get the plane ready to fly as soon as possible," he explained.
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"What may happen is they pop in for one day -- fly in and then fly out again -- or even, in the case of the A350, that they do a flypast, without even landing."
With or without the C-Series and the A350, there will be plenty to look at, with flying displays, aerial acrobatics and all manner of military and commercial hardware ranged around the airfield for visitors to get up close to.
Boeing is flying in not one but two 787 Dreamliners, and Airbus says that visitors will still be able to explore a full-size model of the A350's cockpit and cabin -- whether or not the real thing arrives.
Show organizers say one of the highlights of the show for the general public (204,000 of whom visited in 2011) is likely to be the flying demonstrations by a Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet.
And fittingly, given that 2013's event will be the 50th Paris Airshow, there will be some looking back: homegrown French plane manufacturer Dassault will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Mystere 20 business jet -- the first of which will be on display at Le Bourget.
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But Morrison said the real purpose of the event, and the reason for its significance, is the dealmaking and discussions that go on behind closed doors.
Throughout the show, the conference rooms and chalets lining the runway will play host to scores of high-powered briefings and meetings (in 2011 there were 151,000 trade visitors and 290 official delegations from around the world) at which aerospace movers and shakers will shape the future.
"The real reason the Paris Airshow exists is the industry side of things, the chance for face-to-face talks between suppliers and potential customers, the 'down-in-the-weeds' business discussions," he said.
"For some manufacturers the show is all about the race for orders, how many deals they've signed, and others make a point of avoiding that. But nobody really goes to Paris and decides there and then, 'I like that, let's buy two,' -- it's the meetings that matter.
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A 2.65-mile elevated park and a massive makeover for Navy Pier are both in the works.
Chicago is set to transform a derelict elevated rail line that cuts across its North Side and an over-commercialized, showpiece tourist attraction on the lakefront into two of the city's most appealing public spaces.
The Bloomingdale Trail and Park and the makeover for Navy Pier, expected to cost a combined $185 million, both took major steps forward last week. After a year-long competition, a team led by New York-based James Corner Field Operations won the commission to redesign Navy Pier, the state's most popular tourist site, receiving unanimous approval from the pier's governing board.
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The firm's most high-profile creation to date is New York City's High Line, an abandoned stretch of elevated railway transformed into a stunning park. In December, James Corner won the competition to design Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, alongside the primary venue for the 2012 Summer Games in London.
The challenge is to shed the 3,000-foot-long pier's kitschy image without a wholesale reconstruction. Pier attendance has fallen slightly over the last decade, as visitors have flocked to Millennium Park, a half-mile away.
The 17-member team includes New York-based nArchitects, lighting artist Leo Villareal, and French botanist Patrick Blanc, known primarily for his vertical gardens. Of the remaining group of landscape architects, water and real estate consultants and graphic designers, four are from Chicago, including designer Bruce Mau, whose firm is based in Toronto but lives just north of the city.
The makeover, which is likely to undergo significant alterations before construction begins, is expected to cost about $85 million. Initial designs seek to create a sequence of appealing outdoor spaces along the promenade, including tilted lawns for recreation, a fountain that could spout jets, mist or a reflective sheet of water, and hanging gardens inside the pier's Crystal Gardens pavilion. The plan also adds a swimming pool with a sand beach and an amphitheater that would slope down to Lake Michigan level on the east end of the pier, with cantilevered overlooks offering views back to the city.
Navy Pier originally opened in 1916 and is expected to be remade in time for its centennial celebration. Chicago architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham devised the pier as part of his 1910 Plan of Chicago. His vision, according to Corner, was in part about "the creation of settings or stages, where people can come into close proximity with one another, interact with one another... in the context here of being out on the lake."
Corner's previous project, New York's High Line, cost $115 million, draws millions of annual visitors and has attracted more than $2 billion of private investment to the surrounding area, creating jobs and sparking economic activity.
That's what Rahm Emanuel is envisioning for the Bloomingdale Trail and Park. "We have all read about what the High Line has done for New York economically," he said at a press conference last week. "I hope this has the same impact."
Emanuel said initial funding had come together for the $100 million project, which is expected to begin construction later this year and be completed by 2014. Designed by Arup, Ross Barney Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the new park will have benches and foliage on either side of a two-way path.
It looks in renderings much like New York City's High Line, but will be nearly twice as long and with gentle curves and dips. It will also allow bike traffic and include several green space access points at ground level.
Besides offering expansive views across several Chicago neighborhoods, the new park will improve local transport links. The multi-use trail will connect the west side to areas near the lake and the Loop, and the anchor parks will link the trail to L train stations and major bus stops.
The Chicago & Pacific Railroad originally built this 2.65-mile stretch of rail line at ground level in 1872. After a series of accidents involving pedestrians, the tracks were elevated about a century ago, but have been out of use since the mid-1990s. Within a couple years, the determined and the curious will no longer be forced to slip through fences to use the space and enjoy the view.
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The last Symphony Classics concert of the season is June 1 & 2. The concert will feature the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 with Olga Scheps as the soloist. The second half of the program is Bruckner Symphony No. 7. Sebastian Lang-Lessing will conduct.Bruckner is one of those composers that has a VERY loyal following (bordering on fanatical), but is also unknown to many. Every brass player I've ever met loves him. The string players often don't like his music. Mahler called Bruckner, "half god, half simpleton." His music is very influenced by Beethoven and Schubert. He was a huge fan of Wagner's compositions.
Bruckner was a virtuoso organist. He was deeply religious and socially shy. His music was very well respected in Vienna during his life (sometimes more popular than Brahms) but far lesser known in other cities. Bruckner never married, but he proposed to teenage girls quite often! His unsuccessful proposals to young girls continued into his 70s.
Bruckner also had a hard time with criticism. After he finished a symphony, he would usually revise it multiple times, influenced by the response of critics, musicians and friends. He made so many changes that many of his works are now performed in different versions with great arguments about which is the "correct" edition.
I found this web site that lists 100s of recordings of his Symphony No. 7. There is also a Bruckner Society of America at this web site. Here is a link to a 25-page biography of Bruckner. And here is a link to a scholarly article about the Symphony No. 7.
June 1 & 2 at 8 p.m. at the Majestic Theatre
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
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Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S.125
Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major
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WoW Archivist explores the secrets of World of Warcraft's past. What did the game look like years ago? Who is etched into WoW's history? What secrets does the game still hold?
As the Warlords of Draenor beta rolls onward, Blizzard keeps managing to surprise us. Recently we've learned about a huge overhaul to guild systems, random upgrades for quest rewards, and an extra-awesome core hound mount.
In the last WoW Archivist column, we looked at the surprises from the original beta and the betas of The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions. This time, we continue with Wrath and also look at the surprises during the Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria betas.
(As before, I won't go into storyline surprises here. And I won't cover surprises announced at BlizzCon outside of a beta. BlizzCon already has its own feature for controversial surprises.)
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Goodbye, night elf Sylvanas. Through vanilla and TBC, the Sylvanas model looked like a night elf rather than an undead high elf. With Sylvanas poised to play a big role in Northrend, Blizzard clearly needed to revamp her model. Players worried that they would have to look at the old night elf model through all her lore moments in Wrath.
A build in August 2008 gave her an initial makeover (middle image above) and lore-focused players breathed a sigh of relief. Clearly she still needed some work, but at least she wasn't a night elf anymore.
A later build in September gave her the fantastic model we see today. The same build also updated the models for Varian Wrynn and Alexstraza.


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A movie detailing the story of Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' notorious 1967 drugs bust is in the works.
The Rolling Stones stars were arrested following a police raid on Richards' Sussex estate, and they were both convicted of drug charges and handed prison sentences, which were subsequently lifted.
The pair was represented by legal heavyweight Sir Michael Havers, father of British actor Nigel Havers, and the screen star is now working on a movie project based on his father's famous case.
Havers, who was a teenage schoolboy at the time of the Rolling Stones court battle, has a script in place and is looking for funding to get the project off the ground, according to Britain's Daily Mail.
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San Antonio Symphony Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing has been conducting opera in Germany the last few weeks. He returns to San Antonio in early May for two free concerts. The first is at the Rackspace Castle on Wednesday, May 9 at 11 a.m. This is part of Rackspace's fourth annual Green Day. Then, on Tuesday, May 15 at the Majestic Theatre at 7 p.m., Sebastian will lead the orchestra in a program honoring Dr. Jacques Barzun called BERLIOZ & BARZUN. While this is a free concert, you do need to get tickets in advance. Tickets are moving very quickly, so call the Symphony Box Office at (210) 554-1010 if you are interested in attending.
Next weekend (May 4 & 5) pianist and conductor Barry Douglas leads the San Antonio Symphony, both from the keyboard and from the podium. The concept of this kind of "play/direct" is something San Antonio Symphony Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing feels strongly about promoting. He has said that when the soloist is the conductor, it stretches the orchestra to perform more like a small chamber ensemble. While Sebastian is hardly lobbying to eliminate the role of the conductor, he believes that having a "play/direct" guest artist offers an interesting challenge and variety for the orchestra and the audience. Next season, Sebastian has invited violinist Jimmy Lin to do the same thing with Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Here is a video where Barry Douglas talks about what it is like to lead an orchestra while simultaneously playing the piano solo.
Click here to visit the Barry Douglas web site and click here for his Twitter account.
The program is:
Mozart in Old Style
May 4 & 5, 8 p.m., Majestic Theatre
Barry Douglas, conductor and piano
Rossini Overture to La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
Górecki Three Pieces in Old Style
Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D major, "London"
On May 18 & 19, the Symphony POPS will be led by guest conductor Michael Krajewski in a program at Laurie Auditorium called Star Wars and Other Space Odysseys. You can read more about Michael on his web site by clicking here.
On May 25 & 26, guest conductor Alondra de la Parra leads the orchestra in Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3. The theme of the last movement of this symphony is based on Copland's Fanfare for a Common Man. Alondra is very active on Twitter with over 7,000 followers. You can tweet her by clicking here. (Most of her tweets are in Spanish.) She has also just launched an excellent new web site at http://alondradelaparra.com/. Her Facebook account has over 14,000 likes.
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The Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions is in the process of implementing the National Credit Union Administration's "Risk-Focused Examination Program." The purpose of this bulletin is to provide information regarding the new examination process that focuses on the seven risk factors that impact your CAMEL rating. The risk-focused process is designed to be forward-looking, with more focus on management's ability to identify and monitor current and potential areas of risk. Failure to properly manage these risk factors can reduce earnings and net worth.
The risk-focused program is based on examiners monitoring credit union risk profiles. The risk profile is made up of seven specific categories of risk. The first three categories of risk (credit, interest rate, and liquidity) are familiar terms. They can be assessed using objective financial data, combined with management's awareness and ability to control the risk.
- Credit Risk – the risk of non-repayment where the credit union invests or loans funds.
- Interest Rate Risk – the risk that changes in market rates will not be adequately managed to maintain an appropriate net interest margin.
- Liquidity Risk – the risk the credit union will not be able to liquidate assets quickly and with minimal loss in value to meet its obligations.
The last four categories of risk (transaction, compliance, strategic, and reputation) are more subjective and are difficult to measure using financial data. They must be evaluated in terms of the credit union's control structure and risk management systems.
- Transaction Risk – the risk that fraud or errors will cause a loss. This risk is a function of internal controls, information systems, employee integrity, and operating processes.
- Compliance Risk – the risk that failure to comply with laws and regulations, prudent ethical standards, and contractual obligations will harm the credit union.
- Strategic Risk – the risk that poor business decisions or improper implementation of strategic goals will reduce earnings and net worth.
- Reputation Risk – the risk that the credit union's public image will be tarnished due to improper actions on the part of officials, management, or staff.
Each of the seven categories will be assessed a risk level (High, Moderate, or Low) reflecting the current and anticipated risk to earnings and capital. Examiners focus the examination on only those risk areas determined pose the greatest risk to the credit union. Examination Overview comments highlight areas that present more than a normal degree of risk. Additional comments related to these areas can be found in the pages following the overview. These pages may include Supplementary Facts, Examiner's Findings, Document of Resolution, and Loan Exceptions sections of the Report of Examination.
We believe you will find increased value in this new exam program, and we welcome your feedback as you have the opportunity to experience the risk-focused examination approach. We will continue to improve the program as it evolves into an even more effective approach for the Department and the credit unions we regulate.
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The setting is Brazil, and corruption rules the land with an iron fist. "Manda Bala" gives the viewer a front row seat to this elaborate system of sins, tracking the circular pattern of violence from the very top of the governmental food chain to the lowest form of criminal life stalking shadows of the slums. The brew is toxic and bottomless, ironically trapped in a land of overwhelming beauty and passion.
"Manda Bala" is an innovative creation that doesn't strut like other documentaries. In fact, I'm not sure it's a documentary at all; the picture employs a strange hybrid of fiction and non-fiction filmmaking techniques that blur lines of reporting and interview. This fresh approach is the springboard that makes "Manda Bala" leap right off the screen and burrow itself into the viewer's senses. Kohn puts you into the heart of Brazil; that tightness of tens of millions of people all fighting for their fortune, reducing themselves to barbarism to grasp any ray of light that pulls them out of poverty.
Of course, the sickness starts at the very top. "Manda Bala" is really the story of Jader Barbalho, a profoundly loved politician who proceeded to bleed his country dry through unimaginable orchestrations of money laundering and theft, opening a chasm between the country's rich and poor, which has led to a swiftly growing crime wave that shows no sign of fatigue.
"Manda Bala" centers on a frog farm, which played a vital role in Barbalho's scheme. Kohn uses the strange harvest of frogs as his most powerful visual tool, revealing an uncomfortable tranquility inside the symbolic raising and eventual disembowelment of these creatures for mass profit. The film is fascinated with the fragments born from this corruption, which takes the film to the streets of cities like Sao Paulo to better recognize the cycle of pain going on.
Among the many crimes against society being perpetrated in Brazil, kidnapping is number one with a bullet. "Manda Bala" uncovers the many stages of abduction: the terrified victim (as seen in video footage), the unrealistic demands of ransom, acts of violence to escalate the situation (removal of the ear is a popular button pusher), the anti-kidnapping squads, and finally the plastic surgeons who piece the victims back together and assume a nutty sense of glory from their surgical mastery.
The picture also introduces us to the fears of the common man, caught in the warfare between economic gangs, searching for a way to survive in an explosive environment. Captured shopping for bulletproofed cars, contemplating several microchip implants, or taking anti-kidnapping driving instruction, this weary individual is emblematic of the decreasing middle-class in Brazil: crossing into a comforting full-blown panic about their home field advantage, boxing themselves into thick glass to stay alive.
Soon "Manda Bala" returns to Barbalho, who dodged prosecution in numerous ways over the last few decades, keeping his political future bright by buying votes off the poor and exploiting their misery. Kohn asserts that Barbalho, and his manipulation of the government-subsidized SUDAM project (intended to allow the poorest Amazonian regions to flourish), is the golden ticket to understanding how Brazil has crumbled. With all the wonders, horrors, and witnesses packed in this gorgeously photographed and hauntingly mounted voyage into social disorder, it's impossible to disagree.


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- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation today declared the New York side of the Lake Erie shore line a "no discharge zone," which means that boats are completely banned from discharging sewage into the water. The EPA reviewed the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's proposal to establish a no discharge zone for the lake and determined that there are adequate facilities in the area for boats to pump out their sewage. Boaters must now dispose of their sewage at one of the lake's specially-designated pump-out stations. This action is part of a joint EPA and New York State strategy to eliminate the discharge of sewage from boats into the state's waterways.
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"Clean water is one of New York's most valuable assets, and pumping sewage from boats into local waters is a practice that is both harmful and completely unnecessary," said EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. "Creating a no discharge zone for the New York portions of Lake Erie is an important step in protecting this amazing lake."
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Medicare is under intense scrutiny because of its $519 billion annual budget, which is estimated to balloon to nearly a trillion dollars in 2020 as the boomers age into the program. That kind of money sloshing around the system has made Medicare fraud one of the nation's top white-collar crimes. Fraudulent billing may have siphoned off nearly 40 percent of those billions.
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The Affordable Care Act attempts to address that problem with better and faster access to records, more funding for investigations and targeted strike forces, and by excluding those corporations that abuse the system. For three years, Inside E Street has been tracking federal efforts to combat Medicare fraud.
Lark McCarthy discusses progress on fighting Medicare fraud with Dr. Peter Budetti, Director of Program Integrity for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and with Greg Andres, Deputy Assistant Attorney General. Jay Weaver, an investigative reporter with the Miami Herald, updates us on the latest convictions in the mental health fraud in Miami/Dade County, Florida.
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Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench has told of her "difficult" battle with failing eyesight that has left her unable to read scripts and struggling to watch films.
The legendary star of stage and screen suffers from macular degeneration - an age-related condition that leads to the gradual loss of vision - which her mother also had.
But the James Bond actress, who has notched up a staggering 95 award nominations during her illustrious career, balked at suggestions her career will slow down because of her failing health.
The 79-year-old told The Hollywood Reporter: "I never want to make much of it, but it is difficult - very, very difficult.
"I can't read anymore. I can't paint like I used to. I try to watch movies, but it's quite difficult. But these are all of the negatives. I don't want to really think about all that. What I can do, I do. And I somehow get by."
Even before her eyesight began to decline, Dame Judi preferred to have others read her scripts to her, as Steve Coogan did in her latest film Philomena which has earned the actress an Oscar nomination.
But Dame Judi, who has also recently undergone surgery on her knee, insists she has no plans to retire.
She said: "I heard a woman being interviewed on the radio the other day who was 105, and I expected this very frail voice, but this wonderful voice came out and she said to this reporter who was interviewing her, 'I'll tell you one thing,' she said, 'Don't stop anything. I never stop anything I'm doing because otherwise I'll never get started again.' And I thought, 'That'll do.'"
Since making her professional acting debut at the Old Vic in 1957, Dame Judi has become one of Britain's - and Hollywood's - most acclaimed female actors.
It was Hollywood director Harvey Weinstein - a long-time fan of hers - that launched Dame Judi's career on the big screen nearly half a century later when she was 63 after seeing her in John Madden's Mrs Brown.
Their partnership has been one of Hollywood's big success stories, with Weinstein distributing six of Dame Judi's seven Oscar nominated films - Mrs Brown, Shakespeare in Love, Chocolat, Iris, Mrs. Henderson Presents and now Philomena.


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The Managing Editor of the Al-Hajj newspaper, Alhaji Iddrisu Bature is urging President Mahama to demand an unqualified apology from the General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) for "dragging his name in the mud".
He said it is most unfair for Pastor Mensa Otabil to call on the President to restrain individuals circulating an audio tape in which he [Otabil] is heard criticizing the free education, a policy being preached by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The respected preacher man in response to the circulated tape accused some members of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) of putting a slant on his message for political gain.
Describing the act as unethical, Machiavellian and criminal, Pastor Otabil called on President Mahama to call his people to order.
But the campaign team of the president in reaction to Otabil's call maintained that, he [Mahama] cannot not be held liable for the actions of individuals who want to make information readily available to the public.
Speaking on Ekosii Sen programme Tuesday, Alhaji Bature described as "ungodly" the statements by the preacher in his setting the records straight press conference.
He wondered why Otabil will ask President Mahama to intervene when in the same message he (Otabil) claimed he had handed the supposed surrogates of the NDC to God.
According to him, Pastor Otabil touched on the sensibilities of many Ghanaians especially members of the NDC who revered him as a respected man of God.
Bature admonished the President to boycott the upcoming Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) organized presidential debate if the ICGC leader does not apologise to him and the NDC.
The Al Hajj Editor stated that Pastor Otabil has compromised his position as Chairman of the debate committee and thus it would be prudent for him to resign.
"As Chairman of the debate he is supposed to be neutral, independent and fair [but] he has compromised his position and has dragged the IEA into serious contempt" he bemoaned.
Alhaji Bature admonished President Mahama not to repeat the Presbyterian Church example by apologizing on behalf of the party in the Otabil brouhaha.
He wondered whether the preacher man's faith in God has withered and is now calling on a "mere mortal" like John Mahama for help.
"Why will Pastor Otabil in one breath say he has left everything to God and in another breath he is appealing to a lesser mortal like John Mahama. Don't you [Otabil ] have confidence in your God, he quizzed.
Alhaji Bature threatened to boycott the NDC campaign if President Mahama goes to the IEA without an apology from Pastor Otabil.
"If Mahama goes to that IEA debate without Pastor Mensa Otabil apologizing to him then I will have a rethink about him and believe all politicians are the same".