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A powerful music production tool with an X-Y touchpad to engage hundreds of programs, instrument sounds, audio effects, scales, audio effects, loops, MIDI, editor software, and much more.
The KAOSSILATOR PRO is a supercharged version of KORG's palm-sized KAOSSILATOR, reborn as a powerful track-making tool, then loaded with live performance power.
As a trailblazer among instrumental gadgets that allow anyone to easily create melodies and phrases, KORG's KAOSSILATOR gained a strong and dedicated user base, even among those without any performing experience and today, the KORG KAOSSILATOR touchpad synthesizer continues to be enormously popular. Retaining these revolutionary features, while adding a wide variety of new ones as well, is the KAOSSILATOR PRO. With 200 sound programs, an Electribe-inspired gate arpeggiator, and 4 loop recording banks that can record external audio sources, the KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO is packed with features that make it ideal for both live performances and premium productions. In addition, USB connectivity to your computer and SD card memory storage allow the KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO to be used not just for improvised performances, but also as a superbly intuitive, track-making, music-production tool.
Intuitive X-Y touchpad:
Using the KORG synth's touchpad is highly intuitive: simply rub, stroke, or tap it to instantly create complex phrases with a single finger. Responding instantly to these gestures, the KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO synthesizer creates spontaneous changes that were difficult to produce on synthesizers of the past. Horizontal motions control the pitch, while the vertical axis can control tone parameters such as cutoff, feedback, or modulation depth. This makes it easy for anyone to create entirely original sounds and musical phrases.
200 exciting programs:
KORG's synthesizer technology, which is acclaimed by top musicians around the world, has been carefully distilled into the KAOSSILATOR PRO. The touchpad synth's versatile array of pro-level sounds includes synths, drums, FX, and other instruments. These sounds complement all styles of electronic and dance music including: techno, house, breaks, hip-hop, R&B, reggae, and electronic. The KORG synthesizer also has numerous acoustic instruments such as piano, trumpet, and guitar that provide a further boost to your expressive resources. You can assign your favorite programs to 8 Program Memory buttons for instant recall, ensuring that your live performances will sound smooth.
Extensively enhanced drum sounds:
Rhythm can be the most important element when creating a phrase. In addition to the modeling synthesis borrowed from the original KAOSSILATOR, the KAOSSILATOR PRO synth provides a PCM sound generator as well, offering even more realistic drum sounds arranged in kits across the X/Y pad. There are 20 one-shot sounds for kick, snare, hi-hat, and more, as well as 25 rhythm loop patterns to spark your creativity.
Vocoder programs for creative audio effects:
The KAOSSILATOR PRO features a mic input jack and 15 types of vocoder programs, making it easy to achieve unique sound effects, create robot voices, and more.
31 scales for musical expressiveness:
The 31e scale types cover a range from chromatic scales to major, minor, blues, and beyond. By specifying a scale and key, you can use a single finger to play perfect melodies and phrases that would be difficult to play even on a keyboard. The synth also gives you special scales such as Spanish, Ryukyu, and Raga, letting you play phrases that have a distinctive flavor. Another boost in expressive power is provided by the KORG synth's Note Range function, which lets you specify the range of pitches available on the touchpad from a single octave up to 8 octaves.
Gate arpeggiator provides tightly sync'ed grooves:
Inspired by KORG's EMX-1 and ESX-1 Electribes, the KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO's gate arpeggiator allows you to play a pattern of sounds that are always in sync with the tempo, generating phrases that defy imagination. The KAOSSILATOR PRO's slider can control the gate time or gate speed, allowing even more complex phrases to be produced. Tempos can be set manually or set on the fly using the Tap Tempo function.
Loop recording with unlimited overdubbing:
Loop Recording can be set for up to 4 measures/16 beats. Your KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO musical performances can be recorded into one of the Loop Recorder Banks. By adding additional sounds one at a time (overdubbing), you can create amazing loop phrases by repeating the cycle of selecting a sound, playing a phrase, and recording the sound over and over again.
4 loop recording banks allow DJ-style performances:
The KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO provides 4 Loop Recording Banks. These banks can be combined for virtually infinite performance possibilities. Each of the four loop banks can host infinite overdubs. In addition, each bank can be muted or unmuted, its volume adjusted, and its loop length changed, making dynamic live performances easy for anyone. An unneeded loop can be erased during playback and a new one recorded so there's no need to stop the performance.
Loop recording using an external source:
The KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO provides line inputs and a mic input, allowing for loop recording using an external audio source. This makes it easy to add a rap, vocal, or audio from an external device to any loop phrase created on the KAOSSILATOR PRO synthesizer.
USB + MIDI provides versatility and compatibility:
The KAOSSILATOR PRO touchpad synth offers standard MIDI IN/OUT connectors. In addition, the USB connector lets you use your computer to back up the loop recording data, or even drop loops into your favorite DAW. The KAOSSILATOR PRO can also control your software applications or an external MIDI device. The KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO can send or receive MIDI clock.
Convenient SD card data storage:
The KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO synthesizer provides an SD card slot for storing loop data and user settings such as program memories. Favorite phrases can be saved to build up a collection of loop data that will inspire your musical arrangements. SD card storage also allows you to create the same show with the same loops, night after night. You can also swap loops with other KAOSSILATOR PRO users, or use your data in multiple units. (Note: Not compatible with SDHC cards and SDXC cards.)
Dedicated editor/librarian software:
KORG KAOSSILATOR PRO Editor is a dedicated software program for managing your recorded loop data, as well as a MIDI assignment editor function that lets you transform the KAOSSILATOR PRO into a powerful MIDI controller that's set up just the way you want. KAOSSILATOR PRO Editor can be downloaded free of charge from the KORG website. (Note: Runs on Microsoft Windows XP (SP3 or later)/Vista (SP2 or later)/7 and on MAC OS X 10.4 or later.)
- KAOSS X-Y touchpad synth offers intuitive, realtime control
- 200 sounds covering modern synth sounds such as lead and bass, and diverse acoustic sounds from piano to trumpet
- PCM samples provide dramatic drum kits and ready-to-rock percussion patterns
- Vocoder programs deliver scintillating vocal effects
- Access up to 8 of your favorite sounds instantly using the assignable Program Memory buttons
- Loop Recording can layer both internal Program sounds and external audio overdubs
- 4 Loop Record Banks each allow up to 4 measures of loop recording, with easy muting that allows expressive realtime layering and DJ-Style re-mixing that's ideal for live performances
- Gate Arpeggiator repeatedly triggers sounds in sync with the tempo; the slider controls either the gate time or gate speed
- Choose a key and select one of 31 musical scales to easily create musical phrases; limit the X/Y pad's note range for even more control
- Loop data, user settings, and Program Memories can be stored on an SD card (sold separately)
- Dedicated editor software lets you manage loop data, MIDI assignments, and user settings from your computer
- Performs double-duty as a MIDI controller for external equipment or software applications
- Dimensions: 1.93" H x 8.27" W x 8.90" D
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- Number of programs: 200 (including 15 effect programs)
- Loop recording banks:
- 4; up to 4 measures or 16 beats per bank
- Main controllers: X-Y touchpad, 4 loop record buttons, gate arpeggiator slider, and tap tempo button
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- Accessories: AC adapter; protective pad sheet
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Winsted: Penguin Plunge organizers offering an alternative for "chickens" on Feb. 9
WINSTED >> The temperature has dropped. Winsted's Highland Lake is freezing over.
In other words, it's perfect conditions for a penguin. Special Olympics Connecticut will be holding its annual Penguin Plunge at Highland Lake on Feb. 9. The plunge will take place a noon. Registration the day of the event begins at 10 a.m. at The Gilbert School.
But those at Special Olympics Connecticut's Northwest Region realize not everyone is willing to brave the chilly waters.
And that's OK. In this instance, Nora J. Mason, Special Olympics Connecticut Northwest Regional director, said being chicken isn't a bad thing.
An alternative, titled Too Chicken to Plunge? is being offered by Special Olympics Connecticut at the Winsted event. Those who do not wish to take a dip in the frigid waters of Highland Lake can instead take a jump into the pool at the Winsted YMCA.
"The Too Chicken to Plunge? jump provides a great alternative to plunging into Highland Lake. Chickens can still support Special Olympics and be a part of this exciting, fun-filled family day which helps to raise funds for athletes with intellectual disabilities in Northwest Connecticut," said Mason. "We hope children, young and old, will consider participating at the YMCA."
Registration for Too Chicken to Plunge? begins on the day of the event (Feb. 9) at 10 a.m. at The Gilbert School, with the leap into the pool taking place at 12:30 p.m.
The Special Olympics Connecticut Chicken will be at the YMCA on Saturday, Jan. 26 to sign up participants in advance.
Too Chicken to Plunge? works the same as the Penguin Plunge, with the only difference being the temperature of the water. The first 50 registered will receive a chicken hat to wear for the jump. Individuals can also register at www.soct.org/plunges and selecting Winsted.
Whether you're a penguin or a chicken isn't what's important. Those who take part in either event raise much-needed funding for Special Olympics Connecticut by soliciting donations from family, friends, and local business in order to take the plunge.
There are a number of ways to seek out donations. Public safety workers can compete against one another to see who can bring in the highest monetary total, businesses can hold dress down days and schools can go head-to-head to see who can raise the most.
Through a myriad of initiatives throughout the state and the world, Special Olympics is a movement that's changing attitudes and changing lives by inspiring inclusion, understanding and respect for people of all abilities, in all aspects of life. (www.soct.org)
"It takes an entire community of supporters to fulfill the mission of Special Olympics," said Mason. "We extend our deepest appreciation and admiration to our Special Olympics Connecticut sponsors and supporters in our region of the state. We encourage and invite you to join us with your families at an upcoming Special Olympics event. You too will soon see first-hand the difference you can make in an athlete's life."
Sponsors of our Winsted Penguin Plunge and Too Chicken to Plunge? Jump are Northwest Community Bank, The Palace Theater in Waterbury, Republican American, FM 97.3 WZBG, NBC Connecticut and Quinoco Cadwell.
Special Olympics Connecticut provides year-round sports training and competitions for more than 13,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities and Unified Partners (their teammates without disabilities). Through a myriad of initiatives throughout the state and the world, Special Olympics is a movement that's changing attitudes and changing lives by inspiring inclusion, understanding and respect for people of all abilities, in all aspects of life. (www.soct.org)
Partner Sponsors include Adams Hometown Markets/IGA Hometown Supermarkets, Connecticut Light & Power/Yankee Gas/ Western Massachusetts Electric (Northeast Utilities Companies), Law Enforcement Torch Run, NBC Connecticut, TD Bank, and United Technologies.
Year-Round Sponsors are Adams Hometown Markets/IGA Hometown Supermarkets, The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New England, Crystal Rock Water and Coffee Company, Graebel Trucking, Guida's Dairy, Marcus Communications, State of Connecticut Judicial Branch Community Service and Worx Branding & Advertising.

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jill here....When we designed Salad Bar for Daisy Janie, we designed a baby quilt as well. Just didn't have the time to get it made before Houston. While at market, the sweetest little French fabric spoke to us : "J'Adore" by Dear Stella. Dear Stella was kind enough to share a fat quarter pack plus the extra for background and binding.
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with the stripes as the overlap and binding and the confetti dots as the background.
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Recipe from Derrick E. Vaughan of Baltimore, Md.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
12 oz. ground beef
1/2 teaspoon rock salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon Steak Sauce
1 thick slice of purple onion
1 slice of tomato
1 leaf of lettuce
4 slices of American or Cheddar cheese
1 large hamburger bun
1. Place 12 oz. of ground beef into medium bowl.
2. Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon of rock salt and black pepper into bowl. Pour 1 tablespoon of Steak Sauce in bowl.
3. Mix together and make (2) 6 oz. burger patties.
4. Cook to desired temperature.
5. Take slice of thick red onion and dip into seasoned flour (salt, pepper, seasoned salt). Place red onion into 400 degree pan of hot vegetable oil. Cook to crust is golden brown.
5. Top two 6 oz. paties with 2 slices each of American or cheddar cheese, stack together.
6. Top double stack with golden brown red onion. Place double-stacked cheeseburger with golden onions on toasted bun.
Servings: 1
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Target Pulls Inappropriate Whitney Houston Greeting Card
While it may have been funny before, it's not funny now. Target has pulled a greeting card off its shelves that pokes fun at the late Whitney Houston.
The card, which takes a jab at the iconic singer's declining career, was available prior to the singer's death. However, the joke now reads in poor taste: "Next time you think of dating the bad boy, consider Whitney Houston."
Target clearly didn't find the sentiment offensive while Houston was alive, but things have changed since she passed. "The card was in our stores prior to Ms. Houston's death," a rep for the chain told TMZ. "As soon as this was brought to our attention, we began the process of removing the card from all applicable stores."
Houston's premature death shocked fans around the world, and while her passing has led to some controversy, she has been widely celebrated ever since. The singer's death was recently ruled as an accident, although authorities are still waiting for the results of a toxicology report.
Houston will appear in the posthumous release of 'Sparkle,' and a biopic — for which Rihanna, Jennifer Hudson and Jordin Sparks are reportedly in the running to portray the star — is said to be in the works.


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gotta a small problem. Stormy has been acting very skittish and scared lately. This morning so far she won't eat she's laying low to the ground when she walks like she's looking for danger. She's trying to hide but won't hide in any of her normal spots like under the bed. She's been crying and every noise makes her jump. I have no idea what is wrong. I don't know if i should take her to the vet i don't want to make her worse. She's always been a little nervious and jumpy but this is a whole new level for her. She only seems to calm down at night. I mean i don't really know if any of the other two got in a fight with her. they seem normal. I'm just really worried about her. any thoughts suggestions?
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I don't have much cat experience, but it does sound like a vet visit might be a good idea. Especially since she's trying to hide. I hope she's okay, MWW! You sure don't need another worry on your plate!
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Hi Mww - sorry to hear Stormy is acting strange. Have you checked her over thoroughly to see if she has any bites or scratches from the others? Any tender spots? Trying to remember back to when I had kitties, my younger one would get really weird when she was constipated - any chance Stormy might be? I guess it's hard to tell with three cats, but maybe try separating her overnight so you can see if she's pooping or not. I wouldn't panic yet, but if the behaviour carries on for another day I'd have her checked out. I'm sure some kitty guru will be along, but that's what comes to mind for me.
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Evolution Hoax
One of the things people find most difficult is "trusting someone". They can establish friendships with people compliant with their own ideas, their own points of view and their personalities, and feel love and respect towards those people within certain conditions. However when something that requires them to show that they really trust them happens, they instantly step back.
They do not feel trust towards anyone but themselves in the true meaning. Not to their spouses, not to their parents, not to their children, not their friends not their relatives. We come across talks almost everywhere which states that people who have been married for years still do not trust their spouses. The proverbs like "you should not trust even your own father", is an important indicator showing that people are approaching even their next to kin skeptically.
People living all their lives witnessing this distrust people have towards each other, continue with this same suspicious and uneasy approach towards the people they have around them.
There is of course a very high amount of rightfulness in that uneasiness of people. That is because some friends who allegedly say that they are the closest ones, married people who are bound to each other with wows of loyalty or even the members of the same family can easy talk behind each other, observe each other secretly and suspect each other. They see no harm in telling lies to each other even about the most ordinary matters. They never entrust each other something valuable, a possession, any goods or money. They never have a property registered in each other's name. Even in inevitable situations they cannot give each other their wallets, bags or the keys of their houses. They live with the danger of being played with and stabbed from behind by the people they think are closest to them.
For all these reasons, it is acceptable to have difficulty in trusting people who live by the morality of ignorance. That is because there are rightful reasons for such distrustfulness. However there is no explanation for hesitating to trust Muslims. This is because Muslims are people who remain outside all these models people are accustomed to see around. Because Muslims fear Allah. They know that they will give account of every good and bad deed they have done in the Hereafter. For that reason, they never tell lies. They never display disingenuous manners towards people. They never talk behind people, they don't gossip. They are the ones who know how to love and beloved, who knows respect, friendship, loyalty, fidelity, goodness, good morality the best on earth. They never say things that they will not do. They never make promises that they won't be able to keep. They do not harm anyone. They never harm anyone's life or possessions. They painstakingly protect what is entrusted to them. When they are given a secret, they do not disseminate that to people around insincerely. They do not betray people, they never exploit the trust people feel for them.
Consequently it is not acceptable to have difficulty in trusting a Muslim. If it is apparent that a person fears Allah and keeps away from doing something wrong due to this fear, if he abides by the morality of the Qur'an, one can trust that person without ever thinking. One can comfortably entrust his possessions, his life, his belonging that he sees most valuable spiritually and materially in this world to that person. He can completely trust the words, love, respect and loyalty of the Muslims. He can place his trust completely in that person having no different or secret side other that what is visible and that no harm will ever come from that person. He can completely trust that a Muslim will keep his faithful friends above his own lower self in watching over and protecting, in compassion and mercy, in providing material and spiritual support.
For that reason it is completely inappropriate for a Muslim to be wary towards Muslims. That is because a Muslim is a straight out person. Because of his fear of Allah he never approaches to bad manners. Muslims assume all the goodness and beauties people are aware of on earth on themselves. For that reason the place in which Muslims live is the most secure place of all. Almighty Allah revealed this fact in the Qur'an as follows:
Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and those who have faith: those who establish prayers (salat) and pay alms (zakat), and bow. (Surat Al-Ma'ida: 55)
As for those who make Allah their friend, and His Messenger and those who have faith: it is the party of Allah who are victorious! (Surat Al- Ma'ida: 56)


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GNU Radius is a software package that provides authentication and accounting services. The acronym RADIUS stands for Remote Authentication Dial In User Service and (in that form) usually denotes the underlying protocol name.
Historically, RADIUS servers were used as a means to authenticate the user coming from a dial-in connection, but GNU Radius is much more than an authentication system: it is an advanced, customizable, and extensible system for controlling access to the network.
GNU Radius has several built-in authentication and accounting methods. When these methods are not enough, it allows the administrator to implement any new method she deems convenient.
The GNU Radius package includes the server program,
radiusd, which responds to authentication and accounting requests,
and a set of accompanying programs designed to monitor the activity of
the server and analyze the information it provides.
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To illustrate what GNU Radius does, let's consider an imaginary internet service provider. Our provider has two network access servers (NASes for short)—i.e., two pieces of equipment which directly accept users' connections—and a core router that connects the ISP's internal network with the Internet backbone.
When a user connects to a NAS, the server must verify that the user is actually registered and that the credentials she has supplied are correct. This first step is called authentication.
Upon authenticating the user, the NAS must determine which services the user is permitted to use and to what extent the user may use them. This second step is called authorization.
When the first two stages have been successfully completed, the NAS takes the third step and establishes the connection between the user and the main server. This connection is called a user session. For the purposes of accounting, the NAS remembers the exact time of the start of the session. When the session is terminated, the duration of the session and the number of bytes transferred are recorded as well.
All three tasks can be accomplished by the use of user and accounting databases on each terminal server. However, this is not convenient, and it is error-prone in that the maintenance of separate databases for the same users is not a trivial task. What is worse, as the number of terminal servers grows, this maintenance problem becomes more difficult.
RADIUS allows an administrator to keep authentication and accounting data in a single place, no matter how many network access servers are actually present. Using RADIUS, NASes instead communicate with this central server to perform authentication and accounting, thus easing the burden on the system administrator.
Let's return to our imaginary ISP. Suppose it runs a RADIUS daemon on its central server. Each NAS runs client software to communicate with the RADIUS server by sending radius packets.
An average user session life cycle looks as follows.
A user connects to the nearest NAS and supplies his login and password. The NAS forms an authentication request and sends it to the RADIUS server.
The RADIUS server verifies the user's credentials and finds them sufficient. It then retrieves the user's authorization information from its database, packages it into an acknowledgement packet, and then sends it back to the NAS
The NAS receives the acknowledgement packet and starts the user session. The information brought with the packet tells the NAS to establish a connection between the core router and the user, and to assign the user a certain IP address. Having established the session, the NAS informs the RADIUS server by sending it an accounting start packet. The server acknowledges the receipt of the accounting packet.
Now suppose that after some time the user decides to break the connection. The NAS notices this and terminates the user's session. The NAS then sends an accounting stop packet to the RADIUS server to mark this event. Again, the server acknowledges the receipt of the packet.
Attributes are means of passing the information between the NAS and the server. Basically, an attribute is an integer number that identifies some piece of information. A set of properties are associated with each attribute, specifying the way to interpret the attribute. The most important property is the data type, which declares the type of data that the attribute identifies (character string, integer number, IP address, or raw binary data).
The information to be transmitted with the request is packaged in a set of attribute-value pairs (or A/V pairs for short). Such pairs consist of attribute numbers and the associated data.
There exist two basic kinds of RADIUS packets: authentication and accounting packets. Each of them is subdivided into requests and replies.
Authentication requests are sent from the NAS to the RADIUS server and contain the information necessary to check the identity of the user. The minimum set of data in such packets consists of the user login name, user password, and NAS IP or identifier.
Authentication replies are sent by the RADIUS server and contain the reply code and a set of additional attributes. According to their reply code the authentication replies are subdivided into authentication acknowledgements, authentication rejections, and authentication challenges.
An authentication acknowledgement packet is sent to the NAS if the credentials supplied with the authentication request were correct. This kind of packet tells the NAS to establish a normal user session. The additional attributes in such packets carry the authorization data, i.e., they determine which kind of service the user is to be provided.
An authentication rejection is sent to the NAS if the authentication has failed. This packet forbids the NAS to provide any service to the user. The additional attributes may carry descriptive text to be displayed as an explanation to the user for the failure of his request.
Finally, an authentication challenge packet is sent to the NAS if the supplied credentials did not suffice to establish the authenticity of the user. This means that the dialog between the NAS and the RADIUS server continues. As the RADIUS server asks for additional authentication credentials, the NAS acts as a liaison, passing server requests to the user and sending user replies back to the server. Such a dialog ends when the RADIUS server sends either an acknowledgement packet or a rejection packet.
An accounting request is sent to the server when the NAS wishes to report some event in the user session: the start of the session, session termination, etc. The attributes carry the actual information about the event.
For each accounting request that has been received and successfully processed, the RADIUS server sends back an accounting acknowledgement. This packet carries no attributes, but simply informs the NAS that the information it had sent was received.
Occasionally, a RADIUS server may fail to receive incoming requests or may fail to process them due to high server load. In order to prevent such requests from being lost, the NAS retransmits the request if no response from the server is received within a predefined interval of time (a timeout interval). Usually the NAS is configured in such a way that it continues retransmitting failed requests until either it receives a reply from the server or a predefined number of retries are exhausted, whichever occurs first. Furthermore, a NAS may be configured to communicate with a set of backup RADIUS servers. In this case it applies the described process to each server from the set, until one of them responds or the set is exhausted.
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ECB Will Walk a Fine Line
The European Central Bank will walk a fine line when it meets later today as it will likely try to talk up the euro zone's recovery without provoking suggestions that it should raise its interest rates. Photo: Reuters
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More Moore: Sundance channel signs Trevor
Whatever happened to sketch comedy program The Trevor Moore Show? More specifically, whatever happened to the Giant Walkin' Talkin' Box, Moore's conversations with squirrels, and most importantly, Trevor Moore himself?
Although The Hook was unable to trace the whereabouts of the box, and the squirrels declined an interview, we did manage to track down and speak with Moore.
As many long-term Charlottesville residents probably remember, in the late '90s, Moore, now 24, created one of the more popular public access shows. He signed a deal with a production company to write and produce the appropriately named Trevor Moore Show. The show was immediately popular, but after 11 months of airtime, the producers deemed his humor too offensive for wholesome Charlottesville.
Which made it perfect for New York.
Moore moved to Manhattan, where he did stand-up comedy before meeting Sam Brown, with whom he began his sketch comedy troupe in 2000, The Whitest Kids U Know.
With Moore leading the group as head writer, The Whitest Kids grew to 13 members. Recently it was cut back to include the absolutely whitest: Moore, Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams, Darren Trumeter, and an occasional guest. They perform weekly at Pianos, a downtown New York bar.
A year after the creation of the Whitest Kids, Moore landed an internship with Lorne Michaels, executive producer of Saturday Night Live.
"I just took a bus up to New York from Charlottesville for the interview," he says, "and when they found that out, they said I could have it."
Upon completion of the year-long internship, Moore began an internship that allowed him to work on several late-night comedy shows, including Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Saturday Night Live.
But Moore fans don't have to take 29 North to see their beloved comedian making his comeback as a television performer. Sundance Channel has picked up the Whitest Kids' pilot that could potentially run for five seasons on the Sundance Channel.
"We just put it together one weekend," says Moore. "We taped it ourselves, and I think it turned out pretty good."
The air date for the pilot has yet to be set, but in the meantime Moore also writes, produces, and performs on a weekly show called Uncle Morty's Dub Shack, sponsored by ImaginAsian TV, a new Asian television network.
Despite his multi-tasking in New York, Moore maintains his connections in Charlottesville. His comic strip, "Cuddy," still appears weekly in the Daily Progress.


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i am currently reading the Probabilistic robotics book where the filters are discussed. Such filters as kalman filter or particle filters. Now I can understand one thing while reading about the Kalman filter. First I want to say that I could successfully understand about Bayes filtering. I've read some of theory of random processes and I can understand it. Let me give you some details about the problem, if you think it is not sufficient I will give more. Who knows about that book I write here the page: it is about Kalman filter at page 41. Let me not to explaing the whole problem, I hope the reader could be able to understand it as it is related with Kalman filtering. However I will write more if it is needed. 1. The state transition probability $p(x_t|u_t, x_{t-1})$ must be a linear function in its arguments with added Gaussian noise. This is expressed by the following equation: $$x_t = A_t x_{t-1} + B_t u_t + \epsilon_t (1)$$ $x_t$ and $x_{t-1}$ are state vectors, and $u_t$ is a control vector at time $t$. $\epsilon_t$ is a gaussian noise.
Also it is given the definition of multivariant normal distribution: $$p(x) = det\left(2\pi\Sigma\right)^{-1/2}exp\left(-1/2(x-\mu)^T\Sigma^{-1}(x-\mu)\right) (2)$$ Where the $\mu$ and $\Sigma$ are the mean and covariance. The $x_t$ and $u_t$ are of the form: $$x_t = \left(x_{1,t}, x_{2,t}, ..., x_{n,t}\right)^T$$ $$u_t = \left(u_{1,t}, u_{2,t}, ..., u_{m,t}\right)^T$$ So it is said that in order to obatain the state transition probability $p(x_t|u_t, x_{t-1})$ you need to plugg the equation $(1)$ to the multivariant normal distribution (2).
Ok, I got that, but it is also written there that (here is the problem): The mean of the posterior state is given by: $A_tx_{t-1}+B_tu_t$ and the covariance by $R_t$ What I can't understand is that how does the mean in the multivariant normal distribution equation $(2)$ is calculated to $A_tx_{t-1}+B_tu_t$? The whole formula affter plugging $(1)$ to $(2)$ become: $$p(x_t|u_t, x_{t-1}) = det\left(2\pi R_t\right)^{-1/2}exp\left(-1/2(x_t-A_tx_{t-1}-B_tu_t)^TR_t^{-1}(x_t-A_tx_{t-1}-B_tu_t)\right) $$
I think that the mean of $x_t$ should be calculated like this: $$E{x_t} = E(A_tx_{t-1}+B_tu_t+\epsilon_t)$$ $$E{x_t} = A_tE(x_{t-1})+E(B_tu_t)$$ And I can't understand anyway how does the $Ex_t$ is equal to $A_tx_{t-1}+B_tu_t$ If you see any mistakes in my reasoning please tell me. If you need more details please comment this question for that. Thank you very much! Hope you help!
From book it is said that Kalman Filter (KF) is an implementation of Bayes Filter(BF). I understood BF. Actually it calculates belief $bel(x_t)$ at time $t$ from belief at time $t-1$. BF algorithm:
For all $x_t$:
$\hat{bel}(x_t) = \int{p(x_t|u_t, x_{t-1})bel(x_{t-1})dx_{t-1}}$
$bel(x_t) = \etap(z_t|x_t)\hat{bel}(x_t)$
end for
return $bel(x_t)$
So about KF: $$\hat{bel}(x_t) = \int{p(x_t|x_{t-1}, u_t)bel(x_{t-1})dx_{t-1}}$$ where $bel(x_{t-1})$ is represented by mean $\mu_{t-1}$ and covariance $\Sigma_{t-1}$ The state transition probability $p(x_t|x_{t-1}, u_t)$ is given as a normal distribution over $x_t$ with mean $A_tx_{t-1}+B_tu_t$ and covariance $R_t$.
If $x_t$ can't be observed directly, so then what is $E(x_t)$?


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Woman Who Repeatedly Called 911 Demanding All the Drunks in Bar Be Arrested Winds Up in Jail Instead
Of all the dumb reasons to call 911 – and there have been plenty – this may be the dumbest.
Police in Hollywood, Florida arrested Mary Jaggers after she called 911 six times to report there were drunk people at a bar.
Jaggers allegedly demanded cops arrest all of the intoxicated folks inside the watering hole, claiming she was simply trying to prevent people from drunk driving.
Jaggers was charged with misusing 911 and possessing hydrocodone, which may explain the outlandish behavior.


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Deccan Herald, Delhi, Tuesday 3rd December 2013
Flower colour in some parts of the world, including the Himalayas, has evolved to attract bees as pollinators, research has shown for the first time.
In a study published in the Journal of Ecology, biologists from Monash University and RMIT University have investigated the evolution of flower colours due to the bee's colour vision. They researched in the understudied Nepalese steep mountainous terrain, and other subtropical environments. The study also has implications for understanding the effects of climate change on plant pollination.
Associate Professor Adrian Dyer of Monash and RMIT said previous studies had shown that flower colour evolved to attract bees as pollinators in temperate environments, but the story for either subtropical or steep mountainous environments had been unknown.
"Mountainous environments provide an ideal natural experiment to understand the potential effects of changing climatic conditions on plant-pollinator interactions, since many pollinators show preferences for localised conditions, and major pollinators like honeybees do not tend to forage at high altitudes," Associate Professor Dyer said.
Dr Mani Shrestha from Monash University and his colleague Prakash Bhattrai from the Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, collected spectral data from more than 100 flowering plants in Nepal over a range of altitudes, from 900 metres to over 4000 metres.
Using computer models to examine flower colours as bees would see them, the team addressed how pollinator vision had shaped flower evolution. Then, with Associate Professor Martin Burd, of the School of Biological Sciences, they did phylogenetic analyses to identify how altitude zones affected results.
Dr Shrestha said flowers from both subtropical (900-2000m) and alpine (3000-4100m) regions showed evidence of having evolved colour spectral signatures to enhance discrimination by bee pollinators.
"The finding was a surprise as flies are thought to be the main pollinator in many mountain regions, but it appears that in the Himalayas several bee species are also active at high altitude, and these insects have been such effective pollinators that they have led to the evolution of distinctive bee-friendly colours," Dr Shrestha said.
The research could shed light on how flower colours may continue to evolve in particular environments, depending upon the availability of the most effective pollinators.
While 'bee colours' were prevalent at all elevations, flower colours in high altitude zones were more diverse and had more often undergone larger steps of evolutionary change than those at lower elevation, Associate Professor Burd said.
"Studying these patterns helps scientists understand how plant communities are assembled, and are potentially able to deal with changing conditions."
The work was assisted by a grant from the Australian Research Council.


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My blog is now a year old. This is the longest time I've ever kept a journal, and I think its been very successful. A lot has happened. I've rolled with several punches. I have grown as a human being, a lover and an artist. I have pushed not only my personal boundaries but those of society as well. I have felt pain and caused it. I have been the victim of violence, and the gainer of blessings. I have been let down and let down others. I have fallen out of love with a jerk and back into love with a more worthy man. My all time dream is within my grasp. And yet I still feel unsure sometimes, anxious. I am restless, sometimes too much. I hope the next year of this blog lets me work out the kinks in my life, and share even more.
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you visited last night. thank you and i appreciate the respect. i check out all my guests and i like you. i will continue to look in on you and you are welcome to do the same. take care.
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Sheryl Crow in Elle magazine into her New York City loft now she has two adopted sons Levi James and Wyatt now 3
"he changed my life completely. I've really put roots down with him. His happiness is my priority."
In third pictures Sheryl enjoyed a playdate with fellow celebrity/good friend Mariska Hargitay during the interview


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This is the story about Steve Sjöquist - writer, HIV activist and deacon at Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset in Stockholm. Steve was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and he was one of the first Swedish AIDS patients to get the new antiretroviral therapy in 1996. It saved his life.


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Discussion in 'DIY (Do-It-Yourself)' started by Devilsown, Dec 22, 2008.
I get it for $6.96qt and $27.15gal
for the record... Mobile 1 5-30 doesn't meeting BMW's specs... I can't recall the specific criteria/rating that it fails, but that specific weight is not recommended. the other wieghts/viscosities of Mobil 1 meet the criteria, however.... 5w-30 is just the odd man out.
If your E46 M3 is still under warranty, then the oil changes cost you nothing and you have these choices.
BMW Long-life rating LL-01 Synthetic Oils for BMW M vehicles equipped with S54, S62, S65 or S85 engines:
* Castrol TWS Motorsport SAE 10W-60 Synthetic Engine Oil
* Castrol Formula RS SAE 10W-60 Synthetic Engine Oil (BMW part number 07 51 0 009 420)
Use only oils with an API rating of SJ/CF, SK/CF or higher.
I, like you, have a few choices for my 2005 X5 4.4i until the full warranty is up in November.
The oils listed below meet BMW's Long-life rating and are acceptable for use in BMW Passenger vehicles and SAVs in the US market with gasoline engines.
BMW Long-life rating LL-01 Approved Synthetic Oils for the US Market:
* Castrol Syntec European Formula SAE 0W-30
* Mobil 1 SAE 0W-40
* Pennzoil Platinum European Formula Ultra SAE 5W-30
* Valvoline SynPower SAE 5W-30
Further, only oils with an API rating of SM or higher.
After the full warranty expires, I will have to see what the CPO warranty allows as I will be changing my own oil after Nov 2009 until Nov 2011. I am leaning toward the Amsoil engine oil products and perhaps their remote 5 and 2 micron dual by-pass filter setup and the oil analysis program.
The real savings with Amsoil is in the extended oil changes, which are up to 25,000 miles or one year. If you send your oil sample off for analysis and they say its good, you just change the filters and top it off. This is exactly what they do with jet engines and have for decades. Amsoil is specifically designed for longer life and extended change periods. No where on other oils do they say 25,000 miles or one year. That said, how many claims have you seen filed, or internet campaigns against Amsoil. Remember Slick 50? After 35 years and millions of customers, if they were shady or their products junk, it would be all over the internet.
The biggest knock I have against Amsoil is you have to buy it in advance, you can't find it in Costco, WalMart etc. It requires some actual planning to use and ensure you have on hand.
Concerning the 5 quarts of Mobil 1 for less than $20. I would be careful of what you are buying and where. There are now two levels of M1 out there. The real deal, full on synthetic, and the "consumer" formula that is only partially synthetic, but enough that they can market it as synthetic. I am not knocking M1 at all, great products and always tend to finish near the top of comparison tests. This is the same problem they had with Zymol....what you buy in Target and Kmart is not the same stuff you buy online direct. It is less expensive and has a lower level of quality ingredients.
The $20 AMsoil Preferred Customer cost is a one time annual fee. You can order as much or as often as you like for the entire year.
I use it im my Mini Cooper... well now I use 0w-30 and the E36 M3 used 10w-40
That's $3 to $1.50 more than Mobile One. I think I would stick with Mobile One. Great oil easily available at my local Wal-Mart and cheaper.
Warranty and Maintenance agreements are two different things. You can be under the BMW powertrain warranty but that does not cover maintenance. And Amsoil does not make a 10w60 weight oil which is required for the S54 engine. Nor do many Amsoils have API certifications (also required) for our engines.
BMW requires API rated oil and gives recommendations, Amsoil is not on that list. Mobile One is.
The biggest savings for me is to use a top quality API certified SM rated oil so that my engine lasts as long as possible. I would never wait 25K to change my oil, I don't care what the oil company said. The whole idea behind oil is to first, lubricate and second, suspend and then carry contaminants to the filter. I want those contaminants out of my car ASAP.
My biggest knock on Amsoil is that it is overpriced, compared to comparable weight oil and not API certified for the weight that I need.
Well it seems this thread has become a battle ground so I will say that everyone has their choices and will decide what is best for them and their car.
I did some poking around and decided that AMSOIL was the best choice for me, I used RoyalPurple and did some reading and found that the additive moly has the potential to clog oil lines, so I switched to AMSOIL, being "THE FIRST IN SYNTHETICS" IMOP is saying alot, and the stuff seems to doing the trick for me.
Ignoring the OEM's recommendations for what is best for our cars doesn't work for me. A good proven oil is cheap compared to a new engine.
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TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed higher Monday ahead of a variety of economic data that could affect the currency's performance.
The loonie rose 0.09 of a cent to 90.7 cents US.
It's a big week for economic data with traders looking to the outcome of Wednesday's U.S. Federal Reserve statement on interest rates, the latest readings on U.S. and Canadian economic growth and, at the end of the week, the American employment report for April.
They will also look to see the Chinese government's purchasing managers index for the manufacturing sector.
Elsewhere on the economic front, the Finance Department says it may soon issue a 50-year Government of Canada bond. It says that given the current low-yield environment, issuing such bonds in the ultra-long sector would contribute to a reduction in future refinancing risk. Currently the longest maturing federal bond is 30 years.
And in the U.S., the National Association of Realtors said its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index rose 3.4 per cent to 97.4 last month, the first increase since June and a sign that the housing market may pick up after a sluggish start to the year.
Markets also kept an eye on escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia.
On Monday, the U.S government imposed sanctions against seven Russian government officials and 17 companies with links to President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.
The White House says the penalties are being levied because Russia has failed to live up to commitments it agreed to under an international accord aimed at de-escalating the crisis in Ukraine.
On the commodity markets, June crude in New York gained 24 cents to US$100.84 a barrel.
July copper was unchanged at US$3.09 a pound while June gold bullion dropped $1.80 to US$1,299 an ounce.


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Smith lifts Hawks to 95-86 win over Hornets
Josh Smith scored 10 of his 23 points in the third quarter to lead the Atlanta Hawks to a 95-86 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Tuesday night.
Al Horford added 20 points, Kyle Korver 14 and Zaza Pachulia 12 for the Hawks, who spoiled the homecoming of Hornets guard Eric Gordon.
Gordon, playing in his first home game this season, scored 11 points on 5 of 17 shooting. He made his season debut in a victory over Charlotte on Saturday after spending most of the season recovering from a knee injury.
Ryan Anderson scored 23 points and Greivis Vasquez added 17 for the Hornets. Ryan Anderson scored 23 points, Greivis Vasquez 17 and Robin Lopez 10 for the Hornets, who had won two of their past three.
Vasquez, who was selected the NBA Player of the Week on Monday, record his eighth double-double of the season with 10 assists. His nine rebounds left him one short of what would have been his second triple-double of the season.
The Hornets' Anthony Davis struggled from the floor, making four of nine shots for nine points but had 12 rebounds and four blocked shots.
New Orleans also struggled from the free throw line, making 4 of 12, the .333 percentage setting a franchise low.
The Hornets had defeated the Hawks in six of the past 10 meetings and appeared to be in control early, leading 21-10 late in the first quarter and taking a 50-44 lead at intermission.
But once again the third quarter was the Hornets' undoing. With Smith taking command, Atlanta, playing its fourth game in five days. outscored New Orleans 28-14 to carve out a 72-6 lead.
Smith was 5 of 9 in the quarter for Atlanta, which closed on a 6-0 run.
New Orleans was 6 of 16 in the period and committed four turnovers. New Orleans twice cut the lead to two points in the final quarter, the last coming on Vasquez's free throw with 4:14 remaining. But Korver answered with a 3-pointer off of a Horford assist to put the Hawks up 87-82 with 3:57 left.
Horford scored four points in the final two minutes to secure the win for Atlanta, which has two days off before traveling to Detroit, the final leg of a three-game road trip.


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Erin Brockovich explains dangers of Whirlpool chemical spill to community
Whirlpool requests more time before facing city leaders at board meeting Wednesday
Several hundred community members attended a town hall meeting hosted by famed environmental investigator Erin Brockovich on Tuesday night.
Brockovich and her team talked about the dangerous and long-lasting effects of trichloroethylene, or TCE, a chemical spilled by Whirlpool that could be contaminating the area.
Brockovich and her team have spent the last two days collecting water samples from the surrounding area to be tested for elevated levels of TCE.
Just hours before the meeting, Whirlpool sent a letter to Fort Smith city leaders requesting a delay on an ordinance that would ban drilling for well water in the neighborhoods surrounding the former Whirlpool plant.
Brockovich says she is not surprised by Whirlpool's request to delay the vote.
"I hope that the members of the city will consider that very carefully," says Brockovich. "I'm not surprised. There's a lot of activity going on and a lot of concerns. There's a lot of information coming out, and a lot of employees coming forward."
Whirlpool discovered the chemical leak in 2001. Brockovich says the company has had plenty of time to address the situation.
"And you know what, too late," says Brockovich.
Brockovich and her team are conducting an ongoing investigation to determine how widespread and serious the TCE spill is.
"We're hearing more and more of brain tumors, throat cancer, Nasopharyngeal cancer," says Brockovich. "There's obviously a major concern with these rare cancers."
The Fort Smith city administrator says he was surprised by the turnout at Tuesday night's meeting.
"I think the public is very concerned," says city administrator Ray Gosack. "I was surprised to see that there are so many former employees who were concerned about their health as a result of working at the Whirlpool plant for a number of years."
The Fort Smith Board of Directors is scheduled to discuss the ordinance that would ban drilling for well water at Wednesday night's meeting.


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WASHINGTON — Some Democrats are pushing an unorthodox idea for coping with the "fiscal cliff": Let the government go over, temporarily at least, to give their party more bargaining leverage for changes later on.
The idea has plenty of skeptics, and the White House regards it frostily. But it illustrates the wide range of early negotiating positions being staked out by Republicans and Democrats as lawmakers gathered Tuesday for their first postelection talks on how to avoid the looming package of steep tax hikes and program cuts.
Just as brazen, in the eyes of many Democrats, is the GOP leaders' continued insistence on protecting tax cuts for the rich. President Barack Obama just won re-election, campaigning on a vow to end those breaks.
Democrats and Republicans appear heading toward another round of brinkmanship that will test who blinks first on questions of major importance. It's a dance that has infuriated many Americans, shaken financial markets and drawn ridicule from foreign commentators.
In late 2010, after big GOP midterm election wins, Obama backed off his pledge to raise taxes on the rich. In the summer of 2011, House Republicans pushed Congress within a hair of refusing to raise the debt ceiling, leading to the first-ever downgrade of the government's credit rating. And last December, it was the Republicans' turn to blink, yielding to Obama's demand to extend a payroll tax break.
The "fiscal cliff" deadline comes in seven weeks. One provision: Unless Congress acts, all Bush-era tax cuts would expire, raising 2013 tax bills for most Americans. Obama wants to end those tax cuts only for households making more than $250,000 a year. Republicans insist on no tax rate increases anywhere.
If the "fiscal cliff" takes effect, congressional Republicans would feel pressure to give ground in several areas to achieve their top goal: restoring tax cuts for as many people as possible. That's why Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and other Democrats have said their party's leaders should seriously consider letting the Jan. 1 deadline pass and then negotiate with Republicans under sharply different circumstances. Some or most of any new agreements could be made retroactive to Jan. 1, they say.
If Republicans refuse to let tax cuts expire for the wealthy, Murray told ABC's "This Week," "we will reach a point at the end of this year where all the tax cuts expire and we'll start over next year. And whatever we do will be a tax cut for whatever package we put together. That may be the way to get past this."
Murray's allies say voters would blame Republicans for refusing to yield, especially on tax rates, given that Obama won re-election. A recent Pew Research poll supports that view. More than half of the respondents said they would chiefly blame congressional Republicans if there's no compromise on the fiscal cliff; 29 percent would blame Obama.
It's questionable whether Obama and Congress' Democratic leaders would let the government go over the fiscal cliff. Numerous financial analysts say the event would frighten markets, alarm employers and probably trigger a new recession.
However, there's a school of thought that the cliff is actually a slope, and the economy could withstand the effects of the automatic spending cuts and the renewal of Clinton-era tax rates for at least a few weeks to give time for negotiations to continue. Liberals note that tax rate increases would be felt gradually.
"In the first paycheck of the year, people will see that their withholding is up, but it's not the like the whole amount of their tax bill for the course of the year takes place in their first paycheck. It happens gradually," said Chad Stone, an economist with the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The second part of the cliff package includes across-the-board spending cuts of $109 billion a year, split equally between military and domestic programs and known in Washington-speak as a sequester.
Some budget experts say the spending cuts would phase in gradually. Also, Social Security, Medicare and food stamps are exempt. And agency fiscal chiefs have flexibility to mitigate the effects of the sequester.
But such tools are limited. They might buy only a little time before the spending cuts begin to bite harshly, requiring agencies to furlough employees and causing delays in awarding government contracts.
Many say even talk of going over the cliff is sheer folly.
"You're going to have big financial market repercussions to this," warned economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office. "Those sorts of confidence measures you don't control — and they happen abruptly."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., showed no interest in challenging the fiscal cliff. "I want you to be disabused of any notion that there is any widespread thought that it would be a good thing, for our country, for us to go over the cliff," she told reporters Tuesday.
Some Democrats think Republicans are ready to bargain anyway.
"Republicans have a pretty good track record of not blinking," said Jim Kessler, co-founder of the centrist-Democratic group Third Way. "But they had a bright white light shine in their eyes on Election Day."
Third Way is floating a possible compromise, designed to raise $1.3 trillion in new revenue over 10 years without changing the Bush-era income tax rates. It would cap itemized tax deductions at $35,000. Charitable deductions, however, would be exempt, a nod to the powerful lobbies of universities and other charity beneficiaries.
The plan also would move upwardly mobile earners into higher tax brackets more quickly. It would reinstate the 2009 estate tax exclusion to $3.5 million, with a tax rate of 45 percent for values above that threshold. And it would raise the tax rate for capital gains and dividends by 5 percentage points, to 23.8 percent.
"Nearly all revenue from this package comes from upper income earners," Kessler said. His group would prefer to raise tax rates on the wealthiest, he said. But the compromise plan gives Republicans a break on that contentious issue.
Also embroiled in the end-of-year negotiations is the Alternative Minimum Tax, which Congress routinely adjusts to prevent big tax hikes on millions. If Congress fails to act by Dec. 31, an additional 28 million middle-income families would be hit with a large and unexpected tax increase when they file their 2012 returns next spring, the IRS says. Also, the annual AMT "patch" usually includes a rule that affects how tax credits are calculated for about 60 million taxpayers. Those taxpayers — about half of all individual filers — would have to wait until at least the end of March to file their returns while the IRS reworks its systems to account for the existing AMT patch expiring, the agency said.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama hopes for a big bipartisan compromise that will include spending cuts, revenue increases and other features to avert the fiscal cliff. Obama has made it clear, Carney said, "that he is not wedded to every aspect of his plan, and that he understands that in order to reach an agreement, everyone needs to compromise, and that compromise should not be a dirty word in Washington."
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The Happy Day at Last Has Come (Wright)
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1. The happy day at last has come.
The truth restored is now made known.
The promised angel's come again
To introduce Messiah's reign.
2. The gospel trump again is heard.
The truth from darkness has appeared.
The lands which long benighted lay
Have now beheld a glorious day:
3. The day by prophets long foretold,
The day which Abram did behold,
The day that Saints desired so long,
When God his great work would perform,
4. The day when Saints again shall hear
The voice of Jesus in their ear,
And angels, who above do reign,
Come down to speak again with men.
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We call them GIGs
They're interdiciplinary, they're international, they incorporate research
Every other Monday, behind closed doors, a group of people huddle over a platter of sandwiches in Millington Hall to discuss and refine their plans to disperse mercury throughout the College of William and Mary.
Relax. These folks want to spread mercury throughout the curriculum, not the campus environment. They're participants in a GIG, or Global Inquiry Group, a new type of program at the College that combines research, interdisciplinary collaboration and an international component. The mercury group is one of two new s-GIGs, or sustained GIGs.
"If we're successful, we will reach every student at William and Mary," said Dan Cristol, associate professor of biology. "In two years, every student here will come to the conclusion that mercury is a problem worth their thinking about and that the solution is international and requires interdisciplinary action."
Cristol and Sharon Zuber are coordinators of the mercury s-GIG. Zuber, a specialist in documentary films, teaches in the English department and the Film Studies Program and directs the Writing Resources Center. Cristol, an ornithologist, has been researching the effects of mercury in wildlife for years, including a current study of birds near particularly contaminated sections of the Shenandoah River near Waynesboro, Va. The GIG had its genesis in a number of informal connections with Zuber at the hub.
"Dan (Cristol) had worked with a student a couple of years ago who did a documentary film about an endangered parrot in Puerto Rico," Zuber recalled. "He asked if I had a student who might be interested in doing a documentary about the mercury issue up around Waynesboro. I also happened to have, living with me last year for a year, Xiong Li, a visiting scholar from Wuhan, China, and she was working with Mike Newman at VIMS in environmental science and heavy metals."
Newman is a professor of marine science at VIMS—the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. He has written the book on ecotoxicology—literally. Its title is The Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology. Newman's a guy you'd want involved in any mercury group. Meanwhile, Liz Budrionis, a neuroscience major, began working with Zuber on a video about Cristol's group studying mercury in birds in the Shenandoah. The thematic tentacles of mercury were beginning to spread.
First it was an e-GIG
The group coalesced last winter in the form of an exploratory inquiry group, or e-GIG, and rapidly expanded to include faculty and students from a number of departments and disciplines all working on mercury or interested in incorporating mercury into their work. Kelly Joyce, from sociology, and Monica Griffin, from the Sharpe Community Scholars Program, got involved early. So did Kris Lane, an associate professor of history who has done considerable work on small-scale gold mining throughout South America, operations that often leave a legacy of mercury pollution from the extraction process.
Other faculty members saw the potential to incorporate mercury into their own work. Elizabeth Mead, an assistant professor in art and art history, began attending the early e-GIG meetings and is now arranging for a Muscarelle Museum exhibition of some of the "Minimata" works of W. Eugene Smith. Smith's photo essays of people suffering from the effects of mercury poisoning around Minimata, Japan, helped to bring international attention to the dangers of industrial mercury pollution.
"When we got together, we realized that half a dozen faculty or more here are already working on some aspect of mercury," Cristol said. "Already, mercury is planted all over campus—conceptually! So what we're going to do with the s-GIG is to put it into the curriculum through three different means."
He said s-GIG members expect to develop eight new courses incorporating mercury, either as a case study or in a thematic sense. Mead is developing one such mercury-themed class, Heavy Metal and the Delta Blues: Sculpture and the Global Environment. Students in the course will create original works in response to two case studies—one involving mercury pollution and the second on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"It is a way for students to begin to understand that there are things that art can communicate that can't be communicated in any other way," Mead explained. "Of course I have nothing against formalist approaches that value 'art for art's sake,' but as artists we can also use our distinctive ways of looking and seeing to position ourselves as artists within the world and the challenges facing the world."
The second strategy for getting mercury into the curriculum, Cristol said, is for members of the s-GIG to incorporate a mercury element into existing classes, using it as a case study. "I teach introductory biology, and we always spend a week or two talking about cycles of a pollutant through the globe," he said. "That pollutant can be mercury now. I need a fresh example anyway, so all the students taking freshman biology now will spend a week or two studying how mercury moves around the globe instead of how, say, nitrogen moves around the globe."
Cristol says the third way will probably reach the most people. You might call it mercury evangelism.
"We're going to offer small stipends to faculty to attend a two week seminar, probably in the summer, to work with a member of the s-GIG to work up an example using mercury for their class," he explained. "Without this little incentive, they're probably not going to go out and learn a whole new field just to get a new example. They're probably going to use their old example. We want to encourage them to work with one of us to add a case study to their class involving mercury."
'Almost sinful'
As members of the s-GIG work to incorporate mercury into various aspects of research and scholarship, Newman, the VIMS ecotoxicologist, is adding an international element to his Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology course, a refinement that is "so easy, it's almost sinful," he said.
He is working out the details of an exchange program with Xiong Li, the Chinese scientist who roomed with Sharon Zuber. Xiong has since returned to her university in Wuhan and has been teaching a class in ecotoxicology, using not only Newman's textbook but also the Blackboard materials and PowerPoints.
"We're going to be teaching parallel courses in both places so we'll have a common background when we do the exchange," Newman explained.
The two ecotoxicology groups will have opportunities to get together twice. In February, as the plans currently stand, Xiong Li will bring a group of Chinese students to William and Mary. In June, Newman and Zuber will journey to China with a number of students, a reciprocal and mutually beneficial exchange.
"We'll be able to develop the same background in the same context for these students and we'll be able to do a dialogue of compare-and-contrast, which should be wonderful," Newman said. "China is the United States after the Second World War as far as the economic boom is concerned. So it's going to be fascinating for them to see what the U.S. is doing and visa versa.
"Mercury is something that people envision right now as localized. That just simply is not true," he said. "Mercury because of its release with burning fossil fuels—especially coal—is dispersed very, very widely. It no longer is something where you can point to a pipe and say there's where the mercury is coming from. You look all around you and whether or not you're standing in China or Williamsburg, Virginia, it's all the same global process. I would say that a good portion of it comes from China, but you can't point the finger with no shame at all at China and say, it came from you, because I could get up from my desk right now and look out my window and there's a coal-fired plant."


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I read this article in the new ReadWrite.com (nice relaunch btw) and it resonated with me. Long on details, this article is an interesting chronicle of a project that has been a darling of the technorati from the day it was launched, in 2005, by tech-celebrity Nicholas Negroponte. One Laptop Per Child positions itself at the intersection of powerful emotions for the tech industry, it is focused on education and more specifically to children in under-developed parts of the world, and it is based on open source principles organized through a non-profit entity. It's the trifecta of geek passions: education, open source, and non-profit.
Watching this unfold over the years I could not help but be a supporter, but the pragmatist in me prevented me from being a contributor. The reason is simple, in an unexpected way OLPC approaches "computers for kids" in a depressing egalitarian manner, which is that they should have that which is cheap and uninteresting… a OLPC computer looks cool but features a small display, limited capabilities, and software that is uninspired, in other words it is antithetical to the broader approach that the technology industry itself approaches to the world at large.
OLPC put a premium on cheap while discounting the value of compelling content. More damning is the fact that the actual OLPC product never met the original price target that Negroponte established in his founding vision. Let's face it, you can get a lot of computer for $200 at volume, the new Intel Classmate Tablet has a per unit retail of $200 and features more exciting hardware, software, and a distribution network to boot.
This is the fundamental flaw in the OLPC effort, they failed to anticipate the progression of hardware and software outside of the open source model, and as a result their cost/benefit advantage never materialized. Furthermore, as tangental technologies like wireless devices (smartphones, whatever) have overtaken the desktop metaphor in developed and developing countries it is a failed strategy from the starting gate to give students last generation technology. The world did not stand still while OLPC developed an inflexible platform.
At the same time, more powerful (if less rugged) hardware using standard software has come down in price and will challenge the XO in wealthier markets. Perhaps more significant, as low-cost smartphones flood the developing world, the XO will have to justify itself as more than a media consumption device. It's highly unlikely that we'll see many more large-scale installations.
Lastly, let's arc up and have a conversation about the role of technology in education. Giving computers to kids and having an expectation that everything will work out is no strategy, nor is the approach that loading up classrooms with computers while retaining the same structured education model. Technology untethers the classroom from the building and that requires a different education approach than we are taking today.
(Cross-posted @ Venture Chronicles)
(Cross-posted @ Venture Chronicles)


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Choreographer Trey McIntyre brings community and artistic inspiration from Boise to Miami
Six years ago, ballet choreographer Trey McIntyre broke one of the cardinal rules of success in the concert dance world. As the recession rolled in, he abandoned the cultural capital of San Francisco and a successful career as a freelance choreographer for major companies like New York City Ballet to move his fledgling company to Boise, Idaho, the kind of small Western city that artistic arbiters on the coasts tend to scoff at as provincial and uninterested in art.
"When I first came here they said you'll disappear off the dance map," McIntyre says from a Chicago stop on the tour that will bring the Trey McIntyre Project to the South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center on Saturday. "The opposite was true — we got a lot of attention. It just requires more creativity."
Boise named TMP cultural ambassadors. Local businesses donated everything from free medical care to free cookies, and sponsored dancers with 35 weeks of pay and health insurance — a luxurious existence in the dance world. Locals treated them like hometown rock stars; a sold-out run at the city's 2,000-seat performing arts center sparked a brisk ticket scalping business. Boise proved a secure base for frequent and successful tours, including to major U.S. venues like the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and abroad to Asia, Europe and Latin America.
McIntyre's troupe embraced the community in return, performing at local basketball games, on the street, in a children's hospital. Their weeklong Miami visit is packed with community outreach activities, including a free school performance and dance workshops for seniors; professional dancers; and elementary, middle school and students at Miami-Dade College, whose MDC Live program is co-presenting the performance. One of the 10 dancers, Elizabeth Keller, is a former member of Miami City Ballet, for whom McIntyre choreographed The Reassuring Effects of Form and Poetry in 2004.
McIntyre, who grew up in Wichita, Kan., found that the more relaxed pace, sense of community and relative isolation of Boise bolstered his creativity.
"Being surrounded by other artists and companies is more of a challenge than being away," he says. "As a choreographer when you watch someone else's work, especially if you respond to it … that's the culprit for how a lot of work gets to look the same. I'm appreciative of being cut off that way. There are so many other things to be inspired by."
He finds as many layers of inspiration in pop music and culture as he does in classical composers and abstract concepts. In Miami, the company will perform Mercury Half-Life, set to music by the rock group Queen, and The Vinegar Works: Four Dances of Moral Instruction, inspired by the work of illustrator and writer Edward Gorey.
McIntyre accords a surprising amount of respect to Queen, now best known for sports stadium anthems like We Will Rock You and its flamboyant, gay lead singer Freddie Mercury.
"It's such fanciful peacock operatic scale music, that's so much fun but with such an incredibly wide range of exploration," McIntyre says. He finds an additional challenge in not resorting to the obvious by illustrating the lyrics, or synchronizing directly with the simple rhythms and structures. "With a symphony one can be lazier; there's a detailed road map and you can just illustrate the music and make an interesting piece," he says. "The challenge of pop music is there's a lot more work to be done."
For Half-Life he focused on the emotional power that pop songs derive from being soundtracks to many people's lives — whether a romantic meeting or a transformative adolescence — and the way in which pop anthems like Queen's move people to sing and move along. "Iconic songs can move a stadium to stomp their feet, but a theater too — audiences can't wait to participate in the music," he says. "What does that mean, and why do we need that as a culture?"
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The Gorey piece was a different kind of challenge — to capture the illustrator's precarious blend of grotesque humor, and to do so with a narrative, theatrical style that was new to McIntyre. Vinegar Works, which was premiered in Berkley, Calif., in March, features some wild costumes and characters for its four segments, with puppets, masked dancers on stilts and a dancer as a bouncing, balloon-shaped baby.
"He did a beautiful job balancing the adorable and horrific," says McIntyre, who worked closely with the Gorey estate. "He holds our hands through our own fears; shadows our own demons." Another section is based on the Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabetical account of children's deaths. "Gorey makes it OK to accept these parts of ourselves, our own morbid, aggressive selves," McIntyre says. "Not to make fun of it but to dive into and accept it."
Despite the success McIntyre has found in his Western outpost, he is disbanding the troupe — this is its last tour. He and his partner, who was also the TMP's executive director, are splitting, and McIntyre says he wants to focus on new creative endeavors in photography and filmmaking.
"It's really time," he says. "There's so many things I want to accomplish as an artist … and what a great thing to put this on the shelf while I feel really good about it from beginning to end."
But he still plans to stay in Boise. And he hopes that other dance artists struggling with skyrocketing living costs and dwindling support in cities like New York and San Francisco will make a similar leap.
"Artists are still fearful," he says. "I think we need new creative thought leaders … to be more radical, immediate and brave.
"Circumstances stink. At the same time there's a great opportunity to be part of our world, which is global. Organize, move to an area as a group, pick a new place."


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A Calendar of Events letting you know what, where and when is happening throughout the Chopin Year:
- Events: concerts, exhibitions, shows and many others
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On March, 2011, at 2.00 pm. second this year Chopin concert organized by the European Fryderyk Chopin Artistic Centre took place in Sanniki.
In the Concert Hall of the Balys Dvarionas School of Music in Vilnius gala closing of the celebrations of the Chopin Year in Lithuania took place on March 14.
In September 2011, the Oberursel City in western Germany will have the Fryderyk Chopin Square. On March 1, the news was announced by Mr. Hans Georg Brum, the mayor of the city, at a gala concert dedicated to the composer.
Aleksandra Kurzak will perform songs by eight Polish composers, including Fryderyk Chopin, on the stage of the famous opera Teatro alla Scala in Milan on February 21.
On February 27 and 28, the Teatr Wielki hosted a cycle of cultural events officially closing the Jubilee Year.
On Monday, February 28, at 12.00, in the Teatr Wielki, press conference took place to summarize the events celebrating the Chopin Year in Poland and abroad.
On March 1, at the 201st anniversary of the Composer's birth, the gala concert took place in the Warsaw Philharmonic closing the celebrations of the jubilee year in Poland.
On February 24, in Petersburg, the gala ceremony concluding the celebration of the Chopin Year in the north-western Russia took place.
On Sunday, February 20, in the House of Birth of Fryderyk Chopin the gala ceremony of unveiling the composer's monument took place.
Andrzej Jagodziński Trio received the Gold Record (pl. Złota Płyta) for the jazz recording of "Sonata in B-flat minor" by Fryderyk Chopin.