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A review of Australia, the first major survey of Australian art in the UK for 50 years.
(This article was originally published in the Melbourne Review and the Adelaide Review)
Having spent the past year in the UK, it was strange experiencing Australia in London. Maybe it was just the drizzle outside but Tom Roberts' Breakaway seemed a little hotter, a little dustier. Fred Williams seemed a little more impressive and Sidney Nolan, a little less. Most of all I was struck by three questions that time and distance had made impossible to ignore: Why is Australian art still divided by race; why does Australian art seem obsessed with landscape; and why are we still exporting these questions to London?
Beyond the obvious arguments against the tradition of sending off our cultural report card for assessment at the Royal Academy when we could just as easily send it to Beijing and achieve something new, Australia the exhibition offers the opportunity to see ourselves in summary, as others would like to see us.
"I wanted the visitor to be placed right in the centre of Australia, to get that sense of texture and depth, to get that feeling of that long, endless straight road" says Kathleen Soriano, director of exhibitions at the Royal Academy of London. In this way the exhibition Australia employs 200 artworks to reinforce the cliché that Australia is essentially a landscape, full of mystery and adventure.
Most Australians go weeks, months, even years, without contemplating the Australian bush because we live in cities. When we do confront Australia's centre with any honesty, we encounter a severity that outstrips the sentiments of most art. Those endless straight roads are more often a test of endurance than a theatre of romance.
But don't let that distract you from the tired myth of spiritual redemption waiting just over the shimmering horizon. After all, the history of Australian art is built upon that myth, upon Britain's appetite for believing it and upon our own willingness to dish it up.
Shaun Gladwell knows how it's done. His film showing a Christ-like motorcyclist hurtling through the outback makes an appropriate introduction to the exhibition. Following this is a room filled with enormous paintings by indigenous artists, all created in the contemporary era but immune to contemporary critique. The reason for this is spelled out in the wall text that speaks of "spiritual resources" that are "often imperceptible to foreign eyes". After that the exhibition unfolds in chronological order from settlement to the present day.
British press coverage of the exhibition has been full of confessions of ignorance towards the big names in Australian contemporary art but it's hard to blame them. Without the media spectacle of the Turner Prize, Australian contemporary art has no trick to disguise its subjugation to mass culture and no mechanism for propelling Australian artists to the status of celebrity. Patricia Piccinini's comes close but you only have to see a flying boob whale once to wonder whether we really need celebrity artists the way that Britain seems to.
Rather than attack the Royal Academy's landscape fixation, Australian critics have lined up to take the bait from British hacks like Waldemar Januszczak of the Sunday Times who treated the exhibition with the kind of lazy ridicule reserved for topics of little consequence. John Olsen's painting earned the delicate phrase "a cascade of diarrhea" which seems fair, even if Januszczak is just trolling for a reaction. When inflated turkeys like Olsen get shot down by foreign critics it's doubly embarrassing because we're the ones who have let Olsen fly around for decades in a haze of uncritical praise.
The same goes for the exhibition's contingent of indigenous art, which Januszczak dismissed with a similar degree of sensitivity. While Rachel Campbell-Johnston of The Times saw nothing problematic in describing this racially defined category of art as somehow possessing its own 'magic', Januszczak seemed less willing to surrender his critical faculties, focusing on the work's canny commercialism.
What Januszczak easily recognises, whether we admit it or not, is that the category of aboriginal art has become an industry that permits non-aboriginal people to indulge in the belief that 40,000 years of connection to the land can somehow be repaired and purchased in a canvas that's hung on a wall. If that's 'magic' it's a spell for atonement.
Perhaps this is the motivation behind Australian art's apparent obsession with the land; a hunger for redemption that's as satiable as our cultural affiliation to Britain is temporary? As Australian art orientates itself away from Europe and towards Asia we might expect British institutions like the Royal Academy to cling to the old narratives that tacitly support their own role as narrator but we need not listen.
For a little perspective, the Royal Academy is the same institution that in 2011 appointed Tracey Emin its professor of drawing. Would we respect an orchestra that appointed Miley Cyrus its conductor? If that isn't a fair analogy, allow me to soothe the insult by adding that the catalogue to Australia features a touching foreword by the Prince of Wales, presumably an authority on Australian art.
Beyond the central conflict between a love for what Australia is and a remorse for what it took to create, anyone visiting this exhibition might have trouble discovering anything new. Survey exhibitions generally aren't supposed to point the way forward and, considering its context, this one would be particularly ill equipped. Considering that Australia is more a work in progress than most nations, I was mostly left wondering whether art will follow change or will change be made to follow art.
Australia shows at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, until December 8.
Shaun Gladwell, Approach to Mundi Mundi, 2007. Production still from two-channel HD video.
Shaun Gladwell, Approach to Mundi Mundi, 2007. Production still from two-channel HD video.


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"30 RocK" star Alec Baldwin, who has never made a secret of his left leanings and political ambitions, is considering a run for New York City mayor in 2013.
Baldwin told NBC New York he might make the run in light of the fact that Rep. Anthony Weiner, once considered a favorite to follow Mayor Bloomberg, has been caught in a sexting scandal. The online newspaper The Daily had first reported the possibility.
A spokesman for the "30 Rock" funnyman told NBC New York on Wednesday: "I wouldn't rule it out."
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The actor himself then tweeted "It's a long way till November of 2013."
One thing Baldwin might want to do before deciding is register to vote in New York City. The Board of Elections tells NBC New York that the office has no record of him on file.
Baldwin has said for many years that he would like to work in government, and has been floated as a possible candidate for various offices.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in March, Baldwin said that when his hit show is over, "I want to do something completely different anyway. Find myself into a situation where I could direct funding."
Asked whether that means working in government, he said "Maybe. At least find a way to help people figure out where the money should go. How uncreative these bastards [in government] can be down there."
That same article was devoted to detailing Baldwin's increased philanthropy this year, including $1 million to the New York Philharmonic and $500,000 to the Roundabout Theatre Company.
He also told the Journal that proceeds from his series of Capital One ads will go toward cultural charities.
His giving doesn't bring him up to the level of the billionaire mayor, Baldwin said.
"I'm not Bloomberg or the Koch family or Ronald Perelman," he said. "I'm not in that league, but I'm hoping this dialogue will bring more attention to arts coverage."

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[ADOBE DEVELOPER CONNECTION] Hello, I'm Tom Krcha. I'm one of the members of Platform Evangelism team. Today, I'm going to show you how you can actually build your own multicasting application. What does it mean? Multicast is the new feature of Flash Player 10.1 and what it actually does is that it enables you to stream over peer-to-peer network, so you can save a lot of money using it. What you have to do is then you have to go to Stratus page and sign up for a Labs beta developer key for Stratus. Once you get it--I've already got it here-- you can go to Flash Builder and actually prepare your application. The thing is that it can look whatever you want, but it should include some video and this is like our views, we're going to work with a camera and video, so just include there some video. You can do it like this. So the next thing you actually have to do is pass this developer key here. Okay, now we are ready to go. So we begin with connecting to the Stratus service, so again, function called connect, and we just create a NetConnection of the type NetConnection. And also, we create stream, which is going to be NetStream type. So one of the applications is going to be broadcaster and the other application is going to be the receiver, so from one application, you will be able to broadcast to the group of participants. So we initialize netConnection = new NetConnection (); We also addEventListener of (NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, and we call it netStatus); We create the function handler here private function netStatus(event:NetStatusEvent):void{ and it's going to catch the NetStatusEvent--like that. So once we are here, we can also write this status through field we have already prepared, so writeText(event.info.code); --like that. And finally, we connect to the server, so we just write netConnection.connect( and we include the SERVER+DEVKEY); When we are successfully connected to the server, which we find out here-- switch(event.info.code){ so in case "NetConnection.Connect.Success": we can set up the stream-- setupStream(); So again, what we have to do here is we have to do 2 things. One of them is setting up group specifier, which is an instance and which is actually class, defining what is going to happen in the group, and the second one we have to do is netStream, where we're actually broadcast the stream itself. So we create function setupStream():void{ and as I mentioned, we do this groupspec: instance of group specifier-- yeah, we don't have it here, so what we have to do now is that we go to Multicast--Properties, and Flex Compiler, and to Use a specific version because we are not compiling the application for 10.0, but for 10.1, which is the new player and has the possibility of multicasting. So once the Flex Compiler gets updated, we just--you can already see we have GroupSpecifier here, we create a new instance of it-- GroupSpecifier = new GroupSpecifier( we name it, for instance, like "myGroup/ let's say /multicastOne"); and we also define 2 other things-- so serverChannelEnabled is something which is pretty essential for this, and also multicastEnabled, which enables the multicast or the NetGroup. Then we have to create--we have to use this stream variable, so we create new NetStream and we pass (netConnection, as a first parameter and the second parameter is going to be actually the id of the group, so groupspec.groupspecWIthAuthorizations()); The difference between WithAuthorizations and WithoutAuthorizations is just a matter of the policy of the security you have inside a group. You don't have to care about this to make it work, but maybe in the future it might be very, very useful for you. stream.addEventListener so we can actually see what's going on there and we pass NetStatusEvent: NET_STATUS, netSTATUS); So what we have to do now is we have to initialize the camera object, and once you have this camera object ready, we can show the video which we are actually broadcasting in this broadcast application. And then, we attach this camera to the netStream itself, and then we just publish it. So we create var cam:Camera = Camera.getCamera(); and we don't have to pass anything here, and we also--we only do one thing, which is stream.attachCamera(cam); and also stream.publish and we call it, for instance, "multicast"); --it doesn't matter what you call it, it's just up to you. We're not going to include microphone, even if we can. It's up to you how you just provide all the data for the stream. So the next thing we also have to do here is attach the camera to the video object so we can actually see if everything works-- video.attachCamera(cam); So now we have the broadcast ready. What we have to do now is to actually create receiver for this stream which we are broadcasting to the NetGroup. So what I'm going to do is go to File--New--XML application and create an application called Receiver, which is going to be totally the same as the broadcaster, only with one little change. So just copy and paste the whole code, and we get this camera off, we change publish to play, and we also get this attached camera off, and we actually attach NetStream instead of attaching camera to the video object. And that's the whole change you have to do to have the application for receiving the stream. So now what we can do is launch the broadcaster and see if it works. So now it's connecting, and we can see that the broadcaster is actually sending the stream to the receiver. So that's pretty much it. If you want, you can follow my blog on flashrealtime.com or follow me on twitter at com/tomkrcha. Thank you very much. [ADOBE DEVELOPER CONNECTION]
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Critical Shortages in Treatment for Mentally Ill
WSJ reporter Gary Fields discusses his series about the shortage of treatment for the mentally ill and its impact on families, communities and the criminal justice system.
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... I ... I'd Jerry Sithe ... joins in my colleague Gary heels ... Gary's been doing extraordinary work this year on the connection between an enormous violence in this country Gary thanks for things to talk about ... um ... we first did you get into this and see what drew you into the connection between then wellness and violence in America ... well what started it was you know that the thing that everybody was following where she was which was the the shooting in Newtown ... you know which kind of look at you know what the pilots is because there with implications that the shooter him at some level ... of mental illness mental health issues ... now ironically ... to this that that that's not been confirmed its equity whether or not the only rose by a chorus gets sick or anything like that ... so that that's what started it and then you know it's the one with the backdrop in our or Colorado had happened that we can't say that the shooting in Tucson ... and they always seem to be a foundation of mental health questions ... so we started looking at that and then ... but a water taxi do something different said you know are we in offshore changing ourselves of that forward building ... it simply looking at you know kind of an issue in the islands from their perspective or is there something bigger here ... that these things all tell us about your mental health of how we're providing treatment and what level we'll see ... where it is I think this bit sensitive you all these is gun issues in your what you're saying is they're done issues but they're more complex because there's another layer here because of no health issue this kind of gone ... less discussed in the country ... so um I think you know when you started actually you know diving into it going okay so where are we ... with mental health and mental health treatment you know what we're talking about these people were involved in these things ... what kind of treatment with the getting up in it the one giving it why not with their some barriers to you know be able to get treatment within various family members ... you know when you started dating rumblings particular dance dance and then you start looking at that the wider euro for some of the wealth of metal illness you start realizing ... that you get a hold on to barriers to the tune of ... ppl a try and overcome that families have to overcome ... you know that that that people seeking treatment after ... he or she is sharp a picture of the violence crisis this overlay by animal health crisis in America I'm wondering if you went down that path what surprised you the most what he learned he didn't expect so ... well there were a couple things that that that really leapt out at me because the first thing was ... as I was walking down the path looking at you know where is the intersection of the surreal lesson in crime ... I had stored our perception that to him ... whole lot of mentally ill people going to be committing the crimes what started Discover's ... it's quite the opposite that ... much more likely to end up as a victims of crime to end up homeless in these kind of things ... the second thing that that that just blew me away you is ... the size of the universe if you're talking about twenty five percent of the population of the United States in a given year is gonna have a medical issue of mental health crisis ... talk about seventy five to eighty million people ... if that were in the other medical problem if if they were the food that would be considered a pandemic would be top of hot songs in and see the CN everybody else to be flying out ... but when you talk about mental health mental illness ... it doesn't ... quite brings the same level of attention so what stunned me was a size of the universe because when we finished with that ... everybody ... you talk to it either is dealing with milk will most probably know someone ... this was her praises to your ... latest effort to Syria which looks at the fact that in in against that backdrop for such a shortage of mental illness ... capacity for treating them losses in this country right now ... it's rather surprising to me too because ... it's hard enough that's a good keen to get past the stigma of of seeking help for of mental health crisis ... but then you get to these areas were and say ok I've decided I'm going for Dr and I wanna sit down with someone ... and then you go knock on the door and there's nobody home ... and then ... you know there are places in the relatively close proximity to to to Washington D C which would be a surprise ... where people can go weeks and months and waiting for appointments of those kind of things ... and then ... even in the last places attacks that have the doctors have the kind of public health care providers that they believe what they're running into is ... you know things have been so complicated regulations and withdrawing all the people warm ... lot of these doctors are starting to opt out of to take an economy insurance so it leaves it on you or me you know as the creation of the family member to go and ... you pay upfront and then you know we can rustle up insurance company Gottex to get the money back ... and sat out the bullet and ... look to the couple's issues ... the going rate around here for instance three hundred dollars a session ... okay well insurance companies will ... generally pay probably seventy percent of what they call a reasonable fee ... but the reasonable see that many of the insurance company said Iran has about a hundred and sixty dollars ... so ... that's uh hundred and twelve dollars ... if the going rates three hundred ... well we do lead efforts to ... make a difference in final thought here ... one of the same thing people don't recognize the new health law is to make this problem of shortage worse because it's going to pull more people ... into this is ... yet what the what it's supposed to be going in the unit and its admirable is it in ... the car has been ... more people ... who have been just avoiding treatment altogether what it will now be open to that ... but ... if you deal with shortages ... and people already struggling taxi find people who will actually take them and take insurance where all these new people going to go ... guess we'll find out and many of the best way Gary thanks to take some time to ...


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The sights from Jenna's breathtaking ride on the London Eye reminded her of the stories of her childhood. She would look forward to tales of a city her mother once called home. Mysterious towers, royalty and sprawling courts … she grew older, but these stories still retained their splendor. Jenna knew that one day she would experience London in person. With the help of Make-A-Wish and Monograms, she did.
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President Obama and Mitt Romney traded sharp jabs on healthcare in the first presidential debate Wednesday night, with each attacking the other's plans on health reform and Medicare.
The first mention of the night for healthcare came in the first half-hour, when Romney said he'd cut "Obamacare" because it wasn't worth the cost. After Romney apologized for using the term Obamacare, the president said, "I like it."
The former Massachusetts governor, unlike his earlier reticence on the subject, didn't shy away from his work to achieve universal coverage in his state. Instead, he said that work wasn't meant to serve as a model for the entire country, although it did seem to do that for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
"What we did in Massachusetts is a model for the nation state by state," Romney said in the debate at the University of Denver. "I said that at that time."
Obama tried to point out Romney's lack of details on how he would reform healthcare if he repeals the ACA, as he says he would do his first day in office. Obama said Romney has yet to detail exactly what he'd replace the ACA with, and that several of the idea that Romney has outlined, such as coverage of pre-existing conditions, are included in the ACA.
Romney, when asked directly by moderator Jim Lehrer what he plan was for healthcare, said his plan would include making health insurance a free-market system.
"The right answer is not to have the federal government take over healthcare and start mandating to the providers across America telling a patient and a doctor what treatment they can have," Romney said. "The private market and individual responsibility always work best."
Obama championed popular provisions of the ACA, including the coverage of pre-existing conditions, allowing young adults to stay on their parents' plans up to age 26, and removal of lifetime coverage limits.
Romney continued to press Obama on $716 billion in Medicare cuts under the ACA, saying those costs will cause providers to drop out of the program. "Some 15% of hospitals and nursing homes say they won't take any more Medicare patients under that scenario," Romney said. "We also have 50% of doctors who say they won't take any more Medicare patients."
Obama, as he's tried to do in the past, tried to explain those cuts went to reduced payments to hospitals and providers -- payments reductions those groups agreed to.
To counter, Obama hammered Romney's plan to transform Medicare into a voucher system whereby seniors would receive a "premium support" payment allowing them to purchase either traditional fee-for-service Medicare or a private plan.
"The problem is, because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with healthcare inflation, it was estimated that this would cost seniors about $6,000 a year," Obama said.
Keeping traditional Medicare would collapse the system as the private insurers target and enroll the healthier patients, leaving the sicker patients in traditional coverage and driving up its costs, he said.
Romney responded, "Let's see if we can't get competition into the Medicare world so that people can get their choice of different plans at lower costs, better quality. I believe in competition."
For Medicaid, Romney said he would fund the states at what they're receiving now plus inflation and 1% and allow them to decide how to treat their patients.
As a former governor, he believed states could "care for our own people so much better than the federal government," Romney said.
Obama didn't immediately respond to Romney's thoughts on Medicaid.
Romney and Obama weren't the only Presidential candidates responding to the debate questions. In an event sponsored by the radio and television program "Democracy Now," Green Party candidate Jill Stein, MD, and Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson also gave responses.
Anderson noted that the U.S. is "the only country in the industrialized world that relies on for-profit insurance companies to provide healthcare for our citizens." In addition, "we're paying twice as much per capita [for healthcare] as the rest of the industrialized world, and getting the worst medical outcomes."
Stein noted that both Obama and Romney "are aiming for the same targets ... they want Medicare to be reduced to 3.2% of the Gross Domestic Product."
Neither Anderson nor Stein are fans of the ACA. Stein noted that she lives in Massachusetts, where "We've seen the Affordable Care Act in the flesh, and it's neither affordable nor caring ... it provides stripped-down plans which are fairly expensive."
Anderson said that the answer to the healthcare cost dilemma is "Medicare for everybody; make it a single-payer system. ... Let's get private insurers out of the way."
Wednesday was the first of three presidential debates, with this one focusing entirely on domestic policy.
The next presidential debate is a town hall-style forum Oct. 16 in Hempstead, N.H. The vice presidential debate is set for Oct. 11 in Danville, Ky.


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Helene Neuhaus of the Central Connecticut swimming and diving team raced a time of 1:03.97 in the 100 meter backstroke at the Connecticut Senior Open at Wesleyan University this weekend. She followed Friday's performance with a time of 1:03.34 in the 100 backstroke leg of the 400 medley relay on Saturday, qualifying for the US Open in Irvine, CA July 30-August 3 and breaking the Estonian national record.
Neuhaus, who will be one of three to captain the 2013-14 CCSU squad as a senior, placed first on Friday evening, outswimming her nearest competitor by over two seconds. Her impressive time not only surpassed the US Open qualifying standard of 1:03.99, it would also have been fast enough to qualify her for the 2012 Olympic Team Trials.
On Saturday, Neuhaus opened the 400 medley relay with a time of 1:03.34 in the 100 backstroke portion of the race, breaking the Estonian national record in the event. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Estonia, Neuhaus intends to try out for the 2016 Estonian Olympic team.
Neuhaus currently holds the Central Connecticut record in the event with her time of 55.86, which she set at the Northeast Conference Championships this past season. She boasted times of less than one minute five times in the 100 backstroke during the 2012-13 season.
The US Open competition in Irvine, CA will kick off July 30, with the 100 backstroke event slated for day four of competition, Friday, August 2.


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Housing Cuts for the Poor, Tax Cuts for the
President Bush's 2007 budget that was released last month includes significant cuts in housing assistance. The new budget for the Housing Choice Voucher Program underfunds 70 percent of the state and municipal housing agencies that oversee the program, according to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Although the Republican Congress has debated the cuts affecting the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), it appears unlikely that Mr. Bush's cuts will be opposed. Ironically, Congress is also considering yet another tax cut for the wealthy.
The voucher program is the country's largest low-income housing program. It provides poor households with vouchers they can use to rent housing in the private sector. Since 2004 voucher assistance for over 100,000 families have been cut because HUD doesn't allocate the vouchers based on current needs. Mr. Bush's 2007 budget relies on the same funding formula that has caused the shortages in the past few years.
Under the administration's formula, every housing agency's funding level is based on the dollar amount it was eligible to receive the previous year. The level is adjusted by an inflation factor determined by HUD based on data that is two-years old. But this formula doesn't consider the actual number of vouchers the agency distributed the previous year or changes in local voucher costs. As a result, many agencies are left with inadequate funds to continue all of the vouchers currently being used.
In reality, HUD's voucher assistance program has never been fully funded. Since the formula was first adopted in 2005, the Bush administration has failed to request enough funding to give agencies the total amounts they are eligible for under the formula. Consequently, HUD was forced to impose funding cuts on housing agencies in 2005 and 2006 that were well below the formula amount. The new budget continues this pattern, requiring even larger cuts next year, which will force agencies that are already strapped to reduce vouchers even more.
Mr. Bush's budget for 2007 also cuts tenant protection vouchers by $30 million. These vouchers replace other types of federal housing assistance that are eliminated, such as public-housing units in New Orleans that have been demolished. As a result of all the cuts, state and municipal agencies won't be able to fund more than 40 percent of their authorized vouchers next year. In the nation's capital, for example, the local housing authority is helping 610 fewer families this year than last, and it will have to eliminate assistance to 145 more families next year.
Although the federal government began to address homelessness under President Johnson in the 1960s, the problem remains real and pervasive. According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the annual homeless population is approximately 3.5 million people, or 1.3 percent of the U.S. population. And 40 percent of the homeless population is comprised of families with children. In fact, 39 percent of the homeless are children, almost half of who are under the age of five. In 2004, the demand for housing by the homeless increased by 14 percent.
Ironically, at the same time that the Republican Congress is debating these housing cuts for the poor, it's considering a tax cut for the wealthy. Presently, only individuals who earn less than $100,000 a year can convert their tax-deductible I.R.A. into the newer Roth I.R.A. The Roth is much better than the traditional I.R.A., because no taxes are paid when money is withdrawn. In effect, these tax-free withdrawals are a government handout.
The current tax code doesn't allow those earning over $100,000 to convert their original I.R.A. into the Roth version. That's as it should be. The wealthy already enjoy numerous tax cuts and subsidies. But the Republican Congress is considering amending the law to allow those earning more than $100,000 to enjoy the tax-free benefits of the Roth I.R.A. Yet Congress is not willing to oppose President Bush's housing assistance cuts.
Given the number of those left homeless in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, the housing voucher cuts are particularly offensive. Mr. Bush should fully fund HUD, such that it can meet at least the current voucher needs. Failing that, Congress should take it upon itself to do so. It's the least it can do, especially if more tax cuts are going to be given to the wealthy.
Gene C. Gerard has taught history, religion, and ethics for 14 years at several colleges in the Southwest, and is a contributing author to the forthcoming book Americans at War, by Greenwood Press. He writes a blog for the world news web site OrbStandard at: www.orbstandard.com/GGerard.
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I don't think this modification would fundamentally break any mechanic that the component relies upon
Query Syntax HelpConventions in this DocumentQueries are written in italics.Example: %rating% GREATER 3Query examples may contain placeholders which are enclosed in angle brackets. Their name indicates what they need to be replaced within a real query. If multiple placeholders of the same type occur in the same query example, a number will be appended to the name.Example: <field> GREATER <number>The following common types of placeholders are used in the rest of this document: <field> A reference to a tag field. This can be either a plain field name or a title formatting expression. See Notes for details. <number> An integer value. <string> A text value that may be enclosed in double quotation marks. See Notes for details. <time> A time value or a title formatting expression that evaluates to a time value. See Time Expressions for details. <expression> A query expression in a composed query. This has to follow the rules described under Advanced Search below.Simple SearchThe simple search mode does not use any keywords. <any string> Returns only items that have all words from specified string in their metadata or file path.When using the simple search, any latin characters are matched regardless of their accents, e.g. "foo" will match "foo" as well as "föö" or "fóo".Advanced SearchThe advanced search allows the construction of more complex queries. It offers several keywords to perform specific types of comparisons and to combine multiple query expressions.Text Expressions <field> HAS <string> Returns only items that have all words from <string> in a metadata field named <field>. Example: title HAS blah <field> IS <string> Returns only items where (at least one) metadata field <field> is equal to <string>. Example: artist IS blah * HAS <string> Same as simple search, but can be combined using logical operators (see below).Numeric ExpressionsPerform integral number comparison between the value of a <field> and a <number>, e.g. "%rating% GREATER 3". <field> GREATER <number> <field> LESS <number> <field> EQUAL <number>Metadata Expressions <field> MISSING Returns only items that don't have a metadata field named <field>. Example: genre MISSING <field> PRESENT Returns only items that have a metadata field named <field>. Example: genre PRESENTTime Expressions <time1> BEFORE <time2> Returns only items where <time1> value is before <time2>. Example: %last_modified% BEFORE 2008 <time1> AFTER <time2> Returns only items where <time1> value is after <time2>. Example: %last_modified% AFTER 2008 <time1> SINCE <time2> Returns only items where <time1> value is not before <time2>. Example: %last_modified% SINCE 2007 <time1> DURING <time2> Returns only items where <time1> value is a subset of <time2> period. Example: %last_modified% DURING 2007 <time> DURING LAST <number> <time-unit> Returns items where <time> value is contained in the specified period. <time-unit> can be one of SECONDS, MINUTES, HOURS, DAYS, or WEEKS. Example: %last_modified% DURING LAST 2 WEEKS If <number> is 1, the expression can be simplified to <time> DURING LAST SECOND/MINUTE/HOUR/DAY/WEEKTime values used in these expressions must be in one of the following formats: YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM-DD hh, YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm, YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.Composed Queries <expression1> AND <expression2> Returns only items where both expressions are true. Example: artist IS blah AND title HAS blah <expression1> OR <expression2> Returns only items where at least one expression is true. NOT <expression> Returns only items where the expression is false. Example: NOT %last_played% AFTER %first_played%Sorting ResultsYou can put a SORT BY operator at the end of your search expression to produce search results sorted by the specified title formatting pattern. SORT BY <sort-pattern>, SORT ASCENDING BY <sort-pattern> Sort results in ascending order. SORT DESCENDING BY <sort-pattern> Sort results in descending order.Notes <field> and <string> in HAS and IS expressions should be enclosed in double quotation marks (") if they include spaces or parentheses. If <field> in HAS, IS, GREATER, LESS, EQUAL includes at least one of #$% characters, it will be treated as a title formatting string. Example: %codec% IS MP3 If <field> in HAS, IS, GREATER, LESS, EQUAL does not include any of #$% characters, it will be treated as a metadata field. Example: artist IS Radiohead Note that you can't access technical information (such as codec specifications) or component-provided information (playback statistics and such) this way. Using title formatting strings instead of simple field names will decrease search speed on large libraries and break multiple field value handling in the IS operator - for example, a track with two artist names: "name1" and "name2", will be found by artist IS name1 query, but not by %artist% IS name1. To control the evaluation order of composed queries, enclose the individual expressions in parentheses. Example: ( (artist IS blah) AND (title HAS blah) ) OR (%rating% GREATER 3) All search expressions are not case-sensitive. All keywords must be uppercase.Operator SummaryOperator Syntax CommentAFTER <time1> AFTER <time2> AND <expression1> AND <expression2> BEFORE <time1> BEFORE <time2> DURING <time1> DURING <time2> DURING LAST <time> DURING LAST <number> SECONDS/MINUTES/HOURS/DAYS/WEEKS<time> DURING LAST SECOND/MINUTE/HOUR/DAY/WEEK EQUAL <field> EQUAL <number> GREATER <field> GREATER <number> HAS <field> HAS <string>* HAS <string> IS <field> IS <string> LESS <field> LESS <number> MISSING <field> MISSING NOT NOT <expression> OR <expression1> OR <expression2> PRESENT <field> PRESENT SINCE <time1> SINCE <time2> SORT BY SORT BY <sort-pattern>SORT DESCENDING BY <sort-pattern> Must be at the end of the query.
I've made great progress. However I seem to be stuck again. When I add tracks from all pools all tracks will be selected from the just one group.
Group: %all%; Filter: artist HAS <yourartist>; Priority: 1; Number of tracks to add: 1
Group: %all%; Filter: %play_count% LESS 5 AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>" AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>" AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>" AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>" AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>" AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>" AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>" AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>" AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>" AND NOT artist HAS "<yourartist>"Priority: 2Number of tracks to add: 5
Group: allFilter: %last_played% DURING LAST 9 DAYS AND NOT %last_played% DURING LAST 2 DAYSPriority: 1;Number of tracks to add: 3
what am i doing wrong.
Random pools seems not working.
Please advice me some settings, updates, etc
And my question is - is it possible to configure this plugin so that within 2 hours no artist are repeated?
From the 6 groups created by this, I was hoping to get 1 track each from the 3 largest groups (total 3 tracks) at any given time, but I am getting all 3 tracks from 1 largest group.


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Attorney General Lockyer Announces Lawsuit Against Flying J for Tampering With Leak Sensors and Failing to Test
(SACRAMENTO) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today filed a lawsuit alleging Flying J. Inc. committed numerous violations of underground storage tank laws and tampered with leak detection devices at six of its truck stops and travel plazas in California.
"Not only did Flying J repeatedly fail to inspect its underground tanks, even worse, it disabled leak sensors," said Lockyer. "This flagrant violation of the law put our public health, communities and the environment at great risk from gasoline and diesel spills. Company officials refused the opportunity to voluntarily come into compliance with the law, so we are filing this lawsuit to force them to clean up their act."
Lockyer filed the lawsuit jointly with five District Attorneys: Edward Jagels, Kern County; Steve Cooley, Los Angeles County; Grover Trask II, Riverside County; Michael Ramos, San Bernardino County; and James Willett, San Joaquin County.
Independent investigations by local regulatory agencies revealed that Flying J, based in Ogden, Utah, repeatedly failed to correct problems with its underground tank systems at each of its retail facilities, even after it was advised of violations.
The complaint, filed in the San Joaquin Superior Court, alleges that Flying J violated 50 separate provisions of California's Health and Safety Code and Unfair Competition Law. Additionally, the complaint alleges Flying J tampered with and disabled leak detection systems, which alert operators of potential leaks and spills from tank systems. The company also failed to properly train its employees in the management of hazardous materials and wastes generated from its operations, according to the complaint. Flying J faces multi-million dollar penalties for its misconduct.
Today's action is the latest effort by Lockyer to work with local prosecutors and investigators to prosecute companies that break environmental laws at multiple facilities throughout the state. Assisting with locally-initiated investigations is essential because many environmental laws, such as those governing underground storage tank inspections, are enforced by local agencies. Such joint efforts ensure violations are fixed at all of a company's locations in the state.
Earlier this year, Lockyer and local prosecutors announced a $25 million enforcement settlement with AT&T for underground storage tank violations. The settlement was the second highest in the nation in such a case.


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E4 Computer Engineering Introduces the CARMA CLUSTER Series Powered by SECO, a New Family of Energy Efficient Solutions Aimed at HPC and Datacenters Users
13 Nov, 2012, 18:35 GMT
SCANDIANO, Italy, November 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
The revolutionary series is the result of a joint effort between E4® and SECO® to provide a CUDA® on ARM® (CARMA) low-power platform for applications that rely mainly on GPU computing power.
E4 Computer Engineering, Italian leading manufacturer for HPC environments, has announced the launch of a new series to add to its wide product portfolio, the CARMA CLUSTER series powered by SECO.
The E4 CARMA CLUSTER series powered by SECO offers a range of low-power, low-energy appliances designed to appeal to the HPC world thanks to the pairing of a heterogeneous ARM®+GPU (NVIDIA Tegra® 3 + Quadro® GPU). In fact, with the present generation of ARM CPUs it is not possible to address algorithm based on Floating Points arithmetic, therefore most of scientific application are excluded. CUDA enabled Quadro GPU broadens the range of applications that can be addressed and gives huge boost to performance.
While ARM products are still currently limited by the 32-bit support, early adopters and developers need to start working on real systems to assess the capabilities of these high energy efficient solutions. Leveraging the wide market adoption of the NVIDIA Tegra platform in the mobile space, E4 and SECO have delivered a real, cost effective and competitive server solution with immediate availability.
The series is aimed to seismic processing, signal and image processing, video analytics, traffic analysis and many other applications. The range has two main platforms able to host carrier boards for Qseven™ modules, the CARMA MICROCLUSTER and the CARMA CLUSTER. The CARMA MICROCLUSTER comes in a 5U form factor and contains up to 8 CARMA blades and 1 management node (x86 based) while the CARMA CLUSTER is a 3U appliance containing up to 12 CARMA2 blades (high density blades, each CARMA2 blade contains 2 CARMA nodes for a gross total of 2 ARM CPUs + 2 Quadro 1000) or 12 DARMA blades (4 ARM CPUs per blade). DARMA and CARMA2 can be mixed into the same chassis. Also, all blades comply with Qseven standard, so the MB contains only I/O devices while the CPU component can be selected from a wide range of SoC options, in order to ensure a smooth and progressive transition from the x86 platform into the ARM environment. Qseven technology provides the highest flexibility while decreasing engineering costs, in fact the CPU architecture can be swapped re-using the same carrier board without any modification.
Launching the product at SC12 in Salt Lake City at the ARM's stand (booth #122), E4 Computer Engineering is confident that the CARMA CLUSTER series powered by SECO will easily represent exciting news for the HPC community aiming to achieve great performance results with much less power consumption involved. "We felt an immediate connection with SECO in terms of experimentation and innovation," said Simone Tinti, HPC Team Leader of E4 Computer Engineering- the CARMA DEV kit on which our series is based has proved to be one of the most interesting devices to create low power, low-energy high performance appliances which will be welcomed by all HPC users".
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E4 Computer Engineering: Workstations, server, storage and solution
Established in 2002, E4 Computer Engineering designs and manufactures high performance systems which aim to accomplish both industrial and scientific research requirements and to reach a variety of customers ranging from universities to computing centers. E4's focus is on HPC although our expertise extends to all segments of IT. Thanks to the established experience and the outstanding quality of our solutions, E4® is acknowledged and appreciated as a valuable technology vendor by prestigious organizations like C.E.R.N.in Geneva. We design each system individually, after a thorough analysis of the customer's requirements and we make avail of our strong and solid partnership with the most important technology vendors, to deliver highly personalized, cost effective and power saving solutions.
For more info: http://www.e4company.com
About SECO
SECO, world-leading company in electronic embedded solutions, over its 30 years of experience has shown the ability to adapt its know-how to new, challenging customers' needs, and to provide cutting edge solutions to its partners.
On the strength of its know-how and in contrast with recent outsourcing policy, SECO has always set the entire production cycle in Italy, from the development stage to mass distribution.
Thanks to new, innovative solutions and great research and design activities together with the partnership with major scientific Universities and worldwide leading companies, SECO went International becoming a global market-leading company providing solutions to modern challenges.
For more info: http://www.seco.com
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In Part I, I wrote that, according to my interpretation of the message to the church of Smyrna in the Book of Revelation, the brain uses two types types of sensors: rich and poor. I explained that it takes an onset sensor and an offset sensor to properly represent a single sensory phenomenon or stimulus at a given amplitude. In today's post, I interpret verses 10 and 11 of the message to Smyrna which describe how sensory learning works. But first, a word about the importance of sensory timing.
The Timing of Sensory Signals in the Brain
Why is it so important that there be two complementary sensors for a stimulus? The reason is that perception is primarily concerned with the evolution of events, i.e., with how things change relative to one another. Phenomena come and go at precise times.
Certain changes happen concurrently and these are called patterns. Patterns succeed each other to form precisely timed sequences. For example, sensors A and B in the diagram above will sometimes fire concurrently with other sensors. Knowing when this happens is valuable information. Sensory learning consists of capturing the temporal correlations in the sensory space and this allows the brain to gain an understanding of how changes occur in the environment. With a good temporal model of the world, an intelligent system can form predictions, plan future actions, adapt to changes and achieve various goals. This is what intelligence is about.
Message to the Church of Smyrna
Revelation 2:8-11Commentary (continued)
8 "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, 'These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life:
9 "I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
10 Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
11 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death."'
10 Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Sensory learning is a relentless and uncompromising trial. The phrase "some of you" means that new connections for patterns are chosen randomly and then subjected to a brutal trial period during which they are tested 10 times. As I will explain in a future article, a day symbolizes a single neuronal or firing cycle, which is the duration of a single pulse (about 10 milliseconds in the brain). In other words, there are 10 tests and each one lasts a single firing cycle. From this, we can logically deduce that every connection is tested for concurrency with other connections. Why? Because concurrency is the only thing that can be tested during the time of a single pulse.
One of the important things to note here is that connections either survive or they don't. The ones that fail are put to death, that is, they are disconnected. The "crown of life" means that disconnected synapses are reborn and tried again elsewhere. The "prison" metaphor symbolizes the fact that connections are not allowed to "earn a living" during the time of their trial. In other words, the connections cannot contribute to their churches (or patterns) until they pass all the 10 tests and are released from prison.
It goes without saying that the Biblical model sharply contradicts current neural network models that use fixed, pre-wired connections. Also, the Biblical model strongly suggests that synaptic learning is an either-or process: either a connection is made or it isn't. There are no in-betweens, i.e., there is no need for a range of connection weights to encode knowledge. This is why I maintain that deep learning will go the way of symbolic AI and that the high-tech industry is building a billion dollar AI castle in the air.
Finally, we must ask, why 10 test cycles? Why not 5 or 20? To answer this question, we must understand what exactly is being learned. The brain is looking for all possible patterns that occur often enough to be considered non-random. It does not care about their actual probabilities of occurrence because it uses a winner-takes-all mechanism whereby patterns and sequences in memory compete for activation: the ones with the greatest number of hits are the winners. A compromise must be reached between conducting too many tests, which would retard learning and miss low probability patterns, and not conducting enough tests, which would result in learning useless patterns. We can surmise that 10 is just an optimum number. On a side note, this would be a fairly easy hypothesis to falsify. The finding that sensory learning in the brain is based on a mechanism that counts to 10 would go a long way to corroborate this theory.
Note: I am still working on the Rebel Speech demo program and I hope to release it soon. I will also release the source code for the recognizer but not the learner. Rebel Speech incorporates all the principles I have described in this series on AI and the Bible.11 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death."'
That first sentence in verse 11 is repeated in every message to the seven churches. It is a sign that the messages do not mean what they appear to mean on the surface. What is the meaning of the "second death" metaphor? I am not 100% sure at this point but it seems to mean that, once a connection is established through testing, it becomes permanent. In other words, unlike sequences which can be forgotten, patterns are retained forever. Note that I am still investigating this metaphor because it is mentioned elsewhere in the book of Revelation.
See Also:
The Billion Dollar AI Castle in the Air
Secrets of the Holy Grail
Artificial Intelligence and the Bible: Message to Sardis
Artificial Intelligence and the Bible: Joshua the High Priest
Artificial Intelligence and the Bible: The Golden Lampstand and the Two Olive Trees


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Chapter 5, page 148-152.
After the American Revolution, the Wabanaki suffered from poverty, discrimination, and displacement.
Native American people were forced to surrender their land to the new American government. Hunting ground was turned into farmland, and the Wabanaki could no longer survive by hunting, trapping, fishing, and migrating with the seasons.
This letter describes the attempts of a missionary to teach the Wabanaki how to become farmers. He writes, "they should settle, and cultivate their land - have a school for their children, & live like white people."
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Living within the new American society was a difficult adjustment for Native people. Some found work in logging, camps, factories, and shipbuilding; but this new way of life was very far removed from their native roots of sustainability and living from the earth.
It was difficult for Maine's Wabanaki to survive in this new society that valued wealth and possessions over all else.
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This letter from Rev. Oliver Brown of Maine, Nov. 17, 1825, to Rev. Abiel Holmes of Cambridge, Massachusetts, discusses a school building on a Native American reservation. Formal schooling, like farming, was thought to help the Wabanaki "live like white people."
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This image of a one room school house is typical of a 19th century school. Children of different ages were often taught in the same classroom, and often there was one teacher for grades K-8.
Towns were required to have public elementary schools by 1820. Many larger towns also created public secondary schools.
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Children living in rural communities attented schools in private homes, churches, or buildings that had been converted from other uses.
It was not always easy for children to get to school when travel included a wagon or sleigh ride over several miles. Some communities built several school houses. Fryeburg, for example, had fourteen in 1825.
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Rienzo aiming to impress Sox, kids in native Brazil
Righty prospect tosses scoreless inning for World Team in Futures Game
NEW YORK -- Andre Rienzo is one of the best in his sport in his native Brazil. He's never going to go by one name. Whether he realizes his Major League dreams or not, that's not going to change.
"You think of Brazil, you think soccer. And the women," Rienzo said. "You don't think about baseball."
When Rienzo talks about opening eyes, he's not just talking about scouts across the Minors. He's talking about the people back home, about kids trying to decide whether to play soccer like everyone else or give another sport a try. His introduction to baseball was natural, with two brothers who played, plus his mother, a former softball star.
If he can impress White Sox management and get to the big leagues, he might make an impression on kids in Brazil. Sunday's SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game at Citi Field, where he pitched a scoreless inning for the World Team in a 4-2 loss to Team USA, was his latest step to help both causes.
"It's the dream, to play in the big leagues," Rienzo said. "I have seven years in the Minor Leagues. The dream's not here. The dream is to be in the Majors. And I hope to help Brazil get bigger. It's another dream I have, to help Brazil and help baseball get bigger there. They have a lot of talent there, but they don't have a lot of scouts."
He helped earn Brazilian baseball some much-needed attention when he pitched in the World Baseball Classic, no-hitting the vaunted Cuban team for four innings before giving up two runs in the fifth. Brazil went winless in pool play this spring after winning its qualifier, but for a stretch, the team competed.
People began to recognize him back home from the Classic games they saw on television. His Minor League games don't get on the screen there, but they get scouts' attention, especially after his Classic performance. After a rough introduction to Triple-A ball at Charlotte brought expectations down a tad, the 25-year-old is starting to get noticed around the International League again.
After limping into June with a 6.71 ERA, Rienzo has given up just 11 earned runs in 48 1/3 innings since, striking out 48. He followed up with eight innings of one-run ball against Buffalo in a complete-game five-hitter in his final start before the break.
"I've worked a lot with my pitching coach," Rienzo said, referring to former White Sox pitcher Rich Dotson. "Every day, he's had something to show me, every day watching video. And I think that helped me a lot. I started to watch videos a lot."
His performance Sunday was workmanlike. He didn't overpower hitters as he retired the U.S. Team in order in the bottom of the third, but by mixing a low-90s fastball with some secondary stuff, he might have made a bigger impression.
None of the three hitters Rienzo faced got the ball into the outfield against him. His second hitter, noted speedster Billy Hamilton, ground out to first base. His last batter, Delino DeShields Jr., battled him to a full count before going around on a check swing at a slider on the outside corner.
Rienzo showed the experience he has racked up on his way up the White Sox developmental ladder, especially against the veteran Triple-A hitters who have battled him for much of the summer.
What happens with him from here might have as much to do with what the White Sox do at the big league level. If he can get to the Majors, he'd be the second Brazilian to do it, joining Indians catcher/infielder Yan Gomes.
Like Gomes, Rienzo was born in Sao Paulo, less than a year apart in age, but they don't know each other well. They grew up in different places. But Rienzo knows what Gomes means for baseball in Brazil.
Rienzo would like to do the same. He'd like to help baseball grow beyond a sport kids play for fun on the weekends, and become a dream for others like it has been for him.
Slowly, the dream is getting closer.
"That would be good," Rienzo said, "because kids can look to the TV and say, 'Hey, Brazilians have a chance, too.' Because in Brazil, it's about soccer, and sometimes you think you're in the wrong sport. So I think to see Gomes up there is key."


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Explore research on the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) produced by social setor organizations. Topics include the social and economic impact of technology and its uses, big data, social media, distance learning, mobile devices, the internet, and more.
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Publisher(s): Women Employed Institute
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Publisher(s): Aspen Institute
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Curtain Call! 7 Dramatic Drapes
Curtains and drapery tend to be the last thing we worry about when decorating; their effect is often overlooked. If you're willing to invest in it, drapery can be the most dramatic addition to a room. Select a busy pattern, a bright trim, or a rich material, or have a bespoke valance made with an unusual shape, and your windows will have a theatrical look in no time.
Come take a peek at seven dramatic drapes for a little decorating inspiration!


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MINI has unveiled a new two-seat five-door delivery van based on the Clubman platform. While MINI is in the midst of identifying its self beyond just the cooper the company has been experimenting with concept cars , special editions and expanding the lineup with the new Countryman.
The MINI Clubvan is a vehicle built with the urban business user in mind. The comeback of the corner store is what inspired MINI to develop the car to help with the needs of efficient deliveries with style; complete with a driver partition and a slightly elevated level cargo platform. Classified as a commercial vehicle the Clubvan does come with a lower tax rate. Along with the delivery car features the same high level of MINI customization options still apply. Leather seats, 6.5" LCD display, and even a six-speed manual transmission is just some of the many ways to make the Clubvan part of your companies identity. Available in the United States Fall 2012, the Clubvan will come in White, Ice Blue, British Racing Green, Green Metallic and Midnight Black Metallic. The 120hp MINI Cooper engine will be the only engine available…for now.
We are looking forward to seeing what companies opt for the Clubvan, and more importantly how they customize them. Maybe one day MINI will slap a John Cooper Works engine in one for those time sensitive businesses.


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White Peach Sangría
A light and peachy sangría that's slightly frizzante.
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Directed by Kim Dong-weon (김동원)
Screenplay by Kim Dong-weon (김동원)113min | Release date in South Korea : 2012/08/15
A South Korean Elite Black Eagles Air Force pilot Tae-hun finds himself transferred to a combat flying unit after a cocky, unplanned, and dangerous air show demonstration. On the first day of his transfer to F15K, he meets Cheol-hui, the units own top gun. Tae-hun is free-spirited, whereas Cheol-hui plays by the rules, and the two come into conflict almost immediately. However, Tae-hun quickly befriends his other colleagues: Dae-seo, Yu-jin, and Seok-hyeon. He also falls in love with Se-yeong, who is in charge of maintenance. Tae-hun continues his free-spirited ways and his antics get the entire unit suspended from duty. The world outside the base makes its presence known when a North Korean MIG fighter is discovered heading toward the South. Tae-hun and the rest of the squad are put back on active duty, and a reconnaissance mission turns into an all out fight, ending in Dae-seos untimely death and Seok-hyeons disappearance. Eventually Cheol-hui and Tae-hun come to an emotional understanding and the F15K makes preparations to stop a war and rescue their missing comrade.
This is the remake of director Shin Sang-oks The Red Muffler (1964). This movie is the soldiers friendship and lives through one guy, who becomes true soldier after joining the Air Force.
Formerly known as "Black Eagle", "Soar into the Sky", "The Red Muffler", (레드 머플러, Re-deu Meo-peul-leo) and ""Flight: Close to the Sun" (비상[飛上]: 태양가까이, Bi-sang: Tae-yang-ga-kka-i)
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Neighborhoods to gain health, environmental and economic benefits
Neighborhoods to gain health, environmental and economic benefits
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – April 22, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced $400,000 in brownfields grants to Pima County, Arizona, and the City of Tucson, which are receiving funding through the Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants program.
Across the nation, nearly $80 million in brownfields grants will be used for the assessment, cleanup and redevelopment of brownfields properties, including abandoned gas stations, old textile mills, closed smelters, and other abandoned industrial and commercial properties.
"Cleaning up and reusing distressed properties brings new jobs and stronger communities," said Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator for EPA in the Pacific Southwest. "In addition to creating green jobs, local efforts to revitalize brownfield sites reduce threats to public health while attracting positive investments in our neighborhoods."
Pima County was selected to receive two brownfields assessment grants. The county is focusing its assessment efforts on the communities of Ajo, Why, and Lukeville (combined population 4,000). Located in the Sonoran Desert environment of southwest Arizona, they are the most remote communities in the county. Copper mining and tourism were once the economic engines for the area, but these industries have been greatly diminished.
The closing of a large copper mine in the mid-1980s has devastated the once vibrant businesses along the Arizona Route 85 corridor extending through the three towns. Many buildings along the corridor are now vacant, and about 90 potential brownfield sites have been identified. Assessment of brownfields is expected to facilitate retail and commercial redevelopment opportunities by identifying contamination and bridging the gap in pre-development costs.
In addition, the City of Tucson was also selected for two brownfield assessment grants. A large portion of the downtown area of Tucson (population 525,529) has been designated a federal Empowerment Zone, which includes the target area of more than 20 square miles. More than 30 percent of residents in this area live below the poverty level, and more than 71 percent of residents are minorities. A disproportionate number of the estimated 5,200 brownfields in Tucson lie in the project area.
Tucson is one of the largest cities in the country that obtains its drinking water from groundwater supplies. The existence of many brownfields threatens residential drinking water quality. The city has developed plans for corridors throughout the project area where redevelopment can be the most beneficial to residents.
The brownfields program encourages redevelopment of America's estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated waste sites. As of March 2010, EPA's brownfields assistance has leveraged more than $14 billion in cleanup and redevelopment funding, and 61,277 jobs in cleanup, construction, and redevelopment.
These investments and jobs target local, under-served and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods – places where environmental cleanups and new jobs are most needed. Cleaning up our communities is one of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson's priorities, which leads not only to health and environmental benefits but also economic development and prosperity.
In total, EPA is selecting 304 grants through the Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants programs:
- 188 assessment grants, totaling $42.56 million, will conduct site assessment and planning for cleanup at one or more brownfields sites as part of a community-wide effort.
- 17 revolving loan fund grants, totaling $17 million, will provide loans and subgrants for communities to begin cleanup activities at brownfields sites. Revolving loan funds are generally used to provide low interest loans for brownfields cleanups.
- 99 cleanup grants, totaling $19.36 million, will provide funding for grant recipients to carryout cleanup activities at brownfield sites they own.
Since the beginning of the brownfields program in 1995, EPA has awarded 1,702 assessment grants totaling $401 million, 262 revolving loan fund grants totaling more than $256.7 million, and 655 cleanup grants totaling $129.4 million. As part of Administrator Jackson's commitment to this program, the 2011 proposed budget includes an increase of $215 million for brownfields with a focus on planning, cleanup, job training and redevelopment.
In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed. The brownfields law expanded the definition of what is considered a brownfield, so communities may now focus on mine-scarred lands, sites contaminated by petroleum, or sites contaminated as a result of manufacturing and distribution of illegal drugs (e.g. meth labs).
More information on EPA's brownfields program, success stories, and FY 2010 grant recipients: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields
Nahal Mogharabi, (415) 947-4307, mogharabi.nahal (at) epa (dot) gov


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Ghostface Killah has announced a European Tour, according to a press release from Clockwork Music, which is presenting the tour.
The Wu-Tang Clan member is set to embark on this tour today (July 10) in Dublin, Ireland with special guest Sheek Louch.
More dates are set to be added to this European Tour for August and September and are slated to be announced soon.
Ghostface Killah and Sheek Louch's European Tour flyer and itinerary are as follows:
July 10 Dublin, Ireland Sugar Club
July 11 Paris, France La Machine Du Moulin Rouge
July 12 Mildenhall, UK Boom Bap Festival
July 13 London, UK Scala
July 14 Liverpool, UK The Kazimier
July 15 Glasgow, Scotland The Arches
July 17 Haarlem, Netherlands WU Stock Festival
July 18 Vienna, Austria Vienna Arena
(July 10, 2014)
UPDATE: Ghostface Killah and Sheek Louch have added a series of August dates to their European tour.
Sungod is set to appear with the pair on select dates and they are scheduled to be joined by Method Man and Raekwon for a Wu Massacre show in Switzerland August 22.
The tour flyer is as follows, as is the tour itinerary.
August 18 London, UK Private Event
August 19 Stavanger, Norway Folken
August 20 Gothenburg, Sweden Colors @ The Docks
August 21 Cologne, Germany Essigfabrik
August 22 Orpund, Switzerland Royal Arena Festival (Wu Massacre w/ Method Man & Raekwon)
August 23 Bucharest, Romania Street Heroes: Summer Swag Festival
August 24 Munich, Germany Muffatwerk
RELATED: Ghostface Killah Says "Illmatic" Made Him "Step His Pen Game Up"


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TransLink reports that the Golden Ears Bridge is expected to continue losing up to $45 million a year because fewer people than projected are driving the tolled span.
This news comes just one week after the provincial government announced a new bridge will replace the George Massey Tunnel.
The Golden Ears could lose $35 million to $45 million annually for the next few years despite modest traffic growth of two to three per cent, according to an update TransLink officials gave Thursday to Metro Vancouver mayors' council, which approves TransLink funding and shapes the region's long-term transit plans.
"There could be many factors why fewer people are using the bridge than originally forecast," TransLink's director of roads Sany Zein said in an emailed statement. "One of the major factors is that the original forecasts were prepared well before the recession of 2007/08, at a time of extremely robust economic growth and lower gas prices.
"The recession, slower economic growth, and high gas prices have all contributed to less demand than originally expected."
The organization is expecting similar modest gains in driver numbers in coming years that are "consistent with the economic growth in the market area of the bridge," Zein added.
After it was built in 2009, TransLink agreed to subsidize the private operator of the $800-million Golden Ears Bridge — which replaced the organization's Albion ferry — until it reached projected ridership figures. Tolls from the bridge linking Langley to Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge have fallen short of traffic projections each year of its young life except last year.
While sitting on TransLink's board more than a decade ago, Simon Fraser University professor Gordon Price voted for the Golden Ears during its preliminary planning stages. The head of SFU's City Program said he still supports it replacing the ferry, but its perennial under-usage is symptomatic of the region's wider overbuilding problem.
"The really outstanding example is Granville (Street Bridge). It's eight lanes and I remember the engineers telling me, 'It physically cannot be used to its capacity. You can't get enough cars on it through the (traffic) signal system," Price said.
The bridge set to replace the Massey Tunnel may suffer the same fate as the Golden Ears because the provincial government's plan was disconnected from TransLink's transit needs, Price said.
"If you had transit and bridge infrastructure, road infrastructure, being planned and financed as a single package as part of a regional plan, one would surely affect the other," Price said. "And in this case, I think it maybe would be quite dramatic.
"What scale of bridge do you need? If you could build a significantly smaller bridge, in addition to saving the money on the capital, it would reduce the amount of the toll."
The mayors' council also heard Thursday that TransLink spent $40 million more than it earned in revenues last year, but the shortfall was anticipated and accounted for in this year's budget.
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie said TransLink has been "living off the surplus that's been generated prior to that time."
Before the TransLink update, the mayors had a closed meeting with Transportation Minister Todd Stone. Stone called their discussions "very frank" and "very productive" and vowed to "work with the mayors' council on improvements to governance, on improvements to a sustainable funding model."
The day before the meeting, several mayors lambasted Stone and his government for promising a referendum on TransLink's funding and yet not on the bridge to replace the Massey tunnel.


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