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Event set for Friday, Oct. 12, at Southeast Works
Candidates for congress, state senate and assembly, and county legislator have all accepted invitations to be a part of the 2012 "Candidates Hour" at Southeast Works in Depew.
The 25 confirmed thus far include Chris Collins, Kathy Hochul, Pat Gallivan, Mark Grisanti, Tim Kennedy, Dennis Gabryszak and Jane Corwin.
This year's event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, and will again take place in the agency's auditorium.
This format allows candidates to speak unfiltered and uninterrupted, as each addresses issues of concern to their constituencies, including the special needs of the developmentally disabled people served by Southeast Works.
Along with those served and agency staff, "Candidates Hour" is also open to the community at large, as well as members of the media.
Then entire event will also be videotaped for later broadcast on Time Warner Cable.
This 17th annual "Candidates Hour" is hosted by Southeast Works, in partnership with the Developmental Disabilities Alliance of Western New York.
Southeast Works is a not-for-profit agency that works with more than 500 adults with developmental disabilities and is located at 181 Lincoln St., Depew.
For more information, visit www.southeast-works.org.
Southeast Works is a non-profit organization with the mission of energizing people with disabilities, individually and within communities, to lead independent and fulfilling lives through innovative services.


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Addressing Climate Change Through Education
Tamara Shapiro Ledley, Juliette Rooney-Varga, and Frank Niepold
The scientific community has made the urgent need to mitigate climate change clear and, with the ratification of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international community has formally accepted ambitious mitigation goals. However, a wide gap remains between the aspirational emissions reduction goals of the Paris Agreement and the real-world pledges and actions of nations that are party to it. Closing that emissions gap can only be achieved if a similarly wide gap between scientific and societal understanding of climate change is also closed.
Several fundamental aspects of climate change make clear both the need for education and the opportunity it offers. First, addressing climate change will require action at all levels of society, including individuals, organizations, businesses, local, state, and national governments, and international bodies. It cannot be addressed by a few individuals with privileged access to information, but rather requires transfer of knowledge, both intellectually and affectively, to decision-makers and their constituents at all levels. Second, education is needed because, in the case of climate change, learning from experience is learning too late. The delay between decisions that cause climate change and their full societal impact can range from decades to millennia. As a result, learning from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid those impacts.
Climate change and sustainability represent complex, dynamic systems that demand a systems thinking approach. Systems thinking takes a holistic, long-term perspective that focuses on relationships between interacting parts, and how those relationships generate behavior over time. System dynamics includes formal mapping and modeling of systems, to improve understanding of the behavior of complex systems as well as how they respond to human or other interventions. Systems approaches are increasingly seen as critical to climate change education, as the human and natural systems involved in climate change epitomize a complex, dynamic problem that crosses disciplines and societal sectors.
A systems thinking approach can also be used to examine the potential for education to serve as a vehicle for societal change. In particular, education can enable society to benefit from climate change science by transferring scientific knowledge across societal sectors. Education plays a central role in several processes that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation. Effective climate change education increases the number of informed and engaged citizens, building social will or pressure to shape policy, and building a workforce for a low-carbon economy. Indeed, several climate change education efforts to date have delivered gains in climate and energy knowledge, affect, and/or motivation. However, society still faces challenges in coordinating initiatives across audiences, managing and leveraging resources, and making effective investments at a scale that is commensurate with the climate change challenge. Education is needed to promote informed decision-making at all levels of society.
Air Pollution and Weather Interaction in East Asia
Aijun Ding, Xin Huang, and Congbin Fu
Air pollution is one of the grand environmental challenges in developing countries, especially those with high population density like China. High concentrations of primary and secondary trace gases and particulate matter (PM) are frequently observed in the industrialized and urbanized regions, causing negative effects on the health of humans, plants, and the ecosystem.
Meteorological conditions are among the most important factors influencing day-to-day air quality. Synoptic weather and boundary layer dynamics control the dispersion capacity and transport of air pollutants, while the main meteorological parameters, such as air temperature, radiation, and relative humidity, influence the chemical transformation of secondary air pollutants at the same time. Intense air pollution, especially high concentration of radiatively important aerosols, can substantially influence meteorological parameters, boundary layer dynamics, synoptic weather, and even regional climate through their strong radiative effects.
As one of the main monsoon regions, with the most intense human activities in the world, East Asia is a region experiencing complex air pollution, with sources from anthropogenic fossil fuel combustion, biomass burning, dust storms, and biogenic emissions. A mixture of these different plumes can cause substantial two-way interactions and feedbacks in the formation of air pollutants under various weather conditions. Improving the understanding of such interactions needs more field measurements using integrated multiprocess measurement platforms, as well as more efforts in developing numerical models, especially for those with online coupled processes. All these efforts are very important for policymaking from the perspectives of environmental protection and mitigation of climate change.
Arid Environments
Julie Laity
Arid environments cover about one third of the Earth's surface, comprising the most extensive of the terrestrial biomes. Deserts show considerable individual variation in climate, geomorphic surface expression, and biogeography. Climatically, deserts range from dry interior environments, with large temperature ranges, to humid and relatively cool coastal environments, with small temperature ranges. What all deserts share in common is a consistent deficit of precipitation relative to water loss by evaporation, implying that the biological availability of water is very low. Deserts develop because of climatic (persistent high-pressure cells), topographic (mountain ranges that cause rain shadow effects), and oceanographic (cold currents) factors that limit the amount of rain or snowfall that a region receives. Most global deserts are subtropical in distribution.
There is a large range of geomorphic surfaces, including sand sheets and sand seas (ergs), stone pavements, bedrock outcrops, dry lakebeds, and alluvial fans. Vegetation cover is generally sparse, but may be enhanced in areas of groundwater seepage or along river courses. The limited vegetation cover affects fluvial and slope processes and results in an enhanced role for the wind. While the majority of streams in deserts are ephemeral features, both intermittent and perennial rivers develop in response to snowmelt in nearby mountains or runoff from distant, more well-watered regions. Most drainage is endoreic, meaning that it flows internally into closed basins and does not reach the sea, being disposed of by seepage and evaporation.
The early study of deserts was largely descriptive. More process-based studies commenced with the study of North American deserts in the mid- to late-1800s. Since the late 20th century, research has expanded into many areas of the world, with notable contributions coming from China, but our knowledge of deserts is still more compete in regions such as North America, Australia, Israel, and southern Africa, where access and funding have been more consistently secure. The widespread availability of high-quality remotely sensed images has contributed to the spread of study into new global field areas. The temporal framework for research has also improved, benefiting from improvements in geochronological techniques. Geochronological controls are vital to desert research because most arid regions have experienced significant climatic changes. Deserts have not only expanded or contracted in size, but have experienced changes in the dominant geomorphic processes and biogeographic environment. Contemporary scientific work has also benefited from improvements in technology, notably in surveying techniques, and from the use of quantitative modeling.
Atmospheric Brown Clouds
Sumit Sharma, Liliana Nunez, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs) are widespread pollution clouds that can at times span an entire continent or an ocean basin. ABCs extend vertically from the ground upward to as high as 3 km, and they consist of both aerosols and gases. ABCs consist of anthropogenic aerosols such as sulfates, nitrates, organics, and black carbon and natural dust aerosols. Gaseous pollutants that contribute to the formation of ABCs are NOx (nitrogen oxides), SOx (sulfur oxides), VOCs (volatile organic compounds), CO (carbon monoxide), CH4 (methane), and O3 (ozone). The brownish color of the cloud (which is visible when looking at the horizon) is due to absorption of solar radiation at short wavelengths (green, blue, and UV) by organic and black carbon aerosols as well as by NOx. While the local nature of ABCs around polluted cities has been known since the early 1900s, the widespread transoceanic and transcontinental nature of ABCs as well as their large-scale effects on climate, hydrological cycle, and agriculture were discovered inadvertently by The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), an international experiment conducted in the 1990s over the Indian Ocean. A major discovery of INDOEX was that ABCs caused drastic dimming at the surface. The magnitude of the dimming was as large as 10–20% (based on a monthly average) over vast areas of land and ocean regions. The dimming was shown to be accompanied by significant atmospheric absorption of solar radiation by black and brown carbon (a form of organic carbon). Black and brown carbon, ozone and methane contribute as much as 40% to anthropogenic radiative forcing. The dimming by sulfates, nitrates, and carbonaceous (black and organic carbon) species has been shown to disrupt and weaken the monsoon circulation over southern Asia. In addition, the ozone in ABCs leads to a significant decrease in agriculture yields (by as much as 20–40%) in the polluted regions. Most significantly, the aerosols (in ABCs) near the ground lead to about 4 million premature mortalities every year. Technological and regulatory measures are available to mitigate most of the pollution resulting from ABCs. The importance of ABCs to global environmental problems led the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to form the
Biodiversity Generation and Loss
T.H. Oliver
Human activities in the Anthropocene are influencing the twin processes of biodiversity generation and loss in complex ways that threaten the maintenance of biodiversity levels that underpin human well-being. Yet many scientists and practitioners still present a simplistic view of biodiversity as a static stock rather than one determined by a dynamic interplay of feedback processes that are affected by anthropogenic drivers. Biodiversity describes the variety of life on Earth, from the genes within an organism to the ecosystem level. However, this article focuses on variation among living organisms, both within and between species. Within species, biodiversity is reflected in genetic, and consequent phenotypic, variations among individuals. Genetic diversity is generated by germ line mutations, genetic recombination during sexual reproduction, and immigration of new genotypes into populations. Across species, biodiversity is reflected in the number of different species present and also, by some metrics, in the evenness of their relative abundance. At this level, biodiversity is generated by processes of speciation and immigration of new species into an area. Anthropogenic drivers affect all these biodiversity generation processes, while the levels of genetic diversity can feed back and affect the level of species diversity, and vice versa. Therefore, biodiversity maintenance is a complex balance of processes and the biodiversity levels at any point in time may not be at equilibrium.
A major concern for humans is that our activities are driving rapid losses of biodiversity, which outweigh by orders of magnitude the processes of biodiversity generation. A wide range of species and genetic diversity could be necessary for the provision of ecosystem functions and services (e.g., in maintaining the nutrient cycling, plant productivity, pollination, and pest control that underpin crop production). The importance of biodiversity becomes particularly marked over longer time periods, and especially under varying environmental conditions.
In terms of biodiversity losses, there are natural processes that cause roughly continuous, low-level losses, but there is also strong evidence from fossil records for transient events in which exceptionally large loss of biodiversity has occurred. These major extinction episodes are thought to have been caused by various large-scale environmental perturbations, such as volcanic eruptions, sea-level falls, climatic changes, and asteroid impacts. From all these events, biodiversity has shown recovery over subsequent calmer periods, although the composition of higher-level evolutionary taxa can be significantly altered.
In the modern era, biodiversity appears to be undergoing another mass extinction event, driven by large-scale human impacts. The primary mechanisms of biodiversity loss caused by humans vary over time and by geographic region, but they include overexploitation, habitat loss, climate change, pollution (e.g., nitrogen deposition), and the introduction of non-native species. It is worth noting that human activities may also lead to increases in biodiversity in some areas through species introductions and climatic changes, although these overall increases in species richness may come at the cost of loss of native species, and with uncertain effects on ecosystem service delivery. Genetic diversity is also affected by human activities, with many examples of erosion of diversity through crop and livestock breeding or through the decline in abundance of wild species populations. Significant future challenges are to develop better ways to monitor the drivers of biodiversity loss and biodiversity levels themselves, making use of new technologies, and improving coverage across geographic regions and taxonomic scope. Rather than treating biodiversity as a simple stock at equilibrium, developing a deeper understanding of the complex interactions—both between environmental drivers and between genetic and species diversity—is essential to manage and maintain the benefits that biodiversity delivers to humans, as well as to safeguard the intrinsic value of the Earth's biodiversity for future generations.
Biodiversity Hotspots and Conservation Priorities
Peter Kareiva and Isaac Kareiva
The concept of biodiversity hotspots arose as a science-based framework with which to identify high-priority areas for habitat protection and conservation—often in the form of nature reserves. The basic idea is that with limited funds and competition from humans for land, we should use range maps and distributional data to protect areas that harbor the greatest biodiversity and that have experienced the greatest habitat loss. In its early application, much analysis and scientific debate went into asking the following questions: Should all species be treated equally? Do endemic species matter more? Should the magnitude of threat matter? Does evolutionary uniqueness matter? And if one has good data on one broad group of organisms (e.g., plants or birds), does it suffice to focus on hotspots for a few taxonomic groups and then expect to capture all biodiversity broadly? Early applications also recognized that hotspots could be identified at a variety of spatial scales—from global to continental, to national to regional, to even local. Hence, within each scale, it is possible to identify biodiversity hotspots as targets for conservation.
In the last 10 years, the concept of hotspots has been enriched to address some key critiques, including the problem of ignoring important areas that might have low biodiversity but that certainly were highly valued because of charismatic wild species or critical ecosystem services. Analyses revealed that although the spatial correlation between high-diversity areas and high-ecosystem-service areas is low, it is possible to use quantitative algorithms that achieve both high protection for biodiversity and high protection for ecosystem services without increasing the required area as much as might be expected.
Currently, a great deal of research is aimed at asking about what the impact of climate change on biodiversity hotspots is, as well as to what extent conservation can maintain high biodiversity in the face of climate change. Two important approaches to this are detailed models and statistical assessments that relate species distribution to climate, or alternatively "conserving the stage" for high biodiversity, whereby the stage entails regions with topographies or habitat heterogeneity of the sort that is expected to generate high species richness.
Finally, conservation planning has most recently embraced what is in some sense the inverse of biodiversity hotspots—what we might call conservation wastelands. This approach recognizes that in the Anthropocene epoch, human development and infrastructure are so vast that in addition to using data to identify biodiversity hotspots, we should use data to identify highly degraded habitats and ecosystems. These degraded lands can then become priority development areas—for wind farms, solar energy facilities, oil palm plantations, and so forth. By specifying degraded lands, conservation plans commonly pair maps of biodiversity hotspots with maps of degraded lands that highlight areas for development. By putting the two maps together, it should be possible to achieve much more effective conservation because there will be provision of habitat for species and for economic development—something that can obtain broader political support than simply highlighting biodiversity hotspots.
Causes of Soil Salinization, Sodification, and Alkalinization
Elisabeth N. Bui
Driving forces for natural soil salinity and alkalinity are climate, rock weathering, ion exchange, and mineral equilibria reactions that ultimately control the chemical composition of soil and water. The major weathering reactions that produce soluble ions are tabled. Where evapotranspiration is greater than precipitation, downward water movement is insufficient to leach solutes out of the soil profile and salts can precipitate. Microbes involved in organic matter mineralization and thus the carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur biogeochemical cycles are also implicated. Seasonal contrast and evaporative concentration during dry periods accelerate short-term oxidation-reduction reactions and local and regional accumulation of carbonate and sulfur minerals. The presence of salts and alkaline conditions, together with the occurrence of drought and seasonal waterlogging, creates some of the most extreme soil environments where only specially adapted organisms are able to survive. Sodic soils are alkaline, rich in sodium carbonates, with an exchange complex dominated by sodium ions. Such sodic soils, when low in other salts, exhibit dispersive behavior, and they are difficult to manage for cropping. Maintaining the productivity of sodic soils requires control of the flocculation-dispersion behavior of the soil. Poor land management can also lead to anthropogenically induced secondary salinity. New developments in physical chemistry are providing insights into ion exchange and how it controls flocculation-dispersion in soil. New water and solute transport models are enabling better options of remediation of saline and/or sodic soils.
Classification and Mitigation of Soil Salinization
Tibor Tóth
Soil salinity has been causing problems for agriculturists for millennia, primarily in irrigated lands. The importance of salinity issues is increasing, since large areas are affected by irrigation-induced salt accumulation. A wide knowledge base has been collected to better understand the major processes of salt accumulation and choose the right method of mitigation. There are two major types of soil salinity that are distinguished because of different properties and mitigation requirements. The first is caused mostly by the large salt concentration and is called saline soil, typically corresponding to Solonchak soils. The second is caused mainly by the dominance of sodium in the soil solution or on the soil exchange complex. This latter type is called "sodic" soil, corresponding to Solonetz soils. Saline soils have homogeneous soil profiles with relatively good soil structure, and their appropriate mitigation measure is leaching. Naturally sodic soils have markedly different horizons and unfavorable physical properties, such as low permeability, swelling, plasticity when wet, and hardness when dry, and their limitation for agriculture is mitigated typically by applying gypsum. Salinity and sodicity need to be chemically quantified before deciding on the proper management strategy. The most complex management and mitigation of salinized irrigated lands involves modern engineering including calculations of irrigation water rates and reclamation materials, provisions for drainage, and drainage disposal. Mapping-oriented soil classification was developed for naturally saline and sodic soils and inherited the first soil categories introduced more than a century ago, such as Solonchak and Solonetz in most of the total of 24 soil classification systems used currently. USDA Soil Taxonomy is one exception, which uses names composed of formative elements.
Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Africa
Laura Pereira
Confidence in the projected impacts of climate change on agricultural systems has increased substantially since the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. In Africa, much work has gone into downscaling global climate models to understand regional impacts, but there remains a dearth of local level understanding of impacts and communities' capacity to adapt. It is well understood that Africa is vulnerable to climate change, not only because of its high exposure to climate change, but also because many African communities lack the capacity to respond or adapt to the impacts of climate change. Warming trends have already become evident across the continent, and it is likely that the continent's 2000 mean annual temperature change will exceed +2°C by 2100. Added to this warming trend, changes in precipitation patterns are also of concern: Even if rainfall remains constant, due to increasing temperatures, existing water stress will be amplified, putting even more pressure on agricultural systems, especially in semiarid areas. In general, high temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns are likely to reduce cereal crop productivity, and new evidence is emerging that high-value perennial crops will also be negatively impacted by rising temperatures. Pressures from pests, weeds, and diseases are also expected to increase, with detrimental effects on crops and livestock.
Much of African agriculture's vulnerability to climate change lies in the fact that its agricultural systems remain largely rain-fed and underdeveloped, as the majority of Africa's farmers are small-scale farmers with few financial resources, limited access to infrastructure, and disparate access to information. At the same time, as these systems are highly reliant on their environment, and farmers are dependent on farming for their livelihoods, their diversity, context specificity, and the existence of generations of traditional knowledge offer elements of resilience in the face of climate change. Overall, however, the combination of climatic and nonclimatic drivers and stressors will exacerbate the vulnerability of Africa's agricultural systems to climate change, but the impacts will not be universally felt. Climate change will impact farmers and their agricultural systems in different ways, and adapting to these impacts will need to be context-specific.
Current adaptation efforts on the continent are increasing across the continent, but it is expected that in the long term these will be insufficient in enabling communities to cope with the changes due to longer-term climate change. African famers are increasingly adopting a variety of conservation and agroecological practices such as agroforestry, contouring, terracing, mulching, and no-till. These practices have the twin benefits of lowering carbon emissions while adapting to climate change as well as broadening the sources of livelihoods for poor farmers, but there are constraints to their widespread adoption. These challenges vary from insecure land tenure to difficulties with knowledge-sharing.
While African agriculture faces exposure to climate change as well as broader socioeconomic and political challenges, many of its diverse agricultural systems remain resilient. As the continent with the highest population growth rate, rapid urbanization trends, and rising GDP in many countries, Africa's agricultural systems will need to become adaptive to more than just climate change as the uncertainties of the 21st century unfold.
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon
Phillip Fearnside
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia destroys environmental services that are important for the whole world, and especially for Brazil itself. These services include maintaining biodiversity, avoiding global warming, and recycling water that provides rainfall to Amazonia, to other parts of Brazil, such as São Paulo, and to neighboring countries, such as Argentina. The forest also maintains the human populations and cultures that depend on it. Deforestation rates have gone up and down over the years with major economic cycles. A peak of 27,772 km2/year was reached in 2004, followed by a major decline to 4571 km2/year in 2012, after which the rate trended upward, reaching 7989 km2/year in 2016 (equivalent to about 1.5 hectares per minute). Most (70%) of the decline occurred by 2007, and the slowing in this period is almost entirely explained by declining prices of export commodities such as soy and beef. Government repression measures explain the continued decline from 2008 to 2012, but an important part of the effect of the repression program hinges on a fragile base: a 2008 decision that makes the absence of pending fines a prerequisite for obtaining credit for agriculture and ranching. This could be reversed at the stroke of a pen, and this is a priority for the powerful "ruralist" voting bloc in the National Congress. Massive plans for highways, dams, and other infrastructure in Amazonia, if carried out, will add to forces in the direction of increased deforestation.
Deforestation occurs for a wide variety of reasons that vary in different historical periods, in different locations, and in different phases of the process at any given location. Economic cycles, such as recessions and the ups and downs of commodity markets, are one influence. The traditional economic logic, where people deforest to make a profit by producing products from agriculture and ranching, is important but only a part of the story. Ulterior motives also drive deforestation. Land speculation is critical in many circumstances, where the increase in land values (bid up, for example, as a safe haven to protect money from hyperinflation) can yield much higher returns than anything produced by the land. Even without the hyperinflation that came under control in 1994, highway projects can yield speculative fortunes to those who are lucky or shrewd enough to have holdings along the highway route. The practical way to secure land holdings is to deforest for cattle pasture. This is also critical to obtaining and defending legal title to the land. In the past, it has also been the key to large ranches gaining generous fiscal incentives from the government. Money laundering also makes deforestation attractive, allowing funds from drug trafficking, tax evasion, and corruption to be converted to "legal" money. Deforestation receives impulses from logging, mining, and, especially, road construction. Soybeans and cattle ranching are the main replacements for forest, and recently expanded export markets are giving strength to these drivers. Population growth and household dynamics are important for areas dominated by small farmers. Extreme degradation, where tree mortality from logging and successive droughts and forest fires replace forest with open nonforest vegetation, is increasing as a kind of deforestation, and is likely to increase much more in the future.
Controlling deforestation requires addressing its multiple causes. Repression through fines and other command-and-control measures is essential to avoid a presumption of impunity, but these controls must be part of a broader program that addresses underlying causes. The many forms of government subsidies for deforestation must be removed or redirected, and the various ulterior motives must be combated. Industry agreements restricting commodity purchases from properties with illegal deforestation (or from areas cleared after a specified cutoff) have a place in efforts to contain forest loss, despite some problems. A "soy moratorium" has been in effect since 2006, and a "cattle agreement" since 2009. Creation and defense of protected areas is an important part of deforestation control, including both indigenous lands and a variety of kinds of "conservation units." Containing infrastructure projects is essential if deforestation is to be held in check: once roads are built, much of what happens is outside the government's control. The notion that the 2005–2012 deforestation slowdown means that the process is under control and that infrastructure projects can be built at will is extremely dangerous. One must also abandon myths that divert efforts to contain deforestation; these include "sustainable logging" and the use of "green" funds for expensive programs to reforest degraded lands rather than retain areas of remaining natural forests. Finally, one must provide alternatives to support the rural population of small farmers. Large investors, on the other hand, can fend for themselves. Tapping the value of the environmental services of the forest has been proposed as an alternative basis for sustaining both the rural population and the forest. Despite some progress, a variety of challenges remain. One thing is clear: most of Brazil's Amazonian deforestation is not "development." Trading the forest for a vast expanse of extensive cattle pasture does little to secure the well-being of the region's rural population, is not sustainable, and sacrifices Amazonia's most valuable resources.
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By Mary Slosson
Oct 12 (Reuters) - One year after anti-Wall Street protests began rocking the streets of Oakland, police said on Friday they had fired or suspended 17 officers after the demonstrations led to a record number of complaints against the department.
The Oakland Police Department came under intense scrutiny for its handling of the Occupy Oakland protests, with a federal judge in May calling for officials to deal with the backlog of complaints over police abuse or face sanctions.
Oakland police received 1,127 complaints, most of them stemming from three massive confrontations between police and protesters over the course of the Occupy Wall Street protests, according to a report by the department's Internal Affairs Division.
In a given year, the department receives a total of roughly 1,000 use-of-force complaints, said City of Oakland spokeswoman Karen Boyd.
Roughly a third of the use-of-force complaints occurred at a demonstration where a former Marine and Iraq war veteran, Scott Olsen, was critically injured after an Oakland police SWAT team member fired a beanbag round that hit him in the head, according to an independent report on the incident.
Protesters have said Olsen was hit by a tear gas canister fired by police.
Forty officers have been disciplined by the department so far, with two officers fired, 15 suspended and others receiving a mix of written reprimands, more training and one demotion.
"We are managing a delicate balance between protecting the first amendment rights of protesters, and protecting life and property when small groups of protesters engage in vandalism and violence," Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said in a written statement.
An independent review of the events published in June complimented Jordan for making improvements to the problem-riddled police department his highest priority.
Oakland police officials announced in April that the department was making significant changes to how it trains officers to control large crowds following criticism of its handling of the Occupy protests.
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Sunday, February 01, 2009
Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Our last Saturday coffee-and-doughnut hour for the year, and the last Saturday I have to rouse myself in the middle of the night to bake a not-doughnut something. (Sometime I will try doughnuts, I think). I asked for suggestions, and I got some good ones. Melinda thought I should make some "easy-peasy" homemade Danish. I asked her what planet she lived on. Oriana sent me a good-sounding recipe for bran muffins, which actually did look easy, and I could have made them ahead of time, but I feared two hours of jokes about bowel movements if I made something with bran (or prunes for that matter). Maura sent me some fabulous recipes, one for sunny-side-up apricot pastries made with homemade puff pastry, which she also described as easy. This makes me realize that many people have a different definition of "easy" than I do. Maura also sent me directions for baking dozens upon dozens of kolache, which she herself has done--with multiple fillings. I wish that Maura would become my personal baker. Finally, she suggested sour cream coffee cake, which seemed perfect. Besides, I love it. Now Maura said she'd had good luck with the recipe from The Silver Palate, and I should have just used that recipe, no questions asked, but I started thumbing through cookbooks and decided to try the recipe from The New Best Recipe, which had four eggs, a cup and a half of sour cream, and nearly two sticks of butter, plus pecans, brown sugar, and cinnamon. How could I go wrong?
I didn't exactly go wrong, but I didn't exactly go right either. The Best Recipe coffee cake is mammoth, and I took it out of the oven after an hour because I feared burning. It might have been perfect if I had kept it in for just five minutes more, but it was ever so slightly underdone. That is, it was not perfect. If I'm going to get up at 6:30 on a Saturday, I want perfection!
The batter was lovely, rich, and silky, and it gave me high hopes. It was easy to layer the batter and the streusel, but it ended up nearly filling the bundt pan. (The directions said to use a tube pan, but not one that came apart, like an angel food cake pan, so the bundt pan seemed the only option).
In making the streusel, I came scarily close to using curry powder instead of cinnamon, probably because I was operating on only one cup of coffee, so I spent quite a bit of time trying to imagine what a curry powder streusel might taste like and wondering if I could possibly convince people that I'd done it on purpose, and it was all the rage in New York. I decided no.
One reason I like baking bread better than anything else is that it's not so fussy about the precise moment it's done. Five minutes either way, and no one's the wiser. But pastry and cakes--they're spoiled children. Take them out one minute too soon and they're squishy and spongy. Leave them in one minute two long and they burn or dry out.
The directions for this coffee cake are to bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Usually my convection oven, even set 25 degrees lower than recommended, gets things done early. I checked the cake after 50 minutes, and a lot of batter clung to the knife. Eight minutes later, it seemed to be good.
After it cooled a bit and I up-ended it on a plate, I had my doubts. It just didn't look quite solid enough. But I'd passed the point of no return, and I figured that everyone else was on their first cup of coffee so they wouldn't be that observant. Just don't mention that it might not be quite done, I instructed myself. Apparently I routinely ignore my instructions because I announced that it wasn't done to anyone who would listen. They didn't seem to care.
It was our neighbor Doug Logeland's birthday on Saturday, so he got a candle on his slightly underdone coffee cake.
Cook's Illustrated Sour Cream Coffeecake
3 3/4 ounces unbleached all-purpose flour
5 1/4 ounces sugar
3 1/2 ounces dark brown sugar
2 T. cinnamon
2 T. cold unsalted butter
1 c. pecans, chopped
4 large eggs
1 1/2 cups sour cream
1 T. vanilla
11 1/4 ounces unbleached A-P flour
8 3/4 ounces sugar
1 T. baking powder
3/4 t. baking soda
3/4 t. salt
12 T. unsalted butter, softened, cut into 1-inch cubes.
1. Streusel: Place flour, sugar, 1/4 cup of brown sugar, and cinnamon in a food processor and combine. Transfer 1 1/4 cups of this mixture to a small bowl, stir in the remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar, and set aside (streusel for inside cake). Add butter and pecans to remaining dry ingredients in food processor. Process for about 10 pulses. Set aside (streusel for top of cake).
2. Cake. Put oven rack to lowest position and preheat to 350. Grease 10-cup capacity tube or bundt pan. Combine eggs, 1 cup sour cream, and vanilla in medium bowl.
3. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in mixer for about 30 seconds at low speed. Add butter, 1/2 cup sour cream and mix until moistened. Increase speed to medium for 30 more seconds. Decrease speed and incorporate egg mixture in three additions. Increase speed and beat for one minute and mixture becomes aerated and pale in color.
4. Add 1/3 of batter too pan, and smooth evenly. Sprinkle with half of streusel filling. Repeat with batter and streusel. Top with remaining batter, spread evenly, and top with the streusel topping with the nuts.
5. Bake until cake feels firm to the touch and toothpick comes out clean of batter (sugar may cling to tester), 50 or 60 minutes. Cool cake in pan for 30 minutes, then invert on plate. (You can also re-invert so streusel will be on top).
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- jini said...
well it LOOKS fabulous marie and doug the birthday boy seems pleased with it too. i suspect you are a pretty severe critic of your own work. give yourself a break....:)
i do think you should try some easy peasy danish next year, but make it the day before!
- breadbasketcase said...
Now truthfully, Jini, if you make a piece of jewelry that doesn't quite meet your expectations, do you just say, oh what the hell, maybe no one will notice? Are you back from Tucson?
- evil cake lady said...
Hey I made a sour cream coffee cake last night! However mine was gluten-free and it had apples in the middle; a lot like Rose's recipe. I have the same compulsion to announce to everyone exactly what I think is wrong with the cake I baked. Why do we do that?
- Melinda said...
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- Melinda said...
Well, it doesn't look bad, in fact it looks good. I bet it was delicious.
That is a lot of cake batter in the bundt pan! My only criticism would be, why do you use a knife to test your cakes? To me, it is a bit too big to test with. A bamboo skewer would be better for testing. (Don't tell me...they don't sell bamboo skewers in fly over land!)
Jeannette and I made Danish pastries on our day baking course in Bath with Richard Bertinet. They were not so hardy pardy.
How funny it would have been to make a curry enhanced cake. I would pay to see the look on your guests faces.
Do you get to sleep in next Saturday?
- Doughadear said...
I had trepidation about suggesting a bran muffin for your get-together for the reactions they may elicit, after all your January gathering is about sharing coffee and something decadent so your coffee cake was a good choice. From here it looks pretty good and I am sure everyone thought so too.
I too tend to tell my guests if the dish prepared is not quite right and each time I tell myself to keep my thoughts to myself as they would probably not notice.
- breadbasketcase said...
I have a small knife with a tiny, very thin blade that I use only for testing. It works better than anything else I've used, including a bamboo skewer, oh, she-who-knows-all. Maybe someday I'll take a class on Danish pastry. They're just like croissants, only more so, right? Things like that are always much easier to do after you've made them once. I think I'll sleep until noon next Saturday!
ECL and Oriana,
Why do we do that? It's very annoying. I don't like it when other people do it because it seems like you're then obliged to give them a compliment ("Oh, no, it's not underdone at all--it's just perfect!") The reason I was so concerned about the coffee cake getting overdone is that when I made Rose's wonderful apple sour cream coffee cake last year, there was a thin layer on the bottom that was burned, and I didn't want to repeat that mistake.
- Bunny said...
I don't think I've ever seen a tube (angel food cake pan) that didn't come apart. I can understand your apprehension about burning it after what happened to the other cake. It does look and sound like a great cake and hopefully the next time you make it, it'll be right on for you.
- Melinda said...
Do you really think I know it all? I really don't. But if you like that knife, you use it! (but it didn't seem to work so well on that deep batter, did it? I'm just saying...)
Can you get rid of the duplicate comment? I didn't do that...what happened?
- breadbasketcase said...
I know, I thought it was odd to specify a one-piece tube pan--the book had a picture of what looked like an angel-food cake pan, not a bundt pan, so apparently they exist. I will just have to keep making sour-cream coffee cakes until I get them right!
Ha. Touche!
Here's what happened--I stuck my thin little knife in the cake, and it didn't come out clean, but the book says that sugar may stick to the knife even when it's done. I examined the knife to see what exactly was clinging to it and decided it looked more sugar-y than batter-y. So it was a mistake of judgment, not a fault of the piercer.
I removed the duplicate comment but now I'm afraid people will think I took umbrage at something you said.
- Melinda said...
Thank you. We know there is no umbrage. X
- Goody said...
Well, lava cakes are basically under-baked and look how popular those things are. I tend to bake in the other volcanic style, that is spewing ash. I have to think lava is preferable.
If you'd made the cake with yoghurt instead of sour cream you might have been able to pull off that curry thing.
I never would have been able to get such a huge cake out of the pan in one piece-it certainly looks beautiful.
- breadbasketcase said...
You are just filled with good ideas. I never thought of calling it a lava coffee cake (or a coffee lava cake). I wish someone else were brave enough to try the yogurt/curry cake; I'm still thinking it might not have been a total success.
I'm glad that yours turned out okay - they say that it keeps cooking in the pan, so perhaps that finished the job? I made this coffeecake yesterday, side by side the Pecan Sour Cream Coffee Cake from Cook's Country, and this one was fabulous! Soft, delicious yummy inside with tons of good topping. It was the overall favorite and will definitely be making a reappearance in my house. Oh so good! I used a 6 cup tube pan and divided the recipe by two.
The cook's country recipe was also very good, and very different, so it earned a repeat status too :) It has toasted tiny pecan pieces inside, so the cake part was delicious, but the glazes were kinda boring so next time I'm gonna make less batter and top it with another streusel I loved from King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking where the cake part was too wheaty but the streusel was heavenly. Anyway, the recipe that you posted was just perfect as written and needed no adaptations, and I would highly recommend it to anyone!


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Friday, December 4, 2009, 10:35 PM - MachinimaNearly half a decade ago I took up a bit of blogging to tell a tale from the lowly perspective of a guy who finally landed a job teaching what he loved most. Machinima. A lot has happened since I took up the blog in 2005 as can be read here; sometimes a bit boldly in the archived text, and sometimes hidden between the posts. The old is out, and the new is in! I'm starting this blog over, and gearing it back to a production log, as I originally intended it to be.
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NEW YORK (AP) — What a difference a year makes.
This time last year, Emily VanCamp was hoping and praying her ABC series "Revenge" would be a success. It was — and regularly won its time slot.
Now she's gearing up for the show's second season, premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT.
"I was wondering what was going to happen with the show and, oh gosh, I remember just trying to repress the stress so much," VanCamp said in a recent interview. "You just want to focus on the work and not pay too much attention to all that stuff, but you're putting so much of yourself into it, and the fact that it all paid off and that it did so well has been kind of extraordinary. It's been a crazy year to say the least."
VanCamp plays Emily Thorne, a young woman out to get even for her father's death. She infiltrates a wealthy community in the Hamptons to take down the people who betrayed her family.
Like her character, 26-year-old VanCamp is a private person who prefers to remain a bit of a mystery to the public. She doesn't like to talk about her personal life (although she's rumored to be dating her "Revenge" co-star Josh Bowman) and says she's trying to come to terms with the public's interest in her life now that she has a hit TV show.
"We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life," she said. "I've managed to do that for 10 years in this business.
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On this joint right?
This joint all about getting closer to your dreams man
Shout out to my nigga Jordan man
Kinda inspired me to do this
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[Verse One: Los]
I know I write a lot of raps about how my attires fly
Though material items are not what I'm inspired by
Got a keen intuition and vision provided by
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I'd be telling a lie if I ain't feeling expensive shit
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I'm convinced it nothing short of a miracle
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In theory, archaeologists set out on their digs with specific goals in mind. They want to find out when a site was occupied and what people were doing at that time. They also want to know the bigger picture: how did people at the site they are digging interact with those living elsewhere?
In practice this does not always mean that they know what they will unearth. In that regard, I have often compared archaeology to fishing; people tend to go where they think they will catch (or, in the case of archaeologists, find) something. The discovery described below is a good example of this.
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Cambridge University professor John MacGinnis recently commented on one of his finds, a small clay tablet with cuneiform writing on it. The tablet, which dates back to the final years of the Assyrian Empire, was found at the site of Tushan in Southeast Turkey. This site is known today as Ziyaret Tepe; several archaeological teams have undertaken excavations there.
The tablet contains a message written by an Assyrian army commander facing imminent danger from invading Babylonian forces. His message is a raw plea for help. "Death will come out of it! No one will escape! I am done!"
What is this all about?
The year is 630 BC and Tushan, considered to have been the administrative capital of the northern province of the Assyrian Empire, is threatened by the Babylonians. From the brief cuneiform text, it appears that the citizens knew all too well this was happening. Many fled, among those specialists in weapons manufacturing. This is what caused the commander to lament: "Nobody mentioned in this letter, not one of them is here! How can I command?" His premonitions proved to be correct: the city fell.
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Yet the Assyrians had had a great run for a long time. Centered on the capital city of Ashur (Assur), located on the west bank of the river Tigris in northern Mesopotamia, the Empire's roots date back to 1800 BC. Its zenith occurred during the 13th century BC, during the reign of king Tukulti-Ninurta I (1244–1208 B.C.). As with all empires, decline eventually set in and by the time we reach 630 BC, the Assyrian Empire was but a shadow of its former self. The Babylonians were systematically conquering them.
Through this tablet, we get a glimpse of what people experienced at that time. Archaeologists value this highly: when we read history, we often forget that real people were part of these events and that to them these developments were more than just of academic interest. To me, this cry for help still packs a punch, even after more than two and a half millennia have gone by.


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I got several emails the other day from some guys I hadn't heard from in a very long time. Tom, Mike, Jeff and I played a game you may have heard me mention before, Avara.
Briefly, Avara was a real-time, fast paced multiplayer 'Mech' fighting game. You piloted a H.E.C.T.O.R. (Kind of a Star Wars Chicken Walker-like mech) in an arena against up to 5 other players. You could play mecho y mecho or team against team. There was also a social aspect to Avara and you hold conversations with other players while looking for a game to join. The social side led to the formation of clans: groups of players who would join a team game in support of each other. Tom, Mike, Jeff and I were members of a clan called Geezers. One of the prerequisites for joining our clan was that you had to be over 30. There weren't many guys lining up to join our clan, but there were enough of us, and we were good enough to be a reckoning force in the world of Avara.
Anyway, those emails released a flood of fond memories of a past were I spent more time than I care to admit hurling insults and grenades at those darn kids in the other clans, and it got me wondering if I could, in some loose way, replicate the feel of Avara using GameCenter and whatever multiplayer games the are available.
It didn't take me long to find Air Wings, an air battle game from that longtime Apple-centric game maker, Pangea.
Like Avara, Air Wings is fast paced. In Air Wings, however, you don't chicken-walk your way to victory or defeat, instead you swoop around a defined arena in anything from a paper airplane to a quadracopter, grabbing power-ups and blasting your opponent into so much digital dust.
Upgrades lets you choose your airspace to battle in
What's fun about Air Wings is the weapons you use. Spitballs, suction-cup darts, firecrackers suspended from parachutes, even guided missile-pencils. These appear above flashlights, just swoop in to replenish your supply, and tap the weapons icon to select how you want to hurt your challengers.
I can't emphasize how much fun this game can be. When you get an opponent who is equal to your skills the dogfights can be intense. Few battles last more then a few minutes so even while you may know the arenas how you deal with your very very human opponents is different with each play. I like that.
The Dart is the basic plane, but it's a good one
Air Wings is free and has ads that can be removed with the purchase any game packs, which include a selection of aircraft or arenas. You don't have to buy anything to play and enjoy the game however. (Thanks Pangea)
The basic game include one plane (The Dart) and one level (They call it Training, but I'll call it The Library). If you are challenged by players with access to more levels you get to play in whatever level he or she chooses. The advantage is that your opponent knows the landscape and where all the good power-ups are.
Settings allow you to adjust the control sensitivity, turn of the training dialog, and turn on or off voice chat and Spectator Cam. Voice chat is exactly what it sounds like. In the game to can talk to, or taunt, you opponents. This adds to the game socially, but I've only used it once. You have to press the mic icon to use it and the game is too fast paced to be yakking.
Cruisin' looking for a bruisin'
The Spectator Cam, however, is a nice use of screen mirroring in iOS. If you have an Apple TV you can send a spectator view of the arena. the camera angle changes to show the action while you view on your device remains the same. It's a slick way to show others what's going on.
There are many multiplayer games available for iOS, but few offer the free-for-all dog fight action Air Wings delivers. I like that you can play the game fully without dropping a single dime, and beyond the ads, Pangea isn't obnoxious about insisting that you pay like so many other freemiums games out there.
Speaking freemiums, the other game I want to talk about this week is Bounty Bots, this one from Munky Fun.
If you've played Overkill or Archtype then you have a pretty good idea how to play Bounty Bots. In simple terms, you pick a bot, weapon it up, then go into an arena where others are already playing and blast anything that moves. The difference in Bounty Bots is the bounty, cash you collect while hunting your opponents. When you get shot you lose health points and coins. Get hit enough and you are taken out of the arena an must pay to get back in. You also lose all the loot you've collected to the bot that shot you.
My meager bot is about to meet its maker
The graphics are cute and there's no bloodshed since robots are doing the battling, so this one may be safer for younger players. The controls are pretty basic too. Horizontal aiming is all you get.
Get enough coins and you can upgrade weapons, armor and the look of you robot. And that's where the "Free" part ends and the "Premium" part begins. If you really want to do well in this game then you'll need to deck your bot out with better weapon, armor, and at least a small offering to Narcissus, and to do well you'll need to spend well.
$99.99? Really?
I'm all for people making a buck, but charging $100 for in-game upgrades? I won't get on my soapbox. Suffice it to say that you can choose not to pay and still play.
OK, that's a wrap for this week. Be sure to check out the App of the Week, FlightBoard. It displays flight info from any terminal in the world. Pretty cool.


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After the initial nonresident deer permit drawing in May, the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism had approximately 4,000 permits left over in 11 deer management units for the 2012 season.
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Michael Mann's international cyber thriller has quietly begun filming in Los Angeles.
Raja Productions US recently pulled various permits for "camera tests" at various locations around Los Angeles for the untitled Michael Mann movie known as "Cyber." Mann, a director and producer on "Cyber," previously filmed in the area with HBO's racetrack drama "Luck," which shut down last year in the wake of three horse fatalities.
This week a small crew from "Cyber" was set to film at the JW Marriott Los Angeles hotel at L.A. Live. Previous locations have included the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Alexander Avenue and the corner of 6th and Catalina streets, according to film permits.
PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments
The Legendary Pictures film tells the story of American and Chinese authorities collaborating to crack a high-level computer hacking operation.
Set for release next year, the movie stars Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis and prominent Chinese actors Wei Tang and Leehom Wang. Parts of the film also are expected to shoot in Hong Kong, marking the latest example of collaboration between China and Hollywood filmmakers eager to penetrate the burgeoning Asian film market.
"Cyber" is among several lower-budget features shooting in L.A. So far this year, feature film activity is up 16% compared with the same time a year ago, while television production is up 22% and commercial production has climbed 5% higher, according to permit data compiled by the Los Angeles Times.
The data, from the nonprofit group FilmL.A. Inc., track location filming -- that which occurs on noncertified soundstages and L.A. city and county streets.
Ancient forests evoke look of future with 'After Earth'
TV movie shoots get inside track at 'Irwindale Speeway'
HBO series out of 'Luck' with series shutdown
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Furthermore, Patrick Fournillier invests himself in contemporary Musical Creation, by conducting numerous new pieces, from which a lot where World's Premieres : Maurice Ohana, Ivo Malec, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Henri Dutilleux, Marcel Landovski,
Philippe Hersant, Iannis Xenakis, Tristan Murail, Philippe Leroux,
Paul Méfano, Jean-Louis Petit, Bruno Mantovani, Bernard de Vienne, François-Bernard Mâche, Renaud Gagneux, mais aussi Luciano Berio, Padovani, Carlo Galante, Hans-Werner Henze...
He is particularly interested in a close collaboration with composers while creating a new piece.
While pursuing an international carrier of invited conductor, he is nominated Music Director of the Saint-Étienne Opera in 1988 (until 2004). That year, he revives Massenet's Amadis, and records it with the Paris Opera's Chorus and Orchestra. Acclaimed by all international medias, this recording wins the "Orphée d'Or" Prize for "The Best Recording of a French Composer". As a follow up to this huge success, he funds the Festival Massenet in Saint-Étienne, the birth city of the composer. From the Festival creation in 1990 up until now, we owe him numerous rediscoverings of this great composer's operas and oratorios, amongst those most of which where recorded: Cléopatre, La Vierge, Esclarmonde and Gri-selisis (each of them won the "Orphée d'Or" Prize), Le Cid, Cendrillon, Hérodiade, Chérubin, Don Quichotte, Thérèse, Le Roi de Lahore, Panurge.
In 1991, Riccardo Muti invites him to conduct Auber's La Muette de Portici at the Ravenna Festival (Italy) and he !con-ducts Tosca at La Fenice in Venezia.
Then he realizes the world's 1st recording of Haydn's Cantata Applausus, which wins various prizes, including the famous "Diapason d'Or". Recordings of Gounod's Sapho and two recor-dings of French opera arias are to follow : one with the american tenor Rockwell Blake and the other one with Natalie Dessay. Both recordings win numerous and prestigious awards, including the "Grand Prix du Disque".
From 1996 to 2001, Patrick Fournillier is nominated as head of the Symphonic Orchestra Arturo Toscanini of Parma (Italy), where he holds both Music Director and Artistic Director functions. Notably preparing for 2001 Verdi's year celebrations, he commemorates the composer's death through various events : a Sacred Music pro-gram made of unpublished pieces from Verdi, performed in World's Premiere, the Rigoletto-La Traviata-Il Trovatore trilogy and La Battaglia di Legnano.
In 1999-2000, his engagements include the United States, Germany, Egypt, with two different productions of Aida in front of the Cairo Pyramids, and the Ravenna Festival in Italy. After Faust in 1997, he returns at La Scala di Milano for the World's Premiere of the new version of Undine by contemporary composer Hans-Werner-Henze.
In 2001, he recorded Lakmé, with the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Outlines from 2002 to 2012: Patrick Fournillier conducted at the
Opéra des Flandres (Werther, Les contes d'Hoffmann), at the
Berlin DeutscheOper (Lucia di Lammermoor, Semiramide), in
Oslo (Dialogues des Carmélites, Carmen, Thaïs), in Torino (Don Quichotte, Carmen), in Genova (Lucia di Lammermoor), in Zurich (Carmen), in Nice (Werther with Rolando Villazon making his debut in the role), in Genova (Aida), in Munich (Werther with Piotr Beczala), etc. In the symphonic repertory, he tours with various Symphonic Concerts in Moscov, Kiev, Saint-Peters-bourg, Amsterdam, Roma, Torino, Praga, London and Vienna. He also conducts a recital with José Van Dam.
In 2007, he conducted La Sonnambula for the opening of the lyric season in Verona, Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac with Placido Domingo in Valencia, Gounod's Faust with Jonas Kaufmann where he made his debut in the role in Zurich, Massenet's Manon at the Berlin StaatsOper with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, Bizet's Carmen at the Berlin DeutscheOper and Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust in Dresden SemperOper.
In 2008, he was invited again at La Scala di Milano to conduct
Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac with Placido Domingo, in Nice for
Massenet's Manon, in Munich at the Bavarian State Opera for
Werther with P.Beczala-V.Kasarova, at the Ravenna Festival for
Verdi's Traviata, in Stockolm for Saint-Saens's Samson & Dalila, at the Flandres Opera for Turandot, in Valencia for Iphigénie en Tauride with Placido Domingo, as well as in Roma, London, Leipzig, Praga, Budapest and Washington for Symphonic Concerts.
In 2009, Patrick Fournillier conducted in Roma (Santa Cecilia), the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hong-Kong. As for lyric repertoire, he was invited by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino to conduct I Pagliacci working with Franco
Zefirelli for a new production, as well as at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a new production of Cyrano de Bergerac with Placido Domingo and Nathalie Manfrino, at the Verona Arenas for a Gala Concert with Placido Domingo, at the National Opera of the Rhine in Strasbourg for a new production of Charpentier's Louise, at the Stuttgart Opera for a new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and at the Palau de Les Artes in Valencia for Manon and Symphonic Concerts.
In 2010, he conducts Adriana Lecouvreur at the Maggio
Musicale of Florence. At the Washington National Opera, Patrick
Fournillier conducts two new productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Hamlet and two Symphonic Concerts (Gala Concert with famous opera singers and Mahler Symphony n°2). He was invited to conduct Carmen at the Verona Arenas and in Stuttgart, Cyrano de Bergerac in San Francisco with Placido Domingo and Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera New York.
In 2011, he was seen in Stuttgart conducting Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor and Traviata, in San Francisco for Symphonic Concerts, in Torino for new productions of Rigoletto and Traviata, in Strasbourg for Hamlet, at the Dresden SemperOper for Carmen, at the Varsovia Opera for Turandot and the New Year's Eve Concert, in Beijing for a French Music Concert with the National China Orchestra, in the Oman Sultanate for a new production of Carmen (1st season of the Royal Opera House of Muscat).
To start 2012, Patrick Fournillier conducted the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel Gala Concert with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra under the High Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen of Belgium.
Then, he was in the San Carlo of Napoli for two Mozart Concerts with the great pianist Aldo Ciccolini.
He was also leading various celebrations to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of J.Massenet, among which a new production of Thaïs in Valencia with Placido Domingo making his debut as Athanaël.
The Sultanate of Oman invited him again (after Carmen) for Aïda which was an enormous success.
In Warsaw National Opera, Patrick Fournillier was then conducting a new production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut staged by Mariusz Trelinski, with Amanda Echalaz and Thiago Arancam as well as the Gala concert of the Polish tenor Piotr Beczala to mark his 20 year career.
In January 2013, the conductor was in Oslo Opera for Don Pasquale. He was then back in Zürich Opernhaus, for a production of Car-men.
In April, known as a specialist of J. Massenet, he was asked to commemorate the 850th anniversary of Notre-Dame de Paris conducting his Oratorio La Vierge before to go to San Francisco for a production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann, staged by Laurent Pelly and with Natalie Dessay.
Patrick Fournillier was starting 2014 in Zürich, conducting a production of Les Pêcheurs de Perles, before going to Palm Beach for Il Barbiere Di Siviglia . He was then in Brussels to lead an exceptional concert (broadcasted worldwide and relayed in Web live) uniting José Van Dam, the singers of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the National Orchestra of Belgium. In Parma, he is conducting another production of Les Pêcheurs de Perles , and is in Los Angeles Opera for Massenet's Thaïs starring Placido Domingo.
2015 will bring him in Amsterdam for L'Étoile by Chabrier, in Bogotà for Rigoletto, in Barcellona for Carmen, in La Scala di Milano for Giselle, as well as in Paris, Roma, Prague, St Peters-bourg, Birmingham, London, München, Beijing, Montreal and Seat-tle for Symphonic concerts.
Well known and frequently named by the International musical me-dias, weekly french newspaper "Le Point" ranked PatrickFournillier as one of the "100 French People of the Year".


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Behind China's Switch to High-End Exports
As rising labor costs push manufacturing of T-shirts, jeans and the like out of China, the country has been able to offset that loss by grabbing the high end.
And nowhere is that on better display than the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
When the switch is flipped each night for the span's two-year artistic light show, the electricity flows...


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this is a very deep, yet confusing show.
I walk a road full of heavy burdens..laugh,and struggle with me:)
I really want a warm water penguin. Badly. Hopefully a biotech firm will start marketing them soon.
warm water penguin? are you talking about the penguin misato owns?
I walk a road full of heavy burdens..laugh,and struggle with me:)
Pen-pen is a sweet penguin, and does indeed love hot baths.
It's doodoo, baby!
How can I comment about such a classic, interesting and yes, sometimes confusing, anime in such a limited space? It is certainly in my top 10. It has elements of all sorts of different things, ranging from Shakespeare (Hamlet) to religion and sci-fi. The intro music is great. And yes, Pen Pen is cute.
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In anime I really didn't come across something as deep as NGE afterwards.Also I really liked how the different angels were kinda surreal. And I really hated Asuka.
I think threre is a thread like this already made and yes it was a very very confusing show with no real decisive ending and the psycological aspect was shitty as hell for me.
i haven't finish eva yet although i have seen episode 1 - 15 around 4-5x already i just cant be bothered. and i hate depressing animes
honestly i didnt finish watching shuffle! i just watched the good parts!
I found it to be complex and there some parts that got me thinking too much, but all in all I liked it. I also found it quite funny how angels were the one killing the world when angels are usually associated with heaven, good things, blah blah blah...also those children psychological aspects and breakdown were amusing as hell.
Eating Papaya, while landing my space ship
^you get it explained, why the angels kills every one
lololololol i am here...and now i r gone !
this is the 1st anime i watched i got it on dvd and have seen it like 100 times! and still dont quite understand the ending : /
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I loved Eva up to episode 25....then it took a turn for the worse...I mean, how the hell do you mess up such a great series so badly in the final 2 episodes? There was no final confrontation, no elegant battle music, no revelation, no surprises, just Shinji wailing 'Help me I want to die' for 20 mins. I thought epiosde 26 might rectify it, but it didn't...the last 5 minutes of ep 26 was all that made sense to me.
So I watched 'End of Evangelion' the first half was great, awesome battles, building up, perhaps, to a conclusion that made sense? Of course not. Somehow, they managed to screw things for a second time...Shinji becomes a God and decides to turn the human race into a pool of goo...yeah...then Asuka says she feels sick...the end.
this is my favorite series. i was quite young when i first saw it (it was my favorite even back then) so i didn't appreciate it, as much as i do now, until i saw it on [as] a couple of years later. that, of course, led me to buying the DVD box set. i've seen the series and movie over 20 times and it never gets old.
still, the question that's still bothering me is "who killed kaji?"
then Asuka says she feels sick...the end.
on a related note, if you listen to the commentary, there's speculation that that's asuka, rei and misato in the same body. if you notice her eyes, they're brown, the color of misato's eyes. and then she has bandages on her right (or is it left? please correct me if I'm wrong) eye and arm, the same parts in which rei had bandages at the beginning of the series. again, this is just speculation. only Anno really knows.
In a state fof Despair
For people who enjoyed the series and want some more, check out the doujinshi "Re-take." Although it's an H-doujin, it is very well done and in the same style as the Eva manga. The storytelling style is right on par with the anime. It basically picks up right where the series ended and keeps going. The art is exceptional as well.
Here is a promotional video:
You can download the translated doujin scans here:
(you've been warned about the adult content)
I really loved this anime. Was one of my first ever watched. When it got near the end i just tried not to strain my brain too much and just enjoy the action.


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With the tie finely balanced at 1-1 following the first leg in Spain, United struck first through an own goal by Sergio Ramos early in the second half but the game turned on its head after Nani was sent-off in the 56th minute for a high boot in a challenge with Alvaro Arbeloa.
The result completes a wonderful week for the Spanish giants following two wins over bitter rivals Barcelona and the visiting fans saluted coach Jose Mourinho as they target an historic 10th European crown.
Ronaldo had a relatively quiet game on his first return to Old Trafford since his £80m transfer in 2009 but the script was always written for the Portuguese forward to have the final say.
He may not have done so were it not for referee Cuneyt Cakir, who infuriated United with his decision to show a red card to Nani. The United winger appeared to be challenging for the ball and certainly meant no harm to Arbeloa, but the consequence of his dismissal was that the home side's gameplan, which had worked so well to that point, was ruined.
Sir Alex Ferguson made a hugely bold decision of only naming Wayne Rooney as a substitute for United, with Ryan Giggs making his 1000th career appearance in central midfield in the absence of Phil Jones with an ankle injury. Nemanja Vidic returned at centre-back in place of Jonny Evans after the United captain missed the first leg.
There were no such surprises in the Real Madrid line-up, with Gonzalo Higuain selected ahead of Karim Benzema to lead the attack as Jose Mourinho returned to his first choice starting XI having rested a number of players in the 2-1 win over Barcelona on Saturday.
Mourinho claimed this clash between two of the biggest clubs in the Europe would "stop the world" and stars past and present were in attendance at Old Trafford for this showpiece occasion, from Diego Maradona to Gareth Bale.
Ferguson called on the crowd to "turn up the volume" in his pre-match programme notes and Old Trafford was a cauldron of noise at the teams made their way out of the tunnel at the Stretford End, with the home fans unveiling a mosaic in support of their team.
As the team line-ups were read out, Ronaldo's name was greeted with an enormous roar from all sides of the stadium, the former United man looking choked as he patted his chest and raised an arm to acknowledge the reception.
Ferguson predicted an attacking game but set out to stifle Real and counter-attack, with his plan working almost perfectly in the first half as they restricted the visitors and came closest to opening the scoring.
United captain Vidic thought he had scored in the 21st minute but his thumping header from Giggs' corner rattled against the post before Danny Welbeck, admittedly in an offside position, mishit the rebound straight at Real goalkeeper Diego Lopez.
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But the hosts had to wait less than three minutes after the break to take the lead.
After Madrid defenders blocked two United shots in the penalty area, the ball landed at Nani's feet on the left. The Portuguese winger played the ball into the box and, after the faintest touch off Welbeck, Ramos could only turn it into his own net.
The turning point, however, came in the 56th minute when Nani was shown a straight red card by Turkish referee Cakir for a high foot in a 50-50 challenge with Arbeloa. On first viewing, it looked a harsh decision and it certainly left Ferguson and the United players fuming with the officials.
Mourinho responded to the man advantage by bringing on Modric for Arbeloa and the former Tottenham midfielder levelled the score in the 66th minute. After picking the ball up 30 yards from goal, Modric breezed past Tom Cleverley and struck a thunderous effort in off the post from 25 yards.
Three minutes later, Real Madrid took the lead for the first time in the tie. Higuain fizzed a low cross along the six-yard box and Ronaldo used all of his predatory instincts to slide in at the far post and end United's European campaign.