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'New format' Level seen for 2014
Review by Terry Duffy
The 40th - and final - version of the Youngstown Yacht Club Level Regatta played out last weekend on the Lake Ontario waters and in the Village of Youngstown, much to the delight of participants, visitors and organizers.
"It's been some weekend," commented main race organizer Pat Mackey of the Youngstown Yacht Club last Sunday as Level activities began to wind down on the YYC grounds. Mackey reported 188 boats competed in this year's Level and crowds in the 4,000 range had taken over the YYC and village over the course of the four-day event.
For YYC organizers it was one to relish and appreciate. The Level, over its 40-year existence, has become a happening that's essentially a labor a love for the YYC's membership. The same held true last weekend. "All the hard work of so many dedicated volunteers over that period was repaid with the way the final regatta went down last weekend," wrote Don Finkle, event founder/chairperson for an article that appeared in the July 31 issue of Scuttlebut Sailing News. "It was a wonderful time afloat and ashore and the competitors were most generous in their thanks. It was a fitting way to cap the event - we could honestly say we went out on a high."
So did the Village of Youngstown, which played host to the hundreds who attended this year's event. The fun got underway last Thursday, where people of all ages filled Main Street in the village to take part in the last Level Regatta Street Dance. Music from Gentleman's Quarrel, and the Jerry Andres Band with a little help from Annie DeFazio and Monte and Marcia Jones, had folks dancing all evening. Along with the dancing, there was food, drink and a chance to purchase Regatta items while visiting with friends and enjoying a delightful summer evening in Youngstown.
And the fun continued throughout the weekend, one that was marked by well-attended concerts all three days on the YYC grounds, along with brisk activity at area bars, restaurants, stores and businesses.
Sales of regatta gear were particularly heavy for the finale, according to Mackey. "We ran out," he said, noting that by Thursday evening virtually every item of the limited edition regatta apparel ordered for the final 40, including shirts, hats and assorted gear, had sold out and emergency orders needed to be placed with the supplier, Stuarts Sports Inc. of Lewiston. And those supplies vanished from YYC's shelves almost as soon as they arrived on Saturday, Mackey said. He added that YYC had met its regatta gear sales total, usually reached over the course of an entire weekend, in just one evening this year. "I can't even get a shirt, and I'm race director," he joked.
The event itself saw spirited sailing competition, marked by what many at the YYC termed the best sailing conditions experienced on the lake thus far this year. In fact, Saturday's winds became particularly tricky for an eight-meter vessel that nearly sank on a turn in one race. Preliminary race results in the IRC Division according to Yacht Scoring saw "Nobody's Business," a NM-43 skippered by Mark Lawless, and "Lake Effect," a J-111 piloted by Robert Hesse, finishing in a first-place tie with 11.0 points over five races. Other race results can be found at the Yacht Scoring website, atwww.yachtscoring.com.
So what's in store for the future? You'll have to wait and see, answered Mackey. "Everyone's been asking us that," he added. He said that, over coming months, YYC organizers will be busy evaluating the entire program. ""We'll be looking at classes; see what works, what doesn't."
Both Mackey and Finkle shared that future Levels would be smaller in scale to adjust to changing times, and likely become more class oriented. Changes? Yes. But in no way would the Level be going out of existence.
"We in Youngstown do not want to get out of the business of running regattas but the Level has a very well developed brand and we could not make any real changes without starting over again," Finkle wrote. "We decided to end the Level while it was still popular and go off in a different direction to re-energize the troops who do the work.
"There will be a new regatta here at YYC on the traditional weekend at the end of July in 2014. It will not be the Level, but it will be the best we can do under the new format. We are still working on details, so there will be no public announcement as of yet. But for those invited boats, it will be worth the trip to Youngstown."


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The iPad's big, friendly screen and instantaneous swipe control, not to mention its portability, make it an excellent tool for musicians, whether that's for laying down and mixing tracks, tuning a guitar or simply horsing around on a set of virtual bongos. With Blur frontman Damon Albarn recording the most recent Gorillaz album entirely on an iPad, it's clear that this isn't just for amateurs - Apple's tablet and it's associated apps have opened up a whole new world for musicians.
The selection of music-based apps available is huge so we've trawled iTunes for the pick of the bunch. Without further ado, here are the best iPad apps for musicians.
Originally a Mac OS application, GarageBand was ported over to iOS for the launch of the iPad 2 and is probably the most well-known iPad music apps, as well as being a great all-rounder. Using a whole bandful of virtual instruments - including piano, guitar and drums - GarageBand can be used as a virtual studio for laying down multiple tracks. You can even plug an electric guitar in to record some genuine riffs, while the on-board microphone can be used to capture your warblings.
The beauty of this app is that it's so easy to use, making it ideal for beginners. Priced at just £2.99, this one is an absolute steal.
Pianist Pro
You might recognise this popular piano app from the Apple TV ads - it's the one that enables you to tickle the ivories without even having to lift a piano lid, thanks to its mind-bogglingly reaslistic sound. The app also includes a drum machine and an arpeggiator - a feature that automatically steps through an arpeggio of notes (meaning the notes of a chord, played separately).
Pianist Pro supports MIDI control of external synths and you can even choose from a selection of scales (such as pentatonic or natural minor) or create your own, then swipe the screen to play back the notes in any key. All very clever stuff and a bargain, at just £2.99.
Piano Accordio Pro
Taking the piano idea one step further, this fun yet functional app recreates the experience of playing an accordion, without the need to invest in your own squeezebox - all you need to shell out is £2.49. Like the real thing, there's a keyboard on one side and a button arrangement on the other and if you've got a sturdy iPad dock, then you can even play the app with the iPad standing up and facing away from you, for an even more realistic accordion experience.
The app enables you to scroll along the keyboard to change the key and you can also play along to music in your library. Pick your tune wisely, is our advice. There are some songs that really don't need to be heard on an accordion.
MiniSynth Pro
Ported over from the iPhone, MiniSynth Pro is a professional-grade virtual analogue synthesizer and is great for both beginners and seasoned musicians. The app includes all sorts of technical-sounding things such as "dual syncable oscillators" and "zero latency sound processing" but the intuitive interface helps to keep things manageable.
The app also includes USB MIDI support for external controllers. The price tag is currently reduced by 50%, making it just £2.99, so get in quick.
Korg iELECTRIBE
This clever app is based on the famous Korg ELECTRIBE-R drum machine, which first appeared in 1999. Converted for use on the iPad, the tablet version is known as the Korg iELECTRIBE and will set you back £13.99. The retro-tinged graphics mean that the app looks like the real thing to make it as intuitive as possible. The 16-step sequencer can be used to build your very own tune using up to eight different layers.
The best part is that you can share your finished work on SoundCloud (provided that you're a registered user).
Drum Meister Grand
This one is fairly self-explanatory - it lets you play the drums from your Apple tablet without the need to find the space to house a drumkit or to soundproof your home. Priced at just £1.49, Drum Meister Grand offers four different drum kit sounds - rock, jazz, dance and electronic - with a straightforward visual interface that puts you in the drummer's seat. There are 10 basic drum components and you can play 12 different sounds simultaneously.
You can add, remove or even resize components to find the most comfortable setup for your fingers and there's also an optional metronome to keep you in time. There are 40 pre-recorded beats or you can record and save your own concoctions.
This wacky app was partly inspired by the Haken Continuum Fingerboard, an equally bizarre MIDI instrument used on stage by Jordan Rudess - best known as the keyboardist from prog rockers Dream Theater. Like the real thing, the app is essentially a vertical grid-based instrument that assigns audio waveforms as visual shapes on the grid. These can then be morphed by tapping the screen, while you can also control the initial pitch of any note (you can control up to 10 notes simultaneously). You can also control lots of other elements such as vibrato and tremolo and choose from different scales and chords to assign to the playing surface.
All this can be yours for £6.99 and the good news is that even if you have absolutely no idea what you're doing, MorphWiz is still great fun to play with.
The iPad version of Yamaha's baffling Tenori-on instrument - famously used by electro popstrel Little Boots - looks very similar to the real thing. The 16 x 16 grid of buttons can be used to create tunes with the horizontal lines controlling time and the vertical lines dedicated to pitch. You can record up to 16 layers which combine to form rhythms and melodies. What's more, each sound makes the corresponding button glow, so you'll end up with a virtual light show that plays in time with your tune. On top of that, there are various modes that can be fired up to alter the results.
As well as being a tool for serious electro-tinged music, this one is also good fun to tinker with, even for non-musos and at £13.99, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the real thing, which will set you back several hundred quid.
Another app inspired by a weird musical instrument, this one is based on the Reactable - a round tabletop-based touchscreen invention, famously used by Bjork on her Volta tour. Like the real thing, the iPad app version combines sampling with modular synthesis, digital audio effects and combines them via multi-touch control. The app offers lots of flexibility from uploading your own loops and choosing from a large range of instruments to creating distortion, compresson and reverb.
You can also control basics like tempo and tone or delve further into the world of LFO (low frequency oscillators) with differing waveforms. Yours for £6.99.
Looptastic HD
If looping is your thing, then look no further. Looptastic HD (£10.49) enables you to create your own remixes using a catalogue of over 900 existing loops from styles including hip hop, dubstep and trance. The loops can be downloaded over the web from the Loop Store or you can record your own using the built-in microphone or import AIFF, WAV, or OGG files over a web connection.
You can also record your performance and export to Mac or PC as 16-bit stereo AIFF files or share your remix on SoundCloud. All loops are automatically time-stretched to fit the master tempo, so it really couldn't be any easier.
Studio Track
Studio Track is essentialy an eight-track recorder, in iPad form, meaning that budding songwriters can lay down tracks while on the fly. It's got all the usual bells and whistles that you'd expect, such as a metronome for keeping time and the ability to monitor and record playback levels.
Audio can be imported into the app via email attachment or by dragging them into StudioTrack's file sharing area under Apps in iTunes - WAV, MP3 and AIFF file formats are supported. You'll also be able to add effects such as reverb and delay to your vocals and instruments, making recording demos an absolute piece of cake. Not bad for £13.99
iShred Live
Designed for use with the Griffin GuitarConnect cable and the Griffin StompBox, this app enables you turn your Apple tablet into a portable guitar rig. The basic offering includes a pedal board sporting a Q-36 space modulator, HK-2000 digital delay (with tap tempo) and buzz kill. You can also switch between clean and overdrive channels and there are six preset effects along with the option to create up to 48 of your own, which are split into eight colour-coded banks.The app is free to download, and you can beef up the basic offering through a selection of in-app purchases including a super fuzz pedal, variable waveform tremolo and a compressor pedal.
This is a great app for indulging in a little bit of guitar time without having to setup your full-size rig and it's worth downloading for the guitar tuner alone. There's also a four-track loop recorder on board.
Not to be confused with Griffin's StompBox iPad accessory, this app enables you to turn your Apple tablet into a digital effects unit for your guitar. Along with a guitar tuner, metronome and loop recording tools, StompBox also includes a rack of 17 stereo effects, along with seven types of distortion effect (including overdrive and fuzz). Once you've built up your own library of patches, you can switch between them using the virtual pedal.
The built-in media player enables you to load up your favourite MP3s to play along to and you can even slow them down, without changing the pitch. You'll need to attach your axe with an iRig, which will set you back about £26, while the app itself has a price tag of £13.99.
Guitarist's Reference
An invaluable point of reference for any guitarist - beginner or pro - this useful app is a one-stop shop for all your axe-related musical theory questions. There's a guitar chord encyclopedia containing over 3000 of the most commonly used chords, including easy to read diagrams, as well as a guitar scale reference with 42 scale types - major, minor, pentatonic, or diminished - they're all here. You'll also find a guide to arpeggios along with a list of the most popular alternate guitar tunings.
On top of all that, there's a reverse chord finder tool for finding out the names of the chords that you've come up with and there's also support for both left- and right-handed players. An absolute bargain at just £3.99.
What's your favourite music app for the iPad? Let us know in the comments box below.


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What Adults With HIV Infection Should Know About the Novel H1N1 Flu (Formerly Called Swine Flu)
January 22, 2010
This update provides new information about vaccination and treatment of HIV-infected adults affected by the 2009 H1N1 flu.
Are people with HIV/AIDS at greater risk than other people of infection with the 2009 H1N1 flu?
At the present time, we have no information about the risk of the 2009 H1N1 flu in people with HIV/AIDS. In the past, people with HIV/AIDS have not appeared to be at any greater risk than the general population for infection with routine seasonal influenza. However, HIV-infected adults and adolescents, and especially persons with low CD4 cell counts or AIDS, can experience more severe complications of seasonal influenza. It is therefore possible that HIV-infected adults and adolescents are also at higher risk for complications from infection with the 2009 H1N1 flu virus.
What can people with HIV/AIDS do to protect themselves from the 2009 H1N1 flu?
HIV-infected patients should take precautions to protect themselves from the 2009 H1N1 flu.
HIV-infected persons should maintain a healthy lifestyle; eat right, get enough sleep, and reduce stress as much as possible. Staying healthy reduces your risk of getting infected by influenza and other infections. Staying healthy also helps your immune system fight off a flu infection should it occur.
If you are currently taking antiretrovirals or antimicrobial prophylaxis against opportunistic infections you should adhere to your prescribed treatment and follow the advice of your health care provider in order to maximize the health of your immune system.
What are the symptoms of 2009 H1N1 influenza?
Symptoms of infection with 2009 H1N1 influenza are generally the same as for seasonal influenza: fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, headache, body aches (muscle aches or joint pain), chills and fatigue. Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting associated with 2009 H1N1 flu. Not everyone who has flu will have a fever.
What should people with HIV/AIDS do if they think they may have the 2009 H1N1 flu?
HIV-infected people should do the same things as they would do for routine seasonal flu -- contact your health care provider and follow his or her instructions. He or she will determine if laboratory testing or treatment is needed.
If you are sick, stay home and keep away from others as much as possible. This is to keep from making others sick. If you have flu, you should stay at home for at least 24 hours after you no longer have a fever or signs of a fever (have chills, feel very warm, have a flushed appearance, or are sweating). This should be determined without the use of fever-reducing medicines (any medicine that contains ibuprofen or acetaminophen).
If you need to go to a doctor's office, to an emergency room, or to any other healthcare facility to be evaluated, cover your mouth and nose with a facemask if a facemask is available and tolerable, or cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. Let the office staff know you are there because you think you might have the flu.
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Is there a vaccine against the 2009 H1N1 flu virus?
Yes. A vaccine to protect against 2009 H1N1 has been produced. CDC is now encouraging everyone 6 months and older to get vaccinated against 2009 H1N1 at this time including those people 65 years and older. Vaccination against 2009 H1N1 is particularly important for people with HIV because they are more likely to get serious flu-related complications if they get the flu. Those people living with HIV infection who have not yet gotten vaccinated against 2009 H1N1 should get the 2009 H1N1 flu shot now. (People living with HIV infection shout not get the nasal spray vaccine.)
Is there a particular kind of flu vaccine that people living with HIV should get? Are there flu vaccines that people living with HIV should not get?
For both seasonal flu and 2009 H1N1 flu, there are two types of flu vaccine available. People living with HIV should get the "flu shot" -- an inactivated vaccine (containing fragments of killed influenza virus) that is given with a needle, usually in the arm. The flu shot is approved for use in people living with HIV.
The other type of flu vaccine -- nasal spray flu vaccine (sometimes called LAIV for "live attenuated influenza vaccine") -- is not currently approved for use in HIV-infected persons. This vaccine is made with live, weakened flu viruses that do not cause the flu. LAIV (is approved for use in healthy people 2-49 years of age who are not pregnant.
Should HIV-infected people get the seasonal flu vaccine?
Yes. Vaccination against seasonal flu using the inactivated form of the vaccine (shot) is recommended for all HIV-infected adults regardless of age.
Will the seasonal flu vaccine also protect against the 2009 H1N1 flu?
The seasonal flu vaccine is not expected to protect against the 2009 H1N1 flu. Similarly, the 2009 H1N1 monovalent influenza vaccine will not protect against seasonal influenza.
Is there treatment against the 2009 H1N1 flu for people with HIV/AIDS?
Yes. The 2009 H1N1 flu virus is sensitive to two antiviral drugs: oseltamivir and zanamivir. HIV-infected adults and adolescents with suspected flu infection (including 2009 H1N1 flu) should contact their health care provider to determine if antiviral treatment is needed. Treatment is most effective if started within 48 hours of symptom onset. Please check the CDC website frequently for updates in recommendations for antiviral treatment.
See additional information on treatment of the 2009 H1N1 flu.
When should people with HIV/AIDS be prescribed antiviral medications for the prevention (also called "chemoprophylaxis") of the 2009 H1N1 flu?
Antiviral chemoprophylaxis generally should be reserved for people at higher risk of influenza-related complications who have had close contact with someone likely to have been infected with influenza. As an alternative to chemoprophylaxis, clinicians can also choose to counsel people at higher risk for influenza-related complications about the early signs and symptoms of influenza and advise them to immediately contact their healthcare provider for evaluation and possible early treatment if clinical signs or symptoms develop.
Please check the CDC website frequently for updates in recommendations for antiviral chemoprophylaxis.
Are the medicines used to treat and prevent infection with the 2009 H1N1 flu virus safe for people with HIV/AIDS?
There is not a lot of information on the interaction between antiviral medications used to treat flu and antiretrovirals used to treat HIV infection. No adverse effects have been reported among HIV-infected adults and adolescents who received oseltamivir or zanamivir. There are no known major drug interactions between oseltamivir or zanamivir with currently available antiretroviral medications used to treat HIV infection. If you are prescribed oseltamivir or zanamivir and think you might be having a reaction to the drug, contact your health care provider.
How else should people with HIV/AIDS prepare?
Stay informed. Health officials will provide additional information as it becomes available on the CDC website and Flu.gov. You can also call 1-800-CDC-INFO for additional information.
Consult your doctor and make sure all your vaccinations are up-to-date, including vaccination against seasonal influenza and vaccination against bacterial pneumonia caused by the Streptococcus pneumoniae. Bacterial pneumonia from Streptococcus pneumoniae can be a problem for people with HIV/AIDS and can also cause complications for people who have the flu. The vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae is different than the vaccine from the influenza vaccine.
Follow local public health advice regarding infection control, avoiding crowds and other social distancing measures based on illness in specific communities.
If you haven't developed a family emergency plan yet, consider developing one now as a precaution. In particular, make sure to keep your antiretroviral prescriptions and other prescriptions filled and up-to-date and to take all of your antiretrovirals as prescribed.
What is CDC doing about the 2009 H1N1 flu for people with HIV/AIDS?
CDC, in coordination with state and local health departments and with WHO is working aggressively to understand the epidemiology of this novel 2009 H1N1 flu and determine if it affects HIV-infected people and people with other immunocompromising conditions differently. As additional information about the situation become available, the CDC's recommendations may change. Please check the CDC H1N1 Flu website frequently.
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descartes' statement cogito ergo sum is just a tiny piece of this long history... the 3 words themselves aren't that important.
Emma_85: Was Discours de la Méthode insufficient proof of Descartes' own existence? (Why is his use of the first person a problem for you?)
The table in front of you for example probably exists, but you can't prove it, you can't even tell me exactly what the table is, all you know of it is that at the moment in this light and with combined with your personal experiences what your impression of it is.
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Microsoft Strips Key Features from Office 2007, Vista
With Adobe Systems threatening a lawsuit over a new feature in Microsoft Office 2007 that would have allowed users to save any document in Adobe's PDF format, Microsoft now says it will simply drop the feature. But Office 2007 isn't the only major Microsoft product to shed its features in recent weeks. The company recently revealed it would also drop an eagerly anticipated feature from Windows Vista and downplay another previously hyped feature.
Regarding Office 2007, Adobe and Microsoft had been talking contentiously over the past several weeks about the feature, a PDF conversion tool, for which Adobe wanted Microsoft to pay a licensing fee. Microsoft isn't interested in paying for the feature, however, and is now considering offering the PDF conversion tool to Office 2007 users as a free download instead.
Adobe is still expected to take legal action against Microsoft in the near future. "Microsoft has a monopoly and we are always concerned about the possibility that they might abuse that monopoly," an Adobe spokesperson said recently, alluding to the PDF discussions. The company says it hasn't yet decided whether to sue, but European Union (EU) antitrust officials have already weighed in, publicly stating that the spat is an intellectual-property issue, not a competitive one.
What's interesting about this whole debate is that Adobe normally licenses Adobe Acrobat PDF for free, and other Office suites, including those from Corel WordPerfect and OpenOffice.org, offer PDF integration already. Additionally, several free PDF conversion tools already are available and work natively with Microsoft Office products. So why would Adobe want to prevent Microsoft from making this functionality available from within Office?
Many are speculating that what Adobe is really upset about is Microsoft's new XML Paper Specification (XPS) format, which competes with Adobe Acrobat. In addition to providing PDF-like services to Windows Vista, however, XPS also forms the basis of the Vista printing subsystems. According to reports, Adobe wanted Microsoft to charge customers for both PDF and XPS export from Microsoft Office applications.
Not coincidentally perhaps, XPS is on the chopping block now in Vista. Although this technology will still be used under the covers as the basis for Vista's printing subsystems, (and Microsoft does plan to offer XPS functionality via a Web download to Vista users), XPS export and viewing functionality won't be included by default in any Vista versions. PC makers that bundle Vista on their machines will have the option of installing that functionality for users. It's unlikely that many PC makers will opt to do so, a fact that Microsoft freely admits.
Meanwhile, Vista is also losing a major feature, PC-to-PC sync, which Microsoft Co-President Jim Allchin described to me back in January as one of his favorite Vista features. "You really can leave all your documents on a server and use cached copies on the client," he said. "It's just synchronizing the files when you make changes, as needed."
It's unclear whether PC-to-PC sync will appear later, perhaps as a Web download update to Vista, or in a future Windows release. Typically, when Microsoft drops features from the Windows version currently in development, those features get lumped into the next release. Microsoft has indicated that it will be releasing more frequent Windows updates going forward, though it hasn't yet specified how it will deliver those updates.


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February 15. 2013 12:30AM
LANCASTER - State police are searching for a man they say may have stolen three Jeeps in Vermont and New Hampshire on Thursday.
Police said a 2004 Jeep Liberty was reported stolen at the Top of the Hill store in Dalton Wednesday afternoon. At the same time, a 1998 Jeep Cherokee left at the store was reported stolen earlier Wednesday in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
At 6:10 p.m., another person reported their 2002 Jeep Cherokee stolen while at the Jiffy Mart store in Lancaster. The Jeep Liberty stolen in Dalton was left at the store.
Police described the man suspected of the thefts as white, 5 feet, 11 inches tall, about 200 pounds with a stocky build, dark hair and a beard. He was wearing jeans, a light-colored T-shirt with the words "Tractor Supply" on it and a dark knit cap with a lighter band.
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Following a visit by Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan yesterday, Russian media claimed once again that the S-300 anti-aircraft systems are imminently being delivered to Tehran -- only to have the Defense Ministry issue a rebuttal.
Reports today from RIA Novosti , RT.com and other state outlets sourced in the Iranian general staff indicated that tomorrow, February 18, the first batch of the S0300PMU-2s, known as in Russian were heading from "a port in Astrakhan to Iran," and that the Iranian defense minister himself would even take part in a closed send-off ceremony.
But in a statement to the press, a Russian Defense Ministry source told TASS:
The contract was concluded in 2007, but in 2010, then-President Dmitry Medvedev halted them due to UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
But it's not just the Russian media today; it's been Russian officials for the last 6 months who keep implying that the S-300s are already shipped -- starting with Vice Premier Dmitry Rogozin, who is in charge of the military and space programs, and various state defense contractors.
Rogozin said last year that Iran had dropped its $4 billion dollar lawsuit against Russia as a result of "long, difficult and subtle" negotiations, a TASS reported, which paved the way for the delivery; President Vladimir Putin then said he was lifting the embargo since the nuclear deal had been made.
But then the specifics became vague, and in recent months, Rogozin and others have made either vague or misleading statements about the S-300s delivery, which then have been picked up by the Western press. Here's the stories we have run since November:
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Feb. 2, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The No. 20/21-ranked Florida State women's basketball team welcomes Clemson for its annual "Barefoot for Bare Feet Game" on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Donald L. Tucker Center.
The game will air live on ESPN3.com and head coach Sue Semrau and her staff will coach barefoot in an effort to call attention to the 300 million children in the world who are at the risk of disease, infection and death due to not owning a single pair of shoes.
This is the fifth straight year FSU has held a "Barefoot Game" in conjunction with Samaritan's Feet and the Noles are 3-1 all-time in these games.
"Giving back has always been an important part of this program," Semrau said. "It's about more than basketball, and it's important to educate student-athletes on the importance of helping others. We have been given so much and this is one small way that we can bring awareness to a worthy cause. We have partnered with Samaritan's Feet for a number of years. It's a tremendous opportunity to put shoes on the feet of children that don't have any. The Seminole family appreciates your support."
All fans who donate a NEW pair of shoes will be admitted to the game for free and be in the running to win an autographed basketball. Fans can also donate money at Coach Semrau's Samaritan's Feet donation page HERE.
Samaritans Feet is a non-profit organization founded by Emmanuel Ohonme in 2003. Their mission is to equip ten million impoverished children with ten million shoes in ten years. Since beginning in 2003, Samaritan's Feet has helped 4 million people in 60 countries. They also have partnerships with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and SAAC (Student Athlete Advisory Committee).
The Seminoles are coming off a 72-62 loss at No. 11 North Carolina on Thursday night. FSU erased a 19-point first-half deficit with nine minutes to go in the game when senior guard Alexa Deluzio buried a three to put the Noles in front 53-52. The Tar Heels answered with a 10-2 run however and pulled away for the win.
Deluzio (16 points), Leonor Rodrigeuz (18 points) and Natasha Howard (12 points, 11 rebounds, four blocks) all scored in double figures for the Garnet and Gold.
"I was really proud of the way our team battled one of the top teams in the country on their home court," Semrau said. "We've got to take that into this game and know that every game in the ACC is vital. Clemson is coming off of big game and we're looking forward to facing them Sunday."
Clemson is coming off a 47-37 win at Virginia Tech on Thursday night and holds a record of 6-14 overall and 2-7 in the ACC.
Florida State has won eight straight against the Tigers by an average of nearly 19 points (18.8 ppg) and has victories in 19 of the last 20 matchups.
For more information on Florida State women's basketball, follow the Seminoles on Twitter @FSU_WBasketball and like their official Facebook page.


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In a presentation at Duke University in late-March, Nobel economist and University of Chicago professor, James Heckman concluded that:
The optimal policy towards disadvantaged children is to invest much more than we currently do in the early years of childhood
The reasons are intuitive to any parent, but are backed by compelling data: important cognitive (i.e. reasoning) and non-cognitive skills such as motivation and application are learned early in life as the brain matures. Neuroscientific evidence suggests that at around eight years of age the brain changes and that by this time it is critical that children have acquired basic reasoning and emotional skills essential to later education and development.
Far too often disadvantaged children – those from low-income households – fall behind early and don't get these essential skills. Policy efforts in adolescence and high school struggle to recover the lost ground. This struggle only further highlights the critical importance of investment in young children, especially those from low-income households.
As legislators consider adjustments to the 2009-2011 North Carolina budget, they would do well to consider the wisdom that Heckman has to offer – the best social scientists have to offer – on how to improve the productivity and wealth of North Carolina. Before considering more tax breaks for corporations or ill-conceived highway projects in the name of economic development, legislators should aim to prioritize spending on early childhood. Spending on early childhood is an investment that offers individual and social returns, including economic returns, of an order that is unlike any other government spending.
We know from data that has followed cohorts of children who received a high quality education versus cohorts who did not receive pre-kindergarten education that disadvantaged children who received a quality pre-kindergarten education are sigificantly less likely to commit a crime, be arrested, to have been unemployed for more than two years or have ever been on welfare by age 40. At age 27 those having that quality pre-K education earn significantly more than those who do not. The returns on one dollar invested in a young child can reach eight dollars by middle-age when investment is targeted at children and families in-need and is literacy-focused.
In short, investing in the education of young children saves money that would be spent later on justice, corrections and welfare payments and boosts future tax receipts and working force productivity. In tough economic times with tight budgets, efficiency and high returns are to be prized. Investing in young and disadvantaged children is as good as economic development gets.


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Air Force Maj. John Wilson climbed out of the cockpit Tuesday morning after his sixth and final flight to become a certified instructor for the F-35, the military�s newest stealth fighter jet.
EGLIN AFB � Air Force Maj. John Wilson climbed out of the cockpit Tuesday morning after his sixth and final flight to become a certified instructor for the F-35, the military�s newest stealth fighter jet.
His procession through the Air Force�s new F-35 training school at Eglin Air Force Base was of particular significance. Air Force evaluators sent to assess the new program followed Wilson and fellow fighter pilot Maj. Matt Johnston through the course, which they both completed Tuesday.
After another pilot�s flight scheduled for Wednesday, the evaluators will draft a report to decide whether the school can open its doors as a training facility for F35 pilots.
Wilson, 33, said it was a blessing and an honor to be a part of setting up a training program for the new aircraft.
�It�s great being on the ground floor of something new,� Wilson said after his flight. �They�ll look back on what we did and use that to set the foundation for other programs. That opportunity only comes along once in a generation.�
The F-35 was introduced to replace the F-16, a fighter jet developed after the Vietnam War.
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The outside evaluators came to the school last month to follow four students through the rigorous academic program, simulation exercises and their first flights.
On Tuesday, they saw Wilson and Johnston, 34, become the sixth and seventh men to complete the program and become certified F-35A instructor pilots.
They join an elite rank. Only 21 men from the Air Force and Marines now are certified to pilot the F-35.
The 33rd Fighter Wing, which oversees the training program, was able to complete the evaluation faster than expected � in three-and-a-half weeks instead of six.
The command staff said they anticipate the school will pass the test.
�I think we�ll see very positive results with how fast we went through this,� said Lt. Col. Lee Kloos, commander of the 58th Fighter Squadron and an F-35 instructor who participated in the evaluation.
He trained Wilson and Johnston and flew behind them as they completed their certification flight Tuesday.
Kloos said the work of the maintainers who make sure the $70-million aircraft are flight-ready has been integral in moving the program along so quickly.
�If they can�t provide aircraft, we can�t train the pilots,� he said.
When the first F-35s arrived in the summer of 2011, only about 10 people knew how maintain them, said Senior Master Sgt. Eric Wheeler, superintendent of the 58th aircraft maintainer unit. Today, 100 maintainers are qualified.
�We�re proud,� Wheeler said of his maintainers. �Day to day they pretty much amaze me with what they can do.�
They keep six F-35s ready to fly each day while providing regular maintenance and upkeep on three additional jets. That has helped the program to ramp up its operations quickly, Kloos said.
The 33rd Fighter Wing flew its first F-35 sortie in March. At that time, it was able to run only two sorties a week. Now it flies six a day all week long when conditions permit, and marked its 500th flight last week.
Col. Andrew Toth, commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing, said evaluation of the academic program went really well, and the students felt prepared for their first flights.
�When they got into the aircraft they were comfortable with the process and procedure and ready to go,� he said.
After the flight scheduled for Wednesday, evaluators should complete an initial report within two weeks. The report will work its way up the chain of command to the desk of Gen. Edward Rice, commander of the Air Force�s Air Education and Training division.
Rice either will give approval for the school to start training its first class or say it must make improvements.
�My experience is we might have a few minor (improvements), but we will be ready for training when Gen. Rice gives us the go-ahead,� Toth said.
The first class is set to come through the school in January.
Other branches of the U.S. military and international students also are going through F-35 training at the school. Toth said he is �extremely proud� of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who have worked to build and establish the new program.
�To see it grow from where it was hard hats here a couple years ago to a fully functional operational organization, it�s hard to put it into words,� he said. �It�s really a leap forward.�
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Lynch expected to hold out from Seahawks camp
RENTON, Wash. (AP) Marshawn Lynch isn't expected to be present for the first day of the Seattle Seahawks' training camp, close friend and former teammate Michael Robinson said Thursday.
Appearing on NFL Network, Robinson said he spoke with Lynch and Seattle's star running back plans to hold out of the camp that begins Friday.
"I really think he just wants his position in the organization and how they view him, he just wants that recalibrated a little bit," Robinson said on NFL Network. "He's been the face of the franchise, he's been the face of the organization."
At dispute is Lynch's contract. Lynch can make up to $5.5 million this season in base pay and roster bonuses. It's the third year of a four-year contract Lynch signed with Seattle before the 2012 season.
Lynch nearly skipped June's mandatory minicamp because he wants the final two years of his contract reworked. He ultimately showed to avoid a hefty fine, but did not participate with what coach Pete Carroll said was an ankle issue. Lynch was not present for Seattle's organized team activities during the offseason.
Seattle's plan is to make sure Lynch is healthy for the season opener against Green Bay on Sept. 4, which would mean a very light load of carries during training camp and the preseason.
Even though the Seahawks staff expressed during the offseason getting more carries for reserves Robert Turbin and Christine Michael, Carroll reiterated during minicamp that Seattle's run game begins with Lynch.
"We have rested him a lot in the offseason. He takes a big pounding during the year. It takes him a long time to get his body back to where he doesn't feel the rigors of the season that's past," Carroll said in June. "In this case it's unique but he is a unique player and he has a unique role on our football team, so we have to do what we have to do to take care of him."
Robinson said he believes that Lynch will eventually play this season.
"I think Marshawn will be playing football this year. I don't know how they're going to get it done, I don't know how they're going to make it work but that team is not the championship team that they can be without Beast Mode," Robinson said.
Lynch can be fined for missing training camp and he's shown the past being adverse to losing money via fines. Last season, Lynch begrudgingly began speaking to the media during the playoffs in an effort to avoid hefty financial penalties from the league. That included memorable sessions during Super Bowl week where he answered questions for about 20 combined minutes during three days of league-mandated media availability.
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On September 10, 1886, Hilda Doolittle was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She attended Bryn Mawr, as a classmate of Marianne Moore, and later the University of Pennsylvania where she befriended Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.
She travelled to Europe in 1911, intending to spend only a summer, but remained abroad for the rest of her life.
Through Pound, H. D. grew interested in and quickly became a leader of the Imagist movement. Some of her earliest poems gained recognition when they were published by Harriet Monroe in Poetry.
Her work is characterized by the intense strength of her images, economy of language, and use of classical mythology. Her poems did not receive widespread appreciation and acclaim during her lifetime, in part because her name was associated with the Imagist movement even as her voice had outgrown the movement's boundaries, as evidenced by her book-length works, Trilogy and Helen in Egypt.
As Alicia Ostriker said in American Poetry Review, "H.D. by the end of her career became not only the most gifted woman poet of our century, but one of the most original poets—the more I read her the more I think this—in our language."
Neglect of H. D. can also be attributed to her times, as many of her poems spoke to an audience which was unready to respond to the strong feminist principles articulated in her work. She died in 1961.
Selected Bibliography
Sea Garden (1916)
The God (1917)
Translations (1920)
Hymen (1921)
Heliodora and Other Poems (1924)
Hippolytus Temporizes (1927)
Red Roses From Bronze (1932)
The Walls Do Not Fall (1944)
Tribute to the Angels (1945)
Flowering of the Rod (1946)
By Avon River (1949)
Helen in Egypt (1961)
Hermetic Definition (1972)
Trilogy (1973)
Notes on Thought and Vision (1919)
Paint it Today (written 1921, published 1992)
Asphodel (written 1921-22, published 1992)
Palimpsest (1926)
Kora and Ka (1930)
Nights (1935)
The Hedgehog (1936)
Tribute to Freud (1956)
Bid Me to Live (1960)
End to Torment (1979)
HERmione (1981)
The Gift (1982)


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Play a classic game of hot pursuit as you try to keep your bank robber one step ahead of the law.
Contributed by Joshua J. Slone (4672) on Mar 07, 2007.
- For 1 or 2 players. 2 skill levels.
- Each player has five thieves! One thief robs the bank vault at a time. Run into a cop & he's "caught"!
- Keep picking up the gold. Get extra points for getting to the "treasures"!
- Slam doors & get cops off the trail. Trap police between 2 doors for bonus points.
Use your JOYSTICK CONTROLLER to play LOCK'N' CHASE on your Atari® Video Game System or Sears Video Arcade System.
Content: One LOCK'N' CHASE game cartridge and playing instruction.
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LOCK 'N' CHASE cartridge
A super maze game for one or two players. Move your player through the maze, collecting gold bars and treasures. But beware of the police! You can slam doors to help in your escape as you maneuver your man to accumulate points.
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Sep 20, 2003.
A fast-action chase game as you maneuver your thief through the maze, picking up coins and other treasures. Billy-club swinging cops are in hot pursuit, but you can temporarily escape them by locking gates behind you. The longer you survive, the more valuable the treasures become. One or two players.
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Sep 18, 2003.
LOCK 'N' CHASE cartridge
- Get points for picking up gold coins and other treasures. Go for the highest score! Play alone or challenge a friend.
- Lock doors to escape from Police! Lock them in the corners for bonus points!
- Start with five thieves. Get another when your score hits 20,000.
Contributed by Corn Popper (69379) on Aug 19, 2003.
Your thief is robbing the local bank! Four police officers are hot on his trail! Grab gold coins & treasures on the run! Keep one jump ahead of the law! When the cops close in ...lock a door ...make tracks in another direction. Run smack into a cop & you're "caught"! There's nowhere to hide!
Police are chasing down the thief! Lock doors to block their way. Pick up gold coins on the run. Don't get cornered!


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I'm trying to help a girlfriend through some dual-number juggling.
She's got a month-to-month plan with VZW that she'd like to keep the number for. She's been using a Droid Bionic for a while, which she wasn't happy with due to dropped calls. (I updated to JB for her, it wasn't clear if the call quality was phone hardware, VZW coverage, or what...) This number is attached to a shared plan. ($50(+10 for each line), 2GB/400mins which she splits with one sister.)
She's now got a RazrMaxx with a work number. It's a work number that used to be associated with a colleague at a second office out of town, so it's a number that is valuable... but not one she really wants to use for personal calls. I'm not sure if her boss is OK with that number being ported/forwarded to the office phone/voicemail system 24/7. I'm quite sure it's on a contract term, but not sure for how long. She doesn't even want to think about suggesting that he do anything with the contract, but I think porting this number to GV could be a good option.
I'm not super familiar with US phone system stuff, but I do have a cursory knowledge of the ups and downs of GV.
The scenarios I'm imagining as solutions to the two-phones problem:
- scenario a:
*72 call-forward all work calls to the office phone system, and deactivate the call-forwarding to answer them directly during business hours or any other time when she thinks she'll want to answer the call directly from the Razr.
Port the personal VZW number to Google Voice. Set up SMS/MMS forwarding to e-mail, and lose the ability to send MMS, but theoretically catch most MMS pictures from at least Sprint/VZW users via e-mail. (Her family is on VZW.) She doesn't send a whole ton of MMS messages, but e-mailing to a SMS number isn't hard to learn.
- Scenario B:
Port the work number via a number-swap (swap the personal number onto the work account, port the work number to GV. Might have issues breaking the number out of the family plan, but there shouldn't be...)
Use the phone as a personal phone (on a work account, settling up extra charges with her boss), use GV call-forwarding to receive calls during work hours, otherwise send them to the office system/VM.
- Scenario C:
Don't port anything, but:
set up a GV account with a new number.
forward the work number via *72 whenever she doesn't want to answer it.
forward the personal number via *72 to the new GV number, and make/receive calls using the GV app on the Razr. Personal account stays intact, though she can reduce the data package cost and just make sure she has enough minutes. (She has an old Samsung feature phone she could put back on the number)
If you've got a number forwarded via *72, does the phone have to be turned on and receive the call in order for the network to forward it, or will the forwarded call still work even if the number can't ring?
Anyone with experience receiving VZW MMS messages through GV SMS-to-email? I know Sprint-originating MMS is supposed to work 100% of the time, and VZW-originating MMS *might* not ever work...
How simple is the interface for forwarding calls in the GV app? Is it going to be easier to set up a script that will dial *72+[number]?


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In the online instructions for the script that creates the TSQLTutorJoins sample database from my earlier columns, I recommend that you use osql.exe to run the script from the command prompt. To demonstrate why, I'm basing this month's column on RAISERROR and a cool trick I learned about using the RAISERROR statement's state parameter. Using a special value for the RAISERROR state parameter, you can force the termination of a complex script and prevent its execution in the wrong database.
RAISERROR has three primary components: the error text, the severity, and the state. The error text can be either a hard-coded or parameterized message or an error number from a permanent user-defined message. To create your own permanent messages, see SQL Server Books Online (BOL) about how to use the system stored procedure sp_addmessage.
Severity has several defined levels. Developer-defined errors range in severity from 1 to 16, with 16 being the most common and the default. However, not all severities work the same way. Table 1 shows the severity categories, how they display messages in Query Analyzer, and how they're optionally logged in the Event Viewer's Application log. To log messages to the Event Viewer, you can use WITH LOG in your RAISERROR statement or create the permanent message by using sp_addmessage with the with_log parameter set to 'TRUE'. The latter choice will write every occurrence of this error to the Event Viewer's Application log, even if RAISERROR doesn't specify WITH LOG. The simplified RAISERROR syntax is
RAISERROR (error, severity, state) WITH LOG
For example,
RAISERROR ('Test Severity 16', 16, 1) WITH LOG
returns the following error to the messages window in Query Analyzer:
Error Number Info Server: Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Error Text Test Severity 16
The first line is the Error Number Info, as Table 1 describes. Query Analyzer doesn't display this information for severity 10. The display color changes from black for severities 1 through 9 to red for 11 and higher. The sample script in Listing 1 shows additional syntax and ideas for using RAISERROR, including using multiple languages and parameterization. For more information about using RAISERROR and the various severities, see BOL under the following topics: Error Messages, Error Message Severity Levels, RAISERROR, Using RAISERROR, FORMATMESSAGE, and xp_logevent.
In addition to severity, RAISERROR also supports a state. Many object-creation scripts create a database and then tables, procedures, and so on within the newly created database. But what if the script didn't create the database properly? All the additional objects (e.g., tables, procedures) would be created in your default database, which for systems administrators might be master. Creating all your user-defined database objects in the master database is exactly what you don't want, so when you're scripting an automated process, you can include a value for state that terminates the script if a fatal (by your definition) error occurs.
However, setting the state value doesn't always appear to terminate the session. Applications such as Query Analyzer might automatically reconnect when a connection is broken. So, to fully see the benefit of the state option, you need to use a tool such as osql.exe, which doesn't reconnect automatically after a connection is broken. Here's a way to test the state option. From the command prompt, type
osql -E -q"RAISERROR('Test Severity 16', 16, 1) WITH LOG"
This code returns
Test Severity 16 1>
and you remain in osql.exe. Running the following line from a command prompt:
osql -E -q"RAISERROR('Test State 127', 16, 127) WITH LOG"
returns the error message
Test State 127
and returns you to the command prompt, exiting from osql.exe. If you use osql.exe to raise an error with a state of 127 after a database creation fails, the error state terminates the connection and consequently, the rest of the script, so that you don't create objects in the wrong database.
At the beginning of the database-creation script TSQLTutorJoins.sql, available from the "Download the Code" link at the top of the page, is the following code:
IF DATABASEPROPERTYEX('TSQLTutorJoins', 'COLLATION') IS NULL BEGIN RAISERROR ('The TSQLTutorJoins database WAS NOT created. more error info...', 16, 127) END
If the database isn't created, the connection is broken and the object-creation part of the script doesn't execute. I set it up this way to let you determine what the errors are (e.g., out of disk space, incorrect path) before the remainder of the script executes. Without this code, if the database creation fails and the script continues, it would create all the test objects in your default database.
When you're automating scripts, terminating execution on a severe error can be extremely useful. By raising an error with a high severity, logging it to the Event Viewer's Application log, and more important, raising it with a state of 127, you ensure that no script objects are created in the wrong database. Additionally, by logging it in the Event Viewer's Application log, you have an audit trail of the event.


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30 Holiday Gift Ideas For Movie, TV And Gaming Junkies
Tis the season for scressing out—yes, scressing—while searching for the dopest gifts for loved ones. Well, if that person is someone obsessed with movies, music, TV and/or video games, your hunt just got a bit easier. Scroll through these pop culture stocking stuffers and look out for VIBE's full gift guide next week. No, your presence is not a present.


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The term "Photoshopping" has these days become synonymous with photo manipulation. But the practice is much older than the computer software — about as old as photography itself.
An exhibition now on display at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art is exploring just that: The collaging, cutting, pasting and coloring that preceded digital photography.
"You know, we don't necessarily believe that every photograph ... is truthful," says Curator Diane Waggoner, explaining how digital tools have changed the way we see photography. "So this seemed a very timely exhibition, to go back and explore that throughout the history of the medium."
But in a sense, people have always kind of known that photography isn't entirely truthful. In the earliest days, some manipulation was certainly tolerated, if not preferred.
Take 19th-century French photographer Gustave Le Gray, for example. The technology available to him would have made it hard to get both the clouds and the foreground of landscape properly exposed. No problem; he'd grab the clouds from one negative and the beach from another, and combine them to make the perfect scene, and everyone was happy.
"Many of the earliest manipulated photographs were attempts to compensate for the new medium's technical limitations, especially its inability to register color," the exhibition language reads.
"But of course, when you actually saw what [the camera] produced, there were distortions, there were problems," Waggoner elaborates. "So it was understood that you might do certain things in order to make a photograph look more like what you saw in real life."
As photography became more widespread, artists like the surrealists began experimenting. Photo manipulation was also a tool for propaganda.
"The falsification of photographs was notoriously widespread in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin," the exhibition language reads. A famous series of photos, doctored over time, shows the slow, chilling disappearance of men from Stalin's inner circle — from four party officials in the original image to one.
The exhibition raises questions about truth in photography. Is there such a thing? Even if you don't physically alter the image, isn't composition itself a form of manipulation?
"Sometimes a photograph can be posed because it excludes something," film director Errol Morris once said. "Isn't there always an elephant just outside the frame?"
Once again, you're listening to WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.
If you run a Google search on the term grumpy cat, you'll find endless variations upon a single photograph of a scowling feline. People have taken that one shot and added text, changed the background, superimposed the kitty's face onto people. It's the latest Internet meme to fill up inboxes everywhere. We're in a golden age of manipulated photography. But as a traveling exhibit shows us, it's been here all along.
DIANE WAGGONER: This is sort of an alternative history of the medium to show that - really from the very inception of photography - all kinds of manipulations have been done.
LYDEN: Diane Waggoner is the associate curator of photography at Washington D.C.'s National Gallery of Art. And I joined her this past week to get a look at an exhibit down from New York's Metropolitan Museum called "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop." Photography was introduced to the world in 1839. And by 1850, shots were already being altered.
WAGGONER: We're looking at a picture of a young girl. She's wearing an off-the-shoulder, beautiful gown. And they've painted her cheeks and lips and...
LYDEN: Actually, it looks pretty modern.
WAGGONER: Exactly. Well - and so what they've done is they've hand-tinted it not only to sort of give her cheeks this lovely blush and give her some color but also, they probably smoothed away a few wrinkles, you know, made her look as beautiful as she could be. This was a typical practice already from the very beginning.
LYDEN: So even then, a model would be what we would today call airbrushed.
WAGGONER: Exactly.
LYDEN: More beautification. Some photographers took liberties with their shots to get around the medium's limitations of the time. French photographer Gustave Le Gray found that with his landscape portraits, it was tough to get the clouds and the sky to look as solid as the land. So when he finally got a bold, rambunctious shot of the clouds, he just clipped it out, saved it and reused it. Why not?
Diane Waggoner points out two different photographs of two different beaches with identical clouds overhead.
WAGGONER: I mean, that would've been typical. They would've kept a stock of cloud formations on hand. In fact, it's very likely that the cloud formation was taken in another place.
LYDEN: Right. And nobody minded because you were buying a landscape portrait, really. Yeah.
WAGGONER: Right. Well, the understanding was that this kind of manipulation was done in order to make the image look more like you saw in real life, which there would've been a desire for it.
LYDEN: And then, of course, we come to the advent of home photography. If you think you've seen it all on Facebook, wait for 19th century humor.
WAGGONER: With the introduction of the snapshot camera by Kodak in 1888, suddenly, photography begins to be accessible to amateurs. And, of course, people wanted to do fun things with their cameras. And one of the kind of tropes that you see coming up around that time is images of people with their own heads, images of decapitation and beheading.
LYDEN: Wow, there's a whole collection here.
WAGGONER: And there's a whole - a number of examples here. You know, here's a man juggling several shots of his own head.
LYDEN: Of his own head.
WAGGONER: This man's holding his own head on a platter. This man's just cut his own head off. And, of course, they painted in red on the knife to show the blood.
LYDEN: Oh, my goodness. We are endlessly macabre as a species.
And our macabre doesn't end there because we moved next to a room labeled Politics and Persuasion. This is where photography gets really ethically questionable. I'm drawn toward a fascinating, if chilling, series of shots from Leningrad, 1926.
WAGGONER: The original photograph is of Stalin with four other party officials. That's Stalin there, just the second from the left, and in the middle is a man named Sergei Kirov.
LYDEN: But as you look down the wall, four versions of the photograph have been retouched. Each time, someone is eliminated from Stalin's inner circle like Nikolai Antipov.
WAGGONER: He was executed. And he, of course, disappears from the picture.
LYDEN: As was another who used to be at Stalin's side. And in the final photo, only Stalin and Sergei Kirov remain.
WAGGONER: Kirov had actually already been killed. Although his murder was orchestrated by Stalin, he was held up sort of as a martyr. So he remained in the picture while others fell off.
LYDEN: The entire exhibit gives the viewer a tremendous sense of the photographer's consciousness behind the camera of hands long gone but cleverly and sometimes diabolically or lovingly altering reality.
WAGGONER: It's very germane to our own time because now with Photoshop being so widespread, there's such an easy understanding of what you can do to photographs. In fact, you know, our sort of understanding of photography has changed with the advent of Photoshop. You know, we don't necessarily believe that every photograph you see is truthful. So this seemed a very timely exhibition to go back and explore that aspect throughout the history of the medium.
LYDEN: Diane Waggoner curates the exhibit "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop." It runs through May 5 at Washington, D.C.'s, National Gallery of Art and then goes on to Houston. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Best Place To Stock Your Backyard Henhouse
Under a new city ordinance, Sacramento residents are now allowed to keep up to three egg-laying hens in their backyard. Which raises the question: Where exactly do you buy egg-laying hens? Answer: BRADSHAW FEED & PET SUPPLY. Located on a dusty stretch of Bradshaw Road about 15 minutes outside town, this old-fashioned country store carries 35 to 40 chicken varieties, including standard breeds such as Rhode Island Red, White Leghorn and Ameraucana, and so-called "fancy" breeds like Golden Polish, Mottled Houdan and Sumatra. The baby chicks ($1.25 to $5 apiece) are housed by the dozens in deep, glass-fronted drawers. Once you make your selection, a staffer pops your chicks into a brown paper bag, gives you a care sheet and sells you everything you need to get started as an urban chicken keeper: heat lamp, pine shavings, chick waterer, food, etc. The payoff comes five or six months later, when your chickens start laying eggs. 7285 Bradshaw Road, Sacramento; (916) 369-8225
Best Modern Furniture
Interior designer Curtis Popp is not about to tell you what to think of his Soft Side Table, the first offering from his CPOPP WORKSHOP. He will say, however, that the 18-by-18-inch round wooden table with three brightly colored legs is "approachable but not stuffy." We definitely agree on both counts: The warm walnut or white oak tabletop, with green, blue, orange or yellow legs, illustrates that Popp knows how to put the fun in functional. He sells the tables exclusively through his website, though he's been approached by retailers wanting to carry the line. There's also been interest from renowned hotelier Ian Schrager, and the table was featured in the Sunset Idea House this fall. Next up for CPopp Workshop: a coffee table version of the Soft Side Table. (916) 207-9106; cpoppworkshop.com
Best New Florist
Philip Rice was still in high school when he started working for a florist in Colusa. After the shop closed in 2009, he decided it was time to move to "the big city." Yes, Sacramento—that big city. After purchasing EAST SAC FLORIST earlier this year, he considered changing the name to something "more designery," then thought better of it. "The name fits the neighborhood. It's casual but elegant," he says—a phrase that also nicely describes Rice's design style. Rice has worked for two governors and the Tournament of Roses parade, and he flies all over the country doing floral design and lighting for special events and destination weddings. Here in Sacramento, he's especially known for his unique plant combos, such as topiaries underplanted with succulents and decorated with manzanita limbs. "It's amazing what a dead branch will do," he quips. 5379 H St., Sacramento; (916) 457-2699; eastsacflorist.com
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Helwig Winery owners David and Nancy Helwig wanted their new Amador County winery to reflect the history of the area. When they met with SAGE ARCHITECTURE, they immediately knew they'd found the right people for the job. "They had a very creative, subtle approach in capturing the rustic charm we wanted without making it look dated," says Nancy. Through the use of metal roofing, board-and-batten wood siding and galvanized metal, Paul Almond and Pam Whitehead of Sage designed buildings that stand out from their surroundings yet blend in beautifully. With a nod to sustainability, the architects made use of oak and pine harvested during the clearing of the site in the tasting room and other areas of the property. 11555 Shenandoah Valley Road, Plymouth; (209) 245-5200; helwigwinery.com
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Once upon a time, Joe and Gavin Maloof were kings among men in this town. But the fun-loving brothers went from Maloof to Magoof when they tried earlier this year to take our once-beloved basketball team down south to Anaheim. Who would have guessed that the best Maloof of all would be a tiny, blond-tressed, stiletto-heeled Beverly Hills Housewife? On her Bravo TV show, ADRIENNE MALOOF charms us with her no-nonsense, anti-mean-girl approach to life in the 90210. In Season 1, she brought her fellow housewives to town (via private plane, natch), where she treated the ladies to a meal at Grange. Afterward, they all trooped out to Power Balance Pavillion to shoot hoops, then catch a Kings game from courtside seats. Adrienne may have a private chef, a plastic surgeon husband and gazillions in the bank, but this is one down-to-earth gal. Mwah!
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When a Sacramento-based author gets a first novel published, it's cause for celebration. When that same author makes The New York Times best-seller list within two weeks of publication, it's reason to have a parade. Such is the case with VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH, author of The Language of Flowers, a tale of a young woman named Victoria who ages out of foster care and has nowhere to go. Through her knowledge of floriography, the 19th century study of flower symbolism and meanings, Victoria finds love, forges a career and heals her past. Diffenbaugh, a longtime foster parent, used funds from her book deal to form Camellia Network, a nonprofit organization aimed at helping young adults transition out of foster care. Now living in Massachusetts with her family, she returned to Sacramento in late August to launch the nonprofit with a fundraiser, as well as promote the novel, which was written in midtown cafes and analyzed in local writing groups. Diffenbaugh is still beloved in Sacramento, if the rousing applause she received at her Tsakopoulos Library Galleria reading and book signing is any indication. "It's exciting to be here, where I'm surrounded by people I love," she said.
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MICHAEL NEUMANN knows how to make beautiful music. For 33 seasons, he's taken bows as artistic director and conductor of the Sacramento Youth Symphony, leading the group in performances throughout the world. In 2004, he opened the Folsom Symphony's first season as music director and conductor. Today, he juggles both symphonies with aplomb. According to Folsom Symphony board president Bruce Woodbury, the maestro brings exceptional talent to Folsom. "His vast network of connections and his overall expertise in music bring so much to our stage," says Woodbury. "His reputation and style bring high-caliber musicians to the area. Performers love to work with him."
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ANALEIGH TIPTON, former El Dorado Hills resident and St. Francis High School graduate, is redefining "triple threat": A championship ice skater as a tween, she went on to be a finalist on "America's Next Top Model" in 2008, then moved into acting. In 2011, she had roles in The Green Hornet and Crazy, Stupid, Love, working alongside box-office powerhouses Seth Rogen and Steve Carell, respectively. Her performance in Crazy, Stupid, Love as a teenage baby sitter with a crush on her employer garnered her an appearance on New York Times' film critic Karen Durbin's "Faces to Watch" list. It also landed her a starring role in Samaritan, scheduled for release in 2012. Last month, Season 3 of HBO's comedy series "Hung" featured Tipton as a schizophrenic pimp, and she can be seen in the comedy Damsels in Distress alongside fellow Sacramentan Greta Gerwig.
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School may be out for summer, but not for the University of Hawaiʻi McNair Student Achievement Scholars who have spent June and July working on research projects primarily in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) under selected faculty members. The McNair scholars--all UH Mānoa undergrads with a commitment to PhD attainment--will present the results of their projects from their respective disciplines at the annual McNair Summer Showcase on Friday, August 2, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Agricultural Sciences Building, room 219.
The current cohort of 25 McNair scholars will be joined by several McNair alumni and student researchers from the UH Mānoa Graduate Professional Access Program, who will discuss the conclusions derived from their original experiments conducted in field and laboratory settings.
"The faculty-mentored research project is significant in providing McNair scholars with an opportunity to make intellectual and creative contributions to their respective branches of STEM," said Dr. Maile Goo, UH Mānoa McNair Director. "The research performed under this program is a major undertaking of time and effort by both our students and their faculty mentors. It is an experience that prepares students for graduate study by solidifying the application of theory to practice."
The federally funded McNair Student Achievement Program at UH Mānoa encourages and assists first-generation to college, low-income and underrepresented students to pursue advanced degrees primarily in STEM. The program is named for Ronald E. McNair, the African-American physicist and a member of the NASA astronaut space shuttle crew who perished in the 1986 Challenger disaster.
Like the McNair students themselves, the McNair summer projects are diverse and impossible to characterize in general terms. Many of the student endeavors could potentially yield results with applications that will help the local community. Soon-to-be UH senior Aleka Lyman has been studying the impact of water quality on the loss of coral reef at Maunalua Bay in East Oʻahu. Under the mentorship of Dr. Robert H. Richmond, a research professor at UH Mānoa's Kewalo Marine Laboratory, Lyman has been testing a hypothesis that suggests the coral reef loss is linked to the concrete paving of stream beds that deposit sediment and may prevent the growth of coral. Results from this study may provide a scientific basis for better management of Hawaiʻi streams and the protection of coral reefs.
Other student projects featured in the McNair showcase span areas as diverse as the use of free electron lasers in physics to biomedical research intended for use in cancer prevention.
The McNair Student Achievement Program is administered through the Office of Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity, UH Mānoa.
Photo caption: UH Manoa alumna and McNair scholar Laurel Pikcunas, at right, with her faculty mentor, Dr. Andy Kaufman of the Department of Tropical Plant & Soil Science. Pikcunas is now a graduate student in the UH Mānoa Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/diversity/McNair/


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"We delivered solid second quarter performance while implementing key aspects of our growth strategy," said
1 Pro forma results are described below in the "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Metrics" section and are provided in the addendum of this news release.
2 Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow are defined in the "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Metrics" section and are reconciled to net loss and net cash flows from operating activities, respectively, in the addendum of this news release.
During the seasonally weak second quarter, residential customer relationships decreased 17,000 compared to a loss of 38,000 for the second quarter last year, and for the first half of 2012, we gained 69,000 residential customer relationships compared to a loss of 15,000 in the comparable 2011 period. The year-over-year improvements reflect enhancements in our product offerings and service levels. Residential primary service units ("PSUs") decreased by 31,000 in the second quarter of 2012 driven by a decline in video customers offset by increases in Internet and phone customers.
Residential video customers decreased by 66,000 in the second quarter of 2012 compared to a decline of 79,000 last year. We added 29,000 residential Internet customers in the second quarter of 2012 compared to 18,000 last year reflecting continued consumer demand for the speed and performance advantages offered by Charter. During the second quarter of 2012, we added 6,000 phone customers compared to a gain of 7,000 last year, with phone penetration at 16.7% as of June 30, 2012. Commercial PSUs increased 8,000 in both the second quarter of 2012 and 2011, and we continue to see a significant opportunity to grow our commercial services business.
Second quarter revenue per residential customer relationship rose to
We continue to see additional opportunities to drive higher market penetration and revenue per household by enhancing our product set, value proposition and customer service. We are focused on stabilizing our video customer base, upgrading existing customer relationships and gaining new customer relationships in the homes we pass that we currently do not serve today, as well as serving additional businesses in the significant commercial opportunity in our footprint. We have made significant strides in expanding our product offering, particularly video with the launch of additional HD channels this past quarter. Charter now offers more than 100 HD channels in substantially all of our markets. We also implemented new pricing and packaging at the end of June designed to provide a simple, value-based pricing structure and to increase triple play penetration. In addition, we are focused on improving our fundamental operating execution. We expect these efforts to drive long-term growth in our business, but in the short term, we expect that customer connects, revenue and operating expenses may be adversely impacted during this transition. We also expect our capital expenditures to increase as we drive further digital and HD-DVR penetration.
Second quarter 2012 revenues rose to
Video revenues totaled
Second quarter 2012 Internet revenues were
Commercial revenues grew to
Advertising sales revenues were
Operating Costs and Expenses
Second quarter operating costs and expenses increased 6.0% on a pro forma basis and 6.5% on an actual basis compared to the year-ago period, primarily related to increases in programming, marketing, and labor costs. Second quarter programming expenses increased
Marketing expenses increased by
Adjusted EBITDA
Second quarter adjusted EBITDA of
Net Loss
Net loss was
Capital Expenditures
Second quarter property, plant and equipment expenditures were
Cash Flow
Net cash flows from operating activities totaled
Free cash flow for the second quarter of 2012 was
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Those participating via telephone should dial 866-919-0894 no later than 10 minutes prior to the call. International participants should dial 706-679-9379. The conference ID code for the call is 87412789.
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The information in this press release should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and footnotes contained in the Company's Form 10-Q for quarter ended June 30, 2012 available on the "Investor & News Center" of our website at charter.com in the "Financial Information" section. A slide presentation to accompany the conference call and a trending schedule containing historical customer and financial data can also be found in the "Financial Information" section.
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The Company uses certain measures that are not defined by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") to evaluate various aspects of its business. Adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures and free cash flow are non-GAAP financial measures and should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, net loss or cash flows from operating activities reported in accordance with GAAP. These terms, as defined by Charter, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. Adjusted EBITDA is reconciled to net loss and free cash flow is reconciled to net cash flows from operating activities in the addendum of this news release.
Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net loss plus net interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, stock compensation expense, loss on extinguishment of debt, and other operating (income) expenses, such as special charges and gain on sale or retirement of assets. As such, it eliminates the significant non-cash depreciation and amortization expense that results from the capital-intensive nature of the Company's businesses as well as other non-cash or special items, and is unaffected by the Company's capital structure or investment activities. Adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures is defined as Adjusted EBITDA minus purchases of property, plant and equipment. Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures are used by management and the Company's Board to evaluate the performance of the Company's business. However, these measures are limited in that they do not reflect the periodic costs of certain capitalized tangible and intangible assets used in generating revenues and the cash cost of financing. Management evaluates these costs through other financial measures.
Free cash flow is defined as net cash flows from operating activities, less purchases of property, plant and equipment and changes in accrued expenses related to capital expenditures.
The Company believes that adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow provide information useful to investors in assessing Charter's performance and its ability to service its debt, fund operations and make additional investments with internally generated funds. In addition, adjusted EBITDA generally correlates to the leverage ratio calculation under the Company's credit facilities or outstanding notes to determine compliance with the covenants contained in the credit facilities and notes (all such documents have been previously filed with the
In addition to the actual results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, we have provided pro forma results in this release for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011. We believe these pro forma results facilitate meaningful analysis of the results of operations. Pro forma results in this release reflect certain acquisitions of cable systems in 2011 as if they occurred as of
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