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Louvered closet doors – Making repairs to your closet or replacing doors sometimes requires removing the closet door. With louvered closet doors are most often type folding doors. They give you full access to items in the closet without removing any room visually or physically. The double fold door has two panels connected to the center of hinges; they fold against each other. You will not have to take any kind of hardware out of the door panels to remove the doors from the shutter cabinet.
Open the louvered closet doors. If you have a closet that uses folding doors, both open completely. The panels of folding slats in each door must come together. Loosen the screw that holds the upper pivot bracket inside the upper track with a flat-blade screwdriver. The upper door latch engages the upper pivot bracket. Grab the two panels of the double folding door on each side. Lift to compress the upper pin in the support, and swing the bottom of the door away from the lower support.
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Then to remove louvered closet doors, slide the upper pivot bracket towards the center of the upper track so that it is not covering the screws that fix the upper track. Hold the center of the upper track with one hand while removing the central locking screw with the other. Pull the top track down and away from the cabinet. Remove the screws that secure the lower door supports to the floor or to the side jamb cabinet with the Phillips screwdriver.
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The wooden block at the front of the stage in Square Product Theatre's beautifully challenging play "Slab" brings back memories of photos and news footage of roof tops captured in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when the levees failed New Orleans.
Only instead of saying "Please Help," a red spray painted message asks "Do you believe in life after death?"
It's an apt question for this oft mesmerizing, multi-media story about an ex-stripper named Tiger that stakes its claim to the space between the terribly real and the poetically uncanny.
"Slab" — running through Aug. 16 at CU-Boulder's Atlas Black Box Theater — is based on a forthcoming novel by Selah Saterstrom, director of creative writing at the University of Denver. It was adapted by Gleason Bauer and Square Product's artistic director, Emily K. Harrison.
As director and scenic designer, Bauer has created a set that evokes the detritus of disaster, the hording aesthetic of many a shotgun shack backyard as well as the tools of theater's trade.
Make no mistake, "Slab" not only addresses the toll of natural disaster on memory but also takes on the possibility of theater, be it found in carnival sideshows, a psychic's tent or at a strip joint.
"The worst thing about the theater is that it never begins," states the Narrator, played by actress Hadley Mays, wearing a black stove-pipe hat and black hoop skirt.
And like many a bemused carnival barker or vaudevillian emcee, she surveys a world enticing and dark, a little chaotic.
Once Tiger is introduced, the narrative pathway gets vaguely clearer. Placards the Narrator totes across the stage help orient us to the play's episodic rhythms: "Tiger Gets Her Name," "Tiger and the Glass-Eyed Doll," and "Tiger Hears a Who," to name a few.
The actors give compellingly physical turns. Harrison has a dancer's sense of space and flesh. A good thing, perhaps, since Tiger was once a stripper.
Mark Collins commands as the Preacher. Standing on a pier sermonizing to dead pelicans, he moves with a minister's pent-up, then explosive, energy. Cage Sebastian Pierre brings a sly ease that is seductive or playful or both to the part of Tiger's man, Champ. Lauren Dennis and Paige Larson add to the mix, playing Harriet and Mother/Barbara Walters respectively.
Video designer Christina Battle, lighting designer Jess Buttery and sound designers Janet Feder and Paul Fowler each contributed texture to this dense, poetic work.
When last we saw Square Product, the Boulder-based outfit had joined forces with Denver's Buntport Theater Company to recount the story (stories, really) of Texas bankrobber Peggy Jo Tallas in "Peggy Jo and the Desolate Nothing."
Four years in the making, "Slab" is more ambitious and far more inscrutable. As it matures in performance some of its points — elegiac and ecstactic — are sure to sharpen.
Early in "Slab," psychic Madam Surget tells a seeking Harriet "This is how card reading was taught in the old days. By a poetry of disarray." For the moment, that is not a bad description of this demanding, haunting production.
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"SLAB." Drama. 3 stars. Written by Gleason Bauer and Emily K. Harrison. Based on the forthcoming novel by Selah Saterstrom. Featuring Harrison, Mark Collins, Hadley Mays, Cage Sebastian Pierre, Lauren Dennis and Paige Larson. Through Aug. 16. 2 hrs. At the Atlas Black Box theater on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus. Tickets $15-$25 via slab.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006
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Spanish savings banks mull merger as debt crisis bites
Three Spanish savings banks, Ibercaja, Liberbank and Caja3, are considering a merger to strengthen their balance sheets as the country's debt crisis continues to bite.
The banks said their boards would meet on Tuesday to vote on the merger.
The difference between German and Spanish bond yields also hit a new high, as investors lose faith in the Spanish economy and flee to safety.
German 10-year bond yields fell to 1.347% while Spain's rose to 6.5%.
Investors are worried about the amount of bad loans Spanish banks could be holding and how the government can afford to keep bailing out the struggling financial sector.
The Bank of Spain has predicted that the recession will continue in the second quarter of 2012.
"Available indicators for the second quarter are still scarce but they do anticipate that activity will continue contracting in this period," the central bank said.
Regional loans
There was more pressure on Spanish debt from the news that the government plans to approve a scheme on Friday that would allow its 17 regions to borrow money using joint government-back bonds.
The so-called hispanobonos are designed to make it cheaper for the regions to borrow.
"The goal is to reduce the pressure on the regions, which is often greater than the pressure on the state in general, with some regions not able to borrow on the market," an economy ministry spokeswoman said.
One of the regions, Catalonia, appealed for central government help last Friday.
Austerity squeeze
The difficult state of the country's finances was underlined by the latest retail sales figures, also released on Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute.
Spanish retail sales dived in April, showing the biggest fall since the figures started being collected in 2003.
Sales fell 9.8% last month compared with the same month last year, after adjusting for calendar differences.
The fall was much worse than had been expected, and marked the 22nd consecutive month of declining sales. Sales had fallen by 3.8% in March.
Without adjusting for calendar effects, retail sales fell 11.3% in April having dropped 4% in March.
Spanish shoppers are struggling because of government austerity measures, rising taxes and Europe's highest rate of unemployment.
Employment in the retail sector was down 1.2% in April from the same month in 2011.
Overall, the unemployment rate in Spain is more than 24%, while the economy is back in recession having contracted in the last three months of 2011 and the first three months of 2012.
Bad debts
The Spanish government is requiring its banks to set aside an extra 30bn euros to cover bad debts resulting from the collapse of its property sector.
This comes on top of the 53.8bn euros already allocated in February.
The Spanish property crash has forced a wave of mergers upon the Spanish banking sector as it seeks to shore itself up against the bad debt mountain.
Caja3 is the result of a three-way merger of regional savings banks. Liberbank emerged after a four-way merger.
And Bankia, the debt-stricken part-nationalised bank that has requested a 19bn euro bail-out from the government, was formed after seven banks merged.
Another bank, Banco Popular, announced on Tuesday that it was in talks to sell its online banking business in an effort to raise cash.
Its debt has been downgraded to junk-bond status.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy admitted on Monday that the country was struggling to borrow money, but insisted that his country would not need to ask for a bail-out from the EU.
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Business Ideas for Women India
In this edition of the Q&A for working women in India, life coach Jaya Narayan helps a woman constrained by her small town location explore business ideas leveraging the internet and her talent.
Dear All,
My name is Namrata. I did my post-graduation in English and for the last 5 years I have been into teaching forcibly. I used the word "forcibly" because I really do not like teaching. I have realized that I need to change my job. No more teaching. But I am stuck because I am unable to get any idea as what I should do? The place where I reside along with my husband is a very small town, thus very less opportunities for experimenting. I want to start a business. I have thought of starting a play school.
It will be really kind of you to suggest business ideas. What can I do – any business, any field.
Hope you can understand my situation. Thanks in advance
Dear Namrata
Thanks for writing to us. I can understand your frustration in engaging in a career that is not driven by choice. As a first step, I would encourage you to read about finding your career strengths before you decide on the immediate next step.
On a parallel note, I am wondering how running a play school would be drastically different from a teaching role. Unless you plan to focus on the operations and someone else would do the teaching.
I do hear 'loud and clear' the constraint of staying in a small town.
Here are some business ideas for you to explore –
– At the outset, think about a broad list of activities that you enjoyed doing. Out of these, which could be converted into a fulfilling career option or a business idea? Be it a craft or hobby that you are particularly good at or a creative field that you may be trained in. There are so many examples of women building a strong career foundation – be it music, dance, storytelling, that does not isolate you. Please research on career options that can be managed virtually. Out of the list you make, ask yourself – Is there something that seems particularly exciting or fits your profile?
– There are so many people getting into tourism by setting up a home stay or offering an authentic cultural experience. If your place has such a potential, I would suggest building a concept around it.
If you initiate research, you will find many ideas that can trigger your thought process. I would suggest you work with the mind set of "anything is possible". Else you will narrow your options based on where you live and the constraints that you know of.
I look forward to hear what opportunity you created based on your talent.
Best Wishes
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When I decided to write a mystery, I called on some of my own experiences in having a home business,which was pretty much just me and a video camera. For several years, it was quite an experience. I met a lot of interesting people. I found that mostly men get into this field, but there are couples and women, too. I thought I would make that the focus of the story I would tell. I hope you enjoy it.
Women can do so much more today than when I was really young. Today it is pretty much taken for granted that a woman can do any job she wants, start any business. Well, it wasn't that way only a few years back. Both men and women were expected to play certain roles. Men took care of women and women didn't get into professions that competed with men. Of course there were exceptions, but those restrictions don't apply any more in the United States of America.
I suppose it's both good and bad, in a way. There are certain people who will always need taking care of, I guess. But then, there are those like Edie Malone, who wanted to strike out on her own and did without anyone giving it a second thought. Except for her ex-husband and her Aunt Rose, of course. But Frank and Aunt Rose will never give Edie credit so she doesn't let it bother her. Most of the time.
It's not easy running her own business and she doesn't always make a lot of money at it, but she gets by. She doesn't expect too many luxuries but she's free to do her own thing the way she wants to do it. That is worth a lot to Edie, who is old enough to appreciate being free to be, but still young enough to enjoy life, at least when she gets the time. Her business which is recording video, takes her to some different kinds of places, like a nursing home, in Point and Shoot, and then of all places, on a cruise in Deep Blue Murder (coming soon). She never knows what the next day will bring and that's the way she likes it.
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." (Doug Larson – American Journalist)
November had us fishing in the beautiful Black Forest once again. Almost as a surprise, no snow this year. But we did have some frost on the ground and some very good fishing. To include a great dinner with fresh trout.


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In the play "Persimmon Nights," running at Cafe Nordo through July 29, audience members experience the rise and fall of an Asian American nightclub owner through music, drama — and flavor.
The play by Seayoung Yim has been adapted for Cafe Nordo, a Seattle dinner theater company that as incorporated the food as part of the theatrical experience since 2009.
"Persimmon Nights" features actor Ray Tagavilla as Jae Min Kang, the proprietor of the Persimmon Grove, once one of Los Angeles' most famous Asian-American lounges. After his death, four women from his past — played by Melissa Maañao, Annie Yim, Mara Elissa Palma and director Sara Porkalob — search for resolution, personal answers and, perhaps, vindication.
Their stories take us back and forth in time, as fashions — and beliefs — rise and fall.
And the dinner — divided into "Ban Chan," "Funeral Course" and "Wedding Course" — mirrors what's happening onstage.
Porkalob "was instrumental in making edits to the script to fit the dinner theatre format and weaving meal breaks with the story," said Yim, whose work includes "Do It for Umma."
The meal was developed by local actor Corinne Magin, who was a consultant on the show, and Cafe Nordo founder, artistic director and chef Erin Brindley. Tim Hodgson was the production's sous chef.
"Corinne and Erin worked with Seayoung and Sara to come up with food that reflected the characters, and the celebrations that are the cornerstones of the production," said Opal Peachey, a publicist and performer for Cafe Nordo.
The meals are served in courses between scenes and at Cafe Nordo, the menu is as important to the rehearsal process as any other aspect of the production.
"Corinne gave initial suggestions for the menu, and created delicious tastings for us to try," Yim said. "We corresponded via email and also sent Instagram messages to each other. I was mainly interested giving feedback in the look of the food and found some images of Korean royal plating that I sent to Erin and Corinne for inspiration. I loved that they used flowers throughout the menu and provided an icy dessert for hot July nights."
According to Magin, she and Yim discussed their favorite dishes and how to incorporate them into dinner theater.
"I did a tasting event at my house where I cooked all of my favorite Korean dishes and dishes that I thought complimented the show," Magin said. "Erin and Seayoung helped pick their favorite dishes from that tasting. I gave recipes to Erin and then came to help in the kitchen on a few occasions as a consultant. We collaborated tasting and tweaking recipes. Erin has such a good palate. She can try something and recreate it with ease."
Magin said she had experience with Cafe Nordo, having performed there in 2016.
"We chose dishes that complimented each other in terms of palate, service and story," she said.
The "Ban Chan," a bevy of side dishes, include Gamja Jorim (Braised Soy Sauce Potatoes); Kongnamul Muchim (Marinated Soybean Sprouts);Jikinmu (Korean White Radish); Kkaennip Jangajji (Pickled Sesame Leaf); and the well-known dish Kimchi (Spicy Fermented Cabbage).
The "Funeral Course" consists of Haemul Pageon (Pancake with Scallops); Bay Shrimp, and Squid, with the option of Scallion Pancakes.
The "Wedding Course" is Jap Chae (Sweet Potato Noodles with Shitake Mushrooms, Bok Choy, Egg and a Sesame Soy Sauce). The "Dol Course" combines a Ssam Platter with Beef Bulgogi and Pork Belly, and Patbap (Rice with Red Beans), with the option of vegetarian Bulgogi. And finally, comes a desert of Shaved Ice with Sweet Persimmon Sauce, Red Bean Paste, Mochi and Fresh Berries.
The production also features music from the "Kimchi Kittens," who are based on the historical Kimchi Kats, a Korean pop group that took the Western world by storm in the '60s and '70s. The Kimchi Kittens are an homage band, and will sing several familiar Kats tunes, staged by choreographer Alyza Delpan-Monley and led by band leader Nikki Dee, with Sara Porkalob and Melissa Maañao on lead vocals.
Cafe Nordo's productions have extended the dinner theater experience to include the audience's plates for nine years.
Created in 2009 by Brindley and producer Terry Podgorski, Café Nordo first unleashed a program called "A Modern American Chicken."
They've been mixing media, and menus ever since. Three years ago in 2015, they found a home in Pioneer Square they've dubbed "Nordo's Culinarium," at 109 South Main Street, the former home of the Elliott Bay Book Company.
Peachey says the theater tries to surprise with every production.
"Food, like theater — and to that end, life itself — is a communal experience. Routines are safe and comforting, predictable and pleasant."
Correction: The playwright's name was incorrect in an earlier version of this article.


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It's now official – the Duet wine is a success. In the very first year that the Golden Cluster Competition introduced its BEST VALUE award, the Duet took the gold medal.
The Duet wine, which is considered to be one of the winery's more recognized and popular wines, is a blend of Merlot and Cabernet varieties. The wine's color tends towards deep red-purple shades, and one can feel the Cabernet's aromas together with the lightness and softness of the Merlot in its flavor. The wine leaves intense flavors, which remain on the palate even after swallowing.
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The Merlot was harvested during mid-August, while the Cabernet was harvested in September. The grapes were harvested at sugar levels of 24-27 Brix, which meant long fermentation was required in order to extract all of the grapes' sugars. Each variety is fermented independently. Upon completion of the Malolactic fermentation, the two were mixed, at a ratio of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, before being placed in barrels. The blend was added to a special 2,000-liter wooden barrel that was specially designed and created for us by the Italian Garbellotto company. This unique and attractive barrel only lightly alters the wine within, allowing us to retain the intense flavor of the grapes in the wine. The blend was held in the barrel for a year. Prior to bottling, the blend received an additional 5% intake of Petit Verdot.
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Steps For Choosing Injury Lawyer
There are tons of Injury Lawyers out there. You can find them on TV, in the papers, on the radio, and the internet also. However, what this indicates is that you can pick the best injury lawyer.
So how do you go about choosing the right one for you, here are the best tips for choosing an injury lawyer:
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The knowledge that injury lawyers hold varies considerably. If injury lawyers don't keep updated and well informed of relevant legal developments/changes then it may affect your claim.
To improve your chances of speaking to a solicitor that knows there stuff, you should seek advice from a specialist Injury Lawyer.
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It's all very well your injury lawyer knowing his/her stuff, but they have also got to apply their knowledge and to make sure your claim is progressed efficiently.
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MF Doom + Big Daddy Kane + Little Brother + Pete Rock + some other guy
Nokia Theatre
January 26, 2006
I was too busy watching Ninja Turtles to ponder the question at the time, but it doesn't seem remotely possible that anyone in 1989 would've been able to envision a day when Big Daddy Kane would be opening for Zev Love X. Zev was half of an alternately goofy and political duo with vague Native Tongues affiliations, and Kane was one of the great lights of New York rap, a born star with vicious charisma and good looks and fierce dance moves and an effortlessly quick and dazzling flow. So last night's show was truly bizarre, something like what might happen if Cam'ron opened for Elzhi from Slum Village seventeen years from now. Kane and Zev, of course, have had wildly divergent careers since 89. Kane's fell off pretty quickly in the early 90s, as he damaged his reputation making a few too many love-raps and, crucially, appearing naked in Madonna's Sex book. Despite a few late-90s rumors that he'd be signing with Roc-A-Fella, he's been effectively retired for about ten years, only popping up every so often to wreck a stage like he did at the VH-1 Hip-Hop Honors. Zev, of course, disappeared after the death of his brother and partner Subroc and resurfaced a few years later wearing a metal mask, muttering fascinatingly free-associative non-sequitur rhymes, and crafting disorienting beats from chopped-up shards of quiet storm and hotel-lounge jazz, calling himself MF Doom. These days, he's just about the only thing in underground rap worth anyone's attention while Kane is an almost-forgotten veteran. Still, last night's show didn't make much sense.
For one thing, it was the Nokia Theatre's first-ever rap show, and the venue had all the problems that non-rap venues always have with rap shows: stressed-out bouncers, baffled soundmen, truly bizarre choices in between-acts piped-in music. (Red Hot Chili Peppers? Really?) But the show's greatest problem was the weirdly cobbled-together bill. MF Doom is not one tenth the performer that Big Daddy Kane is. He doesn't even belong on the same bill, let alone headlining. And so the show came off looking like a celebration of mediocrity, a case study in why New York backpack-rap is in steep decline.
Here's the thing: MF Doom is a great rapper, an enigmatic master of persona shifts and weird transitions; he turns traditional battle-rap into an exercise in sidelong expressionism and internal-rhyme virtuosity. But his music isn't even remotely suited for a live show. On record, his under-the-breath all-tangent flow is compellingly mysterious, especially when paired with swirling low-fi beats. It's headphones stuff. Onstage, he doesn't have the advantage of that mystery; he's just a chubby dude in a mask rapping too loud over muddy beats and yelling about get-money between songs while two unbelievably obnoxious hypemen refuse to shut up and an inept DJ fucks up and makes excuses ("That's what happens when you use real vinyl, y'all"). He managed to fill the 2000-capacity Nokia Theatre, possibly his biggest-ever local headlining show, and he treated it like he was just playing some hole in the wall, standing still onstage and saying his rhymes while lights twirled around behind him, no presence or charisma, his mask the only remotely theatrical part of the show. Inexplicably, he didn't do anything from last year's DangerDoom, even though that album's primary-color plastic throwback beats would've probably sounded pretty good on a big sound system. He showed an absolute unwillingness to work for his adulation, and the result was an inexcusably boring and lazy show.
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The weirdest part was that Doom didn't see anything wrong with half-assing it even after a dazzlingly ferocious performance from Kane, still a star even if he hasn't released an album in years. Kane's show wasn't perfect. He didn't break out any of the absurdly great dance moves he showed on the VH-1 show. His bright-red leather pants were a dubious fashion decision. He ran out of breath a bit on "Warm It Up, Kane," though you probably would too if you tried to do that song while running through a crowd. But it's telling that the only slow part of Kane's set came when he surrendered the stage to the Furious Five's Melle Mel and Rahiem: old-school legends all, but Melle Mel is muscular to the point where it stops being cool and starts being gross. His arms are so huge that they don't even hang at his sides, and he seems barely able to move. When he took off his shirt, it was just uncomfortable, so it wasn't exactly heartbreaking to see them leave the stage after "The Message." Seriously, nasty. Kane did most of his classics ("Raw," "The Symphony," "Smooth Operator," "Ain't No Half-Steppin'"), but the most thrilling parts of his show weren't the nostalgia moments. An extended RIP-riff didn't start with Big Pun or Big L but with Barry White and Lou Rawls and, um, Chris Penn ("Y'all know you love Reservoir Dogs, don't front.") And his flawless fast-rap freestyle over "What's Your Fantasy" was just mind-boggling. Kane knows how to put on a show, and the other acts on the bill should've been taking notes.
Surprisingly, Little Brother didn't need that much help. The North Carolina trio has the overwhelming support of the Okayplayer crowd, fools who use the word "lyrical" like it actually means something and never, ever shut up about how bad rap is these days. The Minstrel Show, Little Brother's truly boring sophomore album, is one of 2005's most dishearteningly monochromatic records, a defiantly mediocre marathon of condescending anti-mainstream pandering and unearned arrogance. But onstage, they have drip none of the self-righteousness they have on record. They're into it, roaring out their lines and filling the stage with an overwhelming warmth; it was a nice surprise. Their punchlines are still disconcertingly weak ("Heart of a lion, eye of a tiger / 20-20 vision watching shit transpire"), but they know how to work a stage, which is infinitely more important. 9th Wonder is apparently too important to be their DJ these days, which is fine; it was fun seeing him come out on the first song, do the Dame Dash bottle-dance for a couple of minutes, and then disappear. Phonte and Big Pooh both do great fat-guy dances; they'd make good hypemen. Their set got old before it ended, but it went a long way toward showing why their following is as big as it is. And I think I heard them say something about doing a Gangsta Grillz mixtape before leaving the stage, so that's something.
Pete Rock was also on the bill, but it was hard to say why; he's a great producer, but he doesn't rap anymore, and he's not a particularly great DJ, so there wasn't much he could do. His set started out as a listening party; he'd talk about his new album and play a track, which doesn't exactly make for a riveting show. ("I got something with the Diplomats, my man Jim Jones." Crowd boos. "I know, I know. You gotta respect it because it's me, though!") After a little while, Jin wandered out, but he wasn't much help since he didn't have anyone to battle. Jin is still nothing more than a punchline rapper, and it's tough to envision him moving past that role. With no focus for his ire, he's totally lost; he ends up going on and on about fucking contracts and sales figures ("These days, if you don't sell platinum or gold, they say you a flop / I'd be happy to do 100,000 when I drop." Nobody cares, dude!). The funniest part was when he announced he was going to do a song big-upping producers, Pete Rock started to play a beat, and Jin said, "That's OK, I'm going to do it a cappella. But thanks!" Back to Fight Klub with this guy.
And still, the crowd ate him up, just like every other weak-ass rapper who stepped onstage last night. It was a far cry from the October Ghostface show at BB King's, where the crowd booed the awful backpack-rap openers Swollen Members off the stage. At this show, even the opening guy whose name I didn't catch got applause for his unbelievably terrible punchlines ("My father was a photographer; I was born focused"). It would be nice to see indie-rap return to its late-90s peak, but that isn't going to happen if crowds like the one last night keep encouraging the unacceptable. When underground rap gets a free pass just because it's underground, nobody wins. Nothing gets better.


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Broken Nose Theatre today announced two major leadership appointments. Associate Artistic Director Elise Marie Davis has been named the company's new Artistic Director, succeeding Founding Artistic Director Benjamin Brownson. Brownson, who has led the company since its formation in 2012, is taking a brief sabbatical and will return as the company's Executive Director in 2019. Additionally, Company Manager Rose Hamill will assume the newly created position of Managing Director.
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Issue 2, May 6, 2013
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied sapsuckers are attacking Illinois trees at this time. The do so during both spring and fall migrations through the state. These woodpeckers typically fly south through Illinois from about mid-September through October, and they fly back north in the spring from early April through mid-May. They typically peck one-quarter inch diameter holes in vertical or horizontal rows in the trunk and larger branches. They then feed on the sap as it runs out of the holes. They also feed on insects that are attracted to the sap, but much of their diet consists of tree sap. The starling-sized black-and-white birds typically feed in the predawn hours, so their hammering on the tree is not usually noticed. Males have red areas on top of the head and on the throat; females have almost no red. A male is pictured.
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Male
In Illinois, these holes are unlikely to damage the health of the tree because the birds are in the state for only a short time. In the far southern United States as well as the far northern United States and southern Canada, where the birds spend the winter and summer, individual trees may be killed from continual pecking and feeding. Trees most often attacked in Illinois are Scotch pine, Austrian pine, and white-barked birches, although many other species are attacked occasionally. Large amounts of sap may run out of the holes made in pine trees, congealing and turning white on the trunk. Although this looks impressive, it appears to have little or no effect on tree health.
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Because there is no apparent effect on tree health in Illinois, a viable option is to do nothing. If you want to protect individual trees while the birds are flying through, wrap tree wrap around attacked trunks. Remove the wrap when the migration time has passed; otherwise, moisture underneath the wrap may promote disease.
Inflatable owls or snakes may also be effective, as will lengths of garden hose that resemble snakes. For the owls and snakes to be effective, they must be moved almost daily. It is thought that the same bird attacks the same tree each year as it migrates through the area. Thus, a bird watching a tree notices that the owls or snakes haven't moved for several days and concludes they must be dead. The association of individual birds and specific trees also explains why only certain trees are attacked while nearby trees of the same species are unharmed. Remember that yellow-bellied sapsuckers are protected by state and federal laws as well as international treaty, making it illegal to harm or kill the birds. (Phil Nixon)
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Schedule for Fall 2003
|Ram Bala
|Visualization and
Physical Oceanography
|Iren Valova
|Spiking Neurons for
Modeling Olfactory Bulb
|Don Towsley
|Internet worms:
modeling and detection
|UMass, Amherst
|Adam Hausknecht
|Developement of
Math Software
|Bolek Mikolajczak
|Study of Structural
and Behavioral Petri net Properties with respect to Abstraction and
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Speaker: Boleslaw Mikolajczak
Title: Study of Structural and Behavioral Petri net Properties with respect to Operations of Abstraction and Refinement and their Role in Development of Concurrent Systems
Abstract:We discuss a role of Petri net morphisms in conceptual modeling of concurrentDate: September 26, 2003
computing systems with several levels of abstractions and/or refinements. We study
structural and behavioral properties of concurrent systems that are modeled by Petri nets.
These properties, particularly liveness, boundedness and safety, are important in
assuring correctness of design for complex concurrent systems. Examples
are also provided to illustrate significance and applications of Petri net morphisms
in development of concurrent systems.
Speaker: Dr. Ramprasad Bala
Title: Visualization, Detection and Tracking of Mesoscale Oceanic Features in an Ocean Circulation Model
Abstract:The process of identifying and tracking oceanic eddies over space and time, and their relationship to the net poleward heat transport are of fundamental importance for Climate studies. The visualization of heat flux in the numeric motivates the detection and tracking of mesoscale features to understand their role in poleward heat transport. The numeric model MICOM for the North Atlantic is used. Methods developed to automatically detect, locate and track mesoscale eddies spatially and temporally are presented. Using structuring elements based on velocity information eddy centers are detected and streamline plots used to eliminate false positives. Additional visualization, based on the detected eddy centers provides information about eddies temporally and spatially.Date: April 18,2003 - download
Speaker: Boleslaw Mikolajczak
Title: Integrating Object-Oriented Design and High-level Petri Nets in Software Development of Concurrent Systems
Abstract:A method of designing concurrent systems, based on integration of Object-Oriented Design and High-level Petri nets, is presented. Object-Oriented technology has well established design techniques but lacks analysis, verification and validation methods of the designed system and formal specification of concurrency and conflict. All these features are extremely important from practical point of view, especially in terms of rapid prototyping of parallel and distributed systems. On the other hand, Petri net is a well defined formalism of parallel and distributed systems wrt modeling, verification, validation (including conflict resolution and resource allocation) that lacks clear and effective design techniques. The method takes advantages of both Object-Oriented Design and High-level Petri nets by using Object-Oriented methodology on the design stage and High-level Petri nets on the analysis, verification and validation stages. Petri net modeling of classes with inheritance and solution to inheritance anomaly are central to achieve executable specification of the OO system. The method utilizes specialized CASE software tools that effectively support modeling, verification, and validation of high-level Petri nets, such as Design/CPN and SYROCO.
Date: April 04,2003 - download
Speaker: Xiaqin Shelley Zhang
Title: Integrative Negotiation In Complex Organizational Agent Systems
Abstract:Agents are autonomous, intelligent, computational entities that pursue goals or carry out tasks in order to meet their designed objectives. A multi-agent system (MAS) consists of a group of agents that can take specific roles within organizational structures. Computers are no longer stand-alone devices; they are tightly connected to each other and their users. Researchers have applied the technology of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems in many applications, such as airport management, traffic control and transport logistics, and distributed electricity management. These applications require a number of agents to work together, given the complexity of these problems, also the distribution of the data and resources. Organization structures are necessary for large-scale agent-based systems to operate efficiently. Meanwhile, organizational structures in a large-scale agent society are not static. Agents from different, separate organizational entities will come together to dynamically form virtual organizations for solving specific problems that are relevant to each of their organizational entities. This presentation addresses the problem of negotiation in a complex organizational context and tries to bridge the gap between self-interested negotiation and cooperative negotiation. An integrative negotiation mechanism is introduced, which enables agents to choose any attitude from the extremes of self-interested and cooperative to those that are partially self-interested and partially cooperative. This mechanism is based on and also extends the motivational qualities (MQ) framework for evaluating which task an agent should pursue at each time point. Experimental work verifies this mechanism and explores the question whether it always improves the social welfare to have an agent be completely cooperative.
Date: March 28,2003 - download
Speaker:Emad Aboelela
Title: Quality-of-Service Provision For Multimedia Networking
Abstract:For many years, packet-switched networks have offered the promise of supporting multimedia applications, that is, those that combine audio, video, and data. Audio and video applications are examples of real-time applications. The best-effort model, in which the network tries to deliver your data but makes no promises and leaves the "cleanup operation" to the edges, is not sufficient for real-time applications. What we need is a new service model; one in which applications that need better assurances can request such service from the network. The network may then respond by providing an assurance that it will do better or perhaps by saying that it cannot promise anything better at the moment. A network that can provide different levels of service is often said to support Quality of Service (QoS). In this seminar different developed approaches to provide a range of QoS will be illustrated. An optimal routing model will be presented. The routing model is formulated as a fuzzy optimization model, that takes into consideration bandwidth allocation to avoid link saturation and hence the possibility of congestion. A management-dependent margin is used for bandwidth allocation. A path is considered attractive to incoming calls as long as its available bandwidth is around that margin. This greatly reduces the fragmentation problem of the load-balancing techniques and avoids packing some paths with heavy loads (with the benefit of decreasing the likelihood of congestion)