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Music is a mode of transportation for Lonnie Smith. Fueled by his own emotions and boosted by technically challenging skills, the Hammond B-3 organ master uses music to take him to another artistic plateau.
"I was playing with Dizzy Gillespie and after the gig was over, he told me 'Someone else wanted to play, too.' I get so involved emotionally, the music takes me to another planet," said Smith, laughing about what both leaders and sidemen concede is his habit of unleashing flurries of alternately bouncing and breezy notes.
"Sometimes someone should shout 'Come back! Earth to Lonnie.' I can't help myself when the music and me merge," he said.
But no one — not even sax legend Lou Donaldson and Dizzy, the late, great co-creator of bebop and Afro-Cuban jazz — ever calls Smith back.
Smith, who is often called "The Doctor," earned the "Dr." title because he is a skilled "physician" at cutting away musical mediocrity to pierce a listener's heart and soul. He will be among the headliners playing the 36th annual Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl Saturday and Sunday, June 14 and 15.
Besides leading his own combos, the 72-year-old musician who has won the Jazz Journalists Association's title of "organist of the year" five times between 2003 and 2009 has played with such jazz luminaries as George Benson, Jack McDuff and Grover Washington Jr. to name a few. Acknowledging his quest to "simply play beautiful music," Smith has even ventured outside the jazz genre and played with Gladys Knight, Etta Jamesand Dionne Warwick.
Smith has become Monterey Jazz Festival fans' favorite organist for the wildly popular Hammond B3 organ blowouts presented by Fallico for several years. In 2013, the organist startled an already-screaming audience by playing his cane for an encore.
"Yes, it was my walking stick," Smith said to bewildered fans seeing him leaning on the cane/instrument after the closing set in Dizzy's Den. "It was made especially for me by Andy Graham."
Graham has designed other unique instruments, but they tended to be large, without handles and straight as a curtain rod. Smith liked the sound, but not the size.
"By me carrying a cane, I didn't want to carry two sticks. So I told him what I wanted and he did it," said Smith. "I wanted it to sound like a bass or guitar and I play it through an amplifier."
Although Smith's childhood home in upstate New York was filled with music — his mother, siblings, uncles and grandparents were all singers —his music career came late. He played piano by ear, copying songs by Fats Domino and Little Richard. He was in junior high school when he was attracted to the trumpet played by neighborhood friend Ronald Goins. Strangely, it was the instrument's leather carrying case that initially captured his attention.
"I was poor. … Ronald's family had a nice home with a picket fence. He'd carry his trumpet in that case. We couldn't afford a trumpet or music lessons," he said.
Young Lonnie ended up in a class with Goins taught by Marie Campbell. Goins left his trumpet and "that case" on the desk one day, so "I just opened the case and started playing his trumpet."
"The next thing I knew, the guys were dragging me down to the band room," he recalled.
It was a fortuitous moment. When he announced he wanted to play music, the band teacher asked him which instrument he'd prefer. His first choice was the saxophone "because my mother loved the sax and I loved my mother." But all the saxes and the second-choice trumpets were already in the hands of other students, so the teacher offered him a cornet.
"It was all bent up and looked like an old war bugle," Smith said. "You know how Dizzy's horn is turned up? It was naturally turned up that way. I was mad about taking an old, beat-up, bent-up instrument home. And one without a beautiful case."
He soon stopped pouting and started practicing. Within a week, he was in the school band.
From there, he switched from the cornet to piano when he was 20 and played and sang with his brothers Johnny, Robert and James on bass, drums and guitar. His star started to rise when he challenged a club owner to hire him if he could pack people into the club.
"If I don't draw, you don't pay me," he told the owner.
Sure enough, he got paid.
Smith has been packing folks into venues for almost five decades. He has played small clubs to festival arenas crowded with folks anxious to hear him work his magic on the Hammond B3 organ, the instrument he has focused on since the first one given him by Art Kubera, a Buffalo, N.Y. music store owner.
"The Hammond B3 is everything. It has all the elements of the Earth in it and creates organic sound. You can hear the light, the darkness, the sun, storms, rainbows, everything in this instrument," Smith said. "You can feel the love through the vibrations. There's something that hits me when I play it. I can play the same song every set, but it's going to be different every time. I can't stop it. The music just flows."

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Murder suspect arrested in Valencia County
Deputies: Suspect dragged good samaritan to death
A man accused of carjacking a good Samaritan and then dragging him to his death was arrested Tuesday.
Chris Andrade, 28, had a lot to say when Valencia County Sheriff's deputies marched him to jail.
"I didn't do nada," he said to Action 7 News cameras. "You got the wrong person."
But detectives said he was the man captured Jan. 24 by a surveillance camera at the Mana Mart Convenience store in El Cerro Mission.
They said Andrade asked for a ride, and the victim, Anthony Cabrera, 66, stepped up to help.
Investigators said Andrade convinced him something was wrong with the truck, and when Cabrera got out to take a look, Andrade took off.
Cabrera was caught and dragged 133 feet, then Andrade ran him over, authorities said. Cabrera died Feb. 9.
Andrade repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
"It wasn't me," he said. "They don't have their facts straight. The wrong (expletive) person."
Just last week, the dragging death was featured on Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers.
On Tuesday, Sheriff Louis Burkhard said his detectives got a tip that Andrade was eating at a Los Lunas Panda Express.
"He was not located at the Panda Express, but sometime later detectives found him at the Walmart," Burkhard said.
Andrade said the detectives were lying.
"They put you in situations where they lying just to get you hemmed up," he said. "I mean, that isn't nothing."
On his way into the jail, he squeezed in some last words.
"I'm innocent!"
Andrade is being held at the Valencia County Jail.
He was arrested and charged with murder, aggravated burglary and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.
Investigators said he hung out in the Meadow Lake area, and panhandled at the Smiths' grocery store in Los Lunas.
Court records show, Andrade's criminal history includes robbery, false imprisonment, and drug charges.


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When Stacey Schnee took a bike ride from her Webster Square neighborhood, down Route 9 to Leicester earlier this month, heads turned. Drivers slowed down, stopped, leaned smartphones out the window to take pictures. Some honked. Some shouted that they were calling the police.
It wasn't anything Ms. Schnee was wearing that got their attention. It's what she wasn't wearing. Ms. Schnee was topless — riding down the road wearing nothing but shorts, shoes and a helmet and just letting the rest all hang out.
Calls quickly started pouring into the Leicester Police Department. Before she could finish her ride back to Worcester, two police cruisers had pulled Ms. Schnee over.
"They were trying to tell me I was doing something wrong, and I argued back that no, it's not, it's legal," Ms. Schnee said.
Is it? Depending on the situation and your interpretation of Massachusetts law, it could be.
Ms. Schnee knows a bit about the subject. She's a member of Topless Equality, a group that advocates for the right of women to bare their chests just like men. And this isn't her first foray into going topless. The 38-year-old single mother of two, 8 and 10, routinely walks around her Webster Square neighborhood bare-chested, rides her bike, mows the lawn, hangs out in her yard. If it's warm out, off comes the shirt, bra and all. She often wears pasties — small stickers that cover up the nipples and areolae of the breasts. She knows what she's doing. It's a way to skirt around the letter of the law and she was wearing them when police pulled her over.
"You don't even actually have to, but it's way easier to get out of trouble when you are wearing them in this state because the laws are shady," Ms. Schnee said.
As officers spoke with her on the side of Route 9, it was unclear if what she was doing was actually illegal.
"So, after talking with them for about five minutes they said, 'Well, just get out of Leicester so we don't have to deal with the calls. Just go back to Worcester,' " Ms. Schnee said.
Leicester Police Chief James J. Hurley says his officers did the right thing in trying to assess the situation and ultimately sending Ms. Schnee on her way. In 29 years in policing, Chief Hurley says he's never encountered a situation quite like this. Sure, there's the occasional call about the nude sunbather or the person flashing someone. But Ms. Schnee was riding her bike, she was wearing pasties and she had a sign on her bike promoting Topless Equality, raising the issue as to whether her actions constituted a political protest and therefore protected speech.
"We looked at both the indecent exposure and open and gross statutes and the question is if her chest area is not completely exposed is it a violation of those statues? And we are not sure," Chief Hurley said. Many might think the laws on women exposing their chests are cut and dry. They're not.
Leicester police put together a file on the incident and sent it to Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.'s office to get their opinion. District attorney spokesman Timothy J. Connolly said the DA's office is reviewing it.
But there's something else to Ms. Schnee's background that no one seeing her ride that day could have known by casual observation. In fact, a lot of people don't know. Ms. Schnee used to be a man. She had gender reassignment surgery in June 2011 and breast augmentation last year. Prior to that, her topless ride would not have likely created any stir at all.
The transition, Ms. Schnee said, saved her life, although it ultimately cost her her marriage. Before the transition she struggled with her identity and had gone as far as to plan suicide, she said. But having lived as both a man and a woman undeniably gives her an uncommon perspective on the topless equality issue.
"This puts me in a unique position to fight for topless rights since it is a right that I lost when a single letter was changed on my driver's license — from 'M' to 'F,'" Ms. Schnee said.
Topless Equality is one of several organized groups promoting equal laws for men and women when it comes to exposing their tops. Working toward changing laws is part of their goal, but they also work simply to clarify the laws we do have.
Massachusetts has several laws dealing with nudity, but the particulars of the laws are sometimes vague. The law considers a woman's breasts uncovered if they're exposed just "below a point immediately above the top of the areolae." But the law also implies some sort of intent to shock in order to be considered illegal.
Ms. Schnee contends she is simply doing acceptable things and happens to be topless. Is it her responsibility if people are shocked?
The issue may be muddled in Massachusetts, but other states have taken a more definitive stand. In 1992, the New York Court of Appeals ruled in favor of two women who had been arrested for taking their shirts off in Rochester, ruling that the public nudity law was discriminatory. That ruling got its first real test in 2005 when a New York City woman sued the city and won $29,000 after she was detained for 12 hours for going topless. But occasional detentions, arrests and summons of bare-breasted women continued. In March, New York City police were read orders at 10 consecutive roll calls instructing officers that a woman simply exposing her breasts in public was not illegal. And if crowds gathered around topless women, creating a public safety issue, officers were to order the crowds to disperse. Whether or not members of the crowd are topless is not to be a factor in whether they are asked to leave.
But Chief Hurley says the kind of public disturbance that was caused by Ms. Schnee's actions are the primary concern of his department. She was topless, people were reacting to that and his department had to respond.
"I think the responsibility falls on both of them," Chief Hurley said. "We all have an obligation to not be distracted in our driving. She's looking to draw attention to herself."
"Well, I'm disturbing a few people's peace," Ms. Schnee said, "but a whole lot of other people are really enjoying it. Maybe it slows traffic down, to take pictures, and maybe some people don't like it, but it's the human body."
In her Webster Square neighborhood, where Ms. Schnee can be seen throughout the warmer weather walking around topless, she says she's heard few direct complaints from neighbors.
"I've been wandering around my property topless, and naked sometimes, too," she said. "Who cares what the neighbors think? I mean, there's lots of them around. I'm in Worcester."
But not everyone is OK with the topless woman in the neighborhood. Neighbors on the tightly knit, middle-class street reacted with instant recognition last week when asked if they were familiar with their neighbor's bare-skinned behavior. But in a neighborhood where people generally try to mind their own business, folks were reluctant to speak out, and no one wanted to give their name. Reactions ranged from tacit acceptance to outrage. Some say they just laugh. But others voice concern for the children in the neighborhood — as well as for Schnee's children, who they say are sometimes out with her while she's walking topless.
That notion that they're being harmed by the experience is something Ms. Schnee rejects.
"I'm topless and even nude in front of my kids all the time," she said. "For them it's nothing. They don't see it as anything strange at all. They just don't care."
She says her children have adjusted to her transition.
"This is just how our family is," she said. "It's just a little different. Daddy has breasts and Daddy is now a girl. To them it's completely normal."
The arguments Ms. Schnee makes are not new — the duality of a culture where artwork and sculptures are publicly displayed featuring exposed breasts, the ability of heavier men with large chests to go topless, the fact that in some other cultures it's perfectly natural. It's the sexualization people place on breasts that make people uncomfortable, she argues. It's something we teach our children.
None of that changes the reaction of people when they see her, though. It doesn't change the calls to police, the shock to some people and the question they routinely ask: "Can she do that?"
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County considers initial designs for fairgrounds
Eagle Valley Enterprise
Vail, CO Colorado
EAGLE, Colorado – The Eagle County commissioners spent almost three hours going over concepts for improvements at the county fairgrounds site last month and decided they needed even more discussion before going forward with a design.
The county hired Populous Inc. in October to draft a concept design for expanding the Eagle River Center at the fairgrounds. The contract is for $29,000, and the project is expected to wrap up in January.
Last month's meeting was scheduled as the conclusion of the planning effort's first phase, with three ideas presented. After considering the concepts, however, commissioners agreed that the best plan would mix and match aspects of all three.
"There's really not a slam dunk with any of these designs right now," Commissioner Jon Stavney said.
Assistant County Manager Rachel Oys scheduled further discussion for the next Eagle County Manager Update meeting.
"We'll look at this some more and get back with you," Stavney told Populous principal Todd Gralla, who presented the design concepts last week.
The concept design project is likely to save money in the long run. It will help the county get a more specific idea what kind of investment and timeline will be needed to make the fairgrounds profitable.
Even when a design is selected, it won't mean that work will get started right away. Construction will depend on funding.
In its current condition, the Eagle River Center at the fairgrounds only generates income to cover one-third of its operating costs. The commissioners and others would like to change that scenario and make the facility a regional amenity that could attract equine events from around the nation. That goal is anticipated to cost about $3 million.
Further complicating plans at the fairgrounds is a gravel pit and recreation fields that have to be moved some time in the next three to five years. After the current pit next to the fields expires, that property will be reclaimed by the county and the land currently under the ball fields will be mined.
The rodeo grandstands and arena to the east of Eagle River Center might be moved, as well. That's one of the main problems that came up with the three initial design proposals.
On the one hand, the rodeo arena is currently too far away to be of any real use for events at Eagle River Center. Relocating it closer could be a key move for attracting better business.
Duane Elkins, of Exel Associates Event Management – one of the biggest equine-event organizers in the country – said there are about six large events per year that need two arenas.
"If the rodeo arena is close enough (to Eagle River Center), I would consider that location for some of these events," he said. "Without it, though, I wouldn't even look at (Eagle River Center)."
On the other hand, the narrow corridor of land between the interstate and the Eagle River presents limited options for moving the rodeo arena close enough to Eagle River Center. If it is moved, it might get in the way of barn space that also is needed for big events.
"You need at least 200 stalls," Elkins said.
Spectator parking and access are critical components, as well.
Stavney said they should remember that the rodeo arena is unlikely to be moved in the next 10 years.
"By that time, we'll have more options because we'll have the land where the gravel pit is now," he said. "The main purpose of this exercise is to make sure we don't preclude ourselves from things we'll regret later."
Stavney and commissioners Sara Fisher and Peter Runyon agreed that as far as Eagle River Center itself was concerned, a variation of the first design concept was the best idea so far.
In that design, a warmup arena was proposed as an extension off the east end of the existing 245,000-square-foot building. A barn with more than 200 stalls would be attached to the south side of the main building.
Commissioners liked the idea of moving the warmup arena to the west end of Eagle River Center, where there also would be more space for expanding the barn later.
"If the barn were expanded to the west, that would allow the rodeo arena to be moved farther to the west (than presented in the third concept design) and still be close enough to be utilized for ERC events," Gralla said.
In the second and third concept designs, the proposed location for the rodeo grounds resulted in two smaller barns west of Eagle River Center that would have 85 stalls each.
"But then I don't even have 200 stalls to work with," Elkins said.
In the second concept design, the rodeo arena was placed south of Eagle River Center. Runyon said the view from the grand stands would be great but was concerned the seats would be too hot in July, which is pretty much the only month of the year when the stands see much use.
Another consideration commissioners stressed for Eagle River Center expansion is the ability to convert the building for other uses. Community events such as the Free Family Fun Fair already utilize it but a floor has to be put down and packed up. It costs thousands of dollars every time the county has to convert the dirt arena floor.
"With the warmup arena, you would be able to leave the floor down on the main arena during the offseason and people would have enough space to ride horses year-round," Gralla said.
There was no debate that Eagle has a strong natural appeal when it comes to attracting events. For one thing, its central location between Denver and Grand Junction would draw horse events from both sides.
"I would love to have a place to book events between Denver and Grand Junction," Elkins said. "Currently, Denver people never go to Grand Junction and Grand Junction people never go to Denver. They would probably be most of your business."
The mountain surroundings and riverside location are a big plus, too.
"It has beautiful surroundings, and people would want to spend time here," Fisher said.
While visiting animal owners spend most of their days near the arena, Elkins said they will go into town for meals and shopping.
"They will spend money here in Eagle," he said.
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Fognini, Kohlschreiber reach final of Mercedes Cup
Second-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber and fifth-seeded Fabio Fognini will play in the final of the ATP Mercedes Cup.
Kohlschreiber defeated Victor Hanescu of Romania 6-3, 6-3 in a semifinal Saturday to become the first German in the Stuttgart final since Tommy Haas in 1999. Kohlschreiber has lost the other two finals he has played on tour this year.
Fognini, who beat Haas in the quarterfinals, defeated Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain 6-1, 6-3 to reach the final of the clay-court tournament.
Fognini is one win away from the first title of his career. He advanced to his third final and the first this season.


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The failure of governments to provide firm policy direction remains the wind industry's biggest problem. The US market continues to boom and bust in tune to each change of mind on the production tax credit (PTC). The European market has hardly been helped by the European Commission's latest recommendations, which do not include binding national targets for renewable energy generation.
A recommendation for some sort of increase in renewable energy across the continent will at least allow those countries that have built an industry around wind power — Germany and Denmark, for example — to pursue high wind-energy growth targets of their own. But the EC largely appears to offer more incentive to nuclear power and shale gas than wind or solar energy.
Wind developers and manufacturers cannot sit on their hands and wait for the policy makers' decisions. To survive, let alone flourish, they must press ahead with their own plans. They have already had to deal with the monetary strait-jacket imposed by the economic crash of 2008, and there are signs that they are learning to adapt. And having survived so far, they are regaining confidence, bringing a more bullish sentiment to the industry than the dithering indecision that could be felt just 12 months ago.
The survival strategies adopted largely share the common aim of reducing both risk and cost. But their execution has been varied. Some businesses have diversified, widening to encompass different energy sources. Others have reduced their portfolio to concentrate on a key industry, or part of an industry. Some have shrunk their businesses in one country, and expanded in another. Most, if not all, have reassessed their business practices internally, and become sharper and sleeker in operations.
Economies of scale
Co-operation is becoming the new buzz-word, imperative to cutting the costs of offshore wind. To stand any chance of being price-competitive, these projects have to take advantage of the economies of scale that can only be provided by very large undertakings. To make this work requires both developers and manufacturers to pool their resources and technologies in joint ventures and collaborative agreements.
It is beginning to happen, as the Vestas-MHI deal, and the talks between Gamesa and Areva demonstrate. But it is a long way from being the norm, as the current legal wrangling over patents between Gamesa and Enercon reveals.
This does nothing to help the wind industry.
To the outside world, the spectacle of turbine makers fighting expensive legal battles over patent infringements is less than edifying.
Only one group of people make money from law suits: the lawyers. This is a cost the wind sector can do without.
Jacki Buist is editor of Windpower Monthly


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Lay's Chicken and Waffles Chips Review
Chicken & Waffles . . . Chips? Tasting Funky New Flavors From Lay's
From left to right: Lay's Chicken & Waffles, Sriracha, and Cheesy Garlic Bread chips
We hold a lot of taste tests in our office, sampling everything from exceptional bottles of red wine to gingerbread Peeps, but yesterday's sampling of Lay's newfangled fan-generated flavors was easily our most eagerly anticipated taste test to date. In the span of a short morning, not one but 10 of my office mates stopped by my desk to inspect the wares, ready to see if the novel — and quite frankly, a bit out there — flavors like Chicken & Waffles, Sriracha, and Cheesy Garlic Bread could translate well as crisp and crunchy chips.
Lay's Chicken & Waffles Flavored Potato Chips
Easily the most wacky flavor of the bunch, these Southern-brunch-staple-inspired chips drew the largest crowd of tasters, likely due to their undeniable novelty factor. Here's the thing: while we'd love to say these were an unmitigated success, it quickly became clear why Chicken & Waffles had yet to be immortalized in salty snack form. More waffle than chicken — many tasters complained of an overpowering fake-maple-syrup flavor — most would relegate these to a late-night drunk munchies snack only. That said, they won over a few with their intriguing blend of sweet, salty, and savory (think maple and chicken bouillon). All in all, they're worth trying at least once simply to say that you did it.
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Lay's Cheesy Garlic Bread Flavored Potato Chips
Looking to get your garlic bread fix without firing up the oven or calling for takeout? Lay's garlic-infused offering may just be for you. For better or for worse, most felt that these were a spot-on representation of the ooey-gooey Italian-American appetizer, thanks to their buttery, garlicky flavor. Conversely, they lost some fans due to their allegiance to that same flavor profile: many felt they were a hair too buttery, while others complained that they could use a touch more garlic.
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Lay's Sriracha Flavored Potato Chips
Easily the standout winner of the bunch, these slightly sweet and fiery chips were touted as addictive, thanks to their perfect amount of spice and salty bite. On first bite, some felt they could be a touch more spicy, that is until the pleasantly tingly after-burn kicked in, helping these crisps live up to their name. Our one complaint: many felt that they didn't taste exactly like Sriracha as they weren't as garlicky as the much-loved rooster sauce. Overall though, it's worth snapping up a bag to sample yourself.
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Bully Birds at Feeders
Learn how to keep starlings, grackles, and other so-called bully birds away from your feeders.
For those of us who feed birds, there's nothing more frustrating than a flock of so-called bully birds descending on our backyard feeders. Not only do they eat the feeders clean in minutes, but their aggressive behavior also can discourage some of our favorite songbirds.
That's why controlling these species is one of the most common concerns among many Birds & Blooms readers. Reader Georgia Wacker of Canton, Ohio wrote to ask for a solution to keep blackbirds and grackles from pillaging her bird feeders. In Steger, Illinois, Mrs. Joseph Kraus says an invading swarm of house sparrows is eating her out of house and home. And European starlings are ruffling Wayne Taylor's feathers. These non-native birds are frightening away more desirable species from his Bethlehem, Pennsylvania yard.
Bully birds include blackbirds, grackles, pigeons, European starlings and house sparrows. The last three are non-native species and are not protected by law. These hungry avian invaders are often attracted to a yard by the cheap wild birdseed mix or suet that's made available on the ground or in easy-access feeders. If you're one of the people frustrated by the behavior of bully birds in your backyard, don't give up the fight. Here are some solutions that will help you keep these pest birds at bay, so you can continue feeding the birds you love.
Lock Out Bully Birds
Because virtually all bully birds are larger than more desirable birds, you can adapt your feeders to accommodate only smaller species. Try enclosing the feeders with large-mesh hardware cloth or chicken wire with openings big enough to allow smaller birds to pass through (a 2-inch opening should do). This will exclude the large bully birds. You can also purchase caged-in tube or tray feeders at your local bird, hardware or garden store. Just be sure to get one with the feeder portion located several inches inside the cage, so bullies can't reach the seed with their long bills.
Outwit Starlings
European starlings have a fondness for suet. Foil them by hanging the suet up and under a domed squirrel baffle. Starlings are reluctant to go underneath any kind of cover and usually will avoid the hard-to-reach meal. A special starling-proof feeder, in which the suet can be eaten only from underneath, is also available in bird stores.
Keep It Clean
Some backyard birders have the greatest problems with bully birds that eat the cast-off seeds below hanging and post feeders. Pigeons are notorious for gathering in flocks underneath feeders for their meals. The solution for this problem is to collect the fallen seeds in a deep container, such as a plastic garbage can or pail, that the pest birds cannot or will not get into. You can make a hole in the center of the container and place it right on your feeder pole.
Selective Feeding
Generally, bully birds prefer bread, corn, millet, wheat and sunflower seeds. To get rid of them, supply food they won't eat. To feed finches, fill hanging tube feeders with only nyjer seed (thistle). For cardinals, chickadees and nuthatches, provide safflower seed in hopper or tray feeders. If you do this, grackles, crows and blackbirds generally will look elsewhere for the foods they like.


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text: Ludum Dare 23, get your Ludum Dare 23 here! I've gathered together eleven of my favourites from the recent 48 hour compo/jam, although that's not to say I've played all 1,402 of the entries. The theme was 'Tiny World' and below you'll find a musical, an existential microjaunt, a personbreeding simulation and a space cat trader, with other delights sprinkled about. There are also unconventional marks out of ten, based on number of graphics, similarity to Tetris and inclusion of comical readme file.


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Taíno Art
The word Taíno is used to identify the inhabitants of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico) who first met Christopher Columbus during his first overseas exploration to the New World. Taíno means "good" in the Arawak language.
Towards the end of the 19th century, historians and archaeologists developed an interest to identify this group of other Native Americans. Taíno is not an ethnical term for the Arawak groups (whose ancestors came to the Antilles from South America since pre-historic times). Some archaic groups like the horticultural "Huecan," "Saladoid," and "Barrancoid," arrived to the Antilles from South America before the Taíno period.
The Taíno culture flourished between the 1000-1500 A.D., having its epicenter in the islands of Puerto Rico and La Hispaniola. During that time, this group migrated to the nearby islands of Jamaica, Bahamas, Vieques, Virgin Islands, and lastly, eastern Cuba, half a century before Columbus' arrival. They reached a high level of socio-economic development that influenced most of the Caribbean. The presence of a great number of villages of chiefdoms that ruled over expansive regions, of active commerce between islands and of agricultural techniques (i.e., irrigation systems, cultivation of elevated lands) tells us of a complex society; one whose evolution was cut short by the Spanish Conquest.
They were a hierarchical society: the Taíno head chief was called cacique, followed in power by the shaman or "bohique". Next were the nitainos, composed of high-class members and warriors; and in the lower level of this social pyramid, the naboriasthe common citizens and workers. Agriculture was the base of the Taíno economy, but hunting and fishing thrived as well.
Taínos believed in the existence of many deities, immortals who lived in heaven. Standing out among them is Yocahú, the creator of all things, and his mother Atabei or Atabeira. Besides mythical gods, the Taínos paid homage to their ancestors believing that they became protective spirits, also called zemís, upon death. In fact, many of these protective spirits were past chiefs. Zemís, which are made with stone, wood, shell or bone, and vary in size considerably, are perhaps among the best examples of pre-Columbian sculpture of the New World. The principle art manifestation of the Taínos is the rock art or petroglyphs with stylized anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and abstract motifs. They were made by engraving walls of caves, large rocks in riverbeds, as well as on the monoliths that were arranged as a "fence" for the bateyes, or multi-purpose courts, where they celebrated areytos (rituals) and played a ball game.
Their art reflects highly inspired artisans by the "icons" associated to culture and environment. The pictorial representations embody what that society revered and respected. Stylized depictions of the elements of nature, along with related icons, reflect their belief in magical forces in nature. In many cases, Taíno artifacts correspond to ceremonial paraphernalia. The zemi, or idol, is the iconographic object that represents the power of nature and was highly used in sympathetic magical rituals. Their magic-religious worldview was a factor in the high-volume of artifacts produced. Some artifacts, for example, were believed to make chiefdoms dominate the powers of nature (in the case of objects that represented the elements). With that panorama, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic zemís were made to represent spirits that control different aspects of nature. Zemís were used not only in religious and ceremonial activitiesof oracles, and activities like shamanism and funeral practicebut also in music, dance, ball game, pottery, and domestic activities.
Some objects, like the dujos, or ceremonial stools, display the majesty of the artistic treatment of finely polished woodlike the Antillean Guayacán (guaiacum)and of engraving. Only chiefs and shamans had the privilege of using the dujo. This nourishes the idea of power in a hierarchical society: both characters (cacique and bohique) became the controllers of nature and society. The icon and the power associated to it and its bearer, reflect the dichotomy that artifacts serve as political and religious purposes. During warfare, it was believed that the acquisition by force of the idols that protected certain cacique and his village bestowed more ruling power to the prevailing chief, "upgrading" his level of chiefdom. The more idols, the more power.
Artifacts carved in stone, wood, shell, and bone point to certain aspects in Taíno life, especially about social stratification, or hierarchy. And many modeled clay vases decorated with intricate lineal incisions and dotted motifs reveal much about their abundant artisan production. From the hands of Taíno master crafters come the richest works for ceremonial purposes, with intricate decorative motifs of a unique aesthetic quality. Among the most significant pieces are the three-peaked stones with human (anthropomorphic) and animal (zoomorphic) motifs, anthropomorphic stone daggers, stone masks, amulets massive stone collars, elbow stones, ceramic vases, stone mortars and pestles, bone vomit spatulas for magic ceremonial activities, wooden dujos, and sculptures. The solid stone collars are the most impressive handiwork of the ritual objects of the indigenous Taíno art of Puerto Rico. The great amount of time employed to create each one of them indicates that there was some sort of power ritual involved.
Other objects of special interest are the amulets. They reveal many fundamental aspects of Taíno mythology and craftsmanship. The magic realm is the basis for their aesthetic explanation of reality, because it is by wearing these amulets that represent the gods, the forces of nature, and those intangible forces beyond day to day experiences, that the Taíno try to take control of their environment.
The importance of the Taíno art objects lies in the symbolic part they play in their religion and daily needs. The Taíno "cosmovision," or worldview, comes from an ancient myth about creation of men and women, of the flora and fauna, of day and night and about life after death. Taíno objects were manufactured with this worldview in mind: influences of animistic power, and with specific beliefs and guides that rule their lives. All prime materialsstone, wood, clay, shell and bonewere always given a special treatment, keeping harmony with nature. That extended a distinctive sign for that culture.
Since the 1980's Taíno art exhibition at Seville,
Spain, and then in 1992 at Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico
y el Caribe (The Center of advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean)
in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the international appeal for Taíno art
grew exponentially. In a matter of years, the interest for its aesthetics
and values, and the study of the meaning behind Taíno objects was
no longer within the Antillean frontiers. Institutions like the Museé
du Petit Palais in Paris, France; El Museo del Barrio in New York; Instituto
Latinoamericano in Rome, Italy; and the Lehman College Art Gallery in
New York, presented exhibitions of Taíno art in the 80's, 90's,
and, more recently, in 2003. Those exhibits marked the beginning of a
Taíno "revival" in the art world, where handcrafters,
sculptors, engravers, printmakers, jewelers, and tattoo artists incorporated
Taíno motifs in their work. On the other hand, the academic world
paid attention as well. Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and
art historians conduct extensive research and new studies on the complex
Taíno culture.
In the past three decades of studies, the Taínos have become a rich model of a culture. Their objects roused a deep interest in themes that relate to their way of life. A closer look to Taíno art is an invitation to discover, know, and appreciate the marvelous heritage from this Antillean culture.


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Back in November last year the UK's Prime Minister said he was announcing a number of initiatives aimed at technology companies. Since then there have been a few periphery announcements from the various large tech companies (Google, Facebook et al) about what they would do to help. But one thing that was on the agenda was a review of the Intellectual Property rules. PM David Cameron confirmed a six month review into IP law that he hopes will help attract technology companies to the UK.
The US position on IP leans towards a 'fair use' environment, whereby IP can be used to a certain level without owner consent. This is very close the to Creative Commons licenses which aided the growth of startups like Flickr. In the UK copyrighted material is more highly restricted in use. Generally in Europe we rely too much on copyright and not enough on innovation. Witness Nokia's suing of Apple for instance.
So in this new IP review web business models, costs and complications surrounding the enforcement of IP law ad the costs to startups for accessing services to protect their IP are all up for discussion.
And incredibly the government is putting its money where its mouth is. It's appointed a panel of IP experts, chaired by Professor Ian Hargreaves, to review the IP system – including copyright, trademark, patent and design rights, along with more informal types of IP – and its effect on innovation.
They're in the process of meeting with a wide range of people and on Tuesday, 15 February, they're organising a meeting in London.
The thing is though, you can't come to the meeting unless you submit your views first and get invited. In order to get a balanced mix of perspectives, they're asking potential participants – entrepreneurs and startups – to fill out an application by Wednesday, 9 February (all information will be kept confidential). That's tomorrow. The event is being organised with Coadec, the Coalition for a Digital Economy.
However, I'm worried. You know why? I'm worried because I know what Brits are like.
Here is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to talk with the government's IP review panel about the effects of IP rights on their startups.
I'm worried too many people will say: I'll let someone else do it.
Well, here's the news: you'll get the laws you asked for. And if tech entrepreneurs don't step up to the plate and apply to speak to this panel then frankly they will get what they deserve in the resulting law-making process.
So let's do this. Let's feed into this process so we don't get IP laws that stop us from creating great companies.
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Unlawful assembly? Capitol steps arrests raise key questions
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"There were 277 other folks there that day to visit the Capitol. What if you drove to Richmond to visit and ran into that?"
Well, that was the point! Our freedom to assemble is not trumped by inconveniences to tourists, the bruised egos small minded politicians, or the testosterone fueled irrationalities of a paramilitary police force.
Okay, I don't want to see the few protestors out on Rio Road in front of Planned Parenthood anymore - think they should be met with riot geared Albemarle Police and arrested for unlawful assembly. That is sarcastic.
Just because you don't agree with what a protester has to say doesn't mean they do not have the right to protest - 1st Amendment here - on PUBLIC property. As long as they are on public property - if arrested, violates 1st amendment. Which the 1st Amendment TRUMPS all state codes/laws.
Any delegate in this state that supports the actions by the police (ordered by the Governor) should not be re-elected.
The Commonwealth of Virginia, proud of its heritage in the American Revolution, and her many sons and daughters who have paid the ultimate price in defense of James Madison's Constitution should be nothing less than ASHAMED of the actions of the Capitol Police, who seem to have forgotten THEIR oath to Protect and Defend it. These politicos who defend the police action should resign. Their actions and those who support them is nothing short of cowardice. To my sisters and brothers who stood their ground, I thank you and honor your resolve. THAT is the heritage of the Commonwealth.
"The Capitol Police followed protocol," says Landes, citing alleged death threats and heightened security since 9-11. "If individuals don't follow rules," says Landes, "there are consequences."
Unless of course, you are a Tea Partier complaining about not having access to protest in front of your Dem Rep's office because of rules. Then naturally its a violation of Constitutional Rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. South Carolina, a case very similar to the situation at the Va. Capitol, issued the following in its opinion by Justice Stewart:
"The Fourteenth Amendment does not permit a State to make criminal the peaceful expression of unpopular views."
There will be a bus going from Charlottesville to Richmond for a statewide rally at Abady Park in support of women's rights on April 28, part of a network of rallies nationwide that day. Details at www.wearewomenmarch.net.
When Gov Scott Walker ordered the capital police in Wisconsin to remove protestors from his state house, their top cop said, "we are not palace guards" Sadly Lt Pike didnt feel the same. His statement in this article suggests our capital is an entertainment site like Williamsburg rather than a standing, living testament to our democracy and Jefferson's vision. I spent alot of time on that day trying to convince Lt Pike that "watchful waiting" was the best position and that women singing on steps posted no threat and would end organically at 3pm when permit expired as the previous 4 rally's had, and that he knew that from our prior behavior. We have had 2 more vigils and multiple "protest Picnics" since and all of them have been w/o incident or threat to visitors. The escalation of threat on 3/3 was by law enforcement. It turned out to be the pr nightmare for Virginia that I predicted to him it would be. "You are not Palace Guards"
No, Caesonia. The JATP's issue was with Tom Perriello - not the landowner. He kept his office on property whose owner had a documented record of discriminating against groups based on their political idelogy. She only lodged complaints with the police when conservative protesters gathered and let it go when Organizing for America (videotape proved it to be the largest and loudest protest held by any group) and other liberal groups protested.
Again, SHE was within her rights to discriminate. But PERRIELLO should have objected and pitched his tent elsewhere. The landlord was more than just a landlord, but a political supporter and financial contributor who even held a fundraiser for him. Their relationship was such that he could have likely gotten out of the lease had he asked her. Instead, he feigned a lack of control and raised his hands up as if to say there was nothing he could do about it.
Fortunately, the JATP and other conservatives drove him from his office - making him a one-termer and ultimately resolving the office access problem on our own.
Maybe they were in riot gear because they were afraid that someone might try to attack them with ultrasound wands, and they needed to shield their genitals......
You know liberty has gone too hell when your faced with a bunch of "Gorts" ready to kick your brains out if you sneeze at them.
Thanks for the smile, faith.
The First Amendment is not something to be constrained in any fashion. The phrase begins "Congress shall make NO LAWS." If we so quietly give away our First Amendment now, where does that leave our democracy?
I understand we live in a world with terrorists. Our world has always had terrorists. Like it or not, terrorism tends to be contextual and there are times some would accuse our country of terrorism.
Fear is no way to govern or set policy. Innocent until proven guilty is more than a mantra. Why are the 31 people arrested on March 3rd not allowed on the Capitol grounds right now?
If the First Amendment is your final straw, join us on the Capitol grounds every Thursday for a Picnic-in. We are not going away and we hope to ensure March 3rd of the 2012 spring follies is a constructive, educational moment for our state and country. Virginia deserves to have this be one of the first topics for our next legislative session.
This is exactly what you asked for with your one sided article celebrating the detention and torture of an anti-abortion activist without charges. It's your own damn fault this is happening nationwide.
You see, when you celebrate the persecution of somebody for expressing a view you disagree with you pave the way for the persecution of those who express views you agree with. You helped create this society and now you're having regrets it looks like.
"Gort, barada, nicto"
Is someone bringing this article up again? http://www.readthehook.com/85300/news-speech-or-threat-free-expression-w...
If so, writing a note in a public place saying that you are thinking about going and killing someone and are armed is a far cry from peaceably assembling on the steps of the State Capitol.
I asked the cop who was following me if I was under arrest and he said "no, I just want to talk to you". The law says I can walk away at that point, and I have a fifth amendment right not to talk. I was accosted without being arrested and detained for expressing my distaste. I can think about whatever I want too, I can say what's on my mind. That's the first amendment. Side issue. I ask to you consider why this story (and other similar ones elsewhere being brought to you by mainstream media), and these ultrasound bills (was this idea initiated by Rick Perry, phony conservative globalist agenda puppet) are being passed in the first place. They're being surrepticiously pushed by the pro-abortion government behind the scenes, just as the police state crackdown was pushed by the pro-abortion government behind the scenes so that they could have a pro-abortion mainstream media heyday with it, knowing also that many pro-lifers would fall for it too, and be conditioned even more to go along with the police state. This is not to say that ultrasounds wouldn't reduce the number of abortions, or that there are some true conservatives who truly believe this is a good thing. And I'm not a doctor, I'm sure plenty of obstetricians would support it for standard medical ethics. But true pro-lifers want one thing and that is to outlaw abortion entirely. And this bill doesn't do that, whether it helps move us towards that or whether it assists the other side in making the movement look insensitive, or invasive, is another thing. So just remember what may be going on behind the scenes. Rick Perry. Yosemite Sam in pink underwear.
Back to the side issue. They broke the law (Legitimate law or illegitimate, they broke it) and were arrested for it. I didn't. I asked if I had broken any law and was told that I wasn't. But it's bad to arrest them and it's good to arrest me if I take the fifth when I'm told I'm not under arrest and then renege on that when a cop puts his hands on me and I express distaste with the cop and then, only then am I thrown in the paddy wagon without charges. And that's celebrated by the writer of the article, who's conduct required this magazine to print a retraction. Side issue.
It was entirely selective enforcement and it was deliberate not to oppress the movement but to give the public an opportunity to sympathize with the movement and others in the public to sympathize with the police state. And it's to get us all fighting with each other. That's the real deal.
If women want to be equal then stop whining.... sitting on a bus with your weak bladder is no comparison to cops beating union organizers with bats in the 1920s.
Welcome to the real world.
Wait. Your contention is that the gross injustice of beating union organizers justifies less violent injustices now? Interesting take on civility.
7 hours on a hot bus, handcuffed, no water, no rest room facilities......
........... a/k/a street justice!!!!
And, it sounds like the capital police and state police need a review on Virginia state code section § 19.2-82.... "A person arrested without a warrant shall be brought forthwith before a magistrate..."
Forthwith does NOT mean 7 hours.
Feet To The Fire,
" The JATP's issue was with Tom Perriello - not the landowner. He kept his office on property whose owner had a documented record of discriminating against groups based on their political idelogy."
Except that's exactly what the Tea Party and the Conservatives do. The point of the post was the Republicans, especially Tea Partiers, wail over laws and their rights only when it affects what they want to do. Its OK for the Richmond Police to do what they did, because the women might more 'liberal' or have 'liberal' ideas. Its not OK if its done to them.
Get it now?
The OP never said what happened at Perriello's was correct, though they have less to stand on than the women in Richmond.
Guess my question is this........did these folks break any other laws going to or from this rally? If not, why not?
Weak bladder Edgar? 7 hours? When men bear babies then they can start talking about weak bladders. Besides, anyone male or female who doesn't pee for 7 hours is dehydrated.
I would think urination is an age thing. When I was a young man and had a job where I drove 80% to 85% of the time, I could go all day long without needing to find a rest room. Thirty years later I need to find a rest room several times a day. I think 25 to 30 year old women sitting in this bus handcuffed for seven hours probably had no problems, other than the fact they were not produced before a magistrate FORTHWITH as the law prescribes. But 45 to 60 year women were most likely in pain and needed to go.
I would hope some of those detained on the bus for 7 hours would contact their lawmakers in reference to the FORTHWITH clause in the law. If a person, for whatever reason(s), can not be produced before a magistrate FORTHWITH, there should be a clause to release said person on a summons. Others might even contact their own attorneys. The law in handling these "prisoners" was not followed, by those who are suppose to enforce the law!
I have experience with this FORTHWITH rule in the law. In one of my false arrests in 1997 the judge asked the rookie how he managed to hold me in custody for 7 hours before producing me before a magistrate. The rookie started answering with a half baked tale about the paperwork, fingerprints, interview, blah blah blah. The judge said he knows how long it takes to process somebody, what did you do for the other 6 hours? The judge already knew the answer, the rookie had solicited other cops to look for a real crime to charge me with once he realized he had messed up so badly. They even asked a police Lt. to search my home and look for a real crime to charge me with. The Lt., now deceased, refused.
For those who wish not to read about my life experiences again, just go back a few paragraphs and unread what you just read! HaHaHa!
Col. Pike misspeaks. We were indeed "kept on a bus for seven hours". (It may been "only" 6 hours - since we were cuffed behind our backs the entire time it was a little hard to check our watches.) We were "provided opportunities to go to the bathroom" only after 4 hours of asking, begging, pleading. Finally one woman simply had to wet her pants. We were denied water until approximately 10:00 pm - 7 hours after originally being detained. Again, we asked, begged, and pleaded, since the bus (closed windows, closed door, AC turned off) was extremely hot. Please keep in mind that we were detained and given this treatment for MISDEMEANOR summonses.
We were not advised of the charges against us, nor were we read our Miranda rights, until we had been in custody for over 6 hours.
They had riot police and SWAT troops armed and ready to deploy. They had DOC buses waiting for us. And yet they claim they were unprepared for the number of arrests and had only ONE magistrate on duty?
We were not beaten, raped, or otherwise subjected to violence, as countless other civil-disobedience arrestees have been throughout this country's history. I shudder to think that some folks believe that if you haven't been cracked on the head with a billy club then you should be pleased with the way you were treated.
Jean Burke, have any of you discussed the law I mentioned above with your attorneys? FORTHWITH does not mean "as soon as possible". The definition of FORTHWITH means "immediately; at once; without delay:" Once you are arrested without a warrant you are to be produced FORTHWITH to a magistrate.


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Booms and BustsMoney and Banks
Even if the central bank were to be successful in preventing the fall of the money stock, this would not be able to prevent a depression if the pool of real savings is declining.
InflationMoney and Banks
The conventional view is that new money creation is no problem so long as the demand for money is increasing. The conventional view is wrong.
Booms and BustsBusiness Cycles
Even if business people learn to expect easy-money caused bubbles and busts — this would still not prevent the formation of a boom-bust cycle.
Booms and BustsGlobal EconomyMoney and Banks
The Chinese debt is overwhelming not simply because of the volume, but because the figure has quadrupled in seven years.
Money and BanksMoney and Banking
Increases in the money supply need not always be followed by general increases in prices, as prices are determined by both real and monetary factors.
Money is not neutral, and changes in the money supply set into motion a variety of unpredictable movements.
Argentina's president Mauricio Macri has been as bad as, if not worse than, his left-wing populist predecessor on the inflation front.
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NHL Skills Competition
When the National Hockey League first began playing All Star games in the 1947-1948 season, league executives had no idea that it would turn into the festival that it is today. When All Star weekend begins in Montreal on January 24, the spotlight will be on the players, the league and the city. It's a big business now; sponsors, fans, celebrations. A big part of the NHL All Star weekend is the skills competition, held the day before the actual game. With the anticipation growing as the event draws near, Sports Poster Warehouse wants to make our predictions for All Star weekend in Montreal.
The NHL's Fastest Skater-Vincent Lecavailer
The Breakaway Challenge-Alexander Ovechkin
The Young Stars Game MVP-Patrick Kane
Accuracy Shooting-Alex Kovalev
Hardest Shot-Sheldon Souray
NHL Elimination Shoot Out-Thomas Vanek
All Star Game MVP-Joe Thornton
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Very interesting results.


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What do we talk about when we meet each other?
"How's studies? OK?"
"Yeah, it has ups and downs, but everything's good man."
"How bout you?"
"I had an internship over the summer. It was awesome."
we are, i must admit, boring people.
What do the Sahabah say to each other?
There was this one time when Ibnu Rawaahah r.a held the hand of Abu ad-Dardaa' r.a and said:
"تعال نؤمن ساعة ان القلب اسرع تقلبا من القدر اذا استجمعت غليانا"
"Come, let us have iman for a moment. Verily the heart changes faster than the contents of a boiling kettle"
maybe in sounds better in malay : Marilah kita beriman sejenak. Sesungguhnya hati lebih cepat berbolak-balik daripada isi periuk yang sedang menggelegak.
Now that is awesome. They talk to each other about the things that are important. "How is your iman (belief)", "did you do good deeds today", "please remind me of Allah".
Even the first thing that we would be asked in the grave is ما ربك, who is your Lord.
And the stories we hear about the Sahabah are not stories about their professions, what businesses they did, how they made money etc. Instead we hear about their legendary deeds, like the 3 people who were dying on the battlefield, and one of them was given water to quench his thirst. He declined and said
"give it to my companion"
the second person also declined and said to give the water to his companion.
the 3rd person also asked to give the water to his companion.
In the end all of them died, preferring their friends over themselves.
Maybe the sahabah knew that we have no time to lose, like Allah says
"The Day they see it, (it will be) as if they had not tarried (in this world) except an afternoon or a morning." (An-Nazi'aat : 46)
On Judgment Day, we will feel as if we spent only one afternoon on Earth.
So find good friends who understand the purpose of life.


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Elite Dangerous: Braben's square peg
Elite: Dangerous is the long-awaited space trading game from industry legend David Braben. VG247's Dave Cook asks him about the game's galaxy, multiplayer and more.
"Elite was a truly stunning display of technical mastery, and fans have been calling out for Braben and his studio Frontier Developments to return to the series since the last game in the series Frontier: First Encounters launched in 1995."
I want to try an experiment here before I kick off the interview. Open up a new web browser tab and look at your email inbox. Now pick any email in there and check to see what the file size of the message is, including any attachments enclosed.
Chances are you're looking at something around the 8k mark for plain text emails, or anywhere from 30k to a few MB for messages with images attached. Now here's a little fact for you: David Braben and Ian Bell's original Elite was only 22k in size when it launched on BBC Micro in 1984.
If that's not so impressive, then know that it is considered by many to the be the world's first truly open world game, even though it was pre-dated by 1974's Star Trader which focused on interstellar commerce, but followed a different format.
Despite its size Elite managed to fit a square peg in a round hole, delivering an impressive 256 planets in such a small file size, all procedurally generated with their own global economy and abiding by laws of science. You start the game with a relatively weak Cobra Mark III trading ship, 100 credits and venture forth into a vast galaxy teeming with possibilities.
You are then free to do as you please, much in the same way that EvE Online or DayZ allows today – but without the MMO leanings – meaning that there is no ending as such, just the freedom to create your own role in the wider world. Coming at a time where platformers were all the rage, it's little wonder that Elite stood out from the crowd.
Elite was a truly stunning display of technical mastery, and fans have been calling out for Braben and his studio Frontier Developments to return to the series since the last game in the series Frontier: First Encounters launched in 1995.
Although it's been a long time coming, the recently-announced Elite: Dangerous is the game fans have been waiting for, and it's currently lighting up Kickstarter in a big way, sitting at £533,985 of its £1,250,000 goal at the time of writing. Clearly the series still has its fans and that, in turn, places pressure on Braben and his team to deliver.
It's refreshing that, in this time of big budget development and cinematic, aural nightmares, Braben has stuck to a simple open world premise. The format remains unchanged as the threadbare game synopsis suggests, "Take a ship and 100 credits to make money legally or illegally – trade, bounty-hunt, pirate, assassinate your way across the galaxy."
While it's a simple concept it also offers a wealth of possibility, given the sheer scale of the galaxy being proposed. We spoke with Braben to learn more about what those propositions will mean to the player, and to shed new light on his ambitious project.
Naturally our first question to Braben is why the game has taken so long to surface, and why Kickstarter is being used instead of a big publisher. After all, if EvE Online can succeed, then why not Elite, the game widely regarded as a godfather of the space trading genre?
"The danger is that everyone has their own idea of what the next Elite should be. The question is: if those ideas are very different to each other, then it's going to be very hard to try and deliver to that in a way that everyone will be happy."
To answer our question Braben goes right back to the original game, "We pitched Elite to Thorn EMI back in 1982, and their response was, 'We want the game to have three lives, to have a score and to take around ten minutes to play through.'
"We said no, but the point was that they looked at what games were in the market and successful, and they wanted us to make our game like those. Most games in the market at that time were clones of arcade games.
"You don't need to put coins in at home, and they didn't like our features, didn't like the fact you had to save your position, and they said , 'Who would want to play a game if it took weeks to finish it? People want games that take ten minutes', and I said, 'Well look, we're not in a put putting 10p in.'
"I said, 'People are at home now', but they just couldn't get that, and said that those were the kind of games that sold well, and didn't factor in that nobody had really tried."
Regardless of whatever reservations publishers had of the game, Elite became a smash hit for Braben and Bell, and Braben himself created two sequels over the years – Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters.
Braben revealed that he has wanted to make Elite: Dangerous for many, many years, and that it has been in a concept phase for some time, "It was quite a long time ago. It had been skunk-worked in the background but it hadn't been a full-on project, and I think that's the problem.
"I think that's why it has been stretched out, because other projects – our full-scheduled projects – tended to take priority. That's just the nature of the beast, and one advantage of Kickstarter is that it makes this a proper, funded project.
But while the Kickstarter approach removes some common pressures of mass market development – as well as financial and marketability issues that come with big publisher deals – Braben admitted that the crowd-funding route has presented his team with new challenges.
"It's a different kind of pressure," he said. "It's a pressure to make the right choices, and you're not making choices for an imagined market. With this, the beauty is that we're making choices for ourselves, and that actually is a lot easier.
"We can say, 'Well all right, what would I want it to do in this circumstance?' and that is great. It's very, very liberating."
"This isn't an MMO. You'll be able to load and save your position, and you'll be able to choose who you play with. It's a very different thing, and it's got more common with the way people tend to play things like Call of Duty."
Although it's liberating, the 'Elite' name itself does come with lofty expectations that long-serving fans will come to expect. But Braben's outlook on Kickstarter's feedback towards Elite: Dangerous has so far re-affirmed that he's on the right track.
"I think the response so far suggests that [the game] could fit with what a lot of people want, and I think that this is very reassuring. My fear wasn't so much that there wasn't a market out there, but it was more 'Is the game we make going to appeal?', because the danger is that everyone has their own idea of what the next Elite should be.
"The question is: if those ideas are very different to each other, then it's going to be very hard to try and deliver to that in a way that everyone will be happy."
Braben is also aware that spreading the game too thin in an attempt to appease everyone would be equally as disastrous, but as he explained, he has been planning the game out slowly over the course of many years, so the game's skeleton – from a conceptual standpoint at least, has been in place for some time.
"We did start writing code before the Kickstarter project, a lot of technology, because one of the biggest risks of this project for me anyway, is going multiplayer, and getting the network to work in a reliable way."
Braben is quick to stress that said multiplayer – while existing in a free galaxy – won't be following an MMO format like EvE Online, "This isn't an MMO. You'll be able to load and save your position, and you'll be able to choose who you play with. It's a very different thing, and it's got more common with the way people tend to play things like Call of Duty.
"In other words you'll be able to save your position and not have to worry about it in the meantime, and that's the sort of thing I want to be able to do. I don't want to be really annoyed that I go away and come back to find some load of teenagers have trashed my position.
"What I want is the feeling of Elite and Frontier – that I'm exploring on my own – but that some of the people I meet I can actually work with. I could say, 'Hey you're going this way? Why don't we go together and protect each other?."
"We had this idea of groups. You could have a group which is just your friends, and it doesn't have to be huge numbers of players. That means the only real players you'd meet in the game would be your friends within the group.
"The feeling would be mutual, as the understanding is that your friends are going to behave reasonably as well. They're not going to be griefers, but if they are, your friends can get together and say, 'Actually we'd rather you weren't in the group any more.'
"While Elite: Dangerous will be the full-sized galaxy, the actual question that we're thinking about is whether to contain the player in a smaller section at the start, just so there's a bigger chance they'll meet other players."
"The other problem is that with something like Call of Duty, it's impossible to play now because they're so unbelievably good and I don't play it every evening like some of them do. But our game can still be fun."
It's a very polite and cooperative approach to multiplayer then, and in many ways it's the best move for Braben, rather than delivering dogfight arenas or some slant on the classic shooter deathmatch. But what of solo play? Are long, isolating sessions spent staring into the dark expanses of space still on the cards?
"I do like the feeling of solitude and exposure, because when you do meet other players it actually becomes quite frantic. I think games need a cadence of high-stress combat, then relaxed in between bits, and then moments of, 'Oh christ, what's that dot in the distance? What is it? Is it a ship? Oh god it is a ship,' then you scan it and perhaps engage it in combat."
Exploration and taking risks is to be encouraged however, as the far reaches of space are teeming with hidden asteroid belts to be mined and planets with varying economies that help you play the market, potentially making your commander far wealthier that at the outset.
"That's the intention," Braben explained. "And also I'm hoping it will spread a bit out of the game where you might text someone, 'Wow, look what I found. Can you come and help me? I'm at these coordinates, or I'm just outside Lave.' Hopefully your friends would then appear online within minutes.
"What I'm hoping for with this is that it's done in a subtle way within the game. You could send someone a link so that when your friend fires the game up they could jump to that link directly. We haven't got that bit in place yet, but I think it's a small step from where we are now."
True, the garish blue tints of Facebook and Twitter popping up all over your HUD would break the immersion of the Elite: Dangerous galaxy, so it makes sense that Braben would like to establish a more subtle system.
"I think relatively seamless is what we're aiming for, so it would be something already pre-programmed in your ship's computer. One of the things I like in real life is what you get in some cars. You can go into Google Maps, sent a link directly to the car so that when you get into the car your SatNav is already programmed. That's very evil, but also very nice."
When you're not listlessly drifting around space, you can play off interstellar markets against each other, by buying resources low and selling them high to other planets. It rings true with previous titles and it's only going to get bigger in this game.
"It's parallel economies, that's the point. The beauty is you could head off into the unknown and actually the economy could be quite small. You could very much dictate prices there. It is something we're looking at, and we want to do it in quite a systematic way so that it's relatively robust. What we don't want is big exploits in the game. That's what we want to try and balance."
But it's a big galaxy, stated Braben, which means maintaining a stable economy that big can cause issues, and potentially overwhelm new players, because as Braben recalled, "I think most people only explored 0.1% of Frontier.
"I think the release of this game will only be the start. This is the modern world so we intend to continue putting updates out there, improving the game, and bringing new features in across time."
"So while Elite: Dangerous will be the full-sized galaxy, the actual question that we're thinking about is whether to contain the player in a smaller section at the start, just so there's a bigger chance they'll meet other players
"I think we'll certainly do that in terms of needing upgrades in order to go further, just to try and get people to find each other, but the Kickstarter group are more clued up people anyway – in the sense that they already know the series and what to expect from it."
But rather than appease fans of old who will check out Elite: Dangerous regardless, Braben is hoping to predominantly bring this harsh world to newcomers coming at the series fresh. "I'm hoping that's where most of the players will come from," he admitted. "We need it to be fun to play – we're not talking about dumbing it down – because otherwise you would only engage with a small percentage of the game.
"What I would hope is that they would gradually engage more and more with the game. You look at some of the more complex games that are out there, and you can see that they've managed to get a lot of traction over time, because they are rich, complex and skilful. So our intention isn't to dumb it down."
We offer Braben a comparison between Elite: Dangerous and FROM Software's Dark Souls, in that players will occasionally get together online to collaborate and help each other, leave messages, and contribute to official Wiki guides. Braben is certainly up on the idea.
"I would absolutely hope for that yes, and I think the release of this game will only be the start. This is the modern world so we intend to continue putting updates out there, improving the game, and bringing new features in across time."
If you would like to back Elite: Dangerous and keep up to date with all of Braben's blog posts, check out the game's official Kickstarter hub.


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Oswald Cobblepot A.K.A. The Penguin becomes mayor of Gotham
Good job Geoff, however (And sorry to the easily offended) as far as the Video shows, it seems to be more of a major update to the platformer than a new creator. However I have some suggestions to make it better.1. Make it a platformer RPG, good idea and also a unique way to aproach it, also a RPG was wanted.2. The ability to use a Physics Maker style tool to make custom content, and the ability to imput raw code and assets for the advanced.3. Turn it into a Tactics game, think of a 2D RTS, let still keep it centered around a central (But optional) Hero.4. (The Best) Start with what it was planned as and then add in 1&3 as different game-modes (Shooter Ship & Robo) and then add in the Custom Content creator in a update.Anyway nice job and best of luck to you on launch!Tally-ho!
UPDATE: I'm still working feverishly on this. It's coming together but I don't think I can release today. Soon!!!!
Also, not to pressure you or anything, but do you think this will come out within the next 2 weeks?
Yes. Working on sound now.
I guess Geoff is releasing it in Valve Time.
Well, its 1/13/13 and still not here....
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I built this sculpted prim arch using a Loft in Curvy. Read how below:
1) Select the Loft tool
2) Draw the large curve for the opening under the arch in Front view (I only made 1/2 an arch at a time)
3) Draw a C-shape curve at the base of the arch. You can draw this in the top view and move it into position.
4) Use the ruler tool to add straight edges, and the widget move tool with a small size to tweak the shape of the curve.
5) If you want a solid arch, move the endpoints so they line up
6) Select the C-shape curve and choose Curve/Clone from the menu.
7) Move the cloned curve into place at the top of the arch, rotating it round to vertical.
8) If your arch looks inside out when you turn off Double-Sided in object properties, you can turn the C-Shape curves the other way around.
9) [BETA] Set the resolution high and use Ambient Occlusion to automatically make shade maps and AO texture.
10) Export as sculptie for Second Life (Or use in your Curvy art!)
Building an Arch for Second Life
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Trout's torrid pace could lead to exclusive club
TORONTO -- With 19 games left, Mike Trout is 21 hits away from reaching 200 -- and some more rare company.
The list of players who notched 200 hits in their age-21 season is currently only 10 deep: Starlin Castro (2011), Alex Rodriguez (1996), Garry Templeton (1977), Vada Pinson (1959), Al Kaline (1955), Buddy Lewis (1937), Joe DiMaggio (1936), Hal Trosky (1934), Lloyd Waner (1927) and Ty Cobb (1907).
"I think it would be cool," said Trout, who is 22 but is in his age-21 season because his birthday is after June 30. "It's one of those things, just grinding out the rest of the year, trying to finish strong. If I get it, I get it."
But it does not stop at 200 hits for Trout.
He is two homers away from 25, has already topped 30 steals (with 32) and is two runs away from 100. Here are the players who have combined at least 200 hits with 25 homers, 30 steals and 100 runs scored in their age-21 season or younger:
Yep, zero.
Only 11 players have done it at any point in their career. They are: Jacoby Ellsbury (2011), Jimmy Rollins (2007), Hanley Ramirez (2007), Alfonso Soriano (2002), Vladimir Guerrero (2002), Rodriguez (1998), Larry Walker (1997), Ellis Burks (1996), Bobby Bonds (1970), Hank Aaron (1963) and Willie Mays (1958).
Trout entered Tuesday with a .338/.437/.572 slash line, giving him a 1.009 OPS that ranks third in the Majors behind only Miguel Cabrera (1.113) and Chris Davis (1.023). His 9.8 wins above replacement, as calculated by FanGraphs.com, easily leads the Majors -- Andrew McCutchen is second at 7.4 -- and would be the highest ever for a player in his age-21 at season's end.
Trout's .437 on-base percentage entering Tuesday would be the highest in Angels history -- Tim Salmon and Chili Davis each had a .429 mark in 1995 -- and is a byproduct of his American League-leading 90 walks, which he raised to 91 in the first inning of the series opener against the Blue Jays.
Asked before that game if there was a major difference in the pitches he was getting to hit this year compared with last year, Trout said: "Oh yeah, I think it is. Not having Albert [Pujols] hit behind you, a couple of guys being hurt, you definitely get less pitches to hit."
And that leads to probably the only question surrounding Trout's pursuit of 200 hits: Will he see enough strikes?


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Katie Holmes, Suri Cruise Paint Their Own Pottery in N.Y.C.
Plus: more star sightings!
Talk about a creative day out!
On Tuesday, Suri Cruise stepped out for an afternoon filled with arts and crafts in New York City with her mom, Katie Holmes, and her grandmother, Kathleen, at Make Meaning on the Upper East Side.
Right away, Suri ran towards the toys – but this wasn't a shopping trip. Instead of treating her to new trinkets, the trio ended up on the second floor, not in a private room, painting ceramics.
Suri went after "every color in the rainbow," says a source at Make Meaning, which offers up to 50 activities, including jewelry making. She even tried her hand at decorating mugs, ceramic unicorns and a dog bowl.
"Katie was very hands-on," says the source. "There was a lot of back and forth between mother and daughter. Suri was totally immersed in the creativity."
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Veterans Day Activities, Grades K-5
Lesson Plans, Activities, and Resources Focus on Wartime Service and Sacrifice
On November 11, we honor the wartime service and sacrifice of men and women in the armed forces. Originally proclaimed Armistice Day in 1919 to commemorate the end of World War I, it was renamed Veterans Day in 1954 to include American veterans of all wars.
The following lessons, activities, games, and resources will help your students celebrate service men and women past and present.
Lesson Plans & Activities
Lesson Plans
The Veteran in a New Field, 1865
Students in grades K-12 view and interpret Winslow Homer's 1865 painting The Veteran in a New Field. Teachers can download the Homer lesson ( PDF, 79 KB, 2 pgs.) as well as the "Teachers Resource Book" ( PDF, 4.29 MB, 130 pgs.) for Picturing America, 40 art-historic images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative objects and architecture that represent several centuries of U.S. history.
Wartime Poetry: Working With Similes
Students in grades 3-5 analyze a photograph, brainstorm words to describe a character's senses and feelings, and then create a simply structured poem using their ideas and similes.
Veteran's Day and Patriotism
Students in grades 3-5 are introduced to some of the symbols, songs, and pledges that represent our country and which have special significance to veterans.
Veterans Day Is Celebrated in the United States Today
Students in grades 3-5 write biographical poems about a soldier following a provided format.
- Military Uniforms ( PDF, 42 KB, 1 pg.), reading comprehension activity
- Veterans Day Crossword ( PDF, 7 KB, 1 pg.)
Background Resources
Veterans History Project, Library of Congress
Archive of veteran interviews from WWI to the present and two dozen interviews with pilots and crew members from WW II to the present.
Highlights in the History of Military Women ( PDF, 162 KB, 9 pgs.)
Timeline from the American Revolution to 2008.
Veteran's Day: For Teachers and Students
- Teacher Resource Guide ( PDF, 3.48 MB, 33 pgs.)
- Remembrance Day or Veteran's Day Coloring Pages
- Veterans Day Crafts, Projects, Worksheets, Books, and Printouts
Children's Literature
- Ansary, Mir Tamim. Veterans Day, 2nd Edition (Holiday Histories). Heinemann, 2001. Also in Spanish.
- Ashabranner , Brent. Always to Remember: The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Scholastic, 1992.
- Ashabranner, Brent. Remembering Korea: Korean War. 21st Century, 2001.
- Ashabranner, Brent. Their Names To Live By. 21st Century, 1998.
- Brill, Marlene Targ. Veterans Day (On My Own, Holidays). First Avenue Editions, 2005. (also in Spanish)
- Bunting, Eve. The Wall. Clarion Books, 1992.
- Cotton, Jacqueline S. Veterans Day (Rookie Read-About Holidays). Children's Press, 2002.
- De Capua, Sarah. The Vietnam Memorial (Cornerstones of Freedom). Children's Press, 2003.
- Ferry, Joseph. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (American Symbols & Their Meanings). Mason Crest Publishers, 2002.
- Henry, Heather French. Pepper's Purple Heart: A Veterans Day Story. Cubbie Blue Publishing, 2003.
- Landau, Elaine. Veterans Day: Remembering Our War Heroes (Finding Out About Holidays). Enslow Elementary, 2002.
- Nelson, Robin. Veterans Day (First Step Nonfiction). Lerner Publications, 2005.
- Peter, James S. The Saga of Black Navy Veterans of World War II. International Scholars Press, 1996.
- Rosinsky, Natalie. Vietnam Veterans Memorial (We the People). Compass Point Books, 2006.
- Sevastiades, Patra McSharry. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Library of American Landmarks). PowerKids Press, 1994.
- Schuch, Mari C. Veterans Day (Pebble Books). Capstone Press, 2003.
- Worsley, Arlene. Veterans Day (American Holidays). Weigl Publishers, 2006.
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