text:
Civil Rights & Social Justice
Working & The Economy
Estrella-Capital
Cassie Miller
A native Pennsylvanian, Cassie Miller worked for various publications across the Midstate before joining the team at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. In her previous roles, she has covered everything from local sports to the financial services industry. Miller has an extensive background in magazine writing, editing and design. She is a graduate of Penn State University where she served as the campus newspaper's photo editor. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in professional journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition to her role at the Capital-Star, Miller enjoys working on her independent zines, Dead Air and Infrared. Follow her on Twitter: @Wordsby_CassieM.
'The goal is to act now': state officials detail Pa.'s 2021 Climate Action Plan
By: Cassie Miller - September 22, 2021
The plan builds on six areas of impact noted in the 2021 Climate Change Impacts Assessment
Pa. vaccine providers ready to administer COVID boosters, Beam says | Wednesday Morning Coffee
Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. When the OK comes down from the federal government, state health officials said Tuesday that Pennsylvania vaccine providers are ready to begin administering COVID-19 booster shots. "Pennsylvania is well prepared to start providing vaccine booster shots just as soon as the CDC provides the approval and guidelines on who can […]
Pa. Health Dept: More than 4,939 new COVID cases; 2,386 hospitalized
The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed 4,939 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, bringing the statewide total to more than 1.38 million cases of the virus. Hospitalizations due to the virus also continued to climb, increasing from 2,337 on Monday to 2,386 on Tuesday, according to state data. Of those hospitalized with the virus, 602 are […]
Presque Isle celebrates 100 years, announces net-zero initiatives | Tuesday Morning Coffee
The plan for Presque Isle State Park, which includes improvements such as shoreline enhancements and modifications to the park's wastewater system, was announced Monday by Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn.
Pa. Health Dept: More than 12,686 new COVID cases; 2,337 hospitalized
The new cases bring the statewide total to more than 1.38 million cases, according to state health data.
Slim majority sees reckoning over racial history as a positive | The Numbers Racket
More than 400 years after the first Africans were brought to what would become the United States on slave ships, 53 percent of American adults say that increased attention to that history is a good thing for society while 26 percent say the opposite.
Report finds decline in household income, rise in poverty rate | Monday Morning Coffee
According to the 2021 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement, the median household income decreased 2.9 percent from 2019 to 2020.
Pa. fall foliage reports to debut Sept. 30 | Five for the Weekend
Fall foliage reports and the top 5 stories from this week.
Two is the limit as Pa.'s state-run liquor stores tackle supply chain disruptions, shortages
The 43 rationed beverages include specific champagnes, bourbons, tequilas, cognacs and whiskeys, according to the AP report.
Pa. unemployment rate dropped slightly in August
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate has decreased for the sixth consecutive month, to 6.4 percent in August, according to state data released Friday. That's 1.2 percent higher than the national rate of 5.2 percent. Department of Labor & Industry data confirmed that the commonwealth's unemployment rate was 3.8 percentage points lower than its August 2020 level. The […]
Pa. logs 6.2% decrease in noneducation workers in state, local government | Friday Morning Coffee
Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Associate Editor Cassie Miller here, filling in for John. Let's dive right in, shall we? While private sector jobs are rebounding from the COVID-19 closures, noneducation employment growth in state and local governments across the country have all but dried up, Pew Charitable Trusts data suggests. Noneducation state and local jobs, including jobs […]
Ag. Sect'y Redding announces 'return' of Pa. Farm Show in 2022
The 106th Farm Show will be held at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg from Jan. 8 - 15, 2022, the Department of Agriculture confirmed. The theme for the 2022 Farm Show will be "harvesting more."
< 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 … 48 >
Honest, aggressive reporting for Pennsylvania
Democracy Toolkit //
Register to vote | Find your polling place | Request a mail-in ballot | Check your registration status | Contact county election officials | Find your state lawmaker | Look up a bill
DEMOCRACY TOOLKIT
Request a mail-in ballot
Check your registration status
Contact county election officials
Find your state lawmaker
Look up a bill
© Pennsylvania Capital-Star, 2022
The Pennsylvania Capital-Star is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site dedicated to honest and aggressive coverage of state government, politics and policy.
Ethics Policy | Privacy Policy
Our stories may be republished online or in print under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. We ask that you edit only for style or to shorten, provide proper attribution and link to our web site.


Remember when most everything you purchased was made right here in the good old USA? Now it seems that most products are made overseas and shipped and sold in big box stores all over. That is not the case here at Sand and Swirl. We still believe that the best products are made in the USA, and even more importantly are made local. That is precisely why we provide custom cultured marble manufactured locally.
Have you seen the construction going on at our store?
If you have traveled along I-15 near the 24th Street exit, you may have seen a building being constructed by our showroom. This new building is where all of our cultured marble products will be built custom for you.
Of course, we have always manufactured our own cultured marble products locally. This new building will just bring it closer to our showroom to help us improve efficiency and quality.
We are often asked why we manufacture our own cultured marble. The honest answer is that we couldn't find a product on the market to give us the look and options we wanted to sell. That is why we have come up with our own proprietary method of creating the stunning cultured marble options you find in our showroom. No other company can offer what we offer at Sand and Swirl, and that's what makes us so unique.
These are just a few of the benefits our customers will see.
We are excited to be able to offer you a truly customized option that will help beautify your home. Stop on in our showroom to see some of the new creations that are always being delivered from workshop. We hope to see you soon to celebrate the opening of our new manufacturing facility in 2019!
New manufacturing facility coming soon!


text:
COSIGN 2004
CompSem 2000
ARTHUR ELSENAAR AND REMKO SCHA
Arthur Elsenaar is an artist and an electrical engineer. He used to run his own pirate radio station, and he built the transmitters for many illegal radio and television stations throughout the Netherlands. His radar-controlled interactive sculptures were shown in several international exhibitions. Elsenaar's recent artistic work employs the human face as a computer-controlled display device. Elsenaar coordinates the New Media curriculum at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen.
Remko Scha is an artist and a computer scientist. He has built an automatic electric guitar band ("The Machines"), designed an image generation algorithm ("Artificial"), and developed a language-processing theory ("Data-Oriented Parsing"). He coordinates the Computational Linguistics curriculum at the University of Amsterdam, and performs as a DJ on the Amsterdam pirate station "Radio 100".
Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha have jointly developed a series of automatic performance-pieces, video-installations and audio-installations, involving computer-controlled facial expression, algorithmic music, and synthetic speech. These works have been presented at scientific conferences, theatre festivals and art exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Elsenaar and Scha are also exploring the use of automatic radio stations as a medium for computer art.
KEN PERLIN
Ken Perlin is an Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the director of the Media Research Laboratory at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He is also the director of the NYU Center of Advanced Technology, sponsored by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation.
He completed his Ph.D. in 1986 from the New York University Department of Computer Science. His dissertation received the Janet Fabri award for outstanding Doctoral Dissertation. His research interests include graphics, animation, and multimedia.
Dr. Perlin was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that, from 1979 to 1984, he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY. TRON was the first movie for which his name got onto the credits. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH, has been a member of ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH, and has been a senior reviewer for a number of technical conferences.
CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica), Amsterdam
COSIGN papers are listed on Google Scholar. Download papers for 2001, 2002, 2003 and now 2004.
COSIGN Journal to be launched.
COSIGN becomes member organisation of IASS.
Program / Proceedings
Site © Kinonet and Cosign 2007

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl