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David Sonnenschein is the author of Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema, from Michael Wiese Productions. David pulls from many life threads such as neuroscience research, as a music performer and composer of classical, jazz, world, and music therapy, film and games (director, producer, writer) and as an educator, lecturing and giving workshops in fifteen countries, with pre-schools through graduate schools and professionals. His love for science, art, health and communication are currently focused in his company iQsonics producing music games for brain health, including Sing and Speak 4 Kids, an online interactive program to support autism and speech delay in children. We spoke recently about the use of sound in film, how it triggers and interacts with neuroscience, and the breakthrough cinematic moment.
Visit iQsonics.com and SoundDesignForPros.com, contact david@iqsonics.com.
Dave Watson: First, congratulations on the book. How did it come about?
David Sonnenschein: I was a sound designer for many years with a background as a musician, filmmaker and neuroscience. I was living in Brazil in 1998 and was invited to teach sound design at the film school in Havana, Cuba, and was looking around for texts on this subject which I couldn't find. From this opportunity to teach a two-week class on sound design. I felt like I'd created an outline for a book. I submitted to a couple publishers and was immediately accepted by Michael Wiese Productions. It was a two-year process to put together the book.
DW: To a worldwide tour.
DS: This led to numerous university and corporate teaching gigs over the last twenty years or so along with many tours internationally, to about fifteen countries lecturing at conferences, workshops. The book itself has been translated into four languages: Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean.
DW: Asian languages.
DS: Yes, the European market is mostly in English.
DW: Were there any surprises while writing the book?
DS: Not really--I outlined the book from my research, which includes thirty reference books. Probably the biggest surprises were from interviews with top sound designers. They gave many insights I didn't foresee.
DW: You talk about the sound map. How crucial is this? What is it exactly?
DS: Sound mapping isn't common industry jargon, but something I created that's very useful for designing sound based on a story. It's the story map, plotting of the film along its storyline, a timeline of what happens when. Specifically, I created this for sound design, but can also be used for production design, casting, or music, various areas. What we're doing is mapping is the authentic curve of the story. The map is created by defining dramatic conflict of the story, the protagonist and antagonist combining what I call "bi-polarities" such as good vs. evil, life vs. death etc. Stories can be mapped along a timeline, scene-by-scene and dramatic shifts, for example moments when the good guy is winning, or other times when it looks like all is lost. We're using the map as a guideline for sound bi-polarities. By bi-polarities I mean, for example, loud and soft, sudden attack versus a gradual attack. These sound qualities have to be measurable and modified to match the sound bi-polarities with the dramatic bi-polarities, and this is a way of codifying the dramatic actions. You'll watch that's what's happened in many, many films even if they didn't use this particular sound mapping tool.
DW: When does the sound designer enter the filmmaking process. Some say, "Oh they add that in post," what I've heard.
DS: The sound mapping can actually be used as a blueprint for the whole team to work in synch so that we all have a common reference point. The director, the editor, way before shooting. Actually as a film director and consultant to others, I encourage others to do the sound mapping early in the beginning so you see what could be boring or over-stimulating without an emotional release. The sound generally needs a very fluid process of coming and going for the elements. Once you've got that, the whole team, the director, the cinematographer, the editor, the costumer, they can all use the sound map because we are all telling the same story.
The music composer ideally collaborates with the director and sound designer before you start cutting picture so they can all work together in the creative editing and storytelling process.
DW: And experienced. The sound is a big part of how the film is experienced. The sound almost enwraps the audience. One of the reasons I'm a film fan is it is such a consummate experienced.
DS: Right, how the film is seen, heard, and felt.
DW: Sound appears taken for granted to many audiences. Would you say it's one of the most subconscious parts of filmmaking? You mention meditation at one point in your book.
DS: It's not just the subconscious parts of filmmaking, but also the experience as human beings. We are not so aware of sound in our environments, compared to the images. A dog for instance might be more aware of sound, an eagle of visuals; different species have different neurologies and perceptions. Our ears transform sounds to our nervous system and our older limbic regions of our brains before it arrives in the frontal auditory cortexes. What this means is that we react to sound first on an emotional basis rather than a cognitive one, compared to visuals that go directly to the cognitive visual cortex of the brain. That's why music is so powerful. I call sound designers the ninjas of filmmaking because we shift the audience's feelings without their conscious awareness.
DW: I'm thinking of Blade Runner 2049, when he's in the bowels of the machinery and he's going toward the oven, we think we know what he'll find when he unfurls the wrapping, and the sound really ratchets up.
DS: Yes, we enjoy it on a visceral level that stimulates our visual experience and I like to play with that area of sound.
DW: You also discuss different forms of speech. I re-watched The Doors recently with overlapping sounds where sounds cut in and out of each other. How hard is this to do well?
DS: It starts with the idea that you "see a dog, then hear a dog," and so on. We have an expectation that that is normal. When you play with that reality it creates cognitive dissonance. With The Doors the director is distorting the reality with sound, you can take it out-of-sync. sometimes makes dialogue unintelligible. David Lynch did something interesting with Twin Peaks. He had the actors say their lines in reverse, then he turned around and played it backwards, so it worked, but the breathing and other sounds were very odd. Another example is The Conversation, Coppola's film is all about listening to dialogue that is not quite clear, mixing and matching sounds as the main character unravels a mystery. Sometimes you muffle it and you can't hear it well, then you add sounds on top or break them up; that technique can frustrate the audience. If you're going to do that, it has to have a clear purpose in the storyline.
DW: Same with Brian De Palma's Blowout.
DS: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is another example. Much of it's taken from the same location. They're distinguishing which is which by the use of reverb by dialogue that happened in the past. So that's another manipulation of sound to indicate different states of conscience.
DW: What's one of the best sound-designed films you've experienced?
DS: Eternal Sunshine has an extraordinary storyline through the sound because it's shifting in consciousness and aiding in the character's and audience's confusion. Then there are the revelations, who's aware of what. Fight Club is another one also with insights and internal sounds related to the characters. There are some classics like Raging Bull; I had the fortune to interview Frank Warner, who also did Close Encounters. He had a team and he assigned each member of his team to work on and oversee an element of the sound. One person was in charge of the punches, so each fight didn't sound the same and it was like a musical composition. Another was just in charge of the crowd sounds. Martin Scorsese told Frank that he didn't want any musical score and that the only music we would hear would be coming out of the radio. So the sound design elements by themselves functioned like a typical musical score, carrying the emotional context of the scenes.
DW: As long as it was clear to the audience.
DS: Yes. It empowered the sound designer to do extraordinary things and he invested a lot of time into that composition. Another example is Ben Burtt who worked on all the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films. I loved how he discovered sounds. For E.T. he recorded many different animal and human sounds and structured them for E.T.'s language, which evolved from grunts into words we could eventually understand.
DW: They are integral to the organic and consummate experience of the film.
DS: Absolutely. How did he make the sound of the light saber? It was a high-tension wire. He tapped the wire, creating a sound wave traveling the length of the wire up and down and recorded that sound. With Darth Vader, everyone in the world recognizes Darth Vader's breathing which is in fact a scuba breathing apparatus. I call it media specific referential listening. Some sounds like the Apple computer booting up or an ambulance siren, throughout our culture we hear sounds and they evoke images for us.
DW: I was in a Buddhist temple in Japan when our tour guide showed us the samurai gear and helmet, which many compare to Nazi helmets, and our Japanese guide said it looked like Darth Vader, then he turned to us and emulated the breathing sound!
DW: What's next for you?
DS: I've worked in the interactive medium as a consultant for large games like Mass Effect and been creating my own games for audio and music-centric. We created a game called "Sing and Speak 4 Kids" that uses image and sound to help children with autism and speech delays learn through speech and song. It utilizes my scientific and music background and serves a needy population. We've launched a pilot trial and will have a commercial release in the next year. I'm really excited to make change in the world and believe my book, classes and workshops have served many people to make more interesting films. But the excitement in my life is to do something that's never been done before and changing people's lives is extremely rewarding. You can view my website iQsonics.com for more info. What's next for me is in the areas of Augmented Reality and A.I.
DW: Finally, what is your favorite cinematic moment? One that inspires you to this day?
DS: I saw The Wizard of Oz at an early age and every year I watched it in black and white growing up. When I was ten, I was invited to see it in the theater and the scene when the house lands, Dorothy wakes up and opens the door and sees all the color, it is so ingrained in our conscience. I was in shock. That scene plays to our deepest subconscious and that moment when it turned into color was so dramatic. I directed a feature film in Portuguese in 1988 when I was living in Brazil. Super Xuxa contra Baixo Astral (Super Xuxa against the Bad Vibes). This film's main character Xuxa was modeled after Dorothy, including as her dog is kidnapped. Now thirty years later, fans of that film have interviewed everyone involved in that film and have been posting these interviews with clips from the film. They say it's their favorite film of all time. So we've received and created a lot of inspiration over the years.
Clip: The Wizard of Oz


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As Bleeding London enters its last week, we have some gaps that we need to fill. Today's sojourn is around Seven Sisters. Who - or rather what - were the seven sisters? Find out the answer to this question and more.
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In the press release for the signing of the MOU, it reads that geothermal utilisation and electricity is very important for business in Hrunamannahreppur. Warm water aquaculture is based on using lukewarm water and electricity, in addition special attention is paid to the sustainability and to minimising environmental effects of the production methods. Such development of energy intensive food industry rhymes well with utilisation plans of energy and geothermal, other food industry and food-linked tourism in the community.
On the order of two dozen jobs are expected to be created by the warm water aquaculture itself, with additional derived jobs created consequently.
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Neil Wagner pleased with career best performance
by Abhijit Editor
Published - Jul 29, 2016 9:43 am | Updated - Jul 29, 2016 9:43 am
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Day one of the Zimbabwe v New Zealand Test match at Bulawayo will always be remembered for the splendid performance of Kiwi pacer Neil Wagner. The left-arm New Zealand seamer, however, has stated that the bowling stocks of the Kiwi national team were perhaps the main reason why he was able to perform as well as he did. Wagner concluded with figures of 6/19, thus becoming his career-best figures after a short hiatus from Test cricket.
He stated that the short-ball was one of his strengths given the pace at which he bowls. A higher percentage of Wagner's wickets were claimed by the appropriate usage of the short-pitched delivery. "It's a tactic of mine that's one of my strengths, but it's more an option of trying to get players off the front foot and creating opportunities," he told reporters.
"It's to get some doubt into their footwork and obviously try and get a nick when you're pitching it up.
"With the wicket being flat, you have to try some options in creating the results and luckily for me it worked.
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"Getting career best figures is obviously a nice moment but just getting the opportunity to play Test cricket again and do well for your team is really pleasing. I thought the other guys bowled really well and as a whole team we did outstanding."
Wagner also went on to commend the fact that the New Zealand side had made progress when it came to their fast bowling department. "We have been saying for a few years now that we have a team that's horses for courses and we've got an outstanding bowling lineup with five quality seamers," he said.
"On the day, whoever is required in whatever conditions to deliver a job for the team, we've got that.
"It's sometimes a coach's nightmare but it's a good position to be in to have that quality of fast bowlers and spin bowlers in the team."
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"We're in a very good position but it's going to take a lot of hard graft. If we come in tomorrow and bat well in partnerships and keep building, then we can assess conditions and see where we go from there and get a good score," Wagner said.
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World Vegan Day on Nov. 1
This Sunday is World Vegan Day! Here are 8 culinary spots in the Los Angeles to celebrate with healthy and delicious vegan dishes.
Plant-based Executive Chef Rachel Carr uses Latin inspiration in all of her vegan dishes. One of her signature dishes includes pumpkin blue corn tamales with spicy, organic blue corn tamale stuffed with sugar pie pumpkin, with anasazi beans, roasted red pepper-tomato sauce and sautéed market vegetables. Be sure to order a signature sangria inspired by traditional Peruvian flavors and seasonal California produce. www.chavela-la.com.
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Artichoke Oysters, "Crab Cakes," and Scaloppini Marsala are served alongside new dishes from Chef and Owner Tal Ronnen and Executive Chef Scot Jones. Attracting epicureans to its chic dining room, the vegan menu highlights autumn's best ingredients such as pumpkin, mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, and squash. Ronnen's highly anticipated cookbook Crossroads (Artisan Books) launches this fall featuring recipes for his ever popular and inventive plant-based cuisine. http://www.crossroadskitchen.com
Cafe Gratitude
The I Am….menu offers dishes named after affirmations to inspire you to love yourself, accept the world, and be full of gratitude. Try the I AM….EXTRAORDINARY sandwich. It's touted as a BLT made with coconut bacon and layered with lettuce and tomato. It's delicious and much more healthier than bacon filled with nitrates. http://cafegratitude.com
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Rawberri
In West Hollywood is an eatery serving up delicious cold acai bowls. These seasonal superfruit bowls are an excellent source of dietary fiber and natural energy. There are no added preservatives or artificial flavorings, and the bowls are full of vitamins, antioxidants and flavor.
Rawberri is the first in the U.S. to carry the world's best non-dairy frozen yogurt – Cocowhip. It's a vegan soft serve ice cream, made with coconut water. There is no added sugar and it's naturally infused with probiotics. Plus it's only 90 calories per serving! http://rawberri.com
Manhattan House
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Chef Diana Stavaridis takes Manhattan Beach's local gardening program by crafting her menu items from her own local garden, She works with farmers and purveyors within 5 miles of her Manhattan Beach restaurant. Passionate about supporting the local community, Chef Stavaridis has partnered with local garden center Deep Roots, where she sources hard to find herbs & veggies that are custom grown for her; Pacific Elementary School, where she has a community garden; and the local charity supporting education & sustainability, Growing Great. The result: local produce and a garden to table concept with a seasonal daily changing menu at Manhattan House, which offers a wide variety of vegetarian and vegan options.
One of her most progressive dishes is Carrotology 2.0 – a masterpiece of orange featuring carrots prepared in eleven different ways! From carrot hummus, to sous-vide puree, to carrot caramel, this dish is not only visually stunning but also completely unique. http://www.manhattanhouse.pub
The Gadarene Swine
Executive Chef Phillip Frankland Lee and Pastry Chef Margarita Lee feature whole plant-based food for dinner with Vegetables in a Box. The box is made with Yukon potato shavings placed on a bed of charred Japanese eggplant puree. Inside is an assortment of seasonal veggies roasted in white wine and garlic
For dessert try Margarita's Pear Pie made with braised pear and a pecan pie ice cream (no dairy) and brown sugar streusel. http://www.thegadareneswine.com
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Gracia Madre
Try the Gorditas made with grilled potato-masa cakes topped with warm salsa verde, avocado, and cashew cream or the Empanadas made with homemade pastry filled with grilled plantains, served on a bed of spicy mole sauce, topped with cashew cream. Be sure to add Guacamole con Tortillas made with mashed avocado with cilantro, onion, chile and lime. http://gracias-madre.com
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Daily Dose Cafe
Offers a Big Salad with seasonal mixed greens tossed in orange citrus vinaigrette with roasted seasonal veggies and house pesto. http://www.dailydosela.com
Enjoy eating healthy!
Author Jill Weinlein - Travel and Restaurant ReviewerPosted on October 28, 2015 October 29, 2015 Categories Celebrity Chef, Comfort Food, Fun dining, Vegan diningTags Cafe Gratitude, Chavela, Crossroads, Daily Dose Cafe, Gracia Madre, The Gadarene SwineLeave a comment on World Vegan Day on Nov. 1
5 dineLA Restaurants To Experience in the San Fernando Valley
With rents for brick & mortar restaurants in Los Angeles continuing to rise, The San Fernando Valley has become an attractive destination for some of the hottest chefs in Los Angeles to prepare some outstanding fare.
Summer dineL.A. Restaurant Week is now through July 26, 2015, showcasing some of the Valley's premier dining destination with specially priced prix-fixe lunch and dinner menus. Here are 5 reasons to dine in Calabasas, Sherman Oaks and Studio City:
1. The Gadarene Swine
Chef Phillip Frankland Lee and Pastry Chef Margarita opened their second restaurant in Studio City after their first restaurant – Scratch Bar became an overnight sensation.
The Gadarene Swine offers an intimate, casual experience with dazzling vegetable dishes as the focus of the menu.
For dineLA order his multiple-course vegan menu is $25 per person and 6-course dinner is $50. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
11266 Ventura Blvd. Studio City, CA 91604 – (818) 508-5500.
2. Public School 818
Located across from the Sherman Oaks Galleria, this chef-driven gastropub teaches "An Education in the Art of Food & Beer." School is open daily on Monday through Friday at 11:30am- and Saturday and Sunday at 10:00am. Happy Hour or Recess for Food is on Monday through Friday from 4 to 6:30pm and Drinks from Monday through Friday 4 to 7pm.
Read my review of Public School 818 published in the Beverly Press – http://beverlypress.com/2015/04/back-to-school-night-public-school-818-grade-a-gastropub/. The dineLA dinner is $30.00 per person. 15300 Ventura Blvd, #102G – Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 – (818) 728-9818
3. Tipple & Brine If you like/love Gjelina in Venice, you will enjoy Tipple & Brine in Sherman Oaks. It's a neighborhood oyster bar focused on sustainable, seasonal, and the overall best available products. It has the Gjelina feel with distressed wood, Restoration Hardware decor in a sophisticated, but casual environment. The servers are friendly and Chef Marc Johnson freshly prepared food offerings, craft cocktails, local beers, small production wines. Read my review of Tipple & Brine published in the Beverly Press – http://beverlypress.com/2015/04/tipple-brine-oysters-cocktails-and-a-speakeasy-bar/. The hours are from Sun-Wed 5pm-11pm and Thurs. through Sat. they stay open until 12am Happy Hour is from Mon. 4:30pm-11pm and Tue-Fri 4:30pm-6:30pm. Late Night Happy Hour is on Mon-Sat 10pm-12am. The dine LA dinner is $40.00 14633 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 (818) 528-2550.
4. Saddle Peak Lodge Half way between Malibu and the San Fernando Valley off of Las Virgenes Road is a warm, rustic retreat tucked away in the Santa Monica mountains. Guests dine on hearty game and fish dishes in multiple dining rooms that evokes a luxury hunting lodge. The restaurant is open on Monday through Friday froom 6:00 – 9:00pm. On Sat evenings 5:00 to 10:00pm and Sunday from 5 to 9:00pm. Sunday Brunch is from 10:30am to 2:00pm. Happy Hour is Monday through Friday from 5 to 6 p.m. Dinner is $50.00 per person. 419 Cold Canyon Road. Calabasas, CA 91302-2204 – (818) 222-3888
5. Downtown Johnny Just a few doors down from Tipple & Brine is another Chef Marc Johnson restaurant serving up classic American fare and craft cocktails until the wee hours. It's Open Daily Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 2 a.m. Happy Hour is daily from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dinner is $30.00 per person. 14649 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 – (818) 205-1616.
Author Jill Weinlein - Travel and Restaurant ReviewerPosted on July 16, 2015 July 16, 2015 Categories dineLA Summer 2015, San Fernando Valley, Sherman Oaks, Studio CityTags dineLA, Downtown Johnny's, Public School 818, Saddle Peak Lodge, The Gadarene SwineLeave a comment on 5 dineLA Restaurants To Experience in the San Fernando Valley


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Coach bus narrowly misses hitting New Hampshire state trooper
Bus driver was cited
Updated: 10:34 PM EDT Apr 22, 2016
Dashcam video shows a close call on the highway for a New Hampshire trooper.He was returning to his cruiser after a traffic stop Thursday in Grantham when a coach bus failed to move over or slow down. The trooper, identified by state police as Trooper Catalfamo, missed being hit by a matter of inches.State police say this happened at 10 a.m., while the weather was clear and traffic conditions were light. Three cruisers were parked on the side of the road with their lights on during an investigation that involved the search of a vehicle. The driver of the bus was issued a citation and state police shared the video as a reminder for all drivers to slow down and move over for emergency vehicles.39174500
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Dashcam video shows a close call on the highway for a New Hampshire trooper.
He was returning to his cruiser after a traffic stop Thursday in Grantham when a coach bus failed to move over or slow down. The trooper, identified by state police as Trooper Catalfamo, missed being hit by a matter of inches.
State police say this happened at 10 a.m., while the weather was clear and traffic conditions were light. Three cruisers were parked on the side of the road with their lights on during an investigation that involved the search of a vehicle.
The driver of the bus was issued a citation and state police shared the video as a reminder for all drivers to slow down and move over for emergency vehicles.


As CT scanning is a very common medical imaging method, we propose new hardware-based algorithms using GPU (Graphical Processor Unit) programming for rapid visualization. Firstly, 3D volumes are constructed from CT scans. Then volume rendering is used to display anatomical structures via algorithms founded on improved ray casting and 2D textures. Our methods achieve interactive rendering rates and require an ordinary PC with an off-the-shelf graphics card. We expect our approach to be useful to medical practitioners for handling modern, large-scale medical datasets.


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'Rosie' cuts staff as show shifts format
Lynne Marek
(Crain's) — "The Rosie Show" has cut its production staff as its host, comedian Rosie O'Donnell, reshapes the show to draw more viewers and advertisers.
The show, which began taping in Chicago after Oprah Winfrey left last year for the West Coast, shed as many as 30 employees and contract workers over the past month as it shifted taping of the show to a smaller studio and eliminated some aspects of the program, such as a game show segment. It also has started taping more one-on-one conversations without an audience, said people familiar with the changes.
The show, part of the Oprah Winfrey Network based in Los Angeles, is trying to find the right formula to boost ratings and give Ms. O'Donnell the platform that works best for her, they said. The shift to the new studio the week of Jan. 16 put her in a more colorful, living-room setting that had space for an audience of about 70, down from the several hundred who fit in the former studio of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
"With the new, more intimate studio, the show requires fewer staff to support the operation," said Chance Patterson, a spokesman in Chicago for Harpo Studios Inc., which produces the show.
Mr. Patterson declined to say how many staff members had been cut or how many remained.
The show's changes followed the departure of Ms. Winfrey's longtime top staffer, Lisa Erspamer, who was executive vice president of production and development for the network in Los Angeles. Like "The Rosie Show," OWN has struggled to buoy ratings.
"The Rosie Show's" ratings plummeted after a strong premiere episode in October that drew nearly 500,000 viewers, according to news reports, and is now averaging a little over 200,000 viewers. But ratings have edged up in recent weeks after the changes, said Scott Carlin, who helped Ms. O'Donnell develop the show and is a consulting producer for it.
"What's going on with the show is what goes on with a lot of shows — they evolve over time to better deliver upon what viewers' and advertisers' expectations are," Mr. Carlin said. The one-on-one conversations without an audience and the smaller studio are part of an effort to play to her strengths as a communicator so that she can have a "more intimate personal conversation," he said.
"It's all about creating the ambiance and most appropriate energy to give somebody who she's talking to the comfort and the freedom and ease to engage in a real conversation," he said.
The show's recent guests aren't necessarily the Hollywood celebrities that would help attract a huge national audience. While the show started with a bang — actor Russell Brand was its first guest — more recently it has featured veteran talk-show hosts, such as Ricki Lake, and other OWN personalities, such as Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Ms. O'Donnell had her own syndicated talk show until 2002 and later joined ABC's "The View" in 2006, leaving the following year amid contentiousness over her political opinions.
Aside from the "Rosie Show," the Chicago studios are still used for production of OWN's other shows that are taped elsewhere. The cable network is owned by Ms. Winfrey and Discovery Communications Inc.
Last May, after Ms. Winfrey focused her operations in Los Angeles, Harpo provided notice to the State of Illinois that it planned to cut as much as a third of its staff at the time. The prior December, Harpo had 400 full- and part-time employees after 50 left to join OWN in Los Angeles.
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Question: Should i be worried about this spot on my arm?
I can see a pigmented lesion in this Image.
This looks well defined, has irregular margins, with a darker hue in center as compared to the periphery and seems to have some white areas (at 6 O'clock position and a small spot at center) as well. Can you upload a better quality of image which allows me to appreciate the topograpy more closely and clearly? Or I would suggest a dermoscopic examination for this lesion.
How long has it been there? Has it changed in anyway?in terms of size, color, symmetry? Are there any more such lesions on your skin? Is there a personal or family history of skin malignancy?
Hello, thank you for the reply. It just recently seemed to become darker. I will send you a better picture as well. It seems like it is flat as well. When i rub my finger across it, I do not feel any elevation. I do not have any family history of melanoma either. Given the size of the mole i did not thonk it could be melanoma.
The reason I suggest a dermoscopic examination is that it does'nt look perfectly symmetrical in this image, is darker in the center than at the periphery and has changed recently i.e become even darker recently.
Size <5mm and flat lesion are good but still I would suggest a dermoscopic examination to look for its pigment network. This would be more reliable in case of a doubtful lesion.
What causes pins and needles in left arm/leg?
Any suggestion for having synovial cyst in MRI of back of spine?
I have been having right lower back/hip pain for months that is severe. Worse at morning, night, standing, sitting. I have high potassium. Diagnosed with Clark s Level 4 Melanoma of right thigh in 2010. Surgically removed. No chemo or radiation. MRI of back l spine shows synovial cyst at l4-l5. PET scan of whole body shows suv uptake of 4 in right jugular chain lymph node. Please help!
What causes dark veins after excision for superficial spreading melanoma?
I recently had an excision for a superficial spreading melanoma, that did start growing veritically, from my upper right shoulder on my back. I still have stitches and am waiting for this pathology to determine if the margins are clear. Since the excision I have veins that are becoming darker blue under that right arm pit, shoulder and chest area. Even after lots of sunblock and reapplication I did get a sunburn, however the joint of my shoulder and armpit meet where one of these dark blue veins are I burnt around the vein but did not burn on nor about 1/4-1/2 an inch all around this vein. Is this normal or something I should contact the doctor who did my excision? I don t want to bother him if unnecessary, but has been a week since excision and have one more week till I go back to see him.
What is outcome of having basal cell on face for long time?
I was diagnosed with Basal Cell Carcinoma, Nodular Type on June 26-2014 I have had a spot by my eye for at least 20 years, really never got any bigger over the years. I m scared to death it might of spread to the brain or somewhere else in the body. My Dermatopathology report say under microscopic description - sections demonstrated a proliferation of atypical basaloid cells extending from the epidermis into the dermis. Peripheral nuclear palisading, stromal mucin deposition and tumor-stromal clefting are observed. The tumor display a nodular growth pattern within the dermis. I m having a Mohs surgery on July 14 -2014 and also scare about how much damage going to be done to my face. I just lost my dad on May 26-2014 to melanoma in the brain only. So has anyone have a basal cell on your face for a long time and what was the outcome. Please any input will be helpful.
What causes a small patch of skin discoloration under the right eye?
What would a rare mitotic figure mean on a shave biopspy of a mole that had been picked and traumatized?
Is a persistent round reddish purple sore on the ankle indicative of melanoma?


Forestry craft of creating, managing, using, conserving, and repairing forests in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands.The challenge of forestry is to create systems that are socially accepted while sustaining the resource and any other resources that might be affected.
Modern forestry generally embraces a broad range of concerns, in what is known as multiple-use management, including the provision of timber, fuel wood, wildlife habitat, natural water quality management, recreation, landscape and community protection, employment, aesthetically appealing landscapes, biodiversity management, watershed management, erosion control, and preserving forests as 'sinks' for atmospheric carbon dioxide. A practitioner of forestry is known as a forester.


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Home Career Movie Productions LA Blues
LA Blues
Sean Maguire as Jack Davis
Running Time: 95 min.
Release Date: April 4, 2007 (Method Fest Independent Film Festival)
Director: Ian Gurvitz
Producer(s): Randy Carter
Screenplay: Ian Gurvitz
Cast: Kevin Rahm, William Ragsdale, Dave Foley, Anthony Michael Hall, Nicholas D'Agosto, Marsha Thomason, Liza Lapira, …
The story is told in flashback by one of the characters to a female detective who comes on the scene of what may have been an attempted suicide and he unravels the story of a year in the lives of 6 guys who hang out in a blues bar in Hollywood, watch sports, trash talk, and bitch about their lives, as they go through problems ranging from construction nightmares to divorce, gambling addiction, alcoholism, child custody fights, and all the headaches and heartaches men go through in the course of their lives.
Sean plays Jack Davis, an actor with a drinking and ex-wife problem. He can't seem to keep his hands from the booze which is constantly getting him in trouble with his agent and his ex-wife. On top of that, his ex-wife is fighting him for custody for their daughter. Jack has to show that his daughter is more important to him than a drink.
Sean and Marsha Thomason are really good friends who hang out together with their spouses and kids in their free time.


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By the early 1990′s Design Machine & Manufacturing began to tailor their equipment around the commercial fertilizer and chemical packaging industry. With a great need for equipment that could survive in this extreme environment, the innovative designs included the use of plastics where metal parts once dominated. By maximizing the use of 316L stainless steel and other nonferrous corrosion resistant metals and sourcing the highest quality electrical components were mandatory.
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// Representation of a condition in the Declarative WebRequest API. A condition
// consists of several attributes. Each of these attributes needs to be
// fulfilled in order for the condition to be fulfilled.
//
// We distinguish between two types of conditions:
// - URL Matcher conditions are conditions that test the URL of a request.
//   These are treated separately because we use a URLMatcher to efficiently
//   test many of these conditions in parallel by using some advanced
//   data structures. The URLMatcher tells us if all URL Matcher conditions
//   are fulfilled for a WebRequestCondition.
// - All other conditions are represented as WebRequestConditionAttributes.
//   These conditions are probed linearly (only if the URL Matcher found a hit).
//
// TODO(battre) Consider making the URLMatcher an owner of the
// URLMatcherConditionSet and only pass a pointer to URLMatcherConditionSet
// in url_matcher_condition_set(). This saves some copying in
// WebRequestConditionSet::GetURLMatcherConditionSets.
class WebRequestCondition {
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  WebRequestCondition(
      scoped_refptr<URLMatcherConditionSet> url_matcher_conditions,
      const WebRequestConditionAttributes& condition_attributes);
  ~WebRequestCondition();

  // Factory method that instantiates a WebRequestCondition according to
  // the description |condition| passed by the extension API.
  static scoped_ptr<WebRequestCondition> Create(
      URLMatcherConditionFactory* url_matcher_condition_factory,
      const base::Value& condition,
      std::string* error);

  // Returns whether |request| is a match, given that the URLMatcher found
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  bool IsFulfilled(net::URLRequest* request, RequestStages request_stage) const;

  // Returns a URLMatcherConditionSet::ID which is the canonical representation
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  // This ID is registered in a URLMatcher that can inform us in case of a
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    return url_matcher_conditions_->id();
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  // Returns the set of conditions that are checked on the URL. This is the
  // primary trigger for WebRequestCondition and therefore never empty.
  // (If it was empty, the URLMatcher would never notify us about network
  // requests which might fulfill the entire WebRequestCondition).
  scoped_refptr<URLMatcherConditionSet> url_matcher_condition_set() const {
    return url_matcher_conditions_;
  }

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  scoped_refptr<URLMatcherConditionSet> url_matcher_conditions_;
  WebRequestConditionAttributes condition_attributes_;

  // Bit vector indicating all RequestStages during which all
  // |condition_attributes_| can be evaluated.
  int applicable_request_stages_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(WebRequestCondition);
};

// This class stores a set of conditions that may be part of a WebRequestRule.
// If any condition is fulfilled, the WebRequestActions of the WebRequestRule
// can be triggered.
class WebRequestConditionSet {
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  typedef std::vector<linked_ptr<json_schema_compiler::any::Any> > AnyVector;

  explicit WebRequestConditionSet(
      const std::vector<linked_ptr<WebRequestCondition> >& conditions);
  ~WebRequestConditionSet();

  // Factory method that creates an WebRequestConditionSet according to the JSON
  // array |conditions| passed by the extension API.
  // Sets |error| and returns NULL in case of an error.
  static scoped_ptr<WebRequestConditionSet> Create(
      URLMatcherConditionFactory* url_matcher_condition_factory,
      const AnyVector& conditions,
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  const std::vector<linked_ptr<WebRequestCondition> >& conditions() const {
    return conditions_;
  }

  // Returns whether any condition in the condition set is fulfilled
  // based on a match |url_match| and the value of |request|. This function
  // should be called for each URLMatcherConditionSet::ID that was found
  // by the URLMatcher to ensure that the each trigger in |match_triggers_| is
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  bool IsFulfilled(URLMatcherConditionSet::ID url_match,
                   net::URLRequest* request,
                   RequestStages request_stage) const;

  // Appends the URLMatcherConditionSet from all conditions to |condition_sets|.
  void GetURLMatcherConditionSets(
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  typedef std::vector<linked_ptr<WebRequestCondition> > Conditions;
  Conditions conditions_;

  typedef std::map<URLMatcherConditionSet::ID, WebRequestCondition*>
      MatchTriggers;
  MatchTriggers match_triggers_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(WebRequestConditionSet);
};

}  // namespace extensions

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (February 2018) – Kraus-Anderson Development Company has hired commercial real estate veteran Craig Patterson as vice president of development. He will be responsible for new business and relationship creation, and for project real estate transactions, including negotiations, deal-making, leasing and business partnerships.
KA Development is an integrated approach to grow Kraus-Anderson's portfolio and to address the market's expanding and dynamic commercial real estate activity.
Patterson has 29 years of experience of development and leasing in industrial build-to-suit investment properties. Most recently he was the regional manager at Minneapolis-based Marcus & Millichap, where he was responsible for the firm's investment commercial real estate properties. He also held executive management positions with Minneapolis development firms CSM Corporation, First Industrial Realty Trust, Welsh Development and Opus Northwest.
Patterson has developed many notable industrial projects for companies such as Archway Marketing Services, Kimberly-Clark, Jarden Corporation and ConAgra Foods.
Patterson received his B.S. degree in Horticulture Management from Iowa State University, Ames. He is a past-president of the Minnesota Chapter of NAIOP (Commercial Real Estate Development Association) and is a licensed real estate broker in Minnesota.
Kraus-Anderson Development Company, part of the family of Kraus-Anderson Companies, is a comprehensive real estate services provider with expertise in site selection, master planning, land and building acquisition, financing, facilitation of municipal processes and entitlements, portfolio and property management and leasing.


Hello, I'm Sandra, and my other half is Mike.
We have five kids... a dog... and a cat... and live in a itty bitty town outside of Louisville, KY. Together, he and I are the creatives behind Paper Willow Designs!
I (Sandra) am the dreamer and in charge of the digital side along with the sewing and painting. A little bit of photography too.
Mike helps create and build the woodworks that you will see in our market. He also helps with the sewing from time to time, too.
Together we have been creating and crafting for craft fairs for the last twelve+ years.
Our dream has been to open a shop together. To have our own place to sell our creations. A place to find not only party printable's, but everyday life printable's. Woodworks for holidays and everyday. Quilts and table toppers.. you name it!
It's our modern market of sorts, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do in creating it! It is still a work in progress and we are constantly adding to our dream! So please be patient with us as we continue to grow and expand!


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By: Jennifer Kraus
Tennessee's Commerce and Insurance Department is one of the largest departments in state government. But if you're looking for the commissioner, Julie McPeak, you likely won't find her in her office.
Tennessee's Department of Commerce and Insurance is one of the largest departments in state government.
But if you're looking for the commissioner, Julie McPeak, you likely won't find her in her office.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates found she doesn't spend a lot of time there. In fact, she is often out of the country.
Our investigation found Julie McPeak travels – a lot.
But as we discovered, her trips are not "official state business."
When Tennessee's insurance commissioner is not in her office, chances are she's not even in Tennessee.
Since taking the job in 2011, we found Julie McPeak has spent a considerable amount of time making speeches and attending meetings and conferences, around the country and the world. Inlcuded are repeated trips to Europe and Asia, along with stops in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean.
"Isn't your first job here to be commissioner?" NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked McPeak.
"It absolutely is!" she replied. "And my priority has always been Tennessee."
But Tennessee is not sending McPeak on most of these trips. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is.
"I am traveling on their behalf because I am the president-elect of the association. I have been an officer for a few years and I've served in leadership of important committees up unto that point," McPeak explained.
"Who is paying for these trips?" we asked her.
"The National Association of Insurance Commissioners," she answered.
And the group covers all of McPeak's airfare, hotel rooms, and meals.
"Any idea how much NAIC has spent on your travel?"
"No, I don't. I don't have any idea," McPeak told NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
The organization wouldn't tell us how much they've spent, but as Tennessee's insurance commissioner, McPeak has taken more than 120 of these trips.
That means NAIC has likely spent hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"It seems to be a clear conflict of interest," said Andy Spears, executive director of the consumer advocacy group, Tennessee Citizen Action.
The NAIC is made up of state insurance commissioners like McPeak from across the country. The group takes in nearly $99 million a year, and most of that money comes from fees paid by the very people these commissioners regulate, insurance companies and agents.
"No one disputes that NAIC receives most of its funding from the insurance industry and she's basically got a credit card and travel expenses and all of that paid by the insurance industry," Spears remarked.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked McPeak."You took 30 trips last year?"
She replied, "Oh? Okay."
"You took 30 trips the year before?" we continued.
"I would have to trust you on those numbers," McPeak told us.
The numbers come directly from McPeak's own travel requests to the state.
They show the number of trips she's taken has steadily increased, and so have the number of days she's been gone.
Two years ago, she was on the road 117 days.
Last year, 120 days, or in other words, four whole months.
"She has a big job and if she's not present, it's hard for me to see how she's actually doing that job. And Tennesseans are paying the price," Spears opined.
As the commissioner of Commerce and Insurance, McPeak is responsible for a department that oversees everything from regulating insurance rates and securities to the 911 system, fire protection, consumer protection and nearly two dozen state regulatory boards that oversee everything from realtors to car dealers.
"So you don't think that it matters that you're not in the office?" NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked McPeak.
"I am in complete contact with my office at all times. I have cell phones and I-pads and even when I'm traveling in different time zones, I'm in complete contact with the office," she explained.
McPeak added that her employees do a great job of getting things done when she's not there.
"I have a really strong staff that knows how I feel about issues, knows my goals and objectives."
Yet, state travel records show Mcpeak often takes her staff with her on these trips. In December, she took ten employees to a five-day conference in Miami.
"What do you think taxpayers will say when they hear how many trips you're taking and how little time you're spending in the office?" we asked.
"I hope that they hear that we've saved 180 lives from our Get Alarmed program and that our insurance industry is burgeoning on the captive side and that our regulatory boards are functioning with a lower budget and more efficiency than ever before," McPeak said.
But as good as McPeak tried to make it sound, last year was actually one of the deadliest years for fire deaths in Tennessee.
Not only did McPeak approve some of the largest rate increases in health insurance in the country, many counties now have only one provider.
"That's great that she has this other interest, but we're not seeing the benefit of that as Tennesseans. And if this is what she's really interested in, we probably need someone else to be the commissioner," Tennessee Citizen Action's Spears suggested.
Commissioner McPeak was supposed to be at an NAIC conference in Washington DC Monday, but canceled her trip at the last minute.
In the interest of full disclosure: we want you to know that the Department of Commerce and Insurance considered purchasing some advertising from NewsChannel 5's sales team last year, but did not.
Commissioner McPeak and her staff have suggested THAT is the reason we began asking questions about her travel and possible conflicts of interest.
That is simply not true. In fact, Jennifer Kraus and the other NewsChannel 5 employees working on this story didn't even know about last year's advertising discussions until Commissioner McPeak's staff told them about it.
That was after our investigation was well underway.


Information on funding opportunities under the EU programmes is out there and can be found in the various sections of the European Commission and EU Agencies websites. However, it is often scattered, confusing and time consuming to read. Sometimes you need to go through hundreds of pages just to find out whether a given call for projects is relevant for your organisation or not. Or sometimes you open the websites only to see that the most relevant call for you has just been closed.
This is why Telecentre Europe decided to launch a new Funding Alerts Service for its member organisations – to make EU calls for proposals and the funding rules more accessible, readable and clearer, and to keep our members updated on open opportunities.
What you can find in the Funding Alert?
Each issue of the funding alert will monitor the programmes considered most relevant for Telecentre Europe member organisations (inter alia Erasmus+, Europe for Citizens, Creative Europe, European Programme for Employment and Social Innovation, Horizon 2020, EuropeAid, etc.).
We will provide you with a list of open calls for proposals and tenders relevant to your activities containing comprehensive, but clear to read information: objectives of the calls; deadlines; funding rules and eligibility requirements, amongst others.
But unlike other similar services, the funding alert will also be much more than just a list of calls!
The information will be provided in a user-friendly way – with direct links to the documents relevant to each call and some useful tips and suggestions. And most importantly, Telecentre Europe will be there to help you in an "on-demand" basis, so if you have any questions or project ideas, you can contact us and we will do our best to guide you in the EU funding maze! We will ask the Commission / Agency clarifying questions, we will look for partners for your project idea among TE members and TE's wider Unite IT network, and we are willing to be a partner to your projects when relevant.
In the future we will expand towards funding opportunities from other donors such as international organisations, foundations, etc.
So, how can you benefit?
If your organisation is a member, you will receive the Funding alert in the Members section on Basecamp and will be notified by e-mail. If your organisaiton is not already a member of Telecentre Europe, please contact Membership and Communications Manager Masha Tarle to join TE (masha.tarle@telecentre-europe.org).


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Pensioner pay increases by 50%
By Rebecca Patton	 25th October 2012 9:33 am 3rd November 2015 5:32 pm
Average gross incomes for pensioners have increased by an estimated 50% in real terms over the last 16 years, according to research by the Office for National Statistics.
The Pension trends 2012 report found that occupational pensions were a "significant" source of income for pensions. The other source of income is benefit income which includes state pension and housing and disability benefits. As many as 1.9 million pensioner households live on benefits alone.
Despite an increase in the income levels for pensioners, current workers still need to continue to save more for their retirement.
Raj Moody, head of pensions at PricewaterhouseCooper, warns: "Despite retired households now generally being in a better position, people yet to become pensioners still need to be doing more to save enough for a comfortable retirement.
"For most current workers, relying on pension payouts from their workplace schemes and the state will not be enough for the type of retirement they might expect to enjoy."
He adds that even with pensions auto-enrolment, workers should not expect to receive as much from their employer's workplace pensions as older generations are receiving.
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Steve Harrison 26th October 2012 at 9:57 am
Misleading headline. What has happened is that poorer pensioners have died, to be replaced by wealthier newly retired.