There are a few interactions in Photos.app on Mojave that I think are pretty bad. This is probably the worst one. Please take a look and consider adding input.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to do a work shop at UX Scotland about Human-Centered Design Leadership. I am truly honored to spend the whole afternoon with a group of experienced and new design leaders talking about some of the challenges and rewards of it.
There is still a lot to do before I need to pack for Edinburgh. It's a nice sense of urgency without the stress. First time in Scotland!
When a review a design portfolio and the person says they are passionate about accessibility but have text as images with no alt text…I am judging.
I wish I could chill as good as my cat does.
Mom: Do you want to talk to Uncle David?
Oliver: Can I talk to Wilson first?
Destiny Warmind Expansion: How will you stop a worm god?
Me: Hmmm…I bet a bunch of bullets.
I think Wilson often thinks he's still that tiny kitten who used to sleep in my arm.
As much as I enjoy the films, I'm suffering a bit from cinematic universe fatigue. Long films (3 hours) are the ideal for me to experience an entire narrative.
Just sitting in a tiny Greenhouse with my colleagues Rachel and Zainab in Stanford.


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In another life, it was the headquarters for the mining operations of Tennessee Copper Company and its successor, Cities Service Company.
Today, the old mine office building at Burra Burra is filled with the artifacts and memories of those mining operations. You'll probably want to start with the short audiovisual presentation, just to get a historical overview. Then, either with a museum guide or on your own, it's time to go exploring.
You may already have started, in fact: in the area bordering the parking lot, where the museum's larger artifacts are on display and where the collapsed and flooded portion of the Burra Burra mine works are still visible from the overlook. But that really is just the beginning.
Inside, artifacts, exhibits and photos will transport you back to a time when the copper beneath these hills was known only to the native Cherokee tribes. From there, you'll move on to discover more about the area's now-legendary mining and sulfuric acid industries, the thriving communities that grew up around them, and the human beings who made it all happen.
To schedule a group tour, call us any time during normal business hours. If your group has a particular interest (geology, for instance, or a visit geared to a younger school group), just let us know.
For a charge of $12 per person, the museum offers a mineral collecting area that is open and accessible during normal hours of operation. It consist of three dump-truck loads of ore, not tails, that were moved on site from the ore bins at nearby Central Shaft. The ore piles are located in a gated area behind the Museum Shop Building. The museum does not supply any tools or supplies for collecting; visitors are responsible for bringing their own gear.
Copper hauler George Barnes, whose fiddle (played to keep his mules happy on the journey, according to local legend) is now on exhibit at the museum.
Before the coming of the railroad in 1890, the refined copper from the Ducktown Basin mines was hauled to Cleveland, Tennessee in mule-drawn wagons. It was a two-day trip each way along the Old Copper Road, which bordered the Ocoee River.


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Kristen's LA Concert Calendar: 7/29-8/4
This week, the Sunset Strip Music Festival is upon us. Events
kick off Thursday night with a tribute to and performance by Joan Jett &
The Blackhearts at The House of Blues. Thursday and Friday, venues along The
Strip are hosting an array of bands and then the street shuts down on Saturday
for an all day festival with headliner Linkin Park. For a full line up and
ticket prices, check out the SSMF website http://www.sunsetstripmusicfestival.com/event-info/.
Friday night also features a FREE outdoor concert at the lot across from The
Roxy. The Strip is my favorite part of Los Angeles and this is an excellent
opportunity to see what the area has to offer. Don't miss out!
Here are the other shows I recommend this week:
Monday: Last
American Buffalo, The Rebel Light and more FREE at The Satellite (9pm)
ALSO: The Elizabeth Kill at Molly Malone's (8pm)
ALSO: Hunnypot Radio Live FREE at The Mint featuring Parade of Lights (7pm)
ALSO: Adam Bones at The Viper Room (10pm)…album
ALSO: Bad Rabbits and Air Dubai at The Troubadour (9pm)
ALSO: Josh Groban at The Grammy Museum
ALSO: It's A School Night FREE at Bardot featuring Tapioca & The Flea (9pm)
ALSO: Monday Monday FREE at Room 5 featuring Jenni Alpert, David and Devine,
Joel Eckels, Scott Mellis, Wise Cub (8pm)
Tuesday: Amie
Miriello at The Hotel Cafe (9pm)
ALSO: Franz Ferdinand at The Echoplex (8pm)
ALSO: Badass Bands Blog Presents: Young Creatures, Mars and the Massacre &
The Space Race at Silverlake Lounge (9pm)
ALSO: Beachwood Tuesdays FREE at The Piano Bar (8pm)
Weds: Kevin
Martin at Molly Malone's (8:15)
ALSO: Max Collins (Eve 6) at The Hotel Cafe (9pm)
Thursday: Ours,
8MM, and more at The Roxy (7:30)
ALSO: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts at House Blues
ALSO: Badwater FREE at The Viper Room (9pm)
ALSO: Joel Eckels & The Wreckards at The Hotel Cafe (10pm)
ALSO: Tyler Lyle and Wrabel at Bootleg Bar (9pm)
ALSO: Xavier Rudd FREE at Santa Monica Pier (7pm)
ALSO: Terra Naomi at WitZend (8pm)
Friday: Nightmare
and The Cat, Dear Boy, and Kitten at The Troubadour (8pm)
ALSO: The Honey Trees, You Me & Apollo at The Hotel Cafe (9:30, 10:30)
ALSO: The Space Race, Kieran Leonard, Irontom, The Filthy Souls FREE at O'Brien's
(9pm)
ALSO: Franky Perez & The Truth, Jessica Childress, Great White Buffalo,
Exist Elsewhere FREE at Lot across from The Roxy (7pm)
ALSO: Fine at El Cid (10:15)
ALSO: The Vim Dicta, The Bolts at Amplyfi (9:35, 10:20)
ALSO: Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts at The Viper Room (11pm)
Saturday: SSMF
Street Festival featuring Linkin Park, Awolnation, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
Terraplane Sun, Sad Robot, The Active Set, The Diamond Light, Raheem Cohen,
Smile Empty Soul, Orgy, Andy Clockwise, Sabrosa Purr, The Last Internationale,
and MORE (2pm)
ALSO: Scot Weiland & The Wildabouts with Bryce Soderberg & The 2nd
Wheel at The Viper Room (10pm)
ALSO: Kita Klane, Hotel Cinema, Jesca Hoop at The Hotel Cafe (7,8,9)
Sunday: Griffin
House at Largo (8:30)
ALSO: The Both at The Troubadour (8pm)
ALSO: The Ten Thousand, Jack Berry, Kiernan Leonard at Bootleg Bar (8pm)
August 8th: The Silent Comedy at Fonda Theatre
August 11th: Ivan & Alyosha at The Troubadour
August 14th: Jamie N Commons at The Troubadour
August 15th: The Neighbourhood at The Fonda Theatre
August 16th: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald at The Troubadour
16th: Serena Ryder at The Roxy
17th/18th: Echo Park Rising
August 19th/20th: Ed Sheeran at The Staples Center
August 20th: Patrick Part at The Troubadour
August 22nd: Andrew Belle at Bootleg Bar
August 24th: NEEDTOBREATHE at Harvest Social in Anaheim
August 24th: Truth & Salvage Co. at The Troubadour
August 24th: Gavin DeGraw at LA Food and Wine Festival
August 31st: The Shakers at The Troubadour
September 4th: Tegan and Sara at The Greek Theatre
September 4th: Brendan James at The Hotel Cafe
September 6th: Gold Fields at The Troubadour
September 10th: Ewert and The Two Dragons at The Satellite
September 14th: Hem at The Troubadour
September 17th: Butch Walker at Bootleg Theatre
September 18th: Bastille at The El Rey
September 19th: Cold War Kids at The Wiltern
September 20th: twenty one pilots at House of Blues Anaheim (w/ Fall Out Boy
and Panic at The Disco)
September 24th: Ben Rector and Tyrone Wells at House of Blues
September 24th: Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors at The Hotel Cafe
September 25th: Wicker at The Roxy
September 26th: Hanson at House of Blues Sunset
September 27th: The Naked & Famous at The Wiltern
September 27th/28th: The Lumineers at The Greek Theatre
September 28th: White Buffalot at The El Rey
September 29th: Arctic Monkeys at The Wiltern
October 1st: Jake Bugg at Fonda Theatre
October 1st: Bronze Radio Return at The Satellite
October 3rd: Matt Nathanson and Joshua Radin at The Wiltern
October 4th: Travis at The Wiltern
October 5th/6th: Way Over Yonder Festival at The Santa
Monica Pier
October 8th: Daughter at The Wiltern
October 9th: The Avett Brothers at Shrine Auditorium
October 10th: Tony Lucca at The Hotel Cafe
October 10th/11th: The Pretty Reckless at House of Blues
October 11th: KT Tunstall at Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
October 12th: 30 Seconds to Mars at The Hollywood Bowl
October 14th: Frank Turner at The Fonda
October 16th: Langhorne Slim & The Law at
The Troubadour
October 16th: The Delta Saints at The
October 21st: Carbon Leaf at The Hotel Café
October 22nd: AFI at The Fonda Theatre
October 25th: Stephen Kellogg at McCabe's
October 26th: Boy at The Fonda
October 27th: Stephen Kellogg at Saint Rocke
October 28th: Foy Vance at The Hotel
October 31st: Iron & Wine at Orpheum Theatre
November 20th/22nd: Black Crowes at The Wiltern
November 23rd/24th: Pearl Jam at LA Sports Arena
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Kristen's LA Concert Calendar: 4/8-4/14
Posted on April 7, 2013 by Kristen
Watching some season 1 Veronica Mars in honor of the super successful Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the VM movie. I'm excited (and yes, I pledged). I've seen these episodes so many times, it's the perfect background for getting some work done.
Speaking of work, it's been overtime for me lately, so I haven't been going to as many shows. There are some good ones next week too. I'm most excited about Curtis Peoples' record release show on Wednesday at The Roxy. Then of course, if you're lucky enough to have tickets, week 1 of Coachella is this weekend. Please go and enjoy Biffy Clyro for me…
Here's what else I'd recommend:
Monday: It's a School Night at Bardot featuring Escondido and The Dustbowl Revival (9pm)…FREE with RSVP
ALSO: Audra Mae FREE at The Central SAPC (8pm)
ALSO: Abbot Kinney FREE at Silverlake Lounge (11pm)
ALSO: The Diamond Light at Gavin Turek FREE at Bootleg Bar (10pm)
ALSO: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down at The Troubadour (10pm)
ALSO: Monday Monday FREE at Room 5 (8pm)
Tuesday: Mackenzie Bourg at The Hotel Cafe (9pm)
ALSO: Juliet Simms at The Roxy (8pm)
ALSO: Death of a Star at House of Blues (9:30)
ALSO: Toy Bombs and Eastern Conference Champions at Bootleg Bar (9pm)
Weds: Curtis Peoples at The Roxy (10pm)…album release show!
ALSO: David & Devine at The Hotel Cafe (10pm)
ALSO: Andy Davis at The Mint (8pm)…residency alert!
Thursday: Caitlin Crosby and Wild Feathers at The Hotel Cafe (9,10)…start of Caitlin Crosby Residency
ALSO: The Watkins Family Hour at Largo (8:30)
ALSO: Korey Dane at Room 5 (9pm)
Friday: The Elizabeth Kill, 28 North, and Badwater at El Cid (9:30, 10:15, 11)
ALSO: Father Tiger at The Virgil (9pm)
ALSO: Shane Alexander and Brother Sal at The Hotel Cafe (9, 10)…Shane Alexander Record Release Show
ALSO: OWL at The Roxy (10pm)
ALSO: Coachella!
Saturday: Langhorne Slim and Lucero at The Echoplex (9pm)
ALSO: The Honey Trees at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)
ALSO: The Rocket Summer with The Classic Crime and Joe Brooks at Chain Reaction (7:30)
Sunday: Tic Tic Boom! at The Satellite (11pm)
April 16th: The Neighbourhood at The El Rey
April 17th: Lelia Broussard at The Hotel Cafe
April 18th: Little Green Cars at The Troubadour
April 20th: Tyrone Wells and Wakey!Wakey! at The Troubadour
April 23rd: The Revival Tour at The El Rey
April 25th: Dear Boy at Bootleg Bar
April 26th: Chappo at The Satellite
April 27th: The Virginmarys at The Viper Room
April 27th: The Lonely Forest at The Satellite
May 2nd: Lights at The El Rey
May 2nd: Crash Kings at Saint Rocke
May 2nd: Meiko at Los Globos
May 4th: The Brobecks at Amplyfi
May 4th: Alice Russell at First Unitarian Church
May 4th: Saint Motel at The Roxy
May 7th: Tom Odell at The Troubadour
May 7th: Dinner and a Suit at The Roxy
May 8th/9th: Milk Carton Kids at Largo
May 9th: Dead Sara at The El Rey
May 9th: Sara Watkins, Fiction Family, Kris Orlowski at Bootleg Theater
May 11th: Speak at The Roxy
May 12th: Stephen Kellogg at The Hotel Café
May 14th: Sara Bareilles at The El Rey
May 15th: Andrew McMahon at The Troubadour
May 18-19th: Overture Con at The Mint
May 21st: Kate Nash at The Echo
May 22nd: Youngblood Hawke at Avalon
May 24th: Sir Sly at The Troubadour
May 29th/30th: Imagine Dragons at Hollywood Palladium
June 1st: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at The Wiltern
June 1st: CHVRCHES at The Troubadour
June 4th: Willy Moon at The Troubadour
June 5th: Jewel at Saban Theatre
June 6th: Capital Cities at The El Rey
June 7th: The Boxer Rebellion at Avalon
June 25th: Rachael Yamagata at The Troubadour
Posted on February 10, 2013 by Kristen
Debating whether to watch the Grammy's tonight. I've only marginally paid attention to the nominations, but I do know there are a couple I'm rooting for. Ed Sheeran, The Lumineers, Halestorm, and Mumford & Sons being at the top of my list.
This weekend didn't exactly go as planned so now I'm watching my favorite Hitchcock film and eating cookie dough wrapped in my Pepper's Ghost hoodie. I miss films that make you think; think about film-making, think about the human condition, think about murder (any guesses as to the film I'm watching?).
Thinking about next week, there are many good shows, but if I could only go to one it would be Dear Boy Wednesday night at The Troubadour. Did you see this? http://www.localmusicnation.net/2013/02/01/new-band-alert-dear-boy/
As for the rest:
Monday: A House for Lions with Soft Swells, The New Limb, and Blonde Summer FREE at The Echoplex (9pm)
ALSO: The Mowgli's with Terraplane Sun FREE at The Satellite (10pm)
ALSO: Wires in the Walls FREE at Silverlake Lounge (10:30)
ALSO: Foy Vance and You Me & Apollo at The Hotel Cafe (7,8)
ALSO: Professor Possessor FREE at The Bootleg Bar (8:30)
ALSO: Skylar Grey at The Key Club FREE with RSVP http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4827046827 (7pm)
ALSO: Monday Monday FREE at Room 5 featuring Adrianne, Garrison Starr, Jackie Does Joel, etc (8pm)
Tuesday: Beachwood Tuesdays FREE at The Piano Bar (8pm)
ALSO: Ellie Goulding at Hollywood Palladium (8pm)
Weds: Dear Boy at The Troubadour (10pm)
ALSO: Escondido with Wild Cub at The Standard Downtown
ALSO: Sir Sly with Tapioca and The Flea and Frank + Derol FREE at The Echo (9pm)…it's free, but if you RSVP, you're more likely to get it (there was a line out the door last week) http://do213.net/event/2013/02/13/sir-sly
ALSO: Western Scene at The Spare Room (9:30)…video release party
ALSO: Papa Roach and Stone Sour at Club Nokia (7:30)
Thursday: James David and Mariah McManus at The Hotel Cafe (10pm)
Friday: Harper Blynn covers set FREE at The Hotel Cafe (11pm)
ALSO: Soundgarden at The Wiltern (7pm)
Saturday: The Elizabeth Kill at Molly Malone's (8pm)
ALSO: We Were Indians at Casey's Irish Bar Downtown (11pm)
ALSO: The Record Company at The Satellite (10pm)
ALSO: K. Flay and Icona Pop at The Troubadour (9,10)
ALSO: Sweetwater & The Satisfaction, Mike Cooley (Drive By Truckers), and D Henry Fenton at The Hotel Cafe (8, 9:30, 12)
ALSO: Pink with The Hives at The Staples Center (8pm)
ALSO: Local Music Stage at Year of the Snake Lunar New Year Festival in Chinatown (outdoor stage) FREE featuring Western Scene, Mind the Gap, Eastern Conference Champions (noon – 8:30)
ALSO: Shawn Mullins at McCabe's (8pm)
Sunday: Local Music Stage at Year of the Snake Lunar New Year Festival in Chinatown (outdoor stage) FREE featuring Drive He Said and Y LUV (noon – 5)
ALSO: Mike Cooley (Drive-By Truckers) at McCabe's (9:30)
ALSO: Ed Sheeran at Nokia Theatre LA Live (8pm)
Feb. 20st: twenty one pilots at The Troubadour
Feb. 21st: The Shakers at The Roxy
Feb. 26th: Anberlin at The House of Blues Sunset
Feb. 28th: Matthew Perryman Jones at Bootleg Bar
Feb. 28th: Jukebox the Ghost at The Echo
Feb. 28th: Rumors at The Roxy
March 1st: Queen Caveat at The Viper Room
March 1st: Free Energy at Bootleg Bar
March 2nd: The Ranch music festival
March 5th: Marcus Foster at The Troubadour
March 5th: Mother Mother at The Viper Room
March 7th: Youngblood Hawke at The Troubadour
March 7,8,9: Buckcherry at The Viper Room
March 8th: Boy at The Troubadour
March 12th: CHVRCHES at The Echo
March 13th: Frightened Rabbit at The Music Box
March 15th: Anais Mitchell at McCabe's
March 19th: Ivan & Alyosha at The Echo
March 19th: Everything Everything at The Roxy
March 19th: Foxes at Bootleg Bar
March 20th: Nico Vega, Atlas Genius, and Imagine Dragons at The Wiltern
March 20th: Charlotte Church at The Troubadour
March 24th: Janis Ian at McCabe's
Kristen's LA Concert Calendar: 11/26-12/2
Posted on November 25, 2012 by Kristen
As the holiday party invitations start to come in, I'm reminded that it's time to put my end of year music mix together. For those of you who don't know, every year I make a mix of all the songs and artists that meant something to me over the year…they are usually accompanied by a story and pictures. I work on this all year round, but the hardest part is pulling it together at the end and finding the time to create and produce the final product (aka Christmas gifts!). For this year's mix, I had the first "rough draft" done for a couple weeks ago and and I've since made a few tweaks, but I'm still not 100% happy with it. However, if my first party is in just a couple of weeks, I'll need to start manufacturing soon! Or maybe I should just accept the fact that my Christmas gifts will be late…again.
And who knows, maybe there will be a show this month that will change my life and alter the mix entirely (December 6th early show at The Satellite, I'm looking at you!). There are plenty of promising options these week. Here are my picks:
Monday: The Neighbourhood at The Viper Room (10pm)
ALSO: Omniflux and Sabrosa Purr FREE at Bootleg Bar(9:30, 11:30)
ALSO: Drive He Said FREE at Silverlake Lounge (10pm)
ALSO: The Record Company FREE at The Satellite (11pm)
Tuesday: Erin McLaughlin, Matthew Mayfield, My Name is You, Harper Blynn at The Hotel Cafe (7pm)
ALSO: Deluka at Hemingway's (10pm)
ALSO: Paul and the Kir at Molly Malone's (9pm)
ALSO: Black Belt Karate at SIlverlake Lounge (9pm)
ALSO: Gavin Turek FREE at The Central SAPC (10pm)
ALSO: Soundgarden at The Fonda Theatre (9pm)
Weds: Terraplane Sun and Youngblood Hawke at The Roxy (8pm)
ALSO: Kita Klane, The Wellspring, Chris Stills, Armada at The Hotel Cafe (7pm)
Thursday: Joe Firstman at WitZend (8pm)
ALSO: Alex Clare at The Fonda Theatre (9pm)
ALSO: Karmin at The Troubadour (8pm)
Friday: Capsolin and Icarus Landing at The Viper Room (8,9)
ALSO: The Bolts and Capital Cities at The Roxy (8pm)
ALSO: The Mowgli's, Selah Sue, and Walk Off The Earth at The Troubadour (8:30, 9:15, 10:10)
ALSO: Raquel Rodriguez at WitZend (10pm)
Saturday: The Milk Carton Kids and The Punch Brothers at Luckman Fine Arts Complex (8pm)
ALSO: David & Devine at The Hotel Cafe (9pm)
ALSO: The Elizabeth Kill at Molly Malone's (10:30)
ALSO: Trixie Whitley at The Satellite (10pm)
ALSO: Elizabeth and the Catapult and Gabriel Kahane at The Mint (9:30, 10:30)
Sunday: Andrew Belle, and Tyrone Wells at Saint Rocke (7pm)
ALSO: Kate Earl at The Federal Bar (11am)
December 4th: Howie Day at The Hotel Cafe
December 6th: Biffy Clyro at The Satellite
December 6th: Imagine Dragons and Garbage at San Manuel Casino
December 7th: Lakes at Molly Malone's
December 7th: Tony Lucca at The Hotel Cafe
December 8th: Boyce Avenue at Club Nokia
December 8th: KROQ Acoustic Xmas night 1
December 9th: The Neighbourhood at Bootleg Bar
December 11th: Atlas Genius at The Troubadour
December 11th: High Voltage Holiday Party at Silverlake Lounge
December 12th: Alt J and Wildcat Wildcat at The Fonda
December 12th: The Mountain Goats at The Masonic Lodge at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery
December 13th: The Mountain Goats at The Troubadour
December 14th: Jared Lee and Alex Band at The Viper Room
December 14th: Vanaprasta at The Satellite
December 16th: The Neighbourhood at Bootleg Bar
December 18th: Lifehouse at The Troubadour
December 20th-22nd: Camp Freddy at The Roxy
December 23rd: The Neighbourhood at Bootleg Bar
January 19th: Tyler Hilton and Teddy Geiger at The Roxy
January 23rd and 24th: Muse at The Staples Center
Feb. 9th: Ed Sheeran at Hollywood Palladium
Feb. 12th: Ellie Goulding at Hollywood Palladium
Feb. 17th: Ed Sheeran at Nokia Theatre LA Live
Posted on September 23, 2012 by Kristen
Last night I went to the ballet! I love live dance performances…definitely something that I don't attend as often as I'd like. This one was a contemporary ballet, put on by the Silverlake Contemporary Ballet. It was a modern re-telling of Swan Lake set in Silverlake. The dancing was gorgeous and the adaptation was quite inventive (there was a hipster couple dancing at a bar). There was also live on-stage painting of the back drops for the sets. The best part (and honestly the big draw for me) was the live music. Three great LA bands (The Young Romans, Races, and Holly Conlan) each provided the music for an act. The dancing was definitely more exciting for me when it was fueled by my favorite songs like The Young Roman's "Tiger Child". There was also a few exciting covers like Races' lovely rendition of Joni Mitchell's "Case of You" (one of my favorite songs and perfect for a scene about an obsessive, unhealthy attraction). Tchaikovsky didn't get left out entirely, as each musical act also did their own re-working of the classic Swan Lake piece. If you're looking for something to do tonight, I'd highly recommend attending the final performance of Swan Lake (http://silverlakeballet.com.s32864.gridserver.com/?p=114).
As for the upcoming week, here are the rest of my musical recommendations:
Monday: Death of a Star, A House for Lions, Taylor Locke and The Roughs, and Orange Julius FREE at Silverlake Lounge (9pm)
ALSO: The Steellwells, The Chevin, The Lonely Wild FREE at The Satellite (9pm)
ALSO: Hunnypot Radio Live featuring Irontom FREE at Central SAPC (7pm)
ALSO: Meg Myers at The Viper Room (10pm)
ALSO: The Elizabeth Kill at The House of Blues (8pm)
ALSO: Elliot Yamin at The Hotel Cafe (9pm)
ALSO: Monday in the Round at Room 5 featuring Adam Levy, Sweet Talk Radio, Joel Eckels and a special guest (9pm)
Tuesday: Jake Newton, Bravesoul, Aaron Hendra Project at The Hotel Cafe (8, 9, 10)
ALSO: Jesse Thomas at Room 5 (9pm)
ALSO: The Muddy Reds and The Dustbowl Revival at Central SAPC (10,11)
ALSO: Dragonette with The Knocks and Frank + Derol at The El Rey Theatre (8pm)
ALSO: Dispatch at The House of Blues (8pm)
Weds: The Shakers at Rockwell Table & Stage
ALSO: The Features at The Troubadour (10pm)
ALSO: Madi Diaz at The Satellite (10pm)
ALSO: Gene Louis at Club Moscow at Boardners (10:30)…FREE with RSVP before 10:30
ALSO: Makepeace Brothers at WitZend (8pm)
ALSO: Alanis Morissette at Fox Theater Pomona
ALSO: The Killers at Fonda Theatre
Thursday: The Goods and So & So at The Hotel Cafe (8,9)…So & So record release!
ALSO: Broken Achor at The Silverlake Lounge (9pm)
ALSO: Jess Furman at WitZend (8pm)
ALSO: Band of Horses at The Troubadour (9pm)
ALSO: Sara Watkins and Mary Chapin Carpenter at Club Nokia
ALSO: Conor Oberst at UCLA Royce Hall (8pm)
ALSO: Colin Hay at Largo (9pm)
Friday: William Elliot Whitmore with Samantha Crain and London Shower at The Roxy (8pm)
ALSO: Trouble With Templeton, King Washington at WitZend (7,10)
ALSO: Citizen Cope at The Wiltern (8pm)
ALSO: Serj Tankian and Viza at Club Nokia (9pm)
Saturday: Troubled by Templeton and Northern Youth at The Hotel Cafe (7,11)…Northern Youth record release
ALSO: Milo Greene at Original Penguin LA (2pm)…FREE with RSVP
ALSO: Ceasefire at The Viper Room (9pm)
ALSO: Wildcat! Wildcat! at Bootleg Bar (10pm)
ALSO: Broken Anchor at The Piano Bar
ALSO: Hot Water Music, The Gaslight Anthem, and Rise Against at The Honda Center in Anaheim (7:30)
Sunday: Priscilla Ahn at Bootleg Bar (9:30)
ALSO: Pretty in Pink at The Viper Room (11:30)
October 1st: Ed Sheeran at The Wiltern
October 1st: Safety Suit at The Roxy
October 2nd: Garbage at The Hollywood Palladium
October 2nd: The Lumineers at The Fonda Theatre
October 3rd: Conor Oberst at Fox Theater Pomona
October 4th: The Milk Carton Kids at The Largo
October 4th: Kimbra at Fonda Theatre
October 4th-7th: Culture Collide Festival
October 5th: Dr. Dog at John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
October 5th: The Head and The Heart at The Wiltern
October 5th: Dead Sara, Neon Trees, The Offspring at The Hollywood Palladium
October 6th: Ben Howard at The Fonda Theatre
October 6th: Jason Mraz at The Wiltern
October 9th: The Wallflowers and Everest at The Fonda Theatre
October 11th: Awolnation and Imagine Dragons at Club Nokia
October 11th: K.Flay at The Echo
October 16th: Ellie Goulding at The Troubadour
October 16th: First Aid Kit at The Fonda Theatre
October 19th: Tony Lucca at The Roxy
October 19th: Frightened Rabbit at The Troubadour
October 19th: Allen Stone at The Music Box
October 20th: Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers at Saint Rocke
October 23rd: Shiny Toy Guns at The Echoplex
October 24th: The Darkness at Club Nokia
October 25th: Bayside at Club Nokia
October 27th: Queen Caveat at The Roxy
November 2nd: NEEDTOBREATHE at Fox Theater Pomona
November 3rd: All American Rejects at The Wiltern
November 5th: LP at The Troubadour
November 6th: Jens Lekman at Fonda Theatre
November 8th: The Kin at The Roxy
November 9th: Brandi Carlile at Orpheum Theater
November 11th and 12th: Jack's Mannequin at The El Rey
November 13th-15th: Gary Clark Jr. at The Troubadour
November 15th: Blue October at House of Blues
November 16th: Joshua Radin and A Fine Frenzy at The Wiltern
November 17th: Milo Greene at The El Rey
November 20th: The Postelles and Mayday Parade at House of Blues
November 20th: Rachel Yamagata at The El Rey
Posted on September 2, 2012 by Kristen
Happy Labor Day Weekend (whatever that means to you)! I hope you are all able to get out and enjoy the weekend. As for me, I haven't seen much of the sun in the last couple of days. I'm trying to get some work done in order to clear my schedule for important events happening over the next few weeks. Fortunately, my writing companion is Biffy Clyro's Revolutions: Live at Wembley DVD which helps keep me focused…sometimes.
I did see the blue moon Friday night and I celebrated by going to The Hotel Cafe see one of my favorite bands, Truth & Salvage Co. play a secret show under their former name, The Denim Family Band. This filled me with nostalgia as it was the year I moved to LA that I discovered this band and saw them at The Hotel Cafe numerous times. Ah, memories…
More potential musical memories up for grabs this week at the following shows. Obviously, my pick of the week is The Silent Comedy who open for The Heavy at The El Rey on Friday, but here are all my musical recommendations:
Monday: Kitten FREE at Bootleg Bar (10:30)
ALSO: The Lonely Wild FREE at The Satellite (11pm)
Tuesday: Voxhaul Broadcast at The Viper Room (9:15)
ALSO: The Muddy Reds at The Central (10pm)
ALSO: My Satellite FREE at Hemingways
ALSO: post-labor day carousal at The Piano Bar featuring Lowlight, Dave Green, Jesse Cole, and Foster Timms (9pm)
ALSO: Gaby Moreno at Largo (8:30)
ALSO: Gotye at The Greek Theatre (7pm)
Weds: David & Devine and Armada at The Hotel Cafe (9,10)…Armada's Record Release Show
Thursday: NO FREE at The Santa Monica Pier (7pm)
ALSO: The Material at The Roxy (8pm)
ALSO: Sweet Talk Radio at The Hotel Cafe (9pm)…Record Release Show
ALSO: The Dollyrots at The Viper Room (10pm)
ALSO: John C Reilly & Friends at Largo (9pm)
Friday: The Silent Comedy and The Heavy at The El Rey (8pm)
ALSO: Belmont Lights and SO & SO at The House of Blues (8pm)…Belmont Lights Record Release
ALSO: Holly Conlan, The Young Romans, Madi Diaz at The Hotel Cafe (8,9,10)
ALSO: Crosby, Stills & Nash at The Greek Theatre (7:30)
Saturday: Garrison Starr, Adrianne, Maia Sharp at Room 5 (9pm)
ALSO: The Elizabeth Kill at Molly Malone's (10pm)
ALSO: Lady Sinatra at The Viper Room (10pm)
ALSO: The Honda Civic Tour at The Home Depot Center featuring MUTEMATH, Incubus, and Linkin Park (5:30)
Sunday: The Ataris at The Roxy (10pm)
ALSO: Pink Martini at The Greek Theatre (7:30)
September 12th: Allen Stone at Hollywood Bowl
September 14th: Teitur at The Hotel Cafe
September 14th: The Hives at The Wiltern
September 19th: Band of Skulls at The Fonda Theatre
September 20th: Howie Day at The Hotel Cafe
September 22nd: Epicenter at Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre
September 22nd: Sondre Lerche at The Troubadour
September 27th: Mary Chapin Carpenter and Sara Watkins at Club Nokia
October 13th: Marcus Foster at The Roxy
I posted my Bonnaroo pictures today (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.348607241875512.75890.192625794140325&type=1)! I can't believe it's been a week. I'm still recovering…and ignoring the coughing and sniffling and fact that my voice is going. Probably wasn't the best idea to follow up five days of no sleep with five days of early mornings and late nights, but I can't imagine doing anything else. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the big Phantom Planet reunion show. Then there was the Backstage Artist Lounge party where I discovered several great new bands including Cody Jasper who I just had to see play again the next day at The Roxy before he ventured back to Austin.
This week, the great shows continue. Glen Hansard (The Frames/The Swell Season) is in town to promote his new record, LMN Band Love, Crash Kings are making a somewhat rare appearance at The Troubadour, there are some solid line-ups at The Viper Room, and summer-staple, The Warped Tour is rolling through SoCal with stops this week in Pomona and Ventura.
I think, however, my show pick of the week would have to go to the ladies playing The Hotel Cafe Thursday night. Jasmine Ash, Kate Voegele, and Mariah McManus.
So many great musical options in LA this week. Here are the rest of my recommendations:
Monday: Glen Hansard FREE at Amoeba Records (6:30)
ALSO: The Rocket Boys at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)
ALSO: Spring Standards and Rhett Miller & The Serial Lady Killers at The Troubadour (9, 10)
Tuesday: Keaton Simons at Room 5 (9pm)
ALSO: Beware Of Darkness, Bullet and Snow, Jamar Rogers, and Vicci Martinez at The Viper Room (8pm)
ALSO: Kate Miller Heidke at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)
ALSO: Lisa Hannigan & Joe Henry at The El Rey Theatre (8pm)
Weds: Matthew Mayfield at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)
ALSO: Glen Hansard at The Wiltern (7pm)
Thursday: Jasmine Ash, Mariah McManus and Kate Voegele at The Hotel Cafe (9, 10)
ALSO: Vanaprasta and Crash Kings at The Troubadour (9:30, 10:30)
ALSO: The Bolts, The Rambles, and Taylor Locke & The Roughs at The Viper Room (9, 10, 11)
Friday: The Avett Brothers at Nokia LA Live (8pm)
ALSO: Connie Lim, King Washington, The Janks at WitZend (9,10,11)
ALSO: Matt Skiba & The Sekrets at The Troubadour (10pm)
ALSO: Warped Tour Pomona featuring Bayside, Dead Sara, Mayday Parade, New Found Glory, We Are the Ocean, We The Kings, Yellowcard, You Me at Six, etc. (11am)
Saturday: The Elizabeth Kill at Molly Malone's (10pm)
ALSO: Milo Greene at The Troubadour (10pm)
ALSO: Stonefeather at The Viper Room (9pm)
ALSO: Lemon Sun at Bootleg Bar (11pm)
ALSO: Oedipus at The Roxy (10pm)
ALSO: Mind the Gap at The Hotel Cafe (10pm)
ALSO: The Cult with Against Me! at Hollywood Palladium (7:30)
Sunday: Warped Tour Ventura featuring Bayside, Dead Sara, Mayday Parade, New Found Glory, We Are the Ocean, We The Kings, Yellowcard, You Me at Six, etc. (11am)
June 25th: Graffiti6 at The Troubadour
June 29th: Fiona Apple at Hollywood Palladium
July 1st: Laura Marling at John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
July 1st: Harper Blynn and Madi Diaz at The Troubadour
July 14th: Saint Motel at The El Rey
August 3rd: Cory Chisel at The El Rey
August 10th: Jack White at Shrine Auditorium
August 13th: The Kills at The El Rey
August 14th: The Dunwells at The Hotel Cafe
September 4th: Gotye at The Greek Theatre

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Powers of Creation – trzynasty album studyjny Anthony'ego B, jamajskiego wykonawcy muzyki reggae i dancehall.

Płyta została wydana 26 października 2004 roku wspólnym nakładem dwóch niewielkich wytwórni: Nocturne Records oraz On The Corner Records. Produkcją nagrań zajął się Fabrice "Frenchie" Allègre.

Lista utworów
 "Send Them Come"
 "Stand Guard"
 "Rootsman"
 "Powers Of Creation"
 "Words Of Purity"
 "One God"
 "Work Hard"
 "Intermission" feat. D.Y.C.R.
 "Got It Going On"
 "Have Faith"
 "Do Something For The Poor"
 "Gimme The Weed" feat. Mr. Vegas
 "Nothing Like Love"
 "I Like Your Style" feat. Ruty
 "Jah Calling"

Muzycy
 Dalton Brownie - gitara
 Lloyd "Gitsy" Willis - gitara
 Leroy "Mafia" Heywood - gitara basowa
 Donald "Bassie" Dennis - gitara basowa
 Robbie Shakespeare - gitara basowa
 Sly Dunbar - perkusja
 David Anglin - perkusja
 Andre "Suku" Gray - perkusja
 David "Fluxy" Heywood - perkusja
 Paul "Computer Paul" Henton - keyboard
 Paul "Right Move" Crossdale - keyboard
 Steven "Lenky" Marsden - keyboard
 Nigel Staff - keyboard
 Leba Hibbert - chóki
 Pam Hall - chórki

Przypisy

Albumy dancehallowe
Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 2004
Albumy Anthony'ego B

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I hate making the bed.
On a good day, I wrestle with my fitted sheet and manage to throw my duvet over my mattress, but most days, in the mad dash to get to work, I leave my covers in a heap.
So when I found myself in a Scarborough classroom learning to weave a bed out of discarded milk bags, I wasn't expecting to be a pro.
Beside me were dozens of high school special needs students speedily threading rows of multicolour plastic into mats perhaps destined for Nicaragua, Haiti or Cameroon — places where dusty earth, cardboard and newspapers often take the place of memory foam, down-filling and Egyptian cotton.
Angela Kesthely, a Kleinburg dentistry office worker who founded MILKBAGSunlimited— a haphazard, but dedicated network of volunteer milk-bag mat weavers across the GTA — hovered beside me.
While I began my first mat, surprised at how simple the process really is, Kesthely told me the idea to turn milk bags into mats all came about on the back benches of a basketball court seven years ago, when she would watch her son's games while crocheting and knitting hundreds of scarves for the Scott Mission.
Another spectator wandered over to ask if she'd ever heard of crocheting with milk bags. Kesthely hadn't.
"I went home that night and took that first milk bag out of my fridge," she said.
Over four years, it took some finagling before she switched to weaving the mats on wooden frames and found companies to help get them overseas to those most in need.
She had never advertised, but soon enough, Kesthely was teaching neighbours, churches, seniors clubs and schools from Ajax to Toronto to Mississauga. Even family vacations to the Maritimes were interrupted by requests for Kesthely to give lessons to groups out east.
Then, milk bag companies started asking her to take reams of misprinted bags off their hands.
Kesthely is rarely able to make the trip with the mats or piles of bags they send for people to weave themselves. She did once visit Haiti though, teaching women without jobs to weave the bags into purses they can sell.
"I had one woman thank me in Creole because she could buy medicine for her kid because she sold a bag," Kesthely recalled.
Others told her "how hard it is for a father to watch his kids lay down in the dirt like dogs" and how her mats would make all the difference.
Those stories tugged on my heartstrings as I and a handful of other students neared the halfway point on our first mat.
As Kesthely coaxed us through the final steps to crafting our mat, I was amazed.
It had only been roughly two hours, but with a pile of bags that I would have usually thrown in the garbage, I had been able to make something that would travel halfway around the world and hopefully, help someone in need.
As I surveyed the finished mat, I reflected that this bed, unlike my unruly pile of sheets, was satisfying to make.
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Mycena arcangeliana é uma espécie de cogumelo da família Mycenaceae.

Ligações externas

arcangeliana


This is how me and my girlfriend became an item.
Winter vacation was over, and a new term was starting.
Only one thing was on anyone's mind: entrance exams.
A fierce battle of survival. Pressure mounting toward a huge life climax.
She was there, blending into a gentle atmosphere. It was the moment.
Violins played in my soul. The sky blossomed in tinted rose at her beauty. I couldn't take my eyes off of this perfect vision.
And she said to me, "Please go."
The season restlessly changed from winter to summer.
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I would like to know the cup size that the cinema dress is designed for. I am new to doing full bust adjustments and all the tops I have made since taking up sewing again have needed an adjustment to fit properly.
It details how to find the right size for your shoulders, and then adjust the bust accordingly.
Thanks for the fast response. Yes the adjustments I have made have been based on my high bust measurement which is a US 14 (I'm in the UK). Then there is 4 inch difference between my high and full bust so knowing the cup size the pattern is designed on helps. Some indie designers are using a bigger cup size so it is not always obvious unless stated somewhere on the pattern envelope.
I love the look of the Cinema dress but I can't see how an fba will work with the yoke. Has anyone posted about this to your knowledge?
Hi @hazel , I did a FBA on the Late Lunch tunic, there a some pics here http://fiveandcounting-motherof5.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/fba-all-way.html which may help you visualise the adjustment to the Cinema dress.
I thought I had step by step photos of this, but can't seem to find them. I think Patricia (whose screen name I've forgotten, sorry!) has a pic of the Cinema side panel pattern piece, where the adjustment happens, slashed and spread.
Thank you all for responses, so helpful. I have checked them all out and found a photo set on the first sewalong Liesl wrote on this dress last year. Based on all advice I've now ordered the pattern and will make a muslin but use the swedish paper to trace first. I think this will make a lovely dress for autumn (fall)!
@lightningmcstitch yes I do have a pic! @hazel I'll attach it below. Liesl's instructions made it so very easy!
I'm actually in the position of needing to alter that lovely eggplant chambray cinema dress I made because it is too loose, what would be the easiest way to size it down? Just pinch in at the sides?
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I would think so, but I'm not an expert fitter — @motherof5?
Thank you for the photo. I love your choice of fabric for your dress. It depends how much too loose it is. You could try tacking the side seams in by the amount you need and see how it looks but if you have a smaller bust size you might need a more radical alteration.
Liesl's FBA instructions are top notch. I was leery of trying it when I first started sewing for myself, but I shouldn't have been.
There are some good seams to take it in by @vothgirl. A little from each would give you the best result.


I got to spend one lovely night at one of my favorite places on earth recently and catch up with old friends there. It was great to sit and paint the mountains before breakfast with a pot of tea.
There was a noticeable trend last year in my art fb circles of people doing ink drawings for "Inktober." This year I was given a lovely new/old fountain pen just at the end of September. I've been using more pencil than pen with my watercolors recently, except for my quick sketches from Paris this past summer, so I'm enjoying playing around with the pen and waterproof ink as a new-again thing for me.
Here are a bunch of sketches from my recent time at Country Workshops, a woodworking school on a beautiful farm in North Carolina. It's one of my favorite places to paint. Above is Big Boy in my lap, one of my very favorite cats.
Below are the cows I kept drawing. Both those scenes are looking out the window from the work table I use when I'm there.
My lovely friends at the woodworking school Country Workshops invited me to come and stay with them for a few days. I'm in a busy patch of life, but they are dear people, and it was lovely to get away for a little bit and see my sister on the way as well as my friends who live there and around there.
They let me have my favorite work table in the window overlooking the mountains, and I did some sketching from there, played my banjo, and drank tea. And also just enjoyed hanging out with everyone.
The moonrise was stunning one night. I don't think it's one of my best efforts, but I still like to have pages in my journal to remind me of special moments, even when the drawings themselves weren't what I had hoped.
I also ran into Asheville for a little recreational bookstore time.
One of the bookstores even has a wine bar. I sat in an aisle with a lovely book on the Shakers and ate some dark chocolate.
I've been focusing and printmaking and sketching the last few years, but Dixon wanted some oils as well for my fall exhibition with them. It took me a while to get my head back in this space, but I've been flipping through some sketchbooks and found several images I'd enjoy painting, and I really have been having a ball. There's something very immediate and responsive about oils. They're lush.
I'm also enjoying revisiting a special place. This painting and the moonrise one (last blog entry) are both from watercolors I did at the woodworking school Country Workshops. My friends Drew and Louise Langsner live there and run the school, and their farm is one of the loveliest places I know. They periodically invite me to visit them and paint for a bit, and I always look forward to my time there. It's a fruitful place for my art.
I've got a new painting underway for my fall exhibition at Dixon Gallery and Gardens. This is an evening sky I painted in watercolor when I was in North Carolina last fall. I've already done a print from that sketch, but the image continues to call my name. My favorite thing to paint in oils is big, lush skies. That medium does skies better than anything else I work in. I've enjoyed getting back into oils for this exhibition.
I spent a rocking Saturday night at Kinko's last night, using their over-sized scanner to scan in some of my recent prints for my upcoming Dixon show. They want some images to use in their newsletter. It's getting real! The curator is coming out to see what I've got so far early next month. There's some pressure there, but I really love creating a show for a specific space and making work that will hang together thematically and visually. When I'm doing it for an actual museum show, that's just amazing.
So here are a few that are finished and ready. I have several more I'm still getting final prints of but that are mostly or fully carved. Above is Rainbow Lake at Overton Park.
Below are two images from Country Workshops, the wood working school I house sit for occasionally and visit friends at in between times. It's one of the wellsprings of my work over the last dozen years.
This last one is a tree from one of my sketchbooks. I only had a line drawing of it, but it was enough to make a print from, and I couldn't resist the shape of this beauty. It's also my first print on black paper, and I like the effect that gives. I'm going to keep my eyes open for more subjects that might be suitable to try on black.
Here's a new block I've almost got done this week. It's a scene from Country Workshops, a grove of trees I've painted several times over the years. I intend this print for my fall show at Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
This is the first color proof, but it's close to what I want. I'll do a little clean up carving, and I think I'll hand paint a blue sky, just to see what that would look like. I'm really trying to keep a lot of these prints to just two blocks, though. It's a huge addition of labor each time you have to mix ink, hand roll each one, line it up, and print it on the proof press. Two times is way better than three, but the blue sky in the original sketch is pretty integral, so I'm going to try it.
Here's the underneath block. I roll the green and yellow at the same time, using one block there instead of separate printings.
Here are the two blocks together along with the original sketch.
The downside of printmaking for me is the added technicality. I love making images, but prints are more complicated than just brushing paint on canvas. I still struggle some with registration issues and occasional press maintenance, but sharpening my gouges is the hardest ongoing issue for me.
I'm incredibly lucky to be friends with John Kraus, a toolmaker, fiddler, and all around great guy. John teaches tool making at Country Workshops and John C. Campbell Folk School, among others. Once a year or so he's kind enough to put a fresh edge on my gouges that I then gradually fail to maintain until I need help again the next year.
This year he not only sharpened everything for me (photo above), but he tempered a couple of the blades that were too hard to sharpen well (below).
John's partner is Nancy Darrell, a fellow printmaker with a background in pottery. I got my Line-O-Scribe proof press from her a couple of years ago (which has changed my life), and we have a great time comparing work and talking shop.
This trip we also went out and sketched together, painting by the pond on the Countey Workshops campus next door. I did a couple of quick watercolors and enjoyed just sitting in the sunshine a while.
Afterwards I got to play music with John, and Nancy had been kind enough to invite Drew and Louise Langsner over from next door at CW, so we had a lovely dinner with all my friends up there at once. That pair of farms is a real haven for me, thanks to kind friends and a beautiful landscape. I feel lucky to be a regular visitor.
I did two tiny (3x4ish) watercolors this week for the Madison County Arts Council in North Carolina. It's run by my friend and banjo teacher Laura Boosinger, who is an amazingly talented musician. They have an after school music program (local mountain music and instruments) for the kids in town, concerts, art shows, and all kinds of neat things. I've painted right in their neighborhood, staying at the Country Workshops woodworking school, and I always go over to Marshall for a banjo lesson too. So, in spite of this mostly being a North Carolina artists' project, Laura was nice enough to include me too. The sales of the tiny paintings will benefit arts organizations across Western North Carolina, and the exhibit will travel around the region.
Above is the French Broad river, as seen in Hot Springs, NC, and below is one of my favorite trees at Country Workshops.


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Summit County worries about impacts of improved chain-up area on I-80
News | August 25, 2018
Angelique McNaughton
countynews@parkrecord.com
The Utah Department of Transportation is looking to improve a dirt chain-up area off of Interstate 80 near the Silver Creek Junction, but the upgrades have Summit County officials worried the newly paved stop will invite more traffic to an already-congested area.
The chain-up area near the Bell's Silver Creek gas station has been in use for nearly 20 years for 18-wheelers and big rigs. John Gleason, public information officer for UDOT, said the goal of the current project is to improve safety along the interstate.
"We wanted to make it more convenient and safe for them to use," he said. "We will be paving it, adding signage to let driver's know what the conditions are."
Gleason said roughly 40 stalls will be marked for truck use. He said a gate will likely control access, with seasonal closures expected.
"We agree that we want trucks to be safe. I doubt there is anyone that would dispute that. But, what goes along with that is idling, congestion and impacts to air quality,"Tom Fisher,Summit County Manager
"We are not expecting there to be much of a change here because the trucks are already using this area," he said. "In fact, we may even see fewer vehicles because at times it will only be accessible when the law requires trucks to chain up.
"From our standpoint, this location is ideal because of its proximity to both I-80 and U.S. 40," he added.
Gleason said about 40,000 vehicles travel on Interstate 80 daily, with trucks accounting for nearly 38 percent of the traffic. He said U.S. 40 has slightly less traffic, with 32,000 average daily trips. About 27 percent of those are made by trucks.
"This is really an opportunity to improve safety in Summit County and Parleys Canyon," he said. "It's a unique area because of the elevation, and we do get a number of winter storms. We generally look at about 21 to 25 big winter storms in that area, and over the last couple of years we have actually had to close down westbound I-80 because there have been accidents with semis."
County officials say they don't disagree with the goals of the project. They just wish there would have been a broader discussion with officials before construction commenced to address several concerns.
County Manager Tom Fisher addressed the matter with the County Council on Wednesday. He said the county received several calls from residents in the Silver Creek neighborhood, as well as comments from leaders of Service Area No. 3, which governs the neighborhood.
Fisher said the county only knew the project was coming forward because it was identified on UDOT's list of projects. He added, "That's about the notice we had."
"Staff noticed it as we drove by that this was going on," he said.
Fisher said the county is primarily concerned about the impacts of potentially increasing truck traffic at the entrance of the Silver Creek neighborhood.
"We have residential that is really close to this area," he said. "We agree that we want trucks to be safe. I doubt there is anyone that would dispute that. But, what goes along with that is idling, congestion and impacts to air quality."
The county does not have jurisdiction over the issue because it is on UDOT's property. Fisher said the county would have liked more interaction during the planning phase.
"Perhaps some of those things could have been mitigated," Fisher said.
Gleason said representatives from UDOT did meet with the county within the last few months to discuss the project.
"We had an opportunity to sit down with them, and that's what we really try to do with these types of projects is meet with Summit County and get a good understanding of what their concerns are," he said. "We are interested in continuing to work with them to address their concerns. It's very much a work in progress."
The county recently sent a letter to UDOT outlining the questions the county had. Fisher said UDOT in a response acknowledged the truck traffic and the chain-up area's proximity to the neighborhood.
"It's a difficult situation," he said. "We would have just desired more forethought into mitigating the negative effects."
The project is scheduled to be complete in the fall.
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Elementary Division Level 1 (ages 8-10) classes are available at two Austin locations. The curriculum, faculty, tuition and dress code requirements are identical at both locations.
Formal ballet training begins in the Elementary Division, a rigorous and comprehensive program of the highest caliber.
The Elementary Division syllabus progresses at a rate that allows the student to learn the exercises correctly and with full physicality. Repetition and slow careful work is emphasized, with the students learning discipline and control of their bodies.
Elementary Division students are required to attend all scheduled classes for their level and progress to the next level when they have mastered the material and physical understanding of the syllabus in their current level. Students receive a written progress report at the end of each school year.
Live accompaniment is provided for all Elementary Division classes.
Level 1 students and parents have the opportunity for an exclusive backstage tour of The Nutcracker during production week at The Long Center.
Level 2 and 3 students are eligible to audition for The Nutcracker.
At the end of the year, Elementary Division students participate in the Academy Spring Presentation.
All Academy students train in the same state-of-the-art facilities Ballet Austin's professional dancers and often are able to view rehearsals of upcoming performances.
A select group of Ballet Austin Company Dancers are also instructors in the Elementary Division.
Students age 8+, with previous ballet experience, who are new to Ballet Austin, are required to attend an audition/placement class to determine their acceptance and level.
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Students wishing to enroll after the start of the Academy School Year should call 512.501.8703 or email us.
Students age 8, as of 9/1/2018, to age 10, with no previous dance experience, are automatically placed in Level 1.
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No previous dance experience is required to join Ballet Austin Academy's Boy's Scholarship Class. Boys ages 8–12 receive full tuition scholarship off $1,010 valued class, and may enroll at any time. The student's first four classes will be considered a probationary period and will be used to assess the student's ability to focus and work in a collaborative environment. The student should also demonstrate appropriate social, cognitive and physical development. Although it is recommended, this class does not have to be taken in conjunction with a corresponding Elementary Division ballet technique class.
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Five ways to help improve school HIV prevention programs
Marcia Quackenbush 29 Mar 2016
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In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, most schools taught absolutely nothing about AIDS. The few teaching guides available focused on information ('the T-cell is like the general of an army, protecting your body from invaders'). Curricula didn't have behavioral objectives.
We weren't trying to prevent AIDS in teens because teens weren't getting it.
But now we know that AIDS is caused by HIV, and that youth ages 13 to 24 account for about 1 in 4 new HIV infections in the United States. Fortunately, we now also have the benefit of over 30 years of behavioral research. There are proven ways to create effective school-based HIV prevention programs.
These five steps will make a world of difference in your HIV prevention efforts.
1 . Use evidence-based or evidence-informed programs
Choose a program using a comprehensive approach—you want it to focus on both abstinence and safer sex. It must include information about accessing and using condoms when young people do choose to have sex.
Other essential elements? Increase knowledge—but focus on functional knowledge that relates to choosing healthy behaviors, not esoteric information about biological processes.
Engage in classroom activities that allow students to learn and practice real-life skills such as refusing pressures, negotiating safer choices or seeking help when troubled.
Engage in classroom activities that allow students to learn and practice real-life skills such as refusing pressures, negotiating safer choices or seeking help when troubled. And take steps to increase parent-child communicating about relationships and sex.
Increase perceptions of risk. Help students develop attitudes, values and beliefs that support making healthy choices. Help youth correct misperceptions of peer behaviors. For example, most teens overestimate the number of their peers who are currently sexually active (e.g., have had sex within the past three months).
New research also supports what's called 'contextual' HIV/STD prevention education. That means recognizing that romantic relationships influence sexual choices. We need to teach prevention skills that are realistic and logical within the framework of those relationships.
The U.S. Office of Adolescent Health Teen Pregnancy Prevention Resource Center, the CDC's Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV prevention, and ETR's Program Success Center can all guide you towards effective programs.
2. Use language in a thoughtful and informed way
Young gay and bisexual men (and other men who have sex with men) and transgender women have the highest risk for HIV. To reduce HIV risk, it's imperative that school programs use inclusive language, activities and content to engage LGBTQ students. ETR's Supporting LGBTQ Youth supplement for sexuality education programs is a great resource to assist in this effort.
It's also important to use non-blaming language that takes into account experiences of coercion and forced sex. Use a trauma-informed approach in general when teaching sexuality education.
Finally, be sure to review programs to make sure the information and attitudes are current and accurate. Older programs sometimes still talk about HIV/AIDS as a 'death sentence'. They may fail to mention HIV treatments or strategies such as PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) which can prevent new infections.
3. Create a safe school environment
Sexual minority youth are most at risk for HIV. They are also frequent targets of bullying and harassment.
Sexual minority youth are most at risk for HIV. They are also frequent targets of bullying and harassment. Tragically, many schools do not take appropriate steps to protect these students.
Not only does this potentially violate federal law, it results in more truancy by LGBTQ students. If students are missing classes, they're not receiving the education they need and deserve.
Implement policies that specifically mention protections for sexual minority youth and create a safe environment for all students.
4. Use comprehensive school health approaches across multiple areas of risk and take steps to address social determinants of health
Put the 15 characteristics of effective health education to work. Address attitude-shaping and skills practice that reach across multiple risk areas. A student who can resist pressure to take dares, use tobacco or drink alcohol will also be better prepared to make healthier choices and resist sexual pressures.
If we address environmental and social factors such as school connectedness and help students develop healthy skills, then young people are less likely to engage in all kinds of risky behaviors.
5. Give students access to real resources
When we give students easy access to condoms, contraception and STD/HIV testing, they're much more likely to take steps to protect their health. One of the best ways to do this is to establish on-site school-based health centers. Another is to offer effective links to youth-friendly community resources.
Here's a great infographic from the CDC about what a teen-friendly reproductive health visit looks like.
Back in the 1980s, few people could imagine the enduring nature of the AIDS epidemic. Today, we all can. Moving forward, there's no excuse for doing less than our very best to create an AIDS-free generation.
It's possible. Let's do it!
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BA Laris 15th April 2016 18:56
This is a great summary of specific things to think about – not just in schools! Thanks for the embedded links.
SBHC Fan 18th April 2016 22:13
School Based Health Centers are great – wish I had had one when I was in High School. I went to Planned Parenthood, and was glad they were there, but it was not easy taking the initiative to make appointments, taking the time to get there, and feeling very alone while doing so.
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Marcia Quackenbush, MS, MFT, MCHES, has been doing HIV prevention and health education work since the early days of the epidemic. She is Senior Editor at ETR.
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In my last days in Japan, I'm finding that I'm so exhausted that it's hard to focus on all of the good things. So much of what I've seen remains unknowable, from kanji and vocabulary to the meanings of gestures. I still feel so much frustration at missing the nuances of things, and I doubt that that will every really go away.
Yet, there is comfort in the everyday. The hiss of the electricity on the tracks as the trains go by. The ducks in the culvert at midnight. The road home, that has taken me from summer dresses and handcloths in my bookbag to cold hands and white clouds skittering across a winter sky the color of a bruise. My host family joking at the dinner table: my otosan kissing a leg of crab and offering it to my okasan. I will miss all of this.
A few days ago I met with a professor of mine from Oberlin. Over coffee, we talked about Japan and Oberlin and my impending graduation. I talked about stainless steel and silk yarn; going to fashion school; not being ready to leave in so many senses of the word. She told me that last week, a biochemistry professor was in a terrible car accident in the snow. It's strange to be familiar with the utter whiteness of that road, to know the way by heart, and to also know that someone was hurt doing something that I have done before. I don't know the professor personally, but I've been keeping her in my thoughts and hoping for her safe recovery.
And then there's graduating. When I think of it, I think of the night my friend Emily and I sat in Tappan Square in late May, clothed in bare feet and pajamas, and talked about how scary it is to leave home. Home: Oberlin, the place of unsettled dreams and unrelenting cold and living in every nerve-wringing moment before exams, of freshly plowed snow and bad coffee and staying up too late drinking wine with people you love. Even though when you remember those times, that stress and fragility has become soft behind the sharp outlines of the dances you went to, the shoes you wore, and which boy you liked and never told. You remember grades, but only in that you remember the physical imprint of studying six hours a day while it snowed outside and that one score of 76.5% gnawed on your thoughts all the while.
I've recently found out that although I got close to being accepted into one of my fellowship programs, I was not offered the position. It's been an exercise in reevaluating: who am I? Where do I want to live? What do I want to do?
I've been in the bubble of Oberlin for so long, with expectations of grades and graduation and thinking about what will get me a good job, that it's hard to take a step back and think about what I want to do, instead of what I think other people want me to do. Because as far as I've been able to figure out, very rarely are people's expectations of you as strict as your expectations of yourself. I have a lot of thoughts about where I'll actually be going and what I'll be doing. And although it's scary as hell to suddenly lack plans right after graduating, it's also strangely freeing.
So in the last few weeks I'm here, I'm hoping to take a breath. There's always more things to do, but there's also always more time, and right now I just have to get through ten days.
Whew! It's been a while. I've been pretty busy with school: a few weeks ago I went to Kenninji in Kyoto to see a dragon painting, the next weekend I went to Namba for karaoke and clubbing with a bunch of friends from school (surprisingly fun, since I am not a clubbing kind of girl), and this last weekend was spent writing a cinema paper and going out for okonomiyaki and sake with my jazz piano teacher. In between all of that, I managed to knit a pair of socks in a week. This is the previously mentioned Madtosh sock in colorway Home, and I'm in love with the stitch definition and colors. I can't wait to work with the semi-solid colorways that I have, in Robin's Egg and Coral.
We have also hit peak season for the wearing of woolies. The weather is just cold enough to need a sweater and a jacket and a scarf. Heaven, I say! Also, I have found out that wool skirts really do pack a major draft-banishing punch. Which makes a whole lot of sense, considering. But still, you sort of forget sometimes, because so many clothes are designed to be pretty rather than functional, and a Pendleton skirt manages to do both without sacrificing an iota of either. I have to say, too, that Japanese houses are cold. Even when I'm sitting in bed doing homework or procrastinating doing homework, I generally have long underwear, regular pants or skirt, a thermal or long-sleeved t-shirt, and a sweater on, along with house socks.
It's sort of nuts that I'm going to be back in Seattle in less than two weeks. I have some major Christmas shopping to do, and some major errands to run once I get back, but first I gotta get through finals. And I think the best way to describe my feelings on that are summed up with this picture.


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Let's use <script src='./js/d3.min.js'></script> as an example. I could add this line to my HTML and then add <script> d3.somecode </script> and all works. But if I go to my file main.js which is prefered and add that same line, it says d3 was used before being defined because my main.js does not see the library. My question is how to use this library in my other javascript file. How am I supposed to use libraries besides using <script> in HTML? Thanks for any help!

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The 2014 Chevy Traverse flaunts the sleek styling of a compact crossover combined with the unrivaled versatility of a large SUV. The bold exterior design begins with a simplistic, yet aggressive front grille, and its dynamic curb appeal is boosted by standard 17-inch steel wheels.
There is only one engine powering the 2014 Chevy Traverse – a 3.6-liter V6 that generates 281 horsepower and 266 lb-ft of torque. Drivers can boost those figures to 288 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque by opting for the available twin exhaust system, which clearly does more than just look good.
Despite the 2014 Traverse's impressive performance, Chevy has made sure that the sleek SUV remains competitive in terms of fuel economy. The 2014 Chevy Traverse returns 17 mpg city and 24 mpg highway.
The 2014 Chevy Traverse boasts an interior that can not only accommodate eight passengers, but do so comfortably and with plenty of technology to keep them entertained. The standard Chevrolet MyLink infotainment system boasts navigation and smartphone integration through a 6.5-inch touchscreen display and includes voice control. Also standard is a rearview camera, rear air-conditioning, Bluetooth, and OnStar.
The 2014 Chevy Traverse has seating for up to eight and it aims to keep all of them safe through a slew of advanced safety features, including blind-spot and rear cross-traffic monitoring, forward collision-alert, lane-departure warning, rear parking sensors, and the comprehensive OnStar safety system, which features automatic crash notification, roadside assistance, and stolen-vehicle assistance.


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January 27, 2023 | Can Elephants Save the Planet? These Majestic Animals Are Key to Capturing Atmospheric Carbon
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Genetically Altered Organism Could Potentially Turn Almost Any Source of Carbon Into Fuel
TOPICS:BacteriaBiofuelBiomedical EngineeringBiotechnologyMITRenewable Energy
By David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology August 21, 2012
Micrograph shows a group of Ralstonia eutropha bacteria in culture. In their natural form, as seen here, the microbes convert carbon in their surrounding into a kind of bioplastic — seen as the light-colored dots inside their membranes. But a biologically engineered version developed at MIT instead produces isobutanol fuel, which is then expelled from the cells into the surrounding medium, where it can easily be collected. Credit: Image courtesy of Christopher Brigham
By removing a few genes, inserting a gene from another organism and tinkering with the expression of other genes, MIT scientists have discovered a way to persuade a soil bacterium, called Ralstonia eutrophatsts, to make fuel instead of plastic.
A humble soil bacterium called Ralstonia eutropha has a natural tendency, whenever it is stressed, to stop growing and put all its energy into making complex carbon compounds. Now scientists at MIT have taught this microbe a new trick: They've tinkered with its genes to persuade it to make fuel — specifically, a kind of alcohol called isobutanol that can be directly substituted for, or blended with, gasoline.
Christopher Brigham, a research scientist in MIT's biology department who has been working to develop this bioengineered bacterium, is currently trying to get the organism to use a stream of carbon dioxide as its source of carbon, so that it could be used to make fuel out of emissions. Brigham is co-author of a paper on this research published this month in the journal Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Brigham explains that in the microbe's natural state, when its source of essential nutrients such as nitrate or phosphate is restricted, "it will go into carbon-storage mode," essentially storing away food for later use when it senses that resources are limited.
"What it does is take whatever carbon is available, and stores it in the form of a polymer, which is similar in its properties to a lot of petroleum-based plastics," Brigham says. By knocking out a few genes, inserting a gene from another organism and tinkering with the expression of other genes, Brigham and his colleagues were able to redirect the microbe to make fuel instead of plastic.
While the team is focusing on getting the microbe to use CO2 as a carbon source, with slightly different modifications the same microbe could also potentially turn almost any source of carbon, including agricultural waste or municipal waste, into useful fuel. In the laboratory, the microbes have been using fructose, a sugar, as their carbon source.
At this point, the MIT team — which includes chemistry graduate student Jingnan Lu, biology postdoc Claudia Gai, and is led by Anthony Sinskey, professor of biology — have demonstrated success in modifying the microbe's genes so that it converts carbon into isobutanol in an ongoing process.
"We've shown that, in continuous culture, we can get substantial amounts of isobutanol," Brigham says. Now, the researchers are focused on optimizing the system to increase the rate of production and designing bioreactors to scale the process up to industrial levels.
Unlike some bioengineered systems in which microbes produce a desired chemical within their bodies but have to be destroyed to retrieve the product, R. eutropha naturally expels the isobutanol into the surrounding fluid, where it can be continuously filtered out without stopping the production process, Brigham says. "We didn't have to add a transport system to get it out of the cell," he says.
A number of research groups are pursuing isobutanol production through various pathways, including other genetically modified organisms; at least two companies are already gearing up to produce it as a fuel, fuel additive or feedstock for chemical production. Unlike some proposed biofuels, isobutanol can be used in current engines with little or no modification, and has already been used in some racing cars.
Mark Silby, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, says, "This approach has several potential advantages over the production of ethanol from corn. Bacterial systems are scalable, in theory allowing production of large amounts of biofuel in a factory-like environment." He adds, "This system in particular has the potential to derive carbon from waste products or carbon dioxide, and thus is not competing with the food supply." Overall, he says, "the potential impact of this approach is huge."
Reference: "Studies on the production of branched-chain alcohols in engineered Ralstonia eutropha" by Jingnan Lu, Christopher J. Brigham, Claudia S. Gai and Anthony J. Sinskey, 4 August 2012, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
The work is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).
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3 Comments on "Genetically Altered Organism Could Potentially Turn Almost Any Source of Carbon Into Fuel"
Kevin Houston | August 21, 2012 at 2:52 pm | Reply
Great…instead of moving away from fossil/carbon fuels that polute our air and water and soil, we find more ways to make it…. This really reminds me of a saying used by a comedian on Rowan and Martin's Laugh In in the 60's… "Veeeery interesting…but shtupid!"
johnd2 | August 22, 2012 at 12:10 pm | Reply
The whole point is that this fuel would not be fossil and would decrease overall pollution. Even APG skeptics can like that is the price is OK.
David Reichard | September 25, 2014 at 8:09 am | Reply
Danger!Danger!-Will Robinson-gmo that converts organic matter running wild!-take preemptive action!
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At our library we can get audio books put on our iPods/Pad. They have a very limited selection and have told us a few times about another service we could use to download books, both audio and e-book. I finally got around to trying it. It was a little weird but I figured it out. It's called Overdrive. You can get it as an app (it's free!) which makes it very easy to use. And there are no late fees. The books just disappear from your iGadget.
Recently I've been reading Kade's bedtime story and I've used the iPad as the book. We've read "My Teacher is an Alien", "A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee", and we read this one tonight.
My only complaints are that there are lots of typos and you can't return the books before they expire. If you can, I haven't figured it out yet. Otherwise I totally recommend Overdrive.
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Have the happiest day ever Kelly!!
Happy belated birthday, Kelly! I hope it was fantastic!! You deserve it. Miss you guys lots.
Wow, you're giving something away on your birthday? Always so generous! I still love the little coin purse you made me. The kids are always trying to abscond with it. Have a great bday.


TWO young men are dead and several more injured after FIVE different stabbing frenzies across England occurred in the space of TWO hours on Saturday morning.
A 21-year-old was knifed in the neck during a brutal brawl in Manchester city centre at around 2:50am last night.
He died at the scene while emergency workers tried to revive him while four men have been arrested after the fight which broke out in a nightclub near Deansgate.
In Bow, East London, police were called to the scene of a stabbing at 2:30am where another man, also 21, was fighting for his life.
They found the victim with stab wounds in Eric Street after reports of a disturbance in nearby Ropery Street.
He was treated at the scene by paramedics from London's Air Ambulance service before being taken to a hospital, where he died at 4.52am.
Scotland Yard said detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are investigating and no arrests have been made.
In Birmingham, a schoolboy, 14, was repeatedly stabbed in the "neck and head" outside a mosque in the Small Heath area of the city.
The lad was said to be fighting for his life and remains in a critical condition in hospital.
West Midlands Police have confirmed that a 29-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Witnesses said the boy was attacked after being dropped off at the Idara Maarif-e-Islam Hussainia Mosque by his father, reports the Birmingham Mail.
The mosque was busy with people despite the late hour and worshippers saw the lad being stabbed in the head and neck.
Witness Azhar Kiana told the Birmingham Mail that the attacker got into a car and fled after the assault.
He said: "There was a young man who was brutally beating the boy with a knife.
And the carnage continued with two linked knife incidents in Sheffield which left five people injured including one person in a critical condition.
South Yorkshire Police have confirmed that four people have been arrested and that both stabbings were connected.
Authorities said that the critically injured victim is in a serious but stable condition.
Cops said the incidents were not terrorism-related, adding that officers believe they are linked and possibly involve the same local individuals.
The first fight was reported to police at about 4am, and one person was arrested, and then at 5.53am officers received reports of another brawl in Cambridge Street.
The second brawl featured three people who were stabbed while a man was hit over the head with a bottle.
Forensics officers could be seen handling a bloodied white shirt at the cordoned off scene - which is in a busy area of the city known for its nightlife.
In the horrific attack in Manchester, cops were called to a huge fight on John Dalton Street, off Deansgate, at around 2.50am which is believed to have started in the Suburbia nightclub.
Two women, 19 and 21, were knocked out by punches and one man was wounded by glass in the savage brawl.
Police officers were also attacked when they arrived and two cops were treated for minor injuries.
Four men were arrested and Greater Manchester Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.